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CT students come up with detachable e-bike
Col Rakesh Chetaland Girish Sharma
Theatre person tops state-level Urdu exam
Protest at civil hospital
Loaded truck falls off bridge, two injured
Woman commits suicide, daughter-in-law booked
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Poll fever still to grip city
Jalandhar, June 1 The candidates have put up a very few hoardings in their wards to garner support of the voters. They perhaps do not intend to spend much on the campaign or apprehend action from the officials having seen strictness during the Assembly polls. The use of small-size stickers on walls and gates of houses is the most common means of campaign. The use of flags has also gone down. Also, auto-rickshaws for the candidates’ campaign are also hardly visible on roads. The only expenditure that most candidates have been doing is by offering meals, tea and cold drinks to the residents of wards coming to their offices the day through. Interestingly, the number of contestants is also far low this time with as many as eight wards having just two contestants and two wards already going unopposed in favour of the ruling SAD. There are no Left parties candidates contesting the elections. There are just six contestants from the BSP in wards 6, 9, 53, 54, 58 and 60, while the party had also announced candidates from wards 1, 23 and 40. While on an average seven to eight contestants from a ward have been contesting till previous years, the average this time is four to five. Wards 31 to 40 have the least candidates, while those from wards 51 to 60 have the maximum number of contestants. It is a mixed bag of young and old contesting the polls. Some young candidates in fray include PPP contestant Neetu Khosla from Ward 2, Rohit Kumar Vicky of the SAD from Ward 13, Rajinder Shekhar, Rajesh Jindal and Sakait Goraya Shetty of the Congress from wards 16, 28 and 38, respectively. Rajan Angural of the BJP from Ward 48 is also a young face. There are several oldies also in the poll battle as are Sardari Lal and Sawaran Singh of the Congress from wards 52 and 53.
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MC POLLS Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 31
The area around Gurdwara Diwan Asthaan is perhaps the lowest and water from all surrounding localities accumulates here in rainy season. The Old Jawahar Nagar colony is also well-maintained with all facilities, including raised pavements, streetlights and two parks. A park near a water tank has swings and shady trees, but a fountain put up in the centre does not work. There are pipal trees coming out of it. Another issue of the residents is that the otherwise wide Ladowali Road falling in the ward has been reduced to a narrow lane owing to encroachments by car dealers selling spare parts and shells. Areas in ward
Central Town, Shivaji Park, Chahar Bagh, Phagwara Gate, Krishan Nagar, Ajit Press Wali Gali, Ramesh Colony, Old Jawahar Nagar, Arjun Nagar, Masit Ghumaria, Ladowali Road. Councillor speak Over Rs 2 crore have been spent on development works in my ward in the past five years. The most important work left in my ward is laying of better drainage system in Central Town. I already have got pipes laid, but we need to improvise the system so that the rainwater does not stand for more than half an hour. — Rajinder Beri Residents speak Thankfully, our roads are well-maintained. There is no water or sewerage problem. The problem of water blocking in some lanes of Central Town, however, needs to be looked into. — Vijay Kumar There are no civic issues for us. Law and order of course is a problem. Since there are 12 lanes in the colony criss-crossing at short intervals, the miscreants manage to escape quickly on their bikes after committing the crime. — Shashi Joshi
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CT students come up with detachable e-bike
Jalandhar, June 1 It is a single-seat bike which can even be converted into a double seater. The gross weight of the bike is just 45 kg. It has a feature of getting split into three parts, for the ease of storing when not in use or for carrying it for outdoor activities in a van. The vehicle is in fact a fusion of a bicycle and bike. The overall shape resembles a creature of the dinosaur era, so the students from the electrical trade, who have designed it, have named it “Predator”. Explaining the concept, the students - Charanjit Singh, Ashish Sharma, Rajandeep Singh, Davinder Singh, Manish Kumar and Amit Bhalla - said the bike had a battery-powered rear-wheel drive with a direct current (DC) motor, Al-cast rim and an integrated hub motor assembly. “To provide it dynamic balancing, the battery pack is centrally mounted. The micro-controller-base device governs all other necessary functions like torque, speed and voltage regulation. A hand-operated throttle has also been provided to run the bike at different speeds. Once fully charged, batteries can cover a distance of 60 km,” they said.
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Acting institute opens in city
Jalandhar, June 1 Varinder Ghumman and Sudeepa Singh, lead actors of the to-be-released movie, "Kabaddi Once Again" said the institute would contribute a lot towards making Punjab a film and TV destination. "Before heading for Bollywood, youngsters could get training here and hone their acting and production skills," said Varinder Gumman and Sudeepa Singh. The institute, according to its promoters, would be imparting training to youngsters in the fields of acting, direction and script writing under its four-month long certificate courses. The faculty associated with the institute claimed to have been trained from institutes of repute like the National School of Drama and have been associated with Bollywood and the television industry.
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Army officer tops PTU MBA entrance exam
Jalandhar, June 1 The Army officer said he had already applied for a study leave and had plans to take the course in Punjab as his family was in Pathankot. Amritsar-based Raman Mahajan, who is a commerce passout from Delhi University, has stood second, followed by Arun Bhardwaj of Jalandhar. In the MCA entrance test, all three positions are from Amritsar. Girish Sharma, who is working as a part time teacher of English, has topped the exam. Rohit Chopra and Shweta have stood second and third, respectively. A total of 7,982 students had appeared in the entrance for admission to colleges of the PTU, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, and Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib. "The result of the students was transferred in their login IDs today. Keys to the questions had also been put on web on Wednesday. The students can also demand OMR sheets and raise objection to the result in two days if they are dissatisfied," read a university press release.
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Theatre person tops state-level Urdu exam
Jalandhar, June 1 Amit began taking Urdu classes just for fun and had never imagined that he would top the Urdu exam in the state. Associated with the theatre for the past many years, 32-year-old Amit has been serving as an announcer on radio and has also written scripts for comedy shows like Comedy Circus and also for DD1. While Amit began taking the six-month Urdu language course last year, he appeared for the Urdu Amoz Parikhiya (exam) in January 2012. The result was out on April 21. “I used to get attracted to Urdu texts. But we have always read Urdu in Hindi (Devnagri) script. I had this desire to be able to read in the original script,” said Amit. Taking lessons from his Urdu teacher Professor Arvinder, Amit said the language had broadened his horizons in terms of theatre, too. In a batch of 13 to 15 students, Amit was the only theatre person.
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Protest at civil hospital
Phagwara, June 1 Rail traffic hit
Rail traffic between Phagwara and Jalandhar remained suspended for about one hour due to a technical snag in the engine of the Jammu bound UP-Malwa Express around noon at the Phagwara railway station yesterday. Station superintendent, Phagwara railway station, Ashok Kumar said the driver noticed smoke in the engine and stiopped the train. — OC |
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Loaded truck falls off bridge, two injured
Phagwara, June 1 The incident took place when the truck driver fell asleep and lost his control over the vehicle. They were returning to Ludhiana from Pathankot. Both the injured were admitted to the Phagwara Civil Hospital. In another incident, a loaded truck (PB-06Q-2134) caught fire near the accident site in Chiherru. Driver of the vehicle Rajinder Singh of Gohawar village said he saw an overturned truck and stopped to help the victims, his truck caught fire. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse flames.
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Woman commits suicide, daughter-in-law booked
Jalandhar, June 1 The police has booked the Neelam, daughter-in-law of the deceased, and one more person for abetting suicide. The deceased has been identified as 55-year-old Harbhajan Kaur. Harbhajan’s relatives alleged that she consumed some poisonous substance following her mental torture by her daughter-in-law and her relative. A case under Section 306 of the IPC has been registered against the accused. Police accused of inaction
He alleged that the police has failed to act against persons who had allegedly demolished the boundary wall of his plot in the village. The miscreants also took away iron rods used in construction from the site, he alleged. The complainant, Darshan Singh, alleged that on May 19, some armed villagers barged into his plot and demolished the boundary wall. “When I protested, they threatened me of dire consequences,” he alleged. Before leaving the spot, the miscreants also took away huge quantity of iron stock and four iron girders, he alleged. “I filed a complaint with the Lambra police, but no action has been taken. I also approached the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kartarpur, on May 22, but the police has failed to nab the suspects.” A resident of Takzinda village committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at his residence. The deceased has been identified as Mohan Singh. The victim had been recently deported from Canada and was under mental depression. On Friday, he consumed some poisonous substance and was immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital where he died. |
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Even as there are just nine days left for the MC polls, poll fever has not really gripped the city.
Ward 29 houses the market areas of the city, including Rainak Bazaar, Sheikhan Bazaar, Meena Bazaar and Peer Bodla Bazaar, most commonly frequented not just by the local shoppers, but also by the
NRIs.
Keeping in mind the increasing fuel prices and zero-emission advantage, students of the CT Group of Institutions have come up with a unique detachable electric bike.
It is a single-seat bike which can even be converted into a double seater. The gross weight of the bike is just 45 kg. It has a feature of getting split into three parts, for the ease of storing when not in use or for carrying it for outdoor activities in a van.
There are no bins put up in the market, owing to which the shoppers just throw off garbage anywhere they feel like. The safai karamcharis clean up the market once by noon and in a few hours time this again get filthy.
A 103-year-old farmer of Nijjara village near here has accused the police of inaction.