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Railway Link
Ropar, September 13 The procedure started after the Central government signalled to start ground work on the 20-km stretch, covering 24 border villages in Ropar and Bilaspur districts of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Ropar Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti said the Union railway ministry had already sanctioned Rs 350.33 crore as the first installment towards initiation of ground work for the broad gauge railway line to Himachal Pradesh. The total estimated cost of the project to be completed by 2015 would be about Rs 1,047 crore, of which 75 per cent is to be borne by the Centre and the remaining cost by Himachal Pradesh, he said. Bharti added that 235 acre 8 kanal and 17 marla land belonging to 14 villages of Punjab would be acquired. These villages include Nangli, Kalitran, Bhanupalli, Jandla, Bhalowal, Daroli, Thallua and Jindwari of Nangal sub-division and Gambhirpur, Behlu, Surewal, Samlah and Mahiwal of Anandpur Sahib sub-division. However, till now, there was no proposal from the Railways to study the feasibility of Baddi-Nalagarh-Rupnagar railway line, he added. "To cater to the needs of Himachal fruit growers, preliminary survey of Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Bairi railway line was started in 1985 by IRCON. Subsequently, the RITES reassessed the proposal for techno-economic viability of the project. “The railway link is sure to boost economic activity in the region and promote tourism, beside reducing vehicular traffic pressure on roads," said Bharti. |
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Painting, quiz contests at de-addiction camp
Bassi Pathana, September 13 Rajwant Singh Sohal, DSP, inaugurated the camp and was the key speaker at seminar, while Kulwinder Singh, president, Gurmat Parchar, presided over. In this seminar, painting and quiz competition on de-addiction was also organised. Hundreds of students, youths and villagers participated. Addressing the seminar, DSP Rajwinder Singh Sohal said it was unfortunate that the youth was becoming drug addict and it was the responsibility of society as a whole to educate them. He said that government alone could not control this menace though there were strict laws, but to curb social evils counselling was most important and social workers could play an important role. He also urged health department to take immediate measures to control dreaded diseases as well as to create awareness about these diseases by organising such seminars. He called upon the social organisations, particularly the youth, to come forward for the eradication of social evils from the society. Kulwinder Singh, president, Gurmit Parchar, said their organisation would organise such seminars in the other parts of the state also. Amardeep Kaur and Randeep Kaur were declared first in the painting and quiz competition whereas Nisha Sharma and Amandeep Kaur were declared second. They were given the awards by the organisation. |
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Woman, son set ablaze
Kharar, September 13 While the incident took place on September 3, family of the girl residing in Balongi, Kharar, was informed yesterday. Victim’s father Som Pal alleged that his daughter Sunita was married to Lekh Raj, a resident of Popnia village, around four years back. Sunita alleged that on September 3 she was beaten up by her husband Lekh Raj, father-in-law Ram Kumar and mother-in-law Ram Pyari. After being abused physically, she was set on fire, along with her son. The victims were then taken to a private hospital and later were referred to the PGI, Chandigarh. Meanwhile, Sunita’s in-laws alleged that she had received burns while cooking food in the kitchen. Victim’s father Som Pal alleged that the accused used to demand dowry from them and when they apparently failed to fulfil their demands, they allegedly set his daughter on fire. A case has been registered against the accused. |
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Two booked for fraud
Mohali, September 13 The owner of the property, Harbant Singh, in his complaint, said the accused had approached him to sell the plot to Varinder for Rs 68.50 lakh. But the owner had not been approached by the accused to sell the property for Rs 80 lakh. An advance of Rs 5 lakh, taken from Varinder Pal, was also returned. Meanwhile, the accused came to know that an NOC had been issued from the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) in the name of Varinder. On the basis of the NOC, a registration was done at the tehsil office in his name. Then, the owner was given a cheque of Rs 21 lakh and did not give the remaining amount. Bike stolen
Amar Hussain, a resident of Phase II, in a complaint lodged with the Phase-I police station, alleged that his motorcycle (CH-24-T-3066) had been stolen from his house. A case under Section 379 of the IPC has been registered at the Phase-I police station here. Booked
The local police has booked an Andhra Pradesh resident, Sameer Inder Singh, for allegedly demanding dowry. The police has booked him on a complaint lodged by his wife, Amanbeer Kaur, under Sections 406 and 498-A of the IPC. Shop burgled
Kalka: Pardeep Goel, owner of Popular general store, has lodged a complaint to the police that his shop was burgled yesterday. Goods worth thousands of rupees were stolen by breaking open the locks of the shop. He learned about the incident this morning when he came to his shop. Medicines seized
Fatehgarh Sahib: The district health department seized medicines being sold without license in Chunni Kalan. Licenses of drug sellers were checked during a raid and it was found that medicines were being sold without a valid license. District Drug Inspector Navjot Kaur said 25 medicines had been seized in this connection. Drug sellers of various stores failed to show their licenses during the raid, she said. Drugs worth Rs 40,000 were seized during these raids. Some of the banned drugs were also recovered by officials during raids. Theft in temple
Cash was stolen from a temple in Sirhind last night. Trustee of the temple Harvinder Sood alleged that thieves had locked priest’s room from outside. They broke the lock of donation box and decamped with the entire money. Temple employees have no estimate of the cash amount that was stolen from the box. |
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Teachers unpaid for six months
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 13 The teachers criticised the Punjab Government for not releasing salaries of a large number of teachers of the state for the past six months. Joshi said despite repeated requests to the officials concerned, nothing had been done to release salaries of the teachers. He added that representations in this regard had been given to senior functionaries of the Punjab Government but nothing had been done except lip service by officials. He said grants released by the government to government-aided schools had been delayed by various departments and nothing had been done in this connection for the past many months. They demanded that vacant posts lying in different schools of district should immediately be filled for smooth functioning. Union members also discussed various other demands of teachers which were not fulfilled by the government. |
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Kalka ignored by state govt: Cong leader
Kalka, September 13 Bansal said it had been alleged in the memorandum that the development projects of millions of crores of rupees had been carried out in Haryana in the recent five years, but Kalka constituency had been deprived of development and most of the areas of the Kalka constituency had been starving even for basic amenities. |
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Landslide near Mallah bridge
Kalka, September 13 The Pinjore-Sarahan road was closed following a landslide near the Mallah bridge, adjacent to National Highway-22, yesterday. Due to the landslide, a portion of about 30 feet connecting the bridge over the Kaushalya river was caved in. The PWD had started the maintenance work yesterday, which also continued today. Official sources of the PWD said traffic was likely to resume from Monday. The recent downpour had badly damaged the NH-22 and the NH-21-A (Pinjore-Nalagarah road). Daily commuters told The Tribune that NH-21-A from Pinjore to Baddi had been deteriorating, which was causing great inconvenience to them. The condition of the NH-22 in Pinjore and Kalka was also in a bad shape, which was causing a great hurdle in the smooth running of traffic. |
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Demand to shift returning officer’s office
Ambala, September 13 Candidates from Ambala Cantt had to travel to Ambala City with their supporters for filing nominations. Ex-MLA Anil Vij said it had caused great inconvenience not only to the contesting candidates but also to residents of the two towns, as it led to the traffic problems.
Ambala City is situated across the GT Road. Candidates and their supporters had to visit the returning office for scrutiny, allotment of symbol, etc. Earlier in 1991 assembly elections, the returning officer’s office was shifted to Ambala
Cantt. Anil Vij said it would save time and money of the candidates. Also there would be no traffic chaos. |
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PNB gives loans to 242 farmers
Kharar, September 13 More than 250 farmers, including panches and sarpanches from nearby villages, participated in the function. CL Mahajan, assistant general manager, circle office, Ludhiana, presided over the function and honoured 17 farmers. Mahajan disbursed loans aggregating to Rs 8.42 crore on the spot to 242 farmers. GS Tayal, district coordinator for Ropar and Fatehgarh Sahib districts, also explained various bank schemes to farmers and told about different government subsidies. — TNS |
CCTV camera exposes bribery at railway station
Ramkrishna and Naresh Kumar were caught red handed on the CCTV footage harassing Kunal, a 16-year-old boy, who was waiting at the station to board the late night Kalka mail to Delhi. Besides, after forcefully extracting Rs 2,000 from Kunal, the ASIs forcefully made him board the train. However, he jumped from the other coach, further ahead at the station platform, and immediately informed Railway Police Force (RPF) officials. During initial inquiries, both GRP officials denied any such instance. However, the CCTV camera footage spilled the beans where both the officials could be clearly seen harassing Kunal. Both the officials were suspended last night. In another instance, an RPF constable at the railway station successfully traced a thief on Friday who had stolen a lady passenger’s purse. Station superintendent RK Dutta said, “The instance took place around 4 pm when the lady de-boarded the Ropar passenger mail at platform No. 2. Varinder, the thief, swiftly lifted her purse and walked off. When the complaint was registered with the RPF, CCTV footage was referred to. We soon identified him when he was about to target another passenger. He has been handed over to Ambala division police officials.” It seems that months after the installation of CCTV cameras at the Chandigarh railway station, finally its utility is coming to the fore. “Careful electronic surveillance will surely lead to much more strengthened security at the railway station. The passengers should be aware that the station is now under surveillance. So they should not be hesitant in coming up and registering complaints with us,” said RPF Company Commander NK Dubey.
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Raids on to nab Babla
Chandigarh, September 13 J.S. Cheema, DSP (East), said, “We are conducting raids at various places to nab the accused. Our teams today visited Babla’s guest house at Kasauli and other farm houses in Panchkula. However, the search did not yield any result”. Cheema further said they were also keeping an eye on his advocate and his family. A local court rejected Babla’s anticipatory bail plea on Saturday. It was alleged that the accused had manipulated the list of allottees to accommodate his men. As per the original list, a total of 59 platforms were to be auctioned against a licence fee. The accused deleted the names of six genuine allottees and also added more names, thus bringing the total number of allottees to 69. The platforms that were originally distributed among 59 allottees were ultimately allotted to
69 persons.
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8 arrested for trespass, assault
Chandigarh, September 13 A case under Sections 147, 148, 149, 452, 342, 379 and 506 has been registered at the industrial area police station and six out of eight accused have been arrested, while two -- Pawan and Narinder -- are still absconding.
2 held for gambling
The police has arrested Naresh of Sector 25 from the road separating Sectors 23 and 24 for playing satta at public place and recovered Rs 1,560 from his possession yesterday. In another incident, the Special Crime Investigation Cell of the Chandigarh police has arrested Sammi Kumar of Sector 24 near Batra Chowk for playing satta at a public place and recovered Rs 1,200 from his possession yesterday. Both the cases have been registered under Sections 13-A, 3 and 67 of the Gambling Act at various police stations.
Drinking at public place
The police has arrested Shiv Parkash of Sector 35 and Vishal of Sector 41 from Sector 22 last night while drinking at public place. A case under Sections 68, 1 and 14 of the Excise Act has been registered at Sector 17 police station.
Cheated
Ashok Bansal, a resident of Sector 10, alleged to the police that his driver Prem Yadav cheated him of Rs 1,41,000 by getting the cheque cashed on September 7. A case has been registered at the Sector 3 police station.
Accident
Sharan Kumar, a resident of Sector 38, alleged to the police that he was driving his car, when a truck (HR-68-8089) hit his car near the roundabout of Sectors 14, 15, 24 and 25 yesterday. A case under Section 279 of the IPC has been registered at the Sector 11 police station.
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Bank manager accuses cops of inaction
Chandigarh, September 13 In a letter to the UT Senior Superintendent of Police, Verma said the police has not dealt fairly with the case of alleged assault of his son by his neighbours in Mani Majra, in August
this year. A case of severe manhandling has been rendered into a patty quarrel. “On August 16, Raj Kumar Sharma, residing in a flat below mine, reported that there was seepage in their bathroom. I called a plumber. Sharma asked me to accompany him, which I refused,” he said adding that Sharma and his son trespassed into his residence. Both manhandled my son and gave
him punches. They used abusive language and dragged him out where he was hit against a window, he alleged. “My son bore multiple injury marks on his body and ankle. I called up the police following which ASI Jaiveer Rana
visited our house. He recorded our statements, however, did not hand us the copy. The ASI sent the case to the SDM without waiting for the medical report. The investigating officer had twisted the entire episode and rendered it into an incident of petty quarrel,” the complaint read. He urged the SSP to register an FIR against Raj Kumar Sharma
and his son. Investigating officer, Jaiveer Rana, however, said: “We have already taken preventive measures to avoid any altercation in future. It has been found that the fight was nothing more than a minor altercation and even the X-ray report did not make it a case worth conversion into an FIR.”
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Smack, ganja seized; 2 held
Chandigarh, September 13 In another incident, the police arrested Bhano of Dadumajra Colony near market of Sector 38 and seized two grams of smack from her possession. A case under Section 21 of the NDPS Act has been registered at Sector 39 police station.
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Man found dead
Chandigarh, September 13 The police said nobody was aware about his permanent address. The man was reportedly a drunkard and died due to heavy consumption of liquor. The police said it had initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174
of the CrPC.
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Kishan Lal Memorial TT
Chandigarh, September 13 While Nadia Saini of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, clinched the youth girls’ title by thrashing Bhawna Sareen of the same college. Results: Junior boys’ final: Mayank Kapoor (DAVPS-8) bt Dinkar Goyal (SN-22) (12-10, 8-11, 8-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-8, 11-8). Junior girls’ final: Garima Goyal (BVB-27) bt Naina Suri (DAVPS-8) (11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9). Youth boys’ semifinals: Dev Saini (NPS-18) bt Rajat Kumar (CWC, Delhi) (11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7, 11-7); Yakshap Jindal (CWC, Delhi) bt Rahul Malhotra (Asr) (11-8, 11-9, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8). Final:Dev Saini (NPS-18) bt Yakshap Jindal (CWC, Delhi) (11-9, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-9). Youth Girls’ semifinals: Nadia Saini (GGSCW-26) bt Bhawna Sareen (GGSCW-26) (11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9); Garima Goyal (BVB-27) bt Naina Suri (DAVPS-8) (11-8, 9-11, 11-8, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8). Final: Nadia Saini (GGSCW-26) bt Garima Goyal (BVB-27) (11-9, 11-8, 5-11, 7-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-8). Men’s single semifinals: Dev Saini (NPS-18) bt Sunil Kumar (Asr) (11-8, 11-9, 11-8, 11-7); Vikas Sharma (AG, audit, Pb) bt Rahul Malhotra (Asr) (11-9, 11-7, 7-11, 11-6, 9-11, 8-11, 11-6). Final: Dev Saini (NPS-18) bt Vikas Sharma (AG, audit, Pb) (11-8, 11-7, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9). Women’s single semifinal: Nadia Saini (GGSCW-26) bt Naina Suri (DAVPS-8) (11-7, 11-8, 11-9, 11-7); Garima Goyal (BVB-27) bt Bhawna Sareen (GGSCW-26) (11-8, 11-8, 11-9, 11-9). Final: Garima Goyal (BVB-27) bt Nadia Saini (GGSCW-26) (11-9, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-9). |
Ball Badminton
Chandigarh, September 13 The final match was played between SGGS College and PU campus, in which SGGS players thrashed PU lads by 2-0. Panjab University campus, GGDSD College, Sector 26, and DM College, Moga, got the second, third and fourth positions, respectively. Results: SGGS College beat PU campus (2-0) (Score: 29-7, 29-9); GGDSD College beat DM College,
Moga, 2-0, (Score: 29-25, 29-19). |
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DAVSSS-8 shine in Mahatma Hansraj tourney
Chandigarh, September 13 The tournament was declared open yesterday by Justice AL Bari, vice-president of the DAV College Management Committee, New Delhi. Principal Dr Vibha Ray highlighted the achievements of players. Results: Handball: DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, by 18-15; basketball: DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, by 40-32; lawn Tennis: DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar; kabaddi: DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, defeated DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, by 33-31; archery: DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, won the first position and DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, won the second position; wrestling: DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, won the first position and DAV Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh, won the second position; hockey: DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, defeated DAV School, Kurali, by 3-0. |
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Formula fun race from Sept 25
Chandigarh, September 13 A total of 125 entries are accepted in the four-wheeler category and 15 entries are invited in the two-wheeler category. The event has time speed over distance format, with stress on road rules and regulations as well as navigation. The events will transverse over roads in northern and eastern Sectors of Chandigarh. “Secret check posts, passage controls and marshals posted along the route will keep an eye on all competitors to ensure one is on the right route at the right time and one is following all road rules,” said SPS Garcha, president of the association. Garcha further said crew of both the categories should comprise one girl and one boy each. The race is approved by the federation of motor sports clubs of India, recognised by the Government
of India. The scrutiny followed by driver’s and rider’s briefing will be held on September 25 at the
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