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Suicide case: protests against police ‘inaction’
Phagwara, April 17
Irate relatives of Kanchan Aggarwal today resorted to a series of traffic blockades here demanding the arrest of the “killers” of Kanchan and
Mitali. They raised slogans against the indifferent attitude of the Punjab police and Government Railway Police.
Murder suspect says
he did not surrender
Abohar, April 17
Relatives of Sheeshpal, who was murdered last week at his nursery near the new water works of the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board here, have rejected the police investigation that held Ram Avtar responsible for the killing.
Money changed hands in lecturers’ selection: VB
Patiala, April 17
The Patiala Vigilance Bureau has, in its report, on the recruitment of government lecturers in the state claimed that money changed hands in the recruitment process during the period of former Punjab Public Service Commission Chairman Ravinderpal Singh Sidhu.
Mann flays decision on Mukul Joshi
Chandigarh, April 17
The president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, expressed concern over the Punjab Government decision of opening casinos and posting Mr Mukul Joshi on his previous post.
PYC not to be recast: Randeep
Chandigarh, April 17
Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala, president of the Indian Youth Congress, who chaired a meeting of Punjab Youth Congress office-bearers at Punjab Congress Bhavan today, ruled out restructuring of the Punjab unit.
4,000 defaulters get
notices from BSNL
Jalandhar, April 17
Disturbed over the piling up of unpaid telephone bills for over Rs 7 crore, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited at Jalandhar, has slapped 4,000 notices on defaulters, including the Punjab police and several other government departments.
‘More social efforts needed for checking sex tests’
Fatehgarh Sahib, April, 17
If we want to control the menace of sex determination and female foeticide, we have to improve social efforts and only then medical efforts would work, said Dr
O.P.S.Kande, member, Punjab State Advisory Board on PNDT Act, while addressing a seminar on amendments to the PNDT Act, 1994, organised by the district unit of the IMA at Sirhind town today.
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Destination
Punjab
If
policy announcements and framing of new laws alone could boost
tourism, Punjab would never have landed itself in the present
hopeless situation. |
Doctor alleges harassment by
MCI
Bathinda, April 17
Dr Darshan Kumar Bansal, a city resident, has alleged that the Medical Council of India was harassing the medical graduates holding degrees of foreign universities.
Afforestation plan for Laddowal
Chandigarh, April 17
The Centre has decided that “compensatory afforestation” would be carried out in 20.028 hectares of “degraded land” in the protected forest area of Laddowal near Ludhiana.
Punjab to revamp law on
Cooperatives
Ropar, April 17
The Punjab government was planning to restructure the Cooperative Societies Act to reduce government or bureaucratic interference in cooperative societies.
Mr Ramesh Dutt Sharma, Minister of State for Cooperatives and Removal of Grievances told reporters here yesterday at a function of the Municipal Council.
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OBIT
Popular teacher, erudite scholar
Eminent economist and educationist, Prof Karam Singh Gill, died after a brief illness on April 12. He was 85. Having graduated from Government College, Lahore, with a Master's degree, he joined Khalsa College, Amritsar, initially as lecturer in history and later shifted to economics. He built up the Economics Department of the college as one of the foremost postgraduate centres of learning, teaching and research in economics in post-Independence Punjab. |
Fire destroys 60
jhuggis
Gurdaspur, April 17
Sixty ‘jhuggis’ of Madrasi Colony in Batala were destroyed in a fire late yesterday. A woman, Parnai Devi, was admitted to Civil Hospital of Batala with serious burns. Fire engines were rushed to the spot from
Batala, Gurdaspur and Amritsar, but the loss of property worth several lakh rupees could not be prevented.
The Punjabi film industry
brings to mind no major release at the national or
international level. Hoping to change that, "Jee Ayaan Nu,"
starring Punjabi pop icon Harbhajan Mann, looks at a more
realistic storyline and presentation.
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Nanakshahi calendar
Minorities panel chief writes to SGPC
Amritsar
April 17
Following the release of Nanakshahi calendar Tarlochan Singh, Chairman, National Minorities Commission, in a letter to SGPC chief Prof Kirpal Singh Badungar has asked him to inform him of the changes so that the matter could be taken up with the Union Government and the state government in respect of alterations.
Councillors barge into octroi post,
kick up row
Jalandhar, April 17
Employees of the Municipal Corporation and a group of Congress councillors have virtually locked horns over the alleged maltreatment of some octroi employees by four Congress councillors at the main Paragpur octroi post late yesterday.
Woman, girl hurt in
mishap
Bathinda, April 17
An 80-year-old woman, Ramdatti, was injured when a scooter hit her at Sanguana Basti today.
Meanwhile, a three-year-old girl was injured when a truck hit her while she was going along with her father near the local railway station around 11 p.m. last night. She was admitted to hospital where her condition is stated to be out of danger.
Quota to women in coops
sought
Chandigarh, April 17
The Punjab Government has written to the Union Government to enact a uniform act for providing adequate reservation to women in cooperative organisations.
Hotel owners warned on LPG misuse
Moga, April 17
The Punjab Government has received numerous complaints regarding the alleged misuse of cooking gas by big hotel owners and kerosene by
dhabas.
3 girls become
sadhvis
Dhuri, (Sangrur) April 17
Pooja (19), daughter of Mr Bir Bhushan Jain of Dhuri, Ms Seeju (15) daughter of Mr Surinder Kumar Jain of Bareta (Mansa, district) and Neha (14), daughter of Mr Surinder Kumar Jain of Sonepat, Haryana, today became Jain sadhvis by getting deeksha (initiation into the order of Jain
monkhood) at the Jain Bhagwati Deeksha Mahotsav held at the Shri Sanatan Dharam Sabha Ashram here.
Two die in accident
Gurdaspur, April 17
Jaswant Singh and Bittu both residents of Batala died when the Zen car they were travelling by had a head-on collision with a truck near Rania 11 km from here on
G.T. road last night. The deceased were going to Batala.
Missing youth found
Phagwara, April 17
A youth, Harish Kumar, of the local Preet Nagar Mohalla, who had gone missing since Tuesday, was today found lying near Jyoti Model School of the locality and had to be hospitalised.
4 illegal liquor shops
shifted
Bathinda, April 17
The administration here shifted four unauthorised liquor shops from different villages of this district for the past many days.
Official sources said that Mr Anurag Verma, Deputy Commissioner, said that unauthorised liquor shops had been shifted from Akalia Kalan, Chak Heeran Singh
Wala, Kothe Chappri and Mandi Kalan following the complaints of panchayats and residents of the villages, ordered that no unauthorised liquor shop should run in the district.
Action recommended against
Tehsildar
Mansa, April 17
Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner, of Mansa, said here today that he had recommended disciplinary action against Ravinder Walia, Tehsildar at Sardulgarh, to the Divisional Commissioner, at Faridkot and the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) of Punjab for alleged irregularities committed by him in registering land-sale deeds.
Hotel owner booked
Amritsar, April 17
The Food and Civil Supplies officials raided Mohan International hotel and found 22 cooking gas cylinders meant for domestic use being used for commercial purposes, yesterday evening.
Four arrested for selling pirated VCDs
Bathinda, April 17
Four persons were arrested today for the manufacture and sale of pirated VCDs in the city. As many as 2,600 such VCDs were recovered from them. The discs, being manufactured here, were being supplied to dealers in the city and neighbouring towns and cities.
Bank looted
Bathinda, April 17
Three car-borne youths looted Rs 73,000 from the Sekhopura branch of the State Bank of Patiala under the Talwandi Sabo police station yesterday, the police confirmed today.
Guru Nanak Dev varsity teachers strike work
Amritsar, April 17
Teachers of Guru Nanak Dev university today observed stay-in-strike to protest against to the Deputy Controller Local Audit of the varsity not admitting their cases.
Govt teachers to stage
dharna
Jalandhar, April 17
Dubbing the new education policy anti-student and anti-employee, the Government Teachers Union, Punjab, has decided to organise a dharna in front of the residence of the Education Minister, Mr Khushal
Behl, on May 13 for the latter’s failure to consider its suggestions to be incorporated in the new policy.
Failed students can appear
in April
Amritsar, April 17
Those who in the B.A., B.Sc., B.Com part-III examinations of Guru Nanak Dev University will not be able to appear in all subjects in the supplementary examinations to be held in September 2003.
Staff of 4 schools await salaries
Nawanshahr, April 17
Employees of four privately managed government aided schools — JSFH Khalsa High School, Nawanshahr, Doaba Sikh National High School, Nawanshahr, Guru Nanak Khalsa School, Mazari and Khalsa High School, Charan
Kanwal, Banga — have not got salaries for the past couple of months.
Ayna selected for painting contest
Chandigarh, April 17
Ayna Jain, a student of Manav Mangal School at Amritsar, has been selected for the National Painting Competition — 2002.
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