Topic: Amritsar
The ‘readymade minister’: How poll debutant Hardeep Singh Puri wooed Amritsar
On his campaign trail, former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri told ThePrint that a Lok Sabha election may be 'ruthless', but so is the 'suave' world of diplomacy.
38 Delhi-Amritsar trains cancelled as farmers protest on railway tracks
Farmers in Punjab have been protesting on rail tracks to demand loan waivers and payment for sugarcane crop with 15% interest among other issues.
Nine airports in northern India shut as tensions between India and Pakistan rise
Operations at airports of Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Pathankot, Amritsar, Shimla, Kangra, Kullu Manali and Pithoragarh have been suspended.
UK’s House of Lords is considering an apology for Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Baroness Annabel Goldie also confirmed plans to mark 100 years since the tragedy 'in the most appropriate and respectful way'.
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Amidst hundreds of corpses, I passed my night, crying and watching’
As the bodies and crowds blocked the exits, bullets would ricochet off the surrounding walls, or fragment, and injure more people.
It’s 100 years of Jallianwala Bagh, not that you would know if you were at the memorial
The memorial is a picture of apathy and its most popular attraction — a 52-minute sound and light show — was last conducted in 2014.
BJP leader takes a train from Amritsar to Ayodhya, says no ‘achhe din’ in railways
BJP’s Laxmi Kanta Chawla, travelling on Saryu-Yamuna Express, has a message for Modi & Piyush Goyal — stop thinking of bullet trains, Indian Railways.
Navjot Kaur Sidhu given ‘clean chit’ in probe into Amritsar train tragedy
Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife, Navjot Kaur Sidhu was the chief guest at a Dussehra event in Amritsar where a train tragedy claimed 60 lives.
Khalistan Liberation Force operative held for Sunday’s grenade attack in Amritsar
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh says the arrested man helped identify the second perpetrator who is absconding, grenade given by Pakistan-based handler.
Rivalry between Sikhs & Nirankaris is almost a century old
The Nirankaris and the Sikhs have shared a deeply troubled relationship since before Independence.
Rahul Gandhi must sort out professional ties with sister Priyanka — for Congress’ sake
Congress workers need to get a clear idea about Priyanka Gandhi’s mandate of a free hand to act as per her political instincts.
Why does the Right-wing want to ‘occupy’ Delhi’s liberal hotspot Khan Market?
BJP's Ram Madhav took party workers to Khan Market to celebrate the Lok Sabha victory to assert the "new political ideology and culture".
Defence
IAF workhorse AN-32 gets a fuel that’s green and creates jobs for tribals
The IAF will now run its AN-32 transport aircraft on a blended bio-fuel partly derived from trees. It plans to widen the experiment over the next two years.
Modi era begins in politics as caste factor fades. Here’s why he won’t be easy to beat
BJP's Mandir politics has subsumed Mandal under Modi-Shah and created a pan-Hindu vote. Modi's challenger has to invent a new politics.