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Sutlej
waters test acidic
Poor maintenance may have
caused dyke breach
Ropar, October 9
The waters of the Sutlej in the
international wetland has turned acidic due to the flow of the thermal
plant fly ash into it. Five samples collected from the Sutlej by the
Fisheries Department, Ropar, yesterday have indicated that the pH
level of the river waters has dropped to 6 due to the large inflow of
fly ash.
Fly ash case: 3 engineers
suspended
Our Correspondent
Ropar, October 9
Taking cognisance of the dereliction of duty by certain officials of the Ropar thermal plant in the breach of dyke case, the Chairman of the PSEB, Mr
Y.S. Ratra, has suspended three officials of the Civil Maintenance
Wing. The order states that the Additional SE, Mr Gurdeep Singh, Executive Engineer, Mr Ajay Gupta, and junior engineer, Mr
H.S. Brar, were being suspended. |
Punjab
youths freed by J&K police, return home
Mahal, October 9
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After spending more than three
nightmarish months in various Jammu jails, six boys of the village,
three of them minors, who were picked by the Jammu and Kashmir police
on suspicion of being members of “kale kachhewale” gang, returned
home here last evening.
Six boys who returned
home on Wednesday after being released by the Jammu and Kashmir
Police. — Photo Rajiv Sharma |
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MLA
accuses officials of causing 6-cr loss to MC
Jalandhar, October
9
The functioning of the local
municipal corporation has come under a cloud, with Congress MLA Raj
Kumar Gupta accusing MC officials of conniving with two private
telecom companies to cause a loss in revenue to the tune of Rs 6 crore
by misleading the House.
Crucial SGPC
meeting today
Amritsar, October 9
Apart from taking stern action
against organisers of the proposed World Sikh Sammelan, being held at
Chandigarh on October 26, the crucial executive meeting of the SGPC as
well as the Dharam Prachar Committee of the SGPC being held at
Fatehgarh Sahib tomorrow, may give call to boycott ‘Spokesman’, a
monthly magazine, for allegedly indulging in blasphemous acts.
Rights
panel comes to rescue of suspended employee
Abohar, October 9
Officials of the Market Committee
have been asked by the Punjab State Human Rights Commission to reply
to the allegations levelled by Mr Kailash Chander Goyal, who has been
reverted from the post of Superintendent twice and placed under
suspension, by December 22.
Pak
delegation arrives
Wagah, October 9
A six-member delegation of
MPs from Pakistan entered India around 3 pm here today. The
delegation was headed by Choudhary Manzoor Ahmad of the Pakistan
People’s Party.
Pakistan's
MPs wave on their arrival at the Wagah border on Thursday.
— PTI photo |
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Excise
officer gheraoed
Sangrur, October 9
A large number of shopkeepers
today gheraoed the Sangrur Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner,
Mr K. B. S. Sidhu, alleging “harassment ” at the hands of the
sales tax officials at Sunam, about 14 km from here.
Students perform bhangra during a youth festival being organised
at GNDU in Amritsar on Thursday.
— PTI |
Free for all at MC meeting
Patiala, October 9
The general body meeting of the Patiala Municipal Corporation today witnessed a free for all with Councillors first freely abusing each other and then going in for a fist fight and even swinging chairs to strike at each other.
Cops
connived with land-grabbers: Judge
Bathinda, October 9
A house situated at Nathana town
and belonging to a local resident, Mr Sumer Singla, has allegedly been
taken into possession forcibly by six persons, including a retired
Executive Engineer of the Punjab State Electricity Board, Mr
Sukhminder Singh. The other accused include his son Rupinder Jit
Singh, alias Romi, daughter-in-law Rupinder Kaur and three others.
DIG
completes probe into ex-sarpanch’s suicide
Moga, October 9
The DIG (police), Ferozepore
Range, Mr Hardish Singh Randhawa, who was directed by the State Human
Rights Commission to find out truth whether the senior Akali leader
Gurdyal Singh, former Sarpanch, Baghapurana, had committed suicide
with his licences revolver or he was killed, has completed his inquiry
and may submit his report to the commission before the stipulated date
of October 13.
Notification
on CSD items still awaited
Chandigarh, October 9
Even after a month the Punjab
Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, agreed to roll back the
imposition of sales tax on certain items sold through CSD canteens,
the state government is yet to issue a notification in this regard,
leading to resentment among serving armed forces personnel as well as
ex-servicemen.
Sports
policy in six months, says Kang
Barnala, October 9
Punjab will have a new sports
policy within six months. The 26-point policy would include
infrastructure and diet.
Ex-judge found
drowned
Patiala, October 9
An Additional District Judge, who had been forcibly retired by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2001, was found drowned in the
"sarovar" of Gurdwara Motibagh here this morning.
Company’s efforts to light road fail to materialise
Ropar, October 9
The philanthropic efforts of DSM, a multinational company located in Asron industrial area of Nawanshahr district, 4 km from here, to light an accident-prone 12-km stretch of the
Ropar-Asron road have failed to materialise due to the failure of the PSEB to provide power connection.
VIP
brats issue: SHO suspended
Ludhiana, October 9
Finally buckling under political
pressure, the Punjab Police today suspended a Punjab Police Inspector
posted as a Station House Officer Sarabha Nagar police station here
for allegedly ‘misbehaving’ with two youths, one son of a serving
Congress minister and another of a local municipal councilor.
RPFC
invites forms from PF claimants
Chandigarh, October 9
With Pratap Steel Rolling Mills
Ltd., Mandi Gobindgarh, depositing the entire provident fund dues up
to September, 1996, the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (RPFC),
Punjab and Chandigarh, has decided to settle the PF claims of all the
former employees of the company.
Power board
penalised for voltage fluctuation
Abohar, October 9
The District Consumer Disputes
Redressal Forum, has slapped a penalty of Rs 20,055 on the Punjab
State Electricity Board for damage caused to a colour TV set due to
fluctuation in voltage. The order was passed by Mr Amarjit Singh
Katari, president, and Mr S. K. Gupta, a member of the forum.
Paddy being sold at
premium
Fazilka, October 9
Even as there is record arrival
of paddy in the local grain market it is being sold at premium. At
present bulk of the paddy is being purchased by the rice millers at Rs
600 per quintal as against the minimum support price of Rs 580
declared by the government. So far 6,91,915 quintals of paddy has
arrived in the market. Out of this the five government procuring
agencies have purchased about 60,000 quintals of paddy which
constitute less than 10 per cent of the total arrival.
SMO
held on bribe charge
Tarn Taran, October 9
The Senior Medical Officer, in
charge Civil Hospital Patti, Dr Harjit Bharti, was nabbed last night
by a team of Vigilance Bureau from Amritsar for taking a bribe of
Rs 1,500 from a resident of Moga to issue a medico-legal report.
House
of Congress leader robbed
Phagwara, October 9
Two armed persons today robbed
valuables at gun point worth over Rs 2 lakh from the residence of
Madan Mohan Bajaj (Gudd), a former president of Block Congress (Urban)
Committee at Guru Harkishan Nagar here.
30
out of 35 teachers found absent during raid
Amritsar, October 9
Thirty of the 35 staff members of
the Girls Senior Secondary School at Patti, including the officiating
Principal, have been found absent during a raid of the district
administration.
Students
block traffic, demand free travel
Barnala, October 9
Activists of the Punjab Radical
Students Union, the Students Federation of India, the All-India
Students Association, the Punjab Students Federation and the Punjab
Students Union blocked traffic in front of the PWD Rest House and
staged a protest rally here today to press the Punjab Government to
allow students free travel in buses.
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