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BSP finalises 37 candidates
Leaders intensify campaign
Set Top Box service started
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Security guard found murdered
Jalandhar, September 6 The unidentified assailants had strangled him to death with a wire. Mohinder Lal, a resident of Dakoha village was employed by a security agency, which arranged security for the insurance company. He was on the night shift for past 15 days. According to Mr Lalit Khanna, the Branch Manager, the assailants also stole two laptops, a DVD player and a projector. The main shutter of the office usually remains bolted from inside after the entry of the security on night duty.
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25 fall sick after drinking MC water
Phagwara, September 6 Five of them have been admitted to the civil hospital and others were being treated by private doctors. Dirty sewerage water had collected in the streets of the affected areas of Bhagatpura locality. However, sources revealed that mixing of sewerage water with drinking water was said to be the main cause of the spread of disease. The Health Department had declared the water unfit for drinking, but no action had been taken by the Nagar Council or the civil administration, alleged Councillor Sarabjit Kaur. She alleged discrimination against wards represented by the Opposition. |
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BSP finalises 37 candidates
Jalandhar, September 6 The BSP chief ,Ms. Mayawati ,has already clarified that her party would not go to polls in alliance with any party of Punjab and that it would follow the principle of “social alliance” in the state as far as poll alliance on all 117 Assembly seats was concerned. Since, the BSP has been trying hard to come out of its Dalit –centric image , the party has also decided to award tickets to candidates belonging to backward classes and all religions for 88 open category seats. On all 29 reserved seats, the party would put up only Scheduled Caste candidates. “ Representation has been given to all the sections of the society and we will keep doing so in interests of Punjab,” said Mr. Narinder
Kashyap, party general secretary said. |
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Leaders intensify campaign
Kapurthala, September 6 As part of which, former Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supremo Parkash Singh Badal and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Navjot Singh Sidhu are visiting Kapurthala district this Saturday on September 9. They are scheduled to address as many as four public rallies at different villages falling under the Sultanpur Lodhi Assembly constituency being represented by SAD leader and former Punjab minister Bibi Upinderjeet Kaur. |
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Playwright in search of logic
Jalandhar, September 6 “I consider my life as an illogical phenomenon. I was the son of my father’s third wife who was 20 years younger to him. Even my grandmother was married thrice. This patriarchy confused me, and at the same time it prodded a search for logic of life”. His shift from poetry to drama was due to his father’s interest in the form as he was a teacher of literature and his proximity to his teacher playwright Gurdial Singh Phul. He wrote his first drama in 1974. His most talked about play “Rishteyan Da Ki Rakhiye Naa” was an adaptation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s famous story “Toba Tek Singh”.He wrote this play in 1981 when the monster of terrorism was raising its ugly head in Punjab. He says, “The play was not just one more play on Partition. It focused on such possibilities. In 1996, he staged the play in Canada. It had music by Sohail Rana, songs by Nazar Sadique, both known artists of Pakistan. This Indo-Pak production remains close to Atamjit’s heart. In “Kamloopes dian Machliyan” he explored dilemmas of Canada-based Indians. Many of his plays didn’t find favour with critics because of their novel themes. One such play was “Puran”, based on “Kissa Bhagat Puran”. His justificaton of Puran’s love for his step-mother didn’t go well with both conservatives and feminists. In “Farash ch Uggeya Rukh”, he explores the probability of extramarital affairs and the latest play “Mai Tan ik Sarangi Han” delves into tribulations of today’s woman.
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Set Top Box service started
Jalandhar, September 6 This service is being provided by the Hathway Digital Cable Services in collaboration with Win Cable, Star TV and other cable operators of different cities. In the first phase of the project, the digital cable service was launched here today by Mr. K. Jayaraman, Mr. Sheetal Vij and Mr. Sarbjit Raju, the MD of the Hathway and Directors of the Hathway Sukhamrit, a Jalandhar -based cable service company. Mr. Jayaraman and Mr. Vij said the digital service would be available to those consumers, who, would be asking for a Set Top Box (STB). For acquiring the STB, each of the consumers would have to make a one -time investment of Rs. 2500. There would, however, be no enhancement in the monthly cable charges. “As for now, as many as 101 channels of digital quality and three video games are being offered. But, the number of channels would be increased to 140 along with as many as 10 interactive video games within a month. But, later on, all consumers would be able to get 1000 channels and messaging service.” said Mr. Jayaraman. He said that the company and its allies have already been providing some of these services to residents of Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Jalandhar. Mr. Jayaraman said that for providing services to residents of 16 cities of Punjab, the work was on for lying of a 250-300km - long underground optic fibre cable. |
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