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Cong list likely by weekend
Chandigarh, December 31
The first list of Congress candidates for the coming Assembly elections is expected by the end of this week as the AICC election committee has reportedly the names of single candidates for 50 seats each.
Dhabas
serving tea laced with opium
Bathinda, December 31
The district has been witnessing the mushrooming of poppy cafe where
drug addicts are supplied tea prepared by mixing tea leaves with the
poppy husk.
Sangeet
sammelan ends on soulful note
Jalandhar, December 31
Maestros bade an emotional adieu to the 126th Harballabh Sangeet
Sammelan and scores of classical musical lovers by presenting their
spectacular performances which marked the conclusion of the three-day
musical extravaganza at the local Devi Talaab Mandir premises last
night.
Mann opposes use of
EVMs
Phagwara, December 31
Akali Dal (Amritsar) President and senior Panthic Morcha leader
Simranjit Singh Mann today opposed the use of electronic voting
machines in the Punjab Assembly poll. Talking to newsmen, Mr
Mann said these machines could dupe the electorate and be doctored and
manipulated.
Cong rallies
put off
Chandigarh, December 31
All Congress rallies and public meetings to be held at the block and constituency level s until January 5 have been postponed, Mrs Lakhwinder Kaur
Garcha, general secretary, PPCC , announced today.
BJYM
changes rally venue
Phillaur, December 31
Due to the tension prevailing on the Indo-Pak border, the Bhartiya
Janta Yuva Morcha, Punjab, has changed the venue of its January
6 rally from Wagah to Putli Ghar Chowk, Amritsar.
Health
officials ‘fleecing’ teachers
Fatehgarh Sahib, December
31
The newly selected teachers in
the district are allegedly being fleeced by the local health
authorities, who are conducting their medical fitness examination.
Several selected candidates, particularly the women, have alleged that
there is no lady doctor available to conduct their medical
examination. Secondly, they alleged that the health authorities are
charging Rs 40 per candidate for the screening test, whereas the
charges mentioned are Rs 10 only.
Unemployed B.Ed Teachers' Front ( Bathinda unit) activists
raise slogans, demanding appointment letters. Nearly 1,000
activists of the front staged a dharna at the office of the
DEO (P) to press for their demands at Bathinda on Monday. —
Tribune photo Kulbir Beera |
YEAR ROUND-UP
Patiala turns green this year
Patiala, December 31
This year Patiala turned green with two years of plantations bearing fruit besides final phases of the beautification exercise of the Baradari Gardens being completed.
Though the town became more beautiful and orderly this year due to double laning in many new stretches as well as paving of streets in various colonies, the residents of the old city complained that similar attention had not been paid to them. Besides this, areas in the inner city continued to face acute water shortage during the summer months.
Dal
(Mann) war panel submits report
Phagwara, December 31
The 11-member no-war panel
constituted by the Akali Dal (Amritsar) President, Mr Simranjit Singh
Mann, has submitted its report to him. Disclosing this here today,
Bhai Dhyan Singh Mand, vice-president of the party and head of the
panel and Mr Jaskaran Singh, general secretary of the party and member
of the panel have alleged that any pro-war decision of the Vajpayee
government will be anti-Punjab and that their party would oppose it.
Both the leaders have flayed PM Atal Behari Vajpayee for not inviting
Mann to all-party meetings.
4
polytechnic teachers die in mishap
Phagwara December 31
Four young staff members of
community polytechnic near Palahi village, near here, died in an
accident near Agra this morning, it was learnt tonight.
SGPC langar
for border
migrants
Chandigarh, December 31
The SGPC will organise langar (community kitchens) at various places in the border belt for those who are migrating from villages because of the growing tension on the Indo-Pakistan border.
Tributes
paid to security personnel
Chandigarh, December 31
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha met today
for its 13th session. It adjourned after obituary references. Tributes
were paid to those security personnel and employees who were killed in
terrorist attacks on Parliament House in Delhi and the Jammu and
Kashmir Legislative Complex in Srinagar.
Jawan
cremated
Tarn Taran, December 31
Two Army jawans, Manjit Singh
(26) of Sanghar Kot village and Ranjit Singh of Kot Dharam Khurad
village were on duty in Srinagar sector on Saturday when they were
killed in a mine blast.
Youth
run over by train, dies
Bathinda, December 31
A beggar was found dead yesterday
in the rest room of the local railway station. The cause of the death
could not be ascertained.
Woman
‘murdered’ parents-in-law
Amritsar, December 31
A bizarre case of a woman having
allegedly murdered her father-in-law and mother-in-law by poisoning
them to death has come to light. A case has been registered at
Islamabad police station on the basis of an affidavit submitted by Ms
Sukhjinder Kaur a resident of Ranjit Pura locality and the daughter of
the deceased.
Travel
agent booked
Kapurthala, December 31
The local police has registered a
case of fraud against a travel agent, Nirmal Singh, for giving a fake
immigration visa of France to Mela Singh of Bholath. Ms Gurpreet Deo,
SSP, said in a press note today that the suspect, took Rs 4 lakh from
the complainant for providing him the immigration visa.
Man
held for cheating
Barnala, December 31
The district police has arrested
Vipin Kumar Gupta, who allegedly duped several persons of lakhs of
rupees by promising to send them abroad. Stating this here yesterday,
Mr Kanwaljit Singh Sandhu, SSP, said Vipin Kumar, on the pretext of
sending people to foreign countries by forming fake musical groups,
duped gullible persons of huge amounts.
Insurance
firms wary of war?
Jalalabad, December 31
As the clouds of another Indo-Pak
war loom large over the region, the local residents are trying to
safeguard their assets. Fearing of a war, the people have approached
the insurance companies for covering their properties against the war
risk. But the companies have declined to underwrite such risk as
‘the war’ as it is an excluded peril in the purview of the
standard fire policy.
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