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LS Polls
Ex-director (health) eyes BJP ticket from Hoshiarpur
Jalandhar, November 24
While Punjab technical education and industrial training minister Swarna Ram has reportedly conveyed to the BJP high command his reluctance to contest the Lok Sabha election from Hoshiarpur (Reserved) seat due to ill-health, several others are keen for the BJP ticket for this seat. It is speculated that the SAD may ask the BJP to get Ferozepur, Ludhiana or Anandpur Sahib seat in place of Hoshiarpur this time.
PTU sans regular vice-chancellor
Search panel to meet today
Jalandhar, November 24
For the past six months, the Punjab Technical University (PTU) is without a regular vice-chancellor.
According to official sources, a search committee that was set up by the government will meet tomorrow to shortlist the names of three candidates suitable for the appointment. Last week a meeting of the committee was held, but it was postponed because one member did not come.
Justice Haider discovers 80 more shlokas of Baba Farid
Amritsar, November 24
Pakistan’s former law minister Justice Syed Afzal Haider, a judge of the Federal Shariat Court, Islamabad, has discovered about 80 shlokas (hymns) of Baba
Farid, the first Punjabi poet.
Politicians ‘favoured’ promotion of cop
‘DGP Bhullar misused powers’
Ludhiana, November 24
A head constable was appointed assistant sub-inspector (ASI), without undergoing a mandatory six months' training.
Cheema selected for youth leaders’ programme
Chandigarh, November 24
Senior Punjab youth leader Amardeep Singh Cheema has been selected by the Union ministry of sports and youth welfare to visit Japan to participate in a training programme of young leaders who will become nation builders in future.
I visited Bhattal’s house only once, says Ramoowalia
Sangrur, November 24
President of the Lok Bhalai Party (LBP) Balwant Singh Ramoowalia has taken a strong notice of the statement of Opposition leader in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and Congress MLA from Lehragaga Rajinder Kaur Bhattal that Ramoowalia is keen to get support from the Congress in the Lok Sabha (LS) elections and for this purpose he has met her about 10 times, but every time she had told him that any decision to this effect would be taken by the Congress high command.
Development will be key in Delhi polls: Bhattal
Chandigarh, November 24
Punjab Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today said thousands of projects had been launched and completed during the tenure of the present Congress government in Delhi and people would not be ‘misled’ by the stirring of emotional issues by the
BJP.
Hindu jatha leaves for Pakistan
 Amritsar, November 24
A 110-member Hindu jatha, including 25 women, today crossed over to Pakistan by the Samjhauta Express to have dip in the holy sarovar of Katasraj temple in Chakwal district.
Led by Shiv Pratap Bajaj of the Sanatam Dharam Sabha in Yamunanagar, the jatha is on an eight-day visit to Pakistan and will return to India after visiting other holy shrines, including the Krishna Temple in Lahore, on December 1.
A Hindu jatha pays obeisance at the Durgiana Temple in Amritsar on Monday before leaving for Pakistan. A Tribune photograph
Union home secy leaves for Pak
To hold dialogue on terrorism, drug smuggling
 Amritsar, November 24
Madhukar Gupta, Union home secretary, today left for Pakistan to hold dialogue with his Pakistani counterpart on confidence-building measures, including international terrorism, drug smuggling and inadvertent crossing of border by innocent people between India and Pakistan.
Madhukar Gupta (centre), Union home secretary, interacts with BSF and administrative officials at the Attari/Wagah check post in Amritsar on Monday.
A Tribune photograph
PUDA, MC, Improvement Trust play blame game
Patiala, November 24
The cash doled out by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal during a series of sangat darshans held in the town seems to go down the drain as far as the state’s premier urban development agency - Punjab Urban Development Authority
(PUDA) - is concerned.
Majithia seeks probe into ‘petroleum scam’
Chandigarh, November 24
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Youth wing patron and minister Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded that the so-called economist-run UPA government should fix the rate of petrol at Rs 25, diesel Rs 15, LPG Rs 150 and kerosene at Rs 5 within 24 hours or remain prepared to face people’s wrath.
6 lakh soil samples to be tested: Langah
Chandigarh, November 24
Punjab agriculture minister Suchha Singh Langah has said six lakh soil samples will be tested this year after the operationalisation of 66 soil testing laboratories.
FCI clears old paddy stock
Manages to rake in neat profit
Chandigarh, November 24
The Punjab regional office of Food Corporation of India (FCI) has managed to rake in a neat profit by sale of its old paddy stock. The corporation has earned a profit of Rs 432 per quintal of paddy sold now.
Farm Equipment
Global manufacturers eye Punjab
Chandigarh, November 24
The huge shortage of farm labour in Punjab during the rabi sowing and harvesting season has now prompted the farm equipment manufacturers to eye the business potential for complete farm mechanisation here.
Loans to PSEB
Probe middlemen’s role, CVC tells bank
Chandigarh, November 24
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has written to the Vigilance Department of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) requesting it to take a look into the matter of middlemen involved in releasing of loans to Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB).
Make corrections in NCERT books, says Dal Khalsa
Jalandhar, November 24
Asserting that Guru Teg Bahadur was in fact “dharam di chadar” (cover for religion), and not “Hind-di-chadar” (cover for Hindu), the Dal Khalsa urged the Union government to correct all errors and misgivings about Sikh Gurus from the books published by the
NCERT.
Control of TB
Rural doctors to seek SGPC’s help
Sangrur, November 24
The Rural Medical Services Association (RMSA), Punjab, will seek services of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to fight tuberculosis (TB) in rural areas of the state.
Trust can refuse to confirm auction, rules Court
Chandigarh, November 24
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that an Improvement Trust can refuse to confirm a site’s auction on the ground that the price fetched by it was diminutive.
Temple Land
HC: Bassi Pathana MC not performing its duty
Chandigarh, November 24
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has virtually passed strictures against Bassi Pathana Municipal Council for not performing its duty and safeguarding the public interest in a land matter. The strictures by Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia came on an appeal filed by Dera Swami Narainpuri against the Bassi Pathana Nagar Council.
3 held for killing watchman
Sangrur, November 24
The Bhawanigarh police today made a sensational disclosure by saying one of the three killers of Bhuban Joshi (25), a watchman of the Punjab Tourism Development Corporation’s
(PTDC) Chandni Tourist Complex and petrol station at Nidampur village near here, was a salesman of the petrol station.
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