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SBI manager caught taking bribe
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Abohar, June 5
Udhar Chand, loan manager at the State Bank of India’s main branch here, was caught red handed by the Vigilance Bureau while accepting Rs 10,000 as illegal gratification for sanctioning a loan of Rs 2 lakh to a farmer.
Udhar Chand, loan manager of the SBI’s main branch (standing in the background), after being nabbed by a team of the Vigilance Bureau for accepting bribe in Abohar on Monday.
— Photo by Raj Sadosh
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PMT: options, time limit increased
Chandigarh, June 5
Students appearing in the Pre-Medical Entrance Test in Punjab on July 2 will get five options, instead of the usual four, to answer a question. Also, the time limit has been increased to three hours to the solve the paper comprising 200
questions.
UGC project runs into rough weather
Amritsar, June 5
The Rs 30 crore UGC project, “Centre for Potential Excellence Research in Sports Sciences,” established in 2002, has run into rough weather. Its Coordinator, Dr Jairup Singh, Director of Centre for Genetic Disorder, Guru Nanak Dev University, has apprehended that “no research is likely to be materialised by July 31, 2007 as the grant of Rs 5 crore, released by the UGC, would just be spent on the buildings and creation of infrastructure only.”
Third stone for ‘Gateway to Amritsar’
Amritsar, June 5
This is the third foundation stone in the past about three decades for the same project on the Amritsar-Lahore road! Nothing has been changed except the name from “Gateway to India” to “Gateway to Amritsar” in the past 29 years.
Crumbling Heritage Sites
A national ‘unprotected’ monument
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Serai Amanat Khan, June 5
At least 50 pucca houses have mushroomed inside Serai Amanat Khan, a few kilometres from the Pakistan border, though the site had been declared as protected national monument by the Archaeological Survey of India.
A view of the protected
national monument at Serai Amanat Khan, a border village near
Amritsar. At least 50 houses have mushroomed inside the monument
and bufalloes are being kept here. — Photo by Rajiv Sharma
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107 Punjab police officers shifted
Chandigarh, June 5
The Punjab Government tonight ordered the much-awaited transfers of middle-level police officers in the Punjab Police. A total of 107 police officers, including 5 IPS officers, were shifted.
Pak
Punjab legislators coming on July 10
Chandigarh, June 5
A delegation of 69 members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) of
Pakistan Punjab is scheduled to visit India on a tour starting on July
10 and ending on July 16.
The Punjab Government here has started making plans for the visit
which will in a way revive the Punjab-to-Punjab contact that is
considered important within the framework of India-Pakistan relations.
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