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BJP: Sukhbir reminds of Indira during emergency
Violate poll code and face music: DC to parties
Stolen truck recovered, 2 held
KSC to hold protest on March 19
8 selected at RIET campus placement
Govt did ‘nothing’ for traders
Smack seized
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2 robbers hurt in Aur
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Death of a motorcyclist near Mahilpur in
Hoshiarpur district almost a fortnight ago has also raised doubt on the working of the police. The motorcyclist allegedly shot himself after being chased by the police. However, the family members were of the view that the man was shot dead.
Jalandhar/Nawanshahr March 9 Armed with weapons, the robbers had allegedly been active in robbing commuters for gold and other valuables at a T-junction near Apra at gun-point. The miscreants were reportedly using an Indica car with a ‘fake’ registration number (PB-12D-6187). SSP, Jalandhar, RK Jaiswal revealed that the case came to light after the miscreants robbed off almost four persons including an NRI woman, Jaswinder Kaur of Bara Pind, who informed the Apra police post. After her complaint, a police party comprising cops Jaswinder Singh, Kamaljit Singh and Jugal Kishore reached the spot and found the car-borne miscreants robbing Balihar Singh, a resident of Gumtala village. After noticing the cops, the robbers sped away from the scene towards Mukandpur but the cops chased the car in a Scorpio owned by Balihar Singh, the SSP said. As the robbers were about to enter the Nawanshahr district, the Jalandhar police sought help from SSP Nawanshahr Rakesh Aggarwal in nabbing them. A police party from Nawanshahr was also pressed to service. The hassled robbers fired at the Scorpio in which a police party was chasing them. This lead to a fire exchange following which two robbers on the back seat of the Indica car sustained bullet injuries on their backs. Since the police had put nakas at Mukandpur, Aur and Chakdana, the miscreants were nabbed at Aur. The injured were identified as Hansraj and Amanjit Singh while Kulvir and Amarjit were arrested. The police said during questioning, Amarjit Singh claimed to be a resident of Doraha near Ludhiana. The injured were first taken to the Civil Hospital, Phillaur, and were then referred to Civil Hospital, Jalandhar. The police claimed to have recovered three country-made pistols, a sickle, four live cartridges and certain empty shells besides the robbed jewellery and other valuables from their possession. A case has been registered under sections 392, 398, 378 and 307 of the Arms Act against the suspects at Phillaur police
station. Meanwhile, the injured were hospitalised at the Jalandhar Civil Hospital at about 5. 30 pm. The condition of the injured was stable as per the doctors attending them. |
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SAD, BJP - All’s well?
Amritsar, March 9 However, only seven out of 22 SAD councillors attended the meeting. The absent councillors had an excuse. Most of them said they were informed about the meeting late in the afternoon. Meanwhile, those who were present in the meeting intimated Sidhu and Malik about the works being ignored in their respective areas. An Akali councillor raised the issue over delay in laying the drainage system, for which Rs 94 lakh was sanctioned about 10 months ago. According to the councillor, the work was yet to take off. He said currently sewerage channel was situated above water supply which was causing diseases among residents. Malik claimed that nearly 70 per cent work of Rs 170-crore grant from the state government was about to complete. Remaining 30 per cent would be completed within the next two months, he assured. — TNS |
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BJP: Sukhbir reminds of Indira during emergency
Jalandhar, March 9 Taking the president of the alliance party head-on in a press conference at the Punjab Press Club, Grewal, who is state BJP chief of the investor cell, said, “The modus operandi of Sukhbir Singh Badal is similar to that of Indira Gandhi, the late Congress tyrant, during emergency in June 1975. But Sukhbir is one step ahead of Indira as he also indulges in forced takeovers and consolidation of cable TV networks through companies such as Shan-e-Punjab, DIGI Cable and Fastway Cable.” He even accused the Deputy CM of misusing power against stakeholders of media houses who don’t toe his line. “For a quick buck, Sukhbir has gone ahead to establish his own enterprises and TV channels such as PTC for self propaganda. Since Sukhbir now controls 95 per cent of the cable TV networks; Punjab Today and Zee Punjabi news channels have been simply blocked out from the cable TV networks just because they have tried to air information unacceptable to the Deputy CM”, he alleged. “Sukhbir shouldn’t create an emergency-like situation and repeat historic mistakes orchestrated during an internal emergency”, added Grewal. He stressed upon the fact that free mass media is important for a democratic society. He urged the CM to intervene and ask Sukhbir to take corrective action else this may result in heavy losses to the alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as opposition leaders like Captain Amarinder Singh and his adulator Sukhpal Singh Khaira were using the situation as an opportunity to encourage false propaganda against the SAD-BJP alliance. |
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Violate poll code and face music: DC to parties
Nawanshahr, March 9 While making an appeal to them to cooperate in the implementation of the model code of conduct for ensuring free, fair and impartial polls, the DC warned them of strict action in case of any violation of the model code of conduct. He said as many as 100 polling booths falling in the three assembly segments - Banga, Balachaur and Nawanshahr - in the district, which are part of Anandpur Sahib constituency, have been identified. The SSP, Rakesh Aggarwal, visited all sensitive polling booths to make adequate security arrangements during polling. Besides, as many as 96.8 per cent of the voters had been provided photo voter identity cards and the photographs of 94.5 per cent of the voters had also been affixed on the voters’ lists in the district. The remaining voters could also get their photographs affixed on the voters’ lists by filling up 001 B form. The BLOs would visit their respective villages and wards to show the voters’ lists to the electorate on March 15. The eligible voters could get themselves registered and get their names changed in case of any discrepancy. They could even get the wrongly registered votes deleted by filling up forms No 6, 7 and 8. |
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Project Deadline Slips
Nawanshahr, March 9 More than a month ago, the district administration started the project, which was scheduled to be completed in 7 to 10 days. In order to widen Chandigarh Chowk, encroachments near Kumar Bakery and from Chandigarh Chowk to Ambedkar Chowk were removed. But the work was left incomplete. The incomplete work has been causing a lot of inconvenience to the public as the parking of vehicles in front of hotels and restaurants on the main road has been proving a hurdle for the traffic. Besides, it has been posing danger to the two-wheelers and pedestrians. Now, the administration has started removing encroachments with the help of a JCV machine on the other side of the road for constructing slip way. The residents, while appreciating the slip way project have urged the district administration to expedite its implementation. Two former Congress CMs, Harcharan Singh Brar and Capt Amarinder Singh, had laid the foundation stones of a bypass during the fag-end of their tenures in 1996 and 2006, respectively. Two years ago, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at Khatkar Kalan had mooted the idea of constructing an elevated road. But nothing concrete has been done so far. |
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Stolen truck recovered, 2 held
Tarn Taran, March 9 Malwinder Singh Sidhu, SP (detective), told mediapersons here today that two thieves, identified as Varinder Kumar, alias Kaka, of Amritsar, and Vicky of Bhikhiwind, had been arrested, while the absconding members of the gang were Rajesh Kumar, Satta, Raju, Nirmal Singh and Charanjit Singh. The SP said the gang stole the truck after serving some drug in tea to the driver and the cleaner of the truck near Sarhali. A case under sections 379 and 420 of the IPC had already been registered in this regards. According to another report, the city police has arrested Bobby, Lochy, Goldy and Sandeep Singh, alias Sanny, of the local Sachkhand road allegedly responsible for snatching of gold chains and mobile phone sets from people in the area. Three mobile phone sets have been recovered from them.
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KSC to hold protest on March 19
Amritsar, March 9 In a press note issued here today, Satnam Singh Pannu, president, Punjab unit of the KSC, alleged that Cooperative Sugar Mill, Ajnala, withheld Rs 24 lakh of farmers as penalty. He said farmers of the area had bonded their sugarcane crop worth Rs 96 lakh to the mill in the season 2007-2008. According to Pannu, officials of the mill said since the farmers did not supply the crop to it this time, they had broken the bond. Hence, the penalty was imposed on them, he quipped. He said after the passage of about one and a half year Rs 72 lakh were returned to the farmers on March 5 and the remaining amount was deducted on account of penalty to the tune of Rs 16 per quintal which added to Rs 24 lakh. He said farmers were forced to sell their produce in the open market when they did not receive payment of their earlier crop. Instead, he said, the government must have paid interest to the farmers for delay in their payment. |
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8 selected at RIET campus placement
Phagwara, March 9 Around 250 students from various engineering and MBA colleges appeared for a written test. According to a press note issued, as many as 105 students cleared the group discussion round and out of these, 59 were from
RIET. The selection procedure included an online test as well as HR interview. The shortlisted candidates appeared for the final interview and eight RIET students cleared that interview and were selected. Manish Narang and Shamim Alam from the HRD department addressed the students and briefed them about the company and its business operations.
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Govt did ‘nothing’ for traders
Pathankot, March 9 He was at a release function of a directory of Pathankot traders here on Sunday. Jain said the SAD-BJP government had done nothing for the betterment of the trading community. He regretted that CM Parkash Singh Badal and other ministers and leaders of the SAD-BJP combine had made promises to the beopar mandal, but the government had imposed more taxes on them.
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Smack seized
Pathankot, March 9 Meanwhile, the Gurdaspur police arrested Kalu Ram, Gurvinder Singh, Jagmohan Singh and Jeevan Lal under the Gambling Act. |
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