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Gang of robbers busted, 5 held
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Won’t spare Akalis for booking Cong men in false
PPCC chief Amarinder Singh and senior Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal enjoy tea during a rally at Kapurthala on Thursday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Manpreet Singh Badal addresses mediapersons in Jalandhar on Thursday. A Tribune photo
Chandumajra defends Majithia
Ruling BJP ‘benefiting’ interlocking tiles manufacturers
Govt’s development claim lies exposed: Khaira
Young World
Govt resorting to pressure tactics: Kin of Puducherry Governor
Docs’ federation demands more funds for health sector
Government ‘patronising’ criminals
4 awards for AIR Jalandhar
Panchayat land: Damulian villagers move HC
Diocese of Jalandhar to hold peace march at Wagah
Cold returns after rain
Three thieves, PO arrested
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Gang of robbers busted, 5 held
Jalandhar, March 3 One of the thieves was also wanted in a murder case, which took place in the Rama Mandi locality on September 30 last year. In a press conference organised here today, Senior Superintendent of Police Babu Lal Meena said five gang members, Raj Kumar and Gagandeep of Adampur and Sham Lal, Rinku Kumar and Santosh, all from Jalandhar, were arrested yesterday by a police team, led by Sub-Inspector Angrez Singh of Adampur police station. The gangsters were arrested from a house in the Mohalla Ram Nagar locality, Adampur. Meena said besides 20 tola gold, worth over Rs 4.5 lakh, a laptop, 15 mobile phones, 3 television sets, LCD screen and Rs 50,000 in cash was recovered from the gangsters after interrogation. Superintendent of Police (Detective) Pushkar Sandal and DSP (D) H.K.S. Khakh said the gang was earlier active in Jalandhar city, but later shifted to Adampur after a few of its members were charged in a murder case of Dharmapal at Jalandhar. Sandal said the kingpin of the gang, Raj Kumar, was wanted in the murder case. |
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Congress groups clash, one wounded
Kapurthala, March 3 According to information, Mandeep Singh, alias Sunny, of Phagwara, was shot at allegedly by a Punjabi singer of Phagwara over a minor dispute. The Congress worker, who had received a bullet injury in his abdomen, was immediately taken to the Civil Hospital, from where he was referred to a Ludhiana hospital. The organiser of the rally, former MP Rana Gurjit Singh, said the incident had nothing to do with the rally directly. According to sources, the firing incident was the outcome of a clash between the two groups near Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara, when they were coming to Kapurthala to attend the rally. Both the groups again started fighting while taking their meals immediately after the completion of the rally. The person, who fired at Mandeep Singh, managed to flee from the spot. One group reportedly belongs to a former minister, Joginder Singh Mann, whereas the other is close to Mann’s rival Congress leader Balbir Raja Sodhi. Both Mann and Sodhi are aspirants of Congress ticket from Phagwara. Balbir Raja Sodhi visited the hospital to inquire about Mandeep’s health. Meanwhile, SHO of Kapurthala (City) police station, Kulwinder Singh said the police would register a case on the statement of the wounded person. A police party had already been sent to the Ludhiana hospital to record his statement.
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Won’t spare Akalis for booking Cong men in false cases: Amaninder
Kapurthala, March 3 Amarinder Singh said he did not believe in vendetta politics but he would not spare Akalis and police officials responsible for falsely booking as much as 30,000 Congressmen. The way the dictatorial regimes were collapsing in the Arab world, the same thing was going to happen in Punjab, he added. Former CM said special emphasis was needed to be given to health, education and agriculture. He reiterated that the next Congress government would cancel the allotment of land to the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and set up a modern hospital with super-specialised facilities there so that common people can get treatment there at affordable cost. The Akalis had sold the 66 acres of prime land worth Rs 2,400 crore in Jalandhar to one particular person for just Rs 131 crores which is peanuts, he added. The leader of the opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal lashed out at Akalis for raking up sensitive and emotive issues at the time of elections only. Referring to the raking up of 1984 riots issue by the Akalis she pointed out, the Congress President Ms Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh had apologised for these riots besides relief had been provided to the victims. Prominent among those who addressed the rally included Hoshiarpur MP, Ms Santosh Chuadhary, Rana Gurjit Singh, Sukhpal Khaira, Rajbans Kaur Rana and others. Those present on the occasion included Lal Singh, Amarjit Samra, Chaudhary Jagjit Singh, Arvind Khanna, Joginder Singh Mann, Jasbir Singh, Vikram Chuadhary, Major Amardeep and Sukhwinder Sukh.
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Manpreet’s rally evokes overwhelming response
Jalandhar, March 3 He said he had sacrificed his position in the Cabinet for the sake of the future of the state and now he had vowed to fight for the bright future of all Punjabis. Manpreet was accompanied by MLA Jagbir Singh Brar and Dr Navjot Singh Dhaiya, in charge, Shahkot constituency. “Presently, the state is a den of corruption and unemployment, poverty and the debt burden are the order of the day,” he said. Punjab, that ranked first on the development index of the country, was today at the bottom of the graph, all due to the anti-people and faulty policies of the SAD-BJP regime, he added. Brar also flayed the ruling alliance and said a little was being done to pull the state out of the mess it was in today. The government was without a vision and was only making grand statements without anything to show on the ground level, he alleged. |
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Jalandhar: The SAD general secretary, Prem Singh Chandumajra, today came out in the defence of the patron of the Youth Akali Dal Bikramjit Singh Majithia saying that the Congress leaders, who themselves have been using derogatory languages in their speeches, should not feel hurt by his comments. Majithia has repeatedly resorted to comments against PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh to which the Congress leadership has been strongly reacting. Chandumajra in a press note said today that the era of starting war of words should be ended and rather a more respectful atmosphere should be created.
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Ruling BJP ‘benefiting’ interlocking tiles manufacturers
Jalandhar, March 3 Leaders of the opposition have already started levelling allegations against the ruling BJP leaders for promoting its use to benefit the owners of a tile-manufacturing factory based at Manimajra, who happen to be representatives of the party. A finger was pointed out today by former Congress minister Avtar Henry in this context during a media interaction. But on being questioned further, he refused to divulge more details claiming that the matter would be raised on a more appropriate platform and timing. Congress councillor and Leader of the Opposition in the MC House Jagdish Raja, too, has raised the matter on a number of occasions. “There clearly is a mala fide intention behind the use of the tiles, which cost triple the amount than the ordinary cemented roads. On the contrary, the life of roads constructed with interlocking tiles is far shorter,” he alleged. He lamented, “The tiles start coming out quickly. If one tile comes out and is not replaced timely, all the tiles in the row become loose and start coming out. A round to Gur Mandi and Bansanwala Bazaar gives a clear-cut indication of this”. The other Congress councillors, including Rajinder Beri, Kuljit Babbi and Balraj Thakur, have also repeatedly voiced their demand of reducing the use of tiles and constructing roads using concrete. “The concrete roads are far more durable, cheaper and comfortable for a drive. The tiles tend to make roads uneven. These even get broken quickly and cannot even bear any heavy load,” they have been claiming. The councillors said since a few top BJP leaders of the state were insisting on increasing the use of tiles, the Mayor and Commissioner were also not able to speak up on the matter. “Recently, more tenders were passed for the use of tiles than concrete for road laying. In fact, some previously passed tenders for road relaying using concrete were cancelled to replace construction using tiles,” they rued. Commissioner Viney Bublani, on the other hand, favours the use of tiles. He had his own points, “In case of tiles, a small portion which gets damaged can be easily repaired by changing tiles. The rainwater seeps inside the tiles easily and gets stored as groundwater easily, whereas cement flooring acts as a complete barricade to water. Roads with tiles appears more presentable. The bed levelling corrections in road laying can be done more easily in case of tiles.” He confirmed that the procurement of tiles had been speeded up and more agencies had been roped in for the purpose.
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Govt’s development claim lies exposed: Khaira
Jalandhar, March 2 Ironically, Haryana has got approved an annual plan for Rs 20,000 crore which not only indicates the poor fiscal situation of Punjab but also the seriousness of the state in raising crucial funding issues with the Centre, he added. Khaira said the fiscal deficit of Rs 3,100 crore means that the state would be further burdened while bridging this huge gap. Punjab is already under a colossal debt of Rs 70,000 crore that does not allow any planned development of the state, he added. But unmindful of this, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is on a foundation stone laying spree backed by full page advertisements claiming mega development of the state, Khaira said. This amounts to wasting of public money hoodwinking the masses for cheap political gains, he alleged. He said the Badals were also misleading the electorate by showcasing major flagship programmes of the Dr Manmohan Singh government as their own. These include the Jawahar Lal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNURM), National Rural Health Mission, Sarb Sikhiya Abhiyaan (SSA) and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) schemes to lay foundation stones and garner political support for their party. Elected opposition MPs as well as MLAs of the Congress are ignored at such events, he added. |
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CT marathon gets star support
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, March 3 Earlier, celebrities like Diljit Dosanjh, Pooja Tandon and sports stalwarts like Bahadur Singh, an Olympian and Padma Shri awardee, Manjit Kaur, gold medallist in the Commonwealth Games, and Mandeep Kaur, silver medallist in the games, their coach Sarabjit Singh, have promised to assemble and run this race for charity. Census awareness
The students of Eklavya School were told about Census-2011. They were informed about the importance of census. The students of senior school also conducted a quiz on census. The children were told about the census, conducted in ancient time (3rd century BC) and that the first modern census conducted in 1872. Research project
The research project of Dr Manu, an associate professor in Department of Music Vocal of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts on ‘Adhunik Kaal Mein Tabla Ke Punjab Gharane Ka Vishwastiye Advitiya Yogdaan’ has been approved by the UGC, New Delhi. The project has been sanctioned RS 4.7 lakh by the UGC. College principal Dr Sucharita congratulated the professor for her efforts in this field. International conference
An international conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, ICSSH-2011, was held at Singapore from February 26 to 28. The conference was sponsored by International Economics Development Research Center and received papers from 25 different countries and regions. Narinder K. Sharma, Assistant Professor in Communication Skills from the department of Applied Sciences presented his research paper on ‘Dialectics of Shifting Paradigms in Interpreting the Relational Implications between Women & Technology’. While researchers and scientists from several countries, including the US, Europe, China and India, attended the three-day conference. Science workshop
The Science Department of Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara, organised a ‘CheMPhyBio workshop’ in which the students were shown various amazing facts related to chemistry, mathematics, physics and biology. Dr Bina Sood, head, Science Department, gave a handful of knowledge regarding Bonsai, a Japanese technique to grow plants. The soil-less culture of growing plants, known as hydroponics, was also displayed. While the concepts of physics in everyday life was also discussed. Quiz contest
The Lensman Club of the local Mehr Chand Polytechnic College organised an inter-departmental quiz contest in which students of pharmacy and mechanical engineering jointly bagged first position. College principal Dr Jagroop Singh gave away prizes to the winners. Cultural festival
Utkansh, annual cultural festival organised by Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, kicked off this evening. The event will continue till March 6. The festival portrays the best of Indian and foreign culture and provides a platform for budding artists. Participants from across the country, including from the IITs, NITs and all colleges across Punjab and other states in North India, will try to make their presence felt. The events like GlamOurNation will be a brilliant mixture of flamboyance, style and an attitude that will redefine fashion. “Imagineers” - the movie-making contest has also served as nectar for those with the filmmaking bee. The much-needed energy for the festival will come from MegaSonic “The Battle of the Bands”. Another high point of Utkansh is the presence of the famous Punjabi heartthrob Amrinder Gill who will perform at StarNITe. The team that came third in India’s Got Talent will present a brave gatka performance. The famous haasya kavi “Chakachoundh Gyanpuri” and famous Punjabi Qawwali artists Saida Begum will also spread their magic over the campus. Officiating director Dr S B S Mishra, Registrar Dr A L Sangal, Dean Students Welfare Dr Arvind Bhardwaj and chairman of cultural affairs Dr N C Kothiyal will also attend the event. Seminar
The Department of English of Apeejay College of Fine Arts will organise a two-day UGC sponsored national workshop-cum-seminar on the topic ‘Building a play’ from tomorrow onwards. The seminar would bring together on a common platform teaching fraternity from the languages field for deliberations on various facets of drama. The highlight of the seminar will be a keynote address by Mahesh Dattani, a renowned playwright, and a recipient of Sahitya Academy Award. He is known for his plays such as dance like A Man, Final Solutions and Tara. Many of his plays have been made into motion pictures such as Mango Soufflé and Morning Raga, which have been lauded during their screenings at the International Film Festivals. Another learned personality who will be gracing the occasion and delivering a lecture is Harjit Singh, former Assistant Station Director, Doordarshan, Jalandhar and a renowned writer cum director. Apart from directing films like Vasakhi and Heer Ranjha, he has worked on Indo-Hungarian documentary project ‘In Quest of Le Corbusier’s India’. He has had an association spanning almost three decades with Doordarshan and Prasar Bharti. Conference
Apeejay College of Fine Arts Jalandhar hosted a conference on Communication and Computing Technologies. The two-day conference organised by the Department of Computer Science witnessed a huge gathering of academicians, research scholars technocrats, engineers and IT students on its first day. Specialist in the area of Cloud Computing, Dr Jinjun Chen, Senior Lecturer, Swinburne University Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Australia, held the conference chair. Cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online that are accessed from another web service or software like a web browser while the software and data are stored on servers. This area offers the benefits of being cost-saving and convenient. Dr Hardeep Singh, Professor from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. GNDU, Amritsar, was the ‘think -tank’ behind the conference. Dr Bhanu Prasad, Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida USA, an expert in the area of artificial intelligence was the keynote speaker. Training session
Getting good feedback from the training session held last year, the Department of Physiotherapy of Lovely Professional University got requisition from Deputy Manager, Inclusive Education for Disabled (IED), Sarv Sikhya Abhiyan to impart physiotherapy training to its approximately 500 trainees. Training will be given in six batches by the end of March. |
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Govt resorting to pressure tactics: Kin of Puducherry Governor
Jalandhar, March 3 The family today said while it was being alleged that a notice of house tax arrears had been served against the Lieut Governor and his wife for dues to the tune of Rs 1.21 lakh, they were actually regular tax payers. “There are no dues pending of any tax authorities for financial year 2009-10,” the family claimed. MC assistant commissioner PS Ghuman today said the house tax of the same amount were due from the couple but for the month of December 2010. “We only had been pressing them to make the payment before March 31,” he added. However, Abhay Singh said no MC bill or demand had been ever made by the MC in this regard. “The MC has issued notice in a newspaper to about 70 persons and the names of Iqbal Singh and his wife have been mentioned to malign them because of understandable motives,” he has written in a press note. He has further alleged, “I along with eminent citizens of Model Town had held a press conference questioning the transfer of Mayor House to Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Corporation. Now they are targeting us by wrongly inducting the name of Dr Iqbal Singh in newspaper notice and then by pinpointing it in a malafide way.” |
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Docs’ federation demands more funds for health sector
Jalandhar, March 3 The government must allocate at least Rs 1,70,000 crore for this purpose but the allocation for the next fiscal is a merely 0.29 per cent of the GDP, that is too meagre for this purpose. “The projected GDP for the year 2011-12 being Rs 8,98,0860 crore, the allocation for the health sector should have been at least Rs 1,69,617 crore instead of Rs 26,760 crore, the funds allocated for the coming fiscal,” said Dr DC Sharma, president, Docsifed India. Welcoming the move to impose service tax on the big private hospitals, he said it would make the healthcare facilities costlier only for the upper creamy layer of the society but not for the common masses, said Sharma. Such hospitals are already beyond the approach of the common man. Imposition of service tax on these hospitals is a non-issue for the common man, he added. “However, the government should simultaneously develop an equally sound and enormous health care network, to cater the total needs of all the patients, who are otherwise compelled to go to private hospitals due to unavailability of adequate and good services in government hospitals,” he added.
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Government ‘patronising’ criminals
Phagwara, March 3 Talking to mediapersons here yesterday, Khaira alleged that though Akali MLA from Banga Mohan Lal is facing a murder charge but no arrest could be made till so far. He demanded immediate arrest of the Akali MLA to prove impartial working of the police and the government. Commenting upon the statement of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal about his allegations that the Congress is less than 30,000 in Punjab and how can Congress leaders blamed the Akali-BJP government to book 30,000 Congressmen in false cases, Khaira claimed that he himself had won the last Assembly elections with a margin of more than 50,000 votes and Sukhbir should estimate himself about the total numbers of Congressmen in the entire state. Khaira alleged that the Badal family itself had no faith in the Health Department of Punjab and prefer the treatment of Surinder Kaur Badal from the US, thus how can the government inspire people to take services of the civil hospitals of the state.
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4 awards for AIR Jalandhar
Jalandhar, March 3 The two first prizes include an award for Best Woman Programme entitled ‘Budhe Jadugar Da Halfia
Bayan’, written and produced by D.S. Johal and in Youth Category, ‘London Dreams’, a story on Punjabi youth’s dream to settle abroad. ‘London Dreams’ was written and produced by Paramjit Singh. The second prize was won by farm and home section production entitled ‘Dharti Nu Bukhar
Hai’, produced by Gurwinder Singh and Vir Sain Malik. In play category,
‘Inteha’, a play on disarmament, directed and produced by Paramjit Singh, received ‘Certificate of Merit’. |
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Panchayat land: Damulian villagers move HC
Chandigarh, March 3 The proposal has been sent by a Block Development and Panchayat Officer regarding the land of Damulian Gram Panchayat. Directions have also been sough to put the land in an open auction in the petition filed by Davinder Singh and other through counsel G.S. Chahal and Arun Singla. The high court has issued notice of motion on the petition for May 23. |
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Diocese of Jalandhar to hold peace march at Wagah
Jalandhar, March 3 Bishop of Jalandhar Dr Anil Couto condemned the incident of gunning down of the only Christian minister in Islamabad. “It is unfortunate and inhuman. No religion ever teachers war, violence, revenge and enmity but urges always for non-violence, peace and brotherhood,” wrote PRO of the Diocese Father Peter. Munawar Masih, chairman of the minority commission, Punjab Government, and Father Roby, director for minority commission, Diocese of Jalandhar, also condemned the heinous act.
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Cold returns after rain
Jalandhar, March 3 The met department at Adampur Air Force Station has predicted a cloudy to mainly overcast sky for the next 24 hours. While occasional rain, thundershowers and mist might also continue in the next 48 hours. “As the western disturbance is crossing over the north and adjoining Jammu and Kashmir, rains may continue for another 48 hours with rainfall,” the met department added.
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Three thieves, PO arrested
Phagwara, March 3 Meanwhile, the police nabbed a proclaimed offender, Bhupinder Singh of Gurdasspur district, who was wanted by the police in a fraud case of 1991.
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Kapurthala, March 3
