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Brief panic in Amritsar
Amritsar, July 31
Two abandoned briefcases found in the Nehru shopping complex on the busy Lawrence Road here today created scare among shopkeepers and public with the police calling in the bomb squad.
A police team searches the briefcase found abandoned in the Nehru shopping complex in Amritsar on Thursday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Acquisition of 120 acres for border check post
State govt dithers, Centre releases Rs 12 cr, for speeding up work
Amritsar, July 31
Even as the state government continues to dither over the acquisition of 120 acres for the construction of high tech integrated check post at the Attari-Wagah post, the central government has released first installment of Rs 12 crore to establish a modern cargo complex.

Power demand touches highest point of season
Patiala, July 31
Unbearable summer heat has made power demand surge and touch highest point of the season even as, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is pinning hopes on showers which, continued to lash in different parts of the state for two days. 

A physician’s concern for future of Punjabi Amritsar, July 31 The book, “Maan Boli: Ik Doctri Drishtikon,” (Mother tongue: A doctor’s perspective), by Dr Harshinder Kaur, a paediatrician-cum-writer, that has been taken note of in the world of Punjabi, is being translated into Pashto, Sindhi, Urdu and English.

Harshinder Kaur

 

 

POLITICS

Dal Khalsa writes to MPs for action against Dera chief 
Amritsar, July 31
The Dal Khalsa, today, in a letter to all MPs apprised them of the situation in Punjab. It alleged the Union government was patronising Dera Sacha Sauda chief.

COMMUNITY

Five killed in bus-canter collision
Bathinda, July 31
Five persons, including two children, were killed and several others injured in a head-on collision between a PRTC bus and a canter on the Bathinda-Chandigarh national highway, near Bhucho Mandi, today.



Wreckage of a PRTC bus and a canter that collided head-on near Bhucho on Thursday. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera

Tearful adieu to Ishmeet
Ludhiana, July 31
It was a near stampede in Model Town Extension crematorium as thousands of people bid a tearful farewell to the Voice of India, Ishmeet, who was cremated with state honours here this evening.

Singers Hans Raj Hans and Abhijeet at the funeral of Ishmeet Singh in Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph

Doomwali village caught between two states
Doomwali (Bathinda), July 31
Former soldier Gurpal Singh laments that residents of this Punjab village of 800 households were deprived of basic amenities enjoyed by those living in adjoining houses in Haryana.
Gurpal Singh in a lane of Nar Singh Colony of Doomwali village within Punjab points to the place from where the territory of Haryana begins. Tribune photo:Kulbir Beera

Govt to maintain Udham’s house
Sunam, July 31
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal unveiled a 12.4-foot bronze statue of Shaheed Udham Singh here today. He was in the town to participate in a state-level function to observe the 69th martyrdom day of the freedom fighter at the new grain market here.

BRACED FOR VVIP DUTY: A policeman stands guard ahead of the inauguration of a statue of Shaheed Udham Singh by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at Sunam on Thursday. Tribune photo: Rajesh Sachar

CM lays stone for road project
Malerkotla, July 31
Chief Ministe Parkash Singh on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the Ludhiana-Malerkotla-Sangrur upgrade road.. Badal said cost of project was \ 226 crore and length 71.92 km of which 39.67 K km would be four-laned. Project will be completed in two years.

Ex-IRS officer cremated
Chandigarh, July 31
Pushpajeet Sahi, wife of former Punjab IAS officer G.P.S. Sahi, passed away here after a protracted illness. Sixty-year-old Sahi had recently retired from the Indian Revenue Services after having served on important senior positions, including chief commissioner, income tax. She had been deputy director (administration), PGI, Chandigarh.