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SGPC probe report in a
week
Anandpur Sahib, June 19
The SGPC team investigating the corruption charges against the management of Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib will submit its report within a week. The supervisor of the investigating team, Mr Mohinder Singh, while talking to this correspondent, said the detailed report of the investigation into the purchases made in the past five years by the Takht management would be presented to the SGPC President, Mr Jagdev Singh
Talwandi.
Rekha, Amitabh favourites in Pak
Wagah (Amritsar), June 19
“Film actress Rekha and actor Amitabh Bachchan are still favourites among Pakistanis”, said Laila, Pakistani actress.
Laila, along with five other famous artistes of Pakistan, including
Khwaja Parvez, Parveen Mehru, Iqbal Bhaoo, a sufi singer, famous
comedian of Pakistan Hassan Abbas and singer Jawad Ahmad, came here
today on an invitation by the Aalmi Punjabi Parivar, an Indo-Pak
Cultural Exchange Organisation headed by former minister Harnek Singh
Gharuan.
Tension over demolition drive
Mayor seeks MC chief’s suspension
Jalandhar, June 19
The discord between the Mayor of the local municipal corporation, Mr Suresh
Sehgal, and the Commissioner, Dr Roshan Sunkaria reached a flashpoint today with the former demanding that the Commissioner be suspended immediately for bringing a bad name to the state government by demolishing scores of shops situated in the Master Tara Singh Nagar locality. A BJP councillor and four others, who tried to stop the civic staff from demolishing their shops, were allegedly beaten up by the police.
Punjab Lok Morcha
convention
Chandigarh, June 19
The Punjab Lok Morcha, a front comprising the Marxist Communist Party of India (MCPI), the Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic), the Samajwadi Party, the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Samajwadi Janata Party will organise a state-level convention in Jalandhar on July 7 to mobilise all non-Congress and non-SAD-BJP alliance forces in the State for the coming assembly elections.
Unemployment situation turning explosive
Chandigarh, June 19
The unemployment problem is on the verge of turning explosive in the country. It has been assessed that about 50 million persons will join the labour force during the Ninth Plan ( 1997-2002). The Plan started with a backlog of 7 million unemployed persons.
Girls get a kick from boot
polish
Jalandhar, June 19
Throwing the age-old social taboos to wind, college girls of Doaba region, both with rural and urban backgrounds are falling prey to alcohol and psychotropic drugs in a big way and are about to surpass the young college neo-rich brats of this area, who have been known for use of costly drugs.
Will Chandpur bundh withstand the
monsoon?
Mansa, June 19
Even as the Punjab government has started taking all measures to save the state from floods in view of the impending monsoon, the question which has been haunting the residents of Mansa district of Punjab, Sirsa and Hisar districts of Haryana is whether the Chandpur bundh located on the Punjab and Haryana border will withstand the monsoon onslaught.
Residents allege harassment at hands of cable operators
Patiala, June 19
More than a month having passed since a consumer court handed over its judgement directing the cable operators to provide quality good service to the consumers, in addition to issuing receipts for payment that the operators received every month, yet no stern action has been taken against erring cable operators.
BKU men protest over farmer’s
suicide
Maur Mandi (Bathinda), June 19
Activists of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta) staged a dharna at the local police station to protest against the suicide of Mithu Singh, a farmer.
The activists of the union alleged that an increasing number of
farmers were committing suicides due to poor economic condition to
which the state government was a mute spectator.
Ailing kids suffer
ordeal
Kartarpur (Jalandhar), June 19
Two ailing minor children and passengers of the much publicised “Sada-e-Sarhad”, the twice-a-week bus between Delhi and Lahore, had to undergo an ordeal for hours when the bus staff and securitymen attached with them did not allow their parents to arrange medical treatment till their condition deteriorated and the bus reached here this afternoon.
‘Sangat darshan’ to continue: Badal
Phillaur, June 19
Mr Parkash Singh Badal has said that the sangat darshan programme, along with development programmes started by the SAD-BJP government, will continue despite criticism by opposition parties, including the Congress.
Jatha leaves for Pak today
Amritsar, June 19
A Sikh jatha will be leaving for Lahore tomorrow to observe the death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Dera Sahib.
The jatha will be headed by the SGPC member and Panthic dhadi, Mr
Baldev Singh. The jatha will be flagged-off by senior vice-president
Jathedar Alvinderpal Singh Pakhoke.
Beaten up for helping
accident victims
Kapurthala, June 19
Raj Kumar, an auto-rickshaw owner, who got admitted the victims of a road accident, which took place on Saturday on the Kapurthala-Jalandhar road to the local Civil Hospital, was beaten by cops of the Sadar police station.
Mishandling by cops ‘led to suicide’
Patiala, June 19
The Lawyers for Human Rights International today came down heavily on the Patiala police for ‘’mishandling’’ the situation by taking an unmarried couple into custody at Nabha on May 26 last which they alleged led to the death of the girl who committed suicide soon after.
Police tortures youth in custody
Sangrur, June 19
The Bhawanigarh police is alleged to have tortured Rajinder Singh, a youth from Nagra village near Bhawanigarh, who was in its “illegal” custody on June 10.
Rajinder Singh was allegedly beaten up by an ASI and a head constable to such an extent that he could not walk. He was given third degree methods.
Construction of petrol station stayed
Chandigarh, June 19
Taking up a petition filed by Fatehgarh resident Gurdeep Singh against the allotment of a petrol station by Bharat
Petroleum to Suhail Kumar, Mr Justice S.S. Sudhalkar and Mr Justice K.S. Garewal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday stayed the construction of the petrol station.
Rs 80 lakh aid for flood control
Ropar, June 19
The Punjab Government has sanctioned a special grant of Rs 80 lakh for flood control measures in the district. Giving this information, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr
G.S. Grewal, said owing to the presence of a large number of rivulets in the district, all flood control arrangements would be completed by June 30.
Salaries of two constables attached
Pathankot, June 19
Salaries of two constables of the Punjab police were attached by Mr Karnail Singh, Judicial Magistrate (First Class).
Cong worker implicated:
ministers
Fazilka, June 19
Mr Hans Raj Jossan, Mr Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Mr Jasjit Singh Randhawa, Mr Harnek Singh Gharuan, all former Punjab ministers, and Dr Mohinder Kumar Rinwa, a former local MLA and secretary of the PPCC, in joint press statement issued here today alleged that Harcharan Singh, a resident of Chhibewala village of Jalalabad subdivision, had been falsely implicated in a murder case as he had supported a Congress candidate, Mr Hans Raj Jossan, during the recent Lok Sabha poll for the Ferozepore Parliamentary constituency.
Registration of false case
alleged
Mansa, June 19
Ram Singh of Aklia village in the district has alleged that Babu Singh of the same village had buried a bag of poppy husk in his (Ram Singh) fields with the help of two labourers and got a case registered against him by informing the police.
Dharna by
Shahar Bachao Committee men
Bathinda, June
19
Activists of the Shahar Bachao Committee today held a rally in
protest against the alleged indifferent attitude of the district
administration in arresting the miscreants who had manhandled the
tenants of the Mota Singh building. The activists staged a dharna at
Sadbhawna Chowk for about two hours and disrupted the normal flow of
traffic. They raised slogans against the district administration and
the state government.
Ban on illegal
bars sought
Patiala, June 19
The Bahujan Samaj Morcha has urged the district administration to take action against all illegal bars, hotels and restaurants which have been providing hard drinks to the consumers without requisite licence.
Boy rescued, abductor arrested
Kapurthala, June 19
The police has nabbed Sansar Chand of Kathar village in Jammu and brought him here.
Sansar Chand allegedly abducted Saban Kumar (5) from school in broad day light on June 8 from
Phagwara.
The police has already rescued the boy and handed him over to his parents.
Boy admits to
matricide
Ferozepore, June 19
The police claims to have solved a case of murder in which four members of a family were brutally killed with sharp-edged weapons. According to police sources, Paramjit Singh, who was apprehended, admitted that he had killed the four as he did not want to give his sister, Bobby, her share of the family property, even though his mother, Mohinder Kaur, was insisting on getting the same for her daughter.
14 cases against narcotics
smugglers
Bathinda, June 19
The police has registered 14 cases against narcotics smugglers and has recovered 170 kg of poppy husk, 250 gms of opium, 60 kg of lahan and 26 litres of illicit liquor.
DRDA centre recognised for computer
courses
Bathinda, June 19
The district centre of the DRDA has got recognition to run computer courses of Punjab Technical University,
Jalandhar.
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