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Sikh museum’s founder needs monetary help
Kharar, January 3 Established about four years ago, its founder Parwinder Singh, a Chandigarh-based scooter mechanic, has been running from pillar to post for seeing financial assistance. “I started this museum with an aim to conserve the Sikh heritage in the form of statues,” said Parwinder. His museum showcases about 35 statues, including those of Bhai Mani Singh, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and scenes of the atrocities on Sikhs by Mughal emperors. He is, now, in dire straits as the landlord has asked him to vacate the place at the earliest. “It is impossible to move around with this infrastructure. I have been talking to the panchayat of Balongi village and hope to find adequate place for shifting the entire paraphernalia there,” he added. Balongi’s sarpanch, Tarlochan Singh Mann, said about 2 kanal has been selected for setting up the museum somewhere near the cremation ground. “Cooperative Minister Kanwaljit Singh has already given nod to this proposal. We are now going to put it up as an agenda in our next meeting. By April, this museum will become our pride,” he added. Besides making statues depicting Sikh history, Parwinder has also carved out statues of Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and famous singer Gurdas Mann. While Badal is yet to see his statue, Mann has already seen it. “A few months ago Gurdas Mann was here to perform at a show in Balongi. I had shown the statue to him and he expressed happiness over it. He promised to help me monetarily, but I have not been able to contact him as yet,” added Parwinder. He along with his wife has made these statues over a period of 10 years. And have used fibreglass and clay. He aim is to come up with a museum on the lines of Madam Tussaud’s Wax museum. “Its my dream to do extensive work on the Sikh history. I have been trying to do my best from my limited source of income. I have not taken any formal training for making these statues,” he added.
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Residents resent fresh house tax survey
Bassi Pathana, January 3 Representatives of various organisations today hold a meeting under the leadership of the Hindu organisation and decided to launch an agitation if the council increased the amount of the house taxes in the town. Manoj Banda, General Secretary, in a press note issued here today said the government had failed to give any grant to the council and now pressurising the council to generate funds on their own by imposing heavy taxes. He warned that if the government did not withdraw its order, they would teach the ruling alliance a lesson in the coming Parliament elections. He said there was no drinking water, sewer; sanitation arrangements, no streetlights, roads and drains were in pitiable condition and there was no source of employment in the town. The residents are hardly meeting their both ends meet; they are not in a position to pay heavy taxes. The population is decreasing day by day as people are leaving the town for want of facilities. He urged the government to conduct the survey how people are living here without any help from the government. Kulbhushan Malhotra, president of the council, said the fresh survey was being conducted as per the government directions. He said a three-member committee had been formed to sort the grievances if any occurred due to the fresh house taxes. He said the council doesn’t have any fund; the PSEB had threatened to disconnect the streetlight and water supply connections. He demanded a special package for the town.
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People against renewal of depot’s license
Our Correspondent
Bassi Pathana, January 3 Harinder Singh, a panchayat member, and Balwinder Singh said they had lodged a complaint with the deputy commissioner in this regard. He in turn had marked enquiry to district food and civil supply controller, who directed the district food and supply officer to conduct an enquiry. The license of the ration depot was suspended but was reinstated today. When contacted Sajjan Singh, Assistant Food and Civil Supply Officer, Bassi Pathana, said he assisted DFSO in conducting enquiry and the report was submitted to DFSC and the license was cancelled after their report. He said inspectors regularly visit depots in their areas and sign the ration cards. A staff of the district food and supply controller said the license was reinstated after imposing a fine of Rs 1000 on the depot holder. The complainants handed over the attested photocopies of hundreds of ration cards showing blank the columns as well as signatures of depot holder and inspectors on these to The Tribune. They alleged that kerosene is being sold at very high rates in black allegedly in connivance with department officials.
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Holiday special trains suspended
Kalka, January 3 The official sources of the local railway station said the 241-up Duplicate Shivalik train had been cancelled yesterday, and 253-up Holiday Special train suspended today. Out of the two railcars plying on the section, one railcar has also been retracted, which will now run only on demand, sources added. Due to the heavy rush of tourists in wake of the Christmas and New year celebrations, the department had started two special holiday trains and a railcar from December 20. The official sources of the railway station said the there was an advance full booking at all the nine trains, including the two railcars up to December 31. Shop set afire In an incident of fire in the wooden store on the National Highway-22, wooden material worth lakh of rupees god destroyed. The police sources said the incident occurred at around 12.30 pm today, when the wooden material in the Passi Builders caught fire, which spread briskly and turned into ashes. The fire brigade from the HMT, Panchkula, was informed by the police, which managed to control the fire. The eye-witnesses said if the fire brigade could not have reached in time, the flames of the fire may cause damage to the adjacent shops also. The police said the reason behind the incident was yet to ascertained.
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SAD seeks details of SGPC chief's foreign visits
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 3 In a press note issued here today, SAD (A) president Simranjeet Singh Mann stated that SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar has been visiting abroad frequently. He has also sought details of the way these visits have contributed towards propagation of Sikhism in the countries visited. He said it was moral duty of Makkar to share these details with all Sikhs. "Makkar should publicly issue works of the SGPC in propagating Sikhism, especially abroad.” He alleged that the foreign tour was organised with money of the SGPC and many jathedar's went along with the SGPC president without any reason. He also alleged that the SGPC members have misused the funds without any logic and organised the foreign tour. They stay in five star hotels and travel with first class air tickets. |
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1 sent to 14-day judicial remand
Tribune News Service
Derabassi, January 3 According to the police, Jatinder Singh alias Romy was arrested from Bhankarpur village on Saturday. The other suspected accused were identified as Pradeep Saini, Jaswinder Saini, Harmeet Singh, Pali Saini, Binder, Gurwinder, Jassi, Bhola Saini. The case was registered against nine persons. The police said Jatinder Singh was arrested and produced in the local court from where he was sent to the 14-day judicial remand, the police added. The police stated the body was handed to the family after a postmortem.
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Health centre gets funeral van
Kalka, January 3 Surindra Nain, SMO of the civil hospital, that the District Red Cross Society had provided the van and a driver to the hospital. For last couple of years, due to the non-availability of the funeral van, the relatives of the deceased had been facing inconvenience while taking the bodies. They had to hire private vans and pay hefty charges for the purpose. The official sources of the hospital said the SMO had written thrice to the District Red Cross Soc ety and the Deputy Commissioner, Panchkula, on April 12, 2007, January 12, 2008 and June 19, 2008, respectively, asking for van. The Tribune had also carried a news in this regard on August 18, 2008. |
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CM to lay stone of flyover
Fatehgarh Sahib, January 3 Most of the times vehicles remain stranded on both sides of the railway tracks. On numerous occasions road remain blocked for the entire day due to the closure of level crossings. It would take nearly 15 months and Rs 26 crore for completing the flyover. The Railways would contribute Rs 14 crores and the rest would be borne by the state government. Chief Minister Parkash Sing Badal would lay the foundation stone of the flyover on January 8.
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Man gets 7 yrs’ jail for possessing charas
Panchkula, January 3 The Pinjore police had on May 20, 2007, raided the rented accommodation of Manoj, a native of Muzzafrabad, Uttar Pradesh, and arrested him. About 700 grams of charas was seized from his possession. The court of Special Judge Sanjeev Jindal convicted Manoj. The judge further stated that if the accused failed to pay the fine, he would have to undergo additional imprisonment of one year and nine months.
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One held for hitting motorcyclist
Chandigarh, January 3 Stolen
Arvind Kumar, a resident of BRD Air Force station, filed a complaint with the police alleging that his Discover motorcycle (RJ-04-SA-5437) was stolen from Sector 36 yesterday. A case has been registered at the Sector-36 police station. In yet another incident, a resident of Sector 22 filed a complaint with the police alleging that his Chetak scooter (CH-01-M-8931) was stolen from the same Sector on December 31. A case has been registered at the Sector-17 police station.
Burglary
Rishi Chopra, a resident of Sector 40, lodged an FIR alleging that some unknown persons had made theft at his house and took three gold rings, a gold set, mangal
suttar, earring, kara, in between December 12 and January 2. A case has been registered at the Sector-39 police station.
Gambling
The local police arrested Bhola Shanker and Vijay Pandey, both residents of Bihar, for gambling at public place, and recovered Rs 520 cash from their possession, at Sector 8 here yesterday. A case has been registered at the Sector-3 police station.
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Youth’s death: Auto driver held
Chandigarh, January 3 The police arrested Sukhwinder Singh (19), a resident of Alampur village in Patiala last night and produced him before the court today, which sent him in 14-day judicial custody. His auto-rickshaw (CH-03-K-9415) has also been recovered. A case had already been registered against him under Sections 279 and 304-A at Sector 34 police station.
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Jeev's portrait unveiled at Golf Club
Chandigarh, January 3 Accompaying Jeev was his wife Kudrat and his parents Milkha Singh and Nirmal Milkha Singh. For Jeev it was a dream come true. Yes, it was on the Chandigarh greens that he slogged it out hoping to make it big. Braving the biting cold, members continued to drive in occupying every parking space in the club to cheer the Chandigarh golf icon, who clinched the Asian Golf crown for the second time in three years and occupied the 36th place in the world golf ranking. The golf enthusiasts could not have asked for more. They were honouring a sportsman who had brought Chandigarh on the golf map of the world. Although the Chandigarh Golf Association was the first to honour Jeev at the CGA Golf Range, the delay on the part of Chandigarh Golf Club was because the club wanted to make it a big affair, complete with a life-size portrait of their most treasured member. According to club president SD Bains the decision to honour Jeev was taken at the club's managing committee meeting on December 19. It was also decided to install a life-size portrait of Jeev at an appropriate place so that budding golfers from the region could get inspiration from his life-size portrait every time they passed by the reception. Bains talked of the wonderful qualities that Jeev possesses. He appealed to Jeev to guide the club in improving the layout of fairways and greens. He was also hopeful that Jeev would help the club get some major international tournaments. Jeev gave his best performance this year finishing in the top 10 in a major. To be precise it was ninth position. This was, besides his second Asian crown in three years. Jeev took to golf at a young age and won his first major title at the age of 13. That was the British Aerospace Juniors at Delhi Golf Club. This got him a three-month coaching stint in England. After that there was no looking back. He has been a competitive golfer from the very beginning. Those who have played with him in the late eighties will vouch for it. HC Sethi, who handles the media, said he had the opportunity of playing with Jeev. He was happy that he was leading over the young golf icon in 1986. Seeing the smile on Sethi's face, Jeev said, "The last putt is still to be played." This has been the forte of Jeev “To fight till the last hole or even the last putt.” |
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KU rout Jiwaji varsity 9-5
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 3 Though Pankaj and Vinod who top scored with two home runs each for Amravati provided some respite to the team but that wasn’t enough as they could not be well supported by their other teammates. Kapil with one home run was the other scorer for the team. On the other hand, the winning team showed a great teamwork as their fast and agile base-to-base running did the trick for them. India’s number four-ranked fast pitcher, Mohammad Ali, was the top scorer with three home runs. Parminder (two home runs) with Amit, Rinku, Dheeraj and Bhopal who contributed with one home run each, guided the team to an easy win. While in the second encounter of the day Punjabi University, Patiala, managed to maintain its winning spirit as they routed North Maharashtra University 8-0 home runs. In this humiliating defeat the winning team’s pitchers put up a great show as none of Maharashtra’s batter could even mange to score a home run. Harneet (two home runs) was the principal scorer for the winning team while Amrinder, Ashwani, Himanshu, Kanwaljeet, Jasminder and Aman Joshi chipped in with one home run each. In this lopsided encounter, Gurvinder with his fast base-to-base running scored three home runs while Satiya, Satpal, Nakshater and Omkar, all contributed with two home runs. Meanwhile, in the PU Inter-College Tennis (Women) Championship that kick started here today on PU campus, DAV College blanked SD College and AS College , Khanna, prevailed over MCM DAV College (W), Sector 36, 2-0.
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Athletics meet on Jan 11
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