Punjab General News
New tourism policy on anvil: Minister
Saturday, 16/11/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131116/punjab.htm#10
Sanghol (Fatehgarh Sahib) : With an aim to develop tourism, the state government would soon introduce a new tourism policy to attract foreign tourists to Punjab.
Amritsar kidney racket: Five doctors get 5-yr jail term
Saturday, 09/11/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131109/main2.htm
Amritsar : The District and Sessions Court today handed down jail terms ranging between five and eight years to six convicts, including a former principal of the local Government Medical College, in a case involving the infamous Amritsar kidney racket.
Amritsar girl’s gangrape lie nailed, boyfriend arrested
Friday, 08/11/2013
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
AMRITSAR: Two weeks after a 14-year-old schoolgirl alleged that she had been gangraped by three persons, the Amritsar city police have found that she had levelled false charges to shield her boyfriend.
Arrested former councillor was a terror
Thursday, 07/11/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131107/punjab.htm#21
Amritsar : Former councillor Gurvinder Singh alias Vicky Kanda, who was arrested yesterday in connection with the kidnapping of a property dealer, has close links with the ruling SAD, say sources. Kanda was booked for allegedly kidnapping and attempting to kill a property dealer on October 24.
Punjab’s inter-caste marriage benefit scheme defunct
Wednesday, 06/11/2013
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HOSHIARPUR: Punjab has a long queue of couples waiting for the promised inter-caste-marriage benefit that the union government had come out with to abolish caste consciousness.
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