Vehicles move with the headlights on as it rains at Bathinda on
Monday evening.
— Tribune Photo Kulbir Beera. |
‘Seva’
by Sikh women: clergy to take up issue
Amritsar, February 17
Sikh high priests are likely to
take up the issue of allowing baptised Sikh women to perform
‘seva’ in the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple in the
forthcoming meeting. According to highly placed sources close to
Jathedar, Akal Takht.
Bir Devinder to get berth, says CM
SAS Nagar, February 17
The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, gave a clear indication of including, Mr Bir Devinder Singh into his Council of Ministers. “He is seniormost among those who have not been made a minister.
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3
killed in road mishap
Jagraon, February 17
Three persons were killed and
about 20 others, were injured ‘five of them seriously’ in a
head-on collision between a PRTC bus and a truck near Jagraon this
evening. The condition of at least two of the injured was critical.
HIGH COURT
Significant
ruling on rape case
Chandigarh, February 17
The Punjab and Haryana High
Court, in a significant judgement, has ruled that the presence of
semen on the victim or her clothes was not necessary to prove the
offence of rape.
Caged
inmates: SC notice to Punjab
New Delhi, February 17
The Supreme Court today issued
a notice to the Punjab Government seeking action against police
personnel for taking four accused in an iron cage from a court to
the jail on December 27 last year.
Prosecution
of MC chief allowed
Chandigarh, February 17
Mr Sarvesh Kaushal, Secretary,
Local Government, Punjab, said that the state had granted sanction
for prosecution of Dr Kuldip Singh Gill, president, Municipal
Council, Moga, who had allegedly kept municipal funds of Rs 1,75,380
for three years in his personal custody.
Ensure
regular LPG supply: DC
Fatehgarh Sahib,
February 17
Mr Vikas Partap, Deputy
Commissioner has directed the officials of the Food and Supplies
Department to check the stock of LPG in various agencies. Presiding
over the monthly progress review meeting of district officers, he
directed the officials concerned ensure regular supply of LPG in the
district.
DSP
files bail plea in kidnapping case
Mansa, February 17
The DSP, Vigilance Department,
Chandigarh, Mr Brij Mohan Sarup, today applied here for the grant of
anticipatory bail application in the court of Additional District
and Sessions Judge Dharam Singh in a kidnapping case registered on
February 28, 1998. The trial court of Ms Jatinder Kaur, Judicial
Magistrate, First Class, Mansa, had issued arrest warrants against
him.
Power
supply to SDM’s office cut
Mansa, February 17
The local office of the Punjab
State Electricity Board of suburban subdivision yesterday
disconnected the electric connection to the tehsil office here for
non-payment of electricity bills for the last about two years.
Wheat
procurement steps reviewed
Chandigarh, February 17
The Punjab Food and Supplies
Minister, Mr Lal Singh, today reviewed wheat procurement with
agencies of the state. Procurement commences on April 1.
YC
workers stage dharna
Ferozepore, February 17
Workers of the Youth Congress
led by the district president, Mr Raminder Awla, staged a dharna in
front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner in protest against
the “wrong” policies of the Central Government.
BKU
gheraos DC’s office
Gurdaspur, February 17
Works in courts here was hit
following gherao of the Deputy Commissioner’s office by Bharatiya
Kisan Union activists today. Staff of the Additional Deputy
Commissioner’s (Revenue) office, GA to the Deputy Commissioner and
Sadar Kanungo could not perform office duty.
Doctor
held with smack
Singla
meets SSI representatives
Bathinda, February 17
Mr Surinder Singla, local MLA
and Chairman of the Punjab Finance Committee, who interacted with
representatives of SSI here yesterday, said the delay in
disbursement of sanctioned subsidy and higher power tariff had led
to closure of a number of SSIs.
Beopar
Mandal bandh today
Pathankot, February 17
The local unit of the Punjab
Beopar Mandal today held a meeting here at the Arya Samaj Temple
under the chairmanship of Mr Sham Lal, senior vice-president of the
unit, and decided to observe complete bandh tomorrow in protest
against the non-acceptance of their demands.
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Since
the past four months an old woman, a grandmother Sumitra Devi has been
waiting for her baby grandson who allegedly was ‘swapped’ with a
female child by a midwife Ramesh Rani in November last year. 
