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Agitated auto drivers demand time, monetary help
Cops ‘replace’ gold chain
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Crime Zone
3 Kashmiri youths held with fake currency
Another woman falls prey to swine flu at PGI
Soothsayers asked to cancel meet
Food Inspectors appointed to check milk adulteration
Fill 1,400 posts of teacher: Aeri
Warehouse staff go on strike
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Agitated auto drivers demand time, monetary help
Jalandhar, December 14 Speaking to The Tribune, union chairman Subhash Sodhi said, “We are here to protest against the callous attitude of the government. How does it expect a poor auto-rickshaw driver to shell out hefty amounts to get the conversion done, when he saves a meagre Rs 50-60 a day?” “The same orders were issued in Delhi and Chandigarh also. But the government had provided financial assistance and substantial time to the drivers there. Why the same is not being done here?” he asked. Sodhi criticised Deputy Commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu’s statement (on December 2) where he said either the drivers convert their autos to LPG/CNG- driven vehicles or leave the city. He said there were around 12,000 auto-rickshaw drivers. If mistreated, they would give a befitting reply. Raising anti-government and anti-administration slogans, the crowd slammed the move of levying fines on the autos with registration of PB.08 series. “On November 23, Superintendent of Police S.P. Agnihotri had promised the auto-rickshaw drivers against any such action. But, the very third day some auto-drivers faced harassment at the hands of the police. They were fined,” alleged Vikram, a driver. “I am the sole breadwinner and have seven mouths to feed at home. If I stop plying rickshaw even for a day, my parents will be deprived of their medicines. We are not against pollution control measures, but against the government’s irresponsible attitude while implementing these measures,” said Harpreet Singh. “If the government is so keen on implementing the CNG rule, why are the government buses still running on diesel? And why are the new auto-rickshaws being manufactured with the diesel kit? The government should stop their production, thus saving the conversion cost,” commented the union president Ravi Sabhrawal. Meanwhile, district secretary of the Rural Labourers Union criticised the government’s anti-people policies like liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. He said the pollution-reducing policies should first be implemented in government-run busses and private cars. |
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Cops ‘replace’ gold chain
Nawanshahr, December 14 According to the complainant, the police showed her some other chain weighing one and half tolas, whereas in the FIR, the weight of her gold ornament was mentioned as two and half to three tolas. Talking to mediapersons here today, Joginder Kaur, resident of sector 46D in Chandigarh, said the incident happened on December 10 at Banga bus stand when two women and a boy snatched her gold chain from her neck and fled away in a white Maruti car. “When I raised alarm, two youths, who advised me to report the incident to the police, followed the car and managed to note the number. Thereafter she reported the incident to the Banga police and gave them the car no (PB-10-AV-9845),” she said. The police asked the Phillaur counterpart to put up a naka and send a team to follow the car. Within one hour, the police succeeded to nab the snatchers. “After some time, the police called me to identify the snatchers. When asked about the chain, I told ASI Bhag Mal that the chain including a locket was of little less than four tolas. He recorded my statement and had my signatures,” said Joginder Kaur. On December 13, she was called to the police station to identify the chain. But surprisingly, she was shown some other chain weighing less than her gold ornament. She declined that the chain was hers. She met SSP Rakesh Aggarwal today and apprised him of the incident. The SSP said he had asked the SP (HQ) to inquire into the allegations. |
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Batala, December 14 Talking to the media here today, Batala SSP D.P. Singh said on a tip-off, a special nakabandi was done in town today. On Hansli bridge near Bank Colony, the police intercepted a Tata Indica car and seized packets of heroin weighing 1.842 kg from Neeraj Kumar, 1.045 kg from Gulshan Masih and 896 gm from Surinder Singh Rajput. During interrogation of the accused, one Ajay Kumar, resident of Gandhi Camp Batala, was arrested and a Chinese pistol and the magazines and cartridges were seized. A case under section 21 of the NDPS Act and section 25 of the Arms Act has been registered. During further interrogation, the accused revealed that they were being used as couriers and worked for one Manjot Singh, alias Moti Pal, resident of Chander Nagar, Murgi Mohalla, Batala, who was lodged in Gurdaspur Central Jail in different cases. According to the accused, Manjot has been running the business from the jail along with his brother Ajmer Singh, alias Bunty and some other jail inmates. The accused said this consignment was supplied through a goods train from Pakistan. |
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3 Kashmiri youths held with fake currency
Jalandhar, December 14 Kuljit Singh, DSP (Detective), said the arrested youths had been identified as Ghulam Mohammad, Mohammad Sadique and Abdul Rashid, all of Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. The DSP said the youths had already supplied two similar consignments in Delhi while this was their first attempt in Punjab. The trio had been selling blankets and shawls while their main aim was to supply fake currency in Punjab. Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap and nabbed the three from Bhogpur from a T-point for Bholath. The trio were waiting for some customer, he added. The police had recovered Rs 83,000 from Ghulam Mohammad, Rs 1 lakh from Abdul Rashid and Rs 50,000 from Mohammad Sadique,” the DSP revealed. In the preliminary investigation, the trio admitted to have received the consignment from a Delhi-based person known as Moti, he added. A case under section 489-A, B and C of the IPC was registered at Bhogpur police station. |
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Another woman falls prey to swine flu at PGI
Hoshiarpur, December 14 Another swine flu patients Jaswinder Singh of local Mohalla Ranjit Nagar after getting treatment from the PGI was admitted in the local Civil Hospital for treatment today. His condition was stable. One more patient, identified as Narinder Singh (42), son of Jagat Singh, of Kalkat village in this district, was under treatment at the DMCH, Ludhiana. A team of doctors had been despatched to houses of these swine flu patients for providing the required medicines to their family members as precautionary measures, said Gupta, adding that all the patients recently acquired H1N1 virus in marriage parties where they met some NRIs. |
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Soothsayers asked to cancel meet
Jalandhar, December 14 Leader of the society Raju Sony said on the pretext of organising the convention, the fortune tellers are actually misleading people away from the root cause of their problems. He said if they were actually that good at telling their future and solving their problems beforehand, why were they leading a life of misery and deprivation? He further pointed
out that people must keep away from these swindlers whose only purpose was to make money. “For the past 25 years, the society has been challenging the fortune tellers to prove it wrong and win a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh. But no one has been able to do it. We challenge them again,” claimed Raju. He also criticised the use of feng shui and Vastu Shastra for deceiving people. |
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Food Inspectors appointed to check milk adulteration
Jalandhar, December 14 A copy of the notification in this regard has been forwarded by the Director, Health and Family Welfare, Punjab, Dr S.P.S. Sohal, to the Civil Surgeons concerned in the state for immediate implementation of the orders. The appointment of the Food Inspectors has been done with an aim to check adulteration, misbranded and substandard sale of milk. The notification issued by the department states that the Food Inspectors would work under the control of local Health Authority (Civil Surgeon) at the time of raids. It has been mentioned that the Civil Surgeon would depute the Food Inspectors under the supervision of officer in charge of that particular raid and issue food slips. “The Food Inspectors would deposit the samples filled by them with the local health authorities on the same day of the raid, subsequent to which court cases would also be filed,” he added. In Jalandhar, Waryam Singh has been appointed as the Dairy Development Inspector. He said the residents could approach the office of the Deputy Director, Diary, situated at Sant Nagar with any complaints of adulteration in milk. Among others who have been appointed for this purpose in the state includes Tejinder Pal Singh, Birpartap Singh, Harjit Singh, Jaspal Singh, Kashmir Singh, Gurinderpal Singh, Harvinder Singh, Jaswinder Singh and Hardip Singh. |
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Fill 1,400 posts of teacher: Aeri
Amritsar, December 14 A noted academician, Aeri, who is also Pan India head of DAV Colleges Managing Committee, said currently the state government was contributing only 80 per cent grant (Rs 80.28 crore) to DAV Colleges against the norm of 95 per cent grant. He said after the implementation of enhanced salaries as per the recommendation of the Sixth Pay Commission, the government would have to shell out Rs 160 crore annually. He said the federation was ready to introduce enhanced salaries of teachers as per the pay panel recommendations, provided the teachers must accept the total package. He said it made them accountable for research, practicals, the number of lectures and fulfilling various other standard guidelines. Expressing his concern over the quality of students passing out of higher educational institutes, Aeri said more stress must be laid on research and its practical implementation in society. |
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Warehouse staff go on strike
Jalandhar, December 14 Chairman of the union Akshar Kumar said acting on its self-decided rules, the FCI had deducted Rs 20 crore from the bills of the warehouse corporation. He said the FCI had also sent claims worth Rs 132 crore to a high-level committee for discussion. Convener Kuldeep Singh and general secretary Swaranjeet Singh said the FCI was neither heeding to the regulation set by the warehouse corporation nor was it abiding by the rules laid down by the Government of India. They said the FCI had not even signed the agreement sent by the corporation. They said at the meeting held on December 11 the FCI General Manager had agreed upon certain issues but the no written instructions had been given by the FCI as yet, forcing the union to go on an indefinite strike. The leaders requested sheller owners not to send any stock at the warehouse godowns as the strike might continue for many days. |
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