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Majithia heads panel, to report in 7 days
Discharge of Industrial Waste into Streams
Chandigarh, July 24
As discharge of industrial waste into streams water of which is used for drinking has become a burning issue in the state, Punjab government has set up a committee in this regard. Bikram Singh Majithia minister for science, technology and environment will head the panel and submit a report in a week.

PSEB protest mars Badal’s visit
Amritsar, July 24
Though senior SGPC officials kept on waiting for Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal inside the Golden Temple in anticipation of his visit to the place, he returned after launching the beautification and maintenance project of the city road network 10 yards from the gate of Darbar Sahib.

PSEB employees wave black flags during an inauguration programme by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in Amritsar on Thursday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Board blames NTPC for power cuts
Patiala, July 24
Prolonged power cuts have made life of urban and rural people miserable and the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has been blaming shutting down of three National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plants for bad power position in the state.

Badal raps Kalia over pollution
Sultanpur Lodhi, July 24
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has advised industrialists to desist from further polluting environment as severe water, air, noise and soil pollution has already crossed alarming level in the state. Badal was addressing a gathering at the ongoing eight-day programme to mark the eighth anniversary of cleansing (kar sewa) of holy Kali Bein here.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal shares a point with Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal in Sultanpur Lodhi on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pawar Sharma

Six die in Tarn Taran accident
Tarn Taran, July 24
Six persons were killed and 12 injured, three of them seriously, when a combine harvester hit a private bus near Naushehra Pannuan here today. The seriously injured were taken to the government hospital in Amritsar while others were admitted to the local civil hospital. The private bus (PB-08-AP-0297) was going to Amritsar while the combine harvester was going to Sarhali when the accident took place. The driver of the harvester fled from the scene.

Couple alleges torture by son
Chandigarh, July 24
A US-based NRI couple, Raghbir Singh Grewal and Manjit Kaur, has accused their son of forcibly taking possession of their property worth crores of rupees in Ludhiana after beating them and keeping them in illegal confinement. The elderly couple alleged that their son, Surinder, had also threatened to “eliminate” them.
Raghbir Singh Grewal shows his bloodstained shirt while his wife breaks down at the Chandigarh Press Club in Sector 27 on Thursday. Tribune Photo: Manoj Mahajan

NRI woman fights for her son
Accuses in-laws of forcibly keeping the child with them
Chandigarh, July 24
A Canadian NRI woman, Dupinder Kaur Hundal, whose infant son was forcibly taken away by her in-laws, has filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of FIR registered against her on the complaint of her in-laws, an influential Lapoke-based family related to a former Rajasansi MLA. The FIR was registered on July 4 in the Lopoke police station against Dupinder for abandoning her child under Section 317 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

COURTS

Corruption Case
Prior arrest notice to Virk, Preneet, Raninder
Chandigarh, July 24
Punjab's former Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh's wife-cum-member of parliament Preneet Kaur, their son Raninder Singh and state’s former Director-General of Police S.S. Virk won’t be caught by surprise.

After 4 years, FIR against Bibi Jagir Kaur quashed
Chandigarh, July 24
Nearly four years after the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Bibi Jagir Kaur was booked for allegedly flouting orders issued by Anandpur Sahib's district magistrate banning the gathering of five or more persons, Justice Vinod Kumar Sharma of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, today quashed the first information report.

AGRICULTURE

Mealy bug scare in Malwa
Bathinda, July 24
Mealy bug, a pest, has again become a source of worry for the farmers of Malwa. In some villages in Bathinda and Muktsar districts, farmers were seen spraying pesticides on cotton plants to prevent attack of the bug.

A farmer shows a cotton plant infected by mealy bug at Jodhpur Romana village in Bathinda district . Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera

CRIME

Rape in Police Post 
Rights panel seeks report from SSP
Chandigarh, July 24
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) taking suo motu notice of a news in a daily of the rape of a woman asked the state government through the SSP Amritsar to submit a report on it .

Former SHO Bajwa booked again
Moga, July 24
Former station house officer (SHO) Yadwinder Singh Bajwa, already facing trial in a murder case, has been booked again on charges of remaining absent from election duty.