Amritsar
HELPAGE INDIA PROGRAMME: Helpage India and the All India Women
Conference (AIWC) here jointly held the 7th annual ‘adopt a granny programme’ on Thursday. As many as 88 women above 65 , many of them abandoned were given clothes, dry ration and utility items, according to Maj General Inderjit Dhillon
(retd), Director General. Batala
ADDITIONAL DA SOUGHT: The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Gurdaspur district on Thursday urged Minister Local Government Punjab, Chaudhary Jagjit Singh to give enhanced 6 per cent DA to the regular and retired employees of the Local Government Department Punjab.
Hoshiarpur
ACCIDENT: Mr Jarnail Singh of Bassi Maroof village died on the spot, while his wife Rajwinder Kaur was injured seriously when a car hit their scooter on the Tanda road here on Wednesday.
WOMAN’S BODY FOUND: Body of an unidentified woman was found from near Bahowal choe bridge on Wednesday.
Nawanshahr
PATWARI HELD: The Vigilance Bureau caught revenue patwari, Davinder Pal Singh, when he was taking a bribe of Rs 1000 from Mr Iqbal Singh of Jhander Kalan village for a copy of land record.
HONOURED: The Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust, Dhahan Kaleran, on Wednesday honoured 51 persons of 45 villages for donating wheat for langar for patients and attendants for more than two decades.
SAPLINGS PLANTED: Punjab National Bank here organised ‘vanamahotsava’ here on
Thursday and planted 100 saplings on the occasion.
Pathankot
PROTEST: Taxi drivers marched in procession to protest on Thursday against the enhancement of passenger tax. The demonstrators also burnt an effigy of Himachal Transport Minister G S Bali. Passenger tax has been raised from Rs
3,000 to
Rs 6,000. They also alleged that the police lathi-charged drivers demonstrating peacefully on Wednesday.
Patiala
ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Ekta Welfare Resident’s Society: president — Balbir Singh; senior vice-president — K.K Bhatnagar; vice-president — Ramesh Saini; general secretary — Baljit Singh; joint secretary — Amarjit Singh; cashier — Raj Kumar; and press secretary — Rakesh Kumar. OC
CHARGE TAKEN: Prof S.C Sharma, Head of the Postgraduate Department of English, Government Mohindra College, took over as the President of the Rotary Club here on Friday.
INTERVIEW
: A serialised interview of Harbhajan Mann, a noted Punjabi singer, will
be broadcast from AIR, Patiala on July 27 at 8 pm. This was stated by
the programme in charge Karam Vir Singh here on Thursday.
CAMP:
Pepsu Road Transport Corporation organised a blood donation camp at PRTC
Head Office here on Thursday. On the occasion the employees of PRTC
donated as many as 100 units of blood. The camp was inaugurated by the
Chairman of the PRTC Mr Ved Parkash Gupta.
MEETING: The Punjab
Radical Students Union organised a meeting in protest against the ‘anti-
students’ policies of the state government. Speaking on the occasion
Sukhcharan Preet Singh condemned the massive hike in counselling fee for
MBA, MCA and LLB courses. He added that the varsity was also not
providing proper hostel facilities to the students despite charging
massive fees from them.
RESULT: The result of the entrance test
of MBA and MCA courses conducted by Punjabi University has been declared
and has been made available on the university website:
universitypunjabi.org. The counselling for admission to these courses
would commence from July 27.
New
courses: The Department of
Correspondence Courses Punjabi University, has introduced a number of
new courses including, the Bachelor of Library Science, MA in Sikh
Studies, Diploma in Translation and Gurmat Sangeet Parveshika from this
academic session. Giving this information the Head of the department, Dr
B.S. Khaira said to provide detailed information about these courses a
special bulletin on AIR would be broadcast on July 23 at 6.30 pm. The
interested candidates can also contact at 0175 2282394 or 2280494.
Phagwara
MAN, 2 DAUGHTERS HELD: The police arrested Ms Sunit Rani, a typist in Courts Complex here, her sister Ms Suman and father Bhupinder Lal on the charges of fraud and a breach of trust. Three fake stamps were recovered from Bhupinder Lal.
