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CM
has dig at Tota Singh
Baba Bakala (Amritsar),
August 22
Punjab Chief Minister Captain
Amarinder Singh drew comparison between Akali leader and former
Education Minister Tota Singh and a parrot.
Govt’s
move to reduce forest cover
Ropar, August 22
In a major development that may
further threaten the already scarce forest cover in Punjab, the state
government in keen to remove Section 4 of the Punjab Land Conservation
Act from about 1 lakh acre. The government has moved a case before the
Union Government to get the said section removed from the Act.
Privatisation
move: bank staff to launch stir
Patiala, August 22
The Punjab Bank Employees Association will join a countrywide campaign against the proposed
privatisation of the banking industry in the nation to be launched by
All India Bank Employees Association. As part of the campaign
processions were taken out yesterday at all district headquarters in
the state including Patiala and a state wise defaulter list (above Rs
1 crore) was handed over to the Deputy Commissioner to be forwarded to
the Punjab Governor.
TRIBUNE FOLLOW-UP
CM visits
drought-hit areas today
Chandigarh, August 22
Facing rough weather on the
drought issue, the Punjab Government has finally decided to express at
least lip sympathy to affected farmers and farm hands. Informed
official sources said that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today
cancelled all his engagements for tomorrow to visit the drought-hit
areas of Mansa, Bathinda and Muktsar districts.
HIGH COURT
Produce
record of CJ officers’ shifting
Chandigarh, August 22
In less than a month after a
letter was written by the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High
Court on the transfer of “key officers”, a Division Bench of the
court today asked the state of Punjab to be ready with the record
pertaining to the shifting of two officers attached with the CJ for
assistance in the PPSC scam probe.
- Show-cause notice to DPI, DEO
Sandhu
gets month’s time
Kharar, August 22
Mr Roshan Lal Chouhan, Judicial
Magistrate, today gave one-month time to Mr Tejinder Pal Singh Sandhu,
former chairman of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board, to
appear in his court. The Magistrate has fixed September 23, 2002, for
his appearance in the court or the court will start proceedings under
Section 82 CrPC.
Bhattal
seeks action against ‘party enemies’
Sangrur, August 22
Reacting to the controversy
sparked off in organising the martyrdom day of Sant Harchand Singh
Longowal at a meeting of the Congress in a section of the media, the
Agriculture Minister and former Chief Minister, Ms Rajinder Kaur
Bhattal, demanded a high-level probe into the leakage of internal
issues discussed by the party forum.
SAD-BJP
man wins civic body poll
Moga, August 22
The SAD-BJP alliance candidate,
Mr Chaman Lal, has been re-elected vice-president of the Moga Nagar
Council for the second time.
SAD
conference near Jaitu on Sept 18
Faridkot, August 22
The SAD will hold a political
conference under its ‘lok lehar’ programme at Guru Ki Dhab, near
Jaitu, in this district on September 18 to oust the Congress
government in Punjab from power.
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workers tie rakhis on jawans’ wrists |
Wagah (Amritsar),
August 22
An NGO, ‘Rashtriya Raksha
Sutra Bandhan Samiti’, based in Madhya Pradesh, today tied
rakhis on the wrists of jawans at the Wagah border. Students of
various schools and colleges tied rakhis on the wrists of
hundreds of jawans of the BSF, the CRPF, the ITBP and the Punjab
police deployed at the Indo-Pak border.
A student applies 'tilak' to a
BSF jawan at the Indo-Pak border at Wagha on Thursday. — PTI photo
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Gone
are the days of ‘lassi, missi roti’
Patiala, August 22
Picture the villages of
Punjab and you conjure up images of ‘lassi’, ‘missi roti’
and 'gur' besides other mouth watering delicacies, all the
advantage of good old rural life. Punjab today is nothing like
that. The green revolution has snatched away all these things
and the standard diet of Punjabis today is ‘kaddu’,
“aaluian di dal’ (potato gravy) along with onions and
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Police-public
meeting: only cops spoke
Jalandhar, August 22
A piquant situation arose during
a police-public meet held here today, when a number of participants
complained that efforts were made by certain police officials to
prevent them from raising their grievances during the meet.
Od
community alleges discrimination
Burj (Bathinda), August
22
Uneasy calm prevails in this
village even four weeks after when some members of the Od community
were asked to leave the village by member of other communities. The
Ods alleged that a “curfew-like” situation prevailed for them in
the village, while members of other communities said only those having
“criminal” character were asked to leave.
Bhaniarawala
leaves village on birthday eve
Ropar, August 22
In view of reported tension
between his followers and members of Sikh bodies of the Anandpur Sahib
area, Baba Piara Singh Bhaniarawala today left his native Dhamana
village for some unknown destination, a day before his birthday.
Operating theatre sealed
Patiala, August 22
The Government Rajindra Hospital authorities have been forced to seal an operating theatre after swabs taken from the floor of the theatre tested positive for tetanus pores.
Thermal
plant unit shut down
Ropar, August 22
Unit I of the Ropar Thermal Plant
was shut down last night due to a boiler leakage, leading to a
decrease in power generation by 50 lakh units per day. Sources said
how many days the unit would take for repairs would be known by
tomorrow morning.
Re-boring
of tubewells banned
Bathinda, August 22
Even as more than, 5,000
tubewells have become non-functional and the discharge of water from
others has been reduced by over 25 per cent, farmers of Bathinda,
Mansa and Muktsar districts have started to re-bore and deepen their
wells to save their crops.
Release
second instalment of relief: farmers
Tarn Taran, August 22
The Kirti Kisan Union has asked
the Panjab Government to release the second instalment of compensation
for the wheat crop on land acquired by the Army for laying mines in
the border belt.
Farmers
under Rs 7000 cr debt
Moga, August 22
Economic condition of Punjab
farmers is getting worse and they are under debt of Rs 7000 crore,
state’s Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal have said.
Addressing a meeting of progressive farmers here yesterday, she called
upon Punjab Agricultural University experts and scientists to evolve
better hybrid varieties, profitable cropping patterns which can give
better returns to farmers than wheat and rice.
TRIBUNE IMPACT
Marriage
palaces come under scanner
Amritsar, August 22
The Local Government Principal
Secretary has ordered the scrutiny of marriage palaces throughout the
state to check the violation of bylaws and special guidelines
following devastating fires at Dhabwali and Uphaar Cinema in Delhi.
Patwaris’
march against DC’s order today
Fatehgarh Sahib, August
22
The Revenue Patwar Union, Punjab,
is up in arms against the decision of Deputy Commissioner Vikas
Pratap, for suspending five patwaris yesterday. The district unit of
the union at a meeting today presided over by Surinder Pal Singh
resolved terming the suspension of patwaris as “wrongful and
illegal”.
Mother
gets life term for killing daughter
Sangrur, August 22
A local court has sentenced
Shanti Devi of Sunam to rigorous imprisonment for life and a fine of
Rs 10,000 on the charge of murdering her own daughter. Additional
Sessions Judge Virinder Kumar gave the judgement yesterday. According
to the prosecution case, Devi (73) took her mentally challenged and
blind daughter to a canal, near Nilowal village, near here, in a
rickshaw on July 9, 2002.
Travel
agent, wife held for murder
Phagwara, August 22
The police claims to have solved
the murder case of Dalbir Singh of Ramgarh village and arrested a
travel agent, his wife and his partner. The police in a press note
said that Dalbir Singh gave Rs 3 lakh and his passport to one Parmod
Kumar alias Pammi two years ago for sending him abroad. Parmod
returned his passport and became friendly with Dalbir.
Couple, 3 others booked on rape charge
Patiala, August 22
The Kotwali police has registered a case against a local couple and three others following a complaint by an Ambala-based girl that she was forcibly kept in a house here and raped by several persons.
Gang
of highway robbers busted
Tarn Taran, August 22
The CIA staff busted an
inter-state gang of highway robbers, murderers and vehicle thieves
with the arrest of two persons. Mr Narinder Bhargav, district police
chief, said the gang used to overpower drivers of loaded vehicles on
the highways.
5
held for kerosene smuggling
Amritsar, August 22
The Gurdaspur police has booked
five Amritsar-based persons under the Essential Commodities Act and
Section 420 of the IPC and recovered 12000 litres of kerosene they had
smuggled from Himachal. The smuggled commodity was to be sold under
the PDS.
School
downgraded: pupils’ career in peril
Jhangirana (Bathinda),
August 22
The academic career of at least
61 students of plus one and plus two classes of the local government
senior secondary school has been put in jeopardy after the district
education authorities downgraded its level from senior secondary to
high school abruptly in the middle of the session without giving any
reason.
Varsity
withdraws letter to UGC
Patiala, August 22
In a controversial decision the
Punjabi University authorities on Tuesday withdrew a letter written to
the University Grants Commission earlier asking it whether a book
written by a university teacher who was made a Professor by former
Vice-Chancellor Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, should be treated equivalent
to a PhD work.
Ramgarhia
College teachers stage dharna
Phagwara, August 22
Teachers of the local Ramgarhia
College today staged a dharna outside the office of the Principal in
protest against the suspension of Prof P.K. Bansal, non-payment of six
months salary and improper maintenance of the CPF.
Change
domicile rules: medicos
Bathinda, August 22
The MBBS Doctors and Parents
Forum, Bathinda, has demanded that the criteria for the award of
residence certificates to students seeking admissions to various
Postgraduate courses (PG) in medical colleges of Punjab should be
brought on a par with the neighbouring states to benefit the local
students.
Teachers
to hold rally
Amritsar August 22
Dr. V.K. Sharma, Secretary PCCTU
(GNDU area), has said teacher in private colleges affiliated to Guru
Nanak Dev University will ‘cease work’ after the first period on
August 23 and hold a massive rally at the new Districts Court complex,
Jalandhar, in protest against the anti-teacher and anti-education
policies of the Punjab Government.
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