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FMD vaccination to over 45 lakh animals
Security beefed up at Devi Talaab Temple
‘Unfit’ students seek review
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22-year-old drowns while saving a child
Fake witness arrested
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FMD vaccination to over 45 lakh animals
Jalandhar, April 13 Similarly, 80 lakh animals would be vaccinated against Hammerhoegic Septicemia (HS) in one year, he added. The minister was addressing a gathering of 1,000 owners of buffalos, whose high-milk yielding cattle were awarded cash prizes worth Rs 45 lakh at a state-level function organised by the department here. Mr Kang said that in case of the ongoing FMD vaccination drive, priority was being given to animals from the eight border districts. He added that the objective behind awarding cash prizes to high-yield buffalos was to encourage farmers to rear good quality “Murrah” and “Nili Ravi” breeds. He said owners of each of buffaloes with a daily milk yield of more than 22 kilogram were awarded with a cash prizes of Rs 10,000 each, while owners of each of buffaloes giving 22 kilogram had fetched prizes of Rs 6,000 each. Mr Kang said 50 per cent of the premium for insurance cover to buffaloes giving 15 kilogram and more milk would be borne by the department and owners of buffaloes with a daily yield in bracket of 12-15 kilogram would be given prizes in separate functions at Patiala, Ropar, Ludhiana and Faridkot. Chaudhary Jagjit Singh, the Punjab Minister for Local Bodies, was the chief guest. Mr D.S. Bains and Dr B.S. Sidhu, the Secretary and Director of Animal Husbandry Department respectively also spoke on the occasion. Others who were present included Dr H.S. Sandha, Deputy Director, and Dr Amar Iqbal, in-charge of the an Urban Estate-based veterinary polyclinic.
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Security beefed up at Devi Talaab Temple
Jalandhar, April 13 Security has been beefed up in the complex to ensure safety of tens of thousands of pilgrims who are likely to visit the temple to have a holy dip or “Shahi Snaan” in the temple’s pond. “Shahi Snaan” is organised every year in the temple premises to mark Baisakhi. The pond in the temple is filled with water drawn from all rivers and holy ponds of the country and with water begotten last year from the famed Hindu shrine of Katasraj in Pakistan. Mr Shital Vij, the chairman of the Sri Devi Talaab Temple Management Committee, said elaborate security arrangements had been made in view of the expected arrival of thousands of devotees from all over the country tomorrow. “Apart from the CCTVs, police officials have also been deployed. The arrangements for putting up a number of langars for the pilgrims have been finalised by the committee with the help of various religious organisations,” Mr Vij added.
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‘Unfit’ students seek review
Jalandhar, April 13 The parents of these candidates, who have even cleared the written test and interview of the Sainik School, are in a dilemma. They said the authorities of the private schools, in which their wards had already been studying, were asking them to deposit a fee for taking admission in the next class or face expulsion. The parents, who are more interested in getting their children enrolled into the Sainik School, said that they had deposited Rs 100 as fee, along with an appeal against the medical report and a document contradicting it before March 15, the cut-off date. They added that they had been asked to do it promptly, as the school was expected to complete the admission process by April 1. They said that seven days had passed since new classes had begun at Sainik School and yet they were not being informed about the date of review despite repeated telephone calls and visits to the school’s campus. It is learnt that while the medical review for the school candidates is usually conducted by the Military Hospital here, the hospital authorities have now refused to take up the cases, as they point out that only senior doctors at hospital like Research and Referral Hospital, New Delhi, can conduct the reviews. The staff of Sainik School today said they had approached the hospital authorities at New Delhi, but they had yet not given any date for conducting a medical review examination, rendering them totally helpless in this situation. They said that 65 out of the 90 fresh candidates for Class VI had joined the school. Major J.S. Thapa, Registrar of the school, said that all the seats of meritorious candidates, who wanted to get a medical review, had been kept vacant till the final report came. Dr Rakesh Madaan, one of the distressed parents, said that his son, who had applied for admission in Class IX and had stood second, was declared permanently unfit, as his vision of both eyes was reported to be 6/60 at the Military Hospital on February 21, whereas when he got his son’s eyes checked from a private hospital later, it was found to be 6/18 for both the eyes, which falls under the minimum acceptable visual standard for admission. He said that his son had slight myopia which was much lower than the minimum acceptable level of 2.5 D. Brig Zile Singh, Commandant, Military Hospital, could not be contacted. |
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22-year-old drowns while saving a child
Kapurthala, April 13 According to information, the deceased, Dilbagh Singh, along with his relatives, had gone to the river banks near Kishan Singh Wala village to perform a religious ceremony when the incident occurred. Present on the spot was Mr Baldev Singh, private secretary to Bibi Upinderjit Kaur, the MLA from Sultanpur Lodhi. He claimed that the youth jumped into the river to save a child, who had suddenly slipped into the waters. “After throwing the child on the banks, Dilbagh got trapped in deep waters and did not resurface,” Mr Baldev Singh said. He said nobody took the initiative to go into the river to rescue the youth. “We contacted the district authorities for divers to pull out the body, but the officials expressed their helplessness.” The deceased had got married two months back and had came to the village to attend the “sukhna” of his sister’s son.
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One crushed to death
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Fake witness arrested
Jalandhar, April 13 The judge had not ordered the arrest of Gurdeep Singh, who posed as one Balwinder Singh to testify in a drug recovery case. The judge got suspicious when the witness signed his “real” name in a hurry after the recording of his statement, as a witness from the defence side. The accused has been booked under Sections 193, 468, 471, and 120 B of the IPC, the police said.
— TNS |
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