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Chaos rules city railway station
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No alternative arrangement
54-year-old labourer dies in road accident
DCC chief’s resignation sought
Ambedkar institute new registrar
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Armed assailants attack shopkeepers, 2 injured
Jalandhar, March 17 Youths carrying sharp-edged weapons were seen thrashing a handcart puller in the market. When some shopkeepers tried to intervene, the youths attacked them. Two shopkeepers were injured in the process. The youths also ransacked two shops, took away mobiles phones and snatched cash and a gold chain from a shopkeeper. Perturbed over the incident, shopkeepers closed their establishments in protest and demanded immediate arrest of the assailants. They also blocked traffic at Jyoti Chowk. Parminder Singh, who runs a mobile phone shop in the market, alleged that a few armed youths were thrashing a handcart puller and when he intervened, they started thrashing him. They also ransacked his shop, he added. Another shopkeeper, Parkash Sehgal, was also thrashed by the assailants when he tried to intervene. He alleged that the miscreants damaged articles kept in the shop. Police officials, including ADCP RK Sharma, reached the spot and took one of the assailants in custody. However, other assailants managed to flee. MC councillor Kuldip Oberoi alleged that the youths also snatched cash and a gold chain from Parminder, a mobile shop owner. Naresh Dogra, Assistant Police Commissioner, said on the statement of shopkeepers, a case under Sections 307, 382, 392, 295-A, 452, 148 and 149 of the IPC has been registered against the accused. The arrested accused has been identified as Vicky, a resident of Ali Mohalla. The ACP said hunt has been launched to nab other accused. Sources said that when the clash took an ugly turn, the handcart puller also escaped from the scene, hence was not identified.
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Chaos rules city railway station
Jalandhar, March 17 The Amarpali Express, which reached Jalandhar station at 10 am, was to reach Amritsar at 11.45 am. But the train took the Pathankot route instead of going via Beas and it reached Amritsar two hours late. Similarly, passengers coming from Delhi to Amritsar on Shan-e-Punjab had to get down at Jalandhar as the train did not go further. The harried passengers had to wait for over an hour for the Dadar Express to reach Amritsar. Mehak, a Jalandhar resident, had to wait for hours at the city railway station with her two children for a train to Amritsar. Another resident Ruby was with her family at the station waiting for a direct train to Amritsar. Confusion prevailed at the railway station throughout the day. Officials said the trains were not going towards Amritsar following change in tracks and repair of electrical signals near Mannawala. It was around 7 pm that the work was over and the trains started going in normal course. Station superintendent RK Behl said a public notice in this regard was already published in newspapers a day before. “Passengers may not have read the information. But we have been answering all inquiries.” Some tracks had got cleared at 4.30 pm today and the Dadar Express was allowed to pass directly, he added. |
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No alternative arrangement
Amritsar, March 17 As per the already announced schedule, Amritsar-bound Shatabdi Express terminated at Mannawala railway station in the noon, leaving passengers, including tourists, stranded. Passengers said the Railways charged for their travel up to Amritsar but they were dropped at the Mannawala, 12 km from Amritsar. Taking advantage of the situation, auto drivers charged Rs 100 per passenger to drop them at the Amritsar railway station.
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54-year-old labourer dies in road accident
Nakodar, March 17 The deceased has been identified as 54-year-old Meet Ram, a resident of Chak Kalan village near here. Police sources said Meet Ram and his friend Joginder was returning home on a motorcycle when a bike coming from the opposite direction hit their vehicle. After the accident, passers-by called 108 ambulance, which rushed the injured to the Civil Hospital here. As Meet Ram had sustained head injuries, doctors referred him to the Jalandhar Civil Hospital. He died on the way to the hospital. The police has registered a case.
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DCC chief’s resignation sought Jalandhar: Local Congress leaders, led by Anil Vashisht and Sanjay Sehgal, on Saturday demanded resignation of the District Congress Committee (urban) president Arun Walia. The issue sparked off when Congress leaders went to the Congress Bhawan demanding from the president that a meeting be held so as to discuss the reasons for the debacle of the Congress in the district and the state. Vashisht said Walia refused them to hold a meeting in the office and were asked to go to any city hotel. Walia, on the other hand, said he did not allow the leaders the venue as he was apprehensive that they would use it for venting their ire against the state or the national leadership. — TNS
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Ambedkar institute new registrar
Jalandhar, March 17 He had earlier been the OSD (finance) at Central University, Bathinda. The post had been lying vacant since Dr AL Sangal, who had been registrar, went on lien to join as the principal of DAV Institute of Technology, Jalandhar.
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Prince & princess competition
A prince and princess competition was held in the pre-primary sections of Apeejay School, Rama Mandi. The little princes and princesses were attired in beautiful outfits. Ranvir Singh Kahlon was chosen as the prince of nursery and Gurneet Kaur was crowned princess. The title of best outfit was bagged by Ranvir Sodhi and that of cute smile by Yashjieet of nursery. Gurkirat was crowned the prince of LKG and Misham was the runner-up. Prabhleen was crowned as the princess of LKG followed by Nishita. Amanpreet was selected miss elegant and Arshvir was chosen Mr handsome from LKG. Jaskaran Singh was the prince of UKG followed by Jasraj Singh. Garvita was crowned the princess of UKG and Balkaram was the runner-up. Dakshita was selected Miss elegant and Devansh was chosen Mr handsome from the UKG. International conference
An international conference on knowledge management and resource sharing was organised on February 27 and 28, 2012. Dalbir Singh, librarian, Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions, Loharan, Jalandhar, presented a paper on knowledge management in librarians for 21st century. The conference was organised by Waljt College of Applied Science in KOM, Rusayl, Muscat (Sultanate of Oman). Spring camp
A spring camp "Spring of Hobbies" was inaugurated at the DIPS, Urban Estate I, The camp is being held to make children self-reliant. The camp is open to all children. The camp with have a special DIY (do it yourself) programme along with music, art and dance classes. NSS camp
Police DAV Public School, Jalandhar, organised an NSS camp at Puran Pur village to make people aware about the value of education. As many as 104 volunteers participated in the camp. Balwinder Singh, faculty member, imparted information about the importance of education in the development of a country. He made the facts clearer by presenting statistics of rural literacy in different districts of Punjab. Through door to door campaigning, volunteers explained the importance of education and displayed banners and posters made by them to convince the villagers to send their wards to school to achieve 100 per cent literacy in the state. The village panchayat extended full co-operation for the camp. Mega run at LPU
Giving due consideration to health and fitness of LPU hostellers, the division of residential services of Lovely Professional University on Saturday arranged a mega run of 5 km from the basketball ground, Maheru Road, Hardaspur village, sports stadium and entire campus area. More than 5,000 boys' hostellers and members of the security and hostel staff participated in the run. LPU chancellor Ashok Mittal flagged off the run. He was accompanied by pro-chancellor Rashmi Mittal and the chief security officer. The overall trophy was won by Boys Hostel-5 C. A total of 53 other prizes were distributed to the participating students and members of the hostel staff. Student winners of the run were Krishna (BH5 A), Sachin Sharma (BH5 B), Imran Khan (BH3 B) as first, second and third respectively. In addition, 47 other first ranked students were also honoured with prizes. Book Fair at PTU
Punjab Technical University (PTU) is going to organise a national-level book fair-cum-exhibition on March 20 and 21 on its campus on the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road. Famous poet Dr Surjit Patar will be the chief guest at the inaugural ceremony. The timings of the book fair will be 10 am to 6 pm. Dr Buta Singh Sidhu, Dean (academics), said books on science and technology, other subjects and as online journals would be available at the book fair. |
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Jalandhar, March 17
Train passengers on way to Amritsar were a harried lot today following a repair work near Mannawala on the Jalandhar-Amritsar route.
