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Couple’s ‘religious’ trip ends in death
Chandigarh, June 15 The couple died when the car rammed into a truck at about 10 pm on June 13. One of the two surviving daughters of the couple - Parul - faintly remembers the accident and the severe impact it caused. She is now at her residence in Chandigarh, and has sustained severe facial injuries, besides multiple fractures in her arms. With her is her younger brother Jugaad — a student at St Kabir School who escaped unhurt. The eldest among the children of Sohals — Amitoj — however is still recuperating at Inscol hospital where she was shifted from Civil Hospital Nawanshahr day before yesterday. She has been operated upon for a compound fracture in her right hand/arm. Unable to come to terms with the tragedy, Parul, a student of Carmel Convent is still silent. She, however, knows about her parents’ demise as she was the one who informed her relatives about the accident on June 13. She called up her maternal grandfather Mr Nihal Singh, a Sector 34 resident, and told him that they had sustained injuries while her parents were dead. For the Sohal family, the tale has been one of sheer tragedy. Relatives, who assembled at the Sector 8 residence to console the children, told Chandigarh Tribune that the Sohals had been celebrating their eldest daughter Amitoj’s success at the All India CBSE PMT. “She had scored 2000 rank in All India CBSE PMT and was readying for her counselling. She had even cleared Manipal PMT with rank 1200, and was to go to Manipal on June 19 for counselling. In fact, her father and mother had undertaken the trip to Harmander Sahib to thank God and seek his blessings for a prosperous future of her daughter,” said Mr Nihal Singh, the children’s grandfather. The paternal grandparents of children reside in Mohali with their other son.
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2 held for kidnapping minor
Mohali, June 15 According to a press note issued by SP, Varinder Pal Singh, Mr Mukesh Kohli, a resident of Kumbra village, had complained to the police that her sister, who is about 15 years old, was called by Kirna to her house on June 2. She took the girl to a room where Komal was already sitting . Kirna left both of them in the room and bolted the door from outside. It is alleged that Komal then raped the girl . Later, they threatened the girl and Kirna took both of them to Ambala Cantt from where they were made to take a train for Delhi. In another case, the police has arrested Harbans Singh who had allegedly stolen Rs 27,321 from the shop of Mr Parminder Singh. Harbans Singh worked as an employee in the shop. The stolen amount was recovered from him. Meanwhile, the police has received two complaints of snatchings from different parts of the town. Mr Nirmal Singh, a resident of Phase II, alleged that two persons moving on a motor cycle snatched his mobile phone while he was coming back to his house. In another case, Ms Hansdeep Kaur, a resident of Chandigarh, said that when she was going back after attending her classes, two youths on a motor cycle snatched her purse which contained Rs 2,900 , a mobile phone and other documents.
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Estate Office ‘modifies’ Right to Information Act
Chandigarh, June 15 While the Act clearly states that an applicant has to apply on a plain paper with the requisite fee at the designated counter, the applicants are asked to first get their application ‘‘signed’’ from the Central Assistant Public Information Officer (Designated Officer), Mr Rajiv Tewari, who is working as Section Officer (Administration) or the Central Public Information Officer, Mr Uma Shankar, AC (F and A) Administration. As per the Act, there is no need to take signatures from the designated officer. ‘‘The applicant are asked to route their applications through the information officer for the reasons best known to the officers concerned ’’, said the President of the Forum for Public Affairs, Mr Chander Mukhi Sharma, who also had go through this ‘‘set-off-rules’’ to submit his application. He had sought information on sensitive posts in the building branch, enforcement wing and the Estate Office. ‘‘A person manning the public information counter at the Centurion Bank of Punjab branch in Estate Office asked me get the application signed from Mr Tewari’’, said Mr Sharma. This is not an isolated case of indifference on the part of the designated public information officers. A resident of Sector 22, Mr Vinod Sharma, has been running from pillar to post to post to seek details about guidelines on running coaching centres from the Information Officer in the UT Estate Office. ‘‘I have made repeated visits to the Mr Rajiv Tewari and Mr Uma Shankar to seek the information’’, he told the Chandigarh Tribune. Harried, he has complained to the appellate authority, in this case the Deputy Commissioner. Mr Sharma had applied on April 26, 2006, to seek details about the policy governing the running of coaching centres in SCOs, whether coaching centres can be run from residential premises, and coaching centres can be run in villages. All that the applicant had sought was information from the Information Officer, under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The reply has to be given within a month. Need to display provisions of the Right to Information Act The purpose of the Act was to promote transparency in the working of every public authority . There was a need to display the provisions of the act at public place in the Estate Office. Mr Chander Mukhi Sharma, President of the Forum for Public Affairs, met the Home Secretary seeking display of the information prominently outside offices or at the entrance of respective buildings.
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Plan to set up coaching institute
Chandigarh, June 15 The institute will work out distinct courses for entrance into medical and engineering institutes. A special cell will be set up for the civil services examination, besides certain other examinations. Students from the weaker sections of the society who cannot meet the expenditure to make “heavy” payments for special classes will be the top priority. The idea mulled by the Sub-Group of Education constituted by the UT Administrator
has received a nod of the Advisory Council. Gen S.F. Rodrigues (retd), the
The project modalities are being worked out. The administration wants to give a free training programmes to the economically weaker sections of society. Instead of a general curriculum for all special classes, the institute will work out special courses for different examination. “The training for entrance exam to medical courses is separate from the engineering courses and similarly for other professional courses. We will be involving subject experts and also coaching professionals for helping us design the courses”, a senior officer said. The first work on agenda is to identify the work-place and the faculty for the special classes. Panjab University is ready to offer the available space in the nascent stages, however, the Administration will have to make permanent arrangements later. Arranging the expert faculty will be another daunting task.
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Surinder Kaur’s kin remember her fondly
Chandigarh, June 15 The agony is indescribable, so much so that Dolly Guleria cannot still come to terms with the sudden demise of her mother who had been her companion in life and music for long years. “I am an unfortunate daughter who could not even bid farewell to her mother. I had never thought she would not return from her US trip this time. In fact, she had been in the hospital ever since she left Panchkula on May 3. Her condition deteriorated by the day. But we had not given up on hope,” said a visibly shaken Dolly. Handling phone calls since morning, Dolly forgot to eat or drink. Time and again she would slip into a corner to look at the portrait of her mother. “We took this picture long back. It represents three generations of singers in our family. The trend was set by my mother who defied tradition to emerge a successful singer in her times. I took it further and now my daughter Sunaini sings,” said Dolly, taking a trip down the memory lane, which goes back to Lahore. Surinder Kaur was born at Lahore in 1929. Surinder Kaur — one among the five sisters — was lucky to have the support of her brothers who ensured that she rose in her chosen vocation which was Punjabi music. “For the first time, my mother sang for the Lahore Radio as a 12-year-old. Then there was no looking back. She was married at the age of 18,” Dolly tells The Tribune. Surinder Kaur’s marriage proved her date with destiny as her better half charted the path of her success. Dolly recalls how her father Joginder Singh Sodhi spent hours hunting for purposeful lyrics that his wife could put into music. People like Nand Lal Noorpuri gave music for Surinder Kaur’s songs, and gradually she went from strength to strength singing for films like “Shaheed” and for people alike. “But my mother was the closest to people. She introduced the culture of concerts to Punjab and also pioneered it. In her lifetime she recorded 2000 songs including the golden hits like “Lathe di chadar”, “Suhe ve cheere valeya” and “Kaala Doriya”,” says Dolly. While Dolly and her husband S.S. Guleria are trying to pick the threads of their life after Surinder Kaur’s death, the singer’s only surviving sister Manjit Kaur is eager to join her on the spiritual journey. At her home in Panchkula, she sat in the company of her sister’s portrait all this day.
After her husband’s demise, Surinder Kaur could never produce fresh music. She penned her thoughts in this poem: “Ni mai jaana rab de kol…Dil mere nu chain na aave phir ni aan daavandol…” The Nightingale has finally joined her companion in heaven.
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Mayor justifies visit to Germany
Chandigarh, June 15 He said Ms Shayma Negi, a councillor, had no such special claim to be included in the study tour. “As per her statement published in a section of the Press she seems exceeded all limits by throwing to winds official and party discipline as all allegations levelled by her against the visiting councillors and officers are totally baseless, mischievous and based on personal motives only,” he added in a statement issued here today. Explaining the background of the tour, he said that the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh had entered into a memorandum of understanding on July 8 with M/s Jai Prakash Associate Ltd. for the setting up of a garbage processing plant on built, operate and transfer basis. The implementation agreement with the said company was signed on December 30, 2005. He said the said company was to ensure that the plant set up by it at Chandigarh was of the best engineering standard and bound to arrange at its own cost a visit of three officers and three councillors of the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh. This was to enable them to see a functional municipal solid waste processing plant in Germany to enable the officers and councillors concerned to access the existing international practices and technology for a municipal solid waste processing functional plant to emulate the same higher international standards at Chandigarh. The Mayor said as per terms and conditions of the implementation agreement, the entire expenditure on the visit of the councillors and officers of the Municipal Corporation to Germany was to be borne by the project developer. He added that his visit along with two councillors including Mrs Lalit Joshi, Subhash Chawla and three officers namely Mr P.S. Aujla, Commissioner, Mr H.S. Khandola, Joint Commissioner and Dr G.C. Bansal, Medical Health Officer was an authorised tour with the prior permission of the Chandigarh Administration and other authorities concerned. He said it was the prerogative of the Mayor to select the councillors for the said visit. The first Mayor Mrs Lalit Joshi and the second Mayor Mr Subhash Chawla of the present House were included in the team on the basis of experience, seniority and merit.
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Press Club trekking team flagged off
Chandigarh, June 15 During the expedition, the team will cover Sarahan, Sangla Valley, Reckong Peo, Tabo, Kaza, Losar, Kunjam Pass, Chandertal and Rohtang Pass. The team members include Adventure Committee chiarman Pritam Singh Rupal, co-chairman Amarnath Vashisth, convener Umesh Ghrera, Sushil Sharma, Pradeep Dhull, Pankaj Vasudeva, Sukhvir Singh, Akash Ghai, Arun Naithani, Rohit Awasthi, Arvind Saini, Ajay Jalandhari, Surjit Singh Saini, Manjit Singh Sidhu, and Charanjit Singh, Assistant Director, Youth Services, Punjab.
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Footpath workers stage protest
Chandigarh, June 15 The workers are demanding photo I-cards and also fabricated structures to carry out their business. The workers said that they been assured on several occasions by the administration in the past, a press release
said. TNS
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Ministry gives clearance to issue SC, ST certificates
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Two of snatchers’ gang arrested
Chandigarh, June 15 Giving details about the incident, Deputy Superintendent of Police (East), Mr Vijay Pal Singh, said Mr Raj Kumar of Burail village, an employee working with a Sector 40-based private company, informed the police that two scooter-borne unidentified persons snatched his bag containing Rs 45,000 and some other documents from a petrol station in Sector 26 at around 2.15 pm. Mr Kumar had withdrawn the money from HDFC Bank in Sector 8 and was going to the transport area in Sector 26. On the way he stopped at the petrol pump, unmindful of the fact that he was being observed by the snatchers, who were following him. Judging an opportunity one of the snatchers gave a push to Mr Kumar’s motor cycle and decamped with his bag. Soon after the matter was reported to the police, a massage was flashed across they city with the description about the snatchers and their scooter. In the meantime, the Sector 17 police got a clue that the snatchers were moving in Sector 22. Subsequently, a team comprising Inspector Jagbir Singh, Inspector Sukhpal Singh Rana, Sub-Inspector (SI) Dilsher Singh Chandel, SI Harinder Singh Sekhon and SI Rajinder Singh swung into action. They set up a picket in Sector 22 opposite the Sector 17, the ISBT and spotted two LML Vespa scooters bearing registration number CH-01-Y-5715) and PB-08-Z-1648), which were coming from Cricket Stadium side. When the police signalled the
scooterists to stop they tried to dodge the cops and this confirmed the suspicion of the police. The police team gave a chase to them and intercepted one of the scooters bearing a Punjab’s registration number, while persons on other scooter escaped. The DSP said the arrested persons had been identified as Sham Singh and Sandeep hailing from Adarsh Colony in Muradabad. Their search led to recovery of Rs 25,000. About the rest of the amount the accused told the police that they had given it to their accomplices. During interrogation they disclosed the identities of their other two accomplices as Ravinder and Charsi, who also belonged to the same locality. They belonged to criminal tribe known as Bhatu and they are history sheeters. The police recovered fake railway travel passes from them, which the accused claimed to have purchased for Rs 100 from their native place.
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JE, contractor booked
Panchkula, June 15 Acting on a tip off, the CIA staff team laid a trap and managed to seize and cement being allegedly downloaded in an industrial plot owned by a known industrialist of the city. Mr Balbir Singh, SP, Panchkula , said the truck-loads of cement were purchased by the HPWD for the Ambuja cement factory in Darlaghar located in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh for the construction of Shiksha Sadan building in the city. The HPWD department has allocated the construction of the building to a construction company. The industrialist in connivance with Dalip Kumar Sharma, a junior engineer of the HPWD, and Satish Kumar, a partner of the construction company, instead of unloading it at the government godown took the trucks to a plot in Industrial Area. A case under Sections 406, 420, 379, 311 and 120 of the IPC has been registered against Satish Kumar and Dalip Kumar Sharma.
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Minor raped in Panchkula
Panchkula, June 15 The incident occurred when Kewal Krishan, who lived on the ground floor, found the girl playing alone. He reportedly took her to a secluded corner of the building after luring her and committed the crime. Mr Balbir Singh, SP, said the girl was living along with her family on the first floor of the building. After finding the girl alone on the ground floor, Kewal Krishan raped her. The family came to know about the incident and subsequently the victim’s father lodged an FIR at the Sector 10 police station. After getting a medical check up of the victim conducted at the General Hospital, Sector 6, a case under Section 376 of the IPC was registered against the suspect. The police arrested the suspect Kewal Krishan, in the evening. This is the second incident of rape of a minor in the city in the past two months. In April, a 69-year-old retired Excise and Taxation Officer had allegedly rapped a minor domestic help migrant girl in the absence of her parents in Sector 16. The case came to light after the girl complained of stomach ache and was admitted to the General Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh. Father of the victim, a washerman by profession, complained to the police that Verinder Singh Chauhan, a retired Excise and Taxation Officer, Chandigarh, had committed the crime when his daughter was alone in their hut.
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Cyclist crushed to death
Chandigarh, June 15 Sources in the Industrial Area police station said Prem Kumar, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, was crossing the road when the truck (HR-24-5499) coming from other side knocked him down and crushed him to death. The victim died on the spot. He sustained serious head injuries in the accident. The truck driver lost control over his vehicle and his truck struck on the un-metalled side of the road. The body remained under the truck for a long time and it was only extracted from under the rear tyres of the truck after a carne was pressed into service to pull the truck. The police said the truck was registered in Bilaspur district in Himachal Pradesh and efforts are on to trace its driver. Meanwhile, a case of causing death due to rash and negligent driving has been registered in this regard. The body was shifted to the Sector 16 General Hospital.
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Mobile snatcher nabbed
Chandigarh, June 15 Smack seized:
Vehicles stolen:
Two separate cases of thefts have been registered in this connection.
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SBI launches cash back programme
Addressing a press conference, Mr S.S. Sharma, General Manager of SBI, Chandigarh Circle, said the
programme would apply to only those transactions made at merchandising outlets in the city. The ATM holders from other cities could avail the offer by suing their cards to shop in the city. The total number of merchandising establishments in the city was 202. The amount of cash back will be credited to the user's account automatically after the period of campaign was over.
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Chandigarh, June 15