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Tackling Tiredness
Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat
Rise in price of sugar makes it sour
Know your Artiste
Young World
LPU’s meeting with students today
Zombie Computers
Narcotics seized from chemist’s shop
Robbers attack trader, snatch Rs 7,000
WAC hockey tourney begins
A clarification
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Residents seek ROB through hoarding
Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 7 The welfare societies of Shiv Nagar, Mathura Nagar, Ashok Vihar, Kot Baba Deep Singh Nagar, Preet Nagar, Dada Colony, Aman Nagar, Kamal Park, Kailash Nagar, Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Sodal Nagar, Royal Club Ram Nagar, Globe Colony and Gobind Nagar have put up a hoarding beside Ram Nagar crossing for the construction of an ROB or RUBs at Gazi Gulla and Ram Nagar crossings. Both Gazi Gulla and Ram Nagar railway crossings are located less than half a kilometre from each other. While the Jalandhar-Ferozepur line is located at Gazi Gulla crossing, the Jalandhar-Amritsar track is situated at the Ram Nagar crossing. Over 150 trains pass through these crossings. Thousands of residents of these localities had to suffer a lot to cross these crossings as on an average a train passes through these railway crossings every 10 minutes and the crossings remain closed for normal traffic most of the time. While an ROB is being constructed at Domoria, ROBs are more required at Kishan Pura, Devi Talab, Sodal, Gazi Gulla and Ram Nagar railway crossings. People do not feel much difficulty to go from one side to other from Kishan Pura to Railway Road and vice versa as the Domoria RUB already exists and people face problem for about a fortnight on an average in a year as water accumulates there during rainy season. Thousands of persons residing across these railway crossings have been demanding an ROB at any of the railway crossings of Kishan Pura, Devi Talab, Sodal or Gazi Gulla and Ram Nagar. Keeping in mind the problems being faced by thousands of residents, BJP MLA from North Jalandhar had promised during campaigning in previous assembly elections that he would get constructed an ROB at any of these railway crossings but nothing was done so far in this regard. Now fed up with all the political parties, the welfare societies of several localities situated across these railway crossings have jointly put up the hoarding to draw attention of the politicians in view of the Lok Sabha elections for the requirement of an ROB or two RUBs at the Ram Nagar and Gazi Gulla crossings. Major problems being faced by the residents of these localities in the absence of any ROB or RUBs have been mentioned on the hoarding prominently. The wastage of time, money, petrol and diesel of thousands of school-going children and other persons is one of the main problems faced by these residents. Besides, the health of these residents is also being adversely affected due to air and noise pollution caused by vehicles stranded at these railway crossings during the passage of trains. The residents expressed hope that the candidates trying their luck from the Jalandhar (SC) parliamentary seat will take note of their genuine problem and the victorious candidate will do the needful for getting constructing an ROB or RUBs at the earliest
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Candidates take to relaxation therapy
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 7 Perhaps that is the reason why the candidates have been resorting to relaxation therapy at the end of each day. Says Congress candidate from the Anandpur Sahib constituency Ravneet Singh Bittu, “It is quite late in the night that I reach my place. But the first thing that I do is immersing my feet in lukewarm, saline water. It really helps me get rid of fatigue. I remember having seen my grandfather do that quite often.” The grandson of former Chief Minister Beant Singh adds, “I am planning to get some massage done on a regular basis. I have heard it is quite effective in rejuvenation of stressed out muscles.” Since it had been the longest campaign by the candidates contesting from this part of the state that would go to the polls in the last phase, many agreed that had been rather more stressful. Parvinder Singh, an aide of SAD Jalandhar candidate Hans Raj Hans, says, “It has been more than three months since Hans has been following the same rigorous routine. Though he has become quite habitual to it, he tries to relax himself listening to his favourite Sufi music each night, morning and even along his trips.” Anandpur Sahib SAD candidate Dr Daljeet Singh Cheema, however, differs. “A cool temperament is so natural to me. You will have never seen me excited or worried. I do not need any relaxation therapy at all. I am used to such a hectic routine even at the CM house,” he said.
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Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat
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Rise in price of sugar makes it sour
Jalandhar, May 7 An essential commodity, sugar virtually has become out of reach of the common man. Till six months back sugar was available at a nominal price of Rs 20. The sudden increase of Rs 10 in its price does not seems to be going down well with the common man, especially the housewives. “Earlier we use to buy 5 kg sugar for Rs 100 a month, but now the same quantity is available at Rs 150. The sudden increase has reduced my monthly savings”, said Ram Prakash, a local tea vendor. The grudge against the steep hike in the essential commodities does not end here as loose tealeaves have also witnessed a sharp increase in its prices. “Earlier loose tea leaves were available at Rs 90 per kg, whereas now they is available at Rs 140 per kg”, he added. Even pulses like arhar and Kabuli chane have also witnessed an increase of Rs 10 each as compared to their previous price of Rs 44 per kg. On the other hand, the price of lady’s finger has come down to Rs 32 as compared to its previous price of Rs 40 per kg.
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Know your Artiste Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 7 He is mostly popular as the baldy, moronic Chanan Parkash who would throw people into bouts of laughter with his innocent, seemingly unintended, natural humour. Born and brought up at Delhi, Bhardwaj had a knack for comedy right since he was a kid. Getting the occasional Rs 2 from his father’s friends for mimicking at family gatherings, the encouragement worked wonders for his confidence in himself. He took to acting on stage in class VI as he played Nizamuddin Sakka in a school play. Shifting to Jalandhar when he was in classs VIII, he held on to theatre and acting even in college. His role as Maulana in a play “Zindabad, Murdabad” is one of his personal favourites. A college performance as “Campa Cola” in a fancy dress competition first brought Bhardwaj to the notice of Director Surinder Sahni. “I did a skit for his programme ‘Fuljharian’. That can be called my first venture for Doordarshan.” But the real breakthrough came when he was seen playing a role in the play “Kaun Gali Gayo Shyam” by Director Harjit Singh, whom he also considers his guru. Chanan Parkash was born and so was another star in the galaxy of Punjabi comedians. The bald dumb-wit did for the masses of Punjab what years of intelligent humour couldn’t. “I have had old people coming to me saying they would name their grandsons after my character. What more appreciation could I ask for.” Chanan got a role in a Hindi film. The film was Smita Patil’s posthomously-released “Waaris” and the only hope for Bhardwaj in Bollywood. "I was playing a village photographer who is bribed by hero Raj Kiran to get the heroine’s (Smita Patil) photograph,” says Bhardwaj. Bollywood dreams might have turned sour but he kept featuring in endless series and skits. He went on to feature in many Punjabi movies like “Vaisakhi”, “Zorawar”, “Nalayak” and serials like “Mahir-e-Talakh”, “Kachh Diyan Mundran”, “Raunak Mela”, “Vachan”, “Ulta Pulta”, “No Tension” and his own comedy production “Satrangi”. Bhardwaj has also worked for the famous radio series “Hawa Mahal” and many other radio ventures. The perfectionist that he is, he has been mistaken for a beggar with a prized “atthanni” being dropped in by a passesr-by only to be embarrassed later on noticing the camera. But he considers it a compliment. Narrating another incident he said, “Once during the shooting of film ‘Vaisakhi’, in which I was playing a servant, when I sat down to rest in a field, a labourer with a bidi came to me and said ‘saalya ja apne khetan ch kamm kar, etthe ki baitha ain. (go and work in your fields, why are you sitting here).” Talking about DD, he says, “Home productions have grown too limited and many private productions have started which has not been doing too much of a good for DD.” Asked about the secret of his youthful looks even at this age, he says, “Exercise and probably the fact that I make sure I keep laughing, no matter how I feel.” In his message to the audience, he says, “I would like to request the people to sincerely promote art. Talent needs an outlet in Punjab and only sincere efforts can ensure that.” Bhardwaj, who has two daughters Rebecca and Shipra and son Zibran Khalil, lives with wife Kamal in Jalandhar and continues to work for DD. His upcoming projects are a video CD and a Punjabi feature film.
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Students pledge to cast vote
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 7 Talent fiesta
A talent fiesta for class VI to XII students was organised in Delhi Public School. Students participated in solo song competition in English and Hindi, Indian and western solo dance, instrumental and music and mime. Notable performance was mime depicting inhuman killing of birds and animals. Mothers Day
Mothers Day was celebrated in CJS Public School in which the mothers of chidren of pre-primary wing took part. Tiny tots presented a cultural programme for their mothers. A smart mother competition was held in which Nitika was crowned the winner. Annual day
Kendriya Vidyalaya-4, Jalandhar cantonment, celebrated its annual day. Students presented a cultural programme. Patriotic group songs and regional dances, including Haryanvi and garba dances, were a treat for all. The meritorious students were given prizes. First
prize
A team of Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar cantonment, comprising Mohit, Firozi and Shrey, participated in a three-day conference based on “Climate change in global warming” and bagged the first prize each in the all-India poster making competition. As many as 44 schools from across the country participated in the meeting which was organised by the Youth Forum on Climate and Global Warming at the Indian National Science Academy at New Delhi. Students of MGN Public School also participated in poster making competition and bagged the third prize. Tagore Week
Tagore Day Boarding Senior Secondary Public School, Model Town, celebrated Tagore Week on the birth anniversary of Guru Rabindranath Tagore. The celebrations commenced on May 1 and culminated on Thursday. Each day, students participated in different competitions which included singing, flower arrangement, quiz contest, poem recitation, dance competition, essay writing, mono acting and mimicry. The winners were given awards. Welcome ceremony
The Prem Chand Markanda SD College for Women, in association with the Punjab Sahitya Kala Academy, organised a welcome ceremony for Dr S.P. Gautam, Vice-Chancellor of Ruhelkhand University, Bareily (Uttar Pradesh). He said over a period of time education had witnessed a sea change and the role of teachers in transforming society had become all the more important. He was accompanied by former Vice-Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University Dr S.P. Singh and Arya Vidya Parishad Registrar Devender Nath Sharma. LPU signs MoU
Lovely Professional University has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with San Francisco State University ( SFSU), USA, thus strengthening its presence in the USA through its strategic partners. To sign this tie-up, Dr Barry Levine, head of the computer science department, was present. From the LPU, Chancellor Ashok Mittal signed the MOU to build strategic ties aimed at proliferation of international quality education in both the countries |
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LPU’s meeting with students today
Jalandhar, May 7 Chancellor Ashok Mittal said that even as no definite period had been decided for the purpose, notice had been issued on the website that the classes would not be conducted till further notice. He did not cite any reason for the same. Mittal said he had called a meeting with students tomorrow at 2 pm. Since most of the hostellers, who actually had been raising their voice, have already vacated the campus, the meeting is likely to be attended by the day scholars and members of the Punjab Students Union. The issues such as fee hike and power bills are likely to be discussed.
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Zombie Computers
The Internet has expanded from a phenomenon to a transformational infrastructure which has changed society in a drastic way. But with growing popularity of Internet services, the security threat has also increased. This has resulted in an increase in the number of targeted and sophisticated attacks on computers connected to Internet. One of them is zombie. A zombie computer or “drone” is a computer that has been secretly compromised by hacking tools which allow a third party to control the computer and its resources remotely. Crackers transform computers into zombies by using small programmes that exploit weaknesses in a computer’s operating system (OS). In order to infect a computer, the cracker must first get the installation programme to the victim. Crackers can do this through e-mail, peer-to-peer networks or even on a regular website. Meanwhile, the activated programme attaches itself to an element of the user’s operating system so that every time the user turns on his computer, the programme becomes active. Crackers don’t always use the same segment of an operating system’s initialising sequence, which makes detection tricky for the average user. The programme either contains specific instructions to carry out a task at a particular time or it allows the cracker to directly control the user’s Internet activity. Once a user’s computer is compromised, the cracker pretty much has free reign to do whatever he likes. Individual zombie computers have been used to store and transmit child pornography and other illegal materials. The most typical use of zombies is for widely disseminating spam. Many take control of computers as a method of phishing, which is where a cracker tries to uncover secret information, particularly identification information. Crackers might steal your credit card information or search through your files for other sources of profit. Crackers have been known to use zombie computers to commit click fraud. Click fraud refers to the practice of setting up a botnet to repeatedly click on a particular link. Since web advertisers usually pay sites a certain amount of money for the number of clicks an ad gets, the cracker could stand to earn quite a few dollars from fraudulent site visits. Sometimes a cracker uses a network <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm> of zombie computers <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm> to sabotage a specific website <http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm> or server. The sudden increase in traffic can cause the site to load very slowly for legitimate users. This kind of an attack is called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The list of DDoS attack victims includes some pretty major names. Microsoft suffered an attack from a DDoS called My Doom Preventing zombie computer attacks Keep your anti-spyware and anti-virus software current F
Use a firewall F
Delete spam F Avoid installing programmes from untrusted sources F
Ensure your passwords are difficult to guess F
Keep your operating system and webbrowser current with latest hotfixes F
Backup your system each week after clean scan. |
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Narcotics seized from chemist’s shop
Jalandhar, May 7 The team also raided the residence of the store owner and recovered a stock of medicines stored illegally. The store has been reportedly sealed by the Health Department. The store owner is said to have gone underground.
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Robbers attack trader, snatch Rs 7,000
Jalandhar, May 7 According to sources, the incident occurred when Kulbhushan of Saudan Gate was on the way to his home after fitting curtains at his client’s house in the Mithapur area. Some youths stopped him near the chowk seeking his help to locate their mobile phone. As he tried to help them, one of the youths attacked him. The assailants took Rs 7,000 and gold jewellery from him. The injured has been admitted to the Civil Hospital. A case has been registered.
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WAC hockey tourney begins
Jalandhar, May 7 The teams have been divided into two pools. Pool A comprises Adampur, Chandigarh and Suratgarh and pool B consists of Pathankot, Rajokri and Hindon teams. The Station Commander, Air Force Station, Adampur, Gp Capt P.W. Ambekar, inaugurated the championship.
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A clarification
Jalandhar, May 7 |
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to come down in the coming days as there has been an upward trend and a continuous rise in its price from the past one month. Traders are of the view that the sugar price will soar even more in the coming days.
An essential commodity, sugar virtually has become out of reach of the common man. Till six months back sugar was available at a nominal price of Rs 20. The sudden increase of Rs 10 in its price does not seems to be going down well with the common man, especially the housewives.
Jalandhar, May 7
Jalandhar, May 7
Hans Raj Hans (SAD): A greenhorn, this acclaimed singer is indeed a good crowd puller. Hans is trying to strike a chord with the voters through his emotional appeal. The celebrity status of this SAD-BJP alliance candidate is indeed an asset for him and he is banking upon the SAD-BJP achievements.
Surjeet Singh (BSP): A retired Divisional Forest Officer, Surjit Singh is seeking votes in the name of development from this reserved parliamentary constituency. Earlier, he contested elections as a BSP candidate from the Batala assembly seat in Gurdaspur. Surjeet is banking upon the pro-Dalit and pro-poor policies of BSP supremo Mayawati and canvassing in the name of the party.
Hans Raj Phabwan (CPI-M):
This candidate from Phabwan village from the Nurmahal assembly seat feels that no political party has till date worked for the interests of the poor and Dalits. He has served as a sarpanch of Phabwan village for a good 17 years. His foray into politics began way back in 1992. Earlier, he contested the general elections in the years 1992, 2004 and 2009 and assembly elections from Nurmahal also 1992.
Hari Mittar Bhadhan (Independent):
Trying his luck for the third time in the political arena is Hari Mittar Badhan, a ward helper from the local Sant Baba Kashmira Singh Charitable Hospital. Always an Independent, he contested the Kartarpur assembly elections and Zila Parishad elections from Jandu Singa zone-III. His vote plank is to provide employment to at least one member of every family if elected to power.
Mohinder Singh (Independent): This first-time Independent candidate is seeking votes in the name of raising the dwindling standard of education, especially in the government schools and colleges. A property dealer by profession, he aims to make the system accountable to the common man. His one grudge: “Politicians are not accessible once elected to power”.
Rakesh
Kumar Bhagat (Independent): This independent former councillor of ward number 5 (now ward number 23), near DAV College, has always been a social worker. His primary concern is equality in the society in the name of caste, religion, creed, sex and
colour.
Apart from these other Independent candidates in fray include Ashok Kumar, Jagjivan Ram Bharti, Nav Vikas, Rajinder Singh, Dr Rajinder Kumar, Vijay Hans and Sanjiv Kumar
Rahela.