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Trust only thy kin as covering candidate
Chandigarh, April 24
"Thou shall trust thy kin and no one else," is a common saying which candidates of all major political parties in Punjab for the Lok Sabha elections have proved to be true.
Hearing in Badals’ assets case on April 29
Ropar, April 24
The proceedings in the case of disproportionate case against former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal picked up momentum today with the prosecution engaging Supreme Court lawyer Uday Lalit as special public prosecutor.
Getting xerox copies police style
Ropar, April 24
The way of doing things by the police is unique and surprising. One such incident here illustrated ability of the police to get the work done quickly and cost effectively.
I’m contesting on my achievements: Preneet
Patiala: It is difficult to
imagine Ms Preneet Kaur, as a member of an erstwhile royal family. She
has no royal airs and puts visitors at ease by her enthusiastic welcome
by walking up to them.
They stay thirsty even on the banks of Bhakra dam
Bhakra: About 350 villages on the banks of Gobind Sagar are reeling under an acute drinking water shortage. All the villages are of the Bhakra oustees and do not have a proper drinking water supply scheme even after 40 years of the commissioning of the dam that solved the drinking and irrigation water problems of the plains and ushered in Green Revolution in North India.
Stay in corruption cases not permitted: HC
Chandigarh, April 24
Stay of proceedings in cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act is not permitted, Mr Justice
K.S. Garewal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held in a significant judgement. The Judge also ruled that the trials in such cases should be concluded expeditiously.
Tiwana
is chief of Bar body
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 24
Mr Narinder Singh Tiwana
has been elected the president of the District Bar Association. He
defeated Mr Tejinder Singh Salana by two votes. Mr Harpal Tiwana
defeated Mr Kanwaljit Mattoo by one vote for the post of vice-president.
Gang of vehicle thieves busted
Amritsar, April 24
With the arrest of five persons, the Majitha police today claimed to have busted a gang of vehicle thieves and recovered five vehicles and seized weapons from them.
The accused are identified as Raj Kumar, of Rattan Singh Chowk ,
Sikandar Singh, Jaswant Singh, and Arvinder Singh of Fateh Garh
Churian Road and Shamsher Singh of Gumtala Colony here.
7 booked for assaulting Youth Congress chief
Jalandhar, April 24
The district police has booked seven persons, including a close relative of a Congress councillor, for allegedly beating up District Youth Congress chief Ravinder Pal Singh Sethi in front of the Congress Bhavan here on Friday.
Commission agent robbed of Rs 3.55 lakh
Samana, April 24
Mr Harjinder Kumar a Commission Agent, here withdrew Rs 5 lakh from a bank today and he was returning home in Krishna Basti on a scooter. The house is in main bazar and near the police CJA staff and main Bus Stand.
Punjab police on trail
of Mumbai-based duo
Mohali, April 24
The police will send a team
outside Punjab to look for the Mumbai-based duo — Aryan and Sahil — who
allegedly duped a group of small-time businessmen here, luring them into
investing large amounts of cash to organise a mega competition that
never took place.
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