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8 held for 2 murders
Jalandhar, August 10
The district police claimed to have solved two blind murders with the arrest of eight suspects in the past two days. Senior Superintendent of Police Dhanpreet Kaur said Inderjit Singh was murdered by Amandeep Singh of Kang village and his aide Lakhwinder Singh of Malpur Arkan over some old enmity.

Children dressed as Lord Krishna celebrate Janamashtami in Amritsar on Friday. Photo: Sameer Sehgal

Pharmacists cry foul over paramedics dispensing medicine
Gurdaspur, August 10
The Punjab State Pharmacists Association has claimed that there were 110 unqualified pharmacists operating in the state and it was these very pharmacists who were playing with the lives of people particularly in rural areas.

Two held with fake currency
Phagwara, August 10
The police arrested Suresh Kumar Yadav and Chhata Nishant near Rawalpindi here on Thursday. The police seized fake currency worth Rs 49,500 from the two accused. 

Reducing acclimatisation days of soldiers
DRDO lab carrying out research
Jalandhar, August 10
Soldiers going to the high-altitude areas may soon be able to acclimatise themselves with the changed terrain and harsh weather in three days instead of six days. The three-day acclimatisation research is being studied by Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of Defence Research Development Organisation in New Delhi, under which the thrust is on to save the number of days taken by a soldier to acclimatise at high altitude areas.

8 held for 2 murders
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 10
The district police claimed to have solved two blind murders with the arrest of eight suspects in the past two days. Senior Superintendent of Police Dhanpreet Kaur said Inderjit Singh was murdered by Amandeep Singh of Kang village and his aide Lakhwinder Singh of Malpur Arkan over some old enmity.

The SSP claimed that during the preliminary investigation, the police found that the duo hacked Inderjit Singh to death and later threw the body in the canal.

The police launched a search operation and recovered the body from the canal. The body was the identified by Gurpal Kaur of the same village.

A case under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of the IPC was registered on the basis of her complaint.

The SSP said Lakha had a criminal background. He was arrested from the railway station at Kariha village on Wednesday. He also faces a criminal case registered against him at Rahon police station in 2010.

In another blind murder of Braspati Natha, the police has arrested six accused. A case under Section 302 of the IPC has been registered against the six.

The SSP said a special team of the police conducted investigations and found that Braspati Nath had gone to Dera Sant Bhuriwale at Dhakdhana village where he entered into a dispute with Dev Raj and his son Ravinder Kumar of the same village.

Ravinder Kumar lost his cool and attacked Braspati Nath along with his men, leaving him critically injured. The assailants later escaped.

The arrested are identified as Ravinder Kumar, Amandeep Kumar, Dharambir, Raj Kumar, Ravi Kant and Kulwinder Kumar Sodhi.

Hoshiarpur: Parkash Ram (50) of Kolkata, presently residing at Dhugga Khurd village was murdered by Munni Lal of Mizlian in Bihar on Thursday. Sandeep Singh of Dhugga Khurd village alleged Parkash Ram had been residing with them since long. Munni Lal used to visit their house to meet Parkash Ram. Sandeep alleged that Munni Lal had murdered Parkash Ram with a sharp-edged weapon. The Bulhowal police has booked Munni Lal under Section 302 of the IPC.

 Pharmacists cry foul over paramedics dispensing medicine
Ravi Dhaliwal
Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, August 10
The Punjab State Pharmacists Association has claimed that there were 110 unqualified pharmacists operating in the state and it was these very pharmacists who were playing with the lives of people particularly in rural areas.

Ranjit Singh, president of the Gurdaspur unit of the association, said under the Service Providers (Doctors Scheme), 2005, doctors were authorised to appoint any paramedical person to dispense medicines which was in gross violation of the Pharmacy Act, 1948, passed by Parliament.

He claimed that these very paramedics dispense medicine to people thus affecting their health.

Ranjit Singh said according to the contents of an FIR, the Rural Development and Panchayat Department, under whose jurisdiction these paramedics work, had informed him that there were 110 unqualified pharmacists working in the state.

“A pharmacist has complete knowledge of drugs and also knows about their side effects. However, a paramedic has no knowledge, but still there are 110 such paramedics working as pharmacists who are endangering the lives of rural people. A rich man will get treatment at a private hospital, but poor people will always turn up at rural dispensaries where unfortunately they will run into these paramedics,” Ranjit Singh said.

He appealed to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to get this anomaly rectified at the earliest so that the lives of poor rural people are not ruined.

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, president, Gurdaspur District Congress Committee, has also urged the state government to come up with a comprehensive policy to ensure that the lives of rural people are safeguarded.

 Two held with fake currency
Our Correspondent

Phagwara, August 10
The police arrested Suresh Kumar Yadav and Chhata Nishant near Rawalpindi here on Thursday. The police seized fake currency worth Rs 49,500 from the two accused. 

The police seized fake currency amounting to Rs 28,000 and Rs 21,500 from Suresh and Nishant, respectively.

 Reducing acclimatisation days of soldiers
DRDO lab carrying out research
Kusum Arora
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 10
Soldiers going to the high-altitude areas may soon be able to acclimatise themselves with the changed terrain and harsh weather in three days instead of six days.

The three-day acclimatisation research is being studied by Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of Defence Research Development Organisation in New Delhi, under which the thrust is on to save the number of days taken by a soldier to acclimatise at high altitude areas.

This information was disclosed by Dr Shashi Bala Singh, Director, DIPAS, during her visit to Jalandhar here on Tuesday.

Dr Singh said scientists at DIPAS were conducting a research on ‘Rapid Acclimatisation through Intermittent Hypoxia Training (IHT)’.

Dr Singh said given a war-like situation in any of the high-altitude areas of the country, a soldier instead of spending a week to first acclimatise himself, would be rather able to take on the enemy within three days.

“At DIPAS, we are studying all physiological aspects of soldiers, the harsh weather conditions and the affect of the same on their performance in the field,” he said.

The DRDO scientist added that the research would come up as a boon for the Army. “Many soldiers initially find it difficult to cope up with less oxygen and vegetation on such terrains. As high-altitude areas have less vegetation and oxygen, soldiers are prone to hypoxia, sleeplessness, giddiness and other such health problems. But, the new study would ensure early and better acclimatisation of soldiers,” she added.

It is pertinent to mention here that at present the Army is following six-day acclimatisation.