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Govt
seeks
report on brawl at Wagah
Wagah, October 21
The Central Government has reportedly sought a detailed report about
the yesterday’s brawl between a BSF jawan and Pakistani Ranger
during the daily Retreat ceremony held at the Wagah joint checkpost.
Border
demining
tough task
Ferozepore, October 21
Even as the Indian Army is set to withdraw troops, the task of
demining along the border with Pakistan will be onerous. Both India and Pakistan had deployed a large number of
anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines along their common border.
French
envoy’s
assurance to Sikhs
Photographs on driving licences |
Amritsar, October 21
Mr Bernard de Montferrand, French Ambassador to India, assured of “a
pragmatic approach to the issue of photographs of Sikhs without
turbans on driving licences in France”. There was resentment among
Sikhs living in France over the French Government’s orders in
respect of driving licences to have photographs of Sikhs without
turbans.
French
Ambassador to India Bernard de
Montferrand with SGPC general secretary Bibi Kiranjot Kaur at the Golden Temple,
Amritsar, on Monday. — Photo Rajiv Sharma
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Man loses four sons
to liquor
Amritsar
Fear stalks the family of Mr Pritam Singh, an ex-serviceman and a
resident of Maqboolpura, who lost all his four sons with in a span of
four years because of an overdose of liquor or drugs. Besides, many
young persons of the colony have lost their mental equilibrium for the
same reason.
Mr Pritam Singh , an
ex-serviceman who lost his four sons to an overdose of liquor and drugs, along with his wife and grandchildren. |
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Police
Commemoration
Day observed
Mansa, October 21
Police Commemoration Day was observed by the district police at the
district administrative complex here on Monday. Mr Sudhanshu Shekhar
Srivastva, Senior Superintendent of Police, was the chief guest. Mr
Hartej Singh Sekhon, Superintendent of Police. (Headquarters), read a
list containing 975 names of martyrs.
Buy
levy
rice, millers to govt
Patiala, October 21
The Punjab Rice Millers Association today demanded that the government
should start accepting levy rice from millers immediately on the
pattern being followed by the Haryana Government. In a statement here, association president Tarsem Saini said the
association had already met Food and Supplies Minister Lal Singh and
Principal Secretary Food, in this regard but still no instructions had
been issued to accept levy rice from the millers.
Badal
opposes
release of water
Chandigarh, October 21
SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal today came down heavily on Punjab Chief
Minister Amarinder Singh for issuing orders to release 1000 cusecs of
water to Rajasthan from the Ropar headworks on the eve of wheat sowing
in Punjab, demanding that these orders be withdrawn immediately. He
hoped the Chief Secretary would advise the Chief Minister against
going ahead with such disastrous orders.
Anti-tank
gun barrel found
Jalandhar, October 21
Three days after a large Army arsenal was found on the roadside at
Goraya, the police today found one barrel of a 12.7 mm gun between two
railway lines in the same area.
Petrol
tanker owners go on strike
Jalandhar, October 21
Nearly 2200 petrol tankers today
went off road hitting supply of petroleum products. A call for an
indefinite strike was given by the Punjab Petroleum Tankers Union. No
tanker loaded petroleum products from any of the three oil terminals
of the state, claimed Mr Davinder Singh Babbu, president of the union,
maintaining that stand-off between the union and the four oil
companies continued.
Lord
Paul visits ancestral home
Jalandhar,
October 21
Lord Swraj Paul was overcome with emotion
as he looked at Apeejay School here. It once used to be a small
house owned by his family where he used to live along with his
parents, four brothers and three sisters.
A student of Apeejay School presents a bouquet to Lord Swraj Paul during his visit to his ancestral home in Jalandhar on Monday.
— Photo Pardeep Pandit |
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Panthic
panel holds meeting
Nawanshahr, October 21
The Panthic Commission inquiring
into the alleged rape and corruption charges against Baba Dhanwant
Singh of the Noor Vishav Ruhani Charitable Sansthan and the role of
jathedars of Sri Akal Takht Sahib and Sri Keshgarh Sahib in the
episode, held its fourth meeting at the Gurdwara Singh Sabha here on
Sunday to hear the view of various Sikh organisations and affected
individuals.
Pt
Rao, Sujat Khan enthral audience
Kapurthala, October 21
On the second day of the concert,
organised in connection with the Sharad Utsav in memory of Nawab Jassa
Singh Ahluwalia, a great Sikh General and founder of Kapurthala, an
erstwhile princely state, on the sprawling lawns of the palatial
Jagatjit Palace, renowned singers Neeta Pandit, Sujat Khan and Pandit
Luxmi Krishna Rao enthralled the audience.
Valmiki Jayanti celebrated
Ropar, October 21
The birth anniversary of Maharshi Valmiki was celebrated at the Valmiki temple, near Giani Zail Singh Nagar, here today.
A function was also organised in the temple which was attended among others by Mr Ramesh Dutt Sharma, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Mr Khillari Ram
Budhiraja, a former president of the local municipal council, and Mr Jaswant Singh,
DDPO, Ropar.
SHSAD
to support Punjab bandh
Bathinda, October 21
The SHSAD today said it would
participate in the Punjab bandh on October 29 by farmers in protest
against the bar on free power and charging of electricity for running
tubewells.
Kisan
unions to block traffic on Oct 29
Mansa, October 21
To discuss the programme of
Punjab bandh on October 29, a district-level meeting of seven kisan
unions was held in the main gurdwara here yesterday.
Rain
creates panic among farmers
Bathinda, October 21
The downpour last night created
panic among the farmers at the local grain market who had been waiting
for the procurement of paddy. A visit to the mandi today revealed that
the farmers whose crops had been lying in the open were trying to save
the produce from the water that had stagnated in some parts of the
mandi.
AIDS
awareness course concludes
Bathinda, October 21
A two-day AIDS awareness training
course for NSS volunteers concluded at the local SSD Girls College
today. As many as 50 volunteers from five local educational
institutions participated.
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