Kamaldeep Singh Brar

Gori Phelwan is a veteran Congress worker from Maqboolpura. He is among those who think that sports can lift Maqboolpura out of drug menace.

Tarn Taran again in spotlight; Cong MLA says supply chain broken

Who are the ‘Jodhpur prisoners’ who were detained after Operation Blue Star? Why do they want compensation?

Congress MLA from Patti, Harminder Singh Gill, was one of the 379 people arrested from the Golden Temple in 1984 and later sent to a jail in Jodhpur. Of these, 40 filed a case for compensation after their release.

Victims were allegedly kept in illegal detention initially in Amritsar and then in Jodhpur jail after Operation Blue Star had ended. In its plea, Centre has said that it was not in jurisdiction of Amritsar court to hear the petition and the plaintiffs had, in fact, joined terrorists during Operation Blue Star.

Avtar Singh, secretary, SGPC, said, “Controversy over the SC scholarship scheme has badly hurt the financial condition of our colleges. We have been awaiting payment of around Rs 20 crore from the government. It is the fee amount that we didn’t charge SC students in hope that government will pay us.”

Till now, the head of Damdami Taksal was the only representative of the body and all decisions were taken at his level.

Distilleries in Punjab have the capacity on paper to consume 25 lakh quintals of molasses. In reality, though, they use up only 17 lakh quintals. Mills manage to sell around 5 lakh quintals to other states, while the rest is carried over.

During the in-camera trial, which began around 10.45 am and continued till 3 pm, the prosecution moved an application seeking directions to keep the accused in Pathankot District Jail during the pendency of the trial.

Gurjant Singh, who is from Ludhiana and recently moved to Australia for studies, became a social media hit about a year ago after he started going live on Facebook on the issue of vulgarity in Punjabi songs.

While the mill was found to have been at fault, the molasses spill has also underlined that the PPCB has no policy of disallowing industrial units near water bodies.

In the only action so far against the sugar mill, the state’s wildlife department has produced a challan in a court at Batala, which has kept the next hearing for June 2.

This announcement to form the censor board came after a huge controversy that had erupted last month over the release of movie ‘Nanak Shah Fakir’, based on life of first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev.

Two liquor-making units located on the premises of the mill are functioning.

Meanwhile, Saturday brought some good news for the wildlife officials who sighted two dolphins near Harike Wetland on Saturday, for the first time since the spillage.

Officials are concerned about two species in particular, the endangered Indus Dolphin and Ghariyal.

A molasses tank has to be equipped with facilities for re-circulation and for pumping the molasses from one storage tank to another. It should have an air injection system and adequate ventilation on the roof top.

Both the victims were residents of Khemkaran village. The girl’s father is among those arrested.

Since the 2016 Air Force base attack, this police station receives an alert once every fortnight, including one two weeks ago. Across its seven check-posts, sand bags go up as men wait for ‘lean days’