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Tackling Honour Killing
For Fitter Cops
Police Commissioner Varinder Kumar inaugurates an ultra modern gymnasium for police personnel and family members at Police Lines
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‘Photojournalist’ behind woman’s immolation bid booked for extortion
Dr Manuj Wadhwa, Director, Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement, Fortis Hospital, talks to the media
in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Young World
NCC cadets plant saplings at Government Senior Secondary School at Khilchion village. A Tribune photo
Seek OBC Status
No headway in murder case
Teej celebrated
2 brothers dupe 4 youths of Rs 28 lakh
Kairon visits flood-hit areas
Paramedical staff demand release of arrears
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Protection centres set up for newlyweds
P.K. Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 27 The administration has designated Bachat Bhawan and Sainik Rest House as two protection centres for the newly wedded couples who marry against the wishes of their parents and suspect life threat. Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu said these centres would provide facility of boarding and lodging to secure the life and liberty of newly wedded couples. There were plans to set up mediation or counselling cells at Police Commissioner’s office to mollify and educate the parents and relatives of such couples. He pointed out that the trend of inter-caste marriage without the consent of their parents was rising and so was the problem of honour killing. The matter of compulsory registration of all marriages was under the active consideration of the government. He said the government had decided to take stern action against the parents or relatives of the couples who threaten and create law and order problem. About the procedure of getting the protection, Pannu said such couples could get protection by giving application in the court of the District Registrar. To deal with such cases of runaway marriages, suitable directions would be issued to the subordinate police officials and their progress would be reviewed from time to time, he added.
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Police Lines gets a gym
G.S. Paul/Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 27 Nevertheless, after wielding the stick and regulating traffic, the Amritsar cops would dispose of those extra pounds in this multi gym, installed at a cost of Rs 2.8 lakh. The authorities have identified two police personnel, with sports background, who would be present all the times to supervise and instruct the cops on exercising machines, which were most sophisticated electronically equipped displaying each and every detailing of the person who operate them. The Commissioner of Police, Amritsar, Varinder Kumar, who initiated this addition, said, “The police cops with their tough schedule of work hardly find little time to have regular timely food or even spare time for their family. These situations disturb their mental as well as physical equilibrium. It was need of the hour to get them into a routine where they would workout to get them in shape. In turn, this gym would also help them get relieve from the stress and make them more physically as well as mentally fit”. Apparently, the entire approach had its beginning while through a recent routine check-up camps, organised in the Police Lines, it has been found that quite a number of cops were afflicted by ailments, mostly due to obesity. But it would be quite a challenge to persuade these obese personnel to shed flab or maintain health keeping in view their general habit of ‘boozing’, reportedly, after their hectic late night duty hours. Yet, the Commissioner of Police seemed to be quite confident of good response to the new beginning. “This gym would held them gain relief from several ailments and develop trim build. We have decided to make it open all the time for their convenience and full time instructors would be there to guide them”, he said. “Besides this, we have been conducting free medical check-up camps, in association with Fortis, in the Police Lines itself, for the last over a month where over 800 police personnel had undergone the basic tests related to blood, lever, kidney, heart etc. on the basis of which their medical cards have been prepared”, he informed. “These camps help detecting any ailment, if they have, at the earlier stage. Otherwise, I had observed that with hardly any time left for themselves, they go on ignoring their health problems and only go for medication when the ailment gets crucial. So in a damage control exercise, we have decided to organise such medical camps regularly, so that they should be benefited with timely medication for the ailment, in case they have”, he opined.
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‘Photojournalist’ behind woman’s immolation bid booked for extortion
Amritsar, August 27 The name of Jasbir cropped up in self-immolation case, where he was allegedly accused of inciting a woman to immolate herself in the premises of Deputy Commissioner’s Office on August 23. He has been absconding since then. Commissioner of Police Varinder Kumar said after the registration of the case, his office received a number of affidavits from the residents who claimed that they were duped of lakhs of rupees by the accused. The preliminary inquiry brought to light that the accused had a record of cheating people on one pretext or the other, he said adding that his modus operandi was to befool people by claiming that he was a correspondent of the Punjabi daily. In this case, he instructed Manpret Kaur, 20, to attempt self-immolation to attract attention of the authorities in order to get ‘due’ in the ancestral property. On the other hand, he contacted her uncle Narinder Singh, present occupant of the disputed house located in Sultanwind village, to shell out Rs 50,000 for getting the legal hurdles removed in taking over the possession of the part of property, reportedly, in her name. He reportedly paid Rs 8,000 in two installments to the accused. Manpreet Kaur had a dispute with her uncles over a piece of ancestral land measuring 100 metres. Upon failing to get the possession of the property from her uncles after the demise of her parents, she had doused herself in kerosene in the DC office premises. However, alert policemen in plain clothes intercepted her before she could lit the matchstick. The Police Commissioner said all complaints against the accused would be properly investigated and raids would be conducted to arrest him at the earliest.
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Cure for arthritis: Doc spells out innovative ways
Amritsar, August 27 Dr Manuj
Wadhwa, Director, Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement Surgeon, Fortis Hospitals, while speaking to The Tribune disclosed about this innovative procedure to cure arthritis. “Yes, it is now possible to design customised joint replacement. But this ‘made to order’ facility is available in the US only because they have those particular
softwares. In that case, CT scan is done on the patient’s problematic joint, according which they develop instrumentation in accordance with the required size and shape precisely. This whole procedure takes just four to six months to import them,” said Dr
Wadhwa. Arthritis, better known as inflammation of a joint, shows pain during activities, limited range of motion, stiffness of knee, swelling and tenderness of joints, feeling that joint may give out and deformity of joint such as knock-knees or bow-legs. Dr
Wadhwa, basically hailing from Amritsar, has already crossed the landmark of performing more than 5,000 knee and hip joint replacements. He has now forayed into the shoulder and elbow joint replacement, knee and hip areas. “An estimated life of joint replacement instrumentation would be between 15 and 25 years, depending upon the patient’s weight, his lifestyle and of course the technique adopted in the replacement procedure. “I advise the patients to refrain from doing physically tough exercises, avoid sitting on the floor with cross legs and also avoid sports activities which require running, jumping or squatting, especially on hard surface. Playing football, basket ball, volley ball, hockey, tennis would be fatal for them”,
he prescribed. Dr Wadhwa cautions those who have sedentary lifestyle and are overweight. One out of every five people in ages of 18 to 44 suffers from one such problem or another. Similarly, more than two, out of every five individuals, between ages of 45 to 64 exhibit arthritis symptoms. “It is more common in over weight patients and weight loss tends to reduce symptoms associated with arthritis as hips and knees get worn out early in heavier patients. Every overweight elderly should emphasis on shedding those few extra kilos and have freedom from arthritis pain to a considerable extent,” he said. Dr Wadhwa revealed that not only overweight, but genetic factors too play major role in incidences of ailment. Knee arthritis tends to run in families besides trauma to knee, meniscus tears or ligament damage and fractures to bone around joint being some of other causes. Arthritis, better known as inflammation of a joint, shows pain during activities, limited range of motion, stiffness of knee, swelling and tenderness of joints, feeling that joint may give out and deformity of joint such as knock-knees or bow-legs. “But with introduction of latest tissue preserving total knee replacement surgery things have started changing for good for arthritis patients. This latest painless and blood less knee replacement surgery technique ensures swift recovery. It is combined with benefits of minimally invasive surgery, patient specific implants with higher flexibility, modified pain control concepts and minimal bleeding even to suit elderly population,” he said. Dr Manuj Wadhwa has to his credit successfully performing bilateral total knee replacement
(TKR) surgery in a single sitting on a 90 year old patient who was suffering from end-stage knee arthritis. |
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BBK DAV paddlers lift GND varsity trophy
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 27 Green drive
Girl cadets of First Punjab NCC Battalion carried out a rally on “My Earth My Duty” to create awareness among masses regarding the deterioration of environment. They also planted saplings. Col H.S Boparai initiated the drive.
NCC Air Wing cadets of PBN Senior Secondary School undertook plantation drive by planting nearly 100 saplings in the School and its periphery. Wing Commander S.K Vachani began the drive by plating a sapling. School Principal Rajeev Kumaria said the cadets took the pledge that they would individually nurture each plant see them grow. Donation
The students and staff of Baba Kuma Singh Ji Engineering College donated Rs 18,631 to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for the victims of Ladakh and
Leh, said Prof J.S Jogi and Bikram Pal Singh. Scope of MBA
The Management Department of Swami Satyanand College of Management and Technology held an “Induction of MBA- 2010” to make the students aware on the scope of MBA in the field of fiancé, human resources, marketing and information
technology. Mandhir, senior portfolio analyst, HHR Asset Management, spoke on the management and entrepreneur skills and motivated the students to choose the field in which they could excel and bring forth their talent and skill. |
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Jats threaten to disrupt Commonwealth Games
G.S. Paul/TNS
Amritsar, August 27 Karnail Singh Bhawra, state president of the committee, said the community, which had been left out of the OBC category in some states and also at the Centre, deserved to get reservation. Terming the goverenment’s approach as discriminatory, the members of the committee decided to take on the government if their demand was not met. They said they would take out a “rath yatra” starting from the Golden Temple on August 29 at about 10 am and marching through various states. The yatra would enter Haryana on September 9. There would be a “rail roko” agitation in Amritsar on September 13 and total close down in Delhi and UP in protest against this discrimination. Karnail Singh Bhawra said they had already written letters to embassies of those nations who had been scheduled to participate in the upcoming Commonwealth Games. “All the nations which are participating in these games have remained under the British rule. We oppose these games. We have intimated the respective embassies about our motive of opposing the Games at any cost,” he said.
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Only guest performances on Comedy Circus now
Amritsar, August 27 Lehri, who was here to interact with the children of the local DAV Public School, shot into limelight after he attained top position in the Laughter Challenge competition and later won Comedy Circus. Sharing his experiences, Lehri said, “I was afraid to participate as I was not fluent in Hindi. I also feared that I would loose my name and fame if I get beaten in Laughter Challenge. But fortunes favoured me and I never looked back again.” He encouraged children to follow their dreams with a positive frame of mind. While sharing his life experiences, he said he used to do petty jobs for survival before launching an orchestra where people enjoyed his comic acts rather than singing. He later started anchoring shows, he added. He said he could not study as his father was an alcoholic and they did not have money to get education. He said he would not participate in Comedy Circus any more as a contestant. “I would only perform as a guest performer in the programme,” he said. About future plans he said he would soon be seen with Bollywood heart throb Salman Khan in a movie ‘Ready’, besides, he was doing a number of Punjabi films.
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No headway in murder case
Amritsar, August 27 Her son Chander Shekhar said she had gone out to meet her daughter a day before her body was found. However, the family came to know of her death only on July 1. “As per the records of Allahabad Bank, Patel Chowk branch, the locker was last operated on July 1,” said Chander, who extracted the information under the RTI. He said the locker was in the names of her mother and sister Sunita Mehra. He alleged that as per the established norms the locker could be operated only in front of all the heirs. Upon finding the body of the deceased, the Islamabad Police Station registered the FIR under section 302 of the IPC against unidentified persons. The police investigation team, when approached, said the body bore marks of head injury with sharp-edged weapon. However, the autopsy report was still awaited. The police has repeatedly ignored to take notice of successive complaints filed by him, said Chander. He suspected the involvement of a family of immediate relative. However, he dejectedly, said the police did not take notice of his complaints at all. He said the same relatives had attacked and injured him on February 20. Subsequently, he lodged a complaint with the D Division Police
Station. He sought impartial inquiry into the case and arrest of the responsible persons to give him justice. |
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Teej celebrated
Amritsar, August 27 Mandhir Pannu, wife of Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, sharing her feelings said that earlier people, particularly those in rural areas used to celebrate Teej in a big way. But with the passage of time, the festivities have lost their glory and are confined to a few common places like educational institutions in the urban areas and symbolic celebrations for the entertainment of children in villages.
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2 brothers dupe 4 youths of Rs 28 lakh
Tarn Taran, August 27 The brothers have been identified as Hoshiar Singh and Jasbir Singh. The victims, Gurbinder Singh of Chaudhariwala, Naushehra Pannuan, Sandeep Singh, Sukhjit Singh and Bikramjit Singh, residents of Manochahal Kalan village, in a complaint to the police said the brothers showed them fake visas of New Zealand and assured them of sending them abroad. The accused took Rs 28 lakh during the last one year from them, but they neither send them abroad nor returning them the money.
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Kairon visits flood-hit areas
Tarn Taran, August 27 The minister visited Sabhra, Bhure Thar, Gadaike, Bhaviake, Jalloke, Kutiwala, Mallahawala, Seetomeh Jhugian, Jallewala Kot Budha, Bhaowal, Jhugian Peer Bakash and Muthianwala. The minister assured the affected people of proper help by the government. He instructed the officials to send adequate ration, kerosene, besides fodder for animals in the affected areas. Deputy Commissioner Khushi Ram said the district administration had already given instructions for special “girdawari” in the affected areas. The SSP, Preetpal Singh Virk was part of the team of the minister visiting the areas.
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Paramedical staff demand release of arrears
Amritsar, August 27 |
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Sparing a thought to change the typical image of policemen with layers of flab, the Amritsar police authorities have endeavoured to add a ‘gym’ to their daily drill.
