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Farmer commits suicide by shooting himself
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‘Expedite waste mgmt project’
Jalandhar, November 6 A meeting in this context was held in the MC office here today. While the earlier deadline fell on July 15, the company had sought time claiming that there were certain prerequisites, which were to be cleared from the MC side. These included getting clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, selection of secondary points for the collection of garbage, creating of tipping fund, shifting of dairies falling in the waste disposal site at Jamsher village, widening of approach road to the dumping site, erecting streetlights along the road and the finalisation of policy from the Local Bodies Department. The Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC) had allowed the company time till November 15. The Mayor said most of the requirements had been cleared. Tenders for road widening had been cleared. Tipping fund of Rs 85 lakh had been created. Paper work for the shifting of dairies had been done and clearance from the ministry had been sought. “I have told the company officials to at least start work from some 15-20 wards to begin with, if not fully from the 60 wards,” he said after the meeting. Jyoti said since the term of the F&CC, which had earlier extended the deadline, was over and a new committee was yet to be formed. The final decision on the matter could not be taken at the moment. “We intend to hold a meeting of the House after Divali. The constitution of the F&CC will be taken in this meeting, which will decide the further course of action,” he added. Committees yet to be formed
Ever since the new Mayor took over the charge on September 25, there has been no meeting. It will be only after a meeting that the councillors will be given the charge to head various committees, including F&CC, streetlights, house tax, building, sanitation and horticulture, and oversee the functioning of departments. |
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Farmer commits suicide by shooting himself
Jalandhar, November 6 Investigating officer (IO) ASI Vijay Kumar said the exact cause of the suicide could not be ascertained as yet. The family members said Lajwant was under depression for a couple of month. Vijay said Lajwant took the extreme in the absence of his wife, Rajwinder Kaur, and son, Karanjot Singh. A domestic help of the family heard a gunshot and found her master lying in a pool of blood in the verandah in the backyard of the house. The weapon was also found by the side of the victim, who was bleeding profusely, the IO said. Vijay said the domestic help informed Rajwinder about the incident who rushed back to the home and subsequently the police was informed. The victim was immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital, but to no avail, the IO said. Meanwhile, the police has imitated inquest proceeding in the case on a statement recorded by the deceased’s son, Karanjot Singh, at Police Station Division No-7. The body has been sent to the local Civil Hospital for postmortem examination to be conducted tomorrow. A pall of gloom descended on the locality soon after the news of Lajwant’s death spread this afternoon. Neighbours, family members and friends assembled at the house and consoled the grief-stricken family members. After completing his graduation, Karanjot was willing to shift to Canada. Today he went to revenue officials for getting his documents prepared, along with his mother, when the incident occurred, a family friend added. Family members, however, said Lajwant was suffering from depression for a couple of months after giving up drinking. Expressing shock over Lajwant’s death, Jaswinder Sangha, a progressive farmer of the region, said he was a lively person and had never discussed about his depression in his friend circle. He added that Lajwant had isolated himself for the past two-three months. |
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Six injured in group clash on Cool Road
Jalandhar, November 6 The disputing members had badly thrashed a member of a rival group in the presence of the police. The police had to struggle hard to get the person out from the hands of the furious group members. Both group members were giving varied statements and were levelling allegations against each others for initiating the attack. Mukesh of SR Motors, resident of Krishana Nagar, said he, along with his friends Jatinder and Punni, was sitting at his shop when half a dozen armed persons entered their shop and started heated arguments with his friend Jatinder. Mukesh said when he protested the move, the armed persons started attacking them with sharp-edged weapons. In the melee, his two friends also sustained serious injuries. Mukesh also alleged that the assailants resorted to firing, but the other group denied indulging in any firing. Sandeep of a rival group, who along with his friends Karan and Amarjit, sustained severe injuries in the attack, said he did not have any enmity with the above said group. Instead, he had just come to inquire about one Jatinder, who was allegedly teasing her wife on her cellphone. “Recently, my wife had told me that someone was teasing her on her cellphone. To teach the caller a lesson, I traced his identity and found him to be one Jatinder of the city. Accordingly, I called my wife and fixed the time for a talk,” Sandeep said. When he, along with his friends, reached the spot, instead of sorting out the issue, they (the other group) attacked them with sharp-edged weapons, he added. One of his (Sandeep) friends, Amarjit (handicapped), who earlier escaped from the clash, again reached the spot where he was brutally thrashed by other group members in the presence of the police. Investigating Officer Jail Singh said as the statements of the injured were not recorded yet, no action was taken in the case so far. Jail Singh said the police had seized the licenced revolver of one of the group members and denied any firing. |
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Gang of international cheats busted
Jalandhar, November 6 The police also recovered 21 ATMs from the accused, besides detecting 42 accounts in different nationalised and private banks (SBI, ICICI, HDFC and certain others) that he was operating in connivance with the employees of these financial institutions. A majority of the account holders were fake and the accused was their sole handler. Enjoying “patronage of Dubai-based Hawala peddlers”, the gang is being operated by Pakistan-based swindlers through Dubai, the police claimed. The accused, Pawandeep Singh Bajwa, a resident of Dakoha, had reportedly been operating the racket in connivance with his Pakistani counterparts by roping in employees of certain India-based telecommunication companies had had set up a fake call centre in Pakistan.
Briefing mediapersons, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Branch) Diljinder Singh Dhillon said numerous complaints had been received from mobile phone subscribers regarding fake calls and SMSes from phone numbers (starting from +92 series) in which the callers lure them with prize money offered them by Indian telecommunication companies. Such calls are being made by female executive employed by the gang at various call centres in Pakistan and routed through Dubai with the help of the telecommunication companies who help in providing the caller phone numbers and other details of the subscribers, Dhillon claimed. While tracking such calls, the police succeeded in nabbing Pawandeep Singh Bajwa and during his interrogation, the accused spilled the beans, the ADCP claimed. During interrogation, Dhillon said Bajwa, who is a kingpin of the racket in this part of the region, came in the loop in Dubai in 2010-11 during economic recession. Bajwa, after facing huge losses in his business in Dubai, came in contact with certain Pakistan-based members of the gang who were active there for quite some time, the cop claimed. Dhillon claimed that during Bajwa’s interrogation, he admitted to have been operating the racket on mobile phones from the city. He also disclosed that many Indian (agents) who are members of the gang, handled by the Pakistani swindlers, have different bank accounts on fake names, in which the Indian phone subscribers used to deposit the cash demanded by the callers. The agents used to keep 15 per cent of the deposited money, while the rest was being deposited in the bank accounts (42) operated by Bajwa. Of the 15 per cent (agent’s share), 5 per cent goes to the bank staff for providing fake banks accounts. After keeping his share (10 per cent from the 85 per cent), Bajwa used to hand over the 75 per cent (in hard cash) to the Hawala Peddlers, the ADCP claimed. Dhillon claimed that the police had laid traps to nab the employees of various banks and telecommunication companies involved in the racket, besides tracing the leads to nab six persons (Pakistan and Dubai) with whom Bajwa was in regular contact. Meanwhile, a case under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 120-B of the IPC and Section 3 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, has been registered against Bajwa at Police station Division No 2. |
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Dr BR Ambedkar NIT
Jalandhar, November 6 Members of the union decided not to work and instead sat on a dharna in front of the main building of the institute demanding the withdrawal of the orders of the director. The staff members alleged that the action came after Sudhir Kumar had sought to lodge a complaint with the board chairman of the institute against certain malpractices on the campus through a mail seeking his intervention on the matter. The authorities said Sudhir had indulged in insubordination by bypassing the director on the matter. Sudhir had been serving as a laboratory assistant in the Department of Biotechnology at the institute. A meeting was held between the union members led by general secretary Sukhwinder Singh and the NIT authorities, which remained partially unresolved as director SK Dass was said to be away for a meeting. Officiating director for the day, RK Sareen, and OSD Rohit Mehra talked to the staff and told them that the order had been passed by the director and it was he only who could revert it. Mehra said the orders had been passed as per the statutes of the institute and a committee had been formed to look into the matter. Sareen termed the episode an internal matter and said it would be resolved amicably. |
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NGO holds classes for parents of hearing-impaired children
Jalandhar, November 6 As many as 50 to 52 children and 12 parents are presently taking classes at Dashmesh Public School, whose authorities have allowed the foundation to hold classes in the school. The classes have been started in a workshop format. The NGO will be providing free regular classes to parents of hearing-impaired children every Sunday. Also free books and stationery will be given to them for lessons. "While the classes for children are being organised for the past three years (they began from our home), we recently started the classes for parents so that they also have more ease in communicating with their children," said Ashwini Khandotra, founder president of the Deaf Hope Foundation. Khandotra, who himself has a hearing-impaired son, started researching the subject four years ago and the classes are presently being taken by him, his wife and another employee, who is hearing impaired. "Though we are initially teaching mostly parents, people in general, who are just keen to take lessons in sign language, speech therapy, etc, are more than welcome to join us for the lessons," said Khandotra. During the classes students (children and parents) are taught these skills primarily using visual aids like graphics and animations as well as worksheets and techniques, which are hardly available in schools in the city. "The teachers use sign language as the first language (a hearing-impaired child does not understand the regular languages and sign language is his mother tongue) to teach children and we are teaching them the subjects of English, math and EVS," says Khandotra. Children in the age groups between 10 and 26 are presently taking classes. The students will also be later imparted lessons in computer (graphics designing, development), painting, beautician course (for girls) and will also be taken to different places to ensure more exposure for them. Khandotra says, "The primary lacunae in the understanding of sign language has been that various versions of sign language are in practice. Like regional dialects and sensibilities in any other language, sign language also changes from place to place. What a sign means for a person in Punjab, may not mean the same for a person elsewhere. Even in Jalandhar, I have perceived that the same sign means different things to different students or parents, causing confusion. So the first prerequisite to teach sign language to children is to standardise the language so that it means the same for all children." "Since we do not have standardised sign language grammar in Hindi and Punjabi, we teach only English sign language to students based on the American sign language and British sign language models. Sometimes teaching one word to children alone takes months. We use graphics, animations, etc, to tell them what that word is. I remember the session, where we were teaching regional relationships (chacha, mama, taya, etc) to children, took so many Sundays. English only has uncle and auntie, but the regional relationships are way more complex," Khandotra says. "Unfortunately, children in exiting schools for hearing impaired children grope in the dark because teachers themselves do not go into the technicalities of the sign language and do not even have multimedia arrangements to hold an in-depth class," Khandotra said. |
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City all set to welcome King Khan
Jalandhar, November 6 Shah Rukh will be coming in his private chartered aircraft straight from Mumbai. He will land at the Adampur Air Force Station at around 10.30 AM. In fact, it is not 'King Khan' alone who is on a one-day sojourn of Punjab, actors Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif would also be accompanying him on his tour to promote his forthcoming film "Jab Tak Hai Jaan", which is the last film of the romance king, Yash Chopra. Shah Rukh would be interacting with students and teachers of Doaba College. Sources said family members of Lalit Chopra, the nephew of Yash Chopra, would be meeting Shah Rukh Khan at Doaba College where Shah Rukh would be paying his tributes to Yash Chopra. A studio of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department of Doaba College, which was set up under the guidance of Yash Chopra, would be inaugurated by Shah Rukh Khan.
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From Schools
Jalandhar, November 6 Debate competitions
The Police DAV Public School team, comprising Somali Vij and Aanandita Randev, bagged the runners-up trophy in an Inter-School Debate Competition organised by Cambridge International School, Dasuya. School student Anandita was also awarded the third prize in the individual category. Another debate competition was organised at DIPS School, Gilzian. It was held under the observation of principal Arvinder Kaur. Students of class IX and class X participated in the competition. Palwinder Kaur from class IX got the first position, Dharamjit Kaur from class IX got the second position and Ranjit Singh from class IX got the third position. The chairman, MD, CEO and Controller (DERDB), congratulated the staff and the students for their brilliant performances. Athletics track events
Athletics Tracks were organised in the playground of DIPS, Suranassi. The events took place under five categories namely Cat I (classes I-II), Cat II (classes III - V), Cat (classes VI- VIII), Cat IV (classes IX-X) and Cat V (classes XI-XII). Students under the category I and II competed in 100-m race, while students under Cat III, IV and V ran 200-m race. Randeep, Aditi, Gurpinder, Manpreet, Muskaan and Sarabjeet were the gold medallists. Jaspreet, Jujhar, Swati, Arti, Saab, Navjot and Subhash won the silver medal, while Jarnail, Mehak, Jasmeet, Khushbu, Maneesh and Harpreet got the bronze. Principal Bela Kapoor awarded the winners with medals and certificates. Bal Mela
Bal Mela (fete) was organised on the premises of Seth Hukam Chand SD Public Senior Secondary School, Kapurthala Road, Jalandhar. Principal Manju Arora welcomed the chief guest and presented a bouquet. Different types of stalls like tambola, try your luck, fishing the bottle, around the world and lucky dip were arranged for the enjoyment of the students. The chief guest for the lucky draw was the manager of the Managing Committee, Chaman Lal Dada. The prizes were given away to the lucky winners. A fancy dress competition of tiny tots was also organised. Rangoli contest
Mayor World School, Jalandhar, organised an Inter-House Rangoli Competition on the school campus. The competition was based on Indian traditions. Four participants from each of the four houses namely Dickens, Keats, Shakespeare and Wordsworth of grade III to V showcased their artistic instincts. Each group made amazing images of Ganesha, peacocks and flowers, each decorated with earthen lamps and candles. Winners of various categories were applauded by principal JS Hundal. Siya, Aryan, Harjot and Manya of Dickens House and Saina, Gautam, Devvrath and Emma of Keats House shared the first position, followed by participants from Shakespeare and Wordsworth House. Prize-distribution function
MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, Jalandhar, celebrated its 36th annual prize-distribution and cultural programme. The function started with shabad gyan. Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal, who was the chief guest on the occasion, was accorded a warm welcome. The shabad gyan was followed by a cultural programme. Principal Satwant Gakhal highlighted the achievements of the school. The cultural programme highlighted various social and environmental evils. Dance, songs, skits and plays were presented on the occasion. Sant Seechewal was honoured for his project ‘Purity of Water’ as a man with a noble mission. |
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