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Lalru to be upgraded as nagar panchayat
Dera Bassi (Mohali), October 15 The official formality to constitute the civic body would be completed soon to keep pace with the development work, said the CM, while addressing a gathering. Lalru and adjoining 11 villages are being included in the proposed nagar panchayat. The proposed areas, including population, to be included in the NAC has reportedly been worked out. The proposal has been hanging fire since four years. During the elections, both the Congress and Akalis had been making promises to make a NAC in Lalru. The areas likely to be included in the NAC were Lalru, Lalru Mandi, Samalhedi, Magra, Bassi, Dappar, Jalalpur, Hasanpur, Lehli, Dehar, Alamgir and Chauhndedi. Under the plan, an area of around 3,000 acres was likely to form a part of the NAC. Sangat darshan at students’ cost
The functioning of Government High School, Dera Bassi, the venue of sangat darshan, was disturbed as the VIP movement and noise created through the public address system affected the classroom teaching. Due to security reasons, the students and school staff were forced to remain in their rooms and could not play during the games period. |
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50 participate in elders’ day celebrations
Ropar, October 15 More than 50 senior citizens participated in the celebrations. RK Bali, a retired government official, said no one could have ever imagined that Bhaddal village, which was an ignored place at one time, would become the centre of attraction for technical education. Bhaddal Institutes chairperson, Dr GS Chahal, said the students and staff should take benefit from the experiences of the elderly. They sung songs by KL Sehgal and Kishore Kumar. A few grandfathers even shook a leg with the students who gave a bhangra performance.
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SGPC honours advocate
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 15 The SGPC honoured Mattewal at a function held today wherein SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar honoured him at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College. He appreciated Mattewal for expressing his solidarity to the religion. He said this had set an example for the youngsters who would follow Sikhism with utmost dedication. Talking about Sri Guru Granth Sahib World Sikh University, Makkar said the university’s construction work would be completed by 2010 and academic session would begin. Prominent among others present included former SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar, former centre minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, former minister Randhir Singh Cheema and others. |
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Arrangements to monitor pollution
Patiala, October 15 The authorities have divided the city into three zones, namely commercial, residential and sensitive. The practice to monitor the pollution level in the city is undertaken by the PPCB every year during Diwali and later a detailed report is prepared and sent to the board’s head office in Patiala. As per the PPCB reports of previous few years, the air and noise pollution levels during Diwali days in Patiala is not alarming. As per the statistics complied by the PPCB, in 2006, 2007 and 2008, the noise level recorded on Diwali night in the residential area of Patiala was 82 db (Al), 81 db (Al) and 77.2 db (Al), respectively. These figures show that noise pollution in Patiala during Diwali exceeded the prescribed limits but the noise pollution level had come down with every passing year. On account of bursting of the crackers, the concentration of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the residential areas has increased over the years. The SPM concentration was recorded 269 (µg/m3), 578 (µg/m3) and 552 (µg/m3) in Patiala on Diwali during 2006, 2007 and 2008, respectively, which is much higher than the national ambient air quality standard of 200 (µg/m3). PPCB spokesperson Charanjit Singh said this time on Diwali, the board would be installing pollution monitoring devices in the residential areas, commercial market and sensitive zone. “Sensitive zone include hospitals, educational institutions and religious places. For the sensitive zone, we will be monitoring air and noise pollution near Rajindra Hospital”, he revealed. Meanwhile, Mayor and senior Deputy Mayor of Patiala, Ajit Pal Singh Kohli and Anil Bajaj, respectively, have exhorted the city residents to celebrate the pollution free Diwali. “In order to ensure that environment of the city remains pollution free, everybody should follow guidelines issued with respect to the bursting of the crackers by various government agencies,” they said, while urging the people at large to keep their surroundings clean during Diwali.
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Admn order on crackers not heeded
Patiala, October 15 The casual approach of the administration towards the matter could well be gauged from the fact that despite the presence of cops, shopkeepers and vendors are openly selling the crackers in the residential areas. Notably, in order to ensure that no untoward incident occurs because of the sale of the crackers in congested and residential areas, the Deputy Commissioner has issued a list of the areas, which are authorised by the district administration for the sale of the crackers. The sites, which were authorised for the sale of crackers, include Lower Mall Road near Polo Ground, main ground of Veer Hakiqat Nagar, open areas of Urban Estate, Bhupindra Road and near water tank, Tripri. But contrary to this, the crackers are being sold in almost all residential areas of
Patiala. A visit to various residential areas, including Gur Mandi and Lahouri Gate revealed that the shopkeepers had encroached upon the footpaths to put up crackers stalls. Speaking to The Tribune, most of the shopkeepers and vendors said nobody from the administration had prevented them from setting up the crackers stalls. |
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Spreading scientific ideas
Patiala, October 15 The science fair was sponsored by Punjab Academy of Sciences, Patiala. Dr NK Ralhan, former head of chemistry department, Punjabi University, Patiala, and Dr IJS Bansal, secretary, Punjab Academy of Sciences, Patiala, inaugurated the event. College principal Dr Satish Bhardwaj, said the aim was to instill and spread scientific ideas among students. He stressed it was the need of the hour to use science and technology for the needs of common man. |
Criminal complaint admitted against GMSH-16
Chandigarh, October 15 The activist had highlighted the issue of unhygienic atmosphere in Sector 16 hospital mortuary recently after the refrigerators had broken down and foul smell of bodies was emanating from the mortuary. The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate JS Sidhu admitted the criminal complaint today against UT health secretary Ram Niwas, director, health services, HS Bains and medical superintendent Dr NK Arora. It must be recalled that foul smell of decomposed bodies was emanating from the GMSH-16 mortuary on October 4 and the activist had demanded an investigation into the case. He had filed the complaint against the officials under Section 269 (negligent act likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life) of the IPC.
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Chandigarh, October 15 It was further resolved to have in place a mechanism for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary, as a consequence of which the method of appointment of judges on the basis of recommendation of the Collegium would be dispensed with. A requisition in the matter was put to vote on the floor of the House by the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association president Sukhjinder S Behl, which was unanimously passed. The meeting was subsequently dissolved.
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Consumer Court
Chandigarh, October 15 The complainant of DM construction purchased an air compressor machine, used in construction, for his livelihood for which he availed a loan to the tune of Rs 4,12,500 from the company and his own contribution was Rs 1,35,000. The instalment was fixed at Rs 15,500 per month and the complainant repaid the entire loan amount to the satisfaction of the company on March 29, 2007. The company, through a letter dated March 14, 2009, informed the complainant that an amount of Rs 57,429 was due against the machine for which the complainant deposited Rs 57,500 and the company issued receipt mentioning it to be full and final payment. The company also told that the NOC would be issued within seven days. The complainant, however, wanted the NOC early as he had contacted with someone for the sale of the machine at a ‘good price’, but as the NOC was not issued the proposed buyer of the machine cancelled the deal. The complainant represented to the company for issuance of the NOC but instead they issued a letter demanding an over due amount of Rs 40, 567, which was raised to Rs 74,090 within a month though the full and final payment was already made.
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Bhagat gets interim bail
Panchkula, October 15 The court has also ordered to release two vehicles of Bhagat Singh, which were impounded by the police. In the petition, he had stated that he had no role in the matter. It was political vendetta due to which the case had been registered against him, he stated. Moreover, he was in Raipur Rani at the time of incident, he claimed in the petition. It was on Monday night that the Pinjore police had registered the case against him following the allegations marked by INLD supporters alleging that he and his supporters were disbursing money to the voters in Ishar Nagar area of Pinjore and violating the code of conduct, specially article 144. Following this, a case under Sections 171, 188 and 506 of the IPC was registered.
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Seven booked for fraud
Chandigarh, October 15 The accused neither sold him the property nor returned his money. A case of cheating has been registered. In another case, Anil Kumar of Panchkula reported that Sumit Singla of Sector 37 had taken Rs 10 lakh from him in May, 2007, to provide him land in Ludhiana. However, he never kept his promise and defrauded him. A case has been registered on the direction of the court. Similarly, Alamjit Singh Maan of Sector 35-C filed a complaint alleging that Pawan Kumar of Panchkula, Ram Bhaj Mittal, Amit Nanda and Sanjiv Khanna purchased a piece of land in Zirakpur from him for Rs 1 crore. The accused gave him three cheques, but the same were bounced. A case has been registered on the directions of a court.
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Robbers stab 3, one serious
Chandigarh, October 15 According to police, the first incident was reported from Sector 32, where robbers on a motorcycle escaped after stabbing two cyclists there. Cyclists have been identified as Avdesh Kumar and Gagan Singh, both residents of Ram Darbar. They were returning home when waylaid by robbers. The robbers decamped with cash and mobile phone of the victims. The victims were rushed to the Sector-32 Government Medical College and Hospital, where Gagan Singh was operated. His condition is reportedly critical. In the second incident, the robbers looted an ice-cream vendor Om Narayan near sectors 20, 21, 33 and 34 Rotary after stabbing him. They snatched his bag containing Rs 1,500. They initially asked Om Narayan to give them ice creams and when he demanded money they assaulted him. It is learnt that they went to Mohali and committed robberies thereafter. Two separate cases have been registered in the Sector 34 police station in this regard.
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Cricket
Chandigarh, October 15 Electing to bat first, Greenfield team mustered a respectable total of 156 runs in the stipulated 25 overs with Gaur Vikram 36, Davinder 30, Vikram Singh 26 and Manpreet 24, contributing for their team. Subeer Hayer, skipper of YPS team, took three wickets for 35 runs. In reply, YPS batting was a one-man show in the form of Subeer Hayer, who played a valiant knock of 64 runs off 64 balls. None of the other batsmen could face disciplined bowling of Greenfield team and in the end YPS team could not end up near the Greenfield total, as they got all out for 104 runs. For Greenfield team, Parminder, Davinder, Vikram and Charanjit took two wickets each. Brief scores: Greenfield: 156 all out in 24.4 overs (Gaur Vikram 36, Davinder 30, Subeer three for 35). YPS: 104 all out in 21.2 overs (Subeer 64, Charanjit 2 for 12, Parminder 2 for 17). Tomorrow’s matches: Greenfield vs DC Model at 10 am and St John's vs YPS at 1:30 pm.
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B’ball Meet
Chandigarh, October 15 The main scorers for GGS College were Harpreet 17 and Santoshi 13 while Sukhwinder 11 and Alka were the main scorers for DAV, Hoshiarpur. Similarly, GCW, Ludhiana, beat MCM DAV College (w), Chandigarh by 61-20. The main scorers for Ludhiana team were Sukhjinder 16, Indu 16 and Harpreet 11 while Ambika 12 and Nonika eight.
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Modi lads clinch squash racket title
Patiala, October 15 In the final match, Modi College defeated the host college, which has been the university champion for the last two years. National College of Physical Education, Chupki, got the third place and Army Institute of Law, Mohali, was placed fourth in the tournament. Greesh Arora, Tarun Kapoor, Tanveer Singh Mann, Inderjot Singh and Pankaj Virdi were the members of the winning team. The trophy was given away to the champion team by Dr Jarnail Singh, principal of Public College, Samana, Dr Sukhwinder Kaur, chairman, Punjabi University, Squash Racket Selection Committee, and Harpinder Singh, university coach. Dr Satish Bhardwaj, principal of Modi College, congratulated the winners and appreciated the hard work of team in charges Prof Nishan Singh and Mandeep Kaur. |
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