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New courts complex is not more than foundation stone
Kapurthala, May 27 President of the Kapurthala District Bar Association (DBA) Raghbirpal Singh Bajwa demanded that the
construction work should start immediately. Bajwa said Chief Justice Vijender Jain had announced on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone in April that Rs 30 crore had already been released for the construction of the building. Tenders would be invited and thus the construction work would commence soon. Expressing apprehension that the funds released for the construction of the courts’ complex might be diverted to some other projects as leaders of Kapurthala city were not in favour of shifting of courts from its present place in the city to Nurpur Dona, DBA president said the construction work should be started immediately and completed within the stipulated time of 18 months. It may be recalled that city leaders under the aegis of the Kapurthala Bachao Action Committee had observed strike on March 27 and April 4 in the city against the shifting of the courts’ complex to Nurpur Dona
village, over 6 km away from the existing place in the city. Convener of the committee Jaswinder Singh Batra, also chief of the city unit of the SAD, was of the view that if the courts’ complex was shifted, it would ruin the business of many shopkeepers of the city. Interestingly, at that time the DBA was also against the proposal of the shifting of the courts’ complex from the present building, which is over a century old. When asked, Bajwa said the DBA was against the shifting of the complex as there was proposal to provide way to the new complex from inside the PUDA colony. Now it was decided that the way to the complex would be provided from the Kartarpur and Jalandhar roads, so the DBA wanted that the construction work should start immediately so that 200 odd advocates should start their work at the new complex at the earliest.
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Revealed: Royal Rajasthan’s kitchen secrets
Kusum Arora Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 27 Ever since the outlet was launched two months back in the city, people have been visiting this place for its variety food right from thali, tawa and tandoor se, chaat, Indian food, special eco meal, dhoklas, Chinese and continental and a variety of sweets and Bikaneri Bhujia. Manager Ajay Singh says, “What gives this place an edge is the fact that we have ample space both at the restaurant as well as the shop. Apart from this, people visit this place specially to buy packed ‘Bikanervala’ sweets as well. And perhaps this is the only place where people can get 35 different types of ‘Bikaneri’ bhujia which is famous worldwide.” “Bikanervala” has as many as 14 outlets in Delhi, four in Kathmandu (Nepal), two in New Zealand and Dubai. “We also export packed sweets to Canada and New Zealand. Rajasthani ‘son papadi’ and ‘rasgulla’ are a big hit among the NRIs,” he added.
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Amateur numismatist flaunts his enticing coin collection
Jalandhar, May 27 He has been collecting these coins for 18 years now. His kitty contains coins from diverse regions and eras. About 30 per cent of the collection is foreign currency. “I have coins from the times dating back to the era of Babur (the founder of Mughal dynasty, 1526 AD), apart from a good collection of foreign currencies. Besides, I have a lot of Indian coins from various eras as well. My collection would be of minimum 650 coins,” Singh added. Singh's fetish for coin collection has been rising. It compels him to travel far and wide to embellish his collection with new varieties. In one instance, Singh travelled to Nepal to collect a rare coin. However, his prolific pursuit had attracted the resentment of his family initially, but now they are proud of his pursuit. “After marriage, I sat in a ritual during Divali, I saw varied varieties of coins with him. They were pretty old. But then his passion further intensified. And as per woman’s nature of saving money, I resented it many times. But later I had to cooperate with him, considering his interest,” said Inderjit Kaur, Singh’s wife. Singh claims to have coins from Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the USA, Australia, Italy, Germany, France, Arab countries and India. — ANI
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Moral crisis facing youth
Everything is fair in love and war. This saying these days is being misused by urban youth. This is no way chewing lifestyle of the West. Indian youth are playing wrong cards by bluffing, befooling themselves.
Today’s lover wears a mask of knight and playboy. He believes in reflecting power by seducing his dream girl not only physically but also emotionally and sentimentally. Blind faith echoes that fire can’t burn it, air can’t dry it and rain can’t wet their love, but jilted lovers are capable enough to drown the ship of life. It exactly turns the other partner into “yellow cat”. Its true one expects one thing and gets exact the opposite. Right things never occur at the right time. In the youth the letter of wisdom has slipped beneath the carpet of one’s mind and the resultant depression given by the lover acts as a nail that holds the box of girl’s life in the form of blackmailing. In order to put things on the right path, one is compelled to throw the pebbles of one’s “self-desire”, happiness away. Its hard to kick knights of today but it’s need of an hour; God knows everyday how many girls become victims of lust, infatuation. Dreams of girls are crushed with pseudo-promises of marriage. Wearing modern looks is not enough, girls have to be alert and respect their virginity. It’s really strange to judge the level of sincerity in both sexes. Extra-marital relations is an additional flavour which keeps one gay. How so beautiful one’s wife may be, gentlemen prefer to gaze out of windowpanes towards other paramour. Life has turned so chaotic that if one moves out on weekends at public places, one watches couples gazing in opposite directions, totally dumb, nothing to share, laugh and interact, and poor kids become sandwich between the two. Today to call silence as “golden” is destructive. In spite of living double-standard life, Indians should opt for a free society. A majority of babies are delivered without wedlock or aborted at large scale. Physical hunger has touched the heights of shame in both sexes. Both sexes are dissatisfied souls. Women are one step ahead of men for social, moral crises. We have to drop or revive the compulsory institution of marriage and accept openly the system of free society as it is reduced to mere mirage. To be called true western, one has to adopt western thoughts, legal, social, economic, cultural, originality and loyalty and keep sex in bed instead of placing sex in mind. Indian youth and adults have to be ventilative psychologically, philosophically and realistically.
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Sports industry must reap benefits of advanced materials: Experts
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 27 Dr Inderdeep delivered a talk on “Composite materials and their application for sports industry”. He explained the composite materials and different ways by which the local sports industry could develop technology for producing hockey sticks and racquets. Dr Sharma spoke on “Microwave processing of materials” and explained how microwave energy could be used for communication, food processing, wood drying, rubber vulcanisation and welding. NIT director Prof Moin Uddin said discussions were also held on a joint venture between the institute and the IIT, Roorkee, for developing hockey sticks and racquets made of composites. Farewell party A farewell party was organised by students of the St Soldier College of Education for their seniors. The students and staff played fun games. A prize distribution programme was also conducted in which 100 students were awarded for their achievements. Rachan and Maninderpal Singh were declared Miss Well Dressed and Mr Well Dressed, whereas Amita got the title of Miss Charming. Gurjant Singh was adjudged Mr Personality, while Priya and Samir were declared Miss BEd and
Mr BEd. MSc physics students of Lovely Professional University bid farewell to their seniors by organising “Rukhsat-2008”. The pick of the day was giddha where the juniors enthralled the gathering with their rhythmic dance steps and folk songs. Jagdeep and Ceisly Neha were declared Mr Farewell and Ms Farewell, whereas Amrinder and Shaweta were accorded the first
runners-up award in male and female categories, respectively. Summer camp A 10-day summer camp is being organised at Police DAV Public School for its pre-primary wing. Each day has been given a different theme and the students have been asked to dress up according to
the idea. The themes include cap day, toy day, traditional day, ball day, balloon day, goggles day, flower day, mask day, party day and kite flying. Besides, tiny tots are being imparted various craft and dance skills during the camp. Job fest The CT Group of Institutions in association with the University of Kashmir would be organising a
job fest at Srinagar on June 2 and 3. The fest aims at providing opportunities to the Jammu and Kashmir students who are seeking jobs in the corporate world. Group chairman Charanjit Singh Channi said more than 15 companies, including big brands in the sectors of insurance, financial, banking and information technology, would be participating in the fest. Web
master MGN Public School student Mohak Kataria launched his own website
www.mohak.co.nr. The website has a long comic book for comic lovers and a chat room for chat maniacs. Besides, free downloads for games, software and movies were also available on the site. Literary
week Eklavya School celebrated literary week that concluded on Friday. The event aimed at developing
appreciation of language, understanding of literature and introduction of students to some eminent books and authors. Different activities like recitation and enactment of stories were held during the week. A quiz was
also conducted on various books, authors and literature. The events on the final day included English skits based on proverbs, Punjabi play depicting moral values, conversation in Sanskrit and a dance
performance based on “Shiv sutra”.
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Vajra medicos hold fashion show, dance party
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 27 Kids performed on “Masti ki pathshala” and teenagers invited the audience on the floor by their presentations on “Aaja nachle” and “Let’s rock.” Catwalks had a sequence of crazy and cool casuals, Western outfits and traditional ethnic Indian dresses. The auditorium was packed with medical fraternity, senior serving, retired officials and civil dignitaries. Lieut-Gen S.S. Kumar, GOC, was the chief guest. Brig Patil gets farewell The district sainik welfare office today organised a farewell party for Brig B.B. Patil, 91 sub area commander, and a welcome treat for the incumbent Brig P.M.
Hariz. A high tea was organised, which was presided over by deputy commissioner and president of the sainik board Ajeet Singh Pannu. Vice-president Brig K.S. Dhillon and district sainik welfare officer Lieut-Col Manmohan Singh lauded the efforts of Brig Patil.
Board members meet commander The newly elected members of the local cantonment board met station commander Brig B.B. Patil last week. The station commander welcomed them and asked them to work together to make the cantonment a better place for healthy living.
Unit celebrates diamond jubilee The 11th Battalion of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry celebrated its diamond jubilee recently somewhere in
the western sector. One of the oldest unit of the regiment, it was raised 60 years ago by Brig (then Lieut-Col) Kapil Dev Pachnanda on May 17, 1948, at the majestic Moti Mahal, Poonch, by assorting the sub-units of the erstwhile Poonch Scouts. The warriors from the unit brought home great laurels and have been conferred with a number of gallantry and distinguished service awards. The grand celebrations on the occasion of the diamond jubilee was a kaleidoscope of festivities that lasted three days. The celebration included a dazzling fete, a special sainik sammelan, joyous barakhana and eventful mess function. The occasion was made special and momentous by a huge gathering of veer
naris, former commanding officers, retired and serving officers, junior commissioned officers and ex-servicemen.
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RCF may get DMU order from Kenya
Kapurthala, May 27 A high-level delegation from the Kenyan railways visited Rail Coach Factory (RCF) here today to view the infrastructural facilities available at the factory. According to sources, the visit was aimed at purchase of meter-gauge diesel electric multiple units from India. The delegation, which was headed by KRC managing director Joseph William Nduva Muli, included KRC board members Jacob Karissa, R. Amadi and general manager J.I. Onyango. They were apprised of the modern machinery available at the RCF through a film describing processes followed for manufacturing coaches. The delegation was taken on a round to various units and were shown processes like stainless steel welding, robotic spot welding and laser cutting. Addressing the officials, Nduva Muli said the Kenyan citizens were facing hardship while travelling through commuter services in Nairobi. He said the Kenyan railways was interested to buy diesel electric multiple units from India. It would provide better transportation facility and curtail the journey time, he added. RCF chief mechanical engineer Charanjit Singh said the RCF was one of the most modernised production units of the Indian Railways and had manufactured 20,000 coaches since its inception.
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Ordinance protecting docs: PCMSA hails govt proposal
Jalandhar, May 27 Randhawa expressed dismay over the “callous attitude” of the previous state government towards poor patients and medical fraternity. He alleged that the ill-conceived policy of privatisation of medicare by the Congress had ruined the health services in Punjab.
— TNS
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Dhan Mohalla woman ends life
Jalandhar, May 27 The cause behind the deceased taking the extreme step was yet to be established, the police said, adding that
a case was registered and the body was sent for a post-mortem examination.
— PTI
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100 sacks of bio-fertiliser seized
Jalandhar, May 27 He added that the bio-fertiliser was being sent to Jalandhar from a Gujarat-based company which was allowed to sell the fertiliser till 2005. However, the sale continued even after that. A case under section 420 of IPC has been registered against him.
— TNS
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Senior scientist praises electric
engineer’s work
Kapurthala, May 27 The electric engineer, Joginder Singh Kohli, stated that he had exhibited his innovation “shockless converter” at a stall on that day in the PGSC. Gowarikar, along with other engineers, visited his stall, asked him several questions and appreciated his work. Kohli said the electricity after passing through his device was converted into shockless power but did not lose its working properties.
— TNS
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Hockey trials on May 29, 30
Jalandhar, May 27 In a press release issued today, zonal manager Gurdip Singh stated that interested candidates should register themselves with their bio-data and bring merit certificates along with two copies of recent passport-size photograph at the time of trials. The selection would begin at 7. The selected players under the junior age group would get a scholarship between Rs 1,200 and Rs 1,500, while the sub-juniors would get free boarding, he added.
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New SAGES member
Jalandhar: City surgeon Gurvinder Singh Jammu has been elected member of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). Jammu had received a letter in this context from society president Dr Steve Eubanks.
— TNS
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Rain and roads
Rains have started in Jalandhar very early this year. The rains give relief to the people from heat but, on the other hand, bring problems also. Now the question arises how rains create a problem? Well, because of rains, roads are damaged badly and the municipal corporation comes up with an excuse that this time rains have come early and the MC did not get enough time for repairing the roads before the setting up of the rains. But the MC does not realise that the damaged roads lead to accidents which result in death or injuries to the road users. Nitin Gupta, LPU, Jalandhar Readers, write in
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