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Dengue scare spreads
Gastro tightens grip
Girl hooked on drugs killed by parents
DDPO’s reader held on graft charge
Hiccups mark relaunch party
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Accident deaths
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Dengue scare spreads
Jalandhar, September 16 Moreover, the health authorities have even started accusing the media of exposing chinks in arrangements made to tackle the disease. Sources revealed that one more case of suspected dengue was identified at the Civil Hospital this afternoon. Sonu, who was admitted in the male medical ward almost four days back with fever and body ache, was today tested positive for the IGG while the test report of the IGM was negative. According to Dr T.P. Singh, four cases of strongly suggested dengue had been reported in the city during the past over 10 days. He, however, said in Sonu’s case, dengue was suspected, not confirmed. When asked about the dengue patients in private hospitals, Dr Singh claimed that Rita Thakur, her husband Jatinder Thakur and Ananya Singh, all residents of AIR Staff Colony, and Kulwinder Singh of Bhargo Camp, were strongly suspected cases of dengue. Jatinder Thakur and Kulwinder Singh were currently undergoing treatment at the Civil Hospital, he added. A visit to the hospital revealed that four persons, suspected cases of dengue, were still under close observation of doctors in the ICU of the Civil Hospital. As of now, 14 cases of suspected dengue have been registered here. Dr Singh claimed that 25 teams of the health department had been deputed for fogging and a drive had been launched against breeding of tiger mosquitoes. The department had also launched a massive drive to collect blood samples from various dengue-prone areas. Jalandhar civil surgeon S.S. Walia claimed that there was no confirmed case of dengue in the city and its vicinity. When asked if the private hospitals had informed them about the number of suspected dengue cases registered with them, he claimed only two private hospitals had supplied information to the district health authorities. The civil surgeon, however, rued that a majority of private hospitals had not been providing any information regarding dengue cases despite repeated
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Girl hooked on drugs killed by parents
Jalandhar, September 16 The murder came to light his afternoon when other tenants of the house noticed foul smell and insects crawling around the door of the room. Suspecting some foul play, the tenants informed house owner Arjun Singh who subsequently informed the police. A police party lead by SHO Surinder Singh reached the spot and broke opened the room. The police found the decomposed body of a girl in a corner and two blood stained batons nearby. The SHO said that the house owner revealed that a migrant labour couple, having six children, including a daughter, had hired the room nearly a month back. He said the girl (22) was a drug-addict. He said the family members had a quarrel on September 10 night over the issue. The family members killed the girl. The next day, all the family members fled from the spot, leaving the body locked inside the room. The police has recovered the badly mutilated body and has sent it to the civil hospital for sa post-mortem examination. A case of murder has been registered against the unidentified parents. |
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DDPO’s reader held on graft charge
Jalandhar, September 16 A press note issued by the SSP Vigilance (Jalandhar) Surinderjit Singh Mand said the accused, identified as Joginder Pal Singh, was arrested on the complaint of Davinder Singh, resident of Mukerian. In his complaint to the VB, Davinder alleged that he requested the DDPO for an early disposal of a land-related case. The DDPO demanded Rs 25,000 for the job, alleged Davinder, adding that the deal was finally settled for Rs 20,000. The officer allegedly asked Davinder to contact his reader for making the payment on Tuesday. The VB laid a trap and caught Joginderpal, while he was accepting the bribe. A case has been registered. |
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Mid-day Meal Scheme
Nawanshahr, September 16 Later, Kaur also served the meals to the students at Government Senior Secondary School, Jadla. In her address, the minister said, with a view to streamline the scheme some changes have been made on experimental basis. “We would monitor it for some days and if found practically viable, the scheme would be extended to all the districts. It would mitigate the problems of the teachers in preparing, serving the meal and keeping accounts etc. Ultimately, it would be help in bringing in qualitative improvement in the education system,” she added. Though, the chairperson of the Stri Shakti, Maninder Bedi, in her address claimed that they had experience of about 16 years for preparing and supplying mid-day meal in 5 states of the country, the organisation virtually fumbled in ensuring proper delivery of meals on the inaugural day to some schools. Bedi, while attributing the problem to the busy schedule, said, “ We have proper infrastructure and the scheme would be properly implemented henceforth.” DGSE, Krishan Kumar said the whole system would start working smoothly within few days. The district education officers have been asked to monitor the scheme consistently and properly so that the problems being faced during its implementation could be noted and addressed immediately, said Kumar. — OC
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Accident deaths
Jalandhar, September 16 In the second accident, Sukhwinder Singh, resident of Bulandpur, died when an unidentified vehicle hit him at Lidra village near Maksudan. Police has impounded the vehicles and sent the bodies for post-mortem at the local civil hospital. — TNS |
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