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Journalism of Courage
Education
PATIALA:
Harpal Singh, a former president of the Punjab unit of National Students Union of India, has hailed the Punjabi University decision to scrap entrance tests for admission to postgraduate classes in affiliated colleges of the university.
Singh, general secretary, Punjab Youth Congress, said that he had as the NSUI president organised a gherao of the university syndicate last year demanding scrapping of the entrance tests for all classes. He said the decision would help poor students who could not afford to pay a fee of about Rs 500 for each entrance test, particularly those from rural areas. This would also help check possible retrenchment of staff in different colleges in the state. He demanded that entrance tests for all classes be scrapped with immediate effect and all admissions be made strictly on the basis of merit in the last qualifying examination
LUDHIANA:
The Vigilance Bureau has nabbed a Punjab State Electricity Board Junior Engineer Paramjit Singh while accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from Ratan Singh, a resident of Dopana village. According to Pinder Singh Dhillon, DSP, Vigilance Bureau, the JE posted at Machhiwara had demanded money for regularisation of excess load. The money paid by the complainant was recovered from the PSEB official and. A case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against him.
BATALA:
The local police have an ex-SPO and recovered a scooter from him. Senior Superintendent of Police Lok Nath Angra told ENS that a police party led by SHO City police station Karamjit Singh apprehended Ravi Kumar during a nakabandi near Hathi Gate last night and recovered a scooter which he had snatched from Dharampura colony on March 16, besides a 303 bore pistol and two live cartridges. Angra said Ravi Kumar was a Special Police Office and joined the robbers later. A case under Arms Act has been registered against him.
HAMIRPUR:
A 30-year old woman was found strangulated to death with a quot;dupatta8217;8216; inside her house at Baturra village in this district last evening. Disclosing this to mediapersons here today, district police chief Jagjit Kumar Gupta said the husband and the father-in-law of the deceased were missing. Gupta said that a DSP had rushed to the spot to investigate into the matter.
Mishaps
HAMIRPUR:
One person was killed and two others were injured in two separate accidents on the outskirts of this town today. District Police Chief Jagjit Kumar Gupta identifying the deceased as Pradeep Kumar, said that he and one Vivek were going on a bike towards Jhaniari Devi when their bike dashed against a truck coming from the opposite direction. A seriously injured Vivek was admitted to local district hospital, he added. A case has been registered against the truck driver. In another accident, Kapil of Nadaun had his leg fractured when his scooter was hit by a jeep. He had also been admitted to the district hospital.
DHARAMSALA:
The roof a primary school in Praur near here collapsed today, injuring the teacher. According to SP Kangra, there are no reports of any students getting hurt in the accident.
DHARAMSALA:
A 13 year old boy Bakesh, got drowned in a pond in Machical village in Shahpur last evening while he was bathing with his friend. Bakesh had gone to the pond with his mother and an aunt, who were in the temple at the time of tragedy.
Symposium
AMRITSAR:
Union Finance Minister8217;s claim that Saral, the so-called tax payer friendly income tax return form, will not require the assessee to go to chartered accountants or tax advisor for filling I-T return, was a misleading observation. This was stated by K.R. Jain president of the local Income Tax Bar Association in a press release issued here. The association had organised a special budget symposium in which R.N. Lakhotia, a leading tax expert from Delhi, and Subhash Lakhotia, income tax consultant talked about various aspects of the budget.
Recruitment
FEROZEPUR:
General and trade recruitment in the Indian Army will be held from June 19 to June 28 in the Army recuritment office, near Saragarhi Memorial Gurdwara in Ferozepur cantonement. Col R.L. Rawat said that desirous Jat Sikhs, Mazhabi Sikhs, Ramgarhis and general youth aged between 16 and 21 years could apply. For trade recruitment youth aged between 16 years and 25 years can apply.
Dharna
LUDHIANA:
Local industrialists would sit in dharna in front of the Municipal Corporation headquarters here on June 17. They will protest against hike in rates of house tax, water and sewerage charges and building fee, rampant corruption in the civic body, lack of basic civic amenities in the city and to press for abolition of octroi. This was stated by Harish Khanna, who presided over an executive committee meeting of the Ludhiana Small Scale Manufacturers Association.
