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Woman kills son, self
Hoshiarpur, November 23
A housewife committed suicide after killing her one-and-a-half-year-old son at Mohalla Balmik, near Clock Tower here.

Students continue strike, hold protest
Nawanshahr, November 23
Students of BLM Girls College under the aegis of the Punjab Students Union (PSU) continued their strike against the exorbitant charging of fee and imposition of fines consecutively for the fifth day here today.

Students take out a protest march against increase in fees in Nawanshahr on Wednesday. Photo by writer

Rs 1 lakh, gold chain snatched
Nawanshahr, November 23
The police has registered a case under Sections 356 and 379 of the IPC against two youth, Madur aka Nona of Mohalla Vaidan and Gagadeep Bhatia of Ambedkar Nagar, for allegedly snatching a gold chain of Madhu of Mohalla Ummattan.

• Science exhibition ends

Woman kills son, self
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, November 23
A housewife committed suicide after killing her one-and-a-half-year-old son at Mohalla Balmik, near Clock Tower here.

The police has booked deceased Manjit Kaur’s husband Sunil Kumar, resident of Balmik Mohalla, Clock Tower, under Section 306 of the IPC last night.

According to police sources, Manjit Kaur’s borther Ranjit Singh, resident of Fatehpur, Kapurthala, stated that his sister was married with Sunil Kumar about four and a half years ago. She had twin sons. On Monday, she committed suicide after killing her son Aryan following alleged torturing by her husband. She hanged herself from the ceiling of a room at her house after killing her son Aryan by hitting him on the head with a iron rod.

Students continue strike, hold protest
Parmod Bharti

Nawanshahr, November 23
Students of BLM Girls College under the aegis of the Punjab Students Union (PSU) continued their strike against the exorbitant charging of fee and imposition of fines consecutively for the fifth day here today.

The students took out a protest march in the town and gheraoed the office of the president of the college managing committee at Kothi Road.

Gurmukh Singh Mann, state PSU president, while addressing the protest rally, said the state government had not only been imposing cuts in the grant-in-aid of the privately managed government-aided colleges, but also imposed a ban on the recruitment. Due to this, the privately managed government-aided colleges had been facing acute fiscal deficit. These colleges were being forced to charge exorbitant fee and funds from students to make up for the cut in grants and pay salaries to the staff arranged by them against the posts lying vacant.

Manpreet Kaur, president of the college unit of the PSU, accused the college authorities of causing harassment to the students by imposing hefty fines, like Rs 100 per day as late fee fine.

The students had submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner in this regard, but nothing concrete had been done so far. The student leader threatened to gherao the office of the Deputy Commissioner, if the hefty fines imposed by the college authorities were not withdrawn immediately.

Meenakshi Sharma, Principal of the college, said the issue would soon be resolved amicably.

Rs 1 lakh, gold chain snatched
Our Correspondents

Nawanshahr, November 23
The police has registered a case under Sections 356 and 379 of the IPC against two youth, Madur aka Nona of Mohalla Vaidan and Gagadeep Bhatia of Ambedkar Nagar, for allegedly snatching a gold chain of Madhu of Mohalla Ummattan. A case has been registered on the basis of the complaint lodged by Ram Kumar Ummat, brother-in-law of the victim.

Hoshiarpur: Two unidentified persons, after assaulting Balraj Singh with an iron rod, snatched a bag containing Rs 1 lakh cash, a mobile phone and some other documents near Khadiala Sainian village yesterday evening.

According to the police, Balraj Singh was going to Khadiala Sainian village to deliver the said amount to his daughter.

The Dasuya police has booked Sandip Kumar, Deepak Kumar, both of Garhdiwala, and Jiwan Kumar of Chhagla under Sections 356 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Science exhibition ends

Nawanshahr: A two-day district-level science exhibition on “Science, environment and society”, organised by the State Institute of Science Education (SISE) in collaboration with the district Education Department, concluded at Doaba Arya Senior Secondary School here today. As many as 500 students belonging to different schools participated. As many as 150 models on different sub-themes were presented by students. — OC