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Dowry death victim’s kin hold police team hostage
Uranium issue lost in political spat, say environmentalists
Never say die spirit ushered him into PCS
Another victim dies
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Intern docs hold protest march, want hike in stipend
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Dowry death victim’s kin hold police team hostage
Muktsar, June 18 Later, they took the team officials to the City police station, walking past the city markets, demanding their suspension and registration of a case in this regard. However, ASI Gurcharan Singh of the CIA staff, Abohar, who was heading the team, termed the allegations levelled against them as baseless, saying that the case was only handed over to them for further investigation. The incident took place at about 11 am when the police team reached the house of the deceased and asked the kin to produce the bills of items given in dowry and wedding photographs. Mohinder Kumar, brother of the deceased Soma Rani who was married to Balluana village resident Sandeep Kumar, said when he went out of the house to bring some cold drinks for the cops, they asked for `50,000 from his mother and wife. “The cops used foul language to pressurise them. They even slapped my mother,” alleged Mohinder. Meanwhile, the neighbours gathered at the house and gheraoed the policemen, who were later taken to the City police station. “The staff present at the police station showed a dilly-dallying approach, which forced us to lodge a protest,” said Mohinder, alleging: “We have filed a criminal case against the in-laws of my sister, who killed her for dowry, but the police was not ready to arrest them except for Sandeep (the husband of the deceased), as one of their family members is in the police department.” Later, the police pacified the protesters by giving them an assurance of taking action against the ‘erring’ cops and the in-laws of the deceased. Following this, the protesters lifted the dharna. City police station SHO Jasvir Singh said, “We have received an application from the protesters, which has been forwarded to the
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Uranium issue lost in political spat, say environmentalists
Faridkot, June 18 Two months ago, a Parliamentary panel had slammed the Central Government for not showing a ‘desired level of urgency and seriousness’ on the issue of uranium contaminating the drinking water in Punjab and now, three days ago, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh blamed the Punjab Government for not sending a proposal to assess the damages and measures to tackle the problem. Days before the Parliamentary panel criticised the Central Government for its lackadaisical attitude on uranium, in response to a question raised by two MPs, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) claimed in the Lok Sabha that there was, so far, no study on the effects of high uranium content in drinking water on the human health in Punjab, said GS Dhillon a consulting engineer in the Water Resources Development Project in Punjab. While responding to the questions of Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib MPs on April 25, V Narayanasamy, a state minister in the Prime Minister Office, stated on the behalf of the DAE that the BARC had analysed around 700 samples for uranium content in water. The samples were taken from the Malwa region of Punjab in collaboration with the Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar. Even as the uranium content in these water samples ranged from 0.1-644 ppb (microgram per litre), the BARC had not carried out any study on the effect of uranium on human health in Punjab. So, the DAE was unable to offer any comment, said Dr GS Dhillon quoting V Narayanasamy. “Despite the fact that the BARC and a German laboratory had detected ‘highly explosive’ uranium content in water in the last four years, the DAE keep changing its stances about the problem time to time,” said Dr Amar Singh Azad, a senior doctor and environmentalist associated with the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children in Faridkot. The centre had first exposed the high concentration of uranium in water in the area four year ago. A toxicologist from South Africa, Carin Smith, reached the centre to collect blood and hair samples of 149 mentally and physically abnormal children. The examination of these samples at the Microtrace Mineral Lab in Germany found highly toxic heavy metals, besides high presence of uranium in the hair traces of these children. “During a meeting with the Punjab Chief Minister two weeks back, DAE secretary Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha assured the CM of sending a team of hydrologists to assess the problem. We have not heard more about such team so far and now the Minister, Jairam Ramesh, is attacking the state government for not sending a proposal. It all smacks of non-seriousness on a serious issue,” said Dr
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Never say die spirit ushered him into PCS
Fazilka, June 18 A resident of border village Bandiwala, Yadvinder said he had cleared the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) preliminary as well as the main written examination consecutively for three years in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He also cleared the PCS exam in 2003. However, he did not succeed in interview. But he did not give up and has now been selected for PCS in interview too. Born to a marginal farmer Tejvir Singh, Yadvinder got his basic education and graduation from government institutions. He did his post-graduation in political science from the DAV College, Abohar, following which he took admission in LLB in Panjab University Chandigarh. Singh has been serving in a bank for the last 10 years. "I studied at the library on the Panjab University campus for hours together in a day. Besides, my father motivated all the way through," said Yadvinder Singh. |
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Fazilka, June 18 Kewal Krishan Midha (53), a finance of the nearby Jalalabad town and the head of the family that had met with the accident, passed away late on Sunday night. Earlier, his wife Veena Midha had succumbed to her injuries on Saturday night. It may be recalled that Midha along with four members of his family and a driver, was travelling in a car, which collided with a jeep near Beganwali village, some six km from here on Saturday. — OC |
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Intern docs hold protest march, want hike in stipend
Faridkot, June 18 They submitted a memorandum to the Additional Deputy Commissioner, demanding hike in stipend, from `4,500 per month to `13,000. The intern doctors alleged that they were paid the least stipend in the country and their daily wages were even less than an unskilled labourer. |
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On the third day of their strike while demanding hike in their stipend amount, the intern doctors took out a protest march from Guru Gobind Singh Medical College to the office of the Deputy Commissioner here today.
