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Inter-state gang busted, 2 arrested
News of jaundice outbreak leads to panic in Phagwara
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8th Day Of MC Staff Strike
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Inter-state gang busted, 2 arrested
Jalandhar, March 14 The arrested were identified as Gurpreet Singh, alias Judge, and Sahibpreet Singh, alias Sahib, both residents of Amritsar. DSP (Detective), Jalandhar Rural, Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh said the duo was arrested on a tip off from Bhogpur during a routine naka at Beas village while they were coming towards Jalandhar. “Both of them were coming on a motorcycle. On being stopped at the naka they tried to run away but were nabbed,” he said, adding that they have recovered a 7.65 mm pistol, a magazine, live cartridges and the motorcycle from their possession. During further investigations, it was learnt that the duo along with five others had looted Rs 16 lakh from a trader loot at gunpoint at Majitha Mandi in Amritsar on March 5. The gang is wanted by the Amritsar city police in that case. Other members of the gang have been identified as Jasvir Singh, alias Lucky, Bhola Singh, alias Bhola, both residents of Amritsar, Vicky, Pappu and Ballu, all residents of Bihar. Khakh said they have given the details of this gang to the Amritsar city police. While cases under various sections have been registered against the duo. “Further investigations are on to nab the other accomplices,” he added.
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News of jaundice outbreak leads to panic in Phagwara
Phagwara, March 14 The NHAI, which is involved in six-laning of the national highway, is blamed for the damage and blockage of sewerage pipes. Taking serious notice, Phagwara SDM Amarjit Paul has instructed Senior Medical Officer Dr Rajiv Gupta to act speedily and send teams of the Health Department in the affected localities. He has also advised the people to take boiled water for prevention of the jaundice outbreak. The SMO said a team of the department visited the affected localities and distributed chlorine tablets. Though no patient reported at the civil hospital, the SMO said there are six people down with the disease who are getting treatment from private doctors. Phagwara Nagar Council President Balbhadhar Sein Duggal said NC officials had been sent to the affected localities to assess the situation. Duggal said though the sanitary condition is worsening due to the strike of municipal employees, efforts are on to control the situation.
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Day Of MC Staff Strike
Hoshiarpur, March 14 Heaps of garbage have piled up in almost all the bazaars and lanes and are now stinking badly. Almost all the drains are lying chocked with garbage as a result of which the drain water is overflowing onto the roads. Meanwhile, striking employees under the banner of the Municipal Employees Sangarsh Committee assembled before the office of the municipal council and staged a protest rally. Employee leader Ravinder Thakur asked the state government to accept their demands, including regularising the services of ad hoc employees and to make fresh recruitment to fill all the vacant posts in corporations and councils in the state. City Congress president Rajnish Tandon said in a press release here this afternoon that neither the SAD-BJP government made any effort to persuade the striking employees of the municipal corporations and councils of Punjab to call off their strike nor it did make any arrangement to restore the civic amenities. As a result sanitary conditions in urban areas have been declining day by day. The sudden increase in the temperature on account of onset of summer is further deteriorating the situation, causing serious threat to the public health. Either the government should negotiate with the leaders of striking employees to defuse the situation or should make arrangement for restoring civic amenities to the people of Punjab to avoid spreading of any epidemic, he said. Meanwhile, councillors Kharati Lal Katna, Sanjiv Dua, Gopi Chand Kapur and Parveen Saini urged upon the president of the Municipal Council to call an emergency meeting of the council to discuss the issue of striking employees to defuse the situation. Supporting the demands of striking municipal employees, Dev Raj and Kishan Singh Saini, president and secretary of Sampuran Swaraj Sankalp Society, respectively, urged the state government to accept the demands to end the strike. Surinder Kumar Aggarwal, executive engineer of the MC, said despite best efforts to make arrangements for removing heaps of garbage scattered in lanes and bazaars, none of the safai karamchari including contractor was ready to do the job in support of the agitating employees.
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