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Amruta ready to chill in Chile
Allegations against Lt-Col for misuse of facilities
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Late result card costs student promising seat
Cheating case against Tehsildar, Patwaris
Wholesaler booked for hoarding, illegal weights
‘Take tough stand against Pakistan’
Schoolboy succumbs to injuries
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Amruta ready to chill in Chile
Jalandhar, July 20 Doing her best to wear another crown is no mean exercise for this stunner. From following a strict diet regime, regular workouts, attending grooming sessions and learning Spanish, she is totally engrossed in the schedule. “The contest is scheduled for November 18 at Spanish speaking Chile, in South America. I am learning the language just to have an edge. An acquaintance from Chile is taking sessions for me”, said Amruta sporting a smile during a press conference held at airhostess training institute. “In case I make it to the contest, I will move across the world spreading message to save the Mother Earth and in case I that does not happen I will continue with modelling”, she said adding that she was not interested in films, item numbers or advertisements. Very articulate, Amruta said she was not like that before the contest. “I was too shy and lacked communication skills. But, now there has been a change and I have rather become more expressive about things. I was a bit healthier. Before the pageant, I was totally on soups and salads to reduce my weight. I was also told to do some kick boxing to tone my muscles.” A commerce undergraduate from Mumbai, she said she could not appear in her final year examination in March this year as the dates clashed with the pageant. “I will appear for the examination this time”, she added. Earlier, she interacted with the students of the institute and offered them tips on dressing up for different occasions, improving language skills and body language. “Basically 93 per cent of one’s communication is through body language”, revealing that she had read it. Ms Ritu Kochhar, centre director, said more celebrities, including Ms Sabira Merchant, and Ms Mallaika Arora Khan were likely to visit the centre soon. |
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Allegations against Lt-Col for misuse of facilities
Jalandhar, July 20 A complaint to the Sub Area Commander of the Jalandhar Cantonment in this regard was filed and received by the Headquarter Sub Area, Jalandhar Cantonment, today. A copy of the receipt, complaint and relevant documents is with The Tribune. The charges pertain to when the Lt-Colonel was at the rank of a Major and on study leave from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2005, at Jalandhar. The complaintant has leveled charges of gross misuse of Army facilities. It has been pointed out that the Major had got dependent cards issued for his parents despite the fact that his father had retired as a senior Punjab Police officer. He was drawing his pension, and the parents were shown as dependent for canteen and medical facilities. It has also been pointed out that his father was running a private detective agency at home and was also a surveyor for an insurance company. Further, the complaint mentions that using the dependent card facility, the mother of the said officer was admitted at the Army Hospital in Delhi where she was operated upon for replacement surgery of both knees in March 2004, costing lakhs of rupees. It has also been alleged that he had misused an Army vehicle with eight Army personnel for ransacking the house of his neighbour. |
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Late result card costs student promising seat
Jalandhar, July 20 The city-based student could not get admission in Punjabi University, Patiala, during the counselling session being held at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, yesterday as the Punjab Technical University failed to give him a detailed marks certificate for B.Tech (electronics and communication engineering). Disappointed, he said he had taken an undertaking in this regard from the Registrar of the Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dera Bassi, Prof Gurpreet Kaur, but Punjabi University told him to get an undertaking from the principal. Jan Nayak Singh said since he could not go back to his college, he approached the Deputy Dean Establishment of the PTU, Mr Rajneesh Sachdeva, who was at the counselling session. The deputy Dean then issued an undertaking saying that he should meet Dr R.K. Bedi, coordinator MET-2006, or the Deputy Coordinator, Dr M.D. Singh. Jan Nayak was asked to provide a tabulation sheet in an hour, which he did. His college authorities faxed him his tabulation sheet giving his marks but it was too late. “All seats in Guru Nanak Dev University and Punjabi University had been filled by that time and I was told to fill an option for the University School of Management, Talwandi Sabo, or Punjabi University’s Regional Centre for Information and Tech, Mohali, or a PTU college, which I did not want. “I was too excited at having got a good rank but this is cruel. It has not been mentioned in the brochure that the detailed marks certificate (DMC) is to come from college or university. If the university issues DMC six months after the result, how am I to be blamed for it?” he asked showing the documents proving his overall 71 per cent in PTU. Talking to The Tribune, Mr Sachdeva said he tried his level best to sort out the case and help the student but it was up to the Guru Nanak Dev University authorities to make the final decision. |
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Cheating case against Tehsildar, Patwaris
Kapurthala, July 20 The Dhilwan police registered the case against them on the complaint of one Kapurthala-based Baldev Singh Dhillon, cousin of Prabh Dyal Singh. According to police sources, Prabh Dyal had allegedly got a power connection on a four-acre land at Dhilwan after preparing fake documents in connivance with Naib Tehsildar and two patwaris in an attempt to grab the land, which was a part of the total 18-acre ancestral immovable property of Baldev Singh Dhillon. Meanwhile, the Deputy Commission of Kapurthala, Mr Raminder Singh, today stressed that the Panchayats should set up village-level vigilance committees to check corruption. Addressing a public gathering during a suvidha camp organised at Bholath, the DC said he had no hesitation in accepting that the 50 per cent of the money allotted for different development works went down to corruption. Village-level vigilance committee could play a vital role in checking such type of corruption, he added. |
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Wholesaler booked for hoarding, illegal weights
Phagwara, July 20 The Deputy Director, Food and Supplies, Mr Karnesh Sharma, said the team had recommended that a case under the ‘Punjab Commodities Prime Marketing and Display Orders-1972’ be registered against the wholesale firm of M/S Rikhi Ram Krishan Kumar at the local mandi road. The firm had a stock of pulses, sugar, ghee and other essential commodities without valid bills and moreover the weights used by the firm were not the ones passed by the Weighing and Measures Department. The Phagwara ASP confirmed that the police had registered a case against the said firm. Meanwhile, Mr Sharma said the department was actively launching a statewide campaign against wholesale and retailers merchants working illegally. |
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‘Take tough stand against Pakistan’
Phagwara, July 20 Lashing out at Islamabad’s role for its continued support to terrorism, Mr Mittal, while talking to newspersons here today, said India should adopt a ‘tough stance’ against Pakistan as cross-border terrorism had crossed limits of tolerance. Suggesting that India should stop the ongoing dialogue with Pakistan in the wake of the recent Mumbai blasts, he said all talks and cross-border journeys had become irrelevant and had been reduced to a farce. He said New Delhi should resume talks only when Islamabad stopped fomenting terrorism in India and had wiped out terror camps on its soil.
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Schoolboy succumbs to injuries
Jalandhar, July 20 He was undergoing treatment at Oxford Hospital here. The postmortem of his body was conducted at Civil Hospital here. Thereafter, his body was consigned to flames. In the yesterday’s mishap, two of the four schoolboys were killed on the spot. Meanwhile, the driver of the truck is still at large and the SSP, Mr Ishwar Singh, said that a hunt was on to nab him. |
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