Lockdown 3.0: Retailers in Amritsar open shops with certain restrictions
News | May 15, 2020 14:53 ISTShops selling non-essential commodities have been opened in Amritsar amid final days of lockdown 3.0.
Shops selling non-essential commodities have been opened in Amritsar amid final days of lockdown 3.0.
Over 1180 people, mainly migrant labourers will depart from Amritsar Railway Station on May 10. Thermal screening of passengers is being done before they boarded a 'Shramik Special' train.
Amid coronavirus lockdown, around 270 Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) departed for United Kingdom on May 03.
Over 500-pilgrims who were tested for possible coronavirus exposure in Punjab after they returned from Maharashtra's Hazur Sahib in Nanded, 167 of them have tested positive for COVID-19, as per reports. Out of 183, close to 149 had tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday.
Pilgrims from Sri Hazur Sahib, stranded in Maharashtra's Nanded, returned to Punjab. As of now, around 3613 such pilgrims have returned to the state.
In yet another case in the state, a family in Amritsar refused to claim the body of a coronavirus victim, forcing the district administration to perform his last rites.
Giani Nirmal Singh Khalsa, a Padma Shri awardee and former Hazoori Raagi at Amritsar's Golden Temple has died after getting infected with coronavirus on Thursday morning, a health official informed.
Keeping the tradition alive, people celebrated Holi with great zest in Amritsar keeping in mind coronavirus outbreak. They opted for flowers this time.
Four members of a family, including six-month-old twins, were killed when the roof of their house caved in early Friday morning in Amritsar due to rain, police said.
The first sniffer dog training centre for canines of the Customs Department was started at Attari in Amritsar on February 14.
The J&K government has wrested the control of a prized piece of land in Amritsar which was under illegal occupation for nearly 56 years.
A 24-year-old youth, who had recently returned from Canada, was shot dead outside his house from a point blank range by unidentified assailants, police said here on Monday.
Rail and road traffic in several areas in and around Delhi-NCR has been affected due to the recently erupted protests against the violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). A mob of around 100 goons entered the University campus with masked faces, iron rods and ran riot. Several students and faculty members of the university were injured in the process.
Days after Navjot Singh Sidhu accepted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's invitation for the inauguration of the Kartarpur corridor, hoardings hailing both Sidhu and Imran Khan were seen in Amritsar. The hoardings, which were later removed, referred Khan and Sidhu as real heroes of the Kartarpur corridor.
SGPC chief Gobind Singh Longowal will receive them and present them 'siropa' (robe of honour). The shrine complex will be lit with millions of lights and a fireworks display will also be organised.
There was an explosion in a container filled with chemicals, police said, adding that investigations were underway to find out what caused it.
Earlier on Monday, Air India had announced its inaugural passenger flight over the North Pole region from August 15 between New Delhi and San Francisco.
Police said the incident took place Wednesday at Majitha village, 20 km away from Amritsar.
Amritsar has turned into a virtual fortress ahead of the 35th anniversary of Operation Blue Star on June 6, with more than 3,000 security personnel deployed and police maintaining a hawk-eyed vigil in sensitive areas.
Police seizes two hand grenades from two motorcycle-borne men in Amritsar
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