Teachers allege violations of poll guidelines
Amritsar, February 18
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union (PCCTU) today criticised the Punjab chief electoral officer (CEO) for violating guidelines of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) regarding the assignment of election duties and the conduct of elections during the recent Assembly poll and parliamentary byelection.
Dullo writes to EC on Beas poll
Chandigarh, February 18
Even as the Punjab and Haryana High Court will be hearing a petition on the early conduct of polling in the Beas Assembly constituency, the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), Mr Shamsher Singh
Dullo, today shot off a letter to the Election Commission (EC) seeking that the elections to the constituency should be held before the counting is conducted across the state on February 27.
Trident strikes peace deal
Barnala, February 18
Apprehending trouble on the land acquisition issue, the Trident group has decided upon truce with cane growers by coughing up more than Rs 2 crore.
The management has conceded all demands of farmers, who have called off their agitation, satisfied with the deal in the rapprochement formula.
18 Sikhs leave for Pak today
Amritsar, February 18
The first jatha of 18 Sikhs, led by Mr Kulwant Singh Randhawa, a former SGPC secretary, would cross over to Pakistan to mark the 86th anniversary of Nankana Sahib on February 19.
PM’s wife sprains foot
Amritsar, February 18
Mrs Gursharan Kaur, wife of Primer Minister Manmohan Singh, sprained her foot during a marriage function of a close relative here this morning.
Mrs Gursharan Kaur was accompanied by her daughter Kiki, son-in-law Vijay, a senior professor at Delhi’s Saint Stephens College and grandson, who had specially come down from Delhi yesterday, to attend the wedding of Mr Kanwarpreet Singh, nephew of Dr Manmohan Singh.
All-woman expedition ends at Wagah
Wagah, February 18
An all-woman expedition led by Ms Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to conquer the Mount Everest, which started from Bhuj in Thar Desert of Gujarat on January 14, concluded here today.
An apology for a bus stand
Nabha, February 18
Condition of the town’s bus stand and bus services to its district headquarter Patiala is pathetic.
Bus stand lacks even basic facilities for travellers. Its only shed behind buses parking is broken and leaks from many places. There is no sitting arrangement under this. Only rods of eight fans and bases of electric tubelights are present. Shed provide no protection in summer, winter or rainy season.
1.13 lakh given polio drops
Pulse polio programme put off for week
Vandalism at temple: Protest against police inaction
Hoshiarpur, February 18
Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the Vishva Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the Shiv Sena and the Brahman Sabha, along with residents of
Rorian, burnt an effigy of the Hoshiarpur SSP in front of his house at the Mall Road here this evening.
7 injured as bus overturns
Sangrur, February 18
Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a private bus in which they were travelling overturned near a brick-kiln at Ladal village, near
Lehragaga, today.