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High drama witnessed outside Enforcement Directorate office
Power shutdown troubles people at Suwidha Centre
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SAD-BJP, Cong at loggerheads
GNDU Academic Council approves degrees of other varsities
Tributes paid to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Ministerial staff protest inaction
For Dr Gill,
philately is passion, not just hobby
Map-making activity for govt school students tomorrow
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High drama witnessed outside Enforcement Directorate office
Jalandhar, January 23 Soon the rumours spread like a wild fire in the city. Soon, mediapersons reached the ED office. But at the end of the day, mediapersons had to leave disappointed as they came to know that the drug lord was not to be brought to Jalandhar as he was produced at the ED office in Chandigarh. After getting information from the ED office, the Jalandhar commissionerate police had erected barricades outside the office to prevent Bhola's interaction with the media. Interestingly, despite erecting barricades, the police covered the barricades with sheets so that Bhola could not be seen by the media. A police official said barricades were erected to prevent Bhola's interaction with the media as he had already named Cabinet Minister Bikram Majithia in the drug racket. He said they were directed by the top officials to prevent Bhola's interaction with the media. Notably, the Jalandhar rural police had also brought Bhola on a production warrant and even then the police had not let Bhola face mediapersons. When the rural police was to produce Bhola in a local court, they made several rounds of the court and had to make a backdoor entry as the media was camping outside the court. The top police officials had not even entertained phone calls from mediapersons. However, sources said the ED may bring Bhola to the city for questioning in connection with transactions worth thousands of crore, which he made with regard to synthetic drug smuggling.
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Power shutdown troubles people at Suwidha Centre
Jalandhar, January 23
Sukhdev Raj, a resident of Bhogpur, said he had come from Bhogpur to get an affidavit made at the centre. "I have been standing here from 9 am and got the token after three hours of wait. After this, I will have to stand in another queue at the counter concerned. God knows when my work will be done," he lamented. Parveen Kumar, another applicant who had come to get an SC certificate made for his son, said, "Officials need to arrange an alternate power system so that work is not hampered," he said. This happened just a day after the visit of Principal Secretary, Governance Reforms, C Roul, to the Suwidha Centre. ADC Praneet Bhardwaj said,"I have already approved a power back-up system for the centre. The staff should have got it by now," he said.— TNS
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SAD-BJP, Cong at loggerheads
Jalandhar, January 23 Keeping in view the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, a majority of the councillors insisted that the meeting be held at all cost so that various projects be sanctioned well in time. "After the consent of the house, floating of tenders and clearance in the F&CC is also going to take time," the councillors said. On the eighth day of the strike, members of Safai Mazdur Union got the support of Congress leaders. They are demanding pension benefits, regularisation of contractual employees, improvement in grades of drivers and the creation of more posts. Siding with the employees, the Congress leaders are demanding that the meeting of the house be put off for now and the tiff with safai karamcharis be resolved as the residents are living in a virtual hell for the past eight days. Cong to boycott meeting
District Congress committee (urban) president Rajinder Beri, district Congress committee (rural) President Jagbir Brar and leader of the opposition in the MC House Jagdish Raj Raja today submitted a memorandum to Joint Commissioner Anupam Kler. Beri said, "How can the councillors hold a meeting when heaps of garbage have come up in the city? We are not going to participate and will walk out if the meeting takes place without resolving the issue at hand." Opposition leaders meet Bhatia
Congress leaders even met Bhatia over the issue and sought his intervention. Bhatia said when the matter was already being discussed in Chandigarh at the higher-level, there was no point in taking it up here. The councillors of the ruling alliance are also wary of the fact that the safai karamcharis may resort to unruly ways to disrupt the meeting. The safai karamcharis have threatened that they would not let the solid waste management project begin untll their demands were conceded to. As there was no door-to-door collection of garbage, the residents were forced to throw filth in packets on their own at dumping points. Trade licence fee issue may not be on agenda
Meanwhile,the Senior Deputy Mayor said he had raised voice against withdrawal of an agenda item pertaining to enhancement of licence fee. "It has been decided among SAD and BJP councillors that the agenda item needs to be withdrawn as there are chances of agitation by traders," he said.
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GNDU Academic Council approves degrees of other varsities
Amritsar, January 23 On the recommendations of the equivalency committee, the Academic Council also resolved that the BTech (Computer Science and Engineering) degree passed under the regular mode through the Lateral Entry Entrance Test
(LEET) scheme from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, after passing three years' diploma from Himachal Pardesh Takniki Shiksha Board,
Dharamsala, be recognised as equivalent to the Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) degree of Guru Nanak Dev Similarly, the meeting also resolved that the Sahityacharya examination and the MA Sanskrit degree of Guru Nanak Dev University be recognised as equivalent to each other examination/degree on the basis of the recommendation given by the, Head, Department of Sanskrit, and Dean, Faculty of Languages, and the BTech (Computer Science and Engineering) degree passed under regular mode through LEET scheme from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, after passing three years diploma from the Board of Technical Education, Delhi, be recognised as equivalent to Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) degree of GNDU. The Academic Council also accorded its approval to the BA Political Science degree passed under distance education mode from Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, is recognized as equivalent to regular BA (Honours) Political Science degree of the GNDU and BA (Hononours) History degree passed under distance education mode from Patna University will be recognised as equivalent to regular BA (Honours) history degree of GNDU. BLib (Correspondence) degree passed from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, on the basis of having passed BA through Gyani from Panjab University, Chandigarh, be recognised as equivalent to BLib degree of the GNDU and PGDCA passed under distance education mode from Punjab Infotech, Chandigarh from Cal-C and certificate issued by the Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Chandigarh, under the MoU be recognised as equivalent to PGDCA course of the GNDU. Master of Physiotherapy (Neurology) degree and Master of Physiotherapy (Paediatrics) degree passed under regular (full time) mode from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, be recognised as equivalent to Master of Physiotherapy degree of this university and MSc Botany degree passed under regular mode from Dayallbagh Education Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, be recognised as equivalent to MSc (Botany) degree of this university. Master of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) degree passed under regular (part time) mode from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara be recognized as equivalent to Master of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) degree of the University and Bachelor of Science (Honours) Information Technology (B.Sc.-IT Honours) degree passed under distance education mode from the Global Open University, Nagaland is recognized as equivalent to B.Sc. (IT) degree of this University and Bachelor degree in Library and Information Science (B.Lib) passed under distance education from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, be recognised as equivalent to BLib degree of this university. The MBA (Honours) degree passed under Regular (Full Time) mode from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, is recognised as equivalent to MBA degree of this University; MA (Hindi) degree passed under the Distance Education mode from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, be recognised as equivalent MA (Hindi) degree of this university; MSc (Microbiology) degree passed under regular mode from the IIS University, SFS, Gurukul Marg, Mansarovar, Jaipur, be recognised as equivalent to MSc (Microbiology) degree of this university has also been approved by the Academic Council. Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) degree passed from the GNDU will be recognised on a par with MTech degree of this university and MA (Political Science) degree passed under the Distance Education mode from IGNOU, New Delhi, be recognised as equivalent to MA (Political Science) degree of this university. In another decision of far-reaching significance, the university with the objective to reduce the burden of lengthy syllabi on students constituted a high-powered committee to make essential changes in it. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Academic Council of the university held here today. The Guru Nanak Dev University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Ajaib Singh Brar, who presided over the meeting, said, "At present many students were attending their classes right from morning to evening, which causes stress and tension to the students". The high-powered committee comprising senior university officials and three senior-most Principals of the affiliated colleges would evaluate the current syllabi of various streams and disciplines and would submit recommendations for essential amendments in the syllabi.
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Tributes paid to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Jalandhar, January 23 He said he was a great general, who struggled for the independence of the nation. He said he personally visited Netaji’s home and memorial in West Bengal. He lauded the committee for holding a ceremony in the leader’s memory every year. He also awarded a cheque of Rs 51,000 and a memento from the 11 core to the committee, which held the event. The family members of 10 freedom fighters, who remained in the Indian National Army (INA), were also honoured on the occasion. On the occasion, local educational institutions’ students who competed in patriotic song singing contests and teams standing on the first, second and third spots were honoured. Apeejay College and KMV College group teams jointly stood first while SD Kanya College and BD Arya Girls College teams jointly stood second. DAV College team stood third.
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Ministerial staff protest inaction
Jalandhar, January 23 Punjab Education Department Ministerial Staff (sub-office) Association, Jalandhar, and State Ministerial Staff Association, Jalandhar, jointly issued a statement that a complaint had been made against a CEO for using an inappropriate language with a female employee. The union said immediate and appropriate action regarding the same was not initiated by the department, whereas the female employee was transferred from her station even as the circle education officer remained posted at the same place. They said this might affect the departmental enquiry in the case. To protest the department’s stance on the issue, they held a dharna today. The ministerial staff had also burnt an effigy of the officer concerned on January 17. A meeting was held on the issue by ministerial staff employees at the office of the District Education Officer today, in which, it was decided that if suitable action is not initiated in the case soon, then the education department’s ministerial staff will sit on a hunger strike for an indefinite period from January 27. As per the decision taken by the state committee, on January 24, a protest dharna will be held outside the deputy commissioner’s office in Jalandhar on January 24. During the said protest a decision was taken by the Punjab State Ministerial Services Union that all ministerial employees will join the education department officials to back the decision. It has been decided that employees under the Jalandhar circle - from Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Nawanshahr- will join the dharna on January 24. Union members said the departmental inaction will be responsible for the protest outside the DC’s office. Sr Sukhjit Singh, State Ministerial Staff Association (jalandhar ) and Sr Rajinder Singh, Education Department Ministerial Staff Association, Jalandhar, demanded that the officials in question should be immediately transferred and requisite action be initiated in the case. |
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For Dr Gill,
philately is passion, not just hobby
Jalandhar, January 23 Psychiatrist by profession, Dr Gill has been collecting stamps for the past 71 years. “I have been collecting stamps since I was seven years old and now I am 78 years old,” he said boasting upon his unique pursuit. “I choose very rare issues for stamp collections like Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Princess Diana etc. I collect all kinds of postal stamps even rarest of the rare. I have huge collection of miniature sheets, post cards and many others. Subsequently, I have established my own library and museum,” he added. “I always have been very creative. Because of the same creativity I gradually develop this hobby. Meantime, he claims that he had collected the stamps from all over the world. Explaining the way he has collected stamps from all over the world he said, “It’s not necessary that I have to be in a particular country to get the stamps of that country. I have just opened the account there and get the stamps like someone wants stamps from the Britain, just send the money to Royal Mail and get stamps.” Dr Gill was here to attend the 32nd district level philatelic exhibition. Philately exhibition begins
A two-day district-level philatelic exhibition, Stampex-32, organised by Postal Department, Jalandhar, was inaugurated by Col Tilak Raj (retd), Chief Postmaster General, Punjab Circle, at Sainik Welfare Office. Speaking on the occasion, he said, “Philately is a hobby of kings.” He explained that postage stamp also depicts historical, cultural, social, scientific, biological facts on a country. |
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Map-making activity for govt school students tomorrow
Jalandhar, January 23 In a major overhaul, intended with introducing students with the best of activities, a number of new activities had already been introduced in the annual calendar like role play on social issues, model making on social sciences, poster making and social sciences quiz. But the map making activity is a new addition this year to inspire a better geographical knowledge among students. This was especially done with a view that this was one of the parts of the syllabus which generally most of the teachers skip as they have no mastery over it.District Resource Person social sciences, Harsh Loomba, said, “The effort of introducing map filling competition by the department is appreciable. Special training on maps skills will be provided in the coming year seminars of social sciences. Teachers will be trained by experts. Sudents of eighth class of different schools will compete first at the block level and then at the subsequent ones. The first position achievers at block level will compete finally, at district level.” “It was foreseen by the department that since students will now be competing with other schools, they will give special attention and devote extra time to achieving position at block and district level. Plinth level map making will surely prepare and provide solid foundation for classes to come,” Loomba added.—TNS
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Rumours of bringing drug lord Jagdish Bhola from the Nabha jail to Jalandhar by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning resulted in a huge drama at the ED office.
Lieutenant General, AK Bakshi, VSM, GOC 11 Corps, paid tributes to the national hero Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at a ceremony held at the Red Cross Bhawan during his 118th birth anniversary here today. While paying floral tributes to
Netaji, Lieutenant General Bakshi said due to the sacrifices made by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and other legendary freedom fighters, the coutrymen were enjoying the fruits of freedom today.
Philately, known as stamp collection, is hobby for many people throughout the world. But for Dr MM Gill, it’s a passion rather than hobby. It seems, he played with stamps in his childhood, he brought up while collecting stamps and now, he has been growing older with same mania.
