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A bouquet at
a flower show at the Baradari Gardens in Patiala on Sunday.
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A cricket fan put a small kite with a message wishing the Indian cricket
team success, inside a bulb, in Amritsar on Sunday.
— PTI
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Poppy
husk sellers smuggle narcotics to Punjab
Muktsar, March 16
Employees of poppy husk shops in
the neighbouring state of Rajasthan have started smuggling narcotics.
PM
urged to intervene in Bhullar case
Faridkot, March 16
The Rashtriya Sikh Sangat (RSS)
unit of Punjab has appealed to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari
Vajpayee, to personally intervene in the conversion of death sentence
to life imprisonment of Prof Devinder Singh Bhullar who was allegedly
involved in the murderous attack on Mr Manjinder Singh Bitta,
President, All-India Anti-Terrorist Front.
Cong
to issue show-cause notice to MLA
Patiala, March 16
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh
today said that a show-cause notice would be served on the Congress
legislator from Rajpura, Mr Raj Kumar Khurana, for his anti-party
activity during the recent municipal committee elections.
Politicians
‘patronise’ caste system
Lehra Mohabbat
(Bathinda), March 16
Mr Sham Lal Sharma, state
president of the General Categories Welfare Federation, said a
state-level convention against caste-based reservation to be held at
Talwandi Sabo on April 14 by the association would herald a new
chapter in building a casteless society.
Boycott
of Address in bad taste: Mann
Phagwara, March 16
Mr Joginder Singh Mann, Punjab
Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes, Social
Security and Development of Women and Children, today said the boycott
of Governor’s Address on the opening day of the Assembly session by
the Opposition combine of the SAD-BJP was in a bad taste.
Party
to mobilise forces: Kainth
Nawanshahr, March 16
Mr Satnam Kainth, president of
the Bahujan Samaj Morcha and a former MP, said here today that the
Amarinder government was “directionless” and its one-point agenda
was “political victimisation of opponents”.
SAD(A)
sets up village units
Policemen
charged with torturing kabaddi players
Jalandhar, March 16
The district police today
registered cases against two policemen, including Om Parkash, head of
Ganna police post in Phillaur, on the charge of torturing two kabaddi
players in illegal custody on March 8.
Decks
cleared for MC chiefs’ election
Gurdaspur, February 16
Decks have been cleared for the
election of Mr Naresh Puri and Ms Satya Devi as presidents of the
Municipal committees of Sujanpur and Dinanagar, respectively though
elections in this regard will be held next week but the results are just
a foregone conclusion.
Ind
wins Majitha byelection
Amritsar, March 16
An Independent candidate, Mr
Salwant Singh, today defeated the ruling party candidate, Mr Dilbag
Singh, with a big margin in the Municipal Committee Majitha byelection.
Mann
for panel of preservationists
Phagwara, March 16
The SAD(A) President, MP and SGPC
member, Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, in a letter to the SGPC President, Prof
Kirpal Singh Badungar, has urged him to constitute a panel of
preservationists from among the members of the SGPC for framing rules
against renovation, alteration or pulling down of old Sikh historic
structures without the approval of the panel which would act on the
advice of experts.
Cable
operators deny charge
Amritsar, March 16
The list of defaulter cable
operators, made public by Amritsar Communication Network Private
Limited, has opened a Pandora’s box as the cable operators
associations have started levelling allegations and
counter-allegations against each other.
Centre
forms panel for Hoshiarpur schemes
Hoshiarpur, March 16
The Ministry of Rural
Development, Government of India, has constituted a district-level
vigilance and monitoring committee for Hoshiarpur under the
chairmanship of Mr Charanjit Singh Channi, Member of Parliament, to
monitor the schemes of the ministry in the district.
Bhaura
seeks social security for farm labour
Faridkot, March 16
Mr Bhan Singh Bhaura Member of
Parliament and President, Khet Mazdoor Union, Punjab, has demanded the
implementation of the legislation for the welfare of farm workers in
the country.
Minister
promises jail reforms
Ludhiana, March 16
Punjab’s newly appointed
Minister of State for Jails and Urban Development, Mr Milkiat Singh
Birmi, today promised to bring in “sweeping” reforms in jails.
Give
up liquor, spend on education, parents told
Chak Suhelewala
(Ferozepore), March 16
Dr Rupinder Singh, Principal,
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering and Technology (SBSCET),
Ferozepore, said that time had come for the educational institutions
in the state to produce global competitors for the survival of the
nation.
Govt
move irks women councillors
Faridkot, March 16
Mrs Amritbir Kaur Sidhu, newly
elected Congress municipal councillor, has expressed surprise over the
Punjab Government’s decision to convert the post of president from
the general category of women to that of Schedule Caste candidates in
the local nagar council.
Few
turn up for repoll
Abohar, March 16
At least 71 per cent polling was
recorded during the repolling in the highly sensitive ward 25 of the
local municipal council today. Hardly 22 voters, more than last
Sunday, turned up to exercise the franchise under heavy security
arrangement.
Widow’s
pension: probe ordered
Amritsar, March 16
Following the appearance of a
news on pension of Ms Gurvail Kaur, widow of a freedom fighter,
published in The Tribune on August 27, 2002, the Punjab State Human
Rights Commission has directed the Chief Secretary to state government
and the Deputy Commissioner here to submit a report in eight weeks.
World
Consumer Day celebrated
Man
kills mother over property
Phillaur, March 16
Mahinder Singh, alias Tiddi of
Patti Rawal Ki village, shot dead his mother Surjit Kaur (62) and shot
at his younger brother Balbir Singh at Rurrka Kalan village this
morning.
2
held for extortion
Jalandhar, March 16
The police claims to have busted
a five-member gang of impostors with the arrest of its two members.
The two were held on the charge of extorting money by posing as
policemen.
Panch
murdered
Tarn Taran, March 16
Mr Sawinder Singh (45), a panch,
was allegedly murdered this morning at his native Naurangabad village
by Rachhpal Singh of the same village.
Two
killed in collision
Bathinda, March 16
Two occupants of a jeep were
killed while three others were injured when their vehicle collided
head on with a bus near the Sirsa railway crossing on the Bathinda-Dabwali
road this evening.
Two
arrested for assault
Phagwara, March 16
The police arrested two persons
last night and registered cases against some others under Sections
353, 332, 186 and 120-B, IPC for assault and for using criminal force
to deter public servant from discharging his duty.
Action
against schoolhead sought
Bathinda, March 16
The district administration here
has written to the Secretary, Education (Schools), Punjab, demanding
disciplinary action against the head of government high school,
Malooka village of the district for facilitating former Union Minister
and senior SAD leader Sukhbir Badal criticise Chief Minister, Captain
Amarinder Singh by organising a function for the inauguration of a
block on March 5.
Stress
on quality education
Amritsar, March 16
“The educational institutes
must lay stress on quality education instead of results” stated Prof
V.N. Rajasekhran Pillai, Director National Assessment and
Accreditation Council (NAAC), at the two-day workshop-cum-seminar for
accreditation of affiliated colleges and teaching departments of Guru
Nanak Dev University here today.
Batala
students honoured
Batala, March 16
The Bharat Vikas Parishad, Batala
held a function in community hall of Khajuri Gate here today to honour
brilliant students of the town.
Mann
gives grant to village schools
Ludhiana, March 16
The SAD (Amritsar) has condemned
the SAD (Badal) and the SHSAD for not recognising the sacrifice of
those Punjabis who were killed during the police firing during a rasta
roko andolan on April 4, 1993, at Kup Tota, a hamlet near here.
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