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People celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr at home across country, COVID-19 norms floute
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 14 (ANI): Amid a surge in COVID-19, people in most parts of the country offered namaz at their homes while in Punjab people gathered in large numbers at Amritsar's Jama Masjid Khairuddin Hall Bazar to offer namaz on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr on Friday.
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Fire breaks out at dry fruit factory in Amritsar
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 7 (ANI): A fire broke out at a dry fruits factory in Amritsar on Friday afternoon. The fire has now been doused.
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Amarinder Singh launches Guru Nanak Dev University's online courses for Pu
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 3 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday digitally launched online programmes started by Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) Amritsar for the Punjabi diaspora settled across the globe.
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Punjab Police busts illicit liquor manufacturing unit in Amritsar, five he
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh/Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): The Amritsar Rural Police has busted another illicit liquor manufacturing unit and arrested five persons during a raid at village Boparai Khurd in Lopoke here.
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SGPC organises 'Paath' in Punjab's Amritsar ahead of 400th Prakash Purab o
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 29 (ANI): Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) organised a 'paath' -- a recital of Guru Granth Sahib -- at the Gurdawara Guru Ka Mahal in Punjab's Amritsar on Thursday ahead of the 400th birth anniversary of Guru Teg Bahadur.
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Fighting for justice, says Navjot Singh Sidhu as he hits back at Amarinder
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], April 27 (ANI): Soon after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh challenged his party colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu to contest polls against him, Amritsar MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu responded that he was only "fighting for justice".
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Punjab Health Min seeks report on 5 deaths at Amritsar hospital due to oxy
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 24 (ANI): Taking serious notice of the incident at Neelkanth Hospital in Amritsar where five patients died due to oxygen shortage, Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Saturday directed officials to submit a report within two days.
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COVID-19: Five dead at Amritsar's Neelkanth Hospital due to oxygen shortag
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 24 (ANI): Neelkanth Hospital in Amritsar reported deaths of five patients on Friday night due to lack of oxygen.
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Some devotees who returned from Pakistan test Covid-19 positive
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 22 (ANI): Some devotees who returned from Pakistan after celebrating Baisakhi tested positive for COVID-19, said the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Thursday.
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The period stigma has to end, every woman must have access to sanitary pad
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 20 (ANI/BusinessWire India): In a land of more than 100 crore population, only 36 per cent of women use sanitary pads.
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Indian Sikh pilgrims stranded in Lahore amid violent protests in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 15 (ANI): A group of Sikh pilgrims who left Amritsar to pay obeisance at Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal on the occasion of Baisakhi, are stranded in Lahore amid rising violence in Pakistan.
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Sikh pilgrims visiting Panja Sahib Gurudwara in Pakistan are safe: SGPC
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], April 14 (ANI): 437 Sikh pilgrims, who were granted permission to visit Pakistan on the occasion of Baisakhi, are safe amid ongoing protest and violence in the country after the arrest of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Saad Hussain Rizvi.
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