Chandigarh, May 07 (PTI) Sandeep Kaur, the daughter of a peon from Morinda in Punjab, has made it to the IAS.
Sandeep is the eldest of her three siblings and attributes her success to her father employed in Morinda sub-tehsil.
Citing her father as her immense source of inspiration behind her success, Sandeep, a civil engineer from Panjab Engineering College, had the sole goal of making it to the IAS.
"I dedicated myself to preparing for the civil services and failure at earlier attempts made me stronger to prepare for the examinations," she says.
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The wheels of fortune turned for Indian-origin candidates in the British elections as a suave 42-year-old Sikh businessman won a parliamentary seat once represented by an MP who promised “rivers of blood” over immigration.
Conservative candidate Paul Uppa ousted his fancied rival, the sitting Labour MP Rob Marris, by a razor-thin margin of 691 votes to take the Wolverhampton Southwest seat.
He was among a record eight Indian-origin candidates — half of them fresh faces — to make to the British parliament.
The city of Wolverhampton, located in west-central England and home to one of the largest Sikhs communities in Britain, became notorious when the local Conservative MP, Enoch Powell, made an infamous speech on immigration on April 20, 1968. “As I look ahead,” said Powell, “I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’”
Powell was sacked as a member of the shadow cabinet after the speech prompted outrage around the world, but as recently as in 2007 a Conservative candidate in the region was forced to stand down after claiming Powell was “right” when he gave his anti-immigration speech.
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A pregnant newlywed was found hanged and burned with a forged suicide note beside her, a UK inquest has heard.
Firefighters discovered Kuldeep Kaur Sidhu with a rope around her neck after being called to her house in Birmingham in May 2008.
The fake suicide note, believed to be written by her killer or killers, accused her husband of having an affair, the Daily Mail reports.
Birmingham Coroner’s Court heard that her husband’s Sikh family was unhappy about their marriage six months earlier because Mrs Sidhu was from a lower caste.
But husband Baljinder Sidhu denied any affair and insisted they were a happy couple who were trying for a baby.
A post-mortem later revealed the 25-year-old nursery nurse was six weeks’ pregnant.
The handwritten note found beside her charred body claimed Mrs Sidhu faced "living hell" because of her husband's alleged infidelity.
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The Guru Nanak Gurdwara in High Street is one of the oldest temples in the country, and the project will see it almost double in size, with an 800-seater dining room, a wedding hall, a lecture theatre and classrooms.
There will also be living accommodation for around four priests, along with a roof garden.
The Prince’s Cinema was pulled down last year, leaving a gaping hole in the skyline along the High Street.
Surinder Buray, from Reade Buray Associates, the company designing and project managing the build, has submitted a planning application, which is pending consideration.
He said: “The building was the Princes Theatre in the early 19th century, then it was turned into a cinema. The owners of the Sikh temple next door bought it. It was demolished last year. It will be used by the temple and also as a community venue.”
If approved it is hoped work will start next year and is expected to be completed in two phases, as funding becomes available.
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Moga, Punjab: A debt-ridden septuagenarian farmer allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a goods train near railway station at Moga late last night. His body was recovered by the railway police this morning.
Jagjit Singh, son of the deceased farmer identified as Saggar Singh, resident of Raunta village of Nihal Singh Wala subdivision, in a statement recorded before the railway police, alleged that his father had committed suicide after an arhtiya Jagat Singh tried to take possession of their agricultural land last morning.
The upset old man left the house this morning, went to Moga, 40-km from his village, and committed suicide by jumping before a goods train, the son said. The body was later taken to the district hospital for a post-mortem examination.
Jagjit further said his father had taken a loan of Rs 1.5 lakh from the arhtiya a few years back by signing on blank “pronote” paper.
The arhtiya compounded the interest at a heavy rate, making the total to Rs 7 lakh, which his father could not repay, he said.
Adding that his father had repaid some of the total amount but he did not know the exact figures, the son added in his statement.
Reacting to his statement, head constable Karamjit Singh, in charge of the railway police post, conducted a preliminary inquiry into it and recommended the registration of a criminal case against the arhtiya to the railway police station at Faridkot.
Later, in the evening, the railway police had registered a criminal case under Sections 306, 148 and 59 of the IPC at Faridkot against the arhtiya on charges of forcing the old farmer to suicide.
However, no arrest has been made when the news report was filed.
Every year before the harvest, small farmers of Punjab, who make up nearly 85 per cent of the state’s farming community, borrow money at exorbitant interest rates to meet the production costs and family needs. During the time of harvest, these money lenders exert pressure on the debt-ridden farmers to either sell their produce to them or pay back the money with interest.
The basic reason of this problem is the lack of access to credit, a facility practically denied by banks to farmers having no or less property.
Therefore, farmers had to approach rural money lenders who charge exorbitant rates of interest ranging from 2.5 per cent to even 5 per cent per month.
The situation has become so worse in the remote areas of Punjab that about 15 per cent of marginal and small farmers had left farming over the past few years.
Jagjit said his father was not educated, so he could not calculate the amount of loan and once it reached Rs 7 lakh, he was publicly threatened by the money lender, forcing him to commit suicide.
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