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prisoners’ families jubilant over news of release from Pak jails
Amritsar, July 23
The families of those victims of unscrupulous travel agents who landed
in jails of Pakistan to suffer untold hardships are jubilant over the
announcement of their release on the concluding day of the two-day
ministerial meeting of SAARC at Islamabad.
Suspected
diarrhoea claims 5 lives in
one month
Amritsar, July 23
Suspected diarrhoea has claimed
the lives of five persons, at Sultanwind village, about 15 km from
here, in the past one month. A large number of persons, including
children, are suffering from
water-borne diseases in the village. Dr H.S. Gill, Civil Surgeon, said
no diarrhoea deaths had been reported in government hospitals but
private hospitals were being surveyed. He said the deaths had occurred
in the past over two months.
Tension
prevails as BSF men stop trains
Jalandhar, July 23
Tension prevailed at the local
railway station this morning as agitated jawans of Border Security
Force (BSF) tried to stop many trains from leaving the station.
NRI
groom’s parents held on dowry charge
Patiala, July 23
The Patiala police has arrested
the parents of an NRI groom from Banga in Nawanshahr district
following charges that they were in league with their son in extorting
dowry and also throwing her out of the house in the USA.
SAD committee warns
Majithia panel
Chandigarh, July 23
The Political Affairs Committee
of the Shiromani Akali Dal today warned the admission supervision
committee headed by Justice G. R. Majithia (retd) that it should not
enter into any unnecessary confrontation with the Sikh community over
the issue of minority status to SGPC- run Sri Guru Ram Dass Institute
of Medical and Dental Sciences.
Exercise to
rationalise teachers fails
Patiala, July 23
A rationalisation exercise
conducted last year by the Punjab Government to place science and
commerce teachers where they were needed does not seem to have worked
with hundreds of them still teaching in senior secondary schools with
less than 10 students on their rolls in the last academic session.
PSEB’s
backdated notices harass consumers
Abohar, July 23
The Consumer Movement, an NGO,
has criticised Punjab State Electricity Board officials for harassing
consumers on the pretext of checking power meters and for long power
cuts.
Patiala
residents do without cable TV
War between rival groups
Patiala, July 23
Residents of the city, who have
been forced to live with piles of filth with corporation employees
going on a strike since the past one fortnight, now have to do without
cable television.
Patiala
doctors block traffic
Corporation staff too warn of
agitation
Patiala, July 23
Doctors and para-medical staff of
Government Rajindra Hospital today blocked traffic on the
Patiala-Sangrur road for more than an hour in protest against the
transfer of six doctors, including the Principal of the Medical
College and the Medical Superintendent of the hospital.
Purchase
of Rs 4 cr siropas: SGPC shifts official
Amritsar July 23
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee SGPC yesterday effected minor re-shuffle of its employees.
The transfer of the Purchase Officer on the eve of placing orders for
‘Siropas’ (robes of honour) for more than Rs 4 crore has led to
the raising of many eye-brows in Sikh circles .
J&K
students visit Golden Temple
Amritsar, July 23
Thirty students from the
terrorist-affected Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir today visited
the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh, Fort Gobindgarh under the
Army’s Operation Sadbhavna here.
Students from
Rajauri district visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar on
Friday.
— Photo by Rajiv Sharma |
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Sikh
clergy calls for boycott of ‘Gurbani yatra’
Amritsar, July 23
The Sikh clergy today urged Sikhs
to boycott the ‘Sarb Sanjhi Gurbani Yatra’ being taken out in
various parts of the country by some ‘anti-Sikh’ organisations.
Disappearance
from police custody
Man alive, claims police
Fatehgarh, July 23
The police today presented
Upasana, a minor, and her boy friend, Ranjit Singh Rana, who had
eloped recently, in the court of Mr G.S. Dhillon, Chief Judicial
Magistrate, Fatehgarh Sahib. Mr Dhillon ordered to send Upasana to
Nari Niketan, Jalandhar, till August 5 and Ranjit Singh Rana to the
Nabha jail till August 6.
Ammonia
leakage causes panic, factory closed
Phagwara, July 23
Panic prevailed in the town when
an ammonia gas pipe of a ice factor suddenly started leaking today. It
caused suffocation among residents, shopkeepers and customers on the
Banga road causing panic.
PUDA gets tough
with illegal colonisers
Jalandhar, July 23
As part of its series of
stringent measures, PUDA has decided to approach the DGP, Punjab, for
registration of cases against those who had carved out unauthorised
residential colonies in the state.
Inside
Babudom
2 IGs, 12
Inspectors to be promoted
Chandigarh, July 23
The Punjab Government has
initiated the process of promoting two Inspectors- General of Police
(IGPs) — J.P. Birdi and Jyoti Trehan — as Additional
Directors-General of Police (ADGPs). And 12 Punjab Police Inspectors
are also likely to be promoted as Deputy Superintendents of Police
(DSPs).
Diploma
engineers refuse to inspect canals
Abohar, July 23
Diploma engineers of the
Irrigation Department have relinquished responsibility for inspecting
and controlling canals and sub-canals in the entire region with
immediate effect.
Businessman
arrested in cheating case
Bathinda, July 23
A criminal case was registered
against a local businessman, Mr Prem Chand, and a woman, Mrs Shimla
Mittal for their alleged involvement in disposing of a piece of land
by committing cheating with another local resident, Mr Devinder Kumar,
who was also a share-holder in that plot.
Nursing
institute director held
Gurdaspur, July 23
The Pathankot police today
registered a case against the director of the RN Tagore Nursing
Institute, Mr G.D. Dogra. He would be produced in the court tomorrow.
Ex-MLA
booked for derogatory remarks
Gidderbaha, July 23
A criminal case was registered
against Mr Raghubir Singh, former Congress MLA, his son Dinesh Kumar,
Mr Kulwant Singh, MC President, and Mr Baldev Singh, councillor, for
allege using derogatory remarks against Ms Reshma Devi, a scheduled
Caste municipal councillor of Ward Number 14.
Man
who fired at Imam dies in hospital
Malerkotla, July 23
Abdul Majid, alias Nikku, who was
allegedly beaten up by some persons at the railway station on July 12,
died in the Civil Hospital yesterday.
Woman
poisons son
Moga, July 23
A woman poisoned her 11-year-old
son at Dhaleke village, near here, yesterday. The accused was married
to Balwinder Singh. Sources said Baljeet Kaur gave her son, Sukhdev
Singh alias Shankar, food laced with some poisonous substance when he
returned from the school.
Farid
varsity-medical colleges’ row makes students suffer
Faridkot, July 23
Medical aspirants in the state
may have got reprieve after the news of fee cut for various courses,
but the delay in pre-medical entrance test, due to a controversy, is
giving them sleepless nights.
Scientists
prepare glass from fly ash
Amritsar, July 23
Guru Nanak Dev University
scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in preparing glass
samples containing heavy metal oxide with fly ash and found them to be
an effective radiation shielding materials like bismuth and lead.
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Much to the embarrassment of Mr
Parkash Singh Badal, president, Shiromani Akali Dal, the Sikh clergy
today absolved Mr Parlahad Singh Chandok, president, Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management Committee of the charges of presenting a
siropa to Mr Jagdish Tytler, former Union Minister who was accused of
engineering the anti-Sikh riots in 1984.