Amritsar: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday approved the revised City Master Plan that aims to transform Amritsar into a world class city. Badal made a detailed review of all projects after he was given presentations by PWD, Municipal Corporation, Water Supply and Sanitation, Tourism and other departments regarding the progress of their ongoing projects.
He expressed displeasure when he learnt that two agencies have laid parallel sewerage lines wasting crore of rupees. Badal asked the municipal corporation to opt for the Chandigarh civic model. The SAD-BJP government is committed to modernising Amritsar and adjoining areas by executing the development projects worth Rs 1,668 crore in next two years, he said.
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02:08 AM, Jun 15, 2013
In this episode of India Positive, we bring you the stories of school children, who made world record by scaling Mount Everest. Also story from Punjab - a teachers efforts to steer students away from a life of drugs and stories from across the country. ...
09:59 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Punjab, the land of plenty. The state today is faced with an enemy within - drugs. And it's most lethal attack has been on one of the holiest cities for the Sikhs - Amritsar. ...
09:50 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Amritsar: Punjab, the land of plenty. The state today is faced with an enemy within - drugs. And it's most lethal attack has been on one of the holiest cities for the Sikhs - Amritsar. Barely eight kilometres from the Golden Temple is Makboolpura infamously known as the village of the drug widows. It is here that Master Ajit Singh started this school in 1990. He is a government school...
08:59 AM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: Temperatures continued to remain high across North India on Friday with the national capital touching 45 degrees Celsius and Amritsar boiling at 47 degrees Celsius. Rajasthan sizzled between 44 and 47 degrees Celsius. However, the Met department has said that a marginal fall in temperature can be expected by Sunday. 84 people have died in Andhra Pradesh since the 1st of April due to the heat. New Delhi...
07:30 AM, May 25, 2013
Sasaram: After spending nine years in a prison in Pakistan, Indian prisoner Khushbu Paswan has reached his native village in Bihar's Rohtas district, a senior police officer said on Sunday. Paswan, 40, alias Tuntun arrived in Baghaila village on Saturday and was given a hero's welcome by his family, the Rohtas Superintendent of Police Vikas Varman said. In 2003 Paswan fled to Amritsar after being released from prison in his...
07:58 PM, May 12, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid rich tributes to Sarabjit Singh, who died at a Pakistani hospital following a brutal attack, in Bhikhiwind at his cremation in native village. Rahul stayed with the aggrieved family for about half an hour and offered condolences to Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh, party sources said. The Congress leader assured full support to the family, they added. State Congress chief...
07:19 PM, May 03, 2013
Amritsar: Doctors at the Amritsar Government Medical College who conducted the second autopsy on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh revealed that his vital organs - stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder - were missing in his body. "The following viscera was not present in the body of Sarabjit Singh, namely, stomach, gall bladder, heart and kidneys," the doctors told mediapersons, adding that the other viscera present in the body had been...
04:59 PM, May 03, 2013
On Thursday, the interim chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab assured the Indian High Commission that the murderers of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh would be punished. ...
10:18 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The special Air India plane carrying Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh's body landed in Amritsar on Thursday evening at 7.50 pm. Sarabjit's body was received by MoS External Affairs Preneet Kaur and Punjab government officials. A few hours after landing, his body was flown in a Indian Air Force helicopter to his ancestral village Bhikiwind and taken for autopsy. The body will be cremated with full state...
08:58 PM, May 02, 2013
Patna: Rahul Gandhi and Congress leaders should stop shedding "crocodile tears" over Sarabjit Singh's death, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Thursday and demanded that the government makes a statement about steps taken to save the death row prisoner in Pakistan. "Today Congress crown prince Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders are shedding crocodile tears before the kin of Sarabjit Singh," Rudy said. "He (Rahul) is considered as the...
08:07 PM, May 02, 2013
Chandigarh: The Border Security Force (BSF) in the past two days has seized heroin worth Rs 250 crore in the international market from the Khemkaran sector near Amritsar. On Tuesday 18 kilogram heroin was seized which was worth Rs 90 crore and on Wednesday another 32 kilogram heroin was seized worth Rs 160 crore. This drug haul comes after the massive one in Mohali in which heroin worth Rs 130...
09:27 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: Stepping into the growing controversy about Navjot Singh Sidhu being upset with the party and not contesting next Lok Sabha elections from his constituency Amritsar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has reportedly spoken to Sidhu and has asked the party's National General Secretary JP Nadda to mediate. Sources said the party was confident of sorting out the matter. Earlier, sources said the BJP may field senior...
10:54 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Amritsar: Peeved over BJP sidelining him, three-time MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu will not contest the next Lok Sabha polls from there, his wife Navjot Kaur said on Thursday. "My husband will not contest parliamentary elections from Amritsar and a decision in this context was taken long back as the BJP ignored and sidelined him and his local team, which have been working in the constituency for more than...
11:46 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Launching his 'Janatantra Yatra' (tour for democracy) from the historic Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in this Sikh holy city on Sunday, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare said only a mass movement could bring about a change in India. ...
04:40 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday embarked on his 'Janatantra Yatra' (walk for democracy) from Amritsar in Punjab to rally support against the Congress-led UPA Government in the run up to the next general elections. Accompanied by a small group of supporters, the 75-year-old activist paid obeisance at Durgiana Mandir and Golden Temple besides paying tribute to the martyrs at Jallianwala Bagh. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Anna Hazare will embark on a year-long, all-India tour from Sunday to campaign for a stronger Lokpal bill, electoral reforms and other issues he has been raising for the past few years, an aide said in Mumbai. ...
06:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Five of the eleven men, who had allegedly thrashed a girl and her family members after barging into their house in Sadar area here, were arrested on Friday. "The five arrested persons are auto rickshaw drivers and rest of the accused, who are yet to be nabbed, are also in the same profession," Deputy Police Commissioner (DCP) Amritsar Koustab Sharma said. ...
05:19 PM, Mar 29, 2013
In a shocking incident, a group of eleven youths forcibly gained entry into the house of a 21-year-old girl whom they were following and severely beat her and her family members in Amritsar on Thursday. Police Commissioner Ram Singh said the incident took place in the evening when the boys began passing vulgar comments on seeing the girl, who was returning home after attending tuition classes. ...
08:29 AM, Mar 29, 2013
A 21-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Amritsar by four men after being forcibly picked up from a bus stop at about 8 pm on Monday evening. The police say she was taken into the vehicle by two men and two others joined in later. ...
08:51 AM, Mar 26, 2013
