Work unitedly, panches told
Barnala, July
11
Public relations minister Bikram Singh Majithia today said that Rs 2500 crore had been earmarked by the state government to provide safe drinking water and sanitation facility to the villages and the World Bank had launched a special scheme for the purpose.
NRI widow cheated of her child
Chandigarh, July 11
A Canadian NRI woman, Dupinder Kaur Hundal, has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Punjab and Haryana Court to secure the release of her nine-month-old son, also a Canadian citizen, from the custody of her in-laws, an influential Lapoke-based family related to a former Rajasansi
MLA.
Govt to oppose Ravi-Beas link-II
Chandigarh, July 11
As the Ravi-Beas link-II, proposed by the Union government at the behest of the Haryana government, has repercussions across the border, the Punjab government will oppose its construction at a meeting to be held in Delhi on July
18.
Tribune Impact
Rickshaw-puller’s son gets admission in pharmacy
course
Amritsar, July 11
It was dream-come-true for Om Parkash, son of a migrant rickshaw-puller from Bihar, who got admission into the Bachelor of Pharmacy course at Pandit
J.B. Government Polytechnic,
Hoshiarpur. Om Parkash expressed his gratitude to The Tribune, which has
highlighted the plight of poor bright students.
Kabul Blast
Ajay’s sacrifice inspires youth to join forces
Kanwan (Gurdaspur), July
11
Head constable of the ITBP Ajay Pathania, who laid down his life while protecting the Indian Embassy in Kabul on July 7, has become a hero for the residents of the area. His sacrifice has inspired the youth to join the defence
forces.
2 jawans to be awarded posthumously
Ludhiana, July 11
The two ITBP soldiers, who were martyred in the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul early this week, will be awarded for bravery
posthumously.
Bathinda villages reap rich harvest with toxic water
Bathinda, July 11
If canal water is not available and underground water unfit for irrigation, what can one do?. Use water released by factories to irrigate the fields. This is being done for 15 years in three villages of Bathinda district -
Kotbhara, Jeewan Singhwala and Kotphatta.
A farmer points toward suction pumps on Nashara drain used for irrigation at Kotbhara village in Bathinda district. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Fight against drugs goes online
Bathinda, July 11
To make the reach of his anti-drug campaign wider, DIG Jitendera Jain has launched a website against the menace that has gripped the youth of the Malwa belt of the
state. The home page of the website says, “Drugs have really caused devastating effect on our social fabric, economic growth and national milieu.
DIG Jitendera Jain launches his website on information about drug-deaddiction in Bathinda
on Friday. A Tribune photo
Unions protest anti-employee policies
Chandigarh, July 11
Members of various employee unions and federations from across Punjab today staged a protest against the anti-employee policies being adopted by the state government.
Members of the Punjab Mulazam Sangarsh Committee hold a protest in
Sector 34, Chandigarh. Photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Building bylaws: MC officials chargesheeted
Amritsar, July 11
The state government and the local Municipal Corporation have started tightening the noose around the neck of corporation officials for ignoring bylaws for benefiting the owners of some multiplexes and hotels. Two municipal town planners, two assistant town planners, five building inspectors of Amritsar had been chargesheeted.
Amritsar, July
11
California University has received flak from certain Sikh organisations for appointing controversial Sikh scholar Pishora Singh to Dr Jasbir Singh Saini Chair in Sikh and Punjabi
Studies.
Work on 24 railway overbridges reviewed
Chandigarh, July 11
PWD (B&R) minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa held a meeting with the Railway authorities at the Civil Secretariat here yesterday to sort out problems being faced in the expeditious completion of 24 railway overbridges in Punjab.
High Court
Former DGP Virk’s security to stay
Chandigarh, July 11
Taking up Punjab’s former director-general of Police (DGP) S.S. Virk’s petition for restoration of security, Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed that the current security arrangement would not be withdrawn till the next date of
hearing.
HC: Pb home secy, DGP fail to act against resiling witnesses
Chandigarh, July 11
The Punjab and Haryana High Court believes that the Punjab home secretary and the DGP have failed “to put the House in order and advance the course of justice”, while dealing with the matter of resiling
witnesses.
Amritsar, July 11
Bathinda, July 11
