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Poll Rigging
Only Prez rule will do: Cong
Bajwa says all 44 Cong MLAs to quit Assembly
Amritsar, May 15
The PPCC, terming Panchayat elections as farce, has decided to meet President Pratibha Patil tomorrow to seek imposition of Governor’s rule in the state.

PPCC chief Rajinder Kaur Bhattal brandishes a sword during a rally of the Congress organised in Amritsar on Thursday. —Photo by Vishal Kumar

Punjab gives list of tainted officers to HC
Chandigarh, May 15
Punjab today produced before the Punjab and Haryana High Court a picture of its tainted elite cadre. In an affidavit filed before the court, the state’s department of personnel revealed that eight IAS officers had CBI or vigilance cases pending against them, though charges had not yet been framed.

Panel allows PSEB to impose power cuts
Patiala, May 15
The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has allowed the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) to impose power cuts in Punjab. However, the PSERC advised the board to desist from imposing evening peak load hour restrictions and suggested that the board take other regulatory measures.

Fake Encounter Case
18 yrs on parents get evidence, seek relief
Chandigarh, May 15
Nearly 18 years after an ITI student was eliminated by the cops near Khanna, his parents have now gathered evidence in support of their contention that the killing was staged.

Rs 460-cr Land Compensation
Jheorheri loosens its purse-strings
Chandigarh, May 15
It’s war out there. After all it is a question of making business from Rs 460 crore released by the Punjab government as land compensation for farmers of Jheorheri, a sleepy village on the fringes of Chandigarh.

Greenery on Golden Temple Parkarma vanishes
Amritsar, May 15
Hundreds of plants put up on the Parkarma of the Golden Temple amid much fanfare in 2006 have disappeared.

The plants that adorned the Harmandar Sahib parkarma as part of “Go-green campaign” of the shrine have been removed after two years. —Photo by Vishal Kumar

Amritsar DC shifted
Amritsar, May 15
The state election commissioner today issued the orders for the transfer of deputy commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu following a complaint of PPCC president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal regarding large-scale rigging in the Panchayat elections.

After SAD victory, some damage control
Bathinda, May 15
President of the SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal today visited in the hospital four BJP leaders, who were allegedly beaten up by SAD activists during the Panchayat elections.

SAD chief Sukhbir Badal, flanked by Rajinder Bhandari, BJP state chief (right), and adviser to the CM D.S. Cheema, enquires after the BJP activists assaulted by Akalis on the polling day, at the civil hospital, Bathinda, on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Malkiat Singh

We’ve done very well: Bhandari
Chandigarh, May 15
Mood in the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is upbeat as it claims to have “secured noticeable presence in rural areas”.

Victory due to good governance: Sukhbir
Chandigarh , May 15
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has thanked the people of Punjab , for his party’s victory in the Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elections.

COMMUNITY

Faridkot Jail
Overcrowded, dilapidated
Chandigarh, May 15
If inhuman living conditions in district jail Faridkot are taken into consideration, callousness of the government towards jail inmates is evident. Inmates continue to live in dilapidated building even though 70 acres was allotted for jail building in January last year. 

Patients lose eyesight, blame surgeon
Chandigarh, May 15
In a case of alleged medical negligence, four persons have lost eyesight following surgery by government doctors in a state-run medical centre near Ludhiana. On a complaint by the patients and their relatives, health minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla has ordered an inquiry against a woman surgeon, who reportedly operated upon these people allegedly with the help of her driver.

The villagers, who lost eyesight after cataract surgery, at the office of the director, health services, Punjab, in Chandigarh. — A Tribune photograph

Wearing of turban by Hindu students
Dal Khalsa criticises Akal Academy
Amritsar, May 15
The Dal Khalsa has criticised the Akal Academy School for forcing Hindu students to wear turbans.

Death of old man: SHO suspended
Moga, May 15
Yadwinder Singh Bajwa, SHO of Dharamkot police station had been suspended after a case was registered against him two days back for allegedly beating to death Naib Singh,(65) a Congress supporter, at Kokri Vehniwal village in Moga district, said SSP Moga Ashok Bath.

Akal Takht is supreme: SGPC chief
Amritsar, May 15
Coming heavily on Giani Iqbal Singh, Jathedar of Takht Patna Sahib, for his “arbitrary edicts aimed at dividing the Sikh Panth”, SGPC president Avtar Singh said today that Akal Takht was the supreme authority of the Sikhs.

Killings of Punjabis in Philippines
Kin urge Centre to act
Jalandhar, May 15
India should take up the matter of killings of Punjabi youths in the Philippines with the government of that country, say relatives of Paramjit Singh Sunny (21), who was recently shot dead near Manila.