Akal Takht has sole right to resolve the common Panthic matters

The other Takhts can take up regional matters only
Sangat should not raise any controversy over the hymns of the Dasam GranthVarinder Walia

Amritsar, May 24 - Sikh students wanting to get admission to the SGPC-run technical colleges in Punjab under the 50 per cent reserved category will have to undergo an identity test. Not only this, their name tag should either be Singh or Kaur and they should “not believe in any other sect”.

AMRITSAR: An NRI lady, who arrived in the city to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple, was killed when she fell from a rickshaw after robbers attacked her.

The incident occurred when Kalpana Walia, along with her husband Paramjit Singh Walia, was going in a rickshaw on the Lawrence road in the city on Sunday night.

In his report to the police, her husband said two motorcycle-borne youths attacked them and tried to snatch the purse of the woman, who fell from the rickshaw during a scuffle and was declared brought dead when rushed to a hospital.

Amritsar, December 16 Parmeet Singh of Dehradun walked away with the coveted title of Frankfinn Mr Singh International at the glittering final which saw as many as 29 contestants strutting their stuff for the mega crown. The event was held at Khalsa College grounds here on Saturday night. Danandeep Singh of Pathankot and Tejinder Singh from Baroda were adjudged first and second runners-up, respectively.

Amritsar, October 23
Cost-effective treatment and professionalism at par with the developed countries has begun a new trend in the ophthalmology field as city doctors, considered among the best in the world, are attracting foreigners to seek eye treatment here. John Leahy (53) from Ireland came back to the city after his eye treatment last year from Dr Rohit Om Parkash and Dr Ajay Khanna of the Dr Om Parkash Eye Institute here. He is the first foreigner from a developed country during the past 17 years who received eye treatment in the hospital, claimed Dr Rohit.

Amritsar, October 16
A red alert has been sounded in Punjab, in view of the blast at Shringar cinema hall in Ludhiana. The security has been beefed up at major religious and tourist spots including the Golden Temple and Durgiana Temple here. Security has also been tightened at the Amritsar international airport, railway station and bus stand.

Amritsar is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab India.It is located in the northwest part of India 32 miles east of Lahore, Pakistan. Amritsar is connected by Indian Airlines flights with Delhi, Jammu and Srinagar. The airport is situated about 11 km from the city centre.

Amritsar, October 8
District magistrate Kahan Singh Pannu today imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 in Amritsar district to ban publication of birs of Guru Granth Sahib by private publishers.

The orders have been issued three days after the incident in which activists of the Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee blackened the faces of two sons of publishers Jeewan Singh Chattar Singh in public.

Amritsar, October 5
In a bizarre incident, agitated activists of the Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee picked up two brothers from the shop of famous publishers Jeewan Singh Chattar Singh and Sons, near Golden Temple, and blackened their faces in full public view. They later dragged them to a room of the Akal Takht secretariat here this evening.

AMRITSAR: The memories of birth centenary celebrations of Bhagat Singh will not be easily erased from the minds of around three hundred farmers, including ladies and children, who had arrived here on Thursday to pay tribute to the martyr.

While chief minister Parkash Singh Badal was laying floral wreaths at the flame of liberty, police were lathicharging these farmers. Around eight of them were injured.