MP power co assures PSEB 24 lakh units daily
Patiala, August 3
Lakhs of power consumers of Punjab coping with longest-ever power cuts may no longer be forced to bear the summer heat without electricity in August as the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has been assured by the Madhya Pradesh Power Trading Company that it would be supplying 24 lakh units of power daily to Punjab Monday onwards.

I Spied
The spies who have been left in the cold
Chandigarh, August 3
While former spies of Dadwan village in Gurdaspur are in the process of approaching courts now, their peers in the same profession from as far back as 1974 have gone through this grind and are realising that there is a slim chance of getting relief with little proof in hand.

POLITICS

Case registered against Cong panches who approached HC
Chandigarh, August 3
Congress panches from the border village of Kakar in Mumdot block of Ferozepur district today alleged that a returning officer, who had been directed to hold a fair poll for the post of sarpanch of their village by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, had a case registered against them.

PPCC wants PM to fight LS polls from state
Moga, August 3
The PPCC has invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections from his home state.

COMMUNITY

Udham Singh Trial 
Demand to de-classify over 3,000 documents
Chandigarh, August 3
Over 68 years after revolutionary Shaheed Udham Singh avenged the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy by shooting former Punjab Governor Michael O'Dwyer at the Caxton Hall in London, the demand to get back over 3,000 documents relating to his trial is gaining ground.

Rural health staff to intensify stir
Patiala, August 3
The state unit of the Rural Medical Services Association (RMSA) has protested the alleged implication of Dr Aslam Parvez and Dr Rishi Bhardwaj, president and general secretary of the association, respectively, in false cases by the Jalandhar police.

Database of land use in state goes digital
Ludhiana, August 3
The Punjab Remote Sensing Centre here has generated a digital database on “Land Use and Land Cover Status in Punjab” which may help development planners. The report, a first since Independence, has underlined “disastrous consequences of intensive resource exploitation without long-term sustainability”.

Row over piece of land
Amritsar, August 3
The bulldozing of the four walls and gate of a 250-yard piece of land situated in Partap Avenue and belonging to Davinder Singh, a Dalti patwari, has kicked off a controversy.

Eye Camp ‘Botch-up’
Magisterial probe kicks off
Moga, August 3
Assistant commissioner (grievances) M.S. Jaggi today visited Bhinder village, near here, along with Dr Rajesh Puri, an eye specialist of the district hospital, and recorded statements of a few patients, who had complained of post-surgery problems, and members of their families. They were operated upon during a free medical camp conducted by the Guru Ram Dass Charitable Trust on July 16 here.

AGRICULTURE

Removal of fencing on Army land causes damage to crops
Chandigarh, August 3
Farmers of Fattuwala village in Ferozepur district today claimed that their standing crops were being destroyed due to the removal of iron fencing along the land owned by the Army in the area.

BUSINESS

Dealer awaits diesel supply for past 5 days 
Sangrur, August 3
On the one pretext or the other, diesel supply is not being made since July 29 to a petrol station situated at Dhaula village on national highway (NH) 64 (Barnala-Bathinda road), despite the submission of indent to the HPCL depot, Sangrur, along with a demand draft for Rs 3.95 lakh for obtaining supply of 12,000 litres of diesel.

ISI prefers techno-savvy youth: SSP
Jagraon, August 3
Just a year after Pakistani youth Abdul Hanan Rashid, alias Rajveer Ranwat, a masters in business management, was held in Ludhiana for spying, the Jagraon police has caught Shahid Iqbal Bhatti, a masters in computer applications, on the charge of espionage.

BBMB machines continue to generate power
Nangal, August 3
Despite having outlived their useful lives, machines at BBMB continue to generate more power than targeted by Central Electricity Authority (CEA). BBMB officials told the Union minister of state for power and commerce, Jairam Ramesh, this during his visit to the Bhakra Nangal project yesterday.