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Residents force MC to repair road after 20 yrs
Robbers decamp with 116 laptops, i-pods from shop
The showroom from which the robbers stole 116 laptops in Amritsar on Sunday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
2 of family killed as bus overturns
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Anganwari workers stage protest
Foreign Dreams
Bhuriwale sect has transformed lives of Kandi residents: CM
Lohri
Holy Trouble
4 mobike thieves held
PSEB extends scheme
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Residents force MC to repair road after 20 yrs
Amritsar, December 20 In fact, hundreds of residents, led by Congress councillor from Ward 29 Navdeep Singh Goldi, braved the bone-chilling cold as they spent the Friday night on the road. If this was not enough, women residents, who joined the protesting menfolk, had to cook their food on the road as they resolved to not to allow the paver machine of the MC contractor to leave the place. The protesters, including women and children, had been sitting on the road since Friday evening after the contractor of the Amritisar Municipal Corporation allegedly left the relaying of the road in their area midway allegedly on the instructions of a BJP leader. They, however, were stunned to see that a 40-50 policemen descended on the scene in the morning and started beating them up with lathis. “Initially, the police did not listen to us and subjected us to lathi charge. They only softened their stance when we told them that we were protesting against the indifferent attitude of the MC authorities which had stopped construction of the road half way. Men of the contractor told us that they were forced to leave the work in the middle as they had got instructions to leave the area and construct a road in the area of an MLA. They had relaid just 300 feet of the 600 feet road when they tried to pack up. The road was being repaired after a 20-year wait,” rued Goldy. He said the work started on the road late on Saturday afternoon only after two residents, Sharanjit Singh and Kuljit Singh, perched atop the paver machine and threatened to immolate themselves by pouring kerosene on themselves. He alleged that the MC authorities were ignoring his ward and the MC was equipped with just one paver machine which had led to development works coming to a standstill. MC Commissioner D.P.S. Kharbanda said he had instructed the contractor to start work the moment he had come to know that the work on the road had got stalled. “I have already talked to Goldy. We will complete the work and there is no question of any discrimination,” claimed Kharbanda. |
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Robbers decamp with 116 laptops, i-pods from shop
Amritsar, December 20 A police post is situated just a few yards from the shop. The accused used an iron road to break open the locks. However, SSP P.K. Rai said that many “interesting things” had come to light during preliminary investigations, adding that anything concrete would be revealed only after a through probe. Shop owner Dharampal Chopra claimed that the thieves fled with 116 laptops worth over Rs 50 lakh along with their accessories. He said laptops worth Rs 26 lakh were displayed in the showroom. The accused then entered the godown by breaking the locks and took away the remaining laptops. A case under sections 457 and 380, IPC, has been registered at the Civil Line police station. The police said teams had been sent to various places to nab the culprits. It said the crime seemed to be the handiwork of some outsiders.
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2 of family killed as bus overturns
Tarn Taran, December 20 The family was going to Gurdwara Bir Baba Budha Sahib, Thatha, to pay obeisance. The deceased have been identified as Asha Rani (60) and her granddaughter Mehak (6). The injured were discharged after first aid at Bir Baba Budha Sahib Hospital being run by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The minibus of the Dashmesh Bus Service was going from Amritsar to Gurdwara Bir Baba Budha Sahib. When it reached near Dhand Kasel village, due to some mechanical defect, the driver of the bus lost control over it, resulting in its overturning. Mehak died on the spot, while Asha Rani died on the way to hospital.
The police of Sarai Amanat Khan reached the spot. |
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Anganwari workers stage protest
Hoshiarpur, December 20 They presented a charter of demands to the state government through the SDM. Their main demands include cancellation of wrong recruitment of supervisory staff, 100 per cent promotions on seniority, cancellation of age limit, giving extra allowances for extra work on the Haryana pattern, annual promotion, conversion of the ICDS scheme to government department, class III status to workers and class IV status to helpers on Puducherry basis, Rs 1,000 monthly pension to workers and Rs 500 to helpers on the Maharashtra pattern, etc. Earlier, they staged a rally at Shaheed Udham Singh Park, in which they criticised the state government for ignoring their demands. A heavy police force was deployed near Service Club on the way to the residence of Minister for Medical Education and Research, Forest, Labour and Parliamentary Affairs, Punjab, Tikshan Sud, to avert the proposed demonstration and burning the effigy of the state government there. They were stopped at Session Chowk and were not allowed to proceed to the residence of the minister.
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Foreign Dreams
Hoshiarpur, December 20 This was stated by MLA of Edmonton-Ellerslie Constituency, Alberta state of Canada, Naresh Bhardwaj, who was here on a private visit, here yesterday. A number of Indian brides had been suffering at the hands of NRI grooms, but none of the sufferers had ever reported the matter to the Canadian government. He would make all possible efforts to rehabilitate such victims, if the parents approached him in this connection, he said. Comparing politicians of India and Canada, Bhardwaj said politicians in Canada generally opted for politics to serve the people. He belonged to Pandori Nizran village of Jalandhar and after completing matriculation, he went to Canada in 1976. After settling there, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party to serve the people. More than one lakh Punjabis have been living in Alberta. The Alberta assembly comprising 83 members had five Punjabis elected as MLAs. Referring to the ongoing recession in the world, he said the Canadian government was financially sound. There was a great demand of workers i.e. labourers and technical experts in Alberta state a year ago. The recession in every field had restricted the demand to a great extent which would again be increased soon after the end of the recession. Cautioning the Punjabi youths seeking immigration to Canada not to be misled by unscrupulous elements, Bhardwaj exhorted them to directly approach the Canadian High Commission in this regard.
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Bhuriwale sect has transformed lives of Kandi residents: CM
Nawanshahr, December 20 The CM was addressing the concluding session of the three-day-long religious congregation organised to commemorate the 120th birth anniversary of Swami Lal Dass Bhuriwale, second master of the Bhuriwale sect, celebrated by the Maharaj Brahmanand Bhuriwale Garibdassi (MBBG) Trust under the patronage of Maharaj Chetnanand at Tapparian Khurd village on Friday. “It seems incredible, but true that the Maharaj Brahmanand Bhuriwale Trust has not only set up seven colleges, a hospital and a gaushala but has also been instrumental in the development of infrastructural facilities like roads, drinking water, irrigation facility, etc. in the Kandi area with the active cooperation of philanthropists and the government,” said Badal. Responding to the demands put forth by Prof Mohinder Singh Baghi, president, MBBG Trust, the CM said the widening of the Kular Tibba-Nangal road would be completed soon. He announced a grant of Rs 20 lakh to the MBBG Trust in two equal instalments for the development of educational institutions being run by the trust. Badal said the state would be made power surplus within two years. “The collaboration of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee President Paramjit Singh Sarna and former CM Capt Amarinder Singh for the ensuing SGPC poll would not have any effect in Punjab,” said Badal.
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Lohri
Nawanshahr, December 20 Acting on a tip-off, a department team, led by District Health Officer Dr Ashok Guru, in collaboration with the police seized about 3.5 quintals of “substandard” gachchak and different variety of sweets from Mani Mazra resident Satish Kumar after intercepting his car at a naka at Kathgarh village on the Nawanshahr-Chandigarh highway here yesterday. The DHO said Satish Kumar had been supplying these sweets to shops in Nawanshahr district. More than one quintal of gachchak was found packed in a wrapper with trademark of “Mahadev Ji”, but there was no date of manufacturing, expiry or batch number on the wrapper. Similarly, the supplier could not show any bill of different varieties of sweets - burfi (60 kg), gajrella (20 kg), milk cake (25 kg), patisa (50 kg), bhugga (25 kg) and kalakand (20 kg), said the DHO. He said one could easily guess the quality of the sweets from the revelations made by the supplier, in which he said he had been purchasing the sweets at the rate of Rs 50 to 60 per kg and supplying it to the sweet shops just at a margin of Rs 5 to 10 per kg while the sweets made of khoya were being sold at about Rs 150 kg in the market. The DHO said the department had taken samples of the sweets and prohibited the supplier to sale these sweets, till the receipt of the report from the lab. If it found to be unfit from human consumption, then the sweets would be discarded, he added.
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Holy Trouble
Phagwara, December 20 Phagwara DSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh, while confirming this, told newsmen here today that earlier the police registered a case under section 295 A of the IPC against some Shiv Saniks, on the complaint of mandir pujari Chander Shekhar Mishra, but later, after a detailed investigation, it was found that the mandir pujari himself tore pages of some holy granths and held Shiv Sainiks responsible for the sacrilege. DSP Khakh said the mandir pujari was arrested by the police last night. The accused pujari was produced before the local judicial magistrate, which sent him to 14 days in
judicial remand. |
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4 mobike thieves held
Nawanshahr, December 20 The motorcycles had been stolen by them from Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala districts. |
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PSEB extends scheme
Phagwara December 20 He said now the domestic and commercial consumers could extend their loads equal to double of their present sanctioned load by depositing the required security till December 31. No penalty would be charged from any customer during this period, said Sanjeev Kumar. |
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Unidentified robbers struck at a computers and laptops shop and reportedly decamped with 116 laptops in the Nehru Shopping Complex in the Lawrence Road area reportedly early this morning.
