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Malta boat tragedy on screen
Relatives of the Malta boat tragedy stage a dharna in front of the NRI Sabha office in Jalandhar on Saturday. — Photo by S.S. Chopra
College clubs to fight AIDS menace
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Numbered notes, stamp expression
Employees support Dec 14 stir
Labour courts likely to get presiding officers
Foundation to file case against Qadri
Channels go off air
Protesting lawyers sweep court complex
Preserve cultural heritage: Anjum
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Malta boat tragedy on screen
Jalandhar, November 25 The documentaries have been made by film-makers based in Germany, the USA and Sri Lanka. “It is unfortunate that none of our film-makers have touched the subject. It was biggest tragedy involving youths of south east Asia. On the contrary, foreign film makers have done full justice and have made an earnest effort to create awareness among people of the world about the tragedy. These films have been made so sensibly that these strike the conscience of anyone whosoever watches them. Since, most of our people here have almost forgotten the tragedy we have decided to bring and screen the films at Jalandhar’s Company Bagh on December 25,” said Mr Balwant Singh Khera, the Chairman of the probe mission. Mr Khera said the documentary film made by a Sri Lankan producer presented statements of youngsters who survived the tragedy. “Our film makers should take the courage and expose the network of those unscrupulous travel agents, who, were behind human smuggling and such tragedies so that no home loses its son in future,” he said. Family members of tragedy victims also accompanied Mr Khera and Giani Resham Singh Hayre, President of the NRI Sabha, Punjab. Mr Hayre and criticised the Punjab Government for the inadequate relief of Rs 50,000 in each case. “It is good that the Punjab Government announced relief of Rs 5 lakh for each of three girls who died in a bus-train accident near Noormahal three days back but was not it the duty of the government to extend relief to Malta tragedy victims at the same pattern?” He said apart from screening of films, the victims would be remembered by lighting candles and holding of a ‘sarb dharam sabha’ at Company Bagh on December 25. The NRI Sabha, Punjab, has opened a bank account for families of victims and appealed to Punjabis to donate liberally. |
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College clubs to fight AIDS menace
Jalandhar, November 25 The project, sanctioned for the first time in the state for sensitising issues relating to AIDS, will undertake action-based programmes. Under the project, Red Ribbon Clubs will be set up in every college in Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Gurdaspur districts. Till date, 40 colleges have agreed to set them up. Each club will have 15 student members; it will be headed by a programme officer, preferably the in-charge of the NSS. Like eco clubs, the Red Ribbon Club will hold seminars, discussions, awareness camps, rallies and street plays. All college clubs will be free to prepare AIDS-related programmes and implement these with the grant made available to them. Initially, NARCO will provide a grant of Rs 2,500 to each club. According to the Director-General of the science city, Dr R.S. Khandpur, the objective is to reduce new HIV infection among the youth through proper education and to prepare the youth as peer educators and agents of change by developing their leadership skills and team building. For educating the students, the science city will develop resource material, comprising training manual and multimedia CDs, for use by students and the public. An HIV/AIDS gallery will also be set up and an exhibition bus will be launched to spread awareness. Master trainers from the colleges, who will be trained under the project, will further sensitise students and the general public.
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Numbered notes, stamp expression
Jalandhar, November 25 Mr Rajendra Maru, from Bikaner exhibited his collection of rare bank notes. He had an exhaustive collection of notes numbering ‘786786’ of all denominations. Other interesting sequences of notes were of the ascending order ‘123456’ and ‘234567’. His notes also numbered ‘150847’, denoting the Independence Day, and ‘021069’, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. He also had ‘specimen’ and ‘cancelled’ notes from 1917. He also possessed notes printed by the British Indian government for use in Burma before 1948, when the Burmese had not acquired their own press for printing their currency. He also showed notes printed several years back from Hyderabad in Urdu. A. Marwari, put up a systematically arranged exhibition of rare coins. Besides ancient coins from Armenia and Kazakhstan, he had a 1.42 gm silver coin from 3 BC from the Gandhara region. The youngest philatelist on the show was Gunpreet Singh, a Class IX student of Amritsar. Some of his stamps dated back to 19th century and he said he was concentrating on adding to his rare collection on ‘Sikhism’.
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Jalandhar, November 25 The slogan of ‘one department, one union’ and a suggestion of confederation of employees at state and national levels were given at the convention organised by the Subai Mulajam Talmel Committee. Mr Chander Shekhar, a union leader of Punjab, inaugurated the convention and participants decided to support the national-level strike of employees on December 14. Addressing the employees, he highlighted the challenges before them Mr Gurdeep Singh, patron, PSIEC Staff Association, Mr Bhag Mal Rana, general secretary, Federation of UT Employees and Workers, Mr Shiv Kumar Vashisht, general secretary, Sanyukt Karamchari Manch, Haryana, and Ms Jagmati, president, Aanganwadi Union, Haryana, addressed the convention, among others. — TNS
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Labour courts likely to get presiding officers
Jalandhar, November 25 The presiding officers in these three labour courts with jurisdiction of 10 districts may be appointed soon as the Labour and Employment Department has provided required staff and infrastructure there, said the Labour and Employment Secretary, Mr S.S. Channi. He said whatever required in the courts would be done as per the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Computers were installed and staff were posted in the three labour courts. The Registrar General of the high court was also apprised of that and hopefully presiding officers would be posted at the earliest. However, the Registrar General, Mr Nawab Singh, could not be contacted. In a news-item carried in The Tribune on November 10, it was stated that the high court had withdrawn in March the services of three additional district and session judges from the posts of presiding officers at Jalandhar, Bathinda and Patiala as the labour department had failed to provide them required facilities and staff to run the work of labour courts.
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Foundation to file case against Qadri
Amritsar, November 25 Stating this here today, Mr Harbhajan Singh Brar, president of the foundation, announced that a seven-member team of advocates from Patiala had been constituted to file a case in this regard. He alleged that Pir Qadri, who had collected donations not only from India but also from abroad, had not spent even a single penny on the “dargah” of Sai Mian Mir. Pir Qadri was using the money for promoting his personal interests and was not in any way interested in doing anything specific for the “dargah” or for providing facilities to the devotees. Mr Brar said he himself had made Pir Qadri as patron of the foundation but when they came to know about him regarding the financial bungling they expelled him from the foundation about one and a half years ago. However, Pir Qadri, when contacted, said he had not received a single penny as donation. |
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Channels go off air
Amritsar, November 25 Mr Arun Poddar, CEO, Zee Turner Ltd, stated in a press note: “The Siti Cable operator has not only been avoiding signing the subscription agreement but has also been under declaring subscriber households by 91.6 per cent. We see no reason why the operator should not pay to the company the money that he collects from viewers for showing their channels.” However, senior officers of Siti Cable said they were holding meeting with officials of the Zee Turner in this regard and were hopeful to resolve the issue soon. |
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Protesting lawyers sweep court complex
Jalandhar, November 25 The president of the association, Mr R. K. Bhalla, said their demand for sweepers to clean court complex and chambers of advocates regularly had been put up even before the Deputy Commissioner. As the complex had never been cleaned, the lawyers were forced to work in unhygienic conditions. |
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Preserve cultural heritage: Anjum
Amritsar, November 25 The festival started with giddha, classical dance, mimicry, histrionics, skit, rangoli, flower arrangement (fresh), and Phulkari contests.
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The Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission in Jaland- har would screen documentaries on the anniversary of the tragedy on December 25.
