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Declared dead by Army, located in Pak jail
Rajpura, August 7
Mohinder Singh, a 1971 war veteran, whose son went missing during an Army operation and was later declared dead, is running from pillar to post seeking government help in bringing his son back home, whom he has located in one of the jails in Pakistan.
13 FCI men chargesheeted
Faridkot, August 7
The FCI has issued a memorandum containing serious charges against 13 of its local employees for pilferage of rice from an assignment sent to
Nalgonda.
Vigilance puts Amarinder in a spot
Chandigarh, August 7
Two superintendents of police of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau have been assigned a special task to “investigate contradictions in the income details, bank transactions and lavish lifestyle of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his family.”
Dullo accuses CM of police misuse
Chandigarh, August 7
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Shamsher Singh Dullo has termed the elections to municipal corporations a mockery of democracy by the Badal government by using the police and official machinery to coerce Congress candidates in Ludhiana and Patiala to quit the contest. Dullo accused Parkash Singh Badal of misusing government authority and machinery in the elections.
Cong MLA holds protest
Faridkot, August 7
Congress MLA from Kotkapura Ripjit Singh Brar held a protest and went on fast against the
SAD-BJP government for allegedly showing partiality while issuing blue cards to people belonging to economically weaker sections.
Drop ‘Akali’ word from SAD, CM told
Hoshiarpur, August 7
Member of the national executive committee Balwant Singh Khera and chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the state unit of the Janata Dal (S) Raj Kumar Niddar in a statement here yesterday suggested to Chief Minister and president of the SAD Parkash Singh Badal to drop the word “Akali” from the name of his party and rename it the Shiromani Janata Dal because the dictionary meaning of Akali was
"Nihang" or a baptised Sikh.
MC poll: 1,300 in fray
Chandigarh, August 7
Fate of more than 1,300 candidates contesting the municipal corportion elections in
Patiala, Ludhiana, Janaldhar and Amritsar cities will be decided tomorrow. A large number of Independent candidates are also in the fray. Though Bathinda also has a municipal corporation, election is not being held there.
MC Poll
Fear psychosis hits Cong camp
Patiala, August 7
Fear psychosis has gripped Congress candidates just hours before voting for municipal corporation elections. Most of the party candidate today felt demoralised due to the alleged coercion by the district and the police administration.
A SAD
Day
SHO transferred after protest
Amritsar, August 7
District police chief (rural) Iqbal Singh today transferred Mehta SHO Jagatpreet Singh following a dharna by the ruling party leaders in front of the police station, Chowk
Mehta.
Vigilance on trap
spree, hardly any new cases
Chandigarh, August 7
How many cases the Punjab Vigilance Bureau
(VB) has registered in the past four months? Though the Bureau has been in the
news ever since the SAD-BJP government assumed office in March, it has not
registered many cases. The number, which has not even reached double figure,
does not include trap cases its sleuths laid against the “corrupt technocrats,
policemen, revenue officials and other government employees”.
A cop in service of ailing cattle
Abohar, August 7
We can find humane face of the Punjab police in head constable Surinder Singh, at present posted at the office of the DSP here.Surinder,
a teetotaller, recently found a stray calf with an injured leg outside the
Abohar Club. He took it to his office complex and called a veterinary surgeon
for its treatment.
Surinder Singh takes care of an injured calf at the DSP office complex in
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Spurious desi ghee sale goes unchecked
Nabha, August 7
Despite the sale of spurious desi ghee going on here for the past three months, the police and health authorities are yet to take action.According
to sources, dozens of brands of spurious ghee are available here. The sale of
these is largely confined to rural areas.
SAD(A) memo to President on dera chief
Amritsar, August 7
The SAD (A) today submitted a memorandum to the President of India through the deputy commissioner of
Amritsar, demanding arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief.Baldev Singh Sirsa, senior
vice-president of the SAD(A), in his communiqué to the President has warned
that if the government failed to arrest the dera chief there can be more
violence in the state and other parts of the country.
Anganwari workers block traffic
Kharar, August 7
Activists of the Anganwari Mulazim Union blocked traffic on the Kharar road for around half an hour demanding regularisation this afternoon.Around
100 anganwari workers first held a protest at the Kharar judicial complex and
then moved towards the main road.
IT raid on jeweller's shop
Kharar, August 7
Income tax officials from Patiala raided three establishments of city jeweller Pradeep
Jain, here today.Three IT employees raided Jain's shop on Uppar Street, his
residence on Jain Street and another house of his in Sector 37, Chandigarh.
Atta-Dal
Scam
Over
100 bags of wheat found missing
Banur, August 7
The vigilance bureau team
counting and weighing sacks of wheat at Markfed’s godown here today
found over 100 bags missing from the total stock stored for the
atta-dal scheme. The team found more underweight bags on the fourth
day of counting today.
Braveheart:
Girl catches thief; honoured
Mohali/Kharar,
August 7
Rajni Chauhan, a resident
of Sector 29, Chandigarh, reminded one of “Rajni”, the
protagonist in a popular TV series of the 1990s.A braveheart,
this young employee of Tata Sky here, nabbed a scooter-borne
youth who had snatched her purse last evening when she was
returning from her office.Rajni was driving home from her office
in Industrial Area on her scooter around 6.45 pm when two
scooter-borne youths rode close to her.
Rajni Chauhan, a resident of Sector 29, Chandigarh, being awarded a commendation certificate by Mohali SSP Ranbir Singh Khattra. |
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2 youths on bike die
in accident
Kharar, August 7
Two youths were killed in a road mishap at the Kharar-Kurali road near Daun
village this afternoon. Eyewitnesses said the youths on a bike were talking on
the cell phone when their vehicle collided with a car ahead. The collision threw
them on the road. A Haryana Roadways bus (HR 01 N 5929) ran over both, killing
them instantly.
Alam new akademi secy
Malerkotla, August 7
The Punjab government today removed the secretary of the Punjab Urdu
Akademi.In an order issued today by Anjali Bhawra, secretary, Higher Education and Language Department, Mehmood
Alam, senior Urdu lecturer, Government College, Malerkotla, has been appointed as a temporary secretary of the akademi with immediate effect. He will replace Mohammad
Rafi, a lecturer of the same college.
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