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Man kills wife over ‘illicit relations’
ASI’s murder: Two accused still at large
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Aided schools in dist face acute staff shortage
National Cancer Survivor's Day
Construction of concrete structure in park irks residents
‘Industrialisation cause of rise in heart patients’
Rs 13,000 cr for civic amenities
FROM SCHOOLS
Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala share honours
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Man kills wife over ‘illicit relations’
Kapurthala, June 2 The accused told the police that he killed his wife Salinder Kumari (50) as she had illicit relations with someone. He further told the police that she did not mend her ways despite his repeated requests and finally he decided to “end the problem once for all”. The police arrested him and registered an FIR under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against him. A retired class IV employee with the Health Department, Narayan Dass married Salinder Kumari about 20 years ago. This was his second marriage, the police said. The police took Salinder Kumari’s body into possession and sent it to the local Civil Hospital for postmortem examination. Suspected infidelity
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ASI’s murder: Two accused still at large
Kapurthala, June 2 Expressing hope that the accused will soon be put behind the bars, Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Inderbir Singh said efforts were on to nab them. While the police succeeded in nabbing NRI Tarwinder Singh and Pushpinder Singh, two of the four accused, a few days after the ASI’s murder on March 31, two other accused Palwinder Singh, alias Pinda, and Rajinder Singh, alias Mintoo, are still at large. The Kapurthala district police and the Jalandhar rural district police are making efforts to nab the absconding accused, the sources said. About the possibility of their leaving the country to evade arrest, a senior official said the police had already taken adequate steps, including issuing look-out notices at airports, to prevent them from doing so. Sources said photos of the said accused had already been provided to all police patrol parties to nab them. Further, important information regarding their possible whereabouts have also been collected after the interrogation of Tarwinder Singh and Pushpinder Singh. An FIR was registered under Sections 302, 307, 392 and 34 of the IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act at the the Sadar police station in Phagwara on the basis of the statement of head constable Balkar in this connection. |
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Include murder bid charge in FIR, say Ghumiara victims
Jalandhar, June 2 Pargat and Girdawar, accompanied by Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) district general secretary Kamal Dev Jandusingha, Ghumiara village sarpanch Jasbir Kaur’s husband Manjit Singh, former sarpanch Surjit Singh and panch Gurmej Singh met Jalandhar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP- rural) Yurinder Singh Hayer in this regard a day before. The victims said a case should be registered against Pargat Singh and his associates and non-bailable sections such as 307 (attempt to murder), 452 (house trespass, assault or wrongful restraint) and 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) be included in the FIR. Jandusingha sought action against Kartarpur SHO for keeping the elderly farmer and his nephew Gurpreet Singh in illegal custody for two days. SSP Yurinder Singh Hayer asked Kartarpur DSP Jasbir Singh Rai to look into the matter and submit his report at the earliest. When contacted, Kartarpur DSP Jasbir Singh Rai said, “A probe is already on in the matter and we will soon submit the report to theSSP after completing the inquiry.” Pargat Singh and his nephew Gurpreet Singh were allegedly kept in illegal custody for two days at the Kartarpur police station. The Tribune carried a special news item on May 17 highlighting the plight of farmer Pargat Singh. The elderly farmer and Gurpreet Singh were taken to Kartarpur police station by ASI Pargat Singh to purportedly discuss the issue of wall construction on their land. Pargat Singh was constructing a wall on a portion of his land. SAD leader Lakhbir Singh and his associates were opposed to it as they wanted to use his land to reach their fields. It was during the alleged illegal custody of the farmer and his
nephew. Lakhbir and his aides allegedly forcibly entered his house and attacked his son Girdawar Singh and his wife Balbir Kaur during night. Girdawar has alleged that Lakhbir and his aides attacked them with sharp-edged weapons and pelted stones at them. Both Girdawar and his wife Balbir Kaur sustained injuries and were admitted to the Kartarpur Civil Hospital. Interestingly, the police booked Pargat Singh and his nephew Gurpreet Singh under sections 107 and 151 of the CrPc on May 14 after keeping them in captivity for two days. The police booked some members of the Lakhbir group for attacking Pargat Singh’s son after BSP’s Jandusingha repeatedly raised the matter with senior police officials. Non-bailable sections of 307 and 452 were not included in the FIR. |
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Aided schools in dist face acute staff shortage
Jalandhar, June 2 This means that out of a total of 1,344 posts as many as 707 lie vacant. Out of the 16 sanctioned posts of principals, 14 are vacant. Out of 33 posts of headmasters, 19 are lying vacant. Only 241 posts of lecturers have been filled of a total 476. Among classical and vernacular teachers, 54 posts out of total 110 lie vacant. Among JBT teachers, as many as 247 posts lie vacant out of a total of 411. Only 99 class IV employees are there against the sanctioned 173 posts. Among clerks, librarians and SLAs, less than half the posts have been filled. There is only one post of librarian in one of the local aided schools and that too is vacant. There is no post of computer teachers in any of the ai ded schools of the district. Among part time staff, 16 out of 37 posts are filled. Sources said many schools resort to overcharging their students and pay meagre salaries to teachers. The relatively less resourceful schools suffer because their students do not get adequate staff to teach them thus making the quality of education to suffer. Many teachers say that merging the aided schools with government schools is the most effective way to put an end to all these problems. Arvind Bains, district president, Punjab Aided School Teachers Union, said, “While the government says we have to provide facilities to our students on par with the government schools, the very basic necessity of staff is not being fulfilled in aided schools. We are left to cope with the situation by recruiting unaided staff which we do not have money for.” “This burdens students. Eighty per cent of our schools are without regular heads. Our administrations are not in a position to their pay staff,” he said. “Though we have approached some former and present ministers, deputy commissioners (DCs) and district education officers (DEOs), our complaints have gone unheard. Before the election, politicians promise that aided schools will be merged with government schools, all those promises are forgotten now. Merger is the only way out of this crisis and unless the government gets serious, the state of aided schools will only deteriorate further,” he added. Time for reality check
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National Cancer Survivor's Day
But every cloud has a silver lining, they say. On the National Cancer Survivor’s Day, The Tribune talked to some cancer survivors about what is essential to battle the hideous disease. Prof Lakhbir Singh (51), a teacher and an activist, detected cancer symptoms for the first time in November 2006. A sneeze froze his body and an usually fit professor refused to move until six people put him in an ambulance. Thirteen days into what was initially a vertebrae fracture treatment, he
was told he had bone marrow cancer. He opted for a Delhi-based hospital for treatment. After a one-month-long radiotherapy and chemotherapy course, four months of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant in August 2007, came the news of 80 per cent remission. Cancer surfaced again in June 2012 after which he tried an amalgam of naturopathy and allopathy. Since then, it has been a road to recovery. Family’s financial condition has been in a bad shape since and they have spent Rs 85 lakh on the treatment so far. Rehabilitating his financial situation and finding money to spend on his cancer awareness and other social causes remains his prime concern. Ask Prof Lakhbir what took him through? “Staying positive and sticking to a natural regime,” he says. When a naturopath told him pesticide-ridden fruits would damage his system, he grew his own stuff or borrowed fruits and vegetables from friends who had their own gardens. He cautions against artificial sugars, preservatives, ripening agents. He believes the government must ban the use of all such foods to prevent cancer. Capt IS Dhami (52), Assistant Director, Youth Services Punjab, detected the first symptoms of cancer in 2007 during an official trip to Nainital. He felt dizzy and was diagnosed with lympahtic blood cancer. He then started his treatment at DMC, Ludhiana. A chemotherapy dose brining down his TLC levels proved a turning point. One-and-a-half-years of chemotherapy revived him considerably. The nervous, kidney and liver function was also revived gradually. Dhami says his strength is his family and humour. “I am an armyman. I took it as if I have been hit by a bullet. I kept myself happy. I would read Sukhmani Sahab, stick to the nutrition chart prepared by doctors and my family never discussed the disease with me or in front of anyone,” he says. He says people tend to offer outrageous advices at times but it is important to keep negative elements aside. Ask Capt Dhami what took him through, he says, “The disease never affected my routine or official work. The youths and colleagues around have also been a great support.” Gulshan Kumar (39), a former circle president of BJP, Jalandhar, was admitted to hospital owing to some disc problem and he was diagnosed with bone cancer in November 2012. Following this, he started treatment at a cancer hospital in Ludhiana. While he is on the road to recovery, it has not been easy financially for his and his family. His job was the only source of income for his family (one wife and two children). But help and motivation from relatives and people of the locality kept him afloat. He spends Rs 40,000 to 45,000 per month on cancer medicines but is entirely dependent on his locality people for financial help. Kumar questions the government’s policy of charging hefty amounts from patients under the Cancer Relief Fund. “The Bio-cure and Lenome medicines which cost Rs 12,590 and Rs 8,700 respectively under the Cancer Relief Fund cost
Rs 3,361 and Rs 5,100, in that order, from the same hospital chemist without the scheme,” he says. The government’s announcement to change the policy has not made any difference as these medicines still cost much under the scheme," he says. |
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National Cancer Survivor’s Day observed
Jalandhar, June 2 Dr Rupinder
Bhargav, a cancer specialist, said the detection of cancer is not hopeless in the modern times with the developments of medical science, allthough there are millions of deaths in India and world over, but we have millions of survivors, who mark the victory with the treatment. Among others, who spoke were Dr Sameer Goyal cardiologist, Dr Vandna
Anaesthesist, Dr DS Lal MS Surgery, Prof Surinder Kaur Diet specialist. Among cancer survivors
Tulsiram, Manjula, Anu,Jaswinder Kaur, Rattan Lal a social activist, Deepak Raja comedian were present. Prof Satkar Singh also spoke on the occasion. There were more than 150 people along with about 40 cancer survivors. Prof Lakhbir Singh a social activist and cancer survivor himself, said recent report recalls the deaths due to cancer in the year 2010, to the tune of 5.5
lakh. He added that there is a lot of awareness and treatment available that made it possible. He claimed that he will create a big group for this purpose and definitely make it sure to get more and more survivors. |
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Schools gear up for vacations
Jalandhar, June 2 While some concentrate on fitness, others are providing a bit of swimming, cooking and scouting. Some schools even have plans of grading the summer activity and linking it to the curriculum, though in a funny way. Both Police DAV School and CT Public School have plans to provide a subtle link between the fun summer activity and the curriculum by grading students' performance. Police DAV School will train students in activities like chart making, thermocol cutting, relief models, use of POP and clay etc. For tiny tots, each day of the camp will have its own theme and colour. Every day will have a theme like art and painting, face painting, hair styling, Bollywood and contemporary dance, magic show, funny videos, story-telling etc. CT Public School in its summer camp from June 3rd to June 11 will teach activities like craft, swimming, scouts. Camp tasks will be the project work for vacations (done with the help of teachers). The students from Classes I to X will be given district-level certificates after the camp. For CT kindergarten, the school plan includes craft, swimming, dining etiquette, rain dance and setting up of an animal planet to enhance the students' knowledge about various types of animals and their habitats. At MGN Public School, Urban Estate II, summer vacations will be all about painting, dancing and music. About 100 students will be taught about Bollywood style of dancing with a special class by a renowned dancer of the region. In music classes, basics of stringed and percussion instruments will be taught with the 10-day camp finally culminating in a pool party around the school swimming pool. At St Soldiers' Group of Institutions, about 300 students will indulge in the fun of a summer camp. Swimming classes began from today but art and craft lessons will begin from Monday, Later, cooking classes (only for girls) and dance classes will cheer the students. At Innocent Hearts School, Model Town, two special chefs will be called to provide two-day baking classes (and easy meal classes) for senior girls. For children a one night-stay summer camp will be held at the school's Loharan branch, where activities like sports, music, DJ night, jogging exercise will be held for the students on the intervening night of June 4 and 5. |
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Construction of concrete structure in park irks residents
Amritsar, June 2 The Amritsar Tribune team today found the labourers engaged in raising a concrete structure in the park while no official of the federation was around. According to the rules and regulations, raising a concrete structure in the park violates the building norms and defeats the very purpose of providing green lungs to the city. The park, which was jointly set up by the Ramgarhia community and the Improvement Trust about two decades ago, was built in the memory of Maharaja Jassa Singh Ramgarhia. Set up on the NH-1, the park educates the visitors about the role of Maharaja Jassa Singh, who had valiantly fought against invaders with his limited resources. The residents said the condition of the park must be improved to give a befitting tribute to the Sikh warrior who was the founder of the Ramgarhia misl in and around Riarki area of Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Batala. A 20-feet-high bronze statue of the warrior was revived by the state government in its previous stint. The half-broken boundary walls were repaired. The residents demanded that the park must be a soothing treat for the thousands of residents, who daily cross over the park to pay an obeisance at the Golden Temple and go out of the city. Besides, it is the biggest park for several localities situated around it. However, another major grouse of the residents is that the park remains enveloped with dust for much of the time due to the industrial units near the park and heavy flow of traffic on the NH-1. They said dust and the lack of cleanliness on its approaching road discourage residents from visiting it frequently. The residents said iron grills of the park were stolen by drug addicts, residing in the nearby slums. The residents said the foundation of the statue was laid with a great fanfare by political leaders with an eye on the vote bank of the community about 20 years ago. They said Maharaja's contribution cannot be ignored as he had fortified and constructed the fort of Ram Rauni in Amritsar and always contributed in Dal Khalsa whenever Afghans invaded. He occupied the area north to Amritsar, between the Ravi and the Beas, and added Jalandhar region and Kangra hill areas to his estate. When contacted, Sardar Jassa Singh Ramgarhia Federation press secretary Satinder Singh Virdi said the objective of the construction was to raise another pedestal to shift the 20-foot statue of Jassa Singh Ramgharia here. He said the view of the statue had been eclipsed by the construction of elevated road. He said as per the new plan, the statue would now be facing the other direction of the highway (road leading to Jalandhar). He said persons with vested interests fuelled the rumours of constructing a building, which was entirely wrong. When asked if the federation had sought any permission from the authorities to bring the change, he replied that the federation was mandated by the Improvement Trust to maintain it over a decade ago and there was no need for a fresh permission. When contacted, Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner Bhupinder Singh said the construction of any concrete structure in the public park was a violation of the norms and it would be dealt with sternly. He said the Municipal Town Planning department, a wing of the MC, had been intimated about it and a notice would be issued to the people responsible for it. |
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Star cast of ‘Myself Ghaint’ comes calling
Jalandhar, June 2 Helmed by United Space productions, has established actors Gaurav Kakkar and Dolly Sidhu playing in lead roles, Maninder Velly of Mausam fame and RJ Pak Deepak also play significant roles in the film. Speaking to the press during a visit to the city today, the cast of the film said, the film revolves around three friends who lead a boring and simple life (lead actor Gaurav Kakkar plays the role of Kaint), and their lives become a roller coaster ride after series of events unfold. The film is a light hearted comedy and a
love story. Actress Dolly Sidhu, who plays Kaint's love interest in the film has worked in Bollywood too. She began her career in the entertainment industry as a singer and is the voice behind various famous tracks in both Punjabi and Hindi. She has previously worked with Rai Jhujjar in Dil da Maamla.On her association with the movie she said, Myself Ghaint has a great storyline, I am sure the shooting will be a lot of fun with such talented people around. Lead actor Gaurav Kakkar, who has earlier worked with Gurdass Mann in the film 'Chak Jawana' won ciritcal acclaim for the same, he won the PTC Best Male Debut award in 2011. I really liked the script of the film, it is something that every youngster will relate to, he was quoted as saying. Apart from acting in the film, RJ Deepak has also written the script of Myself Ghaint. The movie is directed by Akashdeep Singh Batth and produced by Akashdeep and Gagandeep Singh. |
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‘Industrialisation cause of rise in heart patients’
Jalandhar, June 2 Dealing at length on the management of heart attack, he said, two modalities of treatment are available for managing heart attack depending upon, whether facilities for angioplasty are available in the hospital or not. If the facilities for such interventions are not available in the hospital the patient should be administrated a life saving drug like streptokinase or a newer thrombolytic agent, which is quite effective during the first two hours of a heart attack. Such patients could be later sent to a hospital, where facilities for Angiography and Angioplasty are available. However, if Cath Lab facilities are available, then the patients should preferably be subjected to Angiography and treated with Balloon Angioplasty, which gives excellent result especially if this treatment is provided within first 12 hours of heart attack. |
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Rs 13,000 cr for civic amenities
Jalandhar, June 2 A Punjab government spokesperson said the project would be implemented in a phased manner. Under the project, he said, concrete roads would be laid in villages after laying down the sewerage lines in the next three years. A release issued in this regard by the state government said special focus
would be on the timely completion of the project. The state government has signed an agreement with international firm IL&FS to execute the project. According to the agreement, the company will complete the project in three years besides maintaining it for 10 years. Under the project, a provision has been made for providing sewerage, water supply, roads, disposal of the contaminated water, streetlight and power. Similarly, the project would also ensure the overall development of the villages by enhancing the income of panchayats through rural tourism, integrated rural hubs and rural markets. |
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FROM SCHOOLS
Jalandhar, June 2 On May 30, an on the spot drawing contest in collaboration with Samvedna Jagriti NGO, on the theme of Save Environment was held while on May 31, a special assembly on the theme 'clean and green environment' was held. The students sang songs and recited poems on the theme . On June1, a tree plantation drive was launched, in which members of the school management committee, school principal, parents of the schoolchildren, staff as well as students participated. School president S Atam Parkash Singh and he principal inaugurated the drive. Farewell party
The students of he main campus of Punjab Technical University (PTU), Punjab Institute of Technology (PIT) bid farewell to their seniors through a programme, “Ehsaas-E-Alvida”. The students of MTech, MPhil, PhD and MBA participated in the event. In this cultural event, titles were given to the outgoing students by the juniors. The juniors enthusiastically performed comedy items and dances. The chief guest of the occasion was Dean Academic and Director PIT Dr Buta Singh Sidhu and senior faculty member of PIT Dr. Avtar Singh Buttar was the special guest. Coordinator of organising committee Dr Jagmeet Bawa and Prabhdeep Singh welcomed the guest. Students of M Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) Shashi Gurang and Tarandeep Kaur won the titles of Mr and Miss Evening. Sahil Kochar won the title of Mr. Handsome and Parul Mahendru won the title of Ms. Charming. The title of Mr. and Miss Confident was won by Arvinder Singh. |
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Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala share honours
Ludhiana, June 2 Swimmers from Ludhiana district proved their supremacy in the 50m free style (girls IV), 50m breast stroke (girls IV), 50m butterfly stroke (girls III) and 50m butterfly stroke (girls IV) events. |
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