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Hong Kong Sikhs clarify stand on Guru Granth Sahib
Chandigarh, August 27
Sikhs residing in Hong Kong have clarified their position over the controversy regarding the installation of Guru Granth Sahib in a Hindu temple at
Kowloon.
Pak parliamentarian brings 10th Guru’s relic
Amritsar, August 27
Pakistan’s Member of National Assembly Rai Aziz Ulah Khan — the ninth direct descendant of Nawab Rai Kala who had given shelter to Guru Gobind Singh in 1705 at Rai Kot (Ludhiana) today brought ‘Ganga Sagar’, from Wagah joint check post, 27 km from here today.
Navjot Sidhu, Sukhbir Badal and Rai Aziz Ulah Khan (extreme right) with ‘Ganga Sagar’ of Guru Gobind Singh at the Wagah joint check post on Sunday.
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Rights panel upholds order
Disciplinary action against SI
Chandigarh, August 27
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) has upheld its own order dated September 10, 2004, by which it had ordered payment of Rs 20,000 as interim compensation to a complainant in a case of police harassment. The money was to be recovered from Sub-Inspector (SI) Paramjit Singh
Buttar, one of the accused named in the complaint.
Baba’s
offer to clean Budda Nullah
Ludhiana, August 27
 Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, a religious
leader-cum-environmentalist, has offered to repeat the Kali Bein
cleaning phenomenon for Ludhiana’s polluted Budda Nullah. Taking
cognisance of the news report carried in these columns on Friday, Baba
Seechewal talking to The Tribune over the phone said that he was
pained at the condition of highly polluted water body of the
industrial city and had vowed to extend his support to get it back to
its pristine glory provided the local residents also come forward and
mobilise kar sewaks for the purpose.
Assembly poll as scheduled, says Bhattal
Hoshiarpur, August 27
Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, has said that the state Assembly elections would be held on time for which the Congress was fully prepared. She was talking to media persons at Tanda, 32 km from here, today. She said the party ticket would be allotted only to those persons who were enjoying good reputation and were in a position to win.
Khalsa
panchayat opposes post of Jathedar
Amritsar, August 27
On the 11th day of the ongoing Gurdwara
Sudhar Lehar, seeking reforms in gudwaras, yesterday, the Shiromani
Khalsa Panchayat (SKP) announced its disapproval of the institution of
Jathedar of Akal Takht and the concept of issuing Hukamnama.
Proposal
to fill posts of ayurvedic doctor
Gurdaspur,
August 27
After recruiting allopathic doctors, the Department of Health was
considering the proposal to fill vacant posts of ayurvedic doctor.
Angry
villagers gherao police station
Hoshiarpur,
August 27
Residents of Dugral village, led by Mr Om Raj, a former sarpanch,
gheraoed Talwara police station, 80 km from here, last evening. They
also staged a dharna and blockade vehicular traffic to express their
resentment against Head Constable Dharminder Singh and a Home Guards
jawan for allegedly beating up Pawan Kumar, a son of Mr Mukand Lal of
the village, after a clash between the latter and Sanjay Kumar, a
dhaba operator, at Mohua Di Hattian yesterday.
Kidnapped
youth returns home
Amritsar,
August 27
Mr Arjinder Kumar (19) who was kidnapped last year, returned to his
house here yesterday. The police has arrested the kidnapper, Harjit, a
resident of Bagrian village and investigations are on.
Quota
notification for Rai Sikhs soon
Guruharsahai,
August 27
The Union Government would soon issue notification regarding the grant
of SC/ST status to Rai Sikhs following which they would be entitled to
all the benefits being extended to SC/ST, including 200 units free
electricity, reservation in jobs, free plots worth 5 marlas, shagun
scheme of Rs 15000 each for marriage of their daughters and several
other benefits, revealed Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi Chief Parliamentary
Secretary, Education, Youth affairs and Sports while addressing a
public conference at Village Hazarsingh Wala, near Mamdot, 30 km from
district headquarters.
Changes in
Wakf Act sought
Chandigarh,
August 27
The Punjab Wakf Board has suggested crucial changes in the Wakf Act,
which was constituted in 1995, while presenting its case before the
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Wakfs in New Delhi.
Avtar
Singh chairman of employees’ body unit
Patiala,
August 27
Mr Avtar Singh Pal was elected chairman of the Patiala unit of the
Punjab State Warehousing Field Staff Employees Union at a meeting held
here today.
3 trapped
in well, one rescued
Patiala,
August 27
Three persons got trapped in a 20-foot-deep well at Balbhera, 24 km
from here, today. Jagroop Singh and two of his relatives were digging
a well when it caved in and they got trapped. Even as the
administration was making arrangements to start the rescue operations,
residents from nearby areas, including Nanansun village, started
making arrangements to rescue those trapped in the well.
Brahmins
plan dharna against quota
Barnala,
August 27
The All-India Brahmin Sabha has decided to oppose the government’s
reservation policy and organise a national-level dharna at Delhi.
‘Daairey’
staged
Chandigarh, August 27
The 25-member team of the National
Theatre Arts Society (NTAS), Patiala, presented an anti-foeticide
Punjabi musical play “Daairey,” written by Dr. Satish Kumar Verma
and reconstructed and directed by the duo Pran Sabharwal-Sunita
Sabharwal at the annual Sadhbhavna Function of Khanna Vikas Club,
Khanna, to a packed auditorium of A.S. College for Women, Khanna.
Panel to
probe hair-cut incident
Amritsar,
August 27
Mr Avtar Singh, SGPC President, here today instituted a three-member
committee to look into the incident of forcibly cutting of hair of a
Sikh boy near Kurukshetra.
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