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6 booked for attacking student
Two marriage palaces, one factory sealed
Congress councillor alleges partiality as roads in his ward cry for repair
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Bhupinder’s suicide: Kin want two more to be booked
Normalcy returns to hospitals as docs call off strike
As PCMS doctors resume work, patients make a beeline to get themselves examined in Jalandhar on Tuesday. Photo: Sarabjit Singh
Universities woo students for BTech courses
Law & order situation worse than militancy era, says Dullo
Unscheduled power cuts start with paddy season
Bar Council election: 3 per cent votes of city advocates found invalid
Summer festival held at CT Public School
Man booked for raping daughter
City hospital adjudged best for infrastructure
Three arrested for betting
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6 booked for attacking student
Jalandhar, June 11 Amarpreet said the youths had been after his life for they wanted him to step down as the college union president and appoint another student on the post. The SHO, Division No 1 police station, Balbir Singh, reached the spot and booked six boys, including Noni, Vimpy, Goldy, Sachin and Ballu under Sections 323 and 324 of the IPC. The Station House Officer (SHO) said Amarpreet received some injuries and even appeared for a two-and-a-half-hour examination after the attack on him.
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Two marriage palaces, one factory sealed
Jalandhar, June 11 A team, led by Executive Engineer (Regulatory) Sumittar Singh today sealed Arjan Farm on Kapurthala-Kartarpur road and A-One Palace on Dhilwan Road. The staff also got stopped construction work of two palaces - KS Farms on Talwandi Road and Marriage Zone Palace - in Sultanpur Lodhi. In another sealing drive started by the Municipal Corporation (MC), officials of the House Tax Department today sealed one factory in the Industrial Area for the non-payment of dues to the tune of Rs 2.14 lakh.
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Congress councillor alleges partiality as roads in his ward cry for repair
Jalandhar, June 11 Talking to The Tribune, Balraj Thakur said, “The condition of over a dozen roads in his ward (No 57) is very bad as the work of construction was left midway over two years back after laying stones, but bitumen is not laid so far. As a result, it has become very difficult for the residents to even walk on these road, what to talk of driving vehicles on them.” Corroborating his statement, Keshav Nagar Welfare Society president Varinder Saini, Ekta Vihar Welfare Society president Ijwinder Singh Dhillon, Green Wood Avenue Welfare Society president Gajjan Singh and former councillor Manmohan Singh said, “Incomplete work on various roads, including Kuki Dhab to Khabran Road, Mithapur road, two roads opposite Punjab Palace, four and five number streets at Dashmesh Avenue, Keshav Nagar road, Raja Nagar road and Khural Kingra road has been creating a lot of inconvenience to residents and commuters.” Meanwhile, the councillor, accompanied by several residents of his area, submitted a memorandum to Mayor Sunil Jyoti urging him for restarting and completing the construction work of these roads at the earliest. Balraj Thakur said he had earlier also met the Mayor and submitted a memorandum to him in this regard on November 27, but to no avail so far despite assurance by him at that time. |
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Bhupinder’s suicide: Kin want two more to be booked
Jalandhar, June 11 Thirty-year-old Bhupinder had yesterday committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house and left behind a suicide note naming three persons for a property dispute. The police had booked Avtar Singh, Baljit Singh and Tarsem Singh under Section 306 of the IPC. While the police had arrested Avtar Singh and taken his two-day remand, the other two accused - Baljit Singh and Tarsem Singh - are still at large. Bhupinder's wife Neetu and other family members today sought registration of a case against two more persons, but as the police expressed helplessness owing to no direct charges against them the family members lodged a protest. The protest began after the postmortem of the deceased. The ADCP, Naresh Dogra, ACP Balkar Singh and SHO, Division Number 8 police station, Kewal Krishan reached the spot and pacified the protesters saying that they would investigate into the matter. The body of Bhupinder was, however, kept in a mortuary today for cremation tomorrow.
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Normalcy returns to hospitals as docs call off strike
Jalandhar, June 11 Though the inflow of patients was comparatively less as the public was unaware of the suspension of the strike early in the morning, yet the hospitals were flooded with visitors till noon. The Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) Associationhad called off the strike after its leaders held a meeting with Punjab Health Minister Madan Mohan Mittal and senior officials of the department in Chandigarh late last night. Hundreds of patients were put to a great hardship due to the statewide strike by doctors in various healthcare institutions across the district on Monday.
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Universities woo students for BTech courses
Jalandhar, June 11 Punjab Technical University (PTU) alone has nearly 46,841 seats in its 79 affiliated colleges, 24 integrated campuses and 12 evening shift colleges. The varsity has added two new colleges to its existing list of colleges, raising the total tally to 117 colleges. The state government has notified the Khalsa College of Engineering in Jalandhar and Radiant College in Amritsar for ongoing BTech admissions increasing the number of seats by nearly 700. Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar has also declared 1,330 seats, including those on its main campus and four regional campuses. Punjabi University Patiala, too, has 1,060 seats, while Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, only has 52 seats. All the state universities are going for online counselling for courses being conducted by the PTU. The registration process, which has already started, will go up to June 25. The university is scheduled to wind up admission process by July 31, giving the colleges additional two weeks to fill the remaining seats at their own end. Other than four state universities, there is one Central University in Bathinda, three deemed universities and as many as eight private universities. While most other universities have clearly defined seat matrix for all streams of engineering with reservation policy, the private universities do not make this mandatory disclosure on the web portal violating the norms laid down by the All-India Council for Technical Education. The Centre or state-run universities have also been claiming that they have better qualified faculty, follow reservation policy, fee waiver schemes and adequate infrastructure as well as laboratory facilities in proportion to the student strength on their campuses, which they claim is not a case with private universities. It is out of mad rush and competition among various universities that they have been adopting various means to attract students, including offering commission to staff per student for bringing in students, popularising their campuses by holding programmes in other states and even entering into foreign collaborations. Dr Buta Singh, Dean, Academics, PTU, and in charge of centralised counselling, said the competition would be a big boon for the students who would have a lot of choice during admission. He said the state was even thinking of bringing in all private universities under the ambit of centralised counselling. State universities 1. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 2. Punjabi University, Patiala 3. Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar 4. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Central universities 1. Central University of Punjab, Bathinda Deemed universities 1. Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal 2. Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 3. Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala Private universities 1. Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib 2. Lovely Professional University, Phagwara 3. Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo 4. Adesh University, Bathinda 5. Chitkara University, Patiala 6. Chandigarh University, Gharuan 7. Desh Bhagat University, Mandi Gobindgarh 8. DAV University, Jalandhar |
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Law & order situation worse than militancy era, says Dullo
Jalandhar, June 11 He had come to participate in the dera's founder head Sant Sarwan Dass' death anniversary here. Dullo said the common person was scared due to a deteriorating law and order situation as the incidents of snatching and other petty crime had become a routine and woman are frightened to come out of their houses. Accompanied by Congress leaders Ram Lal Jassi and Yashpal Dhiman, Dullo alleged that the political-drug mafia nexus was ruining the youth of the state. Expressing surprise over Chief Minister Badal and his deputy Sukhbir Badal's statements showing ignorance over the list prepared by former DGP (Jails) Shashi Kant of prominent persons involved in drug smuggling, Dullo said it showed they were not serious to rid the state from the drug menace. "Had they been serious in ridding the state from drugs, they would have acted on the basis of the list prepared by former DGP (Jails)," he said. "Instead of taking action against drug smugglers, they are ridiculously asking the Centre to seal international border with Pakistan to check smuggling," he added. |
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Unscheduled power cuts start with paddy season
Jalandhar, June 11 However, a small downpour in the evening provided some relief from extreme heat to city residents. Majority of the city localities are experiencing unscheduled power cuts since Monday night. The residents of Bhagat Singh Colony were the worst hit as the electricity was not supplied for seven hours from 11 pm on Monday to 6 am on Tuesday. Lalit Gupta, a resident of the area, said, "We could not sleep properly due to the power cut. The children and the elderly were the worst hit due to the cut." The Colony also witnessed several power cuts during the day on Tuesday. Power cuts were also witnessed at Civil Lines area, Shashi Nagar, Globe Colony, Aman Nagar and Thaparan Mohalla.
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Bar Council election: 3 per cent votes of city advocates found invalid
Jalandhar, June 11 Reports said over three per cent of total votes polled by Jalandhar advocates for electing 25 members of the Bar Council, the election for which was held in Chandigarh on May 31 and in Punjab and Haryana on June 1, have been declared as invalid. As many as 47 of total 1,212 votes polled by lawyers at the counting centre set up at Jalandhar district bar association (DBA) office were declared invalid during the counting in Chandigarh. Two of the four city advocates trying their luck in the elections, including former Bar Council chairman Navtej Singh Toor and former DBA president Narinder Singh, expressed concern over finding a significant number of votes as invalid, whereas the young contestant Lovkesh Gupta refused to comment on
the issue. Advocate Navtej Singh Toor said a specimen ballot paper with instructions of voting should be displayed at all the DBAs and should be provided to all contestants to educate the voters, especially new voters about how to cast their vote in future so that not even a single vote would go waste. Advocate Narinder Singh termed this as alarming. Holding Bar Council responsible,
he said the returning officer (RO) should have publicised as how to caste
vote properly. Terming the voting for Bar Council elections as cumbersome due to preferential form of voting, Jalandhar DBA president said some of the new lawyers voting for the
first time might have made mistake while casing ballot. The Bar Council, he said, should have explained to the voters about the proper way of voting. He admitted that the finding of significant number of votes invalid was alarming. Advocates Arvind Sharda, KK Arora and Ashok Sharma said certain mechanism should be adopted to publicise proper form of voting to check the problem. The counting of votes is on in Chandigarh and final results are likely to be declared within a week. As many as 25 Bar Council members will be elected out of a total of 98 candidates. Over 39,000 voters cast their ballot. Preferential form of voting is done in the Bar Council elections like the US Presidential polls. A voter in the Bar Council elections may prefer as many as 25 candidates. |
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Summer festival held at CT Public School
Jalandhar, June 11 The tiny-tots learnt dining etiquette, swimming and enjoyed aerobics. The main attraction was the animal planet created by the students and teachers. They were taught to foster love for animals and help to preserve nature. There was a camp organised for the scouts and guides in which they were taught many exercises. Summer camp concludes Summer camp concluded today at Sanskriti KMV School for the students of Class I to VIII. Students exhibited their talent through short cultural programmes. They showcased their cooking skills, karate skills, group dance, group song and personality development play. Art and craft creations, mathematics model exhibition, Power-point presentation were also presented by the students. Principal Rachna Monga appreciated the efforts of the youngsters and wished them good summer vacations ahead. Summer camp at FTR HQRS BSF Summer camp for the students at BSF campus organised by the Frontier Headquarters, BSF Jalandhar concluded today. The camp received good response as students in a large number participated in it. The BSF organised the camp to encourage and to bring out hidden talent of the children. The summer camp included activities like football, basketball, gymnastic, judo and karate, drawing and painting, horse riding, instrumental music and dance classes. More than 350 school children attended the camp.
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Man booked for raping daughter
Amritsar, June 11 The accused has been identified as Harbans Singh, son of Sadhu Singh, a resident of Patti Bagewali near Gurudwara Baba Jiwan Singh, Verka, Amritsar. He has been booked under Section 376 of the IPC with the A-Division police station. He is a rickshaw puller. The investigating officer said the matter came to light when she narrated her suffering to her elder sister. In the preliminary investigations, it was revealed that the accused raped her during the wee hours of June 8 again while she was sleeping. Thereafter, he threatened her with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anyone. But, this time the victim told her sister about the crime and a complaint was lodged. The accused is still absconding and search is on to nab him. The victim’s mother is mentally unstable and the family was facing hard times to make two ends meet. The victim has passed class V and could not continue her studies and worked as a domestic help in houses, the
police said.
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City hospital adjudged best for infrastructure
Jalandhar, June 11 The hospital has also been declared the first non-corporate hospital in the region to have the NABH accreditation for 17 different specialties (six super-specialties). — TNS
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Three arrested for betting
Jalandhar, June 11 The police has recovered a TV set, laptop, 12 mobile phones, Rs 600 from the possession of Kulwinder Singh Kinda, Sumit Kumar and Nanak Chand in Basti Sheikh. The trio has been booked under Sections 420 and 294 of the IPC. |
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Continuing its action against the marriage palaces, which have not responded to its new policy, the Jalandhar Development Authority today sealed two marriage palaces in
Kapurthala.
With the Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) Association calling off statewide strike on the assurance of the Health Minister and senior officers of the department last night, functioning of various government-run healthcare institutions returned to normal across the district here today.
Law and order situation in Punjab was even worse than the militancy days, former Punjab Congress president Shamsher Singh Dullo said after visiting Dera Sachkhand Ballan here today.
He had come to participate in the dera's founder head Sant Sarwan Dass' death anniversary here.
