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NEIGHBOURHOOD

SGPC staff to get DA
Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 25
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to release first installment of dearness allowance (DA) for all its employees and institutions concerned.

This was stated here yesterday by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar. He said the installment would be released soon. He added that besides the DA, 40 other proposals were also passed.

He said comments on Sikh Guru’s by Harvinder Singh Alwar with reference to a book had hurt sentiments of the Sikh community and a legal action would be initiated. He said the book had already been confiscated by the SGPC many years ago and further printing of the book was banned.

On arrangements of Sirhind Fateh Diwas, he said 300 dresses for security men, who would accompany a religious jatha from Chhapparchiri to Sirhind, would be purchased and affiliation of polytechnic college at Gurdasnangal in the name of Baba Ajay Singh would also be sought.

Senior vice-president Raghujit Singh, Kewal Singh Badal, general secretary Gurdev Singh, Dayal Singh, Rajinder Singh, Nirmal Singh, Karnail Singh Panjoli, secretary Dilmegh Singh and others were present.

Farmers’ strike enters 11th day
Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 25
The hunger strike by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta) today entered in 11th day.

District president of the union Sukhdev Singh said the anti-farmers policies of government were meant to suppress farmers who failed to earn anything from their fertile land.

Farmers are upset over the increase in electricity prices and lack of power. Farmers are forced to uproot their standing crops due to electricity and water shortage.

The farmers said the strike would be intensified on Monday if their pending demands were not met.

Gurbaksh Singh, Prem Singh, Naseeb Singh, Surinder Singh, Rajinder Singh, Mohan Singh, Pal Singh, Amar Singh and others were present.

Online registration of labourers

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 25
A project of online registration of migrants was launched on Friday at Fatehgarh Sahib wherein credentials of all migrant labourers and unknown tenants coming to Fatehgarh Sahib will be recorded.

SSP Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurpreet Singh Gill said the online registration would help in reducing theft and other incidents of crime related with the migrant labourers and tenants. He said identity cards would be issued to all migrants on which every detail, including name, permanent address, age, occupation and marks of identification would be mentioned.

The SSP said manual registration of tenants and migrant labourers had already been going on and this data would be upgraded soon on computers under the online registration. He said anybody sitting anywhere could get himself registered online through the Internet. — TNS

Office-bearers elected

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 25
Rajinder Kumar Shouri has been elected as president of the Arya Samaj Mandir. He was elected unanimously during a meeting held today.

The other members elected are Ramesh Sood, Yog Raj Sood, Dev Raj Thukral, Ramesh Arora, Rakesh Sood, Atul Sood and Naresh Sood. Lav Kumar Sood, Balraj Sood, Somdev, Amarjeet Sood, Umesh Kumar, Bikter Sharma, Sudhir Sood, Labhinder Kumar and others were also present during the meeting. — TNS

Where parking creates heat
Our Correspondent

Mohali, April 25
Parking has become the bane of the town, with drivers facing unending harassment, particularly in the market areas.

The vehicle density has been rising, which coupled with poor planning, has led to a worsening of parking woes.

There is traffic congestion in various areas, including the Phase 1 market, near the court complex at Phase 3B1, near Chawla nursing home at Phase 7 and the main road in front of the Phase 11 market.

A board recently put up on a footpath along the main road at Phase 1 says ‘No parking zone from Franco Hotel to DC complex’.

But surprisingly, seven cars were seen parked on this stretch yesterday, though ‘No parking’ signboards had been put up at several points along the road.

A number of cars were also seen parked on the footpath in front of houses, much to the annoyance of those occupying these buildings.

The road near the court complex, in particular, was a traffic bottleneck because of wrongly parked vehicles. Cars were parked not only on the footpath along the gurdwara here, but also in front of the government school. The situation was no better near the Chawla chowk as vehicles were parked on the main road and the footpath here.

The parking area in front of the bank square at Phase 7 was congested and people had no choice except to park their vehicles on the road.

Vehicle users also found the area in front of HM houses on the main road at Phase 7 congested as vehicles were parked on the road.

A similar situation existed at in Phase 11. Complaints in connection with parking were also received from residential areas.

Jaswant Singh of Phase 3B1 said C-roads in various parts of the town were narrow and the number of vehicles in the town was going up. He added that residents were forced to park on roads in front of their houses and heated arguments over wrongly parked vehicles were common where he lived.

Delay in lifting of wheat worries farmers
Parmod Mehta

Dera Bassi, April 25
Despite the timely arrival of wheat at the grain market in Lalru, near here, delay in lifting of the produce has been aggravating farmers’ woes.

A visit to the grain market revealed that 30,000 quintals of wheat had not been lifted for the past 10 days.

Dera Bassi SDM Puneet Goyal held a meeting with the mandi officials in this regard.

He assured farmers that their wheat produce would be lifted soon.

He said wheat purchased by Markfed was not being unloaded at Rajpura godown on time. The godown preferred to unload wheat procured from the Patiala grain market, said district mandi official Gurcharn Singh .

Markfed DM Maninder Singh Brar said the problem would be solved soon. Markfed had started unloading wheat at Kharar godown, he added.

Cops detect Rs 40-lakh tax evasion
Tribune News Service

Rajpura, April 25
Shambhu police officials in Rajpura yesterday detected tax evasion of Rs 40 lakh during a special naka near the Shambhu barrier.

As per Shambhu police station in charge, Amanpal Singh Virk, a truck was intervened yesterday, which was frisked by the cops deployed at the naka. During a checking, the truck driver and two others sitting in the truck fled from the spot.

Later, mobile sets, laptops, medicines and spare parts of different vehicles were recovered from the truck. It was also found that all gadgets and other material were without any valid bills and the truck drivers were trying to evade tax.

The SHO said a case had been registered and further investigation was on.

SHO, 4 cops suspended

Ambala, April 25
The SP here ordered suspension of the SHO of the Barara police station and four policemen, following complaints of misbehaving with the local persons.

These suspended policemen were SHO Vijendar Singh, ASI Krishan Kumar, head constable Baldev, constables Roshan Lal and Naib Singh, all from the Barara police station. SP Bharti Arora said she had received a number of complaints and it was alleged that these policemen misbehaved with the general public. — TNS

CRIME

Man held for stealing cash
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
A resident of Mani Majra, Manoj Kumar, has been arrested on the charges of stealing cash from a shop at Sector 22.

Subhashni, a resident of Gold Enclave, Zirakpur, reported to the police that he stole Rs 10,000 and $800 from the cash box of a shop at Sector 22 on Saturday morning. A case was registered against him.

Attacked

Hem Raj of Mani Majra filed a complaint with the police that at least four unidentified persons assaulted and threatened him at the motor market in Mani Majra on Saturday. He was injured and admitted to the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital, Sector 16. A case was registered.

Stolen

Gurwinder Singh of Sector 40-C lodged a complaint with the police that someone stole his Hero Honda Passion motorcycle (PB02AN-5769) from in front of his residence on Friday. A case of theft was registered.

Man killed in road mishap
Our Correspondent

Bassi Pathana, April 25
A man died on the spot when his moped was hit by a speeding bus on the Bassi Pathana-Morinda road today evening.

According to the police, Joginder Ram (45), a resident of Mairan village, was going to his village from Bassi Pathana when a Syndicate bus hit his moped from side. He fell on the road and died on the spot.

The driver of the bus fled from the spot. His body was taken to the Civil Hospital and after a post mortem handed over to the relatives.

The police has registered a case under Sections 279, 304 A and 427 of the IPC.

SPORTS

Badminton Meet
Rajiv, Pankaj emerge victorious
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 25
Rajiv Mahajan and Pankaj Mittal outplayed Gurpreet Singh and Rajneesh Bhatia of Trident Group (21-12, 21-15) in the first Chandigarh Badminton Club Championship, which concluded today at the Sports Complex, Sector 42, here.

In the +45 category, Sanjay Judge and PJ Arora beat Vijay Pandit and Om Beer Singh 21-18, 19-21, 21-16.

Subash Nagpal was awarded life time achievement award, while Pankaj Mittal and Vijay Pandit were declared players of the year 2009-10 in the +35 and +45 categories, respectively.

Results:

+35 challenge trophy: Pankaj Mittal and Rajeev Mahajan beat Rajneesh Bhatia and Gurpreet Singh 21-12, 21-15.

+45 veterans: Sanjay Judge and PJ Arora beat Vijay Pandit and Om Beer 21-18, 19-21, 21-16.

+35 lucky draw: Pankaj Mittal and SP Singh beat Rajneesh Bhatia and Devinder Singh 21-14, 21-17.

+35 fresher’s trophy: Deepinder Singh and Manpreet beat Virender and Pardeep Sood 21-15, 16-21, 21-14.

Members catch up with old friends
Akash Ghai
Tribune News Service

Members of the Chandigarh Golf Club during the election of the governing council’s team on Sunday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Chandigarh, April 25
The election of governing council’s team today provided an opportunity to members of the Chandigarh Golf Club to meet their old friends.

Soon after the proceedings of the annual general body meeting came to an end, members rushed towards lush green lawns of the club to enjoy and share pleasantries over the mugs of chilled beer.

“The election day witnesses a large number of members turning up on the club’s premises. Though election could be the reason behind the huge turnout, members made most of the day by meeting their friends. I, too, came here with the same idea and you can see,” said Flying Sikh Milkha Singh, who was sitting with his five old-time friends at the club’s bar.

On the other hand, his son, Jeev Milkha Singh, a renowned golfer, was also busy chatting with his friends. “We (Jeev and Milkha Singh) will first meet our friends and then cast vote,” quipped Jeev.

Similarly, Bunny Sidhu, who came all the way from Jodhpur to cast his vote today, said apart from exercising his right, he came here with a purpose to meet his old friends. “I have many friends here. If I come some other day, chances of meeting them will be bleak. So on the election day, you have an opportunity to meet most of the friends,” said Sidhu.

Meanwhile, the club, which boasts of having crème de la crème of the region as its members, witnessed the hectic activities here today.

Returning officer Brigadier JS Phoolka (retd) said around 1070 members had come to cast their votes. “The election passed off peacefully,” said BrigPhoolka.

Earlier, at the annual general meeting, which was held ahead of the election this morning, most of the issues were cleared.

“The resignation of PS Hura, who was the member of standing committee, was accepted and Col BS Mangat has replaced him,” said Brig Phoolka.

The election was over by 4.30 pm and the results would be declared tomorrow.

Tennis
Sidharth, Dheeranush make it to main draw
Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 25
Sidharth Basnet and Dheeranush Bhatti have made it to the main draw of the ongoing Manav Mangal AITA Total Tennis Talent Series (U-14 and U-12) being held at Manav Mangal Smart School in Phase X here today.

Other players, who have made it to the main draw in the U-14 category, are Manjot Singh, Raghav Talwar, Pranay Jaipuria, Abhijeet Singh, Shiven Shourya, Karandeep Singh and Sultan Singh.

In the boys U-12 category, Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Kalvin Golmar, Karan Garg, Sidharth Kapoor, Anirudh Fatehpuria, Ankrish Khanna and Kenn Obrian will vie for the top honours.

Tournament director Devinder Kapoor said the first round matches in the U-12 and U-14 categories (boys and girls) would be held tomorrow at 8 am.

Brief results:

U-14 final qualifying round: Dheeranush Bhatti beat Simerpreet Singh 4-0, 4-1, Manjot Singh beat Jaspreet Singh 4-0, 4-0, Raghav Talwar beat Lavish Nehra 4-2, 4-0, Pranay Jaipuria beat Sabrang Sandal 4-2, 5-3, Abhijeet Singh beat Sidhrath Kapoor 4-2, 4-2, Shiven Soraya beat Abhinav Bansal 4-0, 4-0, Karandeep Singh beat Arnav Alok 4-0, 4-0 and Sultan Singh beat Yogesh Dogra 5-4, 5-4.

U-12 final qualifying round: Siddharth Basnet beat Uday Gill 6-2, Utkarsh Bhardwaj beat Cheerag Bajwa 6-3, Kalvin Golmar beat Anmol Kamjoj 6-3, Karan Garg beat Leanardo Pamei 6-4, Sidharth Kapoor beat Gursirat Singh 6-0, Anirudh Fathepuria beat Mayank Arora 6-3, Ankrish Khanna beat Sidharth Kamlani 6-0 and Kenm Obrian beat Gaurav Pranshar 6-2.

The main draw will be held on April 26.