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BSNL staff unions continue their stir
One nabbed for minor's rape
With Divali round the corner, LED lights flood city markets
2 brothers killed in road mishap
No clue in kidnapping case
Dal Khalsa youth wing to hold demonstration on November 3
Declamation contest marks day 2 of ‘Mela Gadri Babein Da’
Film crew holds promotional show in city
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8 special teams formed
Jalandhar, October 30 To tackle the prevailing chaos of vehicular traffic, the city traffic police has formed eight special teams of traffic personnel. These cops will erect nakas at various strategic locations to regulate the flow of traffic till Divali. Parminder Singh Bhandal, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic), said they had identified some roundabouts and other points in the city where traffic scene gets disturbed and, accordingly, members of these eight teams would instal nakas at these locations so that traffic runs at a smooth pace without any interruptions. The city has 20 roundabouts, but traffic load is found more on BMC Chowk, Rama Mandi Chowk, PAP Chowk, Jyoti Chowk, Nakodar Chowk, Guru Nanak Mission Chowk and Workshop Chowk. The ACP said apart from this, policemen would also be deployed in the congested markets for traffic management. The ACP claimed that three tow cranes had also been pressed into service to challan vehicles found wrongly parked. “To avoid traffic jam in the morning and in the evening, when traffic load is more, I have specifically instructed my teams to concentrate on traffic management only than challaning vehicles. Still, cops will keep a tab
over the motorists flouting traffic rules and if need arises, rule breakers will be challaned,”
ACP held. Apart from this, teams would also conduct patrolling in the markets during peak hours to regulate the flow of traffic,
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BSNL staff unions continue their stir
Jalandhar, October 30 The agitation began on October 24 and will continue till November 3. If their demands were not met by November 3, the agitation would be intensified, representatives of the unions said. Addressing the protesters, district secretary of the BSNL Employees Union, Sat Pal Badhan and other representatives demanded the immediate relieving of those ITS officers who had not opted for the BSNL/MTNL, but wee continuing here on deputation. Else take back all employees of the PSU BSNL/MTNL back into government service to end discrimination and duality, they demanded. Thirty members of the various unions also sat on a hunger strike outside the GMTD Jalandhar office on Tuesday. The protesters also went towards the Jalandhar divisional commissioner's office to hand over a memorandum of their demands to him, but one of his representatives took the memorandum from them in the absence of the Divisional Commissioner.
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One nabbed for minor's rape
Jalandhar, October 30 The accused has been identified as Khushvir Singh, alias Honey, of Birring village. The accused at large have been identified as Jitender Kaur, Gagan Gaggi, Harjinder Singh and Sukhjit Singh. The police has launched a manhunt to nab them. Sources said the victim’s mother had complained to the Commissioner of Police that accused Honey had developed friendship with her daughter
and later on the pretext of marrying her, kept on developing physical relations with
the girl. “When my daughter apprised me of their friendship, I visited the house of Honey to talk about their marriage, but his parents rejected the marriage proposal,” she said. She then told the Police Commissioner about the matter, who asked ACP Dogra to conduct an inquiry into the case. After the ACP completed his inquiry on October
20, he ordered the registration of a case against the five persons under Sections 376, 420, 328, 366-A and 120-B of
the IPC. Last evening, on a tip-off, one of the accused Honey was nabbed by the police. Police officials said raids were being conducted to nab the remaining accused. |
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With Divali round the corner, LED lights flood city markets
Jalandhar, October 30 Growing craze about these artificial lights is surely going to replace the traditional illuminations of diyas and candles. Even shopkeepers at Phagwara Gate, the hub of electronic items, are stunned over the overwhelming response to these light-emitting diode (LED) lights. These lights are available in a variety of colours and shades. Avtar Singh of Sehmbi Electronics in Milap Chowk said this year, Chinese LED lights were giving a tough competition to the country-made lights. As these are cost-effective and even functional at low voltage, it has become the foremost choice of people. An LED light starts from Rs 10 and goes up to Rs 250 and its price rises further according to the length of the lights, while the country-made light starts from Rs 50 and goes up to Rs 400. Though quality wise, Indian lights are much durable, customers are crazy about Chinese lights. Singh said this year, some new varieties of lights had also been introduced by manufactures, including rice lights, chip lights, pipe lights, red heart strings, flower bulbs and many more. He added that lights in the shape of heart, huge star, peacock wing, diya shape, Om, Ganesha and religious symbols were also in huge demand. “I think, diya-shaped lights and candle-shaped lights are definitely going to replace the traditional practice of illuminating muddy earthen pots and wax candles. These are also brighter than the former,” Munish Sama of Sama Electronics said. Chinese electronic diyas are being preferred to traditional diyas by people just to avoid the tension of filling the diyas with oil again and again, Poonam Rani, a housewife said. Still there are people who are not going to compromise with the traditional practice of lighting traditional earthen pots and candles. “My mother has strictly rejected the use of Chinese electronic diyas. She thinks it will be against the age-old rituals,” Kanica Sharma, a student said. Traditional diyas have their unique place on Divali, a woman said, wondering how could they put electronic earthen pots in a temple, the practice, in which people especially visit the nearby religious place on this festival to light diyas in front of idols? |
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2 brothers killed in road mishap
PHAGWARA, OCTOBER 30 They were going to Bhabhiana village. Bakshi Ram died on the spot, while his brother Shankar, who was riding pillion, died in a Jalandhar hospital. Meanwhile, relatives of the victims and hundreds of villagers blocked vehicular traffic on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur Road before Rawalpindi Police Station in support of their demand for the immediate arrest of the car driver. The blockade was lifted when Phagwara SP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh reached the spot and assured the protesters that justice would be done. Later, the police registered a case under Section 304-A of the IPC against the car driver Harjit Singh, who was arrested in the afternoon.
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No clue in kidnapping case
Jalandhar, October 30 The victim, Varinder Singh, a resident of the Garha Road area, was kidnapped by the accused from a washroom of the family care ward of the hospital on October 21, where he was under treatment. In a complaint to the city Police Commissioner, Bimla Devi, wife of the victim, said this was not for the first time that the accused had kidnapped her husband. They had earlier also attempted to kidnap Varinder twice from the hospital since May, 2011. She said the kidnappers, who were property dealers, had managed to register a sale deed in the name of Sewa Singh, by taking the benefit of Varinder’s mental imbalance. The disputed land, measuring 8 marlas, was located in a prime location and was worth crores of rupees, Bimla said. She said earlier the accused forcibly entered the ward room of the hospital in May 2011 in Amritsar and bundled her husband in a car and forcibly took him away. Though policemen from the Majitha police station reached the hospital and even rounded up the accused, later they were let off without any action, Bimla said. They again kidnapped Varinder from the Amritsar hospital and accompanied him to Jalandhar for getting his statement recorded, but timely intervention of the SP (HQ), Jalandhar, once again foiled their bid. Varinder was then shifted to the hospital on the directions of a local court, she said. The gang members finally kidnapped Varinder from a washroom of the hospital on October 21. Since then, there was no information about his whereabouts. Though a complaint had been lodged at the Majitha police station, Amritsar, but to no avail, she added. The Commissioner has marked the application to the Assistance Commissioner of Police, Model Town, for further investigations.
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Dal Khalsa youth wing to hold demonstration on November 3
Jalandhar, October 30 In a statement released to the media here today, Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh and SYP head Ranbir Singh said the objective of the protest rally was to express community’s pain and anguish against the massacre and concern over the denial of justice to the victims, besides performing Ardas in memory of those who were killed in a systematic and planned manner. Elaborating about the programme, they said a peaceful sit-in led by the party head HS Dhami would be organised at Guru Nanak Mission Chowk for two hours. They clarified that the traffic would not be disturbed. Leaders of other Panthic groups would also participate, they said. Kanwarpal and Ranbir further said Sikh Diaspora had cried hoarse, year after year, for the past 28 years, that such gross injustice should shame the rulers of the country, but to no avail. Taking a dig at nine investigative commissions set up by various Union governments to identify the perpetrators and look into the genesis of the 1984 massacre, they said all ended up as a damp squib. It’s ironic that all attempts to get justice within the legal framework of the Indian system for the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh massacre had failed, they added. Kanwar Pal Singh said their group would send a memo to United Nations and five permanent members of the UN Security Council to seek their intervention.
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Declamation contest marks day 2 of ‘Mela Gadri Babein Da’
Jalandhar, October 30 Most of the orators in their speech maintained that the prevalent trend of consumer culture had controlled the minds of new generation and if the situation continued, the day was not far when the younger generation would be slave to the consumer culture. Satbir Kaur of Sant Heera Das Kanya Mahavidyalaya in Kala Sanghia stood first in the declamation contest, Midhu of SR DAV Public School Bilga bagged second and a student of the Purshotam Punjab Student Federation bagged third position in the competition. Apart from this, Hardev Singh of Kendri Vidyalaya, Jalandhar Cantonment, Amardip of the District Education and Training Organisation of Shekhupur near Kapurthala, Supandip of Gurunanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana, Namarta Bhatia of Sant Namdev Girls College, Jalandhar, Sukhdip Kaur of Kedri Vidyalaya, Jalandhar Cantonment, Manraj Kaur of University Campus, Ladhewali, and Vipan Kumar of Jalandhar, all orators, were also honoured with prizes. Late in the evening, the People’s Voice presented documentary movies like Kid (Charlie Chaplin), Jinhe naz hai hind pe wo kaha hai, trail by fire and INA which mesmerised the audience. |
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Film crew holds promotional show in city
Jalandhar, October 30 The twosome shared many of the dialogues and scintillating songs of the romantic comedy film. They danced, acted, sang and let thousands of students enjoy each and every antic of theirs. The students were seen swaying in their own style on the film's experimental and amusing Punjabi music, based on modern sounds, elements of rap mingled with tunes of flute, dhol and rabab. The film is to be screened this Friday. Kunal Kapoor, who had earlier won acclaim for his role in "Rang De Basanti", said, "I am playing the role of Omi, who ran away from home at a very young age. Following trouble with some gangs in London, he returns home many years later in the hope of some monetary aid. However, he realises that his grandfather's dhaba called Chicken Khurana, famous for its chicken preparations, had been shut down and his childhood sweetheart was engaged to his cousin. Omi realises that in order to set his life right, he must discover the recipe of Chicken Khurana, which his Daarji (role played by veteran actor Vinod Nagpal) no longer remembers." Huma of the "Gangs of Wasseypur" fame further elaborated, "The film is a funny story about a Punjabi family of Khuranas. They run a dhaba and take pride in their food, especially their patent chicken recipe. Set in the village of Lalton near Ludhiana, the film has been shot primarily in a kothi there where they stayed for almost two months." Asked about their experiences, Kunal, who hails from Amritsar, said the biggest challenge was consuming chicken again and again during the re-takes of the film shoot. "At the end of the movie, I had actually felt I was overeating and gaining a lot of weight." Huma recalled the shooting days as she said that the best part of the shoot was home-cooked food, including "makki di roti" and "sarson da saag" that the villagers used to bring for them every other day. Replying to a query on comparisons being drawn about the movie with "Khosla ka Ghosla", Kunal said, "There, of course, is a similarity between the two movies from the point of view that both are based on light comedy. But the story line is entirely different. You need to watch it to believe me."
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Members of all executive and non-executive staff unions and associations of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
(BSNL) continued their agitation in support of their various demands here today.
Jalandhar, October 30
