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SHSAD
plans no-trust move against Badungar
Amritsar, July 5
After securing a convincing victory
in the Delhi Gurdwara Management Committee elections, the Sarb Hind
Shiromani Akali Dal has announced that it would bring a no-confidence
motion against Mr Kirpal Singh Badungar, President, Shiromani Gurdwara
Prabandhak Committee in the near future.
Bhaur:
Badal has lost credibility
Phagwara, July 5
SHSAD secretary general Jathedar
Sukhdev Singh Bhaur today claimed that Shiromani Akali Dal president
Parkash Singh Badal had lost credibility and anybody who sided with
him would end up like Mr Avtar Singh Hit and his group who lost
heavily in the DSGPC poll.
Gurdwara
judicial panel may be reconstituted
Amritsar, July 5
Capt Amarinder Singh, Chief
Minister, may accept the demand of the Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal
to reconstitute the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission. A senior leader
of the SHSAD said yesterday that during his tenure as Chief Minister
Mr Parkash Singh Badal had “unconstitutionally” reconstituted the
Sikh Judicial Commission and appointed men of his choice as president
and members.
Supplementary
charge sheet against scholar
Patiala, July 5
In a significant development, the
local police today filed a supplementary charge sheet against Ms
Amandeep Kaur, a research scholar of the Fine Arts Department of
Punjabi University, who is a co-accused alongwith the ousted Punjabi
University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, in the attempt
to rape case registered against the latter.
PRD
recovers VCD system from Sekhwan
Gurdaspur, July 5
The District Public Relations
officials here, after a lot of persuasion yesterday managed to recover
department’s VCD-system from one of their former ministers and
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sewa Singh Sekhwan.
HIGH COURT
Poll
petition dismissed
Chandigarh, July 5
Dismissing a petition filed by
two voters from Abohar tehsil in Ferozepore district seeking
directions for setting aside the election of Mr Parkash Singh Bhatti
from 90-Balluana (SC) assembly constituency, Mr Justice Adarsh Kumar
Goel of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today ruled that limitation,
as per the relevant Act, for filing a poll petition was 45 days from
the date of elections.
- Notice of motion
- MC resolution
- Salary cheques
PSSF
dharnas from July 9
Patiala, July 5
The Punjab State Services Federation will
organise dharnas at all district headquarters in the state on July 9
followed by a fast by employees of different departments from July 16
to August 15 to protest against the Punjab Budget proposals.
Mill
staff demand salary
Bathinda, July 5
Even as the Punjab Government has
not been taking any interest to revive Bathinda Cooperative Spinning
Mill (Bacospin) which has been lying closed for the past about 10
months, its employees, who have not been paid their monthly wages for
the past eight months held a rally and dharna near the mill today.
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Employees of a cooperative mill hold a dharna in Bathinda on Friday to express their resentment against the non-payment of salaries for the past eight months.
— A Tribune photograph
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LIC agents die in road mishap
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 5
Eight LIC agents belonging to
Bassi Pathana, Mandi Gobindgarh and adjoining villages died on the
spot and two were seriously injured in an accident near Saharanpur
town in Uttar Pradesh today. These agents were going to Mussoorie as
part of an LIC incentive scheme for agents.
Four
killed in road mishap
Moga, July 5
Four persons were killed and 13
others injured in a head-on collision between a private bus and a
truck near Dharamkot on the Dharamkot-Jalandhar road today, the police
said.
ADM
to probe tubectomy death
Bathinda, July 5
Mr Anurag Verma, District
Magistrate, today ordered a magisterial probe into the tubectomy death
which took place at the Raman Mandi Civil Hospital after Rani, a
24-year-old woman of Raman Mandi died a few hours after she was
operated upon for tubectomy on July 3.
1,200
AIDS cases in Amritsar
Amritsar, July 5
The Health Department has
detected 1,200 AIDS cases in the district till June this year making
the district most prone to this infectious disease.
Bathinda
Sessions Judge quits
Bathinda, July 5
Bathinda’s District and
Sessions Judge, Mr B.C. Rajput, submitted his resignation to the
Punjab and Haryana High Court late in the afternoon today.
BJP
dharna: police not to relent
Pathankot, July 5
Mr Bachan Singh Randhawa, SP, has
said the police will not succumb to the tactics of the local BJP
leaders and activists who had been holding a dharna for the past one
week here.
Strict
action against traffic offenders: DC
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 5
The directions of the High Court
regarding transportation will be strictly implemented in the district
and no vehicle carrying schoolchildren more than the prescribed limit
will be allowed, said Mr Vikas Partap, Deputy Commissioner, in a press
note issued here today.
Dr
S. K. Mittal promoted
Chandigarh, July 5
Dr S. K. Mittal has been promoted
as Joint Director of Agriculture (Hydrology) by the Punjab Government.
4
killed, 3 hurt in group clash
Sunam, July 5
Four persons were killed and
three injured in a clash which took place among the families of two
brothers. The cause of the clash was stated to be a land dispute. Mr
Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, DSP, while addressing the media here today said
Sadhu Ram Mahant, his wife Mukhtiar Kaur, his son Krishan Dass
(members of the complainant family) and his nephew Tarsem Lal (member
of the accused family) were killed when members of both families
attacked each other with sharpedged weapons at Gandua village, about
15 km from here, last night.
4
booked for outraging girl’s modesty
Abohar, July 5
Khushal Chand and his four sons
were today booked by the police for trying to outrage the modesty of a
Rajasthani girl at Gidderanwali village in this subdivision last week.
300
bottles of whisky seized
Hoshiarpur, July 5
The local Excise and Taxation
Department launched a campaign against liquor smugglers today. Mrs
Neelam Chaudhry, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner, told this
correspondent that on the very first day, the department achieved a
breakthrough when a naka party headed by Mr Piyush Kant Sharma, Excise
and Taxation Officer, along with Mr Balbir Sharma and Mr Surinder
Singh Heer, both Excise Inspectors, tried to stop a Maruti car at
Handowal on the Hoshiarpur-Chandigarh road.
Teachers
meet DEO regarding scam
Ropar, July 5
A mass deputation of the district
unit of the Government Teachers Union, Punjab, led by Mr Sucha Singh
Khatra, district president of the union, today met Dr Malti Batra,
District Education Officer (Primary), Ropar, at her office here and
sought a clarification from her as to how three leaders of the union
were involved in scam in the Education Department.
Agitating
students burn CM’s effigy
Amritsar, July 5
Even as the Punjab Government has
closed down the only government-run boys college of the city due to
the shortage of funds, students today burnt effigy of Capt Amarinder
Singh, Chief Minister, and the Punjab Government here today.
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