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Congress councillors file complain against Mayor
Fake visa racket
Doctorate professors, lecturers assigned duties equivalent to peons
Arvind Kejriwal to visit Khatkar Kalan today
Poll code violation
Track symptoms to fight cancer: CME
Voter awareness programme
Five booked for attempt to murder
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Gold, diamonds worth Rs 75 lakh seized
Jalandhar April 11 Assistant Commissioner of Police (North) Satish Malhotra said the police teams along with the static surveillance teams of the Election Commission were conducting a search operation near Kalia Colony and on suspicion signaled a high security vehicle (MH-4 GC 9085) for checking. Three persons were quizzed by the police and during questioning, the police got suspicious and started searching the vehicle. During the search operation, the police recovered gold and diamond packed in a polythene bag. ACP Malhotra said when the police asked the persons to present documents which could prove that valuables were legal, latter failed and the income tax officials were immediately called and case was handed over to them. The recovered valuables include 2.138 kg gold biscuits worth Rs 66 lakh and diamonds worth over Rs 8 lakh. ACP said three persons were Kulwant Singh of Kharar, Mukesh Kumar (driver) of Mohali and Hari Bahadur of Mohali. All are the employees of a gold smith company 'BVC Logistic Private Limited'. They were heading to Chandigarh from Amritsar. Sources said persons could present only a raw bill of the valuables due to which valuables were taken into custody by the Income Tax Department adding that persons had told the income tax officials that they would also present the real supporting documents which would establish that the valuables were legal. Income Tax Commissioner Rakesh Suri said, "He was informed by the city police about the case and the investigation is under way."
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Congress councillors file complain against Mayor
Jalandhar, April 11 The Congress councillors led by the leader of the opposition Jagdish Raj Raha today went to Chandigarh to personally lodge complaints against him with the Secretary of the Local Bodies and the ADGP, Vigilance, V Neerja. Complaint 1: Discrepancy in funds for road work In their complaint with the Vigilance Department, the councillors have alleged that while the roads in the city were in extremely bad condition and hardly any work was done on them in the last financial year, the Mayor had claimed to have spent Rs 36 crore for road construction and Rs 13 crore for patch work in 2013-14 which must be probed. The councillors had yesterday held a protest on the matter outside the MC office before moving to Chandigarh today. They have told the Vigilance ADGP that various media clippings and substantiating statements from the locals could be taken for evidence. They have also alleged that the Mayor had got passed the budget in just five seconds on March 24 without letting any of the councillors to have a debate on the items of the budget. The councillors have said that when they asked the Mayor on the matter regarding the utilisation of Rs 50 crore, he failed to provide them the requisite details, while seeking the department's intervention in the alleged discrepancies. Complaint 2: Getting works started before house nod In their signed representation before the Secretary Local Bodies, the councillors have complained that the Mayor had allegedly encroached upon their Rights of Corporation House by according sanction to the matters in anticipation. They have said that the Mayor had no powers vested with him or the Commissioner under the Municipal Corporation Act 1976 to get works started in advance even before a nod of the House. It is only during emergent matters like an unforeseen natural calamity that works can be done with an anticipatory approval, they have said. They have sought the intervention of the secretary for getting all such sanctions done by convening monthly meetings as her the section 55 of the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act. A copy of the representation has also been marked to the Director of the department. Complaint 3: No discussion in budget meeting Taking the matter of no discussion in the budget meeting before the top Local Bodies Officials, a third complaint against Mayor has been also marked to the Director and Secretary. They have said that the Mayor passed the budget worth over Rs 500 crore in 5 seconds without reading and any discussion. They have alleged that he had resorted to the tactic pre-empting an attack on him from the councillors. They have attached clippings of papers for reference. |
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Police wake up after agents dupe innocents
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar April 11 Despite issuing several orders to travel agents, immigration firms and ticketing agents to get themselves registered at the police station concerned, nothing has reportedly moved except notices followed by reminders by the police. The police wake up from its slumber only when it busts any fake visa racket and then again repeat the cycle of issuing orders. The lethargic approach towards fake travel agents corroborated well after the police nabbed a fake travel agent on Thursday, who allegedly duped over 200 innocent foreign aspirants of several lakhs by issuing them fake job visas for Singapore. The accused were identified as Surjit Singh of Kalerwala, Rajesh Kumar alias Sonu and Bablu. Surjit was arrested by the police while remaining are still at large. As many as 100 passports were recovered from their possession, which were taken for issuing job visas for Singapore. Interestingly, the accused were running their office in the name of ‘Shalimar Enterprises’ in Model Town for the past one month. They had not registered their business establishment details at the police station concerned. The police, too, did not bother to get their record. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) had issued several notices under Section 144 of the CrPc to travel agents to get them enrolled at the police station concerned. Motive of such orders was to tighten noose around the unscrupulous business entities and keep their complete record so that police could reach them if they duped innocents. Under these orders issued in August and September last year, the DCP had written to the all the immigration experts, travel agents, visa agents and ticketing agents operating under the jurisdiction of the Jalandhar Commissionerate to submit full-fledged records of their firms, including owner’s name, photograph, name of the business entity, copy of registration of the office or the rent deed if it was running on a rented accommodation, licences, authorisation certificates to carry on the specific business. He had also warned to seal business entities, who flouted police norms, but no action was taken against those who failed to comply. One of the motives of such orders was to check whether agents were certified by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs or not. In yesterday’s case, agents defrauded over 200 foreign aspirants. The police are running from pillar to post to know the whereabouts of the accused. Had the police bothered to register these agents, such agents would not have been able to succeed in their nefarious designs. When The Tribune asked Manpreet Singh Dhillon, ACP, Model Town, under whose jurisdiction fake travel firm was being run, why the police failed to issue notice to the travel firm, operating in the city for the past over one month, the ACP seemed evasive in his reply. He said the police would again issue orders to enroll unregistered travel firms. On a repeated query, the ACP said office was operational from the past one month only due to which it went unnoticed.
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Doctorate professors, lecturers assigned duties equivalent to peons
Jalandhar, April 11 The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has brought this to the notice of the ECI a number of times, complaining against anomalies in the assignment of polling duties to college lecturers. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has also ruled recently that lecturers and teachers shall be assigned duties as per their grades. A number of college lecturers, professors and associate professors have been assigned duties as polling officers - with employees subordinate to them being made their Presiding Officers - greatly irking them. Similarly, many school principals have also been assigned duties as polling officers, despite being
having grades of class one officers. Many of them have been working for the 20 to 30 years and many are doctorate holders but they have been assigned duties which are normally given to peons and clerks. Taking note of their plight the Punjab and Chandigarh college teachers union has taken up the issue with the CEO, Punjab. Dr Hemant Kumar, professor in physics at the DAV College, Jalandhar, said, "Election duties have been assigned to us many times, but it is the first time that we have been relegated to the position of polling officers. All my colleagues have been assigned the same duty. I have served as a professor for the past 22 years, my basic pay is Rs 60,000. We were hoping for at least duties of micro observers or Presiding officers. And now we are being assigned the job equivalent to that of a peon." Professor Singh a Punjabi lecturer at the same college said, "It is perplexing what criteria they have chosen to assign these duties. At least a person's status should be considered before assigning duties. School
teachers have been put as presiding officers over us. On the March 30 rehearsals we were working next to peons as school teachers presided over us. This is demeaning to us and the service we have out in for the cause of education." Tejinder Virli, area secretary, Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union said, "There has been total disregard to the guidelines of the ECI. At least 10 percent of lecturers and professors have been assigned polling officer duties. Railway TTs, clerks and school teachers have been given superior duties to them. Tehsildars are junior in grade to us. This goes to show no consideration has been paid to grades while assigning duties." KS Kalsi, secretary PCCTU, Punjab, said, "A Punjab and Haryana High Court notice a few days ago, caused duties with similar anomalies to be changed a few days before elections. But it seems no lessons have been learnt in Punjab. As per their grade pays, some of these teachers' grades are even senior to SDMs. In no case should they be assigned duties less than Presiding Officers." Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Varun Roojam said, "There might have been some trouble in the software or some wrongly provided information due to which the duties were not assigned according to grades. The union can bring up the matter to me and we shall alter the duties." |
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Arvind Kejriwal to visit Khatkar Kalan today
Jalandhar, April 11 While similar tributes to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were paid by Chandigarh candidate Gul Panag and Nawanshahr candidate Advocate Himmat Singh Shergill when they had started their respective campaigns in the state. While Kejriwal will be staying at Gurdaspur tonight, the first phase of his campaign tomorrow will start from Khatkar Kalan which falls under the consituency of Anandpur Sahib candidate Himmat Singh Shergill. Kejriwal will then head to the last phase of canvassing in Punjab to Ludhiana where he will hold road shows for candidate Advocate HS Phoolka. Notably, while Jalandhar being the AAP's oldest unit in the state, was awaiting Kejriwal's visit, he shall not be visiting the district, greatly upsetting district followers. Sources say the silent wars in the district based cadres have a role to play in the leader giving a miss to one of Punjab oldest units. While local activist Jyoti Mann bagged her candidature amid much controversy, a very limited number of AAP activists had accompanied her when he went to file her nominations, since she was reportedly chosen even as many activists disagreed with her candidature from Jalandhar. |
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Kapurthala road wears out in a day
Residents hold protest, road scrapped for re-carpeting Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, April 11 The stretch of the road near Leather Complex, which is frequented by a large number of commuters between Jalandhar and Kapurthala and industrial belt falling on that side, had been lying badly worn out for more than two years with deep craters in it now. The stretch of the road which the MC contractor got laid yesterday got badly worn out today in less than 24 hours. At this, the residents and shopkeepers of the area lodged a massive protest. They alleged that the MC had been laying roads in a huff owing to Lok Sabha polls without paying a hoot to the quality of work. As the protest started, the Mayor Sunil Jyoti and the contractor reached the spot. It was finally decided that the stretch be scrapped immediately and recarpeted. The contractor Vinod Gulati gave his excuse that the MC officials did not get the traffic stopped at the site after road relaying. "There was a heavy flow of traffic on it soon after it was laid down which led to the problem," he claimed. Code violation: In a violation of the election code which says that only the work in progress on ground can go on, road work has been just started in several areas in the last two days, including Police Lines Road, Ladowali Road, Garha Road, Cool Road and Mall Road. Surprisingly, no opposition leader has lodged a complaint on the matter as they perhaps all want that the killer roads which had been leading to even fatal accidents be repaired without any glitches.
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Track symptoms to fight cancer: CME
Jalandhar, April 11 As a part of providing quality healthcare and upholding its policies and practices by maintaining and upgrading competence of its doctors, the programme focused on delivering a series of stimulating, interactive and practical learning experiences via lectures, case-centric discussions and workshops based on topical issues addressed by renowned speakers. Addressing the gathering on recent developments on liver transplantation, Dr Subhash Gupta, a senior consultant, liver transplants, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, said Apollo was one of the busiest transplant centres in the world. He said under the aegis of the ‘Gift a life initiative’, they had been active in advocacy and activities to promote the cause of organ donation. With as many as 300 living donors (liver transplant) in a year, they were the most experienced Liver Transplant Centre in the world, added Dr Gupta. Dr Shaleen
Agarwal, senior consultant, liver transplants, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, elucidated on the management of HPB malignancy. He said, “Hepato biliary and pancreatic cancers are degenerating cancers, which have a high mortality if not surgically treated on time. Cancers of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts are challenging diseases that require complex care plans. Surgery for these cancers involve high-level liver and pancreatic surgery, where experience of living donor liver transplant is highly useful.” Dr Agarwal said, “Even after completion of the treatment, follow-up care is essentially required to check for cancer recurrence or spread, as well as possible side effects of certain treatments. In case of HPB malignancy treatment, physical exams and blood tests (such as alpha-fetoprotein
[AFP] levels or liver function tests) or imaging tests, such as ultrasound, CT, or MRI scans may be required. It’s important to track symptoms in order to help them manage effectively.” |
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DC launches signature campaign
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, April 11 The Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer today formally launched the campaign in the District Administrative Complex. All visitors coming to the complex were urged to sign on the cloth taking a pledge for their participation. The students and staff of the institute made a long chain holding the cloth near the entrance of the complex. The students then marched towards BMC Chowk and stood there the day through ensuring participation of voters from all strata of the society who were passing by. All documents to bear a stamp on voter awareness
In an another unique initiative taken on voter awareness, the DC office have come up with a set of stamps bearing a message in Punjabi that everyone must cast a vote on 30-4-2014 from 7 am to 6 pm with District Election Office-cum-Deputy Commissioner mentioned in the third deck. The officers said that all documents which would be processed and issued by the various departments including revenue, food and civil supplies and transport till April 29 would bear this stamp. As another initiative, the DEO has also come up with 5,000 stickers which would be pasted on vehicles for promotion of the same campaign. |
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Five booked for attempt to murder
Jalandhar, April 11 As per the complainant Ashwani Kumar, he was having an old enmity with the above said accused. Today, they barged into his house and thrashed him. Assailants had also pelted bricks at his house. Investigating Officer Joginder Pal said the victim had sustained serious head injuries in the incident and was undergoing treatment at the Civil Hospital. "The police officials are conducting raids to nab the accused," he said. Following the incident, residents of the locality held protest against the police and demanded immediately action against the assailants. The complainant reportedly also told the police that assailants had also resorted to firing, but the police denied the same. |
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Jalandhar, April 11
Jalandhar, April 11
