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Admn yet to start inquiry into MGN mid-day meal case
FM announces Rs 7 lakh grant for College
Three held for killing woman
GRP to write to HRD Ministry on NIT ragging case
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DAVIET tops fest
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Admn yet to start inquiry into MGN mid-day meal case
Jalandhar, October 29 While the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Kumar Gupta, had said last evening that he had marked a magisterial inquiry into the matter, Mr Mahinder Singh Kainth, ADC, to whom the inquiry had been marked, said this evening that he was yet to receive any such orders. Consequently, no inquiry has been initiated by the administration even a day after the incident. The ADC said he could not hold any inquiry till he got the written orders. Since the District Administrative Complex is likely to remain closed tomorrow on account of Sunday, the orders may not reach the official concerned for another day and the inquiry may further be delayed. The police, however, has started an inquiry into the matter after the registration of a DDR in police station, division number 7. The SSP, Mr Ishwar Singh, said that statements of the parents were being recorded. The Food Inspector has taken the samples of moong daal, milk and chapattis that were served to the children in the meal yesterday, it has been learnt. The samples have been sent to a Patiala-based laboratory and the report is yet to come. Meanwhile, Dr M.S. Bhutani, a doctor attending on the sick children, said that the four children who had been taking treatment in his hospital were stable and they were likely to be discharged by late evening. Ms Jaspal Gill, Principal, said she had started the concept of the mid-day meal this month after the parents themselves had insisted that the practice be started so as to inculcate table manners and good eating habits. But, she said, it had now been decided to do away with the practice in view of the incident. She claimed that all measures to ensure hygiene were being followed in the school. |
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FM announces Rs 7 lakh grant for College
Jalandhar, October 29 He first announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for the college, followed by another grant of Rs 1 lakh for rewarding the outstanding students of the college and yet another grant of Rs 1 lakh for the Old Students’ Association of the college. Mr Singla distributed prizes to 315 undergraduate and postgraduate students. He distributed prizes to the students excelling in academics, sports, NSS, NCC and extra-curricular activities. Addressing the students, he said the government was trying to attract more telecom and IT firms from abroad so that there were more employment opportunities. Meanwhile, the minister also assured a delegation of exporters and industrialists, who met him at the Rest House here, that diesel engine pump sets and a few more items would be brought under 4 per cent VAT soon. This was disclosed by Mr A.K. Kohli, Senior Vice-President, Punjab Chamber of Small Exporters. Traders had been demanding a reduction in VAT from 12.5 per cent to 4 per cent on these items and a notification in this regard for the last six months.
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Three held for killing woman
Kapurthala, October 29 According to Mr Amrik Singh Powar, DSP, Bholath, the victim Rajwant Kaur, had been living at her parental home in the village with her two children after differences with her husband Pritam Singh, a resident of Gurdaspur district. On the fateful day, she had a quarrel with the neighbours, who were her relatives also, on the issue of positioning the gate in front of their home. After the altercation, she had left her home to lodge a complaint against her neighbours at Subhanpur police station but did not return, the DSP said. Baldev Kaur, the mother of the victim, along with her grand children searched for her at the addresses of their relatives. Later on December 12 last, she lodge a complaint to the police about the disappearance of Rajwant. In the complaint, Baldev Kaur had accused Pritam Singh, the husband of Rajwant, of being responsible for disappearance of her daughter, said the DSP. After the futile investigation of one year, the police received a secret information that Rajwant was murdered by her cousins living in the neighbourhood of her parental home at Hamira, disclosed Mr Powar. While Rajwant was returning from the police station after lodging the complaint, her cousins Manjit Singh and Karnail Singh killed her on the way by strangulating and buried the body in their fields and threw the moped she was driving in a pond of Diyalpur village, the DSP said. Later, they burnt the body with the help of their another cousin Kashmir Singh, a resident of Bamuwal village, after exhuming it at the time of wheat harvesting and threw the ashes in the river Bein near Bamuwal village, revealed Mr Powar. The police has recovered the moped of the victim and arrested the accused here today.
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GRP to write to HRD Ministry on NIT ragging case
Jalandhar, October 29 The NIT authorities had informed in writing to the Railway police that the report by the Chaitley Committee would be submitted by 10 am of October 28 but failed to comply. Instead, the authorities submitted an “unknown” Jha Committee report, by Dean Students M. K. Jha, to the GRP authorities at 10 pm last evening. Tired of the dilly-dallying by the NIT, the GRP has now decided to write to the MHRD and the Chairman of the institute for speedy submission of the report. The three-member Chaitley Committee had submitted its report yesterday to the NIT authorities but instead of submitting the report, the NIT authorities told the GRP that it was “under consideration,” according to the GRP, SP Tulsi Ram. The NIT authorities have now decided to open the report, which, according to the sources, fixes the responsibility on many senior staff members on the hostel staff. The Chairman of the institute is expected to open it. The development had further affected the investigation into the case, said the investigating officer Inspector Lakha Singh. However, the GRP would wait for another day before writing to the higher NIT authorities for submitting the report and the letter would be dispatched on the next working day, he added. The NIT authorities were unavailable for comments to explain why the “wrong” report was submitted to the GRP instead of the Chaitley Committee report as demanded by the investigating departments. The Jha Committee report, however, did not fix responsibility on anyone, according to Inspector Lakha Singh.
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Bilga rues country in ‘wrong hands’
Jalandhar, October 29 As his eyes shine brighter, voice gets louder and the betrayal of the times leave him angry but in that agitated voice one could feel the undying Gadari spirit, which makes him believe in the spirit of youth, which had guided him once, will guide the country in future also. Though disenchanted at the loss of the revolutionary spirit and the dilution of the movement, this freedom fighter to the core is ready to motivate the young generation to carry on the legacy left behind by his contemporaries like Bhagat Singh. For him, life changed when he met freedom fighter and uncle of Bhagat Singh in Argentina, which lead him to engulf in the fight to free his motherland from British rule. Blessed, he says, to have seen the dawn of freedom, this doyen of our freedom movement now feels cheated when he looks at a society full of corruption, mankind up to destroy itself, violations of human rights and bureaucracy eating up the country’s resources. What hurts him most is the drug addiction among the youth. This sounds like death of the only hope which could take India to the brighter path. Witness to a century of Indian history, the 99-year-old Baba Bilga speaks with the wisdom of the times he has lived. In a country where the Prime Minister praises the British rule, we ask what went wrong. He has no qualms when he says, “We gave power in the hands of those who cheated the freedom struggle and worked against the interests of the country in lieu of big ‘jagirs’. The way the same parliamentary, army, bureaucratic ‘Babudom’, even constitutional provisions and laws were adopted after independence “stinks of the Raj”. The biggest blunder of the country’s history was that we fell into the British trap to talk our way to freedom and the Britishers succeeded in dividing the country into two.” He has no hope from the politicians who belong to the class of people, who tried to save their properties during the British Raj by helping the Raj survive. The politicians are eating up the country, he adds. On the present Left Movement, he feels the Left parties are divided house whereas for revolution united effort is needed. “The dilution in the left movement has no hope for changing the society,” he adds. The politics of the day is mere power struggle. Only by inspiring the youth and concentrating their effort into more meaningful ways can change the society, he feels.
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DAVIET tops fest
Jalandhar, October 29 The results of different activities of the first day were declared today. Tarangini from DAVIET won the classical dance event, Keerat Kaur from
GNDEC, Ludhiana, emerged as winner in the western vocal solo, PCTE Baddowal came first in group song western, MMIT Malout won one act play, Navtej Singh from
BBSBCET, Fatehgarh Sahib, won classical vocal solo, Kunal Jhangi of DAVIET showed best performance in light vocal Indian, Ravinder Singh of
LLRIET, Moga, won in rangoli event, Narinder of DAVIET won in clay modeling, Manpreet Verma of DAVIET displayed his best skills in cartooning, Kunal Jhangi of DAVIET bagged top honour in folk song, IET Bhaddal won quiz and Amrish Sharma emerged as the winner at first position in the spot painting.
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Vidhan Sabha debate a farce: Dal Khalsa
Jalandhar, October 29 Addressing a press conference here today, leaders of the radical group, Mr
H.S. Dhami, Mr Jaspal Singh and Mr Kanwarpal Singh alleged that both the Akalis and the Congressmen had insulted the collective aspirations of the Sikh people. They added that it was “painful” to watch the leaders of both parties trade frivolous charges. Mr Kanwarpal Singh, general secretary, said that the Dal Khalsa would organise a public discussion on the issue of 1984 riots.
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Child killed
Phagwara, October 29
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