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Army open recruitment rally: Youths turn up in large number
Burlton Park Youth Hostel Work in its last leg
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Online suvidha centres for rural villagers soon
NC politics: Deepa’s anti-terror demonstration more a show of power
Manpreet to visit Doaba region today
Habit-forming drugs worth Rs 3 lakh seized
Young World
Pledge administered at RCF during Vigilance Awareness Week
Karva Chauth
Anganwadi workers demand regularisation
Basketball team, CWG medallists honoured
Dance? No Problem!
Happiness for Kristin
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Army open recruitment rally: Youths turn up in large number
Jalandhar, October 26 The Army authorities expressed satisfaction over the fact that the response from the Doaba belt had improved as compared to the previous rallies. The recruitment rally was conducted by Army Recruiting Office (HQ), Jalandhar, under the aegis of HQ Recruiting Zone (Punjab and J & K), Jalandhar Cantonment. The recruitment rally is being held for soldier general duty and soldier tradesman categories, hailing from Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur and Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar districts. Deputy director general (recruiting), HQ recruiting zone (Punjab and J & K), Col Sanjeev Sirohi said the response from Hoshiarpur was overwhelming as compared to the other three districts. “We received approximately 6,000 youths from Hoshiarpur. Youths from all castes and categories appeared for the recruitment rally, which made it a huge success”, he added. Even response from the other three districts also improved as compared to the previous rallies, the DDG (recruiting) maintained. “A total of 10,270 candidates from all the four districts appeared for the rally, while 990 candidates have cleared the preliminary test till now,” said Col Sanjeev. “However, the final number of selected candidates would be available later,” he added. Further, addressing a query pertaining to increasing the Rrecruitable Male Population (RMP) in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of recent turmoil in the state, the DDG (recruiting) said RMP is fixed according to the census reports of a particular state and decisions regarding this are taken by the ministry of defence. “The RMP cannot be changed arbitrarily as it is directly linked with the population of a state. At present, the RMP of Jammu and Kashmir is 1 per cent while that of Punjab is 2.44 per cent. The present recruitments are being conducted under the laid down RMP percentage”, the officer added. The Physical Fitness Tests (PFT) and Physical Measurement Test (PMT) of the candidates were completed today. While the medical tests for successful candidates will continue till tomorrow. The written examination of successful candidates would also be held at the Dogra Ground on October 31. Meanwhile, the Army would be conducting its next rally in Punjab at Ferozepur from November 18 to 23. “The media has a major role to play in making the youth aware about the recruitment rallies. And we wish to see similar turnout in the next rally too”, the officers added.
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Burlton Park Youth Hostel Work in its last leg
Last year, MS Gill had taken up the issue of the completion of the youth hostel on priority, and had directed the officials concerned to check as to why the youth hostel project had failed. The work on the state-of-the-art hostel is about to get completed. It would provide the best of lodging facilities to scores of players and students who come for various events in the city educational institutions. It was due to the lack of a proper lodging facility in the city that earlier many cultural and sports events had to be cancelled owing to the lack of proper hostel facilities in the city limits. Talking to The Tribune, deputy director of youth welfare, Capt IS Dhami said the finishing work of the hostel is in its last leg and as soon as it is completed, it would be handed over to our department. “Though entire work is over, we are yet to get a permanent electricity connection. Once the connection is restored, the hostel would be completely ready for use”, he added. Coming up in an acre of land on the left side of the entrance gate of the local Burlton Park, the hostel can accommodate 60 youths and has been designed with six dormitories, five bedrooms, a drawing room, a recreation hall, library and a table tennis court. The hostel has been hanging fire for the past 20 years. While it took 17 years for the project to begin, owing to political and bureaucratic reasons, the construction work of the hostel had earlier come to a halt due to an objection raised by the Auditor General of India (AGI). Last year deputy secretary, youth affairs and sports, DP Bharadwaj, had come for an inspection along with youth hostel warden from Dalhousie, Samuel, for the inspection of under-construction youth hostel here.
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Online suvidha centres for rural villagers soon
Phagwara, October 26 The state government is going to implement the prestigious scheme of the Union Government through the All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) to set up online suvidha centres in rural localities, to facilitate villagers. This was confirmed by Phagwara SDM Amarjit Paul, while talking to The Tribune. He said mini suvidha centres would be established in 4,500 cluster centres, to facilitate the residents of more than 14,000 villages of the state. He said one cluster centre will feed three to five nearby villages. Services like driving licences, birth and death certificates, old age pensions, marriage certificates, payment of telephone and electricity bills, police clearance certificates etc. would soon be provided from these mini suvidha centres, which would be directly connected with their respective sub divisional and district headquarters.
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NC politics: Deepa’s anti-terror demonstration more a show of power
Phagwara, October 26 During the delegation, hundreds of morcha activists first assembled at the local rest house, then marched towards the tehsil complex and submitted a memorandum to Phagwara SDM Amarjit Paul. The Phagwara NC presently has two district presidents of BJYM - Gurdip Singh Deepa and Ashok Duggal (son of Phagwara Nagar Council President Balbhadhar Sein Duggal) who claims to have the blessings of Punjab BJP President Aswini Sharma. Duggal was accorded a warm welcome in Hadiabad recently. District BJP President Aakash Kalia, on the instructions of Punjab BJP President Ashwini Sharma, had announced Ashok Duggal as the District BJYM President a few days back, while only after three days, Punjab BJYM President Shelley rushed to Phagwara and announced Deepa as the district president of BJYM. The Tribune has learnt that the appointments of two leaders as the district president of BJYM had developed the organisation’s constitutional crisis in the party, while Punjab BJP president Ashwini Sharma, while talking to The Tribune, had claimed that he is empowered to appoint any morcha president whereas BJYM president Shelley is claiming that no appointment could be made in the BJYM without his consent. Meanwhile, Deepa’s supporter and newly-appointed morcha president of the Phagwara block unit Ballu Walia today too joined the demonstration led by Deepa along with his supporters. The demonstrators urged the government to take a firm stand to bring back Pakistan occupied Kashmir in the map of the country.
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Manpreet to visit Doaba region today
Jalandhar, October 26 Manpreet Singh will speak at a function at Kamla Nehru College in Phagwara and meet his supporters there. Then he will speak at a function at Hazara village from where he will proceed to Jalandhar. He will address advocates at a function to be held at the Bar Room here. He will speak to mediapersons after that. Manpreet Singh will address another meeting in the city. Manpreet Singh’s staunch supporter and a senior Akali leader said “Lots of lies are being spread about Manpreet by his opponents to damage his image in the public. His political rivals with the objective of denting his image are wrongly projecting his stand on various issues pertaining to Punjab.” At various meetings, Manpreet Singh will inform people what he wanted for the development of the state. |
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Habit-forming drugs worth Rs 3 lakh seized
Jalandhar, October 26 District Drug Inspector Kulwinder Singh said the firm failed to produce the sale and purchase records of the drugs. “The drugs would be produced in the court for custody orders tomorrow and a report would be sent to the State Drug Controller, Chandigarh, for further action,” he added. The raid was conducted by a team comprising Rajesh Suri, Drug Inspector, Moga, Navjot Kaur, Drug Inspector, Hoshiarpur, and Kulwinder Singh, district Drug Inspector. |
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Young World
Jalandhar, October 26 Principal of the college Dr Rekha Kalia Bhardwaj urged students to take up such noble causes. Environment awareness fest
Students of the local Guru Amar Dass Public School participated in the inter-school ‘Environment Awareness Fest-2010’ held at the Kanya Maha Vidyalaya. In this competition, Harjot Kaur of class XI stood first in the poster making competition while Kirti Huria of the same class bagged the third prize. In the model making competition, Namneet Kaur, Mansukh Kaur, Tarunpreet Kaur, Aashima and Harneet Kaur of class IX bagged the second position. Principal of the school, Harminderjit Kaur Chawla, congratulated students for a brilliant show. Meanwhile, the primary wing of the Guru Amar Dass Public School organised a solo dance competition for Giggles wing. In the nursery section - Ekampreet Kaur bagged the first position while in junior KG, Jaspreet Kaur and Gurnoor Kaur jointly bagged the first position. Indo-Nepal cultural meet Dr Vinod Kalra, associate professor of the local Kanya Maha Vidyalaya read her research paper on growing commercialisation of the Hindi language in a three-day long international conference from September 7 to 9. The event was organised by the government of India and Nepal, in collaboration with the Indian Embassy. The conference was organised under the patronage of the Indian Cultural Exchange Council, BP Koirala, Indian Nepal Institute and Indian Embassy and many famous Indian and Nepalese poets and creative writers. Mathematics exhibition
The department of mathematics of the local Prem Chand Markanda SD College for Women organised an ‘exhibition of projects of mathematics’ on October 23. As many as 90 students participated in it while
65 projects on different topics of mathematics were displayed. A competition of concepts of mathematics was also organised. Students explained various concepts of mathematics with the help of models prepared by them. Meanwhile, mathematics students also presented a performance on ‘mathematics is omnipresent’. National conference
A national conference on ‘material sciences and technology: emerging trends’ was held at the local DAV College on October 23. Dr Surinder Singh, dean academics, GND varsity, Amritsar, was the chief guest on this occasion. He highlighted the importance of material sciences and said this technology can solve the energy problem and environment pollution. |
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Pledge administered at RCF during Vigilance Awareness Week
Kapurthala, October 26 RCF GM Pradeep Kumar administered the pledge to all officers. He also released the 11th vigilance bulletin published by the RCF vigilance organisation. This bulletin will help in educating railway men in discharging their duties honestly and efficiently. RCF chief Vigilance Officer Dinesh Kumar read the message of the President, Vice President, Prime Minister and the Chief Vigilance Commissioner on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Pradeep Kumar said corruption affects the society badly and the benefits of social development schemes do not reach the needy. He said one should never be afraid of taking the right decisions. He emphasised on the speedy finalisation of tender cases and selection process, which can greatly help in eliminating corruption from the system. To sensitise employees and create vigilance awareness among them, posters are displayed at prominent places of the workshop and RCF township premises. During this week, vigilance awareness will be spread through a campaign by RCF scouts and guides on October 27.
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Karva Chauth
Jalandhar, October 26 Women, especially the newlyweds, had a good time celebrating the festival. The women, all dressed up in the best of the traditional wears, celebrated Karva Chauth by participating in “Mrs Karva Chauth” events, enjoying kitties and the customary “Karva Chauth katha” in the evening. Even unmarried girls kept fast praying for a good husband and took part in the Karva Chauth celebrations. Earlier, yesterday the local markets remained flooded with women, enjoying a gala shopping time from applying mehndi and thronging the best of the beauty parlours to buying the customary “sargi” items. The markets remained open till late night. Even the women lodged in jails kept fast praying for the long life of their husbands. Punjab Minister for Jails Hira Singh Gabria had issued instructions to relax the visiting timings for the jail inmates today. Talking to The Tribune, Jail Superintendent Surinder Singh Saini said they had given relaxation in jail timings from 9 am to 5 pm during which women and men lodged in the jail were allowed to meet their spouses. “We have six couples (jail inmates) in the jail who celebrated Karva Chauth together. While the relatives and friends who came along the spouses of jail inmates were also allowed to meet them,” he added. Late in the evening women were seen waiting eagerly for the moon to appear and end their fast.
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Anganwadi workers demand regularisation
Jalandhar, October 26 They demanded that they be allowed pension gratuity, ex-gratia and provident fund scheme. The members complained that there had been no promotion for the workers to the supervisor level for the past 14 years. They were just getting a meagre Rs 2,300 or Rs 1,150. They had been assured that their demands would be fulfilled in 45 days, but 90 days had passed and nothing had been done for them. — TNS |
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Basketball team, CWG medallists honoured
Phillaur, October 26 Those honoured were Inspector Manjit Kaur and Mandeep Kaur, who had won gold medals in 4x400m relay, Harwant Kaur, who had won silver medal in discus throw, G.S. Sandhu, chief national coach of boxing, P.R. Sondhi, chief national coach of wrestling, Ranbir Singh Sidhu, coach of Inspector Manjit Kaur and Baljinder Singh, coach of Mandeep Kaur. Rajdeep Singh Gill, former DGP and president of the Basketball Federation of India and Punjab Basketball Association, presided over the function. — OC
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Dance? No Problem!
International celebrities make way. Director Anees Bazmi says he's more than happy to have Bollywood's own sizzling stars, Sushmita Sen and Kangana Ranaut, to scorch the dance floor for a song in his forthcoming film No Problem.
"There was no time to get any international celebrity. Our film is complete. Our first trailer was out with Anjaana Anjaani. We just decided to add an extra title song. And we felt we don't really need outside contributions. Sushmita and Kangna are fabulous dancers," Bazmi said. There were reports earlier that No Problem might see Waka Waka girl Shakira shake a leg. The number featuring Sushmita, the former Miss Universe, and Kangana, who isn't seen in many dance numbers, will be choreographed by Ahmed Khan. And the buzz is that the two divas will pull out all stops in front of the camera to outdo each other. Apparently the role models given to Ahmed Khan go back to Vyjanthimala and Helen in the sizzling dance combat in the 1960s Prince and Hema Malini and Parveen Babi in the 1970s' The Burning Train. Both Sushmita and Kanagana enjoy dancing and the idea would be to make their moves as casual and cool as possible. The actors in the film- Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor and Sunil Shetty - are also expected to join the two ladies on the dance floor in No Problem, which is set to release in December. —
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The Army open recruitment rally held at the Dogra grounds in Jalandhar Cantonment, received a thumping response as youngsters turned up in large numbers to avail the opportunity.
The students of Mahatma Hans Raj Samvedna Samiti of the Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised a Mehndi festival on October 25, ahead of the Karva Chauth festivities today, and collected funds for charity.
Jalandhar, October 26
The Punjab Basketball Association today honoured the men team which had won the silver medal in the 60th Senior National Basketball Championship held in Ludhiana and also honoured the Commonwealth Games
(CWG) medallists at the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur.
Jalandhar, October 26