AMRITSAR: Showers in the city that late on Thursday evening continued the whole day on Friday, bringing normal life as well as electioneering to a standstill. The city was also pelted with hailstones, with shower of hail lasting several minutes and adding to the prevailing chill. Sources said that the ...

AMRITSAR: The security blanket thrown around Harmandar Sahib for the visit of prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday morning left a large number of devotees shivering in the cold Devotees-were stopped in their tracks on the marble parikarma of the shrine as the security staff allowed the PM and his wife, ...

AMRITSAR: Punjab DGP Anil Kaushik paid obeisance at Harmandar Sahib on Tuesday along with his family members. A number of police officials accompanied Kaushik, but he came purely on a personal visit. Later in the day, he also visited the Attari-Wagah Border with his family. SOURCE-HT

AMRITSAR: Veteran actor Randhir Kapoor, who was on way to attend a wedding at Jalandhar, paid obeisance at Harmandar Sahib on Sunday. "I would love to come here again and again;' he said. The actor said he was going to attend wedding of son of a family friend, who is also ...

CHANDIGARH: Discovery Channel has come up with a programme charting the history and functioning of Harmandar Sahib in Amritsar. A one-hour special 'Revealed: The Golden Temple' will premiere on November 9 and 10 to give viewers a definitive account of how the holy shrine for Sikhs copes with a never-ending ...

AMRITSAR: The Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev would be celebrated with religious festivity at Harmandar Sahib on November 10. SGPC secretary Dalmegh Singh said that the celebrations would start with a 'nagar kirtan' on November 9 from the Akal Takht. "On November 10, 'jalao' would be decorated at Gurdwara ...

AMRITSAR: It was a homecoming for Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who was in the city with the cast of 'Speedy Singhs', his venture as producer. "My father was born in Amritsar and he used to stay near Jallianwala Bagh. He was a wrestler, who represented Punjab. I have an emotional connect ...

AMRITSAR: The US city of Bakersfield and Arnritsar are now sister cities. Back from Bakersfield, local mayor Shwait Malik and senior deputy mayor Ajay Bir Pal Singh Randhawa on Thursday said the two cities have inked a pact to promote cultural exchange. The agreement was signed between Amritsar mayor Shwait Malik ...

AMRITSAR: Arambhik Ardas Diwas was celebrated with fervor at Khalsa College on Monday. Organised by principal and staff of the college, the bhog of the akhand path marked the beginning of the celebrations. Bhai Gurdev Singh, Hazoori Ragi Darbar Sahib, regaled the audience with the rendition of holy verses, followed ...

One of the marble memorial stone placed at the main entrance of Harmandar Sahib dedicated to the glory of Indian soldiers. Many such stones honouring the soldiers of the army who lost their lives in the 1965 and 1971 wars and the Kargli war dot the ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has entrusted Baba Amrik Singh with kar Sewa of Diwan Todar Mal's Jahaz Haveli here. The decision was taken on Monday at a meeting of a committee constituted by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar. SGPC members Karnail Singh Panjoli, Didar Singh Bhatti, XEN ...

GURDASPUR: In his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani after the ICC World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan in Mohali on March 30, Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa of the Congress urged him to revive the old traditional trade route passing through Khyber Pass in the ...

AMRITSAR: Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has made it clear that his government has full respect for public sentiment, adding that the conversion of the historic Khalsa College into a university would never be allowed if public opinion is against the move. ''As we felt that public opinion was against the ...