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Literacy Move
Govt scheme to identify kids with heart ailments
‘Trencher’ demonstrated
Arshnoor Case
Man dies as well wall caves in
1 dead, 2 injured in accident
Freedom fighter passes away
Dal Khalsa: Regulate entry of immigrants
Power supply: weekly off for industry changed
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Criminals Strike
Jalandhar, November 20 The incident occurred at about 8.15 pm when certain assailants visited the house of Raj Rani (65), a widow, who was living with her daughter Bindu (25). Bindu is a lecturer at St Soldier School in Mithu Basti. According to preliminary investigations, the assailants came to the house and had tea and biscuits with the women. Then there was a scuffle between them which led to the stabbing. The mother died on the spot due to injuries on her temple. Bindu, who came to her mother’s defence, was also attacked by the assailants on the head. The ladies were staying alone in the house after Raj Rani married her elder daughter off to a Phagwara-based man almost six years ago. According to neighbours, they heard the sound of a gunshot from Raj Rani’s house. Shrieks following the gunshots attracted the attention of the neighbours who assembled at the house. Police personnel reached the spot on receiving information and rushed the critically injured Bindu to the civil hospital. After being provided with preliminary medical assistance, Bindu was referred to a private hospital where she is struggling for her life. SP (city-I) S.K. Kalia said preliminary investigation revealed that the assailants were known to the family. A property dispute was the motive behind the crime, claimed Kalia. The SP, however, denied that the victim died due to gunshots. He said the assailants used sharpedged weapons. Kalia said police parties had been sent to the suspected hideouts of the assailants and had even rounded up some relatives, friends and suspects for questioning. An alert has been sounded in and around the city, besides messages flashed to the police stations of neighbouring districts and states regarding the assailants. No case was registered till the filing of the report. Meanwhile, resentment prevailed among the residents who made repeated phone calls to the police control room (phone 100) but there phone calls went unattended. |
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Fight Against Hepatitis-C
Amritsar, November 20 The RMPs, who till now were unaware of the dangerous consequences of reusing syringes and needles on the patients, took an oath to use fresh or properly sterilised needles and syringes during an awareness campaign organised Punarjyot, to put up a joint fight against the disease that has proved to be fatal in most of the cases. It may be mentioned here that a number of people in the remote border areas of Tarn Taran district were afflicted with this virus. One Shingara Singh Kalsi revealed to the gathering that he was suffering from hepatitis-C and he had to spend approximately Rs 2.5 lakh on the treatment. The RMPs were told to upgrade their knowledge by attending refresher courses. They said they would live up to the expectations of society by taking due precautions to ensure safe remedial measures against the diseases like drug addiction and hepatitis-C. Orthopaedic surgeon and director of Punarjyot Dr Shivinder Singh Sandhu said it were the RMPs who were accessible to the people living in remote areas and, therefore, there was need for further updating them on this water-borne disease. Exhorting the doctors to use fresh and new syringes while treating a patient, he made an impassioned appeal to everyone to extend the maximum cooperation in this movement that was being initiated to sensitise the entire society about the disease. A committee was also formed at the village to execute the necessary preventive measures against hepatitis-C and Kalsi was made its convener. Balwinder Singh, sarpanch of Havelia village, who is suffering from the killer disease, donated Rs 5,000 for the cause. Punarjyot distributed syringes among the RMPs. The meeting was attended by sarpanches of different villages, including Sahib Singh Ami Shah, Chinna, Bauji, Balwinder Singh, Mukhtiar Singh, along with panches and prominent persons of the area. |
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Literacy Move
Jalandhar, November 20 A special committee comprising district education officer (secondary) and DIET principals would conduct the examination under the State Council for Education Research and Training (SCERT). Earlier, the examinations were conducted by the
Punjab School Education Board (PSEB). Talking to The Tribune, district project coordinator, SSA, Rajiv Kumar Joshi said the expenses for conducting the examinations would be borne by the SSA. “The scheme has been implemented keeping in mind the poor performance of the students for the past some years. This procedure would indeed help us in improving the dismal results of class V and at the same time it would help in controlling the dropout rate”. In a letter issued to the DEO (secondary), all the government primary schools have been directed to send details about the total number of students in class V. “As the expenses would be borne by the SSA, we have asked all the schools to send the estimates of the required budget for the annual examinations as soon as possible. Moreover, the students would not be charged any examination fees for this purpose,” added Joshi. “Apart from this, all attempts would be made to control any unfair means in the examinations. We wish to take a meritorious batch ahead for the senior secondary classes. At the same time we intend to improve the performance of academically weaker students too,” said Joshi. It may be noted that the SSA authorities have also introduced a special pass formula for students which would include details pertaining to the preparation of a particular subject and the division of marks. The examinations would be conducted after March 15 for which the director of SCERT has been asked to send a sample question paper to the DEO (secondary) within one month. |
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Govt scheme to identify kids with heart ailments
Hoshiarpur, November 20 Disclosing this here, civil surgeon Dr S.K. Gupta stated that under this campaign, doctors working in government health institutions had been directed to identify students suffering from RHD and CHD in government and government-aided schools. After identifying, these children would be referred for echo-cardiography in medical colleges and all the expenditure on investigations would be borne by the National Rural Health Mission. After their echo-cardiography, all those who would be recommended for surgery would be referred to the PGI, Chandigarh, for further management, and all the expenditure on surgery etc. would be borne by the government. During the campaign, investigation of 1,58,493 students of 1,712 government and government-aided schools would be done, said Dr Gupta, adding that he had also asked the principals of these schools to refer those children between the age of five to 15 years to nearby health centres who have been complaining of repeated sore throat, fever, pain, swelling in the joints, physical weakness, palpitation and less appetite as they might be suffering from RHD and CHD. |
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‘Trencher’ demonstrated
Nawanshahr, November 20 Soil conservation officer Krishan Duggal, while demonstrating the functioning of the trencher said it would prove a boon for those farmers who wanted to adopt drip and sprinkler irrigation systems. The farmers desirous of adopting the drip irrigation system had been facing the problem of scarcity of labour to dig trenches for laying underground pipes. With the help of the trencher the farmers could dig trenches easily as well as economically. It could dig 1-foot wide and 2.5-foot deep trenches in one acre just in 45 minutes. The department had fixed a nominal charge of Rs 600 per hour for the farmers, he added. The trencher weas quite easy to use, said Duggal, adding that it operated with a 55 hp tractor. Blades of different sizes according to the required width of the trench are put on the chain, which moves on the rear shaft of the tractor. Blades cut the soil in such a way as a drum rotates between the rear wheels of tractor and throws the soil outside. The size of the cut soil is so fine that there is no problem in refilling the trenches. Besides, the depth of the trench can be increased or decreased accordingly by adjusting the chain vertically.
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Arshnoor Case
Jalandhar, November 20 The kidnappers have been identified as Gaurav Singh, alias Bunti, a resident of Sarabha Nagar in Santokhpura locality, Mohit Puri of Sukhmani Enclave and Vinod Kumar, alias Tony, a resident of Karar Khan, near Wadala Chowk. Acting on a tip-off, a police party conducted raid on the hideout of the kidnappers and rounded them up early this morning. The police has also seized a motorcycle (PB-08AZ-5689) from them. SP (city-I) S.K. Kalia said the kidnappers had abducted Arshnoor for ransom. He said Bunti being a neighbour of the boy, hatched the conspiracy along with Mohit and Vinod in his shop of video games and committed the crime. After kidnapping the boy, Bunti, who was the mastermind of the kidnapping, kept informing his accomplice about police movement and traps. The trio later decided to release the boy unconditionally when they found all ways closed and police traps at every exit and entry point in the city, the SP claimed. A case has been registered against them. Arshnoor was kidnapped for a ransom of Rs 30 lakh by two motorcycle-borne youths on Monday evening, but he was released in a
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Two minor labourers rescued from bakery
Jalandhar, November 20 Acting on an information of a social organisation, a team comprising three officers of the labour department, conducted a raid on the bakery and found the two boys, Suresh Kumar from Nepal and Viney Kumar of Darbhanga in Bihar, working there. The team rescued them from the bakery. Both the children were later let off by the Labour Commissioner, Jalandhar, on certain legal grounds. |
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Man dies as well wall caves in
Hoshiarpur, November 20 According to official sources, Sarup Singh entered the old well of Surinder Singh of the local Pur Hiran for cleaning it around 10 am today. While he was cleaning it, the mud walls of the well suddenly caved in due to which he was buried under the soil. As soon as the news spread, the district administration swung into action and Hoshiarpur SDM Capt Karnail Singh and tehsildar Vijay Sharma rushed to the spot. But the life of Sarup Singh could not be saved although they requisitioned a JCB machine. Sarup Singh’s body was brought out after a three-hour struggle. The body was sent to the civil hospital for a post-mortem
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1 dead, 2 injured in accident
Hoshiarpur, November 20 Both the injured were admitted to the local civil hospital from where Jagtar Singh was discharged after providing first aid. According to police sources, Surinder Singh, who was driving the tractor-trailer ahead of the car, suddenly applied brakes to his vehicle due to which the car rammed into it. After the accident, Surinder Singh escaped from the scene, leaving behind his vehicle. The Sadar police has booked Surinder Singh in this connection.
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Freedom fighter passes away
Pathankot, November 20 Kailashwanti was the wife of freedom fighter and former president of the Qadian municipal council late Ram Prakash Prabhakar. She was the mother of an important functionary of the RSS, Ashok Prabhakar, who also functioned as the prantiya parcharak of Punjab a few years back. Varinder Prabhakar, nephew of the deceased freedom fighter, said her uncle Ram Parkash Prabhakar was gunned down by militants in 1991. The body of Kailashwanti was consigned to the flames at the Qadian cremation ground today. Many prominent dignitaries were present at the time of cremation. |
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Dal Khalsa: Regulate entry of immigrants
Amritsar, November 20 Addressing mediapersons, Dal Khalsa spokesman Kanwarpal Singh said the government should regulate the entry of inter-state migrants as more than 15 lakh youth were unemployed in the state. |
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Power supply: weekly off for industry changed
Jalandhar, November 20 Chief Engineer, Punjab State Electricity Board, North Zone, T.S. Thind, said in a press note that the board had changed its weekly off for the industry from Wednesday to
Sunday with immediate effect. The order will be implemented in the entire Jalandhar circle from tomorrow. |
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