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MLA
shines shoes to fund road repair
Garhshankar, May 7
People at the bus-stop here today
witnessed unusual scene — local BJP MLA, Avinash Rai Khanna, shining
people’s shoes and requesting them to donate money for the repair of
the pot-holed 43 km-long-stretch of the Garhshankar - Hoshiarpur road.
A good number of BJP activists and people from other walks of life
were helping him in his road-repair mission.
Policy
panel on influx of migrant labour
Patiala, May 7
The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt
Amarinder Singh, today said that he would approach Bihar Chief
Minister Rabri Devi to secure the release of a local girl who was
being held in captivity by supporters of a Bihar BJP MP, even as he
announced the formation of a Cabinet sub-committee to form a policy to
streamline the influx of migratory labour in the state.
Protesting
ABVP students lathicharged
Amritsar, May 7
The police allegedly resorted to
a mild lathi charge on students who were about to set afire the effigy
of the Punjab Government in protest against “anti-education policies
and fee hike”.
2
more sworn in PPSC members
Chandigarh, May 7
Dr Ajaib Singh and Mr Bakshi Ram
were sworn in as members of the Punjab Public Service Commission by
the Governor, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob(retd), at Punjab Raj Bhavan this
afternoon.
Three
Independent MLAs form separate group
Chandigarh, May 7
Three Independent MLAs — Mr
Sukhdarshan Singh Mrar (Muktsar), Mr Harmeet Singh Sandhu (Tarn Taran)
and Mr Gurpreet Singh Kangar (Rampura Phul) — today parted company
with two other Independent MLAs — Mr Suchha Singh Chottepur (Dhariwal)
and Mr Jeet Mohinder Singh (Talwandi Sabo) — and formed a separate
group in the Punjab Assembly.
Cong
infighting comes to fore
Faridkot, May 7
Infighting among district
Congressmen here came to the fore when six of its 12 Zila Parishad
members, including chairmen of two block samitis Faridkot and Kot
Kapura, did not attend the Zila Parishad meeting held today.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
IHRO
takes up issue with state panel
Ludhiana, May 7
The International Human Rights
Organisation (IHRO) has taken up the sexual harassment case of an ad
hoc lecturer of local Government College for Boys with the Punjab
State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC).
HIGH COURT
Court
wants CBI to investigate termination case
Chandigarh, May 7
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
today expressed the hope that the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) would rise to the occasion and investigate the Panchayat
Secretaries termination case.
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Notice issued
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Orders on May 9
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Petitions
dismissed
MLA
files suit against ex-minister
Patiala, May 7
Talwandi Sabo MLA Jeet Mohinder
Singh has filed a Rs 2-crore defamation suit against former minister
Harminder Singh Jassi and a Punjabi daily, claiming that both of them
had connived to defame him and his family by stating that his father,
former Punjab Public Service Commissioner Chairman Bhupinder Singh
Sidhu, had amassed properties worth Rs 160 crore.
300
trees axed at cremation ground
Gill Patti (Bathinda),
May 7
At least 300 trees, including
some full-grown ones and some planted by the state Forest Minister, Dr
Harbans Lal, about a year ago, were uprooted and remains of the body
of a small boy got exposed when tractors with ploughs were pressed
into service at the local cremation ground allegedly by Mr Akbar
Singh, husband of Mrs Paramjit Kaur, local Sarpanch, with the help of
Sant Baba Borewala and a small section of local residents.
Patiala
to have rail overbridge
CM announces development
projects
Patiala, May 7
It was bonanza time today at the
mass contact rally organised in the city to announce various
development schemes for the town, with the Punjab Chief Minister, Capt
Amarinder Singh, announcing that work on the proposed overbridge at
Railway Crossing Number 22 would start on July 1 and will be completed
in three months.
Policemen
moot counselling sessions
Ferozepore, May 7
The Ferozepore police has
embarked on a programme to settle cases pertaining to marital disputes
and other crimes related to physical, emotional and mental abuse of
women through counselling sessions.
Alive
man declared dead
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 7
A strange situation arose during
the lok darbar of the Deputy Commissioner when one Hardial Singh of
Railon village gave him an application alleging that the local Social
Security Office had declared him dead and stopped his old-age pension.
Docs
call Punjab Medical Council poll mockery
Sangrur, May 7
Terming the election process for
the revival of the Punjab Medical Council (PMC) after more than 20
years as a “mockery” the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association
(PCMSA) and a faction of the Punjab unit of the Indian Medical
Association (IMA) is opposing the election as names of more than 75
per cent doctors registered with the PMC are not on the electoral
rolls of the PMC.
‘Women
quota in elected bodies not needed’
Bathinda, May 7
Mr Rajbir Singh Sidhu, general
secretary, and Mr Suresh Kumar Goyal, organising secretary of the
General Samaj Party, respectively, in a joint statement issued here
today said that there was no need to give reservation to women in
elected bodies.
New
Rajdhani coaches in June
Kapurthala, May 7
Passengers of the Rajdhani
Express on the Delhi-Mumbai section will experience a more comfortable
ride in the new German-designed coaches built by the Rail Coach
Factory (RCF), here by the end of June.
 Reception
awaits Pak MPs
Amritsar, May 7
Thirteen members of Pakistan’s
National Assembly led by Mr Ishak Khan Khakhwali will visit India
through Wagah Check Post on a peace mission.
BSF jawans perform the drill
during the retreat ceremony at the Indo-Pak checkpost at Wagah on Wednesday. — PTI photo
Ex-ASI’s
murder case: panel formed
Amritsar, May 7
A three-member committee has been
constituted in a sensational murder case in which a retired ASI, a
resident of Rana Garden in Maqboolpura area, was kidnapped and
murdered on May 3.
Ex-minister
hurt in accident
Pathankot, May 7
Former Punjab Higher Education
Minister Mohan Lal was injured in a road accident yesterday.
Teams
to check sale of fake seed
Bathinda, May 7
Majority of the farmers in this
belt have sown cotton including BT cotton after buying the seed from
registered and unregistered seed traders in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan
and Gujarat.
Park’s
allotment to Ram Sharnam Trust goes
Amritsar, May 7
The Municipal Corporation today
took control of the ‘disputed’ park in the Ranjit avenue from Shri
‘Ram Sharnam Trust’.
Expansion
plan of jail sanctioned
Bathinda, May 7
The Punjab Government has
sanctioned the project pertaining to the expansion of the local
Central Jail by earmarking funds for the construction of a barrack and
57 residential quarters on its existing premises.
Encroachments
razed
Amritsar, May 7
The Municipal Corporation
undertook an anti-encroachment drive in the Putlighar area here today.
Hawala
racket busted, 1 held
Jalandhar, May 7
The district police today busted
a hawala racket with the arrest of one operative and recovery of Rs
2.90 lakh from him.
3
cops booked for blackmail
Moga, May 7
The Punjab Police has registered
a case against three policemen for allegedly blackmailing, cheating,
exploiting and coercing a social worker and an employee of a
multinational company to pay Rs 1 lakh.
Two
killed in road mishap
Barnala, May 7
Two persons were killed in a road
mishap today near Harigarh Basti, about 15 km from here, on the
Barnala-Sangrur road.
PTU
online education dream goes sour
Bathinda, May 7
By failing to conduct the
examinations for its courses, the Online Virtual Campus launched by
the Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar, to provide technical
education through the online and e-correspondence mode, the university
has failed to provide “real education” to its students.
No
extension for Dr Kapoor as Dean, Students
Patiala, May 7
After the removal of Dr Kuljeet
Kapoor as Dean, Languages, within one month of her appointment, today
her husband, Dr N.S. Kapoor, was the lone Dean who failed to get
further one-year extension in Punjabi University here.
Rationalisation
policy enforced
Fatehgarh Sahib May 7
As per the directions of the
Education Minister, the District Education Officer yesterday
implemented the rationalisation policy in the district.
 Teachers
flay education policy
Bathinda, May 7
Some teachers today alleged that
though it had been a month since the new academic session began, the
authorities had failed to form any policy for admission to classes VI
and XI.
Activists of the
Democratic Teachers Front stage a dharna at Bathinda on Wednesday.
— Tribune Photo Kulbir Beera
Grant
for pvt colleges soon, says Johar
Hoshiarpur, May 7
The Punjab Government has decided
to release 95 per cent grant to all private-managed government-aided
colleges in the state.
Master-cadre
teachers form union
Tarn Taran, May 7
B.Ed teachers working in the
Punjab Education Department at a meeting organised here yesterday
formed a new organisation, the Punjab Master Cadre Union.
Move
to display details of school funds
Bathinda, May 7
Signboards showing details of
funds used for various schemes in the state-run schools will be
installed at public places and in schools to ensure transparency in
the functioning.
Minister
inspects land for college
Pathankot, May 7
Mr Harnam Dass Johar, Higher
Education Minister, Punjab, inspected a piece of land measuring 37
acres in Lamini, near here, to set up a government degree college
yesterday.
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