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Admission
scam:
main accused absconding
Amritsar, June 10
The main accused in the Computer Department
of Guru Nanak Dev University admission scam Parma Nand has absconded after the
police inquiry indicted him and Head of the Department, Dr Karanjit Singh
Kahlon.
New councillors
sworn in
Amritsar, June 10
Even as the election of Mayor was
postponed, 57 new councillors took the oath of office in the presence of the
Divisional Commissioner, Jalandhar Range, Mr R. S. Sandhu, the Commissioner,
Municipal Corporation, Mr Jasbir Singh Bir, and three MLAs here today.
PUDA to
sell all vacant property
Patiala, June 10
Saddled with hundreds of flats and plots
which have not found any buyers for years, PUDA has decided to put up all of
these for sale in this month as well as in July and has even offered an
attractive discount on its HIG flats to attract buyers.
Budget session
today
Chandigarh, June 10
The Budget session of the Punjab Assembly
will begin tomorrow at 2 p.m., according to a pres note of the Vidhan Sabha
Secretariat.
Constitutional
crisis in Punjab: Akali MLAs
Chandigarh, June 10
Akali legislators, who held a
meeting here today on the eve of the Budget session of the Punjab
Assembly under the chairmanship of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr
Parkash Singh Badal, passed a resolution saying that the state was
facing a constitutional crisis. They alleged that the Congress
government, in connivance with antisocial elements, was using all foul
means to derail the democratic set-up in the state.
SHO fells trees to
line his pockets
Moga, June 10
Can an SHO make a police station
bereft of dozens of shady trees and pocket lakhs of rupees by ordering
the cutting of these trees? The answer is in the affirmative if an
unprecedented example put up by a cop, who remained posted at
Baghapurana police station before he was dismissed on charges of gross
‘misconduct’, is to be believed.
Nuclear
attack: no place to hide
Ferozepore
For people of Punjab, if nuclear
missiles ever rain down, there is nowhere to hide. Among the 1.2
billion people of Asian subcontinent, the only people with any hope of
finding shelter from a nuclear attack are top political and military
leaders and people with enough money to grease their way into a few
protective bunkers.
Teach
Pak
a lesson, say migrants
Nawanshahr, June 10
Following continuing shelling by
Pakistani troops, about 80 persons belonging to 20 families after
migrating from border villages in the Akhnoor, R. S. Pora and Shamm
sectors in Jammu and Kashmir have reached Hari Bhagat Dwar, Beerowal,
about 12 km from here recently.
Lepers
resent govt apathy
Bathinda
“It is with the help of the
common man that we have built this ashram and are still surviving”,
says Gopal, a leper and inmate of the Parmanand Leprosy Ashram of the
city. Although nobody exactly knows when this ashram was constructed,
inmates claim that it is about 25 years old. At present, more than 100
persons are living here. Besides victims of leprosy, their family
members are also staying here.
Bathinda
roads in bad shape
Bathinda
Most of the city roads which have
been dug up for laying telephone cables are yet to be repaired. The
roads leading to the district courts complex are in bad shape and last
year lawyers had staged dharnas and held rallies in front of the
residence of the then Deputy Commissioner in protest against the
failure of the authorities to repair these.
Residents
demand amenities
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 10
Residents of Preet the Nagar area
of Sirhind Municipal Council are virtually living in hell like
conditions allegedly due to the negligent attitude of the Municipal
Council, Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib. In a representation submitted to the
Deputy Commissioner and other higher authorities residents of the area
have alleged that though the council is collecting every type of tax
from them, it has failed to provide even the basic civic amenities.
Bridegroom
casts vote, gets ‘shagun’!
Phagwara, June 10
A bridegroom got a unique
“shagun” yesterday. A youth of Jagjitpur village, who was heading
a “barat” halted his cavalcade of the marriage party to cast his
vote in the panchayat samati/zila parishad poll yesterday.
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Redress
doctors’ grievances: IMA
Barnala, June 10
Dr R. C. Garg, President, Punjab
unit of the IMA, has warned the Punjab Government that if grievances
of doctors whether private on PCMS, are not redressed by the state
government within one month the IMA and the PCMS Association will
launch an agitation and paralyse health services in civil and private
hospitals. Members of the two associations will hold peaceful protest
marches, dharnas, gate rallies and block traffic.
Man shoots father,
himself
Bathinda, June 10
Makhan Singh, a former Sarpanch
of Bandi village in the district, was killed today when his son,
Jagjit Singh (47), shot at him before committing suicide. Gurpreet
Singh, grandson of the Sarpanch, was injured in the incident. The
family members of the deceased said the tragedy took place
unintentionally.
Youth
beheaded,
thrown into rivulet
Jalandhar, June 10
An unidentified youth was
beheaded and thrown into a dry rivulet in the Focal Point locality
here recently. The incident came to light when some residents went to
the area to answer nature’s call early this morning and saw the
stabbed body and the severed head on the banks of the rivulet.
Looters
shoot farmer, take away cash
Tarn Taran, June 10
Shingara Singh (60) of Wan Tara
Singh village in the border area was shot dead by three armed looters
at his farm house last night. The looters took away Rs 20,000 and gold
ornaments worth Rs 26,000. A case has been registered under Section
460, IPC.
Seven
hurt
in 2 clashes
Jalandhar, June 10
Seven persons, including three
women, were injured in two clashes reported here today. Four residents
of Sanghowal village in Noormahal township, including three women,
received serious injuries when a group of six persons allegedly
attacked them with sticks over an old dispute regarding a main entry
gate this afternoon.
Mystery shrouds death of 22-yr-old boy
Rajpura, June 10
Mystery shrouds the death of a 22-year-old boy who reportedly consumed some poisonous substance on the intervening night of June 8 and 9 and died after being taken to Rajindra Hospital, Patiala.
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