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Govt to deposit Rs 400 cr for rural projects
Jalandhar, April 29 Mr Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, said this while interacting with the media during the opening of a two-day conference on management at Lovely Institutes here today. The minister said he, along with Mr Lal Singh, Minister for Rural Development, and Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, PWD Minister, had met Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, Minister of State for Finance, and got projects worth Rs 1000 crore sanctioned for rural areas. The minister said they had assured Mr Bansal that they would deposit an amount of Rs 400 crore by May 10. The minister said the projects that would be undertaken for the facelift of the villages would include repair of roads, upgradation of irrigation system and canal system. He added that an amount of Rs 24 crore had also been cleared for sewerage work at Phagwara. Mr Singla claimed that there were “no chances” of Mr Parkash Singh Badal coming to power in the coming elections, as SAD was now a “divided house”. Meanwhile, delegates from the country and overseas gathered on the campus of Lovely Institutes to take part in the conference. Dr R.S. Ghuman, the noted economist, spoke on the changing perspective of management operation with respect to economy, industry and bilateral relations. Dr S.K. Salwan, Vice-Chancellor, PTU, presided over the function.
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Hollywood shows interest in Kapurthala royalty
Kapurthala, April 29 This was revealed by Mr Tikka Shatrujit Singh, great-grandson of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh, the erstwhile king of Kapurthala state, in a press conference here today. Mr Shatrujit Singh was here to participate in the three-day 288th birth anniversary celebrations of Nawab Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, a great Sikh general and founder of Kapurthala princely state. He said Indian actors would, in all probability, play the other lead roles in the film based on the book “Pasio’n India” by Javier Maro, a Spanish writer. Anita Delgado, better known as Maharani Prem Kaur of Kapurthala, married the Maharaja in 1908 when she was just 18 years old. Criticising the policies of the government, Mr Shatrujit Singh said there was a vast scope for tourism in Kapurthala because of its heritage buildings. “But due to the apathy of our government, the buildings are turning into ruins,” he alleged. The National Geographic Channel, which was making a serial on the kings and palaces of India, was denied the permission by the Union Defence Ministry to shoot the Jagatjit Palace. Perhaps, the ministry apprehended criticism on the upkeep of the palace that is housing Sainik School presently, he alleged. “The Jagatjit Palace could have been used as a heritage hotel, attracting thousands of foreign tourists,” added Mr Shatrujit Singh. “I had met the ambassadors of Japan, Russia, France, UK, Italy and other countries who expressed their desire to visit Kapurthala to see the heritage buildings,” he said, adding, “The Moroccan ambassador even offered assistance for the restoration of the Moorish Mosque.” He added that his company, Louis Vuitton, and he would organise a three-month exhibition in Paris from May 4, displaying the works of Indian artists and photographs of Kapurthala. |
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Pasla denies any fissures in party
Jalandhar, April 29 Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Mangat Ram Pasla alleged that certain vested interests were trying to create confusion among people and the party cadre by spreading canards that his party was “breaking up”. “Our party was organised about four years ago, as an outcome of our relentless struggle against the anti-people policies of the government as well as against the ideological distortions such as revisionism and sectarianism in the communist movement. The rumours are being spread by some vested interests and opportunist elements, who hardly subscribe to the Marxist ideology,” he alleged.
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Youth commits suicide
Phagwara, April 29 As per reports received this evening, the youth, who was identified as Jatinder Agnihotri (25), a resident of Nawanshahr, had been working at a bangle store in Nawanshahr. He was travelling by a bus from Nawanshahr to Ludhiana. When the bus reached near Chackdana village, the conductor of the bus noticed that the youth was not in his full senses. The conductor, assuming the youth to be an addict, dropped him at the village bus stop. The passersby took him to Guru Nanak Mission Hospital at the nearby Dhahan Kaleran village in Nawanshahr district, where he was declared brought dead. A suicide note was found from his pocket, said the police. His body was sent to the Banga Civil Hospital for postmortem. |
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Man hit by goods train
According to GRP sources, the man was hit on the head. He was admitted to the local Civil Hospital. Doctors attending on him at the hospital said he was not in a condition to speak.
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