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Cold wave claims life
Wettest January in last 4 years
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College lecturers not to vote for
SAD-BJP
Constituency Watch
Nakodar
NRI fears threat to life
Renovated PAP shooting range inaugurated
Mobile phone shop burgled
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Cold wave claims life
Jalandhar, January 16 It has been the seventh death due to cold wave in the city since December. Most of the victims who succumbed to the cold have not been identified as they were reportedly beggars, poor or abandoned by their families. Residents revealed that the deceased was homeless and used to sleep in front of the temple of the locality. For the last few days, the deceased had been ill. The police after sending the body to the Civil Hospital for postmortem has initiated the inquest proceeding under Section 174 of the CrPc. Sources said in December four persons died due to the intense cold wave and the bodies of all of them were not identified. In January the bone-chilling cold claimed three lives. It is to mention here that acting tough against the state government for not providing shelters to the homeless and the destitute, the Punjab and Haryana High Court also issued a notice of motion to the Chief Secretary, Punjab DGP and Deputy Commissioner of Jalandhar on Saturday. The decision came following a public interest litigation filed by Surinder Mittal, general secretary of the Worlds Human Rights Protection Council. |
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Wettest January in last 4 years
Jalandhar, January 16 While till 8.30 in the morning the city had recorded 34 mm rain, at many places heavy to moderate rainfall continued leading to a tough time for the residents. The region has been witnessing rain since Saturday night. According to the data available with Jalandhar Tribune, the month of January witnessed the highest rainfall in the past four years. In 2009, January had witnessed a meagre 7.5 mm of rain and that too in the middle of the month, while in January, 2010, the region had witnessed 10.3 mm of rain. The month of January, 2011, also saw moderate rainfall of 7.5 mm in the city and its periphery and this year it has been 61.2 mm till this afternoon. Officials at the Met Department, Adampur Air Force Station, said even Tuesday would witness a mainly overcast to cloudy sky with rain and thundershowers at some places. A change in the weather was expected around Wednesday only, as this was directly linked to the fresh snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. It was also stated that the cold wave conditions were likely to intensify in the region with maximum temperature in the region witnessing a steep decline. Even today, most places registered a sharp decrease in the day temperature leading to virtually freezing conditions across the state. Amritsar remained the coldest in the plains with mercury plummeting to 9.6 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature recorded at 13.2 degrees Celsius. At Adampur, the minimum temperature remained at 10.8 degrees Celsius, while the day temperature was recorded at 13.6 degrees Celsius. The day temperature declined to 13.9 degrees Celsius at Halwara and 13.1 degrees Celsius at Pathankot in the state. |
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College lecturers not to vote for
SAD-BJP
Jalandhar, January 16 A decision in this regard was taken by members of the Punjab Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) and the Federation of Principals’ Associations during a state body meeting held at Lyallpur Khalsa College here. With the decision as many as 3,800 members of the PCCTU and 172 principals under the Principals’ federation would not cast their votes in the favour of the SAD-BJP combine on the day of polling on January 30. District president of the PCCTU Dr Tejinder Virli said the decision was obvious as the state government fooled the academicians by making lofty promises and delivering nothing. “We have chalked out a detailed plan to reach out to the masses at various localities and colonies to make the electorate aware of how the SAD-BJP government deliberately deteriorated the standard of education in the state,” he added. General secretary of the Principals’ federation and principal of Lyallpur Khalsa College Dr Jaspal Singh Randhawa said it was strange that despite remaining on a chain strike for more than a month in December, the government did not budge from its stand. It is pertinent to mention here that despite a message for meeting by Advisor to the CM Dr Daljeet Singh Cheema and Chief Parliamentary Secretary K.D. Bhandari, the lecturers had to return empty handed. The lecturers were left waiting for a meeting at the Punjab Bhawan in Chandigarh. Lecturers’ demands that remained unfulfilled
n Lifting ban on recruitment of lecturers as more than 95 per cent posts lying vacant n
Grant of pension and gratuity to lecturers n
Release of revised pay scales for non-teaching staff from January 1, 2006, instead of August 1, 2010 n
Release of arrears of the non-teaching staff n
Filling vacant posts of librarian in the colleges across the state |
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Constituency Watch
Nakodar
Nakodar, January 16 The dilapidated road, leading to the bus stand, says it all about development in the town. The road is in a bad shape for the past many years, but 'neta ji' did not pay head to the same and instead blamed the ruling government for not issuing funds for the development. The main bus stand of the town also cries for basic infrastructure and amenities. Now, it seems only the beggars use the premises as their residence. Industrialists are worried about sorry plight of 'dari industry' in the town. They claimed once the industry featured among the top in North India, but now the condition is pity and the politicians don't have time to think its revival. Industrialists alleged that the sitting MLA of the Congress, Amarjit Singh Samra, who was voted to power for the fourth consecutive term, did not even raise a single question in the Assembly about the plight of the industry. Similarly, commission agents of grain market claim that the mandi is devoid of sheds for the past many years. They alleged that their crops get destroyed in the rain. People also demand installation of traffic lights on the Jalandhar bypass to prevent occurrence of accidents. Residents of the constituency want a leader who will deliver basic amenities. Residents though laud the efforts of the MLA in bringing the sanitation project, but in reality, the project has not solved the problems. Sewer can be seen accumulated in the lanes. And in rainy days, roads are often flooded with the sludge. Polity wise
n In Nakodar, the main fight is between the Congress and SAD candidates. n
Congress' Amarjit Singh Samra has won four consecutive times from the constituency. n
SAD candidate Gurprtap Singh Wadala, son of veteran leader Kuldip Singh Wadala, who won the SGPC elections recently. Notably, Kuldip Singh had also lost to Samra in the last Assembly elections. n
The Congress will heave a sigh of relief with the withdrawal of its rebel candidate Gurvinder Singh Atwal |
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NRI fears threat to life
Jalandhar, January 16 Tara Singh Tara, an NRI, in a press conference here said a few months ago he had complained to the authorities concerned that the lambardar had made an illegal construction on the common property passage of the village. Before filing the complaint, he also requested the lambardar to restrain from raising the illegal structure, but in vain. The NRI alleged that now he was receiving threatening phone calls from some unknown person. “I am sure that the lambardar is behind all these calls threatening to kill me.” He demanded protection for himself and action against the lambardar from the police.
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Renovated PAP shooting range inaugurated
Jalandhar, January 16 The fully renovated state-of-the-art shooting range has received a new ceiling, electronic trolleys, lights and flooring. While four new air pistols were bought by the PAP shooting range authorities, an air rifle was also purchased for the ready-to-learn practice session of the shooters. Director-General of Police (DGP) of Armed Battalions-cum-president of the PAP shooting range Rajan Gupta inaugurated the newly renovated range and said the fresh lot of weapons for shooting would be bought soon by the PAP authorities. “We have allotted funds for the purchase of new weapons to the PAP shooting range and soon it would be equipped with the best shooting weapons,” he added. Prior to the renovation, the shooting range was witnessing the problem of seepage inside the range, leading to problems for the shooters during practice sessions. In the past years, the shooting range has conducted as many as three national-level shooting tournaments and around eight major shooting championships. The shooting range has also been witness to the leading shooters like Gagan Narang, Avneet Sidhu and many others participating in shooting tournaments. Apart from this, the PAP shooting range has also produced three budding shooters, who are at present scaling new heights in the international shooting events. These are Ajitesh Kaushal, Akshay Jain and Nikita Gupta. At present two of the products of the range, Ajitesh and Akshay, are all set to participate in the upcoming Asian Games to be held at Doha. Earlier also all the three shooters had made some good records at various national and international shooting events. DGP Gupta said the shooting range was open for all the budding shooters. “The budding shooters should make use of the state-of-the-art shooting range at PAP so that more shooters could be produced,” he added.
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Mobile phone shop burgled
Jalandhar, January 16 The owner of Vij Telecom, Mohit, said as usual he closed his shop at 8 pm on Sunday evening. This morning he was informed by his friend that the main shutter of the shop was lying broken. On reaching the shop, he was found the main shutter partially broken and the whole shop ransacked. The burglars took away number of mobile phone batteries, seven new and five old mobile phones, recharge coupons of Rs 10,000 and Rs 700 cash. The police reached the shop and started investigation.
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With bone-chilling cold and moderate downpour in the city and its periphery, the month of January has witnessed the record highest rainfall, 61.2 mm till this morning, in the last four years.
Nakodar, January 16
Jalandhar, January 16
