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Shekri to stress on unity among Cong top leaders
Batala, January 4
Convener of the state’s Congress election campaign committee Ashwani Shekri will take up the issue of unity in the top leadership of the party's Punjab unit at the coordination committee meeting convened by Mohsina
Kidwai, in charge, Punjab Congress Affairs, tomorrow in Delhi.
Minister ‘blocking’ development work
Zirakpur, January 4
A day after chief of the SAD youth wing Kiran Bir Singh Kang lashed out at the Punjab Cooperation Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh for his comment on SAD president, Sukhbir Singh
Badal, another loyalist of the Badal junior today targeted the minister.
Black ibis spotted in Ludhiana village
Ludhiana, January 4
Ludhiana has something to rejoice about after gaining notoriety as the most polluted city of the state as a village in this district has invited the attention of migratory birds that have flocked Ballowal village this winter.
Migratory birds flock a field at Ballowal village in Ludhiana on Sunday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Army movement not seen on border, say residents
Dauke (Indo-Pak border), January 4
Unfazed by tension between India and Paksitan following Mumbai strikes, villagers have been going about chores, working in fields near the border fencing along the Radcliffe Line.
Children of Rajatal village, unmindful of tension, play cricket near the
Indo-Pakistan border on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Ghadar Party founder remembered
Amritsar, January 4
Warm tributes were paid to Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, founder of the
Ghadar
 Party, at the annual mela held at his ancestral village
Bhakna, near Pakistan border, to mark his birth anniversary.
Communist leaders at the annual mela to pay tributes to Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna, founder of the
Ghadar Party, on his birth anniversary at Bhakna Kalan village, near Khasa in Amritsar district,
on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Jobs aplenty despite global meltdown
Jalandhar, January 4
Despite the global meltdown and low sentiment in industrial and business world in recent months, job opportunities are still available in engineering, management, pharmacy, bio-technology, computer applications, hotel management, airlines and tourism sectors in India.
Call to intelligentsia to cleanse political system of criminals
Jalandhar, January 4
The intelligentsia can play a crucial role to cleanse the country’s political system, stinking due to criminal elements in it, provided it follows progressive writers who played a major role in liberating the country from the colonial rule, says Dr Harbhajan Singh
Deol, scholar and former Commissiner, Linguisitic Minorities of India.
Dr Harbhajan Singh Deol
Truckers’ stir: 2nd round of talks fail
Jalandhar, January 4
It seems, following the breakdown of talks between government and the All-India Motor Transport Congress, the stage is set for a countrywide strike by
truckers.
Farmers block rail traffic
Sangrur, January 4
In protest against the non-procurement of “narma” by the Cotton Corporation of India
(CCI) in Sunam and Lehragaga grain markets, Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) activists today blocked trains for eight hours from 12 noon to 8 pm pm at Lehragaga railway station, 40 km from here. Rail traffic on the Ludhiana-Jakhal section was hit.
Function to pay homage to Op
Prakaram martyrs today
Mahawa (Indo-Pak border), January 4
Tributes will be paid to martyrs of Operation
Parakram launched by the Indian Army following
attack on Parliament in 2001.
The memorial commemorating martyrs of Operation
Prakaram is spruced up at Mahawa village near the
Indo-Pakistan border on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Power cuts: People feel left out in cold
Cuts cost industry Rs 500 to 600 crore a month
Patiala, January 4
Affected by global meltdown, the state’s industry and exports have been losing between Rs 500 and 600 crore due to power cuts imposed by the Punjab State Electricity Board
(PSEB).
Special home loan package announced
Patiala, January 4
The State Bank of Patiala has launched a special home loan package. The rate of interest has been fixed at 8.50 per cent p.a. for loan amount
up to Rs 5 lakh and 9.25 per cent for above Rs 5 lakh and up to Rs 20 lakh.
NRI family hits jackpot
Chandigarh, January 4
Financial meltdown may have hit the US hard. But, for the Hundal family from Harthola village in Hoshiarpur district, now based in California, New Year and the visit of Canadian MP Nina Grewal and her husband and former MP Gurmant Grewal have brought luck.
The Hundal family with the Grewals outside the store from where the winning ticket of Mega Million lottery in the US was sold.
Direct recruits stand to gain in police gradation
Chandigarh, January 4
Direct recruits stand to gain in the newly released gradation list of the Punjab Police on Internet which arrived after an eight-month-long exercise paving the way for filling up as many as 15 posts of the Indian Police Service (IPS) which are presently lying vacant in the state.
Punjab gets loan from Nabard
Chandigarh, January 4
The Punjab government and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) has sanctioned Rs 8176.96 lakh to upgrade technical institutions in state.
Badal extends greetings on Gurpurb
Chandigarh, January 4
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today extended warm greetings to Punjabis on the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of the Sikhs, and exhorted them to follow the noble teachings and precious legacy of great Saint Soldier.
Death in clash converted into murder case
Amritsar, January 4
After several protests by Congress leaders and farmers’ bodies, the police changed the Section voluntarily causing hurt (323
IPC) case into a murder case after the death of Ravinder Singh who succumbed to injuries in the civil hospital on
January 1.
2 commit suicide
Anandpur Sahib, January 4
A man and a woman committed suicide by jumping before a moving train near the PSEB office on the Nanga-Ambala railway track last evening.
1 dead as crackers catch fire
Tarn Taran, January 4
One youth died and his two brothers were injured in a blast that occurred after crackers loaded in a jeep caught fire during a nagar kirtan being carried out to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh at Harike this afternoon.
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