Briefly State

Air Marshal Kumaria in Amritsar

AMRITSAR: Air Marshal DC Kumaria,Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Air Command,is on a two-day inspection visit to Amritsar,where he would be visiting the Forward Base Supporting Unit located at Raja Sansi as well as the Signals Unit located here. He arrived with wife Vaneeta Kumaria,President Air Force Wives Welfare Association (Regional) and was received by Group Captain GS Mann,Station Commander and Sunita Roy,President Air Force Wives Welfare Association (Local).

VC appeals to GNDU teachers to end protest

AMRITSAR: Taking a serious note of the ongoing boycott of evaluation of examination sheets by teachers on the call of Punjab-Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) and other organisations,Guru Nanak Dev University Vice-Chancellor Prof AS Brar on Wednesday appealed to the teachers to return to work. He said the University is determined to get the evaluation of scripts completed and declare results before June 30,2011 as per schedule. Brar in a statement issued today said that the decision of PCCTU to boycott evaluation is an extreme step and it would affect the fate of around 1.5 lakh students of colleges affiliated to GNDU.He regretted the decision of PCCTU to boycott the ongoing work of evaluation over the question of suspension of teachers of Khalsa College. He further said that it would ultimately delay their admissions to next higher classes. Any delay in declaration of results will lead to restlessness and indiscipline among students.

PPP roots for Punjabi diaspora

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government needs to urgently take up the matter of persons of Indian origin (PIO),especially those from Punjab,becoming victims of crime,racial abuse and religious intolerance in many countries with the Union Government,and the External Affairs Ministry needs to impress upon other countries where incidents of crime or abuse against PIOs are reported to ensure protection to their life and property,stated People’s Party of Punjab here on Wednesday. In a statement,PPP further stated that the practice of Indian persons wearing turbans being picked out for checking at International airports was a very humiliating experience and the Union government needs to take up the matter with countries like Italy.

Discrepancies in SGPC voters list; Calcutta write to Prime Minister

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Panthic Council head Manjit Singh Calcutta today shot off a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh,seeking his intervention in the alleged large scale enrollment of bogus voters for the upcoming general elections of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). He said in the communication that he was constrained to bring to the notice of the PM the extreme misconduct in conducting the elections to the religious body. “We have been regularly complaining to the Chairman Gurudwara Election Commission (appointed by Ministry of Home,Government of India) about the erroneous,incomplete voter forms,bogus registration of nearly 36 lakh voters in the last seven days and erroneouspublication and revision,without any correction of electoral rolls.

But all the protest letters fell on deaf ears and no action was taken,”,Calcutta complained. “The whole process undoubtedly has been tailored to the dictates of the ruling BJP-Akali Dal government in Punjab under the mischievous influence of RSS. It looks Chairman Gurudwara Election Commission is in a tearing hurry to announce the date of election so that the ruling party of Punjab could exercise governmental influence in its favor before the end of its regime,” he alleged.