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Two murdered, 8 injured in 2 incidents
Foodgrains panel blames state, central govt for storage woes, calls for probe
Punjab Govt to send ayurvedic doctors to Gujarat for special training
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Land offer in Ethiopia
Three Arrested
Farmer, BJP leaders booked for toll plaza protest
Prisoner escapes from Bal Sudhar Ghar
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Two murdered, 8 injured in 2 incidents
Tarn Taran, August 2 Jasbir was shot dead while his associate Kabal Singh was injured when another group headed by Gurnam Singh opened fire on them. One kanal land is said to be the root cause behind the incident. Five persons, identified as Gurnam Singh, Ranjit Singh, Akhtayar Singh, Jagjit Singh and Manjit Singh, were injured in the firing incident by the opposite party. A case under sections 302 and 307 of the IPC and sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against Gurnam Singh and eight others by the police. Gurwinder Singh, SHO (city) sad both the parties gathered on the disputed piece of land and opened fire on each other. Jasbir in his serious condition was brought to a Amritsar hospital where he succumbed to his injures. Gurnam, Ranjit, Akhtayar, Jagjit and Manjit were admitted to the local civil hospital from where Gurnam and Ranjit were referred to an Amritsar hospital due to their serious condition. In the second incident in Kale village, falling under police station Bhikhiwind, 40 kms from here, Ranjit Singh (30) was killed while his mother Kashmir Kaur and elder brother Avtar Singh were seriously injured. The police sources said Avtar’s wife Kanwaljit Kaur, a resident of Kale village, had demanded her land share from her parents, who were opposed to any such move. As a result her brother Shamsher Singh and others attacked Avtar and his family with sharp edged weapons this afternoon. Ranjit died on the spot. The Bhikhiwind police has registered a case under sections 302, 307, 452, 427 and 34 of the IPC against four persons. The accused include Shamsher Singh, his mother Joginder Kaur of Marri Theh Wala village and
Kulwant Singh and his son Chamkaur Singh. The accused fled away from the spot. |
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Man kills wife
Hoshiarpur, August 2 According to police sources, habitual drunkard Sandip Kumar, resident of Ward No 11, Garhshankar, took his wife Maya (25) to a religious place at Sekhowal village for paying obeisance, where he allegedly murdered her. Maya used to object to Sandip Kumar taking excessive liquor, which irked the latter. The police has registered a case against Sandip Kumar under sections 302 and 34 of the IPC.
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Foodgrains panel blames state, central govt for storage woes, calls for probe
Jalandhar, August 2 General Secretary of the Committee Akshar Kumar said there had been no appointment in any of the procurement and storage agencies since the past more than 25 years. “More than 80 per cent of the staff has retired but there has been no replacement. The existing staff is burdened with much more work than the permissible
standards,” he claimed. Giving statistics, he said, “As per the norms, an employee is supposed to take care of 5000 MT of grain at one place but due to the crisis-like situation an employee is forced to handle 1 lakh MT of grains stored at various centres which is practically not possible.” He added that no new covered godowns had been constructed since the past eight years where as the production had increased manifold since then. As much as 80 per cent of the food grains (which is approximately 80 lakh tones) have to be stored in fields or on kutcha uncovered sheds which if not shifted can lead to total damage in six months, the committee secretary claimed. “The Centre has failed to lift 60 lakh tonnes of rice from shellers which too is lying in the state godowns. The rice has already occupied a lot of space leaving very little room for the wheat crop,” he further pointed out. He said a large quantity of produce had last year been stored in plastic bags instead of the normal jute bags which had further resulted in the deterioration. “Since it is a live grain, it needs air for proper storage which is possible only in jute bags,” he further added. |
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Punjab Govt to send ayurvedic doctors to Gujarat for special training
Amritsar, August 2 She said Punjab lacked the facility to provide higher education in ayurveda since the previous governments never gave due attention to the ancient native therapy based on plants and herbs. Hence, the state was also facing scarcity of ayurvedic doctors. She informed that long time pending vacancies of ayurvedic doctors in the government hospitals in the state would be advertised across the country to zero in on the deserving candidates. The Health Minster said the department had received due permission from the Central and State governments for opening four new ayurvedic hospitals in as many districts of the state. She said before opening of an ayurvedic hospital it was ensured that it was located close to the area where farmers were engaged in cultivation of herbal plants and shrubs. She said apart from ensuring constant supply of medicine to the hospital it would offer the farmers to diversify their crops. She said the Akali-BJP coalition government had constituted for the first time separate Directorate of Homoeopathy. She said with a view to ayurvedic doctors they were being given emoluments at par with allopathic doctors under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). On the line of Kerala, the Punjab Government has decided to provide allopathic, homoeopathic and ayurvedic therapies under a roof. She said soon Government Nursing College Jalandhar would train the students in paramedic. She said the government would open five nursing colleges in as many districts in the state, including Amritsar. The Union Government’s Ayush Department and ayurvedic Department, Punjab, would jointly hold a four-day Arogya Mela here from December 18. At the cost of Rs one crore the hospital would be raised which would positively be thrown open to the public on January 1. It would have 6,850 square feet covered area with indoor and outdoor facilities. The hospital would have special facilities to cure old ailments. A team of 12 doctors would be hired to run the main operations. |
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Land offer in Ethiopia
Jalandhar, August 2 Talking to The Tribune, Poscon secretary-general Jung Bahadur Singh Sangha, who was part of the delegation, said it was not an easy task for an individual farmer to accomplish the task right from buying hundreds of hectares of land, arrange loans, transport, power and irrigation facilities on foreign shores. “To avail the benefits of the lucrative offer made by the Ethiopian government to the fullest, we have decided to constitute a company of willing farmers which would eventually float shares under the project. With this, we can buy agricultural lands in bulk,” he said. “They are offering us not only land but also to invest in or to develop agro-based industry. This can be achieved only by adopting purely a professional approach,” he added while stressing the need to constitute a company or limited firm. Ethiopian Ambassador Gennet Zewide and Ethiopian Minister for Capacity Building Tefera Walwa, who visited the city to participate in a farmers’ meet organised by Poscon on June 15, offered uncultivated land mass of 1.7 millions in Ethiopia to Punjabi farmers just at the lease rate of Rs 1,000 per year. |
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Three Arrested
Jalandhar, August 2 Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap at Cheema T-Point on the Kartarpur-Kishangarh road and intercepted a Maruti Swift car with four youths. Talking to The Tribune, Kartarpur DSP Balbir Singh said the arrested were identified as Gurdev Singh of Terdeo in Amritsar, Jujhar Singh and Amir Singh from Moga. Their fourth accomplice Bikar Singh of Moga escaped, the DSP claimed. He said the cops found the contraband packed in plastic bags with a seal “Made in Afganistan”. The DSP claimed that the drug peddlers had links with an international gang of drug smugglers and were active in this part of the region for the past over five years. A case under the NDPS Act has been registered against them at Kartarpur police station. The suspects were produced before a local court where they were sent three-day police custody. Robbers’ gang in police net
Phagwara: The Nakodar Police busted a five-member gang of inter-district robbers who were planning to loot a petrol pump near Sareeh village today. Four members, including gang kingpin Ranjit Kumar of Kapurthala, were arrested. Nakodar DSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh while talking to newsmen today said others arrested were Gurpreet Singh, alias Kaki, of Kheeva village, Manjinder Singh of Motipur village and Kulwant Singh, alias Jagga, of Kala Sangha village. Their fifth accomplice Mandeep Singh, alias Mani, managed to escape. The DSP said the police had seized one .32 bore pistol, three live cartridges, two sharp-edged weapons and an iron rod, besides recovering stolen goods --- gold ornaments, laptop, three mobile phones and two digital cameras --- from the robbers. The police received a tip-off that the gang was hatching a conspiracy to loot a village petrol pump sitting in a barn room in the village. The police conducted a raid and nabbed four robbers. The robbers have been sent to one-day police remand by the Nakodar Judicial Magistrate. The DSP said the robbers had confessed to their involvement in different crimes. Gang kingpin Ranjit was already in jail in a robbery case in Kapurthala and was released on bail last month. He first stole two motorcycles from Jalandhar Cantonment and Jalandhar city, then purchased a .32-bore pistol from Batala and formed a gang of five members to commit some big crimes, added Khakh. |
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Farmer, BJP leaders booked for toll plaza protest
Amritsar, August 2 A case under section 8-B of the National Highway Action Act and section 188 of the Indian Penal Code for violating section 144 of the CrPC at Lopoke police station. Farmers and mini-bus operators had staged a dharna at the Attari toll plaza due to which the traffic remained suspended for more than two hours. A large number of tourists from all over the country who were going to witness the beating the retreat ceremony were a harassed lot as they remained stuck in the traffic blockade. The mini-bus operators and farmer pointed out that they had to pay toll every time they passed through the plaza. The residents of nearby areas who were also piqued over installing of the toll plaza just a few kilometres from Attari also joined the protesters. They pointed out that the company should charge money from thousands of tourists who visited the Attari-Wagah joint check post to watch the retreat ceremony.
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Prisoner escapes from Bal Sudhar Ghar
Hoshiarpur, August 2 Though Gurjant was an adult, but had been staying in Bal Sudhar Ghar for the reasons best known to the authorities. He was booked under various sections of the IPC, including 302 and 307, in three cases in Tarn Taran district. The Sadar police has registered a case under sections 223 and 224 of the IPC. Despite repeated attempts, the Superintendent of Bal Sudhar Ghar could not be contacted for his comments on the fleeing of Gurjant Singh from the juvenile home. |
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