In Brief

Check influx of migrants,Dal Khalsa tells state government
Jalandhar
The Dal Khalsa has asked the state government to regulate the entry of migrants to the state on the basis of availability of job. Party leaders H S Dhami and Kanwarpal Singh said unchecked influx of migrant labour was posing threat to law and order in Punjab,hinting at the recent violence in Ludhiana. According to estimates,they said,the number of migrants in the state had reached around 26 lakh,one tenth of the total population of the state. Suggesting certain measures to check the influx of migrants,they said an Act should be passed to fix the upper limit of the percentage of jobs to be given to outsiders in both private and public sectors. They also suggested monitoring of the influx,setting up registration offices at all bus stands and railway stations and removal of all illegal slums.

Swine flu death toll three in Bathinda
Bathinda:With the death of a 30-year-old woman from Shaant Nagar in Ludhiana and a man from Nai Basti at the PGI,Chandigarh,on Thursday night,Bathinda has lost three of its residents to swine flu. A 57-year-old woman had earlier died due to the H1N1 virus a few days ago. “We have administered preventive medicines to the family members of all three deceased,” said Bathinda District Health Officer

Dr D P S Sekhon,adding that an isolation ward with six beds had been created at the civil hospital here.