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Suicide Attempt
PTU not to hold centralised manual counselling
Self-immolation Incident
Murder case cracked, three arrested
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MC drama ends, secy suspended
Cop booked on kidnapping charges
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Mother survives after pushing kids to death
P.K. Jaiswar/Tribune News Service
Amritsar, February 8 As per details, the woman, identified as Harjit Kaur (35), was feeling low with the frequent quarrels with her husband. A resident of Patti Verka in Vallah, Harjit thought death may end her miseries. She first pushed her two children Karan (12) and Manisha (7) into the canal and then took the plunge in the water, said the eyewitnesses. Although she was saved by nearby residents, the children could not be survive. Their bodies were later fished out by divers called by the police. According to DSP Ranbir Singh, Harjit was the second wife of Ravail Singh, an employee in the department of Punjab State Electricity Board, who had two children from his first wife. He said the woman has been arrested and a case under sections 302 and 309 of the IPC has been registered. It is learnt that Harjit and Ravail had a quarrel on Saturday after which she decided to take the extreme step. Before the nearby residents could understand what was happening, she jumped into the canal. They immediately raised an alarm and called the police. Ranbir Singh said raid was conducted to arrest her husband. He said investigations were on and reasons for the suicide attempt could be ascertained only after the arrest of Ravail Singh. Harjit would be presented in court tomorrow, he added.
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PTU not to hold centralised manual counselling
Jalandhar, February 8 After completing two rounds of online CET counselling, the seats will go into management quota allowing all the 125 colleges to fill up vacant of the total 26,000 seats on their own. The colleges will be directed to give priority to the CET rank holders and subsequently fill remaining seats on the Plus Two merit basis. Announcing the modalities of BTech admission, PTU Vice-Chancellor Dr Rajneesh Arora said the university may also hold a mock online CET counselling session this year and distribute awareness posters among the candidates to eliminate the chances of any confusion. He gave the admission schedule of the coming session. “CET will be on May 2. Result will be declared on May 20. Counselling will begin on June 1 and be over by July 10. Management quota admissions will close by July 31 so that new session begins on August 2.” A meeting to discuss the modalities of online counselling for this session will be held tomorrow at the campus which will be attended by representatives of all participating universities and officials of National Informatics Centre (NIC). The VC said the Board of Governors meeting at Chandigarh on February 11 would finalise the name of registrar, three deputy registrars, two controllers of examination and four deans. Interviews for the remaining posts would be held after convocation scheduled on February 25, he added. “Once we are armed with adequate staff, we will begin with regular assessment of all our colleges,” Dr Arora said. Dean Academics Dr N.P. Singh added, “We are in the process of making academic assessment of all colleges which will include academic performance of students (in terms of number of compartments that the students of each college were getting in semester examination), infrastructure set up and qualification of staff.” Advisor to VC, Nachhatar Singh divulged that the university was also in the process of setting up its own regional centres at Amritsar, Mohali, Ludhiana and Bathinda which will not just assist in making regular checks in colleges falling in their areas but also be venues for conducting skill development courses as per industrial need of the areas.
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Cong, SAD-BJP start blame game
Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 8 While former Congress MP Rana Gurjit Singh demanded resignation of Education Minister Upinderjeet Kaur on moral grounds as she could not even turn up at the spot to listen to the grievances of the agitated volunteers despite being present in Kapurthala, DCC President and Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira sought a judicial inquiry into the incident. Rana Gurjit also demanded registration of criminal case against the DSP for allegedly provoking the volunteer to self-immolate after his suspension, the ruling SAD-BJP leaders including a former minister Raghubir Singh and Improvement Trust Chairman Hira Lal Dhir sought lodging of a case against Rana Gurjit Singh for allegedly instigating the agitators not to climb down from the water tank after the immolation bid by Kiranjit Kaur. Meanwhile, the Convenor of Para Medical Contract Employees Union Bajinder Pal Singh Randhawa and district secretary of Pendu Mazdoor Union flayed the administration in handling the situation. PMU State President Tarsem Peter said, “It is an unfortunate incident… the government has to take the blame. It was at the forefront while delivering fake promises at poll-rallies, but has turned a deaf ear to the peoples’ problems now.
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Murder case cracked, three arrested
Amritsar, February 8 The police have found the body of a person in the fields near Majwind village in Kathunangal area in November 3, 2009. Those arrested were Manjinder Singh, his wife Gurpreet Kaur and Balwinder Singh. According to details, the deceased, who was identified as Harbans Singh (of Amritsar) and Gurpreet Kaur were telefriends. When the Manjinder came to know about this, he along with Baljinder and Gurpreet called him and committed the crime. Later in the investigations it was found that the accused were also involved in a number of looting and snatching incidents, said the police authorities. Preet Inder Singh, SHO Kathunangal police station while detailing said Gurpreet Kaur used to work in a provisional store in Rambagh area. Harbans came in contact with her when he had gone in the shop to procure domestic item for the marriage of his daughter. On the incident day, the accused called Harbans near Verka from where she took her to a secluded place near village Majwind. Manjider and Baljinder who were following them attacked him with sharp edged weapons. They took all the belonging including the mobile phone of the deceased. —
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MC drama ends, secy suspended
Jalandhar, February 8 Mayor Rakesh Rathour made this announcement today evening giving out his reason, “Sharma faces the order as he reached out to the union despite a compromise on the issue. The matter had been resolved in my office after the incident of his alleged manhandling by Bhatia but he went ahead taking support from the union.” The residents will heave a sigh of relief for the MC employees would resume work from tomorrow morning. But many believe that the MC Secretary had been made a scapegoat in the whole episode. “While he had been demanding justice for his alleged manhandling in the office, he is being punished for no reason. All those who had assaulted Bhatia and had created ruckus in the office of Bhatia have been allowed to go scot-free”, many opined. |
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Cop booked on kidnapping charges
Amritsar, February 8 He said his daughter was earlier engaged to Harpeet. But later on their engagement was called off. —
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