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Punjab Civic Polls 
HC refuses to stay declaration of results
Chandigarh, May 14
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today refused to stay the declaration of results of panchayat samitis and zila parishad elections held in Punjab. In a related development, the State Election Commission informed the high court that all lambardars had been allowed to contest the gram panchayat elections.

Badal for time-bound action programme
Safe drinking water for all
Chandigarh, May 14
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today called for chalking out a multi-pronged time-bound strategy to achieve the objective of “safe drinking water for all” through proper monitoring of rural water supply schemes by the application of reverse osmosis (RO), silver ionisation and ultra-violet techniques depending on the quality of water.

Sukhbir mollifies BJP MLA
Amritsar, May 14
The SAD leadership seems to be in patch-up mode with sulking leaders of its alliance partner, the BJP, after days of raising fingers at each other. SAD president Sukhbir Badal today held a closed-door meeting with local BJP leaders, including local MLA Anil Joshi and district president Bakshi Ram Arora, at Joshi’s residence here.
SAD president Sukhbir Badal hugs Amritsar (North) MLA Anil Joshi in Amritsar on Wednesday. Photo: Vishal Kumar 

Poll results engineered: Cong  Chandigarh, May 14 Describing the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections as a farce and murder of democracy in Punjab in broad daylight, the Congress spokesman Bir Devinder Singh said that he was, “Proud of the Congress workers and their bravery for facing the ‘goonda raj’ since the nominations for Panchayati Raj elections started”.

Bir Devinder Singh

Beating up of BJP workers
Punj meets Badal, calls a spade a spade
Chandigarh, May 14
The power baton handed by us to you should not used on our heads”. This is what the BJP leadership told Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at a meeting at the CM’s residence yesterday on poll violence in which a number of BJP workers were beaten up or hurt by SAD leaders .

BJP’s threat a drama
Amritsar, May 14
The resignation threat by BJP leaders yesterday was nothing but a political drama as they have love for the chair.

COMMUNITY

Monika Stabbing Case
Irate family members block highway
Pathankot, May 14
Family members of Monika, who was stabbed to death here yesterday, assembled on the busy Jalandhar-Jammu highway outside the local SD College and raised slogans against the college management, disrupting vehicular traffic for over two hours this afternoon.
Protesters block the Jalandhar-Jammu highway for two hours against the S.D. College management in Pathankot on Wednesday. Photo: B.B. Dogra

CFLs: Board mulls reward for panchayats
Patiala, May 14
The PSEB is planning to extend cash rewards to the panchayats of those villages that have achieved full conversion to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).

Members of the Anti-Terrorist Front honour PPCC president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal in Amritsar on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vishal Kumar

Torture of accused, cop suspended
Pathankot, May 14
Head constable Mahabir Saini posted at police station division-II here has been suspended torturing a resident of Mamun last night. Victim Balbir Singh and some of his friends were picked up by the police on the charge of stealing electricity motors from a store.

Journalists hold protest march
Jalandhar, May 14
Journalists here marched to protest against the attack on mediapersons covering Zila Parishad and Block Samiti elections by SAD “goons” in Bathinda on May 12.

Youth dies in road mishap
Malerkotla, May 14
Gurjeet Singh (24) of Balewal village was killed in a road accident near Langrain village here today. Gurjeet was working as granthi in a gurdwara of his village.