Daughter of Upindra Hanspal, a homeopathy doctor, and LIC employee Iqbal Singh, Harleen said that she wanted to join an engineering college.

“I am preparing for a competitive examination and hope to join some good institute,” said a jubilant Harleen.

Divita Gupta, a student of Senior Study II School, Putlighar, has secured 97 per cent marks in the non-medical stream.

In commerce stream, Gurnoor Kaur, a student of Sri Guru Harkrishan Public (SGHP) School GT Road, scored 97.2 per cent marks. Srishti Mahajan of Senior Study II has secured 96 per cent marks.

Jasmeet Kaur, a non-medical student of SGHP obtained 95 per cent marks while Gurleen Kaur and Arshpreet Kaur has scored 91 per cent marks in medical stream.

SGHP School principal Dhramveer Singh said 35 of their students scored above 90 per cent marks and 47 scored between 85 to 89 per cent marks.

Ayush Arora, a student of DAV Public School, Lawrence Road, has secured 96 per cent in commerce. Two more students of the school Dhruv Sabharwal and Gurseerat Sandhu secured 95.6 per cent in commerce. School principal Neera Sharma said nine students managed more than 95 percent marks while 55 secured above 90 per cent.

Rahil Dutt of Spring Dale Senior School secured 96.8 per cent marks in non-medical while Dhruv Sharma secured 96.2 per cent marks.

Kushaldeep Gill, a commerce student, and medical student Hemdeep Singh obtained 95.8 per cent marks each. School principal Rajiv Kumar Sharma said 61 students scored 90 per cent or above marks.

Kaynat Ohri, a commerce student of DPS School secured 94.2 percent while Rajat Chhabra of the same school got 91.6 per cent in science stream.

Three students of DPS scored above 90 per cent marks. Nikhil Mannan of DAV International Public School student scored 96.2 per cent in non-medical while Vidit Vansil of commerce got 95.4 per cent and Ankush Sharma obtained 94.2 per cent marks.

Principal Ajnana Sharma said two students of the school got above 95 per cent and 17 above 90 per cent marks.

Amritsar, May 27
Just a few hours after his arrest, an alleged drug peddler escaped from police custody at the Chatiwind police post. However, he was arrested again by the police from Sangra village and has been sent to judicial remand.

Reports said Harpreet Singh, a resident of Bhakna village located on the Amritsar-Attari road, was arrested with 20 grams of heroin by the Chatiwind police from Sangra village. According to information, Harpreet Singh who was lodged in the police station barrack, called the night munshi Abdesh Singh and told him that he had some breathing problem.

Abdesh said he was brought the accused out and deputed head constable Gulzar Masih to keep an eye on him. He said after some time Harpreet demanded a glass of water. When Gulzar went to fetch some water, the accused escaped from by breaking a window. Investigating officer Sawinder Singh said a case under Section 224 of the IPC had been registered against the accused in thisregard. He said investigations found no dereliction from their side. 

Amritsar, May 27
Sensing the alarming state of affairs prevailing at Bhagtanwala garbage dump yard, Amritsar Mayor Bakshi Ram Arora, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Inderbir Bolaria and Municipal Corporation officials today visited the spot.

The Mayor admitted that the current garbage dumping mechanism was not adequate and some concrete measures needed to be adopted to dispose of the garbage collected from the city.

"The situation is quite dismal here. Actually, the dumping is not being done in a proper manner. Our ditch machinery proved to be a failure because we do not have proper technical manpower that can operate these machines. Every other day, these machines would develop technical snag costing us between Rs 3-4 lakh repair charges only. That is why we decided to shun it for the time being and arrange some private hands," Arora said.

The Bhagtanwala dumpsite falling in the vicinity of Amritsar West constituency has become a blot on the holy city. As the project of solid waste management plant could not take off, the authorities had designated this place for dumping about 600 metric tonnes of garbage from the city.

The High Court has deferred the hearing of the Solid Waste Management for July 1. As the solid waste management plant could not see the light of day over three years, the dump pond has filled up to its limit and the heaps of garbage are mounting with each passing day.

In the absence of any scientific method of garbage disposal, the heaps of refuse are piling up. The garbage had started spilling over to the road around it, leading to great inconvenience to the residents and commuters alike here.

Even the garbage lifting trolleys were not able to reach the site as the approaching road was littered with garbage.

The Bhagtanwala grain market, located just 10 metres away from this dumpsite, is facing the worst scenario.

All the sides of the grain market, comprising at least 60 shops, have been covered with garbage piles. 

Amritsar, May 27
Mystery continues to shroud the case in which a youth had gone missing on May 11 after he left his house for work and did not return.

The police has booked five persons deployed as security guards at a paper mill located near Fatehgarh Churian road bypass in this connection following the complaint lodged by the missing youth’s father.

Narinder Singh, a resident of Anmol Palace near Metro Mall, said his son Lakhwinder Singh had gone to his shop but did not return. On May 21, Vicky of Navi Abadi, told him that Lakhwinder had a quarrel with security guards of the paper mill when he was standing on the main entrance of the mill. He said the accused took him near the barrier and thrashed him brutally.

Among those booked are Gurdial Singh of Sekhawan in Gurdaspur, Pawan Kumar of Dashmesh Avenue, Majitha road , Chain Singh of Akash Avenue, Ashwani Kumar of Gobind Nagar near Sultanwind Road and Ajaib Singh of Pakharpura.

Subeg Singh, in-charge of Fatehgarh Churian bypass police post, said a case under Section 365, 342, 323, 148, 149 of the IPC had been registered in this connection. But no arrest has been made so far, he said.

Singh said investigations revealed that a fight had occurred between the security guards and the missing youth. But there is no concrete evidence about the whereabouts of the victim. Further investigations were under progress, he added.

Amritsar, May 27
A man cheated a Mattenangal resident by fraudulently withdrawing Rs 14,000 from his account at an ATM here.

Dhir Singh, the complainant, told the police that he went to an ATM located near the State Bank of Patiala branch at Ajnala. He said as he faced difficulty in operating the ATM card, an unidentified youth standing nearby offered to help him.

He said the youth tried for a couple of times and told him that there was some fault in the machine. He said as he came out of the machine’s cabin, the accused withdrew Rs 14,000 by using the password of the card.

With the help of CCTV camera installed in the cabin, the accused was later identified as Ranbir Singh of Kakkar village.

The police has registered a case under Section 420 of the IPC. No arrest has been made so far.

Vehicle stolen

Varun Kalia, a resident of New Golden Avenue, complained that some unidentified persons stole his Activa scooter bearing number PB-02-AJ-0370 which he had parked outside a shopping mall in the Ranjit Avenue area. He had gone to the mall for shopping and when he came out about half-an-hour later, he found his vehicle missing. The complainant said he searched for the vehicle in the area but to no avail. 

Amritsar, May 27
In view of their demands which included benefits under the Sixth Pay Commission, the teachers today sought the intervention of Punjab Governor and university Chancellor Shiv Raj Patil during their ongoing hunger strike which entered the fifth day, here today.

The president of the association Dr Davinder Singh and vice president Dr Amarjit Singh Soodan sat on the hunger strike. Other members of the executive committee were also present during the strike. They demanded a moratorium be placed on the powers of the Vice Chancellor in matters related to selections and promotion in the university and its colleges.

Guru Nanak Dev University Teachers Association (GNDUTA) president Dr Davinder Singh and secretary Dr Lakhwinder Singh said a delegation of the GNDUTA met the Deputy CM on September 13, 2012 and requested him to release the pay arrears as well as apprised him about the other problems of the teachers.

A letter regarding the illegal change of dates of promotions of five teachers was written on October 18, 2012 and copies of the same were sent to Punjab Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Minister of Higher Education, Chief Justice of India and UGC chairman. The GNDUTA received a letter from the UGC mentioning that the comments of the Vice-Chancellor have been sought in this regard. A letter highlighting irregularities and violations of the UGC rules in promotion of teachers was again written to the Vice-Chancellor and requested him to rectify the same.

A delegation of the GNDUTA met Shivraj Patal at Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh on February 6, 2013. A memorandum was submitted to the Governor listing several instances of violation of the UGC rules and university calendar leading to unjustified rejection of teachers for promotions, changes in the dates of the eligibility of promotion of several other teachers. “The Governor asked us to submit an affidavit in support of our memorandum and we did accordingly. We demand before the Governor to hold a fair probe into these irregularities and direct the Vice Chancellor to run the university as per rules and regulations,” said Davinder Singh, president of GNDUTA.

Dr Lakhwinder Singh said, “We have reasons to believe that the Vice- Chancellor has even tried to influence the high office of the Governor by awarding an honorary degree of Doctorate to Shiv Raj Nakade in the convocation held in March this year. It has been learned that Nakade, has an ordinary bio-data and he has hardly done anything either in the interest of the GNDU or in the furtherance of its mandate and the calendar. His only qualification seems to be that he belongs to the same district (Latur) as that of Governor Shivraj Patil.” 

Amritsar, May 27
Result of Super-50 entrance test, a course to crack IIT entrance test, has been declared. The Progressive Educational Society runs the course for 50 meritorious and economically backward students hailing from rural Punjab for admission to Class XI at Khalsa College Public School, Amritsar.

Progressive Educational Society secretary Prof MS Hundal said the result of entrance test of top 80 candidates had been declared.

Prabsimrandeep Singh (Roll No 1221) stood first with 83 marks, Tajinder Singh (Roll No 1438) stood second by securing 80 marks and Sarang Preet Singh Padda (Roll No 1226) remained third with 79 marks.

The admission counselling for admission to this course would be held on May 30, 2013 in the Baba Budha College Bhawan of Guru Nanak Dev University at 10 am. All the successful students should bring their original certificates along with photocopies and photographs. There are only 50 seats in this course. “The final rank of bracketed candidates would be decided at the counselling after verification of their date of birth,” he said.

Jalandhar, May 27
Rain in the early hours today provided some relief to the residents in the city and surrounding areas from extensive heatwave lashing the region for the last several days.

According to the Meteorological Department, 0.1 cm rain was recorded in the city today. The rain made the weather pleasant and cool breeze kept on blowing throughout the day following early-hour showers.

The rain brought down the maximum temperature to 36.9 degree Celsius whereas the minimum temperature was recorded at 22.8 degree Celsius. The Meteorological Department forecast that the relief from the extreme heat was just temporarily as the maximum temperature was likely to increase on Tuesday.