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Religious
Dispute Total Sanitation Campaign
Gifting sight to the deprived
Set up varsity in Majha or Doaba: |
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Gang preparing fake bank statements busted, 3 arrested
Seminar throws light on Sufism
Robbers kill labourer, injure shop owner
Youth dies in mishap
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Religious
Dispute Eight injured in police lathicharge Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Mannan (Jalandhar), July 27 As many as eight persons, including six women, have been wounded, reportedly in a lathi-charge by the Jalandhar rural police at Manna village here yesterday night. The wounded persons have been identified as Chinni (75), Darshan Lal (55), Darshan Kaur (50), Asha Rani (36), Neelam Rani (30), Sudesh Kumar (32), Asha Rani (35) and Palo (30). The wounded persons and police officials have leveled allegations against each other. While the wounded persons allege that police lathi charged them to remove ‘Amrit Bani’ from a religious place belonging to the Ravidass community, at the behest of the politicians belonging to the ruling alliance, police officials claim otherwise. They claim that villagers had attacked cops who were present there to maintain law and order. A lady constable Sarabjit Kaur sustained head injuries during the stone pelting, the officials added. An FIR has been registered against a village youth Balwinder Kumar, alias Ghugg, and several unknown persons under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC at the Maqsoodan police station in this regard. However, the wounded persons alleged that the cops removed ‘Amrit Bani’ in a pre-planned manner. When the members belonging to the Ravidass community opposed this move, the police lathi charged them in the premises of the religious place itself. Presently, the situation at the village is tense but under control. A large number of cops have been deployed in the village to avoid any untoward incident.
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Total Sanitation Campaign
Hoshiarpur, July 27 Addressing a rally at Datarpur village, Deputy Commissioner Megh Raj said the district had taken lead in Punjab by launching “Chetna” rallies for the implementation of the campaign in the Talwara block today. The district had already taken lead in the state for implementing a literacy programme and had secured first position for bringing transparency in all expenditures made for the implementation of the MGNREGA in its true sense in the district. He said of the total 2,59,709 houses in the rural areas of the district, BPL families were living in 11,320 houses and APL in 1,11,238 houses. To raise the standard of living and to make the environment pollution-free, construction of flush latrines in the houses and their use was the basic necessity for the implementation of the campaign. After constructing flush latrines in all houses, Talwara would be made model block of Punjab. The scheme would soon be launched in Hajipur and Dasuya blocks of the district. The District Water Supply and Sanitation Department had recently sent a proposal of Rs 18.32 crore to the government for the completion of the project, of which 15 per cent could be spent for awareness work. Mahant Ram Parkash Dass, Amarjit Singh Sahi, MLA, N.K. Dhir, Superintending Engineer of the Punjab Water Supply and Sanitation Department-cum-state coordinator of the Total Sanitation Campaign and Capt J.S. Pathania, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Una, also addressed the rally. Dhir said more than 12 lakh flush latrines had to be constructed in Punjab. |
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Gifting sight to the deprived
Nawanshahr, July 27 The first step in this direction was taken by society general secretary Charanjit Singh Bheen himself who donated the eyes of his grandmother Swaran Kaur. By and by, the social message spread through word of mouth. Efforts bore fruits and nearly 3,300 people have pledged their eyes till now. The donors are not just limited to the district alone. The list includes people from across the district, with many from Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Barnala and even Ropar. Bheen revealed that a team of 21 volunteers across the state immediately rushed at the call from a deceased’s family, with a doctor, to get the eye donated. “Whatever the cause of the death - an accident or otherwise - and whatever the age, a healthy eye can always be extracted,” he makes the appeal, adding that the donors’ list included people of the age group from four to 115 years. The society revealed that there were still 50 lakh people in the country who were awaiting eye donation. They said the donated eyes were sent to Dr Ramesh, a state awardee based at Ludhiana, at the Punarjot Eye Bank Society. |
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Set up varsity in Majha or Doaba: Bajwa to PM
Gurdaspur, July 27 In a letter written to the PM and Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal, Bajwa criticised the uneven growth of higher education institutions in Punjab, saying that 90 per cent of universities were scattered in the Malwa region. To make his point, Bajwa said top educational institutes like Punjabi University, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Baba Farid Medical University of Health Sciences, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Rajiv Gandhi National Law University and World Sikh University were all located in the Malwa region. He added that the proposed IIT would be set up at Ropar, which also falls in the Malwa region. Bajwa added that there was just one institute of higher education - GND University - in the Doaba region. He claimed that there was a lopsided distribution of universities in the state and urged the Prime Minister to set up more universities in the Majha and Doaba areas of the state. The MP said, “In the modern day competitive world, no country can progress without quality education. To achieve this, the Government of India has earmarked funds for the vertical and horizontal growth of education with the intention of taking education to the areas which have remained grossly neglected.”
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Gang preparing fake bank statements busted,
Hoshiarpur, July 27 Hoshiarpur SSP Rakesh Aggarwal said three members of this gang --- Satish Kumar of Road Majara (Garhshankar), Jasvir Singh Khepar of Chandiani, presently residing at Nafari Colony, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, and Arun Kumar, alias Tari, of local Rahimpur had been arrested under sections 420, 406, 467, 468, 471 and 120 B of the IPC while their one accomplice, identified as the manager of Canara Bank branch Kot Fatuhi, Rajiv Ranjan, was still at large. Arun Kumar was the kingpin of this gang. Pritpal Singh of local Arora colony, Lakhvir Singh of Sadarpur, Sukhjinder Singh of Dhamain, Nachhatar Singh of Bakapur and Amritpal Singh of Guru Arjan Dev Nagar, Ludhiana, and some others applied for visa to go to the UK on study basis. According to the complainants, the visa seekers had to show a handsome bank balance in their bank account for getting visas. They contacted Satish Kumar and Jasvir Singh Khepar, who had been running an office namely Krishna Immigration at Garhshankar town, who then approached Arun Kumar and asked him to get show a sufficient balance in the bank accounts of visa seekers. Later, Jasvir Singh along with aforesaid accused contacted Rajiv Ranjan, manager of Kot Fatuhi Canara Bank branch, in this connection. Rajiv Ranjan opened fake bank accounts of the visa seekers and provided them fake bank statements showing bank balance according to their need. Later, visa seekers deposited these statements along with their other documents in the UK Embassy-British High Commission (BHC). On seeing the bank statements, the authorities of the BHC became suspicious and telephoned the branch manager Rajiv Ranjan to ascertain the genuineness of bank statements. Though Rajiv Ranjan confirmed the genuineness of the bank statements, the officials of the BHC were not satisfied with his reply and contacted Chandigarh branch of the bank which confirmed the banks statements were counterfeited. Later, the officials of the UK Embassy sent a written complaint to the Hoshiarpur Police. SSP Hoshiarpur deputed SP (D) Darshan Kumar to probe the matter.
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Seminar throws light on Sufism
Batala, July 27 Prof Akhtar-ul-Wassey, Director Islamic Studies, Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, explained the meaning of the word ‘Sufi’ and its ideology. “The philosophy of Sufism binds us in beads of brotherhood and teachers love, compassion and concern. It leads us to progress on the path of spiritual discipline and divine race. It has the mettle to solve not only the problem of terrorism but any problem in the world,” he said.
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Robbers kill labourer, injure shop owner
Nawanshahr, July 27 As per the available information, when Jaskaran was about to close his shop on Monday evening, three youths of about 25 came there on a motorcycle. Pretending to be customers, they started inquiring about the rates of ceramic tiles. Suddenly, one of them hit Jaskaran on his head with the rear side of his pistol. In retaliation and self defence, Jaskaran attacked the miscreant with a sharp edged weapon kept by him in the shop. Meanwhile, on hearing the noise, his servant Ajit Jha hurriedly reached there from the back of the shop. In panic, one of the miscreants fired two shots. Ajit was hit by one of the shots. Consequently, he died on the spot. Jaskaran was admitted to the civil hospital, Mukandpur. SSP, Narinder Bhargav accompanied by DSP Banga and SHO Sadar reached the site and started investigation. |
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Hoshiarpur, July 27 According to police sources, Surinder was going on his motorcycle to his village last evening. When he reached near Banjer Bagh, a tractor-trailer hit his motorcycle on a curve due to which he fell down and was seriously wounded. The tractor-trailer driver allegedly threw Surinder in the bushes. Later after about three hours, the police came to know about the accident and found him dead in the bushes near the Ambey valley. — OC
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