Vedanti
may appeal to Sikhs to help trace Hannah’s killer
Chandigarh, July
14
Expressing his sympathy with the parents of slain British
teenage girl Hannah Foster, the Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani
Joginder Singh Vedanti, may issue an appeal to the Sikh
community to help trace her suspected killer Maninder Pal Singh
Kohli.
Trevor and Hillary
Foster display "lookout posters" of Maninder Pal Singh
Kohli, the suspected killer of their daughter, Hannah, during a
Press conference in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — Tribune photo
by Pankaj Sharma |
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IPS-PPS
row: High Court reserves judgement
Chandigarh, July
14
The Punjab Government today
informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it was considering
shifting 17 Punjab Police Service holding cadre posts, including
district police chiefs, meant for Indian Police Service (IPS)
officers.
DSPs'
selections: Punjab changes counsel, order reserved
Chandigarh, July
14
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
today reserved the judgment in the application filed by Mr Jaskaran
Singh Brar, a petitioner in the ongoing case, regarding irregularities
in the selection of Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSP) by the
Punjab Government recently.
14-year-old
girl crushed to death by Army vehicle
Patiala, July 14
Military movement on the
Patiala-Bathinda section today claimed another victim when a
Fourteen-year-old girl was crushed to death when one of the rear
wheels of a military tank trailer crushed her while she was returning
home from school on a bicycle near Rajpura road here today. Though the
Army authorities had mooted a proposal in 1985 to construct a bypass
road from the outskirts of the city, which would connect further, with
the Sangrur road, the project was still to come up.
The bicycle of Rekha lying behind the Army tank trailer, which crushed her to death on the Rajpura road in Patiala on Wednesday.
— Photo by Rajesh Sachar.
SGPC poll: Panthic
Morcha wins Kharar seat
Kharar, July 14
Mr Bhajan Singh Shergill of the
Panthic Morcha has won the Kharar (general) SGPC seat defeating the
SAD candidate in the elections held on July 11. The result was
declared today by the Returning Officer-cum-SDM, Mr Sukhvinder Singh
Gill, after the recounting of votes was done at Government
Polytechnic, Khoonimajra, here.
PSEB engineer in VB
net
Chandigarh, July 14
Continuing with its drive against
corruption, Punjab Vigilance Bureau sleuths today caught another
government official on the allegations of demanding a bribe. Acting on
a complaint, the sleuths this time nabbed a junior engineer working
with Punjab State Electricity Board.
PSEB
to set up 3 substations
Amritsar, July 14
The Punjab State Electricity
Board (PSEB) will construct three substations in the city to improve
power supply. Sanction has been granted to construct 66 KV substations
near the Golden Temple, at court road and in the Islamabad area.
Another 66 KV substation had been commissioned at Rajasansi and a 132
KV substation at Sakatri Bagh would become operational shortly.
Patiala
on brink of epidemic
Impasse continues, garbage
piles up
Patiala, July 14
Patiala city seems to be on the
brink of an epidemic with garbage accumulating in the city following a
strike by safai karamcharis of the municipal corporation who are
demanding action against doctors of Government Rajindra Hospital for
what they describe as negligence leading to the death of an employee
leader six days ago.
Sikh body’s plea to
Armitage
Patiala, July 14
The Sikh Nation Organisation
has appealed to the US Deputy Secretary of State, Mr Richard
Armitage to take measures to check hate crimes against Sikhs in
the USA.
VHP,
Sena men invited to watch ‘Girlfriend’
Amritsar, July 14
The managing directors of Suraj,
Chanda and Tara theatres today invited representatives of radical
Hindu organisations, including the Vishva Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang
Dal and the Shiv Sena and the media to see the controversial movie
“Girlfriend”.
PWD
employees hold rally
Patiala, July 14
On the 14th consecutive day, the
Punjab PWD (B & R) Employees Co-ordination Committee organised a
rally in front of the Mini Secretariat in protest against the
registration of vigilance cases against 27 PWD engineers here today.
Two
bodies recovered
Bathinda, July 14
Two bodies were fished out from
two distributaries by volunteers of the Sahara Jansewa, a
non-governmental organisation (NGO) today.
Kisan Union lays
siege to PSEB office
Moga, July 14
Protesting against the power
shortage in the agricultural sector, members of the Kirti Kisan Union
today gheraoed the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) Executive
Engineer’s office here. The gherao that started at around 12 noon
continued till 2 pm. The union members sat in front of the Executive
Engineer’s office. Policemen were deployed to avoid any untoward
incident.
Farmers
block traffic
Fazilka, July 14
Hundreds of farmers of the area
today staged a dharna and blocked the traffic at Malout Chowk in
protest against the organised theft of canal water and non-release of
water in main distributory of the eastern canal.
VB probing illegal
construction in Punjab: Pandey
Jalandhar, July 14
Putting the conviction rate of
cases being dealt with by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau at around 60 per
cent, Mr A.P. Pandey, Chief Director, Punjab Vigilance Bureau, today
said stress was being laid on improvement in the quality of
investigation and achievement of a higher conviction rate.
Loudspeakers
banned at night
Jalandhar, July 14
The District Magistrate, Mr Ashok
Gupta, under the powers vested in him under Section 144, has banned
the use of loudspeakers, orchestra and DJ system from 10 pm to 6 am
with immediate effect.
3 held on murder
charge
Phagwara, July 14
The police has solved a blind
murder case. The murder was made to look like an accident. Three
persons, Ajay Kumar, alias Rahul of New Delhi, second husband of
Harjit Kaur, alias Ashu, and her parents, Sarwan Singh and Swaran
Kaur, belonging to Domeli village, were today arrested and booked
under Sections 302, 201, 348, 148 and 149 of the IPC on charges of
murder, causing disappearance of evidence, wrongful confinement, and
rioting.
DTO
arrested accepting bribe
Moga, July 14
A Vigilance Bureau team arrested
the District Transport Officer, Mr S.S. Sidhu, while accepting a bribe
of Rs 5,000 this evening.
5
booked under child marriage Act
Hoshiarpur, July 14
The Sadar police today registered
a case under Sections 5 and 6 of the Child Marriage Restrained Act,
1929, against Harjit Singh and his wife, Palvinder Kaur of Ramu Thiara
village, Jasbir Singh, his wife, Harjinder Kaur, and son, Karamjit
Singh, of Dade Fateh Singh today.
Husband,
in-laws booked
Dera Bassi, July
14
The local police booked Sanjay
Tayal, his father Mohan Lal, mother Santosh, brother-in-law R.K.
Gupta, and sister-in-law Anjali of the local Adarsh Nagar Colony in a
dowry case here today.
Schoolteachers
continue strike on funds’ diversion
Rampura, July 14
Even as teachers of the local
Bhartiya Model School, being run by Bhartiya Educational Society,
observed a strike for the second consecutive day today to protest
against the diversion of funds from the salary account by the
management, members of the management alleged that vested interests
were trying to disturb the atmosphere of the school to close it down.
NCP
alleges harassment by principal
Bathinda, July 14
Mr Amritpal Singh Sidhu, general
secretary, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Punjab, today urged the
Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, to make arrangements to check
harassment of students allegedly by the Principal of the local
Rajindra College, Mrs Gurmeet Kaur Bhattal.
PTU
can’t grade colleges: Registrar
Fatehgarh Sahib, July 14
“Accreditation by the National
Board of Accreditation (NBA) is respected by universities all over the
country and Punjab Technical University (PTU) could not grade its
affiliated colleges on its own,” said Dr M.S. Grewal, PTU Registrar,
while answering a question regarding the grading of engineering
colleges of the state.
Seats
in training institutes to be increased
Chandigarh, July 13
At a meeting of top and
middle-rung officers of the Education Department, the Minister for
School Education, Mr Harnam Dass Johar, today announced that the seats
in the district institutes of elementary training would be enhanced to
3400 from the existing 1700.
