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Lok
Bhalai Party to contest 90 seats
Fatehgarh Sahib, November
29
The Lok Bhalai Party will contest 90
Assembly seats in the coming elections. The names of 20 candidates
have been announced and they have started campaigning. This was stated
by Mr Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, President, Lok Bhalai Party, while
addressing a party conference at Shamsher Nagar village today.
Unity only
if Badal steps down: Baba Bedi
Ludhiana, November 29
Baba Sarbjot Singh Bedi, convener , Panthic Morcha, said
here yesterday day that doors for the likes of Bhaniaras had been
opened in Punjab by Mr Parkash Singh Badal with the election of Mr
Kirpal Singh Badungar as the president of the SGPC.
S.
Asian Friendship camp concludes
Moga, November 29
The week-long 11th South Asian
Friendship camp, organised by the South Asia Fraternity Chapter of
India, concluded today with the declaration for strengthening ties and
bringing awareness among the people of the countries to shun hatred.
Parties
on toes to check bogus voters
Talwandi Sabo, November
29
Members of various political parties and prospective
candidates for the coming assembly elections today remained on their
toes in the tehsil offices of the district to thwart any attempt,
particularly belonging to the ruling alliance of Punjab, to register
bogus voters.
50
yrs gone, she still waits for spouse
Hoshiarpur, November 29
After she was dumped by her drunkard
husband 50 years ago, 75-year-old blind Sarla Devi, resolved not to
live under a roof till her husband came back and took her home. She
has been keeping her promise for five decades by living in the open
near Town Hall here.
Bungling
in fish supply by contractors
Ropar, November 29
The case of death of fish in the Sutlej took a new turn
today, with the district administration admitting that the fish which
perished on November 17, allegedly due to toxic effluents in the
river, were supplied by contractors in the market.
PCI
panel meets Chief Secretary
Chandigarh, November 29
A three-member fact-finding committee, constituted by the
Press Council of India, on the alleged attack on the Editor of a Hindi
daily of Bathinda, today met the Punjab Chief Secretary, the
Information Secretary, the Home Secretary, the Director-General of
Police and others.
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Processions
taken out on Gurpurab eve
Amritsar, November 29
A “nagar kirtan” procession led by the Guru Granth
Sahib and the “panj piaras” started from Akal Takht and passed
through various parts of the city today. The entire route of the
procession was decorated on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru
Nanak Dev.
The Panj Piaras stand in front
of Akal Takht before the start of nagar kirtan
on Thursday . — Photo Rajiv
Sharma
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Sobha
Singh Art Gallery to get facelift
Amritsar, November 29
Mr Swarna Ram, Minister for Tourism, Cultural Affairs and
Archives, today announced that the state government would renovate the
Sobha Singh Art Gallery at Sri Hargobindpur (Gurdaspur) — the birth
place of the artist, which is in a state of utter neglect.
ASI
slaps ‘munshi’, both suspended
Jalandhar, November 29
An Assistant Sub-Inspector posted at the Police Division
No. 3 here allegedly slapped the “munshi” of the police station
this morning.
Rs
643 lakh for Ferozepore villages
Ferozepore, November 29
The Punjab Government proposes to give
greater administrative and financial rights to all the district-level
planning and development boards in order to ensure all-round
development of the villages and to implement various development
schemes at the grass-roots level.
PUDA
policy on plots for staff
Chandigarh, November 29
The Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority
(PUDA) has approved a policy on the allotment of residential plots to
its employees. The decision was taken at a Finance and Accounts
Committee meeting of the authority held last evening.
MC
violating Local Bodies Dept norms
Jalandhar, November 29
Has the local municipal corporation violated prescribed
norms by undertaking development works in unapproved private colonies
on the outskirts of the city in the past one decade at the expense of
the state exchequer? It seems so, if laying of water supply and
sewerage lines worth crores of rupees by the civic body in these
colonies is any indication.
District
admn complex plan hangs fire
Gurdaspur, November 29
The plan to construct a district administrative complex
by PUDA here to house all offices under one roof has virtually been
abandoned.
All
octroi employees to be absorbed
Amritsar, November 29
All 4,000 employees, who had been working at various
octroi posts, would be absorbed in different government departments
after the abolition of octroi.
Robbers’
gang busted
Jalandhar, November 29
The Jalandhar police has busted a
two-member gang of robbers by arresting its kingpin today and seized
an imported revolver robbed by the gang from a house in the Urban
Estate here recently.
65
drums of bitumen seized
Barnala, November 29
The local police has seized 24,810 intoxicant pills, 832
capsules, 230 injections and 54 kg of poppy husk from different parts
of the city.
PCCTU’s
week-long stir from Dec 4
Ludhiana, November 29
Academic work in 172 private colleges of
Punjab and Chandigarh is likely to be disrupted for a week beginning
from December 4 in the wake of a ‘‘cease work’’ call given by
the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) here
today. While the colleges will remain open, no classes would be
conducted during the week.
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