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Explain stand on
renegades: Bhattal
Patiala, June 1
Former Punjab Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today asked the Shiormani Akali Dal led-government to explain its stand on former
militants.
Inquiry into death of undertrial on
Chandigarh, June 1
An inquiry is being conducted by the Kapurthala district authorities into the death of Gurnam Singh, an
undertrial, stating this, Mr Amarjit Singh, Deputy Inspector-General of Prisons, Punjab, said the situation in the Kapurthala jail was quite normal now.
Union
leader goes on indefinite fast
Budhlada, June 1
Mr Beant Singh Kainth, President, Budhlada Sugar Mill Workers Union,
today again started indefinite fast in protest against the indifferent
attitude of the authorities concerned in implementing their demands.
Govt hospitals sans staff
Moga, June 1
The absence of doctors and the nursing staff, along with an acute shortage of life saving drugs in various rural hospitals and dispensaries in the district has caused a great resentment among villagers, said Mr Kuldip Singh
Sandhu, a former president of the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union today.
DC’s directive to PRTC
Patiala, June 1
A handicapped resident of Dhanauri village today accused a PRTC bus conductor of forcing him to pay for a ticket while travelling from Patiala to Ludhiana despite the fact that he had a “handicap identification card” with him.
Rs
1 cr for hospital
Patiala, June 1
A sum of Rs 1 crore has been given to the Government Hospital,
Rajpura, to make it 100 bedded hospital. Another 30 bedded hospital at
old Rajpura is under consideration.
Farmers to get AC
vans for fruit crop
Bathinda, June 1
The state government has decided to provide the farmers of the state air-conditioned vans so that the fruits and vegetable crops that require cooling during transportation, especially grapes, could be transported to various parts of the country without any loss in quality.
Farmers, seed dealers reach compromise
Mansa, June 1
The tension which has been building up here since last evening due to a dispute among the farmers and the seed dealers over the demand for compensation by farmers who could not get cotton crop allegedly due to bad seeds was diffused this evening with both parties reaching a compromise.
Israeli technique for quality grape produce
Bathinda, June 1
Malwa region is considered to be the leading grape producing region of the state. About 50 per cent of the total grape production of the state is from the district. The alleged indifferent attitude of the state government and the Horticulture Department has resulted in decrease in the interest of farmers in grape cultivation.
‘Favouritism’ in canal water supply resented
Abohar, June 1
The number of illegal lift pumps at Sirhind feeder has gone up from 40 to 165 during the past four years. This has deprived farmers of Abohar subdivision of their due share in canal water for irrigation. Some people are getting water from other canals also but they are using political influence to get electricity connections for their illegal lift pumps.
IT Chief Commissioner assumes charge
Amritsar, June 1
The Chief Commissioner, Income Tax, Mr S.C. Grover, with jurisdiction over Amritsar, Jammu and Kashmir and Bathinda, assumed charge here yesterday.
Suresh Arora transferred
Murder case solved
Mansa, June 1
The Bhikhi police has solved the case of murder of Karamjit Singh and his mother,
Kako, residents of Ugrahan village in Sangrur. The police had registered a case under Sections 302, 120-B, 201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code against Mukhtiar Kaur and her husband, Gurmeet Singh, residents of Khillan village.
3 held for assault, vandalism
Jalandhar, June 1
The district police has arrested three persons in connection with an incident of assault and vandalism at the local Tagore Hospital on last Friday.
6 held for smuggling narcotics
Bathinda, June 1
The district police has arrested six persons for allegedly smuggling narcotics. The police has recovered 20 kg of poppy husk, 1000 tablets of various intoxicants and 100 capsules from suspects.
No sigh of relief for students
Entrance tests’ dates clash
Bathinda, June 1
Even as the exams of various academic classes have concluded the students have not heaved a sigh of relief. Various entrance tests, coaching classes and more importantly the clash of dates of various entrance exams has been keeping the students on tenterhooks.
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