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Doaba simmers under Gohana heat
CM convoy throws traffic out of gear
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Highway crash leaves one dead, 20 injured
Education dept backlog to be cleared soon: Minister
Robbers’ gang busted
Aid distributed among needy
Youth dies in road mishap
Woman gets life term for killing husband
Hoax call creates panic
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Doaba simmers under Gohana heat
Jalandhar, August 29 The Democratic Bhartiya Samaj Party took out a rally and gave a memorandum through deputy commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu to the President, home minister and governor of Haryana demanding strict action against the accused. Members of the Pendu Mazdoor Union too lodged a protest in the DC complex demanding probe into the matter, action against policemen who thrashed the Dalit protesters there and compensation to all those injured in the incident. Commuters suffer
Phagwara: Hundreds of Dalits, headed by former Congress MLA Joginder Singh Maan, held a demonstration and blocked traffic on the national highway near the local rest house for half an hour in protest against the Gohana incident here today. Dalits raised slogans against All-India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi and Congress-led Haryana government in the presence of Maan. Mann intervened and asked them to stop raising slogans against the Congress. Later, SDM Amarjit Paul reached the site where the demonstrators submitted him a memorandum. — OC Hoshiarpur: Activists of Aadi-Dharam Samaj, Hoshiarpur, led by their leaders Manoj Kanedy and Hans Raj, took out a protest march in the main bazars of the city here today. They were agitating against ‘killing’ of Balmiki youth Rakesh alias Lara in Gohana on August 27, 2007 and arrest of their chief organiser Darshan Ratna Raavan while he was going to participate in the cremation of the deceased. The protesters were carrying placards depicting Dalit unity and effigy of Haryana government. They alleged that the Haryana government had implicated Rakesh in a false case as the latter had raised voice against the atrocities being committed on the dalits. “ A CBI inquiry was initiated against the youth and despite he being proved innocent he was not provided any security. Balmiki community had time and gain requested the government for it fearing for Rakesh’s life,” alleged Manoj Kanedy. Later, they burnt Haryana government’s effigy in front of a mini secretariat to lodge their protest and presented a memorandum to the President of India through deputy commissioner, Hoshiarpur. They demanded sacking of Haryana government, suspend all those police officials who had arrested Raavan. |
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CM convoy throws traffic out of gear
Jalandhar, August 29 The residents had felt similar inconvenience yesterday too when Shiromani Akali Dal working president Sukhbir Singh Badal went about meeting people, attending a function and holding a press conference in the city. Today’s worst scene was around the busy Ambedkar Chowk where traffic was closed from all sides to clear way for the Chief Minister’s convoy that halted at Lovely Autos for a short while. While Badal went to meet the Mittals inside their office, at least a dozen cars, including those of his security and supporters, stopped right at the chowk for nearly seven minutes bringing the traffic to a complete standstill on all four sides. Almost all other prominent roundabouts on the way, including Kapurthala Chowk, Football Chowk and Guru Nanak Mission Chowk, were closed from all sides as the CM’s vehicles were to pass from there. This also led to traffic snarls along other roads. The movement of traffic at BMC Chowk and the GT Road outside the bus stand was also badly hit. |
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Highway crash leaves one dead, 20 injured
Phagwara, August 29 Twelve schoolchildren sustained bruises while eight others were admitted to the local Gandhi Hospital. SDM Amarjit Paul, SP(D) Sukhwinder Singh and DSP H.P.S. Khakh visited the accident site and later Gandhi Hospital to inquire about the injured children. Dr Satnam Singh Parmar and Dr Amandeep Singh of Gandhi Hospital said Saurav (8), Sunidhi (5) and Harish (12) were still in the hospital, but out of danger, while injured Arshid (5), Arman (4), Narwinder Singh (5), Simarjit Kaur (4) and Amarjot Kaur(4) had been discharged from the hospital. The body of the conductor has been sent to the civil hospital for post-morterm. DSP Khakh said all injured schoolchildren belonged to Rihana Jattan village. Meanwhile, it was learnt that the bus was not in a good condition. SDM Amarjit Paul said he would soon convene a meeting of heads of all schools of Phagwara subdivision and instruct them to use only buses having good running condition for transporting schoolchildren and take permission from the department concerned.
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Compassionate Jobs Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, August 29 The minister asserted that she had fulfilled the promise made to the teachers to initiate fresh recruitments and promotion process and to provide jobs on priority basis to the dependents of department employees who died in harness. In this regard a special camp would be organised on August 31 at Government Senior Secondary School, Phase 3B-1, Mohali. She advised the genuine beneficiaries to assist the department in completing their cases and submit all the required documents to the directorate at the earliest. Such instructions have already been issued to all the field education officers. The appointment letters in this regard would be handed over to the beneficiaries in a camp, the date of which would be declared soon, added the minister. She further said that directions had been issued to the officers of the department to clear the backlog cases so that the affected families got the benefits at the earliest. Reiterating the government's commitment to improve the quality of education and infrastructure in the state-run schools, Kaur said pending promotion cases of masters, lecturers, head teachers and principals would be cleared in the coming months. She added that all the promotion cases had already been summoned by the directorate and both the DPIs had been instructed to complete them at the earliest. She said transparency would be maintained during the recruitment and promotion process.
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Furore over atta-dal scheme
Jalandhar, August 29 District secretary of the union Kashmir Singh Ghugshore alleged that the names of several genuine beneficiaries were being struck off or not being included in the list. He pointed out that applicants were being charged by employees and agents in lieu of giving them a form for the purpose. He said the poor, uneducated people who were spending their precious little in commuting to the SDM offices in the administrative complex were being forced to make repeated visits to get their applications
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Robbers’ gang busted
Batala, August 29 While talking to the mediapersons, SSP R.N. Dhoke said three country-made .12-bore pistols, three live cartridges, one air pistol and a motorcycle (PB-35D-5883) used in robberies were seized from them. He said during the interrogation, the accused confessed that they got weapons through Bareilly resident Raj Kumar some time back with the aim to make easy money by robbing people. Giving details about the robberies, the SSP said that in October 3, 2006, the robbers snatched a purse containing Rs 1 lakh from Jaswant Kaur, while she was on her way to Harchowal. Jaswant had come to the Qadian branch of the State Bank of India to withdraw money. A case was already registered against the robbers at Sri Hargobindpur police station. Similarly, the accused snatched a bag containing Rs 26,000 from Harchowal resident Charan Kaur. She had gone to the Qadian branch of the State Bank of India to withdraw her pension. |
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Aid distributed among needy
Hoshiarpur, August 29 While addressing the gathering, Josh said, “The increasing menace of copying in examinations was not beneficial for the students. Through copying one can get success in an examination, but cannot face challenges in his life.” Advising the parents, she said they should motivate their kids to leave the habit of copying and learn to work hard. Teachers should perform their duty with dedication, she added. During the function, she gave away cheque for Rs 2 lakh to the principal of the school and Rs 1.70 lakh to the head teacher of the elementary school of Bagpur Sataur village for development.
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Youth dies in road mishap
Hoshiarpur, August 29 |
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Woman gets life term for killing husband
Hoshiarpur, August 29 The police had registered a case on the basis of information from Hari Singh, the then sarpanch of Argowal village, that Gurpreet Kaur had, with the help of Ashok Kumar and Ganga Ram, killed her husband. Gurpeet Kaur used to visit Ludhiana to collect rent from these migrant labourers. She had allegedly promised the duo of paying Rs 1 lakh for killing her husband. |
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Hoax call creates panic
Phagwara, August 29 On receiving the information about the hoax calls, SDM Amarjit Paul and DSP H.P.S. Khakh, along with several senior officials, rushed to the hospital, but no bomb was found. Though the mobile number (092392-41928) from which the calls Meanwhile, the investigations were still on and police officials were contacting the BSNL authorities to trace the location and the caller. Giving details about the call, Dr Satnam Singh Parmar of Gandhi Hospital said: “We received three calls on hospital land line number 01824-267214 in the morning.The caller told us that he had planted a bomb in the hospital and he would blow up the |
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