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Anti-drug drive pays off, two shun intoxicants
Behman Deewana (Bathinda), January 9
After giving up intoxicants, Gurjant Singh and Harnek Singh have become icons of the de-addiction campaign launched six months ago in this village which had earned a dubious distinction of almost every household being under addiction. The menace has gripped the village and adjoining areas like an epidemic.
Gurjant Singh (left) and Harnek Singh who have given up drugs on the motivation by an NGO. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera
Gherao of Orbit Buses
Remand for 17 SAD (A) activists
Sangrur, January 9
The Sunam police today produced 17 Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) activists, including two executive committee members of the party Shabaz Singh Daska and Pargat Singh Gaga, in a court at
Sunam, which remanded them in police custody for one day.
Party seeks international airport in Malwa
Sangrur, January 9
The Sangrur district unit of the Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) today asked the state and central governments to set up an international airport in a backward area of the
Malwa-belt.
Round-up
Guv for quality education
Chandigarh, January 9
Punjab Governor and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh, S.F. Rodrigues ,
presiding over a meeting of the Board of Governors of Punjab Public School
(PPS), Nabha, here today called upon its management to take leadership role in
the implementation of a programme to produce good and complete citizens
committed to the cause of the nation and society. He called upon the academics,
members of the corporate sector and social activists to play a pro-active role
as catalysts of change and contribute through their commitment, knowledge and
time, for developing the potential and capabilities of our students to make them
competent and confident individuals.
One calendar, seven Sukhbirs
Chandigarh, January 9
The manner in which the Punjab government has virtually devoted its official
calendar of the current year to the acting president of the Shiromani Akali Dal,
Sukhbir Singh Badal, he certainly appears to be the most powerful man in the
state at the moment.
State of Prisons: Reform and modernisation only on paper
Chandigarh, January 9
Three days after prisoners at the Jalandhar Central Jail virtually “took over”
the jail and started a fire in an attempt to break free, the Punjab government
is waking up to the stark realities that prison reforms and modernisation of
jails exist only on paper in these overcrowded and decaying jails.
Baby serial killer shifted to Patiala jail
Patiala, January 9
While serial baby killer Darbara Singh has been shifted from the riot-hit
Jalandhar jail to the Patiala Central Jail for hanging, six other jail inmates
have been awaiting the gallows in the jail which, has witnessed no hanging for
the past about 19 years.
Bir-Talab park deer feel space crunch
Bathinda, January 9
 Violating
the guidelines of the Central Zoo Authority, the wildlife wing of Punjab has
overcrowded enclosures in the deer park at Bir-Talab near here. The number of
various species of deer in the four enclosures is far more than that recommended
by the authority.
A jampacked enclosure of Black Bucks in the deer park at Bir Talab near Bathinda.
Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera
Mill workers to launch stir
Chandigarh, January 9
The Cooperative Sugar Mills Workers Federation has convened its meeting at
Jalandhar to launch an agitation against the Punjab government which had failed
to fulfil the promise of making operational cooperative sugar mills located at
Patiala, Tarn Taran, Zira, Faridkot, Jagraon and Budhlada.
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