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2 suspected dengue
patients die
Ludhiana, October 26 According to sources in the DMCH, Rajdeep Singh, a resident of a nearby village, and Baldeep Singh, a resident of Jalandhar, had died due to high grade fever and low platelet count which was suggestive of dengue. However, the diagnosis had not been confirmed on the basis of serology. As many as 60 patients with dengue like symptoms have been admitted to DMCH during the past one-and-a-half months while Christian Medical College and Hospital had reported about 15 confirmed cases of dengue during this period. Most of these cases had been referred to the hospital from other medical institutions. The DMCH Medical Superintendent, Dr Sandeep Puri, told Ludhiana Tribune that no particular city locality seemed to be under attack of dengue as patients were coming from different areas, as also from other towns and villages, including Jalandhar. He did not agree with the contention of the health officials that the prevailing low temperature would kill the disease-causing mosquito. He maintained that in routine, dengue threat continued till mid-November or even till early December. Saying that there was no need to panic as there was no threat of the fever assuming epidemic proportions, the Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajinder Kaur, said the affliction was sparse. The health department was keeping a close watch on the situation and necessary preventive measures, wherever necessary, were being taken. She said the anti-mosquito spray and fumigation had been carried out in the areas from where dengue cases had been reported in the city. The health staff had also been directed to continue education and awareness programmes in the affected areas and educate people about the necessary preventive measures. Meanwhile, the reports of increased number of dengue patients being admitted to the city hospitals appeared to have come in handy for certain unscrupulous medical practitioners all over the city, and they are making a fast buck. There were reports that quite a few RMPs and quacks in different localities here were advising patients suffering from simple fever to get a host of expensive laboratory tests conducted and were getting hefty ‘cut’ from the laboratories in the process. A daily wage earner, who had become a victim of the greed of one such quack told that he had to spend almost Rs 300 for different blood tests on the advice of the doctor during the course of treatment of his son, who was suffering from cold, congestion and fever for the past few days.
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Administration’s warning on artificial LPG scarcity
Ludhiana, October 26 Deputy Commissioner Anurag Verma issued this warning while presiding over a meeting of representatives of all gas agencies in the district. He told them that a team headed by an SDM had checked the premises of some factories wherein it was found that many were using cylinders meant for domestic use. It had been established which gas agency had supplied these gas cylinders and now show cause notices were being issued to the defaulters. Mr Verma told the gas agencies that they should immediately set their houses in order. In case the artificial shortage of LPG did not end, checking of gas agencies would be done. In that physical checking of the cylinders supplied by the gas agencies as per their record would be done. If any fictitious entries were found, strictest possible action as per law would be taken against the proprietor of the gas agency concerned. He also directed the gas agencies to give proper identity cards to the delivery boys. The identity card should clearly mention the name of the oil company, the name of gas agency and the name of the delivery boy. The delivery boy should also be having as many delivery vouchers as the cylinders he was carrying. Delivery boys should also be cautioned against indulging in any malpractices. He also told the gas agency owners that henceforth whenever any domestic cylinders being used for commercial purpose were caught, information would be obtained from the person concerned as to from which gas agency had he purchased the cylinder and whether it was purchased by him in his own name or in the name of somebody else. If it was found that gas agency had knowingly sold the cylinder for commercial purposes, strict action would be taken against the gas agency concerned. Marriage palaces, restaurants and other commercial establishments had also been warned against the use of domestic cylinders for commercial purposes, he added. A similar warning had been issued against the use of 14.2 kg domestic LPG cylinders in automobiles. He had asked the District Transport Officer and the District Food & Civil Supplies Controller to constitute a joint team to conduct joint checking in this regard. Mr Verma also directed the District Food & Civil Supplies Controller that she should daily collect the current delivery data from all gas agencies and get this data displayed on the cable TV for the information of general public, so that people might get to know the current delivery date sitting at their homes without having to go to the gas agency for making inquiries in this regard. The DC appealed to the general public that in case they faced any exploitation at the hands of the gas agencies, they should not suffer silently. They should bring the matter to the notice of Ms Simarjot Kaur, District Food & Civil Supplies Controller or Mr Rakesh Kumar as the LPG Coordinator. If still the problem was not resolved, they should bring the matter to the notice of Mr G.S. Bahia, Assistant Commissioner (General), D.C. Office, Ludhiana. Ms Simarjot Kaur, DFSC and Mr Rakesh Kumar, LPG, Coordinator also attended the meeting.
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Removal of hoardings: SAD seeks apology
Ludhiana, October 26 The kirtan darbar is slated to be held on November 6 from 7 pm to 1 past
midnight in Phase-I of Urban Estate, Dugri. Addressing a press conference here this morning at City Heart hotel, the Akali Dal MP said while the Prime Minister , Mr Manmohan Singh, had been apologising for the anti-Sikh riots on behalf of the Congress, the state Chief Minister, Capt Amrinder Singh, seemed to be bent upon another confrontation by hurting the religious sentiments of the community. He said Mr Parkash Singh Badal had been informed about the unfortunate incident and further course of action would be decided in a day or two after a meeting. Mr Dhillon was accompanied by Mr Jagdish Singh Garcha, an Akali Dal MLA and a confidant of Mr Parkash Singh Badal, and a delegation of the Danga Peerat Association, a body that represents the riot victims. He said the hoardings were being put for the past 20 years by the association of the riot-affected people. In reply to a question, the veteran Akali leader said perhaps the Congress was disturbed by the pictorial depiction of the riots on the hoardings. ‘‘May be because these pictures could raise anti-Congress feelings and that is why the Chief Minister had ordered the removal of the hoardings’’. Mr Jagdish Singh Garcha accused Congress workers of usurping the government booths meant for the riot-affected. He said Congressmen had taken possession of the booths just before these were to be allotted to the deserving applicants . ‘‘Apart from tendering an immediate apology for the sacrilegious act , the Commissioner and the Mayor should also ensure that the employees responsible for this were suspended and the
hoardings put back in place’’, added Mr. Dhillon. When Mr Dhillon’s attention was drawn to the recent ruling of the Punjab and Haryana High Court asking for the removal of hoardings, the Akali MP said the High Court had not asked to remove hoardings announcing religious functions. Moreover, all hoardings belonging to the ruling party were
in place in addition to several other hoardings. The hoardings announcing the kirtan darbar had been selectively removed, he alleged. A spokesman of the Danga Peerat Association distributed pictures of the removed hoardings among the mediapersons claiming that another hoarding had been taken to a corporation dump and had been damaged beyond repair.
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Multiplex generates controversy
Ludhiana, October 26 Yesterday one Prasana Gupta, son of former Mayor, Chaudhary Sat Prakash, and the local BJP leaders, including the former Deputy Speaker, Mr Satpal Gosain, and others alleged that due to the digging, cracks had started developing in the house. With the result Prasana’s family had to take shelter at some relative’s place. Prasana alleged that he had brought the issue to the notice of the Flamez management about a month back since when cracks started developing in the house. “But unfortunately he did not take any heed and continued with the digging work”, Prasana said, while adding, more and more cracks started developing in the walls. “Ultimately we decided to move out as we feared that the house might collapse at any moment”, he said. He claimed that the multiplex was being constructed while throwing all norms to the winds. He said that no distance was maintained between the residential house and the multiplex. He alleged that even the municipal authorities had expressed their helplessness as Mr Pawan Garg, owner of the multiplex, was quite an influential man with connections in the All India Congress Committee. Mr Satpal Gosain alleged that Mr Garg was closely associated with the Congress and had been camping here during the last parliamentary elections. He said he had been flouting his connections with the Congress High Command and with the result no official was willing to take on him. He said the multiplex was coming up in a purely residential area like Gurdev Nagar. “Otherwise it (constructing a multiplex in a residential area) could not be possible for an ordinary man”, Mr Gosain said, while pointing out, “the Municipal Corporation officials would have demolished it the same day”. A spokesman for the Flamez in a written clarification claimed “the cracks in question have come to notice after the tremors only. Therefore it is clear that the cracks had developed not because of the excavation of the land. Moreover, for last six
months there were no cracks noticed or reported from any corner and hence it is obvious that the cracks have developed because of the tremors only”. The spokesman said: “Our land was excavated about six month ago after taking all the precautions like piling grouting where in we have spent more than Rs 1 crore to protect the adjoining area”. He said: “We have tried our best to sort out the issue with the owner of the house, but these people are still bent upon exploiting the situation”.
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Bhola elected MC chief
Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 26 Political circles were astonished over the way the ousted president surrendered along with his councillors and seconded the candidates proposed by the Ms Razia Sultana, MLA and an associate member of the council instead of fielding his own candidates. Dr Indu, SDM, Malerkotla, the convener of the meeting held to elect the officer bearers, informed that Mr Jatinder Bhola and Ms Santosh Rani were declared elected unanimously. Hardly had Ms Sultana proposed the names of Mr Bhola and Ms Rani that Mr Rajnish Sharma along with his fellows councillors, joined his opponents and raised hands to give their consent to the proposal. Mr Rajnish Sharma was removed from the office of president by Mr B.R. Bajaj, Principal Secretary, on the basis of outcome of a meeting held under the supervision of Dr Indu on March 7 this year. Finding no tenable reason to agree with the stand taken by the suspended president that the councillors who had voted in favour of a no-confidence motion against him had done so for “extraneous” considerations, the Principal Secretary, Punjab, had ordered his removal from office and directed the authorities to issue the requisite notification in this regard. The resolution of no-confidence against Mr Rajnish Sharma, the then president of the local civic body, was passed on March 7 when out of 15 members, who attended the meeting, 11 had voted in against him. Mr Sharma had accused the majority of councillors of uniting against him as he had tried to unearth fraud and embezzlement in municipal funds. According to him, no action was called for on the said resolution as the members had used unfair means for passing the said no-confidence resolution. During a personal hearing before the Principal Secretary, besides reiterating his earlier explanation, Mr Sharma accused the members of voting against him for certain consideration. Mr Sharma had quoted the son of a deceased councillor as saying that his father had spent between Rs 30 and Rs 35 lakh for “dethroning” Mr Sharma. He had been elected chief of the civic body unanimously with the intervention of Ms Razia Sultana, MLA of the constituency. Things went smoothly for some months after which a majority of the councillors started feeling ignored and felt that their suggestions regarding the development of the town were not being taken seriously. The president’s role in the formation of the management committee of the three educational institutes run by the Ahmedgarh Vidya Parcharak Committee was another factor that catalysed factionalism in the council. The situation had taken an ugly turn when the group led by Mr Sharma tried to pressurise some councillors who had been in power in the last MC House by getting vigilance inquiries initiated against them. They were, however, given a clean chit in the physical verification of the infrastructure built by them.
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Dhillon flays TV channel for pro-Cong stance
Ludhiana, October 26 Mr Dhillon said the channel had been blatantly favouring the ruling party in the state in utter disregard to journalistic ethics. Regarding the youth rally to be organised by the Akali Dal in Delhi on November 4, Mr Dhillon said the rally was being held to press the party’s demand for punishment to the guilty Congressmen who had spearheaded anti- Sikh riots in 1984. He said the rally was being organised as the party was not satisfied with mere apologies either by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, or any other leader of the Congress. “Mere apologies would not do,” he added emphatically. Giving details , Mr Dhillon said for the purpose of the rally, the state had been divided into four zones which would be headed by Harsukhminder Singh (Bathinda and Mansa), Kiranbir Singh Kang (Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur, Ropar and Jalandher Rural), Vikramjit Singh Majithia (Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Kapurthala and Jalandher City) and he would look after the rest of the state.
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Scouts of national jambooree
honoured
Amloh, October 26 As many as 8 students of the subdivision here were among the 34
scouts and guides of Fatehgarh Sahib district who took part in the Jambooree under the guidance of Mr Sadhu Singh Randhawa, state Chief Commissioner, and Mr B.S. Cheema State Commissioner of Bharat scouts and guides. Scouts masters Bant Singh ( High School Warraich) Mukesh Kumar (Government Elementary School, Sounti,) accompanied the scouts of the subdivision, here. The camp was inaugurated by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, and he spoke on the importance of this movement and its significant role in the field of national integration. According to Mr Bela Singh, Assistant State Commissioner, around 40,000 scouts and guides across the country including Sri Lanka, Bangla Desh, Jammu and Kashmir, Pondechery and Bhutan participated in the camp. The national Jambooree is held every four years. Mr Roshan Lal, Principal of the school, and district secretary of scouts and guides congratulated the scouts of the subdivision who had successfully qualified all tests of the national jambooree. Two students, Amritpal Singh, Harpreet Singh from Elementary School, Sounti, two students Satvir Singh, Karamjit Singh from Government High School warraich and four students Randhir Singh , Onkar Singh, Hakam Singh and Harwinder Singh from Government senior secondary school, Naraingarh, were honoured with medals and merit certificates. Mr Jagdish Parshad District Training Commissioner thanked the school for organising the function.
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Youth held for possessing smack
Khanna, October 26 According to the police CIA in charge Balwinder Singh laid down a naka near A.S. College, here. The police party stopped a Motorcyclist coming from Samrala side. During the search the police recovered 15 gms of smack from his possession. A case under Section 22, 61, 85 of the NDPC Act has been registered against the accused identified as Sukhbir Singh son of Harnek Singh, resident of Daudpur. The accused was produced in the court of Mr A.K. Goel who sent him on one day police remand.
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Man killed in road mishap
Jagraon, October 26 According to information, the identity of the deceased was yet to be established.
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Chinese lights sell like
hot cakes
Ludhiana, October 26 During a visit to Chaura Bazaar, this reporter found that the market was flooded with lights of various shapes and colours. A shopkeeper said the price of lights ranged from Rs 18 to Rs 210. Within this range one can buy multicoloured lights placed inside different coloured flowers between a range of Rs 25 and Rs 30. The other lights selling like hot cakes are “rope lights”. These lights literally look like ropes and coloured bulbs are enclosed within. They can be used indoors as well as outdoors. Silky lights as the name suggests are lights covered with smooth silk coating. Lights in the shape of fruits are also selling briskly. Rice lights are in fact the cheapest lights. Bobby, a shopkeeper, said lights in the shape of pineapple, grape and cherry are still in demand. Lights knitted in multilayers called “jaal” in different sizes are catching the eye. Another light in the shape of small “kalash” can be used at the main door as it would appear to be a welcome arch. Idols of Goddesses embedded with soft lights and bhajans recorded within it are much in demand. They are priced around Rs
100.
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Biz Clips
Spice: Spice Telecom launched video tones service here on Wednesday. Through this a subscriber would be alerted about an incoming call by a video clip instead of the traditional ring tone. Subscribers can also personaise video tones and change them as and when they desire so, said Mr Navdeep Kapur, Senior Manager Marketing, Spice Telecom, at a press conference. He said the video tones service would be available for pre-paid as well as post-paid subscribers. — TNS
New showroom:
DeeKay Electronics has opened a new showroom, Deekay Electronics Mall, in Model Town here. The showroom offers electronic items, said Mr Davinder Dhawan, Managing Director of the company. Mr Dhawan said the company aimed to provide a wide choice to its customers under one roof. Besides a wide range in terms of products from different companies, the company also assures a good after sales service. The company has also launched an offer under which a customer gets assured gift on every purchase.
— TNS
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