Amritsar
Crew members of TV channel assaulted: Few persons have been arrested with one of their accomplices absconding in an incident of a clash with a TV crew. The Civil Lines police on Tuesday registered a case against them for assaulting the newsmen. Deepak Sharma, in-charge of the TV crew, said the accused used abusive language without provocation. "I along with my camera men Parshotam
Chand, Rishi Kumar and driver Satpal Singh were passing through the Bhandari bridge. The accused refused to move their car aside. They were in an inebriated state and started beating us up without any provocation".
Abohar
Cong protests against property tax: Congress workers led by district vice-president Vimal Thatai organised a protest outside the Town Hall. Former councillors who joined the protest said since the MC had failed to provide basic amenities to 1.75 lakh residents, it had no right to recover property tax from them.
5 youths booked for firing in air: The police have booked five youths for allegedly firing in the air at Dutaranwali village near here. The accused have been identified as Goldy, son of an ASI, Lawrence Bishnoi, Javed, Modi Shah and Navy Vohra.
Bathinda
40 hutments gutted in fire at Rampura: At least 40 hutments were gutted on Tuesday after fire broke out in the tenements situated along the railway crossing on the Bathinda-Barnala road in
Rampura. No injuries were reported as most families were out. The exact cause of the fire could not be ascertained. Initial reports suggest that the fire erupted from a kitchen stove. "People living in these hutments are
labourers. It is unfortunate that these people lost their household goods in the fire," said Rampura city
SHO.
Fatehgarh Sahib
Man gets life term for murdering woman: The District and Sessions Judge on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to Satwinder Singh (44) of Dadheri village near Mandi
Gobindgarh. Satvinder had allegedly killed his neighbour Karamjit Kaur in November last year after she refused to give him money for
drugs
Jalandhar
Polluting industrial units to face music: With many industrial units in the district indulging in violation of pollution control norms, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) is gearing up for a massive crackdown on these. The PPCB authorities have been instructed to adopt a zero tolerance approach towards such units. A senior PPCB official said: "Though we keep conducting surprise checks on a regular basis, there are reports that some of the industrial units are discharging their untreated waste in the Kala Sanghian drain during the night."
Ludhiana
3 bankers among eight booked for loan fraud: The city police has booked eight persons, including a woman and three bank officials, for conniving with property dealers and taking a loan of Rs 60 lakh on the basis of fake land documents. The accused have been identified as Gurpreet Singh Goggi, Navneet Singh Lucky, both property dealers, Gurpeet Singh and Ankur Gupta, relationship and credit managers, respectively, of Standard Chartered Bank.
Sangrur
Cong leader Dhanaula
joins Akali Dal: Tek Singh Dhanaula, former executive committee member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SGPC) who joined the Congress in 2012, switched over to the SAD on Tuesday. SAD secretary general Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa welcomed Dhanaula to the party fold by presenting him a
'siropa'.
One killed, 4 hurt in
road mishap: One person was killed while four others sustained injuries in an accident at Mehlan
Chowk, 10 km from here, on Tuesday. The deceased, Pappu Ram (40), was traveling in a canter that collided with a truck.
Cycles distributed @@Ludhiana: Cycles were distributed among students of Shaheed-e-Azam Thapar Government Senior Secondary School on Tuesday. As many as 1,237 girls studying in classes XI and XII got the bicycles. — TNS
