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Census
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Jhunir conference
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India
win World Cup-2011 Rajay Deep Tribune News Service
Bathinda, April 3 Immediately after Dhoni dealt the final blow, the cricket crazy fans rushed out to celebrate. The sound and light of fire crackers dominated the city skyline for nearly half an hour. Joyous over India lifting the trophy after about 28 years, cricket lovers in the city, carrying the Tricolour, hit the streets and were seen dancing and shouting slogans. The Fire Brigade chowk, Railway Station, Paras Ram Nagar chowk and Rose Garden chowk were the hot spots where the celebrations lasted well past midnight. The excitement among them could be gauged from the fact that they did not mind damaging their own four-wheelers by dancing on its roofs to blaring Punjabi numbers. Cricket crazy youngsters (a majority of them were in an inebriated condition) also displayed motorcycle stunts on the roads. Expecting that India would win the final, a number of people had booked Dholwalas in advance. They celebrated the Indian win by shaking a leg to the accompaniment of dhol beats. It was observed that not only the youth, almost the whole city was soaking in the celebrations as women folk, children and the elderly were seen congratulating each other and lighting fire crackers in their respective localities. Various restaurants and clubs in the city had arranged huge LCD screens to entertain their customers. A senior member of the Civil Lines Club, Sanjeev Kumar, said, “Observing the craze among its customers, the club had installed two huge screens to show the live telecast of the World Cup final, which everybody enjoyed more than the food.”
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hit by PCR vehicle Rajay Deep Tribune News Service
Bathinda, April 3 According to information available, a labourer, Sanjay Kumar Jha of Bihar, was purchasing a newspaper on the main road leading to the refinery when a PCR vehicle (Tavera) with more than two cops on board, ran over his feet. On finding him crying in pain, the policemen fled from the spot to avoid the anger of the labourers, who had started assembling there. Irked, hundreds of labourers staged a dharna on the road and blocked the main gate of the refinery. They demanded suspension of the guilty cops. Shopkeepers nearby also joined them. The protesters did not allow any official of the companies working inside the refinery to enter the main gate. They accused the police of high-handedness and alleged that some cops forcibly lift things from the shops located outside the refinery. “We are small shopkeepers and earn our livelihood through hard work. Almost every other day, cops come and ask us to pack things they require for their domestic use. If we demand money, they start abusing us and sometime do not even mind slapping us,” alleged some migrants, who run grocery shops outside the refinery. Sensing the gravity of the situation, the Rama police called for additional force from other police stations and surrounded the protesters. Finally, after hours-long efforts, senior police officials made the protesters relent by assuring them of providing treatment to the injured and action against the guilty cops. Rama police station SHO Harbans Singh said the guilty cops had been removed from the PCR duty and directed to report at the Police Lines, Bathinda. He said medical expenses of the injured would be borne by the construction company that he was serving. Asked about the allegation that cops loot labourers, the SHO said, “We have started investigation and if any cop is found guilty, he will have to face the music.”
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Census
2011 report Kulwinder Sandhu Tribune News Service
Bir Raoke (Moga), April 3 But Bir Raoke, a nondescript village in the Nihalsinghwala sub-division of Moga district, has set a fine example by improving its sex ratio in the last few years. The improvement has largely been possible due to the efforts of an India-born British businessman, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, who has set up a charity, which aims to prevent female foeticide among families in India. Turning the tide regarding the high number of male child births, the village now has a ratio of 108 females born for every 100 males. The village, with a population of little over 3000, celebrates the birth of every girl and believes that the increasing number of girls is God's way of blessing their village. The clean shaven, Jatt-Sikh NRI, became involved with this social cause when he visited this village, where he was born, about a decade back and noticed that most of the children in the local school were boys. He formed a charitable organisation, the Sant Singh Dhaliwal Trust, named after his father, to help the girl children of his village get free education, dress, books and also give money to the poor families to marry off their daughters. Talking to The Tribune from Appleton, Warrington (UK), Dhaliwal said, "I am helping the poor families of my village who cannot bring up and educate their girl child to make them stand on their own feet." There is a common belief among the Punjabis that most parents blame the dowry system as one reason why they do not want girls as they cannot afford to marry them off, which by and large is true if we look at the rural folks, felt Dhaliwal. "I have adopted my village and asked the families not to go for female foeticide by assuring them that his Trust will take care of all the girls — from their education to marriage and health needs," he said. Since he started his project, there are now more girls born in the village than the boys. He has every reason to celebrate. The healthy development in his village is highly significant in a state, where female foeticide, though illegal, is carried out unhindered. Kulwant Dhaliwal believes that Punjabis living in the UK, US and Canada are also responsible for female foeticide in their home state because they demand huge sums as dowry from the parents of brides, crippling them with debt, which in turn leads to social tension. Recently, he has also taken up the task of educating the rural women of his native area on cancer and organized a cancer camp last month, in which, mammography of over 800 women was conducted with the funds raised by him. Apart from this, Dhaliwal has also helped in collecting lakhs of pounds by organizing charity runs for cancer patients in the UK, a social cause which has been acknowledged in that country.
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Jhunir
conference
Bathinda, April 3 Addressing the gathering at a party rally organised on the occasion of the annual mela held in the memory of Baba Dhian Das at Jhunir in Mansa district, Dhaliwal said, "In the budget, the rich have been offered heavy relaxations while the poor have lost various subsidies. It has widened the gap between the rich and the poor." Accusing the Manmohan Singh Government of not reining in corruption in the country, Dhaliwal claimed that the Left Front was the best option available with the people to free the country from all evils like corruption, unemployment, inflation. Raising the state issues, member of the national council of the CPI comrade Hardev Singh Arshi said, "In Punjab, the ruling SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress, both are the champions of corruption and act as shields for the flourishing mafia." He alleged that bureaucrats have become mere puppets in the hands of the ruling leaders. "Even as the whole system is on the verge of collapsing, the opposition in Punjab is still quiet. Recently, by staging a walkout, the Congress gave an indirect approval to the budget, which is not at all a populist one. If they had an alternate economic agenda, it would have been placed," alleged Arshi. Appealing all to bring a change in the political system of the state, Arshi said, "Instead of sitting idle and waiting for justice, you all must now get up and adopt the way of agitation." Hardev Arshi also informed that the CPI was going to hold a state-level rally at Mansa on June 5, which would be addressed by general secretary of the CPI AB Bardhan and national secretary Amarjeet Kaur. Among others, Gurdial Singh, Buta Singh and Jugraj Singh were also present on the occasion and addressed the gathering.
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Students caught trying to sell heroin in Barnala
Barnala, April 3 SSP Barnala, Gurpeet Singh Toor said the accused, Mangal Singh of Chika, is in BA final year (Distance education), while Balkar Singh, of Narwana, is probably a Plus Two drop-out. He added that the duo were nabbed by the police from a Maruti Zen car from a police check-point in Dhaula road near Tappa area here on Saturday morning. The SSP further said that the duo were in the Barnala area to dispose of the drug consignment of a drug trafficker Vicky, who for the last three years, is serving a jail sentence in connection with a murder case. He added that the duo came in contact with Vicky while he was out on parole. The SSP further said that Vicky had offered the duo a large share if they managed to sell the drugs which prompted them to take the risk for making fast money. Toor added that during the questioning of the arrested students, they had confessed to the crime and also shared information about Vicky. The SSP added that police has registered a case at the Tappa police station and further investigations are on in the case.
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