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Banking on Rural Art
Clusters set up at villages along
Indo-Pak border
Ferozepur, October 23
To provide self-employment to rural women, especially in villages
along the Indo-Pakistan border, the Oriental Bank of Commerce has
taken an initiative under which already 225 self-help groups have been
constituted where women are being provided training in handicrafts,
handloom weaving and phulkari making. |
Women learn the art of phulkari at one of the training
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Vendors sell unhygienic food: Study
Patiala, October 23
Next time you visit a railway station, bus terminus or vegetable
market, think twice before consuming eatables from vendors. By
consuming such food items one would be exposing his body to high
dose of pathogens.
A vendor sells cut pieces of coconut at the bus stand in Patiala on Tuesday.
— Tribune photo by Rajesh Sachar
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Land Grab Bid
Judicial probe sought
Amritsar, October 23
The government should order a high-level inquiry by a judicial magistrate into the incident in which some Congress councillors along with their supporters allegedly tried to grab a prime piece of property near Jallianwala Bagh on October 20.
Land Grab Bid
Naya Gaon resident blames cop
Chandigarh, October 23
Top cops are in the line of fire again. Less than a week after a DSP accused senior Punjab Police functionaries of shielding favourite officers "found to be involved" in a police-public clash in Barnala district, a Naya Gaon resident has blamed an IPS officer for victimising him and his family in a land grab bid.
Round-up
Badal writes to PM on rice export ban
Chandigarh, October 23
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in a strongly worded statement has asked the central government to lift ban on rice exports as the step was detrimental to the interests of the farmers.
BKU asks BJP not to oppose free power
Chandigarh, October 23
The BKU has asked the BJP not to rub salt on farmers’ wounds by opposing free power to them in the state. In a statement president of the
BKU, Balbir Singh Rajewal, said here yesterday that the SAD and the BJP had come to power by promising free power to the
farmers.
Mandis shut down
Amritsar, October 23
Even as the governments of Punjab and Haryana has strongly taken up the case of lifting the ban on export of non-basmati rice with the Central government, farmers of this region continue to face the dilemma as markets crashed all around.
Old man’s pleas fail to move district admn
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 23
Repeated visits to various offices of the district administration over the last seven years have proved futile for 85-year-old Amar Singh.
Singh is living amidst sewage water that has been accumulating outside his house as one of the villagers is not letting the panchayat complete the drainage project in Mehmudpur village.
Speed up train extension, Lalu urged
Abohar, October 23
Madan Lal Bhalothia, member of the Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee, and Hanuman Dass
Goyal, joint secretary of the Railway Passengers Association (North Zone), have urged Railway Minister Lalu Parsad to get long-pending proposal for extending the 3111/3112 Lal Quila Express to Sriganganagar via
Abohar.
Info sought under RTI denied
Pathankot, October 23
Contradicting his own orders, the public information officer (PIO) who is also subdivisional magistrate
(SDM), Pathankot, has denied information sought by a local resident under the Right to Information Act.
Tributes paid to ’62 martyr
Moga, October 23
The Army and district administration paid floral tributes to 1962 Indo-China war martyr Subedar Joginder Singh here today.
Born at Mahlan Kalan village, near here, he was bestowed with the highest gallantry award Param Vir Chakra posthumously.
Dengue Threat
Nangal MC hires fogging machine
Ropar, October 23
A resident of Giani Zail Singh Nagar here, Gurcharan Singh, was today admitted to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
(DMCH) in Ludhiana with dengue.
The health department today collected 21 blood samples for screening and distributed chlorine tablets among residents of dengue-hit localities.
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