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Octroi
posts start functioning
Traders oppose verdict, MCs
rejoice
Phagwara, April 30
All 10 octroi posts of the local
Nagar Council have started functioning after seven months following
yesterday’s verdict of the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashing
the abolition of octroi.
Ahluwalia’s
offer to resign rejected
Chandigarh, April 30
Controversy over the removal of
Punjabi University’s former Vice-Chancellor Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia
continues, with the Punjab Government refusing to accept his offer to
submit his resignation. Mr Ahluwalia’s counsel on Monday had stated
at the Bar that the former VC was not willing to serve on the post and
would submit his resignation without going into the merits of the
controversy if the orders removing him from service were withdrawn by
the government.
Inquiry into purchase of JCB machines
Chandigarh, April 30
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered an enquiry into the purchase of 103 JCB machines by the Department of Rural Development earlier this year, the Additional Director-General of Police-cum-Chief Director, Vigilance Bureau, Mr A.P. Pandey, told newsmen here this evening.
 Amarinder
for change in J&K policy
Patiala, April 30
A week short of being relieved
from the Kashmir valley to go to Lucknow, local lad Major Tejinder
Singh Sohal fell to militant bullets during an anti-militancy
operation in the valley yesterday prompting the Punjab Chief Minister,
Capt Amarinder Singh, here today to call for a change in the
country’s policy in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, lays a wreath on the
body of Major Tejinder Pal Singh at
Patiala.
HIGH COURT
Decks
cleared for MC elections in Punjab
Chandigarh, April 30
In less than a month before
elections to Municipal Corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana
and Patiala are scheduled to be held, the decks were today cleared
with a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing
a petition filed by four Amritsar-based members of the District Akali
Jatha seeking directions to the state of Punjab and other respondents
to prepare fresh list of voters for each ward.
World
Bank representative visits hospital
Bathinda, April 30
A World Bank representative, Ms
Preeti Kudeshi, visited the local Civil Hospital today. Office-bearers
of the Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC) and the Health
Services Department accompanied her.
No-confidence
motion against MC chief
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 30
Sirhind is facing a drinking
water problem from the past one week due to a fault in the main
tubewell no 1 of Municipal Council, but the councillors are busy in
lobbying in trying to dethrone the president of the council. They have
submitted a no confidence motion against him.
Mann
to send jatha to Pakistan
Phagwara, April 30
Shiromani Akali Dal (A) headed by
Mr Simranjit Singh Mann will send a jatha to Pakistan in June on the
Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjan Dev, according to Mr Jaskaran Singh,
party’s general secretary, here today.
Anticipatory
bail for MLA, son
Moga, April 30
Moga Additional District and
Sessions Judge J.S. Chawla has granted anticipatory bail to Mr Sadhu
Singh, MLA, his son Jagtar Singh and then Station House Officer of
Baghapurana police station in the infamous Rajyana girls’ stripping
case.
 No
announcement on new Jathedar
Talwandi Sabo, April 30
Mr Kirpal Singh Badungar, SGPC
President, did not make any announcement regarding installing Mr
Balwant Singh Nandgarh as Jathedar of Takht Damdama Sahib here today.
Mr Kirpal Singh Badungar, SGPC President, talks to mediapersons at Talwandi Sabo on Tuesday.
— Photo by Kulbir Beera
Dharna
by advocates
Moga, April 30
To protest against the police for
not registering a case against two police officials who allegedly
manhandled an advocate and member of the Bar Association on April 16,
Moga advocates today staged a sit-in and took out a rally.
Two
killed in mishap
Abohar, April 30
Two occupants of a
tractor-trailer were killed as the vehicle in which they were
travelling overturned while negotiating a turn to the
Killianwali-Panjkosi link road last night.
Two
killed as tankers collide
Rajpura, April 30
Two persons were killed when two
chemical-laden tankers moving one behind the other collided near the
Shambhu check-point, seven km from here, late last night. The
collision occurred when the tanker ahead applied brakes suddenly.
‘Follow
path of Mahavira’
Kharar, April 30
Dr Shiv Muni, Jain Acharya and
chief of Sathanakwasi Shwetamber Jain sect, has appealed to the people
to follow the path shown by Lord Mahavira in order to avoid
sufferings.
MC
staff create furore in House
Abohar, April 30
Pandemonium prevailed at the
meeting of the local Municipal Council last evening as the employes
chose to play the role of opposition. They demanded that a fresh probe
by the Vigilance be ordered into the construction of a posh house by
the president of the council.
26
pc posts of MO vacant
Sangrur, April 30
Sangrur is perhaps the only
district in the state in which 26 per cent posts of Medical Officer
(MO) are lying vacant. Thus, the shortage of such a large number of
MOs in the district, especially in the Moonak and Tapa blocks, has
been affecting the health care services for the past several months.
Two
held for drug trafficking
Nawanshahr, April 30
Dr Naresh Kumar Arora, SSP, today
informed that the police in its drive against drug traffickers had
arrested Amrik Singh, alias Billa, of Gunachaur and Jagir Kaur, alias
Jagiro of Mukandpur, and seized 33 bags (1155) kg of poppy husk.
Judge’s
Reader held for taking bribe
Patiala, April 30
The Vigilance Bureau has arrested
the Reader of the Civil Judge, Sangrur, on the charge of taking Rs 1
lakh from Mr Charanjit Singh of Mangwal village in Sangrur district on
the pretext of getting his daughter employed as a clerk in the court
of the District and Sessions Judge, Sangrur.
Gang
of cheats busted
Bathinda, April 30
The police has busted a gang of
cheats by arresting one of its members. The gang members used to cheat
people by promising them that they would double their money.
Arhtiya,
uncle shot dead
Amritsar, April 30
An arhtiya (commission agent) and
his paternal uncle were shot dead in broad daylight by two youths in
the border town of Ajnala, about 30 km from here, today.
Parents
resent fee hike by school
Patiala, April 30
Parents of students studying in
Teja Singh Kandhari Public school here have condemned the school
management regarding the hefty hike in tuition fee, building funds and
computer funds.
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