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Articles by Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Singing his heart out
While Deepesh Rahi, the winner of Voice of Punjab 4, was basking in his newly found stardom with hordes of fans trying to get a picture clicked with him, we caught hold of the singer backstage at the sets of the show.
Updated on Oct 07, 2013 01:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Works by tourism board at Company Gardens lack ASI nod: CAG report
Works worth crores of rupees being undertaken by the Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board (PHTPB) at the Summer Palace of the legendary ruler of Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh, at Ram Bagh, also known as Company Gardens lack the sanction of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which looks after the heritage monuments and sites including this one.
Updated on Oct 05, 2013 04:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Get set for a fash
At the curtain raiser of Blenders Pride Punjab International Fashion Week last week, fashion designer Sonu Gandhi revealed secrets to looking fashionable this season
Updated on Oct 03, 2013 05:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Chandigarh
Amritsar Sikh museum being readied for news times
Preserving times gone, Central Sikh Museum (Ajaib Ghar) at the Golden Temple is getting ready for future, all set for a major facelift that the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) has finalised
Updated on Oct 01, 2013 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Two years on, Amritsar heritage walk not popular yet
The Heritage Walk of Amritsar, which was launched on September 27, 2011, by minister of tourism Hira Singh Gabria and local MP Navjot Sidhu under the Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board (PHTPB), has apparently lost its charm.
Updated on Sep 28, 2013 07:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Govt libraries far away from basics
Reading is an inspiring and fruitful activity, but city libraries especially that fall under the government are far away even from the basic 'musts' of a library. They hardly get any readers since they lack the basic infrastructure which can attract readers.
Updated on Sep 26, 2013 08:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu/Avninder Kaur, Amritsar
Indian Premier of 'Nooran' held
The Indian Premier of Punjabi short film, 'Nooran' was held yesterday evening in the auditorium of Khalsa College for Women which simply touched everyone's heart. The same was the scenario in its World Premiere held at Toronto on September 22 in its Punjabi International Film festival (PIFF) and International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA).
Updated on Sep 26, 2013 07:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Deafness rising; who cares to listen?
This is the International Week of the Deaf, opportune time to listen to the advice against noise pollution. Yet while the cases of deafness are rising, no one is willing to hear.
Updated on Sep 25, 2013 10:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Smooth traffic outside schools stays a dream
For hassle-free commuting in the city, there is an undeclared permanent caution - avoid roads near schools in the morning from 8am to 9.30am and in the afternoon from 1pm to 3pm.
Updated on Sep 21, 2013 09:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Chaotic traffic crawls on Airport road
The chaos on the Airport road in the city highlights the poor town planning and inefficiency of the authorities concerned. Few years ago, the road that leads to the international airport was a single-lane stretch. Later, it was converted into a double-lane road that successfully helped manage the traffic smoothly. Rameshinder Singh Sandhu writes.
Updated on Sep 18, 2013 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
‘Writing defines me’
Amritsar girl Kanika Dhillon is now a famous name, for not just authoring a book that became a bestseller (Bombay Duck is a Fish, 2011), but for also being roped in by superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment to write scripts.
Updated on Sep 18, 2013 10:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Directing, on winds of change
International Film Festival of South Asia (IFFSA) and Punjabi International Film Festival (PIFF), Toronto, have selected Nooran, a 30-minute short Punjabi film by Amritsar-based Navtej Sandhu for an exclusive world premier to be held on September 22 in Toronto, Canada.
Updated on Sep 16, 2013 07:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Tourist information centres offer little help
Punjab feels proud of the holy city that welcomes visitors from across the world. Though visitors arrive with lots of expectations and plans to explore Amritsar, on reaching here, their smiling faces turn gloomy and sad when they are not able to get even the basic information regarding the city in an efficient and easy manner.
Updated on Sep 14, 2013 07:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Reading for fun
Famous children’s author Anushka Ravishankar weaved her magic on the children of Amritsar when she shared some of her enthralling tales with them.
Updated on Sep 12, 2013 10:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Night sanitation plan a flop, tourists bear the brunt
A month after the municipal corporation (MC) started the execution of the much-hyped 'night sanitation' plan to keep the streets around the Golden Temple clean, hardly any change can be seen in the area.
Updated on Sep 11, 2013 06:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Foreign tourists feel unsafe in Amritsar
The holy city was put to shame on Friday evening after a woman from Denmark was molested outside the railway station but police don't seem embarrassed. If foreign tourists are to be believed, they feel "very unsafe in the city" where they get little help from the law.
Updated on Sep 09, 2013 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Aseem Bassi/Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Finding her calling
Ruchi Vasudeva, a medical professional and homemaker based in Amritsar, has proven the famous idiom ‘where there is a will, there is a way’ by winning the Harlequin Mills and Boon Passions contest that made her eligible to author a Mills and Boon novel.
Updated on Sep 09, 2013 04:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Authorities could not solve the pothole issue in posh Ranjeet Avenue
The open pothole issue in posh Ranjeet Avenue in front of two leading city hotels is not yet solved albeit the responsible authorities promised the HT team over phone that action will be instantly taken.
Updated on Sep 07, 2013 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Quality of education suffers as govt fails to check BEd colleges
It has been rightly said that excess of everything is bad, but authorities seem to learn no lessons from this proverb when it comes to giving nod to new Bachelor of Education (BEd) colleges.
Updated on Sep 05, 2013 07:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Guide to be happy
According to theologian William Hamilton, “On earth, there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.” It’s all in the mind, say psychologists, in an effort to help people overcome problems.
Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Teacher's day special: Salman Khan's Punjabi tutor
When Bollywood superstar Salman Khan came to Patiala in July 2011 to shoot for his film Bodyguard, he hadn’t known the visit would take him back to school – at least in his thoughts. In reality, he ended up meeting Manjitinder Singh Bedi, his schoolteacher of more than 31 years back.
Updated on Sep 05, 2013 02:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Tribute to a teacher
American novelist Henry Brooks Adams said, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops". It's true, there's always an unforgettable teacher in our life. In my case, it has to be Mr Swaran Singh Dhaliwal, who we affectionately called Shanni sir. Rameshinder Singh Sandhu writes.
Updated on Sep 04, 2013 09:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu
Finally, MC covers manhole…by parking water tanker over
Just outside popular hotel HK Clarks Inn in posh Ranjeet Avenue locality, a manhole is open for the past one week, and when HT informed the authorities, they parked a water tanker over it on the eighth day.
Updated on Sep 03, 2013 07:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Death of single screens, multiplex cinemas take their position
On one hand city seems to be busy in welcoming branded multiplex cinemas but on the other hand the single screen cinemas are dying. Single screen cinemas that were once thronged by audience in large numbers are struggling due to many reasons. Some have already closed their doors since they faced heavy losses.
Updated on Sep 01, 2013 11:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Time ripe for farm tourism
Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board will encourage farm tourism to bring urban citizens, especially schoolchildren, in touch with the village life.
Updated on Aug 30, 2013 11:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
VIP cars trouble common man
Traffic rules have no sanctity for the very important visitors to the holy city (there are many). It's becoming a menace here. Police salute the offenders' cars marked with red and blue beacons and ask the regular traffic to move out of the way. "No one is there to question the VIPs.
Updated on Aug 29, 2013 10:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
World Bank promises support as city's water resources deplete
More than 20% population of Amritsar and 13% of Ludhiana is still deprived of the government water supply despite claims of the civic authorities in both municipalities of making efforts to provide basic amenities to all. Ironically, water supply that is available too is not fit for drinking as it is contaminated.
Updated on Aug 25, 2013 09:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Shaheen P Parshad/Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Noise pollution: city suffers in silence
Who doesn't like peaceful environment, yet who doesn't contribute to noise pollution. Banned pressure horns and heavy motorcycles continue to disturb the city's silence.
Updated on Aug 22, 2013 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Residents bear the brunt as commercial activities galore in Rani Ka Bagh
More and more resdiential areas in the city are turning commercial and the authorities concerned are turning a blind eye to the violations.
Updated on Aug 20, 2013 10:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rameshinder Singh Sandhu, Amritsar
Nurturing nature
My maternal grandmother is a septuagenarian but is more fit and active than most people half her age. After all, she enjoys a perfect relationship with nature. She doesn't feel comfortable away from the natural world. No wonder she isn't fond of cities and loves her village home. She believes the village keeps her connected to nature. Rameshinder Singh Sandhu writes
Updated on Aug 14, 2013 09:35 AM IST
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