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Bid to blow up US Visa Application Centre
College teachers’ strike from today Teachers to court arrest again Officers asked to spend funds by Jan 15
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Plot grab: two convicted Jobless even with merit
2 undertrials escape from courts complex Money, gold robbed from house Men found pilfering wheat, flee
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Bid to blow up US Visa Application Centre Jalandhar, December 20 Tejinder Singh of village Jhandi of Hariana police station in Hoshiarpur district planted the crude bomb in a corner of the outer wall of the centre. A guard noticed him and tried to nab him ,but he threw chilli powder in his eyes. He hurled a petrol bomb ,but it burst midway. In the meantime other members of the staff overpowered him. The SHO of the concerned division number four, Mr. Satinder Chadha, took the man in custody and removed the crude bomb. Tejinder Singh told mediapersons that he had been denied US visa. According to SP City One, Mr. Satinder Singh ,said Tejinder Singh had been deported from the USA in 2003. Since then, he had been trying to get US visa as his family members including his parents, two brothers and two children were settled there. He had got divorce from his US -settled wife, he added. Meanwhile, an FIR under Section 307 (attempt to murder) and other relevant sections of the Explosives Act has been filed against him at division number four. |
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College teachers’ strike from today Jalandhar, December 20 In a joint statement issued here today, Prof H.S. Walia and Dr Jagwant Singh, president and general secretary of the union, respectively, said the decision was taken to press for the implementation and notification of the pension gratuity scheme. They lamented that though the political leadership was in favour of their demand, the Finance Department was impeding their cause by painting a false picture. The teachers said during their meeting with Punjab Cabinet sub-committee members - comprising Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Surinder Singla and Ch Jagjit Singh - on December 18 at the resident of Ms Bhattal, they were assured of clearance to the pension gratuity scheme at a meeting of the committee chaired by the Chief Minister, but to no avail. Professor Walia and Dr Singh alleged that officials of the Finance Department were busy inflating their expenditure and deflating the initial corpus, while political leaders were mum on keeping their poll promise. |
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Teachers to court arrest again Jalandhar, December 20 The teachers, who staged a dharna today on the campus of Devi Sahai Senior Secondary School, Mandi Road, said they had earlier begun courting arrest from December 15 but withdrawn it after receiving assurance from the government. They said five days had passed and no written assurance or document in this regard had reached them. A member, Gurvinder Saini, said over 100 teachers would go to Chandigarh tomorrow to court arrest. The members later held a dharna at Company Bagh after holding a rally. |
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Officers asked to spend funds by Jan 15
Kapurthala, December 20 The departments here got out of the Rs 11 crore, Rs 5 crore in last financial year and Rs 6.30 crore in the current financial year, it is learnt. The unused amount included Rs 3 crore allocated under Rajiv Gandhi Public Health Welfare Scheme, Rs 1.70 crore for cleaning streets, handpumps and ponds, Rs 1 crore for repairing roads in urban areas, Rs 45 lakh for installing tubewells ,allocated under Punjab Nirman Scheme, Rs 30 lakh for building stadium and Rs 70 lakh for rural water supply schemes, said the sources. So much so, Rs 50 lakh distributed among different municipalities and other departments concerned under the Kali Bein beautification project was also not used. Even yesterday, the Industrial Training Minister, Ms Gurkanwal Kaur, Chairperson, Kapurthala District Development and Planning Board, and the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Raminder Singh, took note of the unused funds. The minister and the Deputy Commissioner asked the officers concerned to use the funds on specified development projects by January 15. |
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Plot grab: two convicted Phagwara, December 20 According to the FIR , the government had given plots to homeless for their in Bhanoki village in 1974-75. The then member of the panchayat Piara Singh lodged a complaint with the then SDM Dharampal Gupta in 1998 that plot no 17 had been allotted to Harman Kaur whereas no woman with the said name stayed in the village. The complainant in his statement said that a senior Congress leader got the mutation of the said plot in his name by producing one Surinder Kaur as Harnam Kaur while Mehnga Ram and Agya Ram were witnesses to the sale deed. The then SSP, Kapurthala, ordered the Sadar police for registration of a case of fraud against four persons identified as senior Congress leader Ram Murti, nambardar Mehnga Ram, nambardar Agya Ram and a former sarpanch Amrik Singh. During the proceedings , nambardar Agya Ram died while former sarpanch was absconding. The court found Ram Murti and Mehnga Ram guilty. However, the accused have filed an appeal in the Sessions at Kapurthala. |
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Jobless even with merit
Jalandhar, December 20 Mitesh, a local candidate, has been upset at the issuance of appointment letters to other candidates, while his endless wait for reply to his objection for not being given a call continues. Giving details, Mitesh said he had applied online for the post under registration No. 18395. He attended an interview and submitted all documents in original as required for the purpose. But to his surprise, the results announced by C-DAC, on behalf of the Punjab Government on November 21, showing 50 candidates in general category (male) with a cut-off percentage of 63.12, did not include his name. The candidate rued that though he had scored 66.7 per cent in B.Ed and 63.5 per cent in MA (making an aggregate of 65.1 per cent), he had not been selected. Claiming 16th rank as per his merit, Mitesh said he had not added his internal assessment as per a decision taken later and with it his rank would have gone even higher. Mitesh said on the day of his result, he had raised objection through e-mail. Four days later, he received a reply which read: “Thanks for your e-mail. Your case is under consideration. Wait for the next call.” He rued that though nearly a month had elapsed, he had not received a call. He said he had even tried to meet the C-DAC staff personally and contact the DPI but to no avail. He said the subordinate staff there did not let him meet any top officials there. |
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2 undertrials escape from courts complex Jalandhar, December 20 The escapees ,Sonu, alias Kaka, is a permanent resident of Nepal, The two undertrials and other jail inmates were brought in a bus to the complex by an ASI,who handed them over to An FIR under Sections 223 and 224 of the IPC has been lodged against the escapees and Constable Santokh Singh. |
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Money, gold robbed from house Batala, December 20 Jagdish Singh, who lives with his family in a ‘dera’ built by him on a piece of farm land on the outskirts of the village, told mediapersons here yesterday that on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, when his family was asleep, a group of robbers, with muffled faces and armed with sharp-edged weapons, entered his house and asked the family members to go into one room. They then broke open the lock of his almirah and took away the money and gold ornaments. He alleged that the robbers also beat him and his family members up with weapons when they tried to resist. The police has registered a case. |
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Men found pilfering wheat, flee
Phagwara, December 20 They saw some men loading two trucks (PB 05 J 7777 and RJ 13 GA 0352) with wheat bags from the warehouse after they had tied three watchmen on duty with ropes. On seeing the police, the men fled the spot. The police has impounded the trucks and seized 115 wheat backs from these.
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6 held for thefts Phagwara, December 20 In another incident, shuttering material worth Rs 10,000 was stolen from the commercial premises of Davinder Kumar in nearby Chaheru village last night. |
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Residents’ woe
Nawanshahr, December 20 |
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Mittal is Bar chief Phagwara, December 20 Other office-bearers are: vice-president - Ravinder Sharma; general secretary - Dimple Syal; joint secretary - Jitesh Bhalla; cashier - Sanjeev Khattar. |
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US orthopaedist on visit Nawanshahr, December 20 Dr Sidhu is secretary of US-based NGO North American Sikh Medical and Dental Association (NASMDA). |
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