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Freedom for 12 Pak nationals
Mohalla residents bid tearful adieu to girls
BEd teachers: Eliminate probation period of 2 years
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1 held with heroin worth Rs 10 lakh
Shiv Batalvi Cultural Centre in for a facelift, receives
Rs 1.80 cr
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Fake will makers held
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Freedom for 12 Pak nationals
Amritsar, October 11 All of them were brought from various prisons of the country to hand them over to the officials of the Pakistan government who came at the Joint Check Post to receive them.Of them, six were brought from the Amritsar Central Jail. They were Akbar Ali, Tariq Mahmood, Nazim Baksh, Abid Mohammad, Mohammad Salim and Mohammad Sohail. Irfan Tausir and Mohammad Muzaffar Khan, who were lodged at the Tihar Jail for possessing explosives, were also released. Four fishermen, who were lodged in prisons at Jamnagar and Kutch Bhuj, Gujarat, were released too. They were Mohammad Ali, Tagji, Mohammad Anis and Faizal. The Pakistan Rangers Superintendent, Mohammad Rafiq, was present. The Border Security Force (BSF) Company Commandant, JS Kang, supervised over the release of the Pakistan nationals.
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Mohalla residents bid tearful adieu to girls
Jalandhar, October 11 Though the police had kept the bodies in the civil hospital morgue yet their postmortem examinations were not conducted. The bodies were cremated by thier families this noon. The station house officer, Police Station Division No 3, Manmohan Singh, said that the parents and the family members of the deceased were not willing to get their postmortem examinations conducted and had moved an application before the police in this regard. Sohan Lal and Ravi Mattu, fathers of Sneha and Mehak, respectively, had last night moved applications seeking no police investigation in the mishap, the SHO claimed. He said the grief-stricken parents also did not want any police action against the vehicle driver and termed the incident as an unavoidable accident. A pall of gloom descended in the Valmiki Mohalla soon after the death of two daughters reached the area, last night. Shrieks rent the air and the families were inconsolable. There was a heart-rending scene in the mohalla as not only the families but the area residents were also seen paying their last tributes to the girls. |
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BEd teachers: Eliminate probation period of 2 years
Jalandhar, October 11 Addressing a press conference, vice-president of the front Chander Shekhar said initially the ETT and master-cadre teachers were recruited as teaching fellows and service providers. “These teachers have already spent more than three years as teaching fellows and service providers and it is not justified for them to remain on probation period for another two years,” he added. They also lauded the decision of the state government of hiking the pay scales of the teaching employees but said the pay scales should be implemented from January 1, 2006, as that was the time when the pay scales were implemented in the state. He said if their demands were not met, the front members would be forced to hold a massive state-level rally and keep the vehicles off the road at Ludhiana on October 26. |
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1 held with heroin worth Rs 10 lakh
Jalandhar, October 11 The Special Detective Staff incharge, Inderjeet Singh, said Sabi was nabbed during a patrolling near Samipur Chagwan road near Lambra today. The accused was riding a motor bike when the cops got suspicious and signaled him to stop for checking. During the search police recovered 20 gm heroin from him. The accused confessed to be engaged in smuggling since last 4 to 5 months. |
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Shiv Batalvi Cultural Centre in for a facelift, receives
Rs 1.80 cr grant
Batala, October 11 The Batala, SDM, Paramjit Singh, who is the Secretary of the 21-member Shiv Kumar Batalvi Memorial Society, confirmed that the amount will soon be transferred to their account once a bond is signed by representatives of the District Administration and the Society. A Jalandhar-based architect has been roped in to oversee renovation work of the auditorium which, at present, is lying in a state of shambles. The dilapidated condition of the auditorium came to the notice of the authorities during the writer’s 75th birth anniversary celebrations held in July last year. At that time, the District Administration, fearing a backlash from Batalvi’s followers, shifted the venue to a local marriage palace where the Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Badal, presided over the proceedings. There, the Deputy Chief Minister announced to provide a financial package to refurbish and modernise the auditorium; however, for 18 months not a single rupee was received by the administration. However, things have changed and now the writer’s innumerable followers are smiling since funds have now been released by the State government. The Punjab Education Minister, Sewa Singh Sekhwan, is the Society’s patron, while Dr Satnam Singh Nijjar is its President. K Sharanjit, a noted littérateur and a contemporary of Batalvi, is the Organising Secretary and Batala MLA, Jagdeesh Sahni, has been enrolled as a member. A recent visit to the auditorium revealed that it boasted of broken tiles and doors, a roof ready to fall anytime and plaster peeling off the walls. It resembles more of a haunted house rather than a building constructed in memory of the writer who was conferred upon with the prestigious Sahitya Academy award in 1965. K Sharanjit said, “Batalvi was a writer par excellence. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say but what we are unable to say. That in essence defines Shiv Kumar Batalvi as a writer. He was exposed to the Ramlila at an early age and that is the reason why he had an instinctive understanding of drama.” Interestingly, the old auditorium has three foundation stones laid at three different times by different politicians. |
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Fake will makers held
Phagwara, October 11 They have been arrested under Sections 420,406,465,467,468 and 471 of the IPC on the charges of preparing a fake will. In the fake will, Deep Kumar of Vikas Nagar, Phagwara, was named as the heir to the property of a deceased NRI, Kulwant Kaur, DSP Sandip Sharma told newsmen here today. |
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The Indian government released 12 Pakistan nationals, who completed their terms for various crimes, including possession of explosives and violation of marine laws, through Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post, today.
Members of the BEd Teachers Front, Punjab, said today that the state government should do away with the probation period of two years of around 14,000 ETT and master-cadre teachers.
The Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner, Mohinder Singh Kainth, has finally received a grant of Rs 1.80 crore from the Punjab government for the renovation of the Shiv Kumar Batalvi Cultural Centre and Auditorium. Shiv Kumar Batalvi is the iconic Punjabi poet, writer and novelist whose work is still revered by Punjabis around the globe.
