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Hola
Mohalla: Akalis not to share stage
Ropar, March 14
All Akali parties will hold separate rallies during the Hola Mohalla celebrations at Anandpur Sahib. This has negated any possibility of Mr
G.S. Tohra and Mr Parkash Singh Badal sharing the stage or sinking their differences.
Cong
MLAs want to be “educated”
Chandigarh, March 14
At the Congress Legislature Party
meeting today, MLAs expressed their desire to get educated on the
government policies, programmes and fiscal/economic reforms,
particularly, in respect of some of the “controversial” reports,
before they could go to the people and build public opinion in favour
of the government and what it intended to achieve.
Bhai Kanahiya kin undecided on offer
Mohiwal (Ropar), March 14
About 50 descendents of Bhai Kanahiya who are residing at Mohiwal village near Anandpur Sahib are undecided about taking up the job of reviving
mashks (water skins) as proposed by the DSGMC. There are perplexed about the decision of the DSGMC to recognise the centuries-old service of their family by providing them the job of reviving the
mashks. Mr Bachan Singh, Mr Rattan Singh, Mr Sheetal Singh, and Mr Ram Singh are the heads of these families.
Employees
take a holiday that wasn’t
Bathinda, March 14
A large number of government
employees enjoyed a holiday today as a report that appeared in a
Punjabi newspaper said that the Punjab Government had declared a
holiday today.
HIGH COURT
MLA
to get 7-day notice
Chandigarh, March 14
Taking up a petition filed by
Punjab MLA Ajit Singh Kohar, Mr Justice K. C. Gupta of the Punjab and
Haryana High Court today directed the issuance of a seven-day notice
in any first information report registered against him.
Hike
in excise duty on pumps opposed
Fatehgarh Sahib, March 14
The Punjab Centrifugal Pump
Manufacturers’ Association has criticised the Central Government for
increasing excise duty on pumps in the Budget and demanded its
withdrawal. The association said it was an “anti-farmer and
anti-industrialist” step.
Lectures
on heart ailments
Sangrur, March 14
Mr D.S. Guru, Managing Director,
Punjab Health Systems Corporation, will inaugurate the 57th
state-level conference of the Punjab unit of the IMA on March 16 at
Mansa.
Rs
25,000 grant as ‘ghund chukai’
Mansa, March 14
Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy
Commissioner, Mansa, had to pay Rs 25,000 as “ghund chukai”
(removal of veil) to women of Kahnewal village in the district. The DC
visited the village yesterday and many women attended his meeting with
veils on.
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abducted girls traced
Muktsar, March 14
The police has recovered two
Dalit sisters, abducted on March 2 from Gidderbaha town of the
district by two boys of Kot Bhai village. Mr Shiv Kumar, SSP, said
that two Dalit sisters were abducted by Gathi Singh and Gora Singh
from this town.
Kidnapped Dalit child found
Sangrur, March 14
A Dalit child, Sunil Kumar, who was kidnapped on July 19, 2001, by a woman from the Siva temple near the main bus stand here, was recovered today and handed over to his parents.
PSHRC
seeks report on demolition
Jalandhar, March 14
The Punjab State Human Rights
Commission has sought a comprehensive report from the local District
Magistrate regarding the alleged demolition of houses of Scheduled
Castes by the members of the upper caste community in Para village of
the district about two months ago.
Bhattal to honour freedom fighters’
kin
Chandigarh, March 14
A lot of political
significance is being attached to the function being organised by Ms
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Punjab Rural Development and Agriculture
Minister, at Dhanaula (Sangrur), on March 16. According to sources,
the function will be organised under the banner of the Baba Hira Singh
Memorial Trust, which is headed by Ms Bhattal.
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contestants to boycott repoll
Jalalabad, March 14
Mr Prem Kumar Valecha, president
of the local Municipal Council and candidate of ward no 9, and Mr
Rajnish Kumar Bindru, candidate of ward no 12 of local Municipal
Council, have decided to boycott the re-elections of the wards to be
held on March 16.
Scientists
favour organic farming
Amritsar, March 14
Distinguished food scientists say
that many pesticides have become less effective and organic farming
can help farmers maintain the soil and groundwater health. Organic
foods have better nutritional quality and low content of heavy metals
like aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury.
Travel
agent held in fake passport case
Jalandhar, March 14
The district police has arrested
a travel agent on the charges of enabling a criminal, who was
convicted in an extortion case and later released on bail by the
court, to flee the country on a fake passport.
Three
booked for threatening lawyer
Gurdaspur, March 14
A case has been registered
against Lakhwinder Singh of Sarna, Gurmeet Singh of Nangal Bhoor and
an associate on the charge of threatening Mr S.S. Bhullar, a Pathankot
lawyer, who was here in connection with a hearing.
PTU
exams rescheduled
Jalandhar, March 14
Keeping in view the late receipt
of question papers for the re-appear exams in some centres yesterday,
the Punjab Technical University has rescheduled the exams for various
courses under its Distance Education Programme.
Mass
copying in board exams
Moga, March 14
The District Education Officer
transferred one superintendent and the supervisory staff of at least
four examination centres, following reports of mass copying in the
matriculation and class XII examinations of the Punjab School
Education Board.
Denial
of bus passes: students threaten stir
Patiala, March 14
The Pepsu Road Transport
Corporation has stopped concession to students whose institutions do
not undertake to compensate the Corporation. The Corporation earlier
stopped issuing concessional bus passes to all students, has started
reissuing these to the students of government schools and colleges.
Students of a few institutions, which undertook to compensate the
corporation for the concession made to the students, are being given
passes.
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