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Woman found dead in factory
Anupam, the owner of the factory, where the body was found, gives details about the incident in Jalandhar on Saturday. Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Traffic police to videograph overloading of school vehicles
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Miss Pooja apologises for ‘offending’ music lovers
Two crack Haryana Judicial Services exam
Students get bunk happy
Bumpy ride for residents, authorities pass the buck
MC’s toilet project near school flayed
Public toilets being constructed right near the entrance of Government Elementary School in Jalandhar on Saturday.
Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh
From Schools
Talk on lifestyle diseases held
3 held with 28 kg of poppy husk
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Woman found dead in factory
Jalandhar, February 18 The woman’s body was lying in a pool of blood. Her throat had marks of injuries caused from sharp edged weapons. The police had also recovered a scissor with blood spots. It is suspected that the woman stabbed herself to death with the same scissor. After preliminary investigation, the police registered a case of abetment of suicide. Anupam, the owner of the factory, told the police that last night the deceased came to the factory alleging that her landlord has been teasing her and she didn’t want to live there. She requested him to allow her to sleep in the factory. “This morning, the factory employees found the room locked from inside,” the factory owner said. The police opened the door and found the woman dead, said Investigating Officer Baljinder Singh. On the statement of factory owner Anupan Kumar, a case of abetment of suicide has been registered against Rajesh Kumar, a landlord of the house where the deceased lived. The police said the accused is absconding. |
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Traffic police to videograph overloading of school vehicles
Jalandhar, February 18
“We have mulled a strategy to curb the rampant violations by school vehicles, which put lives of schoolchildren at risk. Initially, we will start the programme on a small level and if it is successful, it will be implemented throughout the city,” S Bhupti, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said. The ACP said after video graphing the overloaded vehicles, the recording would be sent to the school managements. The purpose of sending the recording to the schools is to make them aware about the violations, the ACP said. He added that the school managements would be instructed to apprised children’s parents about the violations. They would also be asked to make some alternative arrangement to ferry students safely to home or face action. “On Friday, we videographed and challened some overloaded vehicles,” the ACP said. Balwinder Kaur, inspector, traffic police, said if the school management fails to take any precautionary step, strict action would be taken against the school authorities. It is to mention here that few days ago, a 10-year-old school children was killed when an overloaded autorickshaw overturned.
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Amritsar shootout leaves its mark in dist govt schools
Jalandhar, February 18 Following the incident, various government school principals in the district expressed deep concern over the rising incidents of clashes, especially in government schools. Raj Singh, principal of a government school at Nakodar, said, “Now, students hardly respect teachers.” Kulwinder Singh Sarian, principal of a government school at Bundala village, blamed lack of moral education for the rise in clashes among students. “A decade ago, there were no major clashes among students. Now, students don’t desist from arguing with their teachers. It is high time that we morally educate students,” he said. With government abolishing the concept of punishment, students fear for nothing, he said. Geet Singh, a principal in government school at Jandiala, said, “Earlier students used to address teachers as ‘master ji or guru ji’, but now some unruly students not even prefer to wish their teachers.” He said to some extent, parents and school teachers are equally responsible for the indiscipline among students. “It is a matter of concern that students managed to take weapons inside the school at Amritsar,” he said. One of the government school teacher, requesting anonymity, said, “Now, we hardly reprimand or punish students in schools fearing that the teachers can be targeted by students later”. “Most of times when we scold students, they express their anguish by writing abusive and vulgar words on school walls,” he said. Recent clashes
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Miss Pooja apologises for ‘offending’ music lovers
Jalandhar, February 18 Just a day after hundreds of women across the state rallied and burnt effigies of the bawdy-brigade of the Punjabi music industry, petite pop sensation Miss Pooja, today expressed her heartiest apologies to all those who she had ended up offending. Even as she stood her ground and expressed faith in the kind of music that she had been singing, she reflected on the ‘few mistakes’ she had made in her career, talked on whether she believed Punjabi pop music had anything to do with rise in crime and shared future song dreams with The Tribune. Excerpts of an interview: There has been a lot of condemnation about Punjabi pop music lately. Some activists even burnt your effigy along with that of other singers because they think you are one of the causes for the downfall of meaningful music in Punjab. What do you say? I partly agree with them and partly think they are being harsh. There are songs I have sung and videos I have done that I think I shouldn’t have. I am sorry about them. And I can just say I did not mean to offend anyone. There are times when I see a video of my own and wonder what I was thinking when I did that song. So yes they have a point. Any such song that you can share? I can’t do that. I owe a lot to people who made me what I am today. But the
part that I disagree with about the protests is that it is not just the singers who are responsible. We do what people appreciate. If these lewd and bawdy numbers stop selling, companies will stop wanting to make them. Every single wedding and party has these songs playing. They are the ones that become hits. If the audience stop listening to them and more importantly actually goes out and buys the good music, I believe they will see different music happening. So you think the audience is largely responsible? No. I think they are ‘also’ responsible. People have resented at me singing bad songs but very few of these people have heard or appreciated my songs on female foeticide, against drugs or for culture. It’s heart-breaking when just the negative aspects are blown out of proportion. Punjab is full of rowdy crowds that make singers uncomfortable. Have you ever had any such moments? Sometimes they do they scare the hell out of you. I have had things thrown at me while I’m performing. At a village, the crowds flooded the stage once even before I had stepped out. Scared, I didn’t perform. For the first few years of my career I didn’t even start live shows due to this fear. But the good part is the love and affection I have received. I keep telling my fans their respectful love makes me thrive and give my best. There’s this very respectful bunch of my fans who congratulate me for my songs. Some of my male mans address me as didi (sister), some elderly ones as daughter. I have many female fans too. They keep me going. Activists have done surveys and associated Punjabi music with growing crime, more absconding couples and rise in eve-teasing. What do you say to that? I guess that is saying too much. The social system is too complicated. And that is a much bigger problem for which just a bunch of poor singers are being blamed, while governance and law and order are being left out. |
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Two crack Haryana Judicial Services exam
Jalandhar, February 18 Thirtytwo-year-old Indu Bala is an LLB passout from Guru Nanak Dev University regional campus at Basti Nau in 2002. She completed LLM from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar two years later. A bright woman, she even managed to clear UGC examination in 2003. Indu has had a year’s stint in teaching at Lovely Institute of Law for a year before joining as junior research fellow with GNDU in 2005. For the past two years, however, she has been with the St Soldier group where she had even joined St Soldier PCS Coaching Centre with Principal Dr Subhash Sharma as its head. Indu says, “I had no plans for appearing for HCS till the college principal guided me in that direction. But I am really glad to have made it. The biggest relief is that the effort that I put in ignoring my five-year-old son has brought fruits”. Success has come early for Mehak who has recently completed her law graduation from the School of Legal Studies, Regional Campus of Guru Nanak Dev University, Ladhewali here. A resident of Shakti Nagar here, she is currently pursuing LLM from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Daughter of banker parents CM Sabharwal and Suman Sabharwal, Mehak claims that she prepared for the test without taking any coaching for the purpose. Both Indu and Mehak still have their fingers crossed as they are now waiting for the result of Punjab Civil Services (Judicial) examination.
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Students get bunk happy
Jalandhar, February 18 Shankar, headmistress, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, says, “The policies are indeed making students non-serious. Children not coming to schools is a regular feature. There are perpetual bunks and then one fine day, they turn up with a phoney application.” A teacher from a local school, on the condition of anonymity, says, “We are overburdened and it’s a ball for students. We can’t strike off their names, we can’t punish them and we can’t fail them. The things which earlier used to be the strongest weapons of a teacher to make a student stay on the line are all gone. We have to admit students if they come to get admissions for the last two months of a class. A child of 11 has to be given admission to the 5th standard even if he/she has no clue what education is all about. When we have written directions in the school that a child can’t be punished, children do take advantage. Kids are smart they tweak these guidelines to their favour to create indiscipline. And in the process, we are churning out illiterate literates.” Another teacher says, “We don’t mark children absent because if there are more than 10 days of absence, the child’s name is struck off the list. So sometimes we have to mark a child present even when he/she is not in the class. Because officially we can’t turn any of the students out of school and if their name is struck off, we will have to do just that.” Manjit Kaur, headmistress, Government High School, Khurla Kingra, says, “Just yesterday a parent came to me saying their son wasn’t coming to school despite telling them that he was. We cannot strike off names. Especially some children in the seventh standard are troublesome. These regulations are spoiling children. Those in bad company run off the spend time outside. The government regulations issued under the Right to Education Act have tied our hands.” Some teachers even admitted that they did not abstain from pulling students’ ears if need be. “We have to do that or they won’t listen. The government has loaded this hefty bag of regulations on us but we are the ones who are going to run the schools,” said a teacher in a city school on condition of anonymity. Daljit Kaur of Government Senior Secondary School, Sarih, said, “There are 10 to 12 students in a class of 45, who behave that way. We have to go to students’ home to get them to school. It requires a lot of tact to handle children who are fearless because they know we cannot touch them. While earlier they were scared of teachers, now they deem it their birthright to miss class and be defiant about it. They know they will pass.” Some teachers have even said that students from poorer sections are now out on the streets everyday to work as labourers. Both they and their parents think it is convenient to both pass a class and earn money at the same time. Sadly, a move aimed to get more children to the school has certainly backfired and it is now left to the course of future policies and teachers’ tact to fix a situation which is going wrong.
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Bumpy ride for residents, authorities pass the buck
Jalandhar, February 18 The road was dug up for laying sewerage more than a year back and is now completely broken. It is muddy and bumpy with sharp protruding stones. The residents of Basti Sheikh, Basti Guzan and Basti Danishmandan said they usually avoid taking the road as they fear accident chances to be high in this route. Satish, a resident of Kashi Nagar said he suffered a fracture in the arm after falling from his bicycle in this particular road. “I am not the only one. Several men and women met with accidents while travelling in this road,” he said. Kimti Lal, a resident of Kot Sadiq, said, “It is just an eight minutes drive from our house to Model House area. Since the road is bad, it takes us almost 25 to 30 minutes reaching the same destination.” He added, “Our repeated attempts to contact the authorities and even elected representatives have failed.” Amardeep Singh Brar, SE, PWD (B&R), said repair work has been done in most part of the road which comes under our limit. “The stretch which is in a bad condition falls under the jurisdiction of the MC,” he said. His counterpart in the MC Kulwinder Singh, however, passed the buck back to the PWD officials. “The part of road till Ghah Mandi Chowk which falls within MC limits is reasonably okay. The part of the road which comes under PWD needs to be repaired.
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MC’s toilet project near school flayed
Jalandhar, February 18 The MC, under its new proposal to run toilets in association with Sulabh Shauchalaya, has started construction of new toilets for shopkeepers and visitors to Model Town market. The school staff today lodged a protest in this regard. As the teachers gathered there this afternoon, the area councillor Aruna Arora also reached the spot. She too supported the reason given by the teachers and said that she would meet the MC Commissioner in this regard on Tuesday. “We need a toilet in Model Town, but this location will make the students’ and teachers’ lives miserable. It has to be changed,” the Congress councillor said, but failed to suggest any alternate location. |
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Reviving the art of knitting
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 18 Thanksgiving week
Thanksgiving week was celebrated at the Kamala Nehru Public School. Children dressed up in beautiful clothes presented a cultural programme on the occasion. |
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Talk on lifestyle diseases held
Jalandhar: A Continuing Medical Education (CME) on lifestyle diseases was organised at Military Hospital Jalandhar Cantonment today. The CME programme was inaugurated by Maj Gen SK Agarwal, Chief of Staff, Vajra Corps.Brig A Datta, Commandant, Military Hospital Jalandhar Cantonment, along with specialist doctors from both civil and military deliberated on various topics pertaining to lifestyle diseases. Maj Gen S Rohtagi and Brig MM Arora of Headquarters 11 corps were also present during the CME programme. Delegates said consumption of high-calorie fast food and adoption of sedentary habits causes obesity, diabetes, hypertension and coronary heart diseases.
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3 held with 28 kg of poppy husk Jalandhar: The Jalandhar rural police seized 28 bags of poppy husk from three persons at Shahkot, Nurmahal and Kartarpur. Shahkot police arrested Nirmal Singh, a resident of Nal village in Lohian Khas, with 18 bags of poppy husk from Billi Chaharam village. Nirmal Singh was taking the contraband in a jeep. Nurmahal police arrested Gurnam Singh with eight bags of poppy husk. Kartarpur police arrested Manga, a resident of Uppal Jagir village in Nurmahal, with two bags of poppy husk. — TNS
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A woman was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a factory at Gopal Nagar this morning. The woman was a daily wager in the factory.
Jalandhar, February 18
A recent project of the Municipal Corporation to construct public toilets right adjoining the entrance of Government Girls’ School in Model Town has not gone down well with the staff there.
The MC, under its new proposal to run toilets in association with Sulabh
Shauchalaya, has started construction of new toilets for shopkeepers and visitors to Model Town market. The school staff today lodged a protest in this regard.
