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Closure notice to 300 sawmills, plywood units
Ropar, June 26
The Divisional Forest Department today issued a closure notice to 300 illegal sawmills, veneer and plywood units functioning in the Ropar and Mohali districts following the Supreme Court directions. These units have been functioning in the two districts before October 28, 2002. Earlier the department had issued a notice to 25 sawmills, veneer and plywood units those become operational after October 28, 2002 in these two district.
DC bans digging of wells
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 26
Ms Jaspreet Talwar, Deputy Commissioner, by issuing an order under Section 144 of the CrPC has imposed a ban on digging of wells and digging of earth to further deepen tubewells and motors without the prior written permission of the Executive Engineer, Water Supply and the Sewerage Board.
Fake currency racket busted
Hoshiarpur, June 26
The police has busted a fake currency racket and arrested Pran Nath, alias
Palli, son of Piare Lal of local Shastri Market, Surinder Singh, alias Chhinda, of Bohar High Kalan, PS
Ahmedgar, and Raj Kumar, alias Raju, son of Sat Pal, of Sanchali Bazaar, PS Banga, and registered a case under Sections 489 B, 489 C, 420 and 120 B of the IPC against them at the City Police Station here last evening.
4 youths killed in road mishap
Bathinda, June 26
Four youths were killed in a road mishap on the Goniana-Bajakhana road, near Goniana Khurd village, last night.
According to information, three youths were killed when a scooter allegedly rammed into a tractor-trailer parked on the road, while another scooter-borne youth died when his scooter hit a car whose driver had been witnessing the accident that had taken place between the tractor-trailer and the scooter.
Missing youth found dead
Batala, June 26
The body of a youth of Batala police district who disappeared six days ago under mysterious circumstances has been found in a canal in Amritsar district.
As per reports received here, the deceased, Avtar Singh, a son of Makhan Singh of Thind Dhariwal village on the Qadian road, had gone to a nearby canal six days back with his friends, Major Singh and Gulzar Singh of the same village, but he did not return to his residence.
Cop’s widow found dead
Moga, June 26
Late police officer Gurkirpal Singh’s widow, Jasbir Kaur (55), was found dead at her residence at Badhani Kalan village under mysterious circumstances here today.
According to police sources, Jasbir was living alone at her house and the door of the house had been bolted from inside the past few days.
Jobless ETT teachers hold protest
Ropar, June 26
The local MLA and district Congress president, Mr Ramesh Dutt Sharma, today faced some embarrassing moments when a large number of unemployed ETT teachers, gathered at the Zila Parishad office here to check a list of selected candidates for the post of teachers in primary schools, raised slogans against him when he got a list of selected candidates before it was displayed on the notice board.
Counselling for NRI seats on July 11
Smoothen loan facility, banks told
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 26
Mr Devinder Pal Singh Walia, ADC (D), while presiding over the meeting of standing committee organised by the State Bank of Patiala, today urged the banks to disburse the loans sanctioned under various govt-sponsored schemes with in two weeks positively.
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