AMRITSAR
SESSION DELAYED: Elementary Teacher Training students of 1999-2001 has urged director SCRT (Punjab) to declare the results of fourth semester examinations as more than three months have passed since the examination was held. Students said here on Wednesday that the session had been delayed by one and half years.GURDASPUR
FOUNDATION STONE LAID: Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, Punjab PWD(B&R) Minister at Tugalwala 30 km from here on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of a link road from Gurdaspur-Sri Hargobindpur to Dera Baba Sucheana and widening the Tugalwala-Salahpur-Bhaini-Bangar to Qadian. He said that repair of link roads would be completed by June 30 and it will be named Baba Aya Singh Riarki Marg.
TWO BOOKED: The police here on Wednesday booked Amrik Singh and Sanjeev Kumar lottery ticket sellers under Sections 420\186\153 of the IPC and 1998 Lottery Rules 6A and 6B. A complaint was received that tickets of banned lotteries were being sold. The Lottery Department staff from Chandigarh made raids on Tuesday.
HOSHIARPUR
ROAD REPAIRS: Mr Tikshan Sud, former Punjab minister and BJP MLA from Hoshiarpur, has issued an ultimatum to the Punjab Government to get the Garhshankar-Hoshiarpur, Hoshiarpur-Dasuya and Hoshiarpur-Bharwain roads repaired by the end of this month, failing which BJP workers will garland ministers and Congress MLAs with shoes and disrupt traffic on these roads.
HARASSMENT BY PSEB: Mr Jai Gopal Dhiman, president of the Social Democratic Party of India, has condemned the alleged harassment of electricity consumers by the PSEB authorities. In a press note issued on Tuesday, Mr Dhiman gave the example of a consumer, Mr Ajit Singh of Laksian village, who had applied for a power connection for his small wheat flour mill eight months ago, but had not got the connection so far.
WORKERS’ PROTEST: Employees of the Punjab State Tubewell Corporation (PSTC) staged a dharna in front of the circle office here and took out a rally on Tuesday to protest against the non-payment of their salaries for March and April. The speakers condemned the authorities of the corporation and the state government for not releasing their salaries. They said the PSTC employees would participate in a nationwide strike on May 21.
UNDERTRIAL DEAD: Jagira of Basti Sansian Tanda died on the way to the Civil Hospital here on Wednesday. A drug addict, he was in judicial custody in the Hoshiarpur jail since May 7.
ARRESTED: The Tanda police arrested Kashmir Singh and Jaswinder Singh of Talwandi Dadian and seized illicit liquor from them. They were booked under Section 61\1\14 of the Excise Act.
NAWANSHAHR
PROTEST BY TEACHERS: The district unit of the Democratic Teachers Front held a dharna in front of the office of the District Education Officer and took out a rally here on Tuesday. It also submitted a memorandum to the District Education Officer, demanding, among other things, the scrapping of the new education policy and a stop to vigilance raids on schools.
DEVELOPMENT GRANTS: Ms Santosh Chaudhary, MP, said on Wednesday that Rs 408.9 lakh had been disbursed under the MP Local Area Development Scheme from 2000-01 to 2002-03. The utilisation certificates of grants for Rs 131.95 lakh had not been sent, she added.
SCHEME INAUGURATED: Mr Lalit Mohan Pathak, president of the local municipal council, inaugurated a water supply scheme at New Teachers Colony here on Wednesday. An amount of Rs 40 lakh would be spent on the project, according to a press note.
TARN TARAN
BODY RECOVERED: The Verowal police recovered the body of an old man from the well of the Tapiana Sahib gurdwara, Khadoor Sahib on Wednesday. A report under Section 174 the CrPC was registered and the body cremated by the Municipal Council here after a post-mortem examination.
