Dera-village tussle: 3 held
Mor Karima, September 2
A month-old tension between Mor Karima residents and followers of the Talwandi Khurd village-based followers of the Sant Bhurri Wala Dera reached a flash point today, three days short of an all-religion function at the
dera.
Punjab Agro godown raided
Embezzlement worth lakhs exposed
Chandigarh, September 2
A team of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau yesterday raided the Punjab Agro Food Grain Corporation godown at
Bhadson, Patiala, and found material stocks worth Rs 18 lakh missing.
Boparai in thick of another row
Patiala, September 2
Another controversy regarding the donations collected for the neighbourhood campuses of Punjabi University,
Patiala, has come to the fore.
RDX seizure no threat to peace: CM
Ludhiana, September 2
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said today that there was no threat to peace in the state. Reacting to the seizure of RDX on the eve of his visit, Badal said such incidents were quite isolated and these should not be viewed as any threat to the peace in the state.
Talks with J-K police on smuggling soon
Amritsar, September 2
To check and prevent the increasing terrorist attacks in various parts of the country besides smuggling of narcotics and arms, inter-state meetings of senior police officials were being held regularly.
Suicide
Woman judge seeks justice
Phillaur, September 2
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ramesh Kumari, a resident of Phillaur and posted at
Barnala, has been seeking "justice" as the police has failed to present a challan against the three accused who abetted her younger brother Manoj Kumar (33) to commit suicide here a year ago.
Amritsar Development Authority
Sidhu underplays his non-inclusion
Amritsar, September 2
BJP MP Navjot Sidhu here today sought to underplay his non-inclusion in the Amritsar Development Authority. Sidhu said he was happy that Chief Minister himself was now heading the Amritsar Development Authority, for which he had been trying hard ever since he was elected. He hoped that this would give impetus to developmental works and things would materialize much earlier than planned.
Three hurt in
accident
Patiala, September 2
Three persons, including two women, were injured when a car (HR 09A 8104) rammed into the footpath grills on the busy Fountain
Chowk-GPO road this evening.
Cable War
2 workers kidnapped, beaten up
Patiala, September 2
The cable war that has been on in the city since the change of government in the state today turned ugly when two workers of CCO Cable Network were allegedly kidnapped and beaten up by
rivals.
Regiment observes Raising Day
Patiala, September 2
To pay tributes to soldiers of 1-Armoured Division Signal Regiment (AREN) who laid down their lives for the country, and to commemorate their 67th Raising Day, the regiment held a function, here yesterday.
Missing boy's body found
Rajpura, September 2
The body of Tarunvir, who had gone missing inexplicably after the car in which he was travelling with his friends met with an accident near here, was today fished out from the the Narwana branch of the Bhakra main line near Lacharu Khurd village.
