Indo-Pak delegates hail move by PM, Pervez
Amritsar, November 12
Joint move by Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf augurs well for breaking the impasse in the Indo-Pakistan relations, which received a setback earlier.

Punjab needs to tap tourist potential, says expert
Chandigarh, November 12
Punjab needs to repackage itself for presenting places of tourist attraction in a more effective manner - this is what non-resident Indian-cum-Chief Executive Officer with a New York-based advertising group Sharanjit Singh Thind has to say.

POLITICS

UPA govt backtracked on CMP: Reddy
Budhlada (Mansa), November 12
Like the previous NDA regime, the UPA government is bent upon implementing the policies of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, stated the CPI national secretary and Lok Sabha MP S. Sudhakar Reddy while addressing a party rally at the grain market here yesterday.

Vidhan Sabha Secretariat under Speaker
Chandigarh, November 12
Presenting the report of the Committee on Government Assurances of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, its Chairman, Dr Romesh Dutt Sharma, has recommended financial autonomy for the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat on the pattern of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

Sukhbir seeks arrest of CM
Chandigarh, November 12
The general secretary of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, today demanded the arrest and dismissal of the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the Local Bodies Minister, Mr Jagjit Singh, alleging that the probe being conducted by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau into the Ludhiana City Centre issue, had vindicated the stand of his party.

‘Vikas Yatra a farce’
Patiala, November 12
The general secretary of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal, said today that expenditure being made on Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's Vikas Yatra was a sheer wastage of money and added that when the Akalis came to power a thorough inquiry would be initiated against officials of the Public Relations Department responsible for incurring this expenditure.

Man kills son, injures wife, two kids
Fazilka, November 12
A man committed murder of his minor son and seriously injured his wife and two other children early this morning. According to an FIR lodged with the Sadar police by Ninder Kaur, a resident of Kandhwala Hazarkhan village in this subdivision, her sister, Jaswinder Kaur, was married to Amarjit Singh of Bandala village, in Amritsar district about 12 years back.

COMMUNITY

Don’t politicise Akal Takht: Scholars

Mohali, November 12 Sikh scholars have called for radical changes in management of the Akal Takht demanding that it be freed from the control of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee and political parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal. Dr Kirpal Singh speaks on the concluding day of the seminar on ‘The concept of Sri Akal Takht’ at Shivalik Public School in Mohali on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Vicky Gharu

75 operations at eye camp
Barnala, November 12
As many as 475 patients got their eyes treated at a free eye check up camp organised at Kutiya Jhallor, about 12 km from here. A team of doctors led by Dr Hardev Singh, Assistant Professor, Rajindra Hospital, Barnala, treated the patients.

No report to govt on City Centre: VB
Chandigarh, November 12
The Chief Director of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, Mohd Izhar Alam, has denied that a report regarding the City Centre at Ludhiana has been sent to the government by the Bureau.