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State pledges Trust land to fulfil CM’s promise
Amritsar, December 12
The cash-strapped state government has adopted a unique way to fulfill Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s commitment to the people of Amritsar to revamp the Holy City by giving a grant of Rs 250 crore.

Opposition to Punjab Bandh
Many SAD (A) leaders arrested
Chandigarh, December 12
The Punjab police today arrested many leaders of the SAD (Amritsar) across
the state.
Simranjit Singh Mann with other SAD (A) leaders at the Punjab Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A
Tribune photograph

Shiv Sena chief held
Patiala, December 12
Nearly 12 Shiv Sena (Hindustan) activists allegedly burnt photograph and an ‘effigy’ of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale on the Rajpura road here today.

Bandh call: Flag march by police
Nabha, December 12
The police today organised a flag march in the town to boost morale of the residents.

SAD office opens tomorrow
Chandigarh, December 12
The Shiromani Akali Dal’s new office in Sector 28 here will be opened formally on December 14. The complex will be formally inaugurated after an ardas at the end of akhand path which started here this morning.

Working president of the SAD Sukhbir Badal and media adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Harcharan Bains at the SAD’s new office in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Cong to oppose prohibitory orders
Chandigarh, December 12
The Punjab unit of the Congress has flayed the prohibitory orders, imposed under Section 144 CrPC, in some districts to prevent the Congress party from lodging protest against the anti-people policies of the SAD-BJP government in Punjab.

COMMUNITY

Structures along border
BSF expresses concern to Rangers
Attari, December 12
Construction of defence structures along the international border, drug trafficking and inadvertent border crossings remained the core issues at the quarterly meeting between the BSF and the Pakistani Rangers held at the Attari Joint Check Post today.

Brig M. Qaiser Khan Tareen, Deputy Director-General of Pakistan Rangers, shakes hand with a BSF jawan as he arrives along with BSF Deputy Inspector-General G.S. Virk for a meeting at the Attari border on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Prabhjot Singh

Caste bias charges against GND varsity dept head
Prof backs woman colleague
Amritsar, December 12
A senior professor in the department of commerce, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) today corroborated the caste bias charges levelled by a woman programmer against the head of the department Dr Amarjit Singh Sidhu.

Compassionate Recruitments
State govt to clear all pending cases
Chandigarh, December 12
The Punjab Government has decided to clear all pending cases of the dependents of deceased teachers and others employees of the State Education Department for recruitment on compassionate ground.

Development
Govt has to mobilise Rs 2,000 crore
Chandigarh, December 12
Official estimates say the SAD- BJP government in Punjab will need Rs 8,000 to Rs 10,000 crore in coming five years to fund development plans in the state.

Minister seeks CM help to save friend
Gurdaspur, December 12
Coming to the rescue of her family friend, who has been implicated in a “fake” case by the Gurdaspur police allegedly on the directions of a Cabinet minister of the SAD from Dhariwal, health minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla has written to the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal seeking his intervention in the matter.

RMOs-docs gulf sinks health programmes
Kharar, December 12
The implementation of national health programmes has become difficult in state due to lack of coordination between rural medical officers (RMOs) posted in villages and civil hospital doctors at district level.

Rs 3.30-lakh number for Rs 7-lakh vehicle
Sangrur, December 12
Months before he bought a Safari Décor vehicle for more than Rs 7 lakh and waited to get registration number for it of choice- 0001.

Attackers take away victim’s body
Ludhiana, December 12
Armed youths shot at an old man point-blank and whisked away his body in a car late this evening.