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Bt cotton hybrids not for northern farmers
Chandigarh, April 6
Shocking news for farmers of northern states — Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan — the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) has not approved any variety of Bt cotton hybrids for sowing at the mass level.
Govt
withdraws letter on OSDs
Chandigarh, April 6
The Punjab Government has
withdrawn the letter it had sent to all administrative Secretaries,
heads of departments and others asking them to reconfirm from either
the Chief Secretary or the Principal Secretary about any message
conveyed to them on behalf of the Chief Minister by any of his
political aide.
Bid
to frame AGM lands employee in soup
Patiala, April 6
The local Vigilance Bureau has
booked an employee who wanted to trap an Assistant General Manager of
the State Bank of Patiala in the vigilance net by forcibly trying to
bribe him in front of other employees in a branch of the bank in the
city.
Mid-day meal scheme fails to take off
Chandigarh, April 6
Punjab has failed to implement the mid-day meal scheme, launched, nationwide, in August 1995. Initially, the scheme envisaged giving of 3 kg wheat\rice, a student, per month to cover primary schoolchildren.
Women family members work alongside farmers in fields in Bathinda district, where
harvesting has started.
— Photo Kulbir Beera |
Fraud
detected in time: Markfed MD
Chandigarh, April 6
Reacting to the news item
‘Fraud leaves Markfed poorer by crores’ , Mr S.S. Channy, MD,
Markfed, has said the bogus purchase at Tibbi Khurd and Fattewala
Hithar was detected at the right time.
Failed
tubectomy: 1.20 lakh damages decreed
Bathinda, April 6
Mr Gurbir Singh, Civil Judge
(Senior Division), has awarded Rs 1.20 lakh compensation to Mr Dev
Sharan and Mrs Nirmala Devi, in a civil suit filed by them against the
Punjab Government, Bathinda Civil Surgeon, and Medical Officer, PP
unit, Civil Hospital, Bathinda. Mrs Nirmala Devi delivered twins even
after having undergone sterilisation through Dr Ramesh Rani Thukral in
the local civil hospital.
PSEB
union to strike work on April 16
Jalandhar, April 6
The Punjab State Electricity
Board (PSEB) Employees Struggle Committee has decided to observe
strike on April 16 in response to a call given by the Central Trade
Union in protest against the move of the Central Government pertaining
to the disinvestment of public sector units (PSU).
Students’
adieu to winged friends
Ropar, April 6
A function organised at the Ropar
wetland to give a farewell to migratory birds enthralled
ornithologists yesterday when after a span of about five years they
sighted a rare bird, the bar-headed goose there.
Trust Chairmen to contest termination
Chandigarh, April 6
The Chairmen of all 21 dissolved Improvement Trusts in Punjab has decided to challenge the termination orders issued by the state government yesterday.
Divisional
Engineer held for graft
Sangrur, April 6
Divisional Engineer Telecom (DET),
Dhuri, B.N. Goyal was caught yesterday by Vigilance Bureau Officials
when he was allegedly accepting Rs 2,000 “bribe” from Mr P.N.
Singla, SDO (Indoor) in the Telecom Department at Dhuri.
Move
to grant amnesty to cops opposed
Tarn Taran, April 6
The Khalra Mission Committee has
opposed the move of the Punjab Government to grant blanket amnesty to
the policemen accused of human rights violation while tackling
militancy in the state.
‘Illegal’ pension cases to be probed
Gang
of thieves busted
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 6
The district police claims to
have arrested a gang of thieves during a naka and recovered stolen
goods and cash looted from migrant labourers at Amloh town.
BJP
leader killed over trifle
Phagwara, April 6
Migrant Hare Ram, member of the
Gobindpura panchayat and president of the local Parvasi Cell of the
BJP, was killed over a minor issue last midnight by his neighbours.
The police has arrested Arun Singh and Ranjit Singh under Section 302
of the IPC in this connection, it was learnt today.
Medicos
unhappy with exam schedule
Patiala, April 6
In a baffling move, the Baba
Farid University of Health Sciences has decided to hold examination
for 30 students who are in their final year of postgraduate studies in
the three Government Medical Colleges of Amritsar, Patiala and
Faridkot, even as it is turning a deaf ear to the demands of 250-odd
doctors of the same batch who had demanded that their view should have
also been taken into consideration before deciding the examination
schedule.
Free
books for poor children
Phillaur, April 6
The Punjab Government will
distribute 13,74,000 sets of books among poor and Dalit students of
16,000 schools of the state, said Punjab Social Welfare Minister
Chaudhary Santokh Singh while talking to reporters here today.
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