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Admn launches campaign against petrol pilferage
Consumers resent petrol price hike
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Powercom engineers threaten to launch agitation
‘Want to connect with youth through Indian, Western fusion’
1 held with stolen .12 bore gun
Accident victim dies
Nine injured in road accident
Third leg of CPI jatha today
Consumer forum tells courier firm to pay Rs 32,000
300 delegates attend medical conference
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Admn launches campaign against petrol pilferage
Amritsar, March 3 Reports said different teams under the supervision of District Food and Supplies Controller Rakesh Singla made random surprise visits at over a dozen petrol stations. The teams were accompanied by the officials of the Weights and Measures Department. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rajat Aggarwal also instructed the teams if any petrol station was found deceiving the consumers, a strict police action would be registered under Sections 420 and 120-B of the IPC and Section 7 of the Essential Commodity Act. Besides checking the quality and quantity of fuel, the inspecting teams also interacted with consumers present on the spot. No petrol station, however, was found pilfering petrol, it has been learnt. “It will be a continued exercise and if any petrol station is found indulging in pilfering, the police will take an immediate action. There are around 52 petrol pumps in Amritsar and all are under our strict vigil,” an official said. On March 1, the Rambagh police had booked three persons, including the owner of a petrol pump, on a tip-off that they fitted some instrument in the petrol dispensing machine which showed more reading than the actual petrol dispensed. Swung into action
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Consumers resent petrol price hike
Amritsar, March 3 Sarwan Singh Pandher of the Kissan Sangarsh Committee flayed the move saying the government effected the second hike within a fortnight. Punjab Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) president JP Khanna said the price hike by oil companies was necessitated by an increase in international crude oil prices along with depreciation in the value of rupee against US dollar. He said the Punjab government had been charging 27.5 per cent VAT in addition to 10 per cent surcharge, 1.5 per cent per liter cess and one per cent octroi. The sum of all these taxes was 32.75 per cent tax in Punjab on a liter of petrol. In Haryana, he said, VAT stands at 20.5 per cent and no other tax is imposed. In Himachal, VAT is 24 per cent and no other tax is
in place. Ramanjeet Kaur, a working woman, said every increase in petrol prices has a cascading effect on the domestic budget.
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Powercom engineers threaten to launch agitation
Amritsar, March 3 The association in a meeting held here recently had pointed out that the lack of proper staff had added burden on them. The association also criticised the delay in rationalisation of workload norms. Ishwar Dass, joint secretary of the association, said the PSPCL should create new posts as per the work norms in order to achieve the targets fixed by the department. “The engineers are overburdened due to non-rationalisation of workload norms,” said Ishwar Dass adding that in view of the new requirements such as RTS Act, RTI
Act and Standards of Performance Act, the workload has substantially increased as compared to past several years,” Ishwar Dass said. Though the PSPCL authorities had constituted a committee for rationalisation of workload norms, they instead referred the matter to the Punjab government, he pointed out. JS Suchu said the management had also failed to solve the problems of field engineers. The issue of impractical norms regarding outsourcing vehicles was still pending, JS Suchu added. The association threatened to launch an agitation if the Powercom authorities failed to resolve their issues.
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‘Want to connect with youth through Indian, Western fusion’
Amritsar march 3 Following his family tradition and passion for Hindustani classical music, Pravin is today one of the most celebrated flute players in the country and arguably one among the best in the world. To perform at the classical music festival at Virsa Vihar in the city, Pravin talks about his love story with the bamboo stick, fusion and future of classical music. "When I started training with my father, he taught me one thing: Bansuri may be the simplest instrument to look at but it is the toughest to learn," he says. Pravin is the first Indian artist to play 8-ft contrabass in a concert, winner of Suramani Award. He has done solo shows around the world and formed a fusion band Krishna. Having mastered his father’s unique style of singing on flute called gayaki style and thanthrakari style, Pravin is busy balancing fusion and classical music. "I believe that fusion of classical music with
various contemporary genres can bring in younger audience, who otherwise listen to western music. Though I do raga-based fusion, it is just a different music package the roots and therapautic nature of the music remains intact," he says. With three generations of flautists in the family, the youngest being his son Shadaj, 8, Pravin says he enjoys playing in small towns rather than metros. "A few understand classical music. It is easier to connect with that audience who understand well with the classical music. His upcoming performance in the city will be a fusion of Carnatic and Hindustani style.
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1 held with stolen .12 bore gun
Amritsar, March 3 Those booked are Vipanpreet Singh, a resident of Makhanwindi village in Jandiala, Umed Singh of Silver Estate and Jadish Singh of Bhagwanpura in Batala. Vipan was arrested near Fatehgarh Shuker Chack on the Batala road. Investigating officer (IO) Kulwinder Singh said a case under Section 25/54/59 of the Arms Act had been registered against the accused. He said it was revealed during initial investigation that Vipan had procured the gun from Umed and Jagdish Singh who had purchased the weapon from those who had stolen the weapon and other firearms from the said
gunhouse. Further investigations are on in the case, the investigating officer said.
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Accident victim dies
Amritsar, March 3 They were rushed to a private hospital here where Gurmukh Singh died. Satwant Kaur was critically injured in the accident. Gurdeep Singh of Jalandhar, a relative of the deceased, said he was coming on a motorcycle from Jalandhar to Amritsar when a car having registration number PB-08-30-3887 sped after hitting both the victims. Investigation officer Savinder Singh said a case under various sections was registered.
— TNS
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Nine injured in road accident
Tarn Taran, March 3 The two other injured are Chand Raj of Heerapur village and Seema Rani of Chhehtra. The accident took place when the tractor-trolley the devotees were travelling in collided with another tractor. Chand Raj and Seema Rani were on a motorcycle. The injured have been admitted to a Tarn Taran hospital. The police reached the spot after hearing the news.
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Third leg of CPI jatha today
Amritsar, March 3 “After paying tributes to the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh, the jatha will take a walk through the walled city of Amritsar up to Town Hall, from where the party will take out a motorcycle rally to Company Bagh where an inaugural public meeting will be organised,” said Mishra. Mirsha said Brinda Karat, Hannan Mollah, Rajinder Sharma, Charan Singh Vridhi, Party State secretary, Punjab, Com. Inderjit Singh , Party State Secretary, Haryana will take part in the public meeting. “The jatha will highlight the party’s stand on various issues confronting the country in general,” he said. He said vital sectors such as rural development, health and education were ignored in the Union Budget,” he said. He said due to various historical reasons, the development of Amritsar could not take place according to its capacity and resources. He urged the state government to come with a comprehensive development strategy keeping in mind the geographical limitations of this historical territory. He said, during the initial leg of the jatha where it passes through Jallandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Patiala, apart from highlighting the national issues, the party will also throw some light on development issues ranging from lack of proper developmental concept to various sectoral issues affecting different sections of the people in the state. The party leaders also met SK Mukherjee, secretary, National Trust, Jalianwala Bagh. He assured them the trust would help them during the campaign.
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Consumer forum tells courier firm to pay Rs 32,000
Amritsar, March 3 In his complaint Harpal Singh, a shopkeeper from Hall Bazar, had stated that he had booked a parcel containing a consignment worth Rs 30,000 with Trackon Couriers Private Limited on October 5, 2011. The company had promised to deliver the parcel to the person concerned in New Delhi within 24 hours but it was never delivered. The complainant said he approached the company repeatedly to request them to deliver the parcel, which ultimately informed him that it was lost. However, the company had refused to compensate the loss. Appearing before the forum, the courier company said it was trying to track the parcel and would deliver it at the earliest. The forum directed the firm to pay Rs 30,000 along with 9 per cent interest and litigation expenses to the complaint. The forum observed that it was a deficiency in service on the part of the firm to not to deliver the parcel after it has been booked.
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‘Time to develop new paradigms in technology’
Amritsar, March 3 Geetika presented a research paper on ‘Designing and effective framework for M-learning by considering design issues’, Ramandeep on ‘Problems during line segmentation of handwritten Devnagri script documents’ and Subhash on ‘Vulnerability assessment of university’s portal in Haryana’. About 100 delegates from various parts of the country and abroad participated in the conference and as many 60 research scholars presented their papers. The delegates presented research papers on various topics like analysis of the security issues in online shopping, component selection and integration, component-based software engineering, achieving flexibility in cloud computing, wireless sensor networks security, which are concerning the contemporary scenario globally. University of Jammu Vice-Chancellor Dr Mohan Paul Singh Ishar was the chief guest at the valedictory function. In his address, he emphasised the importance of information technology in every sector of society. “The technology is a vital tool for taking issues of developments in the remotest areas of the country. The need of the hour for young minds is to sit together and develop new paradigms in the information and communication technology, " he said. Dr Manu Sood, Professor, department of computer science, Himachal Pradesh University and Dr RS Virk, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev University were chairpersons of the sessions held today. DAV College principal Dr KN Kaul welcomed highlighted the college’s achievements in the field of academics and research. Department of Computer Science and IT Head Prof Amardeep Gupta presented the overall report of the conference.
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Four engineering students make three-wheel car
Jalandhar, March 3 Explaining the reason behind making this three-wheel car, Kashish Malik, head of the four-member team of engineering students, said “This type of car is cheap compared to the traditional four-wheel cars, as there is no need to install several parts, including differential and axel in it.” Hailing from Karnal, Kashish is pursuing his mechanical engineering at the Ambala College of Engineering and Applied Research in Ambala district. He, along with his other three team members, including co-head Nitish Sharma, chief member Amit Sheoran and Vikram Yadav, are second year students of mechanical engineering. The students brought their car from Ambala to Pushpa Gujral Science City (PGSC) in Kapurthala for putting it on display during a special function organised on National Science Day. The PGSC director general, Dr RS Khandpur, appreciated the team for preparing the car after seeing it minutely. The joyous team named their car Transport 2, which is an upgraded model of Transporter 1. “It has been developed after study and research of one and a half years on Transporter 1 and manufacturing of continuous eight days and nights on the college campus. This idea came to our mind during our first year and we formulated our team named CENTROID,” they added.
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Jaspal Bhatti remembered
Amritsar, March 3 Six lifetime achievement awards were given to Dr Inderjit Kur, Gurdeep Singh, Harvinder Pal Singh, former chairman of World Kabbadi Association and child artist Khyati Mehra, who also
performed at the event. Arvinder Bhatti was given Jaspal Bhatti Award for contributing in the field of acting. Prominent comedy artist Deepak Raja, Rajbir Kaur, and others were also honoured. A play “Jaggo” was staged by the natraj theatre group from Jalandhar. Idiot Club president RAJ Inder Rikhi said the awards would become an annual event on the rotational basis1across the cities in Punjab.
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284 students awarded degrees
Amritsar, March 3 Assistant Commissioner (Grievances) Lovejeet Kalsi, an alumnus of the college, was the guest of honour. Students presented cultural programmes on this occasion. Ravinder Randhawa, Lt Col (Retd) RS Nagi, Dr Shiva, a professor at Medical College, Surinder Pal Singh, Sushant Bhatia, superintendent at Municipal Corporation and other alumni were present at the function.
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300 delegates attend medical conference
Amritsar, March 3 As many as 300 delegates from northern India participated in the conference. Baba Farid University of Health Sciences vice-chancellor Dr SS Gill presided over the function as the chief guest. He congratulated the medicine department of the college for organising the conference. At the conference, experts from various institutions shared their research papers and findings on recent advances in diagnosis and management of many diseases. The hot topic of discussion at the meet was swine flu. Dr Ashish Bhalla from PGI discussed procedures of early diagnosis of suspicious cases and management of swine flu
cases. Management of acute kidney infections, rheumatoid arthritics and disorders of bone and mineral metabolism were also discussed.
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