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Youth shot dead for refusing to withdraw case against gang
Health services suffer as junior docs, nurses go on strike
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Two arrested for raping woman
Amritsar, November 11 A woman in her early twenties was allegedly raped by two youths, identified as Baljit Singh of Mohali and Ranbir Singh of Kangra (Himachal Pradesh), here last evening. The Gate Hakima police has arrested the two and registered a case under Sections 376, 309 and 34 of the IPC.
Too much for kabaddi, nothing for hockey
Proud parents on cloud 11
Dance troupe from Ecuador weaves magic
Members of a dance troupe from Ecuador pose with students and staff of Sri Guru Harkrishan Senior Secondary Public School in Amritsar. A Tribune photograph
SPCA makes MC hand over stray dogs
Need major programmes to stop pneumonia deaths, say experts
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Youth shot dead for refusing to withdraw case against gang
Amritsar, November 11 His house was located in the Judge Nagar area on the Batala Road falling under Mohkampura police station. The police has booked eight persons on the statement of deceased’s father Mohinder Singh. A case under Sections 302, 148 and 149 of the IPC and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act against the accused who were absconding. Those booked are Shelly, Jita, Billa, Teenu, Monu Bhahia and three unidentified persons. All of them allegedly have a criminal background. They were involved in many petty crimes in the area and had formed a gang headed by Monu. Monu and his gang members had a dispute with Jaspal Singh. Recently during a rally, Monu and his accomplices clashed with Jaspal following which he had lodged a complaint against them at Rambagh police station. Mohinder Singh said Monu was pressurising them to withdraw the case. However, Jaspal was adamant not to take do so. Enraged over this, the gang barged into their house yesterday. They thrashed and dragged Jaspal out of the house. Monu took out a pistol and shot at him. The bullets pierced his chest. The assailants fled the scene. He was immediately rushed to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, where he was declared dead. Parvesh Chopra, SHO, Mohkampura, said the accused would not be spared and raids were being conducted on their suspected hideouts.
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Health services suffer as junior docs, nurses go on strike
Amritsar, November 11 While junior resident doctors and staff nurses held a protest at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, the pharmacists organised a protest outside the Civil Surgeon office here today. The protests crippled the health services at the hospital between 11 am and Resident doctors from PCMS category and the hospital's own staff tried to make up for the lack of staff. Talking about the inconvenience caused to patients, Satvir Singh, a patient from Jandiala, said, "We have to wait for a long time at the hospital to get treatment. A substantial number of seats in the hospital were vacant as doctors (junior residents), nurses and pharmacists are out protesting." Another patient, Gurkirpal Singh, said, "The health services should not be allowed to be affected because of protests by employees. It is one of the rare sights that doctors are seen protesting. Normally it is the supporting staff that protest." Pritam Singh from Cheharrta said, "As elections are approaching, everybody has started bargaining with the government. It is the government which encourages the employees to halt services." Meanwhile, demanding revised and regular remuneration, postgraduate students of medical sciences at Government Medical College, who are also working as junior resident doctors at college's Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, initiated a protest today. Junior residents complained that they are not provided the stipend for their services regularly. First year PG students said they have not received their stipend for the last five months; the second and third year students said their stipend for the months of September and October is due. Junior residents alleged that they are being treated as "bonded labourers" and not doctors. Dr Sameer Garg, a junior resident said, "We are forced to borrow money from our contacts even for our petty needs. Can anybody believe that doctors have been turned into beggars because of government's apathy?" Kunvar Harsh, junior resident's association general secretary, said, "We have never been given salaries on time. Every year the first year students get their stipend after nine months." The association would be meeting Arunesh Sakir, the Minister for Medical Education and Research, on Saturday. Association president Dr Sneh Singal said, "Junior residents will stop all emergency, OPD and other services from 8 am tomorrow." Dr SS Shergill, Principal, Government Medical College, said postgraduate students, who work as junior resident doctors as well, constitute only 40 per cent of the resident doctors. He added with 60 per cent resident doctors from PCMS category and hospital's own staff, the medical services for patients would not suffer. Dr Shergill said, "Junior residents gave a notice about their demands only yesterday. In view of the services of patients, they should have given a notice at least 15 days in advance."
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Two arrested for raping woman
Amritsar, November 11 The victim, a resident of Murgi Mohalla, Batala (Gurdaspur), in her complaint said accused Baljit was known to her. Baljit and his friend Ranbir Singh had met her near Bharawan Da Dhaba when she was coming from the Golden Temple. She alleged that the accused took her to a house in Gali Devi wali in the walled city on some pretext and raped her. When she raised an alarm, people gathered outside the house. On seeing this, the accused threatened to kill her and poured kerosene on her. The police authorities said they had registered the case on the statement of the victim. Further investigations were under progress. “It was the people of the area who informed the police about the incident following which a police team was dispatched to the spot. Both the accused have been arrested,” said the SHO of Gate Hakima police station.
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Too much for kabaddi, nothing for hockey
Amritsar, November 11 The answer may lie in the forthcoming Assembly elections as the ruling SAD seems to be playing favourite to its rural electorates. Immediately after the formation of the SAD-BJP coalition government, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had announced to upgrade cricket stadiums to international standards in many cities of the state. However, the plan was dropped mid-way. And annual international kabaddi tournament was introduced from last year. Renovation and augmentation of infrastructure at Guru Nanak Dev University's hockey stadium has been stalled for the last month due to non-payment of the amount to the contractor. The civil work was given to a city-based GN Construction at Rs 3.6 crore. Company officials said they had carried out work of nearly Rs 3.35 crore and in return got only Rs 2.5 crore. They apprehended that their payment may be stuck for a longer period as the Assembly election was approaching. The construction company has raised the seating capacity from nearly 1,500 to 5,000 seats and constructed seven rooms, dope test laboratory, pavilion's canopy, separate toilets for men, women and handicapped. Work remains incomplete at the main entrance. As per the original plan the hockey stadium was to be converted into a day and night venue with another investment of Rs 2.17 crore for floodlights, taking the total investment to Rs six crore. The GND University holds the distinction of being the first university in the country to have received astroturf in 1982. University sports director Dr Kanwaljit Singh said prolonging construction work could damage the costly astroturf. He said though the synthetic mat has been covered properly, soil can spoil the mat. Earlier, construction work was supposed to be completed on August 31. Another historic Gandhi ground, established in 1932 with the generous donation from Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala and the then Punjab government of undivided India, is also without floodlights. AGA honorary secretary Mohit Khanna said Rs five-crore plan was approved by the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) with funding from the state government, PCA and AGA. He said there was no response from the state government on this count. Hence, the work could not progress. Spread on 22 acres, during the British Raj, then the cricket ground was known as Alexandra ground. Subsequently, Guru Nanak Stadium, badminton hall, AGA Club, Cosmo Club, Virsa Vihar and others were formed out of it. The cricket stadium is now limited to nine acres.
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Proud parents on cloud 11
Amritsar, November 11 Though the baby was born by a caesarean section, Mahajan said it was because of the some complication that doctors had to decide on operation instead of a normal delivery. Even as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan did not deliver a baby on November 11, 2011 or simply 11/11/11 as speculated by media reports, it surely had added weight to the hoopla of auspiciousness of the day. Apart from Chand, around a dozen women, who delivered babies at the government hospitals on 11/11/11, a once in a lifetime numerical occurrence, felt euphoric for stepping into the world of motherhood on this day. With twin boys in her lap, Payal from Lohgarh seemed to be the happiest among the lot. Payal's husband, Vikrant, an embroiderer, said, "My wife gave birth to a baby boy at 8.40 am today. The second one came at 9.05 am."
He said his family was lucky to have two baby boys on this "auspicious day". Yograj Kumar, whose wife delivered a baby boy at 7 am today, said, "People don't forget to mention today's date when they congratulate me. We are feeling so special this day." Raj Kumari, wife of Hem Raj from village Attari, who delivered a baby boy at 12:14 pm, said she is feeling very lucky. "I believe that the particular time at which a child enters this world impacts his or her destiny. As my son has arrived on this auspicious day I believe he would become a 'big man'." Another woman Devinder Kaur gave birth to a baby girl at the local Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Civil Hospital. Her husband Harpreet Singh said, "We hope that child brings good luck to all of us. We pray for her good health and prosperity." He added that he feels lucky to have entered fatherhood on this day.
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From Schools and Colleges
Amritsar, November 11 Wearing colourful costumes, the visitors from the South American country enthralled students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the school with their lively performances. The cultural programmed was jointly organised by the Punjab Cultural Promotion Council (PCPC) and the host school. The visiting cultural delegation was led by Tierra-Negra International Folk Ensemble Director Carlos Jonathan Minota. He also held a dance workshop for students of the host school and taught them various folk dances of Latin America. PCPC director Dr Davinder Singh Chhina said the visitors would present international folk dance panorama during 'Khalsa College International Folk Festival - 2011' from November 12. Course on self raising
Khalsa College for Women today organised a motivational course on 'Self Raising'. TS Madaan delivered a lecture and answered queries of students. He said the purpose of the course was to infuse self-confidence amongst students to excel in their career. NCC camp from today
Over 400 NCC cadets from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Tarn Taran are expected to take part in the 10-day NCC camp being organised by the first Punjab Girls Battalion NCC at SN College from tomorrow. Col NN Bhattacharjee, Camp Commandant, said the cadets would be imparted training in weapons and drills. He added that special emphasis would be given on map reading and shooting. The cadets would take out rallies against drug abuse, female foeticide, anti-dowry and environment awareness during the camp.
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SPCA makes MC hand over stray dogs
Finding it tough to keep stray dogs away from the venue of the tournament, the district administration directed the AMC to remove these animals. A member of the SPCA, Sehaj Gulati, said AMC employees took away the birth control vehicle for animals belonging to Blue Cross at 9 am which made them suspicious about their intentions. "Otherwise, dog catching staff conduct operations early morning", she said. She said the SPCA members chased the AMC staff and intercepted them near Guru Nanak Stadium. She said the AMC staff managed to catch 10 stray dogs, including six puppies. She claimed that timely intervention forced the corporation employees to hand over these animals to the SPCA. She said had not they intervened these stray dogs might have been released out of the city. Another senior member of the SPCA Kiran Kanaujiya said that as per the section 11-A of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act it was illegal to catch and displace stray animals. MC Commissioner Dharampal Gupta said the teams of corporation were dispatched in and around the venue of the Kabaddi World Cup to catch dogs. He said thorough procedure was followed while catching stray animals.
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Need major programmes to stop pneumonia deaths, say experts
Amritsar, November 11 Dr Karnail Singh, medical superintendent, Guru Nanak Dev Hospital and head of pediatric department, Government Medical College said although governments are taking many initiatives, but given the higher number of deaths in the country, it should include the vaccination for pneumonia under National Immunization Programme. Besides, he said the people should necessarily complete all the vaccination including measles, DPT, BCG of the children below five years of age which helps in prevention of pneumonia. Ironically, there is no particular data about Punjab or Amritsar, but the problem is still very worrying as it is huge number. “Pneumonia kills more children than AIDS, measles and Malaria combined together,” informed Dr Naresh Grover, eminent pediatrician. Among the major reasons of pneumonia is low birth weight and malnutrition.
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In a shocking incident, a youth was shot dead in front of his father by several unscrupulous persons who have an old enmity with him late last evening.
Amritsar, November 11
Amritsar, November 11
Amritsar, November 11
Amritsar, November 11