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Talk on criminal activities among youth
Patiala, September 21 As many as 200 students attended the session. College principal Dr Sudeep Bhangoo welcomed the guest speaker. —
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Protesting ETT teachers raise pitch outside Bhasha Vibhag
Patiala, September 21 The protesting teachers alleged that despite assurance, the government was not advertising new posts. Sensing trouble, the police arrested five teachers due to which other teachers left the venue. Upinderjeet Kaur said the government would soon provide 3,425 posts as promised. “Due to some legal issues there is a delay. Once it is cleared, I promise that the posts will be published in the ratio of 70:30, which means 70 per cent seats will be for those who have done their ETT from Punjab and 30 per cent for those who did their ETT from Jammu,” she added. Talking about the demand of ETT teachers to regularise their services and to shift them from zila parishad to education department, she said: “The issue had been discussed during the Cabinet meeting and the Panchayati Raj Minister Ranjit Singh Brahmpura had termed this demand as “non-feasible” and “unjust”. The decision had been taken by the Cabinet and I don’t want to comment,” she added. When asked about the Bar Council of India’s decision of not allowing law graduates to opt for Punjabi as their medium for the All-India Bar Examination entrance test, she said BCI was under the Centre government. She said the government had written a letter to BCI chairman Gopal Subramaniam and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. Now, they have take a decision. The minister also said that school education in Punjab had improved. “In year 2005-06, while Punjab was on 14th number in the Education Development Index, but now it’s on number 3. We will not stop till we reach the top spot,” she said. She returned the cash prize of Rs 21,000 awarded to her, along with additional Rs 1 lakh, to the trust for promotion of language and culture.
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12,450 children get polio drops
Kalka, September 21 Dr Vikas Chauhan, SMO of the Kalka Community Health Centre, said in Kalka, 3,463 children in urban area and 2,850 in rural area were administered polio drops and in Pinjore 3,606 children in urban and 2,531 in rural area were given polio drops. —
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Sewerage System in Pinjore
Kalka, September 21 The department was to set up 18 tubewells in rural area and four tubewells in the urban area, the information sought under the RTI Act by Vijay Bansal, president, Shivalik Vikas Manch, said. Under the first phase, Rs 1 crore was granted to the Public Health Department. The department had started the lying of pipelines but the work was left in the lurch for more than one-and-a-half year. The state government had also sanctioned Rs 71.80 lakh for setting up four tubewells in Kalka, out of which Rs 50 lakh had been granted. Similarly, Rs 31 lakh had been sanctioned under the Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme for free drinking water connections for the SC category people. As many as Rs 38 lakh had been granted for the construction of the Sewerage Treatment Plant in Kalka. Notably, a delegation of inhabitants of Pinjore, headed by Vijay Bansal, in February last year, met Randeep Singh Surjewala, Public Health Minister, and had submitted a memorandum urging for the approval of the long-pending projects in Pinjore and Kalka. In the first quarter of 2009, the delegation had also met Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda in this context. The Haryana government, to cope with the water scarcity problem, had sanctioned Rs 4.80 crore under the Special Urban Scheme to meet the water shortage problem in Pinjore. Out of which Rs 1.50 crore had already been granted. Under the scheme, the Department of Haryana Water Supply and Sanitation (Public Health) had started work on the project of setting up of four tubewells, boosting stations and laying water pipelines in Pinjore town. The experts say that the residents of Pinjore have been facing acute water shortage, as the water level of the wells have been going down rapidly. They also add that the the residents are forced to drink contaminated water as the under ground water of the wells and water supply pipelines in the area have got mixed up with the sewer water in most parts of the town, which could lead to spreading of epidemic. |
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Eye flu cases rise in Naraingarh
Ambala, September 21 Doctors maintain that a majority of patients reporting at government and private hospitals as well as clinics have been coming with symptoms like redness, swelling, watering and itching of eyes due to humidity. “The eye disease is highly contagious and rapidly spreads from one infected person to another by coming in contact with an infected person and using his belongings,” said Dr Vinod, an ophthalmologist. “To check this infection, the infected person should use black glasses and avoid touching eyes. He or she should frequently wash eyes with clean water to wash away the discharge,” he added. OP Sharma, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Naraingarh, today said virus and bacteria grow in rainy season, thus increasing the number of patients suffering from waterborne diseases, including gastroenteritis, food poisoning, vomiting, fever and other poisonous diseases. He said the diseases prevailed due to consumption of unhygienic food and unsafe water. He added that if the people adopt precautionary measures, including the use of boiled water and milk and hygienic food, the frequency of these diseases could be stopped. Eye flu and infections of the foot are also observed in this season. Also, diseases like dryness, spasmodic pain, high blood pressure and gastric troubles occur frequently.
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Commonwealth Games
Patiala, September 21 A 14-member squad from Japan, including 11 women wrestlers, two coaches- Shigeo Kinase and Kenji Fujikawa and a masseur Tsuyoshi Takeuchi, reached NIS, Patiala, for combined training with the Indian squad. The entire expenses for their arrival and training have been borne by the committee. Chief national coach PR Sondhi said Japanese were number one in the world and their arrival would help our wrestlers to learn more. “Their attack and speed are beyond comparison and training with them right before the competition will give more exposure to the girls. They learn how to attack fast, and polish their defence techniques, which were equally important. The committee and federation has taken a big step in inviting them and this will be of great use,” he added. The players, on the other hand said, training with these wrestlers would give them an edge over their opponents in the upcoming games. “Most of these Japanese wrestlers are medal holders in various international championships and are thus physically and mentally strong. Training with them is a unique experience. We are learning a lot of new things from them and hope to put them to use in future,” added one of the Indian players. The Japanese players were excited about the session stating that it was not often that they came to India.
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Indo-Pak kabaddi meet
Fatehgarh Sahib,September 21 Amateur Circle Kabaddi Federation of India is holding the tournament. — TNS |
3 acquitted of murder charge
Chandigarh, September 21 According to prosecution, Satish’s wife Kamlesh received severe burn injuries and succumbed to her injuries at a hospital. Kamlesh’s parents alleged that Satish used to demand dowry. During the trial, the deceased’s son stated before the court that Kamlesh got burnt accidentally. —
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Sector-10 robbery case
Panchkula, September 21 Earlier, on September 18 the police had sought three-day police remand of the accused, including Nayal Islam Moulik, Mohammad Elal, Abu Zaffar, Rakeeb Holedar, Zamal Holedar, Kamrul, Mohammad Younis, Ali Mankhab and Wazid Ali.
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Sofat sent to judicial custody
Panchkula, September 21 The Punjab and Haryana High Court cancelled Sofat’s bail recently after he had failed to appear before the Panchkula police to join investigation in a case registered against him by the Chandimandir police on July 19 last year.
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PCS officergets bail
Mohali, September 21 On September 10, he was remanded to 14-day judicial custody. While taking up his bail applications, the court today granted him bail. While being produced in the court on an earlier date, the counsel for the PCS officer argued that the latter had been falsely trapped. But the court, while turning down the PCS officer’s plea, had remanded him into the police custody. During the course of hearing, the counsel argued that the officer had already given his report in the last week of August and the VB had falsely implicated him in the case. However, the vigilance officials produced a file on record, claiming that the case was still pending. A 1995-batch PCS officer, TK Goyal, who was posted as joint secretary, department of welfare of the SC/BCs, was arrested by a team of the VB from his office at the Mini Secretariat, Sector 9. The complainant, George Shubh, alias George Masih, had approached the VB last month when Goyal allegedly demanded money from him to write a report in his favour that would have helped Masih in filing a nomination for the post of lambardar of his village.
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Law class interrupted by drunkard
Chandigarh, September 21 The drama lasted 20 minutes, during which the unidentified man misbehaved with the teacher, stared at girls and even “ragged” students in the class, who were giving a presentation. Later, the police and the university security took him away after the teacher’s intervention. The “outsider” entered the fifth semester evening class in the department, minutes after the commencement of lecture at 7 pm. Ironically, the classroom is next to the office of the chairperson of the department. The university staff on duty did not know that a drunkard had dared to enter the room. Once inside the class, the outsider misbehaved with Dinesh Talwar, the teacher who was delivering his lecture, and then began staring at students, particularly females, in the jam-packed classroom. When the teacher interrupted and questioned his credentials, he replied, “aap humare teacher hain, guru hain, apni bezati na kara liyo mujhse” (your are our teacher, our guru, do not get yourself insulted by me). He then attempted to physically misbehave with the teacher, who swung into action and quickly locked him inside the class. The police was called by the teacher. While the teacher rushed to call the police and the PU security, the “outsider” sat on the teacher’s chair and began misbehaving with students. He instructed them to continue their presentation and said “what if the teacher has walked out, I will take the presentation now”. “We were all in a state of shock. What if a bigger and worse incident happens tomorrow? We know that Chandigarh is among the target of terrorists and if we are held hostage so easily, will be police and university security keep sleeping like they did today?” said an angered student. The apathy of the PU security does not end here. Immediately after he was brought out, the outsider managed to slip out of the hands of the two university guards. The man was later caught by the police at some distance.
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Six arrested for theft
Zirakpur, September 21 In another case, the Baltana police has arrested three persons after laying a naka near railway crossing at Harmilap Nagar. They got tip off that the accused were roaming in the tempo in which they were carrying stolen goods. The suspects were identified as Kamal Kumar, Mukesh Kumar and Raju Chauhan of Mauli Jagran. The police team impounded the tempo and recovered the stolen goods, including 10 shuttering plates, six iron pipes, an angle iron and other construction material, from their possession. The police stated that two separate cases had been registered against them. They would be produced in Dera Bassi court tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Mohali police had yesterday arrested two persons and recovered taps from their possession. The accused have been identified as Akash Masih and Vikram Kumar, both residents of Sector 52, Chandigarh. The police official stated that the accused had stolen taps from Gurjeevan Vihar and Dhakoli on September 15. A case has been registered at the Zirakpur police station. Truck driver electrocuted
A 28-year-old truck driver was electrocuted while he came in contact with electricity wires at godown area here today. The deceased has been identified as Manoj Kumar. According to the police, Manoj had come to deliver goods in the godown area where his truck got slipped into a muddy road and the truck hit the electricity transformer on the road side. While Manoj was trying to remove his truck, he felt electric shock and fell down. He was rushed to the Civil Hospital, Dera
Bassi, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. The body has been kept at the hospital and his family has been informed. Inquest proceedings have been initiated.
Body found
An unidentified man in his mid-70s was found lying dead under mysterious circumstances in the fields at Peer Muchhalla village here this morning. The deceased appeared to be a Punjabi. The investigating officer stated that Sumer
Chand, a resident of Peer Muchhalla, had informed that an old man was lying dead on a folding bed placed near the tubewell in his fields. The investigating officer said Rs 650 was found from his purse. The body of the deceased has been kept at the Civil Hospital, Dera
Bassi, for 72 hours for identification.
Army man looted
Ambala: An Army man was robbed of his cash and belongings by a person, who offered him an intoxicant tea at Ambala Cantonment Railway Station. The victim has been identified as Yogesh Kumar, resident of UP, presently posted in J&K. He was on his way to UP in a train when the incident occurred. The police said the victim, while travelling in a train from Jammu, was offered an intoxicant tea by a person when he got down in Ambala to change his train for UP. He developed friendship with him on the way. As soon as the victim consumed the tea, he fell unconscious. The accused then robbed the victim of his cash and belongings. Other persons, who were standing near a tea shop noticed the victim lying unconscious, informed the police and shifted the victim to the Ambala Civil Hospital. The Parao police has registered a case.
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Top players for CGA junior golf
Chandigarh, September 21 CGA president JS Cheema said U-17 players from Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Delhi who hold good rankings on the Indian Golf Union would battle it out in different agegroups for the different titles. The two-day tournament will be played on stroke-play basis. Considering the growing craze among youngsters, the CGA has created a special category for the 6-8 year (E category). There will be separate prizes for boys and girls in each category.
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