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Biggest-ever
narcotics haul, claim officials
Amritsar, June 13
With the arrest of two Nigerian
and Kenyan nationals on Wednesday, Customs and BSF officials claimed
to have seized such a large quantity of contraband from this part of
the country for the first time.
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pilgrims’ names deleted
Jatha to depart today
Amritsar, June 13
Fortytwo Sikh pilgrims find their
names deleted from two lists which the SGPC and the Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) had submitted to the Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA) for clearance to visit Pakistan.
KIDNEY SCAM
Ex-Principal
of medical college arrested
Amritsar, June 13
The Delhi Police has arrested Dr
O.P. Mahajan, a suspended Principal of Government Medical College
Amritsar, in connection with the removal of kidney of a donor without
his consent. Dr Mahajan was the chairman of the authorisation
committee for clearing the names of the donors.
Mysterious
disease claims five lives
Faridkot, June 13
Five persons have died in
Aryanwala village of this district due to a mysterious disease in the
past 20 days.
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Modelling
and show business, earlier considered taboo by the
prestige-conscious middle-class, show signs of rising popularity
among the youth of Punjab.
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Saru
complains to National Commission for Women
Patiala, June 13
A former Punjabi University
Fine Arts Department student Saru Rana, who had accused former
varsity Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, of attempting to
rape her, today appealed to the National Commission for Women to
conduct an inquiry against suspended Fine Arts Department teacher Dr
Saroj Rani whom she had accused of “using” students for her own
benefits.
Farooq Abdullah (R) pays obeisance at the Golden Temple in
Amritsar on Friday.
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Hepatitis
C cases on rise in Kotkapura
Bargari (Faridkot),
June 13
Hopes of four local men to make
it big in Arab countries were dashed when during medical examination
they were found infected with hepatitis-C. They returned home from
New Delhi after spending about 50,000-75,000 each for fee of the
travel agents.
NGO
to probe sale of blood
Bathinda, June 13
The Lawyers for Human Rights
International, an NGO, yesterday formed a three-member panel,
comprising of Mr Gurdev Singh, Mr Jagwinder Singh Gill, and Mr
Sukhdarshan Kumar Sharma to inquire into the alleged incident of
selling of blood from the local blood banks which had recently led
to large scale protests.
Zoo
ex-chief denied bail in assets case
Patiala, June 13
Suspended Punjab Chief Warden
(Zoos) Dr Vinod Sharma was today denied anticipatory bail in the
disproportionate assets case registered against him by the State
Vigilance Department.
PNB
holds meeting with rice millers
Jalalabad, June 13
Mr U.S. Bhargava, General
Manager of Punjab National Bank, Punjab zone, has disclosed that the
bank had set a target to interconnect its 500 branches by the V-set
technology by the end of this financial year under the Core Banking
Solution (CBS) scheme, besides providing tele-banking and tele-fax
banking facilities.
HIGH COURT
HC
stays arrest of school clerk
Chandigarh, June 13
The Punjab and Haryana High
Court yesterday stayed the arrest of a Ludhiana-based school clerk,
accused of being involved in embezzlement of fee amount after
forging the receipts and other documents.
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Suspension
stayed
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Panchayat poll
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Charges
false: club management
Patiala, June 13
The Rajindra Gymkhana Club
management today asserted that a member had filed a false case
against it because he had been asked to explain his conduct
following a complaint that he had beaten up another member in the
card room of the club and snatched his gold chain, last week.
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Improvement Trusts revived
Chandigarh, June 13
In a significant move, the
Punjab Government today not only ordered the revival of 19
Improvement Trusts but also appointed their new chairpersons, thus
setting in motion the exercise of political adjustment of party
activists at the district level.
PSEB
flying squad gheraoed
Bathinda, June 13
A case was registered today
against more than 16 persons off Sivian village of this district for
their alleged involvement in gheraoing a flying squad of the Punjab
State Electricity Board (PSEB) led by the Subdivisional Engineer (SDE),
Mr Kanwaljit singh, during a raid in the village to check the theft
of electricity.
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sarpanches elected
Farmers’
rally against PSEB privatisation
Mansa, June 13
Hundreds of farmers today held
a rally in the city to protest against the privatisation of power
supply and irregular supply of electricity and sat on dharna in
front of the local office of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB).
Do
not pay power bills, BKU to farmers
Tarn Taran, June 13
The Kisan Sangarsh Committee
and the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) have called upon the farmers to
unite against the anti-Kisan policies of the Punjab government and
has also asked farmers not to pay their power bills of tubewells.
‘Enact
law for farm workers’ welfare’
Sangrur, June 13
The All-India Agriculture
Workers Union (AIAWU) yesterday urged the Union Government to enact
‘Comprehensive Central Legislation for Agriculture workers’ to
save agriculture workers from the excesses of landlords and the
police in the villages.
Canal
water released for irrigation
Fazilka, June 13
Dr Mohinder Kumar Rinwa, MLA,
Fazilka and Parliamentary, Secretary, Punjab in a statement here
today said that canal water in all distributaries of the Fazilka and
Abohar areas had been released for irrigation on June 10.
Lack
of funds hits development work
Fatehgarh Sahib, June
13
The paucity of funds has not
only affected various development activities in the district but
also affected the newly constructed district administrative complex,
where the situation is becoming worst day by day.
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convicts on parole held for smuggling
Bathinda, June 13
Two persons convicted for
murder and undergoing sentence in the Central jail here started
smuggling of narcotics when on parole. Bhola Singh, a resident of
Mansa Khurd village and Baldev Singh, a resident of a village
falling in district, were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder
few years ago, were caught by the Talwandi Sabo police when they
were smuggling opium.
Woman
gives insecticide to 4 daughters, commits suicide
Abohar, June 13
Guddi (40), mother of five
daughters, reportedly committed suicide yesterday after making her
four daughters consume insecticide. This incident was reported from
Hinjrasar village falling in Sri Ganganagar region bordering Abohar.
Married
woman commits suicide
Fazilka, June 13
Binder Kaur (23) of Chack Pakhi
village, 20 km from here, allegedly committed suicide yesterday due
to reported torture by her husband.
Prisoner
escapes from hospital
Hoshiarpur, June 13
Prisoner Gagandeep Singh son of
Pal Sigh of Buddi village under Tanda police station of District
Jail Hoshiarpur escaped from police custody from the local Civil
Hospital in the early morning today.
Two
killed in land dispute
Patiala, June 13
Two persons were killed and two
others injured following a land dispute at Bahal village in
Bhunerheri block, about 25 km from here this morning.
One
killed in car-bus collision
Patiala, June 13
One person was killed and
another injured when the car in which they were travelling collided
with a bus near the Hero Honda agency on the Sirhind road here
today.
Staff
of DIETs await salary
Sangrur, June 13
Principals, senior lecturers,
lecturers, class III and IV employees, working in various District
Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) in the state, have not
been paid their salaries for the past couple of months, affecting
the functioning of these institutes.
 Education
Dept staff begin dharna
Chandigarh, June 13
More than 450 employees of the
ministerial cadre in the head office of the Education Department,
Punjab, here, are on the warpath. They have initiated a relay strike
in support of their demands. Fourteen employees today sat on dharna
in Sector 17 to mark their protest.
Ministerial
employees of the Punjab Education Department sit in dharna in
support of their demands outside the DPI office, Sector 17,
Chandigarh on Friday. — A Tribune photograph
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