Sikhs from Paris, Mr Manpreet
Singh (left) and Mr Mandeep Singh, talk about harassments
faced of the Sikh community in France at a Press conference in
Jalandhar on Friday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma |
Rural
schoolchildren doing better than urban ones
Chandigarh, August 20
While the enrolment of students
and number of teachers in government primary schools has declined,
there is a phenomenal increase of 248.5 per cent in per student cost
in such schools. The number of schools has gone up.
Govt’s
role limited: SGPC
Guru Granth Sahib
celebrations
Amritsar, August 20
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee has expressed delight over the acceptance of its invitations
by the President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and the Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh, to participate in the celebrations of the 400th year
of the installation of Guru Granth Sahib.
Illegal
colonisers seek anticipatory bail
Gurdaspur, August 20
Panic has gripped the property
dealers of the district after PUDA forwarded the list of the illegal
colonisers to the police for registration of cases against them.
Though no case till date has been registered in the Gurdaspur police
district against the property dealers who developed illegal colonies,
most of them have gone underground.
Jagdev Kalan (Amritsar),
August 20
At Government Girls Elementary
School in this tiny village that holds many a memory of poet Hasham
Shah of the times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the sight of a group of
girls cleaning bricks for the construction of a portion of a school
building gives the glimpse of the never-say die Punjabi spirit.
Students of Government Girls Elementary School, Jagdev Kalan village, near Amritsar, clean old bricks to construct a portion of the school building on Friday.
— Photo by Rajiv Sharma
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Sukhbir terms CM
‘non-resident Punjabi’
Jalandhar, August 20
Launching a scathing attack on
Captain Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister, Punjab, Mr Sukhbir Singh
Badal, general secretary, Shiromani Akali Dal and MP, said that the
former was a “non-resident Punjabi”, for he was away from the
state most of the time.
Probe sought into
delay in refinery project
Bathinda, August 20
The General Samaj Party today
demanded an inquiry by a Judge of the Supreme Court into the issue
pertaining to the inordinate delay being caused by successive
governments in the implementation of the Guru Gobind Singh oil
refinery project, to be set up at Phulo Khari village in this district
by the HPCL.
Toothless
panchayats face ‘bleak future’
Chandigarh, August 20
The panchayats in Punjab are
directionless, oblivious of the Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, or the 73rd
constitutional amendment or empowerment or devolution of funds,
functions and functionaries and lack in capacity building. The
panchayats have supposedly been given six departments and also powers
without the authority to exercise the same.
Kaka
expresses inability to face Akal Takht
Amritsar, August 20
Mr Jasbir Singh Kaka, a former
member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee, today
expressed his inability to present himself at Akal Takht citing ill
health.
Trade
unions hold protest rally
Amritsar, August 20
The Central Trade Union held a
protest rally under the banner of the District Trade Union Council
here today. Workers and employees of the textile industry, banks,
insurance, telecom, electricity board, roadways and private transport,
Military Engineering Services, Postal Department and Municipal
Corporation raised slogans against the UPA government.
Doc
refutes allegations
Amritsar, August 20
Dr Mukhtiar Singh of the Civil
Hospital here today refuted all allegations levelled against him
yesterday by one Dr Gagandeep Singh, a resident of the local Basant
Avenue area.
Clues
in theft case of MC chief’s valuables
Moga, August 20
The police has got some vital
clues in the theft case in which MC president, Joginder Pal Jain’s
valuables were stolen from his servant’s quarter. The police will
make everything official about the case tomorrow.
Shopkeepers
protest against crossing closure
Patiala, August 20
Shopkeepers today staged a dharna
at the level crossing No. 22 to protest against its closure due to the
construction of a railway overbridge.
Markfed
issues job letters to deceased employees' kin
Chandigarh, August 20
Markfed today issued appointment
letters to the kin of 27 of its employees who had died in harness in
recent years. The letters were handed over to the eligible members of
the family by Mr Jasjit Singh Randhawa, Horticulture and Cooperation
Minister, Punjab.
Bull
goes berserk, 15 injured
Bathinda, August 20
As many as 15 residents of this
town were injured when a stray bull went berserk after consuming some
poisonous substance on the Amrik Singh road yesterday.
Villagers
gherao police station
Faridkot, August 20
Residents of Kotsukhia village
today gheraoed the Sadar police station here in protest against the
cases registered against them.
Mohali
resident given relief
Kharar, August 20
A cheque for Rs 1 lakh from the
Chief Minister’s Relief Fund was given to a resident of the town
whose two sons died recently.
Students
examined at dental care camp
Kharar, August 20
As many as 105 students were
examined by doctors at a free dental and general check up camp
organised by the Lions Club, TOP at Government Elementary School here
yesterday.
High
Court
Punjab given time
to reply in DSP quota case
Chandigarh, August 20
The Punjab Government was today
directed to file its reply till Tuesday to an application moved by one
of the petitioners in the ongoing case concerning alleged
irregularities in the selection of DSPs under the sports quota.
BKU demands higher
price for paddy
Moga, August 20
The Bharatiya Kisan Union,
Punjab, today said that if the state government didn’t fix the price
of different varieties of paddy as per their demand by August 27, the
union would announce its future course of action at the executive
committee meeting on August 28.
Officials told to
ensure supplies
Chandigarh, August 20
The Punjab Government today said
that it had made all necessary arrangements to ensure availability of
essential commodities to people during the indefinite “chakka jam”
strike by truckers from tomorrow.
Police
personnel in PSEB to be repatriated
Gurdaspur, August 20
The Punjab Police personnel,
working in the PSEB for a period of over five years are being
repatriated. Sources said orders had been issued for the repatriation
of 30 police personnel. Most of them were working in the district, at
various PSEB installations.
Newly born baby
girl strangulated
Bathinda, August 20
A dead body of newly born baby
girl was found abandoned in a vacant plot located on the Power House
road in this town today.
Veterinary
officer held on graft charge
Bathinda, August
20
A team of Vigilance Bureau, led
by DSP Baldev Singh, caught Dr Charanjit Singh, Veterinary Officer,
Veterinary Hospital, Saravan village in Faridkot district, while he
was accepting a bribe of Rs 500 today.
Baba Farid varsity
‘violating’ SC guidelines
Faridkot, August 20
The district president of the
General Category Welfare Federation, Mr Sukhbir Singh, has alleged
that Baba Farid Medical University has kept 64 per cent seats under
reservation for admissions to MBBS in government medical colleges of
the state.
Seminar
on vehicular emission
Fatehgarh Sahib, August 20
A seminar on “Air pollution due
to emission” was organised by Mechanical Department of Baba Banda
Singh Bahadhur Engineering College in association with the Society of
Automobile Engineer, India, here today.
Stress on uniform
VAT policy
Patiala, August 20
The two-day national seminar on
“Emerging issues and problems in the North-West region of India
under the new economic policy regime organised by the Department of
Correspondence Courses concluded here yesterday, Dr H.K. Manmohan,
Professor Emeritus and former Vice-Chancellor of the University,
delivered a special lecture and chairing the technical session.
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