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Rail Roko Passengers stand in queues at railway station counters to get the refund for their tickets after several trains were cancelled in view of the rail roko call in Jalandhar
on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma
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Protesters stop 6 trains, railway cancels 10
Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 25 The protesters staged a dharna on the track near Tanda railway crossing and Chaheru in view of the rail roko call given by the Sant Samaj to press for the acceptance of their demand of immediate arrest of Sacha Sauda Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Six trains were stopped at Jalandhar and its surrounding railway stations, whereas as many as 10 trains were cancelled. The railway authorities decided to stop the Jammu Tawi train at Chaheru, Tata Muri train at Jalandhar cantonment, Chhattisagarh Express train at Jalandhar, Malwa Express train at Suchi Pind, Jammu-Mumbai Special train and Jammu-Mumbai Super train at Alwalpur railway station due to the dharnas by Sikh protesters. While some of the passengers preferred to stay in the trains, most of them opted to travel by buses to reach their respective destinations. Besides, the railway authorities cancelled the 2104 Garib Rath train, 2014 Shatabdi Express train, 2716 Sachkhand Express train, 2460 Amritsar-New Delhi Super Fast Express, 5210 Jan Sewa Express, 2054 Jan Shatabdi Express, 5705 Amarpali Express, 2926 Paschim Express, 1058 Dadar Express and 4674 Shaheed Express, all starting from Amritsar. Most of the passengers complained of the difficulties in getting refund of their reserved tickets of the cancelled trains. Long queues of passengers were seen at the rail counters to get refund. The shortage of refund forms was also witnessed at the railway stations.
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SAD(A) blocks road traffic
Kapurthala: Several activists of the SAD (Amritsar) stopped vehicular traffic for two hours by staging a dharna at Dhilwan on the Delhi-Amritsar national highway.
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Pvt colleges resent move of second counselling at PTU Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, June 25 While earlier the counselling was to be held from June 30 at the PTU’s campus, it will now be held from July 1 and to August 14 on the campus of the Government Polytechnic for Women, Ladowali Road. The venue has been changed in view of space shortage owing to the delay in shifting of the various departments to the new building on Kapurthala Road. There is yet another alteration in the schedule. While earlier the seats in the reserved categories were filled first, this time general category counselling will precede the reserved category. This has been done perhaps to allow the reserved category students with better results to take admission in the general category, providing the low rank reserved category students the opportunity to get a seat later. As a result, the reserved category students will benefit but general category students will be at a loss as more reserved category students are likely to cut into their seats. Also, the university will not convert any reserved category seat into the open category one as was being done earlier. The reserved category seats will once again be filled in the second counselling following which the seats would be allotted to the respective colleges to be filled at their own level. Some private colleges, however, are resenting the move of the university to hold a second counselling. Most colleges, which are low on priority list, apprehend that the students who would take admission in their colleges in the first counselling might dump them in the second counselling during which they would be looking for admission in more sought-after streams in better colleges in the event of vacancy of seats. Giving the details of the counselling, dean academics and chief coordinator of CET counselling Dr V.K. Arora said the new directions were being followed as per the notification issued to the university by the government. He said he was planning to set up a guidance and consultation cell during counselling wherein the candidates of different ranks requiring assistance in choosing a stream or a college could seek an unbiased opinion to their queries. Regarding pending cases of affiliation to various new colleges, he said inspections were still being carried out. Applications of four new girls’ colleges and 15 co-educational colleges are lying pending. There are already 43 engineering colleges with 15,515 seats, of which 11,137 would be filled by counselling and the remaining under the management’s discretionary 33 per cent quota.
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4 B’desh nationals arrested
Amritsar, June 25 Those arrested were identified as Muhammad Shakeel, Shah Jahan, Muhammad Badshah and Abdul Manan. During investigation, they said they were duped by Sultan of Bangladesh who took Rs 66,000 from them to take them to Pakistan. They said Sultan took them to the Golden Temple and then to Pull Kanjri, where he ditched them on the pretext of talking to a BSF jawan so that they could cross over to the neighbouring country. When Sultan did not return after a long wait, they decided to cross the border on their own. However, an alert BSF jawan of 65th Battalion caught them. After interrogation, they were handed over to Attari police station where a case was registered against them. Meanwhile, they were presented in the local court and taken on remand.
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59 polling stations sensitive
Our Correspondent
Batala, June 25 The total wards in Batala police district are 85 of which 33 fall in Batala, 15 in Qadian, 13 in Sri Hargobindpur, 13 in Fatehgarh Churian and 11 in Dera Baba Nanak. One candidate in Batala, 10 in Dera Baba Nanak, one in Qadian and four in Fatehgarh Churian have been elected unopposed. SSP Naresh Arora said on Tuesday that now elections to 69 wards were being held. In all, 59 polling stations for the remaining wards have been identified as sensitive. Arora stated that to conduct these elections peacefully various police teams would be deployed. Arora disclosed that 30 patrol parties would be deployed in two shifts during in day and night. One patrol party will cover two wards. The SSP disclosed nobody would be allowed to carry any weapon, including kirpan, knife, etc. during the election period.
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Free education for CET topper
Hoshiarpur, June 25 Institute’s director-HR K.K. Uppal gave away the prize and scholarship certificate to Mayank at a ceremony here today. Mayank, who originally hails from Hoshiarpur, came in the limelight when he topped the
CET. Having done his class XII from the local DAV School, Mayank outscored lakhs of students to achieve the top position.
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735 girls clear BSF interview
Jalandhar, June 25 The selected candidates are appearing for the medical examination that began yesterday, said senior PRO Jagir Singh Sran.
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Drugs seized during raids
Jalandhar, June 25 According to the information, different kind of drugs were seized during a raid conducted by drug inspector Dinesh Kumar and his team of officials on Parveen Medical Store at Lamba Pind Chowk.
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Thousands of passengers suffered due to disruption of rail traffic on the Amritsar-Ambala line throughout the day today as several Sikh protesters staged dharnas on tracks at different places.
