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No Sikh reference books with us: Antony
Unmanned crossing crash: Dharna continues
Sukhbir backs PM
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Bhattal for central forces at Nurmahal
Delegation to study plight of Pak Sikhs
Badals visit Dera Beas
Major bureaucratic reshuffle
Pannu back as DC, Amritsar
Water unsafe in 28 govt schools
Power plants face coal crisis
2 drown in Bhakra canal
‘Prevent artificial scarcity of LPG in Ferozepur’
Medical reports
Woman kills daughter, held
3 killed in accident
Foreigner looted
Flesh trade racket busted
Body found
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No Sikh reference books with us: Antony
Amritsar, May 21 In reply to a question of Tarlochan Singh, Rajya Sabha member from Haryana, AK Antony, Minister of Defence, has stated: “I have been informed that after the Operation, various books/items of Sikh Reference Library (Research) and Sikh Itihas Research Board were handed over to SGPC representative by the Army. Hence, the SGPC has no claim against anyone, the Army or the government”. However, SGPC president Avtar Singh alleged that the Defence Minister is misleading Parliament because then Defence Minister George Fernandes himself had confessed that rare books of Sikh Reference Library were yet to be returned to the SGPC. Over 1,500 rare manuscripts, including copies of the Adi Granth, Damdami Bir (dated Bikrami 1739) and various portraits and manuscripts were destroyed during the 1984 operation at the Golden Temple. The issue had come into the limelight when retired CBI inspector Ranjit Singh Nanda disclosed that rare manuscripts, hukamnamas, books and invaluable material of Sikh Reference Library were taken in gunny bags and big trunks to an unknown place after the Operation. While the Army authorities maintain that the library had caught fire during exchange of fire with militants, the SGPC says that the Army deliberately put the ‘empty library’ on fire after taking the rare material away.
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Unmanned crossing crash: Dharna continues
Ghumtala (Bilga), May 21 The protesters were demanding immediate manning of the unmanned crossing, where eight persons, including seven students, were killed in a collision between a school matador and a train yesterday. Several residents of some surrounding villages also held a protest march today in Nurmahal bazaar under the aegis of an action committee in favour of their demand. The protesters also gheraoed the car of Akali leader Prem Singh Chandumajra who was passing through the bazaar. The state president of the Pendu Mazdoor Union, Tarsem Peter, said the Jail Minister, Hira Singh Gabria, and ADC (General) Gurpreet Singh Khera had assured the protesters at the dharna site that their representatives’ meeting would be arranged with the Chief Minister at Phagwara on Thursday morning but nothing was done today in this regard. Peter demanded that all the unmanned crossings located in Nurmahal should be manned to avoid any mishap in future.
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Sukhbir backs PM
Chandigarh, May 21 The Punjab government, he has said, will offer constructive co-operation on issues such as fighting poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and inequality, besides addressing socio-cultural and human issues like fighting threats to environment and communal harmony as well as eradicating evils like female foeticide, drug menace, etc. Sukhbir said, “The larger interests of the country and the welfare of the people will solely guide the SAD in its role as the opposition party”. According to CM's media adviser Harcharan Bains, Sukhbir will call on the Prime Minister to convey his and his party's best wishes as soon as he is free from his present government-formation preoccupations. Bains said the Deputy Chief Minister had assured the Prime Minister that "despite the differences in our political perceptions, we hold you in the highest personal esteem and hope that your second term in the country's highest executive office will be marked by concrete initiatives on addressing the problems facing the people in general and Punjabis in particular."
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Bhattal for central forces at Nurmahal
Talwan (Nurmahal), May 21 This was stated by CLP leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal soon after addressing an election rally at Talwan village in favour of Congress candidate from Nurmahal assembly constituency Gurbinder Singh
Atwal. Earlier addressing the gathering , she said the Akali Dal had not given proper reward to late MLA Gurdeep Singh Bhullar when he was alive by not inducting him into cabinet despite he was elected twice to the Assembly.
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DAV College student assaulted
Bathinda, May 21 Jimmy Singla claimed that the group of seniors thrashed him because he had refused to do their bidding. But he did not specify what. Last night he was riding his motor cycle when the gang caught up with him near Bhojraj school and hit him with a baseball. The onlookers, mostly women, tried to stop the gang from beating him up but failed. It was the fortuitous appearance of his cousin, said Singla, which forced the gang to flee. The miscreants took away his mobile phone, he alleged. SSP Ashish Chaudhary, when contacted, said, “I am not aware of the incident but I will find out. It is my responsibility to see what the case is and punish all those who are found guilty.” Principal of the DAV College, J.S. Anand, however, described it as a family row between two boys which escalated into the incident. “Jimmy should have told us when Parteek first tried to rag him. Jimmy and Parteek both are non-serious students and are not in the good books of the college. As per my knowledge, they had some old family dispute. I will not let them enter the college premises from now on.” Jimmy’s family said that an FIR had been registered but police is yet to record the statement of the boy.
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Delegation to study plight of Pak Sikhs
Attari, May 21 However, SGPC president Avtar Singh rued that the UPA government did not give permission to the Shiromani committee to visit Pakistan to know the condition of displaced persons, despite a number of representations by the supreme Sikh body. Meanwhile, Tarlochan Singh, a member of the Rajya Sabha and former chairman of the National Minorities Commission, said it was a matter of concern that the Government of India had failed to send a delegation to Pakistan to know the plight of the Sikhs there. Before leaving for Pakistan, Sarna said the 13-member delegation would visit Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Hassan Abdal, tomorrow where displaced Sikh families had taken refuge. He said the DSGMC would give Rs 2 crore relief for their
rehabilitation.
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Badals visit Dera Beas
Amritsar, May 21 They remained in the dera for 40 minutes. This is for the first time the patron, the president and senior leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal visited the dera. Mediamen were not allowed to enter the dera during the visit of the Akali leaders. Their visit after Lok Sabha elections assumes significance. The dera of Beas does not take an active part in elections. Dera Beas has influence among voters in the region. Earlier, then PPCC acting president Mohinder Singh Kaypee had announced that the Dera Beas had promised to support the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, but nothing was on record.
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Major bureaucratic reshuffle on the cards
Chandigarh, May 21 Chief secretary Ramesh Inder Singh said transfers would take place at the end of this month or in the first week of June. “The transfers will be aimed at streamlining governance. We have many officers who are holding more than one charge,” he said. The post of financial commissioner (development) is being held as an additional charge by Navreet Singh Kang, who is also the Home Secretary. Sources said Kang was going out for training and the two posts would be given to other officers. Other than Kang, Satish Chandra, Secretary (Planning), is holding four other charges. Similarly, some other officers are also overloaded with work while many others have not much work to do. Though the redistribution of work is much needed, the government might face a shortage of senior officers with several officers wanting Central government postings or looking forward to long-term trainings. After the Election Commission ordered the removal of Sudhir Mital as Home Secretary, the 1978 batch officer was made the FC (D). But, he opted to stay in Delhi as Principal Resident Commissioner. There is a likelihood of his being brought back. He is, however, in Punjab only till October after which he goes back to the Centre. 1972 batch officers, Subodh Aggarwal, who is Principal Secretary (Finance) and BC Gupta, who is Financial Commissioner (Cooperation), are also said to be awaiting central government postings. Rakesh Singh, who came back from Delhi and joined briefly as Secretary (Medical Education and Research) is said to be on leave. Karan Avtar Singh is at present MD, PSIDC, and has been promoted Financial The two can expect to be transferred as both are working under financial commissioners. Karan is also said to be waiting to move to the Centre. The state, however, has Raji P Srivastava, a 1992 batch officer, back from UT Her batch mate Sarvjit Singh would also be joining back from his central government posting as Regional Manager, FCI. The 10 officers recently promoted from PCS to IAS are also likely to get postings in the coming lot of transfers.
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Pannu back as DC, Amritsar
Chandigarh, May 21 KS Pannu, Special Secretary to the Chief Minister and Secretary, Punjab State Farmers Commission, has been posted back as Deputy Commissioner,
Amritsar. His earlier replacement Bhagwant Singh has been posted as Additional Commissioner (Appeals), Jalandhar, against a vacant post. Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar Deputy Commissioner Vikas Garg has been posted as Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana, vice Gurkirat Kirpal Singh.
The latter has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh
Nagar.
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Water unsafe in 28 govt schools
Ludhiana, May 21 The supply of contaminated water in all these schools has been confirmed by the health department, which tested samples drawn from schools in Sudhar, Jagraon, Payal, Manpur, Macchiwara, Malaud, Sahnewal, Bhaini Sahib and Kum Kalan areas. The samples failed to clear the test and were stated unfit for human consumption. The Health Department then wrote to District Education Officer and the Deputy Commissioner, Gurkirat Kirpal Singh that it can cause students health problems and efforts should be made to ensure supply of clea, drinking water to them.
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Power plants face coal crisis
Jalandhar, May 21 Their coal stock situation had already turned critical at the Lehra Mohabbat Thermal Plant. Though the stock position is better at the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant at Bathinda and Ropar Thermal Plant as compared to the Lehra plant, yet it is not very comfortable, sources said. The situation is even more critical in Haryana thermal plants, the sources said. Ropar requires 6 rakes per day to run all 6 units. For building up stocks 7 to 8 rakes per day are required. In April 2009, Ropar received 148 rakes, which was less than 5 per day. From May 1-21, Ropar received 102 rakes, again less than 5 per day. At present, all six units are running, so the coal stock is reducing daily by about 3,700 tonnes. In other words, the stock position is going from bad to worse. The Lehra thermal plant requires 4.5 rakes per day to run all 4 units at full capacity. In April, Lehra received just 94 rakes, which was 3.1 rakes per day. During May 1-20, Lehra received 48 rakes, which was 2.4 rakes per day. At present, units 1, 3, 4 at Lehra are running while unit 2 is on 15 days planned maintenance, starting from May 15. So from June 1, all four units at Lehra are expected to run and consume 4.5 The Lehra plant is facing a serious problem of coal unloading as one of the two wagon tipplers of stage 2 is under breakdown of prolonged nature. Stage 1 coal handling plant is also in poor condition and due to the detention of wagons the Lehra plant had to pay demurrage of Rs 60 Lakh in April and in May the demurrage will be around Rs 1 crore, it is learnt.
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2 drown in Bhakra canal
Patiala, May 21 The victims were identified as Naresh Kumar (24) and Harvinder Singh (19). Naresh was a native of Dabwali town in Bathinda district and was doing his internship here at the local Government Ayurvedic College. Harvinder Singh was from Hoshiarpur and was doing his first year in the college. SP (city) RK Sharma reached the spot and ordered an inquiry into the matter.
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Clarification
In the May 21 edition of The Tribune, in the report “Namdhari
only Sikh MP outside Punjab”, HS
Hanspal, Member, National Commission for Minorities, and former President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, is the President of the Namdhari
Darbar, while Satguru Jagjit Singh is the head of the Namdhari sect.
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‘Prevent artificial scarcity of LPG in Ferozepur’
Chandigarh, May 21 The Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Hemant Gupta has also directed “the process of appointment of second distributor for the city of Ferozepur shall be expedited, as far as possible, and completed within six months from receiving the order’s copy, so that the distribution of LPG to the consumers in the city becomes more convenient and efficient for the general benefit of the people”. The directions follow a petition filed in public interest by Jaswant Singh against During the course of hearing, the respondents agreed there was a short-fall in supplies in the entire northern region, including Ferozepur district, in February. But in March and April, the situation improved considerably. Disposing of the matter, the Bench observed: An affidavit has also been filed by the DC, Ferozepur, in response to the notice issued to him, in which it is inter-alia stated the allegations of black-market of LPG cylinders have been investigated and the statements of 164 consumers from different areas recorded, who have all denied the allegation that there is any black-market of the LPG.
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Medical reports
Chandigarh, May 21 Taking up the matter, Justice Rajan Gupta of the high court has asked the state to file and affidavit on the issue, and place on record a copy of the medical report. Muktsar resident Gurnam was allegedly trying to escape from the “illegal custody” of the police, when he was shot at.
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Woman kills daughter, held
Bathinda, May 21 Sumitra Devi, mother-in-law of the accused, had reported the incident to the When she went to her room, she saw her daughter-in-law forcing the little girl to consume more milk. They took the child to the Civil Hospital, where she died. Meanwhile, the elder son of the accused woman said he, too, was pressurised by his mother to consume that milk. The
IO, Sukhchain Singh, said: “The woman said that she was frustrated over some
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3 killed in accident
Sangrur, May 21 The deceased were identified as Gurnam Singh of Heeron Kalan village, Sukhdev Singh of Dhilwan and Lakhwinder Kaur of
Alisher. Sunam DSP Pritpal Singh Thind said the police had registered a case under Section 304-A of the IPC against the truck driver.
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Foreigner looted
Amritsar, May 21 When
the UK national hired another auto-rickshaw, the driver allegedly beat up Thomas and looted him. However, rubbishing the claims that Thomas was beaten up by the auto-rickshaw driver, Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh,
SSP, said both had drinks at a bar. When Thomas got drunk, the driver decamped with his bag containing Indian currency, his passport, digital camera and important documents.
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Flesh trade racket busted
Rajpura, May 21 The police raided a house in the village on a tip off and arrested the accused. The women are residents of Kolkata and one of the men are from Nepal and other two are residents of Rajpura town. The women had been residing in the village for the past few months. The police has registered a case and further investigations are on.
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Body found
Dera Bassi, May 21 The police said there was an injury mark on his chest. Meanwhile, a police official said chances of a foul play in the case cannot be ruled out. According to the police, they got information from Kulvir Singh, a resident of Bera village, who told the officials about the body. The police has kept the body in the mortuary of the Dera Bassi Civil Hospital for 72 hours.
The police has registered a case of murder.
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