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VB grills Jagjit Singh for 6 hrs
Ludhiana, June 7
Vigilance Bureau officials, probing into the multi-crore City Centre Project scam, today claimed that former local bodies minister and one of the main accused Jagjit Singh has during questioning stated today that he had verbally told Amarinder Singh about a few irregularities in the project.
Jagjit Singh
Raninder sent money via hawala to JD: VB
Chandigarh, June 7
Even as the Punjab Vigilance Bureau has placed on the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s record the details of the bank accounts of Delhi-based businessman Chetan Gupta, currently in judicial custody, whose pen drive has opened a pandora’s box and given important leads to the bureau, another important aspect relating to the accounts has come to the fore.
Embryonic Stem Cell
India-born doc’s effort to change US attitude
Ludhiana, June 7
Shelley Chawla, an India- born doctor practising medicine in the United States, has questioned the conservative American mindset against the embryonic stem cell research. He has scripted a movie, 'Hope' and also brought out its printed version. The movie and novel reflect the liberal American paradox that questions embryonic stem cell research in too conservative fashion.
Shelley Chawla
BSP hopes to repeat UP
Amritsar, June 7
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) hopes to repeat Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming local body elections in Punjab. BSP’s national general secretary Narendra Kashyap stated this here yesterday.
Development authority in fortnight, says Sidhu
Amritsar, June 7
Navjot Singh Sidhu, MP, today categorically asserted that Amritsar Development Authority would be given a concrete shape within a fortnight.
State Round-up
Officers’ meeting hours with public fixed
Chandigarh, June 7
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed all senior officers to be available in their offices daily between 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. to meet the public.
Teacher threatens suicide
Abohar, June 7
A woman who had recently been temporarily reinstated as a centre head teacher and posted at a government elementary school here by the district education officer has allegedly threatened her colleagues that she would commit suicide and blame them for the drastic step.
Construction of Urdu academy stopped
Malerkotla, June 7
The DPI (Colleges) has started an inquiry into the demolition of a hostel of the local government college for constructing a new building of Punjab Urdu Academy allegedly without taking prior approval from the government.
MLA stalls demolition
Amritsar, June 7
Local BJP MLA today stalled the demolition of two shops at the entrance of the Jallianwala Bagh.
Unidentified
disease claiming wild boars
Patiala, June 7
Wild boars in Punjab forests are hit by an unidentified disease, killing many in the Shivalik hills forests in the recent past. Department of Wildlife sources said wild boars were found dead in Kandi areas by villagers.
Honorary wildlife warden Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa has reported the deaths of
boars in the Shivalik forests, requesting the department to send teams to
identify the disease that was killing boars.
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Martyr’s statue gets security
Bathinda, June 7
The district police has set up a temporary police post near the statue of Jarnail Singh, commando, Punjab Police, who laid down his life while performing duty during the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir in 2002 as the same was set on fire by anti-social elements recently.
Govt not to sell tourist complexes
Ropar, June 7
Punjab has abandoned the idea of selling the tourist complexes in the state. Minister of tourism Hira Singh Gabria at a press conference here today said tourist complexes were government property. We do not want to part with that property.
State to restart night bus service
Patiala, June 7
The Punjab government has been contemplating insurance scheme for passengers travelling in buses.
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