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Toy trains to Shimla carrying tourists beyond capacity
Kalka, May 19 A visit to the kalka Railway station by the Tribune reveals that, all trains plying on the Kalka - Shimla Rail Section are running beyond their capacity, specially the unreserved compartments, which are jampacked. According to official sources of the Kalka Railway Station, the trains have been witnessing heavy rush of passengers these days, which are beyond the capacity of these toy trains. In general compartments, many passengers can be seen sitting and standing near the doors. According to some railway officials, the overloading of the trains could lead to serious accidents. They said that the department had recently started two holiday special trains to cope with the rush of tourists from the Delhi -Kalka Shatabdi and the Delhi-Kalka Himalyan Queen. Out of the two holiday trains, one train should be start before or after the Himalyan Queeen, to avoid the inconvenience faced by the tourists. Hundreds of the passengers from Delhi, Haryana and Punjab had to face disappointment when they could not get a seat in the trains due to heavy rush. Rather they had to travel by road. Some of the passengers said that the Railway should also increase the number of general compartments so that the passengers wanting to travel by toy trains could enjoy the journey. |
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Girls ahead of boys in Patiala
Patiala, May 19 Girls bagged top three positions in the district. Puneet Kaur, a non-medical student of Patel Public School, Rajpura, bagged first position with 96 per cent, whereas Rashim Garg of Teja Singh Kandhari School, Patiala, scored 94.4 per cent, and Avleen Kaur of Guru Nanak Foundation School scored 94 per cent to grab second and third positions, respectively. Puneet Kaur gave the credit of her success to her hardwork, parents and teachers. She said: “It was possible only because of the dedication of my teachers, who had left no stone unturned for prepare me for the examinations. Now, I wish to pursue BTech computer science and perform even better.” Rashim Garg also thanked her teachers and parents. In all city schools, girls outperformed boys. Guru Nanak Foundation School director Manohar Singh said the school result was 100 per cent. Six students scored 90 per cent marks and more, whereas 15 students got more than 85 per cent. DAV School principal Prabhakar said the school result remained 100 per cent with Mohit Goyal of commerce scoring 93 per cent to win first place in the school. Aanya Goyal of non-medical stream stood second with 92 per cent marks. Guru Teg Bhadur Public School principal Anu said the school result was 100 per cent and 76 students got first divisions. Non-medical student Karanpreet Singh scored 88.6 per cent marks and got first position. In Buddha Dal Public School, 13 students scored more than 90 per cent marks, whereas 95 students scored more than 80 per cent marks. In Blossoms Senior Secondary School, the pass percentage remained 87.5. Nikhil Gupta topped the school with 91.6 per cent marks.
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Mrinal scores 95.6pc in non-medical stream
Ambala, May 19 According to school principal Reena Nagrath, Bhavi Wadhawan secured 95 per cent marks and Payal Sharma secured 93 marks in the commerce faculty. Malini Suri stood first in the school in the non-medical stream by securing 94 per cent marks. She said 10 students of the school secured above 90 per cent marks, while 100 students secured above 70 per cent. A total of 218 students secured the first position, she added. Vrinda, a student of SA Jain Model School, Ambala City, secured 89.2 per cent marks and achieved first position in the school. Besides her, Bhoovan Kesari secured 89.2 per cent marks in the non-medical stream and secured second position in the school. Tanvi Bhatia and Shivam Goel topped DHDSD Public School, Ambala Cantt, by securing 92.2 per cent in the commerce stream, while Vikram Singh Dhillon has topped the school in the non-medical stream by securing 91.60 per cent marks in the Class XII examination of the CBSE. In RN Kapoor DAV Public School, Kartikeya in the medical stream topped the school by securing 85.2 per cent marks, while Shilpi got second position in the school with 84.4 per cent marks in Class XII. |
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43 candidates in fray for 13 wards
Ambala, May 19 With the rejection of nomination form submitted by Sudesh Das from ward number 9 during scrutiny, as it was not found correct, the total number of candidates in fray from Naraingarh has reduced to 43, told returning official OP Sharma. The authorities have promulgated prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC. Carrying arms or explosives in public will be prohibited. The state government has also declared a public holiday on May 20 in all towns and cities where the civic polls are scheduled. Sale of liquor too has been banned in view of the elections. Saroj Siwach, election observer, yesterday visited Naraingarh to see the arrangements along with OP Sharma. Giving information, OP Sharma said there were 13,634 voters and 13 wards in the area. Santosh Chhabra, a candidate from ward number 3, has already been declared unopposed. — TNS
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Centre monitors social welfare schemes
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 19 Monitor, NC Prabhakar today visited four villages of Sirhind block and enquired about the schemes from villagers. He said that the Ministry Of Rural Development monitored the implementation of its programme through the national -level monitors, who were deputed various districts to monitor the social welfare schemes. Prabhakar said he would cover four villages in each block of Khera, Khamano and Sirhind. He would even check transparency, genuine complaints, utility of scheme and views for improvement. He said that the schemes including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employee Guarantee Scheme, the Swaran Jayanti Gram Swa Rozgar Yogna, the Indira Awas Yojna, the National Social Assistance Programme, the Water Shed Development Programme, the Rural Water Supply Programme and the Total Sanitation Campaign and other would be monitored by him.
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Student jumps from third floor, hurt
Kharar, May 19 The girl allegedly had some tiff with her teacher over issue of using mobile phone on the college premises. She sustained fracture in her leg and spine injury. At around 1 pm, the injured girl was taken to civil hospital, Kharar, and further referred to PGIMER, Chandigarh. The girl has been identified as Neetam Sinha, a student of IV semester of electronics. As per the police, college authorities have directed students not to use mobile phones during examinations and instead submit the same with the college teachers. Today, the college authorities were returning these mobile phones to students and directed them to give it in written that they would not use mobile phones in future. Sinha had altercation with the teacher and in a fit of rage she jumped from the second floor. The police said that they had not registered a case as the victim was not in a position to give her statement. |
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Medicine shop raided, owner booked
Fatehgarh Sahib, May 19 A case has been registered against him at the Mulepur police station for not allowing the officials to perform their duties. Drug inspector Navjot Kaur said her team comprising medical official and other employees of the department raided a village shop where the medicines were being sold without having any valid drug licence. The shop owner did not cooperate with health officials. He did not allow the samples of medicines to be taken.
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2 hurt in road mishap
Kalka, May 19 The police sources revealed that the accident took place at around 9-30pm on Tuesday night on the National Highway-22, adjacent to Pinjore. The bus no-HR-68-1165 hit Suresh Kumar and Anil Kumar residents of Shiv Colony, Pinjore. The duo were rushed to Fortis Hospital , Chandigarh, where the condition of the victims is said to be critical. The driver of the bus is absconding. On the complaint of Rakesh kumar , the police has registered a case under Sections 279,337 of the IPC after impounding the bus.
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DRM booked
Ambala, May 19 The police said a case had been registered for getting 27 stray dogs killed in the Railway Colony last week. PFA founder member Payal Sodhi, filed a complaint at Parao police station in this connection, the sources said. The four class IV employees including Kamal, Mohan, Bhagirath and Jai Parkash have also been booked on the charge of poisoning the dogs. Singh has denied any involvement in this case. The police said a case had been registered.
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Consumer Forum Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 19 Kirpal Singh of Sector 19 had submitted to the forum that he purchased a mobile phone from Hot Spot Retail Limited at Sector 32-D, which started giving problems soon after. He said he gave the mobile phone, which used to hang often and the screen of which did not work, five times to the company, but it could not rectify the fault. In its written reply, the company said the complainant had given the mobile phone to an authorised service centre of Sony Ericsson and repair services were provided. The forum observed, “The mobile phone is under warranty and it is the responsibility of the company to get it repaired at its own expenses. The company has tried its best to rectify the defect. It seems that there is an inherent manufacturing defect in the mobile phone. There is negligence and deficiency on the part of the company in neither repairing the mobile phone, nor replacing it with a new one. None appeared for Delhi-based Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication India Private Limited, which showed that it had nothing to say in its defence.”
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Electronics firm fined
Rs 5,000
Chandigarh, May 19 The forum has directed the company to repair the CTV and deliver it free of cost, after making it functional upto the satisfaction of the complainant with fresh warranty of one year. Varun Jain, resident of Solan district, submitted to the forum that he had purchased a CTV from a city-based showroom for a sum of Rs 17, 300 on April 30, 2008. After one month, the operational features of the TV got jammed. He made several requests to the company, but all in vain. He then lodged a complainant at the customer care centre of Samsung India Electronics in Delhi and after several requests, they sent an engineer, who assured him that the TV would be made functional after replacing the main circuit board. But no engineer visited his premises to repair the TV. Varun said he sent two legal notices to the company, but was of no use. Electroage Consumer Electronics Goods was preceded as ex-parte, as no one appeared on its behalf, while Samsung India Electronics, in its reply, submitted that they were ready and willing to repair the TV. They had asked the permission from the forum to inspect the TV to ascertain as to whether there was any defect in the TV. Denying all the allegations of the complainant, the company submitted that there was no manufacturing defect in the TV. The forum, however, observed that since the CTV was within the warranty period, it was the duty of the company to attend to the complaint and repair the CTV, which they failed to do, causing harassment to the complainant.
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Wg Cdr acquitted of culpable homicide charge
Chandigarh, May 19 “In the absence of evidence, the case against the appellant-accused cannot stand. The findings and convictions are not sustainable,” the tribunal’s bench comprising Justice SS Kulshreshtha and Lt Gen SS Dhillon ruled. Setting aside the conviction awarded to Wg Cdr MS Mander, former commanding officer of 37 Squadron, the bench ordered that he would be deemed to be in service till the date of superannuation in the present rank and be entitled to pension thereafter. The GCM had held him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongly confining the signalman, behaving in a manner unbecoming of an officer, and an act prejudicial to good order and discipline by adopting improper method of investigation into an alleged offence by the signalman. He was awarded five-year rigorous imprisonment, which was later reduced to two years by Chief of the Air Staff when the GCM proceedings were forwarded to him for confirmation. Four other officers were also awarded various degrees of punishment by the GCM. A signalman, Garje, had allegedly misbehaved with the wife of a flight lieutenant when he had gone to repair the telephone at his residence in 1998, in Bikaner, where the squadron was then based. The Station Commander had directed Mander, a resident of Mohali, to investigate into the matter before taking any action. When Garje was being taken in a Gypsy, driven by Mander, he jumped off and started running. He fell in a ditch while being chased by other officers and suffered head and other injuries. He was taken to the medical section, where he died. The prosecution’s case was that Mander and other officers had severely beaten Garje in the aircrew rest room and he had died from resultant injuries. The bench observed that the prosecution has been able to establish only the fact that the deceased was seen in the company of the appellant-accused and other co-accused, but no overt act was attributed to the appellant-accused.
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Bail plea of two accused dismissed
Tribune News Service
Panchkula, May 19 The local police had arrested Nagpal on April 4 from the Sector 7 market for hatching conspiracy to kidnap Nipun. It was on March 27 when Nipun Gupta was kidnapped allegedly by Rachit, with the help of Lavish Gugnani (19), resident of Modern Housing complex, Sitansu Puri (21), resident of Sector 9, Sahil Negi (18), resident of Sector 5 Mansa Devi Complex. Another accused Abhisekh (22), a resident of NAC, Manimajra was arrested for selling SIM cards to the accused on fake documents. The urge to make quick money had led the youths to kidnap Nipun. They had demanded Rs 80 lakh ransom from his industrialist father. Nipun was kidnapped from Wah Dilli Hotel, Sector 5. In this matter, the police had managed to recover the boy.
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Eleven-year old dies in mishap
Chandigarh, May 19 The police said the accident occurred around 9 am. He was severely wounded and rushed to the Government Multi-Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, where he died during treatment. The police arrested Narinderpal Singh of Sarangpur village, who was driving the jeep, and booked him on charges of causing death due to rash and negligent driving. Son of Arsif, a labourer, the victim was a Class III student of a government school at Dhanas. Later in the day, the police handed over the body to the family after post-mortem examination.
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One booked for fraud
Chandigarh, May 19 Ram Singh, a resident of Phase VII, Mohali, filed a complaint with the police against his brother Dharam Singh, alleging that the latter forged a will of their mother showing him to be her only son and fraudulently got a share of the property transferred in his name. A case of cheating has been registered under Section 420 of the IPC.
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Tennis Meet
Chandigarh, May 19 Ravnoor, a CLTA trainee and student of Sacred Heart School, made it to the semifinal without dropping a set in the tournament. However, another CLTA trainee and fifth seed Ikttesh Chahal went down to Eettee Mehta of Gujrat in another singles quarterfinals. In women’s singles Ravnoor would be facing top seed Nupur Kaul of Maharashtra, who had on easy win over Gundeep Kaur of Punjab. Nupur won 6-2, 6-3. Eettee Mehta of Gujrat will play against third seed Preethi Srinivasan, who beat Tejaswani in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. CLTA girls Ravnoor and Ikttesh will be playing doubles’ final against Ettee and Vaibhavi Trivedi both form Gujrat. In men’s singles, sixth seed Gurinder trainee of the CLTA, moved into semifinal beating Adwait Salwilkar 6-0, 6-1. He will face Allen Gomes of Gujrat in the semifinal. Top seed former Davis Cup player Nittene Kirtene moved in the semifinal 6-1, 6-0 win over Deepinder Singh Bains. Nittene will be up against the fifth seed Bharat Bhardwaj of Haryana. Bharat upset fourth seed Kunal Anand of Delhi in a closely contested match Bharat won 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. In men’s doubles’ final, Nittene Kirtene and Prosonjit Paul will play against top seed Rubal Sandilaya and Parth Indrodia. Results: Women’s singles’ quarterfinal: Nupur Kaul (MAH) bt Gundeep Kaur (PB) 6-2, 6-3, Ravnoor Kaur (CHD) bt Priyanka Rawat (UTK) 6-2, 6-1, Preethi Srinivasan (TN) bt Surya Tejaswani (TN) 6-3, 6-4 and Eetee Mehta (GUJ) bt Ikttesh Chahal (CHD) 6-2, 6-1 Men’s singles’ quarterfinal: Nitten Kirtane (MAH) bt Deepinder Singh Bains (CHD) 6-1, 6-0, Bharat Bhardwaj (HAR) bt Kunal Anand (DLI) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, Allan Aley Gomes (GUJ) bt Arjun Singh (DLI) 7-5, 6-1 and Gurinder Singh (PB) bt Adwait Sadvilkar (MAH) 6-0, 6-1 Men’s doubles’ semifinal: Rubal Sandilaya (DLI) and Parth Indrodia (GUJ) bt Kunal Anand (DLI) and Gurvinder Singh Mann (DLI) 4-2, 5-4(6) and Nittene Kirtene (MAH) and Prosonjit Paul (JHA) bt Allan Gomes (GUJ) and Bharat Bhardwaj (HAR) 5-4(3), 4-0. Women’s doubles’ semifinal: Eetee Mehta (GUJ) and Vaibhavi Trivedi (GUJ) bt Abhilasha Ahuja (HAR) and Nupur Kaul (MAH) 2-4, 5-4(4), 11-9 and Ravnoor Kaur (CHD) and Ikttesh Chahal (CHD) bt Mariam Lubna (TN) and Surya Tejaswani (TN) 4-0, 5-4 (5).
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DAV to face CHF Academy in final
Chandigarh, May 19 In the semifinal matches played today, CHFA whipped SGGS Khalsa School, Sector 26, by eight goals to one, while DAVA beat Shivalik Public School (A) by 5-4 via penalty shootout. In the first semifinal, DAVA took the lead in the 33rd minute when Rohit scored through a field goal. However, in the 49th minute, Shivalik’s Arvinder scored the equiliser by converting a penalty corner. The match was decided through a penalty shootout when both teams failed to break the deadlock in regulation time. In the second semifinal match, CHFA boys completely dominated the proceedings and opened their account with a field goal through Gagandeep in the third minute. Though SGGS equalised seven minutes later when Abhimanyu sounded the board. CHFA then just ran away with the match. The goal scorers for the winning side were: Kamaldeep (19th, penalty corner), Gurjinder (25th, PC), Gagandeep (27th, FG), Bikramjeet (30th, FG), Gagandeep (36th, penalty stroke), Bikramjeet (42nd, FG) and Gurjant (49th, PC). |
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