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BJYM activists welcome yatra in Pathankot
This ‘rath’ has Modi connection
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’84 Riots
Bathinda registers rise in heart, lung diseases
Tackling Cancer
Mahesh Inder criticises Amarinder
Inter-Caste Marriages
Pollution in Budda Nullah
Yeddyurappa will have to ‘face the consequences’
Spreading message of India-Pak-B’desh unity
Unsung hero of freedom struggle
Canadian MP expects dramatic rise in trade with India
DGCA summons Chief Flying Instructor of Patiala
MP assures villagers of potable water
Security up in Patiala ahead of R-Day
Farmers told to go for mixed farming
Don’t name own staff for awards, govt officials told
Bank told to pay compensation to account holder
Woman found murdered; house set ablaze
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BJYM activists welcome yatra in Pathankot
Pathankot, January 24 Hira Lal, a BJYM activist from Qadiyan, said he came to welcome and joined the yatra at Gurdaspur. Accompanied by 19 more persons of his town, they hired two Qualis. Leader of the group Ajay Chabbra, who had been a Shiv Sena activist for long, said they did not need money from the party and they pooled money themselves to bear all expenses. Similarly, holding the party’s flags, members of the Saffron party joined the yatra on the outskirts of tiny towns located on NH 15, previously known as the Kashmir road connecting Amritsar with Jammu and Kashmir. Along with NH 15 are located small and some significant towns like Batala, Dhariwal, Gurdaspur, Dina Nagar and Pathankot, which have a sizeable following of the BJP. At Dhariwal, a bunch of activists joined the yatra. Sunder Lal, a resident of the town, said a group of members of the party would accompany the yatra to cross over to Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow. BJYM president Anurag Thakur also addressed a gathering at a busy intersection in Gurdaspur city. He was accompanied by Amritsar MP Navjot Singh Sidhu. On the occasion, Sidhu said Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah must join them in unfurling the National Flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar and asked him what was wrong in it? AMRITSAR: BJYM president and BJP MP Anurag Thakur today paid obeisance at the Golden Temple. He also visited Jallianwala Bagh before heading towards Jammu and Kashmir. He was accompanied by local BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu while former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi was conspicuous by his absence. They also visited Durgiana Temple. The yatra would halt at Pathankot and then move towards Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow morning. Thakur said PM Manmohan Singh and J&K CM Omar Abdullah should give respect to the National Flag even as they had “miserably failed” to check activities of separatists leaders who had hoisted the Pakistani flag at Lal Chowk many times.
This ‘rath’ has Modi connection
Pathankot, January 24 The national secretary of the BJYM, Rahul Kothari, said the hi-tech vehicle was needfully refitted with state-of-the-art facilities at Ahmedabad and was commissioned for the party works a few years ago. Its first major political journey was the 2007 elections for the Gujarat Assembly. The very next year, it was part of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections. Last year, the vehicle was used in the nagar panchayat elections in Gujarat. Kothari said since all these contests were comfortably triumphed by the party, it was considered lucky. The hi-tech automobile vehicle has four cameras which can show external view from all four directions. A sofa with flexibility to turn into a bed is also provided.
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’84 Riots
Amritsar, January 24 Talking to TNS, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal adviser to the SFJ, described Nath’s comment on a US court summoning him in connection with the 1984 riots as “absurd”. He said: “Nath’s argument that no case has been filed against him in India during the past 26 years is absurd because if a case is not filed against a criminal, it does not mean that he has not committed crimes. It only shows how the Congress and the Indian governments have been protecting and shielding the perpetrators and organisers of the 1984 Sikh genocide.” According to Pannun, “The Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) of the US, the law under which trial against Nath will be held, is specifically created to provide remedy and forum to victims of genocide to vindicate their complaints and the trial against Nath is one such opportunity through which the SFJ plans to put on the record of the court the evidence related to the genocide of Sikhs and Nath’s role in it.” In April last year, the SFJ, along with two individuals, had filed a law suit against Nath in the US district court under the ATCA and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) asking the court to order compensatory and punitive damages against him. Nath has been recently summoned by the court in this connection. He said the plaintiffs had asked for a “jury trial” and would have the right to call upon survivors and experts on genocide as witnesses to prove that “the systematic killing of Sikhs in the November 1984 was genocide as defined under the Article 2 of the UN Convention on Genocide”. The SFJ also claimed that due to the seriousness of allegations of human rights violation against Nath, the US Department of State had declined to intervene and the trial before the US district court would proceed from February 9, 2011. “After being summoned by the US court in 2010, Nath had sought diplomatic immunity so he could avoid trial in the case. However, his request for immunity has been turned down by the US Department of State,” the rights group claimed. But reports pouring in from the USA today suggest that the US has made “no determination” on the question of diplomatic immunity for Nath. “The immunity question remains under review by the state department. We have not made any determination on this point,” a state department official said in response to media reports that it has denied “diplomatic immunity” request from India.
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Bathinda registers rise in heart, lung diseases
Ludhiana, January 24 Officials of Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) were also present in the discussion on the impact of environmental pollutants on animal and human health in Punjab. Dr Samir Malhotra from PGIMER, Chandigarh, referred to a project initiated under the aegis of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). “We are carrying a detailed study of the impact of pesticides, heavy and toxic metals on human health for which randomised control trials will be conducted in Talwandi Sabo and its adjoining villages,” said Dr Malhotra. “Performa will also be distributed to gather details such as dietary constituent, exposure to pesticides and history disease,” he said. GADVASU is a partner in the ICMR project and has undertaken the project on ‘Environmental pollutants and zoonotic pathogens in Punjab: Their impact on animal and human health’ with the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, under International Partnership Fund Programme. Dr VK Taneja, Vice-Chancellor of GADVASU called for financial support to conduct trials without any political interference to help carry out the project. Dr John Gordon, Director of Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, said the international community should form a joint forum to address issues of environmental pollutants and their harmful impact on humanity. The long-term objective of this research initiative is to develop an integrated map of pesticide residues in animals, animal products, humans, soil and water, and study their physiological effects on the animal and human systems and advocate remedial measures, organising secretary Dr JPS Gill said.
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Tackling Cancer
BATHINDA, January 24 In a letter to the PM today, Bir Devinder urged him that the Union Ministry of Health should step in to control the disease as the SAD led-government in Punjab had failed to do so. “It is painful but pertinent to mention that every day a train, which is now known as the Cancer Train, leaves Bathinda railway station for Bikaner
(Rajasthan) carrying cancer patients to its full capacity for treatment. In the absence of a trained faculty and the requisite infrastructure for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Punjab hospitals, poor patients are left with no choice but to go to
Bikaner. A study reveals that more than 50 per cent of the patients treated in the Bikaner hospital belong to the Bathinda area”, he said. The Jago Punjab leader pointed out that the alarmingly high number of cases of cancer might be attributed to the excessive use of pesticides for crop spray (especially BT cotton) or the large amount of fly ash being emitted by the thermal plants in the Bathinda area. He informed the PM that the BARC had recently found that the concentration of uranium in ground water was beyond the permissible limits in the Malwa region. The Department of Atomic Energy had already directed the Punjab Government to provide the reverse osmosis system to the people of the Malwa region.
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Mahesh Inder criticises Amarinder
Chandigarh January 24 In a statement here, the SAD general Secretary ridiculed Amarinder’s remark asking Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to “know his statistics” and said the former CM had apparently forgotten that the figures he was challenging were not of the Punjab Government but those of the CSO. Mahesh Inder Singh said the development momentum in Punjab was so strong that it was visible to everyone even without the help of a statistical report. “Even some of the staunchest critics of the SAD-BJP government have grudgingly conceded that Punjab has never seen development at a speed which is visible at this time. Not only has the growth rate touched a record 8.8 per cent but also the debt to GSDP ratio has dipped from 46.7 per cent during Amarinder’s regime to just 32 per cent at the start of this year.” The SAD spokesperson claimed Amarinder Singh had come up with a “fantastic theory” on change in base years, which was nothing unusual and was done regularly to update the development data. “Such changes in the base year are made even in arriving at accurate inflation and overall price index figures, and the findings do not become unreliable because of this exercise”, he added. Mahesh Inder Singh said the former CM’s anxiety to criticise everything that reflected on the progress made by Punjabis in the past four years was exposed in his statement. He said while Amarinder Singh described the pro-Punjab statistics of the CSO report as a smokescreen, he used the findings of the report to declare that “whatever growth in the agricultural sector has been seen is largely due to the increase in the MSP which saw a substantial rise during the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.’ He said the SAD requested the former CM to check with the Centre about the credibility of the CSO before making any more statements on the issue.
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Inter-Caste Marriages
Bathinda, January 24 In such marriages, where one partner belongs to the SC, the Central Government had launched an inter-caste marriage scheme under which a couple is given Rs 25,000 to encourage inter-caste weddings. However, there are 16 couples in Bathinda district who have been awaiting this amount for the past two financial years (2008-09 and 2009-10) as funds in this regard have not reached to the District Welfare Office here so far. According to information, the District Welfare Office had recommended 11 cases of inter-caste marriages for 2008-09 and five cases for 2009-10. The 11 cases were sent in November 2009 to the Director (Welfare), Punjab, in Chandigarh. Later, these cases were again sent to the Director in March 2010, but due to the non-availability of funds, the money could not Likewise, four inter-caste marriage cases for 2009-10 had been sent in March 2010 and one case in June 2010 to the Director (Welfare), but to no avail, as the Centre has reportedly not allotted funds for these 16 cases to the state so far. According to information, couples apply for this benefit to the District Welfare Office, which sends their cases after processing the same to the Director (Welfare), Punjab. The Director further sends a proposal to the Union Welfare Ministry seeking funds under the Centre-sponsored inter-caste marriage scheme. A couple is given Rs 15,000 in cash for purchasing domestic goods and Rs 10,000 for purchasing national saving certificates.
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Pollution in Budda Nullah
Ludhiana, January 24 Belonging to a landlord family of the village, she now lives with her two-year-old daughter Parneet Kaur. The nullah flowing near her village is full of toxic industrial effluents and sewage which has contaminated underground drinking water. “The disease snatched my husband Gurpal Singh, who was only 30 years old, on September 31 last year. His sister Manjeet Kaur (25) and brother Ajmer Singh (27) also died due to Hepatitis B in past one year,” she says. The family spent Rs 50 lakh on treatment at various multi-speciality hospitals, no one survived. Her parents-in-law Avtar Kaur and Jagjit Singh, her husband’s aunt, Kulwant Kaur and uncle Malkiat Singh died of the same disease. Several residents of 168 villages lining the nullah have also died of kidney ailments and water-borne diseases. Nearly two dozen residents of Wallipur village, where the nullah flows into Sutlej River, have died of such ailments over past six years. “The number is higher but we can count at least 25 deaths on our fingertips,” said Harbinder Makkar, a resident. Respiratory disorders due to the smell from the nullah are common among the children in these villages. “Some children are born with congenital defects, which the doctors say is caused due to pollution,” said Manpreet Singh, a resident of Gaunspur. He apprised environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal of the deaths due to pollution during his visit to the village after hearing about the tragedies in Gurminder’s family. Seechewal examined a sample of the water taken from a village Gurdwara with a portable tester and found the level of ‘Total Dissolved Solids’ at 1200 against the permissible limit of 500. He promised to take up the matter with the government. PPCB officials also took samples of drinking water from the spot. PPCB XEN RK Goel said the test reports would come on Friday.
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Yeddyurappa will have to ‘face the consequences’
Hoshiarpur, January 24 Talking to mediapersons here today, she said Yeddyurappa has been exposed in public. The Governor of Karnataka had already accorded sanction to prosecute him, she said. The BJP leadership will fail in its attempt to save Yeddyurappa, she added. She condemned the BJP for turning down Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s appeal against pursuing a divisive agenda on the Rupublic Day. Soni termed the statement by Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitely as irresponsible. — OC
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Spreading message of India-Pak-B’desh unity
Guru Harsahai, January 24 For spreading the message of unity, Narula has been undertaking journeys to various parts of the country on his bicycle. After completing two journeys from Chandigarh to Kolkata in 1993-94 and from Hussainiwala to Srinagar in 2007, Narula began another journey from this town to Mumbai for the same cause today. Narula (65) said: “I was just two-year-old at the time of Partition, but it has impacted my mind greatly. My aim is to generate a wave among countrymen in favour of unity among Pakistan, India and Bangladesh so that these three nations could become a super power in the world after becoming one nation or forming a union,” he said. Narula, who is a school dropout but can understand many languages, said though the unity among these nations was not possible at present, the time would come when it would become a reality. Narula is a bachelor and survive on income being generated from four shops that he has rented out. He said during his journeys, he had been targeting intellectual, writers, poets, advocates, doctors and other professionals apart from commoners for spreading his message of unity among the three nations. “I will keep on making efforts till death,” he said, adding that he hoped that he would get a positive response from the people during his ongoing journey.
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Unsung hero of freedom struggle
Jalandhar, January 24 He assisted in Netaji’s expeditions against the British on the Eastern Front in Singapore during the Second World War. In accordance with Deo’s last wish that no religious rites should be performed after his death, the family got a remembrance published on the day of Netaji’s birthday instead. Born on January 11, 1911, in the family of Subedar Major Bahadur Singh of Manawala village near Narowal in Sialkot (Pakistan), he joined the British army in 1929. He served as a Subedar Major 14th Punjab Regiment during the Second World War. “During the war, a waiter of a local restaurant in Singapore refused to serve him food saying that it was not his job to serve food to slave Indians. The incident filled Deo’s mind with hatred towards the British and prompted him to join the INA. He lost his father and wife while serving in the war,” said his daughter Parkash Kaur, with whom Surat Singh lived in Jalandhar. He was second in command to Colonel Habib-ur-Rehman in the Officer’s Training School, run by INA to train recruits, in Singapore. He had to hide his INA connection to work as a security officer at Calcutta Port Commission in 1952, he added.
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Canadian MP expects dramatic rise in trade with India
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 24 He expected that number of Indian students going to Canada on student visas would double and Indo-Canada trade volume would treble in the next five years. He suggested Indian students to specialise in the area of petroleum, hardware, green technologies and pharmaceutical industry, which are in a great demand abroad. He stressed that Indian engineers are not only going to build infrastructure for India but also for the rest of world. “The Indian Government should concentrate on better educational facilities right from school level so that students don’t face a problem while pursuing their higher education even on foreign shores,” he added. India and Canada are the two countries that registered least impact of global economic recession. This was primarily due to the fact that two economies are basically strong and self-sufficient. Unlike the US policies of anti-outsourcing, Canada is actually interested in increasing number of visas to skilled people, he observed. Expressing concern over “not-so-high” volume of trade between India and Canada, Patrick said while trade between India and Canada last year was $5 billion, the same between India and Australia was $22 billion. “Trade can grow much more if better policy is given priority, especially in the sector of education. Indo-Canadian relationship is like a diamond mine, we need to dig deeper to get the real diamonds,” he added. Brown, who is also the chairman of the Canada-India Parliamentary Association, added that Punjab is a key area for growth of Indo-Canadian ties.
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DGCA summons Chief Flying Instructor of Patiala
Patiala, January 24 Meanwhile, for the first time in the Aviation Department, the DGCA has summoned the CFI for an oral exam in New Delhi. “I am going there and if I pass the exam, they will clear me for flying,” claimed Capt Malkeat Singh. “However, I do not know, why they have summoned me,” he added. Following the transfer of the CFI and a Cesna aircraft to the Sahnewal Aviation Club, the activities at the PAC had come to a halt, since November 2010. Following this, more than 70 aspirants seeking training for a commercial license at the PAC are awaiting their flying license. As per the rules a trainee has to fly 200 hours to get licence and get eligible and the PAC was imparting training to young pilots. Capt Abhay Chandra, Advisor, Civil Aviation, Punjab, said, “The issue is serious as the CFI is flying regularly without any break from past many years. The matter has been taken up at the appropriate level.” Vishawjeet Khanna, secretary, Civil Aviation Department, Punjab, said there was a circular issued sometime back pertaining to scrutiny of the CFIs posted at flying clubs and their re examination. The PAC reopened for flying in 2006, after a gap of three years. The club was the first one in Punjab and Chandigarh to have a DGCA licence for instructing students.
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MP assures villagers of potable water
Patiala, January 24 Notably, out of total population of 2417, as many as 41 persons in Arnetu are physically handicapped. From 41 handicapped persons, seven are accidental cases, whereas the rest are natural handicapped. Speaking to The Tribune, Khanna said, “After it came to my knowledge that villagers in Arnetu are facing extreme difficulty on account of water, which is unfit for human consumption, I decided to take stock of the situation by personally visiting the village. I have listened to the problems of the villagers and will definitely see to it that inhabitants of village get access to pure drinking water.” Khanna further said the groundwater of Arnetu is polluted due to industrial waste flowing in the Ghaggar passing from near the village. “The village water has extremely high level of the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD). Besides, there are no proper medical facilities for the villagers. The villagers have told me that because of the impure drinking water, women are giving birth to babies, who suffer from different types of deformities like hearing impairment and mental retardation,” he added. Khanna said he would initiate the process of identification of industries that are discharging pollutants into the Ghaggar. “Besides, I have constituted a team under the headship of BJP Human Rights Cell, Punjab president, Gurtej Singh Dhillon. The team would see to it whether to install the RO System or new tubewell in the village, so that people in Arnetu get pure drinking water,” he informed. Khanna also said he would take up the matter of discharge of industrial pollutants in the Ghaggar with the state government as well as the Union Government, so that some permanent solution could be found to end the problem of underground water pollution in the villages situated on the Ghaggar. Khanna was accompanied by Jatinder Jain from the NGO Sankalp, who has strongly taken up the matter of the unfit water with various government departments.
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Security up in Patiala ahead of R-Day
Patiala, January 24 Sources confirmed that following the threat perception ahead of January 26, the police officials have already been given clear instructions pertaining to security related issues. “Emphasis has been laid on important places, including religious shrines, railway station, bus stand and busy market joints,” they said. A few days back ADGP Railways RP Singh had held a meeting in Patiala with railway police officials and laid stress on suspected persons and joint patrolling with the city police. “The railway station is monitored by our team and help is taken from the dog squad,” claimed a railway policeman. SSP Patiala Gurpreet Singh Gill has also briefed the entire district force to draw a specific map of the city and hold nakas and checks. “We have drawn specific plans to monitor certain places and check unidentified people making way into the city,” he added. Punjab Minister for Forests and Medical Research Tikshan Sud would unfurl the tricolor in the district-level function to be held at the YPS Stadium. “All entry and exit points from the stadium have been sealed and entry is allowed only on proper screening,” claimed a police officer.
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Farmers told to go for mixed farming
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 24
Though not many farmers are impressed with this notion of the Agriculture Department and are keen to grow only sugarcane crop. Despite being made aware of advantages of mixed farming, most of farmers are still opting conventional methods, since they don’t wish to put extra efforts in fields since it is not an easy task to grow two crops at one time. “Though some farmers are sowing sugarcane crop along with moong and mash as per the recommendations of the department, many others are sowing non-recommended crops like maize, ladyfinger, sunflower and others,” said Agriculture Development Officer (ADO) Jaswinder Singh. He said, “Only those farmers are not interested in mixed farming this time, who had grown non-recommended crops earlier.” Charanjit Singh of Salana village had grown maize - non-recommended crop - with sugarcane crop last year. He said this time he would not take any risks and would grow only sugarcane as last year neither maize nor sugarcane gave him better yield. Agriculture Department officials said growing of sugarcane would continue till the end of March. Farmers may cultivate moong in May as sugarcane crop will be at germinating state and will not compete with moong. The officials advised that if farmers opt for mixed farming then they need not to use 35-40 quintals of sugarcane seed in the one-acre area and instead they could use only 8-12 quintal of seed. In this manner they may save up to Rs 6,000 per acre. Officials said mixed farming technique was commercialised three years ago and now it has yielded good results. Autumn sowing of sugarcane crop starts in September-October and then again in April though the department discourages it.
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Don’t name own staff for awards, govt officials told
Ropar, January 24 During the meeting of government officials convened recently, Deputy Commissioner AS Miglani pointed out that for past few years, the government employees’ names were being honoured for their services. Miglani said its duty of government employees to work with perfection and added that names of those people should be recommended, who had performed well in different spheres setting a example for others to follow. In last few years almost every employee of the DC office had been awarded three to four times during Republic Day or Independence Day celebrations. Even class four employees of some department have had privilege of being honoured during such celebrations without having registered any exemplary contribution towards society. It is pertinent to mention here that there are no strict parameters to adjudge deserving candidates for awards and honours on Republic Day. Consequently, the district administration heavily depends on recommendations of the head of various departments. Following this practice, many undeserving people have been getting awards in past few years. Amidst the awardees are sports persons, educationists, social workers and people from various sections of societies. Meanwhile, full dress rehearsal of Republic Day was held at the Nehru Stadium today. Chief guest at the occasion would be minister for PWD Parminder Singh Dhindsa, who would hoist the tricolor. Contingents of the Punjab Police, Punjab home guard, ex-servicemen, the NCC, girl guides, St John ambulance brigade and disabled children from the Prakash Memorial Trust would participate in the parade.
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Bank told to pay compensation to account holder
Ferozepur, January 24 The forum held management of the bank guilty of indulging in unfair trade practices, amounting to cheating. Brijinder had moved an application against the management of the bank for deducting money from his account as penalty without issuing any notice. A cheque issued by Mittal also got dishonoured as a result of insufficient funds. Money was deducted under various heads such as, ATM card issuance charges and penalty for failing to maintain minimum balance of Rs 2,500, without supplying a copy of the account statement to Mittal. The bank management claimed the deductions were owing to failure of Brijinder to maintain a minimum balance. The bank had never promised to supply an account statement to the account holder. Holding the action of the bank management as unfair trade practice, forum president Sanjay Garg and member Tarlok Singh directed the bank to pay Rs 50, 000 as exemplary compensation. The bank management was also directed stop deducting charges from the account of the consumers without any prior notice to the consumers and to issue pass books and enter every transaction in pass books of account holders.
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Woman found murdered; house set ablaze
Patiala, January 24 The husband of the victim had died three days ago and yesterday family members and close relatives of the deceased had gathered for the bhog ceremony at her residence. In the wee hours today, the victim tried to call some of her relatives who could not take her call. Senior police officials confirmed that prima facie they had ruled out any robbery or forced entry as the locks and valuables were intact. “The incident was reported early in the morning when neighbours saw smoke coming out of the house of the victim. They then informed the police and the fire department,” they said. “Once the room was broken into, the body of the victim was found lying in a pool of blood and the knife was still inside her chest,” claimed DSP Manjit Singh Brar. “She was stabbed many times and we suspect this to be the handiwork of more than two persons,” he added. The police said Lakhwinder Kaur had tried to call up some relatives in the city at around 4 am, but her calls went unanswered. "We are working on different theories,” it said. SHO (Civil Lines) Sukhminder Chauhan said they had sent the body for postmortem and once the report was out they would be able to say more. “We have registered a case under Sections 302 and 436 of the IPC.”
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Punjabis constitute 40 per cent of student population going overseas for studies from India, 30 per cent are from Gujarat, while rest 30 per cent are from other parts of country, said Patrick Brown, the Member of Parliament from Barrie constituency of Ontario, Canada. Patrick was here at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College
(BBSBEC) to deliver lecture on the “educational employment opportunities for Indians in Canada.”
In a surprise move, the Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) has summoned the Chief Flying Instructor (CFI), recently appointed at the Patiala Aviation Club (PAC), to clear an interview to continue as a trainer flying in future. While the move has delayed the training of students at the PAC, the DGCA has summoned the CFI on tomorrow.
Patiala, January 24
Patiala, January 24
