The woman has been identified as Sunita. The incident happened when Smita, wife of Tajinder Kumar from Sahib Singh Nagar. She was here for some work. She took an auto rickshaw from Punjabi University and there were three other women who sat with her in the auto rickshaw. Smita got down at Purani Chungi and when she opened her purse to pay the auto rickshaw driver, she saw that the money had been flicked.

The moment she looked at her co-passengers, they started to flee. As soon as she raised an alarm, one of the three women, Sunita was caught by the people. When she was searched, the money that was flicked was found. Smita got her money back and she left.

More than 350 artists from 18 states will display their creations. As many as 160 stalls will be set up. Though the mela will begin on October 11, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will formally inaugurate it on October 12.

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According to the FIR, the accused Major Khan, his wife Soni and brother Mustaq Khan, residents of village Akrhi in Fatehgarh Sahib, allegedly accepted Rs 2.25 lakh from a few applicants interested in getting a job in the university. The FIR further states that an unidentified clerk from the university was providing the accused with inside information and was instrumental in proving to the victims that the accused had a say in the university.

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Dean (Colleges), Punjabi University, Dr JA Khan informed that these colleges have been constituted under a collaborative scheme of the Central and state government. He informed that according to a survey conducted at the Central level, as many as 374 districts have been identified throughout India for such colleges because the Gross Enrolment Ratio of these districts in terms of higher education is less than the National Enrolment Ratio.

Sania Setia won the second position in the university examination while Heena Singla bagged the third  position followed by Novjot Kaur Ghuman who got the sixth position, Aninditya Kaur who got the seventh position and Jappan Sharma with

 ninth position.

Dr Sukhwinder Singh, Vice-Chairman of Gian Sagar Educational and Charitable Trust, said the good showing by the students of the Gian Sagar Dental College in the university examination was indicative of the high academic standards that the college had set for itself. He said that the credit for this was shared equally by the students and the faculty of the college.

Harnam Singh, President of the Gian Sagar Educational and Charitable Trust, said that the Gian Sagar Dental College and Hospital students had done the institution proud by bagging top honors in the university examination.

Dr A. S. Sekhon, Dean of the Gian Sagar Group of Colleges, hoped that the students of the Gian Sagar colleges would achieve even better academic excellence and the Gian Sagar would become

synonymous with brilliance.

The doping scandal in Indian athletics took yet another disastrous turn with the ‘B’ sample of Juana Murmu, Sini Jose and Tiana Mary bringing major disappointment to not only the athletes, but entire sports fraternity.

India’s sports ministry has sacked four officials at its Patiala training centre as part of an investigation into an embarrassing doping scandal.

The dismissals follow the sacking of a Ukrainian track and field coach on Tuesday after eight athletes tested positive for banned anabolic steroids.

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) had conducted raids in the rooms and hostels of athletes, officials and coaches in Patiala and Bangalore as part of the investigation, local media reported on Thursday.

“Two SAI officials attached with the athletes training programme, and other two women officials of the elite sports women’s hostel have also been removed,” SAI said in a statement.

A report had also been lodged with the local police in Patiala to initiate action against local chemists selling banned drugs, the statement added.

Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal said some athletes had told her that they knowingly took banned substances. “I know many athletes and weightlifters who themselves told me that ‘we take it’,'” local media quoted Nehwal as saying at a promotional event in Mumbai late on Wednesday.

“It’s really sad they don’t know what they are taking. I’m sure everyone knows WADA rules. They’re very simple to follow. They have a website which has a list of all the banned medicines and the ones that can be used,” she added.

Having apparently learnt a lesson the hard way after the doping scandal, the Sports Authority of India is mulling on having a regulatory body that will closely monitor athletes whose performance graph improves radically in a short span of time for possible use of performance enhancing drugs.

“It is a cause of concern. From now on, we would be more vigilant and keep a watch on those athletes whose performance level improves a lot in a short span of time,” SAI Director General Desh Deepak Verma told reporters.

Verma, however, sidestepped the issue about SAI and AFI’s fetish for appointing coaches from the erstwhile Soviet block countries like Belarus and Ukraine which have long been known as the hub for “systematic doping and masking”.

“It’s unfair to blame a particular country for this. What we can do from now on is to thoroughly check the credentials of coaches who are being appointed. If we find that a certain coach has his wards regularly being caught for doping, then we won’t go ahead with the appointment,” he said.

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The Punjab government today sent a proposal to Union Government seeking approval for organizing 5th ‘Arogya Mela’ in Patiala since Punjab has become first state in the country, that has already held four successful Arogya Mela’s. Disclosing this here, Health Minister Mr. Satpal Gosain said that state government was fully determined to promote treatment through Ayurved vis-à-vis Allopathy through Arogya Mela’s. He said that earlier Amritsar, Ludhiana and Bathinda had witnessed a massive response to such Arogya Mela’s while now the state has decided to organize 5th Mela at Patiala. Mr. Gosain said that center has praised the initiatives of Punjab government to promote Ayurveda by holding Arogya Mela’s, which also promotes the techniques of AYUSH including Ayurved, Greek, Yoga, Naturepathy and Homeopathy. He said that the aim of such mela’s was to encourage the people towards treatment through Ayurved and state governments was fully responsible to achieve the task during this center sponsored events of health care. Meanwhile, Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare, Mr. Satish Chandra said that Punjab has finalized all the preparation regarding Arogya Mela’s. He said that 5th Mela would be conducted at Patiala immediate after receiving nod from Union Government.

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Punjabi University, Patiala, has announced the date of entrance test to PhD.The test will be conducted on July 30. Students, who cleared the exam last year, have not been allotted seats so far. Last year also, many students, who cleared the exam, had to return empty handed, as university did not have seats.

Students are perturbed over the university’s decision. They said the university should either accommodate those students or exempt them from taking the test every year.
“This causes problem, as it takes three years for a student to finish his or her research. Whereas the test is valid for a year. Taking test again and again is wastage of time and money.

 If the university cannot accommodate all students, it should at least form a rule that students who have cleared the exam should not take the test again. Anyone, who clears an entrance test, can apply for a seat whenever its vacant,” said one of the students.

Chandan Singh, Dean, research, said the test would be valid for one year. “In case students don’t get seats and one year passes, they will have to take the test again,” he added.
When questioned about the students who did not get seats last year, Chandan Singh said the university could not help it.

He said, “University professors can guide only limited number of students and we don’t ensure that everyone who clears the test would get a seat. We tried our level best to accommodate maximum number of students.”

Sources in the university said keeping in view the number of students, who had cleared the entrance test last year, the university authorities had requested professors in various affiliated colleges to give admission to students, but the response was not good.