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Judge wins over parents to accept runaway couple
‘State lacks good engg teachers’
Suresh Kumar, principal secretary, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, addressing the HR summit at Baba Farid Group of Institutions in Deon village on Saturday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma |
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HR summit held at Baba Farid Inst
Bathinda, Mansa Cong workers stage protests
Youth Congress workers staging a march in Bathinda on Saturday. They were protesting against the
arrest and thrashing of a Congress worker in Ludhiana on Friday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma
Baba Farid Aagman Purb begins today
Villager in police custody for assault
Panjab University Zonal Youth Festival
Special shoes for ‘Kushth Ashram’ inmates
Journalism is mission not profession: Press Council chief
Joginder Singh Rajput dies
Freshers’ party
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Judge wins over parents to accept runaway couple
Moga, September 18 The president of the Bar Association Naseeb Bawa and a member Veer Bhan Garg earlier requested the court to call the parents of the couple for mediation to set up an example in society, in which, runaway couples are hardly accepted by their parents and relatives. The judge, while agreeing to their request, called the parents of the couple Neetu and Narinder Kumar, who got married on August 6 this year in the Lok Adalat, today. The judge persuaded them to accept the couple. The parents of the groom not only accepted the marriage but also agreed to take the bride home after formally giving them 'shagun' in the court complex. Raj Shekhar Attri also took up as many as 23 other cases in his Lok Adalat and disposed of six of them with mutual consent. The additional sessions judge SK Aggarwal took up as many as 30 cases, out of which, 13 were disposed of awarding a sum of more than Rs 21 lakh as compensation to the litigants. The chief judicial magistrate Karunesh Kumar Kakkar took up maximum number of cases, 128, out of which, he disposed of 101 cases awarding a compensation of more than Rs 34.18 lakh. The judicial magistrate (first class) Rakesh Gupta and Kewal Krishan took up 107 and 65 cases, respectively. They awarded a compensation of Rs 40.98 lakh and Rs 25.41 lakh, respectively. As such, a total of 353 cases were taken up in Lok Adalat, of which, 216 cases were settled with mutual consent of the parties concerned and a total compensation of more than Rs 1.21 crore was awarded to the litigants.
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‘State lacks good engg teachers’
Deon (Bathinda), September 18 Addressing delegates, staff, students and media, Suresh Kumar said, “Education is a field where shortcuts do not work, but the political leaders rarely realise it. In such a scenario, the authorities of the educational institutes must do their best for the overall development of students as well as the faculty.” The principal secretary said: “It is unfortunate that a majority of the technical education institutes in the state are focusing upon producing engineers. Hardly any of these is bothered about producing good engineering teachers. In the absence of well-qualified engineering teachers, most of the educational institutes are deploying under-graduate students to teach their juniors. It is a threat to nation-building.” “It is not a secret anymore that majority of our students do not even see laboratories for once, but they do score cent per cent marks in practical exams. In the competitive era, if the state lacks basic infrastructure and teachers, it cannot expect its youth to get the jobs they dream of,” he said. Speaking highly about the potential of students belonging to rural areas, Suresh Kumar asserted, “They possess fast learning skills. Still, they do not get as many opportunities as their urban counterparts do.” The principal secretary said about five lakh students pass matriculation examinations in a year, but over half of them did not pursue their studies further, which was a hurdle in the growth of the state. Meanwhile, he advocated the introduction of six-year integrated engineering courses after matriculation. Suresh Kumar claimed that some government institutes as well as a university in the private sector had been offering the course and doing well in the direction. Later, speaking to TNS, he said there were a total of 94 technical colleges while only five of them were in the government sector. He maintained that 11 more new colleges were under construction, which would become functional from the next academic session (2011-12). |
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HR summit held at Baba Farid Inst
Deon (Bathinda), September 18 Theme of the summit was ‘Capability Building & Talent Management’. A number of venerated speakers from the field of human resources (HR) shared their views upon the current practices. Principal secretary, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, Suresh Kumar was the chief guest while additional advocate general of Punjab Sukhdeep Singh Bhinder presided over the function. Managing director of the BFGI Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal gave the welcome address. The summit highlighted HR’s capability to assume new roles and increase the level of new competencies of HR professionals. Around 100 corporate delegates from various organisations, faculty and students of management participated in the event with great enthusiasm.
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Bathinda, Mansa Cong workers stage protests
Bathinda, September 18 Later, DSP (City) Shailendra Kumar received a memorandum from the protesters for forwarding it to higher authorities. Earlier, the protesters wearing black badges gathered at the Congress Bhawan here and carried out a march to the Kotwali police station raising slogans against the government on the way.
— TNS Mansa: Lodging a protest against the alleged irregularities in the functioning of the SAD-led state government, Congress activists today blocked the Mansa-Patiala road near Khiala village. Finding the protesters reluctant to clear the road, the police rounded up about 26 of them, including district president of the Youth Congress Gurpreet Singh Vicky, and sent them to the Joga police station. However, the detained protesters were released after a couple of hours. Speaking to TNS, Vicky said they were lodging a democratic protest against the state government for ‘committing fraud in the welfare schemes of Union government’. Terming their arrest as the ‘murder of democracy,’ the district president said he would bring the matter to the notice of the Union government.
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Baba Farid Aagman Purb begins today
Faridkot, September 18 On the first day, a seminar on ‘Divinity, religion and god and his manifestations’ would be organised in the campus of Pt. Chetan Dev Government College of Education, which would be presided over by GR Sufi (IRS), chief commissioner, Income Tax, Amritsar
district. Dr Rattan Singh Jaggi would present a paper on the ‘Role of Sufism as enunciated by Hazrat Baba Sheikh Farid in the context of today’s strife-ridden society’ while eminent critic of the Punjabi literature Prof Brahm Jagdish Singh would present a paper on ‘Has man corrupted the religion or the religion has corrupted the man?’. Kuldip Singh, scholar and philanthropist, would present a paper on ‘Man’s relationship with god and his manifestations’. The celebrations, spread over five days, would start with ‘Sukhmani Sahib’, a religious prayer followed by a painting workshop, blood donation camp, drama festival and sports events. The administration has claimed to have made all preparations for the event. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, local MP Paramjit Kaur Gulshan and other senior politicians and bureaucrats have been invited as guests during the five-day event on various occasions. |
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Villager in police custody for assault Our Correspondent
Fazilka, September 18 About 60 activists of the Communist Party of India, All India Students Federation, Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha and All India Youth Federation raised slogans against the police and threatened to launch an agitation. While addressing the gathering, CPI district secretary Hans Raj Golden and All India Students Federation state president Parmjit Dhaban have alleged that the Sadar police had taken Gurdial Singh, a resident of village Chack Mauzdin, in custody on the charge of assaulting his neighbourers in a dispute over construction activities there. Later, Gurdial Singh was booked under a criminal case (section 325) on August 25 allegedly at the behest of some ruling party leaders. They warned that if the case was not withdrawn, they would intensify the agitation. On the other hand, police station (Sadar) in-charge inspector Sangram Singh said no one was falsely implicated and an FIR was registered after probe. He also ruled out any political interference in the functioning of police.
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Panjab University Zonal Youth Festival
Abohar, September 18 As many as 18 colleges of Muktsar zone had participated in scores of competitions, organising secretary BS Bhullar informed today. The results are as follows: Women’s traditional songs: (I) Guru Nanak College Muktsar, (II) Bhag Singh Hayer College for Women Kala Tibba and Government College Muktsar; Kawishri - (I) DAV College Gidderbaha, (II) Government College Muktsar; Vaar singing: (I) DAV College Gidderbaha, (II) Dashmesh College Badal, individuals: (I) Manpreet Kaur Gidderbaha, (II) Kuldeep Kaur Abohar; Kali singing: (I) Government College Muktsar, (II) Bhag Singh Hayer College for Women Kala Tibba, Drama:(I) Gopi Chand Arya Mahila College Abohar, (II) DAV College Abohar. Histrionics: (I) Neeraj Sachdeva DAV College Abohar, (II) Surinderpal DAV College Jalalabad West; Skit: (I) Bhag Singh Hayer College for Women Kala Tibba, (II) Maharaja Ranjeet Singh College Malout, individuals: (I) Davinder Kaur Kala Tibba, (II) Sumit Chagti Abohar; Mime: (I) DAV College Abohar, (II) Gopi Chand Arya Mahila College Abohar and Maharaja Ranjeet Singh College Malout. Embroidery/Phulkari (I) Satveer Kaur Muktsar, (II) Poonam Jalalabad; Rangoli: (I) Minni Muktsar, (II) Sunayna Kala Tibba; Quiz: (I) Government College Muktsar, (II) Bhag Singh Hayer College for Women Kala Tibba; Folk dance Giddha: (I) Guru Nanak College Muktsar, (II) Dashmesh College Badal; Folk dance Bhangra: (I) DAV College Abohar, (II) DAV College Malout. — OC
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Special shoes for ‘Kushth Ashram’ inmates
Bathinda, September 18 District Leprosy Officer Dr BS Gill said here today the Trust was an approved agency of the Government of India. He said its team examined almost all inhabitants (treated patients) of the Ashram. It also took the measurement of the feet of the needy treated patients to provide them with MCR shoes, he added. Dr Gill said the shoes would be provided free of cost with the assistance from the Government of India. He said that after manufacturing the MCR shoes, the Trust would send
them to the society for distribution among the beneficiaries. Dr Gill further said that they would get the shoes within 15 days. |
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Journalism is mission not profession: Press Council chief
Sriganganagar, Sept 18 In his inaugural address as chief guest at the ‘National Media Conference’ organised by the Brahmakumaris organisation at its Shantivan complex in Abu Road, Justice Ray asked, “Can India afford to bid adieu to the principles that leaders like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Mahatma Gandhi had established to ascertain that media is a mission and certainly not a profession?” he asked the over 2,000 media persons including editors as well. On the occasion, Brahmakumaris chief Dadi Janki, media wing chairman Om Parkash, multimedia chief BK Karuna and general secretary of the organisation BK Nirwair also addressed the conference that was inaugurated by the lighting of the lamp. — OC
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Joginder Singh Rajput dies
Moga, September 18 He had been unwell for the past few months. He retired from the state police
service two decades back. The cremation would take place at the crematorium at Nanak Nagri camp. Local MLA Joginder Pal Jain, former minister Malti Thapar, former MLA Vijay Sathi, president of the District Bar Association Naseeb Bawa, former chairman of the Punjab Agro Industries Corporation Labh Singh and many other local leaders have condoled the death.
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Lakhandeep, Ravinder win top honours
Bathinda, September 18 Principal Dr Nirmal Singh welcomed the guests. Prof Narendra Sharma and Prof Deepak Aggarwal of DAV College Malout, lecturer Manmeet Singh of GTBKIET Chhapiawali were accorded a warm welcome by the faculty members. Lakhandeep Kaur and Ravinder won the title of Ms Fresher and Mr Fresher respectively. — TNS
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The excessive interference by governments in education-related matters was not in
the favour of society at large, stated Suresh Kumar, principal secretary, Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab.
Bathinda, September 18
