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3 cops booked for gunning down two brothers
Eve-teasers kill girl’s brother
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basmati procurement
Govt biased in flood relief: MLA
Won’t store paddy, threaten millers
Varsity head writes to MCI over fate of 150 medical students
Tension in village over shifting of meters
Aid for kin of stranded youth
Sports centres to come up in border districts
PCS union elects chief, lists priorities
Now, Digital Orthopaedic Suite at Max Hospital
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3 cops booked for gunning down two brothers
Ludhiana, September 27 The deceased, Harinder Singh (25) and Jatinder Singh (24), were residents of Bhuapur village near Machhiwara. The relatives of the brothers, however, have alleged the deceased were killed in cold blood. They have demanded an inquiry into the case and action against the policemen. A police party led by Machhiwara Station House Officer Manjinder Singh raided the house in Ahluwalia Colony. The brothers were residing along with three other youths in a rented accommodation for the last two months. Gurjeet Singh, husband of the sarpanch of Bhuapur village, accompanied the police. An eyewitness said the policemen entered the building by scaling the wall of a neighbouring house. The youths reportedly tried to escape after finding the police at their door. Police officials differed in their version of the sequence of events leading to the killing of the brothers. Gurinder Singh Dhillon, Deputy Inspector General, Ludhiana Range, said, “The boys tried to snatch an AK-47 rifle from a policeman. At this, Gurjeet Singh fired thrice from his licensed pistol at Jatinder and Harinder. The brothers received five bullets and were killed on the spot”. Dhillon said Gurjeet was accompanying the police to identify the brothers. Pramod Ban, Commissioner of Police, however, had a different story to tell: “Preliminary investigations suggest Gurjeet only injured the boys while opening fire in the defence of the policemen. When the police left the house, some unidentified person killed the duo. The case is under investigation.” Two of the other three youths at home were arrested by the police while one of them managed to escape. The brothers were facing a case of attempt to murder in which victim Harnam Sikandar Singh alleged that they had attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon during a fair at Takhran village. The police officials changed the story several times till the evening. Finally, a case of murder was registered against Gurjeet Singh and three policemen. The Station House Officer who led the raid has been sent to the Police Lines. Police versions vary
Sarpanch’s husband booked
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Eve-teasers kill girl’s brother
Mansa, September 27 The victim’s sister, a class XII student at the school, was allegedly harassed after school timings often. In the clash, the girl’s cousins, Paramjit Singh (23) and Makkhan Singh, got seriously injured. Paramjit suffered from bullet wounds. Six persons have been booked under the Arms Act. Mansa Senior Superintendent of Police Bhupinder Singh Khatra said the accused persons were Labh Singh, Makkhan Singh, Preetpal Singh, Parvinder Singh, Sumel Singh and Karam Singh. The girl’s family had complained about the matter to the village panchayat several times, but to no avail. The clash occurred, when the victim’s brothers and uncle went towards the house of the accused persons, who also belong to the Dalit community.
Man shoots at dera leader, arrested Sangrur: A 35-year-old dera leader Sham Sunder today sustained a bullet injury on his thigh when Gagandeep Singh (20) allegedly shot at him. The accused allegedly fired at Sham with a .32 bore pistol at Dera Baba Rukhar Dass in Namol village near Sunam. The dera leader was taken to Sunam Civil Hospital, from where he was referred to Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala. Sunam Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Sukhdev Singh Virk said after the incident, Gagandeep consumed poison. He was admitted to Sunam Civil Hospital. The police said Gagandeep had been taken into custody. The DSP said a case would be registered against Gagandeep Singh. It is yet to be ascertained why Gagandeep shot at Sham Sunder. — TNS
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basmati procurement
Chandigarh, September 27 Rice exporters and traders from Haryana held a meeting with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Agriculture Minister Tota Singh and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Adesh Partap Kairon here today. They demanded that they could procure paddy from Punjab only if the government cut market fee and rural development fund from 2 per cent to 1 per cent and reduced VAT/ CST from 5 to 2 per cent. As the government failed to make any commitment on reducing the taxes, the Haryana traders said the deal would be financially unviable for them. “We also have to spend a huge amount on transportation from Punjab to Haryana. Last year, the government had withdrawn taxes for the rice exporters of Punjab. As such, the state’s policy is biased in favour of own exporters. We can operate in Punjab only if there is a level playing field,” said Sushil Jain, president, Haryana Rice Exporters Association. They said the practice did not even benefit the farmers and created a monopoly of Punjab’s exporters. This year, the area under basmati cultivation has increased from 5.6 lakh hectares last year to 8.5 lakh hectares. The basmati production is expected to be up by 60 per cent. As the government cannot buy the entire produce, it will have to ensure more buyers from outside. Some of the early varieties have already started arriving in markets in Fazilka, Abohar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Amritsar. Sources said against the price of Rs 2,800 to Rs 2,900 per quintal that farmers were getting in Haryana, the rates were much lower at Rs 1,900 to Rs 2,200 in Punjab. Last year, basmati growers had fetched up to Rs 4,200 per quintal in the state. The prices of basmati are low even in the international market this time round. In the past one month, the export prices have fallen from $1,400 per tonne (Rs 8,500 per quintal) to $950 per tonne (Rs 5,800 per quintal). Sources in the Agriculture Department said the final decision on reducing the taxes for exporters from outside Punjab would be taken in another meeting on Monday. In today’s meeting, the state Agriculture Department also mooted a proposal to re-impose the taxes on the state’s rice traders/exporters. It was opposed by the Punjab Rice Exporters Association. Ashok Sethi, director, Punjab Rice Exporters Association, said they had opposed the move as it would be a retrograde step. “The basmati that is selling now has high moisture content, so it is fetching low prices. The farmers will get higher prices as the season proceeds,” he said. Their demands
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Govt biased in flood relief: MLA
Ferozepur, September 27 The legislator visited various rain-affected villages in his constituency. Sodhi said the people hit by floods last year had not been compensated yet. Sodhi said the residents of Basti Karam Singh in his Assembly segment faced a health hazard as waterborne diseases could spread rapidly, but the authorities were “apathetic”. The legislator demanded that the government compensate the persons who were hit by floods and waterlogging in his constituency. About the ensuing Vidhan Sabha polls in Haryana, Sodhi said the Congress would win the third time in a row. He said Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh would play an instrumental role in the elections. “Capt Amarinder has a large support base in Haryana,” he claimed.
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Won’t store paddy, threaten millers
Fatehgarh Sahib, September 27 Association president Inderjeet Singh Sandhu, also the chairman of Market Committee, Sirhind, said they had decided not to store paddy, the procurement of which would begin on October 1. He said it was not possible to prepare rice with 14 per cent moisture. He also rued that the Centre's decision to advance the deadline for delivering custom-milled rice from June 30 to April 15 was “unjustified”. He said they had requested the state government to ask the Centre to extend the deadline. Association press secretary Nakesh Jindal said the Centre’s policy had come as a jolt to the state's rice industry and despite requests, the policy was not reviewed. He said the moisture content in paddy was bound to be high due to untimely rains in the state. He said they had decided not to mill paddy during the kharif season under the prevailing conditions as it would "worsen" the condition of the industry.
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Varsity head writes to MCI over fate of 150 medical students
Faridkot, September 27 Though the Chintpurni Medical College and Hospital (Pathankot) was allowed to admit the 150 students in 2011, the MCI did not allow the institute to admit new students in 2012 and 2013 due to staff shortage and poor infrastructure. The first batch of 2011 is in the final year of their course. “Will the students get a duly recognised degree after the completion of their course?” BFUHS Vice-Chancellor Dr SS Gill has written in a letter to the MCI chairman. This year after a gap of two years, the college has been allowed to enroll a fresh batch of 150
MBBS students. Gill wrote this letter after over 100 students protested outside the university in Faridkot on September 9-10. They had demanded they be shifted to some other college in Punjab. The students had alleged poor infrastructure at the college.
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Tension in village over shifting of meters
Tarn Taran , September 27 The process was started amid a heavy posse of police in the morning today. A 60-member Powercom team was led by Additional Superintendent Engineers Maninder Jit Singh and Gursharan Singh Khehra. The officials had failed in a similar attempt on September 11. The village turned into a fortress as the police blocked all entry points. While nobody was allowed to enter the village for hours, the residents were forced to remain indoors. Sukhwinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, said they had summoned police personnel from Chabal and Sarai Amanat Khan, besides the reserve battalion of the district. The police said the situation remained tense but under control the entire day as no untoward incident was reported.
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ASI team questions shoddy restoration work at Ram Bagh
Amritsar, September 27 The ASI team, led by state Superintending Archaeologist VC Sharma, expressed its reservation during a visit to the garden in the aftermath of the Centre’s rejection to the proposal of the state government and the Amritsar Municipal Corporation to denotify the garden. At present, the board is in the possession of the Summer Palace of legendary Sikh leader Maharaja Ranjit Singh, besides Munshikhana (where the Maharaja's staff used to stay) while the ASI is preserving Rambagh Deori (the entrance gate), Baradari, Hamamghar, Machhighar and four watch towers. Talking to The Tribune, Sharma said the preservation work undertaken by the board at the Summer Palace and Munshikhana had "badly affected the aesthetics and basic character" of the heritage structure. The work at these two structures has been stalled due to lack of funds. “The contractors hired by the PHTPB for preserving the two structures have fixed iron girders instead of wooden logs in the roof while the water channel from the Munshikhana on either side of the Summer Palace has been widened too much,” he said. The contractors have used Kota stone and modern tiles for flooring at the Summer Palace. He said Kota stone was never used in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s era. He also raised question over the material used for plastering walls, which is now peeling off. The objections
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Aid for kin of stranded youth
Amritsar, September 27 Manjeet Singh, SGPC secretary, gave away cheques to these families, three of whom are from Himachal and five from Punjab. Additional SGPC secretary Diljit Singh Bedi said they had announced financial aid to these families irrespective of their religion or caste. He said the aid was granted to 19 families earlier while these eight families were traced later. — TNS
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Sports centres to come up in border districts
Chandigarh, September 27 Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal asked the Union Minister, who called on the former here, to generously help the state in combating the curse of drugs by funding sports projects and related infrastructure, especially in the border districts of the state. He apprised the Union Minister that the state government was already making strenuous efforts for promoting sports to check drug addiction in the state but this daunting task could not be accomplished without adequate support of the Union government. An official release quoting Badal said there was a lot of scope for the promotion of the sports activity in the border districts of the state for which the Union Government must pay some attention. Responding to the issue, Sonowal apprised the Chief Minister that the Union Government would set up a multi-purpose sports centre in each block of the border district at a cost of Rs 1.75 crore over an area of seven acres. He asked the Chief Minister to send the requisite proposal for these centres so that work on them could be started in a phased manner. The Union Minister also assured Badal that the Union Government was not averse to the idea of setting up such centres even in the other blocks of the state. — PTI
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PCS union elects chief, lists priorities
Chandigarh, September 27 The PCS officers put on record the problems being faced by the union members and asked the executive body to work towards ensuring better service conditions for them. The members claimed that they were working amid “tough conditions with meagre resources available to them”. — TNS
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Now, Digital Orthopaedic Suite at Max Hospital
Chandigarh, September 27 The suite will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday. The usage of the Germany-based equipment will not cost extra to patients who come for orthopaedic surgeries at the hospital. Dr Manuj Wadhwa, Head, Max Elite Institute of Orthopaedics and Joint Replacement at MSSH, said the introduction of the digital orthopedic technology was aimed at taking joint replacement and trauma care in the county to the "highest level of accuracy". “It will ensure superior clinical outcomes, which were difficult to achieve in the conventional way of treatment,” he said. The suite has fully computerised Digital Operating Theatre that displays, records and streams at the touch of a finger. “The first functional Digital Orthopaedic Suite in Asia-Pacific works in a manner in which there is efficient digital planning for each patient and the entire surgery is executed with utmost precision, ensuring accurate alignment and precise implant positioning. This in turn results in less blood loss during the surgery with pain-free joint movement,” he added.
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A Khanna police team allegedly gunned down two brothers wanted in an attempt to murder case at a house in Jamalpur area on the Chandigarh Road here today.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has questioned the preservation works carried out by Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board
(PHTPB) at the historic Ram Bagh. The ASI team, led by state Superintending Archaeologist VC Sharma, expressed its reservation during a visit to the garden.
Max Super Speciality Hospital (MSSH), Mohali, today announced the launch of a “Digital Orthopaedic Suite”, claimed to be the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region. It is a concept that utilises digital patient data to review, plan and execute the entire orthopaedic procedure on a single platform.
The suite will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday. The usage of the Germany-based equipment will not cost extra to patients who come for orthopaedic surgeries at the hospital.