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Prime Land Grab Darbari Lal, sons, former
minister booked Amritsar, August 20 After the registration of a case against former deputy speaker, Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Prof Darbari Lal, his sons and former local bodies minister Jagjit Singh for illegal construction of a multi-storey building on prime land, near the District Courts today, the ex-deputy speaker has threatened an agitation against the BJP from September 1.	Former deputy speaker Darbari Lal at a press conference in Amritsar on Wednesday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Power connections to 13,000 tube
wells by March
Patiala, August 20
More than 13,000 farmers who had applied for power connections for tube wells in the general category till March 1990 may be given connections by the end of March next by the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB).

Pact inked to provide free tech education
Chandigarh, August 20
Government’s dream project of providing free technical education to the poor and not-so-poor brilliant students with a family income of Rs 2.5 lakh per annum took a concrete shape tonight with the state and the Punjab Un-aided Technical Institutions Association (PUTIA) signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide 10 per cent seats under the project.

State to borrow Rs 1,000 crore more
Chandigarh, August 20
The Punjab government has decided borrow Rs 1,000 crore. Part of the loan will be raised through auction.

COMMUNITY

Put off loan recovery, CM tells banks
Bathinda, August 20
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today ordered the cooperative banks and societies to defer recovery of loans in the flood-hit areas.

CM Parkash Singh Badal and BJP chief Rajnath Singh take off for Longowal in a chopper at Bathinda on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera

Sutlej breaches to be probed
Makhu (Ferozepur), August 20
The government today ordered a high-level probe into the causes and lapses of officials of the irrigation department, if any, which led to breaches in the Sutlej at Madaarpur and Bogewal villages in Moga district.

Makhu saved, for time being

Food offered in plenty through ‘langar’ goes waste in one of the flood-hit villages of Moga district on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

Damage done, officials still lost in papers
Gurdaspur, August 20
Even though Chakki, Beas, Ujh and Ravi rivers have caused a considerable damage to revetments and spurs apart from a huge soil erosion in many villages, officials of Drainage Department seems to be confused about what to do in such a situation.

More Fazilka fields under water
Fazilka, August 20
More than 600 acres of agricultural land in the border villages of Mahatam Nagar and Dona Sikandari were inundated by the Sutlej today.

Armymen strengthen the Kanwawali bundh in Fazilka subdivision on Wednesday. Photo by Praful Chander Nagpal

Patiala Flying Club
High on wealth, low on security
Patiala, August 20
The Patiala Flying Club has not only come of age after its resurrection two years ago, but it has also started generating interest among students from the region who want the Punjab civil aviation department to create a ‘flying culture’ in Punjab.

A view of the Patiala Aviation Club.

Strike total: Unions
Patiala, August 20
Chairman of the PSEB Y.S. Ratra has thanked board employees, who attended their duties despite the call for a strike given by a section of board employees unions against power reforms.
                               Photo by Vishal Kumar

43 trucks with flood relief flagged off
Ludhiana, August 20
As many as 43 trucks carrying relief material,
including tarpaulins and fodder, arranged by the district Youth Akali Dal (YAD) (Urban and Rural),
were sent to the flood-affected areas of Ferozepur and Moga districts today.

Bikramjit Singh Majithia flags off trucks carrying relief
material for the flood-hit in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma

Punjab seeks two power projects from Centre
Chandigarh, August 20
The Punjab government yesterday sought two projects from the Union Renewable Energy Ministry for generating power from rivers in the state.

UK-based expert visits dairies in Punjab
Chandigarh, August 20
The modernisation of the dairy sector in Punjab is possible only if the state invests heavily in infrastructure and education.
                                                                                  Kevin Brewer

Leaders pay homage to Sant Longowal
Longowal (Sangrur), August 20
The move of a separate gurdwara prabandhak committee (GPC) for Haryana, non-implementation of the Rajiv-Longowal accord, criticism of the Congress and Lok Sabha (LS) elections were the main issues which dominated at the state-level function organised to mark the 23rd death anniversary of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal here today.

CRIME

Youth held for killing father
Kapurthala, August 20
Twenty-year-old Sunny killed his father Baldev Singh (45) with a sword and tried to burn the body after cutting it into pieces in the house at Phulewal under Sadar police station here today morning.