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General
Samaj Party to contest Bathinda seat
Bathinda, February 13
Mr Rajbir Singh Sidhu, general secretary of the General Samaj Party,
today said that his party would contest the Bathinda reserved seat in
the coming Lok Sabha elections and a suitable candidate would be
fielded.
Patiala gears up for
Indo-Pak cricket tie
ON the eve of the Patiala
Heritage Festival, the proposed goodwill cricket match between India
and Pakistan seems more of a reality than it did until yesterday. With
permissions coming from both sides of the border, the official Indian
cricket team, to be captained by Kapil Dev, was formally announced
today.
Riot
of colours at Sheesh Mahal
Patiala, February 13
Infectious. This word amply sums up the festive
atmosphere at the Sheesh Mahal complex nowadays. The site which is all
set to host the Heritage Crafts Mela commencing from February 15 is
all aglow with a riot of colours complete with ethnic banners, jute
lightings and rustic motifs.
High
Court
DSP’s
recruitment challenged
Chandigarh, February 13
Directing that the recruitment of
Deputy Superintendents of Punjab Police would be subject to the
decision of a writ petition, a Division Bench of the Punjab and
Haryana High Court today fixed February 27 as the next date of
hearing.
Awaiting salaries
for four months
Chandigarh, February 13
As many as 10,000 teachers and
other employees of aided schools have not been getting salaries for
the past four months as their grants-in-aid had not been released for
the third quarter starting in October last year.
MCI
seeks details of doc’s role in scam
Bathinda, February 13
The parole scam that took place
in the local central jail about two years ago allegedly with the
connivance of the kin of a section of convicts and a senior doctor of
the Civil Hospital took a new turn today after the Medical Council of
India has started investigating the conduct of the doctor.
17,000
patients attend health mela
Bathinda, February 13
As many as 17,000 patients
attended a three-day health mela that concluded at Rajindra Government
College this evening. The
patients were examined by experts belonging to allopathic, homeopathic
and ayurvedic systems of medicine.
5000-yr-old
Shiva temples excavated?
Neelon, February 13
Three Shiva temples have been
found at Chaila village, near here, along the banks of the canal.
Visitors have already started making a beeline for darshan of the
shivlingas. The temples are claimed to be about 5000 years old.
Youth misbehaves
with doctor, held
Bathinda, February 13
An attendant of a patient at the
local Government Children Hospital fell into the police net after he
reportedly misbehaved with a woman doctor while she was coming out of
the hospital this morning.
SHO
beats up youth for marrying out of caste
Nawanshahr, February 13
Kuldip Kumar of Kathgarh village
in the district was allegedly beaten up by the SHO, Kathgarh, Mr
Paramjit Singh, on the basis of a complaint filed by his
brother-in-law Jiwan Pal, for marrying out of caste.
Suicide
bid in front of DC’s house
Jalandhar, February 13
Parveen, a resident of Arya Nagar
here, allegedly facing harassment from relatives of her lover,
consumed a poisonous substance in front of the residence of the Deputy
Commissioner in a suspected attempt to commit suicide.
Youth
commits suicide
Bathinda, February 13
Raju, a local youth, who got
married for the third time recently after two divorces earlier,
allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on Wednesday night.
33 per
cent consumers found stealing power
Muktsar, February 13
The Punjab State Electricity
Board, Muktsar circle, has collected penalty of more than Rs 2 crore
from those stealing power in the past 10 months. Nearly 33 per cent of
the consumers were found indulging in power theft.
New PTU courses for
professionals
Jalandhar, February 13
Punjab Technical University’s
Gian Jyoti School of TQM and Entrepreneurship has become the first
institute in the northern region to introduce B.Tech and
application-focused sandwich courses for working professionals to
improve their skills.
PCCTU
not to go ahead with protest
Phagwara, February 13
Following an invitation from Capt
Amarinder Singh for talks with the leadership of the Punjab and
Chandigarh College Teachers Union, the union has decided not to go
ahead with its protest scheduled for February 16 and 17.
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Citing health reasons, Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Gurcharan Singh Tohra ruled out
the possibility of contesting the Lok Sabha elections. He claimed that
the decision to field a suitable candidate from Patiala for the
elections would only be taken at a joint meeting of the Shiromani
Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party members shortly.
