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Re-evaluation issue: VC, govt lock horns
Chandigarh, October 3
The adamant attitude of the vice-chancellor of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences may hit at the careers of over 32 students of the first professional MBBS class of the Guru Ram Dass Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar.

Baba Farid varsity: Lobbying on for post of VC
Patiala, October 3
Hectic lobbying has started for the post of the vice-chancellor of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, as the term of the present vice-chancellor, Dr Ravinder Singh, is due to end later this month.

Hoshiarpur LS Seat
BJP in a fix
Sangrur, October 3
Though the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has already announced its candidates for contesting Amritsar and Gurdaspur Lok Sabha (LS) seats in the ensuing LS elections, it seems to be still in a dilemma to take a final decision on the Hoshiarpur LS seat.

CM seeks key BBMB slot
Jalandhar, October 3
Striving to get posted Punjab’s engineer in the most important slot of member (Irrigation) in Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), the state government has not yet forwarded the name of the engineer to be posted as member (Power) to Centre.

POLITICS

Bir Devinder hits back at Majha leaders
Amritsar, October 3
Coming down heavily on Congress leaders from the Majha region who have accused him of playing into the hands of Akalis, former deputy speaker Bir Devinder Singh has alleged that the statement made by them is a sad reflection of their mindset.

Allegations against CM baseless: Vinod Khanna
Pathankot, October 3
Gurdaspur MP Vinod Khanna while dubbing the allegations levelled against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal by former Congress minister Partap Singh Bajwa regarding discrimination against Doaba and Majha regions as baseless, said all promises made were being fulfilled by the SAD-BJP government.

BJP’s Grewal, Sampla made chairpersons
Chandigarh, October 3
The BJP continues to draw lion’s share in appointments and nominations to various boards and corporations.

COMMUNITY

Farmers continue blockade
on Moga rail line
Ajitwal (Moga), October 3
Rail traffic remained disrupted between Moga and Ludhiana today with farmers continuing the blockade on the railway line on the second consecutive day here.

Farmers block the Moga-Ludhiana rail line at Ajitwal in Moga. Photo by writer

Rajbir won’t marry an addict
Tarn Taran, October 3
Residents of Rajbir’s native village have lauded her stand on severing ties with her prospective husband, after she came to know that he was a drug addict.


Rajbir Kaur (second from left) of Kang village in Tarn Taran with her sisters and mother. Photo: Sandeep Singh

I was offered job by ADC, says kidney donor
Amritsar, October 3
The statement of Sunny (23), an unemployed and unmarried youth of Chhehrta (Amritsar) who had offered to donate kidney to Kirpal Singh, ADC, Tarn Taran, that he was offered job and marriage at their expenses, has put the members of authorisation committee in a sticky position.

Suman Rani, mother of prospective kidney donor Sunny, at a meeting of the authorisation committee in Amritsar on Friday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Amarinder reposes faith in judiciary
Chandigarh, October 3
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today said the Supreme Court’s stay on the proposed byelection to the Patiala Assembly constituency vindicated  his faith in the country’s judiciary. In a statement released by his supporter Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu on his behalf here, Amarinder claimed that the SAD-BJP government was desperate to rush through the byelection to the Patiala Assembly segment with the sole motive of keeping him away from the state legislature. — TNS

Biotech testing to certify processed food
Mohali, October 3
Punjab’s first biotech testing facility, created at a cost of Rs 10 crore, was inaugurated at Punjab Biotechnology Incubator centre in Phase V here today.

Health mela opens with enthusiasm
Nabha, October 3
The Nabha health mela opened with great enthusiasm in the town today. The Nabha Foundation is organising the event.

Pak intruder shot dead
Amritsar, October 3
Alert BSF jawans shot dead a Pakistani intruder, aged 35, near the Rattan Khurd post last midnight.

Sidhu donates 14 lakh for relief fund
Amritsar, October 3
BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today donated Rs 4 lakh for distressed people of Bihar who had been uprooted due to massive floods in the Kosi in the past month.

COURTS

PSHRC Staff Shortage
HC takes serious note of vacancies
Chandigarh, October 3
Taking a serious note of the shortage of members in the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC), the Punjab and Haryana High Court stated that if the government does not do the needful, then the state’s home secretary should come to the Court on the next date of hearing.

Petition dismissed
Chandigarh, October 3
The Bench of Justice Satish Kumar Mittal and Justice Jaswant Singh today dismissed the petition seeking direction to Punjab to use Punjabi, instead of English, for reservation of the posts of municipal councils presidents.

Smuggler remanded
Gurdaspur, October 3
Subash Chander, a smuggler, who was nabbed in a joint operation by sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Ludhiana and Delhi, near Madhopur, was remanded in judicial custody till October 17 here today.