Report Wire

Tag: Ludhiana news

  • Punjab: 20-year outdated boxer dies of drug overdose

    The 2018 Junior Nationals silver medallist and 2018 Khelo India Youth Games bronze medalist Punjab boxer 20-year-old Kuldeep Singh died allegedly of drug overdose at his hometown Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district in Punjab on Wednesday night. The boxer was discovered unconscious on Rama street within the city and was pronounced lifeless when he was taken to a neighborhood hospital. The household of the boxer alleged that some village youths had forcibly taken Kuldeep Singh on Wednesday afternoon and that the locals later knowledgeable them about him mendacity unconscious on the street.

    “Sada tan boxer putt sanu chad gaya. Ohne tan competition jana siga agle mahine (Our boxer son has left us. He was supposed to compete in a competition next month). Some local youth took him by force along with him after his college classes and we were informed later that he was found unconscious. Later, when we reached the hospital, doctors told us that he had died of drug overdose. He was given injections by the local youth and we are hopeful that the postmortem report will clear things,” stated Kuldeep’s elder brother Mela Singh, who runs a saloon within the city.

    “We have filed a FIR number 135 and under IPC 304 against six youth, who made Kuldeep take drugs,” the Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI) Dhararmvir Singh advised The Indian Express.

    Third youngest of 4 siblings, Singh had began boxing on the age of 8 on the Baba Ajit Singh Boxing Welfare Club, Talwandi Sabo beneath the coach Hardeep Singh. The teen first received the title within the faculty nationals at Dehradun in 2017 earlier than repeating the feat subsequent yr in Guwahati. The similar yr, Singh would win a silver medal within the BFI Junior National Boxing Championship held at Mohali aside from a bronze medal within the Khelo India Games at New Delhi. He could be chosen to coach on the Punjab Institute of Sports (PIS) Mohali put up his feat.

     

    Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI) Dhararmvir Singh advised The Indian Express {that a} FIR quantity 135 and beneath IPC 304 had been filed in opposition to six youth, who made Kuldeep take medicine. (Express picture)

    The teen had been coaching at Mohali earlier than shifting his base again to Talwandi Sabo three months in the past. “Kuldeep had started the sport after he saw a local youngster boxing and would come with his father to train. He would never miss any training session and was very happy when he won the silver in junior nationals and with his selection in PIS,” stated the coach Hardeep Singh.

    The coach too laid the identical allegation because the household about some unhealthy components within the village.

    “He was approached by the same set of youth and was given doses of heroin (Chitta) by them. He had to be admitted to a local hospital. Post that, he had started training again with me and would come for practice daily. Yesterday, he was taken by the same set of youths and when we saw his dead body, we saw more than 50 syringe marks. He did not have any syringe marks earlier; how is it possible that it can be done by him?,” stated the coach Hardeep Singh.

    ASI Dharamvir Singh, who’s investigating the case, stated Talwandi Sabo Police has filed an FIR in opposition to six folks. “Kuldeep Singh had been admitted to a local hospital two and half months ago and was released after treatment for drugs. Yesterday, he went with some youth to the Rama road near the city and we got a call from locals that a body was found. We sent an unconscious Kuldeep to the local hospital and doctors declared him dead at 8.10 pm. Postmortem was conducted today and the report will come later,” the ASI stated.

  • Riding on direct cost, Punjab wheat procurement hits new excessive

    In the midst of the second coronavirus surge and the agitation by farmers in opposition to agricultural legal guidelines that has been now on for 5 months, Punjab has surpassed all earlier information in wheat procurement for the rabi season.
    Government businesses have procured 132.08 lakh metric tonnes of wheat, 2 lakh metric tonnes greater than the goal set by the state, with greater than 9 lakh farmers receiving over Rs 23,000 crore straight into their financial institution accounts. It was the primary time in Punjab that farmers have been paid straight as an alternative of by arhtiyas or middlemen.
    At 34 days, this rabi advertising season, that started on April 10 and ended Thursday, was 12 days shorter than final yr.

    Food Corporation of India information present that that is the best wheat procurement in Punjab’s historical past. The quantity was underneath 100 lakh metrict tonnes until 2009-10. At over 9 lakh, the variety of farmers who got here with their grain to mandis this yr can be increased than the determine of 8.8 lakh final yr.
    While the procurement was lesser within the Malwa area, the epicentre of the farmers’ agitation, the soar in Doaba and Majha made up for it. In reality, the districts that noticed lesser procurement in comparison with final yr barely outnumbered those who noticed increased.
    Incidentally, the upper procurement was regardless of a barely lesser yield. While the climate was largely beneficial, an unusually heat March meant the common was 49 quintals per hectare in comparison with 50.04 per hectare final yr.
    Ravi Bhagat, Director, Department of Punjab Food Supply and Consumer Affairs, mentioned direct cost into the accounts was one of many foremost causes for this. “The government has registered farmers on the Anaj Kharid portal and the money was credited into their accounts, not those of arhtiyas… Punjab has also become the first state where the J form that carries the details about the crop a farmer sells to the government is included in the Digilocker. He is not dependent on a middleman for getting the J form.”

    Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda) chief Jagmohan Singh additionally mentioned that one of many essential causes extra wheat got here to mandis was direct cost of MSP into accounts, which meant farmers went there as an alternative of to flour millers.
    A Punjab Mandi Board official mentioned the opposite motive was that farmers sitting on dharna additionally needed to benefit from the MSP (Rs 1,975 per quintal), believing it could not final. According to him, extra wheat additionally landed in authorities mandis as a consequence of lesser non-public gamers available in the market as a consequence of Covid.
    One such farmer, Gurdip Singh of village Chak Kalan close to Jagraon in Ludhiana district, mentioned he had sown wheat on 20 acres and bought round 400 quintals for Rs 8 lakh. “I am very happy with this system with money coming directly. I sold my entire crop to government agencies as the MSP was also better this time.”
    Eight massive wheat-contributing districts, all in Malwa area, noticed procurement fall this yr, together with Sangrur, Muktsar Sahib, Moga, Mansa, Fazilka, Faridkot, Barnala and Bathinda. However, procurement rose sharply in Doaba area’s Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala districts; and Majha’s Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Tarn Taran districts.
    With round 35 lakh hectares devoted to wheat cultivation, Punjab produces round 17-18 million tonnes wheat yearly, with farmers bringing roughly 75% of it to mandis.

  • Portable trolley in Ludhiana crematorium to ease house crunch

    As a number of crematoriums wrestle to deal with useless our bodies arriving at a daunting tempo, a Ludhiana-based industrialist has provide you with a transportable trolley which can be utilized to cremate three our bodies in a day.
    This movable trolley, made from iron body and hearth bricks, was first used Wednesday at Dholewal crematorium managed by Ramgarhia Educational Council.
    Ranjodh Singh, chairman of this council, mentioned: “Our crematorium ground can cremate 7 bodies at a time. However, these days on an average 10-12 cremations are happening. On Tuesday, we cremated 17 bodies. So, I thought of making this portable trolley which is on wheels and can be moved at any place in the ground.”
    He added, “The bed of trolley is made of silica sand fire bricks which can bear temperature up to 1600 degrees Celsius, because of iron rods on all the four corners of this trolley, usage of wood is also reduced.”

  • Ludhiana constructing collapse: 36 employees rescued, 4 feared trapped

    A manufacturing unit constructing collapsed in Mukund Nagar on Daba street of Ludhiana Monday.
    The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and police groups rescued 36 employees. At least 4 are suspected to be trapped.

    Varinder Sharma, DC, Ludhiana stated there was up to now no casualty within the incident.
    More particulars awaited.

  • 100 years of Sahir Ludhianvi: Not a pal do pal ka shayar

    ‘Quran na ho jisme wo mandir nahi tera, Geeta na ho jisme wo haram nahi tera… Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan ki aulaad hai, insaan banega’ – Dhool Ka Phool (1959)
    Beyond love and romance, patriotism and empathy that mirrored in his timeless nazms and writings, a hidden gem within the works of shaayar Sahir Ludhianvi, who turns 100 on March 8, was his unparalleled pitch for an egalitarian society, the place not the religions however humanity was revered, above all.
    Born as Abdul Hayee on March 8, 1921, in Ludhiana of undivided Punjab, Sahir Ludhianvi via his writings echoed his perception of ‘One God’, irrespective of individuals worshipping him as ‘Ram’ or ‘Rahim’.

    More than 40 years after his passing, these treasures of his writings stay unparalleled nonetheless and he wrote: ‘Kaabe mein raho ya Kaashi mein, nisbat to ussi ki zaat se hai, Tum Ram kaho ya Rahim kaho, matlab to ussi ki baat se hai’ ; ‘Ishwar allah tere naam, sabko sanmanti de bhagwan, saara jagat teri santaan.. koi neech na koi mahaan… janam ka koi mol nahi… karam se hai sabki pehchaan..’
    Veteran Urdu poet and author Kewal Dheer (83), writer of the e book ‘Daastan-e-Sahir’, says, “Beyond the magic of his romantic and patriotic poetry and lyrics, what individuals typically neglect is what he wrote about a perfect society. He was a born Muslim however for him Ram and Rahim have been one, he noticed God as one and he revered people, not the religions. That’s the thoughts and coronary heart from the place he wrote lyrics corresponding to ‘Sansaar se bhaagte phirte ho, bhagwan ko tum kya paoge….iss lok ko bhi apna na sake uss lok mein bhi pachtaoge… ye paap hai kya ye punya hai kya, reeton par dharm ki mohrein hain… har yug mein badalte dharmon ko kaise aadarsh banaoge…’
    Sahir accomplished his education from Khalsa High School in Ludhiana, and after separation of his dad and mom, he was residing along with his mom and maternal uncle. He then acquired admission at SCD Government College, Ludhiana, in arts stream, and a duplicate of his admission type (along with his signatures), which the faculty has now preserved as an illustrious doc, reveals that his curiosity was in 5 topics — English, Persian, philosophy, Urdu and historical past — and his hobbies have been ‘cricket’ and ‘photography’. Reinforcing the truth that expertise issues greater than the marks on the report card, Sahir’s admission type signifies that he wasn’t a superb pupil academically and had cleared matriculation in ‘second division’.
    And at this time, for Ludhiana’s SCD College, its ‘expelled’ pupil is their most celebrated alumnus. The campus buzzes with the immortal reminiscences of its shaayar pupil — his outdated group {photograph} hanged within the hall, his not-so illustrious marksheets preserved in magazines, an auditorium and a botanical backyard ‘Gulistan-e-Sahir’ devoted in his title.
    According to principal Dharam Singh Sandhu, Sahir was an arts stream pupil in school from 1939-41 however had spent solely two years in faculty, and left when his commencement was nonetheless incomplete. “There was an era in Hindi film industry when not a single film came which did not have Sahir’s lyrics. Though he could not complete graduation from our college and left after two years, we are proud of his association with our college. This shows that more than the marks on the report card, it is the talent and passion of a student that matters. He wasn’t a brilliant student academically but entire world knows him today…”
    The story goes that Sahir was expelled from faculty for having an affair with a woman, Ishar Kaur, and sitting on the faculty lawns together with her, a lot to the disagreement of principal ACC Hervey, a British man.
    But Kewal Dheer disagrees and says that he was not expelled however “asked to leave”. Another story means that he was requested to go away the faculty throughout his second 12 months of commencement as a result of his poems in opposition to British rule irked the authorities.
    Dheer provides that earlier than Ishar Kaur, there was one other girl, Prem Chaudhri, whom Sahir beloved and he or she was his classmate. “She had died due to tuberculosis and Sahir was heartbroken. He loved her,” Dheer says.
    He was awarded Padma Shri in 1971.
    He was nearly a loner when he died in Mumbai on October 25, 1980, after a cardiac arrest, says Dheer. “After his mom’s demise, his ingesting and smoking downside had elevated, “ Dheer says.
    But one one who was probably the most heartbroken after Sahir’s demise was one other artistic genius of Punjab — author Amrita Pritam, who was head over heels in love with him.
    In Sahir’s timeless nazm, which he had written for Amrita, he wrote…’Wo afsaana jise anjaam tak laana na ho mumkin, usey ik khoobsurat modh dekar chodna achha..’, indicating that in all probability for Sahir, his affair with Amrita was a ‘beautiful journey but without a destination’.
    Amrita, however, was madly and deeply in love with Sahir. Her works — Sunehray (Messages), Dil Diyaan Galiyaan (Lanes of my coronary heart), Aakhari Khat (The Last Letter), and her autobiography Raseedi Ticket — spoke of how madly she beloved him.
    And when in 1980, Amrita acquired to find out about Sahir’s dying, breaking into tears, she mentioned, ‘Ajj main apne dil de dariya vich, main apne phul pravaahe ne…’ (Today, in my coronary heart, I’ve cremated myself too).
    Sahir’s musical classics which stay immortal within the Hindi movie trade until at this time embrace: ‘Main Zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya..’, ‘Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khyaal aata hai’, ‘Abhi na jao chod kar ki dil abhi bhara nahi..’, ‘Main pal do pal ka shayar hun’, and ‘Tum agar saath dene ka waada karo.’
    Among his classics that shook the soul of the nation, elevating voice in opposition to the institution and demanding a society the place poor and downtrodden are handled equally, have been the lyrics that he penned for movie Pyaasa (1957): ‘Ye koochey ye nilaamghar dilkashi ke, ye lut tey huye karwaan zindagi ke.. kahaan hain, kahaan hai, muhafiz khudi ke, jihne naaz hai Hind par wo kahaan hain?’ And ‘Ye mehlon, ye takhton, ye taajon ki dunia, ye insaan ke dushman samaajon ki dunia, ye daulat ke bhookhey riwaazon ki dunia, ye dunia agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai…’

    His works additionally spoke boldly of girls’s oppression in society and inequality she faces all through life. For the movie ‘Sadhna’ (1958), he wrote that it’s a girl who provides start to a person however what he does to her is shameful. He ‘sells’ her, takes pleasure from her after which humiliates her. ‘Aurat ne janam dia mardon ko, mardon ne usey baazar dia… jab jee chaaha masla kuchla, jab jee chaaha dutkaar dia… mardon ke liye har zulm rava, aurat ke liye rona bhi khata. Mardon ke liye har aish ka haq, aurat ke liye jeena bhi saza..’
    Knowing nicely of how issues change when curtains fall on the play referred to as life, Sahir wrote, ‘..Kal tumse juda ho jaunga, wo aaj tumhara hissa hoon… main pal do pal ka shayar hoon, pal do pal meri kahaani hai..’

  • Teacher dies of Covid in Punjab

    A instructor from a authorities faculty at Ghalib Kalan village in Ludhiana died of Covid-19 at a hospital on Saturday.
    Sohan Singh, principal of the college, stated Tejinder Kaur, 40, was admitted to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital after her situation deteriorated some days in the past.
    The principal stated until now a complete of 12 academics and three college students from the college have examined constructive for Covid-19.