Tag Archives: golden temple

MC for one-time settlement to regularize hotels around Darbar Sahib

Amritsar, Punjab: The municipal corporation authorities today submitted its ‘one-time settlement’ proposal to regularise over 125 hotels, guest houses and inns operating around the Golden Temple to the Local Bodies Department secretary at Chandigarh. The sanctity of these hospitality units was ...

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Ten Thousand Pairs of Shoes

Finally talking about June 1984—30 years later—will honor the dead and protect the living. Thirty years have passed since journalists were cut off from Punjab, and Punjab from the world. In June of each year, Sikhs throng to gurudwaras to ...

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HSGPC Move a Bid to Divide Sikhs, Claims Sukhbir

Amritsar, Punjab: Even as the HSGPC (Management) Bill 2014 was moved in Haryana Assembly today, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said any such move on part of the Haryana Government would be a clear transgression upon the power of Parliament to ...

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State govt doubles aid to Op Bluestar deserters

Chandigarh: The Punjab Government has doubled the monetary assistance being paid to soldiers who had deserted the Army in the aftermath of Operation Bluestar in Amritsar, 30 years ago. The assistance to soldiers has been raised from Rs 3,000 per month ...

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