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Bhattal
case adjourned twice
Counsel caught in traffic jam
in Ropar
Chandigarh, December 1
The hearing of Mr Parkash Singh
Badal’s case in Ropar today had an effect on the proceedings of a
corruption case against Agriculture Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, at
the District Courts here as both had engaged the same counsel.
CM
meets ‘dissidents’
Patiala, December 1
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh
met “dissident” leaders of the Congress at the wedding reception
of Punjab Finance Minister Lal Singh’s nephew at the Gymkhana Club
here last night.
Hopes of Punjabi hospitality
belied
Patiala, December 1
Hopes of traditional Punjabi
hospitality have been belied for as many as 62 young teachers who have
come to the Northern Regional Languages Centre here to learn Punjabi,
Urdu and Kashmiri with all students boycotting the food being served
by the centre since the past five days in protest against the
“substandard fare” being dished out to them.
Quota
eroding efficiency, feels SDM
Rampura Phul (Bathinda),
December 1
Speakers expressed their concern
over hatred, perpetuated due to the caste-based reservation at a
state-level seminar on “Awareness on reservation” organised here
yesterday by the General Categories Welfare Federation, Punjab.
Local
man’s body cremated as unidentified; probe ordered
Abohar, December 1
The body of a local resident
Ashok Kumar was allegedly cremated as that of an unidentified person
on November 23 by staff of the municipal council. The parents of the
deceased alleged that it was a murder that was why their son was
cremated in this manner. The SDM, Mr Jaskiran Singh, has asked the SHO
of police station Khuyiansarwer, to make an inquiry into the incident.
Unpaid
meal scheme contractors threaten stir
Bathinda, December 1
Even as the supply of food under
the mid-day meal scheme launched in various government schools in this
district has been stopped for the past few months, supply contractors
have been running from pillar to post to get their payments from the
district education authorities.
Couple
fails to get adopted child’s birth certificate
Bathinda, December 1
The couple which adopted Sakhsi,
a three-month-old girl, who was found abandoned on the premises of
Gurdwara Qila Mubarak on September 1, is finding it hard to get her
birth certificate.
Students
spread AIDS awareness message
Amritsar, December 1
The Lions Club International, DAV
College and many other schools participated in a rally organised here
today to observe World AIDS Day. Nearly 400 members of the Lions club,
students of Shanti Niketan High School and Rosy Model School took
part.
Pak
doc offers to cure men with feminine voice
Wagah, December 1
It is now the turn of Pakistan to
reciprocate the gesture of India for providing free health services.
Dr Shehbaz Khalid Ranifa, an eminent speech therapy specialist from
Islamabad, has offered to perform non-surgical speech therapy on
Indian men who have a feminine voice.
Bakir
Hussain Khan dead
Malerkotla, December 1
Patiala gharana’s last Ustad
Bakir Hussain Khan Sahib died here today after a long illness.
Freedom
fighters’ conference from December 13
Moga, December 1
A two-day All-India Conference of Freedom Fighters will be held at
Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) from December 13.
Demand to check
route permits issued flouting rules
Mansa, December 1
Mr Jatinder Kumar Agra, former
president, Punjab minibus Operators Association, today urged the
Secretary, Transport Department, Punjab for putting a check on the
issuance of route permits for plying buses in the state by officials
by violating provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act and misusing
authority.
Health
Dept raids eating joints
Amritsar, December 1
In a week-long campaign, the
Health Department has raided several eating joints and collected food
samples from them. Chutney and sauce samples from Tree House
Restaurant in Ebony Mall were collected here today.
Padamjit
is Adviser to Member, Operations, PSEB
Patiala, December 1
The Punjab State Electricity
Board has appointed its senior engineer and Chief Engineer, Systems
Operation, as Adviser to the Member, Operations, on his retirement
yesterday even as the Tariff Revision Committee met at the PSEB
Headquarters here today to finalise its recommendations to the State
Regulatory Commission.
Police raids on to
find Siti Cable chief
Jalandhar, December 1
The police today conducted
another raid to find the Siti Cable Managing Director, Mr Sunny Gill
and his co-workers, who were booked by the police on November 24 for
allegedly launching an armed assault against workers of a rival Win
Cable operator, in which two of the latter’s workers were injured
seriously.
 Bathinda boy makes
it to PCS
Bathinda, December 1
Mr Amandeep Bansal, a local boy,
has secured 10th position in the PCS mains-2003 (reconducted)
examination. Mr Bansal, a
graduate of the Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh, had
earlier qualified UPSC test for All-India Civil Services and had
appeared for interview. But he had failed to make it. Now he had
succeeded in the PCS (executive) examination.
Punjabi
University educationists to attend South Asian meet
Patiala, December 1
Dr Sucha Singh Gill of the
Department of Economics and Dr K.C. Singhal of the Punjab School of
Management Studies of Punjabi University have been invited to Trade
Union Technical Consultation meeting on 'Studies of out migration in
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka' on December 1 - 2 at
New Delhi.
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