• Speed governors fail to discipline motorists

  Monday, 21/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120521/punjab.htm#7
  
  Speed governors installed in commercial vehicles to check over-speeding do not last even a single day after the vehicle is passed and granted a certificate by the Motor Vehicle Inspector (MVI) for its commercial use.

   

• Patiala MC’s income doubles in five years

  Sunday, 20/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120520/punjab.htm#1
  
  With efficient financial management, the Patiala Municipal Corporation (MC) has doubled its income in the past five years. In 2006-07, the MC’s income was Rs 35.72 crore, while the revenue generation for 2011-12 stood at Rs 74.33 crore.

   

• Cong MPs meet PM on ‘corridor’ to Sikh shrine

  Saturday, 19/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120519/punjab.htm#9
  
  Three Congress MPs from Punjab today called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, requesting him that Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur be linked with Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara at Narowal in Pakistan. The shrine in Pakistan is located less than 2 km from the border. Sikhs have been seeking a ‘corridor’ to connect the shrine with India.

   

• Be wary of CM, Dy CM, Amarinder tells MLAs

  Friday, 18/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120518/punjab.htm#3
  
  Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh today "advised" party legislators to avoid meeting the Chief Minister or the Deputy Chief Minister in a manner construed as being friendly to them.

   

• Govt hiding facts on thermal plant: Amarinder

  Thursday, 17/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120517/punjab.htm#6
  
  Training guns on the SAD-BJP government, the PCC president, Capt Amarinder Singh, has accused Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal of “hiding the ground reality” on the progress made in the 1980 MW Talwandi Sabo thermal power plant.

   

• Congress targets govt over beating up of council chief

  Tuesday, 15/05/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120515/punjab.htm
  
  The Congress has termed the alleged beating up of an elected representative in the presence of senior Cabinet ministers at an official function in Malerkotla yesterday as "murder of democracy" and an “example of vendetta politics unleashed by the SAD-BJP combine”.

   

Jassi Khangura released magazine - Tuesday, 28/02/2012

Jassi Khangura released magazine with Mr. Dhanwant Singh Hissowal, owner of a local newspaper 'Paar Utara,' at Hotel Park Plaza. In the picture, Mr. Dhanwant S. Hissowal, Mr. Ranjit S. Mangat, Mr. Bhag S. Dardi, Mr. Sukhpal S. Shampy Banohar and other Congress supporters and workers.

Indian-origin man is first Muslim mayor of UK town

Saturday, 19/05/2012

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Indian-origin-man-is-first-Muslim-mayor-of-UK-town/articleshow/13283930.cms

Indian-origin councillor Abdul Razak Osman has become the first Lord Mayor of the Islamic faith to hold the high office in the multi-cultural town of Leicester, which has a large minority of Indian origin people. Osman was born in Kenya and arrived in the UK in 1971. His late father Yousuf Razak worked on the East African Railway, and worked for a local engineering firm after moving to Leicester.