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‘Night Domination’ to curb thefts at night
City boy ranked second in Punjab PMET
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Naripjeet fails to qualify
Woman dies, doctor accused of negligence
Man down with rabies bites three before being referred to PGI
Labourers rally for free plots
One held for firing in marriage ceremony
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‘Night Domination’ to curb thefts at night
Bathinda, June 15 Though the PCR wing of the Bathinda police has already been patrolling at night, but as a special feature of the drive, now senior officers will also keep surveillance over the patrolling staff from 11 pm to 4 am every night. Police has started the drive on a trial basis, which will continue for a fortnight (June 14-June 30). If the number of theft cases remain high during these days, it could be stretched further. A.S. Waraich, Superintendent of Police (Traffic and Security), Bathinda, is the moderator for the mission. He has chalked out the plans for the drive in detail. The city has been divided into 30 beats, where round-the-clock vigil will go on and cops would perform their duties in shifts. Focusing over night patrolling, every night, a gazetted officer of the police along with two Station House Officers (SHOs) will check the functioning of the operation. Any lapse would be the responsibility of the cop who is in charge of that particular beat and would have to face the consequences. In this operation, police will keep a tab on all ‘10-number’ declared miscreants. As part of the implementation of the directions issued under the mission, cops have started gathering details of residents of the slum areas. Moreover, all those who dress like godmen in saffron robes and are seen sitting near the bus stand, Municipal Corporation office and railway junction, also have been interrogated. Meanwhile, city police has been conducting ‘nukkar’ (street corner) meetings with residents in various localities to request them not to leave their house unmanned and in seclusion at night. They are urging people to inform them, if they have to leave the house locked, so that that some security arrangement could be made. Police has been urging all bank authorities not to engage security guards in any other job like that of a helper etc. In the same way, security guards have also been urged not to leave the allotted place. Further, a sub-inspector or inspector rank cop will check the security arrangements and make entry in a register kept there. According to information available, the district police have registered about 200 theft cases in the first five months of the year 2009. During the past one month, there was hardly a day when cases of theft or snatching was not reported to the police. Confirming the details, A.S. Waraich, SP (Traffic and Security), said, “We have launched this drive named ‘Night Domination’, to curb the menace and nab the thieves and infuse a sense of security among the common people.” |
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City boy ranked second in Punjab PMET
Bathinda, June 15 Sharing his success with the TNS today, Anjul said, “I took two years coaching from Kota for securing a seat for the MBBS. My parents are doctors and I always wanted to get into the same profession.” He did not drop a single year after doing his class XII from St Xaviers’ School, in which he secured 91.2 per cent. Anjul said, “Coaching does make a difference. But it is not only coaching that leads one to success. Those who want to take up the medical profession have to start working hard from class IX. There are many, who despite taking coaching for two years, fail to crack the PMET. The reason is that their basics are not clear.” Apart from being ranked second in the state PMT, he is ranked 85th in the CBSE-PMT. He said he would get an admission in a Delhi college with this rank. Meanwhile, Shubhneek Kaur Dhillon, a student of a DAV school here, has been ranked first in the entrance test for Guru Ramdas Medical College, Amritsar. This was stated by her zoology professor P.K. Sadhu. Besides, she has been ranked 17th in the Punjab-PMET, which was held yesterday. Shubhneek told TNS today, “There are two entrance tests in Punjab for the MBBS. One of them is for Guru Ramdas Medical College, Amritsar. I scored 167 marks out of 180 in the test for the Amritsar college. I scored 684 marks out of 800 in the Punjab PMET conducted by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. I have also been selected in Karnataka Medical College. I have yet to decide upon the one I would be joining.” |
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Naripjeet fails to qualify
Bathinda, June 15 She says she had to bear the consequences of the negligence shown by the university. Its staff took 45 minutes to replace her question paper after it was found that two pages were missing from her question paper but no extra time was given to her, Naripjeet alleged. “I scored 344 marks out of 800 in the Punjab-PMET. At least 50 per cent marks are needed to secure a seat in the MBBS in Punjab and I was confident about getting more than that until I saw my question paper with missing sheets yesterday. I did not want to attempt the question paper as it was incomplete. But when I saw that no help was being provided, I started solving it,” she said. It may be noted that Shaminder Singh Gill, vice-chancellor of the university, on Sunday said that only 10 questions were missing and the sheet was replaced in no time
while Naripjeet had claimed that at least 30 questions were missing. — TNS |
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Woman dies, doctor accused of negligence
Barnala, June 15 The surgery was performed by Dr Rakesh Kumar on Saturday. The family members accused the doctor of keeping them in the dark about the critical condition of Paramjeet Kaur who had to be operated upon twice. On Sunday, Paramjeet's condition became critical and the doctor referred her to DMC Ludhiana. Her family members instead took her to the Civil Hospital in Barnala. When they reached the Civil Hospital, Barnala, at about 3 pm in the afternoon, the doctors there declared her dead. Stung, Paramjeet Kaur's family members demanded legal action against Dr.Rakesh Kumar and registration of a criminal case against him. When the matter was reported to the police, inspector at the city police station Harbhajan Singh reached the Civil Hospital. He later stated that the police has started investigation against the doctor on the basis of the statement given by Paramjeet Singh, the deceased's relative. On the other hand, Dr Rakesh Kumar, who has been accused of negligence, said the allegations levelled against him are baseless. The doctor said that Paramjeet Kaur had died not because she underwent surgery twice or due to negligence on his part. According to the doctor, the patient had died due to brain haemorrhage.The acting SMO, Barnala, Suresh Singhal, stated that a medical board has been constituted to conduct the postmortem of the deceased woman and only after the postmortem will it become possible to ascertain the reasons for the death of Paramjeet
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Pollution check
Bathinda, June 15 The GNDTP has become a major source of air pollution here for the past 35 years. The units 1 and 2 were renovated a few years ago, but the pollution was continuing because of the two leftover units. The chief engineer (thermal) of the GNDTP today said that renovation and modernisation (R&M) of the unit 4 would be taken up first in September and would be completed in nine months. The work has been assigned to the BHEL that would undertake R&M of the unit 3 following stabilisation of the unit 4. Thereafter, the ash pollution level of these units will also come within the prescribed limits. He claimed that the Suspended Particulars Matter (SPM) level of all the four units was mostly within the permissible limits prescribed by the Punjab Pollution Control Board. The chief engineer said that sometimes due to high percentage of ash in coal, the pollution level of units 3 and 4 tends to go beyond the prescribed norms but concrete steps have always been made by the GNDTP to minimise the ash pollution level. He clarified that a cement manufacturer and brick kilns lift a part of the fly ash regularly as per the contract and the rest of it is dumped in the ash slurry pond area in the thermal plant. No dry fly ash is given to anybody for dumping in public places, he claimed. |
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Man down with rabies bites three before being referred to PGI
Bathinda, June 15 As per the details of the case, the rabies infected youth, Ram Chand of Rajasthan, was sighted barking in the Grain Market here, this morning. Later, he started running here there and bit a rickshaw puller. Then he attacked two more persons, who fled the spot at once. On receiving the information, volunteers of an NGO, Sahara Jan Seva reached the spot and caught hold of him. President of the NGO, Vijay Goyal, said, “We are now trying to locate the other persons, whom he bit today.” The man was then taken to the Civil Hospital where after taking the blood samples, he was referred to the PGIMER. When contacted, assistant civil surgeon, IB Aggarwal said, “The case was diagnosed as that of hydrophobia and his chances of survival were observed to be less. Even then, to save his life, we have referred his case to the PGIMER.” Though the health authorities performed their job, Bathinda Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities and the department of animal husbandry are still being callous in this regard. Kamal Kant, the executive officer of the BMC, said, “For the last couple of years, considering the ban over the killing of stray dogs, we did not take any step.” When asked about if drives were launched to catch the stray dogs, he replied in the negative. Talking over the phone, deputy director, department of animal husbandry, Surinder Singla, expressed his inability to take any step in this regard. “I am aware about the vaccinations for dogs, but we are running short of funds. Any medicine for these small animals is always costlier than those for big animals. Moreover, no direction has been given to us for vaccinating the stray dogs, so how can we take a step on our own,” he quipped. |
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Labourers rally for free plots
Mansa, June 15 State president of the Khet Mazdoor Union, Zora Singh Nasrali, addressed the meeting today at Bhaini Bagha village. Addressing the meeting, he said the Punjab government had not fulfilled its promise of providing free plots to labourers. Zora criticised the state government for putting the labourers, who had genuine demands, behind the bars. He demanded that arrested labourers and their leaders should be released soon. Zora further informed that they have been organising meetings of labourers in different districts of the state including Bathinda, Muktsar, Jalandhar, Sangrur, Moga and
Mansa. |
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One held for firing in marriage ceremony
Hanumangarh/Abohar, June 15 As per the information, Zakir Hussain was arrested in connection with firing during a marriage ceremony in Peerkamdia, which left about 12 persons injured over some old enmity last week. Meanwhile, Virender Jat of Khinania and Subhash Nayak of Sheodanpura were arrested on the complaint of Kanwaljit Singh, JEN in the Panchayati Raj department, alleging that these persons had misappropriated NREGA funds. — OC
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