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Alliance sweeps MC polls
Bathinda, June 30
The SAD-BJP alliance has swept the MC polls in the district despite sporadic incidents of violence and allegations of rigging.

Womenfolk celebrate victory of Independent Darshana Devi in the election for the Municipal Council at Bhucho Mandi on Monday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

Cong rout in Patiala
Patiala, June 30
The ruling SAD-BJP washed out the Congress in Sanaur and Samana. More than 80 per cent polling was recorded. Out of 28 wards where results were declared today, the SAD-BJP combine took 22 seats while the Congress managed only one seat. Five seats went to Independent candidates.

Setback for SAD-BJP in Pathankot
Pathankot, June 30
The BJP has received a big jolt in the defeat of its district president Satish Mahajan, former president of Pathankot municipal council. Mahajan has been defeated by Congress greenhorn Anil Sharma from ward number 5.

• Sporadic violence mars elections

• Sunam: Cops fire in air

• Hans’s kin emerge victorious

• Stone pelting on victory procession

De-recognition notice to Faridkot medical college
VC leaves for Delhi to meet MCI officials
Chandigarh, June 30
Baba Farid University of Health Sciences vice-chancellor Dr Ravinder Singh today left for Delhi to meet senior Medical Council of India (MCI) officers, generating hope that Government Medical College, Faridkot, attached to the medical university will not be de-recognised.

COMMUNITY

Legislator’s family feud goes public
Chandigarh, June 30
The mother and sister of sitting Congress legislator Randeep Singh Nabha have alleged ill-treatment by the him, who they claim threatened them with taking their life if they asked for their share in the “ancestral property”. The family has been on a “warpath” since 1988 when his father Gurdarshan Singh, a former Punjab minister, died.

Government mulls rechristening Pul Kanjri as Pul Moran
Amritsar, June 30
On the basis of research on the life of Moran, a nautch girl from the Lahore gharana, whom Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh had married, the government is contemplating changing the name of the historical Pul Kanjiri to Pul Moran.


Artistes portray Moran and Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the play, “Moran Sarkar”, organised at Punjab Naatshala in Amritsar on Monday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

SDM, secy lock horns
Batala, June 30
An alleged threat issued to Jagwinderjit Singh Grewal, local SDM, by Jagdish Sawhney, chief parliamentary secretary, over an election-related issue has triggered off a controversy. The SDM has written to the chief secretary in this regard.