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News
Analysis
More populist
steps likely in Punjab
Chandigarh, January 15
Besides what Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh recently announced, there is loud thinking in the
Congress to increase the age of retirement of the government employees
from 58 years to 60 years. There are two viewpoints on this. One, it
may help the Department of Finance to have Rs 400 crore cash savings
for the next two years but it will have a cascading impact on the
state exchequer.
Police
HQ seeks DIG’s order
Reinstatement of Inspector
Guddu
Chandigarh, January 15
The Punjab Police headquarters
has summoned the controversial order passed by Mr P.S. Sarao, DIG,
Faridkot Range, and the service record of Inspector Shamsher Singh
Guddu (substantive rank Sub-Inspector), who was recently reinstated
after he had been prematurely retired.
Panchayats to
honour Deputy Commissioner
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 15
More than 100 panchyats of Dhuri
subdivision will honour Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner, by
conferring “ Honour of Punjab” award at a function to be organised
on January 28 at Bachat Bhavan, Fatehgarh Sahib. This honour would be
bestowed on the Deputy Commissioner as he did not allow any gambling,
dancing stalls, wine shops, swings, circuses and other items of
amusement despite being pressurised in this regard, said Jathedar
Daljeet Singh Dohla in a press note issued here today.
District
Diary
Dist poised to
become major education centre
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 15
The district is poised to become
a major education centre of the state as entrepreneurs are setting up
educational institutions like the law college, medical college,
architecture college, B.Ed college and nursing college. Work on these
institutions, except the medical college, has started.
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Anti-encroachment drive
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Girl child’s Lohri
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Probe into PSEB purchases begins
Ropar, January 15
The Vigilance Wing of the Punjab State Electricity Board has initiated probe into the purchase of over 100 items purchased through proprietary route by officials of the board. These items, include electrical and mechanical components, compressors, transformers, water controlling valves, boltless wedge connectors and repair of high-tension motors. Most of the said items were purchased through proprietary route in the Ropar, Bathinda and Lehra Mohabbat thermal plants of the PSEB.
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PSEB
staff protest on privatisation move
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Jalandhar, January 15
Hundreds of PSEB employees today
participated in a protest rally here against the state government’s
move to disband the board into five private companies under the garb
of power sector reforms.
PSEB employees protest against the
privatisation policy of the government, in Jalandhar on Thursday.
— Photo by S. S. Chopra.
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Polyclinic
for ex-servicemen
Faridkot, January 15
On the eve of the Army Day, Army
authorities set up a Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme
polyclinic at the District Sainik Board Complex at Muktsar today to
provide medical aid to the ex-servicemen by charging nominal fee under
the contributory health scheme of the Union Government.
High
Court
Ropar DC, SSP asked
to remove encroachments from graveyard
Chandigarh, January 15
A Division Bench of the Punjab
and Haryana High Court today directed Ropar’s Deputy Commissioner
and Senior Superintendent of Police, besides other respondents, to
remove illegal encroachments on a graveyard at Bhagwant Pur village.
Shamsher Mehndi’s bail plea dismissed
Patiala, January 15
The regular bail application of Shamsher Mehndi, brother of Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi, was dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Mr
K.C. Puri, who after hearing arguments yesterday had reserved judgement for today.
Nine Bangladeshis
arrested
Amritsar, January 15
Nine Bangladesh nationals have
been arrested in two separate incidents in Amritsar and Majitha police
districts. Seven Bangladeshis were nabbed by the Amritsar police, Two
were nabbed by the Border Security Force when they were trying to
cross over to Pakistan.
Labourer
beaten to death
Amritsar, January 15
A migrant labourer, Kapil Dev,
was allegedly beaten to death by four persons over a minor dispute
over tobacco here last night. However, the case was registered today
as a large number of migrants today demonstrated in front of the
postmortom house on the Majitha road here.
IT training centres
at city, Jalandhar
Mohali, January 15
The Punjab Government is all set
to establish two centres for excellence in Information Technology
education and training in collaboration with software giant,
Microsoft.
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