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Kidneys
donated for love or money?
Amritsar, September 6
The typical affidavit of a donor
who is not related to the recipient (patient who needs a kidney)
reads, “My parents are expired. I am unmarried and alone. No blood
relation alive. I have been living with family of the patient for the
last 8-10 years. Donating kidney on humanitarian ground and due to
love and affection”.
Rice
scam: police moves court
Bathinda, September 6
The district police today moved
court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Surinder Mohan Garg, to
cancel the FIR registered on June 18 regarding the export category
rice diversion scam.
Govt
part of problem: Singla
Chandigarh, September 6
“The government has no business
to interfere in the lives of people as it is the most corrupt
institution and is restrictive, besides being a problem,” Mr
Surinder Singla, business guru who holds the post of a Cabinet
Minister’s rank in the Punjab Government, said.
Harpreet,
Kamaljit ‘were engaged’
Patiala, September 6
Two witnesses in the Harpreet
murder case today testified that Harpreet Kaur daughter of former
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Bibi Jagir Kaur, met
Kamaljit Singh, who claims to be father of her child, in a Chandigarh
guest house on a few occasions and they engaged to be married in a
Chandigarh motel on September 6, 1999.
Bid
to cover up Dalits’ boycott
Patiala, September 6
Is the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, aware that there is social boycott of Dalits in his home district?
The Patiala district administration has been making efforts that the Chief Minister should not know about it by conducting two sham inquiries and pronouncing twice that no social boycott of Dalits ever occurred anywhere in the district.
Bardhan’s
call to defeat fascist forces
Sangrur, September 6
National General Secretary of the
CPI A.B. Bardhan today urged the Left parties to come on a common
platform to eliminate starvation, sufferings of the common man,
unemployment, drought and poverty.
Effigy
of Speaker burnt
Jalandhar, September 6
Members of the Joint Action
Committee, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bahujan Samaj
Party and the Bahujan Samaj Morcha today burnt an effigy of the
Speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Dr Kewal Krishan at Ambedkar Chowk
here today for his failure to apologise for making alleged defamatory
remarks against Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar recently.
CM
urged to probe assets of leaders
Phagwara, September 6
Punjab BJP’s firebrand leader
Laxmi Kanta Chawla has urged Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to direct
a high-level probe into the assets of all elected representatives with
retrospective effect from 1980.
Gastroenteritis
outbreak: 25 hospitalised
Bathinda, September 6
Gastroenteritis seems to have
acquired an epidemic dimension in Dhobiana Basti of this town as at
least its 25 inhabitants were hospitalised this evening in the local
civil hospital after they complained of severe vomiting and loose
motions.
KMC
seeks KPS Gill’s excommunication
Amritsar, September 6
The Khalsa Mission Committee
today urged the Jathedar Akal Takht to “excommunicate” Mr KPS
Gill, a former Punjab Police chief for being responsible for the
killing of a number of innocent youths in false ‘encounters’
during militancy in the state.
Scholars
flay ‘pirated’ edition
Amritsar, September 6
The second edition of B-40
Janamsakhi Guru Baba Nanak Paintings, published by Guru Nanak Dev
University after more than a decade, has created an unsavoury
situation with scholars dubbing the same as ‘pirated’. Names of
several scholars have been dropped from the second edition, published
during the time of the previous Vice-Chancellor.
Miranpur
choe to be dug up
Patiala, September 6
Punjab Finance Minister Lal Singh
today disclosed that a 30 km long stretch of the Miranpur choe
situated in Dakala constituency would be dug up at a cost of Rs 1.04
crore to save the adjoining area from the fury of floods.
Swami
Ravi Shankar gets warm welcome
Fatehgarh Sahib,
September 6
Swami Ravi Shankar, founder of
the Art of Living, was given a warm welcome by the district
administration and the local unit of the Art of Living during his
visit to Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib this evening.
Children
died due to "parents’ negligence"
Moga, September 6
Civil Surgeon Surinderjit Kaur
has denied reports that the deaths of five children at Munnan village,
near Kot-Ise-Khan, in the past one month were due to an epidemic in
the village. She said the children died for want of proper treatment
due to parental negligence.
Screening
of old-age pension cases ordered
Jalandhar, September 6
The Punjab Government has ordered
the screening of all pension cases submitted to the department from
March, 2000, onwards. The government was seriously considering to book
fake pensioners who were causing huge loss to the state exchequer.
Sugar
scam: increments of 10 MC men cut
Amritsar, September 6
Even as the MC Commissioner talks
of re-examination of the inquiry into the multi-crore international
scam if any complaint against the involvement of officials of the
corporation is brought to his notice, 10 employees found guilty have
been punished with a cut in one annual increment each.
Boy
killed in attack on family
Sherpur Pucca, September
6
A gang of Kale Kachhewale today
struck this tiny village of Hoshiarpur district. They killed a
teenaged boy Pardip (14) and left his mother Rachna Devi seriously
injured in the wee hours today.
Robbers
kill 1, loot jewellery
Amritsar, September 6
Bakhshish Singh (60) of Tirath
Nagar in Verka was killed and three members of the family including
two women, were seriously injured when a gang of thieves attacked
their house here in the wee hours of today.
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Punsup inspectors held, remanded
Moga, September 6
The Vigilance Bureau today
arrested two inspectors of Punsup on charges of duping the procurement
agency of Rs 1.94 crore. According to sources in the Vigilance Bureau,
an FIR was registered under Sections 409, 420 and 120 (B) of the IPC
against Mr Daljit Singh and Mr Surinder Nath Saini, Inspectors of
PUNSUP, posted here on February 23, 2002 at Ferozepore, following a
departmental inquiry referred to the Vigilance Bureau for action.
Since then the two Inspectors had been eluding arrest.
Father
attacks son, daughter-in-law
Chuge (Bathinda),
September 6
Harwinder Singh and his wife, who
were allegedly shot at by Harnek Singh, father of Harwinder Singh,
this morning are battling for life in hospital. Police sources said
Harwinder Singh, who had suffered bullet injuries in the stomach, had
been shifted to the CMC Ludhiana.
Acting
principal held, released on bail
Ropar, September 6
The Morinda police today arrested
Sajjan Singh Bath, acting Principal of the Government Senior Secondary
School at Boormajra village, in connection with a case registered
against him yesterday under Sections 354 and 506 of the IPC for
allegedly making an attempt to outrage the modesty of a girl student
of his school and threatening her.
ETT
students hold protest rallies
Bathinda, September 6
Students of the District
Institute of Education Research and Training, who have been boycotting
their classes since August 26 today took out a rally in protest
against the new education policy of the state government. Mr Swaranjit
Singh, state treasurer of the DIET Students Welfare Association, while
addressing the activists, said the new education policy of the state
government to impose a new condition, in the middle of the course,
forcing the students to undergo a two-year compulsory internship was
against their rights.
Sehajdharis
oppose admission notice
Ludhiana, September 6
The Sehajdhari Sikh Federation
has taken exception to the admission notice of the Dashmesh Institute
of Research and Dental Sciences, Faridkot, for trying to create
“communal hatred among the Sikh fraternity” by debarring the
non-amritdhari Sikh students from getting admission to the institute.
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