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Police
remand for 2 ‘touts’ of Sidhu
Kharar, July 13
Mr Roshan Lal Chouhan, Judicial
Magistrate, today remanded Dr Shamsher Singh and Gurdeep Singh
Manchanda, two alleged accomplices of Ravi Sidhu, former Chairman of
the Punjab Public Service Commission, in police remand till July 18.
Both the accused yesterday surrendered before the court and they were
remanded in judicial custody till today.
CM’s
assurance to PCMSA
Patiala, July 13
The Punjab Civil Medical Services
Association today claimed that State Chief Minister Capt Amarinder
Singh had assured it that services of no batch of officers of the
State Services selected during the tenure of suspended PPSC Chairman
Ravi Sidhu would be terminated in entirety unless it contained
substantial number of tainted candidates who had secured their
selections by using corrupt means.
High-ups
are big bank defaulters
Chandigarh, July 13
Many of Punjab’s high-profile
functionaries, industrialists, bureaucrats and their family members
figure in the list of 284 beneficiaries who as on March 31, 2001, owed
Rs 2753.32 crore to various public , private sector and foreign banks
and financial institutions, says the Punjab Bank Employees Federation.
Punjab
withdraws docs from BBMB
Ropar, July 13
The Punjab Government has decided
to withdraw all its medical officers from the hospitals of the Bhakra
Beas Management Board. In a letter to the BBMB Secretary, Deputy
Secretary (Health), Punjab, has stated as per the orders of the
Personnel Department of the state, 30 doctors of Punjab posted at the
BBMB should report to their parent department within 15 days otherwise
disciplinary action would be taken against them.
Touts
‘sell B.Ed. entrance test paper’
Muktsar, July 13
While the Bachelor of Education
course candidates have been striving hard to succeed in the
competitive entrance examination and have joined many academies and
coaching centres to ensure their success, some unscrupulous persons
have been trying to cash in on their aspiration and have started
selling the question paper of the entrance examination to make a fast
buck.
Presidential
poll: Tota Singh allowed to vote
Ropar, July 13
The court of the Special Judge
here has allowed Jathedar Tota Singh, MLA, from Moga and former Punjab
Education Minister, who is now-a-days in judicial custody in a
criminal and corruption case, to cast his vote in the election for the
President of India to be held on July 15.
CPI
executive for meet on July 18
Chandigarh, July 13
The Secretary of the Punjab unit
of the CPI, Dr Joginder Dayal, has urged all democratic forces to
unite against the Capt Amarinder Singh's government to force it to
withdraw its anti-people, anti-employee and anti farmer policies.
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BSF officers get police medals
Hoshiarpur, July 13
Infiltration of militants is
still continuing in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the BSF has foiled
various such attempts. This was stated by Mr Ajai Raj Sharma,
Director-General of the BSF, talking to media persons at the
Subsidiary Training Centre of the BSF at Kharkan, 12 km from here,
yesterday.
Gurdaspur
is Khanna’s priority
Gurdaspur, July 13
Mr Vinod Khanna, Union Minister
of State for Tourism and Culture, while talking to newspersons here
today, said India was in touch with countries, which had advised their
citizens not to visit India due to the Indo-Pakistan stand off, to
allow them to do so now. He said the tourist inflow from abroad had
declined and hoped that it would pick up soon.
Bar
flays strike by revenue staff
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 13
The district Bar Association has
taken the lead in the state by opposing, criticising and declaring the
on going strike of revenue officials in the state as unwanted and
anti-people step. The District Bar Association in its meeting held
here today passed a resolution in this regard and condemned the
decision of the revenue officials to go on strike against the raids of
the Vigilance Department.
PSEB
to ensure 8-hr power for tubewells
Ropar, July 13
In an effort to save the paddy
crop in the state, the Punjab State Electricity Board today decided to
ensure eight hour power supply to tubewells daily. The PSEB will also
impose additional power cuts on industry and other sections of
consumers due to the delay in the arrival of the monsoon in the state.
‘Form
co-ops for self-marketing’
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 13
Punjab will give incentives to
its farmers for coming out of the wheat-paddy cycle by adopting
diversification. This is according to what Mr A. R. Talwar, Registrar
of the Co-operative Societies of Punjab, said at a workshop on
‘Organising Vegetable-growers Co-operative Societies’ here. About
100 vegetable growers of 35 villages of the district attended the
workshop.
Palledars
hold rally
Sunam, July 13
Thousands of palledars engaged
for the loading and unloading of stock at various FCI depots in
Sangrur district marched in procession through the main bazars of
Sangrur and organised a rally in front of the main gate of the office
of the Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur, 14 km from here, yesterday to
press for their demands.
Enumeration
to begin tomorrow
Hoshiarpur, July 13
To prepare amended voter lists,
house-to-house enumeration will be started from July 15 to August 14
in the district. Mr Kirandeep Singh Bhullar, Deputy Commissioner, at a
meeting here on Thursday said names of youths who would turn 18 on
January 1, 2003, would be added to the list. The draft list would be
published on October 16, 2002.
Forest
Bhavan to come up
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 13
The Punjab Government would
construct Banda Singh Bahadur Forest Bhavan in Harbans Pura village of
the district at a cost of Rs 1 crore, for which 20 acres had already
been acquired, said Dr Harbans Lal, Minister for Forests, here today.
Cyber
cafes or dens of vice?
Amritsar, July 13
With police raids on cyber cafes
at a plush shopping complex and other areas in the city, several
“startling” facts have come to light. Not only closed cabins in
many such cafes encouraged students to watch pornographic sites and
download them onto their private e-mail sites or make credit card
payments to view blue films.
Two
posing as police officials held
Hoshiarpur, July 13
The police here arrested four
persons allegedly for impersonating and blackmailing by posing deputy
superintendents of police and assistant sub inspectors of police, from
Ludhiana from near the local bus stand last night.
Rs
43,000 looted from Spice showroom
Kapurthala, July 13
Two armed robbers looted Rs
43,000 from a showroom of Spice mobile phone company situated on the
premises of Morris Mosque here today. They also took away a mobile
phone handset from the office.
College
staff not paid salary
Batala, July 13
Members of teaching and
non-teaching staff of S. L. Bawa D. A. College, Batala are agitated.
They have not received the salary of June, 2002. Prof Dilbagh Singh,
President College Teachers Union, a unit of the Punjab and Chandigarh
College Teachers Union said that they were paid salary of November,
December 2001 and January 2002 in the month of March and April 2002,
for June 2002 they are yet to be paid.
DAV
girls win UK dance title
Amritsar, July 13
Students of the BBK DAV College
for Women here were declared world champions at an international music
and dance festival held in North Waves, United Kingdom, on July 10.
The 21-member college team has been honoured with the title of
“world heritage artistes”.
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