Lucknow: A CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday sentenced 16 policemen to life imprisonment and one to seven years in jail in the fake encounter of alleged terrorist Jaivinder Singh alias Jasana of Amritsar in the jungles of Kashiwala in Bijnore district in 1992. Pronouncing the judgement the court also slapped a fine of Rs 5000 on each of the convicts, Home department sources said in Lucknow. Though the accomplice...
03:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Amritsar: A young girl into a live-in relationship for the past one year, was allegedly beheaded by unidentified assailants in Maqboolpura locality in Amritsar, police said on Thursday. Parveen, 20, was living with a man named Luvjeet, who was recently put behind bars in connection with a rape case. On Wednesday, when the girl was alone in the house, unidentified miscreants beheaded her and kept her body in another corner...
03:46 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Amritsar: Team Anna member and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi on Saturday held meetings with Anna Hazare supporters to motivate them to carry the stir against graft to its logical conclusion. Bedi told them the crusade launched by Anna Hazare against corruption would continue till it reached its logical end. She said it would be wrong to say that Anna's agitation for Jan Lokpal Bill was ever fragile. Bedi said...
01:33 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Amritsar: Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, wife of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal Harsimrat Kaur on Wednesday said that Punjab had high hopes from him, but the PM did nothing for the state. "The last time he was here in Amritsar, we thought he would promise something big for the city but he turned out to be a hollow man," the SAD Lok Sabha MP from Bathinda said while addressing...
12:24 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Amritsar: On a personal visit to the holy city, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his new year by paying obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Sunday morning. Singh along with his wife Gursharan Kaur reached the Golden Temple at 6.30 am and went to the sanctum sanctorum where they spent half an hour. They listened to the Shabd Kirtan (religious hymns) and Ardas (prayer) while sitting cross-legged with...
12:55 PM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was greeted with blag flags from Anna Hazare supporters after his arrival at Golden Temple in Amritsar on Sunday. The protest by some Hazare supporters caught the security agencies completely off guard. Though none of the protesters could reach anywhere near the prime minister, they were able to register their symbolic protest as they shouted pro-Anna Hazare and pro-Jan Lokpal bill slogans. The incident...
08:32 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Amritsar: With his government having faced a tough year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to usher in the new year with prayers at the Harmandar Sahib, the holiest of Sikh shrines, popularly known as the Golden Temple. He is expected to arrive here on Saturday evening with his wife Gursharan Kaur and will go to the Harmandar Sahib very early on Sunday morning to offer prayers on New Year Day,...
11:17 AM, Dec 31, 2011
Amritsar: BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Monday faced hostile crowds of workers of some Akali Dal factions during his visit to the Golden Temple when he was greeted by slogans. In the morning, when Advani entered the periphery of the Golden Temple to pay obeisance, he was greeted with slogans of Khalistan raised by activists associated with former MP Simranjit Singh Mann. Men of the SGPC task force escorted...
03:59 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Amritsar: Noted sufi singers the Wadali Brothers were stopped at the Amritsar airport by security personal after 14 live cartridges were found in their luggage. These are among hypersensitive items banned as per security norms. Shockingly, the two brothers passed through two CISF posts before the ammunition was detected. No FIR has been filed for now, but the singers have been asked to appear before the Commandant on Monday for...
03:06 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama's decision to skip a planned visit to the Golden Temple during his India trip has been listed ninth among Time magazine's 'Top 10 Religion Stories'. Explaining why it put "Obama Decides Not to Visit the Golden Temple" on the list, the US magazine wrote: "The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the centre of the Sikh religion and, at one point in the planning of the...
10:49 AM, Dec 14, 2010
Washington: Barack Obama will not visit Amritsar during his India tour said sources. The US President will only visit Delhi and Mumbai in his November tour. Sources said, security at the Golden Temple is an issue, it’s too exposed and maybe that is the reason Obama wants to skip the city of Amritsar when he visits India. Sources informed that the US President will not travel to Amritsar during his...
12:14 PM, Oct 19, 2010
Amritsar: When US President Barack Obama lands in India next month, his itinerary will include a visit to the Golden Temple here, the holiest Sikh shrine. This is being seen as a recognition of the importance and influence of the large Sikh community in the US. Obama will arrive in this Sikh holy city from Mumbai Nov 7 during his first visit to India after becoming the president. He will...
03:15 PM, Oct 15, 2010
Vancouver: A Canadian man's own actions will prove he lied to a court about having no knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the deadly bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, prosecutors said at the start of a perjury trial on Thursday. Inderjit Singh Reyat is accused of lying more than a dozen times during the trial of two men who were eventually found not guilty of bombing...
12:51 PM, Sep 10, 2010
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