HIGH COURT
Return of
all Sikh books sought
Chandigarh, August 7
In a petition filed before the
Punjab and Haryana High Court, directions were sought for the return
of “all manuscripts, religious books, and other articles”
allegedly removed during “Operation Bluestar” from the Sikh
Reference Library at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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The
police along with a sniffer
dog check luggage of passengers at the Amritsar railway station on Thursday. Security has been beefed up all along the border areas in the wake of
Independence Day. — PTI photo
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Discharge
of soft-drink bottling plants to be checked
Patiala, August 7
The Punjab Pollution Control
Board has decided to check the discharge from the bottling plants of
the soft drink majors in the State following reports that tests
conducted on various brands produced by the multinationals revealed
traces of pesticides.
Divorcee’s
plea on reservation rejected
Chandigarh, August 7
It is for the government to
consider whether the case of a divorcee could be equated with that of
a widow — a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
today ruled in a significant judgment.
Verification
reports of 16 youths in Pak jails sent
Ferozepore, August 7
The External Affairs Ministry has
dispatched the verification reports of 16 Punjabi youths lodged in
various jails in Pakistan to the Indian High Commission there for
their early release and repatriation.
Doctors
hold rallies, block traffic
Chandigarh, August 7
Doctors today held public rallies
and blocked road traffic at a number of places in Punjab during a
state-wide protest against the decision of the Punjab Government to
abolish the non-practising allowance.
Docs protest against privatisation of health services
Patiala, August 7
On a call given by the PCMS Association, Punjab, patients and doctors jointly held a protest demonstration and blocked the traffic near the Lahori Gate here today. They were protesting against the state government’s move to privatise the health services
Voters’ ID-card drive evokes mute response
Patiala, August 7
Two voters identification drives have failed to evoke much response from voters in the city, even as the district administration is banking on music blaring rickshaws to advertise about the drive as well as persuading the municipal corporators to take interest in the programme.
Maintain streetlights, industrialists told
Patiala, August 7
After years of enduring bad roads, choked sewerage and poor lighting, the industrialists at the local Focal Point have now been asked to take over the maintenance of civic amenities of the area or face their disconnection.
Residents
want ambulance service restored
Dappar (Lalru), August 7
Residents of the area and members of the Dera Bassi Industrial Association have expressed deep concern over the closure of the police first-aid post and discontinuation of the ambulance service for the last over a year. The village is located on the busy Kalka-Ambala highway.
Residents sore about
poor amenities
Patiala, August 7
Most of the residents of Urban Estate were attracted towards this locality due to its modern and well-developed amenities but they are now dismayed at the manner in which these are being maintained.
Cops
beat up driver
Jalandhar, August 7
Tejinder Singh, an autorickshaw
driver, was allegedly beaten up by two police constables at the
General Bus Stand today when he failed to show the documents of his
vehicle today.
DC
holds open darbar
Fatehgarh Sahib, August 7
Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner, held open darbars in six
villages — Kotla Bajwara, Mandofal, Manupur, Ramgarh Sania, Balahra,
Khera and Hansali — of Khera block in the district yesterday.
Rs
3.5 cr sanctioned for bridge, road
Hoshiarpur, August 7
Mr Tikshan Sud, local BJP MLA,
has got Rs 3.48 crore sanctioned from the Union Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways for the construction of a bridge on a nullah at
Chohal village and for the strengthening of the Hoshiarpur-Dharamsala
road up to the boundary of Himachal Pradesh.
Security
beefed up around Thein Dam
Ranjit Sagar Dam
(Pathankot), August 7
The security in and around the
Ranjit Sagar dam has been beefed up following interception by security
agencies of some messages of militants to blow up the dam.
Rs
4 crore for border villages
Amritsar, August 7
The Centre has sanctioned Rs 4
crore for development projects in border villages of the district.
Deputy Commissioner Raminder Singh, made this announcement while
presiding over a sangat darshan programme at Gharinda here yesterday.
Four remanded in Khamano graft case
Fatehgarh Sahib, August 7
Mr G. S. Dhillon, CJM, today remanded all four accused —Tarsem Lal, Executive Officer, now posted at the MC, Morinda, Harbans Raj, Sectional Officer,
Dharmpal, former president, and Rajinder Kumar, contractor, of Khamano Nagar Panchayat, — in the police custody for two days.
FCI
vacating godowns to create space for paddy
Bathinda, August 7
To overcome the problem
pertaining to the shortage of covered space, the Food Corporation of
India authorities have pressed its field staff in Punjab into service
to vacate its godowns by the end of September by despatching the
foodgrain items lying there speedily so that rice of the current
kharif season can be stored there.
Probe
ordered into non-payment of bills
Faridkot, August 7
The Punjab government has ordered
an inquiry against the District Treasury Officer, here for failure to
clear contingency bills of government grants given to various
departments in this district in the past financial year.
Students’
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Bathinda, August 7
Call it a fraud against
Punjabi University, Patiala, or students of the local Rajindra
Government College. The management of the college, which has
collected lakhs of rupees from the students on account of
examination fee for their respective classes in the past few
years, neither deposited the money with the Punjabi University
authorities nor returned the same to the students, who left
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| Students of Rajindra Government College and other colleges block traffic on the Bathinda-Mansa road on Thursday
to protest the failure of the Punjab Government to redress their grievances.
— Photo Kulbir Beera |
Students
demand return of enhanced fee, block traffic
Bathinda, August 7
A large number of students of the
local Rajindra Government College today blocked traffic for about one
hour in front of the college on the Bathinda-Mansa road here to press
the authorities concerned to return them the amount which had been
charged from them after the tuition fee was hiked by the Punjab
Government. The decision to hike the fee was withdrawn subsequently.
Second day of students’ stir
Patiala, August 7
The agitation started by students of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Punjabi University entered the second day today with students from departments following the semester system also joining it.
Govt
schools told to fix minimum targets
Jalandhar, August 7
Worried over poor results of
government schools, particularly those in the rural areas, the
district administration has directed all school heads to fix minimum
targets before August 1.
Panel
to sort out medical college woes
Faridkot, August 7
The Punjab Government has
constituted a five-member district-level committee headed by Mr Hussan
Lal, Deputy Commissioner of Faridkot, to improve the working
conditions in the local Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and
Hospital.
NCC
girls to scale Everest
Chandigarh, August 7
An expedition of NCC girls is
scheduled to scale Mount Everest in 2005. As many as 100 probables are
undergoing training in Uttaranchal. NCC Additional Director General,
Major-Gen S.V. Thapliyal said expedition would be the first of its
kind for which 16 girls would be selected from both junior and senior
wings from across the country.
Teachers
allege violation of rules
Bathinda, August 7
The GZS College of Engineering
and Technology Teachers Association has alleged that the college
authorities have been violating bylaws in the matter of appointment of
heads and coordinators of different departments.
Schools,
colleges caution students on soft drinks
Amritsar, August 7
Various schools and colleges in
the district have pasted notices in their respective canteens to
spread awareness among students about the harm of consuming soft
drinks after the startling revelations made by the Centre for Science
and Environment.
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