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Altercation between friends claims life
Colleague, two former employees arrested
Amritsar youth electrocuted in Model Town
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Gold jewellery snatched
Bovine problem stalks Surya Enclave residents
JIT gets 2,520 applications for 431 plots
Only 2 pc youth aware of Jan Lok Pal Bill: Survey
St Soldiers inks pact with UK college
‘Media students need better
training’
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Altercation between friends claims life
Jalandhar, September 19 The accused has been identified as Shabi, a tempo driver. He was staying in the village with his father, Prem Lal, and other family members. The SHO, Sadar police station, Hardyal Singh, revealed that Kiran was stabbed to death by Shabi. Kiran’s body had two wounds in his chest, close to the heart. The exact cause of the murder, however, could not be ascertained as yet. The profusely bleeding Kiran was rushed to a private hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries on the way, the SHO said. Sources in the village revealed that Shabi and Kiran were friends and residing with their families in rented accommodations in the village. Meenu said Kiran had gone to the market to buy some household commodities last night as they were having some guests. As Kiran did not return for a long time, Meenu launched a search along with some other residents of the area. The residents found critically injured Kiran lying along a road near the village market and subsequently the police was informed. The SHO revealed that Sabi and his family had been absconding since after the incident. The body was handed over to the family members after postmortem at the Civil Hospital this evening. The police had registered a case of murder under Sections 302 of the IPC against Sabi and his family members on Meenu’s complaint at Sadar police station.
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Colleague, two former employees arrested
Jalandhar, September 19 The attack was made by his colleague in connivance with two former employees of the same firm, the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), City-I, R.K. Sharma, revealed. Taking clues from the crime scene and following the information provided by the victim, a police team, led by the SHO, New Baradari police station, Onkar Singh, could arrest the assailants. R.K. Sharma disclosed that Amandeep Singh, a supervisor of the field staff of the agency, Shamsher Singh and Baldev Singh, residents of Pandori Gola village of Tarn Taran district hatched a conspiracy against Deepak as they had been having grudges against him since long. Amandeep Singh, a resident of Gurdaspur, was jealous of Deepak’s good relations with Ram Pal, owner of the agency, and was aiming to grab his position, while his accomplices Shamsher Singh and Baldev Singh wanted to teach Deepak a lesson as they were shown door by the agency for their nonperformance. The company had even held back certain amount of their salaries in this connection, Sharma added. The ADCP said on Thursday night, the trio had drinks together somewhere, muffled their faces and then barged into the office of the agency, located on the third floor of a building in Sant Nagar. They attacked Deepak with two hockey sticks and considering him dead left him in a pool of blood. During questioning, the ADCP said the trio admitted to have attacked Deepak under the influence of liquor. They, however, clarified that they wanted to teach him a lesson, but crossed limits as were in an inebriated state, Sharma added. The police had registered a case against unidentified persons on Ram Pal’s complaint at the New Baradari police station on Friday afternoon for an attack on Deepak Gupta. |
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Amritsar youth electrocuted in Model Town
Jalandhar, September 19 The police said Judge had climbed on a boundary wall of the dera when he accidentally touched a high-tension electricity cable passing from above. He was electrocuted to death. The police handed over the body to the family members after postmortem. The police has initiated inquest proceedings in the case on the complaint of the victim’s family.
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Illegal plying of tractor-trailers reason for many fatal accidents in the city
Jalandhar, September 19 Tractor-trailer, loaded with soil, sand, brick and other building materials, are plying illegally in various parts of the city, including areas from PAP Chowk to Maqsoodan on the National Highway No 1, Nakodar road, Sodal road, Devi Talab Mandir road, Avtar Nagar road and Domoria bridge road. Interestingly, some of these tractor-trailers keep on plying during the daytime in those old parts of the city where the entry of heavy vehicles is prohibited from 8 am to 8 pm. Apart from yesterday accident, which claimed Charanpreet Singh’s life, a number of fatal accident involving tractor-trailers have taken place in the past. According to information, the tractor trailers having yellow number plate may be used for commercial purposes, while tractor-trailers used for agricultural purposes cannot be used for commercial purposes, except than agriculture-related purposes. However, many of such tractor-trailers are being used for carrying soil, sand, bricks and other building materials openly.
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Gold jewellery snatched
Jalandhar, September 19 The incident occurred at about 11 pm when Ankit Yadav and his mother Vijay Laxmi were on their way to home in a car and a gang of armed robbers stopped them. After heated arguments with the car occupants, one of the robbers tried to pull out keys of the vehicle. As Ankit resisted, the robber attacked Ankit with a dagger on his head leaving him seriously injured. Other members of the gang also attacked Vijay Laxmi. The injured Vijay Laxmi complained that the miscreants snatched a gold ring from Ankit and gold chain and earrings from her and sped away. The injured raised an alarm, following which the area residents assembled there and rushed them to the Civil Hospital. The police has registered a case on Vijay Laxmi’s complaint.
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Bovine problem stalks Surya Enclave residents
Jalandhar, September 19 The residents claim that the animals entered in big herds and were a big menace for them because they not only blocked roads but also soiled them. The parks in the colony are in a very bad condition. Wild shrubs abound and even block the jogging track. The boundary wall is broken and there are no swings in the parks. Pritam Singh, a resident, said that the growth of shrubs was so much that he had forbidden his children not to play even around the park as the presence of reptiles could not be ruled out in this season. Satbir Singh, another resident, pointed out that the MC and JIT officials need to sort out the cattle problem. “The MC officials must ensure that there are no dairies within the city areas. The JIT officials, on the other hand, need to take up the matter with the MC or get a wall constructed on the backside to prevent the entry of animals”, he lamented. Assa Singh, who had come to graze his cattle, claimed that dairy farmers in the area were awaiting an award from JIT as their land was in the process of being acquired for the setting up Surya Enclave Extension. SE, JIT, Mukul Soni, said that a pact had been signed last month with the residents’ society of Surya Enclave for the upkeep of 14 parks in the colony. “The maintenance has been entrusted with the society which will be reimbursed Rs 1.30 per sq metre per month from the JIT,” the SE said. He added that the agreement had been done in view of the shortage of staff being faced by the Trust.
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JIT gets 2,520 applications for 431 plots
Jalandhar, September 19 Of the total plots, there are 66 of 100 sq yard area, 50 of 153 sq yard area, 130 of 200 sq yard area, 65 of 250 sq yard area, 65 of 250 sq yard area, 66 of 356 sq yard area and 54 plots of 500 sq yard area. The residents had been asked to pay up 10 per cent of the total area as earnest money which has been financed 100 per cent by an authorised bank. While the Trust is in the process of acquiring land in Qazi Mandi, Santoshi Nagar and adjoining areas by paying up an award of Rs 1.28 lakh per marla, the per marla sale charges come to 4.25 lakh. The officials have been claiming that 40 per cent of the acquired area would go as roads, parks, community parks and other facilities. In addition, the Trust will also be spending money for development purposes, said SE of JIT, Mukul Soni. One of the best proposals of the scheme is to connect the 120-feet road from Maharaja Ranjit Singh Enclave to Domoria Bridge, the process for which has started. The passage will be of much use to the residents of Chogitti, Ladhewali, Lamma Pind Chowk, Pathankot bypass and other adjoining areas who would be able to cross over to the other side of the city in a shorter period of time. Another proposal is all the encroachments on the other side of the railway station would be removed to facilitate double-side entry to benefit the residents on that side of the old city.
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Khalsa College bags grade A accreditation from NAAC
Jalandhar, September 19 With this distinction, the college has joined the league of top three multi-faculty degree colleges of the country. The other two colleges in this list are KLE Societies Nigalingappa College, Bangalore, with a score of 3.82 CGPA followed by Shri Bhagwan Mahavir Jain College, Bangalore, with a 3.80 CGPA score. Khalsa College scored 3.74 CGPA in re-accreditation. College principal Dr Jaspal Singh Randhawa said Khalsa College is the only institution in the northern, eastern and western India to have achieved a high score of 3.74 CGPA. “During its three-day visit to the college in July, the NAAC peer team assessed the institution on seven parameters, including teaching and learning, research, consultancy and extension, student support, progression and governance and leadership in particular,” he added. The NAAC team appreciated the efforts of the college in starting research in the subjects related to the society and culture of the region. At present the college is running four research centers on the college campus namely Sri Guru Granth Sahib Adhyan Centre, Immigrant Literature Centre, Historian Studies and Centre for Sciences. Dr Randhawa said the research findings of these centers would be published soon while efforts were on to encourage more teachers to take up research projects. “As teaching, learning and research are inter-linked we have spent Rs 50 lakh on various research initiatives last year President of the College Governing Council, Balbir Kaur said in the coming days the college would start skill-based courses catering to the needs of the students belonging to the financially-weaker sections of the society. It may be mentioned here that the college is providing quality education to more than 6,000 students, including 2,600 girls in the region. The college is also a name to reckon with in the field of sports winning the Guru Nanak Dev University Sports Championship 11 times
consecutively. It conducts 13 PG, 13 diploma and certificate courses with evening classes and distance programmes as well. About the possibility of the college governing uncil starting a university, Principal Dr Randhawa said, “The file is pending with the state government. Whenever we get the green signal a new university at a separate site in the city would come up as a centre of excellence,” he added. |
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Only 2 pc youth aware of Jan Lok Pal Bill: Survey
Jalandhar, September 19 The survey highlighted that the youth was hardly aware of even the name of the Lokpal of Punjab, DS Dhaliwal. As many as 100 college students were selected randomly to analyse the Lokpal and political awareness among them. As many as 60 per cent of the youth could not even name the Vice President of India and few of them were even ignorant of the fact that such a post exists. “Several students pursuing post-graduation courses named Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and Montek Singh Ahluwalia as occupants of this post," she added. Again a large number of city youth, around 41 per cent were unable to answer the name the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. “We also got to hear funny answers like the names Mamata Banerji and Rahul Gandhi as occupants of the post the Lok Sabha Speaker. This shows that the youth is least interested. Only 23 per cent were able to answer the question about the number of Assembly seats in the state,” according to the survey. Professor Namrata Joshi said it seems that the Commissioner of Jalandhar Division does not enjoy much popularity among the youth as only two per cent respondents could recall his name. “The survey also had questions to gauge the political mindset of youth but the result was dismal,” she added. She said the survey has revealed that 43 per cent of the respondents took part in rallies and campaigns on issues concerning the Lokpal Bill but with zero knowledge about the cause and its need. About the major issues concerning the youth, corruption led the chart with 35 per cent youth expressed concern regarding it followed by the faulty education system with 22 per cent, unemployment with 14 per cent. “Only 42 per cent of the youngsters use their voting power and more than 51 per cent spend their time watching movies, television and listening to news channels and reading newspapers,” Namrata added. She said he department has now decided to ask students to do a dissertation on this same topic but with a larger sample base. “Such surveys should be conducted by the students to find out the status of so called change in the society," she added. As many as 60 per cent of the youth could not even name the Vice President of India and few of them were even ignorant of the fact that such a post exists. Many students pursuing postgraduation courses named Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and Montek Singh Ahluwalia as occupants of this post. The survey also had questions to gauge the political mindset of youth but the result was
dismal. — Professor Namrata Joshi, Departmen t of Mass Communication, GND varsity regional campus
An eye-opener
Only 42 per cent of the youngsters use their voting power and more than 51 per cent spend their time watching movies, television and listening to news channels and reading newspapers. |
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St Soldiers inks pact with UK college
Jalandhar, September 19 The MoU was today signed by the chairman of St Soldier Group, Anil Chopra, and Dawn Ward, chief executive and principal, Burton and South Derbyshire College. Addressing mediapersons, Professor Manhar Arora said the aim of the MoU was to enter into a strategic link encompassing a variety of educational, technical and academic initiatives of mutual benefits to the students of both the institutions. The MoU would remain valid for an initial period of three years and would be extended further through a mutual agreement. Dawn Ward said the MoU would give Indian students especially from Punjab to study in various foreign colleges in the UK. |
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‘Media students need better
training’
Jalandhar, September 19 Dr Kamlesh Singh Duggal, head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Centre, Jalandhar, said during a conference on 'Changing Face of Journalism in India' held at the University of Westminster, London on September 12. He was the only teacher from Punjab and presented a paper on 'Media Education & Industry Linkage: Need of the Hour'.
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Jalandhar, September 19
Jalandhar, September 19
