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Bathinda Clash
Day II: Demands of farm labourers’ accepted
Lambi/Bathinda, August 22
The district administration today accepted the demands of the Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, which had faced police action during a protest at Kheowali village yesterday.
Jubilant volunteers after plugging a breach in the Sutlej near Gidderpindi village on Friday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma

MLAs condemn use of police force
Chandigarh: Several Congress MLAs today condemned the use of brute police force against unarmed landless labourers who wanted to stage a protest in support of their demands. 

Villagers plug Sutlej breach
Gidderpindi (Sultanpur Lodhi), August 22
People’s power came to the fore in plugging the breach at the Chitti Bein-Sutlej confluence even as the Drainage Department was waiting for the water level to go down before beginning its work.

People’s participation only way out
Moga, August 22
Flood in the low-lying areas along the Sutlej basin in Moga and Ferozepur districts and few other parts of the state has brought into focus encroachments alongside irrigation/drainage channels and apathy of the government to strengthen river embankments.

Security at Muslim shrines up
Amritsar, August 22
Security around Muslim shrines in the city has been beefed up following vandalisation of two mosques by miscreants yesterday. The police has registered a case against unidentified persons.

Leaders of Sikh organisations at Masjid Khairdin, Hall Bazar, Amritsar, on Friday. They were there to express solidarity with Muslim brethren. Photo: Vishal Kumar

ADC suspended for bungling in selection
Gurdaspur, August 22
The government today placed M.P. Singh, additional deputy commissioner (ADC), development, under suspension for his alleged involvement in the bungling of the recruitment of ETT teachers during the previous Congress government.

Green signal to houses of SCs on shamlat land
Chandigarh, August 22
As a major relief to under-privileged families, Punjab has decided to allot ownership of parts of shamlat land to the SCs and STs, including bajigars, on which they have constructed houses before August 15 this year.

New policy for medical purchases
Chandigarh, August 22
The Punjab government today notified a new purchase policy allowing principals of medical, dental, ayurvedic and homoeopathic colleges in the state to purchase machinery and equipment as per the contract rates at the PGI, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, Health and Family Welfare Department, Punjab, or Punjab Health System Corporation, which ever is the lowest.

Lehra plant ‘face saver’ for PSEB
Patiala, August 22
Treated as one of most economically viable projects of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), the stage-1 of Lehra Mohabbat based Guru Hargobind Thermal Power (GHTP) plant has not only generated power worth Rs 9,210 crore since its commissioning in 1999, but also been acting as a “face saver” for the PSEB by contributing a lot to bridge its ever-burgeoning power demand and supply gap.