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Preneet opposes construction cess
Patiala, December 14
Badal government’s decision to impose 1 per cent cess on new or old construction activities is anti-people as it will dampen the construction activities in the state.
Defining Sehajdhari
Now Kolkata Sikhs revolt against SGPC
Chandigarh, December 14
After Haryana, now it is turn of Kolkata Sikhs to express their differences with the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
Bazidpur makes most of Central scheme
Bazidpur (Nawanshahr), December 14
Even as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), a dream project of the UPA government to provide at least 100-day employment to unskilled persons, has failed to come up to the expatiations of the common man in Punjab, this sleepy village located alongside the Sutlej has started reaping fruits of the scheme.
A labourer irrigates potato fields under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme in Bazidpur village, 18 km from Jalandhar. Tribune photo: Suryakant
Pak poets denied visa for mushaira
Ludhiana, December 14
Absence of Pakistani poets from Jashn-e-Sahir, 36th international mushaira here was a disappointment for the aficionados of Urdu poetry in the city. The mushaira, organised by the Adeeb International, was held here last evening where poets from various Indian states and the UK and the US participated.
Sangha is chief of women’s welfare panel
Chandigarh, December 14
Punjab government today appointed Gurdev Kaur Sangha chairperson of the Punjab State Women Commission.
Smuggling of foreign currency case
Moga Cong MLA Jain in spot
 Moga, December 14
Local Congress MLA Joginder Pal Jain seems to be in trouble. The Delhi High Court has clubbed together two appeals filed against his acquittal by a metropolitan court in a case of smuggling of foreign currency and fixed December 16 for arguments.
The Customs Department recovered more than Rs 16 lakh foreign currency rupees from a brief-case allegedly belonging to Jain from the international airport at Delhi on January 28 night in 1988 when he was trying to go to Bangkok on a fake passport.
District planning panels constituted
Chandigarh, December 14
The government today constituted district-level planning committees in 12 out of the 20 districts of the state. The orders to this effect were issued under Punjab District Planning Committees Act-2005.
Country’s farm policies pro-landlords: Kanwaljit
Chandigarh, December 14
If there number of families depending upon agriculture for sustenance is diminishing it is primarily because of elitist policies of the country revolve round big landlords and farmers.
Delhi jatha pays obeisance
Amritsar, December 14
A Sikh, no matter where he lives, pays obeisance at the Golden Temple and visits “Sifti Da Ghar” on the occasion of “sangrandh”.
Members of a Sikh jatha, which arrived from Delhi, in Amritsar on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
ASI files complaint against Gabria
Ludhiana, December 14
An ASI has accused jails minister of detaining him illegally in his office.
ASI Hardev Singh of the Basant Avenue police post has alleged that jails minister Hira Singh Gabria detained him illegally in his office for half an hour yesterday, abused him and threatened to get him dismissed from the service for booking supporters of the minister in a land-grab case.
VAT, CST collection up
Chandigarh, December 14
Value Added Tax (VAT) collection is on the rise with the state totalling up a combined VAT and CST collection of Rs 4,100 crore till October this year and raising its annual target to Rs 7,000 crore even as the Excise and Taxation Department has initiated the process to recruit staff.
Prosecution of public servants in graft cases
Punjab govt sits on files
Chandigarh, December 14
Despite the ruling of the Apex Court specifying that competent authority should expeditiously take a decision on the request of the investigating agencies seeking grant of sanction for prosecution of a public servant in corruption cases, the government is still sitting on such files.
Abandoning ashes of the dead
 Bathinda, December 14
It may sound shocking but is a fact that a number of bags containing ashes of mortal remains are lying in the lockers of cremation grounds, waiting for their kin to take them for performing the last rites.
During a visit to two such cremation grounds here, TNS found a number of boxes of the cloak rooms locked with rusted locks, which appeared as if no one had even touched them since a long time.
A caretaker of the cremation ground in Bathinda shows rusted locks of the lockers where ashes of the departed have been lying from the past many years.
Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Science Express reaches Bathinda
Bathinda, December 14
How and when did the cosmos come into existence? In its phase II round, the Science Express that chugged into the Bathinda railway station here yesterday, probably had the answer. At least, it could tell you where to find it.
Film city to be part of Punjabi varsity’s media centre
Patiala, December 14
Giving wings to dreams of future filmmakers, Punjabi University has envisaged to come up with a “Film City” as part of its upcoming media
centre.
Medical officer held on graft charge
Amritsar, December 14
The Vigilance Bureau here has nabbed a medical officer and a pharmacist of Gurdaspur Civil Hospital for allegedly demanding bribe for issuing medical report of victims injured in a dispute.
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Bathinda, December 14
