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Sudarshan lays stress on Sanskrit
Amritsar, September 29 Surrounded by mediapersons, Mr Sudarshan refused to comment on any issue and also refrained from making any inflammatory speech at the Madhav Vidya Niketan school grounds. Advocating national language status for Sanskrit, he said that even Mr B.R. Ambedkar father of Indian Constitution, contented for such a status, which is considered as the mother of all languages. He said the Britishers “conspired” and drove Indians away from Sanskrit to English. This had led the masses to remain unaware of their rich heritage. “It is strange that in the present times the principles, amply described in our holy books and discarded were now again being emphasised.” He said according to Arvind Ghosh, a well-known scholar, it was predicted that the revival of India would begin from 2011 and the country would be a world leader. Many such predictions were coming true, he claimed. Mr Sudarshan who became RSS head in 1927, stressed that Sanskrit should be taught in school and it had importance in many scientific arenas. “Sanskrit was a common unifying factor of our nation,” he said.
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Protest against RSS chief, 30 detained, let off
Amritsar, September 29 However, Mr Harmanbir Singh Gill, SP (City) claimed that the agitating activists, who were taken into custody with a view to defuse the situation, were later let off. Accusing the RSS chief, Mr K.C. Sudarshan, for allegedly vitiating the political atmosphere, Mr Ritender Singh, convener of Gursikh, a Panthic organisation, said the government was deliberately trying to incite the religious sentiments of the Sikh community by not taking any action against him on the basis of his “inflammatory speeches”. Members of the Christian community also reportedly joined hands with Sikh organisations to lodge their protest against Mr Sudarshan. However, Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti and Bhai Ranjit Singh, Jathedar and former Jathedar, Akal Takht, respectively, said the Sikhs enjoyed distinct identity and hence the RSS chief had no business to challenge it. Bhai Ranjit Singh said the Panth would resort to “stern action” if Mr Sudarshan continued to dub Sikhs as part of the Hindus. It is pertinent to mention here that Mr Sudarshan had stated that Jews and Parsis were the only two minorities in India as their ancestors had come from foreign countries, triggering strong protests from the Sikh organisations who announced that Mr Sudarshan was unwanted in the state as he had always been “distorting and misrepresenting the unique identity of the Sikh community”. They “warned” Mr Sudarshan for his minority ‘bashing’ and sought a ban on his entry in Punjab. Bhai Mohkam Singh, a spokesman for Damdami Taksal said the Sikhs did not need a certificate from Mr Sudarshan that they were enjoying distinct identity . Mr Tarlochan Singh, Chairman, National Minority Commission, said that the statements of Mr Sudarhsan were contradictory even as the BJP government at the Centre had constituted the Minority Commission twice in the past. He said the Sikhs should not give much importance to such statements as they were not going to affect the community at all.
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Job scam: 70 teachers to be chargesheeted
Chandigarh, September 29 The first list of about 70 such teachers, who allegedly took jobs on the basis of fake certificates was ready and the teachers would be served a chargesheet soon, said senior functionaries of the Punjab Government. The chargesheet was a legal formality before taking action against any government employee. These teachers had been appointed during the Beant Singh government and also in Mr Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD government. The first whiff of the scandal came when a few Junior Basic Training (JBT) teachers were removed from their jobs after it was found that they presented fake degrees to claim jobs. The department then decided to scan through the records of all teachers, who had degrees from similar universities that were under suspicion. These 110 teachers had attached degrees purportedly issued by Magadh University, Bundelkhand University and a few universities based in southern India with their testimonials. Special teams were despatched by the department to these universities to carry out physical verification and establish if these teachers were ever students of the universities in question. The teams have reported that these teachers had never been students of these universities, thus implying that the degrees were fake. The first list of about 70 teachers has been prepared. Sources revealed that special teams had to be sent as written queries to verify the degrees remained unanswered. Also the people, who are involved in making such fake degrees, were part of such an established racket that the letters of the Punjab Government, if ever answered, could be misleading.
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Plucking rates shoot up after rain
Bathinda, September 29 Talking to The Tribune today, Mr Balbir Singh, a cotton farmer from Talwandi Sabo, said he had suffered a loss of about 35 to 40 per cent in the last week’s heavy shower. He said a large number of cotton balls had turned black while plucking of the crop was still on. He said earlier the plucking rate was Rs 130 per quintal and 2.5 kg wheat flour. “Now, the rate has increased to Rs 200 per quintal and 2.5 kg wheat flour.” He said he was expecting to reap about 13 quintals of cotton per acre, and the rain had led to a difference of Rs 510 per acre in plucking rates. He rued that on hand they lost one- thirds of their crop to rain, while on the other they had to pay more
for plucking the remaining crop. Ruldu Singh, a cotton farmer from Buladhewala village, said last year plucking rates hovered around Rs 140 per quintal, but this time it had surged to Rs 200-250 per quintal in wake of September rain. He said the farm labourers’ demand was not restricted to rates and they also seek 1 kg flour for plucking every 40 kg cotton, besides other such items. Avtar Singh from Tyona village said he had suffered a loss of 200 to 250 quintals per acre in the recent rainfall and increased plucking rates had made a hole in his pocket. Arhtiya Association President Satish Kumar confirmed that the plucking rates had increased. He said the rates had gone up from Rs 200 per quintal to Rs 250 per quintal. Meanwhile, the daily arrival at the local cotton market had been fluctuating between 700 to 1200 quintals daily. Cotton growers with good quality of cotton were fetching a price of Rs 1850-1885, while those having wet cotton due to rain were getting about Rs 1700. Mr Satish Kumar said about 40 to 50 per cent of cotton arriving in the market had wetness and the farmers were paying a heavy price due to rain.
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CBI raids FCI godowns
Chandigarh, September 29 Sources in the CBI said a Joint Secretary from the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies was also camping in Chandigarh in connection with the raids and had taken the CBI’s help for security reasons. The raids on the FCI godowns were conducted in seven districts from where the foodgrain was supplied to the southern states, the sources said. The rice despatched from Punjab included consignments for the tsunami victims. The raids are likely to continue on Friday as well. “Since the CBI was suspicious about substandard rice being stocked in the godowns, the sleuths of the investigating agency and the FCI officials jointly conducted the surprise checks at Malerkotla, Sunam, Sangrur, Moga, Dhanola, Muktsar and Jalalabad,” the sources said, adding that the samples of rice had been sent to Delhi for tests. “The quality of the rice will be known only after the analysis of the stocks,” the sources said. “Arrests will be made only in the case of gross failure”. The sources added that the quality of rice stored in the FCI godowns was recorded as “bad” by the authorities involved in the supply of the grain to other states.
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Punjab chickens for Pak
Chandigarh, September 29 The Food and Agriculture Ministry of Pakistan has recommended to the country’s Commerce Ministry to proceed with the import of poultry from Indian Punjab, Mr Surjit Singh, general secretary, North Zone Broiler Breeders Association, told The Tribune here today. Producing copies of official announcements of Pakistan’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Mr Surjit Singh said the import of poultry from Indian Punjab would not only improve the supply position of both chicken and eggs but also help Pakistan bring down soaring poultry prices. At present, he said, eggs were being sold in Pakistan at Rs 45 to Rs 50 per dozen while the price of live chicken in major cities varied between Rs 75 and Rs 85 per kg. Indian Punjab poultry farmers have offered to supply chicken at around Rs 50 a kg and eggs at Rs 30 a dozen. Before recommending the import of poultry from Indian Punjab, the Food and Agriculture Ministry of Pakistan held negotiations with the country’s Poultry Association, asking it to improve the supply position as well as control the soaring prices of poultry products in the country. The Pakistan Government felt that the current poultry prices were unrealistic and the gap between demand and supply had been increasing because of Ramazan. During Ramazan, the demand for various consumable items, including poultry, almost doubles because of lavish iftar parties in the evenings after the day-long fast is are broken. The Muslim holy month will start on October 5 or 6, depending on the sighting of the Ramazan moon. While Indian Punjab poultry farmers have welcomed the decision, the Poultry Association of Pakistan said the soaring prices of chicken and eggs were primarily because of the high prices of poultry feed, taxes and other overheads. The association maintained that it was capable of meeting the increased demand. Only last month, Pakistan started importing potatoes and livestock from India via the land route at Wagah. Negotiations are also on between dairy farmers of India and Pakistan on the import-export of cows and buffaloes for dairy farms. Livestock in India is cheaper than in Pakistan by about 25 per cent. Mr Surjit Singh said the Punjab poultry sector had been overwhelmed by this decision of the Pakistan Government. “This will give a big fillip to the poultry farmers here,” he added.
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Naya Gaon rape: HC says govt to decide all matters
Chandigarh, September 29 Dheer was seeking de-linking of investigation in his alleged involvement in the Naya Gaon rape case from the main case and handing it to the CBI for further investigation. Firstly, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Punjab, Sumedh Singh Saini, heading the special investigation team (SIT) probing the rape case, conveyed to the Punjab and Haryana High Court his intention to quit as SIT chief. Secondly, and more importantly, the Division Bench of Mr Justice Amar Dutt and Mrs Justice Kiran Anand Lall left it to the Punjab Government to adjudicate all pending issues in the matter "in accordance with law". All petitioners, including Dheer, the victim's family and the accused will now have to make representations to the Punjab Government, which will dispose of the same. Mr Saini's letter to his counsel, advocate Anupam Gupta, which was produced in the court, said, "Since the DGP has passed adverse comments on me, it would not be appropriate for me to continue with the investigation of the case.'' DGP, Punjab, S.S. Virk, had some days ago informed the court that Dheer was "in no way connected with the offence of rape registered in 2003 or with any other offence during the intervening period". Mr Virk had suggested that Dheer's case should be delinked from the main case and it could be entrusted to a senior police officer, who could "also go into the details of the manner in which his arrest was affected". In his letter, Mr Saini, while telling his counsel not to make any arguments before the Bench, denied the comments made by the DGP via-a-vis Dheer's involvement. He also stated that Dheer's arrest was made with the consent of the DGP. Mr Saini also stated that he still stood by the report that he had submitted in the High Court and that Dheer's case could not be delinked from the main case. While most of applications were either withdrawn or disposed of, the Bench fixed October 20 the next date for hearing of the main case. On that date, SIT will also submit a report regarding progress in the investigation.
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Uzbek woman, NRI held for flesh trade
Ropar, September 29 Gulabkhaul (33) of Uzbekistan and 26-year-old Mandeep Singh, a citizen of Canada who originally belongs to Moga, were caught by the police late at night from H.No. 2963, Phase VII, Mohali. Giving details at a press conference here, the SSP, Ropar, Mr Surinder Pal Singh, said following a tip-off that a flesh trade racket involving Russian girls was being run from H. No. 2963 in Phase VII, a police team led by the DSP sent a decoy customer to the house to strike a deal. Mandeep Singh demanded Rs 2,000 from the decoy customer for two hours with Gulabkhaul and Rs 5,000 for the whole night. Both were caught while taking Rs 2,000 from the decoy customer. Gulabkhaul was a paying guest at H. No. 1032, Sector-21, Chandigarh while Manjeet Singh came recently to India. Brandy controls the racket and a police party has been sent to arrest him.
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Riots: acrimonious clashes mar Shankaran visit
Mohali, September 29 Dr Shankaran, Secretary, Border Management, Govt. of India -cum-Chairman of the Shankaran Committee constituted by the Central Government for providing relief and compensation to the 1984 riot victims was in the township today to meet the riot victims and their representatives who had collected from across the state at the Phase XI Community Centre. While the pre-afternoon session went off smoothly when different bodies representing the victims in Mohali and Anandpur Sahib met Mr Shakaran, a verbal duel broke out in the post-afternoon session with heads of some bodies from Ludhiana openly levelling allegations against one another. Short of coming to blows, these leaders supported by the Congress workers on the one hand and Shiromani Akali Dal workers on the other shouted and threatened one another forcing the local administration to ask for police intervention. At this point, Mrs Rupan Deol Bajaj, Financial Commissioner, Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Punjab, who was accompanying Dr Shankaran, got up and went out of the building with him stating that a meeting would not take place in such an atmosphere. However, following an assurance given by representatives, she decided that the meeting be resumed. After this, representatives from various areas in Punjab were not allowed to speak and were asked to just hand over their written representations to the Finance Commissioner. Addressing the riot victims later, Dr Shankaran said the committee would recommend to the Central Government to provide larger houses than what had been given, a government job to one member of each family, maximum compensation for damage of property during riots, free health treatment of serious ailment in government hospitals and adequate compensation to those widowed during the riots. Mr Shankaran also assured the members that all families would be equally compensated and there would be no discrimination while distributing relief. Talking to media persons he said: "Value of human life is the same and so the compensation would be uniform across the country. I believe that the riot victims have not been given enough relief and we would be doing whatever is possible for them." He added that his report would be submitted by the second week of October. Mr Shakaran said he would also take into account what the Punjab state had already done for the victims and what the state had recently recommended to the committee as the adequate relief and rehabilitation to the victims in the state.
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Sugarcane price may be hiked by Rs 15 Chandigarh, September 29 Sources said Sugarfed had mooted the proposal to enhance the
price of sugarcane by at least Rs 15 per quintal. In Haryana, the
official procurement price of sugarcane is Rs 115 per quintal. Almost
the same price is being given by the Uttar Pradesh Government. If the
price is increased by Rs 15 per quintal, the additional burden on the
sugar industry will be around Rs 60 crore this year. If it is
increased by Rs 20, the burden will be to the tune of Rs 80 crore, it
is learnt. But the beneficiaries will be Punjab farmers. In Punjab,
the sugarcane price, which is Rs 100 per quintal, was fixed several
years ago. Though farmers and even certain cooperative sugarmills had
been urging the Punjab Government to increase the price, their efforts
bore no fruit. Last year private sugarmills, which number seven in
Punjab, bought sugarcane at Rs 140 per quintal. This adversely
affected the 14 cooperative sugarmills, which were not authorised to
pay more than of Rs 100 per quintal, the official price. Most of the
sugarcane was lifted by private mills. The private and cooperative
mills in Punjab have the capacity to crush 972 lakh quintals of
sugarcane to produce about 10 lakh quintals of sugar. To produce
sugarcane in such quantity, about 2.70 lakh hectares of land is
required to be under the crop. However, at present, the area under
sugarcane in Punjab is just 90,000 hectares. About 400 lakh quintals,
less than the total crushing capacity of the sugarmills, will be
available to the mills this year for crushing, which will start on
November 15. The increase in the sugarcane price has been proposed to
motivate farmers to again turn to the crop. Meanwhile, the Punjab
Sugarmill Workers Joint Action Committee has urged the state
government to increase the sugarcane price by Rs 25 per quintal to
enable the cooperative sugarmills to compete with the private
mills. It has also urged Sugarfed to operate the cooperative
sugarmills located at Zira, Jagraon and Rakhra( Patiala). Mr Karnail
Singh Lakhmipur, president of the action committee, said 8 lakh
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103 Youth Cong members submit resignations
Kharar, September 29 In a letter sent to Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, President, PPCC, Mr Harjit Singh, president of the local BYC, requested him to replace the Ropar district president of the Youth Congress failing which the resignations of all 103 members should be accepted. Mr Harjit Singh said Mr Kamaldeep Singh of Chandigarh was made the president of the Ropar unit even when he had no link with the district and had not done any work in the area. As such all 103 youths opposed his appointment. He said the decision to submit resignations en masse was taken at a meeting held here. He said he had remained president of the Kharar BYC for the past four years during which Youth Congress workers participated in a number of rallies in support of the Congress. Help was arranged for the riot-affected persons in Gujarat and a large number of youths from the district had gone to Amethi in Uttar Pradesh for electioneering in favour of Ms Sonia Gandhi, Congress President. He said it was unfortunate that the authorities concerned did not find any office-bearer from the district capable of being made the president of the Ropar unit. Mr Harjit Singh said if the President of the Punjab Youth Congress failed to replace Mr Kamaldeep Singh, youths in the area would oppose the PYC chief as well the district president at every level.
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Malerkotla girl faces dilemma
Chandigarh, September 29 In Pakistan, her husband forced her to acquire a Pakistani passport. In March, 2000, Shahida came to India to visit her parents and relatives. However, soon thereafter, her husband gave her "talaak" on phone. He later also sent the talaaknaama to her parent's house in Malerkotla by post. Faced with an uncertain future in Pakistan, Shahida decided to stay back in India and re-married a Moga resident in January, 2004. Today, her biggest worry is to convince the authorities to allow her to stay back with her Indian husband. The Department of Home Affairs, Punjab, has extended her stay in India beyond the visa limit of one year at least three times. Now, she has been told that she would not be allowed to remain in India beyond the date of expiry of her passport, which expires on October 10. Shahida's father, Faij Mohd, has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking directions to the Government of India, State of Punjab and Foreigners Registration Officer-cum-SSP, Moga, not to deport her from India. In his petition filed through advocate Mohd Salim, Faij Mohd has stated that his daughter's latest application to the SSP, Moga, for extension of her stay has been referred to the Department of Home and Justice, Punjab. The petitioner has further added that the action, if any, on the SSP's letter dated May 31, has not been communicated to the family and that there is every likelihood of her being deported to Pakistan. He has also stated that the threat of deportation is illegal and arbitrary as it is against the law laid down by the Supreme Court of India. Today, after hearing the petitioner's counsel, the Division Bench of Mr Justice N.K. Sud and Mr Justice Virender Singh issued notices to the respondents for October 7.
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Herbal park inaugurated
Hoshiarpur, September 29 Mr Hans Raj Joshan said in his address that the number of species of plants would further be increased in the park. A similar type of herbal and medicinal plants park would also be set up at Ropar in the future. Mr Joshan said educational institutions would be involved in these parks to provide knowledge to the students about the importance of herbal and medicinal plants, used for preparing ayurvedic medicines. Efforts were being made by the state govt for promotion of ayurvedic system of medicines in Punjab. To make the cities pollution free, Ludhiana, Ferozepore, Jalalabad and Hoshiarpur had been covered under Green City programme, being launched by the Forest Department. Bhatinda and Muktsar would be covered under this programme in future. He said that tree plantation had been done in 21,000 hectares during current monsoon season in the state under Japan government aided project. Mr Joshan also inaugurated a newly constructed building of an elementary school at village Dada, constructed under the Entry Point Activity Scheme of JBIC project. Mr R.R. Kakkar, the Divisional Forest Officer, Hoshiarpur, said that self help groups had planted more than 6,500 saplings of various plants in 45 hectares land in the village. Mr A.S. Dogra, the Principal Chief Conservator Forest, Mr H.S. Gujral, the Conservator Forest Hills and Mr Swarn Singh, the Convervator Forest Shivalik Circle were accompanying the minister.
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Gastro cases in Phagwara locality
Phagwara, September 29 Supply of contaminated water and squalor in the area were said to be the cause of the disease. The Kapurthala Civil Surgeon, Dr Jagjit Singh Sadana, and the Phagwara SMO, Dr Yash Mitra, today visited the affected locality along with team of doctors and Health Department
officials. Dr Sadana claimed that 4000 tablets of chlorine had been distributed in the locality.More tablets were being distributed,
he said. The residents had been advised to drink boiled water and maintain hygeine. A team of doctors had also been deployed there. It was learnt that four to five patients were admitted to ESI Hospital, one child to Civil Hospital while others were being treated at their houses. It may be mentioned here that gastroenteritis grip Onkar Nagar residents almost every year.
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Birth centenary of Bhagat Singh celebrated
Abohar, September 29 Chaudhary Chandi Ram, a classmate of Bhagat Singh had specially come to participate in the function. Mr Jakhar presented a portrait of the hero of the freedom movement to him. He shared some of his memories with the SDM, Mr Jaskiran Singh, during the 180-minute cultural programme. Students of local schools enthralled the audience with a variety of cultural presentations, highlighting the sacrifices made by Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. They also enacted a satire on the present political, administrative and social scenario of the country. Earlier, scouts from Government Model High School led by Mr Darshan Lal Chugh, presented a guard of honour to the chief guest on his arrival. Mr Jakhar interacted with them for 10 minutes. He later garlanded the portrait of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Members of over 10 NGOs, including the Mahila Suraksha Samiti, the Mahila Propkarini Sabha, the Democratic Citizens Forum, the Abohar Journalists Association, the Punjabi Aggarwal Sabha and the Arorvansh Sabha participated in the function.
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Flying Mail stranded
Phagwara, September 29 It was learnt that activists of Leftist parties had blocked the railway track at nearby Goraya due to which the Flying Mail had to be halted at Phagwara for well over one hour.The Malwa Express also remained stranded at Goraya. It was only after the blockade was lifted at 3 pm at Goraya that the Flying Mail could chug on from Phagwara this afternoon for its destination.
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No kar seva at B’desh gurdwaras: SGPC
Amritsar, September 29 Seeking to caution the Sikh sangat, the SGPC stated that some persons were getting false news published about kar seva. However, the SGPC stated that it had not granted seva to any organisation for Bangladesh and the sangat should not be misled by anyone on the issue.
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Pollution board team collects samples
Barnala, September 29
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Student dies
Kharar, September 29 He was hit by a motor cycle near quila chungi. He was coming back home after attending tuitions.
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Dy Director in Vigilance custody
Kharar, September 29 A team of the Vigilance Bureau had yesterday nabbed Deputy Director, N.S. Bhatia, while accepting a bribe of Rs 65,000.
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Five gangsters nabbed
Phagwara, September 29 A press note issued by the Kapurthala SSP, Mr Rajiv Ahir, said huge recovery was made from them while a major bid to commit a crime by them in this area was foiled with their timely arrest following a tip-off. Those arrested included Gurnam Kumar, alias Mama, of Nangli Bhatha, Fatehgarh Churian road Amritsar,Victor Masih, alias Vicky, of Sabanwali Gali, Batala, Harpreet Kumar, alias Happy, of Tung Majitha road, Amritsar, Gurmit Singh, alias Kala, of Sardar Avenue ,Amritsar, Shamsher Singh, alias Shera, of Nangli Bhatha. Two gangsters, Sarabjit Singh, alias Sabba, of Kotla Suraj, Lopoke, and Victor Masih of Indira Colony, Prem Nagar, Majitha road, Amritsar, managed to escape. Two cars lifted by them, one .12- bore pistol, two live cartridges, Rs 30,000 in cash snatched by them from an Amritsar trader, four cellphones, a sword, gold ornaments, a datur, and a baseball bat, were seized from them. A police party laid a naka near a culvert near Khalwara on the GT Road byepass which led to the major breakthrough.The accused were sitting behind a cluster of trees near the shamlat of Vajidowal and were preparing to strike in the Doaba area with weapons after shifting their area of operation from the Majha belt in the wake of arrests of some of their accomplices. This gang had lifted 20 cars in the Amritsar area.The modus operandi of the gang was to abandon the lifted cars after using these in incidence of robberies and snatchings, said the press note. This gang had looted a businessman at gunpoint of Rs 2.5 lakh in Model Town in Amritsar.
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Vigilance nabs two officials
Jalandhar, September 29 Giving this information, Mr Gurkirpal Singh, SSP, Vigilance, said Daulat Ram, Deputy Chief Engineer of Cooperative Sugar Mill, Bhogpur, was caught red-handed taking a bribe of Rs 2,000 from Mr Manjit Singh, a resident of Mank ke Raipur, who had taken contract for cleaning of the boilers. The SSP said that the Deputy Chief Engineer took the bribe for waiving of payment worth Rs 10,000 due to him. In yet another incident, the bureau caught a meter reader of the Punjab State Electricity Board, Harbans Lal, allegedly for receiving a graft of Rs 10,000. The vigilance sources revealed that the PSEB employee was taking reading from the residence of Shyan Singh of Bhatnura village.
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College suspends Joginder Kaur
Amritsar, September 29 Ms Joginder Kaur had alleged that she was forced to resign by Principal Dr Daljit Singh and that she was always discriminated against for being an Amritdhari (baptised) Sikh and on gender basis, a charge refuted by him. She had also threatened move to Punjab and Haryana High Court if the management and director of the department failed to provide her justice. The suspension order of September 27 reads, “You are hereby suspended with immediate effect for willful absence, insubordination and non-compliance of Service and Conduct Rules” was received only today, which was later released to the Press. Ms Joginder Kaur had alleged that she was given grade (pay scale) lower than her other colleagues’. She alleged even her case for promotion was not put up by the authorities due to this discrimination. She alleged the authorities demanded Rs 50,000 for forwarding her case for promotion. She said she wrote a number of times to the authorities for raising her grade but nothing was done in this regard. Dr Daljit Singh refuted the allegations and said that she was never forced or asked to resign in any case. He claimed that she had never resigned from her job. He said he never criticised her. She earlier filed written complaints to SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur and Mr R.P.S. Brar, SSP alleging that college authorities ignored her complaints against granthi Mohan Singh, husband of a Class IV employee of the department, who had misbehaved and harassed her. The Principal claimed that an inquiry was conducted in this regard by a committee comprising Prof J.K. Sarkaria, Dr Jaspal Singh, Dean Faculty Agriculture Department and Dr Randip Kaur, head agriculture economics into the allegations of Ms Joginder Kaur. However, they found no-merit in her allegations. Meanwhile, a meeting of staff members of the FTC was held today in which they came forward in favour of the principal claiming that the allegations of Ms Joginder Kaur against Principal, District Training Officer and her husband Prof R.S. Dhariwal were false and baseless. They claimed her case of promotion was forwarded to the then Principal by the DTO.
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CMC to offer vacant seats to PMET candidates
Ludhiana, September 29 In a fax message sent today to the Secretary, Medical Education and Research, Punjab, acting director of Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) Dr John Pramod, who is also the acting secretary of CMC Society, said that the institution had conducted the admission process for MBBS, BDS and B.Sc (Nursing) courses for filling up stray vacancies from the merit list of all-India entrance examination of CMC and further that the candidates thus selected were from non-minority community as per the spirit of the ruling of the apex court in respect of admissions to CMC for the current academic year. Dr John Pramod, however, pointed out that there might still be some stray vacancies left in the undergraduate courses in the event of selected candidates not claiming their respective seats. “The CMC Society intends to fill these vacancies to the candidates selected by BFUHS through PMET for possibility of conditional admissions against the pending stray vacancies, if any.” Although there was no official word on this but The Tribune learns that one seat in MBBS course and seven in BDS were vacant in the CMC
institutions. The CMC Society has asked the government to direct all prospective candidates (selected by BFUHS) to report to the office of the Registrar, CMC, Ludhiana on September 30, 2005 and that such candidates would be apprised of admission process at the institution. Information regarding fee, scrutiny of
certificates and procedure thereof was also displayed on the website www.cmcludhiana.org. Through a copy of the message sent to the Acting Registrar of BFUHS, the CMC had asked the university authorities to send a merit list of PMET selected and waiting list candidates as per ranks for each course because the admissions from any test were to be done according to merit.
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Teachers assured of 50 pc DA merger
Chandigarh, September 29 Mr Brar in a statement said that the Finance Minister had agreed to merge 50 per cent of the DA in the basic pay. He said that Mr Singla had also ordered to release grant-in-aid for these schools on a regular basis without any delay. Mr Mahesh Bhalla, Mr Gurvinder Kumar Sharma and Mr Subash Bagga were other members of the delegation.
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Rs 50 crore for industry in rural areas
Chandigarh, September 29 Mr Charanjit Singh Walia, Chairman of the board, said that a campaign had been started to give loans worth Rs 50 crore to promote industry in rural areas. He said that the board would give a subsidy of Rs 10 crore to such industrial units. An exhibition of the products manufactured by village industries financed by the board would be held at Patiala and Amritsar shortly. A khadi gram udyog complex-cum-training centre would be set up at Mohali. Its foundation stone would be laid next month.
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