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Sikh activists under the banner of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Amritsar, led by Iman Singh Mann staged a protest outside the Golden Temple complex against what they said was lapses on the part of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)...
Miffed over the delay in redressing the demands of government employees such as restoration of the Old Pension Scheme, DA arrears and issuing installments, rectification of Pay Commission errors etc, the state body of the Punjab State Ministerial Services Union...
With the festival of lights just two days apart, residents are on a buying spree for the festivities. That’s why, almost every roadside and footpath in the city has been encroached by vendors and shopkeepers. Even shop owners themselves are...
The Chabal police have arrested two of the six accused who opened fire in Sohal village on Sunday after a tiff over a DJ song being played at a marriage function. ASI Sukhdev Singh said that the arrested accused have...
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Employees and pensioners of the state government expressed resentment against the state government by burning an effigy of the government in front of the circle office of Powercom in Tarn Taran city on Monday. A call in this regard was...
Under the “Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0” programme organized by Employees Provident Fund Organisation, Regional Office, Amritsar, settled 8,332 claims in October. At the camps held in Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot on Monday, officials informed the participants about filing...
The premises of Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar, came alive with traditional art forms, songs of love and spirituality and beats of dhol pulsating across the campus during the celebrations of 15th Annual Maa Boli Mela in the school. Having...
Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Monday laid the foundation stone of building beautiful gates on all the four main roads leading to Ramdas, a historic border town associated with Brahm Giani Baba Buddha Sahib. Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann...
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU-Ugrahan) continued its dharna at Nijjerpura toll plaza near Mannawala for the 12th day on Monday. Following a call given by the state body, the BKU Ugrahan made three toll plazas free in the district to...
The Vigilance Bureau (VB), Punjab, apprehended a head cashier, posted at Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) office, Subdivision South, Amritsar, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 here on Monday. Disclosing this here on Monday, an official...
The Democratic Employees’ Front won the Guru Nanak Dev University Non-Teaching Employees Association (GNDUNTEA) elections for office-bearers held on Sunday. The emphatic victory of the front led by Rajneesh Bharadwaj was celebrated on the university campus and its extended campuses...
Professor Narpinder Singh, a former GNDU faculty and vice-chancellor of Graphic Era Deemed to be University, has been selected for the prestigious Prof Priyadaranjan Ray Memorial Award 2023 by the Indian Chemical Society. Professor Singh will formally receive the prestigious...
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has announced that it will hold a Majha rally here on December 2. Party secretary Bant Singh Brar said that people in large numbers would participate in the rally to express their resentment against...
Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring today submitted a letter of apology for his remarks on Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh. Warring wrote that if he had inadvertently hurt the dignity of the great Sikh institution,...
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has declared to constitute an advisory board to discuss the Panthic issues that come to light at Akal Takht. Other resolutions passed during the General House meeting of the Sikh body today included raising...
Day after record seizure of 105 kg heroin from Baba Bakala by the Counter Intelligence wing of the Punjab Police, another drug peddler was nabbed with 6 kg of contraband. Lovepreet Singh of Chakoke village in Kapurthala was arrested from...
Polls 107 of 142 votes, Bibi Jagir Kaur gets 33
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has announced that it will hold a Majha rally here on December 2. Party secretary Bant Singh Brar said that people in large numbers would participate in the rally to express their resentment against...
Total votes polled 142; Dhami gets 107; Bibi Jagir Kaur 33; 2 votes invalid
Aam aadmi needs to be spared frequent inconvenience
The 179-member SGPC House will vote to elect its president and office-bearers, including general secretary, senior vice-president and junior vice-president during the General House to be held at Teja Singh Samudari Hall on Monday. Harjinder Singh Dhami secured 104 votes...
Cross-border drug cartel operated by Turkey-based smuggler busted
It has become an annual affair to display publicity material on direction signboards in the city. So far, the municipal corporation authorities has turned a blind eye towards the issue. Direction signboards near the railway station, Gawal Mandi, Putlighar, in...
Nitin Kumar, alias Monu (34), a resident of Gali No. 3, Deep Avenue, ended life by hanging himself from a ceiling fan on the first floor of his house. He reportedly had strained relations with his wife. Nitin dealt in...
In a crackdown on the activists of “Purani Pension Bahali Sangharsh Committee, Punjab”, the district police conducted raids on houses of leaders of the committee and detained their state leader Jarnail Singh Patti last night. Activists of the committee were...
Garbage mismanagement in the holy city has reached an alarming proportion, affecting the lives of residents, businesses and the environment. Due to improper lifting of garbage, residents throw their waste on vacant plots in their localities. These vacant plots and...
Vehicle intentionally rammed into bike of recovery agents: Cops
Twenty-four mobile phones were recovered from the Amritsar Central Jail premises during a search operation here yesterday. Apart from 24 mobile phones, including five smart phones and 19 keypad phones, the jail authorities also confiscated nine SIM cards, two chargers,...
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