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Admn takes measures to foil ETT teachers’ rally in Lambi
Protesters held, Khemuana villagers hurl stones at cops
Inebriated youths kill teenager in Lehra
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Atrocities on Dalits
10-yr-old helps foil bid to loot bank
Moratorium on Bt Brinjal
Skill development initiative helps 650 youths get jobs
New courts complex to be inaugurated on Mar 6
Streetlights remain on as TSU workers go on strike
School van overturns, girl killed
Kumbh Mela
‘Hak Haaki Da’ to be staged
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Admn takes measures to foil ETT teachers’ rally in Lambi
Muktsar, February 10 The administration has allegedly initiated a process of rounding up the ETT activists throughout the state. Meanwhile, terming the scheduled protest of ETT teachers a baseless action, Muktsar deputy commissioner Varun Roojam today announced that no teacher would be allowed to hold agitation in Lambi for the day. During a meeting held here today, the DC said, “Except for an unconstitutional demand of the ETT teachers related to shifting their posts to education department, the government has already accepted their demands related to CPF, medical bills, annual promotions, clearance of DA backlog etc.” “Despite that, they are trying to disturb the law and order situation, which we will never allow,” the DC added. The DC said he had already imposed section 144 of the CrPC that prohibits assembling of protesters. Union activists said they were ready to bear any “atrocity” by the government but would continue their struggle till demands of pay scale and return to education department were not approved. Senior vice-president of the union Sawaranjeet Singh Bhagta said, jumping the walls of his house, a team of cops came to arrest him on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. However, he managed to escape as he already had information. District president of the union Jagmel Singh alleged that the cops came to arrest him but took another Jagmel Singh to police station and released him on Tuesday morning only after verifying his identity.
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Protesters held, Khemuana villagers hurl stones at cops
Bathinda, February 10 Sources in the village informed that ETT activists were carrying out a march in the village to get public support for their Lambi rally, slated for February 12. Meanwhile, some policemen came in a Bolero and arrested their leader Jagmel Singh. Irked over the police action, the protesting teachers indulged in a verbal and physical duel with
the police. To disperse the crowd, the police resorted to a lathicharge. In retaliation, villagers hurled stones at the police. Meanwhile, the agitators left the place. To control the mob, the policemen opened a rounds of fire in the air and left in their
vehicle. ETT activists, who managed to avoid arrest, said, “We were aware that cops would make attempts to arrest us as the state government has ordered cops to foil our Lambi rally. Though a few of us have been arrested, we are firm over holding the rally for our rights.” However, cops from Nathana and Nehianwala police station refused to comment on the issue. —
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Inebriated youths kill teenager in Lehra
Bathinda, February 10 Sources in the village informed that Jatinder Singh, Rajinder Singh, Balwinder Singh, Babbi Singh and Teja Singh were in an inebriated condition last evening and were indulging in hooliganism. Gurmeet Singh (17) came out of his house and asked them to stop hurling abuses. It led to a verbal duel. Meanwhile, one of his friends Kala Singh reached the spot and intervened. The accused group assaulted Gurmeet and Kala with a sharp-edged weapon and inflicted bruises. During the ruckus, they allegedly inflicted deep wounds to Gurmeet with a sharp-edged weapon (kirch). Listening to the screams of the duo, villagers assembled but the accused managed to flee. The villagers shifted the injured to a hospital where Gurmeet succumbed to his injury. Confirming the facts, Nathana SHO Sandeep Kumar said, “We have identified the accused and booked them under sections 302 and 34 of the IPC (murder and joint liability). The weapon has been recovered and hopefully, all of them would be put behind the bars soon.” —
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SC panel asks DGP to review cases
Kulwinder Sandhu Tribune News Service
Moga, February 10 Naranjan Singh, chairman of the Commission while addressing a gathering of the Dalits asked the DGP to review all cases of atrocities and take action against the police officials concerned who adopted insensitive attitude in these cases during the course of investigations. He along with Dalip Singh Pandhi, member of the SC Commission was here to preside over a seminar on civil rights of the Dalit community and look into grievances of the community on the spot. Expressing concern over less conviction rate (just three per cent) in the cases registered under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the state, he said that the official machinery should flex up their muscles to provide justice to the weaker sections of the society. Dalip Singh Pandhi while saying that the Commission was vested with powers to take action against those officers who were trying to suppress the rights of weaker sections said, “The officers should mend their ways or the Commission would ask the government to remove them from service and take legal action against them.” TR Sarangal, principal secretary of the welfare department, giving a brief account of the historical past of the Dalits in the country, apprised of various laws enacted by the Parliament to protect the rights of the downtrodden people. Former MLA, Tarsem Jodhan said that there was a huge gap between the laws and the implementing agencies, which was the main reason for social and economic exploitation of the poor people. He claimed that 50,000 families in Punjab did not have shelter, from which, one could judge well their living standard and functioning of the government. Noted poetess, Bhupinder Kaur ‘Preet’ also member of the district consumers' forum, lamented the position of women in the society. She said, “Our nation can progress only if the women are given their due respect in the society.” Advocate Arvind Thakur, Jai Singh Phillaur, both social activists, DM Satwant Singh Johal, SSP Ashok Bath were among others who addressed the gathering. Later, Naranjan Singh and Pandhi looked into complaints in the presence of the DM and SSP and directed them to solve the issues. Some complaints were taken up by the Commission itself.
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10-yr-old helps foil bid to loot bank
Mansa, February 10 In the beginning, the robbers had beaten up the bank security guard Jang Singh and damaged his gun but the bank manager Jaswant Rai informed the police and the villagers somehow. They all reached the spot. Meanwhile, a 10-year-old child, Gurpreet Singh, son of Swarn Singh, threw stones and informed the villagers through his cry for help. SSP Hardyal Singh Maan said the police had arrested three robbers as Balwinder Singh, Gurdeep Singh, and Jagseer Singh all residents of Vadiala district, Bathinda, along with two pistols. |
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KVM hails Centre’s move
SP Sharma/Tribune News Service Tribune News Service
Bathinda, February 10 Terming the decision of the Centre as “extremely positive development” for India, the KVM appreciated the Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh for adopting a cautious approach on the controversial issue. Executive director of the KVM Umendra Dutt said here the deep divide in the scientific community of India and the overwhelming concern of the general public against Bt Brinjal made the government put the moratorium. Dutt demanded that during the period of moratorium, no open-air trials should be allowed and further research should be in strictly contained conditions. He stressed the need for a policy framework that takes into account the very need for genetically modified (GM) crops and an assessment to precede any research and development effort. Dutt said the minister should have rejected Bt Brinjal once and for all, as many safer and sustainable alternatives exist. Moreover, the technology is hazardous enough that any rigorous, independent scientific testing would bring out. This is the right time to take up a comprehensive review of Bt Cotton before the country moves ahead on this controversial technology for other crops too, he demanded.
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Skill development initiative helps 650 youths get jobs
Bathinda, February 10 Talking to TNS here today, Harpal Singh, deputy director, employment generation and training, Bathinda, said under the initiative, they had started imparting training to the unemployed youths on August 14, 2008, and were still continuing with it. He said till now, 495 youths had already got training in different trades of carpentry, masonry and bar bending, and all of them had got jobs in the Bathinda refinery so far. He said during the training period, the youths got a stipend of Rs 1,500 per month while they were now earning Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 a month. As many as 90 more youths were getting training in these three trades, he added. Harpal said 210 youths had been given free training in the trades related to air-conditioning, refrigeration and electrician, welding, plumbing, computer hardware. Out of these, 160 had already got jobs in Bathinda refinery or private companies. He said 252 youths were also getting training in these trades, which would end on February 28. He stated that his office was also going to provide training in food processing to about 30 youths from March 1 at the Institute of Hotel Management here. He said it was an eight-week course carrying a stipend of Rs 1,500 per month. |
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New courts complex to be inaugurated on Mar 6
Bathinda, February 10 CM Parkash Singh Badal had laid the foundation stone of the district courts complex in July 2007 with the promise to complete the construction without any hurdle. However, the project faced several hiccups and was delayed by months. The old building of the district judicial complex from where all 14 courts function has already been declared as unsafe. Highlighting the issue many times, advocates had rued that the pace of construction work was quite slow. They brought the issue to the notice of judiciary as well as the chief minister. Following this, the authorities concerned swung into action and set a time-bound target to complete the complex in a block-wise manner, under which A-block, which would house 14 courts (three each on first and second floors and four each on the next two floors), is now going to be inaugurated. According to details, the cost of the four-storey building (A-block) would be around Rs 17 crore. It would also have retiring rooms for judges, library for judges, conference room, judicial service centre and a six-storey record room of the courts. Further, the building would have a room for police officials and a Maal Khana to store goods taken in custody. Considering the demand of the District Bar Association, a provision for a Bar room has also been made in the building till the next blocks of the complex come into existence. As per the plan, court rooms and retiring rooms of judges will be fully air-conditioned, for which the department concerned is busy in fitting 92 ACs of total 167 tonnes power load. After shifting all courts to the new complex, the Public Works Department (PWD) would demolish the old structure and start the construction of blocks B and C. The block B would be developed for commercial purpose, as it has provisions for shops, bank and post office. Meanwhile, it will have a waiting room, space for litigants, canteens for public and advocates, and a library for lawyers. The C-block would cater to four new civil courts and two record rooms. Confirming the facts, Executive Engineer, PWD, Manjeet Singh, said, “As the date of inauguration has been fixed, we are doing our best to complete the pending work.” |
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Streetlights remain on as TSU workers go on strike
Abohar, February 10 As per official sources, more than 4,000 streetlights were found functional even in the afternoon. The council has not been able to clear outstanding bills worth Rs 15 lakh against the consumption by streetlights for more than a decade. With non-stop supply to streetlights, the monthly bill is likely to go up this time. Interestingly, more than 1,000 streetlights are awaiting repair for more than three months for want of funds as well as laxity on the part of the council staff. The domestic as well as commercial consumers too enjoyed almost non-stop power supply due to strike by the Technical Services Union (TSU) today. Barring short tripping there was no interruption in the supply due to scheduled cuts. The TSU organised a joint rally of all the sub-divisions at the divisional office here and criticised the state government for its anti-employee, anti-farmer and anti-consumer policies. The union leader warned of a two-day lightning strike if the PSEB unbundling plan went ahead. |
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School van overturns, girl killed
Bathinda, February 10 Meanwhile, the van started moving as it was parked on a slope. Observing this, all children jumped out of the van. However, class IX student Harpreet Kaur was not so lucky, as immediately after she jumped out, the van fell upon her and she got crushed. As the kin of the deceased did not lodge a complaint, the police initiated the inquest proceedings under section 174 of the CrPC. —
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Special train to run today
Our Correspondent
Abohar, February 10 Its return journey as 1-SBH express from Haridwar has been scheduled for February 12-13 by 10.40 am to reach Sriganganagar by 7.30 pm.
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‘Hak Haaki Da’ to be staged
Bathinda, February 10 The play is written by director of the institute Ashok Sadeora while Surjeet Gami, Tarsem Rahi and Kulwinder Kaur will be the actors. —
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Bathinda, February 10
