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Arms owners told to get licences verified again
Red Cross to take over Jan Aushdhi store
Bureaucrat’s daughter fights for land; cops refuse to budge
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Gang of vehicle lifters busted
Mass Cheating
Botanical festival held at GND varsity
Honour for ex-cop, who served both sides of Punjab
Rise in iron, steel prices hits construction business
‘Remove anomolies in PDS’
Consumer Forum office-bearers
Akali leader in the dock again
Rare disease afflicts siblings in Patti
Ward 42
Bhagtanwala grain market gets improved facilities
Cheques worth Rs 4 cr given to 109 panchayats
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Arms owners told to get licences verified again
Amritsar, April 16 “As the regulatory powers under the Arms Act, 1959, are now vested with the office of the Commissioner of Police, all the licensees, who were earlier issued arms by the District Magistrate or any other authority, are required to get re-verification of their arms done,” said Commissioner of Police Varinder Kumar while issuing
the directions. The verification forms are available in the licensing branch opened at the Community Police Resource Centre (CPRC) that now deals with issuance and renewal of licences for the police stations falling under the jurisdiction of Amritsar city. The form along with an attested photocopy of the arms licence along with the coloured photographs of the weapon(s) endorsed on the licence was required to be deposited with the licensing branch by May 15. In case the weapons are deposited with the arms dealers or police stations, a copy of the same should be enclosed with the verification form, he added. Similarly, all the licence holders, traders, and manufacturers of explosives were required to obtain a fresh registration form (Form AE) under the Explosives Rules, 2008, from the branch. The original licences would later be stamped as verified by the licensing branch. The Commissioner of Police said the manufactures, stockiests and traders dealing in firecrackers should meet the mandatory terms and conditions as per norms. No cracker manufacturing unit and storage of any hazardous explosive material would be allowed till it was registered under the explosives rules. He said the forms for temporary shops during festival seasons might also be obtained one month before the festival. Failure to comply with the requirements within the stipulated time will be taken seriously and a show-cause notice for appropriate action may be issued to the existing licensees and the shops may be permanently sealed and the stocks confiscated. The city police would also consider the arms licence applications of all those applicants who had earlier applied to the Deputy Commissioner office and were in process before the Police Commissionerate system came into existence in Amritsar. |
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Red Cross to take over Jan Aushdhi store
Amritsar, April 16 The 24X7 drug store, launched by the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in the end of November 2008, was aimed at making the generic medicines available to poor and downtrodden patients on discounted and at no-profit-no-loss rates. However, the store here being run by Hindustan Antibiotic Limited (HAL) was hit by fund misappropriation blues just after a year of its opening. Piqued over this, HAL authorities withdrew. After which the Punjab Health System Corporation and the state government with the consent of Bureau of Pharmaceutical PSUs of India decided to hand the shop over to the Red Cross Society, which is running fair price shops
in majority of the districts in the state. The company has asked the Civil Hospital authorities to get the dues of the shop cleared soon. Manu Mahajan, Area Manager of the company, confirming this said the hospital has cleared Rs 57,000 till now while it has yet to reimburse the remaining amount of more than Rs 1 lakh. It is pertinent to mention here that Jan Aushdhi shop at Civil Hospital here is the only store which was being run by Central Government-owned HAPL while fair price shop at Mohali, Patiala and Ludhiana are being run by Indico Biotech, an NGO. The Red Cross Society is running the stores at Bathinda, Jalandhar, Moga, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Kapurthala, Mansa, Ropar, Nawan shehar and Gurdaspur. The company authorities have also asked the employees to look for other jobs as Red Cross society has initiated the process of hiring new employees it is learnt. However, the society has also expressed its inability to run the store unless it gets the requisite license for the same. |
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Bureaucrat’s daughter fights for land; cops refuse to budge
Amritsar, April 16 Anishya Hardass, herself a senior citizen, has been running from pillar to post to make the authorities concerned realise that she is one of the surviving owners of 20 acres at Bakha Tara Singh village in Ajnala. She shot off a letter to the tehsildar, naib-tehsildar and patwari of Ajnala here, alleging that the land was sold to some persons based on a “forged” registry. She has been single-handedly waging a battle despite the fact that her husband Air Cdre R.S. Hardass (retd) suffers from heart problem while her son Lt-Col Partap Hardass is posted in the trouble-torn Jammu and Kashmir region. Her second son Arjun Hardass, a senior journalist with a news channel, works overseas. Anishya Hardass claimed that the sale deed regarding the 20 acres of agriculture land was executed on April 12 and registered the same day. She alleged that her relatives made a forged registry after producing insufficient and
fake documents. She requested these officials not to enter mutation in favour of the five persons who had purchased land at a comparatively low market rate. She said in the scenario she would be left with no choice but to knock the doors of
the court. The senior citizen was astonished during her year-long struggle that the police did not register a case even after she produced all evidence that a fake registry had been prepared. |
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Gang of vehicle lifters busted
Amritsar, April 16 The accused have been identified as Jaspreet Singh of Gobind Nagar, Sultanwind Road, Sarabjit Singh of Mandir Wala Bazar, New Gurnam Nagar, Jaswinder Singh and Davinder Singh of Gurnam Nagar. The police authorities said the CIA staff of the district police on a tip-off laid a naka on the Chamrang Road, near Dhingra Hospital, where they signalled the four accused coming on two motorcycles without any number plate to stop. During checking they were unable to produce the registration certificates of the vehicles, which were later found to be stolen ones. Ten more motorcycles were recovered on their information. After stealing, they used to sell the vehicles after forging the documents. A case under sections 379, 411, 413, 414, 420, 467, 468 and 472 of the IPC has been registered. |
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Cancel +2 paper at Bhikhiwind centre: DEO
Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, March 16 Mahia said here yesterday that due to mass cheating found at the centre, the recommendation had been made to the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) authorities. The DEO added that the centre was holding papers of accountancy (economics), biology and vocation.
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Botanical festival held at GND varsity
Amritsar, April 16 Competitions were organised in painting, rangoli, cooking and display. Navdeep Kaur won the painting competition, while Jaswinder Kaur and Manjot Kaur got the second and third positions, respectively. Ravideep Kaur and Neha won the consolation prizes. Gurpreet Kaur and Jeewan Jyoti won the rangoli competition. Prtibha, Sneh and Jaswinder remained second, while Neha Sharma, Rajbir Kaur and Mamta were placed third in the competition. Consolation prize went to Rajwant and Gurpreet Kaur. Jaswinder, Reecha, Romika and Deepika won the first place in cooking competition. Dr Jatinder Kaur, Dr Rajbir Singh and Rajneet Kour Soodan got the second position, while Vaneet Kumar, Jashan Kaur and Arun Kumar got the third prize. Gurpreet Kaur, Jiwanjyoti and Rajwant Kaur won the consolation prizes. In display competition, Gurpreet Kaur won the first prize, while Dipakshi Sharma came second and Priyanka placed third. Dr Jatinder Kaur won the consolation prize. Earlier, Dr R.K. Bedi, Professor In charge (Examinations), inaugurated the festival. Dr Saroj Arora, Head of the Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, welcomed the guests and the participants. Prof A.K. Thukral and Prof Avinash Nagpal evaluated painting competition. Prof G.S. Virk and Prof Renu Bhardwaj evaluated the display of art and craft competition, while cooking and rangoli competitions were evaluated by Dr A. S. Soodan with Dr Satwinderjeet Kaur and Dr Saroj Arora along with Dr A.P. Vig, respectively. |
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Honour for ex-cop, who served both sides of Punjab
Amritsar, April 16 Visibly hale and hearty, Ahluwalia belied his age and went in person to receive the honour at Punjab Police Recruitment Training Centre, Jahankhela, Hoshiarpur. He was given a memento in recognition
for his services to the police wing. Later, Ahluwalia addressed the budding police personnel. Ahluwalia was associated with the police recruitment centre from 1952 to 1956 as Chief Drill Inspector. After about five decades, he had an opportunity to visit the place where he used to impart training to the young recruits. “It was good to see the huge grown trees which I had planted then”, said Ahluwalia. Now a resident of Amritsar, Ahluwalia, told The Tribune that a few years before Partition, he was posted at Gujjranwala and he stayed there for about three years as Head Constable. “We moved to Amritsar on August 13, 1947, but many of his kith and kin lost their lives during the Partition riots. During that period, it was the peoples’ faith which was damaged the most. Even the close relations became sour and a sense of vested interest cropped up among all,” said Ahluwalia. Born on January 26, 1915, in village Fatehabad, Tarn Taran district, Ahluwalia said he received education up to F.Sc standard and had keen interest in sports. When asked about his secret of maintaining good health, Ahluwalia said he has been a teetotaler through out. During his stint with the recruitment centre, he had learnt and taught yoga. “I have continued with that routine. Yoga gives energy to me. I drink milk and relish curd and ghee,” said Ahluwalia, who have command over seven languages --- English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabian,
Persian and Sanskrit. |
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Rise in iron, steel prices hits construction business
Amritsar, April 16 He felt that its major impact was on the ongoing construction of houses and the soaring prices had put brakes on them and forced their owners to put the projects under limbo. Saria (iron rod), which was available at Rs 27/28 per kg last month, is being sold at Rs 37/38 per kg in the market. These rods are made from scraps. The saria made by reputed company like Tata Tiscon is available at Rs 47 per kg. The price of iron angles rose to Rs 34 per kg from Rs 28. A kg of iron sheet is now sold at Rs 47 per kg against Rs 34 a kg last month. The cost of plate has risen from Rs 33 to
Rs 43 per kg. The rates of steel and its products rose by 10 per cent. Mahajan said in the past couple of years the usage of steel had increased with its rampant use in the construction of houses, shopping malls and factory sheds in shape of angles, channel pipes and many more. Besides, present minuscule heavy industry in the city also uses it. The Steel Authority
of India recently jacked up its prices by Rs 4,000 per tonne. Notably, this year it was the second hike in the prices of steel as it had already registered the steep hike of Rs 5,000 per tonne. Consequently, the price of a tonne of hot rolled coils has increased from Rs 35,270 to Rs 39,000. Its impact was visible in the local market with customers holding back their projects. |
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‘Remove anomolies in PDS’
Tarn Taran, March 16 Shankar Singh Sahota said the dal would continue its protest till the demands were accepted. He said removal of anomalies in the public distribution system and others were the main demands of the dal. |
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Consumer Forum office-bearers
Tarn Taran, March 16 |
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Akali leader in the dock again
Amritsar, April 16 This time for aiding the grabbing of four kanals of land at Kotladoom village belonging to Makhtul Singh. The protesters are none other than the members of the same ruling party who were led by Sarchand Singh, media in charge, district unit of the Shiromani Akali Dal. Raising slogans against the Akali leaders, the agitators blocked traffic on the Rajasansi road while the Tehsildar and the DSP had to intervene to assure the aggrieved party of justice. Sarchand Singh pointed out that the local SHO, in connivance with the former MLA, tried to grab the land even as the district court had granted stay to victim Makhtul Singh. Demanding action against the SHO, he said the SAD government was committed to serve and not to rule the people. He said nobody would be allowed to defame the government by committing such illegal acts. Jagir Singh, president of the Sarpanches Union, said Lopoke should take a lesson from the recent incident of killing of BKU leader Sadhu Singh Takhtupura in which his name figured. He said they would plan further action if the authorities failed to provide justice to Makhtul Singh. He pointed out that Lopoke was a senior leader and he should refrain from such activities which could bring bad name to the party. After two hours of protest, Tehsildar Parmanand and Rajasansi DSP Gurnam Singh reached the spot and assured them of appropriate action against the accused involved in the bid to grab the land. |
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Rare disease afflicts siblings in Patti
Amritsar, April 16 He said there were only 250 cases reported worldwide so far and these two cases were found in rural Punjab. He had dispatched the blood samples of the patients to the University of Texas for its genetical test at its laboratory. He said to the best of his knowledge there were only six centres for its testing in the world. The doctor came to know about the patients from the locality that there were two young children (16-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother) with abnormal face and were confined to the house. Annoyed at constant teasing by her peer group,
the girl left the school two years ago. With the family belonging to the below poverty line
(BPL) category, the children had no choice but to confine themselves to the house. He said congenital generalised lipodystrophy, a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the adipose tissue, was originally described by Berardinelli and Seip. These patients look very muscular due to the absence of fat. The patients have acanthosis nigricans (dark velvety pigmentation of the skin) in the axilla, neck or groin, severe insulin resistance, high levels of serum insulin and serum
triglycerides and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Extreme hypertriglyceridemia may result in recurrent pancreatitis. These patients also have accelerated linear growth and advanced bone age during their childhood, and have a voracious appetite. The onset of diabetes is usually during the pubertal years and requires high dose of insulin to control the blood glucose levels. The other clinical features consist of enlarged hands, feet and prognathism (acromegaloid features), increased sweating, umbilical hernia and lytic lesions (bone appear to be eaten up on X-rays) in long bones of the upper and lower extremities (arms, forearms, hands, thighs, calf, legs and feet) such as humerus, femur, etc. after puberty Hepatomegaly from fatty liver is almost universal and may ultimately lead to cirrhosis. Splenomegaly is common. Nearly all patients have a prominent umbilicus or frank umbilical hernia. Patients might also have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (dysfunction of the heart). Females present with enlarged clitoris, increased body hair, absence of or irregular menstrual cycles, and polycystic ovaries (enlarged ovaries). The girl has lipoatrophy, acromegaloid features, hepatosplenomegaly, diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia, increased body hair and ovarian cyst. The younger one is 12 years of age and has lipoatrophy, acanthosis nigricans, hepatomegaly but still has not developed diabetes yet. Both the siblings have umbilical hernia. |
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Plagued by water contamination, shortage
P.K. Jaiswar Tribune News Service
Amritsar, April 16
When The Tribune team visited the area, it found children drinking water from the water pipes passing through the open drains. “What we can do? These pipes were laid many years ago and many of them have become rusty and prone to leakages,” said Satpal of Chowk Chabutra. “We have complained to the civic authorities a number of times, but nothing has been done to replace these pipes,” he added. The prolonged power cuts have also compounded the water problem. The residents appealed to the civic authorities to reschedule the timings of water supply so that the residents could at least finish their daily chores. “Power cuts at odd hours have left the residents fuming. We could not even fill water storage tanks due to this reason unless we get up in the wee hours for the same,” said Sumit Kumar. “The temperature is soaring day by day. The unusual rise in temperature just at the start of summer has left the residents high and dry. God knows what would happen in the coming days as the (water scarcity) problem is likely to grow and we see no solution in near future,” he added. The areas that fall in the ward include Chatiwind Gate, Chowk Lachhmansar, Chowk Chabutra, parts of Chowk Moni, Jai Singh Chowk, Bazaar Lohara, Chowk Chintpurni, Gilwali Gate, Joura Pipal, Gali Devi Wali, etc. “This is not all. Other big problem, which the area is facing is of often choking of open drains and sewerage system. Every chowk consists more than a dozen manholes, which require desilting every now and then. Vegetable vendors and shopkeepers throw the waste and garbage in the drain that lead to blockage of the sewerage system. The open drains also pose serious health hazards as these provide perfect breading grounds for mosquitoes and insects. Sometimes the sewerage waste remains lying in open for days after the manholes were desilted,” said Vinod Kumar of Chowk Chintpurni. Chintpurni Chowk also witness regular traffic chaos due to illegal extension of shops.
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Bhagtanwala grain market gets improved facilities
Amritsar, April 16 The government, for the first time, has introduced plastic bags which can contain 50 kg of wheat per bag. Then there are sewerage pipes, which have been laid to drain out the rain water. With a view to facilitate swift and hassle-free movement of farmers for 24 hours in the market, adequate number of streetlights has been put up. However, major work running behind schedule is of the pucca roads within the market. Meanwhile, the district administration is expecting arrival of 6.52 tonnes of wheat this year. In all, 452 shops have been allotted, out of which 415 have gone to the commission agents. The market saw arrival of 6.30 lakh quintals of wheat previous year out of which government agencies --- PUNGRAIN, PUNSUP, Markfed and FCI --- together had procured 6.15 lakh quintals wheat. There are 58 grain markets in the district. Out of them 20 registered the arrival of the produce. Meanwhile, the farmers hitting the Bhagtanwala grain market with their produce can’t help but blame the weather gods. Farmer Gurmukh Singh of Guruwali village said the yield had come down because of unsuitable weather conditions. Short winter, absence of fog and intense heat early in the summer dealt us a big blow. About arrangements made for procurement, he said it had certainly improved.
He said he did not need to wait for lifting of his stock since it was the beginning of procurement. Another farmer Dharam Singh of Padhari Kalan village said early arrival of searing heat had impacted the grain size. Though this time around, there would be no complaint of moisture in grains. |
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Cheques worth Rs 4 cr given to 109 panchayats
Tarn Taran, March 16 The minister alleged that the Union government was responsible for the rising prices of essential commodities. He said the state government had made adequate arrangements for wheat storage in the coming season in spite of the obstacles created by the Union government.
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