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Students at receiving end
Ropar, October 3
The Punjab School Education Board has computerised the preparation certificates.
Despite this glaring mistakes in the certificates issued to the students who passed matriculation this year, continue to upset them.
Trip ends in tragedy
2 Patiala students killed
Chandigarh/ Fatehgarh Sahib, October 3
Two students of Arya Girls College, Patiala, were killed while two others, including a teacher of the college, were seriously injured when the bus in which they were travelling overturned on the National Highway, near Sirhind, as the driver tried to save a stray cattle on the road.
No
post-poll pact with Cong: CPI
Amritsar, October 3
Dr Joginder Dayal, state
Secretary, CPI, said here yesterday that his party had no post-poll
alliance with Congress and was not a party to its acts of
‘commission and omission’.
Bathinda-Delhi Shatabdi on brink of closure
Barnala, October 3
The Bathinda-New Delhi Shatabdi, which was flagged off with a lot of fanfare by Mr Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, on August 16 in Bathinda, is on the brink of closure.
The train, which halts at Barnala, Dhuri, Patiala and Ambala, was launched to mark 150 years of the existence of the Railways.
HIGH COURT
SSP told to probe dera funds’ misuse
Chandigarh, October 3
Acting on a petition alleging embezzlement of funds belonging to a Nawanshahr-based
dera, Mr Justice Ashutosh Mohunta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed a Senior Superintendent of Police to look into their application seeking the registration of a case against the accused and act in accordance with the law.
Akali leader in judicial custody
Amritsar, October 3
Former Chairman of the Punjab Forest Development Corporation and Shiromani Akali Dal
leader Manjinder Singh Kang was today remanded in judicial custody till October 17.
Rural funds case: Deputy Dir appears in court
Ropar, October 3
Mr J.P. Singla, Deputy Director, Rural Development, Punjab, and an accused in the case registered against Nirmal Singh
Kahlon, former Punjab Rural Development and Panchayats Minister, and him on June 14 by the Vigilance Bureau at SAS Nagar under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 120-B of the IPC and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, today appeared in the court of Special Judge here.
PSEB ‘losing 3.30 cr per day’
Ropar, October 3
The non-implementation of tariff order of the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission is causing a loss of Rs 3.30 crore per day to the PSEB.
A spokesperson for the PSEB Engineers Association yesterday regretted that although 26 days had already passed the PSEB authorities had not taken any step to implement the orders of the
PSERC.
PSEB to take strict measures against defaulters
Patiala, October 3
The Punjab State Electricity Board management today directed its field officers to intimate the revenue authorities concerned of the state government, including SDMs and
Tehsildars, regarding the pending defaulting amount of electricity consumers falling under their jurisdiction, whose connections have been disconnected due to the non-payment of dues.
Insurance cover for the poor
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 3
The Life Insurance Corporation has launched a new scheme, Jan Shri Beema
Yojna, in the district to provide the poor with economic and incidental protection. Mr Vikas
Partap, DC, said this at a meeting here today.
2 ultrasound centres lose licences
Bathinda, October 3
The licences of two ultrasound centres, namely, Preet Nursing Home in the city, and Sidhu Hospital, Goniana Mandi, were cancelled following detection of some irregularities in the record of patients, whose ultrasound tests were done here.
Jassa Singh utsav from October 19
Kapurthala, October 3
The Deputy Commissioner here, Mr Rakesh Verma, who is also the president of the Kapurthala Heritage Society, has stated that the society in collaboration with the Punjab Government and district administration is organising the first Nawab Jassa Singh Sharad
Utsav from October 19 to 21 at Shalimar Garden.
Urs of Sher Shah dargah held
Ferozepore, October 3
On the annual Urs of Baba Sher Shah Wali Dargah today, Mr Praveen Kumar
Sinha, local SSP, on
behalf of the Baba Sher Shah Wali Trust, distributed 23 tricycles to the handicapped, eight hearing machines to the hearing-impaired, artificial limbs to the lame and clothes to the poor.
4 pilgrims killed in bus mishap
Pathankot, October 3
Four pilgrims were killed and 25 injured when a bus (PB-05-F-9741) rammed into a tree near Nangal
Bhur, 25 km from here, on the Pathankot-Jalandhar National Highway, yesterday.
Anticipatory bail for MLA
Mansa, October 3
Mr Dharam Singh, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mansa, today granted anticipatory bail to Sardulgarh MLA and general secretary of SAD Balwinder Singh Bhunder and his brother Bhag Singh.
FCI men gheraoed
Bathinda, October 3
Hundreds of farmers at a purchase centre in Krarwala village of district today gheraoed FCI officials, including the District Manager, Mr Sandeep
Deora, in protest against non-procurement of their paddy crop.
Flour mill owner held
Bathinda, October 3
A flourmill owner in Bhucho Mandi, Sanjeev Kumar, has been arrested by the police in a case involving illegal sale of wheat meant for people below the poverty line. The police is searching for two of his accomplices who were allegedly diverting the grain stock.
2 held for smuggling poppy husk
Muktsar, October 3
The police claimed to have recovered 240 kg of poppy husk and arrested two persons, two others are at large.
Mr Major Singh Dhillon, SSP in a press note, claimed today that a gang of smugglers Balwinder Singh and Chand Singh and Mangal Singh of Kothe Amargarh Mallan and Resham Singh of Ablu Kotli village was busted in the Gidderbaha police.
Dhindsa opens technical fest
Malerkotla, October 3
The Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mr S.S. Dhindsa, inaugurated the fifth national annual convention of the Indian Society for Technical Education and a national-level technical festival at the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, in Sangrur district today.
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