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Poll
violence at Mann village
Books Scam |
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Students protest outside minister’s house, demand his dismissal
Coal crisis at Lehra thermal plant may hit power supply
State plans to reduce land under paddy cultivation
PSEB Class X results today
Apprehended Pakistani national repatriated
Indo-Pak trade via rail route dips further
Traders mull stir if truckers’ issue at ICP not resolved
Kabaddi World Cup in November
Punjabi varsity to conduct research on Census data
Cargo scanner brings respite to traders
Nishan’s transfer puts borstal staff on their toes
Freedom fighter cremated with state honours
3 sites approved for mining
of sand, gravel in Ropar
Govt urged to release DA
Punjabis spend over Rs 14 cr every year on superstition
Models by 2 Bathinda students to compete at national level
Bank directed to close housing loan account, pay
Rs 2,000 fine
‘Fraudster’ JVG chairman nabbed after 10 years
4 injured in group clash in Tarn Taran
14-year-old gang-raped, 1 held
5 booked for Rs 67-lakh robbery
Two held with poppy husk
Woman ends life
Smack seized from undertrial
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Poll violence at Mann village
Badal (Muktsar), June 2 The protest lasted for almost 24 hours. Brar, his brother and former MLA Ripjit Singh Brar, district Congress president Gurdas Girdhar, Vijay Sathi and party workers were seeking the cancellation of an FIR lodged against 150 Congress workers and supporters belonging to Mann village. A delegation, led by DIG (Bathinda range) Amar Singh Chahal, Muktsar Deputy Commissioner Paramjit Singh and SSP Surjeet Singh, assured the protesters that the matter would be probed thoroughly and no further arrests would be made. Brar said: "The administration has assured us that no one will be harassed. But, if they failed to keep their word, we will stage a massive protest at Mann village". Later, the Congress leaders and workers went to Mann village to inform the aggrieved families about the development. During the day, the protesters alleged they were not allowed to bring food from outside and their workers were stopped from entering the village. Two party workers were allegedly detained by the police. Baljinder Kaur of Mann village, whose family members have been running since the incident, said: "The news came as a big relief for us. Now, our family members can return to their homes". Meanwhile, no party MLA from the district or constituency in charge turned up at the protest venue. Even Maheshinder Singh Badal, who resides in Badal village, did not join the protest. He had yesterday said that it was his father's death anniversary, but he failed to turn up today as well. Meanwhile, district Congress president Gurdas Girdhar said: "The District Congress Committee will issue show-cause notices to all the district leaders who did not join the protest".
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Books Scam
Chandigarh, June 2 In a statement issued here, he alleged it was unethical on part of Maluka to blame the DGSE for the scam in a bid to save his daughter-in-law Parampal Kaur, who as Additional Project Director held all the financial and administrative powers. He claimed the Punjab Congress had taken an initiative to expose the "misdeeds" of Maluka. He also questioned for Maluka for "forcing" the District Education Officers (DEOs) and school heads to rally behind him. He appealed to the teachers not to follow the orders of the minister and maintain the dignity of their profession. Fatehjung Bajwa also flayed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for "shielding the tainted minister".
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Students protest outside minister’s house, demand his dismissal
Chandigarh, June 2 The protesters, led by Daaman Kaur Bajwa, president, Punjab unit of the NSUI, and Jaswinder Singh, national secretary, marched from the Congress Bhawan to Kansal village carrying banners and raising slogans against the minister for his alleged involvement in the book scam. Addressing the protesters, Bajwa demanded the dismissal of Maluka from the cabinet and sought a CBI probe into the matter. She said the scam was a blot on the face of the SAD-BJP government and claimed Maluka could not escape the responsibility of supplying books with vulgar content to schoolchildren. She said Maluka should resign on moral grounds. She said it was unfair on part of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to support the minister. She alleged Parampal Kaur, Maluka's daughter-in-law, was responsible for the scam and she must be suspended. The NSUI president said the Badal government had "failed" to address the problems of the youth. She said the SAD-BJP alliance had promised to give an allowance to unemployed youth and laptops to school students and free education to girls, but none of these promises were fulfilled.
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Coal crisis at Lehra thermal plant may hit power supply
Though the shortage is not unusual, it is noteworthy that only the Lehra Mohhabat plant, which consumes less coal and generates power at the lowest rate in the state, is facing the problem. On the other hand, coal stock at Ropar and Bathinda, which consume more coal and result in more profit to coal supplying company PANEM, have stocks of 31 and 25 days, respectively. The Lehra Mohabbat plant has coal stock for 12 days while it should have a minimum stock for 17 days. A unit of the plant started functioning today after several weeks, but PSPCL officials have asked the plant managers to keep another unit shut to manage the coal shortfall for a few days. The state government and the PSPCL seem to have turned a blind eye to the loss. Sources said certain officials of the Lehra Mohabbat plant had last year pointed out that poor quality of coal was being supplied to the plants, especially to the Ropar plant, where stocks are always filled to the brim. They alleged a nexus between PSPCL officials and company managers had ensured that the poor quality of coal went unchecked till a team of engineers intervened. The sources said generation at 920-MW thermal plant at Lehra, which is capable of generating 220 lakh units daily, was hit due to the shortage even as Punjab owned a coal mine. They said the plant consumed only 580 gm of coal for generating one unit of electricity whereas the Ropar plant consumed 625 gm and the Bathinda plant 700 gm of coal. At present, Lehra has 1.65 lakh tonnes of coal, which is sufficient for 12 days. Surprisingly, Ropar’s coal stock is 5.70 lakh tonnes (enough for 31 days) and Bathinda plant’s 0.90 lakh tonnes (enough for 17 days). The coal stocks at the Lehra plant did not improve during May even as a 250-MW unit of the plant remained shut for overhauling from May 19 onwards and another 210-MW unit remained shut for nine days. The remaining units consumed about 3.65 lakh tonnes of coal against the supply of 2.90 lakh tonnes. The sources said 60 per cent of the coal requirement of three thermal plants of the state was met by PANEM, a company controlling the Pachwara coal mine allocated to Punjab in Jharkhand. About 85 per cent of coal to the Lehra plant is supplied by PANEM. Against the normal supply of 80-90 racks of coal per month, the company had supplied only half of it during March to May this year even as the mine’s capacity was increased from 7 MT per annum to 9 MT per annum. The sources alleged due to steps taken by the Lehra plant authorities to ascertain the quality of coal, PANEM, as an alleged arm-twisting measure, reduced the supply. PANEM challenged the test results of Lehra for third party testing. Out of the 125 reference samples, 63 were sent to the Central Fuel Research Institute, Dhanbad, and 62 to the CFRI, Nagpur. The test results of these reference samples were found almost similar to Lehra test results. GS Chabra, Director (Generation) PSPCL, said instructions had been given to PANEM to supply the required coal to the Lehra plant at the earliest. He said sometimes the Ropar plant got more supply as the railway lines were electrified while coal to the Lehra and Bathinda plants was supplied through diesel engines. 'Artificial' shortage
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State plans to reduce land under paddy cultivation
This season the department has set a target of reducing land under paddy cultivation by over 50,000 hectares from 28.18 lakh hectare to 27.68 lakh hectare. Agriculture Director Dr Mangal Singh Sandhu said, “We will encourage farmers to sow maize, cotton, vegetables and pulses.” Jalandhar Chief Agriculture Officer (CAO) Swatantra Kumar Aeri and his Kapurthala counterpart Manohar Singh also said they would reduce land under paddy cultivation under their respective blocks. Aeri said, “All the ten blocks namely Jalandhar East, Jalandhar West, Nakodar, Lohian, Shahkot, Nurmahal, Rurka, Phillaur, Adampur and Bhogpur fall under the dark zone due to excessive usage of underground water.” Aeri further said last year paddy had been sown on 1,65,000 hectares of land out of the total 2,40,648 hectares of cultivable land in Jalandhar district. “The district agriculture department this year is planning to reduce area under paddy cultivation by 4,000 hectare.” Manohar Singh said, “In Kapurthala district, paddy was transplanted on 1,12,000 hectares of the total 1,35,000 hectares of cultivable land last year. This year the department plans on reducing the land under paddy cultivation by around 15 percent and ask farmers not to sow paddy on more than 95,000 hectares.”
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Mohali, June 2 The results can be seen on www.indiaresults.com or the PSEB official site www.pseb.ac.in. “Services, including Interactive Voice Response (IVRS) and Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), are being introduced to help students get their results,” said Dr Dhaliwal. Dr Balwinder Singh, Secretary of the board, said the USSD service would enable a candidate to get the results on his mobile phone within a couple of seconds. Through the IVRS service, the students would be able to hear their results on their phone, he said. “Besides, the SMS service is also in place,” Dr Balwinder Singh said. He said over 4.19 lakh students took the exam this year. These are paid services and the charges are set by the service providers.
— TNS
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Apprehended Pakistani national repatriated
Ferozepur, June 2 BSF officials said nothing objectionable was recovered from his possession following which Pakistan Rangers were contacted today and Abbas was handed over. This is the tenth Pakistani national who was nabbed and later handed over to Pakistan Rangers.
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Indo-Pak trade via rail route dips further
Amritsar, June 2 Talking to The Tribune, All-India Cement Importers Association president MPS Chatha said cement was now primarily being imported through road for various reasons. "The possibility of goods being smuggled through trade consignments is far less via the road route than the rail route," he said. Explaining further, he said scanners installed on the Pakistan side (on the Attari-Wagah land route) and the adequately manned Integrated Check Post
(ICP) in Attari negated chance of any mischief. There is virtually no security arrangement for goods unloaded at the Amritsar rail cargo facility. A leading clearing house agent Jaspal Singh said 20 to 30 truckloads of cement had been daily arriving at the Attari ICP daily over the past couple of months. Soyabean too was being exported via road because of non-availability of wagons. Another clearing agent Manav Taneja said traders exporting goods via the rail route would start feeling the heat in July when exports would pick up. As of now, spices, dyes and polymers were being exported via the rail route , he said. Sources said things had gone from bad to worse on the rail route. At times the goods train from Pakistan remained stranded at the Attari railway station for two or three days. The India-Pakistan trade via the rail route had suffered a setback when over 150 kg of heroin was seized from wagons carrying cement between May and October last year. Subsequently, Pakistan's traders had stopped exporting cement to India. Simultaneously, the demand for cement declined in the domestic market owing to the ban on sand mining. The bilateral trade via rail was primarily thriving on cement imports. At one time, the traders were receiving 70 to 75 wagons of cement from Pakistan at one go. This has now slipped to 10 wagons. Main factors
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Traders mull stir
if truckers’ issue at ICP not resolved
Amritsar, June 2 Total chaos prevailed at the Integrated Check Post (ICP) yesterday as the truckers’ union laid siege at the entry and exit points of the ICP in
Attari. CICCI's senior members Pardeep Sehgal and Rajdeep Uppal strongly condemned the alleged attempt by the truckers to completely throw Indo-Pak trade out of gear. The CICCI alleged that this was being done at the behest of a Punjab minister whom they didn't name. They alleged that the union was sidetracking the agreement formalised after the intervention of Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia at a high power meeting held in April at Amritsar. The Chambers urged Majithia to take stock of the situation and issue strict directions for the smooth operation of trade at the ICP. The members of the Chambers would also hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the entire gamut of the issues related to the bilateral trade.
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Lyallpuri: A hero of the peasantry
Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri was the last Left stalwart who dedicated his entire life for the amelioration of the downtrodden of Punjab. He was born on April 10, 1917, the year when the Russian Revolution took place. Those were the times when anger against the British rule was brewing in India, particularly after the Jallianwala Bag massacre in Amritsar in 1919.
Members of Congress, Socialists and Akalis were all fighting the British out in the streets. Under such a politically charged atmosphere, it was natural for young Lyallpuri to get attracted to the national liberation movement. After completing his BSc from Khalsa College,
Amritsar, in 1937, Lyallpuri started working with the Indian National Congress and organised conferences in his district. He later joined Government Law College, Lahore, where he came in touch with many revolutionaries who left indelible imprint on him. By the time he completed his LLB in 1940, he was already taken as state committee member of the Kirti Kisan Party of Punjab, an organisation founded on the ideas of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and merged with the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1941. In 1941, most of the leadership of the Kirti Kisan Party was put behind bars by the Punjab Government. Lyallpuri went underground for 20 months and shouldered the entire burden of organising resistance movement among the peasants of Punjab. However, he was spotted and caught on April 25, 1942, and was released only after spending 50 days behind bars. In the following year, he was elected as joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha
(AIKS). For the next 18 years, he remained on this important position before he was elevated to general secretary of
AIKS. For the Left, liberation from the British in 1947 was not freedom from poverty, discrimination and social oppression. In the second congress of the CPI at Kolkatta in 1948, BT Randive took ‘adventurist’ political line of armed resistance in
Telangana. CPI was banned immediately and Lyallpuri once again went underground before he was detained in December 1949 for 15
months. Lyallpuri was instrumental in splitting CPM away from CPI in 1964. Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh
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Kabaddi World Cup in November
Chandigarh, June 2 Sukhbir said NADA anti-doping guidelines would be strictly implemented in the tournament and Punjab would seek more participation of countries from Europe, Africa, USA, Australia and other non representative sub-continents to give Kabaddi a world-class status. The Deputy CM said the government was already taking up the issue with the International Olympic Committee to make efforts so that the game is included in the 2020 Olympics. Finalising the sports calendar, Sukhbir asked Ashok Gupta, Sports Secretary, to consult with Hockey India and the International Hockey Federation to fix the itinerary of the four-nation hockey tournament. Emphasising the need for world-class sports infrastructure, Sukhbir said 11 stadiums had already been completed at a cost of Rs 96 crore and nine more stadiums would near completion by December this year. He said eight of these stadiums had floodlights and the sports stadium at Ghudda and Badal village would be fitted with synthetic tracks at a cost of Rs 5 crore each. The 11 stadiums nearing completion are at Bathinda, Sangrur, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Mohali, Faridkot, PAU Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Ghudda. Eight stadiums have floodlights and most have an astroturf. The 9 stadiums that would be completed by December are at Mansa, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur, GNDU Amritsar, Bathinda, Badal, Jalalabad and
Fazilka.
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Punjabi varsity to conduct research on Census data
Patiala, June 2 Dr C Chandramouli, Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India, said significant information was generated as a consequence of carrying out the huge exercise of data collection from among diverse geographical, cultural and ethnic groups in India, usually lied stacked in libraries or the dusty corridors of administrative offices. He said: “Research scholars are being encouraged to carry out in depth and critical analyses of the database for value-addition and other social applications.” Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh,said the setting up of the workstation would boost qualitative and utilitarian research among faculty and research scholars of the department of sociology where it has been established. He exhorted the scholars to make efforts for evolving it as the best centre in the country by addressing the issues and problems of society in general and of the underprivileged in specific. Seema Jain, Director, Census Operations, Punjab, said the census data constituted a treasure house of demographic information on various fronts and aspects of society in India. The purpose of the workstations, she said, was making the census data easily understandable and accessible to a larger section of society. The Planning Commission has decided to set up 18 such workstations in the country during the 12th Five-Year Plan, she added. Prof Harvinder Singh Bhatti, professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Census Studies and Research, in his welcome address, said the workstation was now fully functional in all respects.
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Cargo scanner brings respite to traders
Amritsar, June 2 Talking to The Tribune, CII Zonal Council chief Rajdeep Uppal said the installation of cargo scanner was good in terms of security at the ICP. This has been one of the long-pending demands of the traders. He stressed on the need of a similar deterrent on the rail route which also witnesses bilateral trade between India and Pakistan. CII National Council on Public Policy member Gunbir Singh said the cargo scanner would bring in a marked improvement at the ICP as currently they had been carrying out checks manually in a random manner. Gunbir Singh, however, said the ICP must be equipped with truck scanners in the near future as that would be the need of the hour once the volume of trade goes up. He said the rail route too should be equipped with ultramodern scanners. Singh also renewed the demand for bringing the rail route under the ambit of the ICP which he dubbed as the ultimate solution to the threat of smuggling of banned goods/contraband. Though the bilateral trade between India and Pak via Attari-Wagah land route has been going on smoothly, the trade via rail route had taken a hit last year when over 150 kg of heroin was seized from rail wagons loaded with cement from Pakistan. Since then, the traders have been demanding proper security measures at the rail cargo facility, including the installation of ultramodern scanners.
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Nishan’s transfer puts borstal staff on their toes
Ludhiana, June 2 Security has been tightened as
Nishan, who has been sentenced to double life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping a minor girl, enjoys considerable political clout. Sources said some local politicians and friends of Nishan Singh were expected to visit the school to meet him. Confident of tackling any eventuality, Superintendent Ajmer Singh said, “Physically, Nishan is in good shape and behaving well. He is not receiving any special treatment.” He said Nishan Singh was the lone accused in the kidnapping case that was shifted to the borstal school.
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Will improve facilities in 100 hospitals: Mittal
Patiala, June 2 He said 300 MBBS doctors were recruited while 107 specialists had been short-listed through walk-in interviews. “Even people in far-flung areas should have access to quality healthcare and for that we are planning to depute more doctors in villages soon,” he said. Mittal said if a government doctor’s spouse was working as a private practitioner in a certain district, the government would ensure that the employee was transferred elsewhere in the state. “We will not allow government doctors to work in a private capacity and strict action will be taken against those who do so,” he added.
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Freedom fighter cremated with state honours
Sangrur, June 2 Ram Singh joined the INA in 1942 and spent some years in prisons of Germany and Malaya. In recognition to his services in the freedom struggle, he was honoured with the Tamar Patra. At the cremation ground, a contingent of the Punjab Police under City SHO Harinder Singh paid the last respect to the departed soul. On behalf of the district administration, Additional Deputy Commissioner Pritam Singh Johl paid the floral tributes. Naib Tehsildar Manmohan Singh, district public relations officer Prabhdeep Singh Nathowal, Central Cooperative Bank district manager Vishal Garg and State Freedom Fighters Organisation district general secretary Harinder Pal Singh Khalsa also paid the tributes to him.
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3 sites approved for mining
of sand, gravel in Ropar
Ropar, June 2 Out of eight notified sites in category C (less than 5 hectares) in the district, the mining wing of the Industries Department gave its nod to quarries at Sansowal, Kakrala and Brahmpur villages. The proposal of auction of five other sites, however, had been rejected by the department citing several reasons, said Ropar Deputy Commissioner P K Aggrawal. The prices of sand and gravel in the area have increased to Rs 30 per cubic foot from a mere Rs 6 in the past two years due to a ban on mining in Haryana and Punjab. Aggrawal said contractors for these quarries had been asked to comply with the terms and conditions, including installation of weighing machines and clearance from the pollution control authorities. Under the new rules, every mining site would have a weighing machine to regulate the extraction of specific quantum of sand at each site. Now, a district-level committee, headed by Deputy Commissioner and comprising SDM and other officials from the departments environment, forest and drainage, would clear the sites after physical inspection.
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Govt urged to release DA
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 2 During a meeting, association president Amrik Singh Baath said BPEO, Khamano, had also failed to send the arrears and gratuity bill of the pensioners who retired on January 1, 2006. He said the BPEO office had also failed to release the 30 per cent of the arrears due to the pensioners. He said the state government was not giving due attention to the problems being faced by the pensioners. He said the state government should release the DA installment due from January immediately. Baath said the ban imposed on the treasury for releasing funds should be removed immediately.
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Punjabis spend over Rs 14 cr every year on superstition
Mohali, June 2 This was revealed by Tarksheel Society, Punjab, which claimed to have conducted a study on the issue in the state. Giving details, Jaswant Singh Mohali, an office-bearer of the society, said, “People hang a set of lemons and green chillies under the belief that it wards off evil forces from their establishments. These lemons and chillies are being changed every Saturday.” Under the current prevailing prices of these commodities, the rate of a set of lemons and green chillies is Rs 10 here. In Punjab, there are nearly 25 big cities, including Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar, which have more than 25,000 shops. “During a random survey of various cities, towns and villages, it came to light that most of the shopkeepers change the set every Saturday. This means that only in big cities, around Rs 2.50 lakh is being spent every week on this superstition and if the amount is multiplied by 52 (the total weeks in a year), we get the figure of Rs 1.30 crore,” said Mohali. He said there were 25 small cities having around 500 shops each and 120 towns with nearly 100 shops each. “Apart from that, the state has around 12,000 villages out of which nearly 7,000 villages have 10 shops each on an average,” he added. “As almost every shopkeeper changes the set on every Saturday, one can easily calculate the approximate amount (which runs into crores), being spent on the superstition,” he said. Apart from houses and establishments, people use to hang these sets on their vehicles, especially trucks, tractor-trolleys and other new vehicles. “According to our calculations, the total amount being spent on superstition is over Rs 14 crore in the state,” he said.
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Models by 2 Bathinda students to compete at national level
Bathinda, June 2 As many as 25 models would be displayed at the national-level exhibition tentatively scheduled to be held in September. A mathematics model prepared by Harmanjeet Singh, a Class X student of the Government Senior Secondary School, Deon, and a science model prepared by Parneet Kaur, a Class XI student of the Government High School, Sardargarh, will compete at national level. Earlier, they clinched the second and third positions at the state-level exhibition held in Nawanshahar. Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka, who was the chief guest at the closing ceremony of the state-level exhibition, announced the results and felicitated the winners. At the two-day state-level exhibition, 486 models based on maths, science, environment and various other subjects were showcased. Students from schools across the 22 districts of the state along with their guides were present at the event to explain the functioning of their respective models. Speaking to The Tribune, Harmanjeet’s guide Sukhdev Mittal said, “We have used seven geometrical figures to prepare various shapes such as that of alphabets, animals, human beings in action, trees, mountains, etc. The model is called ‘Zindagi Ke Rang, Ganit Ke Sang'.” Talking about her ‘Solar car tube cooker’ model, Parneet Kaur’s guide Ramandeep Kaur said, “We have used a car tube to prepare the solar cooker. The car tube works like an insulated box which traps sunrays and heats the pot kept inside it. The Greenhouse Effect is the basic principle which is at work in the model.” It may be mentioned that out of the total 109 students of middle schools of Bathinda district, eight were chosen for the state-level exhibition. As far as the high schools of the district are concerned, a total of 128 models and projects were put on display at the district-level exhibition. Out of these, as many as 10 students were chosen for the state-level exhibition.
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Bank directed to close housing loan account, pay
Rs 2,000 fine Bathinda, June 2 The forum also asked the bank to return the title deed to a widow whose husband had obtained two housing loans from the bank. In her complaint to the Forum, Gurdeep Kaur, wife of Hardial Singh, a resident of Kamla Nehru Colony, accused the bank of not releasing the NOC despite adjusting the loan amount against an accidental insurance policy of her husband. Hardial Singh was killed in a road accident. The complainant stated that her husband had obtained two separate housing loans to construct the ground floor and then the first floor of their house in the Kamla Nehru Colony in Bathinda. The house was mortgaged with the bank after depositing the title deed. The complainant’s counsel, Jai Gopal Goyal, said the bank claimed that it had transferred the recovery rights of arrears of the housing loan to M/s Assets Reconstruction Company (India) Limited. Now, the bank had nothing to do with the recovery of the loan arrears of the widow and the complaint be dismissed against the ICICI Bank, Goyal said. The counsel added that a free insurance policy was given to Hardial Singh by the bank wherein it was stated that in case of road accidental death, the loan amount would be adjusted against the insurance provided by the ICICI Lombard. On intimation of the death of Hardial Singh (borrower), the husband of the complainant, the bank adjusted only one loan. It, however, did not return the title deed nor did it issue the NOC. In addition, an application moved under the Right to Information (RTI)Act seeking details of the account was turned down by the bank saying that the RTI Act is not applicable to them. The bank, in its reply, stated that since Hardial Singh defaulted on the housing loan and an amount of Rs 5, 48,084.65 was outstanding against the installments and Rs 1, 34,916 by way of other charges has not been paid by the complainant, the NOC could not be given to his wife.
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‘Fraudster’ JVG chairman nabbed after 10 years
Bathinda, June 2 He has been accused of fleecing thousands of people in the country. A Delhi court has already attached his property worth Rs 1,000 crore. Mansa Special Investigating Team (SIT) arrested him in Delhi on May 30. Sharma reportedly has admitted to owing Rs 100 crore to investors. Multiple FIRs pertaining to fraud have been registered against him. SSP Narinder Bhargav said Pawan Kumar, a resident of Mansa, had also lodged an FIR against the accused in 1998 after the Reserve Bank of India had banned JVG. The accused had jumped bail in the case and was declared a proclaimed offender in 2003. Since then, the police in several states had been following his trail. Sharma had purchased land in Haridwar, Gurgaon, Patna and Hyderabad with the investors’ money. He had duped several people in the 90s by promising huge returns on their investment.
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4 injured in group clash in Tarn Taran
Tarn Taran, June 2 Those who suffered gunshot injuries were Major Singh and his accomplice Dilbag Singh. The other two victims have been identified as Gurbax Singh and Manjinder Singh. Sources said Major Singh along with his supporters had gone for cultivating his land when Gurbax Singh, who had sold the land to Major Singh in 2005, objected to it. Both the groups who were armed with traditional weapons clashed with each other. Meanwhile, Manjinder Singh, a local SAD leader reached the spot armed with his licensed revolver. He allegedly opened fire on Major Singh and his supporters. The city police has taken the revolver in its possession. All the injured have been admitted to the local Civil Hospital.
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14-year-old gang-raped, 1 held
Kapurthala, June 2 The girl was gang-raped at the house of one of her friends at around 12.30 am on Sunday when a majority of the villagers were attending a religious function (jagran) in the village. The victim’s brother said his sister, who was also attending the “jagran”, went with her friend to her nearby house to ease herself. When the girl’s family members came to know about the incident, they took her to the civil hospital here. The victim’s brother alleged that the girl was admitted to the hospital around 2 am but her medical examination was not conducted till 12.30 pm today. Meanwhile, the district police arrested one of the accused identified as Jagga, a resident of Thekriwal village near Lohian in neighbouring Jalandhar district. Jagga had come to Kolianwal village to attend the religious function. The police has registered a case under Section 376 of the IPC at the Fattudhinga police station in this regard. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Inderbir Singh said, “The other two absconding accused will also be arrested soon.”
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5 booked for Rs 67-lakh robbery
Amritsar, June 2 The police today claimed to have got vital clues in the case. Sources claimed the police had arrested a couple of suspects who were being interrogated. Avtar Singh Makkar, president, SGPC, denied the role of any official of the SGRD Medical College. He said the parents were duped by fraudsters. — TNS
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Two held with poppy husk
Bathinda, June 2 Gurmel Kaur, a resident of Chandsar Basti, was arrested by the Civil Lines police with 2.2 kg poppy husk. The police said the woman had been selling narcotics in the Chandsar Basti area to drug addicts for the last few months. In another case, Raja, a resident of Udham Singh Nagar, was arrested with 8 kg poppy husk. Investigating officer Baldev Singh said the accused was found carrying the drugs near the Bathinda-Lambi overbridge. Both the accused were booked under various sections of the NDPS Act.
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Woman ends life
Sangrur, June 2 The post-mortem examination of the deceased identified as Jasvir Kaur was today conducted at the Dhuri civil hospital. The police said Jasvir Kaur, the mother of two children, was under stress after her husband had gone to Dubai in 2008 and he used to come to India only after every two years and that too for a short duration. Due to this stress, Jasvir Kaur allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan when she was alone in the house. The police said the victim’s husband had reached India today morning after getting information about his wife’s death. The police has initiated proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC in the case.
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Smack seized from undertrial
Patiala, June 2 The police said a case under various sections of the NDPS Act had been registered at the Tripuri police station against the accused.
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CWC member Jagmeet Singh Brar and his supporters today lifted their dharna from outside Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's residence after getting an assurance of an impartial probe.
Chandigarh, June 2
Ferozepur, June 2
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Jalandhar, June 2
Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) chairperson Dr Tajinder Kaur Dhaliwal declared that the Class X results of the board would be declared tomorrow at 11 am.