Cricket lovers burning the posters of Indian team in Amritsar on Saturday after their
terrible performance against Australia during the World Cup in
Pretoria.
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Preserving
Punjabi
Patiala, February 15
Even as doubts are being expressed about the maintenance of the state archival records besides the need for cataloguing and preserving these, the State Language Department has been using the services of its computer section to transfer more than 600 rare manuscripts in its possession on compact discs.
Probe
finds
no truth in paddy seed ‘scam’
Ludhiana, February 15
The probe into the alleged seed
scam at the seed farm of the Punjab Agricultural University at Nabha
has not detected any irregularities or financial loss to the PAU
through the sale of paddy at the Nabha farm.
Jilani’s
kin cross over to Pak
Wagah, (Amritsar), February
15
Acting High Commissioner of
Pakistan Jaleel Abbas Jilani’s three sons and wife crossed to
Pakistan from the joint check post here around 1.30 pm. Mr Jilani’s
wife, Ms Shahita Jilain, and his sons, Amir Hamza Jilani, Damid
Mustafa Jilani and Tahila, Jilani, moved in a car.
Ashram
mahant
held for rape
Hoshiarpur, February 15
On the complaint of a resident of
Gali Zaildaran, near Diwankhana, Mahilpur, the police has registered a
case under Sections 292A, 293, 376 and 506, IPC, against Mahant Alkha
Nand of Sidh Jandi Ashram of the same town for allegedly raping,
blackmailing and terrorising her.
Corruption
alleged in recruitment
Bathinda, February 15
A section of employees of the
closed cooperative spinning and weaving mills of Mansa and Kotkapura
have alleged that Housefed committed large-scale irregularities while
recruiting employees from the list of candidates who had won an
eight-year battle.
HC
directive
to DGP, SSP
Chandigarh, February 15
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
has directed Punjab’s Director General of Police (Crime) and
Ferozepore’s Senior Superintendent of Police to be present in the
court on a petition filed by a dera head initially seeking the
registration of an FIR against police officials and an Akali leader.
Residents
block traffic on GT Road
Phagwara, February 15
Residents of the local
Santokhpura Mohalla blocked traffic on the GT Road overnight in
protest against the alleged manhandling of some youths by policemen.
The blockade, which began around 1 am, was lifted around 4 am today
after the local DSP, Mr Harmanbir Singh Gill, and the local SDM, Mr
Pritam Singh talked to the protesters.
‘Rasta
roko’: MLA among 50 booked
Bathinda, February 15
A criminal case against Mr Gura
Singh Tungwali, Akali MLA from the Nathana Assembly segment and about
50 others has been registered in Nahianwala police station for
their involvement in jamming the traffic on the Bathinda-Pathankot
state highway under the party’s recent statewide “rasta roko”
agitation.
Police
course concludes
Phillaur, February 15
A two-day course on gender
sensitisation for gazetted police officers concluded at the Punjab
Police Academy here yesterday as many as 24 police officers including
six SPs and 18 DSPs, attended the course.
It
was
murder, not suicide: mother
Amritsar, February 15
Ms Surinder Kaur, a former
sarpanch of Mand Pandher village, has accused the authorities of the
Guru Ram Das Institute of Dental Sciences of connivance in the death
of her daughter Amritpal Kaur, which was declared as a suicide case.
Colourful
shobha yatra taken out
Phagwara, February 15
A shobha yatra was taken out here
this afternoon on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Ravi Dass.
It started from Chak Hakim village and passed through decorated city
bazars.
Farmers block
traffic
Sangrur, February 15
On a call by six farmers’
organisations, the farmers today blocked traffic on the
Sangrur-Barnala road near here in protest against the
“anti-farmer” policies of the state and central governments.
2 Pak teenagers
arrested
Tarn Taran, February 15
Two teenaged Pakistanis were
arrested by the Border Security Force on the might of February 13. A
police official told here today that the accused had been identified
as Sagar Deen (15) son of Deen Mohammad, and Sawar (16) son of Asharaf,
both residents of Kasoor.
Criminal
case against Cong councillor, kin
Bathinda, February 15
A criminal case was registered
here today against Mr Sewak Ram Bhola Generator, a Congress municipal
councillor, his brother, Mr Raman Kumar, Mr Rishi Ram, for allegedly
possessing a piece of land in one of the posh localities of the city
illegally.
Five
cricket
bookies held
Bathinda, February 15
The police achieved a major
success in its campaign against satta on one-day cricket matches of
the ICC Cricket World Cup-2003 when it arrested five members of an
inter-state gang of bookies.
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