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City’s public transport system comes to a halt
Novel protest: Doctors turn vegetable vendors
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City youth bleeds himself to death
Jalandhar, August 30 In a rare case epitomising how much a person can be brutal to himself, a youth ended his life by bleeding himself to death after inflicting multiple lacerations all over his body and appendages with sharp blade.
3 fraudsters nabbed
From Colleges
Sodhal temple trustees, purohits at loggerheads
Rural sports tourney concludes
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City’s public transport system comes to a halt
The buses were impounded amid a rigorous drive by the traffic police to discourage buses and auto-rickshaws from plying with more passengers than the limits prescribed as per the Motor Vehicles Act. Transport services were hit badly across all the main city routes because the bus service has been emerging as a popular transportation system in the city due to lower fares compared to that charged by auto-rickshaws on long-distance routes. The action by the traffic police follows after a protracted tussle among auto-rickshaw drivers and the city bus service management. The parties have been at loggerhead over permission being accorded by the traffic police to permit auto-rickshaws to ply up to six passengers at a time. Contesting the “relaxation” given by the police to auto-rickshaw drivers, the management of the city bus alleged that the police impounded the buses under pressure of the powerful-lobby of owners of 14,000 auto-rickshaws of the city. “As per rules, auto-rickshaws and city buses cannot ply more than three and 44 passengers, respectively. However, the city police have relaxed the norms for auto-rickshaws and allowed them to ply six passengers at a time. Why are traffic authorities shying away from extending a similar relaxation to the city buses? This way, our intake capacity should also be doubled to 80-88 passengers”, said Parvenn Oliveeral, Manager, City Bus Service. Around 10:30 am in the morning, a group of auto- drivers protested overloading of passengers in the city buses and urged the traffic personnel to take strict action against the management of city bus service. “All buses were found overloaded during checking. As the documents of all the buses were in the management’s office, we were left with no other option but to impound the buses”, said ACP (Traffic), Diljinder Singh Dhillon. Countering the allegations made by the management, ACP (Traffic), Diljinder Singh Dhillon, said, “Like autos, we have extended relaxation to the city buses up to the maximum permissible limit. We have given them grace to ply 8-10 passengers more than the permissible limit of 44. At least an upper limit should be fixed. Otherwise, if given a free hand, even the auto-rickshaws can ply more 10-12 passengers at one go, leave alone buses. “Traffic Police is not biased. We have challaned around 68 overloaded auto-rickshaws in the past four days. The campaign is still going on and violators, be it auto-rickshaws or city buses, would face similar action in future.” “Buses will be released once the management deposits fine against the violation committed,” he added. Parveen Oliveeral said, “City buses falls under category of Stage Carrier, which implies that such vehicles can pick and drop the passengers at various bus stops en route. “ “Auto-rickshaws come under category of Contract Carrier. Such vehicles can ply the passengers from a spot and drop them at final destination. As per MVA, such carriers cannot drop or collect passengers en route,” he added. Sources in the management of City Bus Service revealed that before the launch of city buses, the state government has taken a major policy decisions and declared that all the routes on which city buses would be plied would be treated as “Notified Monopoly Route” “As per notification, such routes would be the monopoly of city buses and no other public transport vehicle would be permitted to run on such routes. The plying of autos on the main city routes is again a gross violation of state government’s notification,” said a source. |
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Novel protest: Doctors turn vegetable vendors
Jalandhar, August 30 By organising an ironical symbolic protest on the 23rd day of their strike, the protestors ridiculed the government for citing the shortage of funds as a reason for not regularising their services. Taking a jibe at the state government, Sanjeev Kumar, senior vice-president of the NRHM Employees’ Union, said: “The state health authorities are maintaining that the shortage of funds is the major hurdle in regularising our services. Therefore, our representatives have urged us to organise such “protests-cum-temporary vegetable vends”, so that besides protests, we should simultaneously provide ‘funds’ to the government for regularisation of our jobs” The entire show took an ugly turn when highly qualified NRHM employees and doctors, with MBBS and BAMS degrees, were seen virtually selling vegetables and fruits to the passersby in front of the civil surgeon office. One of the protestors said that the employees have purchased fruits and vegetables worth Rs 2,500 from the market to organise the protest. “As we are selling the items at wholesale prices, the entrance of civil surgeon office was turned into a vegetable market for around two hours,” she added in a lighter vein. “Politicians and officers concerned have turned a deaf ear to the voices we raised during all our earlier protests. We are hoping that their hearts would get moved after seeing doctors and paramedics selling vegetables. We have resorted to protest by posing as vegetable vendors”, said Inderjit Singh, general secretary of the Union. Meanwhile, the strike of NRHM employees has entered its 23rd day. The people in the city and periphery are at the receiving end as services under major components of the NRHM are being badly hit during the strike. Sanjeev Kumar said that the strike might continue for a long period as the health authorities have shown no sign of giving in to our demands. |
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City youth bleeds himself to death
Jalandhar, August 30 Sonu alias Ghudu, resident of Kot Saidq village, near here, was working as a labourer-cum-helper at a shop located near Bhargo Camp. He slit the blood vessels of his arms and neck. The resultant massive blood loss led to
his death. The police has recorded proceedings under section 174 of CrPC and initiated inquest proceedings based on a statement recorded by the deceased’s father. Shop owner Rajinder Prasad told the police that both his son and he left the shop around 12.15 pm. On return, he found that Sonu was not in the shop. We started searching for him and noticed blood seeping from beneath the door of common bathroom of the market. After noticing his injured body inside the bathroom, we broke open the door and rushed him first to a civil hospital and then to a private hospital, where he breathed his last. Police said they had yet to establish the reason that had forced the youth to take this extreme step. |
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Making waves
It will be on this day that soccer star Argentina captain Lionel Messi would dribble with FIFA-approved ‘Simbolo football,’ under the brand name of Nivia during the friendly match between Argentina and Venezuela at Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata. Nivia Simbolo is the official match ball for the friendly match. A team headed by Deputy General Manager Sameer Mehta has already reached Kolkata to represent the company. While its Managing Director, Rajesh Kharbanda would also be reaching Kolkata to witness the iconic player in action with their football. Talking to The Tribune, an elated Kharbanda said, “The Simbolo football got approval from FIFA last year, which means that it is eligible to be played in all top-ranking international soccer matches under the aegis of FIFA. Priced at Rs 1400, this football is already a big hit in the organised domestic market and we are expecting a big boost in its sales post- Argentina and Venezuela friendly match. The ‘Messi effect’ will turn out to be a big craze in the domestic as well as foreign market”. Kharbanda, who would be reaching Kolkata shortly, said that he is counting days down to the moment when he will witness those historic moments when iconic footballer Messi will play with their football. “Although the process to apply for this match had begun a long time ago but we received the rights only last week. This is a hand-stitched football which requires a lot of expertise and I am glad our workers have done a great job”, he added. However, when he was asked about the likely chances of Messi posing exclusively for the company, Kharbanda said, “The Argentina captain Messi is already under contract with world-renowned soccer companies. The fact that the he will be playing with our football is a reason big enough to cheer and celebrate”, he quipped. While Sameer Mehta, talking over the phone from Kolkata said, “We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Messi on Wednesday. The company will be providing around 50 balls to the team for the practice as well as the final friendly match”. This year, another hit by the company, “Nivia Shining Star football,” a popular rubberised ball also got the approval under the International Match Standard (IMF) certification. “This football would be used in the Santosh Trophy and the upcoming Federation Cup by All-India Football Federation”, Kharbanda added. About the football
Nivia Simbolo is made of PU material and laminated with specially developed enforcements (four layers of polyester glued with natural latex), which help it to maintain shape and give it an appropriate bounce and speed. All the 32 panels of the football are hand stitched by skilled craftsmen. The ball is fitted with a super bladder which retains the air for much longer and gives a soft feel when hit on the head. After the ball is stitched, the 32 panels are sealed with a transparent solution to avoid water from seeping in during the play. |
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3 fraudsters nabbed
Jalandhar, August 30 Investigating Officer (IO) in the case, ASI Manbir Singh said the prosecution agency requested the CJM to remand the accused to police custody to further investigate the matter. Earlier on Monday, the police personnel posted at division number 4 of Jalandhar city commissionerate nabbed the three accused from different locations. However, the police could not arrest two of their associates Ashok Pradhan and Happy. They are still absconding. Ajay Kumar of Shivaji Nagar locality was caught with fake documents near Friends Cinema. Actually the police had laid a special naka there. Ashok Kumar was passing through the area near Friends Cinema when he was signaled to stop. On his search, a number of fake documents were recovered from his possession. The police took him into its custody and seized the fake documents including identity cards, registration certificates of different vehicles and registries of immovable properties. On preliminary questioning, he told the police that these fake documents were used to send people abroad and for other various purposes. He also informed the police during preliminary questioning that he used to get these documents prepared from a typist Neha of Gopal Nagar. At this, the police arrested her. Neha told the police that she used to get prepared the fake documents with the help of Surinder alias Shammi working at photocopy shop at Gopal Nagar. The police also nabbed him and seized computer, scanner and other relevant items from the shop. The police also came to know that two more youths Ashok Pradhan and Happy were involved with them in preparing the fake documents. However they could not be arrested so far. The Investigating Office Manbir Singh said further investigations were on and startling revelations were likely in the questioning of the accused during their two-day police remand. |
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Vyapar Sena demands halt of Duronto in city
Jalandhar, August 30 Addressing a special meeting of the businessmen of the city at Basti Nau, Ravindra Dhir, state president of Vyapar Sena, said they would initiate an agitation along with various other traders and industrial organisations of the city if the Railways failed to create stoppages. The convener of Khel Udyog Sangh, Vijay Dhir flayed Jalandhar and Ludhiana MPs Mohinder Singh Kaypee and Manish Tiwari for not raising the issue of stopping the train at Jalandhar, Phagwara and
Ludhiana. |
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From Colleges
Jalandhar, August 30 Talent hunt
The youth club of Prem Chand Markanda SD College for Women organised a talent hunt competition on Monday where students participated in debate, declamation and poetry. Loveleen, Namita and Noor Sharma stood first in declamation, poetry and debate contests, respectively. The Doaba College also organised a talent hunt which saw participation of 250 students. Results- Poetical Symposium- Gurpreet Kaur (first), Declamation- Govinda Sharma (first), Geet/Gazal Veer Singh -first, Classical Vocal-Amir (first), Painting Still life-Hina Chadha (first), Sketching-Rahul Bhardwaj (first), Rangoli- Bhavna (first), Poster Making- Poonam Saini (first), Painting Landscape- Sharad (first), Photography-Amit (first), Histrionics Mukesh Sharma- (first), Placement drive
Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya organised a joint campus placement drive in association with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. As many as 100 students from Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab participated at the event. Representatives of Wipro gave a presentation to the students on WASE Programme, which is based on the strategy of ‘Earn while you learn’. Under the WASE Programme, the company facilitates students with post graduation degree from BITS Pilani. Freshers party
Apeejay Institute of Management organised a welcome party ‘Fresco Fiesta’ for the students of MBA- I at Kings Hotel. Sahil and Shaveta were adjudged Mr Fresher and Miss Fresher respectively. |
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Sodhal temple trustees, purohits at loggerheads
Jalandhar, August 30 The trustees and Loh-Purohits are at loggerheads since both the parties were claiming a major say in the day-to-day affairs of the mandir. The trustees were claiming that it was the sole responsibility of the trust to run the management of the mandir. RK Sharma, ADCP (City-I), said both parties have submitted their documents and have been again called to amicably resolve the issue through dialogue.
— TNS
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Rural sports tourney concludes
Jalandhar, August 30 As many as 1950 players from ten blocks participated in the tournament. The sports department would award the winners of different disciplines with case prizes during a felicitation ceremony to be held at the local Hans Raj Stadium. |
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Jalandhar, August 30
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