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BKU’s stress on need for right to employment
Ludhiana, December 10
The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) has appealed to the Union Government to effectively take up the issue of slashing heavy subsidies being paid to the farmers by developing countries at the next meeting of WTO to safeguard the interests of farming economy in developing nations.
Akalis celebrate Badals’ release
Ludhiana, December 10
Jubilant Akalis danced to the beats of drums while others distributed sweets to celebrate the release of former CM and SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal and his son, Sukhbir Badal, from Patiala jail today.
Sarpanches form mahapanchayat
Amloh, December 10
Panchayats are the backbone of a democracy but the bureaucracy has become so powerful that local government institutions have failed to make use of their rights and powers provided by the Panchayati Raj system. These were the general views expressed at a meeting of 46 sarpanches at Chahal village, 5 km from here as stated by Mr Netar Singh Ghundar, press secretary of the mahapanchayat, in a press release here today.
Need to simplify TDS
provisions, say experts
Ludhiana, December 10
A seminar by the Ludhiana branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India was organised here. The main topic for discussion was tax deduction at source and tax collection on sales.
Police atrocities
dominate rights violation cases: Jain
Ludhiana, December 10
Police atrocities continue to top the list of complaints
received by the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC). Out of the every
100-odd complaints received by the commission, 99 are of police excesses.
Justice N.C Jain, Chairman of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission, and Mr K.Verma, DGP, PSHRC, at a seminar on human rights organised in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
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‘Awareness key
to guarding human rights’
Ludhiana, December 10
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was made by UNO
in the year 1948. With this the concept of human rights came into existence all
over the world. However, it was a western concept. In our culture ‘Raj Dharma’
dealing in human rights is an ancient concept. More laws are being made to
protect the rights of vulnerable members of our society like women, children,
physically challenged.
Gambling fever refuses
to subside
Ludhiana, December 10
Behind a cluster of roadside kiosks near Ghanta Ghar, an engrossing game of sweep is on with the players holding the cards close to their chests. They are surrounded by many idlers who are keenly watching the proceedings. None of them dares to utter a word or suggestion to any of the players because the stakes are high. Wisely so, because they are familiar with the wrath of a losing gambler who gets more desperate to win after every “loss”.
READERS WRITE
Callous administration
THE sheer scale of the stamp scam of Rs 23,000 crore is so mind-boggling that public attention has not only been focussed on the criminal masterminded Abdul Karim Telgi and his nexus with politicians and policemen, but is a damning indictment of the inefficient and callous administrative system that is in place as the government’s revenue mechanism.
2 shops gutted
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