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Majithia pays back Cong in same coin
Firm told to pay relief
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Seminar on slowdown challenges for India
Canals in bad health, govt instructions fall
on deaf ears
Seminar on teaching held
Gurdwara committee president among two shot at
Shop looted
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Majithia pays back Cong in same coin
Gurdaspur, February 1 The irony was inescapable. Today’s youth rally was targeted at the motivating young SAD workers for the next elections, but the youth content was clearly invisible with the majority of workers being ‘over aged’. Apprehending danger that hundreds of unemployed teachers, who for the past several days are protesting at Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan’s residence, near here, may play spoilsport, the Gurdaspur police made elaborate arrangements to ensure that no untoward incident took place. SSP Varinder Pal Singh personally monitored the situation and also ensured that there were no traffic snarls on the busy Batala-Gurdaspur road which was used by the workers to reach the venue. If the Congress rally saw nearly 40,000 people making their presence felt, today’s proceedings, going by rough estimates, were attended by about 30,000 workers. However, each and every speaker harped from the dais that “our gathering is much more than what the Congress managed.” If Congress leaders took pot shots at the SAD and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at its rally, today it was Majhitia’s turn to pay his rival party in the same coin. Launching a virulent attack on Capt Amarinder Singh, Majithia questioned the former Chief Minister’s “wisdom on remaining quiet when the CBI gave the clean chit to his fellow Congressmen Jagdeesh Tytler and Sajan Kumar for their alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.” Taking on the UPA government, Majithia said, “Rs 17 lakh crores of money of people aligned with the Congress is lying in Switzerland’s banks. The UPA should reveal the names of people who have stashed unaccounted for money in Swiss banks. Akali sources reveal that Qadian MLA Lakhbir Singh Lodhinangal brought the maximum number of workers to the rally although other senior Gurdaspur SAD leaders also contributed to the event in various ways. Prominent among others who were present were Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, Ministers S.S. Langah, S.S. Sekhwan and Balbir Singh Baath, MLAs G.S. Babbehali, L.S. Lodhinangal, Jagdeesh Sahni and PEDA Vice-Chairman Sanjeev Malhan.
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Deficiency in service: Our Correspondent
Hoshiarpur, February 1 Jain filed a complaint against the ITBC and the PSPL on the ground that he was a regular subscriber of India Today vide subscription No IT 1886789 for the past 15 years and the latter offered a scheme for promoting the sale of their magazines. According to the scheme, if a customer purchases certain prescribed books circulated by the ITBC, then the consumer, his wife and one child aged below 5 years were entitled to a free holiday trip to Goa, Gangtok or Darjeeling for two nights and three days with accommodation, meals and return air tickets. The said offer was accepted by Jain as he purchased some books after paying Rs 3,198 through VPP and also got a unique number for claiming the offer, a holiday voucher and the membership number. On the directions of the PSPL, he, along with his wife, sent a draft for Rs 899 in favour of the PSPL to avail the offer. Jain sent emails to the company from time to time with regard to the date and destination of the free trip, but failed to get any reply. The court held that the ITBC and the PSPL had failed to provide the aforesaid free holiday trip to Jain, which amounts to deficiency in service under unfair trade practice.
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Seminar on slowdown challenges for India
Jalandhar, February 1 At the seminar, experts focused on how emerging economies like India could insulate themselves from cascades of economic slowdown when the world’s richest economy gets vulnerable to global financial turmoil. Shakuntala Kashyap, deputy secretary, University Grants Commission, New Delhi, and Satish Dhanda, chairman, Medium and Small Enterprise Board, Punjab, were the speakers in the inaugural session. The commerce journal ‘ALMANAC-2011’, which included 76 research papers, was also released during the event. Dr Balwinder Singh and Dr Lakhwinder Singh, chairman and reader of commerce of the Business Management Department, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, respectively, and Dr Sanket Vij, Dean, faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, Mahila Vishwavidhyalya Khanpur Kalan, Sonepat, participated in the first technical session. The second technical session was attended by Dr Ravinder Vinayak of MDU, Rohtak, PK Sharma, DGM, Punjab National Bank, Jalandhar, and Munish Sabharwal, regional manager, SBI Funds Management, talked about micro and macro variables affecting the stock market movement and prospects of Indian stock market in the fragile world economic order. The seminar was attended by industry leaders, academicians, research scholars.
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Canals in bad health, govt instructions fall
on deaf ears
Phagwara, February 1 The government had instructed the officials concerned to launch cleanliness drives to free these canals of garbage and provide a new lease of life to irrigation. This correspondent took a round of small canals, passing through the Hadiabad, Dosanjh Kalan Road, Chachoki and Urban Estate localities in Phagwara and found the canals in bad health. Several encroachments also stood tall on the land of the Irrigation Department, it was observed. Suresh Arora, a resident of Urban Estate, said the area stinks due to blockage and rotting of garbage in the canal. The canals were also infected with several illegal constructions. Some people had even extended their houses on to the canals by constructing pucca lanters on them. SDM Amarjit Paul said he would take up the matter on top priority to remove all encroachments on the canals. He said officials of the Irrigation Department would soon be summoned to act accordingly. |
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Nawanshahr, February 1 Eminent Scientist Prof Satya Prakash, President Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) and former Vice-Chancellor of Jiwaji University Gwalior, inaugurated the seminar. Dr Karamjit Singh, chairman, Kirpal Sagar Academy, presided over it. Teachers and students from various universities, colleges and schools from all over Punjab attended the seminar. Rajesh Chandel, vice principal, Kirpal Sagar Academy-cum-organising secretary, IAPT, was the convener of the seminar .— OC
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Land dispute Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, February 1 The Sarai Amanat Khan police booked five persons, four of the same village, under Sections 336, 148 and 149 of the IPC and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act. The accused were identified as Sukhwant Singh, Bhagwan Singh, Gurlal Singh, Nishan Singh and Manna Singh. A piece of land related to the gurdwara was said to be the root cause of the incident. Bawa Singh, in serious condition, has been admitted to an Amritsar hospital while his associate was said to be out of danger. Bawa said when they were doing kar sewa in the land belonging to the gurdwara, the accused fired at them. He was struck at the shoulder before he could take shelter behind a gurdwara wall. The accused were absconding.
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Shop looted
Pathankot, February 1 Manmohan Mahajan, owner of the Gorkha Departmental Store, alleged that when he came to his shop in the morning he found the locks of his shop broken. Garments, leather jackets and other items worth Rs 3 lakh were found missing. Meanwhile, the police has recorded the statement of the shopkeeper and investigations are on. — OC |
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implications of the Congress public meeting by organising a conference at the same venue where SAD (Youth wing) patron Bikramjit Singh Majithia lambasted the Congress in particular and Capt Amarinder Singh in general.
