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Baba
Bhaniara re-arrested
Villagers hold protest
against him
Ropar, April 20
Baba Piara Singh Bhaniara, who
was released yesterday by the court was today produced before the SDM,
Anandpur Sahib, Mr Paramjit Singh. The Baba was re-arrested last
evening by the police when he returned to his native village in Nurpur
Bedi.
Mann
defends stand on PSGPC
Ludhiana, April 20
Recognition of the Pakistan Sikh
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee — a religious body — is not an act
of sedition said Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, MP and President, Akali Dal
(Amritsar) in an interview here today.
Punjab
to abolish vacant posts
Amritsar, April 20
The Punjab government has decided
to abolish the vacant posts in various departments shortly, as new
recruitment has been banned and surplus staff would be placed at the
disposal of the redeployment cell for voluntary retirement scheme or
redeployment.
College
closed over match row
Amritsar, April 20
The Poor attendance in a college
cricket match triggered off a row leading to the “indefinite
closure” of Sri Laxmi Narayan Ayurvedic College with at least four
police personnel guarding the institute during working hours.
BJP’s
separate manifestos
Chandigarh, April 20
The Punjab unit of the BJP has
decided to issue separate manifestos for the elections of four
Municipal Corporations-Jalandhar, Amritsar, Patiala and Ludhiana- to
be held on May 19.
Army jawans partake of prashad inside the
Golden Temple complex in Amritsar on Saturday.
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‘Launch
campaign against female foeticide’
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 20
A meeting was held under the
chairmanship of Mr Rajan Kashyap, Principal Secretary Department of
Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, to implement the national health
programmes, PNDT Act and TB control programmes sincerely. Addressing
the meeting, Mr Kashyap asked the social organisations to come forward
to implement these schemes.
Women
face greater risk of STD
Ferozepore, April 20
Women in the district face the
risk of being fettered by sexually transmitted disease and
reproductive tract infections with further possibility of HIV
infection. Family health awareness campaign launched by the Health
Department in the district recently revealed that the number of women
suffering from STD and RTI is very high as compared to men.
Politicians
hijack DCW sports function
Patiala, April 20
There were more
introductions than action on the last day of the Diesel
Component Works annual sports function which concluded at the
DCW sports complex late yesterday evening. |
A
wait in vain for CM
Jalandhar April 20
Speculations and confusion over
the scheduled visit of the Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder
Singh to the city on occasion of Ramnavami shobha yatra kept the
administrative and the police machinery on tenterhooks for two
consecutive days.
Devotees
offer liquor, sheep at Kali Temple
Patiala, April 20
Long serpentine queues of
bare-footed devotees waiting for hours to get a “darshan” of the
Devi may be common elsewhere also, but the Kali Devi Mandir here
stands out for the large amount of liquor and sheep which are offered
to the goddess on the occasion of Ashtami.
Warm
response to ‘shobha yatra’
Jalandhar, April 20
Hundreds of tableaux depicting
scenes from the life of Lord Rama and “langars” marked the
‘shoba yatra’ which turned out to be an symbol of communal harmony
with enthusiastic participation from people of all communities.
Maiser
Khana mela concludes
Bathinda, April 20
The two-day Maiser Khana
mela in honour of Goddess Bhagwati concluded at Maiser Khana
village 35 km from here, today morning. Thousands of people of
different religions came from far-away places to pay obeisance
in the temple for blessings.
A view of Durga Mandir at
Maiser Khana village on Friday night.
— Tribune Photo Kulbir Beera. |
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AISSF
diamond jubilee
Chandigarh, April 20
The All India Sikhs Students
Federation will celebrate its diamond jubilee (60 years) this year.
This was announced here today by former president of the AISSF, Mr
Jaswant Singh Mann.
City
is again power cut-free zone
Bathinda, April 20
The Punjab State Electricity
Board authorities have again declared this city as power cut-free
zone. Official sources said a letter to this effect had been sent to
local officials by the Chief Engineer (System Operation and Power
Regulation) about two days ago.
Special
boxes for power bills
Phillaur, April 20
The Punjab State Electricity
Board has introduced "drop-in-boxes" to facilitate
subscribers who deposit their electricity bills through cheques or
drafts.
237
cases settled in lok adalat
Malerkotla, April 20
A special lok adalat for people
of Malerkotla and Dhuri subdivisions was organised under the
supervision of Mr R.M. Gupta, District and Sessions Judge and Chairman
of the District Legal Services Authority, at the Kali Mata Mandir
complex here today.
Police
‘victim’ succumbs to burns
Barnala, April 20
Babli — a Dalit daily wage
sweeper working in the local Civil Hospital, who attempted to commit
suicide by setting herself ablaze in her house by sprinkling kerosene
oil over her on April 13 following alleged police torture, succumbed
to her burn injuries in the hospital this afternoon. She had sustained
90 per cent burn.
Boy
dies as train, tractor collide
Ludhiana, April 20
A boy was killed and two others
were seriously injured in a collision between the Dadar Express and a
tractor-trailer at an unmanned railway crossing near Ghungrana village
on the Ludhiana-Dhuri line this afternoon.
Defaulting
rice mills to face action
Bathinda, April 20
As about 50 per cent of the rice
mills of the state have not delivered the rice worth hundreds of
crores of rupees to its agencies in the past two years, the Punjab
Government has decided to take legal and other action against the
defaulters to recover the amount at the earliest.
More
power supply to farmers in June
Patiala, April 20
The Punjab State Electricity
Board has made it clear that it will provide adequate power supply for
running tubewells to farmers only after June 10. The board arrived at
this decision following a meeting of top functionaries of the PSEB
with experts of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.
Man
kills mother
Hoshiarpur, April 20
Incensed over a trivial issue, a
man has killed his mother here. According to the police, the accused,
Hardeep Singh, was watching television last evening when his mother
asked him to turn down its volume.
Gang
of cheats busted
Moga, April 20
The Faridkot district police
yesterday claimed to have busted a gang of cheats, engaged in selling
stolen cement and “saria” (iron rods) of the PWD (Buildings and
Roads), by arresting five of its members.
GND
varsity to have DNA test centre
Amritsar, April 20 |
Guru Nanak Dev
University may become the first centre for DNA fingerprinting in
north India and the second such centre in the country after
Hyderabad.
Dr S. Hasnain, Director
of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and DNA Diagnostics, Hyderabad, Justice
V. K. Khanna, Chairman of the Punjab State Human Rights
Commission, Dr S. P. Singh, VC of Guru
Nanak Dev University, at a seminar on DNA fingerprinting at Guru
Nanak Dev University in Amritsar on Saturday. — Photo Rajiv
Sharma |
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VC
claimed TA, DA during ‘absence’ from varsity
Patiala, April 20
The Joint Action Committee,
Punjabi University, which is agitating for the ouster of
Vice-Chancellor Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia today alleged that the
latter had claimed Travelling Allowance and Dearness Allowance for
nine trips to Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Dalhousie, Jogindernagar, Palampur
and Paonta Sahib during his period of hiding from the police.
Govt
to regulate technical courses
Ropar, April 20
To balance the demand and supply
ratio in technical courses, the Punjab Government is contemplating
regulating the number of colleges and the courses being run by them.
Data is being collected from the placement cells of engineering
colleges regarding the employment of their students in industry.
Fleecing
in name of ‘quality’ education
Bathinda, April 20
With the start of new academic
session, certain private schools in the region have increased fees,
dues and funds steeply. A random survey by The Tribune revealed that
most of the schools had devised different methods to “extract”
money from the parents. What most of the schools had done was that
these had made books, dresses, classroom items and other ways means to
make money.
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