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NRI robbed at gunpoint
Burglars strike at two Bilga houses
CD issue: BJP stages protest
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Epidemic scare looms over Batala
Honour NSC, forum tells postal dept
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GNDU does away with security supervisor Amritsar, April 10 The senior teachers were ‘directed' by the security staff to register their names for coming 'late'. On learning that the teachers were planning to hold a meeting to lodge protest, the VC placed one supervisor Darshan Singh under suspension with an immediate effect. However, when contacted, S.S. Chhina, security officer, refused to come on record as to why the supervisor was placed under suspension . It may be mentioned here that the VC had already installed security cameras on both the entry gates to check the entry of 'undesired persons'. |
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Colonies clamour for civic facilities
Parmod Bharti
Nawanshahr, April 10 But still, the basic civic amenities have virtually remained evasive for the residents, especially belonging to the outer colonies developed along Chandigarh Road, Rahon Road, Karyam Road, Garhshanker Road, etc. Over the past about three decades a number of colonies have developed in the town. Though the residents of the outer colonies have constructed well-furnished houses, they have been crying for the basic civic amenities like sewerage, drinking water, streets, drains and streetlights to be installed in the colonies. During the Nawanshahr assembly byelection in February 2000, the residents of the outer colonies raised their demand before then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal who ultimately “gifted” a HUDCO-assisted project for the extension and augmentation of sewerage and drinking water at a cost of Rs 774 lakh. The implementation of the project was started but the residents of the colonies developed on the outskirts could not benefit as the issue of road cutting charges on Chandigarh Road and Rahon Road could not be settled between the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the PWD (B&R). However, with the change of government in 2002, the project was left in the lurch. Then a new master plan was prepared. The previous Congress government again brought the town under 100 per cent sewerage and water supply scheme in September last year. Then local bodies minister Chaudhary Jagjit Singh inaugurated the project. Under it, Rs 366.84 lakh and Rs 150.53 lakh was earmarked for the extension of sewerage and drinking water facilities, respectively. So far, Rs 1.6 crore has been spent on the extension of sewerage and drinking water facilities under the project. An underground water supply pipeline has been laid, but the residents of the colonies developed on outskirts are yet to get the facilities. Moreover, once again with the change of government the work on the project has been put on hold for the past few weeks. Hopes run high whether this time there prayers would be fulfilled or not.
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NRI robbed at gunpoint
Jalandhar, April 10 The woman, Dalbir Kaur, was going to deposit the money in the Cooperative Bank located in the
village only. In the meantime, two youths approached her and asked her to hand over the bag. When she refused to do so, one of the youths fired a shot in the air and fled away from the spot with their two other accomplices sitting in a car nearby. The eyewitnesses noted down the number of the car. Senior police officials reached the spot and a red alert was sounded in the entire district and adjacent Kapurthala district, however, none of the robber could be nabbed. The SHO of Maqsoodan police station, Jaimal Singh, said the number of the car might be a fake one. However, the police was working on every possible angle to solve the case, he added. Meanwhile an FIR under sections 336 and 382 of the Indian Penal Code was registered at Maqsoodan police station against the |
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Burglars strike at two Bilga houses
Jalandhar, April 10 In his complaint, patwari Bhagram said they came to know about the theft on Tuesday morning when his wife Gurdeep went to the first floor and found that locks of the room and an almirah were broken. He said Rs 15,000 and two watches were found stolen. All the family members were sleeping on the ground floor when the incident,
he added. The thieves also broke into house of one Dharmendra Kumar who had gone to Baba Balak Nath along with his family to pay obeisance. Kumar said when they returned on Tuesday, they found Rs 5,000, a TV set and a CD player missing. Police have registered cases. |
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CD issue: BJP stages protest
Jalandhar, April 10 President of the local unit Shiv Dyal Chugh said that this happened despite the party’s explanation to the Chief Election Commissioner that the CD was not a part of the official campaign material and had been withdrawn. He termed the FIR as a malicious design of the Samajwadi Party and other pseudo-secular parties. Chugh pointed out that no FIR had been lodged against Lalu Prasad Yadav who used Godhra CD in the Bihar elections. |
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Traffic Travails
Nawanshahr, April 10 Installed at a whopping cost of Rs 19 lakh, the traffic police department had to stop operating these lights, just two weeks after their inauguration, as they were doing more harm than good. According to sources, the traffic congestion is so much on the main roads, including Ambedkar Chowk and Chandigarh Chowk, that even the lights fail to regulate the flow. Moreover, with the opening of Rahon - Machhiwara bridge across Sutlej, there has been a swarming increase in the town traffic. Adding to residents’ woes is the lack of proper staff in the traffic police department and official apathy as a result the traffic situation has reached an alarming proportions. “The real problem is encroachments. It slows down traffic and is a major source of nuisance,” said a resident while talking to The Tribune. “The sodium lights installed at Chandigarh, Rahon Roads are usually switched on late in the evening . We have approached the officials concerned on number of occasions, but nothing has been done.” In the last decade, the town has got just two proposals for removing congestion. Two former CMs -- Harcharan Singh Brar and Amarinder Singh -- had laid the foundation stones of Nawanshahr by-pass during the fag end of their tenures, just to get electoral benefits.
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Epidemic scare looms over Batala
Batala, April 10 Heaps of garbage can be strewn in the town. Citizens especially children, despite all precautionary measures possible with in their means, are suffering. The localities outside Khajuri Gate, backside Dr. D.R. Bhalla DAV Centenary School, R.D Khosla DAV Model School, S.L Bawa DAV College, Haathi Gate, inside Bhandari gate, outside Government. Senior Secondary School for boys, Gandhi Nagar, Gopal Nagar (one of the so called posh colony of the city) are affected. With a sudden change of climate, the breeding rate of mosquitoes. have accelerated. Executive officer, municipal council, Batala Manjinder Singh Bandesha assured that within next three days, D.D.T. and fogging would be carried out in the city. |
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Honour NSC, forum tells postal dept
Hoshiarpur, April 10 It
has ordered the senior superintendent of post offices and the assistant postmaster (national savings certificate), Hoshiarpur, to make payment of Rs 19,012 along with Rs 1,000 as cost of litigation to the complainant within one month. Balwant Singh filed a complaint before the District Consumer Forum in which he stated that the national savings certificate (NSC) for Rs 10,000 purchased on March 23, 2000, was not honoured by the authorities of the Postal Department on due date on the ground that the NSC was issued in violation of the notification of August 2, 2001. The forum held that Balwant is entitled for the refund of the amount with interest as the authorities of the Postal Department had failed in producing any evidence on the record to prove that the complainant was aware of the instructions contained in the notification of August 2 and the department cannot be allowed to take advantage of its own wrong. |
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