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GMADA officials visit Sunny Enclave
Kharar, August 8 Sunny Enclave Residents Welfare Association today distributed pamphlets in the area calling upon people to refrain from paying Rs 250 as charges of these facilities. “These charges have been arbitrarily increased without taking people into confidence. No one will pay the bills unless the matter is sorted out in a meeting with Bajwa Developers,” said the association president Inderjit Singh Dhindsa and chief advisor Charanjit Singh Saini. Association has convened a general body meeting on Sunday wherein issues of voltage fluctuation, irregular water supply, inefficient rainwater pipe, potholed roads, non-functional streetlights, lack of boundary wall of the enclave and other issues will be taken up. It has called upon all area residents to participate in the meeting. Meanwhile, officials from the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) visited the colony today. Assistant engineers Davinder Kumar and Harminder Singh took a round of the area and talked to area residents pertaining to their problems. Residents of kanal kothis pointed out the sewage water treatment plant under construction in the Sunny Park of the colony. They told the officials that the developer had promised them houses facing park, whereas a sewage water treatment plant is coming up right opposite their houses, which will emanate foul smell. They also pointed out the cases of encroachments wherein houses are built in the park premises. Area residents also gave their memorandum of demands, which they had earlier given to the Bajwa Developers. When contacted ACA, GMADA, Balwinder Singh Multani asserted that area residents’ complaints will be given a patient hearing and action will be taken accordingly. |
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Cong workers welcome Amarinder
Rajpura, August 8 He was on his way from Delhi to Patiala where Congress workers from all over Punjab and MLAs were present to welcome him. The Congress workers from Punjab, including local leader Hardyal Kamboj, claimed that nearly 25 sitting MLAs were present during the occasion. Kamboj said the former CM had urged party workers to be ready for rigorous campaign for the coming MP elections. |
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Seechewal exhorts people to plant more trees
Patiala, August 8 Addressing a gathering here after planting a sapling at a housing complex on the Patiala-Sirhind road, Baba Seechewal said a safe and healthy environment was the need of the hour and for this massive public participation was necessary. Baba Seechewal said there were stringent laws to check felling of trees and there was a need to strictly enforce these laws to ensure that there was no denudation of the forest cover. He said if one tree was chopped there was a need to plant at least four more to avoid ecological imbalance. Divisional forest officer Karamjit Singh Jatana spelt out the details of future plans of the forest department. He said during the coming two years, nine lakh trees would be planted in 59 villages of Patiala district under a central scheme. Jatana said under the national bamboo mission, 30,000 bamboo saplings would be planted, which was likely to give a boost to the green cover. He said during the current year, 90,000 saplings would be distributed among members of public free of cost, while 1.20 lakh saplings would be made available at subsidised rates. President of the NRI Wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal Surjit Singh Rakhra along with deputy commissioner Dharamjit Singh Grewal felicitated Baba Seechwal for his endeavour towards saving environment. |
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Review rationalisation in govt colleges: Assn
Patiala, August 8 Due to this rationalisation of posts of some important subjects, particularly in science subjects, have been made surplus. Dr Hardeep Singh
Teja, general secretary of the teachers association, said most of the colleges in Punjab started add-on and self-finance courses with the permission of DPI (colleges) and the universities concerned, but the workload of these courses had not been included in the workload of
regular government college teachers. Dr Teja said poor students took admission in government colleges who were not in a position to pay heavy dues in private colleges. So the higher education department should include the workload of these self-finance courses in the regular college teachers’ workload in the coming session and give some more posts in government colleges of Punjab according to
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Rain floods roads in Ambala
Ambala, August 8 Ambala City was the worst effected. Though the municipal council had claimed that the main drainages have been cleaned so that the rainwater could flow out at the earliest, various areas like Nadi Mohalla, Model Town, Jagadhri Gate, Shulalkund Road, Prem Nagar, Nahan House and Railway Road were waterlogged. Several roads of Sector 9, Ambala City, were filled with knee-deep water. Some of the residents of this sector complained that the rainwater, mixed with the sewerage water, entered their houses. The downpour also affected many areas of Lalru. Water entered many industries based there causing a panic like situation for many. Vivek Datta, deputy general manager, JCBL Limited, said, “We had up to three to four feet water and this has happened after three-four years. We had to spend all day taking the water out. Any damage would be ascertained later.” Many people working in Chandigarh and travelling from Ambala were caught in the downpour and reported poor visibility. |
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300 quintals of spices sealed
Patiala, August 8 The spices were being prepared in unhygienic conditions and there were insects all around, informed Dr Grewal. He said even the chimneys were very humid and full of dirt. Stuff like “multani mitti” was found in abundance that is often mixed with the spices to make the packets heavy. As many as 14 samples of different spices were taken and sent to a laboratory for proper inspection. The spices have been sealed in the godown for now. |
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Lalli, Cheema group reach compromise
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Pathana, August 8 The conflict between the two groups had led to many unsavoury situations in the town leading to clashes followed by filing of criminal cases against the leaders and workers of both groups. The thaw was reached between the groups following intervention of the party high command. Cheema and Lalli told The Tribune that there were some misunderstandings between both the groups and these have been cleared amicably. They said as per the advice of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, they had reached a compromise and decided to withdraw the criminal cases against each other. They further said that the matter regarding the election of the office bearers of Bassi Pathana municipal council would be discussed with party president Sukhbir Singh Badal and they would abide by his decision. |
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22-year-old commits suicide
Rajpura, August 8 The victim was the only son of his parents who was to leave for abroad on August 12. A case in this connection has been registered at Banur police station. The police is investigating the matter.
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Minister opens bridge
Dera Bassi, August 8 The minister said the roads would be constructed in all villages of the area.
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Indian shooters already ‘hot favourite’
Chandigarh, August 8 Though India is participating in archery, athletics, badminton, rowing, tennis and wrestling but it is the shooting contingent on which high hopes are resting. The Indian shooters - Abinav Bindra, Manavjit, Samresh Jung, Anjali Bhagwat and Rajyavardhan Rathore - are also leaving no stone unturned to live upto their expectations. Dr Amit Bhatacharya, working with neuro and physiotherapy wing at PGI, here and accompanying the shooting contingent shared his observation with this correspondent on phone from Beijing. “We are working very hard because shooting is one such sport which has bright chances of putting our National flag at the top. Our team is in high spirits,” he said. Dr Bhatacharya, mental trainer of world shooting champ Abhinav Bindra, talked about the rigorous training and excursive schedule Abhinav is going through. “I am concentrating more on char aero training and adrenal massage mental therapy. This is basically a glands message exercise which tones the hormonal cycle and maintains the stamina. Keep fingers crossed, we would not return home empty handed,” said confident Dr Bhattacharya. According to him, the one thing amazing in Beijing was the 'special' traffic being regulated by school and college children only. “Being here is like living a dream. There is a special reserved lane known as Olympic lane where only the taxis, vans or buses of Olympics participants are allowed to roll. We are being provided with accreditation cards to travel in this 'special lane' which is surprisingly being regulated by around 40,000 second level school and college going children.” The reason of this arrangement was that these children understand many languages. “Since language is the biggest problem here, the school children who have English as their elective subject have been engaged to help the guests,” he added. Another problem the Indians are facing over there is the rare availability of Indian food. There are very few Indians in Beijing and they are into business, software engineering and medicine. “The Indian food here is a rare thing which we are all missing miserably. Let alone vegetarian food, the food with Indian flavour itself is one thing we are longing for.” The guests have also been provided with special toll free taxi numbers and to meet the language barrier, special interpreters have been engaged at the offices of taxi service providers. “The service provider would make the driver understand the destination we want to go. That's how, yesterday we went to an Indian restaurant which was quite far from the Olympic village,” he said. About the craze for shooting, Dr Bhatacharya told that all tickets had been sold from August 9 to 16. |
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Johl climbs to 18th slot in Asian Tour event
Chandigarh, August 8 Amandeep fired a one-under par 70 card for a three-day tally of one under 212. Gaurav Ghei returned a two under par 69. Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee leads at the moment at 14 under. Jaidee shot 70 and 63 in the first two rounds and was five under after 14 holes of the third round when play was suspended due to bad light on Friday. Amandeep Johl (69, 73, 70) began with consecutive bogeys on the first and second and then fought back with hat-trick of birdies on the fifth, sixth and seventh to make the turn at one under. His back nine was then highlighted by birdies on the 13th and 18th and bogeys on the 12th and 16th. Himmat Singh Rai played a par 71after his splendid five under par 66 in the second round (77, 66, 71) to climb to 30th slot from yesterday's 42nd spot. Harmeet Kahlon was caught in the fading light when play was suspended with a four over par score after 15 holes in the third round. His earlier round scores were 71 and 73. Earlier in the day seven Indians missed the cut at the end of round two. The cut was made at three over 145. The Indians who missed the cut were Anirban Lahiri (74, 72), Gaganjeet Bhullar (73, 76), Gurbaaz Mann (76, 75), Rahil Gangjee (77, 74), Digvijay Singh (75, 78) Ranjit Singh from Chandigarh (72, 84) and Kolkata's Ranjit Singh (80, 77). Digvijay Singh, who missed the cut after the second round, fired his seventh career hole-in-one in the opening round on Thursday. The Indian golfer was pleased with the result at the par three eighth hole as he was presented with a cheque of US$1,000 for shooting the tournament's first ace at the Seri Selangor Golf Club. |
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WAC are hockey champions
Chandigarh, August 8 Today the team lifted the top honours, beating Central Air Command (CAC) by 2-0 in the finals of Air Force Hockey Championship, which culminated at hockey stadium, Sector 42 here today. All credits of the win go to Kiskota, who scored both the goals for the winners. The South Western Air Command won the third spot by beating Training Command (TC) by 3-1 while in the classification match between the Maintenance Command and Eastern Air Command, the former got the better of the latter by 2-1. On the basis of performance in the championship the Air Force also picked its team which includes Naveen Kumar, Samer Kumar, Arun Kumar, Cpl Sharma, Shyam Sunder, Ramranjan, Anil Joshi, M. Singh, Siqueria and Minhas. The chief guest air commander SRK Nair, AOC 12 Wing Air Force gave away the medals and certificates to the players of winning and runners up teams. Siqueria was adjudged the best player of the
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Jeev overcomes pain to share lead in US major
Chandigarh, August 8 Both started badly with bogeys on the first hole. But they recovered superbly for their two-under performance. Andres Romero joined them on that mark. But the Argentinian still has two holes to complete after the play was suspended because of inclement weather. Ranked 66th in the world, Jeev fired an eagle at the second to go one under. He then birdied the fifth to move into contention. Bogeys on the seventh and 10th momentarily took away the momentum. But Jeev sank birdies on the 15th and 17th to finish with a flourish. Jeev has been suffering from ankle pain ever since he suffered an injury just before the Open de France ALSTOM, about eight weeks back. After suffering the injury, Jeev won both the Bank Austria Golf Open on the European Tour and the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup. But he admitted he was in Detroit playing against doctor's orders after undergoing an MRI scan three weeks ago. Jeev said, “I've been wearing a brace for the last four weeks. I've been getting a lot of physio done and it gets better, but you hit one of those shots out of the rough and I'm back to square one. The doctor said I need four weeks off and the caution I put up to him was, 'Well, does two weeks help?' And he said 'no'. He said there's a lot of fluid and that means a lot of inflammation in there.” “Then I decided if I'm going to play the US PGA Championship I'm going to push myself through this week and next week and after that I'm surely taking two weeks off, maybe I'm going to extend it to four.” “So it depends how the ankle holds up. It feels fine, but the more drivers I hit, I feel it just kind of comes back. And you do need to hit a lot of drivers on this golf course.” “I think the most important thing is to stay patient. Your patience is going to be tested because of the pin positions, you're going to get some bad breaks, you're going to hit some shots in the rough, and sometimes you can't get it out, sometimes you can. You've got to, if you hit a bad shot, you've got to take your medicine,” said Jeev after his first round. Jyoti Randhawa, the other Indian in the field, was six over after having completed only 15 holes on Thursday. Randhawa is currently placed tied 92nd. His first round included birdies on the fourth, 11th, bogeys on the seventh, eighth and double bogeys on the first, sixth and ninth. Sweden's Daniel Chopra is tied 62nd at four over 74. Chopra birdied the second and 17th and bogeyed the first, eighth, 10th, 14th, 15th and 16th. Sergio Garcia, who finished 2nd at this event on his debut in 1999, is also in the hunt having carded a one under par 69. The Spaniard started on the 10th and was soon in his stride with a birdie at the 13th hole. |
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Team selected for cricket tournament
Chandigarh, August 8 Nirpakash Singh will accompany the team as coach-cum-manager. The selected members of the team are: Avinash (captain, Panchkula), Sumit Vana (Chandimandir), Pankaj Kumar (Chandimandir), Akshay Sharma (Ambala), Amit Kumar (Kaithal), Paras Dhiman (Pinjore), Rohit Garg (Kalka), Pranshu (Kaithal), Mandeep, Ankush, Naman Kumar, Mehak Bedi, Jasdeep and Lalit (Panchkula), Inderpreet and Aditya Ranga (Chandigarh). |
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Seminar for aspiring umpires
Mohali, August 8 In the seminar, 20 candidates from all the north-zone state associations, including DDCA, HPCA and Haryana Cricket Association, took part. S.K. Bansal has been appointed as senior umpire educator while Jasbir Singh has been assisting him as deputy. The seminar culminates on Aug 10. |
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St Stephen’s carrom tourney begins
Chandigarh, August 8 In the championship, a total of six events including men's singles, women's singles, boys' single junior, girls' single junior, boy's single sub-junior and girls' single sub-junior shall be organised. The tournament, in which around 250 players are expected to participate, commences tomorrow at 9 am. |
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Rain hinders hockey tourney
Chandigarh, August 8 Both matches - Rock Rovers vs SPS, Sector 41 and Wanderes vs Annes Hockey Academy - scheduled for the day were stopped due to continuous rain. According to secretary Y. P. Vohra, matches will be held tomorrow morning.
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Computer dealer cheats many of lakhs; goes missing
Chandigarh, August 8 Deol had reportedly duped a dozen city-based dealers of about Rs 15 lakh, following which the UT police registered a case of fraud and conspiracy against him. Deol, who also owns Amrit Technologies here in Sector 45, was running a business of garment export and had later shifted to computer hardware. Priya Export House, which was operating in Jaipur from Central Apartment, Vidhyadhar Nagar, for the last four months had cheated six dealers. The export house was running a business in Chandigarh before Deol went to Jaipur. He supplied products to dealers in Delhi and Ghaziabad at lower prices. The dealers, who have reportedly been cheated by Priya Export House are Cyberash, Universal Computers, Pragyan Computers, Suraj Computers, Common Computers and AV Technology. Among these dealers, Cyberash, Universal Computers and Suraj Computers, who have been duped of Rs 2.85 lakh, Rs 4 lakh and Rs 84,000 respectively, have filed an FIR against Deol at the Vidhyadhar Nagar police station. Talking to The Tribune, Somendra Harsha of Cyberash Computers said, “When I went to the office of Priya Export House for collection of payment, I was informed that the company's owner had vanished overnight. The Jaipur police is investigating the matter and has traced the accused to Delhi by tracking a ration card sanctioned in Hyderabad. The police is trying to get details from Hyderabad also.” Sources revealed that Deol used nine SIM cards out of which four had been traced and the rest were not functioning. Nauhar Singh, one of the employees of Priya Export House who looked after the purchase orders of dealers, said the employees did not have any idea about the fraudulent nature of the company and no one had a clue about the whereabouts of the owner. “I was a senior person at the company. When dealers came to me enquiring about their payments, I discovered that all the phone numbers of Deol were unavailable,” he added. Commenting on investigating the credit worthiness of the company before selling the stock, a dealer stated, “There was no reason for not trusting him. He first purchased stock worth Rs 2 lakh and paid a part of the payment the next day through a cheque. He again purchased a stock worth Rs 4 lakh and paid a part of the amount. This way he kept on purchasing stock and making part payments and the balance kept on piling up. In all he bought stock worth Rs 15 lakh, out of which he paid Rs 11 lakh and fled with the remaining Rs 4 lakh.” According to the Jaipur police, the tower location of Deol’s cellphone revealed that he was changing location from Delhi to Gurgaon. The Jaipur police is now planning to get in touch with the UT police to arrest the accused.
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Arrest of suspects
Chandigarh, August 8 The instructions were given during a meeting at the police headquarters last week. Higher officials of all wings of the UT police were present at the meeting. The SSP directed all 11 SHOs to follow the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court in the D.K. Basu versus state of West Bengal case. The court had directed the procedure to be followed in all cases of arrest and detention of a person. Sources said the SSP had directed SHOs to mention the details of the arrestee, names of the officials who had made
the arrest. He further ordered to reveal the particulars of the investigating team, details of the witness (least one) at the time of the arrest, besides informing the family regarding the arrest of the person. He further ordered to mention the time and place of the arrest. The SHOs have also been asked to inform the arrestee of his rights and conduct the medical examination within 24 hours of the arrest. SSP S.S. Srivastava said: “We have directed the SHOs to follow D.K. Basu guidelines and not harass people. The investigating officer should complete the paperwork while arresting a person. Medical examination should be conducted and in case the person is in imbibed condition, the officials should first take him to the hospital.
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‘Dead’ woman in youth’s custody: Kin
Chandigarh, August 8 The Punjab police claims that Rashmi along with her friend Mandeep Chauhan, a resident of Sector 23, reportedly jumped into the canal on July 18. Rashmi’s parents alleged that their daughter was in the custody of Mandeep. Family sources revealed that a close friend of Rashmi received a call today, informing her that Rashmi was alive and was seen with Mandeep in a village near Ropar. Talking to the Tribune, Rashmi’s mother said, “I am sure that my daughter is in the custody of Mandeep. One of the villagers said Rashmi was seen in the village a day before. Mandeep was also living in the village ever since the incident occurred. We have informed the UT police about the phone call. If she had jumped into the canal, her body would have been recovered by now.” Her family had met the Governor on August 5 in this regard. Rashmi had left her house to attend a training camp. In the evening, the Punjab police informed the family that their daughter along with Mandeep had committed suicide by jumping into the canal.
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8-month-old found dead
Dera Bassi, August 8 According to the police, Chander Bhan, labourer father of the deceased, had a fight with his wife Rekha on the August 6 after which he locked her in a room and left the house with his eight-month-old child. Two days later the body of the boy was found. The residents of the Mahiwal village spotted the body in the evening. According to the police, Chander, his father Shiv Ram and Bunty (10), son from his first wife, are still absconding. Shivam was Chander’s son from his second wife Rekha, the police added. According to sources, Rekha alleged that her husband used to fight with her and he had killed her son. The body was sent for autopsy to Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi. The SHO stated that Rekha was not in the condition to give statement and further investigations would be done after her statement was recorded.
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SMO held taking bribe
Chandigarh, August 8 The sleuths of the CBI caught Singh red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from Sanjeev, a private distributor of Kinley India, a mineral water company. According to sources in the CBI, Singh, who was working at the civil dispensary in Manimajra, had demanded the money in order to pass the sample of the mineral water. According to the complainant, the SMO was harassing him over money.
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Truck driver killed in accident
Panchkula, August 8 According to the police, Rakesh was perched on the bonnet to repair his truck near Mogi Nand village when another truck hit his vehicle. He fell down and was crushed under the speeding vehicle. Meanwhile, the 25-year-old youth killed in a hit-and-run case yesterday has been identified as Amar Chand, a resident of Solan. His family took his body after the post-mortem examination here.
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Heart patient can’t see newborn
Chandigarh, August 8 The woman hails from Kurukshetra and had come with her husband, who is a daily-wage worker, for the delivery of her baby at the PGI. She successfully delivered a baby girl a few days ago, but perhaps fate had some other plans for her. Owing to an infection in her (the mother’s) heart valve, she is unable to meet her newborn baby who is in the nursery right now. The disease has made her body temperature high and her condition has deteriorated too. According to the head of the department of cardiology, Dr Yaspal Sharma, who is treating Sonia, “The operation to treat her will cost Rs 1.25 lakh and post-operation charges will cost Rs 80,000 as she will need antibiotics.”“We are already finding it hard to stay in the city and arranging Rs 2 lakh is an uphill task for a daily-wage worker like me,” said the grieving husband of Sonia. The contact number of poor patients' assistance cell for donors is
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