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Axe falls on Cong rebels
Cops crack murder mystery
Alert sounded as 10 fall ill after eating khoya sweets
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Dengue larvae found in 10 samples
Pest management tips for cotton farmers
SAD (A) flays govt for ‘harassing’ medical officer
Goods train derails
Lovers end life by jumping into canal
Youths held for theft
Dera followers meet under tight security
College teachers stage dharna
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Axe falls on Cong rebels
Fazilka, August 3 The suspended Congress leaders included former Jalalabad market committee chairman Gurbir Singh Sandhu Lalli, former chairman, Block Samiti, Baldev Raj Tarewala, District Congress Committee vice-president Sherbaj Singh Sandhu and senior Congress leader Jagdish Chander of village Sahiwala. They have been suspended from the party by acting PPCC president Mohinder Singh Kaypee on charges of allegedly opposing Congress candidate Hans Raj Josan during the election campaign. The communiqué of suspension was received today. Former Market Committee chairman Gurbir Singh Sandhu who wields clout in political circles had deserted the Congress two years back to join SAD on the eve of assembly polls in 2007. He had returned to the Congress fold on the eve of Lok Sabha polls this year. He is considered to be a bete noire of Josan. Of the other three suspended party leaders, Baldev Raj Tarewala and Sherbaz Singh were considered very close to Josan while he was the state forest minister. Meanwhile, polling in Fazilka are of the Jalalabad Assembly constituency was by and large peaceful. No untoward incident was reported during polling. Reports of heavy polling in the Rai Sikh dominated border villages in Fazilka sub-division have been received. According to the SDM-cum-returning officer, Jalalabad, Rajiv Prashar, about 80 per cent polling was reported in the constituency. Congress candidate Hans Raj Josan, while talking to The Tribune, alleged large-scale booth capturing by SAD activists. He alleged that SAD candidate Sukhbir Badal himself “raided” a polling booth in village Ojhanwali and captured it with his He charged the Akali Dal with murdering democracy and said the Election Commission should declare today's polling as null and void and conduct fresh poll. SDM-cum-Returning officer Rajiv Prashar, however, claimed that polling was free, fair and peaceful. |
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Hanumangarh/Abohar, August 3 The case had figured twice in Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha. Seven teams including one headed by an additional SP had been investigating but the police finally concluded that the neighbour Jangid aged about 26 was alone responsible for the gruesome killings. An action committee had spearheaded agitation to express anguish over the laxity of the police. This had led to lathicharge by the police during a call for Nohar bandh on July 26. More than 50 persons including 10 cops were injured during the clashes. SP Mohan Singh Nitharwal during a visit to the Nohar police station late last night said Jangid has been arrested on the basis of "circumstantial evidence". The police will be going ahead with narco test of the suspect. —
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Alert sounded as 10 fall ill after eating khoya sweets
Sriganganagar/Abohar, August 3 Notably in a joint operation the health department officials and the district police had recently found that milk powder that is normally used for preparing ice-cream was being misused for preparing artificial milk near Sriganganagar. The raid also detected that khoya too was being prepared using artificial methods as there was heavy demand from sweet sellers on the eve of Rakhi festival. Sriganganagar is known as a major khoya supplier to Abohar also during the festival season. A large quantity of milk, bags of milk powder and khoya had been seized last week. As per information, one Madan Lal, son of Bhagirath, his wife Shakuntala Devi, mother Rukma Devi, son Surinder Kumar, daughters Poonam and Sarla, kids Golu and Pintu along with Lichhma wife of Chanan Ram, Krishna Devi wife of Bal Ram had reportedly eaten ‘kalakand’ that had been purchased only last night. All of the started vomiting and fell ill, informed Prabhu Ram, a local. All of them were rushed to the Civil Hospital. The doctors said they were out of danger. Samples of the sweets have been taken. Farmer beaten to death: An elderly farmer Banta Singh was beaten to death by five persons in his field in village 9G near Sriganganagar last night. His son Richhpal Singh lodged an FIR today naming the accused. The police also confirmed having recovered bodies of Ramandeep (18) and Ram Kumar (20) who had slipped in water reservoir in Rawatsar late last evening.
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Dengue larvae found in 10 samples
Bathinda, August 3 Commenting on the situation, Dharampal Singh Sekhon, district health officer, said health teams visited around 25 houses in urban localities to check the presence of dengue larvae. He said the larvae were found in around five of the inspected houses. He claimed that despite favourable weather conditions for the breeding of larvae, there were only 15 confirmed cases this year so far against the 55 confirmed cases of dengue during the last year. District epidemiologists, while expressing concern over the poor sanitary conditions prevailing in the city, said: "The delayed rains may have averted the impending danger in terms of seasonal diseases but the municipal corporation has failed to take any 'concrete' step to improve sanitary conditions." "Slums, being the high-risk areas, have been on the constant vigil of anti-larvae wing as they have sprayed almost every nook and cranny of the area," the DHO added. He said eight spray teams have been deployed while 11 anti-larval and vector surveillance teams have been deployed in the city. The health authorities further requested the residents to still take all necessary precautions so that the situation remained under control.
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Pest management tips for cotton farmers
Abohar, August 3 While making this observation, Dr VK Yadav, Director, Integrated Pest Management, said during inaugural speech at the “Season long training programme on cotton” here on Monday that the Union Ministry of Agriculture has sponsored a programme, one each in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to enlighten officials and farmers on different aspects of integrated pest management (IPM) of cotton crop, from sowing to harvesting. Agricultural development officers (ADOs) from all cotton growing districts of the state are participating in the month-long programme in the Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET) here. Intriguingly, speeches made by most of the experts were not much audible as the CIPHET sound system as usual failed to work. Informing that the Centre had launched “strengthening and modernization of pest management” scheme through 31 centres located in 28 states, Dr Yadav said so far, 25,385 millions of bio-control agents and sufficient amount of bio-pesticides have been produced and released by the centers for the benefit of farmers. This will result in considerable decline in chemical pesticides consumption. Farmers Field Schools (FFS) are also being conducted, he informed. Dr RK Gupta, in-charge CIPHET, Dr PK Arora from the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), BS Chahal, chief agricultural officer, Dr Jasvir Singh, Training Coordinator, IPM, and Buta Singh, Technical Officer from Jalandhar, also spoke during the inaugural session.
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SAD (A) flays govt for ‘harassing’ medical officer
Barnala, August 3 Dhanaula said Harshinder Kaur had been told by the government to get herself relieved from her place of posting at Patiala as she had given a statement against the government in Geneva. He said in place of punishing Dr Harshinder Kaur, the Badal government should appreciate her for delivering a lecture against female foeticide at the international level. He said all the allegations leveled against her were baseles. Dhanaula said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was making a hue and cry that the Centre was discriminating against Punjab on various issues including separate SGPC for Haryana. But what was he doing in the case of Dr Harshinder Kaur, he asked Badal to tell the people of the state. He also alleged that the Badal government had initiated action against Harshinder Kaur under the pressure of the BJP and the RSS. Terming Harshinder Kaur as “Punjab Di Dhee” (Daughter of Punjab) Dhanaula assured her that the SAD (A) was
with her in this hour of crisis and would extend all support to her.
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Fazilka, August 3 According to railways traffic inspector Vijay Sehgal, special railway staff and cranes were pressed into service. The cranes lifted the sleepers from the derailed wagons. The jacks were fitted to put the wagon back on rail track. —
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Lovers end life by jumping into canal
Bathinda, August 3 Before plunging into the canal, they consumed poison. Bottles of water and the poison were recovered from the bank of the canal. The two were unmarried and were in their early twenties. The boy was a Muslim while the girl was from a Sikh family. According to details available, the boy, called Lakhwinder alias Kaka by villagers, and Mandeep Kaur were in love. Their relationship had been continuing for the past one year. The boy was the driver of a milk van while the girl was a student at a stitching centre in the village. Both went missing since Saturday. Failing in their search, the kin of the girl lodged a report that she was missing on Sunday at the Kotfatta police station. At night, some passerby heard shouts about a boy drowning in the canal near village Poohla. He immediately jumped into the canal and pulled him out. Other onlookers rushed him to the Civil Hospital, where doctors termed his condition as serious. The boy died this morning at the Civil Hospital in Bathinda. Meanwhile, volunteers of Sahara Jan Seva, pulled out the body of a girl floating at the same place in the canal. Later, the body was identified as that of Mandeep Kaur of Maesarkhana. Recording the statements of the family members of the deceased,the Nathana police, within whose jurisdictions the bodies were found, initiated inquest proceedings under section 174 of the CrPC. It has been learnt that the lovers had jumped into the canal on a motorcycle which could not be traced as the families did not mention the motorcycle to the police. So no search for the vehicle was undertaken. The kin of the deceased opted to remain tight-lipped in front of the media, terming it as their family affair. However, sources in the village Maesarkhana informed that both families were aware of their relationship. Once, the girl's family had even manhandled the boy. Recently, the girl's family had recovered a mobile phone from her possession, which was gifted by the boy.
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Bathinda, August 3 It may be mentioned that in a previous case, Ajay Kumar along with one of his accomplice was arrested in a house burglary, which was committed at Thermal Colony on July 4. At that time, police had recovered gold ornaments, computer, DVD player, bonds and cash total amounting worth Rs 95,900 from their possession. SHO Thermal police station, Jagdish Singh said, "Both the accused are on police remand and we are hopeful of solving other such cases during their interrogation." — TNS
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Dera followers meet under tight security
Bathinda, August 3 According to details, there was a congregation of Dera followers at the village. Meanwhile, some radical Sikhs assembled at Gurudwara Gurusar in Mehraj village located in Phul sub-division. Taking preventive step, the district administration deployed police force in large numbers and turned the Dera and its surroundings into a cantonment. To prevent any untoward incident, a superintendent of police, Amrik Singh Waraich, two DSPs, Baljeet Singh and Surinder Singh, six station house officers and about 100 other rank (OR) including head constables and constables were deputed there. Police sources informed that a DSP visited the Gurudwara Gurusar to find out the strategy of the radical Sikhs. Sources in Dera followers said that they had slated the congregation for Sunday, but the senior police officials urged them to postpone the programme for Monday, as the police was unable to provide security cover to all places, selected for the Dera congregation. When contacted, the SSP Bathinda, Ashish Chaudhary said, "It was a preventive effort. It passed off peacefully."
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Bathinda, August 3 The teachers were protesting against the delay on the part of state government in issuing the necessary notification for implementing the new UGC scales for the universities, government colleges and private-aided college teachers as recommended by the UGC and notified by the ministry of human resources development, government of India. Addressing the teachers, district president of Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers' Union and office-bearer of Punjab Federation of University and College Teachers' Organisation (PFUCTO), Bathinda zone, Prof NK Gosain appealed to the state government to implement the new scales at the earliest. Prof Varesh Gupta, president DAV College unit, threatened that if the required notification was not issued immediately, the teachers across the state would stop work for an hour on August 7 and would also hold dharnas on the day at their respective institutions. Similar dharnas were also organised at the local Government Rajindra College, Punjabi University department of post graduate studies, BEd College and law department of the Punjabi University regional centre, Bathinda. — TNS
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