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Building Bye-laws
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Campaigning intensified for rail bodies poll
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Standardising Hindi teaching in USA
3 Ludhiana-based hawala racketeers held
Training programme on hydrocarbon engineering
ANM suspended for conducting ‘abortion’
Panch suspended for cheating pensioners
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Violators to face music, says Kalia
Our Correspondent
Phagwara, November 21 Construction of more than five dozen buildings is going on in the absence of formal sanction of building plans, residents allege. Preventive measures are allegedly not being set up to prevent any untoward incident like the Uphaar tragedy, residents allege. Service lanes along with the national highways, commercial markets in Hargobind Nagar, Babbar Akali Market and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar are being misused for these illegal constructions by openly violating the byelaws of the department.
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First ‘snow flake’ baby born in holy city
Sanjay Bumbroo Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 21 Dr S.S. Chawla, director, Satjot Reproduction and Research Centre, in a press note said here today that this was the first of its kind in the region and there were two more similar ongoing pregnancies. He explained that in the procedure sophisticated technique of controlled-rate freezing (using special cryologic machine) was utilised that slowly cools the surplus embryos in anti-freeze solution from body temperature down to -196 degrees celsius at which they were stored in containers of liquid nitrogen. They were brought back to body temperature just before use, he added. Dr Chawla said the frozen embryos look like flakes of snow and nearly every fourth woman has surplus embryos during test tube baby procedure. He said though the success rates employing these were slightly lower than those with the fresh embryos but it had several advantages. The doctor further said it dramatically reduces the cost of test tube baby procedure for future attempts, enables the improved cumulative success rate, lowers the rates of multiple pregnancies and helps prevent ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome.
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Campaigning intensified for rail bodies poll
Jalandhar, November 21 There are four unions - Uttariya Railways Mazdoor Union (URMU), Northern Railway Men’s Union (NRMU), Railway Mazdoor Union (RMU) and Uttar Railway Karamchari Union (URKU)- in fray for the upcoming poll. According to the policy, the union or unions securing more than 35 per cent votes would be recognised by the railway board. The voting has been scheduled for November 26, 27 and 28.During the polls, around 5,000 class III and IV employees from main, engineering and accounts branches posted at Jalandhar city and cantonment railway stations would exercise their right to franchise. Executive engineer Ramesh Thapar has been appointed as the polling officer. Speaking on a meeting, URMU’s Jalandhar line branch unit president Gulzar Singh claimed that the railway employees were giving good response to the union’s policies and programmes. Alleging the rival unions for ignoring rail employees’ welfare, he said URMU has always fought for worker’s interest. Praising the union’s zonal leaders he said it is due to the hard work done by zonal general secretary B.C. Sharma and president Parveen Kumar that union had emerged stronger than ever in the region. ‘ The elections going to be held this month would prove that only URMU represents the railway workers, he added. Meanwhile talking to The Tribune, the branch president of NRMU bridge workshop, Jalandhar cantonment, Manjeet Singh said, “Nirmal Singh and Bhupinder Singh were expelled four years ago from NRMU as they were involved in anti-union activities.”
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Standardising Hindi teaching in USA
Chandigarh, November 21 Heading the project is Susham Bedi, a Punjab-born professor and founder head of the department of Hindi at Columbia University, now heading the US committee for standardising Hindi. A leading South Asian author, academician and actor, Susham has published eight novels and has, during her teaching tenure of 22 years, developed authentic Hindi reading and listening comprehension materials for students. In Chandigarh today on the invitation of the Readers and Writers Society of India, she spoke to The Tribune about the project, which the American Council on Teaching for Foreign Languages is supporting. “It’s a big project for us -- one that will ensure a unified Hindi teaching material for institutions across the USA. Right now there is complete lack of coherence and the learners of Hindi are a confused lot. We will standardise teaching texts and tools so that there is conformity,” says Susham, who has borrowed from the NCERT the text of Hindi syllabi developed by it. “We are looking at all kinds of available texts. Eventually, they will be modified to suit the needs of our students. We have to use functional Hindi considering our students are not growing up in a “Hindi” atmosphere,” says the author, famous for writings about the Indian diaspora settled in the USA. |
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3 Ludhiana-based hawala racketeers held
Jalandhar, November 21 Stating this in a press-note issued here today, SSP Arpit Shukla said Goraya SHO Kailash Chander apprehended Charanjit Singh, Ram Sarup of Lohara village and Gurpreet Singh of Basant Nagar locality. During preliminary interrogation, the accused have confessed to their involvement in the racket. They said, they were in the racket for about seven months and used to deliver about Rs 10 lakh daily in different areas. The press note further stated that their gang leader, Avtar Singh of Phagwara, is still absconding. The police has seized a Tata Indica car from the culprits. The police has informed the enforcement department about the arrest of hawala racketeers.
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Training programme on hydrocarbon engineering
Jalandhar, November 21 Nearly 40 participants from various prestigious institutions will take part in the programme, which is being sponsored by the Hydrocarbon Engineering Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Government of India. Students from the Aligarh Muslim University, Guru Gobind Indraprashtha University, New Delhi, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, Deenbandhu University of Science and Technology, Murthal, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Beant College of Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, IITT College of Engineering, Pojewal and SJP Mukund Lal Institute of Engineering, Radaur will attend the event. — TNS
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ANM suspended for conducting ‘abortion’
Amritsar, November 21 Confirming the incident, civil surgeon Dr Lehmber Singh said the accused ANM, Gulshan Sharma, was conducting the MTP on a four-month pregnant lady Paramjit Kaur in her own house. He said the woman had already got two daughters and after coming to know that she was going to deliver a girl child asked Gulshan for conducting the MTP. The civil surgeon said the department immediately suspended Gulshan Sharma and reported the matter to the police. |
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Panch suspended for cheating pensioners
Phagwara, November 21 In the suspension orders issued under section 20(4) act of 1994 on November 20, the director has instructed the local officials to prevent the culprit to take part in any of the activities of the village panchayat. |
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Link road inaugurated
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At a time when Hindi is struggling for identity at home, the USA is all set to standardise the teaching of India’s national language in its academic institutions. The purpose is to streamline the instruction of this important South Asian language, which has seen a surge in the numbers of learners in the recent past.
