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Border district’s potential for development as rural tourism hub
Five killed in road mishap
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Sobti’s Successor
NRI husband booked for attempting to kill teacher
Police ‘inaction’ in muder case protested
Girl’s body found in sub-canal
Poultry firm penalised Rs 1.5 lakh
Clothes, woollens of DC stolen
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Border district’s potential for development as rural tourism hub
Fazilka, February 28 The UNWTO representatives were here in connection with their two-day visit to explore the possibilities for rural tourism in this border district. “We are not supposed to disclose at this juncture which particular area would be developed as a tourist spot,” said Sahi. Fazilka Deputy Commissioner Dr Basant Garg said tourists spots would be developed under the Punjab Tourism Development Master Plan 2008-2023. The report of the important places would be presented to the authorities concerned in this regard. Garg said the team was conducting a survey to identify different places of interest to visitors to convert them into tourist spots. “These spots would be centres of attraction for the tourists,” hoped DC Garg. On the first day of their tour, the UNWTO team visited historical spots in village Rampura where the village industry commission has proposed setting up a desi Punjabi Juti Cluster, Asafwala war memorial of the martyrs of 1971 Indo-Pak war, village Katehra where one of the biggest organised farm of 125 acres is being managed by a progressive farmer Vinod Jyani, JCP Sadiqi where retreat (flag lowering) ceremony is carried out jointly by the Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers daily besides other rural areas. The team members also collected the statistics of geography of the border areas and met the activists of different NGOs who are engaged in providing self- employment skills and spreading the message of rich culture of this belt. |
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Five killed in road mishap
Ferozepur, February 28 As per the information, the deceased have been identified as Bikram Singh alias Bittu, his wife Palwinder Kaur besides Harjit Singh (12) and Lovepreet Singh (10), both sons and Manjinder Kaur (niece), all of whom were travelling on a motorcycle. The accident took place when Bikram along with his family members was going from Makhu towards Kassuana when his bike collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite side. The collision was so fierce that all of them died on the spot. The police officials from Makhu police station reached the spot and sent the bodies to the Civil Hospital in Zira for the postmortem. The entire area was in a state of shock after the news regarding the accident spread today in the
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Sobti’s Successor
Chandigarh, February 28 What has left PU senators, including faculty members, fuming is the fact that Chadha, a retired IFS officer, who is not only a part of many committees and has exercised his vote on several issues, has been included in this high-powered panel. “I never applied for the committee but the Chancellor appointed me and why should anybody have an objection on his discretion?” Chadha said. The fraternity, however, refuses to accept the arrangement alleging Chadha to be favouring a particular senator who will be in the race to become the next VC. “The transparency has been sent in for a toss as somebody with stakes in university gets a say in selecting the new VC. Chadha may be a nominated senator but any senate proceeding can be reviewed and one can decipher his affiliations to one particular group. If senate politics is going to decide on the new VC, then why not get this selection done by the senate itself?” questioned HS Ghosal, a senator. “Propriety demands that a sitting senator who remained an active participant in the electoral politics of senate and syndicate and other elections should himself disassociate from any such search committee. Selecting a new VC requires utmost transparency and there should not be a scope for anybody to influence the members,” added another senior senator Rabindernath Sharma. The other two members of the panel include acclaimed jurist Justice Leila Seth and noted scientist based in Hyderabad Dr P Rama Rao. |
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VC for super speciality courses in medical colleges
Bathinda, February 28 The vice-chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, Dr SS Gill said this while talking to TNS today. Dr Gill was here as chief guest at the founder’s day function of the Central University of Punjab (CUP) held today. Dr Gill said the varsity had already written to the Punjab government regarding the same. “Super speciality in neurology and cardiology is needed in the government hospitals. Private institutes like Christian Medical College (CMC) and Dayanand Medical College (DMC) are already offering these courses, while the Gian Sagar Medical College plans to do the same,” said Dr Gill. He added that the courses are expected to be started from the next academic session onwards. “At Government Medical College in Amritsar, the departments would be set up and courses run accordingly,” he said. The BFUHS also plans to add 50 seats to each government medical college at Faridkot, Patiala and Amritsar in under-graduate classes. Besides, there are also plans to go for expansion of seats in the postgraduate classes. “We have already augmented forms offering four subjects in postgraduation to nine subjects, while seven more are in the offing. This way, we would have 15 to 16 postgraduate courses running at the varsity campus,” the VC added. Talking about quality medical education in government and private-run medical colleges, he said while the private sector was decked up with better infrastructure, the teaching faculty in government colleges was far more experienced. “We want that the students should not be admitted to the private medical colleges through a separate entrance test. There should be combined or common entrance test for admission to all the institutes,” the VC remarked. Deliberating on the efforts made to check cheating and proxy examinees, he said the the university had introduced hand scanning technology. “Earlier, we had come up with the iris reading technique and have now added the hand scanning. The student will now have to get his or her hand scanned before entering the examination center. The same hand scan would be then be used at the time of admission to different colleges,” he said. |
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Car catches fire due to leakage in LPG cylinder
Abohar, February 28 As per information, the car (DL 8 CK 6729) had been ferrying the daughter-in-law of its owner Krishan Lal Kathpal along with other schoolteachers to village-based schools since no other mode of transport is available in the morning. She chose to avail of casual leave today. While the driver Avinash Chander was on his way to contact other teachers, he found heat emanating from near his seat. The LPG cylinder caught fire perhaps due to some leakage and fault in the wire system as the car was passing near the Shakti Nursing Home located on the Abohar-Hanumangarh road (state highway) close to the railway overbridge. The driver promptly stopped the vehicle and jumped out but sustained some injuries in the exercise. A resident Baljit Singh said the municipal fire brigade was informed immediately. Schoolchildren and teachers who were waiting on the roadside for transport were advised to rush for shelter. Meanwhile, the LPG cylinder exploded turning the car into pieces, some of which were found at a distance of 100 meters, other residents confirmed. “Thanks God, the explosion that made the locality panic, did not affect the nursing home and other commercial establishments nearby,” said a housewife. Scores of citizens were found rushing to the site as the news spread like a wildfire. The fire- fighting workers were able to extinguish fire after an hour. Traffic was diverted to other roads in the meantime. |
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NRI husband booked for attempting to kill teacher
Moga, February 28 A few unidentified gunmen fired shots and injured Harpreet when she was going returning home to Ludhiana in a car on Monday. She is working in the government high school at Raonta village in the Nihalsinghwala sub-division of the Moga district. She received two gunshots, one in her right eye and another in the right leg and is presently undergoing treatment at the DMC hospital in Ludhiana. Harvinder Singh, the SHO of the Nihalsinghwala police station, who is investigating this case said a criminal case has been registered on the basis of the statement of the injured woman. “She has stated that her husband who lives in Canada does not want to take her to Canada while she is insisting on going due to which he hired these killers and tried to eliminate her,” the SHO said. Preliminary findings revealed that Harpreet was married to Gurajit Singh who hails from Raonta village where she is working but is presently settled in Canada. Harpreet has claimed that after going back to Canada, her husband has married another woman and now wanted her to get out of his life, the SHO said. “We have searched the residence of Harpreet’s in-laws at their village but found no one as the entire family lives in Canada. “However, we are on the job to search for the youths hired by Gurajit who fired at Harpreet,” he added. |
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Police ‘inaction’ in muder case protested
Muktsar, February 28 Gurmeet’s body was found from the fields on January 31. Later, the DSP headquarters, Jaswinder Singh assured the protesters of taking swift action in this regard and it was only then that the flow of traffic resumed on the road .— OC
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Girl’s body found in sub-canal
Abohar, February 28 Nar Seva Narayan Seva president Raj Kumar Charaya said some villagers noticed a bag floating in the Arniwala sub- canal and informed the NGO. The visiting volunteers and cops were stunned to find cuts made by sharp- edged weapon on the neck of the female’s body while one of her arms had been cut before packing the body in a jute bag. The body has been shifted to the Nehru Memorial Civil Hospital here for postmortem. Abohar: The Wahabwala police have seized 210 kg of poppy husk that was smuggled from neighbouring Rajasthan. The consignment was to be delivered at Moga, investigation indicated. Further investigation into the case is on, police said. |
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Poultry firm penalised Rs 1.5 lakh
Bathinda, February 28 A team of the excise and taxation officials intercepted a vehicle at the Talwandi Sabo tax barrier on February 27. “The vehicle was carrying mustard cakes meant to be fed to the animals, but the bill book mentioned the contents of truck as bajra. Bajra was mentioned as there is no VAT imposed on it. We immediately seized the truck and slapped 5.5 per cent VAT and 50 per cent penalty of the total weight of the truck,” said the officials. In an interesting development, the owners of vehicle approached the office of deputy excise and taxation commissioner (DETC) claiming to be a raj-jyotishi (royal astrologer) of a prominent Congress leader of the state. “He wanted to get away with the penalty imposed. First, he tried to threaten us and then started dropping names. But our officials remained firm and we did not budge,” the officials added. |
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Clothes, woollens of DC stolen
Fazilka, February 28 An FIR has been lodged with the city police, Fazilka, by Raj Kumar, who has been working as a domestic help at the residence of Basant Garg. He brought a packet of five pants and four sweaters from the drycleaner and tailor. There after, he went to the departmental store. As directed by the manager and the guard, he deposited the packets at the entrance of the store. He also secured a deposit token. When he returned and demanded the packets back, he found the packets were missing. An FIR under Section 379/406 the of IPC has been registered.
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“There is great potential for tourism in this border district of Fazilka and a number of rural places can be developed as tourist spots. We have liked the area very much,” said United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) consultant on rural tourism Sudhir Sahi and the national project coordinator with the UNWTO retired brigadier TPS Chaudhary after touring different historical and culturally rich places in the border and other areas.
