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HRAP against luxury tax
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Haryana drubs MP 7-1 in opener
Staffers’ dharna
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6 accidents in a day leave as many dead, 23 hurt
Jalandhar, December 8
Following the accident, the villagers caught hold of the driver, kept the body in the middle of the road and blocked traffic. They also caused damaged to the truck. Senior police and civil officers, including SDM Bhupinder Singh, DSP Rajjit Singh and Lambra SHO Harpreet Singh, reached the spot and tried to persuade the agitators to lift the blockade but the latter did not relent. They demanded compensation for the family of the deceased. The villagers also asked the officers to fix speed limit for vehicles plying on Jalandhar-Nakodar road so that the alarming increase in the number of mishaps could be reduced. Some of the villagers told The Tribune that Rano’s husband had died a few years ago and she was working as domestic help to make both ends meet. She is survived by three kids. Police and civil officers announced that district administration would pay a compensation of Rs 30,000 to Rano’s family. They also promised to do the needful to ensure government job for deceased’s elder daughter. In another incident, Sohan Singh of Khambra village lost his life after his car fell into a pond in the wee hours of Saturday. Thick fog is said to be the reason behind the mishap. Meanwhile, nearly 15 persons were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on Jalandhar- Pathankot road early morning today. The incident took place when a Jalandhar-bound private bus rammed into a truck near Rasulpur village. The truck driver applied sudden brakes, as a result the bus which was coming behind rammed into it. The injured were admitted to different hospitals. The truck driver managed to flee from the spot. Separate FIRs have been registered at concerned Lambra and Maqsoodan police stations. Meanwhile, as many as four persons were killed and around a dozen were injured in three separate accidents on Nawanshahr-Jalandhar Road on Saturday. Two persons were killed when a Tata Qualis collided head on with a tractor-trolley near Khatkar Kalan village. The deceased have been identified as Manjit Kaur (40) and Jaspal (28) driver of the vehicle. Both were residents of Ghanauli (district Ropar). Those injured have been identified as Harbans Lal, Neelam, Tripti, Lachhman Dass, Banarsi Dass, Mohit Kumar, Randeep Kaur and Nikhil Kumar. In the second incident, Gurmit Singh of Mohali was killed on the spot when his Maruti car was involved in a triangular collision with a Tata Qualis and a tractor trailer near SN College, Banga. A vegetable vendor, Jagir Singh, succumbed to his injuries sustained after his moped rammed into a road roller near Malla Sodhian village.
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HRAP against luxury tax
Jalandhar, December 8 In a representation to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, HRAP chief patron Paramjeet Singh Budhiraja and general secretary Amarvir Singh said here today that the hotel industry in Punjab had been passing through a phase of recession for the past many years. On the one hand, the government was trying to promote tourism and, on the other, new taxes were being planned. If the luxury tax was levied, the hotel industry would reach on the verge of closure, they said. The hotels in Punjab were paying a tax on food items at 12.5 per cent, whereas it was 4 per cent in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The industry was being charged the commercial rate of electricity instead of industrial rate, the HRAP leaders said. They told Badal that Haryana and Delhi had imposed luxury tax on those hotels where the room rent is Rs 2,000 or more. They urged Badal not to further burden the hotel industry with fresh tax.
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350 posts in polytechnics to be filled
Jalandhar, December 8 Minister for technical education and industrial training Chaudhary Swarna Ram said this while interacting with mediapersons at Government Model Co-Educational Senior Secondary School, Ladowali Road, here today. He was invited for the prize distribution function of the school. He said various old courses that had been closed in the recent past would be restarted. “But we will conduct them only in the areas where there is a demand for skilled persons in those trades,” he said. The minister announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the school. He said Rs 1 lakh was being given to all those schools which were being upgraded for better teaching of the science, mathematics and English subjects. Three schools in each constituency were being upgraded under the scheme, he said.
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DGP admits shortage of IPS officers in state
Jalandhar, December 8 Aulakh refused to comment on the issue of installation of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s portrait in the museum in Harmander Sahib. At the same time, he said all measures would be taken to maintain law and order in view of the Punjab bandh call given by some Hindu organisations on Friday. The DGP further said that the new police Act would be implemented soon in the state. The Punjab Cabinet had already given its approval to the new Act and it would be implemented soon with the recommendation of the fixed tenure for the posts of the crucial officers like DGP, SSPs and SHOs. Answering a question, he said vital clues were collected in connection with the Ludhiana bomb blast during investigation. — TNS
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Haryana drubs MP 7-1 in opener
Jalandhar, December 8 In other matches on the first day, Karnataka defeated Andhra Pradesh (6-1), Jammu and Kashmir beat Chandigarh (10-0) and Maharashtra outplayed Tripura (8-0). Earlier, Punjab DGP N.P.S. Aulakh inaugurated the championship, where the Punjab police band and bhangra teams impressed the audience with their performances. As many as 22 teams consisting of 500 players of the national and international repute, including Gaganajit Singh, Jugraj Singh, Tejbir Singh, Kanwalpreet Singh and Daljit Singh Dhillon, are participating in the championship. For the first time, the Punjab police has introduced prizes for the best field goal scorer, best forward, best penalty corner converter, best defender (full back), best half back and best goal keeper.
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Punjab DGP N.P.S. Aulakh today admitted that there was a shortage of Indian Police Services (IPS) officers in the state. In an informal chat with mediapersons on the sidelines of the inaugural function of the 56th all-India police hockey here, he said there were several vacant posts of the IPS cadre but could not be filled as the case pertaining to the promotions of the Punjab Police Service (PPS) cadre to IPS was still pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
