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Amarinder
to stay, says Arjun
Ludhiana, March 4
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
President Capt Amarinder Singh remains well entrenched in his party
position ahead of state Assembly elections due early next year,
despite three defeats of the party in the Assembly byelections under
his leadership.
Councillors
go underground
Maur Mandi (Bathinda),
March 4
Fear prevails among residents of
the town as the date of elections for the president and vice-president
of the municipal council of the town, is approaching fast. The elections
have been marred by controversy and series of postponements in the past.
Bansi:
people want change
Faridkot, March 4
Haryana Vikas Party supremo and
former Chief Minister Bansi Lal has claimed that the “anti-people
policies of the Chautala government have generated a strong
anti-establishment mood among the people of Haryana and the latter
want a change in power in the state.
Day
of rallies aimed at Dalit votes
Jalandhar, March 4
Sunday turned out to be a day of
three rallies in the district with two aimed at garnering Dalit and
Backward Classes votebank, while the third confined itself to forest
workers’ demand.
IMA
seminar on disaster management
Sangrur, March 4
Delivering key-note address at a
seminar on “Disastar management-role of medical fraternity”, Dr
Rajiv Puri, a specialist in disaster management, said the Health
Department should be well-equipped as far as medical material and
medical manpower was concerned so as to handle emergencies.
Passengers
hit as buses sent to rally
Jalandhar, March 4
The District Transport Authority
has detained more than 40 private buses so as to ensure the
participation of Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP workers in Thein Dam
rally to be addressed by the Prime Minister today has resulted in
harassment to the public due to the lack of buses at the local bus
stand.
Self-help
groups to empower women
Fatehgarh Sahib
Mr R.L. Kalsia, Director,
Department of Social Security, Women and Child Development, says the
government has launched an Integrated Women’s Empowerment Programme
in Punjab by establishing self-help groups (SHGs). The aim are to
empower women so that they could demand their rights from the family,
the community and the government, increase their access to and control
over material, social and political resources and enable them to raise
issues of common concern through mobilisation and networking.
Live
surgery workshop concludes
Chandigarh, March 4
On the concluding day of the
two-day live surgery workshop at Sri Guru Harkrishan Sahib (C) Eye
Hospital, Sohana, today operation was conducted on phaco
emulsification — latest technique of stitchless cataract surgery.
Orchestra
pulls more crowd than VIP
Chak Fateh Singh Wala
(Bathinda) March 4
Punjab Finance Minister,
Kanwaljit Singh, who inaugurated a milk chilling centre here yesterday
turned up about an hour late, keeping schoolchildren, flags waiting.
The kids with SAD flags had to go without water for several hours.
Most of them were from classes VIII IX and X. They were given off from
school to prepare for their annual exams, but were put on “VIP
duty” by the authorities.
PG
docs’ plea
Sangrur, March 4
The post-graduate doctors of the
1997-2000 batch of the Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) have urged
the Punjab Health Minister, Dr Baldev Raj Chawla, to immediately
release six increments due to them.
Suicide
by 2 accused in dacoity case
Sardulgarh (Mansa), March
4
Two accused in a dacoity case
committed suicide in their respective dwellings, according to a
delayed report. Police sources said Kala Singh and Namdev consumed
insecticide on March 1 on being ostracised by society.
2
held for murder of Nepalese
Jalandhar, March 4
With the arrest of two persons,
the district police claims to have solved the case of the murder of a
Nepalese. Mr Gaurav Yadav, SSP stated here today that the body of
Bheem Bahadur, resident of Talla Bangari village in Baglon district,
was found in a plot near the canal passing through the local Gautam
Nagar on October 8 last year.
Members
implicated in attack case: panel
Barnala, March 4
Following yesterday’s attack on
four persons in the local courts complex, the police conducted raids
on the residence of three members of the Kiranjit Kaur Rape-Murder
Action Committee. They are Prem Kumar Kalia, Science Master, Manjit
Dhaler and Narain Dass. Their names figure in the FIR. A case has been
registered against seven persons under Sections 307, 120B, 148 and 149
of the IPC in light of the statement made by Beant Singh, injured
person in the attack.
‘Standard
of education poor’
Patiala, March 4
There was not even a single world
class university in the entire country and that India was a superpower
in Information Technology sector was a wrong notion. This was stated
by Mr G. S. Peerzada, Managing Director of the Punjab State
Electronics Development and Production Corporation, while delivering
the keynote address at a seminar on Information Technology during the
‘Student-Industrial Annual Meet’ organised by the College of
Management and Technology at the Central State Library here today.
Navodaya
school head suspended
Sangrur, March 4
Mr Gurdial Singh, Principal of
the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Longowal, has been suspended by the
top JNV authorities reportedly in connection with the death of class
IX girl student, Sandip Kaur, of the Vidyalaya on January 29 last due
to alleged negligence of the Longowal JNV authorities.
Law
graduates conferred degrees
Amritsar, March 4
More than 125 law graduates were
today conferred degrees by Dr H.S. Soch Vice-Chancellor during the
second convocation of the Law Department of Guru Nanak Dev University.
No
PG test for Ayurveda?
Bathinda, March 4
The Punjab Ayurvedic Medical
Services Association has said there will not be any admission to MD (Ayurvedic
Medicine) in Government Ayurvedic Colleges this year.
Entrance
test for MD, MS held
Faridkot, March 4
The entrance test for admission
to MD, MS and post-graduate diploma courses in three state medical
colleges was conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences
here today.
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