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Rs 1200 cr bungling under Nirman scheme to be probed
Patiala, April 10
The government will look into bungling in Punjab Nirman fund scheme. The former government in the election year spent Rs 1200 crore through the Punjab Nirman Scheme.
Industrial
pollution
Survey of housing projects ordered
Chandigarh, April 10
Initiating the process of framing new guidelines for housing projects to check pollution, the Punjab government here today set up a high- level committee to carry out physical verification of such projects to find out which of these are located near industries and which are at a considerable distance.
Axing
heritage
150-year-old trees felled
Amritsar, April 10
After razing the heritage building of the British era, Saragarhi Memorial School to ground, the administration today axed 47 shady trees, including 150-year-old bohar and peepal, a day after the auction, was held for Rs 96,000 only.
PSEB XEN held on graft charge
Sangrur, April 10
An executive engineer (XEN) of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) S.P. Goel was today "caught red-handed" by a Vigilance team when he was allegedly accepting illegal gratification of Rs 7,000 from an SDO of the PSEB.
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Sarpanch held on charge of embezzlement
Barnala, April 10
Patti Sekhwan village sarpanch Satnam Singh was arrested on Monday night after a case of embezzlement of panchayat funds was registered against him.
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Dera head booked for murder
Tarn Taran, April 10
Diljit Singh, head of Dera Baba Mahankali Mandir, Dhunda, 25 km from here falling under police station Goindwal Sahib, is among three persons booked for poisoning Mangal Singh, driver of the dera.
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‘Sangat darshan only for public’
Chandigarh April 10
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today clarified that the sangat darshans were only meant for public, who have been deprived of justice, to redress their grievances and the state employees should meet their heads of the departments or ministers concerned for their grievances.
Mann to continue as SAD(A) chief
Fatehgarh Sahib, April 10
Simranjit Singh Mann, who had stepped down from the post of president of
SAD(A) after the Assembly elections, has withdrawn his resignation. Mann took this decision after a meeting of the political affairs committee and the working committee of the party held at his native village today.
Vacancies to be filled in Department of Coops
Patiala, April 10
The Department of Co-operatives would initiate the move to fill 14,000 vacancies in various Co-operative Departments of the state. The co-operative movement in the state has lost momentum due to political interference and negligence by the government.
Seven-year-old buses to go off the road
Gurdaspur, April 10
All buses including, Punjab Roadways and private, which have completed seven years on the roads, will be phased out shortly.
Foundation asks Punjab CM to notify heritage sites
Chandigarh, April 10
At an annual meeting held recently, the Punjab Heritage and Education Foundation urged the Punjab government to expedite the process of heritage conservation in the state. Requesting the government to take steps for identification and protection of heritage sites, members of the foundation sought notification of such sites so that preservation could follow a definite line.
Punjab's disabled want scientific survey of disability problem
Chandigarh, April 10
Of the six institutes for the visually impaired in Punjab, five are privately run. The sole government institute for the blind is in Ludhiana but it has long been in a shambles for want of effective interventions.
Centre, state govt ‘befooling farmers’ on MSP
Abohar, April 10
The Bhartiya Kisan Union Ekta-ugrahan has alleged that the faction of the BKU led by
Ajmer Singh Lakhowal and the SAD-BJP government in Punjab were indulging in anti-farmer activities by manoeuvring monopolised purchase of wheat through the MNCs.
Patna Sahib jathedar threatened
Amritsar, April 10
Jathedar Patna Sahib, Giani Iqbal Singh, today received threats to life on telephone from an unidentified person from Hoshiarpur district.
NTAS festival concludes
Patiala, April 10
The National Theatre Arts Society (NTAS) organised a socio-cultural programme at Padma Shri Dr Khushdeva Singh Leprosy Patient Colony on the concluding day of its 10-day theatre programme, "Theatre for Humanity", here today.
Founder of homoeopathy remembered
Abohar, April 10
The teachers and students of Homeopathic Medical College paid floral tributes to Dr Samuel
Hahnemann, while celebrating his 252nd birthday in the college campus.
Doc caught doing pvt practice
Patiala, April 10
Medical officer, Civil Hospital, Nabha, was caught red-handed doing private practice here today.
Fearing raid on his ‘clinic’, quack goes underground
Patiala, April 10
The fear of raid by the department of health forced a local quack, Rachpal Chhama, to abandon his ‘clinic’ and go underground. Reports of the quack operating in the city had appeared in The Tribune earlier this month.
Child burnt alive
Hoshiarpur, April 10
A three-year-old Sanjay son of Narotam of Muradabad (UP) burnt alive when a devastating fire engulfed three jhuggies of migrant labourers at Nangal Khanura village this afternoon.
Cyclist crushed to death
Abohar, April 10
A cyclist was crushed to death by a car this afternoon, sources said.
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Ranjit Sagar Dam, April 10
