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Youth Cong leader, wife assaulted in Hoshiarpur
Hoshiarpur, October 2
Senior vice president of Garhshankar municipal council and district vice president of youth Congress Vinod Kumar Saini was attacked by at least 12 unidentified persons, equipped with sharp edged weapons, along with his wife Neha, while they were returning to their house from a marriage palace at Padrana last night.

Tributes paid to Bapu, Shashtri
Nawanshahr, October 2
Deputy commissioner Nilkanth Avhad, while paying tributes to the Father of the Nation at a function organised at Harjinder Kaur Lail Girls Computer Training Centre, Mehrampur, said the real tributes to Mahatma Gandhi was to serve the poorest of the poor. He lauded the contribution of the computer centre towards women empowerment.

Baba Bilga for proper upkeep of Jallianwala Bagh

Jalandhar, October 2 President of Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Committee Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga today said he would soon write to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, asking him to ensure that maintenance of the historical site of Jallianwala Bagh is done in a proper manner.

Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Committee chief Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga (L) during a press meet in Jalandhar.

Sidhu’s ‘Gandhigiri’

BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu during a function held to remember Bapu on his birth anniversary in Amritsar on Thursday. Photo: Vishal Kumar

Protest by ETT teachers
Jalandhar, October 2
The ETT teachers union Punjab today staged a dharna at the local Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall demanding that government schools handed over to the Zila Parishad should be given back to the education department.

Youth sets self afire
Jalandhar, October 2
Fed up with the alleged threats by the family members of his beloved, a Mohalla Kulian youth committed self-immolation in front of her house in Gurbachan Nagar under Maksudan police station here on Wednesday night.

Micro units to open up new job vistas for youth
Hoshiarpur, October 2
As many as 515 small micro industrial units, with an investment of Rs 11,284.55 lakh, were registered with the state industries department from January to August 2008, to provide employment to the unemployed educated youths.

Youth Cong leader, wife assaulted in Hoshiarpur
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, October 2
Senior vice president of Garhshankar municipal council and district vice president of youth Congress Vinod Kumar Saini was attacked by at least 12 unidentified persons, equipped with sharp edged weapons, along with his wife Neha, while they were returning to their house from a marriage palace at Padrana last night.

The assailants seriously injured the couple.

According to police sources, Vinod and Neha had gone to a marriage palace to attend the marriage of their friend Tarsem Lal's daughter at Padrana (Garhshankar).

When the couple came out from the palace at about 10.45 pm, about 12 persons attacked them with sharp-edged weapons and fled in the dark.

Both husband and wife were immediately admitted to the Civil Hospital, Garhshankar, from where they were later referred to DMC, Ludhiana, under critical condition.

Garhshankar Congress block president Rajinder Parsad Soni strongly condemned the attack on Vinod Kumar Saini and his wife and said it was the result of a deep conspiracy.

All the Congress workers of the area showed anguish against the police for not taking any action to identify or arrest the assailants, said Rajinder Parsad, adding that the incident had been brought to the notice of the leaders of the high command.

He warned that if no action was taken by the police in arresting the assailants, the block Congress would launch an agitation.

Tributes paid to Bapu, Shashtri
Tribune Reporters

Nawanshahr, October 2
Deputy commissioner Nilkanth Avhad, while paying tributes to the Father of the Nation at a function organised at Harjinder Kaur Lail Girls Computer Training Centre, Mehrampur, said the real tributes to Mahatma Gandhi was to serve the poorest of the poor. He lauded the contribution of the computer centre towards women empowerment.

He assured that the institute would be affiliated either with a university or the technical education board. Prajkata Nilkanth, chairperson, District Red Cross Society, stressed the need for making the women aware of their rights to ensure social equality. Milkha Singh, Harjinder Kaur Lail, Gurcharan Singh Basiala, president, UPKAR coordination society, Jaslap Singh Gidda and Surjit Singh Saini also addressed the gathering. Meanwhile, the District Leprosy Society organised a function at Doaba Kushat Ashram to commemorate the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Civil surgeon Dr Chitranjan Singh Brar presided over the function. Floral tributes were paid to Mahatma Gandhi.

Batala: The local unit of Congress celebrated the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shashtri in a function at Congress Bhawan here today. District chief Kastruri Lal Seth presided over thefunction. 

Baba Bilga for proper upkeep of Jallianwala Bagh

Jalandhar, October 2
President of Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Committee Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga today said he would soon write to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, asking him to ensure that maintenance of the historical site of Jallianwala Bagh is done in a proper manner.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the 101-year-old revolutionist said the upkeep of the monument was important, but even more important was to retain its original form. “This is the practice world over. For Indians, Jallianwala Bagh is special. It’s a place of great sanctity from where from the voice against oppression became intense”, he said.

General secretary of the trust Naunihal Singh said the members were planning a procession to the site on October 6 and oppose ‘any wrong renovation plan’ being carried out there. “But prior to it, copies of the memorandum would be shot off to all the trustees,” he said.

Making his point, Gurmeet Singh, secretary of the cultural wing, said, “There is no fun telling the children about the massacre that primarily occurred because of a single gate, if we go ahead constructing more gates there. The children will visit the place and believe that the whole episode was wrongly told to them. We even need to preserve the historical streets leading to the site.” — TNS

Protest by ETT teachers

Jalandhar, October 2
The ETT teachers union Punjab today staged a dharna at the local Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall demanding that government schools handed over to the Zila Parishad should be given back to the education department.

Handing over a memorandum to the local bodies minister, Manoranjan Kalia, the members said the government has failed in bringing the government schools directly under the purview of the education department as a result of which their problems have increased.

President of the union Jaswinder Singh Sidhu said the union has decided to gherao the Punjab minister for rural development and panchayat, Ranjit Singh Brahmpura on October 11. — TNS

Youth sets self afire
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 2
Fed up with the alleged threats by the family members of his beloved, a Mohalla Kulian youth committed self-immolation in front of her house in Gurbachan Nagar under Maksudan police station here on Wednesday night.

According to police, Sarabjit Lal alias Sabi (25) poured some inflammable substance on his body and set himself afire. Sustaining critical burn injuries, he was rushed to the Jalandhar civil hospital but could not be saved.

The boy has left a suicide note alleging that parents of the girl had forced him to take the extreme step by threatening him repeatedly of dire consequences.

According to family members of Sebi, the boy and the girl were in love for the last over three years. However, the girls’ family was strictly against the relationship. The police has arrested the girl’s mother Kulwant Kaur along with two other relatives, Varinder Singh and Mohinder Singh. A case under section 306 of the IPC has been registered against them at Maksudan police station. The body was handed over to the family after the 
post-mortem examination. 

Micro units to open up new job vistas for youth

Hoshiarpur, October 2
As many as 515 small micro industrial units, with an investment of Rs 11,284.55 lakh, were registered with the state industries department from January to August 2008, to provide employment to the unemployed educated youths.

A spokesman of the Punjab industries department told this correspondent here last evening that as many as 6,671 unemployed youths would get direct employment in these proposed units. Besides, 361 small scale industrial units (with a total investment of Rs 52,695.97 lakh), which would provide employment to 13,249 youths, had also been registered during the above said period.

Production in 490 micro and small scale units, already set up with an investment of Rs 52,695.97 lakh, had been started which had provided employment to 11,675 persons. — OC