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Amritsar hotel ‘a hub’ for drug smuggling busted by police

January 25, 2025 12:05 am

Hotel Alpine, located on Ajit Nagar Road at Katra Ahluwalia, has been frozen by the Batala police after investigations revealed its alleged use in narcotics smuggling.

Explained: Why Batala as new Punjab district has Congress factions sparring

September 10, 2021 7:42 am

The government is considering declaring Batala as the 24th district of Punjab.

Batala blast: 5 days on, ADC finally gets CM’s order to begin probe; district authorities on strike today to demand Bains’s arrest

September 10, 2019 8:43 am

"How can a junior officer probe against senior? How can an ADC probe against DC? How can an SP level official probe against SSP? Factory was running there for three years, ” said Rajya Sabha MP Partap Singh Bajwa.

Batala blast: Presumed dead, factory owner’s kin found alive and absconding, booked

September 08, 2019 6:35 am

Roomy's name was added in the FIR after the police got to know that he had survived the blast but had sustained injuries for which he got treated at a private hospital in Batala before moving to Amritsar. He was absconding till the time of filling this report.

Batala firecracker factory blast: Heart-wrenching, deeply anguished, says PM Modi

September 05, 2019 11:00 am

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Batala firecracker factory explosion: "The tragedy is heart-wrenching. Deeply anguished due to it. My condolences to the families of those who lost their lives."

Batala tragedy: Family that owned cracker factory loses ten members; youngest was 12-year-old Raju 

September 05, 2019 1:10 pm

The family which owned and operated the firecracker factory in Batala that was rocked by an explosion Wednesday lost ten of its members in the blast. Head of the family and the man in-charge of the business, Gulu Baba, also died in the blast.

Batala cracker factory blast kills 4-year-old boy, mother from house that shared wall with factory

September 05, 2019 10:45 am

“Our whole world changed in a second. We are a joint family of two brothers. I was sitting in my room on ground floor when I heard the blast,” said Amandeep Singh.

Batala: Acid attack victim’s kin say Punjab govt aid yet to arrive

April 10, 2016 10:53 am

Prabhjot’s condition was serious. She had to be taken to Fortis Hospital in Ludhiana, almost 150kms from her home town. Here, the revelations are even more startling.

Jawan-officer face-off in Punjab: Army orders court of inquiry

October 15, 2013 2:31 pm

This is the second such incident in the last 5 days after jawans beat up officers in Meerut in UP.

CO injured as officers and soldiers clash again

October 15, 2013 4:14 am

According to Army sources,Hansra was injured in the scuffle which followed an argument.

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