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Govt not keeping its word, say Bathinda peasants
Bathinda, September 3
Accusing the district administration of backtracking on its promises, the landless peasants, who had been lathicharged by the police when they tried to hold a protest march to Lambi, have written a letter to MLAs.

Bridge opens to traffic
Sangrur, September 3
The bridge built on the railway level crossing on the Ludhiana-Dhuri-Jakhal railway track, near Punia Colony here, was today inaugurated by Sangrur MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. The 913-meter-long bridge has been constructed at a cost of Rs 16.64 crore.

Sukhbir gets baptised at low-key ceremony
Anandpur Sahib, September 3
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal got baptised with four other devotees at Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib Gurdwara today morning.

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal being baptised at Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib Gurdwara on Wednesday.

SAD chief looks for bearings in party
Chandigarh, September 3
One who a few months back refused to answer why he had not got baptised and was touted a modern face of the party in a globalised world, SAD president and newly baptised Sikh Sukhbir Singh Badal has gone back in time to find bearings in the party.

Special committee illegal: Amarinder 
Chandigarh, September 3
Former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh today challenged the constitution of Punjab Vidhan Sabha’s special committee on the ground that it was illegal.

Delhi Assembly Elections
SAD to seek 15 seats of Sikh-dominated areas
Jalandhar, September 3
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), to test its strength in the Delhi Assembly elections, which are two months away, will ask the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to allot it 15 seats in the Sikh-dominated areas there.

COMMUNITY

Who will feed Pritam’s old parents, sister?
Shah Abu Bakkar (Moga), September 3
The policemen who allegedly bludgeoned a youth to death near here last week were still roaming freely. They had neither been arrested nor had a departmental action initiated against them. The way the police was conducting the investigation, it seems an effort was being made to protect the erring cops.
Relatives of Pritam Singh, who was allegedly beaten to death by policemen, wail outside his house at Shah Abu Bakkar village in Moga district on Wednesday. Photo by writer

Three-member team to probe Orissa violence
Amritsar, September 3
Various religious organisations today came on a common platform to demand a CBI inquiry into the killing of innocent people in Kandhamal district and other parts of Orissa.

Representatives of various religious organisations address mediapersons in Amritsar on Wednesday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

620 TB cases in Malerkotla zone
Sangrur, September 3
In the first eight months of 2008 as many as 620 patients suffering from tuberculosis (TB) have been put on anti-TB treatment (DOTS) in Malerkotla zone under the revised national TB control programme (RNTCP).

M.S. Gill to inaugurate shooting range
Amritsar, September 3
Dr M.S. Gill, union minister of sports and youth affairs, will inaugurate a newly constructed indoor shooting range of international standards and Asia House Building constructed for the Centre for South Central Asian Studies at Guru Nanak Dev University here on September 4. Dr R.S. Bawa, registrar, said the shooting range had been built at a cost of Rs 36 lakh by the university from its own sources, while the Asia House Building had been constructed at a cost of Rs 1.25 crore. — TNS

EDUCATION

Bank guarantee for admission decried
Jalandhar, September 3
Parents of the wards admitted to various private and dental colleges of the state are a harassed lot because they have been asked to give bank guarantee in lieu of the fee, which is supposed to be paid by them for five years.

BUSINESS

Business cells planned
Amritsar, September 3
Business cells will be established in main towns of the state where entrepreneurs can express their problems to the state government.Stating this to The Tribune here today, Madan Lal Kapoor, chairman, Small Traders Board, who has also been accorded the status of a cabinet minister of the Punjab government, said he would be available in these cells from Thursday to Sunday.

Madan Lal Kapoor, chairman, Small Traders Board, Punjab. Photo: Vishal Kumar