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Now, Centre threatens to stop grants under road scheme
Akali stalwart Talwandi cremated
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8 more MBBS seats fall vacant
Don’t victimise Nagra, Cong tells Badal
Govt to promote direct seeding of paddy: Sukhbir
Rs 1-crore gunny bags go missing from Moga mill
Forest Dept officials’ flip-flop has farmers in trouble:
Sampla
Govt to bring youth’s body from Libya
Illegal detention: SP, CIA in charge suspended
Molestation: Girl’s mother demands independent probe
SGPC delegation returns from Kashmir
‘Forced’ to go to school, boy ends life ASHA workers’ protest
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Akali stalwart Talwandi cremated
Raikot, September 20 A Punjab Police contingent reversed arms and fired shots as a token of respect to the departed soul. Former legislator Ranjit Singh Talwandi, the elder son of Jagdev Singh Talwandi, lit the pyre in presence of other family members, including Talwandi's wife Mohinder Kaur, younger son Jagjit Singh Talwandi and daughters Manjit Kaur and Harjit Kaur. SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal, Cabinet Ministers Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Tota Singh, Daljit Singh Cheema and Parminder Singh Dhindsa, former minister Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Akali MP Prem Singh Chandumajra, Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, CPS Sant Balbir Singh Ghunas, SR Kaler, Manpreet Singh Ayali, Darshan Singh Shivalik, Sarwan Singh Phillaur, Mohammad Sadique (legislators), Damdami Taksal chief Baba Harnam Singh Khalsa, former MP Paramjit Kaur Gulshan, Jagmeet Singh Brar, Sukhdev Singh Libra, Captain Balbir Singh Baath, Malkit Singh Birmi and Jagdish Singh Garcha attended the cremation. Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal, Police Commissioner Promod Ban, SSP Ravcharan Singh Brar, Khanna ADC Ajay Sood and SDM Shena Aggarwal represented the administration. Will restore all historical buildings, says CM
Badal today reviewed the ongoing restoration work of Bassian Kothi, a more than 200-year-old Sikh heritage monument, which is being developed into a memorial in remembrance of late Maharaja Dalip Singh. Talking to the media, Badal said the government was committed to the restoration of all buildings with historical and religious significance. He directed the officers concerned that all roads leading to Bassian Kothi should be widened. He said the government would spend around Rs 6 crore for the restoration of this historical monument. Accompanied by senior district administration officials, the CM visited Bassian Kothi near Raikot after attending Talwandi's cremation. The state government had engaged the services of INTACH for the restoration work in 2011.
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8 more MBBS seats fall vacant
Faridkot, September 20 The latest vacancies have occurred at the government medical colleges in Patiala (four seats), Amritsar (three) and Faridkot (one). The MBBS aspirants have shifted to medical colleges in other states where they got seats under all-India quota scheme. Of the total MBBS/BDS seats in government institutes, 15 per cent are filled through all-India quota. These are filled by the Union Government through centralised counselling, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Examination on the basis of marks obtained in the All-India Pre-Medical Test. The remaining 85 per cent seats are filled by the selection committee constituted by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. After the fresh vacancies, the university has once again invited eligible candidates on September 22 for an extended counselling to fill the seats. Several students who had taken admission in private medical colleges last month would now vie for these eight seats. The reason being fee in government colleges is much lower than that in private institutes. Compared to Rs 13.43 lakh fee for the entire five-year MBBS course for a government quota seat in a private college, a government college charges Rs 1.3 lakh. The charges for the same seat in
management quota are Rs 40.29 lakh.
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Don’t victimise Nagra, Cong tells Badal
Chandigarh, September 20 Khaira said Nagra was the most vocal Congress leader against the alleged misrule of the Badal government. “The Badal government panicked after MLA Nagra made a complaint against the said SDM to the Vidhan Sabha Speaker. Needless to mention, that any complaint pertaining to a representative should be treated under the Representation of People’s Act, 1951. Thus the said inquiry ordered by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is totally illegitimate and unconstitutional,” he said. He said that keeping in view the sensitivity of the issue, the Congress had demanded a free and fair inquiry by the Privilege Committee of the Vidhan Sabha, as the complaint was already pending with the Speaker.
Shift SDM, demands Cong
Fatehgarh Sahib: The women’s wing of the Congress today burnt an effigy of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate on Railway Road at Humayunpur near Sirhind. They threatened to launch a statewide stir if the state government did not transfer Pooja. They alleged the charges against the Congress MLA were baseless.
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Agriculture Dept understating crop loss, allege Mansa farmers
Mansa, September 20 Roop Singh of Chehlanwala village allegedly killed himself on September 7 when he lost his crop, but the department stated that the crops in the village had “not been damaged completely”. A 44-year-old farmer, Gurdeep Singh of Musa village, committed suicide when he lost his crops on 4 acres. He owned 1.5 acres and had taken 2.5 acres on lease. But the department in its survey found his crop had been destroyed only on 1 acre. The department found that 6,587 acres of agricultural land had been damaged in the 14 villages of Mansa sub-division and 18 of Jhunir sub-division. Some of the waterlogged villages are Jherianwali, Raipur, Tandian, Bhainibagha, Sadda Singh Wala, Musa, Jherianwali, Behniwal, Chehlanwala, Jaga, Makha Chehlan, Khokhar Khurd, Karamgarh, Autanwali, Talwandi Aklia, Banawali and Peron in Mansa district. Of the total land, the department found 75 to 100 per cent of the crops destroyed on 3,554 acres; 50-75 per cent on 2,274 acres; 25-50 per cent on 502 acres; and less than 25 per cent on 257 acres. The department said that 75 per cent of the crops were damaged on 54 acres in Musa village; less than 50 per cent crops damaged on 70 acres and below 75 per cent crops damaged on 85 acres in Chehlanwala village. Avtar Singh, sarpanch of Musa village, claimed that crops had been damaged completely on 200 acres in the village. Mansa Agriculture Officer Gurditta Singh Sidhu said, “We will conduct the survey again. The Revenue Department is conducting another survey.”
Crying foul
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Govt to promote direct seeding of paddy: Sukhbir
Chandigarh, September 20 Sukhbir discussed the issue with the management of Nuziveedu Seeds, including its chairman Prabhakar Rao, and decided to initiate a programme with the company on five acres of land in all blocks of the state next year. “Once this technique is successfully demonstrated, we can initiate the process of popularising it among farmers across the state,” he said. Earlier Rao presented a comparative study of direct sowing method vis a vis the traditional method. He said with the right seed and agronomy practices, the yield could be similar in both methods. Nuziveedu Seeds also advocated high density cotton plantation and adoption of dwarf varieties of cotton to increase yield. The Deputy CM assured the company all help in this regard and asked it to develop cotton harvesting and planting machinery in collaboration with PAU, Ludhiana. In another meeting as part of the investment promotion tour to Chennai and Hyderabad that ended today, Sukhbir met GVK group chairman GVK Reddy who briefed him on the company's biosciences achievements, including how it had been able to translate from incubation to manufacturing at the Genome Valley life sciences park. The Deputy CM invited the GVK group to invest in the biotech park coming up in Mohali, saying the city had the right mix of human resources as well as 11 premium institutions in its vicinity.
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Rs 1-crore gunny bags go missing from Moga mill
Moga, September 20 The Punsup authorities lodged a written complaint with the local police last week, but the FIR is yet to be registered. A senior police officer, while confirming that he had received the complaint, said it would be forwarded to the district attorney for legal opinion. Thereafter, he said, a criminal case would be registered against the owners of the rice mill. A senior officer of Punsup said the agency had received 653 bales of new gunny bags from the Food and Civil Supplies Department in June, this year. The bags were stored at the STL Rice Mill, located on the Dharamkot-Jalandhar road, on the outskirts of Dharamkot. During a verification conducted by the Food and Civil Supplies Department in August, these bags were found stocked in the storehouse of the rice mill. But later the bags went missing. The Punsup authorities suspect these gunny bags could have been sold in the open market. District Food and Civil Supplies Controller Rajnish Kumari said, “I will look into the matter and punish the culprit.” Sources said there were only two dealers of gunny bags in Moga. “It is very easy for the police to recover the stock from them. The police should not delay the matter,” said a rice miller.
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Diarrhoea outbreak feared in Moga; 1 dead, 18 ill
Moga, September 20 Dr Sukhpreet Singh, posted in a local government dispensary, said the disease could only be confirmed through lab tests. “The illness being reported could be due to water contamination,” he said. A local vegetable vendor, Pappu Singh (45), had died of suspected diarrhoea last night. He had been suffering from dysentery and abdominal pain for the past two days. He was referred to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital in Faridkot, but he died on the way. Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Surinder Kaur met the aggrieved family today. Apart from this, at least 18 persons, including women and children, have been hospitalised in the district. The condition of four persons was stated to be serious. More than 100 people have reported of abdominal pain over the past couple of days, said another doctor. The worst affected areas include Mohan Singh Basti, Harijan Colony, Sodhian Wala Mohalla and Indira Colony. The contamination could have been caused by ruptured sewerage.
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Forest Dept officials’ flip-flop has farmers in trouble:
Sampla
Sampla and Joshi pointed out that the third and fourth generation of land owners of around 1,50,000 hectares were facing hardships as forest officials were "wrongly re-notifying the same land under the said Act without following the due procedure". They alleged the officials had misguided the government by portraying PLPA land as forestland. They had even tried to "misguide" the courts by presenting divergent views on the matter, they
said. Sampla presented the case with copies of affidavits filed by the Forest Department wherein in one affidavit it was mentioned that land notified under the PLPA was forestland and in another it mentioned that the land was not forestland. They demanded strict action against the erring officials for filing conflicting affidavits. The leaders said the officials should be held accountable for lapses and miserable condition of residents of kandi areas.
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Govt to bring youth’s body from Libya
Hoshiarpur, September 20 Human rights activist Kulwant Singh Nagra had requested the commission to issue directions to the appropriate authority to arrange for the transportation of the body. The commission has asked the government to file an action taken report by October 16. Ranjit Singh, 26, son of former Armyman Piara Singh of Talwandi Araian village in the district, had died on July 29 in Libya. The deceased's parents were told that they had to cough up Rs 2 lakh to bring the body to India.
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Illegal detention: SP, CIA in charge suspended
Amritsar, September 20 The court has ordered their suspension for allegedly misbehaving with the warrant officer who had raided the CIA office. The office was raided following a habeas corpus petition filed by Rajwant Kaur, who had alleged that her husband Karnail Singh was kept in illegal detention by the CIA staff of the Amritsar rural police. Karnail Siingh was taken into custody in connection with the mysterious death of Harinder Singh Tinu, son of a Chandigarh policeman, around two months ago. His body was found in a car in the Jandiala police station area, where a murder case was registered following a post-mortem report.
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Adding to the woes of medical institutes in Punjab, eight more MBBS seats have fallen vacant as students selected against these have shifted to colleges in other states.
Faridkot-based Baba Farid University of Health Sciences had earlier failed to fill 41 management quota MBBS seats in private colleges.
The latest vacancies have occurred at the government medical colleges in Patiala (four seats), Amritsar (three) and Faridkot (one). The MBBS aspirants have shifted to medical colleges in other states where they got seats under all-India quota scheme.
government would launch a joint project with Nuziveedu Seeds to promote direct seeding of paddy in all blocks of the state next year.
Sukhbir discussed the issue with the management of Nuziveedu Seeds, including its chairman Prabhakar Rao, and decided to initiate a programme with the company on five acres of land in all blocks of the state next year.
An SGPC delegation that had gone to Jammu and Kashmir returned today after taking stock of the flood-affected areas.
The delegation, led by its general secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur, will now submit a report to SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar on the basis of which they will chalk out a strategy for relief work in the coming days. As per a release issued today, Makkar said the SGPC would continue to extend aid to the flood-affected people of
Jammu and Kashmir, irrespective of their caste, colour and religion. During the delegation’s visit to Kashmir, Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani also met them and expressed satisfaction with the SGPC’s efforts to facilitate relief to the flood-hit. He has also written a letter to Makkar, seeking more ration, blankets and medicines.
Responding to the demand, Makkar said they would provide these items as per their requirement soon.
TNS
Chandigarh, September 20