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News Analysis
Winter session was too cold for Cong
Chandigarh, December 25
The just-concluded winter session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha has exposed chinks in the Congress, which failed to raise any significant issues on the floor of the House.
BJP Gujarat win to bolster state unit
Chandigarh, December 25
Emphatic win of the BJP in Gujarat will have its impact on Punjab politics. It will certainly make the
BJP, which is otherwise junior partner of the SAD in the Punjab government, more assertive and powerful to seek its political pound of flesh from Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal.
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| Ajit Singh Kohar, revenue minister, Bikram Singh Majithia, public relations minister, and Manoranjan Kalia, local government minister, Punjab, along with O.P. Chautala, former Haryana Chief Minister, congratulate Narendra Modi on his taking an oath of office at Gandhi Nagar on Tuesday. |
SAD (A) to block Badals’ buses
Fatehgarh Sahib, December 25
On the second day of the religious assembly in the town, the SAD (Amritsar) made it clear that the party was not against Hindus but the concept of
Hindutva.
A child dressed as Santa Claus at a church in Amritsar on Tuesday.
— Photo by Vishal Kumar |
FCI staff stir hits movement of foodgrains
Patiala, December 25
Working of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in the Punjab region has come to a standstill with its employees’ union deciding to resort to work-to-rule.
Bus operators charge extra ‘toll’
Ropar, December 25
Private bus operators are collecting toll from passengers on the Ropar-Nangal route. They have increased bus fare on account of 36 km Kiratpur Sahib toll road and are taxing passengers in excess of prescribed rates by the government.
Chuhar Chak
Mini-bus driver held
Moga, December 25
The driver of the mini-bus, which collided with the Ludhiana Ferozepur 4629 Satluj Express at Nu Chuhar Chak village at a manned railway crossing recently, was arrested by the Government Railway Police this afternoon.
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Doubly cursed, his second child goes missing
Amritsar, December 25
A migrant labourer from UP, Budhai Ram, has been making rounds of police stations in the hope of information about his son who had gone missing in 1995. As if the agony of losing one child was not enough, his second son, too, disappeared earlier this year.
Budhai Ram and his wife show pictures of their missing sons in Amritsar on Tuesday.
— A Tribune photograph |
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Anganwari workers held to foil stir
Sangrur, December 25
To foil the agitation programme of anganwari workers and helpers at Fatehgarh Sahib today, hundreds of anganwari workers and helpers (all women) were arrested or taken in custody today as a preventive measure in various parts of the state by the police.
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