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AMRITSAR NEWS: A-I Struggles To Clear Backlog
AMRITSAR: Days after flights to Europe resumed with clouds of volcanic ash clearing, Air-India is struggling to clear the passenger backlog on its Amritsar London-Toronto route. »
CHANDIGARH NEWS: Three Tehsildar Assault Case Accused Granted Bail
CHANDIGARH: Nearly 10 months after the attack on Ludhiana Tehsildar Maj G.S. Benipal in his office, three prime accused, including two Ludhiana councillors, were granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday. »
JALANDHAR NEWS: Five Held For IPL Betting
JALANDHAR: Busting a gang of bookies for the second time in a week, the city police on Saturday claimed to have arrested five of them for betting on IPL matches. »
AMRITSAR NEWS: Dogs Give Flight A Scare
AMRITSAR: It was a narrow escape for the 49 people on board a Delhi-bound Kingfisher flight that was forced to apply brakes in emergency when two dogs cut across just before take-off, not once but twice. »
AMRITSAR NEWS: Officer ‘Roughs Up’ Colleague At Rly Station
AMRITSAR: An Assistant Divisional Medical Officer (ADMO) posted at Amritsar railway station was allegedly roughed up by a senior finance manager on Sunday while the former had gone to represent his case. »
AMRITSAR NEWS: New AI Amritsar-Delhi Flight
AMRITSAR: Air India has launched another Amritsar-Delhi Flight; it’s second from Rajasansi, from March 28. AI Station Manager Ram Gopal said, “The Flight started March 28 will fly morning hours.” The aircraft will take off from Delhi at 5:50 a.m. to reach Amritsar at 7:20 a.m. This will make for two daily AI Flight... »
AMRITSAR NEWS: Associations Protest ‘No …. Vehicle Zone’
AMRITSAR: Citing business loss, members of various associations, including hotel, tea market and Golden Temple market, on Thursday staged a protest against the implementation of ‘no-vehicle zone‘ between Chowk Phuwara to Harmandar Sahib. »
JALANDHAR NEWS: Robbery Leaves Man Dead
JALANDHAR: A 62-year-old man was found dead and the rest of the family unconscious at their house in Basti Peerdad here on Friday morning. While the deceased has been identified as Gurdeep Singh, the other victims of an apparent robbery were his wife Satwant Kaur, son Harwinder Singh and daughter-in-law Harbhajan Kaur. »
CHANDIGARH NEWS: HC Seeks Status Report On Ateek
CHANDIGARH: A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Punjab government to file a status report within a week on 13-year-old Mohd Ateek, the Pakistan boy caught at Attari railway station while travelling in Samjhauta Express on February 21. Ateek apparently had an altercation with his parents after they... »
AMRITSAR NEWS: Sidhu Changes Train Of Thought On Rail Budget
AMRITSAR: Doing a U-turn from his earlier statement in which he had criticized the UPA government for giving Punjab a raw deal in the rail budget, Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday took credit for getting various railway projects sanctioned to Punjab. Completely at variance with his earlier statement, Sidhu said it was... »