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GZSCET likely to turn into PTU
BKU plans stir from Aug 22
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Faux pas at final rehearsal in Bathinda
ITI student among eight held for robbery
HC notice to Moga college for refusing admission to 68 students
Army official ends life
Businessman killed in road mishap
Consumer Forum fines docs, hospital
Lecture throws light on role of oxygen in cancer
Four selected for national police competition
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GZSCET likely to turn into PTU regional centre
Bathinda, August 12 Talking to TNS today, Vice-chancellor of the PTU Dr Rajnish Arora said the Punjab Government had decided to hand over the engineering college, an autonomous body, to the PTU for developing it as its regional centre. “Instead of regional centre, the GZSCET would be our first academic campus. The present campus at Jalandhar is merely our administrative campus,” Dr Arora said. He added that while the decision had been taken in principle, a notification to this effect was yet to be issued. Being an autonomous body, the college had a society that would convene its meeting and pass a resolution allowing the PTU to take over the college. Thereafter, the resolution would be tabled in a board meeting of the PTU and the final decision would be taken. “The entire procedure would take around a month-and-a-half,” he said. In a way, the PTU has taken over the college. Principal Buta Singh disbursed the salaries of the employees, which had been delayed for some reasons. Earlier, the Punjab Government had a proposal to accord a deemed university status to the college. However, following the case of mass copying during the IIT-JEE entrance test held at the college, the government decided in principle to hand over the college to the PTU. There is resentment in certain sections of the college staff that would oppose the college’s taking over by the
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BKU plans stir from Aug 22
Land acquisition at Gobindpura
Barnala, August 12 Leaders of the Bharatiya Kissan Union BKU (Ugrahan) and BKU Dakonda, said following their call, nearly 20,000 farmers, agricultural labourers, employees and others participated in the ceremony. The gathering was addressed by the leaders of all the 17 organisations involved in the struggle, they added. “Despite restrictions and police barricades, a large number of people from village Gobindpura also participated. Most of the farmers from Gobindpura, who had accepted the cheques as compensation in lieu of their acquired land, too turned up and demanded cancellation of the notification acquiring 880 acres of land for the Indiabulls power plant. Hence, they belied the claim of the SAD leaders that the farmers have consented to the acquisition of their land,” the BKU leaders claimed. “The participants vowed to fight decisively against the forcible acquisition of their land and hold a massive dharna in front of the Mansa Deputy Commissioner’s office from August 22. At the same time, in the Majha and Doaba regions, farmers and Khet Mazdoor organisations would hold a dharna in front of their respective Deputy Commissioners’ offices.” “The Punjab Government has declared that the land is not to be acquired without the farmers' consent. Besides, multi-crop yielding land is not to be acquired at all. The entire land acquired at Gobindpura is irrigated, fertile and multi-crop yielding,” these leaders pointed out. “Over 90 per cent of the farmers are unwilling to give their land. With this acquisition, 62 families of the village have become landless. Another 123 families have been left with very small holdings,” the leaders added. “Besides the farmers, the families of 14 Dalit agricultural labourers have also been adversely affected. The houses in which they were living for many decades have been acquired for the project. No compensation has been paid to them as the land on which their houses were constructed was not in their name,” the leaders regretted. The BKU leaders further stated that there is no provision for providing employment to the families affected by the project in the rehabilitation policy. They rued that in fact, the government has not announced any relief and rehabilitation policy for these people. “Some influential leaders of the ruling SAD, property dealers, banks, agricultural service societies, commission agents, automobile and arms dealers are the beneficiary of the project and the land acquisition. The banks, agricultural service societies and commission agents have got their loans outstanding against the farmers recovered from the amount of compensation paid to them. To induce the farmers to accept the compensation cheques, the administration used all possible tactics, including the grant of arms licences,” the leaders alleged. The BKU leaders said that establishing six thermal power plants in a radius of 50-60 kilometres around Bathinda has also raised environmental concerns which might aggravate the already wide prevalence of diseases like cancer in the region.
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SGPC
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Dharamkot (Moga), Aug 12 An old-time local party leader and sitting SGPC member, Sukhjeet Singh Kaka of Lohgarh village, has filed his nomination papers for the SGPC polls as an independent candidate after the party high command cancelled his ticket at the last moment. Earlier, after getting the party ticket for the gurudwara polls, he filed his nomination paper as a SAD candidate. Another local heavyweight, former SGPC member Kuldip Singh Dhose had already left the SAD a few months back and joined former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, president of the Peoples’ Party of Punjab (PPP). He has also fielded his candidate Jaswinder Singh Sidhu, president of the ETT teachers union, from this constituency. Political observers say that the nomination filed by Kaka as an independent despite efforts by the party president Sukhbir Badal to keep him within party fold could prove to be the Waterloo for Tota Singh, if he does not return to the party. For the last few months, Tota Singh had been carrying out his political activities in the Dharamkot area, leaving the Moga assembly segment, which he represented twice before being defeated by Joginder Pal Jain of the Congress in the last asembly elections. Tota Singh’s political activities in the Dharamkot area first annoyed Dhose, who left the SAD and now it has allegedly troubled Kaka, forcing him to contest the SGPC polls as an independent. Both Dhose and Kaka were aspirants for the party ticket for the coming assembly polls from Dharamkot constituency. The sitting SAD MLA from this area and chief parliamentary secretary Sital Singh has represented this reserved constituency for four terms. Now, after the delimitation, this constituency has been converted into a general seat. Therefore, the general category leaders are eying their candidature from this seat. Tota Singh, Kuldip Dhose and Sukhjeet Kaka, all belong to the general category and the SGPC elections are seen as a test for them to asses their mass followings. On the other hand, there was also a buzz in the political circles that Tota Singh, who is also contesting the SGPC polls from the Moga constituency, could be made the next president of the SGPC. After this, he may be denied the party ticket in the coming assembly polls and Kaka could return to the party ‘conditionally’ and contest the assembly polls on the party ticket. Still there could be many surprises if veteran party leader and former minister Gurdev Singh Badal bats for his son-in-law Sital Singh, who has no legal bar on contesting the assembly elections from a general seat. |
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Schools celebrate I-Day, Rakhi
Bathinda, August 12 The Little Kingdom Nursery School celebrated the Independence Day on the school campus wherein children danced to the tunes of patriotic songs. School principal Shuchita Grover apprised the students about the sacrifices made by martyrs to free India from the British rule. Rakshabandhan was celebrated by the Bachpan during a function organised at the Bathinda cantonment wherein children tied ‘Rakhi’ on the wrists of the Army jawans. The Independence Day was also celebrated with enthusiasm at the St. Kabir Senior Secondary School, Bhuccho Khurd. Dr SK Bansal was the guest of honour. Children presented patriotic songs. The managing director of the school, ML Arora, and principal Anju Dogra along with Bansal greeted the students on the national festival and exhorted them to grow up into conscientious citizens.
— TNS Abohar: Principal Jijoe Augustian inaugurated the Rakhi and Independence Day celebrations at St. Alphonsa Convent School here today. Cultural items were presented. Anmol portrayed as Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Siddharth as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Jaideep Kaur Bhullar as Jhansi Ki Rani, Pratham enacted Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Vivek as Mahatma Gandhi. Nursery and LKG girls wearing saris, danced to the tunes of the patriotic song. Hardik Batra spoke about the importance of Raksha Bandhan. Parry remembered the freedom fighters’ sacrifices. Meanwhile, the Innerwheel Club celebrated Teej amidst mild showers today. President Geetu Bathla awarded prizes to Abhida Setia and Upasana Loona for excellence in mehandi and folk dance competitions.
— OC Cong to celebrate I-Day at Balluana
Bathinda: Narinder Singh Bhuleria, president of the District Congress Committee (rural) presided over a meeting of party workers wherein it was decided to celebrate the Independence Day at Balluana village. Bhuleria said a free eye check-up camp would also be organised on the occasion.
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Faux pas at final rehearsal in Bathinda
Bathinda, August 12 Every year, the final rehearsal is held on August 13. However, the rehearsal was preponed this year as Rakshabandhan fell on the same day. Consequently, the final rehearsal was held today. Since construction activity is going on at the Bathinda stadium, the venue for holding the Independence Day function has been shifted to the Thermal Colony this year. When Deputy Commissioner Kamal Kishore Yadav was about to rehearse for the flag hoisting ceremony, he noticed that the Tricolour was missing from the staff. Witnesses said on realising the blunder, Yadav raised the issue with the organisers. As per the rules, the cops were to bring the flag. The Deputy Commissioner, however, said it was not necessary to hoist the flag during the dress rehearsal. Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioners of Faridkot, Muktsar and other neighbouring districts, hoisted the flag today.
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Govt Rajindra College teachers protest, seek pay hike arrears
Bathinda, August 12 President of the local unit of PGTCA Dr Gurdarshan Singh Brar said the state government had not initiated any step to release the arrear of the hiked salary since January 1, 2006. The government had not even sent a proforma for the arrear to the Central government. The lecturers also demanded that they be granted professor grade in colleges, extension in the retirement age to 65 years and promotion as principal, thereby filling the vacant posts of college principal in the state. In order to build pressure on the government, teachers will go on leave en masse on the Teachers’ Day (September 5) and hold a dharna at Chandigarh. The Punjab Federation of University and College Teachers Organization (PFUTCO) will support the PGTCA. On August 26, the All Indian Federation of University and College Teachers Organisation will get together at Delhi and march towards Parliament demanding release of 80 per cent liability arising out of the pay revision for the period from January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2010. |
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ITI student among eight held for robbery
Muktsar, August 12 Firearms, sharp-edged weapons and iron rods were also recovered from the possession of the six accused. Muktsar SSP Indermohan said the robbers stopped the truck at gunpoint on the Muktsar-Malout road and kidnapped its driver and conductor. The truck was on its way to Karnal in Haryana from Jalalabad. The accused released the truck and its occupants the next day but kept the rice with them. They involved three more people of Muktsar to sell off the rice. The accused have been identified as Gurjant Singh of Dodha village in Muktsar, Sandeep Singh, Parampreet Singh of Lakhewali villages of Muktsar, Khushaman Singh alias Maanu of Ramgarh Chunga, Sardul Singh of Madrassa, Muktsar, Raj Kumar alias Ranjha of Arniwala village in Fazilka. While Sardul and Gurjant are illiterate, Sandeep is pursuing a diploma at the ITI in Fazilka and Khushaman Singh has recently done a diploma in welding. Parampreet is a matriculate while the others have studied up to class XII, police said. The three mediators have been identified as Preetam Singh alias Mangat Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Surjeet Singh, all residents of village Dodha in Muktsar district. Lakhewali SHO Devinder Singh said the arrests were made while the six accused were trying to commit another robbery and the three mediators were attempting to sell off the rice. He said the crime occurred near Chakduewala village on August 2. A total of 600 bags of rice were recovered from their possession along with a stolen Maruti 800 car. The accused confessed that the car was stolen from the Kotkapura bus stand on July 27. Police said the CIA in-charge, Angrez Singh and DSP Mukhwinder Singh of Malout, also played an active role in nabbing the culprits. Investigation revealed that the accused had taken the truck driver and conductor to Saharanpur in UP. A .12 bore pistol, baseball bat, iron rods and sharp-edged weapons were also recovered from their possession. |
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HC notice to Moga college for refusing admission to 68 students
Moga, August 12 Revealing this to The Tribune, advocate BS Bhalla, counsel for the students, said the inspection committee of the Panjab University gave certain observations in its report indicating that the college authorities were not fulfilling the norms and thus refused to grant permission for re-admission of these students to the college. The inspection committee observed that four additional posts were required to be filled up in the college before starting the course and ultimately it was stated that the proposed extension of affiliation of extension in B.Com (II) year was not granted. The students contended in their petition that out of 140 students, 70 have already been given admission in B.Com (II) year while the remaining 68 students were still awaiting their admission. The last date for admission was August 8. Now, the vice-chancellor has the powers to give late admission till August 31. Justice Bhalla on Thursday issued a notice of motion to the officials concerned for August 17. |
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Army official ends life
Sriganganagar, August 12 His wife had died four years ago. Preliminary investigation indicated that he was upset over the condition of his differently-abled son. The body has been taken to his native village after the postmortem that was conducted at the sub-divisional hospital in Suratgarh. Meanwhile, headmaster Pawan Jain (58), posted in a rural government primary school, was killed as the motorcycle that he was driving overturned after hitting a wall while proceeding over the ramp in his house at Sanjay Colony here. He was rushed to the district hospital but was declared brought dead. |
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Businessman killed in road mishap
Moga, August 12 SHO, police station (rural), Jasbinder Singh revealed that the deceased was identified as Surjit Singh, a resident of Bukkanwala village. He ran a spare parts shop on the Dosanj road in Moga. Surjit Singh was rushed to the district hospital but succumbed to his injuries on way to the hospital and was declared brought dead. One of the occupants of the car, Ravinder Singh, a resident of this town, was nabbed by the locals on the spot. However, his associates fled. A criminal case of negligence and rash driving under various sections of the IPC has been registered, the SHO said. |
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Consumer Forum fines docs, hospital
Ferozepur, August 12 The doctors and the hospital have been accused of negligence in a case of caesarean section. As per the details, the complainant, Mamta, had alleged that though her delivery was normal, the doctors operated upon her. Dr Richard David, director of the hospital, refuted the charges. Ashwani Sharma, counsel for the hospital, said an appeal would be filed against the orders. The Forum has instructed that the compensation should be paid to the complainant within 60 days, failing which an interest of nine per cent would be levied on the reward pronounced.
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Lecture throws light on role of oxygen in cancer
Bathinda, August 12 He elucidated on the role of oxygen in protein folding and protein regulation that leads to the development of pre-cancerous and pre-infarct fields in the oncogenic and cardiovascular disease models. Gogna also explained the occurrence of cancer and myocardial infarction as a cellular event, which is dependent on a cell competition theory.
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Four selected for national police competition
Sriganganagar, August 12 He topped in the 100 meter, 40 meter and 25 meter rifle shooting while assistant sub-inspector Jagdish Singh topped in the 200 meter kneeling event. In 300 meter snap shooting, Rameshwar Lal emerged as the winner. In the revolver shooting contest, ASI Jagdish clinched the gold in 15 meter category. Karni Singh topped in 25 meter event. Four shooters have been selected for the national police competition, officials said.
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