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Campaigning resumes for SGPC elections
Hospital for elderly to come up in Bathinda
Dy CM cancels rally in Abohar
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Protest against fresh violence at medical college
Man gets 2-yr RI for possessing fake currency
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Campaigning resumes for SGPC elections
Moga, September 2 However, the tempers of the SAD leadership are still high against the Congress-led UPA Government. The Akali leadership alleges that the Congress is directly interfering in the religious affairs of the Sikhs, which is not acceptable to the community. Jathedar Tota Singh, senior vice-president of the SAD, who is an aspirant for the post of the SGPC chief, said it was a well planned strategy of some politicians of the opposition parties to interrupt in the election process, which has failed as all the Akali factions and representatives of the community irrespective of political affiliations came together on the issue against the political gimmicks of the Congress. Had the Union Government not clarified its stand today, the issue could have led to widespread ramifications among the Sikh community across the nation and the globe leading to chaos. “Whosoever has misled the High Court and played the mischief with the sentiments of the Sikh community on the serious issue, which is pending before the court, should be punished as per the provisions of the law,” he said. He said the campaigning for the 170 seats also suddenly came to a halt after the yesterday’s episode. “All the candidates and the political parties will have to reschedule its programme,” he said. Jathedar revealed that he planned to address rallies in the Ludhiana district along with the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister on Saturday, which would not be possible for him under this situation. “I will have to push the candidates to move out in the remote rural areas to begin campaign again in the Moga district explaining them of the political developments and similarly all other senior leaders will have to keep the candidates on toes for electioneering,” he said. Gurmail Singh, candidate of the SAD from the Dharamkot area, said he has begun campaigning in the evening today but his schedule has been disturbed by the episode yesterday. The official machinery was also confused over the controversy and kept guessing whether the model code of conduct of the SGPC elections was in progress or not. The tehsildar of Dharamkot JS Brar said it was a wait and watch situation for him, which was finally cleared in the evening. |
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Hospital for elderly to come up in Bathinda
Bathinda, September 2 The hospital is being set up to implement two national programmes - the 'Prevention and control of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases' and the 'Healthcare of the elderly'. A day care ward with six beds for cancer and diabetes patients and 10 beds for indoor patients is being established. The treatment for non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and hypertension will be done free of cost at the hospital. The requisite staff, including a medical specialist, a surgical specialist, a cytopathologist and a general administrator, will be posted here by the Government of India. Besides, the services of the doctors of the local Civil Hospital will also be utilised. District Health Officer Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa said here today 136 ANMs (auxiliary nurse midwife) posted at the sub-centres of the Health Department in the district had been given training to identify and screen the cases of hypertension, stroke etc and educate the elderly against the lifestyle diseases besides referring them to the hospital here. As many as 10 doctors from the district had also been trained for the implementation of these programmes, he added. He said glucometers to measure the blood sugar levels had also been distributed among the ANMs at the sub-centres while the training to use the same would be given on September 5 by a team arriving from Delhi. It may be mentioned here that the Government of India has already provided funds to the state government for the implementation of both these national programmes in Bathinda. |
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Abohar, September 2 The SAD had not organised any public function in the sub-divisional town since the formation of the present alliance government. The election rally was initially fixed for September 3 but had to be scheduled on Friday in view of Deputy CM’s other important engagements. Chief Parliamentary Secretary Gurtej Singh Ghuriana and other senior SAD leaders had made elaborate arrangements to ferry thousands of people from different villages of the Balluana constituency for the election rally. — OC |
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Protest against fresh violence at medical college
Faridkot, September 2 Dr Arvind Bansal, a student said, that three masked youths came on a Bullet motorcycle bearing no number plate and reached to the main gate of the campus where they were stopped by the security guard on duty. The guard asked them for their identities, which they refused to disclose and instead started beating the guard who received minor injuries. On August 21, a group of female students were stopped by some hooligans. |
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Man gets 2-yr RI for possessing fake currency
Bathinda, September 2 It is learnt that the car in which the accused Gurdeep Singh was travelling, was intervened at a special police naka near Bhucho Khurd in September 2009 and the police recovered the fake currency — seven notes of Rs 500 denomination and 17 notes of Rs 100 denomination — from his possession. Eighteen notes had the same serial number. A case under Sections 489-A, 489-B and 489-C of the IPC was registered at the Bathinda Cantonment police station. |
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