I SPIED
Poverty, lack of opportunity led them to spying
Dadwan (Gurdaspur), August 1
Abject poverty and despondency at lack of opportunities for members of the Christian community of the area as well as ready agents eager for recruitments for India’s espionage activities in Pakistan created this spy village. However, disownment by the persons who took them on and denial of due share in secret funds spelt the end of an era in this border belt of the state.
Surjeet’s death mourned
Chandigarh, August 1
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today expressed grief over the death of Communist leader Harkishan Singh
Surjeet.
A file photo of Harkishan Singh Surjeet with the late EMS
Namboodiripad, the late B.T. Ranadive, the late Hare Krishna
Konar, Jyoti Basu and other CPM leaders. |
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Badal’s canals coming apart
Bathinda, August 1
Revamping of canals at a cost of Rs 3,250 crore, a much-hyped gift presented to the state by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on his birthday in Bathinda on December 8, 2007, was apparently just a tactic to please the public for reasons better known to his government.
Crumbling embankments of the Sirhind Canal near Phoola in Bathinda district.
— Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh |
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Building Fee Dues
MC issues notices to Thapar varsity, Modi College
Patiala, August 1
Under its ‘Revenue Enhancement Programme’, the Patiala Municipal Corporation (MC) has slapped a notice on the management of the prestigious Thapar Deemed University allegedly for not depositing building fee dues of Rs 1.01 crore. The civic body has also sought building fee dues worth Rs 20-25 lakh from the Modi College authorities.
Ishmeet’s viscera to be examined
Patiala, August 1
The Government Medical College authorities here have deputed a team of four senior pathologists to examine the viscera of Ishmeet Singh.
Nine patients hit in the eye
Moga, August 1
Nine of the 10 patients, all residents of nearby Bhinder village, who had undergone eye surgeries at a free camp conducted by a private charitable trust here recently, have contracted infection and complained of post-operative complications from blurred vision to possible loss of vision.
District magistrate Satwant Singh Johal has sought a report from the
chief medical officer for necessary action.
The Guru Ram Dass Charitable Trust Eye Hospital in
Moga. — A Tribune photograph |
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Bus service I-Day gift for Jalandhar
Chandigarh, August 1
The Punjab government will start a local bus service in Jalandhar by mid-August and replicate the experiment in other corporations subsequently. This is being done keeping in view that Punjab has had no local bus service for the past many years. The pilot project at Jalandhar is being implemented under the public private partnership (PPP).
Bar protests shifting of dist courts
Jalandhar, August 1
In the face of a stiff opposition from lawyers and litigants, decks have been cleared by the Building Committee of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to shift the local Judicial Courts Complex to a new location on the
Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur highway.
Consensus over chairmen of boards, trusts: Punj
Jalandhar, August 1
The names of chairmen of different boards and trusts will be announced by the government in a few days. In charge of state BJP affairs Balbir Punj stated this during his visit to Jalandhar this afternoon.
