(1991 est. pop. 709,500). Well situated on a southern extension of the Silk Route, Amritsar ("a pool of nectar") is a vibrant commercial, cultural, and transportation center in India's Punjab state. An important center of the Sikh...

Coordinates: 31°38′N 74°52′E / 31.64, 74.86 Amritsar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ, Hindi: अमृतसर), meaning: The Pool of the Nectar of Immortality[1], is the administrative headquarter of the Amritsar District in Punjab,...

MRS Bhandari, bent double over her walking stick and supported by her middle-aged daughter as she takes her daily stroll at dusk around the gardens of her elegant villa, is one of Amritsar's most distinctive echoes of the Raj. Now in her nineties,...

As far as I could see, I was the only tourist in town. Certainly, I was the only European among the hundreds of travellers, touts, rickshaw- wallahs and food-vendors who swarmed around Amritsar's central bus depot. There were turbaned Sikhs and Hindu farmers yelling...

The Dalai Lama said Tuesday he supported the recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar and condemned the crackdown on the Buddhist monks who led them, saying it reminded him of China's oppression of Tibetans.Myanmar's military rulers crushed a series of pro-democracy protests in September, killing at...

As India and Pakistan prepared for independence, Amtul Rashid Gillani was dodging gunfire, armed only with a stick.It was 1947 and Gillani was a Muslim medical student in Amritsar, a northern Indian city that exploded in religious and ethnic violence as departing British colonizers carved...