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SCs
want Dalit PPCC president
Bathinda, May 9
Members of the Scheduled Castes
have urged the Congress high command that the next president of the
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee should belong to the Scheduled
Castes or Scheduled Tribes.
Kohar-Phillaur
row: Badal sets up panel
Chandigarh, May 9
President of the Shiromani Akali
Dal ( SAD), Parkash Singh Badal, has constituted a committee to
inquire into the verbal duel between two Akali Ministers — Mr Ajit
Singh Kohar and Mr Sarwan Singh Phillaur — during a meeting at
Jalandhar, last week.
For
cinemas it’s vulgarity all the way
Bathinda, May 9
Examinations are over in Punjab
and the entrance test mania is yet to start, but the cinema owners
here are trying to cash in on this by showing adult films at more than
half of the cinemas.
Incarcerated
for a year for no fault
Bathinda, May 9
Nirbhey Narain, a migrant
labourer, heaved a sigh of relief on April 27 when he was acquitted by
Mr Bhupinder Singh Sidhu, Judge, Special Court, Bathinda, in a case
related to the smuggling of narcotics for which he remained behind
bars for more than a year.
Work
begins on Kandi dam
Hoshiarpur
Following efforts by the Deputy
Commissioner and the Chief Engineer, Kandi Area Development, funds for
the construction of the Patiarian dam in the district have now been
made available by NABARD and work has started on the project.
Save
Lahori Gate, urges ‘cyber sangat’
Chandigarh, May 9
An international “cyber
sangat”, has sent a petition to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal requesting him to save the historic Lahori Gate monument in Sri
Hargobindpur in Gurdaspur district.
Maharaja’s
“lines of misery”
Kapurthala, May 9
What has been disturbing the
scion of the royal family of Kapurthala, Maharaja Sukhjit Singh, these
days? It is not the question as to how he and his family will get
their $ 4 million fabulous treasure, which had sunk in the
Mediterranean Sea in 1916 while being ferried to India, but the three
telephone lines, which become active once in a blue moon at his
residence on the banks of the Kanjili Lake here.
3-month
jail for proprietor
Hoshiarpur, May 9
Mr H.P. Handa, President, Dr S.K.
Narad and Mrs Manjit Walia, both members of the District Consumer
Forum, here have sentenced Manjit Singh proprietor, M/s Manjit
Electronics, Mata Rani Road, Ludhiana, to simple imprisonment for
three months and fined him Rs 2,000 under Section 27 of the Consumer
Protection Act, 1986, for non-compliance of the order of the forum.
BSNL
ordered to pay compensation
Ropar, May 9
The District Consumer Forum has
directed the BSNL authorities to pay a compensation of Rs 5,000 to a
complainant for harassing him by raising old outstanding bills and
disconnecting his telephone without a proper hearing.
Fire
destroys 40 houses
Kapurthala, May 9
More than 40 houses in Hussainpur
Dulowal village, falling under the Sultanpur Lodhi subdivision,
destroyed in a fire which spread from the fields because of
high-velocity winds on Monday night, according to a delayed report.
Plea
to DC for removal of depot
Pathankot, May 9
The Gramin Vikas Parishad today
presented a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, Gurdaspur, at the
PWD rest house. Representatives from Mamoon, Pathankot, Lamini, Siunti
and other villages demanded removal of ammunition depot to ensure
safety of people.
School
reopens gate, breaks law
Bathinda, May 9
NSD Senior Secondary Public
School on the Mall road here has reopened the entrance onto municipal
land, which had been closed by the authorities concerned some time
ago.
Disband
police districts: Mann
Sangrur, May 9
The Shiromani Akali Dal
(Amritsar) today demanded that all six police districts — Barnala,
Khanna, Tarn Taran, Batala, Jagraon, and Majitha should be disbanded.
Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Simranjit Singh Mann,
President of the SAD (A), said disbanding of the police districts was
necessary as militancy had ended. He said these police districts were
a burden on the state exchequer. He also demanded abolition of some
top posts in the police department.
Cop
denied bail in theft case
Bathinda, May 9
The Judicial Magistrate, Mr Avtar
Singh, today declined bail to Budh Singh, a Punjab police official, in
a case registered against him at Thermal police station in connection
with theft and intimidation.
Accused
gets bail in drugs case
Chandigarh, May 9
If allegations in a petition
submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court are to be believed,
frontline workers of opposition parties in Punjab are being implicated
in false cases for going against candidates of the ruling party.
Yoga
catches people’s attention
Bathinda, May 9
Mr Inder Kumar Chopra, who was
suffering from hernia, was not willing to undergo an operation to cure
it as he felt that at the age of 85, the operation would not prove
effective.
Controversy
over debris clearance
Bathinda, May 9
Even as the vehicular traffic on
the Bathinda-Malout national highway has come to standstill since
yesterday after a bridge over the Behman distributary collapsed, a
controversy has arisen between the Irrigation Department and the
Public Works Department over the clearance of debris from the
distributary.
Pharmacists
to hold dharna
Hoshiarpur, May 9
The Punjab Pharmacists’
Association, has decided that pharmacists from all over the state will
stage a dharna in front of the residence of the Health Minister,
Punjab, on May 13, and hold a protest march for non-implementation of
their demands which have already been accepted.
Mystery
shrouds youth’s death
Bathinda, May 9
Surinder Jit Singh, son of a
retired Punjab Excise and Sales Tax official, today died under
mysterious circumstances.
Rs
6.60 lakh given for Gujarat relief
Chandigarh, May 9
Officers and other employees of
the Excise and Taxation Department, Punjab, today donated one day’s
salary for the Punjab Chief Minister’s Gujarat Relief Fund.
Red
Cross Day
Patiala, May 9
The Red Cross Society has granted
Rs 4.25 lakh for the welfare of the poor and needy. The society
distributed 234 tricycles, 71 hearing aids and 196 clippers.
Robbery
bid foiled, 4 arrested
Ferozepore, May 9
The local police on a tip-off has
raided an abandoned factory near Fazilka and arrested four persons
along with weapons. According to Mr Ajay Maluja, DSP, Fazilka, the
arrested persons, who have been identified as Dharamvir Singh,
Harjinder Singh, Gurbinder Singh and Arun Kumar, were planning to
commit a robbery at Fazilka. One of their accomplices, however,
managed to escape.
‘Doc’s
arrest reveals tip of lceberg’
Patiala, May 9
The Patiala district unit of the
Association for Democratic Rights has expressed concern over the
manner in which bodies were being treated in the morturay of Rajindra
Hospital and also said that the arrest in a corruption case of
Associate Professor Dr O.P Aggarwal was just a tip of the iceberg as
far as the sale of human organs was concerned.
Couple,
daughter killed in mishap
Gurdaspur, May 9
A couple and their minor daughter
died on the spot while their minor son was injured when their scooter
was hit by a Tata Sumo yesterday near Jhakolari, 26 km from here.
4
looters held, 2 pistols seized
Fazilka, May 9
The local police has arrested
four members of a gang of looters who were allegedly planning to
commit a dacoity in the area. Two pistols with live cartridges and
sharp-edged weapons have been seized from them.
1400
kg of poppy husk seized
Jalandhar, May 9
The district police has exposed a
racket of narcotic smuggling with the seizure of 1,400 kg of poppy
husk worth Rs 7 lakh in Nurmahal subdivision.
Clash
over disputed land, 8 hurt
Amritsar, May 9
Eight persons sustained bullet
injuries following a group clash at Varpal village in the district
today.
MSc
students get three wrong question papers in a row
Patiala, May 9
Students of MSc food and
nutrition have had to counter as many as three incomplete question
papers during the course of their examinations recently and have now
appealed to Punjabi University to ensure they are given justice in the
matter.
B.Ed
entrance test
Patiala, May 9
The entrance test for admission
to the B.Ed courses for the session 2001-2002 for all colleges of
Punjab would be conducted by the Punjabi University on July 1. The
Department of Education of Punjab Government had assigned the
responsibility of conducting the entrance test to Punjabi University.
Alcohol
sale near school worries parents
Patiala, May 9
Parents of the wards studying in
Sun Flower Model High School, Tripuri, appeared worried because of the
excessive use of alcoholic drinks being sold openly in the area. They
fear their wards were falling prey to drinking at a tender age.
Educationist
dead
Phagwara, May 9
An educationist and social
activist Niranjan Singh Mann (70) died here in the small hours today.
He was cremated later in the afternoon.
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