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Chandigarh: The city police and the Punjab police are at loggerhead over the withdrawal of security personnel working under the jurisdiction of one another.

While the Chandigarh police wants to withdraw around 20 securitymen attached with the security setup of Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal, the Punjab police has retaliated by claiming that it will be forced to withdraw the security reserves it has attached and kept at the disposal of the Chandigarh police for managing protests and those providing security to subjects of Chandigarh police.

It all started a few days ago when the Chandigarh police wanted back a group of securitymen of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police at the Sector-9 private residence of the Badal family and some others of the Chandigarh police also attached with the family.

The ITBP men were originally attached with the Chandigarh police for security duty but were sent to the security setup of the Punjab chief minister.

A handful of policemen of the Chandigarh police had been with the Badal family for years even when the family was out of power.
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School expels 14 drivers

Chandigarh: The safety of students of Ryan International School, Sector 49, was today “compromised” when the authorities handed over the school buses to conductors having no experience of driving.

It all began this afternoon when the school authorities expelled 14 drivers following an internal disagreement.

If these drivers are to be believed, it is the security of children which has been put to risk by allowing “unskilled” persons to drive the buses.

“Conductors who do not possess valid driving licenses drove the buses today,” alleged Varinder Singh, one of the expelled drivers.

Though the transport in charge of the school, Naveen Kiran, denied these allegations, he could not produce the day’s duty chart of the bus drivers. “Today’s duty chart has not been prepared yet, but we can show it later,” was his reply.

The authorities claimed that they had dismissed only two drivers — Rajinder Singh and Jasbir Singh — as they were “negligent” in performing their duties. “The others declined to perform their duties this morning to express their solidarity with the two,” said Gurdeep Singh Walia, transport contractor.
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CHANDIGARH: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address a public rally organised by the Forests and Tourism Minister Kiran Choudhary on Wednesday, to mark the birth anniversary of former minister Surender Singh, who was the husband of Kiran Choudhary.

Though, the forest minister categorically claimed the rally to be yet another effort at displaying state’s solidarity with the party and their inveterate faith in the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, but if one goes by timing, occasion and political situation within the party as well as the state, it categorically hints towards Choudhary’s attempt of hitting three birds with one stone.

A formal induction of Shruti Choudhary, former chief minister’s grand-daughter and Kiran Choudhary’s daughter into the state politics as Rahul Gandhi’s lieutenant, an attempt to retain the cadres of Haryana Vikas Party (HVP) with the party and of course a show of Kiran Choudhary’s political strength during Smriti Rally to be organized at Bhim Stadium, Bhiwani.

And, the way the rally is planned, Shruti could be projected as an alternative to Bhiwani parliamentary constituency, currently represented by the warring MP, Kuldeep Bishnoi. Similarly, the rally is also considered to perform a check on Bishnoi’s rally scheduled to be held on December 2.
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Chandigarh: Blaze Flash Couriers Private Limited, a courier service company, has been directed by the District Consumer Forum to pay a compensation of Rs 30,000, along with the cost of the goods misplaced by it, to a complainant. It has also been directed to pay litigation cost of Rs 2,100 to the complainant.

According to Gurdev Singh, the complainant, a Ghaziabad-based company had placed an order for electronic parts with it. These were accordingly manufactured and sent through Eden Services, Mohali, and Blaze Flash Couriers Private Limited, Sector 17 C, to the company’s address in Ghaziabad. However, the parcel did not reach the destination and when Gurdev Singh took up the matter with the courier service he could not get any positive reply. Thereafter, he again booked a parcel through them which also did not reach Ghaziabad. Gurdev held that the parcel was to be exported to Germany as a pilot lot after inspection of the material at the Ghaziabad company. He alleged that owing to the deficient service by the courier service he had suffered loss on a possible export order.

Source: ENS