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Extradition of boat tragedy accused sought
Hoshiarpur, November 8
In a letter to Mr L.K. Advani, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Balwant Singh Khera, Chairman Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission has urged for the extradition of persons who were responsible for the deaths of 170 young men of India, 91 of Sri Lanka and 33 of Pakistan in the Malta-Sicily channel on December 25, 1996.
Arjuna awardee wrestler held
Ropar, November 8
The Morinda police has arrested Jagdish Singh, alias Bhola, an Arjuna awardee wrestler, resident of Bathinda district. He was wanted by the police in three cases and had been declared proclaimed offender.
Bureaucrat
posted as DG (school education)
Chandigarh, November 8
Resistance of educationists against the posting of any bureaucrat as head of the Department of School Education notwithstanding, the Punjab Government today posted Mr Alok
Shekhar, an IAS officer, as the new Director-General (school education) by creating a new post in the Education Department. He has been designated as DGSE and will be enjoying over-riding powers in the department, which has been restructured recently.
CPI MP Bhora to surrender
security
Bathinda, November 8
Mr Bhan Singh Bhora, a lone MP of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from Punjab, today said he would surrender his security to the state government in protest against the decision of the state police to enhance the security of ministers.
Panchayat secys threaten stir
Bathinda, November 8
The Nav Niyukt Panchayat Sakatar Union has alleged that the Congress government has initiated the move to terminate their services to settle political scorers with the previous SAD-BJP government and claimed that they were appointed on merit.
MLA helping octroi defaulters?
Rampura Phul, November 8
Mr Charanjit Singh Jatana, president, Municipal Council, in a statement here today, alleged that the local MLA, Mr Gurpreet Singh Kangar, was supporting an electronic goods dealer, who had been evading octroi and was pressurising the police to harass him
(Mr Jatana.)
Power
plant to part with information to cops
Ropar, November 8
The PSEB authorities have granted permission to the GGSSTP, Ropar to give information sought by the police. With this, decks have been cleared for the plant management give the names of the officials who passed the bills of the labour contractors between 1997 and 1999.
Running
from pillar to post for dues
Gurdaspur, November 8
Beant Ram, who was prematurely retired on May 17, 1994 as
a Constable here, yet to get his pensionary benefits and other
arrears, including provident fund and gratuity. Mr Beant Ram appealed
in the court of the Civil Judge here challenging his premature
retirement on November 17, 1994.
HIGH COURT
Brahmpura
seeks bail
Chandigarh, November 8
Taking up another application filed by Punjab MLA Ranjit
Singh Brahmpura seeking the grant of anticipatory bail, Mr Justice
Hemant Gupta of the High Court today directed that the petitioner
would be given a three-day advance notice for enabling him to avail
legal remedy in case he was required in any case.
Recruitment rally at Phagwara
Phagwara, November 8
The Deputy Director General, Recruiting, Punjab and J&K, Brigadier Ajay
Pahwa, today told newsmen here that the recruitment rallies did not attract Punjabi youth of impressive physique.
Km-scheme buses remain off road
Bathinda, November 8
The km-scheme buses of the PRTC remained off the road today as their owners observed strike in protest against the
non-fulfilment of their demands. Office-bearers of the Action Committee of the Km-scheme bus owners claimed that the strike had been successful throughout the state. They said no bus belonging to the category
plied in Punjab.
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Private bus operators running buses under the kilometre scheme observe a strike
in Patiala on Friday. — Photo Subhash Patialavi |
Students, BKU men get judicial remand
Bathinda, November 8
The court today sent five persons to judicial remand till November 21 while two others were sent to judicial remand till November 22 in connection with cases registered against them for their alleged participation in agitation against mini-bus operators as part of the bus-pass conflict.
6 units of
GNDTP, GHTP trip
Bathinda, November 8
All four units of the local Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) and two units of the Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant
(GHTP), Lehra Mohabat, located 25 km from here, tripped this afternoon when a fault developed in the Barnala-Malerkotla main power transmission line.
NZCC folk dance competition
Patiala, November 8
Tiwari Model Senior Secondary School bagged the most number of prizes in the inter-school bhangra and giddha competitions organised by the North Zone Cultural Centre on the occasion of its foundation day here yesterday .
Residents, safai workers enter into scuffle
Bathinda, November 8
The local residents who started cleaning the city and removing garbage as safai karamcharis of the municipal council are on strike these days had to face rough weather when the safai karamcharis allegedly started a scuffle with them today.
Agriculture extension service a shambles
Chandigarh, November 8
The agriculture extension service system merits attention. The earlier focus in extension service was only on Green Revolution technologies. It is no longer that relevant today. A paradigm shift is required from production-oriented extension service to “knowledge/information”-based extension that is relevant to market demand and supply, pricing trends (inputs/outputs), weather forecast and is situation-specific as well as crop-specific.
Work on Ropar bypass to begin before March 31
Ropar, November 8
Construction work on the abandoned Ropar bypass project will be resumed by the PWD before March 31 next.
An assurance to this effect was given by Mr Ramesh Dutt Sharma, Minister for Public Grievances, Punjab, while presiding over the annual prize distribution function of Government Girls Senior Secondary School here
today.
Vehicle thieves’ gang busted
Muktsar, November 8
An interstate gang of vehicle thieves was busted with the arrest of Rajinder Singh yesterday.
Mr Major Singh Dhillon, SSP, in a press note said Rajinder Singh of
Rampuraphul, involved in a number of vehicle lifting cases, was arrested from near Middukhera village in the Labi police station area.
‘Techfair 2002’ inaugurated
Fatehgarh Sahib, November 8
Technical education is the need of the hour and to ensure a bright future and safe placement of youths of the state, the
government has decided to initiate various steps.
Behl hopes to achieve
literacy target
Fatehgarh Sahib, November 8
With the introduction of the new education policy and restructuring of school education system, there will be a tremendous improvement in the quality of education and the target of imparting compulsory education to children between the age group of six and fourteen in the state will be achieved.
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