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Man kills mother, injures father
Rail Coach Factory engineer commits suicide
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Marriage palaces issued notices, told to seek clearances
Water supply cut by two hours
Rain likely to continue today
Dharna threat by cong councillor
school college notes
Ten trucks carrying sand illegally excavated from Ravi bed seized
Gippy Grewal dons turbaned look in ‘Singh v/s Kaur’
Stolen truck recovered, one held
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Man kills mother, injures father
Jalandhar, February 4 Sarabjeet Singh’s mother Kulwant Kaur died on the spot, while his father Santokh Singh sustained serious injuries. Jalandhar (Rural) Superintendent of Police P Rajinder Singh said Sarabjeet assaulted his parents with a sword after they refused to give him money to settle abroad. The accused has been arrested. Sarabjeet sought money from his father Santokh Singh, who had recently retired from a government job, but his parents were not ready to provide him the desired amount. According to information, Sarabjeet’s parents were living with his elder brother Bhupinder Singh. The aged couple did not want to provide him the money got from the GPF fund, as after Santokh’s retirement, they wanted to keep it for themselves. Meanwhile, the Shahkot police arrested Sarabjeet Singh for killing his mother and injuring his father. It registered a case under various Sections, including 302 of the IPC against him. The injured Santokh Singh was admitted to a Jalandhar hospital. |
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Rail Coach Factory engineer commits suicide
Kapurthala, February 4 Posted as senior section engineer in furnishing shop of the RCF, Rahul hanged himself from the ceiling fan when he was alone at his residence. The exact reason for his reported suicide was not yet known. The RCF authorities came to know about the incident on Sunday afternoon, as he his house was bolted from inside and he was also not responding to the calls on his mobile. Feeling suspicious, the RCF authorities informed the Sultanpur Lodhi police which broke open the door and found Rahul hanging with the ceiling fan. Rahul was a permanent resident of Jammu and was working with the RCF for over five years. He was married just over a year ago and his wife had reportedly gone to Jammu to appear in an examination when the incident took place. Meanwhile, the police handed over the body after the autopsy at Kapurthala Civil Hospital to Rahul’s father, who had come from Jammu after hearing the news of his son's death. Rahul’s father did not name anyone for abetting his son to commit suicide. The police said inquest proceedings were initiated under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code in the case.
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Marriage palaces issued notices, told to seek clearances
Jalandhar, February 4 A meeting of the officials of the NHAI, PWD, forest department, fire department, Senior Town Planner and the Punjab Pollution Control Board was convened by Chief Administrator JDA-cum-Deputy Commissioner Shruti Singh and Additional Chief Administrator Sarojini Gautam Sharda to take into account the action taken on the matter. Shruti Singh told the officials to report the matter with applications received for NOCs by the palace owners by next Monday so that the process of their conditional regularisation could be initiated. The officials of the department have even given proformas and a checklist to each palace owner for applying for clearance. At the next meeting to be chaired by the CA, the officials of each department will comment regarding each palace on whether the application had been received or not and whether the palace could fulfil the norms laid down in the policy and seek its NOC. Another meeting of the district level committee will then be fixed in three days' time to decide each case on the basis of reports from each department. After another three days, the STP is to approve the building plans and give conditional NOC. Only a few likely to sail through
The main concern remains that only a few palaces would be finally able to get the sanctions. Almost all palaces are in the process of getting clearance from the fire department. Since the policies of the NHAI, PWD, JDA and PPCB are quite harsh for palaces, fulfilling the criterion will be difficult. The palaces have six months' time to get clearance from the forest department and the NHAI. They have also been given as much time to make structural changes such as having more toilets, adequate parking space and frontal setbacks in accordance with the new policy. The matter regarding the CLU and other charges to be levied is pending with the Punjab and Haryana High Court. JDA resumes hotel
Taking a tough stand against the owner of Hotel Avanti falling in Urban Estate Phase-1, the JDA officials have resumed it for violation of its building norms. Estate Officer JDA Rakesh Kumar said while the owner could not construct beyond three floors, he had illegally constructed upper floors. "He had even kept his generator in the verandah, which was objectionable to the people in the neighbourhood. We issued him a resumption notice and are in the process of taking its possession. The owner, however, has filed an appeal against the order before the Additional Chief Administrator and the case is to be heard tomorrow," he said. |
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Water supply cut by two hours
Jalandhar, February 4 While earlier the water supply timings were 5 am to 10 am and 5 pm to 10 pm, the supply will end up one hour ahead of the earlier schedule. The new timings will be 5 am to 9 am and 5 pm to 9 pm. The decision came after Mayor Sunil Jyoti visited the water treatment plant at Pholariwal today and it was discussed that the volume of water supplied across the city by the MC was at least 30 million litres a day (MLD) more than the requisite norms. ?Ideally we should have been supplying 155 MLD, but we have been giving out 185 MLD. This is putting too much of a load on the treatment plant which has a capacity to treat 150 MLD now," he said. The Mayor had visited Pholariwal along with Commissioner Viney Bublani, Senior Deputy Mayor Kamaljit Bhatia and officials from the O&M department. The purpose of his visit was to assess the working of the plant, as it was being suspected that the plant was working below its capacity owing to which there was sewage clogging in certain areas of the city, including Kishanpura and Ikehri Pull. The Mayor said the functioning of the plant was normal. There has been a problem with five motors for which the Powercomm staff has been asked to do the needful. The entire problem will be resolved by 2014 when there will be four additional disposals at four ends of the city, including those towards Hoshiarpur, Nakodar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana. Safai issue
After the Congress councillors had on Sunday held a demonstration and taken the task to clean up roads on their own alleging that only a few safai karamcharis made it to their wards, Mayor Sunil Jyoti said the rationalisation of the employees would begin soon. He said one new garbage-lifting trolley would be hired for a set of four wards each so that the problem of garbage-lifting and accumulation of malba (concrete waste) was resolved in the next 15 days. |
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Rain likely to continue today
Jalandhar, February 4 While the city and surrounding areas witnessed rain on Monday, it is likely to continue tomorrow. According to the forecast by the meteorological department, the sky will remain cloudy and party cloudy. Thundershower and occasion rain may occur in the region on Tuesday. Mist will also engulf the region during the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature was recorded as 12.5 degrees Celsius at Adampur near Jalandhar, while the maximum temperature was 17.8 degrees Celsius today. The lowest temperature was recorded in Halwara as 12.6 degrees Celsius, whereas the maximum was recorded as 18.4 degrees Celsius. In Pathankot, the minimum temperature was 12.6 degrees Celsius and the maximum 17.2 degrees Celsius. In Bathinda, the minimum temperature was recorded as 12.8 degrees Celsius and the maximum was 18.9 degrees Celsius.
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Dharna threat by cong councillor
Jalandhar, February 4 While he has already taken to the streets, twice on January 28 and February 3, by taking broom to clean his area, now he has threatened the municipal corporation Jalandhar (MCJ) to hold a dharna at Workshop Chowk if his ward was not provided adequate sweepers. Talking to The Tribune, Dr Rai said his ward was provided only 11 sweepers for the 16 mohallas of his ward. Of them, two sweepers are absent from their work for the last three months, but even then they were drawing salaries despite the matter being in the notice of the MCJ authorities, he added. Of the remaining nine sweepers, four to five sweepers reported daily for their duty and were doing their work with full zeal, but that was not sufficient for cleaning the entire areas of his ward, he added. Elaborating, he said “There are over 2200 sweepers and 60 wards in the MCJ and if equal numbers of sweepers are allocated to each of the 60 wards, his ward should also have got over 35 sweepers, but he was given only 11 sweepers.” Alleging that each of the wards represented by the ruling SAD-BJP councillors were provided over 40 sweepers, Dr Rai said the MCJ was giving a step-motherly treatment to the wards represented by the opposition Congress councillors. Dr Rai further said, “He, along with other Congress leaders, was going to submit a memorandum in this regard to MCJ Commissioner Vinay Bublani today at 11 am, but he called me stating some urgent work.” The Congress councillor said, “We will meet MCJ Commissioner tomorrow. Meanwhile, he assured me verbally of providing four-five more sweepers for my ward tomorrow and the rest within a month.” Dr Rai said, “If he failed to do so, I will be left with no option but to hold a dharna at Workshop Chowk and I will give formal notices to Commissioner of Police Gaurav Yadav, Deputy Commissioner Shruti Singh, Mayor Sunil Jyoti and MCJ Commissioner Vinay Bublani before holding the proposed dharna.” |
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Blood donation camp organised
The NSS unit of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts organised a blood donation camp in which more than 75 students and faculty members participated. Apra, Incharge NSS unit, and Dr Sucharita, Principal of the college, encouraged the students to come forward for the noble cause. As part of Women Empowerment Programme, the NSS Unit also organised a martial arts training workshop in which Vinny Singh, who has 17 years experience in Shaolin Kung Fu, Pekiti Tirsia Kali and Muay Thai-Boxing, trained more than 200 girls. He also gave tips and demonstration on how to save themselves with the help of whatever they were carrying at the time of attack. Workshop for teachers
To improvise and sensitise the fundamental education pattern in schools, Lovely Professional University has taken up new corporate social responsibility under its project Disha to empower school teachers for new teaching pedagogy. LPU Pro Chancellor Rashmi Mittal informed, “It generally rested on universities to make students job ready, thoughtful, pragmatic and socially awakened. However, it cannot be easily done if fundamentals added up at school are not strong. This is true more so in the case of India where schools are still using most of the traditional methodology. Understanding this gap, LPU has started to train and sensitize school teachers and principals on this requirement. For this, we designed two days course and workshop for school teachers and 130 principals and teachers from Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) participated in the workshop.”€¯ The workshop of project “Disha” saw participation of more than 80 schools from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. The workshop included Hands-on exercise in using e-mails, blogs and personal webpages, e-learning concepts and lab work and discussions on role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in educational institutions, communication skills and managing work life. Ms Green contest
Department of Life Sciences of Kanya Maha Vidyalaya celebrated World Wetland Day by holding various competitions in poster making, slogan writing, collage making, poem recitation, PPT presentation, skit and Go-Green contest. For selecting Ms. Green KMV 2013, two rounds of MCQ test were conducted by the Environmental Sciences Department to check the subject knowledge. In first round, 300 girls appeared, of whom 120 girls qualified for the second round. In second round, 14 girls were shortlisted. Final round of personality development test was conducted on the basis of communication skill, voice quality, confidence, expression and content. The winners for the same were: Ms. Green KMV 2013: Surbhi of BCA-II, Ms. Environment (Vision): Poorva Sharma of B.Sc Economics. CAD competition
In order to promote creativity among the students in technical field, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology (CTIEMT) organised the event CAD Mania. The event focussed on developing 2D and 3D views of mechanical components using technological tools like computer aided design and drawing. Nearly 150 B.Tech and Diploma students of mechanical and civil engineering from CTIEMT, CTIT and CT Polytechnic College participated. Total 30 candidates were shortlisted for round II in which Harmandeep Singh and Himanshu Prasher B Tech Mechanical Engg from CTIEMT bagged the first prize and second prize respectively. Karanvir Singh from CT Polytechnic of Automobile Engg and Gaurav Singh Jaria Mechanical Engg from CTIEMT were adjudged best candidates in the first round and were awarded with appreciation award. All winners were honoured with cash prizes also. — TNS |
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Ten trucks carrying sand illegally excavated from Ravi bed seized
Amritsar, February 4 The police seized 10 trucks carrying a huge quantity of sand excavated from the bed of the Ravi late last evening. The miscreants, however, fled on seeing police parties leaving their trucks behind. The incident has once again brought out the fact that the steps initiated by the authorities concerned have proved inadequate and miserably failed to produce desired results. Though the Industries Department authorities claimed to have curbed the illegal excavation of sand to a larger extent, but the lack of staff has been posing great problems in stemming the problem completely. Miscreants usually excavate sand from the bed of the Ravi near Ajnala during late evening hours and the department officials have expressed its helplessness to check the mining during late hours. They pointed out that for the round-the-clock vigilance they needed 30-40 per cent more staff. Ever since the Punjab and Haryana High Court passed orders to deal with the offenders of illegal excavation of sand strictly in April last year, the Industries Department has lodged over 50 cases of illegal mining in Amritsar. In yesterday’s instance, the police seized 10 trucks from Jafarkot, Talwandi Raidadu and Sarangdev villages. The Ajnala police, falling under Amritsar rural police, has registered three separate cases in this regard. The police has been trying to find the ownership of the trucks.
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Gippy Grewal dons turbaned look in ‘Singh v/s Kaur’
Amritsar, February 4 The singer, who turned full-time actor with hit films like "Mel Karade Rabba", "Jihne Mera Dil Luteya" and "Carry On Jatta", will once again tickle some funny bone and romance Surveen Chawla in the film. In city on a promotional tour for "Singh v/s Kaur", Gippy and Surveen interacted with fans at Queen's Couture, Khalsa College and Lawrence School and paid obeisance at the Golden Temple later in the evening. Gippy, who is playing the role of protagonist Nihaal Singh, a glib liar who gets stuck in his own web of lies only to give some funny moments in the film, was seen sans his on-screen look. "I have another shooting schedule ahead of me in the evening, so I couldn't don my turbaned look just like my character in the film, he cleared. Though he did talk about his film, "I play a small town guy who wants to achieve big in life. In his attempts to do so, he lies and then gets stuck. It is a fun family film, like my previous films as I aim to entertain family audiences." He also insisted that the film is for the whole family. "This is the film for which you can take your mother and father along to the movie theatre," said Gippy. Actress Surveen Chawla, who plays the "Kaur" in the film too seemed excited. "I have had a good time working in Punjabi films as my work got appreciated in 'Taur Mitran Di', "Dharti' and more recently 'Sadi Love Story'. I am excited about my second consecutive release in a week's time and hope people like it," said the pretty lady. The duo enthralled the audience with their songs and dance items while interacting with a young crowd at Khalsa College. While Gippy sang his popular songs, forcing the audience to tap their feet, Surveen joined in with some impromptu dance moves. Produced under the banner of Sippy-Suresh Productions, the film has been made with the rural as well as urban population in mind and would be liked by the youngsters, said Gippy. It is directed by Navniat Singh and scheduled to get released this week and is also the first to be produced by multi-lingual producer D. Ramanaidu. "He has a record in Guiness Book for being the most prolific producer with movies in languages like Telegu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada, Bengali and now Punjabi," informed Gippy.
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Stolen truck recovered, one held
Amritsar, February 4 The police has arrested Jaswinder Singh of Chabba in this connection, while his accomplice Ravi managed to escape. They were nabbed near Harike where Jaswinder Singh was waiting for a party to sell the stolen truck and Basmati rice worth Rs 17 lakh. Gurbax Singh, DSP, Attari, said Gurwinder Singh of Jasraur village, had parked the truck near Baba Naudh Singh Samadh and went to meet his sister. However, when he returned he found the truck missing. He said a case under Section 379 of the IPC was registered in this regard. Police parties were raiding places to nab Ravi. |
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The NSS unit of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts organised a blood donation camp in which more than 75 students and faculty members participated.
Apra, Incharge NSS unit, and Dr Sucharita, Principal of the college, encouraged the students to come forward for the noble cause.
Amritsar, February 4
