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Bhunder’s
bail plea rejected
Mansa, August 12
Mr Harbans Lal, Additional
Sessions Judge, today rejected the anticipatory bail application moved
by former Rajya Sabha member and former chairman, Punjab Mandi Board,
Mr Balwinder Singh Bhunder, MLA.
Police
remand for Sodhi till Aug 14
Patiala, August 12
A court here today remanded in
police custody till August 14, former PCS officer Purshottam Singh
Sodhi, arrested from his Mohali address on Saturday night on the
charge of paying Rs 15 lakh to suspended PPSC Chairman Ravinderpal
Singh Sidhu for nomination to the PCS.
High
drama over MC chief’s resignation
Fatehgarh Sahib, August
12
All the development works in the
Municipal Council, Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib, have come to a standstill
due to the piquant situation created by the acting president of the
council by first submitting his resignation to the local Minister, Dr
Harbans Lal from his post, who forwarded it to the EO of the council,
and later turning hostile.
Woman
got job on forged papers
Action against PSEB staff
likely
Patiala, August 12
Sixteen years after a woman
joined the PSEB on the basis of a forged transfer order and three
years after the case was first detected, the board management today
decided to pin responsibility on those who facilitated the illegal
appointment.
Kept
without treatment for 9 months
Ropar, August 12
“She had been reduced virtually
to a skeleton with only a thin membrane of skin covering her body. The
lower portions of the legs had joined with thighs giving her the shape
of Incas mummies being shown on the Discovery Channel”, said Dr
Gurjit Singh, SMO, Ropar Civil Hospital, while describing the
condition of Kuldeep Kaur, a resident of Bharatgarh at the time she
was brought to the hospital with 90 per cent burns.
Drinking
water projects may be closed
Villagers fail to contribute
their share
Muktsar, August 12
The much-hyped Central Government
sponsored Sector Reform Project, aimed at providing drinking water and
proper sanitation facilities to the rural areas could face closure in
many villages of the district as the residents of these areas had
failed to contribute their share of funds.
BJP
takes Amarinder to task
Chandigarh, August 12
The Punjab BJP today criticised
the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, for preferring to
visit the UK and the USA rather than extending any help to the
drought-hit people.
MC
poll: BSP blows hot and cold about alliance
Phagwara, August 12
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
continues to blow hot and cold over the issue of its alliance with the
SAD-BJP combine in the coming municipal council polls in Phagwara,
Muktsar, Ajnala, Rayya.
Differences
in DCC resurface
Talwandi Sabo, August 12
Even as Dr Bhagat Singh Dhaliwal,
DCC president, has claimed that the district unit was united,
differences resurfaced when former MLA Harminder Singh Jassi and his
loyalists did not attend a function organised by a section of the
Congress rank and file led by Mr Ajit Singh Kanakwal and Mr Harinder
Singh Jaurkian in connection with the inauguration of a public
grievances redress cell here today.
Cut
IAS, IPS staff strength: Dal
Faridkot, August 12
A rally of the Punjab state
Karamchari Dal with employees of the departments like PWD, Public
Health, Food and Supply and Panchayat Secretaries held here today to
protest against the state government’s anti-employee proposals in
this year’s budget urged the government to curtail strength of IAS
and IPS officers who the rally said were the major burden on the
exchequer.
PPA
to train dogs, horses
Phillaur, August 12
In a first time move aimed at
resource generation as well as to seek public help in checking crime,
the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy (PPA) here has opened
its doors to people interested in getting their dogs and horses
trained at the academy’s Kennel and Equestrian Club.
Fly
ash for cost-effective roads
Ropar, August 12
Fly ash generated by thermal
plants may cease to be a nuisance if experiment by the Gujarat Ambuja
Cements is approved.
CPM
threat over ‘false’ case
Amritsar, August 12
The CPM has threatened to gherao
the Tarn Taran (City) police station in protest against the
“false” case registered against Sarabjit Singh of Pandori Gala and
his family members, including three girls.
 Ashok
Masti’s tribute to Vijay Sachdeva
Bathinda, August 12
Ashok Masti, Punjabi singer,
performed at a cultural programme organised last night to mark the
death anniversary of Vijay Sachdeva, mentor of several Punjabi
singers.
Hakam Sufi, Punjabi Sufi singer, and Ashok Masti, pop singer, perform in Bathinda on Sunday.
— Photo Kulbir Beera
Akali
leader’s mother killed in accident
Faridkot, August 12
The mother of Youth Akali Dal
leader Nadharak Singh Brar died and his father was seriously injured
in a collision between their scooter and a truck in this district
yesterday, the police said today.
Nihang
told to wash clothes as ‘tankhah’
Amritsar, August 12
The Sikh clergy today directed
Bhai Sukha Singh, a Nihang, to wash the clothes of his jatha for a
week as part of “tankhah” for visiting the dera of Baba Piara
Singh Bhaniara, who has been excommunicated from the Sikh Panth.
Sawan
Ashtami fair begins
Hoshiarpur, August 12
The annual five-day Sawan Ashtami
fair started today. Thousands of devotees of Chintpurni Mata from all
over the region participated in a sammelan where Sankirtan Mandalis
held kirtan.
 Bhawalpur
Samaj celebrates Sesa
Bathinda, August 12
People belonging to the Bhawalpur
Samaj (those whose forefathers lived at Bhawalpur, Pakistan) descended
on the banks of the Bathinda canal late yesterday to celebrate their
traditional festival Sesa — which is organised every year to appease
the rain god during the month of “sawan”.
A family belonging to the Bhawalpur community gets ready to pay their annual obeisance to the Water God, at Bathinda canal late Sunday evening.
— Photo Kulbir Beera
Probe
into fake attorney ordered
Ropar, August 12
Acting upon the news item
published in the column The Tribune a couple of days ago the Deputy
Commissioner, Ms Seema Jain, has directed the District Revenue Officer
Ropar, to conduct an inquiry into the fake attorneys case and submit
the report within two weeks.
Plant
workers hold rally
Bathinda, August 12
As part of their ongoing struggle
against the decision regarding reduction in salaries, employees of the
thermal plant at Lehra Mohabat and members of the city unit of the
PSEB Employees Struggle Committee today organised rallies at their
respective places of work.
10-yr
jail for 2 in dowry death case
Kapurthala, August 12
The District and Sessions Judge
Mr Gurdev Singh, here today sentenced to 10 years Raju, mother-in-law
and Karamjit, brother-in-law of a dowry victim, Suman. The convicts
belong to Bohani village in Phagwara sub-division.
 Gang
of car thieves busted, five held
Jalandhar, August 12
The district police has busted an
eight-member gang of auto thieves by arresting five of its members.
Several vehicles, including new cars and jeeps were recovered from
them.
New cars recovered by
the Jalandhar police on Monday. — Photo Indermohan
3
millers booked for paddy scam
Mansa August 12
A case under Sections 406, 467,
468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC and Section 7 of the Essential
Commodities Act has been registered against owners of three rice mills
here in the district for their alleged involvement in misappropriation
of paddy worth Rs 80 lakh belonging to the Food & Supply
Department.
Youth
seriously injured in attack
Pathankot, August 12
Panic gripped Rampura Mohalla
area following an attack on a youth today in which he was seriously
injured.
40 kg opium seized
Patiala, August 12
The Patiala police today announced that it had seized 40 kg opium worth lakhs and arrested two persons in this connection.
Teachers
told to cook for students
Bathinda, August 12
Primary schoolteachers, already
burdened with odd jobs like revision of electoral rolls and filling
forms pertaining to Sarb Sikhya Abhiyan, came in for a rude shock when
the District Education Authorities (Primary) recently gave verbal
orders to the Centre Headteacher (CET) and the Headteacher to make
arrangements for serving food to students under the mid-day meal
scheme.
Study
centre of IGNOU opened
Jalandhar, August 12
A study centre of Indira Gandhi
National Open University (IGNOU) was inaugurated by the Punjab
Technical Education Minister, Mr Mohinder Singh Kaypee, at Dr B.R.
Ambedkar Regional Engineering College here today.
Minimum
charges scheme hits small units
Bathinda, August 12
The Bathinda Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (BCCI) has urged the government not to scrap the policy
of minimum charges for power supplied to the small scale industry (SSI)
till there was frequent power cuts.
Goldsmiths
observe bandh
Phagwara, August 12
In response to a call given by
the Punjab Swarankar Sangh, the local goldsmiths today observed bandh
in protest against the wrong policies and excesses of the Sales Tax
Department.
 Traders
hold bandh against raids
Amritsar, August 12
A complete bandh was observed in
markets in the walled city area while a partial bandh was observed in
the Civil Lines area on the call of various organisations against the
alleged high-handedness of Excise and Taxation Department officials
here today.
Protest rallies marked the call for bandh in protest against the manhandling of a trader. — Photo Rajiv
Sharma
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