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Amritsar News: Bapu Shingara Singh Dead
June 30th, 2009
Amritsar, June 30
Was believed to be last known Jallianwala survivor
SHINGARA SINGH, said to be last known survivor of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13, 1919, died after a brief illness at Sultanwind village today, taking with him his last wish to get the status of freedom fighter. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amritsar News: No More Active Politics Bhatia
June 30th, 2009
Amritsar, June 30
Former Governor, six-time Amritsar MP back in hometown
SIX-TIME AMRITSAR MP and Governor of Bihar till a few days ago, Congress veteran leader Raghunandan Lal Bhatia today said he had decided to retire from active politics. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amritsar News: Parvasi Awards 2009 Was Held In Toronto On June 20th. Mr Om Puri was the chief Guest
June 27th, 2009
Lifetime achievement awards were given to Deepa Mehta. Lakhwinder Wadali was specially invited to perform on this occasion. This was the fourth year. These awards are given to Canadian Indians who did well in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amritsar News: Outages Add To Misery Of Parched Amritsar
June 27th, 2009
Amritsar, June 27
LONG POWER cuts coupled with water shortage has made ‘life miserable in urban as well as rural areas of the district While in urban areas there is shortage of drinking water, in rural belt farmers are finding hard to meet water demand as paddy sowing season is at its peak. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amritsar News: In-Laws Booked After Woman Commits Suicide
July 2nd, 2009THE DISTRICT police have booked the husband and in-laws of a woman for allegedly forcing her to commit suicide here. Sources said they taunted Harmanjeet Kaur of being unlucky for the family.
Chheherta SHO Sarabjit Singh said Harmanjeet and Parwail had a love marriage about one-and-a half year ago. However, ever since marriage, Parwail family had been deriding her that ever since she stepped into their house; nothing was going right for them. Irked by these remarks, Harmanpreet consumed some poisonous substance on the night of June 29 and died, said the SHO.
On the complaint of the girl’s family, the police have registered a case under Section 306 of IPC against husband Parwail Singh, father-in law Kartar Singh and mother-in-law Harminder Kaur. No arrests have been made as yet.
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