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Turban: KAC meets French envoy
Amritsar, January 23
A delegation of the Khalsa Action Committee (KAC) today met Jerome Bonnafont, French Ambassador to India, in New Delhi today to apprise him of the Sikh concerns and viewpoint on the turban issue.

Moga Mishap
Report holds rly staff guilty
Chandigarh, January 23
The railway staff has been held responsible for the accident on December 14, last year, that resulted in 16 deaths near Moga. An inquiry by commissioner of railway safety has finally said the accident occurred due to failure of railway staff.

Threat to blow up Jalandhar rly station
Jalandhar, January 23
A Jammu and Kashmir-based militant outfit has reportedly issued a threat to blow up the Jalandhar railway station and several other public places in Punjab on Republic Day.

Farmers’ widows belie govt’s claims on debt-suicides
Seek relief, jobs and loans written off
Ludhiana, January 23

Government claims that farmers in the state were not ending their lives due to debt, were belied today when at least 13 widows of such farmers came to represent scores of such families that had lost breadwinners.
Bhupinder Kaur, widow of Charanjit Singh, of Ghaloti village wipes tears outside the deputy commissioner’s office in Ludhiana on Wednesday. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma

 

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A float carrying a tableau of Punjab is displayed during the final full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade on Wednesday. — AFP

Remarks on Dasam Granth
Warning to Akal Takht former Jathedar
Amritsar, January 23
Panthic organisations and gurdwaras in Canada warned former Jathedar of Akal Takht Darshan Singh for making slanderous remarks against the ‘Bani’ of Guru Gobind Singh and other Sikh scriptures.

48 shops go for Rs 24 crore in Ludhiana
Chandigarh, January 23
The Punjab Mandi Board has raised 23.60 crore from the auction of 48 plots at Punjab's first model market for fruits and vegetables in Ludhiana.

Punjab to file caveat in SC
Chandigarh, January 23
Less than a week after Justice H.S. Bhalla of the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered fresh probe into case against Punjab’s former DGP S.S. Virk, the state has initiated the move to file a caveat in the Supreme Court.

She won court battle, but lost to admn
Chandigarh, January 23
Rano, a resident of Chapali village, Ferozepur, has not got her share in the family’s agricultural land after the death of her husband Mohinder Singh in 1990 despite court ruling in her favour.

Domestic help murders couple
Amritsar, January 23
A middle-aged couple was here today brutally murdered by the domestic help the family had recently hired. He decamped with some valuables he found in the bedroom of the couple, leaving behind their bodies in a pool of blood at their house in New Garden Colony.

Pak Cabinet clears Anand Marriage Act
Amritsar, January 23
The Pakistan’s cabinet has passed draft of the Anand Marriage Act to allow Sikhs to register marriages under a separate marriage Act.

SGPC opens centre to save girls
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 23
Perturbed by the declining sex ration attaining alarming proportions in the state, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) today opened the Bal Sambhal Kender on the premises of the Sri Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib.

5th National Theatre Festival Banned Pak play staged Amritsar, January 23 Artistes from Pakistan’s Ajoka Theatre Group yesterday staged “Burqa Vaganza,” a satire on burqa (veil), banned in Pakistan, for ridiculing age-old tradition followed by Muslim women. The play was specially arranged to mark the 5th National Theatre Festival, being organised by the Manch Rangmanch in collaboration with the Punjab Naatshala, Punarjyot, the National School of Drama, New Delhi, and the North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala. Artistes from Pakistan stage the play, “Burqa Vaganza”, at the Punjab Naatshala in Amritsar on Tuesday. — Photo by Vishal Kumar