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BJP MP Navjot Sidhu on Friday said that a direct flight from Vienna to Amritsar and further to Takhat Hazoor Sahib in Nanded will start operating from October.

Direct flight to Vienna from Amritsar from October

JALANDHAR/AMRITSAR: BJP MP Navjot Sidhu on Friday said that a direct flight from Vienna to Amritsar and further to Takhat Hazoor Sahib in Nanded will start operating from October. Expressing gratitude to Union Minister of Aviation Vayalar Ravi for clearing the long pending demand,Sidhu said,the four days a week economy flight will connect Europe and Amritsar. He said that Ravi has already given green signal for the flight and the remaining formalities would be completed soon. It would be a Diwali gift for the people of Punjab, Sidhu said adding that he met the minister on Thursday and told him why the flight between Vienna and Amritsar was justified. He said that Punjab MPs,cutting across party lines,had supported the issue. The people taking this flight would be further connected by domestic air carriers to Mumbai and to Takht Hazoor Sahib Nanded free of cost, he added. Comtel Air would start these proposed flights. It has already submitted a proposal.

Notices to state,Centre over lottery tickets

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday issued notices to Punjab,Central government and the director of State Lotteries on a petition that allages more than the permissible number of lottery draws and lack of a system of checks and balances on the on-line lottery transactions. The petitioners,a forum called Awakening Civic Consciousness Among Common Citizen,alleged that number of draws goes up to 72 every day instead of the stipulated 24. The petitioners also alleged a nexus between persons operating authorized computer terminals,shopkeepers,financiers and the police in selling on-line lottery tickets.

HC questions quota for police ward

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has restrained Punjab from carrying out fresh appointments of wards of Punjab Police personnel against two per cent reservations made for them. The court also directed the state to explain the reasons and the logic behind making such reservation. The directions were passed by Justice Surya Kant on a petition filed by Ranjit Singh. The petitioner had challenged the state governments action of not giving him appointment against the seats reserved for wards of personnel. The petitioner had contended that in 1996,the Punjab Government had issued instructions,whereby two posts were reserved in the direct recruitment for the wards of Punjab Police personnel and a number of appointments were made under this reservation policy.

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