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Labourer attacked, robbed
Gram sevaks seek salaries of 5 months
Russian, Kazakh artistes enthral audience at heritage festival
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Theatre night held in memory of playwright
From Schools & Colleges
With competition getting stiffer, students bank on internet for practice assignments
Bonded labourers rescued from brick-kiln
Youth dies in accident
Protest over sewage disposal
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Labourer attacked, robbed
Jalandhar February 26 The victim, Somnath, a daily wage labourer in a factory, told the police that on Saturday night he was going home from the factory on his bicycle. When he reached near the Gujja Peer locality, two motorcycle-borne youths rammed their bike in his cycle and he fell down. Somnath said one of the miscreants took out a sharp-edged weapon and asked him to hand them over cash and other valuables. They then forcibly snatched Rs 2,500 and a mobile phone from him and fled from the spot. Fortunately, Somnath sustained only minor bruises in the attack. Parmod Kumar Yadav, district president of the Purvanchal Mahasabha, said the police should increase patrolling in the industrial area for the security of migrant labourers. Just a few days had passed when a migrant labourer, Chandan, was attacked and he was still undergoing treatment in a hospital. “We have met the Deputy Commissioner for seeking financial help for Chandan’s treatment and the DC has assured us that he will definitely provide him help from government funds after the poll code of conduct comes to an end in March,” Yadav claimed. 5 minors held for sodomy
Jalandhar: The Alawalpur police has arrested five minor children for allegedly sodomising a minor boy and sent to Juvenile Home in Hoshiarpur. The 12-year-old victim is a resident of Alawalpur village, near here. The victim’s father Resham Lal in his complaint to the police said five minor children allegedly took his son to an isolated place and attempted to sodomise him. The police after investigation arrested the five minors, who are all residents of Alawalpur village. After registering a case under Sections 377, 511 and 506 of the IPC, all the accused have been sent to a juvenile home. 4 arrested with intoxicants
Jalandhar: The Anti-Narcotics Cell of the city police today arrested four persons and recovered a huge quantity of intoxicants worth Rs 1.5 lakh from them. Those arrested have been identified as Bao Ram of Kishan Nagar, Keshav Sharma of Harnamdas Pura, Rajnish and Manish Kumar, both residents of Beant Nagar here. Sub-Inspector Inderjit Singh said their team had installed a naka on the Kapurthala road for routine checking. On suspicion, they signalled a multi-utility vehicle (MUV) to stop for checking, but its occupants tried to flee. After a few minutes of chase, the MUV occupants were captured by the police. On search of their vehicle, the police recovered 60,000 capsules, 68,500 tablets, 445 injections and 100 bottles of Corex worth Rs 1.50 lakh, Inderjit Singh said. They were not able to produce the sale documents of the intoxicants, hence seized by the police, he said. During preliminary investigation, they revealed that they were on their way to supply the drugs to some persons in the city and its periphery. They also confessed that they had been in this illegal business for the last two months and had already delivered number of consignments. The police official said the vehicle was impounded and a case under Sections 22, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act was registered against the four. Four injured in clashes
Phagwara: Four persons, including two brothers, sustained injuries from sharp-edged weapons in two different clashes in the nearby Bhulrai and Sarod villages last night. All the four injured - Paramjit Singh and his brother Charanjit Singh, Nitin Kumar and Ramandeep - were admitted to the Civil Hospital. The police has registered cases. Man gets judicial remand
Phagwara: The Government Railway Police (GRP) has arrested Satnam Singh of Kultham Clony in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and recovered a huge quantity of intoxicants, including 120 capsules and 70 tablets, from him last night. The GRP in charge, Pawitra Singh, said Satnam Singh was arrested at platform number 1 of the local railway station. He was produced before the Judicial Magistrate here today, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. |
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Gram sevaks seek salaries of 5 months
Jalandhar, February 26 While the administration claims that it has terminated the services of the employees, the gram rozgar sevaks say that they were made to do the election duty till recently. A memorandum in this regard was handed over to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) by the MNREGS employees. The issue pertains to the month of January when the services of 20 sevaks were terminated all of sudden. Their services were terminated at a time when the election code of conduct was in place in the state. Talking to Jalandhar Tribune, the employees said the DC stated that since their contract was terminated on July 31, 2011, hence they would get no salary. “If in any case our contract was terminated in July, then why did the DC sanctioned Rs 3,200 salary for August and September. And till date we were made to work, while many of our other colleagues are still deployed on election duty,” they said. The employees said the administration should ensure to give them salary for the past five months. “Even earlier also we had brought this issue to the notice of the officers concerned, but to no avail,” they added. Meanwhile, it also came to the fore that the administration would soon issue advertisements for filling the vacant posts under the MNREGS in the district. Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti was not available for comments. |
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Russian, Kazakh artistes enthral audience at heritage festival
Kapurthala, February 26 Barbara Gajdarska, a university student from Karakow (heritage city of Poland), stole the show by performing exotic Punjabi folk dance. “I am impressed with the high spirit (chardikala) of Punjabis and enjoy sharing the joys of the Punjab heritage by doing bhangra in Poland and Punjab,” remarked Barbara. “The PCPC has been inviting international folk delegations to the folk festival since 2008 to highlight the Punjabi folklore and Kapurthala heritage globally and enhance global educational cultural exchanges through multicultural extravaganzas,” declared Dr Davinder Singh Chhina, festival Director and international member of the ISCA, Denmark, while addressing the audience. Galiya, Akmaral and Aeidrim Ossipova from Kazakhstan presented a wonderful display of the Kazakh folklore through colourful dances in traditional Kazakh white costumes, while Galiya enthralled the audience with folk dance from Tajakhistan too. Svetlava from Russia presented another Russian dance. Folk dances by participants of the Punjaban Mutiyar-2012 contest were the added attractions, depicting the great folklore and traditions of Punjab. “More international delegation from Europe and other continents would join the Hamdard international festival next year on the invitation of the Punjab Cultural Promotion Council, declared Bikramjit Singh Biki, chief organiser of the Hamdard International Festival. Duhre, Biki and other organisers honoured all the participants of the Punjaban Mutiyar contest with trophies and certificates. Sukhraj Kaur of Montessori College, Rayya, won the title “Punjaban Mutiyar-2012”, while Rajpreet Kaur of Khalsa College, Sultanpur Lodhi, and Avneet Kaur Virk of Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana, bagged the second and third positions respectively. Punjabi singer Satvinder Bitti was given the Hamdard Award by the chief guests, Sarvinder Kaur and Gurjot Kaur.
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Theatre night held in memory of playwright
Dr Gursharan Singh
Jalandhar, February 26 The play, “Hawai Gole”, which evoked the parental emotions of the audience, was indeed a slap on the corrupt system of the society and the lust for earning more money, even if that means snatching away somebody’s life. The play was written by Dr Gursharan Singh, in whose memory the theatre night was organised. The play, enacted by members of the Chandigarh School of Drama, highlighted how the protagonist suffers due to the business of making and selling fake medicines as he loses his son to the rampant corrupt practice. “Mera puttar mar gaya, tusi haso na, kal tusi vi ho sakde ho,” the mere cries of the protagonist were enough to make the gathering in the jam-packed hall realise the gravity of the situation. In one such scene, he says, “I had gone to buy medicine for my son, but I bought poison and killed my child.” The play evoked a good response as the audience responded well to the heart-touching dialogues of the artistes. Another play, “Court Martial”, written by Swadesh Deepak, was directed by Dr Ankur Sharma under the banner of the Young Versatile Artistes’ Association (YUVAA). The play spoke at length about the feudal system, which still has its roots among all of us. As the name suggests, the play was a story of a Scheduled Caste jawan, who after being harassed by his senior shoots him and injures another. The play has been staged earlier too in the city but this time the audience witnessed a directorial change in it. Director of the play Dr Ankur Sharma said, “We brought changes in terms of script, scenes, light and sound effects and much more. Last time we had started the play with the soliloquy of the presiding officer of the court martial, Col Surat Singh, but this time it was taken in the last stages of the play. The play is basically a story in flashback.” The nightlong plays, which started yesterday night, concluded at 5 am today. An annual event, it is held every year on the eve of Republic Day on January 25, but this time owing to elections, it was postponed to February. For the last 28 years, this event had been jointly held by theatre artiste Dr Gursharan Singh and member of the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall Committee Amolak Singh. Among other plays staged during the night was “Jajbeya de Aar Par”, written by ace theatre personality Kewal Dhaliwal of the Azad Rang Manch. The play dealt with the role of policemen and their responsibility of duty, which at times has some feelings attached to it as well. The other plays were “Gagan Damama Bajiyo”, written by Piyush Mishra, “Jujhe bina hal koi na”, written by Amolak Singh, and “Kirti” by Samuel John.
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LPU hosts boxing championship
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 26 While women’s event would conclude tomorrow, men’s events will come to an end on March 7. As many as 800 boxers from 101 universities across the nation are participating in the championship. A total of 720 league matches would be held during the event. The winners in each event would represent India at the international level. LPU has set up 27 screens across the campus to let students watch the matches. Earlier, the championship was inaugurated by Professor ADN Bajpai, Vice-Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh University and secretary of AIU. Students awarded
The Prem Chand Markanda SD College for Women today awarded 338 students during the 38th annual prize distribution function. Eleven students were awarded gold medals for securing top positions in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Chief Guest, RK Chauhan, Vice-Chancellor of Global Open University, Nagaland, gave away the prizes. Winners of Guru Nanak Dev University youth festival, sports events, NCC, NSS, Red Cross were also awarded. Technack
Three-day ‘Techknack-2012’ organised at DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (DAVIET) concluded yesterday. Farewell party
St. Soldier Divine Public School, Mithu Basti organised a farewell party 'Sayonara 2012’. Students presented a colourful cultural programme and also participated in different games. Nancy and Vaibhav were declared Miss and Mr St Soldier, respectively. Extension lecture
The DAV College, under the aegis of Kautilya
Society of Post Graduate Department of Economics, organised an extension lecture on ‘Poverty in
Punjab’. Dr Satish Verma, Director of Academic Staff College, Guru Nanak Dev University, highlighted various measures to remove poverty. He also evaluated the various policies of government. Annual sports meet
The MGN College of Education held its 52nd annual sports meet on February 23 and 24. More than 100 students participated in different events. |
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With competition getting stiffer, students bank on internet for practice assignments
Jalandhar, February 25 Several websites on the internet have downloadable practice assignments for all subjects starting from Class I for students of CBSE and ICSE schools. Most parents have installed printers with their home PCs especially to meet such needs of their wards so that they can simply take printouts of readymade assignments and hand out the same to their children to test their preparation on various relevant topics. While some sites having complete package with syllabi of all subjects with illustrative explanation of each concept and question banks are paid, there are some free sites as well. The parents tell that there are a plethora of sites for downloading English grammar and mathematical problems of all levels. Arvind Kalsi, who has his son in Class VIII, said, “When we were students, the Tata Mc Graw Hill science question banks or Wren and Martin English grammar books were what we referred to. Times have changed. I have subscribed to a website meritnation.com from where my son himself downloads practice assignments of various subjects from time to time.” Harpreet Bakshi, who has her son in Class XII, said while his son was preparing for engineering tests through a private tutorial, he depends on the question bank available on CBSE website for the forthcoming board examination.
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Bonded labourers rescued from brick-kiln
Kapurthala, February 25 The warrant officer, Sukhwinder Singh, alongwith the police raided the brick kiln on Friday and rescued the bonded labourers who had not been paid any salary for past some time and had also been reportedly living in poor condition. The raid was conducted after a writ petition filed by Pamma in which he had alleged that labourers were forced to work without salary. After their release from the captivity of the brick kiln owner, the police helped labourers reach their homes.
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Youth dies in accident
Phagwara, February 26 The injured was admitted to the Civil Hospital. The police has registered a case. In two more road mishaps occurred in the subdivision, five persons, including a woman, were injured.
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Protest over sewage disposal
Phagwara, February 26 The demonstrators said they would be forced to intensify their agitation if no sewage treatment plant is set up in the area.
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