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MBA students visit industry
Patiala, September 11 During the visit, faculty members Dr Ajit Singh and Prof Komaldeep Randhawa gave an insight into the supply chain management aspects of the industry and the MBA students also gathered knowledge about the nuances of production. The company’s general manager and engineers concerned also threw light on various aspects such as safety precautions, quality control measures, designing, HR management, etc. Group chairman and MD Amjad Ali interacted with the students imparting valuable tips through his professional expertise and simultaneously motivating them to make the most of the opportunity to gather as much knowledge as possible. According to principal, Dr DS Ubha, such industrial visits were instrumental for the overall development of the students and hence would be organised on a regular basis.
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Red Cross awakening camp at college
Patiala, September 11 Society coordinator and councillor Tanreet Kaur and Gurpreet Kaur, respectively, enlightened the students about principles and services of the Red Cross Society. They also selected 10 BCom 1st year students as their representative from the college. College Red Cross unit convener Anjana Bhatia expressed her gratitude to the resource persons and applauded their contributions in the field.
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Breach in Tangri river
Ambala, September 11 Till the filing of the report, water had entered the fields on the banks of the river. However, the inhabited area remained unaffected. The Deputy Commissioner and senior officials of the administration reached the spot to assess the situation. The DC said the situation was under control and there was no need to panic. A villager said water was overflowing into the fields since afternoon. When the breach increased by the evening, the villagers informed the police and the district administration.
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‘Project Arrow’ inaugurated
Patiala, September 11 The Patiala head post office has become one of the 25 post offices being brought under the “Project Arrow, phase III of India post” in Punjab with the new look and multipurpose counters. Prithvi Raj Kumar said the department of posts had introduced the “Project Arrow” to transform the existing India post infrastructure across the country. The project aims at revitalising the organisation, capitalising on its strength and recognising and dealing with the weak areas of the department by sustained, sincere and honest team efforts. Besides being upgraded and modernised with computerised multipurpose counters which has given the post office a swanky look, efforts have been made to improve customer service by training staff in customer relationship management and introduction of new services for faster and better service. Kumar said the project aimed at improving the quality of service by being IT enabled and also by providing better infrastructure with customer driven focus. The new services being introduced, including faster dispatch, delivery of mail, providing UPSC application forms, e-tickets, sale of gold coins, insurance and financial services to effectively face competition and to respond to market forces quickly and efficiently so that the department repositions itself to become self sufficient.
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Roof caves in due to rain
Bassi Pathana, September 11 Budh Raj told last night when they noticed that the material was falling from a part of the roof, they rushed out along with their children and in the meantime the roof collapsed. He said they could hardly save their lives but all their belongings were damaged. The neighbourers rushed for their help and provided them shelter. Various social organisations have demanded adequate compensation for them from the government. |
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Battle of Phillora commemorated
Patiala, September 11 A wreath was laid at the Cenotaph by Maj-Gen SH Kulkarni, General Officer Commanding, Black Elephant Division. Senior officials paid homage to martyrs, who sacrificed their lives in the battle. Kulkarni said during the Indo-Pak war of 1965, attack on Pakistan on Sialkot was launched on September 7 and 8. Phillora was captured on September 11. The battle was a hard-fought one with over 400 tanks slugging out in the area of 50 square kilometres. During the battle about 165 enemy tanks were destroyed by the Indian Army. Five officials and 64 other ranks of the Indian Army paid with their lives. Among them was Lt Col AB Tarapore, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
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Snapping of train couplings on rise
Kalka, September 11 Official railways sources said many cases of snapping of couplings in trains using the CBC had taken place in the recent months. They said the couplings had been designed by the Research and Design Standard Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow. The couplings have the carriage capacity of 8,000 tonnes. However, couplings have been snapping in moving trains due to increased tension and jerks. The sources confirmed that in the past six months such incidents had been reported in super-fast trains, including Shalimar Express and Amritsar Shatabdi, in which the CBC is being used. At least three such incidents have taken place on the Chandigarh-Kalka stretch which has a steep gradient. The railway sources confirmed that the traditional couplings - called “transition screw couplings” - with carriage capacity of 2,500 tonnes, which were used in almost all express trains, were safer and more effective. No such incident had been reported in trains where traditional transition screw couplings were being used. The sources added that the higher authorities of the railway must take note of the problem. Four more transformers for Kalka wards The UHBVN will soon install four transformers in different wards here. Official sources said three high-capacity transformers had been proposed to be installed in Kamla Nagar, Azad Colony and Adarsh Colony here. Another transformer is also proposed to be installed at Tagra Kali Ram village, near Bharat Nagar. Although the areas already have 100 kV transformers, three additional transformers of 100 kV capacity each would be installed there.
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City comes to a standstill
Ambala, September 11 According to the residents, it was the rainwater from the nearby Markanada river and Begna. The administration at about 2.30 pm stopped the flow of heavy vehicles in the area and permitted smaller vehicles to pass by. A few villages in the district also reported water entering into their fields and houses, however, there was no situation of alarm yet, claimed the district administration. Talking to TNS, Deputy Commissioner Sameer Pal Srow stated that all precautions had been taken to ensure that a flood like situation did not arise. Water pumps were also used by the administration at various places in the city, especially Sector 9 of HUDA to draw out water. The DC also held a meeting with officials of the Punjab irrigation department in Patiala yesterday to assess the situation of Ghaggar river. Vigil has also been intensified along the SYL canal area, which usually reports of a breach during heavy rains. Meanwhile, ex-MLA Naggal Jasbir Molour, who is hopeful for an INLD ticket from Ambala City, hired boats and along with his supporters also visited the effected waterlogged areas.
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Two electrocuted in Kalka
Kalka, September 11 The incident took place when Sharma was returning to his house. On the way, he could not notice a broken high tension wire lying in fields. He got severe shock of electricity and died on the spot. The scorched body was spotted this morning by a passerby who intimated the police. In another incident, Pritam, a lineman of the UHBVN, Kalka, got severe electric shock this evening during a repair work. Witnesses said Pritam was carrying out some maintenance work on an electric pole in Upper Mohalla, when the incident took place. He was rushed to Civil Hospital from where the doctors referred him to Govt Medical College and Hosptial, Sector-32, Chandigarh, in a critical condition. The reason behind the incident was yet to be ascertained, said official sources of the UHBVN.
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Man hurt as car rams into stationary truck
Mohali/Dera Bassi, September 11 The injured has been identified as Santosh Kumar, a resident of Mohali. The police said the incident took place when the car Santosh Kumar was travelling in hit a stationary truck loaded with iron rods on the railway overbridge. He was rushed to he GMCH-32 from where he was shifted to a private hospital in Mohali. His condition is said to be critical. Thugs on the run
The economic offence wing of the Mohali police has booked a thug couple under Sections 419, 468, 471, 420, 511 and 120B of the IPC for preparing bogus identity papers of Mohinder Singh, a retired area commander and his wife, Roopinder Kaur, to encash Rs 16 lakh invested in mutual funds and another Rs 29.5 lakh invested in mutual funds by Hari Singh, a former chief general manager of the Punjab and Sind Bank. No arrest has been made as the identity of the thugs has not been established yet. Body found
An unidentified man in his mid-thirties was found dead under mysterious circumstances from a well situated near railway crossing on Bhankarpur-Mubarikpur road in Dera Bassi here this morning. According to police officials, they got information at around 11 am that a body was floating in the well near railway crossing. After reaching the spot, the police took the body into possession and sent the body to hospital for post-mortem. |
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No threat from Ghaggar: DC
Patiala, September 11 He told mediapersons that the water level was below danger mark and there was no threat to human life and property. The DC, who was accompanied by officials of drainage department, directed the latter to keep a constant vigil at the Ghaggar level in view of the downpour in the region. He said the water level was likely to recede in view of clear weather conditions in Himachal Pradesh. He also said the water level at Bhankarpur and near Khanauri was also below the danger mark.
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Family duped of gold
Bassi Pathana, September 11 The accused then asked Bhupinder to offer prayers in order to extricate the hidden gold in his house. After a few days Khalid demanded some gold from Bhupinder on the pretext of using it in the prayer. Khalid gathered three pitchers with gold containing 35 tola, 160 tola and 125 tola. On the next day, when Khalid did not return for a long time, a doubt cropped up in Bhupinder’s mind and he opened the pitchers and found them empty. |
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Delimitation
Kalka, September 11 Sources of Election Commission, Panchkula, said Raipur Rani, which was earlier a part of Naraingarh constituency, had been included in Kalka after the delimitation, while Birghaghar, Chadi Mandir and Saketari came under the Panchkula constituency. Sources said at present the constituency had about 1.12 lakh voters, who would decide the fate of the MLA candidate at the time of the Vidhan Sabha elections, which were to be held in February, 2010, but had been rescheduled for October 13, 2009. It is learnt that the estimated account of votes is around 25,000 from Kalka MC, 20,000 from Pinjore MC, 14,000 from Morni and rest of the votes belonged to Doon, Raitan, HMT, Raipur Rani and Amravati area. The old records of the Kalka constituency election interprets that the constituency, which is one of the oldest constituencies of Haryana, has been a centre for the Congress. Various activities of the political parties have been intensified in the Kalka constituency. The parties have started their election campaign. Voters of the area opined that after the Panchkula constituency had come into its independent existence, now they would prefer the local candidates for the MLA from the Kalka seat, who would be present among them and heed to their problem. Vijay Bansal, former state secretary of the Congress, Dhanender Walia, Bhagat Singh, Manveer Kaur Gill, Om Prakash Devi Nagar, Santosh Sharma, Pradeep Chaudhary, Ram Gopal Mehta, SS Nanda and Nardev Sharma are some of the names in the race of MLA candidature from the Kalka constituency. The Indian National Lok Dal has already declared Pradeep Chaudhary as an MLA candidate. Meanwhile, the Congress, the BJP, the Haryana Janhit Congress and the BSP are yet to declare their candidates. SC-BC sammelan
More than 500 persons attended the SC-BC sammelan, organised recently in Sita Ram Mandir of Pinjore. Presidents and representatives of various NGOs, including Ravi Dass Sabha, Vishwakarma Sabha, SC/ST HMT and Saini Sabha were present at the sammelan. Various intellectual orators spoke on the occasion on various aspects related to welfare of the downtrodden, dowry system, contractual system and female foeticide. The executive body of the SC-BC Samaj Kalyan Parishad, Pinjore block, was also formed on the occasion. Surjit Singh was elected president and Gurcharna Dhiman was chosen as general secretary of the parishad. |
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Rally to promote eye donation
Patiala, September 11 Dr Sukhdip S Boparai, chief consultant at the centre, said a total of 250 persons had pledged to donate their eyes. He said corneal blindness, which may be caused due to Vitamin A deficiency, injuries, malnutrition, congenital disease and chemical burns, can be cured by replacing the defective cornea with a normal one. But this can only be possible if people pledge to donate their eyes after their death. Their cornea can be transplanted, bringing sight to a blind person. To do its bit for creating awareness, the Patiala Eye Hospital and Lasik Laser Centre organised a series of awareness camps and lectures on eye donation. “In India , there are 25 lakh corneal blindness cases and 25,000 new cases are added every year. But there is a huge shortage of donor eyes, as only 15,000 corneas are collected,” Dr Boparai said. If people become more aware about the need of eye donation to help a blind person to see and come forward to do it, the gap can be bridged, said Dr Anuradha Raj, consultant at the Patiala Eye Hospital and Lasik Laser Centre. Dr Anuradha said there were a lot of misconceptions about eye donation. What was required was educating the people about the service they could do to society by pledging their eyes. “We make them aware of the facts about eye donation, including the fact that eye transplant is done only after death,” she added. Dr Boparai said eye collection takes only 20 minutes and does not disfigure the face. Eyes have to be collected within six hours of death of a person and a pair of eyes gives vision to two corneal blind people. Even though the eye donation fortnight was concluding, the awareness programmes will continue with the help of voluntary organisations, Dr Boparai said.
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Hearing of Babla bail plea transferred
Chandigarh, September 11 The hearing of the anticipatory bail plea was transferred, following an application moved recently by complainant, Suraj Parkash Ahuja, a resident of Panchkula, who had sought transfer of the case raising apprehensions of not getting fair, impartial and speedy hearing. During the course of proceedings today, on seeking the transfer of the application, heated arguments were witnessed between the counsels of both parties. Counsel for Babla, NK Nanda, stated that as per the law, the application filed by the complainant’s lawyer was not maintainable. The law clearly states that such an application can only be moved by the public prosecutor and not the complainant’s lawyer, who is only there to assist the public prosecutor. However, Advocate Amar Vivek, who represents the complainant, stated that the application was well in the ambit of the provisions of law, which stated that whenever there was reasonable apprehension of bias such a plea could be made by the complainant. Suraj Parkash Ahuja had alleged a forgery against Babla and had filed the transfer application. The complainant had earlier raised doubts over the procedure adopted by Babla in filing his interim bail application and thereafter getting relief, Ahuja, had also questioned the bonafide of the proceedings under which Babla was granted interim bail by the Sessions Court earlier. On August 19, the police had booked Devinder Singh Babla, MC councillor and former chairman of market committee Devinder Singh Babla and president of Arhtiya Association of Sector 26 grain market Rakesh Saini for allegedly allotting platforms in the grain market to 10 ineligible persons. According to the police, Suraj Parkash Ahuja, owner of shop numbers 9-10 in the grain market, had lodged a complaint alleging that irregularities were committed during the auctioning and allotting of platforms in the market on July 24.
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GE Money told to pay Rs 5,000
Chandigarh, September 11 The complainant, Jagjit Kaur, a resident of Phase X, Mohali, availed a loan of Rs 42,500 from GE Money Financial on May 23, 2006, at the interest rate of 24.72 per cent per annum and started paying monthly installments thereof. Then in response to an offer of the company for top up loan without interest, the complainant got a top up loan of Rs 11,039. However, the company later on started charging interest at the rate of 39.22 per cent on the said top up loan amount. The complainant after paying 35 installments later came to know on receipt of a letter dated July 8, 2008, that the company was charging exorbitant rate of interest at 41.22 per cent per annum i.e. more than double the rate of interest what was agreed because agreed rate of interest was 24.72 per cent. The forum observed that there was no agreement between the parties to enhance the rate of interest at any stage. However, subsequently, the company issued a letter in which the rate of interest was mentioned to be 41.22 per cent on disbursal and 39.22 per cent thereafter. The forum further observed that the counsel for the company has argued that the EMI amount was Rs 2,292 payable in 30 installments. Also, even when the rate of interest was increased to 39.22 per cent or 41.22 per cent, the amount of installment and the number of installments remained the same. The forum didn’t find any merit in this argument. As per the documents the number of installments were raised to 42. Also, if the contention of the company is accepted as correct, it means that they were mentioning the rate of interest as 24.72 per cent but they were in fact charging interest as 39.22 per cent or 41.22 per cent from the complainant. This amounts to unfair trade practice where the complainant was kept in the dark about the actual amount and the actual rate of interest for which the company should be penalised.
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Man booked for rape
Chandigarh, September 11 Besides a case has been registered against Arti Devi, Joginder Singh and Neeta, all residents of Sector 29, Manjeet Singh, Brij Mohan, Pushpa Devi and Hari Krishan, all residents of Sector 30, under Sections 376, 420, 506, 313 and 120-B of the IPC in this matter. The victim reported to the police that Kamaljeet used to come to her residence on behalf of all above said persons. In 2005, the accused reportedly raped the victim on pretext of marrying her. However, he refused to marry her when she got pregnant.
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Cash-for-job scam in health dept; woman held
Chandigarh, September 11 On January 9 this year, Lalit Kumar of Kurukshetra filed a complaint with the police, alleging that Mewa Singh,
Kulwinder Kaur and Rajesh Kumar took Rs 5,80,000 for providing a government job to his son in
the Public Health department. However, neither the job was provided nor the money was returned to the victim. The police claimed that police officials today conducted a raid at Kulwinder Kaur’s residence at Kurukshetra. A case under Sections 420 and 120-B of the IPC have already been registered at the Sector 31 police station. Meanwhile, a local court today sent Kulwinder Kaur to judicial custody for
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Man booked for forgery
Chandigarh, September 11 The money was transferred to his account by mistake on June 17, 2009, he said. A case under Section 420 of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 3 police station.
Harassment
A resident of Sector 37 alleged that her husband Udey Bhalla and mother-in-law Asha Bhalla, both resident of Patiala, harassed her to bring more dowry. A case under Sections 406 and 498-A of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 39 police station.
Illicit liquor
The police has arrested Kundan Lal from near the Community Centre, Maloya, yesterday, while carrying 40 quarters of country wine. A case has been registered at the Sector 39 police station.
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Chandigarh bag Narang Cup
Chandigarh, September 11 Riding on an all-roundperformance, Delhi girls claimed the Shafi Qureshi Cup by defeating Haryana (2-1). Results: Narang Cup (junior boys) (final): Chandigarh beat Rajasthan (2-1); Tushar lost to Ankit Arora (9-21, 17-21), Tushar and Mhip beat Ankit and Prateek (21-19, 21-12) and Rupinder Singh beat Vikram Singh (21-12, 21-19); Shafi Qureshi Cup (junior girls) (final): Delhi beat Haryana (2-1); Sherya lost to Jyoti (21-14, 23-25, 15-21), Sherya and Nidhi Tiwari beat Jagriti and Jyoti (21-16, 21-14) and Nidhi Tiwari beat Jagriti (21-17, 21-13); Chadha Cup (women) (final): Delhi beat Chandigarh (2-0); Mohita Sahdev beat Navita Thakur (21-16, 21-18) and Mohita and Rachita beat Navita and Manju (21-16, 21-14); Rahimtoola Cup (men) (final): Delhi beat Punjab (3-2); Tanvir Gill beat Sahil (21-12, 21-16), Rajiv Bajaj lost to Mayank Behl (13-21, 10-21), Tanvir and Rajiv lost to Mayank and Harinder (16-21, 13-21), Hemant Duggal beat Lakhwinder (21-11, 21-15) and Devinder and Hemant beat Navdeep and Sahil (21-14, 21-12).
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Karanbir of Patiala wins boys’ title
Chandigarh, September 11 Results: Semifinals: Sameer Sharma (Ludhiana) bt Sohrab Grewal (St John’s) (11-4,11-6,11-7), Karanbir Pali (Patiala) bt Divaksh Dawar (DAVPS-8) (11-7,14-12,11-7); quaterfinals: Divaksh Dawar (DAVPS-8) bt Harnoor (Ludhiana) (9-11,12-10,8-11,11-9,11-7), Karanbir Pali (Patiala) bt Shivam Gupta (Delhi) (19-17,7-11,11-7,9-11,11-5), Sameer Sharma (Ludhiana) bt Mukund Kakkar (Ryan) (11-9,10-12,11-4,11-6) and Sohrab Grewal (St John’s) bt Arpit (BN-37) (11-8,11-6,11-6); (sub junior girls) (semifinals): Pareen Verma (DAVPS-8) bt Barbie Bajaj (SH-26) (11-8,11-7,11-5) and Rajeshwari (Carmel) bt Srishti (Delhi) (11-8,9-11,11-6,8-11,11-9); quaterfinals: Rajeshwari (St Carmel) bt Amita (Solan) (11-8,11-4,11-7), Barbie Bajaj (SH-26) bt Anshuki Verma (DAVPS-8) (5-11,11-9,11-3,11-8), Srishti (Delhi) bt Rhia Gupta (BVB) (11-4,11-3,11-5) and Pareen Verma (DAVPS-8) bt Ishita (SH-26) (11-6,11-5,11-7); (sub junior boys) (quaterfinals): Shuming (Ludhiana) bt Abhaydeep (Ludhiana) (11-9,8-11,11-7,12-10), Shubham Bansal (DAVPS-8) bt Karanbir Pali (Patiala) (11-9,11-9,11-8), Kartikey (Rohtak) bt Akul Mahajan (12-10,11-9,11-7) and Dinkar Goyal (SN-22) bt Harnoor (Ludhiana) (11-7,11-8,11-9).
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Holy Child down APJ School
Chandigarh, September 11 APJ players won the toss and opted to bat first. Their openers Kapil Punia and Sarthak gave a good start to their team to put the target of 162 runs in 15 overs. In reply, Holy Child lads achieved the target easily in all 15 overs. Manoj scored 64 runs, while Tushar and Karan got two wickets each. Manoj of Holy child School was announced man of the match. The second match, which was to be played between Kundan Cricket Academy and APJ School, Kharar, was washed away by rain and both teams were given one point each.
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PU ball badminton champion
Chandigarh, September 11 Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Government College for Girls, Sector 11, and MCM DAV College for Women got second, third and fourth positions respectively. Semifinal results: Panjab University thrashed MCM DAV College for Women (2-0); GGS College for Women defeated Government College for Girls (2-0).
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Hockey meet from Sept 19
Chandigarh, September 11 The participating teams included last year’s winner and runner-up Air India and IOC, respectively, BPCL, ONGC, Army XI Bangalore, PNB New Delhi, Namdhari XI, Indian Navy, BSF, Corps of Signals, EME, IAF, SRU, MLIRC Bangalore, SAI-XI, Ropar Hawks, Surjit Academy, J&K Police, CHFA and CHA-XI.
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