Over 3,000 tax defaulters to face action soon
Patiala, November 22
Over 3,000 income tax defaulters, including big businessmen, who have been identified and notified by the Income Tax Department are going to face the music shortly.

Behave properly with MLAs, CM warns babus 
Chandigarh, November 22
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today warned bureaucracy against behaving indifferently with elected representatives and general public. Urging bureaucrats to behave properly with elected representatives, Badal said an MLA enjoyed a status even above the chief secretary as far as protocol was concerned.

 

POLITICS

Cong proposes panel to study farmers’ suicides
Chandigarh, November 22
Coming down heavily on the SAD-BJP alliance for overlooking the plight of farmers in Punjab, the Punjab Congress proposed to set up a panel to study various factors for rising farmers’ suicides in the state. The panel will then approach the Union Government with its recommendations to come up with a comprehensive package to ameliorate the sufferings of the farming community.

Bhattal writes to Badal on vendetta
Chandigarh, November 22
Punjab Congress President and leader of opposition Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has written a letter to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to take action against all those officials who allegedly registered false cases against Congress workers in Bholath assembly segment and appraise the Vidhan Sabha during the coming  winter session about the action taken.

Khera complains against SGPC secy
Hoshiarpur, November 22
Senior Janata Dal (S) leader Balwant Singh Khera has filed a complaint with the State Information Officer (SIO), Chandigarh, against secretary, SGPC, Amritsar, Harbinder Singh, for not providing complete information regarding various trusts of the SGPC to him.

COMMUNITY

Need to check fake NRI marriages: Girija
Chandigarh, November 22
“Fake NRI marriages are playing havoc with girls in Punjab. There is a need to check fake NRI marriages and set guidelines and protocols to save our girls,” said Girija Vyas, chairperson, National Commission for Women, while talking to mediapersons here today on the sidelines of the two-day workshop on “Protection to women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: A stocktaking exercise” at Panjab University that began today.

Taking care of education, shelter of homeless kids
Sangrur, November 22
The Sangrur Pingalwara, a branch of the All-India Pingalwara Charitable Society, Amritsar, is a haven for homeless children as it has been providing not only shelter to homeless children but also educating them by sending them to schools and colleges.

Suman Kalyanpur to give Rafi awards
Chandigarh, November 23
Renowned singer Suman Kalyanpur, who sang popular songs like ‘Ajhun na aaye balma, sawan beeta jaye’, ‘Aajkal tere mere pyar ke charche har juban par’and ‘Na na karte pyar tumhi se kar baithe’ etc will be the chief guest for Rafi nite to be organised by the Yaadgar-e-Rafi Society, Chandigarh, on December 15 at Bhargava auditorium, PGI.

Bhai Mardana’s descendant wishes to recite Gurbani at Harmandar Sahib
Amritsar, November 22
The Sikhs in India and across the border will celebrate birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev but they have failed to give proper recognition to, by building a monument, Bhai Mardana, the disciple and rababi of the first Guru.

COURTS

Notice to Punjab in ‘detention’ case
Chandigarh, November 22
Taking up a petition by Dal Khalsa leader Sarbjit Singh Ghuman seeking directions for an inquiry by the Ludhiana Chief Judicial Magistrate into the allegations of his detention and torture by the police, Mr Justice M.M.S. Bedi of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion for March 21.

Rape & Murder Case
PGI docs to examine victim’s body
Chandigarh, November 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the examination of a Ludhiana rape and murder victim by a board of experts at the PGI, Chandigarh.

Khalra Murder
Feb 12 fixed for hearing wife’s petition
Chandigarh, November 22
Over 12 years after human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra was abducted from his residence before being murdered, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today fixed February 12 for hearing his wife Paramjit Kaur Khalra’s petition for directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the involvement of Punjab's former director-general of police K.P.S. Gill.

Death sentence for killing daughter, wife
Ludhiana, November 22
Sessions Judge G.K. Rai here today awarded death penality to Mohinder Singh of Haibowal Khurd on the charge of killing his daughter Geetu Verma and wife Veena Verma in January 2006.

Saini Blast Case
Documents handed over to CBI
Chandigarh, November 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the handing over of documents to the CBI in the 1991 Saini blast case.

Centre yet to recognise Tarn Taran as dist 
Tarn Taran, November 22
Though this historic township was declared the 19th district of the state by the former Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, on the occasion of the 400th martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev, 17 months ago, the union government was still to recognise it as a new district.

EDUCATION

Coop sugar mills not to be closed down
Chandigarh, November 22
Cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh said he was determined to protect interests of sugarcane growers to save cooperative sugar mills from collapsing. He said cooperative sugar mills, which were open to protect the interests of the farmers, would not be closed down.

SPORTS

Mohali college drub DAV Bathinda
Fatehgarh Sahib, November 22
On the second day of the Punjabi University Inter-College Kabaddi Tournament for men (Punjab style), DAV College from Bathinda trounced Government College, Mohali, 36-5 to surge ahead in the competition.

501 ASC Bn beat MES XI
Patiala, November 22
A fine batting of 57 not out and 4 for 17 by captain Ankur Gupta helped 501 ASC Battalion defeat MES XI Patiala by 7 wickets in the first Twenty-20 match which concluded at the Army Ground here yesterday.