Washington August 3:
            United States President Barack Obama has said that the new economic plan of his government focused on making the middle class more secure and the country more competitive so that the jobs and industries of the future were not outsourced to China and India.
“When I took office ...we put forward a new economic plan that rewards hard work instead of greed; responsibility instead of recklessness; focused on making our middle class more secure and our country more competitive in the long run. So that the jobs and industries of the future are not all going to China and India, but are being created right here in the U.S.,” Mr. Obama said.
Mr. Obama raised the pitch of outsourcing of jobs to India and China and gave it a political colour at a fund party raiser in Atlanta in the run up to the crucial-mid term election a few months away in which his Democratic party is anticipated to loose majority in the House of Representatives. “18 months ago, I took office after nearly a decade of economic policies that gave us sluggish growth, falling incomes, a record deficit and policies that culminated in the worst financial crisis that we have seen since the Great Depression,” he said.
A total of 8 million jobs were lost due to great depression, of which 3 million were lost in last six months of 2008, in January 2009, the month I was sworn 750,000 Americans lost their jobs; 600,000 were lost a month later, he added. Mr. Obama said that instead of spending money on tax breaks, his government was making smart investments in innovation, clean energy and education that were going to benefit the people and the US economy over the long run.
“Instead of giving special interests free reign to do whatever they want, we are demanding new accountability from Wall Street to Washington — so that big corporations have to play by the same rules that small businesses and entrepreneurs do,” he said. The U.S. President assured the gathering that it would take some time to dig themselves out from the “such a deep hole” that was created due to the policies of the last decade. He said that instead of losing millions of jobs, his administration has created jobs for six straight months in the private sector.
Asking the people to vote for Democratic Party in the coming elections, he said that as a result of his policies the U.S. economy was expanding instead of contracting, so the last thing we would want to do is go back to what we were doing before. “The choice in this election is whether people want to go forward or to go backwards to the same policies that got the U.S. into this mess in the first place. The choice in this election is between policies that encourage job creation here in America or encourage jobs to go elsewhere.
“That’s why I have said instead of giving tax breaks to corporations that want to ship jobs overseas, we want to give tax breaks to companies that are investing right here in the U.S.,” Mr. Obama said. “They are more interested in the next election than the next generation. And that’s why they can’t have the keys back — because we need somebody who is driving with a vision to the future. That’s what we have been doing over these last 20 months,” he said.
“We are also jumpstarting a home-grown, clean energy industry because I don’t want to see the solar panels and the wind turbines and the biodiesel created in other countries,” he said. “I don’t want China and Germany and Brazil to get the jump on us in the industries of the future. I want to see all that stuff right here in the U.S., with American workers. The investments we have made so far are expected to create 800,000 jobs by 2012,” Mr. Obama said.

Mohali August 3:
            The district administration as well as police in Mohali were on their toes morning when a high-profile corruption case against Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, wife Surinder Kaur Badal, and deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, filed by the vigilance bureau, came up for hearing.
The entire district administration, including among others Mohali deputy commissioner Prabhjot Singh Mand, district planning board chairman NK Sharma, senior police officials like deputy inspector general (Patiala range) SK Asthana, Mohali senior superintendent of police (SSP) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, superintendent of police (SP City-1) Sukhwant Singh Gill, deputy superintendent of police (DSP City-1) Raka Gira, DSP city-2 Swarandeep Singh and Mohali SDM RPS Walia left no stone unturned in preparation for the visit of the chief minister and his son.
Almost all officials waited outside the complex entrance and DC Mand was seen sitting on a chair with SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar standing close to him under a solitary fan. The rest of the officials either stood in the shade wiping their sweaty brows or were resting their perspiring bodies against the walls of the complex, which prompted one advocate to comment that they all seemed to be looking forward to completing their duty at the earliest.
The approach roads to the district courts in Phase 3B1 were barricaded and cordoned off by the police at around 11 am when the father-son duo reached Mohali. The movement of traffic was completely stopped on the main road leading to the market from inside the sector, causing a lot of inconvenience to residents and commuters alike. Even an ambulance had to be turned back. Luckily, the said ambulance was not ferrying a patient at that time.
An irate resident, Kuldeep Kaur, told reporters that since her eight-year-old son had fever, she had to go to the market but had to take the alternate route to the market as the police stationed in front of the district courts just would not let her drive through. She said that although at that time both the chief minister and his son were inside the court complex, yet she was not allowed past the security cordon.
Even advocates working in the district courts were a hassled lot because as soon as the district courts were opened, police security checks were carried out and advocates as well as mediapersons were subjected to frisking. Mohali Bar Association president PS Toor said that the matter was solved amicably when it was brought to the notice of SSP Bhullar, who directed his staff to allow unrestricted passage to advocates to the courts, provided that the advocates showed their identity cards upon demand by the police officials manning the entry points.

Ferozepur August 3:
            The district police achieved a major success after it arrested a Pakistan spy, who had been running business in the highly sensitive cantonment area of this border town for the past two-and-a-half years under the name of Rakesh Kumar and sending information of vital installations to his bosses sitting across the border through emails.
The vital documents, including voter identity card, Pan Card, driving licence and matric certificate issued to him by the PSEB, were seized from him. The other things, which were seized from him included a lap top, a computer, mobile phone sets, Sim cards, pass books of five banks, where the alleged spy was having bank accounts and was carrying out transaction in lakhs every years as he had been receiving money from Dubai, which was being sent to him by a different sender every time.
Not only this, Rakesh Kumar, who entered India from Pakistan in 2007 through the Nepal border, stayed for about six months in Ludhiana and then shifted his base to Ferozepur. He also managed to make a girlfriend. The girlfriend, a divorcee woman from Faridkot, was employed in his business establishment being run under the name of Asian Herbals and has been living with him in a single story accommodation in housing board colony here.
Information gathered by revealed that Rakesh was recruited as resident agent by Pakistan’s ISI through its military intelligence wing. The family members of Rakesh, living in Pakistan, were being paid handsome money every month by the wing. S.P.S. Parmar, district police chief, while talking to media persons, said Rakesh, whose original name was Raja Ullah, son of Abdullah and resident of Chowk Azam, Lahian district of Punjab (Pakistan), was in touch with his bosses in Pakistan through emails. He had been posting all vital information on his email account.
The 23-year-old spy had managed to establish a business in herbal medicine and recruited sales agents. The spy had also been started a business of mobile recharging to make more contact with the people. He had established business in the cantonment area to develop equations with Army personnel

Ludhiana August 2:
With a bunch of contempt petitions pending against Education Department officials in various courts of law, the office of the Director of Public Instructions (Schools) has allowed master-cadre teachers the benefits of pay revision on a par with other categories, including classical and vernacular teachers.
The beneficiaries, many of them represented by successors after their death, had to wait for over 16 months after winning a 20-year-long legal battle to get 43-year-old Kothari Commission’s recommendation implemented in March last year. Though the DPI (Schools) had directed all District Education Officers of the state to send receipts in connection with payment of dues all concerned before August 1, a majority of the beneficiaries are yet to get their long-pending right.
Investigations revealed that the DPI (Schools) had directed all the DEOs of the state to ensure that all master-cadre teachers, in whose favour the Punjab and Haryana court Chandigarh had passed orders on March 24, 2009, should be paid revised salaries with effect from November 1, 1971, instead of July 16, 1975. The petitioners, including Lekh Raj and others, Manmohan Kaur and others, Pritam Chand and others and Raj Kumar Sachdeva and others, had fought the legal battle for 20 years to get disparity between various categories of teachers removed.
After the order, the state government extended the benefit to these teachers in two districts, Amritsar and Ferozepur, but teachers in the rest of the districts had to file contempt petitions in order to get the directions implemented. Unfortunately many died before the implementation of the orders. “Many among us have since died and several are untraceable as they have changed their homes after retirement.
But we are happy that some of us will be able to harvest the fruits of a long legal and administrative battle,” said Lekh Raj, who along with others had filed a contempt petition in the high court. The Kothari Commission had in 1966 recommended the revision after five years.

Chandigarh August 2:
Five persons were killed and three injured when the car in which they were travelling collided head-on with a bus on Ropar-Chandigarh road, police said.
The incident occurred in the morning near Rangilpur village, about 37 km from here, they said, adding the injured had been hospitalised. The bus was state-owned and belonged to Nawanshahr depot, they added.

Chandigarh August 2:
Three Punjabi youths Pradeep Kumar, Kashmiri Lal and Tarlochan Singh, facing death sentence in Sharjah, UAE, for killing their fellow worker Bikramjit Singh in 2008, now have the charge against them dropped.
The Appeal Sharia Court accepted the compromise reached between the family of the victim and the convicts and waived the death sentence. Now, they are no more convicts on the death row but prisoners undergoing sentence for other minor offences.
The case will come up for hearing under civil law on August 23 where sentences for the remaining offences committed by them would be adjudicated. Since they have been in prison since 2008, there are chances of their being let off either on the first hearing or a few hearings later.
Pradeep of Fatehgarhniara village in Hoshiarpur, Kashmiri of Bharsighpura in Nawanshahr and Tarlochan of Sakroli village in Hoshiarpur owe their acquittal from murder charges to a Dubai-based businessman and president of the Punjabi Society of Dubai, S P Singh Oberoi.
Oberoi made a number of visits to India after the Appeal Sharia Court on January 6 this year gave the convicts time to go for a compromise or diya - blood money - with the family of the victim. Pradeep, Kashmiri and Tarlochan had murdered 22-year-old Bikramjit Singh of Dayalbagh in Gurdaspur in 2008. It was a case of bootlegging that led to murder.
“Families of all the three convicts are living in pathetic conditions. They are in heavy debt and have little or no sources of income. They barely manage to sustain themselves. The financial condition of the family of Bikramjit Singh is no better either,” SP Singh Oberoi told reporters after the court had accepted the compromise papers.
Oberoi frequented the families of all three convicts as well as the family of Bikramjit Singh to make the compromise possible. “It required a lot of paper work, including attestation, both from Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India and the Embassy of UAE in India, before the compromise deed was accepted by the court.
“The financial condition of the families of the convicts is so bad that they could not think of contributing even half of the agreed amount of blood money. But I am happy, it has been done and now these three boys will be able to come back home soon and rejoin their families,” added Oberoi.
Oberoi says that besides Anshul Sharma of the Indian Consulate in Dubai, Harvinder Singh, a Sarpanch from Hoshiarpur, Dr Sherry Kahlon of Batala, Gurmukh Singh Sohal of Gurdaspur and Sukhdeep Singh Oberoi of Delhi were a great help in arranging for a compromise and necessary papers in time.
Each document has to be translated in Arabic and then attested by the UAE Embassy in New Delhi before it could be produced before the Sharjah Appeal Sharia court, adds Oberoi.

Sangur August 1:
            Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal cautioned the people not to be influenced by the false propaganda of the Congress party, which was deliberately resorting to cheap tactics to take over the control of SGPC.
Badal, who was addressing a gathering on the 71st martyrdom anniversary of great martyr Shaheed Udham Singh during a State level function organised, Badal dared the Congress not to interfere in the religious matters of SGPC keeping an eye on its forthcoming general elections.
Chief Minister further said that Congress was bent upon to capture the control of SGPC. He said that it was ironical that Congress, claiming to be a party with secular credentials was encroaching upon the jurisdiction of Sikh religious matters. Badal also recalled the derogatory role of Congress Government in Haryana on the issue of having a separate Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee for State at the behest of centre.
Paying the floral tributes to Shaheed Udham Singh, Badal said that the history of Indian freedom movement was replete with saga of numerous sacrifices made by the Punjabis from time immemorial during India’s freedom struggle but it was a matter of great regret that Punjab had never given its due recognition by the Central Government.
Badal said that our freedom fighters and patriots laid down their lives for the betterment of our countrymen. Badal said: “It is a sad plight that the aspirations of our freedom fighters had not yet been cherished because they dreamt of an Independent India free from the maladies of illiteracy, unemployment and starvation.”
He said that these conditions prevailed through out the country and it was extremely shocking to note that even 63 years after independence over 40 per cent Indians live in penury earning less than Rs 60 per day and were bereft of basic necessities of life like housing, clean drinking water, basic health and education facilities.
The Chief Minister urged the Centre to immediately revise the norms under calamity relief fund to compensate the farmers adequately. Badal also mentioned that he had already taken up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to declare the channelisation of river Ghaggar as a national project in Punjab region at a cost of Rs 1,175 crore to save the people of Patiala, Sangrur and Mansa districts from the fury of floods resulting in extensive damage caused to life, property and crops by this seasonal rivulet.
Earlier, in his welcome address local MLA and PWD (B&R) Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa also paid glowing tributes to Shaheed Udham Singh and described him a great martyr.

Amritsar July 31:
            Following the arrest of four youths in Vienna (Austria) who were allegedly planning to attack Dera Radhaswami chief Baba Gurinder Singh, the police here has beefed up security at Dera Beas.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Vienna police had nabbed four persons for hatching a conspiracy to attack Dera Beas chief, who has a great number of followers in India and abroad. Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, SSP, Amritsar, rural police, said a general alert has been sounded after the Vienna incident wherein several persons had been nabbed with arms during religious congregation of the Dera.
“However, the Radhaswami chief already has tight security net, both personal as well as of the Punjab police commandoes”, he said, adding, “We are still waiting for the details of the incident. At this moment we did not know how many persons have been involved.” Baba Gurinder, who is on his scheduled religious tour to European countries, is expected to return in the first week of September.

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