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Monday, March 22, 2010 12:24 PM

Amritsar

Type: City

Name: Amritsar

Country: India

Latitude: 31.639999

Longitude: 74.870003

population: 1,092,528

First Reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 Documents

Punjab, Haryana reel under intense heat even in March

Chandigarh, March 22 (IANS) It is still only March but residents of Punjab and Haryana have already started to feel the heat with the mercury climbing five to six degrees above the average temperature. 'Both day and night temperatures in Chandigarh and ... [Published 1 hour ago by Yahoo! India]

Entities: Chandigarh, Patiala, Ludhiana, Amritsar

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

IRB Infra arms achieve financial closure

IRB Infrastructure Developers announced that IRB Jaipur Deoli Tollway (P) and IRB Pathankot Amritsar Toll Road (P), wholly-owned subsidiaries of the company has achieved financial closure in terms of the concession agreement executed with NHAI, by tying ... [Published 2 hours ago by MyIris]

Entities: IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd, Amritsar, Jaipur

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents

Five drug peddlers nabbed in Amritsar

Amritsar, Mar 22 (ANI): The Special Intelligence Wing of Punjab Police have arrested five drug peddlers and seized 26 kilograms of heroin after a brief gun battle with them on Sunday.Acting on a tip-off, the sleuths intercepted a SUV and arrested five ... [Published 4 hours ago by Yahoo! India]

Entities: Gurpreet Singh, Peddler, Amritsar

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 Documents

Guru Nanak Dev University

Amritsar man toast of DU convocation

Wearing the red gown like everyone, Rajesh Sharma walked up to receive his Doctor of Philosophy title at the 87th annual convocation of the Delhi University on Saturday.He couldnt see the audience but as the 34-year-old, aided by his father Vinod Sharma ... [Published 18 hours ago by Indian Express]

Entities: Rajesh Sharma, Amritsar, Guru Nanak Dev University, Vinod Sharma

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

DLF Indian Premier League

Third season, first innings

Sarabjit Ladda 23, Leg-spinner, Delhi DaredevilsGrowing up in Bathinda in Punjab, Sarabjit Ladda watched Shane Warne on TV and leg-spin was stuck in his head as a dream career. Luckily, Ladda’s father, an RPF constable, was as focused on seeing his son’s ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Indian Express]

Entities: DLF Indian Premier League, Indian Cricket League, Patiala

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Pakistani woman held with fake currency in Punjab

Amritsar: Custom officials seized over Rs45,000 in fake currency from a Pakistani woman at the Attari railway station.Begum Mehtab was nabbed after disembarking from the Samjhauta Express on Thursday night. She is being interrogated.Custom officials said ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by DNA India]

Entities: Interrogation, Amritsar, Smuggling, Pune, Surveillance

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Dy. CM, Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal Inaugurates Fun Cinemas at AlphaOne, Amritsar

Occasion: Inauguration of Fun Cinemas at AlphaOne by Deputy Chief Minister, Sardar Sukhbir Singh BadalAmbience: Celebratory and EnthusiasticVenue: AlphaOne, AmritsarAttendee Profile: Dignitaries, Corporates, Media and RetailersEvent Profile• Fun Cinemas ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Prlog]

Entities: Amritsar, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Asipac, India

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

AI to fly on Abu Dhabi-Amritsar route

India's national carrier Air India has said its subsidiary Air India Express will ply three flights a week between Abu Dhabi and Amritsar.A B737-800 aircraft with an all economy-class cabin will continue from Amritsar on to New Delhi, increasing the number ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by India Today]

Entities: Air-India Express, Amritsar, Abu Dhabi

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Chinese selling 'Kashmiri' shawls

Srinagar, Jan 16: Valley’s apex business chamber, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed serious concern over what it said the misbranding of Kashmir handmade items, particularly shawls and stoles.andnbsp;At a meeting here today with ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Greater Kashmir]

Entities: KCCI, Abdul Hamid, Amritsar

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 2 Documents

Punjab flags off motorcycle highway patrol

Chandigarh, March 15 (IANS) In a bid to make national highways safer and to streamline the flow of increasing traffic, a new highway patrol scheme was launched in Punjab with the flagging off of 50 Enfield motorcycles here Monday.All of these motorcycles ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Yahoo! India]

Entities: Highway Patrol, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Chandigarh

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Rising costs and taxes push Punjab's carpet industry to brink of closure

Amritsar, March 15 (ANI): The once flourishing carpet industry of Punjab is on the verge of collapse. The state's border belt, a region adjacent to Pakistan, is renowned for its hand- made woollen carpets and rugs.However, hefty levies put in place by ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Yahoo! India]

Entities: Amritsar, Taxes, Pakistan

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

India's best students: Kiran Bedi, CV Raman

Dr P Venugopal, Cinderella Man of Medicine MBBS, MD (AIIMS)Shyam Benegal, film director and producerProf CV Raman, physicistNextStories of extreme hardship, braving impossible odds and innumerable sacrifices, abound in the lives of nearly 90 per cent ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by rediff.com]

Entities: Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service, P Venugopal, Shyam Benegal, Amritsar

Quotes

...9 degrees and a minimum of 19 degrees Celsius Monday, which was six degrees above average. It recorded 34.6 degrees Sunday. "There would be no respite from the heat in the coming days. The sky could be overcast for some time but there are no signs of rain in this region" the official said. While Amritsar in Punjab recorded a high of 33.4 degrees Celsius Sunday, both Ludhiana and Patiala recorded 35.4 degrees

Punjab, Haryana reel under intense heat even in March [Yahoo! India - 1 hour ago]

Acting on a tip-off, the sleuths intercepted a SUV and arrested five suspected drug peddlers after a brief exchange of fire in morning. "During investigation we recovered a 0.3 bore revolver and eight live cartridges. We also recovered 26 kilograms of heroin from the bags that they had kept in the vehicle. As for the injured in the firing, some police officers were also injured and they were admitted to the hospital by our team." said Suresh Arora, Additional Director General Police- Intelligence Wing, Punjab Police

Five drug peddlers nabbed in Amritsar [Yahoo! India - 4 hours ago]

The initiative comes under the foundation's programme of creating a pan-India network of 150 schools in the next five years. "We will start classes at the pre-nursery and Class I (level) in the coming academic session in April. The foundation has already established 18 schools in Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and other states. In the next five years, we intend to set up 150 schools across the country" Aditi Roy Nandi, the principal of the school, said today

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Govt hunts for a non-Sikh to head Punjab & ... [Yahoo! India - Mar 16 2010]
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Rising costs and taxes push Punjab's carpet ind... [Yahoo! India - Mar 15 2010]
India's best students: Kiran Bedi, CV Raman [rediff.com - Mar 15 2010]
Farmers at Indo Pak border a worry lot [Yahoo! India - Mar 14 2010]

Blogs

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Audio/Video

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Amritsar's youth and drug addiction [Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 06 2010]