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City gets air linked with Down Under from today
Roof collapse: House owner also booked
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Youth shot dead, 3 hurt in attack
Man booked for killing mother-in-law
MC defaulters given deadline
City celebrates Janmashtami with fervour
Workshop on statistics held at GNDU
Schools avoid providing information
Schedule prepared for Ghadar Caravan
Three arrested under Excise Act, illicit liquor seized
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City gets air linked with Down Under from today
Amritsar, August 28 For the first three days, the flight route will be Amritsar-Delhi-Melbourne-Sydney and the rest of the four days it will be Amritsar-Delhi- Sydney-Melbourne. The flight will depart from the Amritsar airport at 10.30 am and reach Delhi at 11.45 am. For the maiden day departure time for Australia has been rescheduled at 3.30 pm. Normally, the flight will take off for Australia at 1.30 pm. The AI’s connecting flight between Amritsar and two famous Australian destinations will add to the international connectivity from the Amritsar airport, which has taken a hit after some flights to Europe and South-East Asian countries had been withdrawn in the past. Air India officials said over 90 per cent advance booking has been recorded in the first 10 days, which speaks volumes of the response from the public. Tremendous response to the connecting flight between Amritsar and Australia was credited to nonstop journey from Delhi to Australia. Besides, a large number of youth from the region were studying and settled in Australia providing a ready base of customers. Earlier, Air India relaunched its Amritsar-New Delhi-Birmingham flight on August 1. Of late, these two flights have jacked up the international connectivity of the Amritsar airport. Operations of many International flights from the Amritsar airport were earlier snapped. The British Midland International (BMI) had pulled out its Amritsar-Almaty-London flight in October last year. Prior to it, the Air India had suspended its Amritsar-Toronto flight due to the strike of pilots. Earlier too, a number of major airlines started their operations from Amritsar only to withdraw their flights after certain period of time. Singapore Airlines had launched thrice a week Amritsar-Singapore flight on October 1, 2004. The service ran well for around five years before being discontinued in early 2009. Later, Jet Airways launched its Amritsar-London flight only to discontinue it after sometime for the same reasons. However, what surprised one and all was the Air India’s move to discontinue its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto flight, which was termed by many as the most successful flight in the annals of the national carrier’s history. The flight, which used to witness over 90 per cent occupancy, was withdrawn on October 31, 2010. Besides, suffering on account of passenger traffic, the airport is also incurring losses as its perishable cargo facility is lying virtually unused due to lack of international flights. All these factors increased the airport's annual losses to Rs 55 crore, despite having an impressive infrastructure. Airport officials point out that the market size between Amritsar and South-East Asian cities like Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur is not large enough to justify commercial viable direct operations on these routes. They opined that the passengers can utilise the national carrier connecting services between Amritsar and Singapore and Bangkok via Delhi.
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Roof collapse: House owner also booked
Amritsar, August 28 Yesterday at about 10.40 am, the roof of the second floor of an under-renovation house located in Gali No 2 of Guru Arjan Dev Nagar on the Tarn Taran road had collapsed and three persons were trapped inside the debris. Kewal Singh had given the contract for the construction of a room on the second floor of the house to Jiya Lal. The investigating officer, ASI Jarnail Singh, said a case under Sections 304-A and 337 of the IPC was registered at the Sultanwind police station. “It was the liability of the owner as well as the contractor to take care of the safety of the workers. No arrest has been made so far as the accused are absconding. We are searching their hideouts,” he said. Two labourers — Krishan Kumar Verma and his unidentified mate - were killed, while one person, identified as Naresh Kumar, was injured in the instance.
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Postmortem work assigned to Jallianwala Bagh Civil Hospital
Amritsar, August 28 The work was shifted to the Civil Hospital assigning the reason that as the medical college does not have enough forensic experts, it results in a loss of the education for the students. The doctors at the medical college had to conduct around 150 postmortems every month on an average. It left them with little time to devote to other essential duties. However, the move has not gone down well with the doctors at the Civil Hospital as they said they too were overburdened with a lot of duties besides attending to the patients. The doctors said at no other place in the state where medical colleges were situated, the civil hospitals have the burden of conducting postmortems. The hospital staff rued that unlike medical college, which had a separate building earmarked for conducting postmortems, they did not have any place. “If we will conduct postmortems in the mortuary, which is very close to the hospital building, it will put the health of patients at risk. Moreover, the Child and Mother Care Centre will start operations shortly and it will cause many more problems,” said a doctor. Meanwhile, Senior Medical Officer Dr Balbir Singh Dhillon said a panel of six doctors had constituted to conduct postmortems. He said the hospital mortuary had a capacity to store only two bodies at a time.
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Youth shot dead, 3 hurt in attack
Amritsar, August 28 The police has registered a case under Sections 302, 307, 324, 323, 148 and 149 of the IPC against eight persons - Jagir Singh, his brother Surjit Singh, Jagir’s son Honey, Baljinder Kaur, Major Singh, Kala and Jagdeep Singh, all residents of the same village. The injured victims told the police that the accused used to steal dry fruits being imported from Pakistan from trucks and later sell them in market. Taranbir said someone informed the police about this and the accused used to suspect that it was Suba Singh who had informed the police. They said the respectable persons in the village tried to strike a compromise between them and had given a day’s time to both the parties. They asked both the parties to come on Monday in this connection. However, the accused did not Turn up. They alleged that last night when Manpinder, his father Suba Singh and Swarn Singh were standing outside their residence, the accused suddenly attacked them and fired several shots. One of the gunshot pierced the chest of Manpinder, who died on the spot, while the remaining three persons sustained serious injuries. Surjit Singh, SHO, Lopoke police station, said a hunt had been launched to nab the accused. He said five police parties had been constituted, while the Bhindi Saida and Rajasansi police had also been involved for conducting raids to arrest the accused, who had been absconding since the incident. He said more force from the Police Line was being deputed in this regard.
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Man booked for killing mother-in-law
Amritsar, August 28 According to information, the deceased had two daughters and both are married. One of her daughters was married to Jugraj Singh of the same village. Manjit Kaur was planning to sell the land belonging to her, while Jugraj Singh was opposing her move. Surjit Singh, SHO, Lopoke police station, said the deceased had a quarrel with the accused, who in the fit of rage stabbed her to death. He said raids were being conducted to nab the accused.
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MC defaulters given deadline
Amritsar, August 28 The MC Commissioner has already started the process of shuffling in the house tax department to streamline the recovery process. The MC has scheduled to initiate the process of auctioning of the defaulters properties, in case they fail to deposit the dues on time. The Amritsar MC is engaging dholis (drum beaters) who, accompanied by officials of the corporation would go on their recovery visits to defaulter citizens. Fed up with residents refusing to pay their house tax, water and sewerage dues, the MC has devised this innovative method of shaming the offenders with drum beats besides pasting notices in the localities where they reside. This is the noval way MC has contemplated to adopt just to defame the offenders. It has been learnt that August 31 is the deadline given to the offenders, else the dues along with rate of 18 per cent interest, would be recovered from them. According to the latest guidelines, the officials of the house tax, municipal town planning, water and sewerage departments, have been given a deadline of December 31 to achieve their recovery target, estimated to be around Rs 30 crore. It has been learnt that besides residential, various properties which have been used as banks, hospitals, hotels and even ATM booths are on the target of the house tax department. The tax collecting officials have been given a target of collecting at least Rs 83 lakhs per month. If they still don't pay their dues, their properties could be attached through a legal procedure under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act. The MC would also take cognizance of those defaulters whose cheques were
dishonoured.
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Retailers make a killing by selling onions at high prices
Amritsar, August 28 Onion from Pakistan was available at a little over Rs 20 while the vegetable originating from Rajasthan cost an additional Rs five and high-quality onion coming from Maharashtra and Gujarat comes at Rs 35 per kg. Similarly, price of tomato has also gone down and it is available at around Rs 20 per kg in wholesale market. However, in retail markets one kg of tomato is available between Rs 40 to Rs 50. Wholesale dealers of vegetables shared that at present onion from Pakistan, Maharashtra and Rajasthan was available in the market. They said supply of onion from Pakistan stopped after its government prevented the traders to export the same. About the new onion crop, they informed that it has started coming from parts Rajasthan and Haryana. Besides Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in southern peninsula would also start sending consignments of onion from September. Present, soaring retail prices of onion and tomato must come down in the retail market but the retailers were not passing on the benefits to the consumers. It is learnt that the many vegetable traders have hoarded onion after learning its growing scarcity. Meanwhile, residents resented the increase in the prices of onion and they complained that it was burning hole in
their pockets. When contacted DFSC Dr Rakesh Kumar Singla said the control of onion prices and its hoarding does not come under the jurisdiction of his department. He said the Punjab Hoarding and Profiteering Act 1977 has given a schedule of items which include edible oil, sugar and other but it does not mention onion.
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City celebrates Janmashtami with fervour
Amritsar, August 28 Holding significance to the festival, parents enthusiastically dressed up kids in the Krishna costumes, complete with a crown and morphankh. Special musical presentation at the ISKON temple and Durgiana temple by kids depicted Krishna-leela and glimpses of Lord Krishna’s life were a huge draw. “It’s a beautiful festival, especially for kids as they get to connect with their spirituality. I specially come here to see the jahnkis, with my kids who love them,” shared Kaniya Arora, a housewife and mother of two, visiting Durgiana Temple. Religious sentiments attached, some parents take extra effort in making sure their kid stands out in the crowd during the celebrations. Like Mohit and Preeti Kapoor, who got a dhoti, crown and flute made-on-order for their one-year-old son Ankur. “It was his first Janamashtami and since small kids are considered closest to God we wanted to make it special for him,” said Mohit. With the entire family present to film Ankur’s Lord Krishna act, it was indeed worth the effort. The schools too had their day celebrating the festival a day earlier with kids highlighting Lord Krishna’s life through musical performances. Some even organised the jhoola ceremony wherein the students and teachers rocked the cradle of Krishna. Parents do agreed the reason for such enthusiasm and participation in the festivities is because it’s a way to teach their kids to respect their traditions. “Kids today are otherwise aloof to such religious traditions as even parents do not have time to introduce them to their traditions. With such festivals and participation, kids easily learn about their culture and religious beliefs,” said Suman Gehra, a mother of two teenagers.
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Workshop on statistics held at GNDU
Amritsar, August 28 Prof Hundal in his inaugural address lauded the endeavour of academic staff college for conducting workshop. He recommended that such workshops should be organised at regular intervals. He said “Statistics plays a significant role in the field of research irrespective of the discipline.” Prof Hundal exhorted the participants to use precaution in collecting, organising and analysing the data correctly since the wrong analysis may influence the result. He concluded his address by remarking that the participants should incorporate the statistical skills acquired during the workshop in their research work. Prof Narinder Kumar of Panjab University, Chandigarh and course coordinator acquainted the participants with the thrust area of the workshop. He emphasized the relevance and application of the statistics in health sciences, medical sciences, social sciences etc. GNDU results
The results of Bachelor of Fine Arts Semester-II examinations held by the Guru Nanak Dev University in May, 2013 have been declared. Dr RK Mahajan, professor in-charge (Exams), said these results are available on the university website
www.gndu.ac.in
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Dhaliwal appointed president of Virsa Vihar Society unanimously
Amritsar, August 28 Members are Shiv Dev Singh, a sculptor, Dr Sham Sunder Deepti, a short story writer, Dev Dard, a poet, Vijay Sharma, a theatre actor, and kewal Dhaliwal. Dhaliwal is also heading the Punjab Sangeet Natak Academy,
Chandigarh.
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Schools avoid providing information
Amritsar, August 28 The CBSE has formed a group of its affiliated schools at local level. It is called Sahodya Schools. Sahodya Schools, Amritsar, represents 60 CBSE schools situated in Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Gurdaspur. Majority of the city schools have not uploaded the desired information on their websites. As per the guidelines every school should prepare its annual report containing above information and upload the same on its website before September 15 of every year. This is mandatory as per Rule 8.8(iv) of Affiliation Bye Laws of the Board. It also warned that non-complying of the circular would mean that defaulting schools would not be able to register their candidates for board examinations. The Board in the circular also stated that it has reference to the CBSE circular no. 3/10 dated October 18, 2010 and subsequent reminder vide circular No. 88/2011 dated December 5, 2011. Many schools have their websites and names of officials of its management along with their photographs but they failed to upload information regarding qualification, pay scales of their teachers and fee structure. Many websites state that this page is under construction.
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Schedule prepared for Ghadar Caravan
Jalandhar, August 28 Leaders from villages of the Ghadri freedom fighters — Sunet, Baddewal, Lalton Kala, Sarabha, Kaile, Leel, Gujjarwal, Narangwal, Mahima Singh Wala, Khanpur and Sahibiana, gathered around the memorial of Ghadarite Baba Bhan Singh Sunet at Sunet village.
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Harbhajan makes a comeback with his film ‘Haani’
Amritsar, August 28 Humble as ever, his flashing smile intact, Harbhajan promises to bring in some freshness, not just with a new face as his leading lady but also with the story. When we started, movie business was restricted to single screens. Today the multiplex audience wants more than just repeated genres of cinema, which gives a chance to filmmakers to try new things, he said. Interacting with his audience at Amritsar college of Engineering, Mann insisted that with Haani, he will break free from the NRI hero tag and so will the industry. I am not saying that formula-films don’t work. But change is appreciated every now and then. Haani will bring such a story to the audience and will have some different elements which I hope work. Not revealing many secrets, Mann limits his details, one, you will see me in a different character altogether and then of course, there is a surprise element for the audience, he added. As for his leading lady, Mehreen Kaleka, well, she hopes his luck rubs on to her as well. I believe Harbhajan Mann has given some of the most successful leading ladies of the Punjabi Cinema such as name Neeru Bajwa, Japji Kalra and Tulip Joshi. I hope he is my lucky charm as well, shared the actor who was preparing for civil services when Haani happened. The film releases on September 6 and is directed by Amitoj Mann and produced by Babbu Singh Mann.
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Three arrested under Excise Act, illicit liquor seized
Amritsar, August 28 The police said 150 bottles of illicit liquor was recovered from Pawan whereas 100 bottles were seized from Satnam. In another instance, the Maqboolpura police has arrested Ajaib Singh, a resident of gali no 7, Maqboolpura, for possessing 22.50 litre of illicit liquor. The police has registered cases under Sections 61, 1 and 14 of the Excise act against the accused.
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