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AISAD names candidate for Amritsar bypoll
Amritsar, February 22
The All-India Shiromani Akali Dal (AISAD) has decided to field its candidate from the Amritsar (South) Assembly constituency where byelection has been necessitated due to the death of sitting SAD MLA Raminder Singh
Bolaria.
Sikhism: Tarlochan flays govt, SGPC
Chandigarh, February 22
Former chairman of the National Minorities Commission and member, Rajya
Sabha, Tarlochan Singh has criticised the Punjab government and the SGPC for trying to “narrow the ambit of Sikhism for their vested interests of controlling admissions to educational institutions by characterising them as minority institutions”.
A Tribune Impact
Vasectomy
Balwinder to get Rs 25,000
Tarn Taran, February 22
The Health Department has decided to give Rs 25,000 under the health insurance scheme and also announced to bear all treatment expenses of Balwinder Singh, whose condition had deteriorated after undergoing vasectomy operation at a Government Health
Centre.
Farmers lead the way
Create forest cover, reap rich dividends
Khera Bet (Ludhiana), February 22
While forests in the country are crying hoarse over the hapless plundering by humans, this village along the
Sutlej, in a unique endeavour, has converted the entire land into a thick forest. It is worth mentioning that one of the biggest villages in Punjab, with over 3,900 acres of land, started afforestation more than two decades ago.
Facing scorn, misery unitedly
Anandpur Sahib, February 22
Determined to fight a life full of scorn, rebuke and misery, a small group of HIV positive widows from rural Punjab has taken to a path that may prove to be a major initiative in making people living with HIV/AIDS self-reliant, fight stigma and show a ray of hope to others.
HIV positive women who have formed a self-help group at Anandpur Sahib.— Tribune
photo by Vinay Malik
Power cuts plague border industry
Amritsar, February 22
The state government’s recent decision of two-day power cut has put the industry in a piquant situation due to the prevailing power scenario. The worst affected are the agro-processing units which require regular power supply to run units.
Inside Babudom
Politics over ACRs
Chandigarh, February 22
In what could indicate the lack of administrative control over the bureaucracy and the police in Punjab, the annual confidential reports
(ACRs) of several IAS officers have been pending for more than three years and for more than one year in the case of IPS officers.
PCS Recruitments
Secy, UPSC to chalk out modalities
Chandigarh, February 22
There is finally hope of Punjab overcoming the nine-year-old stalemate over recruitments to the provincial bureaucracy. Chief secretary R.I Singh is scheduled to meet member of the Union Public Service Commission
(UPSC) on Monday to chalk out the modalities so that the apex recruitment agency in the country takes over the role of the Punjab Public Service Commission
(PPSC) to induct officers for the state.
Round-Up
Bathinda to have hotel institute
Chandigarh, February 22
The Punjab government has decided in principle to set up a state-of-the-art Institute of Hotel Management
(IHM) at Bathinda to provide academic facilities in the diverse fields of hotel management, catering, nutrition and hospitality.
Women’s entry into temple
Chawla to mobilise public opinion
Amritsar, February 22
After priests of Baba Balak Nath Sidhpeet (Deotsidh), HP, disallowed Laxmi Kanta
Chawla, health minister, to pay obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the temple, she has decided to mobilise public opinion against this age-old tradition.
Farmers seek cancellation of criminal cases
Amritsar, February 22
Seeking a high-level probe into the alleged one-sided action against farmer activists involved in a clash with shopkeepers during a bandh call here a couple of days ago, various farmer
organisations, in a joint statement, have urged the administration to cancel the criminal cases registered against them.
Minister Maluka bereaved
Chandigarh, February 22
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today expressed grief over the sad demise of senior Akali leader and former Punjab minister Sikinder Singh Maluka’s mother Chattin
Kaur, who died at Bathinda this morning after a brief illness. She was 84 and is survived by two sons and a daughter.
— TNS
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