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Global dental conference begins
PAU organises campaign on treatment of wheat seed
Cong group clash
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AIT’s residential, commercial projects in doldrums
Amritsar, November 12 That the Shopping Complex proved to be a damp squib would not be an exaggeration. Of the residential areas, its biggest residential scheme, known as New Amritsar, is literally without roads. Filthy, stinking toilets, out-of-order lifts and absence of cleanliness offer abominable environs to the visitors, shoppers, and are a constant nightmare for shopkeepers. These were the major reasons turning these markets unpopular among shoppers, traders and businessmen. Billed as one of the most advanced shopping plazas of the city in the 90s, the multi-storied complex, having 376 shops, has a majority of its shops lying unoccupied. Despite being amply spacious and equipped with multi-storey parking facility, the management of the AIT has failed to market shops. On the other hand, the private plazas and shopping malls on Lawrence Road and the adjoining Mall Road are buzzing with activities and all shops are operational. Both Dharam Singh Market and Nehru Shopping Complex offer a terrible view to customers as shopkeepers have haphazardly installed advertisement boards of various sizes on the external walls. These commercial complexes have stinking toilets and a majority of them have been out of use as they have not been cleaned for a long time. Prolonged absence of cleanliness has turned the area around them a no-visit zone. People avoid walking close to these areas. Besides, the private concern, which was given contract for installing hoardings in lieu of the maintenance of the complex, have installed unipoles for hoardings at every possible vantage space in, out and top of the building. Meanwhile, other purely commercial schemes of the trust are Ghanta Ghar Market and Mahan Singh Market schemes. So far, the trust has allotted approximately 23,000 residential plots, 6,900 commercial units and 125 institutional sites falling in various schemes. The 211-acres scheme, known as Mall Mandi scheme, is yet to see the start of work on levelling of plots and construction of roads. Residents of New Amritsar allege supply of contaminated water, frequent clogging of sewerage, while the roads were eroded long time back. A private company, constructing a major infrastructure project in the city, has turned the open area in the colony into a workshop for preparing concrete slabs. Residents allege that heavy vehicles, bringing in tonnes of material, have caused the upper crust of the road to erode.
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Sri Guru Granth Sahib in Urdu
Amritsar, November 12 Nevertheless, the holy granth has already been transcripted in other languages like Hindi, Punjabi, English, Marathi, Persian and German languages but it was for the first time that the granth was translated in Urdu language. It is pertinent to note that ‘Japuji Sahib’ has already been translated in many languages which included Urdu too by Khawaja Dil Mohammad of Lahore. Davinder Pal Singh, a resident of Bora village in Bhatinda district, who devoted his 15 years to translate the holy granth, said he got inspired from Khwaja Dil Mohammad only. “It was fascinating for me to learn that despite being a Muslim, he made this remarkable job possible. This fact was enough to ignite my interest to translate Guru Granth Sahib in Urdu and today I have handed over its printing rights to the Shiromani committee so that this holy granth should reach more and more devotees,” he said. It has been learnt, besides his age factor, Davinder Pal Singh used to come at Qadian town in Gurdaspur after covering a distance of more
than 200 kms which is International headquarters of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Urdu is the fourth most spoken language of the world and it has such a vast vocabulary and any text can have its word to word translation, the experts believe. Davinder Pal said with the availability of Guru Granth Sabib in Urdu, more and more strata of people especially from the Muslim community in India and abroad would be able to grasp the essence of this holy
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Special kids get shabby treatment
Amritsar, November 12 The Welfare Association for Visually Challenged Employees, Punjab, organised the 20th annual function and all-India level competitions in various fields, including sports, educational and music, and over 500 “special” aspirants from all age groups reached the grounds of Khalsa College here, the venue of the events, precisely on the scheduled time at 9 am. But they were taken aback to find that no arrangements were made for them. The Tribune team waited on the spot till 11.30 am, but the programme could not be commenced for want of “chief guest” and the participants were made to wait sitting on the floor in the sun. The tents and chairs were kept “reserved” for the “managers”, the chief guest and other VIPs. So much so, that not even safe drinking water was made available for the participants on
the event site. Then began the blame game!. The association office-bearers alleged that the college authorities had promised to provide manpower to assist the partially visually impaired participants and for other arrangements, but it was not to be. But the helping hands arrived on the venue three hours late. Visibly disturbed
over such a long delay, the association members consoled themselves by saying “sab chalta hai, though behind schedule but at least the programme is happening”. It is ironical that there were two-foot wide trenches dug up on the ground, apparently to provide passage for watering the plants on the ground, which were not covered with any lid to prevent any accident. A participant said he had a narrow escape from accidentally fallen in the trench. “I was just about to fall in one of these trenches but luckily my mate noticed it and prevented me timely from falling into it. Then, me and some of my other mates stood there to warn others from accidentally falling in the trenches,” he said, while the others alleged that the organisers should at least provided them with some assistance for their safety. Experts found out snags in the event too. There were no indicating ropes on the track and field, mandatory exercise to guide the visually challenged to their destination and prevent them from smashing into each other while running.
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Global dental conference begins
Amritsar, November 12 As many as 100 students presented their papers focusing on new innovations for the prevention and management of caries in children such as intracoronal bleaching, non instrumental therapy and herbs in Dental health. Dr Navneet Grewal, chairperson of the conference, while interacting with the media said it would also aim to draw the attention of state and central governments towards the poor oral health of Indian population. “Only two per cent of populace in the country visits a dentist for a routine check up while according to a national survey about 54.1 per cent of children in India is affected with destructive pattern of dental caries,” said Dr Grewal. She pointed out that there was a dire need to stress upon the respective governments to implement its community health programmes and create awareness about modern dentistry and latest techniques. Calling for an action to promote the oral health and dental services in the country, Dr Grewal said dental health and dental services in India have failed to meet the needs of young population which is most vulnerable of contracting dental disease and playing havoc with the oral health of youth. Earlier, a trade fair was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu and Dr Vimal Kan Sikri, Principal, Post Graduate Dental College and Hospital here. Dr Mark Hector, International President of IAPD from England, who was visiting the country for the first time, was surprised to see huge gathering of dental doctors participating in the three day conference. He appreciated the vast research work of the doctors and pointed out that it should be highlighted at global level so that large populace could be benefited by these researches. Later in the evening, the ISPPD awarded all topper students from across the nation who excelled in their field of dentistry. |
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PAU organises campaign on treatment of wheat seed
Amritsar, November 12 The places visited by the agricultural team included Chogawan, Sadhpur, Triphan, Jiwan Pandher, Mehsempur, Block Tersikka, Bhorshirajputtal, Jassowal, Bhorshi Brahmana, Rattangarh and Bhaini Badeshan. The aim of the campaign was to create awareness among the farmers regarding the importance of seed treatment as they are not aware that cure of some diseases only lies with seed treatment. Dr Paramjit Singh, in charge of FASS, Amritsar, gave information regarding the different activities of the project. He said the campaign would be undertaken in all the 30 adopted villages in the district. Insects and diseases attacked the crop right from the germination up to harvest. So, Seed treatment was an important aspect, which prevented some diseases to attack the crop. Seed treatment could be done not only for crop diseases, but also for insect pests like termite attack on wheat. Parminder Kaur, District Extension Specialist (Plant Pathology), said the seed-borne diseases could only be controlled by seed treatment of a particular crop, ie loose smut of wheat. She demonstrated the method of seed treatment of wheat by smearing 1 gm dry powder of Raxil per kg of seed in a seed treating drum and rotated drum for 5-10 minutes clockwise and anticlockwise so that it was properly mixed with the seed. Dr Narinder Pal Singh and Dr Rajni imparted technical knowledge to the farmers on various aspects. About 50 farmers participated in the campaigns and demanded seed treating drum. They were ready for purchasing seed treating drum at their own cost. |
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Cong group clash
Amritsar, November 12 The case was registered on the statement of Balbir Singh, a supporter of Congress leader and councillor Navdeep Singh Goldy who was also injured in the shootout. Earlier, the police booked Goldy and his 10 supporters in the same case. Gurjit Singh, SHO Kotwali police station, said investigations had been initiated in this direction. Action would be taken only after completion of
the probe. It is evident to mention here that the two Congress groups had clashed near the Golden Temple for putting up hoardings to welcome the Capt Amarinder Singh which led to injuring of two tourists at the spot. The two congress leaders blamed each other of opening the fire. Navdeep Goldy had claimed that one of his supporters, Balbir Singh was also injured in the clash. However, the police registered a case under sections 307 and 336 of the IPC and relevant sections of the Arms Act against Thekedar and his associates only today. Among others who were booked include Raju, Jaswinder Singh, Satpal Singh, Satish Arora, Vickey and 40 unidentified persons. The police had pointed out that the supporters to two Congress leaders were putting up hoarding late Monday evening. Due to some reasons an altercation took place between them which took ugly turn after which they opened fire. |
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SOI threatens to launch agitation
Amritsar, November 12 Gursharan Singh Chhina, district SOI president, said we would hold a massive demonstration in front of the office of Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, if the district administration and police did not cancel the FIR in which about 514 students were booked. He claimed that the court has granted stay on organising the youth festival till the decision of the case. “If the inquiry conducted by the university had found the bhangra team guilty then it should have debarred the team only instead of disqualifying all the teams of the college,” Chhina said. The members of SOI also met the Police Commissioner urging him to hold a probe in the case. Chhina said the organisation would also meet Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal who would be visiting Amritsar on Saturday. It is pertinent to mention here that a large number of students of Khalsa College captured the stage of university’s zonal Youth festival on November 1 when the all the college teams were debarred from contesting the festival after its bhangra team was found guilty of having outsiders in the team. |
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Ravi Shankar visits Attari-Wagah checkpost
Amritsar, November 12 Delivering a message of peace to the cheering crowed on both sides of the border, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said people in both the countries were yearning of peace and want to live as good neighbours
without any acrimony. He said we must shed the mistrust and work for the welfare of the poor people and hoped that one day India and Pakistan would emerge as a strong economic block. For this they need to shed animosity and work together as partners of peace for the prosperity of this region. Talking to the media, he said earlier, he had planned to cross over to Pakistan for a joint meditation
centre, but due to present turbulent situation in Pakistan, the authorities turned down his request due to security reasons. He said it was not a setback and hoped that this present turbulent period would end and people living in both the countries would be able to work for peace with greater vigour and bonhomie. Escorted by BSF officials, the spiritual leader along with BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu went to the no man’s land near the Zero Line and sent a message of peace to Pakistan. Later talking to The Tribune, he said more than 10,000 families in Pakistan were part of the Art of Living chapter and said they had joined hands to collect funds for the flood devastated people of that country. |
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Art exhibition attracts youths
Amritsar, November 12 The exhibition, inaugurated by Pakistan-based artist and writer Salima Hashmi, saw works of as many as 17 artists. Salima, known for her quick wit and ability to read and analyse artwork with effortless ease, said, “Immense artistic vision is prevalent prominently in the sub-continent part of the world if we compare it with the talent in the Europe or America. This reputation has been earned by the artists from India and Pakistan only,” she said. Meanwhile, 30 artworks are on display in the Central Hall of the gallery and the exhibition would remain open till November 16. |
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Young World
Amritsar, November 12 She is one of the three sportswomen in the game who has been selected from Punjab and is the only girl from Guru Nanak Dev University who has been given the opportunity to show her potential in the game. Having shown skilled prowess in the game, she has participated in several inter-college and other competitions. College Principal Sukhbir Kaur Mahal has encouraged her to scale great heights. Children’s Day
function
On the theme of “Let’s bring some smiles together”, the Amritsar Sacred Heart Alumni (ASHA) put forth a show of simple dance training for special children to mark the Children’s Day celebrations as its second social project in the city in collaboration with the Global Institute for Childhood Disabilities Society managed by Arun Khanna and Prerna Khanna. Jr secretary and choreographer Ridhi Khanna taught and guided the children simple dance steps on hit number of movie “Jaane Tu Jaane Na”, besides others. Each of the 35 children was presented with a colour kit and chocolates as gifts by ASHA members. Fifteen 15 children were from the education section and 20 from the therapy section, informed ASHA president Rashmi Talwar. International
conference
A three-day international conference on “A visual dialogue on contemporary Indian art” was organised by the postgraduate department of fine art at the BBK DAV College for Women here. The valedictory address was delivered by Diwan Manna, known for his conceptual photography worldwide. Dr Surinder Singh, Dean, Academic Affairs, Guru Nanak Dev University, was the chief guest. |
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