48
cases against Bathinda cops in past 3 years
Bathinda,
March 25
A few years ago, an inspector of the Punjab Police, posted in this
district, hit the headlines after he was booked for allegedly
kidnapping and subsequently beating up of a dhaba owner in the Barnala
police district area.
Parliamentary
Secretaries face moral question
Chandigarh,
March 25
A big moral question has arisen for three Chief Parliamentary
Secretaries and 10 Parliamentary Secretaries of Punjab. For what work
will they be accepting salaries allowances and perks meant for the
office held by them when they will be officially performing no duty.
Two
Punjabis among Lebanon blast victims
Kapurthala,
March 25
Two Punjabi youths, who were working as labourers in Lebanon for the
past 10 years and had just returned from India after spending their
holidays, perished in a bomb blast in Lebanon on Wednesday night.
Punjabi
youths top deportees’ list
Jalandhar,
March 25
How quest of greener pastures abroad remains unending for Punjabi
youths is evident from the fact that Punjab has highest number of
deportees from Canada, the USA, the UK and other gulf countries.
Sharifpura
— a bond between Amritsar, Lahore
Amritsar,
March 25
The densely populated Sharifpura locality here has become an
inseparable link between Lahore and Amritsar, considered as twin
cities before Partition.
Poll
funds: submit account, Bhullar tells Jagmeet
Chandigarh,
March 25
After his statement against the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh,
the senior Congress leader, Mr Jagmeet Singh Brar, has come under
attack by party leaders and activists.
PUDA plot
allottees forced to build houses using generator sets
Jalandhar,
March 25
Hundreds of allottees of plots in the PUDA “developed” Chhotti
Baradari, phase II, are forced to live or construct their houses with
the help of diesel generators. Electricity has been eluding them due
to the alleged laxity on the part of the PUDA authorities to complete
the laying of power supply lines in the area.
IVF
expert blames infertility on late marriage
JALANDHAR: Late marriage, pollution,
tuberculosis and drug abuse are the major infertility in India, where
the success rate of the In-vitro causes for fertilisation (IVF)
technique of human reproduction was just 30-35 per cent and not 70-80
per cent, as claimed by some IVF centers.
Obituary
Punjab loses
key economist
Chandigarh, March 25
Dr K.C. Singhal, Professor of
International Economics and Marketing at the Punjab School of
Management Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala, was a fine human
being and dedicated socio-political activist. He died on March 23 at
the PGI from a liver ailment.
Army
‘putting pressure’ to withdraw molestation case
Pathankot,
March 25
The tussle between the Army authorities and residents of Hariyal
village took a new turn today. The Army authorities in a press note
maintained that the jawan involved in an eve-teasing incident on March
23, was a victim of mistaken identity.
Pak boy
lands up in juvenile jail
Faridkot,
March 25
A Pakistani boy has landed up in the local juvenile jail after he made
an attempt to cross over to his country through the Wagah border.
Threat to
disrupt Samjhauta Express
Amritsar,
March 25
The All-India Hindu Shiv Sena president, Mr Surinder Kumar Billa, has
threatened to disrupt the ‘Samjhauta Express’ and the Lahore-Delhi
bus service, if the Pakistan failed to tender unconditional apology
for the missile attack on the ancient Hinglaj temple in Baluchistan
district of Pakistan.
Missing
boy found in Tarn Taran
Phagwara,
March 25
The Kapurthala police had traced a 12-year-old student Jagjit Singh
alias Jagga, missing since March 8, and restored him to his parents
today, according to Kapurthala SSP Arun Pal Singh.
Saini’s
replacement criticised
Dera
Bassi, March 25
Members of the Saini Community of the area last evening at a meeting
criticised replacing of Mr Sukhbir Singh Saini, from the chairmanship
of Land Mortgage Bank, Dera Bassi.
636
Jharkhand Police recruits pass out
Hoshiarpur,
March 25
Mr D. R. Bhatti, Director-General of Police Armed Battalion,
Jalandhar, took the march past salute from 636 recruits of the
Jharkhand Armed Police in an impressive passing-out parade at Jahan
Khelan, 8 km from here, today.
Traffic
panels mooted
Jalandhar,
March 25
With a view to tackling the traffic problems in the state, district
traffic assistance, awareness and advisory committees have been
envisaged by the Punjab Police.
7 held
for ‘sale’ of girls
Gurdaspur,
March 25
The police has busted an inter-state racket involving trafficking of
girls. Seven persons, including four women, have been arrested in this
connection. Batala police district chief Jitendra Jain said the
accused brought girls from Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir and sold
them in Punjab for Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000.
Skeletons
of missing couple found
Ferozepore,
March 25
The skeletons of a Ludhiana-based couple that had been missing since
March last year were found from the Rajasthan Feeder twin canal, near
Ghal Khurd village on the Ferozepore-Moga GT Road here today.
Body
found
Bathinda,
March 25
Volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa recovered body of an unidentified man
from Pathrala village in this district on Friday. The volunteers
shifted the dead body to the local Civil Hospital for post mortem. The
deceased, who suffered a head injury, could not be identified. A case
in this connection had been registered at Sangat police station.
4 book
for fraud
Moga,
March 25
Four persons have been booked for duping a resident of Lopo village of
Rs 2.6 lakh on the pretext of sending him abroad.
‘Check
patenting’ of Indian traditional products
Amritsar,
March 25
Prof Inder Nath Mukharjee of South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, here today said that for protecting traditional
Indian knowledge there was a need to provide it international
recognition so that other countries could be prevented from granting
patents to products based on traditional knowledge.
DAV engg
institute to set up research centre
Jalandhar,
March 25
The DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (DAVIET) has
collaborated with R.Soft, USA, a global giant in the field of fibre
optic communications, to establish ultra-modern transmission research
centre here.
Busy govt
teachers go easy on students
Moga,
March 25
The state government’s plan to boost admissions in government
schools and check the outflow of students towards private schools
seems to be going haywire as a majority of the teachers are busy in
board exams, leaving students admitted to class VI to fend for
themselves.
Redesign
curricula, says Fulbright specialist
Phagwara,
March 25
Mr Satpal S. Sidhu, Dean of Professional Technical Education,
Bellingham Technical College (BTC), Washington and a Fulbright Senior
Specialist, today underlined the need for redesigning the curricula to
suit a demand-driven workforce education.
PCCTU
gives exam boycott call
Barnala,
March 25
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has
threatened to boycott examinations of Panjab University, Chandigarh,
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Punjabi University, Patiala,
on April 2 if three demands of teachers serving in privately managed
colleges of Punjab were not accepted by the state government by March
31.
Collection
of market fee in private hands
Pathankot,
March 25
The annual contract for collecting market fee for the Pathankot market
committee went for Rs 3.84 crore against the last year’s highest bid
of Rs 1.5 crore.
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