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3 Cavalry
celebrates
Asal Uttar Day
Somewhere in the Western Sector,
September 11
3 Cavalry, one of the most elite and
distinguished cavalry regiments of the Indian Army, celebrated the 38th
anniversary of the Battle of Asal Uttar on Tuesday. The regiment relived the
coveted victory over Pakistan in the 1965 war, in the Khemkaran sector.
Punjab
session from Sept 24
Chandigarh, September 11
The Punjab Assembly session has been
convened for September 24 and 25. The Punjab Council of Ministers today
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Ex-CPM
legislator joins rebels
Jalandhar, September 11
The state unit of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) today suffered a jolt when its state
secretariat member and former MLA Chand Singh Chopra, along with other
senior party leaders from Sangrur, resigned from the party to join the
Communist Party (Marxist) led by rebel leader Mangat Ram Pasla.
VP
Singh to address Dalit rally
Phagwara, September 11
The Bahujan Samaj Morcha would
organise a state-level rally at Phagwara on September 24 to mark Pune
Pact Divas. At a press conference here today, Mr Satnam Singh Kainth,
national president of the morcha, said former Prime Minister VP Singh
would address the rally against globalisation and privatisation.
Hundreds of activists of Punjab
State Ministerial Services Union, Bathinda unit, today staged a dharna
and held a rally in front of building of new district administrative
complex to protest against the indifferent attitude of state
government towards their demands.
Members of Punjab State Ministerial Staff Union raise slogans at
a dharna in front of the district administrative complex in
Bhatinda on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Kulbir Beera |
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Ministerial
staff
urge govt to accept demands
Sangrur, September 11
The district unit of the Punjab State
Ministerial Services Union, at a meeting, held under the presidentship of the
chairman of the union, Mr Raj Kumar Arora, here today, urged the Punjab
Government to accept the long-pending and already accepted demands of the
ministerial staff, including promotional scale after four, nine and 14 years of
service.
Rs 3.5
cr grant for 10 villages
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 11
For the overall development of 10 villages
selected under the Integrated Rural Development Project, Mr S.K. Ahluwalia,
Deputy Commissioner, today released a sum of Rs 3.5 crore in this regard, while
presiding over a meeting of district development officials here.
Sewerage project
inaugurated
Patiala, September 11
Municipal Corporation Mayor Vishnu Sharma
today laid the foundation stone of two roads to be constructed by the
corporation in Kailash Nagar and Mohalla Sood Vatta localities of the city here
today.
Private
hospitals
fleece patients: NGO
Amritsar, September 11
A survey by three non-government
organisations found attitude of private hospitals towards rural and poor persons
callous.
WTC victims
remembered
Nangal, September 11
Youth organisations of the town under the
aegis of the Citizen Welfare Society observed an anti-terrorism day here today
by holding a rally to remember those who had died fighting terrorists.
Menace
of
stray dogs, pigs
Amritsar, September 11
Stray animals and pests — dogs, pigs and
rats have become nuisance for residents here. Ms Laxmikanta Chawla, a former BJP
MLA in a letter to Chaudhary Jagjit Singh, Minister for Local Bodies yesterday
demanded a check on these.
Addl
Civil Judge’s post lying vacant
Pathankot, September 11
More than 3,000 litigants, directly or
indirectly involved in the cases pending in the court of Additional Civil Judge,
Senior Division here, are worried a lot about the future of their cases on
account of non-filling of the post.
Two
smugglers sentenced
Sangrur, September 11
Special Judge B.S. Mangat here has
sentenced two smugglers to 11-year imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 1
lakh each in a poppy husk smuggling case.
Farmers
hold rally on WTO talks
Jalandhar, September 11
Hundreds of farmers and landless labourers
today held a rally here to protest against India’s participation at
ministry-level talks of the WTO at Cancun in Mexico.
ST
Dept attaches defaulting cinemas
Bathinda, September 11
In a significant move which could have
far-reaching impact on the deteriorating economy of Punjab, the Department of
Excise and Sales Tax has started the process of attachment of various cinema
houses dotting the state to effect the recovery of arrears of the entertainment
tax pending against these for the past many years.
MC issues
notices to nine departments
Patiala, September 11
The Municipal Corporation has decided to
confiscate funds or properties of several government departments to recover dues
accumulated against them by way of house tax.
10 IAS
officers transferred
Chandigarh, September 11
The much-awaited postings and transfers
were done in Punjab today, affecting 10 IAS officers. Among them is
Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, and Deputy Commissioner, Nawanshahr.
9
Punjab police officers shifted
Chandigarh, September 11
Nine police officers in Punjab have been
transferred with immediate effect. According to a government order issued here
today, Mr Rohit Chaudhry has been posted as DIG, Personnel, at Chandigarh, while
Mr Parag Jain has been posted as DIG, CM’s security.
In-laws
arrested for dowry death
Sangrur, September 11
Dinesh Bansal and Kailash Bansal, husband
and father-in-law, respectively of Ritu (26), daughter of Mr Mohan Lal, an
arhtiya from Narwana in Haryana, were arrested by the local police last night in
connection with a dowry death case. Ritu died at 4 pm yesterday at Dayanand
Medical College and Hospital at Ludhiana after struggling for life for about a
week.
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Electronic goods haul from tourist bus
Amritsar, September 11
Electronic goods worth Rs 10-15 lakh were today seized from a tourist bus which was intercepted here. The goods were hidden in a base compartment of the bus (HP-01-1558). The police has not ruled smuggling of narcotics and arms by tourist-bus operators.
The electronic goods that were seized from a bus in Amritsar on Thursday.
— Photo Rajiv Sharma |
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Baba
caught from Nanded with abducted girl
Hoshiarpur, September 11
The Mehtiana police has recovered a girl of
Pandori Bibi from Gurdwara Mata Ji Sahib at Nanded (Maharashtra) and arrested
Baba Tarsem Singh ‘Roopa’ alias ‘Baba Sarup Singh’ who had abducted her
on August 2, 2003.
Schools
told to fill vacant posts of teacher
Chandigarh, September 11
Resolving the decades old issue, the Punjab
Government today allowed private Government aided schools to fill vacant posts
of teachers. The approval was given today at a meeting of the Council of
Ministers where the issue was discussed by all the Ministers concerned.
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