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No
trace of 3 friends of tribal girls
Jalandhar, August 11
Even as there is no trace of
three tribal girls and other tribespersons, who were brought along
with three Jharkhand girls who were allegedly sold for Rs 2,000 each,
the Nawanshahr police is yet to arrest the Bhin village-based
father-son duo who were booked for kidnapping and raping one of three
tribal girls respectively.
SGPC
colleges face action on fee structure
Chandigarh, August 11
A crucial meeting of the top
brass of the Punjab Medical Education Department and the Baba Farid
University of Health Sciences has been called here tomorrow to take
“appropriate action” against the two SGPC-run dental and medical
colleges, which have been violating government instructions regarding
fee structure and admission.
13
Pakistan MPs may join candlelight vigil
Amritsar, August 11
A 13-member delegation of members
of parliament of Pakistan is likely to participate in the eighth
annual candlelight vigil organised by the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch in
collaboration with the Folklore Research Academy at Wagah joint check
post on August 14.
Acquitted
4 years after death
Chandigarh, August 11
A Junior Engineer, booked by the
Punjab Vigilance Department 17 years ago, got justice, but a bit too
late — four years after his death. Sentenced to 18 months rigorous
imprisonment in a corruption case by Sangrur’s Special Judge in
1995, the engineer has now been acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana
High Court.
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Doctors
object to CM’s statement
Abohar, August 11
The PCMS Association has strongly
reacted to a statement given by the Punjab Chief Minister Capt
Amarinder Singh, here yesterday against doctors of civil hospitals and
dispensaries.
Govt
opens dialogue on NPA issue
Chandigarh, August 11
The Punjab Government today made
its first attempt to open a dialogue with representatives of the PCMS
Association to resolve the non-practising allowance issue.
Clerks’ case kept pending
SAS Nagar, August 11
The case of 134 clerks of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), who were demanding that they be treated as regular employees of the board since the case of their removal from service had been quashed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was once again not discussed and kept pending by members of the board at a special meeting held here today.
PUDA
to develop 3 more urban estates
Patiala, August 11
The Punjab Urban Planning and
Development Authority has decided to develop three more urban estates
at Sujanpur, Kharar and Khanna. Stating this at Nabha, near here,
Housing and Urban Development Minister Raghunath Sahai Puri said today
PUDA would also develop integrated townships with one slated to be
developed at Sirhind in an area of 330 acres.
Cheaper
loan to uplift down-trodden
Faridkot, August 11
The Punjab Government in
collaboration with the Central Government has formulated a plan to
generate sources of income for the Scheduled Castes and backward
classes under self-employment schemes in the current year in the
state. Under the plan a soft loan of Rs 25,000 to Rs 2 lakh will be
advanced to the beneficiaries at 5 per cent to 6 per cent of interest.
Notice
to Badal, Badungar for violation of edict
Amritsar, August 11
President of the Punjab Sikh
Forum Capt Chanan Singh today served a legal notice on Shiromani Akali
Dal chief and former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and former
SGPC chief Kirpal Singh Badungar through his lawyer, for violating the
Hukamnama of Sri Akal Takht Sahib.
Retirees
protest hike in water, sewerage charges
Nangal, August 11
Retirees of Nangal today held a
protest in front of the council office against hike in sewerage and
water charges. About hundred retirees residing in the Shivalik Avenue
colony here went to the council office and raised slogans against the
Punjab Government and the local council authorities.
Four
patients escape from mental asylum
Amritsar, August 11
Four mentally challenged persons
escaped from a mental asylum allegedly after overpowering the warden
and tying him up before locking him in a room last night. The four
patients include Naresh, Avtar Singh, Kamaldeep Singh and Sukhwinder
Singh.
Recast
Pak gurdwara body, says Bhaur
Phagwara, August 11
Former SGPC Acting President
Sukhdev Singh Bhaur today mooted the recasting of the PSGPC.
HIGH COURT
City
teachers allowed to join duty
Chandigarh, August 11
The Punjab and Haryana High,
Court in a significant judgement, has held that the state of Punjab
was incorrect in its submission that ETT qualifications acquired by
two teachers from Chandigarh were not in consonance with an
advertisement issued in December 4, 2001, for filling the posts.
Four
get life term for bride burning
Moga, August 11
Four persons, including husband and mother-in-law of a young bride,
were today sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of burning to
death the bride, six months after her marriage, in 1999.
Licences of
two cinema houses cancelled
5 dacoits held, Banur case solved
Patiala, August 11
The local police today claimed to have arrested five members of a gang of dacoits which was responsible for the killing of an ex-serviceman at Banur recently, besides a spate of other robberies in the district as well as in Delhi and others parts of the country.
Patiala SSP P.S. Umarangal
inspects arms recovered from the Pardi Gang, in Patiala on Monday.
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Villagers
lock school on teachers’ transfer issue
Bathinda, August 11
Residents of Chuge Kalan village,
15 km from here, today locked the building of the Government Senior
Secondary School in the village to protest against transfer of more
than six teachers from here to some other school by the Education
Department authorities under its rationalisation policy and thus
putting the academic future of students in jeopardy.
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Students
raise slogans to protest the decision of transferring teachers from local government senior secondary schools to other schools,
at Chuge Kalan village, near Bathinda, on Monday.
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Confusion
over fee in Punjab colleges
Chandigarh, August 11
Even though the Punjab Government
rolled back the revised fee structure on July 22, copies of the formal
notification were not made available to government and private
colleges.
College
students block traffic
Mansa, August 11
Activists of the Punjab Radical
Students Union, the Students Federation of India, the All India
Democratic Students Organisation and the All India Students
Association today blocked road traffic for four hours in front of
Government Nehru Memorial Postgraduate College here in protest against
the arrest of two students and the alleged highhandedness of private
bus operators.
B.Tech students allege poor facilities
Fatehgarh Sahib,
August 11
Students who got admission in Bachelor of Technology
(B.Tech) in private engineering colleges are not satisfied from the facilities being provided there. Students at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, where large number of parents as well as students have turned up to get the admission, alleged that they were being fleeced by the private institutions as majority of the colleges don’t have infrastructure as promised.
NIFD
opens 2-day exhibition
Bathinda, August 11
The local centre of the National
Institute of Fashion Design opened its two-day annual
exhibition-cum-fete, ‘The Designer’s Call’, at its campus on the
Mall Road here yesterday. It is to display the works of their
students. The exhibition has been divided into different sections with
attractive names.
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