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Jaitapur nuclear plant just needs a pause, says Ramesh
5 of family killed at unmanned crossing
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 Lodged at juvenile home, Pak, B’desh youths appeal for release
Faridkot, April 23 May 2008: Sunil Khan, then 15, a resident of Bahawalpur in Pakistan, “strays into” India via Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district. Fate: Arrested by the BSF and lodged at a juvenile home here. Bangladeshi youth Raffiq with child rights panel member Utsav Singh at the juvenile home in Faridkot; (inset) Sunil. Tribune photos
CM Badal’s cousin gets PPP office shifted
Nabha SHO ‘beats up’ senior forest official
Murder in Oz
Writer Rekha gets Pride of Patiala award
Punjab to take note of bodies flowing in rivers
Man, castrated by eunuchs, out of danger
Rest House Auction
Yasmeen Murder Case
Lack of funds brings curtains on Bhagat Puran Singh Chair
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Jaitapur nuclear plant just needs a pause, says Ramesh
Ludhiana, April 23 He was in Ludhiana today to inaugurate the country's first “In-Situ Sewage Treatment with Bioremediation” project in Budha Nullah, the drain that passes from the city and merges in the Sutlej in Wallipur village, 20 km from Ludhiana. “We cannot abandon the project, but I am neither advocating reversal nor do I favour the acceleration of the project as the need of the hour is to pause till the government formulates a transparent nuclear policy. I have conveyed my concern to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh," said Ramesh. Referring to the mobilisation of persons by the Shiv Sena against the planned six-reactor 9,900 MW nuclear power project in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in which a protester was shot dead by the police, the Union Environment Minister said, “There is no need to use violence and bullets as there is nothing which cannot be solved with deliberations across the table." The Union minister stated that the nuclear policy should be formulated after taking the people of India into confidence. He said that he had already spoken to the Dr Manmohan Singh and AICC president Sonia Gandhi in this regard. The minister was interacting with mediapersons after the inauguration of the bioremediation project. Later, on the recent controversy over his objection to the Planning Commission's goal to add 100,000 MW to India’s power generation capacity during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), Jairam Ramesh said that he had worked as power minister for more than two decades and knew about the implications of generating power on such a massive scale. "We need to work out a strategy. We cannot solely depend upon coal as it would lead to the cutting of forests and also add to pollution," the minister said.
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5 of family killed at unmanned crossing
Bhano Langa (Kapurthala), April 23 According to information, the family was heading to nearby Ibban village to attend some religious ceremony when the mishap occurred at around 10 am. The victims were identified as Tirath Singh (22), Sarbjit
Kaur, Bhajan Kaur, Zoravar Singh (12) and Manjit Kaur. Ramanjit (10) and her father Surjit Singh were admitted to a Jalandhar hospital. Being driven by Tirath Singh, the ill-fated Scorpio (PB-09-J 1111) was dragged for around 295 metres by the Kapurthala-Ferozepur 5 JF diesel multiple unit. Such was the impact of the crash that the railway authorities had to work hard to extract the mangled remains of the vehicle from the train. And the accident site donned a ghastly look with the belongings of the victims lying strewn around. Four of the occupants died on the spot. While the railway authorities and the police were yet to ascertain the exact reason behind the accident, it is suspected that the driver may have been busy speaking over the phone. Or else, it could be a case of failure of brakes of the Scorpio, officials said. “We had to struggle for over two hours to extract the vehicle from the
DMU,” said railway official Nirmal Dass. Meanwhile, questions were also raised as to why the DMU driver could not apply emergency brakes.
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Lodged at juvenile home, Pak, B’desh youths appeal for release
Faridkot, April 23 March 2010: Raffiq-ul-Islam, a teen from Bangladesh, “mistakenly enters” West Bengal and reaches the border town via a train. Fate: Taken into custody by the BSF and lodged at the juvenile home. That’s the storey of two youths — both in their teens when detained — hailing from two different nations, but sharing the same fate. And both have a common wish too: returning to native countries. The police had lodged criminal cases under Sections 3 and 5 of the Passport Act and various sections of the IPC against them. Sunil and Raffiq have appealed to the Government of India to “show mercy to them for mistakenly crossing over into the Indian territory”. Both rue that their parents were poor and could not afford legal process. Though optimistic about his release, similar appeals earlier — in 2009 and 2010 — by Sunil fetched no reply. On his request, the district administration even wrote to the Union Home Ministry to issue instructions as per the law to repatriate him, but no response came. And all this, despite the Juvenile Board ordering his release about a year ago after computing the days of his judicial custody at the juvenile home as punishment. Recently, both met Utsav Singh Bains, member of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, who, following directions from the Supreme Court, visited the juvenile home for inspection. Bains assured them of raising the matter with the officials concerned at the Centre. Notably, these are not the only two cases, as five more Bangladeshi and two Pakistani youths have been languishing at a juvenile home in Hoshiarpur. Both Sunil and Raffiq have been learning Punjabi at the juvenile home for the past several months but appear worried fearing if they were not repatriated, their life could get spoilt as their age would run out for education.
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Jalandhar, April 23 The suspects — Ram Simran Singh Makkar alias Prince Makkar, a nephew of MLA Sarabjit Singh Makkar, Amardeep Singh Sachdeva, a practicing advocate and son of a senior leading advocate, Amanpreet Singh Narula alias Prince Narula, son of the chairman of MGN Educational Trust, and Jasdeep Singh alias Jassu, son of the owner of city-based hotel Regent Park — were brought to the court premises in the morning. Seeking their production warrants, the city police had moved an application before the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Ajit Pal Singh. Interestingly, the city police that had remained a mute spectator while the suspects surrendered before the court yesterday, today deployed heavy force on the court premises. The statements of all Defence counsels Mandeep Singh Sachdeva and VK Sareen requested that either a counsel should be allowed to be present during their interrogation by the police or their clients be allowed to meet their counsels after an interval of two hours. The prosecution, however, said that since it was a well-planned and cold-blooded murder, all the suspects should be sent to police custody as the police has to recover weapons, vehicles and mobile sets used by them in the crime. The police also has to identify the places where and with whom they were hiding while on a run. Meanwhile, the city police tightened the noose around dhabas and other eating joints in and around the city where customers are served drinks late in the night. The police last night raided over 50 such eateries and forced the staff to down shutters.
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CM Badal’s cousin gets PPP office shifted
Bathinda, April 23 Darshan Singh Madhir, a senior leader and confidant of Manpreet Badal, had initiated the move and was to open the office in a day or two. While Madhir holds a major share in the cinema, Dhillon too has a small holding in it. Madhir has been assigned the duty to take care of the party’s affairs in Bathinda district. At present, the PPP leadership is trying hard to mobilise maximum persons for its ongoing recruitment drive and trying to open the maximum offices in the Malwa region, where ruling SAD (B) wields considerable influence over the electorate. Talking to The Tribune, Dhillon, who is in Sri Lanka, said that when he came to know that the PPP was planning to open its office in the cinema house, located on Bathinda-Goniana main road, he contacted Madhir and told him not to do so. “I have always enjoyed good relations with Madhir. I want to keep my political interests separate from my business ones,” Dhillon said, who was made member PPSC by Badal when he was Chief Minister of the previous SAD-BJP government from 1997 to 2002. Madhir said that now the office would be opened in a building located behind the cinema house. The building was being given a face lift and might be inaugurated by Manpreet Badal in a week or so.
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Several NRIs join Manpreet’s party
Jalandhar, April 23 Munish, a former Youth Akali Dal leader, and other NRIs joined PPP during Manpreet’s visit to the city for a function at Basti Bawa Khel on Friday. Munish had returned to India recently after spending several years in Canada. Apart from Munish Sharma, NRIs Mindi Virk, Channa Singh Dhanoa, Mandeep Singh Chahal, Dharmendra Mahal, Saravjeet Singh Sohal, Inderjeet Singh Birla, Gurwinder Singh, Ajitpal Singh and others joined the PPP. — TNS
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Nabha SHO ‘beats up’ senior forest official
After the senior forest official brought the matter to the notice of his seniors, the police official concerned was pressed for a compromise. Divisional Forest Officer Dharminder Sharma alleged that he was invited to a private function in Nabha where SHO Nabha GS Bal and DSP Nabha Arshdeep Singh were also present along with their gunmen. “During the course of the party, both the officials got drunk and started misbehaving with me. They later punched and slapped me,” he alleged. Sharma said he immediately brought the matter to the notice of Patiala SSP Gurpreet Singh Gill who briefed him late at night on phone and called him in the morning. “My medical examination shows injury marks,” Sharma told TNS, before the compromise was reached in the afternoon. Another onlooker said the DSP and the SHO were also invited at the private function being hosted by a local furniture trader. “Almost an hour after a singer was performing on the stage, the SHO and the DSP went on the stage and forcibly took the mike and started singing their own paeans. This was opposed by other guests, including Dharminder Sharma,” he told The Tribune. Sources said following the brawl, the SSP Patiala summoned the DSP and the concerned SHO, today morning. “The Divisional Forest Official sought an apology from the SHO concerned and they struck a compromise,” sources said.
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Murder in Oz
Rajpura, April 23 Elder brother of deceased Kulwinder Singh said though they had e-mailed the authority letter to get the body, they weren’t clear about the processing. “Our relatives in Australia are taking up the matter with Australian authorities. But they too seem to be clueless due to the extended weekend and holidays due to Good Friday,” he said. The family members said they have no intimation about the co-worker who stabbed Lakhwinder. However, they got the information through newspaper reports in Australia stating that Thy Sok (37), of Springvale has been charged with the death of Lakhwinder. The police found Lakhwinder’s body in Miners Pick Caravan Park in Rushworth, near Shepparton. The accused was arrested next morning from Springvale.
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Writer Rekha gets Pride of Patiala award
Patiala, April 23 Veteran Congress leader and former chairman of Pepsu Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) Ved Parkash Gupta chaired the function. Rekha, a postgraduate in Hindi, Punjabi and a diploma holder in Urdu, has been a prolific writer having contributed to a number of publications in the region. Earlier this month, Patiala Deputy Commissioner Dipinder Singh had released a book of poems by Rekha.
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Punjab to take note of bodies flowing in rivers
Patiala, April 23 When contacted, Irrigation Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon said he would take up the matter with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to ensure that the police took immediate action in such cases. As per present norms, if anybody falls into some water body, relatives rush to Khanauri siphon near Samana or Sangrur. They hire private divers who charge exorbitantly to fish out the body. “The police fails to offer help and if the relatives get late, the body passes into Haryana,” claimed a person who once traveled to Haryana to locate his missing relative. — TNS
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Man, castrated by eunuchs, out of danger
Jalandhar April 23 Charanjit had been associating with a group of eunuchs for over three years to pursue his hobby of music and to earn a living out of it. He has two minor children. According to Kapurthala City SHO Kulwinder Singh, as the incident had taken place in some private clinic in Moga, it was for the Moga police to take further action in the case. “The eunuchs, according to Charanjit Singh, offered him some tea last week consuming which he fell unconscious. He informed that when he gained consciousness on Tuesday, he found himself castrated,” said Kulwinder Singh. —
TNS
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Rest House Auction
Bathinda, April 23 Malooka said that in the inquiry, conducted in connection with the news item that appeared on August 12, 1998, by the then Superintendent Engineer, Irrigation, SS Dhaliwal, he and his father Sikander Singh Malooka, who was a Cabinet minister at that time, were found innocent. He said that neither he nor his father were connected in any way with the auction of the rest house carried out by the official concerned of the Irrigation Department at that time in Bathinda.
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Yasmeen Murder Case
Malerkotla, April 23 Yasmeen (19), was refereed to the Rajindra hospital, Patiala, on March 30 by the doctors of civil hospital Malerkotla after her condition deteriorated on March 29. Yasmeen died on April 19 at Rajindra hospital Patiala. Mohd Imran, Yasmeen’s brother, had lodged a complaint with the local police under Section 376, 506 and 120B of the IPC on April 19 alleging that the owners of the factory, where her sister was working from the past two years, had raped her sister.
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Lack of funds brings curtains on Bhagat Puran Singh Chair
Amritsar, April 23 The decision to refund the amount was reached in a meeting of the GNDU Syndicate on March 11. The move came after the Society President Dr Inderjit Kaur shot off a missive to GNDU Vice-Chancellor AS Brar on February 7, stating that in wake of the tardy functioning of Bhagat Puran Singh Chair they have unanimously decided to seek the refund of the said amount of Rs 25 lakh to the Pingalwara so that the same could be utilised for humanitarian causes in which they are engaged. Talking to The Tribune, Dr Kaur said, "We made the request as we noticed that after a couple of seminars and some work in the initial days the Chair was virtually non-functional." She said that now they will not only utilise this fund for the welfare of the underprivileged but also facilitate the research work on Bhagatjee at Pingalwara itself. The decision to set up the Chair was taken in 2004 to mark the birth centenary of Bhagat Puran Singh. She said they were expecting that the university too will chip in monetarily to ensure the smooth functioning of the Chair, but that didn't happen. "Bhagatjee had embraced the philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev, which was to serve humanity, and one of the aims to set up the GNDU too was to spread the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev. However, it is unfortunate that the varsity didn't do anything to ensure that Bhagatjee's message reached hearts and minds of the people globally." On the other hand, GNDU V-C AS Brar said, "With the meagre amount of interest accruing on the corpus of Rs 25 lakh it was not possible for us to appoint a suitable person (scholar) to head the Chair for conducting the requisite research. An amount of at least Rs 10 to 12 lakh was required annually to make sure the smooth functioning of the Chair. Though some work had begun after setting up the Chair, but it could not sustain for long." On varsity not contributing to the Chair, he said, "We have great respect for Bhagatjee, but as per the university norms, a donor has to sponsor the Chair."
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"Public concern over the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in Maharashtra is genuine following the post-tsunami devastation in Japan,” said Union Minister.
Five members of a family were killed and two seriously injured when the vehicle they were in was hit by a train on an unmanned railway crossing
at Talwandi Kot village.
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Patiala, April 23