AMRITSAR: Recognizing the services of regular blood donors of the Punjab Youth Forum (PYF) and their role in saving many precious lives, chief parliamentary secretary Inderbir Singh Bolaria on Monday awarded them certificates and trophies during an annual felicitation ceremony organized by the forum. Nearly 150 members of the forum were ...

AMRITSAR: Six to seven youths fired gunshots in the air and beat up members of a family who were celebrating Lohri outside their house in Bhai Sant Singh locality under the D division police station. The complainant, Rohit Narula, alleged that he, along with his family members and neighbours, was ...

AMRITSAR: Three thieves armed with sickles broke into the house of a doctor in the Virandabhan Gardens on Fatehgarh Churian road on Saturday night, when the family members were present in the house. Dr Beant Singh told the police that at around midnight he heard the cries of his son ...

AMRITSAR: On the complaint of the superintendent of the Central Jail here, the cantonment police have booked two udertrails and one other person under the NDPS Act, after a toxic substance was recovered from their possession. According to the complainant, the toxic substance was recovered during routine checking from undertrials, ...

AMRITSAR: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) will take the help of animated films for promoting Sikhism and creating awareness about the religion among the masses. SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar on Thursday said these animation films will be produced by the Dharam Parchar Committee. For the purpose of producing and ...

AMRITSAR: Fortis Escorts Hospital is set to start the artificial heart implantation at its facility in Amritsar. Addressing mediapersons on Thursday, Dr Pankaj Goel, chief cardiac surgeon at Fortis Escorts Hospital, said: “We have the facility of artifical heart implantation and in this peration a small pump is attached to ...

AMRITSAR: Welcoming the hike in railway fare for providing better safety, hygiene and other amenities to passengers, a local non-governmental organization, Mission Aagaaz, has said railways will have to go an extra mile fore improving cleanliness in trains and at railway station besides ensuring comfort of passengers. In a letter ...

AMRITSAR: The men’s boxing team of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) finished third in the All-India Inter-University Boxing Championship, which was held at Bilaspur University in Bilaspur recently. Putting up a good show for the university, Gurbinder Singh won a gold medal, Sanampal Singh won a silver Gurpreet Singh a ...

AMRITSAR: The 200 delegates, who converged here for the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) conference on Sunday, proceeded to Lahore for the next round of the conference on Monday afternoon. The SAFMA conference, which began in Amritsar on Sunday, will conclude in Lahore on January 8 and the Indian ...

AMRITSAR: Two Jalandhar colleges excelled in the GNDU inter-college athletics meet that concluded here on Friday. In the men’s section, Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, won with 80 points whereas Khalsa College, Amritsar, bagged 47 points to finish second, and sports college, Jalandhar, ended third with 41 points. In the women;s ...

AMRITSAR: The three-day 43rd Annual Inter-College Athletics (Men and Women) Meet of Guru Nanak Dev University was inaugurated on the University campus on Wednesday. About 400 men and women athletes from difference colleges are participating in the meet, which will conclude on January 4. Prof Ajaib Singh Brar, vice-chancellor of the university, ...

AMRITSAR: To streamline traffic in the city, the Amritsar police have initiated a drive to issue challans for wrong parking of vehicles. Giving details of the drive, Amritsar Commissioner of police Ram Singh said the vehicles found violating parking rules would be challaned. “These vehicles would be taken to the police control ...

AMRITSAR: The police have booked a youth on charges of eve-teasing after he mis-behaved with a girl in his neighbourhood on Chheharta on Wednesday evening. The girl, in her complaint to the police, alleged that she was standing at the front entrance of her home when the youth, identified as ...