PM arrives in Amritsar on personal visit

September 21st, 2009 AMRITSAR - A group of local Congress party leaders in Amritsar on Monday lodged an 'online complaint' about the 'missing' BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who represents their Amritsar constituency in Parliament. Rajkumar Verka, a former Congress MLA, told media persons that he had lodged an online complaint in the Civil Lines police station here for registration of an FIR on behalf of the public of Amritsar, stating Sidhu has gone missing from his LS constituency.

July 22nd, 2009 AMRITSAR - Two air-conditioned coaches of the Golden Temple express train were badly damaged Wednesday after they caught fire, railway officials said here. The coaches, which did not have any passengers, were at the Amritsar railway station when the incident took place.

June 26th, 2009 UN envoy arrives in MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Officials say the U.N. special envoy to Myanmar has arrived in the country to pave the way for a possible visit by U.N.

June 11th, 2009 AMRITSAR J - Punjab's Amritsar city would soon be linked to Qatar with the commencement of first direct flight from here to Doha city, courtesy Qatar Airways. The Qatar Airways would be the first Airlines from Middle East airlines that will connect holy city Amritsar, the city of Golden Temple.

May 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - At least 40,000 train passengers have been left stranded inside and outside railway stations across Punjab following disruption of railway traffic by supporters of a Sikh outfit. Public unrest and violence in the state has also affected the movement of buses.

May 11th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will address a series of election rallies here today.

April 7th, 2009 BAGHDAD - US President Barack Obama landed in Baghdad Tuesday on a previously unannounced visit. His plane arrived from Istanbul, where Obama had ended a tour of European countries.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - His family roots may lie in Punjab but that doesn't seem like enough reason for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get interested in the state's politics. His personal visit to the Sikh holy city of Amritsar Monday and Tuesday was more of a pilgrimage for thanksgiving for his successful heart surgery in January and speedy recovery.

March 25th, 2009 AMRITSAR - His family roots may lie in Punjab but that doesn't seem like enough reason for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get interested in the state's politics. His personal visit to the Sikh holy city of Amritsar Monday and Tuesday was more of a pilgrimage for thanksgiving for his successful heart surgery in January and speedy recovery.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be visiting Amritsar on Monday to pay his obeisance at the Golden Temple. This is his first trip outside Delhi since he underwent a coronary by-pass surgery.

March 23rd, 2009 AMRITSAR - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar today. During his visit, Dr.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Amritsar later Monday and pray at the Golden Temple. 'Singh is expected to go Monday evening and it will be a private trip,' an official at the Prime Minister's Office said.

February 8th, 2009 AMRITSAR - Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu Monday blocked the way to a train in this Punjab city to protest the non-inclusion of Amritsar in the railway freight corridor plan. Sporting black flags and banners against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Sidhu, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member from Amritsar, and his supporters squatted on the railway track at the Amritsar station, delaying the departure of the Amritsar-Ambala train.

January 31st, 2009 AMRITSAR - Two Nigerian nationals were arrested in Punjab's Amritsar district Sunday in possession of five kg heroin, the police said. The Nigerians, Beleth and Emiko, were arrested following a trap laid by the Amritsar police near Rayya town, 40 km from here, on the Amritsar-Jalandhar national highway.

December 26th, 2008 AMRITSAR - Amid heightened tension between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai terror attack last month, Border Security Force (BSF) director general M.L. Kumawat Saturday visited frontline security positions in Amritsar and Ferozepore districts of Punjab.