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Leaders
preparing ground for elections
Hoshiarpur, December 8
Though the notification for the
Punjab Assembly elections is yet to be issued yet the candidates
seeking party tickets, especially from the Congress and the sitting
SAD and the BJP MLAs and ministers have started hectic activity to
influence the electorate in the district. The SAD-BJP sitting MLAs who
are likely to get the party ticket in the coming elections have geared
up the campaign in their respective constituency.
Dalits
denied due share in government jobs: Kainth
Jalandhar, December 8
The president of the Bahujan
Samaj Morcha (BSM), Mr Satnam Singh Kainth, has criticised the SAD-BJP
regime for its failure to implement welfare schemes for the
downtrodden. Mr Kainth, addressing the state-level party rally at
Partap Bagh here today, alleged that though the Dalits constitute 33
per cent of the total population of the state, yet they were denied
their due share in the government jobs by the ruling combine.
Cong
leaders hold parallel rallies
Nawanshahr, December 8
The PPCC Vice-President and
former Finance Minister, Dr Kewal Krishan, today addressed two rallies
organised simultaneously by the district Congress and rebel Congress
leader Tarlochan Singh Soond, at Purani Sabzi Mandi, Banga, and Behram,
respectively, as part of election campaign rallies.
Baba
Bedi rules out unity talks
Ludhiana, December 8
Convener of the Shiromani Akali
Dal (Panthic Morcha), Baba Sarabjot Singh Bedi, today said he wanted
to put a lid on reports of unity moves between the Morcha and the
ruling Shiromani Akali Dal. He claimed that such reports were aimed at
creating confusion among the Morcha cadres.
BJYM
rally on POTO gets poor response
Bathinda, December 8
To garner public support and end
the controversy which has engulfed POTO, the BJP and the Bhartiya
Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) organised a district-level rally here today.
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 Guru
Nanak University in Amritsar has released 17 books on
the life and times of the great Sikh warrior and ruler
Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
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Where
a terror wound doesn’t heal
Amritsar
Ramesh, Rajesh and Geeta, whose
parents were gunned down by terrorists in broad day-light in 1984 as a
backlash over Operation Bluestar, were only infants (the youngest was
nine months old) and there was nobody to look after them.
Dissemble
nukes to avoid mishap: Virk
Amritsar, December 8
“To reduce the risk of a
nuclear weapon being launched by error, panic or miscalculation, as
could be the case in the aftermath of the US attack on Afghanistan out
of frustration, revenge or just accidental; it is advisable to keep
the nuclear weapons dissembled”.
PATIALA
 Govt
goes overboard in appeasing junk dealers
Patiala, December 8
The local kabari bazar, which has
become a major traffic bottleneck in the old city and has been in the
process of being shifted out of the city since 1976, may no longer
have to be shifted out, with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
directing the Municipal Corporation to sell off its shops to the junk
dealers who have been occupying them.
The over-flowing junk at Kabari Bazar which might become a permanent feature at Bahera Road in Patiala.
Justice
Anand visits Ludhiana courts
Ludhiana, December 8
Lawyers are an integral part of
the judicial system and they should extend whole-hearted cooperation
to the judiciary for smooth running of the chariot of justice. This
was stated by Mr Justice R.L. Anand while addressing the members of
the District Bar Association here at the district courts today.
Bishop
condemns attack
Amritsar, December 8
The Bishop of Amritsar diocese,
Babu Masih, has condemned the attack on Bishop House here on December
5, in which several persons were seriously injured.
Sangrur
leads in 7-digit phone numbers
Sangrur, December 8
Mr G.S. Gill, General Manager
(Telecom) of Sangrur district, has said that no registration charges
and security deposit will be charged from the existing subscribers of
the urban exchanges of Sangrur, Ahmedgarh, Dhuri, Malerkotla, Tapa,
Sunam, Barnala, Dhanaula and Bhadaur if they apply for second and
subsequent telephone connections without the STD/ISD facility.
Garg
highlights role of youth clubs
Bathinda, December 8
Mr Chiranji Lal Garg, Science and
Technology Minister, Punjab, said organising more and more cultural
programmes and sports fairs in the state would help ensure peace and
happiness as these were in symbols of eternal joy. Mr Garg was
addressing a gathering at a cultural fair at Balluana village, today.
Netizens
lock horns with Glide
Bathinda, December 8
Members of the Guru Hargobind
Thermal Plant (GHTP) Netizens Association, Lehra Mohabbat, in a
complaint to the in charge, District Glide Internet Services, has
requested to restore Internet service at Power Colony, GHTP, in the
district.
Youths
still falling prey to travel agents
Bathinda, December 7
Even as the district police has
launched a war against the unscrupulous travel agents operating in the
region, more and more unemployed youths of the rural and semi-urban
areas having small landholdings are falling prey to them.
3
injured in road mishaps
Bathinda, December 8
Two persons were injured today on
the Bathinda-Barnala road when an unidentified vehicle hit their
scooter and sped away. They were admitted to a hospital by volunteers
of a local NGO. The injured have been identified as Mr Kanwaljit Singh
and Mr Gurvinder Singh.
Boy
crushed to death by truck
Quality
of phone directory ‘poor’
Lambardar
‘awaits appointment’ for 23 yrs
Mansa, December 8
Mr Aggar Singh, a resident of
Sadda Singh Wala village of this district, continued to work as
Lambardar for 23 years without being appointed as such. He used to
attend various meetings as Lambardar but none of the officials,
including those of the Revenue Department, who are directly connected
with the working of the lambardars, cared to check his credentials.
Priest
held for cheating youths
Jalandhar, December 8
A priest who had allegedly
cheated four residents of Noormahal to the tune of Rs 7.5 lakh on the
pretext of sending them abroad was arrested here yesterday.
Man
running drug store sans licence held
Bathinda, December 8
The police has registered a case
under Section 420, IPC, at the Kotwali police station against Ranjit
Singh, a resident of Goniana Mandi, for selling intoxicants and
running a medical shop without a licence.
1
held for selling adulterated petrol
Bathinda, December 8
One person has been caught
red-handed while he was adding petrol to kerosene oil so that it could
be sold as petrol at a higher price.
11
held for gambling
Bathinda, December 8
The police has registered eight
cases against 11 persons under the Gambling Act and recovered Rs 4,350
from them.
Mother’s
earring snatched to buy drugs
Bathinda, December 8
How bad is the habit of taking
drugs is evident from the incident of snatching of an earring of a
woman by her drug-addict son to buy drugs.
Case
solved
‘Shiksha
abhiyan’ a mere farce?
Nathana (Bathinda),
December 8
The much-hyped Sarv Shiksha
Abhiyan being conducted in the state with funding from the Union
Government has allegedly been reduced to mere paper work.
Teachers
boycott BJP ministers’ function
Abohar, December 8
Teachers and non-teaching
employees of all three DAV colleges here boycotted functions of the
BJP ministers and held a demonstration today in protest against the
‘highly evasive and callous’ attitude of the government towards
the long-pending demands of the teachers of the privately managed
colleges in the state.
Teachers
burn minister’s effigies
Amritsar, December 8
Effigies of the Finance Minister,
Capt Kanwaljit Singh, were burnt here on a call given by Joint Action
Committee of the Management, principals, teachers and non-teaching
employees of the government-aided colleges of the Amritsar district.
Joshi
promises autonomy to SLIET
Longowal (Sangrur),
December 8
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Union
Minister for Human Resources Development, today announced that
academic autonomy to Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and
Technology (SLIET) here would be granted by his ministry immediately
after the file submitted by the SLIET authorities reaches him.
Traders’
complaint against ST staff
Chandigarh, December 8
Two Sriganganagar-based traders
were reportedly thrashed and duped of Rs 8000 by employees of the
Punjab Sales and Taxation Department (mobile wing) at Hari ke Patan
barrier while they were carrying a truck-load of goods on December 1.
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