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Visit: The three day visit of 15 officers from the National Defence College concluded here on Friday. During their stay, the team comprising Army, Air Force, IAS and IRS officers studied various development aspects of the city. They visited the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh and witnessed the Retreat
ceremony at the Wagah border. KAR SEVA: Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah participated in the ‘kar seva’ of tank of the Golden Temple, here on Saturday. After visiting ailing SPGC chief, Gurcharan Singh Tohra at Escorts Hospital, Mr Abdullah went to the Golden Temple to pay obeisance. He was accompanied by Mr Manjit Singh Calcutta, Mr Dilmegh Singh — both secretaries of the SGPC Mr Ranbir Singh, personal assistant to Mr Tohra and Mr Major Singh, manager Golden Temple. He was also honoured in the Information office of the Golden Temple. Capt Amarinder Singh is likely to visit the Golden Temple on Monday. Inaugurated: The chairman of the Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology, Mr
H.L. Sharma, inaugurated an extension counter of the Oriental Bank of Commerce on the college campus near Mannawala here on Friday. The Deputy General Manager of the bank, Mr Jasbir Singh, said the bank have added another branch for providing banking services to students of the college at their doorstep. MEDICAL CAMP: As many as 1,100 patients were examined at a free medical camp organised by 123 Battalion BSF at the border village of Dal on Friday. Inaugurated by the DIG, BSF, Mr Hemant
Purohit, the camp was coordinated by Dr E.K. James of SHQ BSF and Dr S.K.
Sakya, senior medical officer, 123 Battalion BSF, with specialists from Guru Nanak Dev Hospital. Batala
DEGREES CONFERRED: An annual prize distribution function-cum-convocation of
S.L. Bawa D.A.V. College was held here on Saturday on the college campus. Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, Public Works Minister, was the chief guest. Giving away prizes to winners in academic, sports and other extra-curricular activities, he praised the role of DAV institutions in imparting quality education. Later, degrees were conferred upon as many as 170-students, by the minister. Mr
V.K. Bhatia, Principal of the College, read out the annual report of the college. Jalandhar
Fire: A fire at Bombay Purse House, Shekihan Bazar, damaged stock and the building here on Friday. According to Fire Brigade officials, exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained. It took them around two hours to control the fire. Eye
camp: As many as 300 ex-servicemen were screened during the first day of seven-day eye camp organised by Vajra Corps at Military Hospital near here on Friday. Earlier, Lieut-Gen S.
Pattaribhraman, GoC-in-C, Vajra Corps, formally inaugurated the camp, which would conclude on April 1. Brig P.K.
Bhuyan, Commandant, Military Hospital, said during the first phase of the camp, the patients would be screened for treatment while in the second phase from March 28 to April 1, identified patients would be provided operative and post-operative care. The patients would be provided free spectacles,
intra-occular lenses and medicines at the camp, he added.
KHANNA
SEMINAR: The local Unit of the Indian Institute of Homoeopathic Physicians (IIHP) will organise one-day audio-video workshop-cum-seminar on treatment and management of tuberculosis on Sunday at Shiv Ashram Khanna. Dr K.K. Goel, MBBS, M.F. Homoeo (London) Project director, multi-drug resistant TB, will be guest speaker. Dr Rajesh Rattan, president of the IIHP Khanna unit said in a press note that Dr P.S. Ranu, chairman, Punjab Homoeopathic Council would be the chief guest. Dr T.P. Singh, Dean (Homoeopathy) Baba Farid University of Medical Sciences, would preside over the function. More than 150 delegates from all over India would attend the seminar, he added.LUDHIANA
COUNSELLING: The ongoing seminar in DAV Public School by Dr Ashok Sahni, Professor and Honorary Executive Director, Indian Society of Health Administrators, Bangalore, entered the second day on Friday. A separate session for parents of schoolchildren was also organised on Thursday evening. Dr Sahni will also address the school students in the evening today and will listen to their problems. Dr Sahni, in his lecture, said the people should be taught how to change their attitudes and for this purpose counselling sessions were must. STITCHING CENTRE OPENS: Sadbhavna Society, an NGO opened a free stitching training centre at Sattowal village. Dr A.K. Banerjee, surgeon and president, Sadbhavna Society, said the society was working for the economic uplift of the rural poor and downtrodden. He said similar income-generation activities would be opened in other villages also.
PATIALA
GOLD STOLEN: Robbers decamped with 1.25 kg of gold, valued at around Rs 6 lakh, from a shop in Adalat Bazar here on Friday night. The robbers forced their way into the shop — Ram Singh Manmohan Singh — after breaching one of its walls. A case was registered. SEMINAR CONCLUDES: A two-day national seminar on intellectual property rights organised by the School of Management and Social Sciences of the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) concluded here on Saturday. Sixty delegates from all over the country participated in the seminar.
Phagwara
PO nabbed: The police nabbed a woman proclaimed offender, Mehingi, on Friday. Sources said Mehingi and her husband, Giri, were wanted in connection with recovery of 12 bags of poppy husk from their house at Sunra Rajputan village last year. She was later arrested. When as an undertrial she was being taken from Jalandhar jail to Kapurthala court, she gave a slip to the police near Kapurthala court. Tarn Taran
Dharna: PSEB employees on Friday staged a dharna here in protest against the anti-employees’ policies of the board management under the banner of the PSEB Employees’ Joint Forum, which comprises AITUC, TSU, PSEB Employees’ Federation Karamchari Dal and the
MSU.
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