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BFUHS begins 3rd counselling on apex court’s directions
Police top brass meet to eradicate smuggling of drugs into jails
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Bhunder confidant is Mansa ZP chief
State utilised only one-sixth of Central grant for border districts
Four PPP leaders get bail in attempt to murder case
Abducted girl recovered, cop accused of thrashing
Gang of criminals busted, four held
Two end life in Abohar
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BFUHS begins 3rd counselling on apex court’s directions
Faridkot, August 30 “The seats allotted in today’s counselling would be purely provisional and will depend upon the decision of the Supreme Court," said Dr SS Gill, vice-chancellor, BFUHS. This extended counselling for the PG medical seats has been started on the directions of the Supreme Court (SC). On Thursday, the apex court had directed the medical university to fill the all India left over seats in Punjab and the spillover from the 50 per cent of the state quota seats' share. A month ago, the controversy over the weightage to the in-service doctors (RMOs) for PG seats in Punjab had generated a lot of heat among the fresh MBBS graduates. As these RMOs were allowed an incentive at the rate of 10 per cent of the marks obtained for each year of their service up to a maximum of 30 per cent of the marks obtained by them in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), so it left the MBBS graduates sulking. In Punjab, while 50 per cent of PG medical seats are filled by the Union Government at the national level on the basis of merit in NEET-PG test, 30 per cent of the total PG seats in Punjab are filled by the PCMS in-service doctors. For the remaining 20 per cent seats, the fresh graduates contest but this time, as the RMOs were given a huge incentive for these seats, it pushed the fresh graduates into a corner. After some fresh MBBS graduates challenged this incentive to the RMOs in Supreme Court, the apex court yesterday stayed this special weightage to RMOs till further orders. However, the Supreme Court did not make any comment on the 29 PG medical seats which were allotted to the RMOs last month with the 30 per cent incentive as the basis. "While the court will give its verdict on these 29 seats on the next date of hearing, we are filling the remaining and left over seats on the directions of the court," said Dr SS Gill, the BFUHS vice-chancellor. After the court stayed any incentive to the RMOs and asked them to compete with the fresh graduates on the basis of merit in the NEET, the presence of the RMOs was very thin during the counselling at the BFUHS today. Though the BFUHS invited the MBBS students for counselling in the morning today, it started in the evening only after the university got a copy of the Supreme Court order. |
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Police top brass meet to eradicate smuggling of drugs into jails
Bathinda, August 30 This was the main thrust of a high-level meeting presided over by Bathinda Zone IG NS Dhillon that was attended by all the SSPs, SPs and SHOs of the seven districts of the zone. Review meetings would be a quarterly affair from now on. Talking to TNS, he reiterated the resolve of the government, especially the directives of the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, in this context and said he had instructed his officers that all out efforts would be made to reverse the menace. It is not that they were not doing so now, but the means and the standard operating procedures (SOPs) have been fine tuned since a lot of younger officers have been inducted into the force and also the fact that smugglers had adopted novel methods to ply their trade, he pointed out. While such meetings would act as a booster dose for the senior officers, it would motivate the younger lot to perform to their optimum level and learn from the experience of the older colleagues, he explained. Refusing to elaborate on the new SOPs, he said the results would be there for everyone to see. All the existing provisions, including the confiscation of the properties of drug smugglers, would be strictly adhered to, he affirmed. Dhillon said the new centralised police helpline - 181- had proved to be a great hit and the positive feedback from the complainants has been encouraging. Efforts were afoot to implement it more rigorously so that dialling this number becomes the norm for the people in times of need, he added. |
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State utilised only one-sixth of Central grant for border districts
Abohar, August 30 As per the information obtained by CLP leader Sunil Jakhar from the central and state governments, the allocation for Amritsar was Rs 671.70 lakh but only Rs 22.25 lakh was utilised. Rs 172.37 lakh out of Rs 723.89 lakh was utilised in Ferozepur, Rs 318.39 out of 822.62 lakh in Fazilka and Rs 93.86 lakh out of 629.74 lakh in Gurdaspur. In Tarn Taran district, only Rs 23.10 lakh out of Rs 512.68 lakh could be utilised by the state government. In addition to it, the Central Government had allocated a special projects grant of Rs 543.88 for Gurdaspur district. Interestingly, in the Jalalabad constituency represented by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, the state government could utilise only Rs 52.70 lakh out of a Central Government allocation worth Rs 211.73 lakh. Jakhar said this evening that negligence on the part of the ruling alliance in Punjab had no parallel in other northern states. The government had been concentrating on high profile projects. Had the funds received from the Central Government been utilised fairly for public oriented projects, the situation in the border districts would have been definitely better, he said. The negligence over preventive steps to safeguard thousands of villages from drain water fury can be termed as an instance of it, Jakhar added.
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Four PPP leaders get bail in attempt to murder case
Moga, August 30 They were booked on the charge of attempt to murder after a clash was reported between the PPP and SAD activists following a dispute over disconnecting the supply of potable water to Dalit residents of Kaila village on July 30 this year. At least eight persons, including
Ladi, were injured in the clash but the local police registered a criminal case against the PPP activists and allegedly gave a clean chit to the Akali sarpanch of Kaila village and his associates. A few days after the incident, the police picked up Ladi from the hospital and produced him before a local court, which sent him to judicial custody. But keeping in view the grievous nature of the injuries on his head, the jail department referred him to a medical college for treatment under custody. PPP president Manpreet Singh Badal held a protest against the high-handedness of the police. The PPP leaders further alleged that the police had also picked up three women of Kaila village on July 30 from their residence and kept them in illegal custody till 11 pm. They were released only after the PPP workers stormed into the Fatehgarh Panchtoor police station. After his release from the jail, Davinderjit Singh said he would soon file a petition before the high court against the high-handedness of the police demanding action against the cops who had fabricated them in a false instead of registering the criminal cases against the Akalis and illegally detaining Dalit women till midnight at the police station. |
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Abducted girl recovered, cop accused of thrashing
Abohar, August 30 SHO Balkar Singh confirmed that the girl was recovered but vehemently refuted the allegations levelled by the protesters against the police. The protesters led by activists of the Anti-Corruption Bureau
(ACB) said that a youth of the same locality had been harassing Gurpreet
Kaur. He was caught by the the girl's family and handed over to the police. Irked over it, some relatives of the youth allegedly kidnapped the girl in a vehicle and planned to take her out of the town by train. The police was informed and the cops recovered the girl but a constable allegedly thrashed her along with the youth concerned. She had to be admitted to the Civil Hospital. The doctors attending to the victim observed that there was no visible injury mark on her body but an X-ray would be conducted tomorrow as she complained of pain in her
backbone. ACB officials said eve-teasing in the town had risen to an alarming level and bikers could be noticed chasing girl students outside local schools as well as on the railway road but no action has been forthcoming. |
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Gang of criminals busted, four held
Abohar, August 30 Notably, another gang based at Mansa was busted by the Sriganganagar police early this week and interrogation indicated that the gang had stolen 25 luxury cars in Punjab and Delhi. The police said that Ramandeep Singh of Sangat Mandi has been identified as the kingpin of the gang. He has been nabbed along with Narinder Singh of Talwandi Bhai, Gobind Singh of Sangat Kalan and Sukhpal Singh of Husnair (Gidderbaha). Two recently purchased swords were seized in the car that they were using. Preliminary investigations reportedly indicated that they were going to Bikaner on some “mission”. Interrogation reportedly indicated that Ramandeep Singh had enrolled 20 youths in his gang. They allegedly killed a man on September 5 last year in Bathinda district. Ramandeep Singh escaped while his accomplices, Rana, Goldy and Bindu were arrested by the Bathinda police. He had allegedly looted a Fortuner car near Lalru also before the murder incident at Bathinda. The gang was responsible for a robbery in Peelibanga in Hanumangarh district in 2011. Interrogation will be broad-based during the police remand, officials said. |
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Two end life in Abohar
Abohar, August 30 In another incident, Parvati Devi, a resident of Indira Nagari, died last evening after consuming insecticides. Her husband Laxman Dass told the city police that she had been ill for the past few days and took insecticides by mistake as the medicines were stacked but she could not identify it correctly due to the long power cut. — OC
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inter-state drug trafficking and peddling, the police will now also stamp out the smuggling of intoxicants inside the jails in the state.
