|
Bypoll
Remove commissioner: Cong
Chandigarh, May 11
President of the PPCC Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has asked the Election Commissioner of India to order the transfer the Amritsar municipal commissioner
D.P.S. Kharbanda forthwith for helping the ruling SAD-BJP alliance in the Amritsar (South)
bypoll.
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, president, PPCC, addresses mediapersons in Amritsar on Sunday.
— Photo by Vishal Kumar
AICC secy: Arjun’s outburst political opportunism
 Amritsar, May 11
According to Iqbal Singh, MP and secretary, All-India Congress Committee (AICC), the recent outburst of Arjun Singh, human resource development
(HRD) minister, against the Congress president was nothing but political opportunism.
Iqbal Singh
Khasa women show the way
Amritsar, May 11
Though spouses and other members of a majority of women candidates’ families in the Khasa Zila Parishad zone, reserved for women, have been campaigning for them, several women contestants have themselves been doing canvassing vigorously.
Traders reiterate support to SAD
 Amritsar, May 11
The SAD today got a shot in the arm with the local trade and industry associations reiterating their support to party’s candidate Inderbir Singh Bularia in the
Amritsar (South) constituency elections.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at a meeting of the Trade and Industry Association in Amritsar on Sunday.
— Photo by Vishal Kumar
Preneet tours Samana, Patran
Patiala, May 11
On the eve of the Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections, Patiala MP Preneet Kaur lashed out at the state government.
Gosain fears rigging by SAD workers
Mohali, May 11
The BJP-SAD rift over Panchayat elections in Punjab reached a high point today when Punjab Vidhan Sabha deputy speaker and senior BJP leader Satpal Gosain complained to the state Election Commission that he apprehended booth-capturing and poll-rigging by SAD workers tomorrow.
Crores spent on plane without giving it a fly
Aircraft lying idle for past 17 years
Patiala, May 11
Punjab government-owned Beechcraft King Air C-90-A aircraft has been gathering dust without flying any VIP or
VVIP, causing loss of crores of rupees to the state exchequer for past more than 17 years.
Co. fires employee despite appraisals
Chandigarh, May 11
A factory employee, who received good ratings in two successive appraisals in 2005 and 2006, was sacked in October 2007 by the new management of Federal Mogul Goetze in Patiala without assigning any reason.
N-plants answer to power crisis: Scientist
Kapurthala, May 11
Several North Indian states, including Punjab and Haryana, have been facing acute power shortage.
Dr S.R. Gowarikar
Foundation stone of judicial complex laid
Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda), May 11
Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice
Vijender Jain laid the foundation stone of a double-storey air-conditioned judicial complex in Courts Complex here today.
Chief Justice Vijender Jain looks at the model of the Court Complex at Talwandi Sabo on Sunday. Mr Justice Mahesh Grover and Mr Kuldip Singh are also seen in the picture.
— Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh
Santa Singh’s ashes immersed
Kiratpur Sahib, May 11
The 13th chief of Shiromani Panth Akali Budha Dal (Panjwan Takht), Baba Santa Singh's ashes were immersed in the waters of Gurdwara Patalpuri Sahib here today.
Doc on mission to check foeticide
Chandigarh, May 11
Even as the credibility of the NGOs comes under a cloud for their various acts of omission and commission, Dr Gurmel Chahal’s “one-man army” is on a unique mission to create awareness about female foeticide in Punjab.
Research on ‘Gian Manjari’ complete
Chandigarh, May 11
A research work on the 400-year-old rare 237-page manuscript in ‘Gurmukhi’ titled ‘Gian Manjari’, a rich vedantic philosophy, was assigned to young litterateur Dr Lakhvir Singh, way back in 1998 and the work commenced in 2000.
|
