Press Releases Punjabi

• Khaira reveals excise dept fine on liquor-baron Akali MLA

  Thursday, 31/07/2014
  
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  CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress spokesman Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Wednesday brought forth certain documents revealing imposition of ` 10 lakh as fine on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Deep Malhotra for hoarding old stock, and the payment of ` 5.66 crore as levy thus. Khaira, a former MLA, had lodged a complaint with regard to non-payment.

   

• Akalis misusing state machinery, says Jassi

  Thursday, 31/07/2014
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140731/punjab.htm#7
  
  Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda) : Congress candidate Harminder Jassi today launched his campaign for the Talwandi Sabo bypoll after paying obeisance at Takht Sri Damdama Sahib. He accused the state government of misusing administrative machinery to help the SAD candidate win the byelections.

   

• Jakhar slams Ranike on Shagun scheme

  Wednesday, 30/07/2014
  
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  CHANDIGARH: Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday slammed minister for welfare of scheduled castes and backward classes Gulzar Singh Ranike for “not keeping” his July 9 promise to release Rs 26.39 crore as Shagun to 17,594 scheduled caste girls that was due up to May 2014.

   

• Akalis resorting to tax terrorism, says Preneet

  Wednesday, 30/07/2014
  
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  PATIALA: The Congress will stand by traders in the August 10 shutdown that the state government is trying hard to scuttle.

   

• Protesting ETT teachers get Cong, AAP support

  Wednesday, 30/07/2014
  
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  Mohali : The ongoing protest by ETT teachers and ETT (Tech 1) unemployed teachers has started acquiring political colour. They have got support of the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

   

• Ranike lied on Shagun funds: Jakhar

  Wednesday, 30/07/2014
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140730/punjab.htm#9
  
  Abohar : Though Gulzar Singh Ranike, Minister for Welfare of SCs and Backward Classes, had claimed on July 9 that the state government had released a sum of Rs 26.39 crore under the Shagun Scheme for the benefit of 17,594 SC girls, the bank officials concerned say they have yet to receive the funds.

   

Budget gets Modi stamp, but Oppn asks where are achhe din

Wednesday, 09/07/2014

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NEW DELHI: When minister DV Sadananda Gowda stood up in the Lok Sabha to present his maiden railway budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stamp was hard to miss.

Last surviving crew in US bombing of Hiroshima dies

Thursday, 31/07/2014

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140731/world.htm#1

New York : Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the Enola Gay plane that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, has died at a retirement home in Georgia at age 93, media reports said.