02122022-JTR-01.qxd 12/2/2022 12:22 AM Page 1 c m y b Jalandhar TRIBUNE AWARENESS PROGRAMMES, SEMINAR MARK WORLD AIDS DAY Awareness programmes and seminars were held across the city on the occasion of World AIDS Day on Thursday. FORECAST MAINLY CLEAR SKY PAGE 2 NORA FATEHI WAVES INDIAN FLAG AT FIFA EVENT IN DOHA PAGE 3 Bollywood actor and dancer Nora Fatehi set the stage on fire as she performed at the FIFA fan festival. MAX 24°C | MIN 10°C | YESTERDAY MAX 25°C | MIN 8°C SUNSET FRIDAY 5:22 PM SUNRISE SATURDAY 7:02 AM Jalandhar: The Lohian police nabbed a man with heroin at a naka in Sidhupur village on Wednesday. The man has been identified as Nirmal Singh of Ismailpur village. A case has been registered under Sections 21, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act at the Lohian police station. An investigation is under way. Notably, two cases were earlier registered against the accused, one under the NDPS Act in February 2019, and the other one under the Excise Act in 2014. TNS NAKODAR COPS NAB PEDDLER Nakodar: The Nakodar police have arrested drug peddler Jatindar Singh — a resident of Sohal Khurd village — with 249 intoxicating tablets. OC Tribune News Service Women participate in the farmers’ protest at the District Administrative Complex in Jalandhar on Thursday. PHOTO: SARABJIT SINGH On Day 6, women from Doaba join protesting farmers at DAC Tribune News Service Jalandhar, December 1 As the farmers’ indefinite protest against the state government inside the District Administrative Complex (DAC), here, entered sixth day on Thursday, a large number of women from across the Doaba region staged a massive protest in support of farmers, and accused the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government for their ‘antifarmer’ attitude. Sukhwinder Singh Sabhra, state convener, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, and Salwinder Singh Janian, district president, said farm- RUE GOVT’S INDIFFERENCE TO THEIR DEMANDS ers’ indefinite protest at the DC office across the state had entered the sixth day today, but no representative of the government had come to them so far to take up their issues. They said the government, which was pretending to be people’s own government, had lathi-charged farm labourers who were protesting outside the Chief Minister’s residence in Sangrur. “By letting the police use force to disperse farmers, the government has violated the basic rights of the people to protest and insulted democ- racy,” they said, adding the government must fulfil the promises it made during the anti-farm law agitation and in the election manifesto. Addressing the gathering, women leaders encouraged the youth and women to stand shoulder to shoulder with the farmers. They said today they had held a massive protest in support of the farmers, if needed they, too, would stay put at the protest. The women leaders said the demands of farmers, including implementation of the Swaminathan report, compensation for handling paddy straw, stopping auction of panchayat land with cultivators, cancellation of FIRs registered against farmers for burning stubble, land acquisition for highways at four times the market rate, provision of better canal system and rejection of pre-paid power meter system, must be fulfilled. Besides, the corporate houses responsible for polluting the water should be severely punished. They said if the government failed to fulfil the demands of the farmers, they would intensify the protest in the coming days. 2 brothers ‘assault’ home guard, held Sanitation workers protest on the premises of the Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar. TRIBUNE PHOTO Unable to meet top MC official, safai karamcharis stage sit-in Jalandhar, December 1 The Safai Karamcharis’ Union staged a protest today on the premises of the Municipal Corporation here. Enraged union members alleged that they had a meeting with the MC Commissioner scheduled today, but couldn’t meet him. The members reached the corporation to take up the issues with the Commissioner but got upset after they failed to meet him. FRIDAY | 2 DECEMBER 2022 | JALANDHAR Treated water to be used for irrigation: Meet Hayer MAN ARRESTED WITH 7-GM HEROIN Hoshiarpur: The Talwara police have booked an accused for allegedly molesting his friend's wife by putting some intoxicating substance in her food. According to the information, a married woman of a village in Talwara lodged a complaint with the police that Sandeep Kumar, alias Tinku, a resident of Bhandiyara, called her to his house on some pretext. He served her eatables laced with some intoxicating substance. As she fainted, the accused took her to a hotel and raped her. Next day, he left her near a religious place in the village. A case under Sections 376 and 506 of the IPC had been registered against Kumar. OC PAGE 4 Prime Video has released the official trailer of series The Rig, which features Iain Glen & Emily Hampshire. INBRIEF MAN BOOKED ON RAPE CHARGE PRIME VIDEO REVEALS TRAILER OF UK ORIGINAL SERIES THE RIG Union member Chandan Grewal, who led the protest, said several MC Commissioners had got changed in the past several months, but nobody was available in the office, instead they preferred to sit in the Smart City office. “They should give at least 2-3 hours daily to the public. We cannot tolerate this,” he said. It is also reported that Grewal along with the union members also met another senior MC official where they indulged in an argument. Union members have been demanding that sanitary supervisors should be deputed according to their seniority. Apart from this, they want assigning the post of driver to those safai sewaks and sewermen who drive vehicles. Grewal said the demands should be met at the earliest. “The demands that can be dealt at the local level should be looked into immediately,” he said. — TNS Jalandhar, December 1 Acting on the complaint filed by Ravi Pal, a Home Guards volunteer, whose video of being thrashed by some unidentified persons had gone viral, the police party of Division Number 4, on Thursday arrested two brothers in this connection. The accused have been identified as Guriqbal Singh, alias Gora and Gurpreet Singh, alias Gopi, residents of Laddhewali here. Police officials informed that Ravi Pal and ASI Dalbir Singh were on duty outside the emergency ward at the Civil Hospital on Monday when Guriqbal, Gurpreet and two other boys came to the hospital along with an injured person for treatment. They said the boys were forcefully trying to enter the doctor’s room, and when they were stopped by Ravi Pal, they started beating him up. They said the other two boys involved in the case had been identified as Manjit Singh and Paramjit Singh. They were yet to be arrested. “A case under sections 353, 186, 34 of the IPC has been registered against the accused, and the efforts are on to nab the absconding accused,” they added. — TNS Phagwara, December 1 Cabinet Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer on Thursday said the Punjab Government, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, would ensure the use of treated water from STPs having a capacity of 2,600 MLD for irrigation purposes to save the fast-depleting groundwater across the state. Meet Hayer, who also holds the Department of Environment, Science and Technology, visited the STP , Phagwara, to review the method of using treated water for irrigation on more than 1000 acres by farmers nearby villagers. Notably, the water treated by the STP at Phagwara having a capacity of 28 MLD, is being used for irrigation on 1,000 acres by farmers with the help of an 11-km long pipeline laid by SAYS MOVE CRITICAL TO SAVE FAST-DEPLETING GROUNDWATER the Water Conservation Department. With this method, nearly 7,500 million liters of underground water have been saved. Hailing the efforts of PPCB, Sewerage Board and Water Conservation and Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, the minister asked them to work in unison for chalking out a comprehensive plan to use the treated water for irrigation across the state on the lines of the Phagwara STP which has also , received the National Water Mission Award. — TNS Cops cane-charge AAP activists in Phagwara on Thursday. Soon after minister’s visit, AAP workers fight Ashok Kaura Phagwara, December 1 Two factions of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) indulged in a violent clash immediately after the visit of Cabinet Minister Meet Hayer this afternoon. As soon as the minister departed from Phagwara, AAP activists indulged in a heated exchange which turned violent. Two AAP activists Jagjit Singh Sahbhi and Lovely Sharma were injured. It was learnt that senior AAP leaders, including district president Lalit Saklani, were also present on the occasion. Sahbi belongs to the Santosh Kumar Gogi group and Lovely is associated with Harji Mann (son of AAP Leader Joginder Singh Mann) group. Both injured were admitted in Civil Hospital, Phagwara. Sahbhi was earlier in the Maan group, but due to differences he joined hands An injured AAP activist gets the treatment at Phagwara hospital. with the Gogi group. Tension continued till filing of the reports and the police were recording the statements of both the parties. The police said while no FIR had been lodged in the incident, preventive action had been initiated under Sections 333 and 751 of the Indian Penal Code. Sadar City SHO Amandeep Kumar said only mild injuries had been sustained by both the injured workers in the cane-charge. Nine Entertaining Plays 3rd Dec. to 30th Dec. (Every Weekend) 6.00 p.m. December 3 - Waris Shah Sukhan Da Waris Directed by Sh. Davinder Daman, Theatre & TV Dept, Punjabi University, Patiala December 10 - Padosan Directed by Priyanka Sharma, Silly Souls, New Delhi December 11 - Advertisement Directed by Priyanka Sharma, Silly Souls, New Delhi The two accused in the Jalandhar police custody. TRIBUNE PHOTO December 17 - EK Stree Ke Kaarname aur Gareeb Nawaz Directed by Sh. D R Ankur Ji, Sambhav, New Delhi December 18 - Dushman MP: Resume post-matric DC inspects proposed ROB site scholarship scheme JALANDHAR, DECEMBER 1 MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary denounced the Centre for stopping the pre-matric scholarship scheme for students belonging to SCs, STs, OBCs and minority communities. Demanding that the government should restore the scheme, MP Chaudhary stated he would raise the matter in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. — TNS Jalandhar, December 1 Deputy Commissioner Jaspreet Singh today visited the site of the PAP bridge, for which there is a proposal to construct a three-lane Railway-Over-Bridge (ROB) to ensure easy access to Amritsar from the local BSF Chowk. Accompanied by officials of the National Highways Authority of India, the Deputy Commissioner, said, “The improvement of the PAP junction is being contemplated to ease traffic congestion.” The Deputy Commission- c m y b er said the new ROB will be constructed on the road leading to PAP from the BSF Chowk, to curb traffic congestion. The construction of new Jalandhar bypass had already been proposed and tenders were floated. — TNS Directed by Sh. Kewal Dhaliwal Ji, Manch Rangmanch , Amritsar December 23 - Lockdown - Ek prem Kahani Directed by Sh. Lakha Lehri, Sarthak Rangmanch, Patiala December 26 - Shaheedsaaz Directed by Sh. Vijay Singh, New Delhi December 27 - Bobby Breaker Directed by Ms. Geeta Aggarwal Sharma, Dharohar, Yamunanagar December 30 - ChidiyaGhar Directed by Ankur Sharma, YUVAA Theatre, Jalandhar at K.L. Saigal Hall, Jalandhar