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3 BKI terrorists, two looters nabbed
Rapura, March 26 These arrests have opened up the nexus between Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists and looters wherein the BKI has found new accomplice to attain its target of anti-social activities. Police officials are surprised to see a country made .315 bore gun, seized for the first time by the Patiala police. Its origin is being investigated. SSP, Patiala, RS Khattra and SP(D) Gurdeep Singh Pannu said the Babbars made liaison with local looters. Around nine months ago the two groups “collaborated” and committed robberies besides planning to eliminate god men Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and Baba Bhaniarawala. Two of the gang members, Lakhwinder, alias Tony, and Joga (both looters), were arrested on a tip off. On their statements other accused Waryam, Bhupinder and Kulwant, all Babbar Khalsa terrorists, were later arrested. The arrested accused have admitted to laying traps twice to kill the god men, besides committing nearly dozen robberies and other heinous crimes during the past eight or nine months in Rajpura and adjoining areas. Main accused, 40-year-old sharp shooter Waryam Singh, alias Giani, a resident of Lalru, is a proclaimed offender and had made a new gang to commit robberies and continue terrorist activities under the banner of Babbar Khalsa. The police had also arrested Preeti and Kamlesh Rani from Patiala a few months ago. Waryam had lived with Preeti and Kamlesh as their husband. Both women are now languishing in jail. Waryam has also been to Pakistan with some religious groups (jathas). His gang tried to loot Gramin Bank in Pinjore, and later looted a doctor at Patiala and a bread shop owner at Rajpura. DSP, Rajpura, Manmohan Sharma and SHO (city) BS Brar said they got clues after cracking the case of the bread shop around a month ago. Cops said two futile attacks on Dera heads were arranged with the help of Jaswinder Singh Jassi who was said to be in Italy and had been providing the gang members with Italian weapons. The cops said reports suggested that Jassi was in India and would be arrested soon. Two accused, Jassi from Muradpur and Sohna from Saidkheri village, managed to give a slip to the police and efforts were on to nab them. Police officials said that four mobile sets and one motorbike had also been recovered. |
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Terror suspect held, another sent to police remand
Solan/Zirakpur, March 26 Through one of the key members of the module,
Harminder, a prime suspect in the Ludhiana Shingar Cinema blast case, the terror group is learnt to have smuggled 5 kg of
RDX, hand grenades and other ammunition. Harminder is still absconding. The suspects in the Shingar Cinema blast were being regrouped to carry out a similar attack. Based on key inputs from the special cell of the Delhi Police, the counter intelligence wing of the Punjab Police achieved a major success today when a team led by DSP RS Sohal arrested Dharminder Singh, a resident of Churpur village in Nawanshahar district of Punjab, from an HRTC bus near
Goyla, Solan. A seven-member team, led by the DSP, had been camping in the Haripur-Goyla area since the past 2-3 days to nab this youth who was an accomplice of the recently arrested three BKI terrorists -- Parshotam Singh, Daljit Kumar and Tarwinder Singh -- by the Mohali police on March 22. Police officials said he had provided SIM cards to
Harminder. Officials confided that he had also supplied SIM cards to some other criminals and the police was on the look out for him. He had fled from his home after a police party raided his house following the arrest of three terrorists from Mohali on March 22.
Dharminder had a criminal background and he was undergoing a trial in a murder case and was booked in some more cases as well. Since a number of people from Nawanshahar frequent the famous Haripur
Gurdwara, near Goyla, he had come here after fleeing from his home. He stayed at this gurdwara for a day and was planning to go to
Jorjee, another gurdwara located a few kilometres away. Initial attempts of the police to nab him in plain clothes failed when one of the local policeman, who was accompanying the Punjab Police, happened to get recognised in his khakhi turban. This led Dharminder to flee from the spot. The Punjab Police had to spend 2-3 days in trying to muster the support of the locals. The policemen showed pictures to the locals and it was one such information that helped them arrest him today from the Haripur-Goyla bus, confided an official. They were helped by a police team from the Barotiwala police station. The Mohali police had already recovered Rs 1 lakh cash, a .455 bore pistol, three live cartridges and four hand grenades from the arrested suspects. Acting on the leads, the Mohali police today brought BKI terrorist Gurpreet Singh, an accused in Ludhiana Shingar Cinema blast, on production warrant for interrogation related to recently arrested BKI terrorists in Zirakpur. The police today produced Gurpreet Singh at Dera Bassi court where the court sent him to police remand till March 29. He was accused in the Shingar Cinema blast in 2007. |
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Manpreet hogs limelight in shot put
Patiala, March 26 Dr Manjit Singh, dean colleges, was the chief guest. According to Dr Raj Kumar, the “B” division athletics championship was aimed at developing the participation of the university’s BEd colleges in sports. Around 19 teams participated in both men and women categories. Results: Men section: 5,000m: 1. Amandeep Singh (Govt College of Education, Patiala), 2. Sohan Singh (Saint Kabir College of Education, Kauli), 3. Jagtar Singh (GTB College of Education, Lehal Khurd); shot put: 1. Jatinder Singh (Govt College of Education, Patiala), 2. Maninder Singh (JS Sandhu College of Education, Kauli), 3. Dharinder Singh (Modern College of Education, Bir Kalan); 800m: 1. Gurpreet Singh (Modern College of Education, Bir Kalan), 2. Jagtar Singh (GTB College of Education, Lehal Khurd), 3. Pawan Kumar (Mehar Chand College of Education, Ropar). Women section: Shot put: 1. Manpreet Kaur (SUS College of Education, Mehlan), 2. Jasdeep Kaur (GND College of Education, Mohali), 3. Inderpreet Kaur (SS Jain College of Education, Mansa); broad jump: 1. Mohinderjit Kaur (GND College of Education, Mohali), 2. Gagandeep Kaur (Govt College of Education, Patiala), 3. Ravneet Kaur (Divya Shiksha Gurukul College of Education, Dera Bassi), 800m: 1. Jagroop Kaur (Govt College of Education, Faridkot), 2. Karamjit Kaur (Govt College of Education, Faridkot), 3. Mandeep Kaur (Rayat & Bahra College of Education, Sahauran). |
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Significance of minority narratives stressed
Patiala, March 26 In his keynote address, Dr Gurbhagat Singh, former professor and dean languages, Punjabi University, highlighted that Sikhism had emerged as an example of global significance with its sacred texts and differential history of assertion. Dr Gurmohan Singh Walia, director education, SGPC Colleges, graced the occasion as the guest of honour. He shared his views that Sikhs had not only been custodians of their own ontological identity, but had made significant contributions where identity of other minority cultures was concerned. Dr Madan Gopal Singh, Satyavati College, University of Delhi, Dr Devika Narula, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Dr Aparna Lanjewar, University of Bombay, Dr P Subbachary, Dravidian University, Kuppam, Dr ID Gaur, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Dr Shahla Ghauri, Aligarh Muslim University, Dr Rashmi Attri, Aligarh Muslim University, and Dr Neena Arora, Dyal Singh College, Karnal, presented their research papers. |
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Substandard flour Officials conduct check at depots Tribune News Service
Bassi Pathana, March 26 The beneficiaries of the below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) card holders brought their problems into the notice of officials. The residents had complained that they were provided substandard flour and wheat by the ration depot holders for the past few months. The beneficiaries had alleged that the flour provided to them was discoloured, distasteful and was causing ailments to its consumers. The beneficiaries of the scheme in ward number 8, Gillzian Wala Mohalla, narrated their tales of woes yesterday and demanded that fresh stock of flour and wheat should be provided to them. They had stated that most of the flour and wheat was not fit for human consumption. District food supply controller HS Mokha, while talking to the TNS, said almost all beneficiaries had been satisfied today and were assured that their complaints would be looked into. “While some of those who complained of stomach ache and other ailments after consuming the flour could not be met today, they have been told to meet the officials concerned anytime,” he said. He claimed that the beneficiaries and depot holders had expressed their satisfaction over the quality of product.
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Special Biometric Cards
Ropar, March 26 Bharti was addressing master trainers on the second day of census training camp today. He added that the population register was being created as per the Census Law, 1955, and Civilian Rights, 2003. He said the first census in the country was conducted in 1872 and this was 15th census of India and seventh census exercise post-Independence. The master trainers would train counters and supervisors under them. Also the NPR forms would be filled from May 1 to May 15. This would include person’s name, date of birth, age, occupation and 14 other kind of details. The supervisor and counter would then issue a receipt to the eldest person in the family. In the second phase, after showing this receipt, thumb impressions of people above 15 years would be taken through biometric and digital photography. The department would then issue a special I-card that would carry all kind of information and children below 18 years of age would be using their parents’ cards.
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Rs 1,5000 stolen
from temples
Ambala, March 26 According to information, the robbers broke into Mahadev Mandir located in Sector 9. The priest of the temple said the thieves entered the temple from the roof. The thieves broke two cash boxes of the temple and took away Rs 5,000. The president of the temple management committee, Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, said earlier also two incident of theft had already taken place in this temple. The police registered a case against unknown thieves in this regard. However, no clue of theft was achieved so far. In another incident the robbers took away Rs 10,000 from Shiv Dham Mandir in the same sector. The thieves locked the priest of the temple in a room and later broke the cash boxes. They also took away Rs 1,000 cash from the house of the priest,
Ved Prakash. A case was registered. A few days back when Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda visited the residence of HPCC chief Phool Chand Mulana at Ambala city, the media had raised the issue of law
and order in the district before the CM.
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Jhinda lashes out at Badal
Ambala, March 26 Addressing mediapersons here today, Jhinda said while Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in favour of a separate gurdwara management committee for Haryana, his Punjab counterpart Parkash Singh Badal had been scuttling the issue. Jhinda alleged that Badal had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a number of times and had impressed upon the latter not to agree to the formation of a separate committee for Haryana. He said he, along with other gurdwara committee members from Haryana, would organise a dharna in New Delhi later this month to impress upon the Union Government the demand for a separate gurdwara committee for Haryana.
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IIT, model school proposed
Bassi Pathana, March 26 While talking to mediapersons here yesterday, the MP said he had sent a proposal to the Government of India to establish IIT and Union Government sponsored model school at Fatehgarh Sahib district in memory of younger Sahibzadas. He said the State Minister, who dealt with the proposals had assured to take up the proposal. He said he would also meet HRD Minister Kapil Sibal next week to ensure the setting-up of these institutes. He said, earlier, Prime Minister had directed the then HRD Minister Arjun Singh to sanction IIT in his constituency. He said, as he was representing Ropar at that time, so he allotted IIT to Ropar. |
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Players apprised of
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Patiala, March 26 He spoke on organisation of sparring sessions and its
various types. In the second session, Dr Rajdeep Kaur, in charge of scientific sports, delivered a lecture on “Role of kin anthropometry in the selection of talent”. She apprised players about scientific sports. After the sessions, coaches held an open house discussion. During the evening practical session, Cuban coach BI Fernandis gave a demonstration on how a punching pad helps warm up boxers.
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Free eye operations on 127 patients
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Goodwill Consultants in dock
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 26 Sunil Sharma, resident of Sirmour, and Ranbir Singh, resident of Kullu district, had submitted to the forum that they were interested in going to Singapore on work visa and were trying for the same. They met Kakshi, a former employee of their employer, who told them that the consultants could provide them the work visa. She arranged their meeting with the consultant, who said the work visa, would be provided to them within a period of 15 days and the total expenditure involved would be Rs.2, 0, 000 for both of them. Sharma paid the sum of Rs10, 000 by cheque and Singh paid Rs7, 000 in cash to the consultants. However, despite receipt of the payment, the consultants failed to fulfil their promise. The consultants did not procure the work visa for them and did not refund the money taken.
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Immigration consultancy told to pay Rs 1 lakh
Chandigarh, March 26 The company is also asked to refund Rs 35,000, US $ 5,200 and US $ 1,284 along with interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum. Kisana submitted a report to the forum alleging that he was allured by the advertisements of the company for sending persons abroad, who after checking his documents found him to be eligible for immigration and business visa to Czech Republic and as a result paid a sum of Rs 35,000 to the consultancy. He was assured that the entire procedure would take five to six months only. All necessary and desired documents were submitted with the company along with US $ 5,200. Despite all that the company did not even process his application and instead again asked him to deposit a sum of US $ 1,284. The company in its reply admitted having entered into an agreement with the complainant to provide him immigration and business visa.
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Insurance
firm directed to pay relief Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 26 Sanjay submitted to the forum that his vehicle was stolen while it was parked in front of his house. The theft was reported to the police and a claim was sought from the company. All necessary documents, including the untraced report issued by the police, were furnished with the company, but he was denied the claim. A notice was sent to the company and it intimated him that his claim was rejected as he did not fulfil the terms of policy. Sanjay mentioned that he had purchased the vehicle to earn his livelihood after getting it financed from KC Leasing Ltd. It stated that an investigation was cnducted, but Sanjay failed to complete all formalities and supply documents.
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Student alleges teacher of duping her
Chandigarh, March 26 The teacher, meanwhile, has lodged an FIR against the girl and her relatives for defaming her and even asked the police to find out the person who instigated the student. While the school authorities chose to be tightlipped on the issue, the police authorities have confirmed the incident. “We went to the school today and found out that a girl along with her mother had written a complaint to the principal saying that one of the teachers had taken Rs 1 lakh from them on the pretext of sending the girl abroad. The girl, however, did not lodge any FIR and when we investigated the matter, we found out that she did not even have a passport,” informed SHO Udhay Pal, Sector 34 police station. The police, meanwhile, spoke to the accused teacher, who claimed that the girl was not doing well in the exams and had not even appeared for her annual practical exams, but wanted marks. “The teacher suspected a foul play and expressed her doubts about somebody from the school instigating the student to do so. We have lodged a complaint and are investigating the matter,” added Udhay Pal.
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Bid to break into ATM
Zirakpur, March 26 According to police sources, RP Singh, senior manager of Punjab National Bank had lodged a complained that two unidentified youths had tried to break open the machine last night. He said CCTV cameras footage show that two youths had entered and tried to break the ATM screen, the sources added. The police said they had received the complaint from the manager and were probing the matter.
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19 kg of ganja seized, 3 held
Chandigarh, March 26 The police said the trio lived in Sanjay Colony in the Industrial Area and was caught for the first time. They admitted that they had brought the contraband several times earlier also. A case under Section 20 of the NDPS Act has been registered.
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Caught stealing
Chandigarh, March 26 The police has arrested the accused after registering a case against him.
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ITF Men’s Circuit Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 26 Rastogi would now lock horns with Romain Sichez of France in the final to be held tomorrow. Sichez, down by one set, staged a remarkable rally to snuff out the challenge of third seed Ranjeet Virali Murugesan by three sets 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Sichez took two hours and 12 minutes to dispose of the challenge of Ranjeet at the Centre Court. In the second semifinal, Karan Rastogi continued to excel on his way to set up a title clash with Romain Karan Rastogi from Mumbai. Both the players were executing their strokes from the baseline. Long rallies were witnessed which drew repeated cheers from spectators. They seldom came for the net play. In the eighth game of the second set, Sikora made a double fault, as Karan Rastogi broke his opponent to take a 5-3 lead. Rastogi then held his serve to wrap up the set and match at 6-3. Meanwhile, Indian pair of Vijayant Malik and Ashutosh Singh went down fighting American pair of Ruben Gonzales and Nathan Thompson in the doubles final. Gonzales and Thompson won 7-5, 7-6 (4) in the final which lasted for one hour and 33 minutes. The first set progressed with the serve till it was 5-all before Vijayant Malik was broken in the 11th game. Then Thompson served for the set and won it at 7-5. In the second set, the Indian pair saved a match-point with a cross-court return by Vijayant Malik to make it 5-all. The set was extended to a tie-breaker, which the USA pair won at 7-6 (4). The winners got a purse of Rs 29,446, while Vijayant Malik and Ashutosh got Rs 15,424. The winners will get 18 ATP points, while runners-up will be awarded 10 points. The semifinalists will get 6 points Chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda, impressed with the facilities at the CLTA Complex, said the state government would identify some fresh Haryana boys for the CLTA Rural Academy (CHART) for training. He said the CLTA would be consulted in selecting players from villages in Haryana for training. He promised to support rising star of Haryana Vijayant Malik, who is a CLTA trainee.
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Cricket trials tomorrow
Panchkula, March 26 Stating this in a press release here today, Amarjeet Kumar, coordinator of the Hansraj Cricket Academy, said. The championship would be organised by Hansraj Cricket Academy under the aegis of Panchkula District Cricket Association. He said players born on or before September 9, 1995, were eligible to participate in the trials. Kumar said a 10-day camp would be organised for players. Six teams would be divided into two pools and two teams from each group would qualify for the semifinals. The top two teams would play the final match of 30 overs a side, he added. He said trials would be conducted for another league championship to be held at JR Institute
of Cricket Technology, Barwala. He said players in the age group of 16-19 years were eligible for the trials and the matches would be of 50 overs a side. Interested players can contact at 9876996677 or 9501031290. |
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Make-or-break tie for Knight Riders
Mohali, March 26 While addressing mediapersons today, coach of Kolkata Knight Riders David Whitmore said Mandeep Gill would be given a chance in tomorrow’s match against Kings XI Punjab. Another coach of Kolkat Knight Riders David Hussie said tomorrow’s match was important for them and they could not afford to lose it. Meanwhile, Kings XI captain Kumar Sangakara said pace bowler Brett Lee and batsman Shaun Marsh were fit to play. “I hope that both the players get down to the battleground in tomorrow’s face off,” he added. He said Kolkata Night Riders bowling was very strong as Ishant Sharma and Shane Bond were in good form. However, he added that his batsmen would be ready to face the stiff bowling challenge. Sangakara said Pyush Chawla of Kings XI had been selected in the Indian team for the next T20 World Cup.
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Cricket trials today
Panchkula, March 26 Sating this in a press note issued here today V. Hanumantha Rao, (MP), honorary chairman of the Cricket Federation of India said the championship would be organised by the CFI from April 26 to 28. He said players born on or after January 1, 1994, were eligible to take part in the trials and added that the final 16-member team would be selected on the basis of their performance at the camp. For other information regarding trials, the players could contact and report to S Singh, mobile no. 9217885748 at the school venue along with the birth proof.
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Customs XI clinch thriller
Chandigarh, March 26 Opener Gurinder Singh played a superb knock of 70 runs for the Customs team while kwatra’s scintillating effort of 82 for the Invitation XI ended in the losing cause. H K thakur sclaped 3 wickets for 15 runs and economical balling by Rajiv bhatia for customs XI. PK Sirohi chief
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Boxing trials on March 29
Chandigarh, March 26 Stating this in a press note issued here today Dr CK Jerath, honorary secretary, CABA, said those pugilists who had secured first 3 places in the last Chandigarh Senior State Men Boxing Championship could appear for trials in all 11 weights of the senior division and should bring with them the IBF medical book. |
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