We
deserved our posts, say 4 ATPs
Chandigarh, August 1
“We have been selected on the
basis of our outstanding academic and professional record. Enlisting
our batch among the tainted ones is great injustice with us”. This
is how four Assistant Town Planners (ATPs) of the 1999 batch selected
by the PPSC have reacted to the reports that their batch is to be
sacked.
Navodaya
Principal suspended
Ropar, August 1
As a fallout of the 35 students
fleeing the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Sandhuan village near
Chamkaur Sahib on July 28 night, the Principal of the school, Mr S.S.
Bedi, was today placed under suspension by the top authorities of the
Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. During the suspension period, he has also
been transferred to the regional office of the samiti at Shillong in
Meghalaya.
Mass casual leave by coop officers
Chandigarh, August 1
Nearly 2,000 members of the Punjab Co-operative Gazetted Officers’ Association today took mass casual leave in protest against the government action against department officers and expressed solidarity with the Additional Registrar, Mr Parmeshwar Singh Sidhu, against whom the Vigilance Bureau has registered an FIR.
 Chohan
wants edict on Tohra’s retirement
Amritsar, August 1
In a memorandum to Giani Joginder
Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, Dr Jagjit Singh Chohan, president
of the newly formed Khalsa Raj Party, today urged him to issue a
hukmnama to ensure “compulsory retirement” of Mr Parkash Singh
Badal and Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra from politics.
Khalsa Raj Party
chief Dr
Jagjit Singh Chohan
submits memorandum in Amritsar on Thursday.
— Photo
Rajiv Sharma
Admn
clamps down on Nurmehalia function
Amritsar, August 1
To avert a possible clash between
an SGPC team and Nurmehalias, the administration clamped down on a
function organised by controversial Mahant Ashutosh Noormehalia on
getting reports that an SGPC team was heading for Dhand village to
effect the closure of the function.
Peace activists bow after crossing the Pakistan-India border at Wagah near Lahore on
Thursday. Ten Buddhist monks will start a three-month-long peace march from the Pakistani city of Taxila, an ancient Buddhist centre of learning and present home to three large armament facilities believed to be associated with Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
— Reuters |
PUDA
‘denies’ claimants’ right to plot
Bathinda, August 1
Mr Shashi Kant Bansal, a local
resident, has alleged that the PUDA authorities were not transferring
the ownership of a plot to his and his wife’s name although they
were the legal claimants after the death of his father.
Set up team to probe fake degree scam: HC
Chandigarh, August 1
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, comprising Mr Justice G. S. Singhvi and Mr Justice Kiran Anand Lall, today directed the state of Punjab to constitute a team consisting of one Deputy Director and two Senior Assistant Directors of primary education to make a proper inquiry into the fake degree recruitment scam.
Minister
gets roadways strike put off
Chandigarh, August 1
The latest strategy of the Punjab
Government seems to be to buy time by constituting sub-committees to
discuss various issues related to state employees — privatisation,
retrenchment of workers and to cut their allowances.
PSEB
engineers’ SOS
Patiala, August 1
The Punjab State Electricity
Board (PSEB) Engineers Association yesterday sent an SOS fax to the
State Regulatory Commission for financial relief to the Board from
April last.
More
border farmers to get relief
Fazilka, August 1
Mr Amarjeet Singh Samra,
Agriculture Minister, Punjab, accompanied by Dr Mohinder Kumar Rinwa,
local MLA and Parliamentary Secretary, Punjab, toured border villages
of the subdivision yesterday to access the drought situation.
Lokpal for probe against ex-minister
Chandigarh, August 1
Punjab Lokpal D.V. Sehgal has said that there is a definite case to start an inquiry under Section 13(1) of the Punjab Lokpal Act against former Rural Development Minister Nirmal Singh Kahlon.
Ban
on use of ‘sangat darshan’ funds lifted
Tarn Taran, August 1
The Amritsar district
administration has lifted the ban on the use of Rs 1.35 crore issued
to the local Municipal Council by the previous Punjab government under
the sangat darshan programme launched by the then Chief Minister.
Rajendra Hospital runs out of X-ray films
Patiala, August 1
The local Government Rajindra Hospital, attached to Government Medical College here, has been without X-ray films for the past five days causing inconvenience to hundreds of people who visit it everyday.
12
tourist buses impounded
Jalandhar, August 1
Coming down heavily on the plying
of illegal private buses, the Transport Department authorities
yesterday impounded 12 tourist buses, as part of a special checking
drive initiated last week.
Akali
workers ‘detained’
Phagwara, August 1
Mr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon,
president of the Youth Akali Dal, said on Tuesday that the state unit
of the youth wing would be constituted within a fortnight. Talking to
newspersons here, Mr Dhillon said the district and block units would
be constituted thereafter.
Police
remand for bank MD
Kharar August 1
Mr Roshan Lal Chouhan, Judicial
Magistrate, Kharar today remanded Parmeshwar Singh, former Managing
Director of Punjab State Cooperative Bank, into police custody till
August 3 and ordered that the accused be given all medical facilities
during this period.
Residents face long power cuts
SAS Nagar, August 1
Despite the clouds playing hide and seek in the sky without delivering rain, today was probably one of the toughest day for local residents with unscheduled power cuts stretching up to eight hours.
Panjpeer
Urs celebrated
ETO
suspended
SBP
manager held for fraud
Gurdaspur, August 1
The police has arrested Puran
Singh, Manager, State Bank of Patiala, Narot Jaimal Singh; Darshan
Singh, a resident of Seunti near Narot Jaimal Singh; Ajit Singh and
Kuljit Kaur both residents of Gurdaspur for fraud.
2
held for selling pirated cassettes
Gurdaspur, August 1
The police has arrested Arun
Kumar, owner of R.K. Light and Music Shop, and Raj Kumar, owner of
R.R. Electronics, both of Pathankot, while Sanjay Puri, owner of Om
Video Gallery, Pathankot, escaped for their alleged involvement in
preparing video/CD cassettes of proscribed films.
Man
kills wife over drinking liquor
Bathinda, August 1
Balkar Singh, a local resident,
allegedly murdered his wife Rani last night when she objected to his
taking liquor in excess. His brother Jeet Singh was also alleged to be
involved in the crime.
3
booked for cheating
Gurdaspur, August 1
The police has booked three
persons engaged in extorting huge sums on the pretext of sending
youths to Greece for employment.
Probe
professor’s assets: Principal
Amritsar, August 1
The Principal of the local Khalsa
College, Dr M.S. Dhillon, has sought probe into the amassing of assets
disproportionate to his known sources of income by Prof Baljinder
Singh and his links with the Babbar Khalsa.
School
board Vice-Chairman removed
Kharar, August 1
The Punjab School Education Board
(PSEB) Vice-Chairman Gurdev Singh Sidhu, a co-accused along with
former Education Minister Tota Singh in several criminal and
corruption cases, was removed from his post this evening.
Narpinder
is GNDUTA chief
Amritsar, August 1
Dr Narpinder Singh, Professor of
Food, Science and Technology, was declared President of Guru Nanak Dev
University Teachers Association (GNDUTA) here on Tuesday. He polled
178 votes while his rival Dr H.S. Sidhu, Professor of Punjab School of
Economics, got 115 votes.
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