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Factory worker killed in wall collapse
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 5 Krishan Kumar (40) had been working at the hammering unit for the past many years. He received fatal injuries when the wall of the factory collapsed due to vibrations. A large number of area residents had approached senior officials of the district administration in
the past against the hammering unit in Sangatpura area. The area residents alleged that dozens of houses in their locality had been damaged due to vibrations created by the hammering unit. Nishan Singh, an area resident, alleged that in spite of repeated requests, pleas and dharnas by the area residents, nothing had been done in this regard. Police officials said
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Rs 20 lakh recovered as house tax
Kharar, January 5 Out of 1,200 house tax cases, 550 have already come up for hearing before the committee. In most of the cases, the house tax payees had alleged that they were being charged arbitrarily. The committee members heard their objections and reassessed the tax levied. In many a cases, the amount of tax levied reduced considerably and people willingly paid the new amount calculated after reassessment. EO Vijay Gupta said most of the people had amicably settled house tax levied on them. “The local bodies department had directed us to solve all pending house tax objections within a month time period which expires tomorrow,” he said. Gupta added that no objections would be entertained after January 6. House tax was arbitrarily levied on traders and residents of Kharar, raising a hue and cry from all quarters. People had run a campaign against the hefty taxes levied on them and opposed it tooth and nail. Seeing the protest, the local bodies department directed the municipal council, Kharar, to form a sub-committee of three councillors that would hear objections and reassess the taxes.
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Lecture on public admn at govt college
Kalka, January 5 Prof Shiv Raj Singh, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Singhania University, Jhunjunu, was the key person. The lecture was organised by Dr Rajiv, head of faculty of public administration. SK Manocha, college principal motivated the students to benefit from his expertise. The resource person also talked about the history of public administration. He also mentioned all historical conferences that led to changes in approaches adapted to study and research in the subject and also in its implementation in various spheres of life, besides, governance and administration. He elucidated how the focus had shifted from structure/procedure/rules oriented approach of study and research to people oriented approach of study and implementation where human needs, desires, wants, job satisfaction and theories of motivation were given importance to achieve the goal of public administration. He further elaborated that modern concerns of public administration establish it as a subject which allows democratic and scientific system in policy making and decision making, which calls for an interdisciplinary approach to be adopted by the students as well as researchers, since it aims at welfare of humanity and therefore, none of the spheres related to human life could be left untouched. The talk was followed by a question answer session and was well received. Prof Siv Raj Singh advised the students to become seekers of knowledge.
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Faculty development programme
Ambala, December 5 Chief guest and DST adviser Neeraj Sharma informed that faculty should teach scientific methods of entrepreneurship to the students. CEO Hardicon, RK Zutshi, urged that every technocrat teaching professional should inspire the students to opt for entrepreneurship. While addressing the gathering, MM Education Trust secretary Sanjiv Garg conveyed that in MM University, EDC cell was functioning and after doing the workshop it would help the university and its members to conduct more workshops and management of the cell of its own
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NTAS raises leprosy welfare fund
Patiala, January 5 Four prominent personalities honoured included chief guest MS
Narang, two journalists, Mandeep Josan (Hind Samachar, Punjab Kesari, Jagbani Trio) and Deepak Modgill
(Dainik Bhaskar), and Delhi architect couple, Sampan Sabharwal and Anupama
Sabharwal, experts in interior and stage decoration. NTAS president GS Kakkar presented the award of
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Sweaters given to needy students
Bassi Pathana, January 5 Addressing the gathering, parishad president Pritam Rabbar said service to mankind was service to God. He said the parishad had always remained in forefront when it comes to helping the needy sections of society, particularly in the field of education. He called upon other social organisations to come forward for the cause of education. He declared that the parishad would give uniforms, books and fee of the brilliant needy students. The school principal appreciated efforts of the Bharat Vikas Parishad.
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Global conference on languages
Patiala, January 5 The conference will be held in collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, in which eminent linguist Dr Joginder Singh Puar will be the chief guest. Dr Joga Singh, head and director of the linguistic department said about 300 delegates from different countries, including Russia, the USA, the UK, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Brazil and Iran were expected to participate in this conference in which Prof Annie Montaut, director, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisation, Paris, would deliver the keynote address. |
Ex-IPS officer’s plea on promotion dismissed
Chandigarh, January 5 In his petition against the Union of India and other respondents placed before Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Jora Singh, Sarangal had challenged the order dated March 20, 1997, passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, dismissing his original application in the matter. A direct recruit to the Indian Police Service with 1960, as the year of allotment, he had sought the quashing of an order dated January 18, 1993, declining his representation for “promotion to Deputy Inspector-General of Police scale from deemed date, as was granted to Harjeet Singh and B.R.Kapur”, who were promotee officers. He had contended that the promotee officers were assigned 1963 as year of allotment by the Government of India vide communication dated January 11, 1971. Aggrieved against the allotment, writ petitions were filed before this Court by the promotee officers. A Single Judge had allowed the writ petitions on July 16, 1973, and directed the authorities to grant year of allotment “from the date of continuous officiation in the cadre of the senior posts. Letters patent appeals were filed before the Division Bench, which allowed these on May 17, 1975, with a direction to the Central Government to re-decide the question of assignment of the year of allotment in the light of the observations made in the judgment. Harjeet Singh and Kapur filed civil appeals before the Supreme Court, along with the petitioner. The judgment of Division Bench was set aside and that of the Single Judge was restored. As a consequence of the order passed in civil appeals, the promotee officers were assigned year of allotment as 1960; promoted as DIG with effect from September 25, 1980, as a result of re-fixation of seniority and were given deemed date of promotions with consequential benefits. In the revised gradation list as on January 1, 1982, the promotee officers were shown senior to the petitioner. The Bench observed: “Kapur and Harjeet Singh have been given year of allotment in terms of the order passed by Supreme Court…. Since action has been taken in terms of the order passed by Supreme Court, therefore, challenge to the order granting promotion to Harjeet Singh and Kapur cannot be permitted to be disputed by the petitioner, more so after four years of his retirement; 12 years after his representation was declined and after 13 years of granting such benefit to the promotee officers. Consequently, we do not find any illegality or material infirmity in the order passed by the Tribunal”.
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Pritpal’s remand extended by two days
Chandigarh, January 5 His followers distributed ‘jalebis’ and tea among the police personnel on duty and others present. He was brought on a wheelchair till the courtroom as he was not feeling well. The prosecution, demanding five-day remand, asserted that the accused had not been cooperating with it to unearth facts and further custodial interrogation was required for investigation, following which the court extended the remand. Accused in a land grab case, Pritpal was arrested by the special crime investigation cell of the UT police, following which he was taken into two-day police custody. The baba, along with others, allegedly sold a piece of land for over Rs 1.2 crore to the ATS Builders, a private company, on the basis of forged general power of attorney. UT’s senior standing counsel Anupam Gupta stated that two-day remand given earlier was inadequate and insufficient for proper, effective and comprehensive interrogation of the accused. “The accused is not cooperating in the investigation and has been evasive on crucial aspects, and at least five more days of custody is required to unravel complete facts and circumstances of the case,” said Gupta. The police said the accused had revealed during interrogation that out of the sale consideration received by him from the company, Rs 90 lakh had been spent to purchase land at Hazoor Sahib in Nanded district of Maharashtra. “Another amount of Rs 20 lakh has been used to purchase land near Chamkaur Sahib in Ropar. The accused has not been disclosing the use of the remaining amount of Rs 10 lakh,” said Gupta. He also said Pritpal had not been cooperating with police in disclosing the name of the person who had signed the general power of attorney in the name of complainant Kamaljit Kaur in Pritpal’s favour. The police also said the accused had not been disclosing the names of the other persons who had conspired with him for preparing the fake general power of attorney. “The accused is also not disclosing any further details regarding the transactions of land purchase at Hazoor Sahib, Nanded and Chamkaur Sahib, including the mode and manner of payment and to whom the payments were made,” said Anupam Gupta. He added that the accused had also not been disclosing the bank accounts, which were required to be ascertained by the investigating agency for further progress in the case. The defence counsel pleaded that Pritpal was neither a thief, nor a fraudster, and had been running a charitable school and a dispensary and heading a gurdwara for the past 30 years.
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Solan man found dead at hotel
Chandigarh, January 5 Sources said Sanjeev, a shopkeeper in his mid-thirties, had come to the city to purchase video CDs along with his friend Kuldeep Kumar, also a shopkeeper. Kuldeep had also brought his 10-year-old daughter along with him. After making purchases, they stayed in a room of the Rajesh Hotel at Burail. The police said the two friends consumed liquor and dined at the hotel. Sanjeev told Kuldeep that they would wake up late in the morning. Kuldeep tried to wake Sanjeev up around 10 am and found him lying listless in bed. He informed the hotel staff, which called the police. The police contacted members of the victim’s family, who raised no doubt over the death. They said Sanjeev, who was unmarried, was a habitual drinker and had suffered heart attacks earlier. The police initiated inquest proceedings into the death under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code in this regard.
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Four thefts in city
Chandigarh, January 5 In another incident, Satya Parkash of Vikas Nagar reported that someone stole 1,000 brass sanitary pieces and 1,000 zinc pieces from Plot 61, Phase II, Industrial Area, on Sunday night. Kanwaljit Singh of Sector 32-A reported that someone stole electrical appliances and articles from his residence between December 30 and January 2. Three cases of theft were registered. Ganesh Paswan of Sector 56 reported that someone stole his auto-rickshaw (PB65F-9794) on December 25 from in front of his residence. A case was registered.
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Two more youths arrested for theft, shooting
Zirakpur, January 5 However, Sandeep, hailing from Muzaffarnagar, was already nabbed by the family members of the businessman, whose godown they had gone to burgle on the New Year ’s Eve. The police said during the preliminary investigation, Anuj revealed that he had committed robbery at Sector 38, Chandigarh. On December 31, Harish, a 45-year-old businessman of Bhabat, along with his relatives, returned to his godown-cum-residence from Chandigarh after celebrating the New Year’s Eve. When Harish opened the main door, three masked burglars tried to escape from the godown. While two of the burglars managed to flee, Harish’s family members caught Sandeep.
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Thieves decamp with brass taps, Rs 8,000
Zirakpur, January 5 According to sources, Sandeep Mehta, owner of the shop, alleged that he got a call from his neighbour today morning and informed that the shutter of the shop was open and locks were broken. He immediately rushed to the shop and found that the shop was ransacked. He alleged that the brass taps and cash around Rs 8,000 were missing from his shop. He informed the police about the theft. The police said they has started further investigation in the matter. Suicide
Lalru: A 56-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after consuming intoxicant substance at his residence today. According to police sources, property dealer Dev Raj, a resident of Dharamgarh village, had allegedly consumed some intoxicant substance. He was rushed to the Dera Bassi civil hospital by his son in unconscious condition where he was declared brought dead, the police added. The investigating officer stated that the deceased was said to be under depression for a quite long time. The body has been handed over to the family after conducting a post mortem.
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ITF Tennis Tournament
Chandigarh, January 5 Digvijay Singh Mehta, a CLTA trainee, went down fighting to Shahbaaz Khan in one of the three evenly fought pre-quarterfinal matches at the centre court. After splitting the first two sets and 2-4 down in the third and deciding set, Digvijay required medical treatment as he sustained injury on his left leg. Digvijay continued despite limping. Leg injury also restricted his court movement. The CLTA trainee broke Shahbaaz Khan in the seventh game to make it 3-4. However, Shahbaaz started hitting on both sides of the court and rushed for the netplay. Shahbaaz broke Digvijay in the eighth game. Serving for the game, set and match, Shahbaaz was in total control of the game on his serve in the ninth game, which he clinched at love. Earlier, Digvijay trailed 2-4 in the opening set but won four games in a row to claim the set at 6-4. Tall Shahbaaz fired his shots with power and precision to win the second set. Down 1-3, Shahbaaz displayed his class by claiming five games in a row to win 6-3 and make it one set all in the match, which lasted two hours and 13 minutes. Shahbaaz will now face second seed Saurabh Singh in the quarterfinal round tomorrow. Saurabh Singh scored a fluent 6-2, 6-3 victory over Kong Pop Lertchal of Thailand. Rakshay Thakkar, who had yesterday ousted sixth seed Wang Chieu-Fu of Taipei, today maintained his winning spree by ending the challenge of Pulat Babadjanov of Uzbekistan in three sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in another boys’ pre-quarterfinal match. In a 119-minute tussle, Thakkar and Babadjanov traded break for break in the first three games. Thakkar gained a 2-1 lead. The player broke Babadjanov in the fifth game for a 4-1 lead. The Uzbek then broke Thakkar in the seventh game to reduce the margin 3-4. After holding his serve, Thakkar broke his opponent’s serve in the ninth game to win the set 6-3. Babadjanov raised his game in the second set, as he reeled off four wins in succession by winning the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth games to clinch the set 6-3 and make it one set all. Thakkar hit back in the third and deciding set with victories in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventth and eighth games in a row and emerged winner in the pre-quarterfinal match. Thakkar will now cross swords with third seed Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash in quarterfinals. Mohit accounted for Vinod Gowda in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. Other seedes also had a smooth sailing. Top seed Sumeet Shinde, fifth seed Ronit Bisht fourth seed Sai Kartik Nakireddi along with seventh seed Ting Yu Chuang of Taipei advanced to the quarterfinal with straight set wins. Top seed N Sankaew of Thailand and second seeded Kyra Shroff (India) moved ahead in the girls’ quarterfinals with contrasting styles. While Sankaew had a smooth sailing against Natasha Palha whom she beat in straight sets 6-2,6-1. Kyra struggled to overcame plucky Shweta Rana in three well-fought sets 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4. An upset was recorded in the girls’ matches as unseeded Sowjanya Bavisetti stunned fifth seed Sharmada Ballu in three sets 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Vaniya Dadwal, who had yesterday shocked fourth seed Teltumbde, ended the challenge of Vajdic Dora of Croatia 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Results: Boys singles (second round): Sumeet Shinde (India) b Vilaster Khate (India) 7-5, 6-1, Sai Kartik Nakireddi (India) b Arjun Kadhe 6-2, 6-4, Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (India) b Vinod Gowde (India) 6-3, 6-4, Ting Yu Chuang (Tpe) b Rajat Maheshwari (India) 6-3, 6-4, Rakshay Thakkar (India) b Pulat Babadjanov (Uzbekistan) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, Saurabh Singh (India) b Kong Pop Lertchal (Thailand) 6-2, 6-3, Shahbaaz Khan (India) b Digvijay Singh Mehta (India) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, Ronit Bisht (India) b Kunal Anand (India) Girls (second round): Vaniya Dangwal (India) b Vajdic Dora (Croatia) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, Sowjanya Bavisetti (India) b Balu Sharmada (India) 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, Rishika Sunkara (India) b Smiti Joon (India) 6-1, 6-0, N Sankaew (Thailand) b Natasha Palha (India) 6-2, 6-1, Kyra Shroff (India) b Sweta Rana (India) 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4, Zi Yang (China) b Laura Deigman (Great Britain) 6-4, 6-3, A Prenko (Turkmenistan) b Bhuvana Kalva (India) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, Ankita Raina (India) b Kanika Vaidya 6-4, 6-3. Boys doubles (first round): Ronit Singh Bisht (India) and Sai Kartik Nakireddi (India) b Suraj Konwar (India) and Sauravh Patil (India) 6-1, 6-2, Siu Fai Kelvin Lam (Hong Kong) and Vishwesh Sinha (India) b Vilasier Khate (India) and Ajay Yadav (India) 7-5, 6-1, Kunal Anand (India) and Saurabh Singh (India) b Vinod Gowda (India) Rakshay Thakkar (India) 6-1, 6-4, Akhmed Djamal Mukhamed (Uzbekistan) and Nishchay Rawal (India) b Gary Singh Amor (India) and Digvijay Singh Naruka (India) 6-4, 6-7(1) {10-7}, Arjun Khade (India) and Digvijay Singh Mehta (India) b Dmitriy Borodkin (Kazakhstan) and Kong Pop Lertchai (Thailand) 6-4, 6-4, Shahbaaz Khan (India) and Sumeet Shinde (India) b R Maheshwari (India) and Sai Teja Paladugu (India) 7-6(6), 6-2, Pulat Babadjanov (Uzbekistan) and Aziz Yuldashey (Uzbekistan) b Suraj Beniwal (India) Navneet Kumar (India) 6-7(5), 6-4 {13-11}, Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (India) and Rishab Dev Raman (India) b Ting Yu Chuang (Tpe) and Chieh Fu Wang (Taipei) 6-3, 4-6 [10-3}.
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Tuba bags national carrom title
Chandigarh, January 5 He said Chandigarh got fourth and third place in the girls and boys team championship, respectively.
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FIDE Rating Chess Championship
Chandigarh, January 5 On the top board, Lahiri with seven points drew with Aubhropratim Manna of West Bengal at 6.5 points. OT Anil Kumar of Kerala with 6.5 points drew with Puneet Jaiswal of Jharkhand with 6.5 points. Himal Gusain of Chandigarh with 6.5 points defeated Rakesh Aggarwal of Railways. Linda Rangarajan at 6.5 points of Pondicherry defeated Yashpal Arora of Madhya Pradesh. The results at the end of eight round: Lahiri Atanu drew with Aubhropratim Manna, Anilkumar OT drew with Puneet Jaiswal, Prakash Ram drew with Sahu Vikramaditya, Himal Gusain b Rakesh Agarwal, Linda Rangarajan b Yashpal Arora, Roshan Rangarajan drew with Biswajit Chatterjee, Ashish Kumar drew with Hemant Kumar Singh, Dev Krishan b Saxena Manav, PL Sharma b Dr Sanjay Date, Srinath Rao SV drew with Sumit Grover, Bahadur Singh b Saurabh Mandal, Singh Arvinder Preet b Prince Mundakayam, Ritwan Sauntra drew with Vinoda Nand Barthwal, Souvik Chakraborty b Heera Singh, Srikanth P b Simranjeet Kaur, DK Chopra b Rahul Lamba, Yogesh Gautam drew with Rishab Jain, Nitin b Rajinder Pal Sood, Anurudh Garg b Aakarshan Gupta, Atul Kumar b Arunima Goyal, Sanjay Gupta drew with Karan Manish Jain, Deepak Kumar drew with Pardeep Singh Negi, Kaushal Inderjeet drew with Sarthak Bansal, Manmohan Singh b Gitin Oberoi, Aneesh R b TM Kawadkar, Shishir Kumar b Kanika Saxena, Jeet Singh b Shivika Jain, Sunil Bansal b WCM Tarini Goyal, Satbir Singh b Nirankari Ashwani, Karan Bhatti b Saikat Dutta, Shubham Sarin drew with Manan Rai, Manideep Mukhi b Mitali Thadani, Rakesh Kochar b Kaura Mayank, Keshni Bhasin b Saurabh Goyal, Yashashwat Srivastava drew with Jaskirat Singh, Deepak Paliwal b Tarundeep Singh, Shweta Priyadarshini drew with Akshat Chandra, Vipan Negi drew with Pranjal Kaura, Sanjeev Thakur b Jatinder Singh, Sara JS b Mohit Sharma, Sachleen Singh drew with Manish Sehgal, Tejas Nagpal b NS Gularia, Pawan Kaushik b Birendra Singh Rawat, Jashanpreet drew with Ramesh Gill, Shubham Kaushik drew with Jaskeerat Singh Ahluwalia, Prem Pandit b Kamlesh Dhadwal, Simranjeet Singh b Karan Saini, Kuldeep Kanwar b Rahul Arora, Dr MD Umrayia b Tanay Sharma, Madhuri Sood b Tanya Kaushal, Pratham Sarin b Amartaya Bhattacharjee, Anubhav Tuknayat b Singh Sewa, Pramod Pandey b Amarveer Singh, Anmol drew with Rishab Jain, Shashank Ranadive b Anshul Kaushik, Arihant Sharma b Roopam Bhardwaj, Surya Mittal b Kashish Kaushal, Ravneet Kaur b MS Kanwar, Manas Jain b Sagar, Utkarsh Siddarth b Kritika Kapila, Madan Lal b AbhishekAggarwal, SanjeevJain drew with Ciezil Nadda, Rahul Jindal b Tejaswi Negi.
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