Thursday, June 20, 2002, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Petrol to cost more in Punjab
LTC, DA to staff frozen; Budget to net Rs 1000 cr
Chandigarh, June 19
The first Congress Budget, presented by the Punjab Finance Minister, Mr Lal Singh, in the Vidhan Sabha today, will fetch the government a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore.

Budget highlights
* Free power to tubewells to be withdrawn
* User charges for transport, water, healthcare etc.
* Priority to infrastructure development
* Disinvestment of PSUs
* R and D Board for agriculture

  Editorial: Reform-oriented, but harsh Budget
 
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Budget anti-employee, anti-people: SAD
 Left dubs Budget as disappointing
  Business page: DA freeze stuns govt staff

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Punjab Finance Minister Lal Singh presents the Budget in the Vidhan Sabha in Chandigarh on Wednesday as Chief Minister Amarinder Singh looks on. Punjab Finance Minister Lal Singh presents the Budget in the Vidhan Sabha in Chandigarh on Wednesday as Chief Minister Amarinder Singh looks on .
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BKU firm on getting free electricity
Chandigarh, June 19
The demand of supply of power free of cost to the agriculture sector, raised by the Indian National Lok Dal when it was in the opposition in Haryana, returned to haunt the INLD government in the state as the Bharatiya Kisan Union today reiterated that it would not allow the state government to ignore the issue.

Kalam to use science for progressA.P.J. Abdul Kalam
New Delhi, June 19
President-in-waiting A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today put to rest all doubts over his political acumen to deal with crises saying that as President, he would handle any crisis in consultation with constitutional experts.
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Moga, June 19
The Moga police foiled the designs of the ISI to revive militancy in Punjab by arresting two Sikh militants today, having links with Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Abdul being brought for a press conference in Ludhiana on Wednesday. ultras in Jammu and Kashmir, the Khalistan Zindabad Force and the Babbar Khalsa International.


Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Abdul being brought for a press conference in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
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ast Friday’s bomb attack on the US Consulate in Karachi killing 11 and injuring 40 was yet another reminder to President Pervez Musharraf that the jehadi outfits remain undeterred in targeting the USA and those who cooperate with it in the war against terrorism.


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Siddiqui to come only as DGP
Chandigarh, June 19
The return of Dr A.A. Siddiqui — an IPS officer of the 1968 batch currently heading Manipur police — to his parent cadre of Punjab has not been yet cleared by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, had announced sometime ago that Dr Siddiqui would return to the state on June 15 at the end of his leave.


Who will foot PM’s hotel bills?
Amritsar, June 19
Who will foot the hotel and food bills during the two visits of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, in November last year which runs into several lakhs of rupees? Several union Cabinet ministers, Chief Ministers and other ministers, members of the BJP National Executive and senior bureaucrats, including SSPs, had camped here for many days in connection with the two-day National Executive meet and to preside over the concluding function of bicentenary celebrations of legendry Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

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