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PTU passes vote on account
Lead singer of Euphoria performs at a concert at LPU in Jalandhar on Wednesday. Photo: Suryakant
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Blot On Khaki
Ownership Hassle
Commissioner reviews poll arrangements
Three held with stolen motorcycles
It’s me, not Majithia: Ajnala
Gang opens fire to grab plot
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PTU passes vote on account
Jalandhar, March 19 While there were issues such as allocating budget for scholarships for rural students and holding international conferences, none of the items were discussed. The members simply passed the budget for committed expenses, leaving all fresh proposals pending in a bid to avoid any more controversies. Registrar Sarojini Gautam Sharda, however, said, “It is not because of the code imposition that we have done this. We have simply got the actual budget passed rather than the estimated one.” Others who attended the meeting were board of governors members Dr R.S. Khandpur and Chander Mohan, PTU VC Dr Rajneesh Arora, dean (examination) Dr N.P. Singh and controller (finance)
S.K. Misra. BCA fee hike likely
The university officials are contemplating on enhancing the tuition fee component of BBA and BCA to bring it on par with other non-AICTE courses, including B.Sc (biotechnology) and B.Sc (medical lab technology). Officials revealed that ever since BBA and BCA were started almost a decade back, there had been no fee hike. But the courses such as biotechnology and medical lab technology, which started last year, had higher tuition fee even as the faculty norms of 1:20 were common for all such courses. Dr V.K. Arora, dean, academics, said the issue was discussed in the academic council meeting. An effort was being made to equalise the tuition fee component of all non-AICTE courses, leaving aside other components such as lab charges that could be variable. “We are yet to calculate the difference. A committee has been formed, which will carry its report further to BoG for final approval,” he pointed out. The BBA/BCA students had been paying nearly Rs 22,000 fee annually as of now. The tuition fee component of the total amount was quite low as it included other funds such as those for library, sports and cultural activities. The college principals rue that the issue has been lingering on since the past one year. “Since there were no academic council meetings for almost the whole year, the matter remained pending for long,” they said. Spurt in applications
As many as 54 institutes have applied for non-AICTE courses with the university this time. Dr Arora said the response was far better this time than previous years. He said most of the applications had come for B.Sc (hotel management), BSc (IT), MSc (IT) and BSc (biotechnology). |
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‘Hindrock’ leaves town euphoric
Jalandhar, March 19 In a concert held at Lovely Professional University (LPU) here on Wednesday night, the band had the city crowd rocking to a three-hour long dose of loud, mad music from the cult performers. Driving the LPU crowd crazy, the band which had DJ on bass guitar, Benny on keys, Hitesh on guitar, Ashwani on drums, Rakesh on dholak and Prashant on tabla, played popular hits like “dhoom pichuk dhoom”, “maeri”, “tu hi meri zindagi” and the numbers like “Sohneya” and “Mehfuz” from their new album “Mehfuz”. Into their 11th year, the city enjoyed their music as much as the madness with lead singer Palash pulling up the “vridh adhyapakgan” and talking to the students, making them sing his songs and flash their mobile phones in the air. The band came out with popular Bollywood and Punjabi numbers but a bit of fun was stolen away due to the fact that quite a major chunk of the performance was given away to covers. Excerpt of The Tribune’s interview with lead vocalist of the band Palash Sen:
How does it feel performing at Jalandhar ? Great. The last time we performed was two years ago at the Apeejay College of Fine Arts and this time too it was a huge crowd. You’ve grown your hair. What’s the reason for your changed look? “Katwane ka samay nahi milaa” (laughs). No it’s nothing intentional, the long hair looked nice so I let them stay. Euphoria has been together for the past 10 years. What’s the secret? I guess we are sincere and believe in what we are doing. We respect each other and our audience and connect well with them. Does your culture help you understand your audience better? It sure does. I am half Bengali, half Dogri and my wife’s Punjabi. This adds to a better understanding of the people and music at large. Any Bollywood projects in the pipeline? Yep, we have a movie called “Mumbai Cutting” which has Euphoria on the score and me in the lead in the film. Then there are other movies like “Dhoondte Reh Jaoge” and “Harpal”. We are also working on a green album on world Environment. |
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Seminar on Punjab and Sikh history research
Amritsar, March 19 These views were expressed by Prof Prithipal Singh Kapur, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Guru NDU, while delivering his keynote address during the inaugural session of the three-day international seminar on "debates and trends in Punjab and Sikh historical research since independence", organised by the department of history at the university premises here today. The Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi and north-western regional centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Chandigarh, sponsored the seminar. More than 80 scholars from USA, UK, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are participating. Prof. Kapur said the works of Prof Grewal on "Sikhs of Punjab" published by Cambridge and "The Sikhs" published by the Oxford University Press, have added new dimensions to our understanding of the history of Punjab and Sikhs. He said with this, Dr. Grewal becomes the first methodological historian of the Sikhs. Dr. Jai Rup Singh, vice-chancellor of the Central University of Punjab, inaugurated the seminar while Prof JS Grewal, Dr. Bhagwan Josh, professor of History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Prof. Gurinder Singh Maan, department of religious studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Prof Indu Banga and Prof John, head, department of religion, Colombia University, Columbia, USA also spoke on the occasion. Dr. Jai Rup Singh, in his inaugural address, lamented that Punjabis were not preserving the relics of the past. He emphasised that the oral history project should be revived to preserve the memories of the fading past. Three books, "Making of the Historian" by Dr. Indu Banga and Ms Karmajit Kaur; "A Study of Guru Granth Sahib" and "The Sikhs Ideology, Institutions and Identity" by JS Grewal, were also released on the occasion.
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Head constable held taking bribe
Hoshiarpur, March 19 According to police sources, complainant Kulwinder Singh got financed a tractor from the State Bank of India, Ghogra branch, in February, 2008. He gave the tractor on lease to Joginder Singh of Attalgarh village, Mukerian. It was mutually decided between them that Joginder Singh would pay the bank instalments to clear the loan and would also provide Rs 5,000 monthly rent to Kulwinder Singh. But Joginder Singh neither paid bank instalments nor provided monthly rent of Rs 5000 to Kulwinder Singh. When he failed in getting the amount, Kulwinder Singh filed a complaint in this regard with Mukerian police station. The complaint was marked to head constable Baldev Singh, who allegedly took Rs 1,000 from the complainant to take action against Joginder Singh. Later, to proceed further Baldev Singh demanded Rs 15,000 from Kulwinder Singh. Instead of accepting the demand of Baldev Singh, Kulwinder Singh approached the SSP, Hoshiarpur. Later, on the instructions of the SSP, a trap was laid to catch the head constable. The currency notes bearing signatures of CIA inspector Surjit Singh were recovered from him. The police has booked Baldev Singh under the PC Act. — OC
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‘Gymkhana club located on leased govt land’
Dharmendra Joshi/TNS
Jalandhar, March 19 The DRO forwarded the information to Col Sohi provided to the former by honorary secretary of the Jullundhur Gymkhana Club Satish Thakur. The one-page letter forwarded to Col Sohi states that as per revenue records, the land on which the club is functioning is entered as residence of the commissioner, Jalandhar division, Jalandhar. Further, the letter stated that a part of the land had been leased out to the Society Jullundhur Gymkhana Club a long time back and the lease money is being paid by the club annually. While the letter did not state about the lease money, however, it was mentioned that the same had been paid up to March 31, 2009. Meanwhile, acting on a complaint filed by Col Sohi, the state information commission, Punjab, issued notice to the public information officer (PIO) of Jalandhar divisional commissioner S.R. Ladhar-cum-ex-officio president of the Gymkhana club to explain on March 19 why he was not a public authority under section 2 (h) of the RTI Act. State information commissioner Lt-Gen P.K. Grover (retired) directed the commissioner’s PIO to come prepared with the copies of necessary documents on March 19 at 2 pm. The commissioner’s PIO was directed to bring the copies of financial statement of the last two years that is 2006-07 and 2007-08, relevant documents pertaining to the ownership of the structure and land where the Gymkhana club has been housed and details of concession given by the state government amounting to indirect funding.
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Commissioner reviews poll arrangements
Gurdaspur, March 19 A meeting held at Panchayat Bhavan was aimed at providing synergy to officials for election and the Police Department
for organising a free, fair and peaceful poll in the district. The Gurdaspur parliamentary seat comprises 10 Assembly segments, of which nine are in this district while the Sri Hargobindpur segment falls in Hoshiarpur district. Ladhar directed assistant returning officers and police officials to implement directions issued by the Election Commission from time to time. The Commissioner said swift registration of complaints pertaining to violations of the model code of conduct must be made with the offices of Deputy Commissioners, the SSP, the Assistant Returning Officers and the DSPs. Stressing on transparency, Ladhar said the media and the people must be provided with complete information. He directed the election officials to maintain a proper account of expenditure borne during the elections. Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Neelkanth said in all 1,713 main polling stations and four auxiliary polling stations would be operational. He said special cells had been formed at Gurdaspur, Batala and Pathankot to impart training in the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) among duty officials and public. Counting for nine Assembly segments of this district would take place here. |
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Three held with stolen motorcycles
Amritsar, March 19 The police authorities in a press note issued here today said the thieves were nabbed on a tip-off. A police party laid a naka where Sunny Sharma was held and a stolen Hero Honda Passion motorcycle recovered from him. During questioning Sunny was unable to produce the registration certificate of the vehicle. In another case, a police party had laid a naka near the Softy chowk and arrested Manpreet Singh and Sanjiv Kumar with a stolen Hero Honda Passion Plus motorcycle. Cases under sections 379 and 411 of the IPC have been registered. |
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It’s me, not Majithia: Ajnala
Kapurthala, March 19 Talking to mediapersons here today, Dr Ajnala said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal had put an end to these rumours by reiterating his name as the SAD candidate from Khadoor Sahib. Answering a query, he accused the Capt Amarinder Singh-led previous Congress government for not taking any step to increase power generation to meet future requirements. Ajnala said he would contest elections on the plank of development by the Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD-BJP government. Former Transport Minister Raghbir Singh, BJP leaders Narottam Dev Ratti, Hira Lal Dhir and Sham Sunder Aggarwal were present on the occasion. |
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Gang opens fire to grab plot
Tarn Taran, March 19 Plot owner Jagir Singh alleged that the accused not only fired to terrorise them but also demolished the room constructed on the plot. The police has registered a case under sections 336, 47, 427, 148, 149 and 506 of the IPC, but no arrest has been made so far. SHO Sohan Singh said efforts are on to grab the culprits. This is the second such incident in the town in a month which has terrorised the residents.
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