economic fabric
What is Amritsar made of?
news coverage + 3×registered companies + 2×mapped places, log-scaled vs strongest sector
momentum
What the city turned toward · Jan–Apr 2026
Each topic's share of news attention, January–April 2026 against September–December 2025 — news ingestion paused in May, so this is the latest complete window.
Disasters Emergencies
26 → 0 news reports
▼100%
Accidents
29 → 7 news reports
▼84%
Crime
78 → 192 news reports
▲65%
Public Safety
15 → 10 news reports
▼55%
Healthcare
10 → 10 news reports
▼33%
Governance
38 → 72 news reports
▲27%
Policing Law Enforcement
99 → 142 news reports
▼4%
Terrorism Conflict
23 → 35 news reports
▲2%
a rising share means the city's attention is turning toward it — not necessarily more incidents
top city themes
What Amritsar's news is about
Themes across the city's entire news coverage — ≈30.8K located reports — with each theme's momentum, its most specific keywords, and how the coverage feels. A CRITICAL badge means most of that theme's coverage is extremely negative.
Politics
▲3.8% growing
Floodplain Management · Disaster Relief · Terrorism Investigations · Flood Control Measures
80% negative coverage
Crime
▲84.2% growing
Narcotics Smuggling Operations · Heroin Smuggling Routes · Drug Trafficking Stings · Illicit Drug Supply Chains
100% negative coverage
Government
steady coverage
Party Nomination Rules · Turnout Demographics · Railway Trunk Lines · Clean Air Zones
55% negative coverage
Law Enforcement
▲46.7% growing
Narcotics Smuggling Operations · Heroin Smuggling Routes · Drug Trafficking Stings · International Drug Smuggling
99% negative coverage
Transportation
steady coverage
Railroad Accident · Transport Crash · Rail Incident · Train Crash
70% negative coverage
International Relations
steady coverage
Drone Warfare · Narcotics Smuggling Operations · Heroin Smuggling Routes · Autonomous Reconnaissance Drones
81% negative coverage
Travel
steady coverage
Domestic Flights · Flight Safety Measures · Temple Sculpture · National Air Routes
58% positive coverage
Elections
steady coverage
Party Nomination Rules · Turnout Demographics · Motor Voter Programs · Sample Ballots
55% negative coverage
Terrorism
steady coverage
Narcotics Smuggling Operations · Heroin Smuggling Routes · Terrorism Investigations · Undercover Operations
99% negative coverage
momentum window: Jan–Apr 2026 vs Sep–Dec 2025 · sentiment is a property of the news coverage, not a city rating
city signals
The character of Amritsar
- ✓Retail heavyweight— Retail scores 10/10 across news, companies and mapped businesses.
- ✓Credible manufacturing town— The city has 218 mapped industrial places and 34 manufacturing companies.
- ✓Faith and tourism magnet— Religion and tourism scores 9/10, anchored by Harmandir Sahib.
- ✓Healthcare business cluster— Healthcare spans 78 companies and ranks among the strongest sectors.
- ✓Border-linked pressure— Migration, deportation, smuggling and security coverage are rising.
- ✓Sales-first job market— Banks, insurers and sales roles dominate available hiring.
- ✓Research depth— Local institutions produced 1173 papers across technology and health.
- ✓Thin funding culture— Only 4 tracked companies have ever raised outside money.
everyday life
Living in Amritsar means…
- ✓a border always nearby— The city lies 28 kilometers from Pakistan.
- ✓pilgrims in the everyday mix— Thousands come to Sri Harmandir Sahib.
- ✓plenty of retail choice— Retail includes 376 mapped places.
- ✓sales-heavy career options— Banks, insurers and sales roles dominate current hiring.
- ✓a darker local news diet— 70% of coverage reads negative.
- ✓factory activity in plain sight— Manufacturers are the largest mapped business type.
read from the news record — not a survey
hidden depth
Things most people don't know
- DeviceMax is the largest tracked employer, with 3580 staff.
- Guru Nanak Dev University contributes 800 of the 1173 captured local papers.
- Only 4 of 363 tracked companies have ever raised outside money.
- Research about Amritsar includes 3 papers on mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.
- The 61–62-death train accident resurfaced in coverage a year later.