22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: A group of men barged into a house in Chheharta and assaulted its owner, leaving him severely injured.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: A 30-year-old woman, Rajwinder Kaur, committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at Tangra here on Friday.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: Keeping in view the water crisis in various parts of the country, the Municipal Corporation (MC) has planned to impose fine for water wastage.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: More than four months after the death of a married woman, the police have booked her in-laws for abetment of suicide.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kamaldeep Singh Sanga on Saturday said that the procurement of wheat had been increasing in the district.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: The CIA staff have arrested two persons with 3.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: Despite residents' demand and government directions, the Municipal Corporation (MC) has failed so far to set up the Citizen Facilitation Centre (CFC) to make all of its wings digital.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: The Railways has commenced electrification work on the track between Amritsar and Pathankot.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: The move of the Central Board of Secondary Education to compensate the students for typing errors in the English question paper has brought joy to the students and their parents in the city.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: The 2018 theme for The Earth Day is working towards creation of a plastic free environment.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: A special carnival of dance and music was organised as a part of Baisakhi celebrations at Sri Guru Harkrishan Senior Secondary Public School, Sultanwind Link Road, on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: Various schools in the city celebrated Earth Day on Saturday.
22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMAMRITSAR: In an attempt to promote the habit of reading among children, the District Library has been hosting storytelling sessions for the students of government schools in the city.
Tarn Taran Diary22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMFarmers of Verowal and Darapur Mand villages, who have been crying for attention to their crops which often get damaged due to the frequent increase in the water level of the Beas river, hope that their woes would come to an end soon with the visit of Beas MLA Santokh Singh Bhalaipur.
SNIPPETS22 Apr 2018 | 1:33 AMTarn Taran: A domestic servant has been booked for theft in Bhikhiwind.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: To prevent accidental fires in wheat fields during the harvesting season, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has started imposing power cuts in rural areas during the daytime.
Snippets21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMJEWELLERY: Tarn Taran: Four persons have been arrested for possessing heroin.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: Two youths sustained serious injuries when a group of persons attacked them on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: The Central Jail authorities have confiscated a huge quantity of cigarettes bundles and tobacco kept inside a water cooler donated by a jail inmate, who was recently released from the jail.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: Unsatisfied over the present location of the international trade, exhibition-cum-convention centre at the erstwhile central jail site on the airport road, the district administration has been planning to find another site for the same.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: A 22-year-old girl, identified as Ramandeep Kaur, committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her residence at Loharaka Khurd village on Wednesday evening.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: Sixteen-year-old Pulkit, a student of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Mall road, has made the city proud by being a part of an educational tour to Japan, under the Japan–Asia Youth Exchange programme, also known as Sakura Exchange programme in science, from April 8 to 14 .
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: A team of the building branch of the Municipal Corporation (MC), led by Commissioner Sonali Giri, conducted a major demolition drive in the city on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: Demanding swift justice in the Kathua rape case and seeking women’s safety from the district administration, members of literary forums took out a march in the city on Friday.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: A city-based artist Aruna Sharma has created replicas of the original paintings based on the life of first Sikh Guru that were displayed at the National Museum of London.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: The city celebrated the World Heritage Day three days ago with fervour but it has not much to rejoice as it still struggles to maintain its heritage character.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: The lowering of the marks for appearing in the entrance test for admission to Senior Secondary Residential Schools for Meritorious Students has not gone down well with educationists in the city.
21 Apr 2018 | 1:13 AMAMRITSAR: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kamaldeep Singh Sangha on Friday directed revenue officials to hold survey of villages falling under the Baba Bakala subdivision where crop was damaged by unseasonal showers and hailstorm that has created panic among farmers.
Pathankot Diary20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMIt was a delightful week for cultural and literary fan lovers. In the first event, named “Mehfil-2018”, ghazal maestro Ustad Ghulam Abbas Khan of famous Rampur Sahaswan Gharana left audience awe struck at the newly renovated Lt Col Karnan Singh auditorium.
Briefly20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAmritsar: The annual prize distribution and felicitation function was organised at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Mall road. Students were awarded stoles, trophies and cash prizes.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMTARN TARAN: Representatives of different teachers' organisations under the banner of ‘Sarkari School Sikhia Bachao Manch’, Punjab (Save Government School Education) in its district body meeting organised here on Thursday lodged strong protest against filing of charge-sheets against the teachers opposing non-educational work assigned to them by the Education Department.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: The Government Teacher Union Democratic Teachers' Front has criticised the state Education Department for “using poor technology” to mark attendance of the staff. The union said biometric machines did not work.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: Continuing with his efforts to revive and give a platform to the Bhand and Marasi community, Dastak Theatre’s Rajendra Singh will be heading folk artists from the Bhand community to perform at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Amritsar Chapter, organised a folk song and folk dance competition for school students on Wednesday at Cambridge International School, Loharka Road, Amritsar.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: In order to produce Punjabi theatre legends such as Dr Harcharan Singh, Dr Gurdyal Singh Phull Bhisham Sahni, Atamjit, Jatinder Brar and Kewal Dhaliwal, Khalsa College has introduced a graduate degree course in theatre studies.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: The police have booked three persons including a girl who posed as journalists for blackmailing and extorting money from a retired District Public Relations Office employee Harparminder Singh.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: The potable water samples recently collected by the Health Department from various localities have put residents in a quandary. The 11 collected samples where MC has been supplying water have failed.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: Passengers on Air India Flight 462, which took off from the Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport at 2.50 pm for New Delhi had a harrowing time mid air.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: The Beas police have arrested eight persons, including owner of a hotel near Rayya on Amritsar-Jalandhar highway and his manager for allegedly running a flesh trade racket. The police booked three couples, who were found in an objectionable positions, under Sections of Immoral Trafficking Act.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: Unexpected showers and hailstones on Thursday evening caused much disappointment to the farmers who were all set to harvest their ripened wheat crop. The showers, which lasted for almost 15 minutes, left the farmers worried as the rain can cause great damage to their standing crop resulting in loss of yield.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMTARN TARAN: A woman identified as Baljit Kaur and her paramour brother-in-law (husband’s brother) Jagjit Singh Jagga of Rattoke village have been booked under Section 302, 34 IPC in connection with the death of Baljit’s husband Varinder Singh, an army personnel, who died on November 19, 2016 under mysterious circumstances.
Kathua and Unnao rape cases20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: Workers of the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Thursday staged a protest outside the Hall gate area against the rape and murder incidents in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh that shook the entire nation and fuelled protest all over the country.
20 Apr 2018 | 1:16 AMAMRITSAR: Even as the police department has challaned several people for driving in the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) lane, constructed exclusively for plying BRTS buses, commuters continue to violate the rules with impunity.