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Tight security for SGPC polls in Dharamkot
Campaigning for Assembly polls
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Firemen fume at long duration of traffic lights
Tribune Impact
Man kills self, wife & 2 kids
Jail inmate dies, top cop rules out laxity
Farmer dies in clash
3 lakh babies die of asphyxia in India
Refinery staff gets training in safety
Workshop for CAT aspirants
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Tight security for SGPC polls in Dharamkot
District Magistrate Ashok Singla and SSP Sneh Deep Sharma, while talking to The Tribune, revealed that commandos of the state police and cops from the reserve battalion have been deployed along with the regular force available in the district. The DM said the presiding officials and their subordinate election staff along with election material have been dispatched to their respective booths. “The ballot papers and boxes have been kept under tight security,” he said. There are a total of 2,45,131 voters in nine constituencies in the district. As many as 353 polling booths have been set up on 253 locations, out of which, 178 booths have been identified as sensitive. Out of the nine constituencies, the ruling SAD party has an upper hand in eight constituencies while in the Dharamkot constituency there is a neck-to-neck fight between rebel Akali leader the sitting SGPC member Sukhjeet Singh Kaka and Gurmail Singh of the ruling SAD party. Kaka has alleged that the ruling party may indulge into booth capturing or violence to get the elections postponed in Dharamkot using official machinery. “I have made my personal arrangements for videography on vulnerable booths,” he said. There are six candidates in the fray in Dharamkot; three candidates each in Moga, Moga (SC), Badhni Kalan, Nihalsinghwala, Ghal Kalan, two candidates each in Badhni Kalan (general, women), Baghapurana and five candidates in Ghal Kalan (general, women) seats. Jathedar Tota Singh himself is contesting from the Moga constituency against Harmel Singh of the SAD (Amritsar) and Inderjit Singh, an independent candidate. There are a total of 26,761 votes including 10,913 women votes in the constituency. |
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Campaigning for Assembly polls
Bathinda, September 17 In-charge of the district publicity committee, Sardoolgarh MLA Ajit Inder Singh Mofar said here today a 12-member state-level publicity committee (regarding manifesto and campaign) had been formed by the Congress while he was one of the 12 members, who had been made the
in-charge of the publicity committee of the Bathinda district. Mofar said in each constituency-level sub-committee, four members had been inducted while the sub-committees would be headed by the Congress MLAs of their respective constituencies. He said the Bathinda (Urban) constituency’s sub-committee would be headed by Harmander Singh Jassi, Bathinda (Rural) by Makhan Singh, Talwandi Sabo by Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu, Rampura Phul by Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Nathana by Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Maur by district president of the Congress committee (Rural) Narinder Singh Bhaleria. Mofar said these sub-committees would propagate and publicise the party’s programmes and manifesto, besides handling its election campaigning. The sub-committees would also expose the SAD-BJP Government on various fronts and inform public about the achievements of the Congress under the leadership of Captain Amarinder Singh during the previous regime, he added. He also said in the coming weeks, sub-division level sub-committees would also be formed to work at sub-division, block and grassroots levels. Mofar also criticised the SAD-BJP Government for its alleged ‘failures’ on different fronts. He said though the ruling alliance had promised that the sewerage works in towns and cities would be completed by 2010 the same could not be completed so far. He also said Captain Amarinder Singh had recently raised the issue of cancer, especially in the Malwa region, with the Prime Minister and the latter assured Captain Amarinder that the Centre would provide a big cancer hospital to Punjab. Among others present on the occasion included MLA Ajaib Singh Bhatti, MLA Makhan Singh, district president (Urban) Ashok Kumar, district president (Rural) Narinder Singh Bhaleria and general secretary (Press in-charge) of the district unit (Urban) Rupinder Singh Bindra. |
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Fire breaks out at Bathinda Chemicals
Bathinda, September 17 The industry’s chairman-cum-managing director Rajinder Mittal claimed that the fire caused a loss of nearly Rs 3 crore. “Electronic equipment in the boiler is very costly and the preliminary inspection of the area revealed that the loss might cross Rs 3 crore,” he said. He said smoke was first noticed by workers, who informed the local Fire Department. Firemen reached the spot within a few minutes. Mittal said the boiler was used to obtain heat and steam, which is used in different sections of the industry. The heat and steam is carried through pipes with thermo-fluid oil. The oil might have leaked from a portion of a pipe and it burst resulting in the fire. The temperature near the boilers is usually 450 degree Celsius. Officials of the Fire Department said they doused the flames using foam as the fire was caused by oil. Water stored in the industry during the incidents of fire was also used to bring down the temperature. |
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Firemen fume at long duration of traffic lights
Bathinda, September 17 The firemen complained that the extended duration of red lights, especially near the Hanuman Chowk has taken its toll on the speed of fire tenders. “We are always in a hurry to reach the place where fire breaks out. But to wait for a green signal at traffic lights is irritating,” said Baldev Singh, Assistant Divisional Fire Officer. He said letters in this regard had been written to senior traffic police officials, who had been reminded umpteen times, but nothing had been done so far. He added that the green light remains for few seconds but the duration of red light is quite longer. “Green light should stay for at least 18 to 20 seconds so that most of the vehicles could cross the chowk,” he said. He added that 172 fire incidents had been reported in the past six months and fire tenders had got stuck at various traffic lights while on their way to the accident site. Firemen also rued that iron pillars fixed at various entry points in the city, residential areas and main markets also cause hindrance in the way of fire tenders. “We have to take longer routes due to iron pillars near Veer Colony, Railway road, Dhobi Bazaar, Amrik Singh road, Post Office market, Sadar Bazaar and various other places,” said one of the drivers of the Fire Department. No senior police official was available for comments. However, Bathinda traffic police in-charge Jagdish Kumar said efforts were made to approach the contractor, who was assigned the task of maintaining the traffic lights, but in vain. “While the timing of the traffic lights in cities like Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Mohali is arranged in such a manner that commuters maintaining a particular speed get green signal at all traffic lights, nothing has been done to streamline the traffic lights in Bathinda,” he said. |
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Tribune Impact
Bathinda, September 17 The bus driver has been identified as Amrik Singh of Mehna village of Bathinda while Pal Singh and Rashpal Singh are the manager and the owner of the transport company —Ahluwalia Company — respectively. Earlier, the Bathinda police had refused to register a case due to lack of a formal complaint against the transporter or the bus driver even as villagers protested against the transporter for plying overloaded buses with worn out tyres. The bus driver was allegedly driving an overloaded bus (PB-03-S-8611) recklessly despite the fact that one of its rear tyres was punctured. The bus overturned after one of its worn out tyres burst as it approached Ghudda village on Monday afternoon. While a DAV College student was killed in the accident many other passengers received serious injuries. A girl student had lost a limb in the accident. Passengers undergoing treatment at various hospitals had said the bus was overloaded and many passengers were sitting atop the vehicle. The relatives of the deceased, residents of Kotli Sabo village to which the deceased belonged and its Sarpanch Sukhmandar Singh alleged that it was the negligence of transporters who put the lives of many passengers at risk by ferrying them in a bus whose tyres were worn out. They demanded stringent punishment for the negligence causing loss of a precious life besides injuries to many others. |
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Man kills self, wife & 2 kids
Faridkot, September 17 The police have recovered two suicide notes from Heera Singh, the deceased, in which he has accused Babu Singh, a bus conductor of harassing his wife. SSP Sat Pal Singh Sidhu and DSP Bakhshish Singh, Faridkot, reached the spot immediately. As per the preliminary investigation, Heera Singh, a resident of Moga, got married to Gurmeet Kaur of Balbir Basti from Faridkot five year back. They had two kids, four-year-old Jaskirat Singh and two-year-old Sappy Singh. It was learnt that Heera Singh did not have cordial relations with his wife Gurmeet Kaur due to one Babu Singh, a Faridkot resident. Some days back Babu Singh reached Moga to meet Gurmeet Kaur and the residents in the neighbourhood handed him over to the police and a case was registered against him. Now, for the last two months, after some differences with her husband, Gurmeet Kaur was staying in her parental home along with her kids. Heera Singh reached Faridkot today to take away her children and wife after a compromise. In the evening, he took his family in a car but returned after 30 minutes with the bullet ridden bodies of his wife and two children alleging that Babu Singh killed them on their way to Moga and attempted to kill him as well. Later, Heera Singh reached Babu Singh’s house to kill him but as Babu had already fled, Heera Singh shot himself dead. “Investigation is in progress,” said Bakhshish Singh, DSP Faridkot. Babu Singh is fleeing after the incident. The crime statistics of last six years (2005-10) of five districts of the region — Bathinda, Faridkot, Moga, Muktsar and Ferozepur — revealed that illicit relations is the main reason for the killings. It led to 231 murder incidents in the last six years in the five districts of southern Malwa region while land disputes led to 123 murders during the corresponding period, revealed the information procured under the
RTI. — TNS |
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Jail inmate dies, top cop rules out laxity
Ferozepur, September 17 Jail Superintendent Capt LS Jakhar said Madhu has not been well since the time she was lodged in the prison. He stated that earlier also she was sent to the civil hospital twice during her stay in the jail. Jakhar said Madhu underwent treatment in the hospital from August 24 to September 2. “Yesterday, her condition deteriorated again and she was immediately rushed to the civil hospital. However, she died on her way to the hospital,” he added. Jakhar claimed that there was no laxity on part of the jail authorities. Meanwhile, the relatives of the deceased today held a demonstration outside the jail demanding a thorough probe into the incident. Civil Hospital SMO Dr JS Sandhu said, “A board of three doctors was formed to conduct postmortem, which was also video graphed.” He added that the exact cause of the death could be ascertained after the final report of the postmortem. |
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Farmer dies in clash
Abohar, September 17 One Jagmeet Singh told the police in the emergency ward of the civil hospital here that the water entered his house as a tractor-trolley passed through the street speedily. His uncle objected to it. The family owning the vehicle later turned up wielding sharp-edged weapons and attacked him and his uncle Harpreet Singh. This followed counter attack. Harpreet Singh had to be referred to Sriganganagar but died on the way. — OC |
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3 lakh babies die of asphyxia in India
Bathinda, September 17 In this neo-natal resuscitation programme — First Golden Minute (NRFGM) Course, 40 doctors from Punjab represented different districts. They were given a special training to deal promptly and efficiently while handling newborns in order to prevent asphyxia and other complications during the neo-natal period. Dr HS Narang, president of the IAP, Punjab, and the course coordinator, said about one million babies die every year worldwide because of asphyxia, out of which about 3 lakh die in India. To overcome the situation, the IAP has launched this model project.
— TNS |
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Refinery staff gets training in safety
Bathinda, September 17 Nearly 60 participants from various establishments, including the NFL, the Hindustan Insecticides Ltd, the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, the GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat, also took part. Those who spoke on the occasion included RK Mahotra, manager (Fire & Safety), NFL; Sanjeev Verma, senior manager (Environment and Safety), Siel Chemicals, Rajpura; and Ian Thorpe, HMEL; besides Gill. A mock drill on emergency response procedures in the crude tank area was also carried out.
— TNS |
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Workshop for CAT aspirants
Bathinda, September 17 Harpreet Singh (IIM Ahmedabad), who is the president of the JRE Group of Institutions, Pawan Gupta (IIM Kozhikode), Sony Goyal (IIM Ahmedabad), stressed upon the need for
proper guidance. Ishant Goyal (IIM Ahmedabad), a gold medallist of his batch, shared his experience.
— TNS
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