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During 7 day-long NSS camp, volunteers of Public College of education, Samana conducted a rally for social awareness.
Prof. Harbans Singh Nagi, HOD Commerce, showed the green flag and commenced the rally.
The rally, which begun from the college campus, covered many places, which included old grain market, Gandhi ground, Ambedkar Chowk etc.
At last, the rally, which reached the college campus, also witnessed the participation of all the staff members of Public College of education, Samana.
During the forth day of the NSS camp, Sh. Kaka Ram Verma trained the volunteers about first aid and Mr. Gurjap Singh, head constable, Punjab, educated them about the traffic rules and regulations.
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As per, Dr. Varinder Singh Mohi, civil surgeon Patiala, declared that the kids, up to five years of age, will be given vaccine under the pulse polio drive commencing from April 7 to April 9.
Dr. Varinder stated that the health department teams will visit the streets that will give polio vaccine to around 24,281 kids (0-5 age group).
These teams will cover up migratory population, poor people, laborers, grain markets as well as newly built streets.
Beside these regions, people came from other zones will also be covered under this drive.
Dr. Mohi said that around 159 teams have been formed for this campaign in addition to 14 mobile teams.
Mobile health groups have been advised to cover maximum houses on a daily basis to cover up the left children.
Aside from the educational institutions in areas, polio booths will also be established at gurudwaras, bus stands, railway stations, and other public places.
According to the health section the polio vaccine should be given to all kids comprising those who have been already given the first dose.
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The cast & crew of the Punjabi flick, Daddy Cool, Munday Fool reached Patiala on April 04, 2013 in order to promote their upcoming film.
According to singer-actor Amarinder gill, the film is full of comedy that makes audiences laugh.
Daddy Cool Munde Fool is a Punjabi movie that features Jaswinder Bhalla, Rana Ranbir, Amrinder Gill, Harish Verma, Yuvika Chaudhary, Amar Noorie as well as Binnu Dhillon.
Being directed by Simerjit Singh, the flick will hit screens on 12 April 2013.
The movie has been made under the production banner of KG Productions, Royal Ent. & and Celluloid Entertainment.
Daddy Cool Munde Fool is a Speed Records Home production after the mega hit “Jatt and Juliet”.
The movie’s music has been given by Dr. Zeus.
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The state administration would arrange Suvidha Camps in all rustic arenas as well as cities in order to bring different administrative services to people at their doorway.
Mr. Surjit Singh Rakhra, rural development and panchayat minister, made announcement about the decision.
The said camp gathers representatives of many sections at one place to provide solutions to the individuals instantly. At the camps, the individuals can apply for social-security retirement fund, driver’s license, ID card, land registration, or caste credential.
“The aim is to save citizens from annoyance of scurrying between different offices,” added Mr. Rakhra. .
Kicking off Suvidha Camp in Ward 31 of Patiala in the company of councilor and Youth Akali Dal state general secretary Harpal Juneja, he stated that the response had been wonderful.
Thursday’s camp will be model for related incidents elsewhere in Punjab.
Councillor Juneja expressed gratitude towards the government for backing the proposal.
Juneja, who was a well-known applicant for the position of mayor in the appointment on Tuesday (April 2), utilized the occasion to prove his value and power to the party.
District planning board chairman Deepinder Singh Dhillon; Mayor Amaninder Singh Bajaj; senior Akali leader and former member of Rajya Sabha Amarjeet Kaur; deputy commissioner GK Singh; and senior superintendent of police Gurpreet Singh Gill were alsp there.
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Rajindra Hospital physicians have removed the four-foot iron rod from the person’s throat and saved his life.
The doctors conducted a two and a half hour long surgery and successfully removed the angle.
The physicians said that the victim is out of danger now.
This operation is the first of its kind in the hospital.
Rajindra Hospital, Department of Surgery, Dr. SK Bhatia stated that the patient was admitted around 6 o’clock on Tuesday night.
He had a four feet tall angle, which got struck into his throat.
The victim was followed by his two friends. The doctors operated him without any delay.
According to Dr. Bhatia, half of the patient’s larynx got amputated.
Other well known doctors carried out the life saving surgery were Dr. Sudesh, Dr. Love, Dr. Lokesh, Dr. Lvkesh, Dr. Navjot, Dr. Anand, Dr. parity, Dr. Neeraj, Dr. Golden Lamp.
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Asking for the issuance of appointment letters to 4,000 candidates who cleared up the recruitment examination, jobless linemen together with their family members on April 3 held a protest outside the min-secretariat, Patiala.
Under the sign of the Unemployment Lineman Union, the candidates are protesting for the last few days against Punjab administration for “not offering” appointment letters to them in the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL).
These linemen had come for the convention together with their family members from all over Punjab.
“We have cleared the test carried out by PSPCL during January 2011. As many as 5,000 linemen were to be enrolled by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited. But, the appointment letters were issued to just 1,000,†added Primal Singh, president of the union.
The PRTC contractual staff union also broadened support to the candidates.
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The office and residence of prominent charted accountant and former State Bank of Patiala director Dr Ashwin Gupta has been raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They took a laptop, files and bundles of paper work in possession.
According to the sources, the CBI followed the trail dumped by Income Tax department’s DC PK Bhattacharya, whom CBI nailed down on Tuesday and on Wednesday at five in the morning at around 5 am, they raided the residence of Gupta at Green Park.
Mr. Bhattacharya was posted at Ludhiana but was living in Jalandhar.
Sources revealed that Bhattacharya came to Gupta on the night of Tuesday and delivered cash telling that he would take it away afterward. But, the IT officer was arrested by CBI and in the morning, the team reached Gupta’s residence.
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Community Colleges are parallel education system with aim to empower the youth via skill-based education theory. Government Mohindra College, selected amongst the 200 colleges to kick-start the colleges in the country, has announced the beginning of the Community College be the next academic session.
According to Principal Sukhbir Singh Thind, due to these colleges, youth will get help in developing skills for employment and self-employment ability.
The courses offered will be short-duration credit based module levering the National Vocational Education framework to help facilitate the growing employment sector.
The Learners will get tailor-made industrial coverage. They will also be able to adopt a flexible entry and exit system.
The Principal also said that apart from being a source of education development, the college will also help in providing skillful employment force.
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Old age home for elderly people. Good Environment and facilities.
Address: Bhai Ghanayia Charitable Trust (Regd.), Patiala
Office: B.H Complex, Lower Mall Road, near O.B.C Bank, Patiala
Sub Office: Main Road, Sular, Patiala
Mobile Number: +91 98142-05800, +91 99145-44447
Business E-mail: bgctpatiala@gmail.com
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With Capt Amarinder Singh no more at the wheel of matters in the Punjab Pardesh Congress group which he led for a period of 15 years, his MP wife and minister of state for external affairs Preneet Kaur is busy repairing hurdles with their competitors.
Preneet on March 31 met Brahm Mohindra, who had recommended Amarinder’s exclusion after the latter forwarded a notification to him for not attending the Moga election movement.
Preneet and Amarinder, in the last year assembly ticket allocation, had defended the ticket to Brahm from Patiala rural with the intention to obtain it for their son Raninder Singh.
With Amarinder currently out of the PPCC, his wife wasted no time calling Mohindra’s house for a ceasefire.
Mohindra previously symbolized the Patiala urban seat, when in the year 2002, Amarinder as the PPCC president transferred him to Samana, from where he was shot down.
As the Lok Sabha polls drawing near and heads like Deepinder Singh Dhillon have linked up with the Akali Dal, Preneet has commenced the damage control exercise.
A Congressman said, “The royal family didn’t bother even for ministers and MLAs till they were in control of the PPCC. Now, things have changed and Preneet is out pleasing others.”
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The group of the much awaited Punjabi flick ‘Sadda Haq’, on April 02 reached the royal city, Patiala, with the aim to promote the movie.
The film will hit screens on April 5.
‘Sadda Haq’ is based on authentic episodes in the state of Punjab from eighties to mid-nineties and had been primarily banished by the censor board. The movie was cleared with universal certification at a meeting of a high-level committee of the censor board.
Film makers, Kuljinder Sidhu and Dinesh Sood; directors Mandeep Benipal and Gaurav Kakkar; and the key cast stated that fallacies were produced regarding the movie by a segment of the society, however they were all unjustified.
This would be the first Punjabi movie based on genuine occasions.
One of the film makers stated, “Sadda Haq has been made with a good objective and on a unique storyline. The turbulence and travails between 1980’s and mid-1990’s pushed the youth rtowards inhumanity. Many lives were lost. This film is a dramatised adaptation of facts and events as they had happened in the past.”
Elucidating the genuine idea of the film, the makers stated that it was significant to take lessons from past mistakes in an attempt to form a better future in which these were not repeated.
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INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research), a 5-day internship programme arranged by the Thapar University in association with the division of science and technology of the administration of India to magnetize brilliant youths towards science finished on April 02.
The workshop was intended to encourage gifted youths to engage in research projects and motivate them via interactions with international icons from the arenas relating to science.
More than 200 pupils, either presently in Class 12 or have cleared Class 11 from almost 20 schools crosswise Patiala and adjoining towns attended the camp.
Dr. JV Yakhmi, member of National Academy of Science and chairman of Atomic Energy Education Society guided the pupils on ‘Why prefer science as a profession.
University director Prof KK Raina stated that Thapar University wished that young persons to adopt science as the favored career option.
“This camp is a step towards that. We will continue to organise such events in the future too,†added Raina.
Well-known speakers addressed on such themes as profession in science, job choices for mathematics pupils, growth of geometry, newest discoveries, creations and improvements, invention of electron and its impact on science and technology, 100 years of Rutherford trial in nuclear physics and Indian inputs to the growth of mathematics.
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A day after Sports ministry ordered National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to conduct examination on boxer Vijender Singh for so-called use of heroin, Haryana boxer is expected to be labeled as missing from countrywide boxing camp, presently happening in NIS Patiala as his leave time concluded on last Thursday whilst he is yet to join camp.
According to sources, the boxer has been on leave since the beginning of the last month and has not gone to the site for a day. He has lengthened his leave three times from NIS functionaries, but now functionaries have denied entertaining his most recent request for leave, arrived in NIS Patiala on Friday.
The boxer had asked for a leave of 2 more weeks from NIS functionaries; however they have denied to take any verdict at their own and sent the request to Sports Authority of India (SAI) Delhi.
Though application passed on Sports Authority of India on Friday, but functionaries have neither accepted nor discarded the request and informed regarding their verdict to NIS Patiala authorities thus far.
NIS national camp incharge Manmeet Singh stated, “It’s 4th time the boxer has asked for leave. He has stayed on leave all March month. We have sent his application to SAI for more leave to two weeks and waiting for decision of SAI authorities.”
The problem of Vijender, who won middleweight bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics , commenced during the last month after Fatehgarh sahib uncovered a drug haul and took his sparring associate Ram Singh, fired head cop, in detention.
Ram told the probers that he and the boxer had heroin supplied by the drug trader Anup singh Kahlon many times.
The national boxing camp has been about to practice boxers for a worldwide rivalry likely to be held by this month’s end, however coaches and trainers are concerned that the long nonattendance of Vijender from camp will make his presentation meager.
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Punjabi University has nominated Rajinder Singh Gill as dean, faculty of arts and culture.
Mr. Rajinder is not only a well-known singer but also works energetically for upholding the folk inheritance of the state of Punjab.
Mr. GIll functioned as head of the division of music from the year 2009 to 2012.
In addition, Mr. Rajinder, who is general secretary of Punjab Heritage Foundation, USA, boasts a PhD and 16 MPhils to his credit.
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As per reports, the controversial queen Veena Malik took some time off from shooting her ongoing project “Eh Dil The Mamla†to pay homage to the Gurudwara of ninth Sikh Guru Shri Teg Bahadur in the city of Patiala.
The actress was in a yellow and white shalwar kameez and had dupatta on her head.
The reports said that Veena offered prayers at Gurudwara Dukhniwaran Sahib to get blessings for her forthcoming projects.
Previously, Malik visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah and recited Bhargavad Geeta as the actress feels that she is a very spiritual human being and trusts in respecting every religion.
At present, Veena Malik is busy shooting her other film’s â€The City That Never Sleepsâ€, directed by Rashid Haroon.
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Hoards of shopkeepers under the banner of Patiala Vyopar Bachao Sangarsh board staged a protest against the administration verdict to bring in property tax.
Calling it a ‘black act’ for the dealers, the demonstrators showed off black flags and took out a scooter rally crosswise the key avenues of the city.
While talking to the gathering, Rakesh Gupta stated that they would not permit the state administration to execute the projected tax come what may, as it would destroy them.
“Small shopkeepers will go through the pain and will be left with no option but to close up their biz groups,†Gupta added.
The group asked that the administration should either take out the verdict to execute the tax or rework on tax slabs.
“Expressing cruel approach, administration is totally disregarding our demands,†he said. The group threatened to provide ‘Patiala bandh’ call if administration failed to take serious note of their demands.
Shopkeepers will submit their doubts to the municipal corporation authorities by Wednesday.
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Second time councilor Amaninder Singh Bajaj has been named as the new mayor of the royal city, Patiala.
In the gathering of councilors carried out Tuesday, the selection for the 34-year-old SAD chief was conducted in the company of Sikander Singh Maluka, SAD in charge for Patiala, and rural development minister Surjit Singh Rakhra.
Amaninder Singh Bajaj, the son of Patiala region SAD president Indermohan Singh Bajaj, has become fourth mayor of the Patiala municipal corporation.
The said position had fallen vacant after Jaspal Pardhan resigned following the so-called slaughter of his ‘daughter-in-law’, Parampreet Kaur.
As per sources, SAD supreme headquarters were convinced that Jaspal had no role in Parampreet’s murder case, however the party determined not to put back him to stay away from argument as the case was still pending with the Punjab and Haryana high court accompanying Parampreet’s father lodged an appeal looking for a CBI investigation into the event.
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The nonattendance of ex Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh from party’s initial gathering in Patiala was noticeable enough to exhibit the gap within the party, as senior heads of the party interrogated his nonappearance.
The meeting was called up in order to greet new Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa in the city.
Senior Congress head Laal Singh queried the nonattendance of Amarinder and his son.
While talking at the occasion, Laal Singh, once a close confidante of Amarinder, stated, “It is our responsibility to keep party combined, however the conference has been planned at Patiala and the Assembly section constituted by Amarinder is not there”.
“It was his (Amarinder’s) responsibility to be here together with Raninder Singh, who had fruitlessly contended the adjoining electorate of Samana,” he said.
But, Singh added that when he called Amarinder Singh, as he was away to national capital, the ex- party chief told him that “he was not called for today’s gathering”.
In the meantime, directing finger towards Preneet Kaur, local MP and wife of Amarinder, who was there at the stage together with PPCC chief , Singh querined, “Maharani Sahiba you are in-charge of this workers meet and it was your duty to inform and invite Amarinder about it”.
Singh added that Congress workers would get an “erroneous sign from it that the party was divided up”.
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Raising fears over law and order circumstances in the state, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa stated that the police is completely “powerless” in defending its own men in uniform.
The cruel shooting down of 4 policemen consecutively is a strong indication towards this, Partap Singh Bajwa added up.
Charging Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal of vacationing in Goa on the cause of a ‘chintan shivir’ Bajwa said, “Let him first put his house in line.
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The police officials have filed a case against a Bahadurgarh occupant for torturing his 6-year-old son with butts and inflicting wounds on his body with a blade.
The disturbing story of pain was recited by the kid himself in a local court, where he was taken during the hearing of separation case of his parents.
Depressed over witnessing wound marks on the kid’s body, the court asked the police officials to get the kid medically checked in the local Government Rajindra Hospital.
After checkup, the kid got admitted there for proper treatment.
Discovering himself in a tense spot, Baljit Singh, kid’s father, cut and run from the court premises.
Baljit was having the guardianship of kid during the divorce period.
The boy told the presspersons and physicians that his father regularly pour hot tea on him, blistered him with butts and make cuts on his body.
There were around sixteen cut marks on the kid’s body.
Baljit Singh got upset over kid’s demand to meet his mom.
In the meantime, Patiala Sadar Police Station have reserved Baljit Singh under sections 323, 324 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and set up a manhunt to arrest him.
