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NRIs IN NEWS
From a
labourer to a barrister
Chandigarh, April 27
NRIs both in England and North
America have been in the news as official recognition has been
conferred upon them. While Mr Kuldeep Singh Grewal, who started as a
labourer after migrating to the UK in 1972, was recently called to the
Bar of England and Wales and permitted to practise as a barrister, Mrs
Ajit Kaur Deol of Winnipeg has been awarded the Order of Manitoba, the
highest state award.
Punjab
SC officers rue ministers’ behaviour
Chandigarh, April 27
The Punjab Scheduled Caste
Officers Association, which celebrated the birthday of Dr B.R.
Ambedkar here today by holding its 3rd annual convention, said efforts
made by the association to improve the lot of the weaker sections had
shown good results.
Kidney
scam: key doc surrenders
Amritsar, April 27
In a significant development in
the multi-crore kidney scam, Dr P.K. Jain, against whom proceedings
for declaring him a proclaimed offender were initiated today,
surrendered before Mr Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh, SP (City) and SIT
member, here today.
Akali
unity soon: Badal
Jalandhar, April 27
Equipped with power to forge
unity with the party headed by former SGPC president Gurcharan Singh
Tohra, former Chief Minister and president of SAD Parkash Singh Badal
today revealed that the unity would become a reality very soon.
Singla:
govts lack dynamism
Bathinda, April 27
Mr Surinder Singla, Chairman,
High-Powered Finance Committee, Punjab, yesterday said that different
governments lacked dynamism and were not changing policies for
generating more jobs in the services sector.
Cable
operators beat up customer
Mob manhandles Civil Surgeon
Mansa, April 27
Working of the Ahluwalia Goldstar
Cable Network, the premier cable operator covering about 90 per cent
of the city area, has been lying paralysed since last evening
following a dispute between the cable operator and a consumer.
Temple
board’s direction reversed
Patiala, April 27
Miscreants have reversed the
direction of a board put up by the district administration at the Baba
Bhola Nath shrine at Mandour village, around 17 km from here, which
proclaims that all people, irrespective of their caste, can enter the
shrine.
Work
on escape channel halted
Ropar, April 27
The construction of the escape
channel of the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant here has come to
a halt allegedly due to the poor quality of the work on stage 1 and
stage 2 ash dykes of the plant. Sources said the contractor who was to
carry out the construction of the escape channel along the ash dykes
had abandoned the work.
Dayal
terms CM as defaulter
Amritsar, April 27
Dr Joginder Dayal, secretary of
the state unit of the CPI, has alleged that Chief Minister Amarinder
Singh and Mr Rana Gurjit Singh, MLA from Kapurthala, besides some
Akali leaders, are among the defaulters of the Punjab Finance
Corporation. He said this while addressing a press conference here
today.
Pay-off
scam: Badal demands probe
Ludhiana, April 27
Mr Parkash Singh Badal, former
Chief Minister, Punjab, said that the Ludhiana police pay-off scandal
exposed through a video-film was just the tip of the iceberg regarding
the extent of corruption that was prevalent in the state.
Govindacharya
flags off yatra
Amritsar, April 27
Mr K.N. Govindacharya, BJP
leader, today said he feared that the Indian Government might be
forced into accepting more anti-agro regulations in the next WTO
discussions to be held in Mexico in September this year.
Mr K. N. Govindacharya flags off
a yatra in
Amritsar on Sunday. — Photo Rajiv Sharma |
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Tadpoles
in drinking water?
Bathinda, April 27
Residents of the Namdev Marg area
in the city have alleged that contaminated water was being supplied to
their locality.
Home
Guard official, son held for theft
Abohar, April 27
The police here has arrested Sham
Lal Chhabra, Commandant, Punjab Home Guards, here and his son Neeraj
Kumar under Sections 380, 420, 467, 468, 471 of the IPC for alleged
theft of a cash memo from Hindustan Petroleum filling station.
2 foetuses found in clinic, nurse arrested
Patiala, April 27
A raiding party of the Health Department has arrested a retired nurse for conducting illegal abortions. Two female foetuses were found in a dustbin at her clinic-cum-residence at Banur.
3
rounded up in girl bazar case
Mansa, April 27
As a follow-up action on the
report regarding a girl bazar at Mansa village, the district police
has rounded up Manjit Kaur, originally from West Bengal and married to
Charan Singh of Maghania village in the district. She has reportedly
been bringing girls from West Bengal for sale in Punjab.
1
booked for using fraudulent means
Gurdaspur, April 27
The police has booked Gulzar
Masih of Ghagguwal for getting a Scheduled Caste certificate issued
fraudulently though he belongs to the backward class. The police today
said the accused had got this certificate issued in 1988 from the
office of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Gurdaspur.
Punjabi
University Dean sacked
Patiala, April 27
Punjabi University has removed a senior teacher, Dr Ranjit Kaur Kapoor
from the office of Dean, Language Faculty, a month after appointing
her by withdrawing a cancellation order it had itself passed on a
decision giving backdate seniority to five teachers by ousted
Vice-Chancellor, Dr J.S. Ahluwalia, one of whom has been appointed to
the post now.
Sharma
heads PCCTU’s Sangrur unit
Sangrur, April 27
Prof P.K. Sharma of Guru Gobind
Singh College, Sanghera (Barnala), was today re-elected president of
the Sangrur district unit of the Punjab and Chandigarh College
Teachers Union for 2003-04 at the annual election meeting held at Lal
Bahadur Shashtri Arya Mahila College, Barnala.
Should
mobile users’ directory be printed?
Sangrur, April 27
Though about 9 lakh persons have
mobile phones in Punjab but no mobile phone users’ directory has
been published so far by any mobile phone company. According to an
information the Spice Telecom has about 4.5 lakh subscribers while the
AirTel and the BSNL have about 3 lakh and about 1.80 lakh subscribers,
respectively in the state. On the other hand, the BSNL has provided
more than 20 lakh landline telephone connections so far in the state.
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The
trial in connection with the bombing of an Air-India flight in 1985 will
begin tomorrow in Vancouver in the court of Justice Iam Bruce Josephson.
A high-security courtroom has been set up for the first time in Canadian
history at a cost of $ 100 million, according to Prof Jagmohan Singh,
general secretary, Akali Dal (Amritsar).
