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Amritsar (South) Assembly Bypoll
Supporters of ex-MLA for change of candidate
Serve 2-day ultimatum on Cong high command
Amritsar, April 27
Supporters of former MLA Harjinder Singh Thekedar, who has the tacit support of a ruling party legislator and some former MLAs, today served a two-day ultimatum on the Congress high command to change the official nominee Navdeep Singh Goldi for the Amritsar (South) Assembly bypoll.

Glut of wheat in markets
Lifting slow due to labour shortage
Barnala, April 27
Thousands of wheat bags piled up in grain markets of Barnala and Bathinda districts are awaiting lifting by the Punjab government agencies for 10 days.

Thousands of wheat bags await lifting by agencies of the Punjab government in the grain market at Barnala on Sunday; (right) wheat being carried on camel carts to Tapa Mandi in Barnala district. — Tribune photos by Kulbir Beera

Rs 40-cr trauma centre remains pipe dream
Patiala, April 27
The Rs 40-crore Advance Trauma Centre, proposed to be set up in Government Rajindra Hospital here, by the Government Medical College (Gomco) Alumni Association remains a pipe dream. A view of the office of the Gomco Alumni Association in Patiala. It is also the residence of Ravinder Singh, vice-chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. — Tribune photo by Rajesh Sachar

100 jhuggis gutted in Kharar
Kharar, April 27
A hamlet of around 100 jhuggi’s in Adarsh Colony here was reduced to ashes in a major fire this afternoon, which left more than 500 persons homeless. Fortunately, no loss of life was reported. In what was sheer negligence on part of the district administration and the police, no government official barring a constable and a wireless man reached the spot where the fire was raging for about three hours and residents were fleeing for their lives.
Jhuggis on fire at Adarsh Nagar Colony in Kharar on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

 

POLITICS

Undertrials, convicts to be segregated
Ludhiana, April 27
Undertrials and convicts will be segregated in Punjab jails, with the state government deciding to set up different barracks for different categories of jail inmates.

COMMUNITY

Need for proper equipment in thermal plants
Bathinda, April 27
Though Sukhbir Singh Badal, president, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), had announced that the cotton belt of the state would be developed as the power hub of the state, the existing thermal plants in the district, one at Lehra Mohabbat and another at Bathinda, are facing problems. The extent of the problem is such that if not rectified soon, the whole cotton belt might reel under huge power crisis in the upcoming paddy season.

Utilising Canal Water for Drinking
Task force to be set up
Chandigarh, April 27
Punjab has a plan to provide clean canal water for drinking and fight water, soil and air pollution in the state.

Fire in HP Forests
Leopards spotted in Anandpur Sahib, Ropar areas 
Anandpur Sahib, April 27
Leopards have been spotted in Anandpur Sahib, Ropar and Kurali areas. The fire in Himachal pine tree forests has made the wild animals come to low-lying areas of Punjab in search of food, water and habitat.

Fire engulfs 925 acres of forest
Hoshiarpur, April 27
A fire that broke out on April 25 in the Shivalik range of the Kandi belt at Kot, Patial, Bahera, Maili, Lalwan and Kothi villages of the district has reduced the forest wealth  to ashes.

Fire in sugar mill: MD, staff differ on loss
Ajnala, April 27
Following destruction of wheat on 374 acres in a fire in this tehsil, another fire broke out in the cooperative sugar mill at Bhalapind village this morning causing loss  to the mill.

Villagers help douse fire in the Bhalapind cooperative sugar mill in Ajnala tehsil on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph 

New gurdwara opens in Nevada
Reno (Nevada, USA), April 27
Sikhs in Reno, Nevada, have started the move to a newly built $ 3m gurdwara by carrying a copy of Guru Granth Sahib in a decorated vehicle in a procession of devotees from the old temple on Second Street to the new one on 1380 Selmi Drive.

Protesters block Amritsar-Jammu highway
Amritsar, April 27
Residents of Verka in Amritsar today blocked the Amritsar-Jammu highway in protest against the district administration for not taking up development works in the area.

‘Rapists’ find new way to get better of law
Chandigarh, April 27
In a new phenomenon, to get the better of the law, condoms are being regularly used by rapists in Punjab ,which relies mainly on semen tests to ensure their indictment.