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Kidnappers’ plan goes awry
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Youth’s body found in bushes
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Pvt firms stopped from collecting toll
Army
Recruitment
Lurking
Danger
Robbers’ gang busted, 2 arrested
Removes former dist chief’s name from FIR in
suicide case
‘Stress taking toll on mental health’
Newborn girl found dumped near rly line
2 die as car rams into scooter
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Kidnappers’ plan goes awry
Hoshiarpur, October 10 Two scooter-borne youths on Tuesday evening tried to abduct him near telephone exchange crossing when he was returning to his house after attending tuition classes, revealed Kartik today. The child was accompanied by his grandfather.“The pillion rider tried to lift Kartik but the child pushed the rider with full force and rushed towards his house located about 250 yards away from the site of incident,” said Prem Mohindru. After reaching home, he narrated the incident to me and other family members, he added. Prem Mohindru said the entire family was under severe tension due to which they did not report the incident to the police. Though they are now planning to file a complaint in few days time. It may be recalled that a similar type of attempt of kidnapping a 9-year-old boy Dikshant of local Mohalla Katcha Toba also took place at the same site on August 20, 2007. When contacted, Hoshiarpur SSP Anita Punj said the PCR teams are patrolling the city day and night to check anti-social elements. But the said incident had not been reported to the patrolling party or to the city police station. However, she would depute police personnel in civil dress to check such type of elements, said the SSP adding, the people should also report any untoward incident to the police immediately soon after its occurrence. |
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Good care will be taken of sugar mills, says CM
Ashok Kaura
Phagwara, October 10 The CM was addressing a meeting of representatives of the sugar industry. Responding to the industry’s demands, Badal said the VAT on molasses would be slashed from 22% to 4% during the next financial year. Badal also mentioned that the government was seriously looking into the feasibility of imposition of entry tax/local area development tax on sugar and molasses being imported from other states on the pattern of Rajasthan. He also asked the sugar industry to come forward and join hands with the government for strengthening the research and development base for improving the quality of sugarcane, which, in turn, would enhance the production of sugar both quantitatively and qualitatively. Regarding sugar export to Pakistan via Attari-Wagha border, the CM assured the representatives that the government would soon take up the matter with the Centre. The initiative is likely to boost the prospects of sugar industry in the state. Meanwhile, Jarnail Singh Wahid, chairman of Wahid Sandhars Sugar Mills Ltd, Phagwara has been included in a seven-member single window committee, constituted by the state government under the chief secretary to give clearance for co-generation of power in the sugar industry. The other members of the committee would be secretary environment, chairman of Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) YS Ratra, chief executive Punjab Energy Development Agency, managing director Sugarfed and chairman Punjab Pollution Control Board. Badal also directed the PSEB chairman to immediately finalise the pending cases of power purchase agreements (PPA) of the local sugar industry. Badal admitted that the industry could not solely survive on sugar production and it needs to go for co-generation in terms of electricity and ethanol. He said Brazil is blending 32% of ethanol in petrol while it was just 10% in India. The CM said the government would encourage co-generation as it would result in bench-marking new standards in the sugar industry to achieve optimum crushing capacity. Prominent among others who were present in the meeting, included financial commissioner taxation SS Brar, MD Sugarfed, cane commissioner Dr Mangal Singh Sandhu, besides RS Chadha, MD, AB Sugars Ltd. Dasuya, Sandip Singh Wahid, MD, Wahid Sandhar Sugars Ltd, Deepak Yadav, MD, Indian Sucrose Ltd. Mukeriana and Harish Pahwa from Nahar Sugar Ltd.
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Youth’s body found in bushes
Kapurthala, October 10 According to police sources, the youth (around 22) is suspected to have been strangulated to death, before being dumped in the bushes. A case has been registered under sections 302, 34 of IPC at Dhilwan police station on the statement of Mehnga Singh’s nephew Naranjan Singh. The investigating officer, Dhilwan SHO Hardayal Singh, said the topmost priority of the police was to identify the body. The police first made public announcements to solve this problem, but no one came forward. |
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Pvt firms stopped from collecting toll
Hoshiarpur, October 10 Firstly, the committee activists, led by Mohinder Singh Badon and Manjit Singh, president, Tempo Operators Union, Hoshiarpur, disallowed a private toll plaza company at Nangal Shaheedan, seven km from here on Hoshiarpur-Chandigarh road to collect toll from commuters of Balachaur-Dasuya BOT road from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. The activists alleged the government has allowed private companies to loot people in broad daylight. Similarly, activists led by Tarlochan Singh, president, Punjab Truck Operators Union, did not allow the employees of toll-plaza company to collect toll from the commuters at Lachowal toll-plaza barrier on Hoshiapur-Tanda BOT road from 11 am to 2 pm. At Mangarh toll-plaza barrier on Hoshiarpur-Dasuya BOT road, activists led by Mukhtiar Singh, President Truck Union, Dasuya also forced the employees of toll-plaza company not to charge toll from the users of this road for about an hour. All the speakers strongly criticised SAD-BJP leaders for evading this looting on the pretext that concept of BOT roads was introduced by the last Congress government at the fag end of its regime. “They were opposing this concept when they were in the Opposition but now after coming to power they are supporting it. The state government had also enhanced road tax for registration of all the vehicles,” said the speakers. Two per cent of the total cost of the vehicle was being charged as road tax fee. |
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Tech boost to plug loopholes
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, October 10 Brig D.P. Singh, deputy director general (recruiting), headquarters recruiting zone (Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir), Jalandhar cantonment, said this while talking to The Tribune on the sidelines of an open recruitment rally organised at Dogra grounds here on Wednesday. He said he had tried the system on a few candidates who had appeared at a recently held rally in Beas and found it to be very successful. “This system will replace a manual impersonation system. We ask the candidates qualifying the first level of the physical fitness test to pen down a paragraph. The idea here is to simply get a specimen of their handwriting so that it can be matched with the one in their written test later. This system leaves some loopholes as the writing style can be often copied or be made invariably the same by a dummy candidate but digital thumb impressions will leave no chance to it”, he opined. “We have already bought the system for the purpose. All we need to do is to set up computer terminals in the ground at various counters including those for physical fitness, physical measurement and document verification and medical fitness, and connect them via networking,” Brigadier Singh said. As many as 3969 candidates had taken tokens for the ongoing rally, the third day of which fell today. While less than 100 candidates from all across the state appeared for the soldier technical duty test, the rest all had applied for soldier general duty recruitment. The physical fitness tests of all the candidates concluded today. “Almost 1000 candidates got eliminated in the physical fitness test during which the candidates had been asked to run 1.6 km in less than 6.1 minutes, do pull-ups on a beam, jump a 9-feet ditch and cross-over a zig-zag beam. Another nearly 500 boys got disqualified in physical measurement test in which their weight, height and chest size was measured,” said Col D.K. Bishnoi, director recruiting. Col Bishnoi said the candidates were yet to go in for a documentation testing in which there were chances of 10 per cent candidates getting eligibility. “Medical fitness tests would go on till October 13 and thereafter the selected candidates will get admit cards for appearing in a written test on October 28”, he added.
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Cracks in houses: Shift families from Mughlan Dhiki, says MLA
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, October 10 MLA Bhandari and DC, Ajeet Singh Pannu, after visiting the area yesterday, demanded that the six families living here must be shifted immediately. Mayor, Rakesh Rathore, also inspected the affected houses today and has ordered bringing the underground water supply pipes to the surface. The houses, which were constructed over heaps of soil and garbage, began developing cracks in their roofs, floors and walls, around a month back. The cracks have now deepened thus increasing the risk to lives of the residents here. “People have expressed doubts that the cracks could be due to some leakage in pipes but it seems to have been due to a weak base,” says mayor Rathore. “These are very old constructions on garbage heaps and are thus bound to collapse one day but we are getting the soil tested to ascertain it. An inquiry into the matter is already on,” added the mayor. “There are cracks in a large number of houses beyond the area and we are exploring the problem from this angle as well,” added Rathore.
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Robbers’ gang busted, 2 arrested
Batala, October 10 Talking to the mediapersons, SSP R.N. Dhoke said, “The modus operandi of the gang was to park their vehicles on the roadside and look out for a suitable target, especially the
eldlerly. Once a target was identified, a gang member would throw some notes from his pocket and would ask the former to check his cash. As the target counted his money, the gang member would offer help in it and take out some notes from the bundle. The balance was returned to the unsuspecting victim. The accused confessed to have indulged in more than 30 such cases, SSP added. |
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Removes former dist chief’s name from FIR in suicide case
Kapurthala, October 10 Denying allegations by some Congressmen that Dhir’s name had been removed from the FIR due to political pressure as he belonged to the ruling SAD-BJP alliance, the SSP Rakesh Agarwal, has said his name had been excluded from the case on the basis of investigations conducted by Kapurthala DSP, Sukhdev Singh Chhina. “The police excluded Dhir’s name as it had found the suicide note a fake one as prima facie the writing and signature on the note did not match with that of the deceased Sukhdev Singh taken from a bank,” the SSP said. The suicide note had been found fake after examination by calligraphist at the Forensic Science Laboratory, Chandigarh. The suicide note and specimen of Sukhdev’s handwriting, including his bank signatures, had been sent to Chandigarh for expert opinion, he added. Doubts still remain as the name of the co-accused, Jamir Khan, was not removed from the FIR. SSP Rakesh Agarwal accepted that his name should also have been excluded from the FIR on the same grounds. “While Dhir had approached the police claiming his innocence immediately after registration of the FIR but Jamir Khan did not contact them even once,” he added. The case had been investigated by three different police officers from time to time. Initially, the investigation had been handed over to SP (HQ) Charanjit Kumar, later his junior, DSP Sukhdev Singh Chhina, was asked to carry on with the investigations. SP (D) Sukhwinder Singh is handling the case now. SSP Agarwal said the investigation was handed over to the DSP after withdrawing the same from SP (HQ) as he was handling many other cases. “Now SP (D) is looking into the case as Jamir Khan had submitted an application claiming his innocence to the IG Jalandhar Zone, Sanjiv Kalra, about a fortnight back,” said the SSP. It may be mentioned that Sukhdev had committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance in an abandoned house on July 12. He left a suicide note naming then BJP district chief, Dhir, and Jamir for forcing him to commit suicide by levelling false charges of theft against him. The note also alleged that he was tortured
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‘Stress taking toll on mental health’
Jalandhar, October 10 President, Dastak, Sandeep Chahal, quoting WHO data says, “Every eighth man in the world suffers from one or the other mental ailment because there is no time to improve his mental health in stressful life conditions and fast lifestyle. He exhorted all doctors and educationists to participate in various stress-busting events organised by it including yoga,
meditation camps and seminars. Dr Damanjot Dhingra from DMC hospital examined patients with eye disorders and distributed medicines free of cost at the free eye check up camp held today. — TNS |
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Newborn girl found dumped near rly line
Jalandhar, October 10 Confirming this, DSP (rural-II) Rajjit Singh said the infant seems to be five-six days old and she had some injury marks on her neck. SHO Tarsem Singh admitted her to a private hospital. He said the girl might be handed over to Nari Niketan. Meanwhile, no case has been registered against anyone so far. |
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2 die as car rams into scooter
Hoshiarpur: Shokin Singh of Manga (Garhdiwala) died on the spot while his wife Surjit Kaur was seriously injured when a speeding Maruti hit their Scooter on Tuesday night. According to the police sources, the incident took place near Badial village. Surjit Kaur was seriously wounded and was shifted to Civil Hospital, Dasuya, where she breathed her last. The driver of the Maruti car, identified as Ali Mohammad Dar of Kokarbagh, was nabbed by the passers-by and later handed over to
the police. — OC Scribe bereaved
Phagwara: Veteran freedom fighter, former tehsildar and father-in-law of journalist, Prof JS Gandham, Prem Singh Gill, breathed his last after a brief illness at the age of 87 in Jalandhar. The cremation will take place on October 12 at 12 noon at the Krishanpura cremation ground. — OC |
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