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Come out and vote for your rights;
poster campaign exhorts residents
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BJP-Cong blame game on as 294 boxes of liquor seized
Officials with the liquor boxes seized in Amritsar on Saturday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
3 held for trader’s murder
One held for smuggling drugs in vegetable’ truck
The truck from which the contraband was seized in Amritsar on Saturday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Teaching of Punjabi; Puar panel lists changes
‘Adhe Adhure’, a complete story
Lillette Dubey, Mohan Aghashe in Adhe Adhure stag ed at theatre festival in Amritsar on Saturday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Varsity denies info to prof under RTI
Education Dept official not releasing documents: Teacher
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Come out and vote for your rights;
poster campaign exhorts residents
Amritsar, January 14 Posters with slogans in Punjabi, announcing messages like every 18-year-old should have voter identity card, cast ballots and take care of the country, and utilise your voting right and stop cribbing.
Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer, Rajat Aggarwal, said with the help of the volunteers of the NYK and youth clubs these posters were being pasted in various parts of the city and villages as well. He said the ECI was trying to encourage people to take part in the assembly elections enthusiastically. In this regard, a poster made from drawing by a Class X student of Government High School Dobhetta, Roopnagar, Anil Kumar with the slogan “Tuhadi vote Tuhadi Awaaz” (your vote is your voice) was pasted outside the office of Deputy Commissioner. The poster has been released by Chief Election Officer, Punjab. NYK Co-ordinator Tejinder Singh Raja said the Amritsar was divided in nine parts and one to two NYK volunteers have been appointed in each of them. Besides, four volunteers from various walks of life, including, advocates, social service and others have been taken to hold seminars in colleges and paste posters at vantage locations in the city. He said work was on to paste posters at places like the railway station, bus stand, Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh etc to reach as many people as possible. He said seminars were being held at various places in which experts and local educated and enlightened people were allowed to speak. He said the electorates were being told to cast their votes without being influenced by monetary interest, political, religious and caste affiliations. He said the NYK will install posters in 450 villages. He said villages of Baba Bakala, Ramdas, Majitha and Attari have been covered.
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Constituency Watch Manmeet Singh Gill Tribune News Service
Amritsar, January 14
The Maqboolpura area with a population of 25,000 is the most backward area in the entire constituency. The area had been in news for drug habits of its residents. A local woman, Namo mai had lost six of his sons to drugs. The old woman is living with his only living son. There are others too who had lost family members to drugs. The area is backward on the socio-economic front. Residents complain of bad streets and sewerages. They also complain that they have no jobs. The families mostly poor complain that their sons have lost aim because of government apathy. The East Mohan nagar in the locality, which once used to be an industrial hub, has now been taken over by the marriage places. "The industry has been wiped out, but the marriage palaces do not generate much jobs," rued a resident. The rural areas in the constituency, such as Verka, are not too well off. Even as the sitting MLA Dalbir Singh hailed from Verka, the area has not seen much development. The constituency includes areas as Tehsilpura, Kangra colony and Batala road. The Mehta road, whose re-pavement was inaugurated with much fanfare by the local MP, lacked attention for the past seven years. Residents rue that had it not been for the elections, the construction of road could have been delayed further. "It had not been paved for last seven years. The lives of people here was really miserable," commented a resident. Fact File The Amritsar east constituency was newly carved. No MLA has taken interest in the development of the area as constituency came into being post delimitation. The constituency has 1,23,633 voters out of which 65, 733 are males and 57, 890 are females. Cong makes it a triangular fight
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BJP-Cong blame game on as 294 boxes of liquor seized
Amritsar, January 14 Congress candidate Karamjit Singh Rintu leveled serious allegations and alleged that the liquor belonged to the BJP candidate Anil Joshi, Joshi claimed that Rintu was playing dirty politics as the Congress had no issues based on which to contest the elections. He refuted charges that the liquor belonged to him and said that he had no role in the entire episode. The excise department, along with the police has seized 294 boxes containing 12 bottles of liquor each following a complaint lodged by the Congress supporters with the state election commission. The election commission had deputed Deputy Commissioner-cum-district election officer besides directing the police commissioner to reach the spot to conduct the raid. Rintu in a press conference held here alleged that they had informed the police authorities about the presence of a huge quantity of liquor in the building which they seized after being tipped by the supporters of Anil Joshi. However, the police officials turned a blind eye and were not taking any action in this connection, he alleged. “We had to lodge complaints with the Election Commission of India and Punjab which forced them to take action," said Rintu. The police also found objectionable material at the building. He said it was under the pressure from the public that the police got the gate of the building opened where about 300 boxes of liquor had been kept besides other objectionable material. He said the building belonged to Joshi’s confidante Balwinder Singh Tung. Joshi refuted the charges. Police Commissioner, R P Mittal said the police was acting as per the law. "We cannot raid any residential building without search warrants. So we have decided to seal the building and then search it in the morning," said Mittal.
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3 held for trader’s murder
Amritsar, January 14 A resident of Preet Nagar locality, Gaurav was found murdered near the historic Rambagh garden on January 5. Earlier, the police had registered an accident case in this regard. However, later the police registered a murder case following the post-mortem report which confirmed that the victim had been stabbed to death. The accused include Vinod Kumar and Baldev Kumar, both residents of Chhota Haripura and Kuldip Kumar of Guru Nanak Pura. With their arrest the police also claimed to have solved two more robbery cases, including the case in which an army head constable was looted when he was returning to his unit. RP Mittal, police commissioner said during investigations the police team had found the mobile phone belonging to Gaurav missing. The CIA staff laid a naka near Gawal Mandi Chowk and nabbed the three accused along with a stolen motorcycle. Their interrogation led to the recovery of pistols, sharp-edged weapons besides charas and narcotic powder from their possession. The accused have confessed to their crime, he said. The police has also seized two .12 and .33-bore pistols with five live cartridges, two mobile phones and a stolen motorcycle besides 260 gram of intoxicant drugs from Vinod, 320 grams and 260 grams of Charas from Kuldeep and Baldev, respectively. The accused had stabbed Gaurav to death before taking away his belongings while he was on his way home from the railway station. He used to go to Ludhiana regarding his business dealings. During interrogation it was found that the same gang was involved in assaulting and looting a Head Constable SK Singh attached with Field Workshop Company of 615 Battalion besides they had snatched a mobile from a passerby from near Rego Bridge. The accused have been booked under Section 379-B, 379, 411 IPC, 25/54/59 of the Arms Act and 20/61/85 of the NDPC Act. Official speak The mobile phone belonging to Gaurav was found missing. The CIA staff laid a naka near Gawal Mandi Chowk and nabbed the three accused along with a stolen motorcycle. Their interrogation led to the recovery of pistols, sharp-edged weapons besides charas and narcotic powder from their possession. The accused have confessed to their crime — RP Mittal, Police Commissioner, Amritsar
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One held for smuggling drugs in vegetable’ truck
Amritsar, January 14 The incident came to light with the arrest of Rajinder Singh, the accused truck driver and his accomplice Iqbal Singh of Kot Mit Singh area at Sultanwind road here. The police also seized 600 grams of heroin worth Rs 3 crore and Rs 1.65 lakh of Indian currency from their possession. Investigations revealed that the accused had recently smuggled 1 kg of heroin (worth Rs 5 crore in the international market) hidden in a special cavity beneath the truck from Pakistan about a week back. Iqbal Singh allegedly acted as an agent. The accused have sold 400 gram of heroin so far. Police Commissioner, Amritsar, RP Mittal, said Rajinder Singh has been transporting goods to Pakistan for the past three years. He came in contact with a labourer Muhammad Jaan in Lahore who acted as a conduit between the smugglers and him. The police has also impounded the truck used in smuggling and a China-made electronic weighing scale used to weigh the contraband. He said the accused have been taken on remand and further investigations were under progress. He said other agencies had also been involved to conduct the investigations in the case. A case under Section 21/22/61/85 of the NDPS Act has been registered in this regard.
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Teaching of Punjabi; Puar panel lists changes
Amritsar, January 14 In the light of converting the three-year courses into six-semester format, the GND University had proposed to introduce certain amendments in the course. It was alleged that the move had reportedly curtailed Punjabi from some of the subject combinations. In the proposed elective subject combinations, Punjabi was excluded in the options’ segment for students who opt for combinations like Economics/ history/ social science/ public administration/ psychology/ computer science/ home science/ geography/ defence studies/ music/ philosophy, etc. It was only following the note of dissent raised by Punjabi littérateurs, including teachers of the GNDU’s School of Punjabi Studies, the university authorities, stalled the proposal. Following this, a high-powered committee was formed to review the move. V-C Prof AS Brar said the recommendations of the committee have been received and forwarded to the Board of Studies. Brar said Punjabi will command its due status as in the past. “The process is on to introduce need-based changes in the syllabus but there was never an attempt to curtail Punjabi. It was also proposed to divide the courses into semester mode and to make amendments accordingly. The best of Punjabi littérateurs were called in to study the new pattern of syllabus and give us their expert opinion on how the subject of Punjabi language should be included in the syllabus of the undergraduate classes and they did,” he said.
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‘Adhe Adhure’, a complete story
Amritsar, January 14 Bringing the story to city audiences, Dubey’s The Primetime Theatre Company had noted actors Mohan Agashe, Ira dubey, Rajiv Sidharth and Anuschka Sawhney giving outstanding performances. A story that revolves around a middle-class family on the verge of collapse, exploring the fragmentation and incompleteness within themselves and the protagonist as a woman caught between her destiny and circumstances. After staging the play for almost 42 years, does the theme hold relevance today? “It’s like a beautiful Greek tragedy where Savitri feels trapped between what she wants to do and what she decides to do. It is powerful with its characters, form and content making it a classic,” she says.
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Varsity denies info to prof under RTI
Amritsar, January 14 In a case pertaining to one of its professor of Department of Commerce and Business Management, Dr GS Bhalla, who was issued a show-cause notice prior to his termination for being reportedly negligent in performing his duties, the university issued him a notice on January 11, 2012, that he should submit his reply within a stipulated period of 15 days, but his request for seeking any document under RTI Act would not be entertained. He has been warned that if he failed to submit his reply, an ex-parte decision will be taken against him. Dr GS Bhalla was allegedly held guilty of committing gross error of judging performance of eight students of MBA batch (4th semester, July-December 2010), who were not even in class while awarding the internal assessment, there by flouting credit-based evaluation norms. Taking it into account, the university had served him a notice (on June 9, 2011) to explain his position, before terminating his services. Bhalla had then sought for some documents pertaining to certification of students already done during the period of January-December 2010, which the GNDU had refused to provide.
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Education Dept official not releasing documents: Teacher
Amritsar, January 14 Now, the Government Teachers Union (GTU) has also put its weight behind Baldev Raj and mulled to gherao the official. Gurdip Singh Bajwa, president, GTU, Amritsar, said it was another example of teachers being victimised for no valid reason. He said the official has also been victimising some other retired officials. Bajwa said, “The union is mulling an agitation as the official is not ready to listen to us.” Baldev Raj said earlier the same officer took nearly two years to send his service book following his transfer from Verka to Jandiala block, his present place of posting. He said he was scheduled to retire after putting in over 33 years of service in the next month. He said documents were necessary to pay his entire dues after retirement.
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Seizure of a huge quantity of liquor from a building located in Kamla Nagar of Fatehgarh Churian today sparked a war of words between Congress and BJP candidates from the Amritsar North constituency here.
Congress candidate Karamjit Singh Rintu leveled serious allegations and alleged that the liquor belonged to the BJP candidate Anil Joshi, Joshi claimed that Rintu was playing dirty politics as the Congress had no issues based on which to contest the elections. 
In yet another incident a truck driver, engaged in transporting vegetables to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah land route, has been found involved in the smuggling of drugs.
The incident came to light with the arrest of Rajinder Singh, the accused truck driver and his accomplice Iqbal Singh of Kot Mit Singh area at Sultanwind road here.
A classic story of a middle class family, dissected with precision and a protagonist so complex that her helplessness seemed like one of her strengths. The third day of the 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav belonged to the play ‘Adhe Adhure’, a classic written by Mohan Rakesh that has taken the world of theatre by storm. Bringing it out with brilliance was actor Lilette Dubey, director of the play and also played the lead character of Savitri.
The Congress seems to have added to its woes in this constituency by changing its candidate and turning the contest into a triangular fight. The party had first allotted ticket to Simarpreet Kaur Bhatia, wife of Congress leader Harpal Singh Bhatia, who died in a road mishap a few days back. However, it later replaced her with former Mayor Sunil Datti. Interestingly, the Congress had moved Jasbir Singh Dimpa, who was a strong contender from Amritsar (East) to Amritsar (South) to accommodate Simarpreet. With the party fielding Datti, Simarpreet has entered the poll fray as an Independent candidate, which is bound to divide the Congress vote in the constituency. Simarpreet may garner sympathy votes due to untimely demise of
Harpal.
