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Robbers at work
Phagwara, July 24
Two robbers snatched a gold chain and Rs 10,000 from Bahadur Singh of Mehtan village when he was going to deposit the cash in a bank on Sunday afternoon. The robbers, who were on a motorcycle, fled after pushing the victim. The police has registered a case. In another incident, two robbers decamped with a motorcycle belonging to Mohammad Sadeeq on the Khotrra road on Saturday night. He was going to his village.

Govt envisages plan to prevent diabetes in newborns
Amritsar, July 24
The state government had envisaged a plan to save newborns from diabetes, said Health Minister Satpal Gosain.Addressing a state-level sensitisation workshop on reduction of maternal death rate in the state, he said blood sugar test would be made compulsory for pregnant women under this programme that would be launched on August 15.

Man kills brother over wall dispute
Kapurthala, July 24
man was allegedly beaten to death by his brother and other relatives over a minor dispute on boundary wall of the house at Khanpur village here on Saturday. Sarwan Singh, his wife Manjit Kaur, Hari Ram, Ravi and Sabhi were booked under Sections 302, 148 and 149 of IPC for the murder of Pritam Singh.

Two bodies found
Tarn Taran, July 24
A body of a man was found from a canal in Dode village, 25 km from here. The police suspected that the man, about 50-year-old, might have drowned while taking bath in the canal.

	SC asks Punjab Govt to file affidavit on demolitions Dharmendra Joshi & Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service Jalandhar, July 24 Taking a serious note of the demolitions carried out by the Jalandhar district administration to widen the Football Chowk road a few days back, the Supreme Court has directed the Punjab Government to file an affidavit in this regard by the next date of hearing fixed for July 25. In its two page-order issued on a special leave petition (SLP) filed on July 18; a division bench of the apex court, comprising Justice GS Singhvi and Justice HL Dattu, directed both the petitioners and the respondents (Punjab Government and others) to maintain status quo till the next date of hearing. Earlier, RS Puri, counsel of the petitioners, had produced some photographs before the court and said the respondents had carried out demolitions after the court had started hearing the case. The direction was passed on the SLP filed a few weeks ago under Article 136 of the Constitution, against the April 18 ruling of the HC, which dismissed the appeal of the petitioners --- Dr Manvinder Pal Singh Bhatia and others --- on acquire of land. Meanwhile, the order brought momentary respite to the residents, who have been hit by the administration’s road-widening project - wherein some houses and commercial establishments were being demolished to acquire a 17 kanal and 14 marla land along Football Chowk for widening the road leading to Jalandhar Central Jail. As grounds for their petitions, the six petitioners --- Dr Manvinder Pal Singh Bhatia, Rajiv Malhotra, Balkar Singh, Balvinder Kumar, Neelam Rani and Anita Arora --- said their land was not being acquired for a public purpose. The petition also said the high court wrongly held that acquisition of their land was for a public purpose and also wrongly observed that whether central jail was to remain there or developed as a commercial complex was meaningless. It also stated that the petitioners had been deprived of their fundamental right to life and legal right to property as the acquisition of their land is malafide and for extraneous reasons in order to give benefit to some industrial house.
	SCERT provides relief to ETT students of self-financed colleges Our Correspondent Nawanshahr, July 24 Finally, students pursuing the ETT course (sessions 2009-11 and 2010-12) in the self-financed colleges heaved a sigh of relief as the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) released the datesheet of first semester examination, commencing from August 11. SK Sharma, chairman of the Association of Self-Financed Colleges (ETT), Punjab, disclosed this here today. He said the association had to fight a legal battle to safeguard the interests of the students. About 5,000 students pursuing the course in the self-financed colleges in the state, under the aegis of the Punjab Students Union had organised dharnas and demonstrations at the district headquarters as well as in Chandigarh and given memorandums to the Education Minister and the Director, SCERT, to press the state government to commence their examination.
	Robbers at work Our Correspondents Phagwara, July 24 Two robbers snatched a gold chain and Rs 10,000 from Bahadur Singh of Mehtan village when he was going to deposit the cash in a bank on Sunday afternoon. The robbers, who were on a motorcycle, fled after pushing the victim. The police has registered a case. In another incident, two robbers decamped with a motorcycle belonging to Mohammad Sadeeq on the Khotrra road on Saturday night. He was going to his village. Tarn Taran: Five youths decamped with Rs 30,500 from Rajput filling station, Noordi on Sunday. It is the second incident of looting of this filling station in as many years.
	Govt envisages plan to prevent diabetes in newborns Tribune News Service Amritsar, July 24 The state government had envisaged a plan to save newborns from diabetes, said Health Minister Satpal Gosain.Addressing a state-level sensitisation workshop on reduction of maternal death rate in the state, he said blood sugar test would be made compulsory for pregnant women under this programme that would be launched on August 15. He said diabetes was a result of modern sedentary lifestyle in Punjab. Speaking about the maternal death rate, he said the government had already launched a number of steps to reduce the rate which has come down from 192 to 172 per 1,000 live births. He said the government had targeted to bring the maternal mortality rate further down to 100 and in order to meet this target, a number of awareness programmes had been organised to promote organisational delivery in government hospitals. Civil surgeons and family welfare officers from the state besides gynaecologists and women doctors from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Kapurthala participated in the workshop. Dr Ashok Nayyar, director, Health and Family Welfare, too was present. Meanwhile, while participating in the symposium on PC-PNDT Act for improving its implementation to eradicate female foeticide, Gosain said that the government had made the registration of pregnant women within 12 weeks of the pregnancy in the nearby health centre. He said this would help in detecting the missing pregnancies and subsequent stern action against persons involved in aborting foetus. He urged the sinologists and radiologists to pledge not to conduct sex determination test at any cost. He said although the sex ratio in the state had increased from 789 to 846, a lot is needed to be done.
	Man kills brother over wall dispute Tribune News Service Kapurthala, July 24 man was allegedly beaten to death by his brother and other relatives over a minor dispute on boundary wall of the house at Khanpur village here on Saturday. Sarwan Singh, his wife Manjit Kaur, Hari Ram, Ravi and Sabhi were booked under Sections 302, 148 and 149 of IPC for the murder of Pritam Singh. In his complaint to the police, deceased’s another brother Satpal alleged that Pritam Singh was called by his brother Sarwan Singh and other relatives to settle the dispute over the wall. Instead of making an attempt to resolve the issue, they attacked Pritam Singh and seriously wounded him. He was rushed to a private hospital at Jalandhar where he succumbed to his injuries. Meanwhile, the police sources said Satpal and Pritam Singh had a quarrel with their brother Sarwan and his wife Manjit Kaur a few days ago on the issue of raising the boundary wall. Manjit Kaur had been wounded in the clash at that time and even was admitted to the Civil Hospital. Pritam’s body has been sent for autopsy at the Civil Hospital. Nobody has been arrested so far.
	Two bodies found Our Correspondent Tarn Taran, July 24 A body of a man was found from a canal in Dode village, 25 km from here. The police suspected that the man, about 50-year-old, might have drowned while taking bath in the canal. The Sarhali police recovered an unidentified body of a middle-aged woman from the stadium of Dhotian village late on Friday evening.
	Man kills brother over wall dispute Tribune News Service Kapurthala, July 24 man was allegedly beaten to death by his brother and other relatives over a minor dispute on boundary wall of the house at Khanpur village here on Saturday. Sarwan Singh, his wife Manjit Kaur, Hari Ram, Ravi and Sabhi were booked under Sections 302, 148 and 149 of IPC for the murder of Pritam Singh. In his complaint to the police, deceased’s another brother Satpal alleged that Pritam Singh was called by his brother Sarwan Singh and other relatives to settle the dispute over the wall. Instead of making an attempt to resolve the issue, they attacked Pritam Singh and seriously wounded him. He was rushed to a private hospital at Jalandhar where he succumbed to his injuries. Meanwhile, the police sources said Satpal and Pritam Singh had a quarrel with their brother Sarwan and his wife Manjit Kaur a few days ago on the issue of raising the boundary wall. Manjit Kaur had been wounded in the clash at that time and even was admitted to the Civil Hospital. Pritam’s body has been sent for autopsy at the Civil Hospital. Nobody has been arrested so far.