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Faridkot, May 16 The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage plans to set up its chapter at each district headquarter all over the country to protect old art, monuments and other antiques in order to make aware people about their rich culture.
Cotton area to increase
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Those who worked against party candidates to face action, Shiromani Akali Dal President and former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said an appropriate action would be taken against those who had either not worked for the SAD candidates or had worked against the party candidates in the Lok Sabha elections.
Discipline
Kanwaljit, Chandumajra asks Badal The factionalism in the Shiromani Akali Dal came to fore when Mr Prem Singh Chandumajra, general secretary of the party, today urged the party high command to discipline Capt Kanwaljit Singh who had levelled serious charges against him of helping Congress candidate, Ms Preneet Kaur, wife of the Chief Minister, during recently held Lok Sabha elections. Anti-incumbency led
to my defeat: Bhatia Inspite of the clear directions from the Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, who made unscheduled 15 minutes stop over at Amritsar airport, a week before the poll to personally exhort Congress MLAs’ and other leaders to ensure the victory of Mr R.L. Bhatia the severe drubbing received by the Congress candidate have sent shock waves among the Congress circles in the country. Sushma’s remarks on Sonia ridiculed Mr S.K. Gupta, chairman Improvement Trust here has criticised senior BJP leader Mrs Sushma Swaraj who has threatened to quit the Rajya Sabha along with her husband if Mrs Sonia Gandhi President AICC was made Prime Minister of the country.
Reinstatement of employees to be reconsidered The Punjab Government will reconsider the controversial reinstatement of two employees of the Punjab State Nurses Registration Council here who were placed under suspension following their arrest on charges of leaking the council’s question papers.
Water level dips in Gobind Sagar The state might face power and irrigation crisis as the water level in the Gobind Sagar Lake of Bhakra Dam, has fallen alarmingly. The water level in the Gobind Sagar Lake was 1474.85 feet today which is about 40 feet below the level that prevailed last year on the same day. DC warns against encouraging encroachers The Deputy Commissioner, Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, took serious note of the activities of certain employees of the municipal council, Sirhind, in encouraging encroachments on government land and helping encroachers to occupy the vacated land as well as to get stay orders from courts. Diarrhoea claims two more lives Two more persons died due to diarrhoea in the town, taking the death toll to nine, health officials said today. Several patients were admitted to the Civil Hospital today with symptoms of the disease which has gripped the town and its adjoining areas for the past three weeks, the Civil Surgeon, Faridkot, Mr Rajinder Singh, said. Blindness from glaucoma can be prevented: experts About 50 leading ophthalmologists from India and abroad took part in a symposium on the latest development in detection and treatment of glaucoma (kala motia) organised by Grewal Eye Institute here today.
SGPC resents distortion of facts Mr Dilmegh Singh, Secretary Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee yesterday expressed resentment over the alleged distortion of facts of sikh history in a text book of social sciences in Madhya Pardesh and demanded its removal. Jaito, May 16 A jatha of 500 Sikh pilgrims will visit Pakistan on June 8 to pay obeisance at Sikh gurdwaras there on the Shaheedi Divas of Guru Arjan Dev.
Unemployed youth stage
dharna
Seminar on tax planning
SAD leader booked for defrauding mother-in-law An SAD leader has been booked under Sections 420, 406, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC for allegedly defrauding her mother-in-law, who is a widow. After exhausting all avenues to get justice, the woman has approached the state police chief seeking justice. Chandigarh, May 16 Senior vice-president of the Sector 34-based Carrier Immigration Consultants, Anil Manaucha, has been booked for allegedly cheating a couple in the name of sending them to New Zealand. Bathinda, May 16 The murder case of Sarabjeet Singh, a resident of Kamla Nehru Colony here, was solved. He was murdered on April 10 at his residence. Mr Kapil Dev, SSP, stated in a press note here today that a special team headed by Mr Ajay Maluja, SP (D), had investigated the case. Jalandhar, May 16 Two persons were killed and 12 injured when a Patiala-bound bus of the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation overturned near Mand village on the Kapurthala-Jalandhar road this morning.
Total marks
for Punjabi, English cut 12 SC girls to leave school in protest Around 12 girl students, belonging to Scheduled Caste families, have decided to discontinue studies to protest “cruel and humiliating” behaviour of Mehsuana village high school head teacher in this district. Bathinda, May 16 The local unit of the Berozgar Adhiyapak Front has claimed that the apathy of the Punjab Government towards them was responsible for the defeat of Congress candidates in the state. Bathinda, May 16 Mr KAP Sinha, district magistrate, this evening ordered that hours of school including that of privately managed, had been changed. He said that the schools would open at 7.30 am and would close at 11.30 am.
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