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Topic: Amritsar

38 Delhi-Amritsar trains cancelled as farmers protest on railway tracks

PTI -
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

PTI -
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

Aditi Khanna -
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’

Kim A. Wagner -
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

Chitleen K Sethi -
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

Chitleen K Sethi -
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

PTI -
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

Chitleen K Sethi -
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

Chitleen K Sethi -
The Nirankaris and the Sikhs have shared a deeply troubled relationship since before Independence.

CM Amarinder Singh suspects Pakistan hand in Amritsar grenade attack

Chitleen K Sethi -
The Punjab CM calls it an act of terror, says grenade used was similar to ones manufactured in Pakistan army ordnance factory.
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The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

Sagarika Ghose -
For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

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Economy

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

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India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Defence

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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