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Runaway students reluctant to go back Khanna, August 3 While talking to mediapersons, the students said they were among the 13 students who were migrated from Navodaya Vidyalaya, near Samrala, to Sandhuan in the beginning of the session. They were subjected to mental harassment for their economic condition by the principal and other staff members. Their physical education teacher, Balwinder Singh, mess in charge, Surinder Kaul, and catering assistant, Sanjay, used to abuse them. They were served with meals of poor quality that sometimes caused abdominal pains. They were even intimidated by the teachers and threatened to be awarded less marks if they raised their voice. The school principal’s son, Jashanpreet, used to misbehave with girl students and spend most of his time with teachers instead of students. Fed up with the day-to-day harassment, 35 students of Class XII planned to run away from the school. Deepinderjit and Avtar Singh said they jumped from the boundary wall at about 12 a.m. After reaching Ropar on foot, they boarded a bus for Anandpur Sahib. They stayed at Naina Devi Mandir and called their family members the next day. The fathers of both students, Balwinder Singh and Major Singh, said they had discussed the demands with the inquiry officer, SDM Daljit Singh, who was appointed by the DC Ropar, Ms Seema Jain, who assured them of redressing their grievances. The parents said if their demands were not met, they would meet the Chief Minister.  |
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Second round of
counselling from Aug 7 Ludhiana, August 3 Counselling for the 38 seats for masters programme in the College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry were held today. While 35 seats were filled today, three seats reserved for scheduled caste are still vacant. Students showed maximum preference for postgraduate courses in veterinary radiology and veterinary clinical practices. New course in Animal Husbandry Extension was also much sought after. Update of the admission process was made available to the students through multimedia system. Meanwhile, schedule of the second round of counselling was declared today. For the applicants of B Tech, second counselling is scheduled on August 7 and 8. Candidates for masters courses in the College of Basic Sciences and College Veterinary Sciences can again appear on August 28 and those for courses in the College of Home Science, College of Agriculture and College of Agricultural Engineering will be held on August 29. Second chance for admission to graduate courses in veterinary sciences and agriculture have been scheduled for September 2. Giving these details, Dr S.S. Chahal, Controller of Examinations, said all admissions would be closed after September 3. He said the second round of counselling had been delayed because there was still a lot of movement in the students to other courses and by then they would be able to finally decide their destination. He said the new academic session would begin on August 6, following the process of registration on August 5. Admission to postgraduate courses was held for the first time through entrance tests in the university and majority of the students seemed satisfied with the conduct, he added. |
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1,200 models exhibited by students Ludhiana, August 3 Students of Classes VI to XII participated and used their imagination to prepare over 1,200 models out of the waste material. These included jewellery items made from seeds, crockery items made from plastic sheets, footwears made of ice-cream sticks, photo frames made of greeting card cuttings, super-market, hill station, picnic spots, solar system, dams, poultry farms, table lamps, statues, wall hangings, doll houses, flower pots and pen stands. Waste material like egg shells, match boxes, match sticks, cotton, broken mirrors, bangles, broken bulbs, straws, bamboo sticks, kulfi sticks, thermocol, bits of plaster of Paris, cloth, wool, pipes, tubes, and empty tins. Shastri House students won the first prize, followed by those from Nehru House and Tagore House. Besides, five individual prizes were also given. First prize was clinched by Guneet Saluja from Class X who had prepared a model of ‘rock garden’. Second prize was bagged by Janpreet from Class VIII who displayed a model on ‘waste recycling’. Ritika Jain from Class IX was declared third for her model on ‘night lamp’. Aprajita from Class VIII won fourth prize. Fifth prize went to the team of Tanvir, Pankaj and Harvir from Class XII who prepared a huge cannon. Mr Bachitar Singh, District Education Officer, was the chief guest. Father Davis Alappat, Director of the school, and Sister Sobel, Principal, were also present. Ms Reeta Gupta, activity in charge, organised the exhibition. |
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Dubey denies Garcha’s charge Ludhiana, August 3 In a statement, Ms Dubey also denied having any knowledge of the private parties involved in imparting education, saying, “the allegations are totally false and malicious”. The statement said, “allegations regarding closing of university and distance education by accepting hefty bribes are entirely false, malicious, motivated and not based on facts”. The statement read, “Various irregularities committed in the working of Punjab Technical University are being probed by the Vigilance Bureau where the investigations area at an advanced stage. Inspection committees have carried out the assessment of most of the study centres in Punjab. Many of them have no trained staff and the student teacher ratio is very poor. For example 25 institutes have only one teaching faculty and the number of students is up to 470. There is a shortfall in availablity of space, computers, and internet facility. Obviously these shortcomings have to be made up to ensure imparting of proper training and expertise to students”. |
10-yr RI for 4 gangrape accused Ludhiana, August 3 “The convicts committed the heinous offence of committing rape and having intimidated the victim. Taking into account the gravity of the offences committed by the convicts they are sentenced,” observed Mr Arora, while delivering the verdict. A fine of Rs 5000 has also been imposed upon the accused. Besides, the court has also awarded three-year imprisonment under Section 506, IPC, six months imprisonment under Section 323 of the IPC to the accused. However, the sentences will run concurrently. Interestingly, no FIR was lodged by the police on the complaint of prosecuter. Only the then SP (Headquarter), Balbir Kumar Bawa, conducted the inquiry into the allegations of the complainant, on the direction of DIG, Ludhiana. After inquiry he found that allegations levelled by the complainant against the accused were false, as such no case was registered. Aggrieved with the alleged inaction of police, the prosecuter filed a criminal complaint against the accused persons before the Illaqua Magistrate. On the basis of the preliminary evidence led by the complainant, the accused were ordered to be summoned by the court of the Illaqua Magistrate vide his order dated April 29,1997 under Sections 376, 382, 323, 506, 34 of the IPC. Later, the case was referred to the sessions court. The complainant had alleged that on December 8, 1995 she was raped by property dealer Surjit Singh and other accused on gun point. In defence, the accused pleaded innocence and claimed false implication and put forth the plea that they had been falsely implicated at the instance of a Sub Inspector, Surjit Chand, with whom Surjit Singh had a dispute over a plot and complainant was known to that Sub-Inspector. But the court outrightly rejected their version, finding them not trustworthy and awarded severe punishment. |
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Bar members seek general house meeting Ludhiana, August 3 In a letter addressed to the president and the secretary of the LBA and signed by about 30 lawyers, it has been demanded that information be provided to the members of the bar whether money out of this fund is advanced to non-lawyers, and for the purpose other than the welfare of the lawyers for which the fund was created and meant. The letter also mentioned that a trust for the supervision in the operation of the fund was formed. It asked as to what was the fate of this trust and when was the last meeting of the trust held. It suggested that the bar should be apprised of the annual collection and contribution made by the members and by the sale of vakalatnamas and the balance up-to-date. The letter pointed out that the Lawyers Welfare Fund was established at Ludhiana and started even before the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana created such a fund. The fund, it said, was created with the noble idea of utilising the same for the welfare of the lawyers and their families. And for its disbursement certain rules and regulations were formed to be followed. The letter pleaded that the information regarding utilisation of the fund for the last three years be provided to the house. It also demanded that the procedure adopted and circumstances taken into consideration for the disbursement of the fund amounts and the list of the beneficiaries to whom the amount of welfare fund was disbursed may be put before the house so that transparency and accountability are observed. |
PSEB directed to refund money Doraha, August 3 According to the complainant, Dr Rajwant Singh, he had electric connection bearing Account No. K-032/0659 and had been making payment of the bills regularly. On August 20,2001, SDO, Doraha, checked his meter and sent a notice on August 21,2001 asking him to pay Rs 36,723 as the meter was allegedly running slow and was sticky. The amount was ordered to be paid within seven days. He was forced to deposit the amount which was deposited by him under protest. The complainant, however, alleged that the demand was illegal and against the principle of natural justice as no hearing was given to him before raising the demand and neither he nor any of his representatives was present at the time of the checking of the meter. In a complaint made by him to the forum he had demanded that the opposite party be directed to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to him alongwith interest of 18 per cent per annum in addition to another relief to which he may be found entitled. The opposite party in its reply said the complaint was not maintainable since there was no deficiency in service. The meter installed on the premises of the consumer was checked on August 20, 2001 and it was reported that the meter was sticky on all the three phases and on the basis of the said report the account of the consumer was overhauled for the last six months and the demand for Rs 36,723 was raised. The PSEB said complete details of the charges were given and the demand was rightly raised. The board said the meter was slow and was not recording the correct consumption of electricity. Also, the load too was more than it should have been. The complainant has alleged that in case the meter was running slow, it should have been referred to the Chief Electrical Inspector but this was not done. The demand was raised on its own. Accordingly, the forum has ordered the PSEB that the disputed demand of Rs 36,723 to be quashed and the amount deposited against the disputed demand be refunded with 12 per cent per annum interest from the date of the deposit till the actual refund. |
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Notaries form association Ludhiana, August 3 |
Hyderabadi food festival Ludhiana, August 3 The replica of the Char Minar recreates the charming imagery of bustling streets of the very famous ‘lac bangle sellers’ and ‘mehndi walas’. The ‘hukka’ and ‘chillam’ bring nostalgia of a bygone era of ‘nawabi nazakat’ and the ambience of ‘shahi dastarkhan’, the dining place for the royals in the past, has specially been created for exclusive regal dining pleasure. The ‘kebabs’ are being enjoyed by diners, specially ‘shami kebabs’, ‘Sikanderabadi seekh kebab’, ‘lagan kabab’ and mouthwatering ‘hara kebab’. For vegetarians there is ‘bahere baingans’. |
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Teej
celebrations Ludhiana, August 3 Club members also applied mehandi on hands and sang various songs of saawan. They also had the taste of kheer-puras. A lecture on breast-feeding was also held on the occasion by doctors of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics
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