Poll code comes into force
Chandigarh, December 29
The model code of conduct that came into force in Punjab today means several appointments, promises of transfer and promotions for employees, besides new schemes in
villages. The construction of roads or other infrastructure, that are in the pipeline, will have to be put on hold.
Endangered fish being poached
Gurdaspur December 29
Endangered golden mahasher fish was being poached illegally in the Ravi and Beas rivers in the district. The government has banned catching of mahasher variety of fish below the size of one feet. However, poachers are freely killing small- sized mahasher fish that further endangers their existence.
Salaries of border area project workers released
Amritsar, December 29
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Central Social Welfare Board have decided to release the salary arrears of 93 employees under the border area project schemes with immediate effect. Besides, they were being taken on the pay roll of the state social welfare board.
Thamburaj is Bombay Sappers’ Col Cmdt
Chandigarh, December 29
General Officer Commanding, 11 Corps, Jalandhar, Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj has been appointed as the Colonel Commandant of the Bombay Sappers. The Colonel Commandant’s Baton was handed over to him by the outgoing Vice Chief of the Army Staff Lt Gen S.
Pattabhiraman, at New Delhi today.
Munir Niazi: complete poet of our times
A baby boy born in the obscure village of
Khanpur near Hoshiarpur on April 9, 1928, had to migrate to the promised
land of Pakistan when he was still 19 and his family settled down in
Sahiwal. The trauma of displacement, in the mass migration from and the
struggle to start afresh imprinted itself on his sensitive soul. The
pain, however, was channelled into poetry and he was to be acknowledged as one
of the greatest poets of the classical tradition, equally proficient in Urdu and
his mother tongue, Punjabi.
Befitting honour for Gursharan Singh
Chandigarh, December 29
Gursharan Singh personifies simplicity. Venerated as the king of Punjabi theatre, he has been selected for Sangeet Natak Akademi Rattan award.
An institution in himself, he won the Sangeet Natak Award in 1993 and the
prestigious national Kalidas Samman in 2003. An author of 13 books, 132 short
and six-full-length plays with over 8,500 stage performances to his credit, this
chemical engineer stood tall in the toughest of times as a messiah of the under
privileged.
Strike forces farmers to sell cotton
Bathinda, December 29
With the cotton ginners’ strike entering second day, the markets here didn’t witness any fresh arrival today. The farmers of the state were now heading toward Haryana and Rajasthan for selling their produce. Thus, the resulting outflow of cotton is causing a huge revenue loss to the state government.
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