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Near-total bandh leaves public a harried lot
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Cong pips SAD-BJP combine in MC chief post race
Anti-ragging panel formed
Sidhu unveils grand devp blueprint for holy city
Cash, gold chain looted from phone shop
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Near-total bandh leaves public a harried lot
Jalandhar, July 23 Schools had already been closed by their respective managements with a prior notice to the parents. The road transport system, including bus service and autorickshaws, remained paralysed for the day. A few buses that tried to enter the city were stopped by representatives of the All-India Sikh Students Federation brandishing kirpans and canes at PAP Chowk, Rama Mandi Chowk and Guru Nanak Mission Chowk.Bus crew were forced to drop all passengers at Rama Mandi Chowk. They had to walk in the scorching heat from Rama Mandi Chowk to BSF Chowk with their baggage to get rickshaws to reach their destinations in the city. KAPURTHALA: The vehicular traffic was blocked at different places in Kapurthala district on Wednesday during the almost complete bandh in response to a call of “Punjab bandh” by Sant Samaj and supported by various Sikh oranisations in favour of their demand for the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief. Shops and other commercial establishments in all the main bazaars of Kapurthala, Phagwara and other towns in the district remained closed. Agitated Sikhs blocked traffic at different places, including near Phagwara bus stand on the New Delhi-Amritsar National Hghway-1, from 10 am to 2 pm. Groups of several Sikh protesters kept making rounds of different bazaars to ensure that no shop or commercial establishment was opened. However, no untoward incident was reported during the bandh from any part of the district. NAWANSHAHR: Almost a complete but peaceful bandh was observed in the town on a call given by the Sikh organisations against the Dera Sacha Sauda chief. Activists of the various panthic organisations held a dharna, rally and blocked traffic at Chandigarh Chowk here on Wednesday.
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Power Pinch
Amritsar, July 23 The agitating residents raised slogans against the government for its failure to provide proper power supply to them. They threatened to gherao Chief Minster Parkash Singh Badal who would be coming to Amritsar tomorrow for inaugurating a number of development projects, including the long-pending repair of Batala Road. The residents alleged that the unscheduled power cut and faulty supply had made their life miserable even as the alternative appliances like invertors had become useless as these did not get charged in view of longer power cuts. — OC
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Delhi Delight
Hoshiarpur, July 23 A large number of party workers assembled at the residence of former minister Naresh Thakur and distributed sweets to mark the occasion. Addressing the gathering, Thakur described the victory as the success of secular forces. Stability could only be maintained through single party rule in the country, he said. “A large number of the constituents of regional parties of the ruling group create obstacles in taking decisions to make the country prosperous,” Thakur said. The Leftists had enjoyed the benefits of the ruling party for more than four years of the UPA regime without any accountability to the public. There should be two national-level political parties in the country to establish democracy in India. He appealed to the voters to avoid regional political parties in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. — OC
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Cong pips SAD-BJP combine in MC chief post race
Nawanshahr, July 23 Jinderjit Kaur of the ruling SAD-BJP alliance, however, had to be content with the post of junior vice-president. In the house of 17 members, the Congress managed to win 11 seats in the MC poll held last month. But the Congress house saw a division on the post of president. Former president Lalit Mohan Pathak (Ballu), Vijay Kumar Bhountha, Rajinder Chopra and Chet Ram Rattan were the front-runners for the post. The SAD-BJP alliance tried to make a dent in the Congress group so that a candidate of the ruling alliance could be made president but it failed in “floor management”. To execute its plan, the ruling alliance managed to get the election postponed to Monday. The postponement of the election gave rise to speculations in the town. But the Congress ultimately managed a good show. Ex- Congress MLA Parkash Singh and district Congress chief Kuldip Rana succeeded in their move to put forth the name of Rajinder Chopra as a consensus candidate and the SAD-BJP alliance had no other option left than to endorse it as a
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Anti-ragging panel formed
Amritsar, July 23 Director Dr Geeta Sharma said as per the directions of the Supreme Court, the institute will monitor and strictly supervise the cases of ragging . She said the institute was aware of the problems being faced by the new-comers. Sharma said Dr Sudhir Parshad has been appointed as nodal officer and the different teams of professors under his supervision
would enforce anti-ragging drive round-the-clock to ensure that no fresher felt intimidated. —
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Sidhu unveils grand devp blueprint for holy city
Amritsar, July 23 “The CM would launch repair work of roads leading to the Golden
Temple, Durgiana Mandir, Rattan Singh Chowk and other important areas of
the city,” he said. Sidhu said municipal corporation has engaged US-based construction consultants Tetrateck Ltd for preparing a detailed project report. “The repair work has been assigned to renowned construction company Rohan and Rajdeep. Every penny given by the government would be spent in a most transparent manner and the corporation would be accountable for all the works executed by the company,” added the Amritsar MP. Special focus is on the Batala road connecting city to teh states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. “The road which is in a poor shape right now would be revamped with an estimated cost of Rs five crore,” said the former cricketer. He said the state government has allocated a big amount of Rs 11 crore to add more green cover to the city, adding that leading landscape consultants would be shortlisted for the purpose. Also, more zing would be added to the ‘Go Green, Go Clean campaign’, he further said. Sidhu announced that another project worth Rs five crore has been sanctioned by the government to provide better services to urban poor. “MC has been asked to provide better amenities and infrastructure to thousands of poor people living in jhuggies to improve their quality of life.” Regarding the problem of garbage disposal, Sidhu said a self-sustaining solid waste management plant would be set up in November this year. |
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Cash, gold chain looted from phone shop
Batala, July 23 Batala city SHO Surinder Singh told mediapersons here on Wednesday that the looters struck at the shop owned by Shiv Sena Hindustan mandal president Kamal Verma of Verma Jewellers, Dera Road, Batala.Verma said he was sitting alone at about 4 pm when he saw four persons standing in front of his shop on two bikes. Two of them entered his shop and asked him to recharge a mobile phone (9878309324). When he started recharging the phone, a youth took out a sharp-edged weapon and attacked him. Verma further said the looters took all the cash from the cash box along with one gold chain lying in it. A case has been registered. —
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