‘Customers don’t prefer them’: millets get the cold shoulder at G-20 food fest
‘International Year of Millets’ and ‘Taste the World’ are the main themes of the two-day G-20 International Food Festival Poor demand for millet-based products and low public awareness of their benefits have resulted in only 13 out of the 40 food stalls at the ongoing G-20 International Food Festival at Talkatora Stadium offering items that […]Read More
Rs 16 cr for Amritsar city beautification
Chandigarh: The government has decided to spend Rs 16 crore on development works for the beautification of Amritsar city. Local Government minister Inderbir Singh Nijjar said Rs 15 crore will be spent for re-conditioning and development of GT Road from India Gate to the railway station. TNS District-level committees Chandigarh: With a view to implement […]Read More
Activists blame political patronage for encroachments on Amritsar Heritage Street
Squatters distribute ‘ladoos’ to celebrate transfer of MC Commissioner Local activists have alleged that the political patronage behind illegal encroachments on Heritage Street is defacing the image of the holy city. Interestingly, shopkeepers, who have encroached upon the street, had distributed ‘Laddoos’ to celebrate the transfer of Municipal Corporation Commissioner Kumar Saurabh Raj recently. The […]Read More
Amritsar Calling: Let us marry the old with the new in the Holy City
Enough has already happened considering that the harmonium, for one, is such a basic bajaa adopted from European traditions and brought in by the British in the 19th century, which has become an anchor instrument in the gurudwara and mandir musicology forgetting the richer nodes of our better native strings. The world in this quaint […]Read More
Woman Selling Huge Parathas In Amritsar Inspires The Internet With Her Story; Here’s Why
The internet is filled with inspiring content. Recently one such story of a street vendor from Amritsar has been doing rounds on the internet. Highlights The internet is brimming with inspiring content A story of a Amritsar based woman has been doing rounds on the net Read to know more The internet is brimming with […]Read More
