Wheat
Import
BKU dharna in Delhi on May 22
Ludhiana, May 1
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) today announced to organise a dharna at New Delhi on May 22 against the Centre's move to import wheat. The decision was taken at the state executive committee meeting of the union, which was presided over by Ajmer Singh
Lakhowal, BKU president. He is also chairman of the Punjab Mandi Board.
New face of Khalistan?
Zaffarwal forms party
Amritsar, May 1
In a sensational statement to embarrass the present SAD-BJP regime in the state, former chief of Khalistan Commando Force Wassan Singh Zaffarwal said the Khalistan movement was still alive but with a different perspective and it would be achieved through peaceful and democratic
means.
Former chief of Khalistan Commando Force Wassan Singh Zaffarwal announces the formation of a new political outfit at a press conference in Amritsar on Tuesday.
Photo by Rajiv Sharma
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Statue of Beant Singh unveiled
Bhattal, Dullo project a united face
Jalandhar May 1
The Punjab Pradesh Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, leader of the Congress Legislative Party
(CLP) Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and more than two dozen MLAs projected a unified face of the party today, giving a ‘minor’ jolt to the Capt Amarinder Singh camp.
‘Leave vendetta, then talk of bipartisan approach’
Ludhiana, May 1
Welcoming the suggestion of Finance Minister Manpreet Badal that Punjab needed a bipartisan approach to evolve a policy framework for sustained and viable development, secretary, All-India Congress Committee, Manish Tewari said today that the
SAD-BJP government should give up its vendetta politics first.
Respect Akali workers, Sukhbir to admn
Barnala, May 1
The Shiromani Akali Dal executive president Sukhbir Badal has directed the administration to respect Akali workers in the government office as they have toiled hard to form the government. Advocating the workers’ cause, Sukhbir said workers were the backbone of the party and it was the duty of the party to honour their hard work. For the same purpose he would open a party office in
Chandigarh, he said and added that he would himself listen to their grievances.
Patiala Cong gears up to receive Amarinder
Patiala May 1
The Congress of Patiala today has started making arrangements to receive the former Chief Minister,Capt Amarinder Singh,who is scheduled to return to his home city tomorrow.
29 years on, freedom fighter’s widow tells
govt
Grant pension or be ready for my death
Chandigarh, May 1
Ninetytwo-year-old Gurnam Kaur has waited 29 years for the Punjab government to wake up to her miseries. Widow of freedom fighter Tara Singh Brar of Moga who died in 1978, she has been fighting a battle of dignity with successive state governments that have denied her pension for three decades. She has been everywhere - to Parkash Singh Badal’s sangat
darshans, to Capt Amarinder Singh’s Vikas Yatra last year, but nowhere has she found justice.
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Custodial death: Police ‘gives itself’ a clean chit
Moga, May 1
Even as a judicial probe is pending, the district police today virtually gave itself a clean chit in the matter related to the custodial death of Congress worker Kewal Singh.
PSEB releases payment for inferior imported coal
Bathinda, May 1
In a development which could create a major controversy, the Punjab State Electricity Board
(PSEB) management has released payment to a private company, which allegedly supplied substandard imported coal to the board last year.
Ploughing the green of Summer Palace the MC way
Amritsar, May 1
Instead of developing parks by planting saplings or plants, the municipal corporation is these days busy ploughing the open space in Rambagh - the Summer Palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh - with a single motive to stop children from playing cricket, it seems.
A municipal corporation employee is seen ploughing the open space at the Summer Palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Amritsar on Tuesday. Tribune
photo by Rajiv Sharma
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Punjab Round-Up
Planning panel to start traffic survey
Chandigarh, May 1
To ascertain the volume of goods and passenger traffic in Punjab, the planning commission of India is conducting a survey in the state from tomorrow.
World
Asthma Day
2.5 lakh die of asthma every year
Patiala, May 1
World Asthma Day was observed in collaboration with the AAASTHA International, an association working against asthma, smoking, TB and HIV/AIDS, at the TB and Chest Hospital here today.
201 students donate blood
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 1
A blood donation camp was today organised at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib. As many as 201 students donated blood.
A Nihang at a nagar kirtan on the eve of the birth of Guru Arjan Dev in Amritsar on Tuesday.
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Move to raze Ram Setu; protest on May 13
Hoshiarpur, May 1
More than five lakh followers led by Shankaracharyas of all four
Peeths, will demonstrate on May 13 in Delhi to move to demolish Ram Setu at Rameswaram in south Indian sea. Swami Varindranand
Giri, state president of the Sanatan Dharam Math Mandir Suraksha Samiti, Himachal Pradesh,stated this in a fax message today afternoon.
Colonisers’ meeting today
Chandigarh, May 1
The Punjab Colonisers and Builders Association will hold a meeting here tomorrow to discuss the situation that has arisen due to the cancellation of the change of land use permission for various projects, secretary of the association Amardeep Singh Hira said.
