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Rajpura hospital to get uninterrupted power
Rajpura, February 26 Earlier, the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) had prepared an estimate of Rs 13 lakh for providing hotline connection and consequently health department authorities released grant for the same. However, PSEB officials have now asked health department officials to arrange a sum of Rs 15 lakh to get the hotline connection stating that the cost of project had increased. “We have assured PSEB officials to connect the hotline connection and rest of the amount would too be sanctioned after some time,” said a health official. At present the hospital authorities have to depend on generators for power backup during the time of power cuts. “The emergency services at operation theatre get affected every time a power cut is imposed,” said a senior doctor at the Civil Hospital. He said relatives of patients raised hue and cry whenever power cuts were imposed in the hospital. It took five to 10 minutes or sometimes even more than that to start the generator. In the meantime, patients were left with no option but to suffer. The problem aggravates during summers when long power cuts disturb patients, especially those suffering from burns. “We badly need a hotline connection in the coming summers or once again patients and doctors will have to face same problem,” said senior medical officer Dr Bhupinder Singh. He said the hospital had three generators, including one big and two small capacity ones. The small generators took five to 10 minutes to restore electricity, which was quite a nuisance for doctors.
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Villagers demand repair of road
Fatehgarh Sahib, February 26 Kuljit Nagra, state president of the Kisan Khet Mazdoor, said the 14-km long road from Rasulpur and Rajindergarh villages, which also caters to nearly 10 other villages, has been badly damaged. He said this road also connected villages with the G.T. Road.It was difficult to drive vehicles on these roads. Newly bought vehicles including tractors, and SUVs of the villagers, have been damaged and there has been an increase in the number of accidents on the road. Villagers ferrying their crop to grain markets are the worst sufferers, he said. |
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Pbi varsity, teachers take out rally
Patiala, February 26 A large number of teachers participated in this rally. Dr Balwinder Singh Tiwana, coordinator, PFUCTO, Department of Economics, raised the issue of the implementation on MHRD notification, increase in the funding of university by the Punjab Government in the light of the new pay scale, to pay the arrears for January1 2006 to October 31 2009, to fill vacant posts, provision of full pension after 20-year-age of service and to implement the new pay scales in the case of engineering teachers. The demand was raised to fulfill the above-mentioned demands. Dr RC Gupta, Dr Manjeet Singh, Dr Jaswinder Singh Brar, Dr NS. Attri, Dr Rajesh Sharma and Dr Surjit Singh also addressed the rally. The teachers threatened to intensify the stir in case of delay in fulfillment of their demands. They condemned the attitude of DCLA for not approving the new pay scale of engineering teachers.
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Farmer information centre opens
Fatehgarh Sahib, February 26 The Deputy Commissioner said the initiative of the Jai Kisan Organisation to open the centre in Fatehgarh Sahib was worth appreciating. Farmers would be able to know about welfare schemes of the government, besides modern technology used in agriculture, he said. Villagers would be able get information about banking, business, health services, education, employment and other daily need demands. Representative of the Jai Kisan Organisation, Santosh Kumar, said the villagers would be able to book railway tickets, air tickets and postal services and also know about crop rates at the international level through Internet and sell off their crops to get better value. |
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MC staff stage dharna
Rajpura, February 26 The workers demanded action against two local lawyers, who allegedly misbehaved with the MC workers, when they were collecting house tax on Wednesday. The matter was brought to the notice of Rajpura SDM. He said he would look into the matter, however, no action was taken against the lawyers even after two days. The dharna was lifted after assurance by the SDM. Meanwhile, commuters had a tough time in reaching their desired destinations due to the two-hour dharna. They had to take longer routes.
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Students
celebrate Holi with senior citizens
Banur, February 26 As many as 135 senior citizens from the Senior Citizens Association, Greater Chandigarh, arrived at the college campus in the morning and shared the spirit of bonhomie and brotherhood. Association president Manmohan Walia and vice-president CL Ohri were also present on the occasion. Gurukul Vidyapeeth CEO Manmohan Garg thanked the senior citizens. The senior citizens and students also participated in cultural activities, including giddha, dance, songs, choreography and games like musical chair and tambola. |
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Ranjit Bajaj files bail plea
Panchkula, February 26 Bajaj was booked by the district police under Sections 323, 307, 506, 295A and 34 IPC, for attempting to murder Gurmohan Singh Bedi, son of a high court judge. Gurmohan alleged that on January 29 Ranjit attempted to kill him in the parking lot of North Park Hotel, where a party of the St John’s Association was going on. Bajaj, now in his petition, has alleged that the police had lodged the FIR after coming under the influence of some high-profile people. He has also submitted affidavits of two security guards, who were deputed at the hotel at the time of the incident, along with three Sjoba members, who claimed that the scuffle lasted for a minute and no firearms were used. In his petition, Bajaj said, “Under such circumstances, I could have shot at him, but did not do so, which clearly shows that I, along with my gunmen, had no intention to kill Gurmohan. Hence, no offence under Section 307 IPC had been committed,” contended Ranjit in his application. Moreover, no legal action on the complaint of Henna Singh and Pahul proved the police inaction, alleged Ranjit.
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Missing Law Student Case
Chandigarh, February 26 Justice Harbans Lal also issued a notice of motion to the Chandigarh administration and the Senior Superintendent of Police, asking them to file their replies. The directions came on a petition by Jagdish Rai Wadhwa, brother of the missing student. In his petition, Wadhwa asserted his brother Raghav, a law student, was missing since January 5 and the police had failed to get any clue about him. Further alleging that the Chandigarh police has completely failed in this case, the petitioner sought directions to hand over the case to the CBI. The case would now come up for hearing on March 18.
— TNS
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Two held for cheating
Chandigarh, February 26 In his complaint lodged with the police, Om Prakash of Sector 15-A alleged that he had bought a land from Kanwaljit, Gurcharan Kaur and Surinder Singh, all residents of Ballo Majra, Mohali district, for Rs 70 lakh, but the accused neither gave him possession of the land nor returned his money. The police arrested Kanwaljit and Surinder Singh after registering a case of cheating and criminal conspiracy against them. Caught stealing
HS Gill, managing partner, Sun Home Kewal Industry, Phase II, Industrial Area, alleged that his employees Roshan Lal and Harkesh Singh, both residents of Hallo Majra, were caught red handed yesterday while stealing 11 kg of copper wire. A case has been registered.
Charas seized
The police yesterday arrested Raju of Balongi from Maloya for possessing 500 grams of charas. A case under Section 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act has been registered.
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Two held for snatching
Chandigarh, February 26 Crime branch in charge Charanjit Singh Virk said accused Parminder Singh (30) of Panthpur village in Mohali and Sumit Sharma (22) of Sector 38 were drug addicts. They committed snatchings under the influence of correctional fluids or cough syrups. Parminder would snatch or take mobile phones from youngsters on the pretext of making a call. He is having an illicit relationship with a married woman in Sector 23, whose husband is settled abroad. They used her Honda Activa scooter for committing the crime, as the woman had not got it registered even after purchasing it two years ago, Virk said. The duo have been committing crime for the past two years. They admitted to have committed around 35 snatchings in the city alone. They had taken a mobile phone from someone in Sector 19 on the pretext of making a call in November last and decamped with the same. A case of misappropriation was registered at Sector 19 police station in this connection on November 24. The police had put the mobile phone under surveillance and tracked down the accused from near a subway dividing Sectors 11 and 15. They will be produced before a local court and sent to police remand for further interrogation.
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Woman commits suicide
Mohali, February 26 She was alone at the time of taking the extreme step. All her three children, Prajita (25), Nikhil (22) and another 20-year-old boy, had left for their jobs. The first one to notice the death was her youngest son. The family hails from Abohar. The police has initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC. The body was handed over to the family after an autopsy at the Phase 6 civil hospital. In another case, the body of Sahil, who was found dead in Phase XI yesterday, was handed over to his family members after the autopsy at the Phase 6 Civil Hospital. The engineer was found dead under mysterious circumstances. In his mid-20s, he was a native of Chamba in Himachal Pradesh and was working with a private company, which had provided him accommodation in Phase XI. Sahil was staying with four colleagues and they had dinner together last night before calling it a day. In the morning Sahil did not wake up.
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IET Bhaddal athletics meet begins
Kharar, February 26 Remembering IET Bhaddal founder chairman Gurcharan Singh, Singh praised his efforts and vision about engineering and technical development of society in the region. Institute chairperson Kulwinder Gurcharan Singh said during the Punjab Technical University athletics meet, IET Bhaddal students won one gold, nine silver and six bronze medals. The meet began with a marchpast by the students. After the unfurling of the institute flag, the meet was formally announced open. Today’s events included 1,500m, 400m, 200m, 100m race, long jump, javelin throw, high jump, 4x100m relay, etc. Results: 400m women’s race: 1st Kamal, 2nd Manpreet and 3rd Prabha. 1,500m men’s race: 1st Raawat, 2nd Gurpreet and 3rd Pawan. Javelin throw: 1st Rahul, 2nd Hardeep and 3rd Jaspreet.
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6 city pugilists enter semis
Chandigarh, February 26 Results: Fly 52kg: Dheeraj PPS beat Vijay MAH by 5-0, Shah of AIP beat Devender of Haryana by 6-0, Mukesh of Chd A beat Vijander of Punjab by 5-4, while Monu of Chd-B beat Sanjay of ASI by RSC. Bantam 56kg: Pramjeet Chd-B beat Mitra MP 3-2, Vishwanath AIR beat Manoj Del 11-1, Kamal ARM beat Sandeep AIP 10-3 and Summy Har beat G Mithun Manipur 3-2. Light 60kg: Sushil AIR beat Neeraj ASI 4-2, Karamveer Chd-A beat Shanan MP 5-3 and Amarjeet Har beat Narender Punjab 8-3. Light welter 64kg: Pradeep MP beat Vikash Haryana 4-3, Somvir Chd-B beat Angreg 4-1, Mayengbam ARM beat Hevan Tamil Nadu 6-1. Welter weight 69kg: Amit ASI beat Sandeep Haryana 7-4. Middle 75kg: Raninder MP beat Raakesh HP 3-2, Deepak Chd-A beat Rahul AIR 10-3. Light heavy 81kg: Rahul MP beat Anil HP 5-0, Parmander Punjab beat Ajay ASI 10-5, Prashant ARM beat Sham Chd-A 11-4 and Amit Delhi beat Sanjeev AIR 10-7. Heavy 91kg: Jogander ARM beat G Resham 8-3.
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Anikait, Garima star in ball badminton
Chandigarh, February 26 Stating this in a press release here today, JS Lamba, general secretary, Ball Badminton Sports Promotion Association, Chandigarh, said the two had qualified the quarterfinal matches. Lamba said the 30th Sub-Junior National Ball Badminton Championship would be held in Pudducherry in September, while the 54th Junior National Ball Badminton Championship would be held in Mysore in May. The 56th Senior National Ball Badminton would be held in Kerala in January next year.
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