POLITICS

Third Front to contest 70 Assembly seats
Ropar, October 29
The Third Front in principle agreed to contest 70 seats in the coming Assembly elections in the state. The Front include parties like Lok Bhalai, Akali Dal (1920), Akali Dal (Longowal), CPI, CPM, Jan Morcha, said CPM state secretary Balwant Singh here on Friday.

Badal, Khanna must step down: Mayor
Patiala, October 29
Mr Vishnu Sharma, Mayor, today said that SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal and state BJP president Avinash Rai Khanna should resign from their respective posts as their alliance candidate Anil Bajaj was defeated with a huge margin in the election of Ward No. 32 by Congress candidate Anil Kumar Mangla.

Cong encourages corruption, says Grewal
Nabha, October 29
Mr Harjit Singh Grewal, national secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the police officers exceeding limits under the Congress rule in the state would have to answer for their deeds. Those who had helped the Congress men to kill democracy in Patiala and Jalandhar would not be spared and it was a matter of couple of months only. He added in a democratic set up there could not be capture of polling booths by the media adviser of the Chief Minister.

COMMUNITY

Making music for the world
Kapurthala, October 29
Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is among the few Indian instrumentalists who have played extensively with western musicians. Known for the flexibility of his rendition, he created history by winning the Grammy when he teamed up with the American guitarist Ry Cooder for the fusion album “A Meeting by the River”.

Making music for the world
Kapurthala, October 29
Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is among the few Indian instrumentalists who have played extensively with western musicians. Known for the flexibility of his rendition, he created history by winning the Grammy when he teamed up with the American guitarist Ry Cooder for the fusion album “A Meeting by the River”.

Artistes perform Odissi dance on the inaugural day of the All-India Dance and Drama Winter Festival at the Musafir Memorial Central State Library in Patiala on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

Need to curb militancy firmly: Shinde
Jalandhar, October 29
Praising the people of Punjab for their supportive role in ending militancy in the state, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde stressed on the need to curb militancy firmly in other states of the country.

Police releases posters of kidnapped woman
Muktsar, October 29
After failing to crack the kidnapping case of Kuldeep Kaur, a newly married woman, which took place near Chibrawali village on the night of October 12, the police now has resorted to coloured posters having her picture, a brief matter on how she was abducted and contact numbers of police officials.

Mehli village in shock over daughter’s death
Phillaur, October 29
Mehli village is mourning the death of Manjit Kaur (32), whose decomposed body was found near a canal in Canada on Thursday.

Kang lays stone of gateway to Punjab
Mohali, October 29
Punjab Cabinet Minister Jagmohan Singh Kang laid the foundation stone of a gateway to Punjab on the outskirts of Chandigarh yesterday. He laid the foundation stone at Sukhna Enclave. He was accompanied by the Administrator of the newly formed notified area committee of Naya Gaon, Mr Darshan Singh Sandhu.

Father donates son’s eyes, body
Abohar, October 29
Hundreds of men and women today attended the last prayer meeting and expressed sympathies with District Scouts and Guides trainer Darshan Lal Chugh who lost his only son Raghav (8) recently.

State-level protest rally by doctors
Patiala, October 29
Members of the Rural Medical Service Provider Association (Punjab) organised a state-level rally here today in protest against the non-regularisation of their jobs by the state government.

Undertrial on indefinite fast
Ropar, October 29
Alleging that he was falsely implicated in a case by the Punjab Police on behalf of the land mafia and influential politician, a 50-year-old undertrial, Swaran Singh, has been on an indefinite fast since October 20 at the district jail, Ropar, here.

Rs 5.42 cr for Hussaniwala development
Ferozepore, October 29
In order to promote national martyrs memorial Hussaniwala as a major centre of tourist attraction, the state government will spend a sum of Rs 5.42 crore on the development and beautification of the site. This was revealed by the Commissioner, Mr Surinderjit Singh, while presiding over a meeting of district officials.

CRIME

2 held with 3.5 kg smack
Hoshiarpur, October 29
The naka party of Hoshiarpur police led by Mr Tarlochan Singh Manhas, DSP (R), yesterday arrested Devo, wife of Darshan Singh of Bhungarni, and Mohinder Pal, son of Bachana Ram of Kharkili PS Rajaund, Kaithal district, presently resident in the same village, while they were trying to flee on the bridge of a canal near their village.

EDUCATION

“Education, not gurdwaras need of the hour”
Chandigarh, October 29
The former Chairman of the National Minorities Commission, Mr Tarlochan Singh, has called upon “kar sewa babas” to build educational institutions rather than gurdwaras so that the Sikh community was able to take its rightful place in society.

Syndicate nod for introduction of 2 new courses
Chandigarh, October 29
Panjab University syndicate members today gave the nod to the introduction of the first set of inter institutional courses to be offered jointly by PU and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh.

Two-day convention at engg college ends
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 29
The two-day ISTE’s student’s convention concluded at the local Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College. Member secretary of the college trust Kirpal Singh Libra was the chief guest while member trust, Didar Singh Bhatti was the guest of honour at the valedictory function. Dr D.S. Hira, Principal, said in the convention more than 300 students of 36 engineering colleges participated.

Punjabi University team wins overall trophy
Patiala, October 29
The Punjabi University campus team won the overall trophy in the Punjabi University Patiala zone youth festival which concluded at Nabha, 25 km from here, late last evening. The team won overall individual trophies in music, theatre and dance while it finished overall second in library and fine arts categories. The Government College for Girls, Patiala and host Government Ripudaman College, Nabha, finished overall second and third, respectively.

PCCTU puts off rally to Nov 8
Chandigarh, October 29
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has postponed its rally scheduled for October 31 to November 8. According to Mr Jagwant Singh, general secretary, this decision was taken during a meeting of the executive at Banga today.

UK teachers savour Punjabi folk culture
Amritsar, October 29
An 11-member British delegation of teachers was greatly impressed by the rich Indian folk culture. The delegations was visiting the local Shri Ram Ashram Public School under the “Indo-British Teachers Exchange Programme-2006”.

BUSINESS

Dairy sector hikes milk procurement prices
Chandigarh, October 29
Apprehension over Reliance capturing a major portion of dairy retail market once it enters Punjab in a big way has forced private dairy industry and state milk cooperative, Milkfed, to hike the procurement prices of milk to retain their supply chain.