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LPG consumers block road
Rajpura, March 3 Protesters raised slogans against the delay and demanded that they be immediately provided with the cylinders. The traffic remained blocked for more than an hour and commuters were seen stranded on the road. The police had a tough time diverting the traffic. The agitators lifted the dharna only after officials from the administration pacified them. LPG cylinder agency officials said the delay had occurred due to the strike by employees. The employees had gone on a strike after an argument with agency officials. |
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Bombs found in Kansal; probe begins
Nayagaon, March 3 Bhupinder Singh, an NRI, informed the police yesterday on spotting the bombs on his plot. While two bombs weighed 5 kg each, the third one was of 1.5 kg. The Nayagaon police reached the spot and promptly informed the bomb disposal squad. Villagers said the bombs had been found several times in the area. “We have informed officials of the administration many times, but nothing has been done so far,” they rued. |
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Murder of Undertrial
Ambala, March 3 Secretary, Bar Association, Baljinder Singh said the Ambala Bar had already brought to the notice of District and Sessions Judge and SP, Ambala, about the terror created by the anti-social elements in the court premises. The Bar, in a resolution, demanded foolproof security for the lawyers and litigants.
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Seminar on education abroad
Banur, March 3 The seminar on “Education abroad: Challenges or opportunities” was presided over by Anshu Kataria, chairman of Aryans Group. While addressing MBA/BBA students, Bajwa highlighted the problems being faced by the Indian students in those areas of Australia, which were not safe. He said population of Australia was just half the population of Punjab and the country was three times bigger than India. G Bajwa also enlightened the students about various bridge courses for education in UK, New Zealand and Australia. |
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Khalsa Girls’ College holds annual athletics meet
Morinda, March 3 The Deputy Director, Colleges, Punjab, Dr Maninder Dhillon, was the chief guest while the president, College Management Committee, Harbans Singh Kandhola, and vice-president, College Management Committee, Rajmahinder Kaur, were also present. Results of various events are as follows: Hammer throw: 1 Mandeep Kaur, 2 Supinder Kaur, 3 Pardeep Kaur; Potato race: 1 Mandeep Kaur, 2 Navdeep Kaur, 3 Harpreet Kaur; Skipping race: 1 Nisha, 2 Sarbjeet Kaur, 3 Manpreet Kaur; Slow cycling race: 1 Sandeep Kaur, 2 Sarbjeet Kaur, 3 Samandeep Kaur; Discus throw: 1 Pardeep Kaur, 2 Supinder Kaur, 3 Sukhjinder Kaur; Shot put: 1 Harmanjot Kaur, 2 Supinder Kaur, 3 Pardeep Kaur; Chatti race: 1 Jasvir Kaur, 2 Sarbjeet Kaur, 3 Sandeep Kaur; Long jump: 1 Jaswinder Kaur, 2 Rano, 3 Rajwinder Kaur; 50 mts race: 1 Nisha, 2 Jasvir, 3 Rano; 100 mts race: 1 Rano, 2 Jasvir Kaur, 3 Jaswinder Kaur; High jump: 1 Jaswinder Kaur, 2 Rajbir Kaur, 3 Sarabjeet; Javelin throw: 1Harmanjot Kaur, 2 Supinder, 3 Sandeep Kaur; Back race: 1 Nisha, 2 Lovepreet Kaur, 3 Sarabjeet Kaur and Three-legged race: 1 Amandeep Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur, 2 Pardeep Kaur, Satwinder Kaur, 3 Sarabjeet Kaur, Rupinder Kaur. |
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3 books released
Patiala, March 3 The occasion witnessed the presence of dignitaries from all around the globe, which included Phakhr Zuman from Pakistan Academy of Literature, World Punjabi Centre, America Chapter, president Gurmel Sidhu, MJP University Vice-Chancellor, Dr SP Gaotam, Bareilly, Sahit Akedemy vice-president, Dr Satinder Noor, New Delhi, Vice-Chancellor of Medical University, Faridkot, Dr SS Gill, and director of World Punjabi Centre Deepak Manmohan. Dr Jaspal Singh appreciated the work done by CP Kamboj for the upliftment of Punjabi language on computers. Elaborating his demographical background, he said despite having a rural background, he wrote 22 books and more than 1,300 articles in different newspapers related to computer literacy. Commenting on his book, “Computer ate Punjabi Bhasha”, the author told this book contained depth problems being faced by Punjabi language users and its solutions. His second book “Cyber Sansar te Punjabi Bhasha” is a collection of weekly columns, which were published in Ajit newspaper. His third book “Microsoft Windows” cover windows operating system in an interesting way for mother tongue users. —
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Convict gets one-yr jail term
Chandigarh, March 3 Complainant Hari Singh had reported that Jai Kumar hit him with a stick, due to which he sustained a fracture in his leg.
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HC tells FCI to curb malpractices
Chandigarh, March 3 The assertion by Justice LN Mittal came on an appeal filed by the FCI. Instead of making the full payment to a commission agent after the money was demanded, the FCI officials had taken the plea of shortage in the delivery of wheat. Taking up the appeal by the FCI’s district manager against commission agent Nathu Ram Rishi Pal and others, Justice Mittal asserted the agent had filed a suit for the recovery of Rs 1,81, 290 for wheat supplied on credit basis. But, defendant FCI and its officials did not pay the whole amount. Responding to a notice sent by the agent, the defendants “wrongly asserted that there was shortage of 110 quintal of wheat”. Taking up the suit filed by the agent, a civil judge (junior division) at Sunam on August 10, 2006, held the plaintiff entitled to the principal amount, but deducted the amount of 110 quintal. Allowing the appeal, the Sangrur district judge modified the judgment and decreed the suit in the plaintiff agent’s favour, resulting in the filing of the appeal by the defendant FCI. As the appeal came up, Justice Mittal ruled: “The dispute remains regarding the alleged shortage of 110 quintals of wheat supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant…. Even if the defendant’s version is accepted that they had sent letter dated September 11, 2000, intimating the plaintiff of the short supply, it was after four-five months that the first intimation of the alleged short supply of wheat was given. “The defendants unilaterally after four-five months could not have burdened the plaintiff with the responsibility of the alleged short supply of wheat, when the defendant while accepting the delivery of wheat from the plaintiff did not raise any such objection.” Justice Mittal asserted: “It is highhandedness of the defendants that they alleged short supply of wheat after several months, when the plaintiff demanded his balance amount. The defendants cannot be allowed to do so.” Dismissing the appeal in limine, Justice Mittal said: “Copy of the order be sent to the
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Report on Pak boy’s detention sought
Chandigarh, March 3 Issuing notice of motion on the petition, the Bench asserted: “Status report regarding Mohammad Ateek, 13, lodged in juvenile home, Hoshiarpur, be placed on the file within a week. The Bench also fixed March 11, as the next date of hearing. Beaten by his father for flying kites, the runaway Pakistani boy had landed on a train to spend the night. Sleeping on the berth, little did he realise he would wake up in India the next morning. In the petition, city-based advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal has asserted the train from Pakistan had brought Ateek to India; and soon he was taken into custody. Since the time of his arrest, he had been languishing in a jail, Lakhanpal added. His plight was brought to Lakhanpal’s notice through Ansar Burney, Pakistan’s leading human rights and civil rights activist. Burney and Lakhanpal’s association has earlier seen the filing of many petitions in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and courts in Pakistan. The two have been drumming up support even for the release of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner in Pakistani jail. VB fined Apparently dissatisfied with the explanation offered by the Punjab vigilance bureau on delay in filing a detailed affidavit on probe into 400-odd appointments made by Punjabi University’s former Vice-Chancellor Swaran Singh Boparai, Justice Daya Chaudhary of the HC yesterday imposed costs of Rs 5,000 on the bureau. The cost was imposed as criminal petition filed by Harsimran Kaur and seven other unemployed persons from Patiala came up for hearing. They were seeking directions to expedite the probe into the appointments made during Boparai’s tenure without issuing advertisement or inviting applications. In a short affidavit, Vigilance SP Shiv Kumar submitted the bureau had sent a report to the secretary, VB, on June 24 last requesting the administrative department to take action or suitably advise the bureau to take action in the matter. Sharma added the Higher Education Department had written to the present VC seeking certain clarifications on recruitments.
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Three acquitted in immoral trafficking case
Chandigarh, March 3 The police had arrested Rajesh Kumar, Sweety Arora and Kajal Arora in 2004 and booked them under the Immoral Trafficking Act. The police had received information about Rajesh supplying girls for prostitution in Sector 35. A decoy customer had been sent to him with marked currency notes. After negotiations, a ‘deal’ was struck and the decoy customer handed over the currency notes to Rajesh and the girls. Rajesh then ‘handed over’ the girls to the decoy customer. The police conducted a raid, arrested the trio and recovered the money.
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Charges framed in Aashreya case
Chandigarh, March 3 The police had registered a case of gangrape against Naresh who was working as a driver in the institute, attendant Devinder, Chottu Ram and his accomplices Bhagwandin Yadav, Bhupinder Singh and Varinder Singh, all employees of Nari Niketan. Maya, a nurse-cum-attendant, was also booked for destroying evidence and criminal conspiracy after the victim was found to be pregnant. The case was registered on the complaint filed by Pragti Pandey, a medical social worker. The case would come up for hearing on March 30.
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Financier booked for abetting suicide
Chandigarh, March 3 The victim, Mohan Lal, a Class IV employee of the public health department, had reportedly left a suicide note, holding the financier, Inderjit Singh of Sapna Finance, responsible for his death. The police said Mohan Lal alleged that Inderjit, along with another person, came to his house and threatened to eliminate him and his family if he failed to return the loan he had taken from him. Mohan mentioned in the note that he was having his lunch at that time and Inderjit kicked his plate before leaving. He got upset over this and decided to end his life, the SHO of the Industrial Area police station stated. Mohan Lal’s son Sunny spotted him hanging from the fan and immediately lowered him. He was breathing at that time and was in acute pain. He was taken to the GMCH, where he was declared brought dead. Sunny told the police that his father had taken a loan of Rs 25,000 from Inderjit Singh eight years ago and had returned the amount and once a cheque had bounced. Inderjit reported the matter to the police and a case was registered. A local court summoned his father, which he failed to receive and was declared a proclaimed offender. Mohan Lal was arrested in August and released on bail in September. Since then, he was in depression. The SHO said the body was handed over to the family after a postmortem and a case had been registered. “We will check the authenticity of the suicide note and action would be taken against the accused on the outcome of the report,” he said.
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Four booked for assault
Chandigarh, March 3 The accused sped awawy in their Scorpio SUV (CH03V-6667). He was admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. A case was registered. Accident
Sandeep Kumar of Ropar lodged a complaint with the police that Bibhor Sharma rammed his car into his Honda Activa scooter near the ITI turn on February 26. He was injured in the accident. He was admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. The accused was arrested.
Attacked
Kushal Chand of Himachal Pradesh reported to the police that an unidentified person beat up his brother Subhash near the PGI on February 16. The attacker fled from the spot. Subhash was seriously hurt. He was admitted to the PGI. A case was registered.
Theft cases
Vishwanath Partap of Hallo Majra reported to the police that someone stole four cameras, a printer and Rs 7,000 from his shop on the night of March 1. Ranjit Singh of Sector 28 reported that someone stole a wristwatch, a gold ‘kara’ and a gas cylinder from his residence on March 2. Two cases of theft were registered.
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Haryana cops seize 150 firearms
Panchkula, March 3 Highlighting the details of the drive, he told that the police had raided 6,145 vendors of different mobile companies in the state and registered 28 cases against those who were found red handed engaged in selling the SIM cards on fake identity. Similarly, the police had not only registered 156 cases against the persons possessing illicit arms, but also recovered 151 pistols, one double barrel gun, one air gun, three hand grenades, 480 cartridges, 21 empty cartridges and 34 knives from them. He told that police raided 1,610 places in the state and registered 1,124 cases against 1,781 persons involved in business of illicit vending and recovered 36,868 bottles, 261 half bottles, 2,437 quarters of the IMFL and 2,276 beer bottles from them. Besides, 7,682 bottles, 577 half, 2,359 quarters and 1,730 pouches of illicit wine were also recovered, added the spokesperson.
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Over 100 golfers to tee off today
Panchkula, March 3 In line for the Aircel-PGTI event will be Mukesh Kumar, Gaurav Ghei, Bangladesh’s Mohammed Siddikur Rahman, Shamim Khan, Vijay Kumar, Australia’s Kunal Bhasin, Gurki Shergill, Vishal Singh, Gaurav Pratap Singh and city’s Harendra P Gupta and Harmeet Kahlon. Missing from the line-up for the big event tomorrow will be Kapurthala’s Gaganjeet Bhullar, who is playing in the $ 20 lakh Maybank Malaysian Open at Kuala Lumpur, co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour. The last edition of the Aircel-PGTI Players’ Championship at the Panchkula Golf Club saw Gaganjeet Bhullar achieve his maiden professional victory by a mammoth seven-stroke margin. There has been no looking back for Bhullar since then, as he has gone on to add six more titles to his kitty, including two at the international level.Panchkula Golf Club vice-president DS Dhesi, who is also Financial Commissioner of Haryana, said, “We are happy to conduct the fourth PGTI tournament at the Panchkula Golf Club. This speaks about the high standards of the course and club. We are renovating the course to upgrade it to international specifications and it has been our endeavour to constantly maintain and upkeep the facilities at the Panchkula Golf Club to the ultimate satisfaction of its users. I am thankful to PGTI for selecting the Panchkula Golf Club, as the venue for this professional tournament. I wish them all success in their efforts to promote the game of golf.” PGTI director Padamjit Sandu said he was confident that increase in prize money would raise the level of competition at this year’s Aircel-PGTI Players’ Championship. Panchkula Golf Club general manager Brig IS Punia was happy that in the first six to seven years of its existence, the popularity graph of the Panchkula Golf Club had been on the upswing. He said, “The playing conditions are excellent and we look forward to witnessing an exciting contest this week.” Spread over an area of 135 acres, the Panchkula Golf Club is one of the premier championship courses in north India. It is situated on the banks of the Ghaggar with the Shivalik Hills in the backdrop lending a picturesque view to the course. |
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BJP protests ban on Indian player
Chandigarh, March 3 Addressing protesters state BJP president Sanjay Tandon said the unilateral decision of the match referee Ken Read was totally uncalled for as no one had complained against Shivinder. He claimed that the decision of the appellate committee was biased as despite terming the incident as inadvertent, it only reduced the sentence to a 2-match ban instead of 3.
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No funds for city equestrian academy
Chandigarh, March 3 The administration had stated that several key projects in the city had already been completed and it was working on many others, which would be ready by the second half of 2010-11. These include state-of-the-art 10-lane athletics track in Sector 39 and its first outdoor synthetic-surface basketball court. The number of works which have been completed include judo boxing hall in Sector 42 at the cost of Rs 74.3 lakh; swimming pool in Sector 23 into an all-weather facility at the cost of Rs 42.37 lakh; provision of electronic true color LED display board at the Hockey and Cricket Stadia in Sector 16; and additional infrastructure facilities at the CLTA in Sector 10 at the cost of Rs 90 lakh. Former Secretary of the Equestrian Federation of India Col Sarparatap Singh (retired) talking to The Tribune rued that equestrian, which is one of the Olympic discipline, has been left out by the administration. He said the former Governor, Punjab, and UT Administrator had taken a keen initiative for setting up the equestrian academy in Sarangpur village that would have brought the city on the international map. Singh said he was surprised to see that the equestrian sport had been left out, which depicted the indifferent attitude of the UT administration towards the game. He urged the Chandigarh Equestrian Society to take up the matter with the administration so that the work on the ambitious project could be started soon. It is pertinent to mention here that the land for the equestrian academy at Sarangpur village near Chandigarh has been identified and the map for the prestigious project was to be submitted to the engineering wing of the UT administration to know the exact cost of the project. However, Sanjay Kumar, Finance Secretary, said the setting up of the equestrian academy along with other sports such as skating, shooting range were in the pipeline and would be taken in the next financial year. He said setting up of the academy would be gradually taken after received report about the total cost of the project from the Engineering Department.
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A unique consumer campaign for IPL matches
Chandigarh, March 3 In keeping with its inherent characteristic of youthful irreverence and adventure, Mountain Dew, here today rolled out a unique consumer campaign “Darr ki Wicket Girayega to Hamare Saath Khelega” offering an opportunity to true lovers of the game an opportunity to play against the cricketing icons of their favourite IPL team - KXIP. Alpana Titus, executive director (flavours), PepsiCo India Holdings, said the campaign would be offering an opportunity to fans to demonstrate their all-round cricketing skills in a daring environment, and win a slew of exciting value-added gifts such as complimentary tickets to IPL matches involving KXIP and the top prize to 11 lucky fans to be a part of the Mountain Dew team to take on the KXIP in an exciting cricket match. Speaking on the occasion, Anil Srivatsa, CEO, Kings XI Punjab, lauded the initiative as one of the most innovative cricket-led consumer drives and added that it was really exciting to see the soft drink company launch this initiative to coincide with the IPL. He said the matches on the floats would test the consumers’ all-round skills like batting, bowling and fielding. It certainly added a lot of fun into the whole concept of playing for your home team, he added. Srivatsa said that for the winners it would be a lifetime experience as for each KXIP match, as many as 50 consumers would be brought to the stadium in specially decked-up branded luxury buses, and would be given personalised kits, including T-shirts, backpacks, sippers, trumpets and inflatable hands. He said the final winners would be selected from among all winners on the basis of a certain selection process, who will then get to play a unique 5-over-a-side daring cricket match with the KXIP team to be held in Dharmasala (HP).
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Kavita of GCG-42 declared best yogi
Chandigarh, March 3 In A Division, Saloni of DAV College, Abohar, and Ruchi Sharma of GCG, Sector 11, bagged the second and third position respectively, while in the B-Division, Rajni Kumari of MBBS GRGC Girls College, Mansawal, got the second place. In the team events, GCG-11 failed to secure the first position with half point as Gopi Chand Arya Mahila College, Abohar, bagged the first place with 787.5 points. GCG-11 with 787 points and GCG - 42 with 780 points secured the second and third place, respectively. In the B- Division championship, MBBS GRGC Girls College, Mansawal, got the first place with 728 points while MLBG Girls College Tapprian Khurd, got the second position with 624 points.
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