Snatching: Kulwinder Kumar, a resident of Paras Ram Nagar, reported to the police alleging that Harbhajan Singh of Phus Mandi and Harbhajan Singh of Hazura Kapura Colony here snatched Rs 4,000 and a mobile phone from his possession on Monday. The Police has arrested the accused.
Molestation: Jagga Singh lodged a complaint with the Sangat police alleging that Deepa Singh and Karamjit Singh, both residents of Jassi Bag Wali village, entered his house on the Monday night and molested his daughter. The police sources said the girl was sleeping with her family members when the accused entered the house and committed the crime.
Victory: Sachin of DPS Rohtak scored 39 runs and guided the team to victory defeating DPS Hissar by 84 runs on the second day of Inter DPS North Zone I (under-14) cricket matches. In the second match that was played at the Government Rajindra College, DPS Jammu thrashed DPS Palval by 90 runs. While in the third match between DPS Srinagar and DPS Amritsar, the latter won by 111 runs. A total of three matches were played on the day at two venues, Govt Rajindra College and DPS Bathinda.
4 injured: Four persons were injured in a road mishap between a car and truck, at Bathinda-Malout road near a cement factory here this morning. In the head-on collision, the truck rammed into the car. The injured were identified as Avinash Kumar (32), Pardeep Kumar (28), Kuldeep (19) and Vipan (35), all belonging to Bathinda.
School games: Sarabjit Singh won the 800m under-19 event on the opening day of the two-day 53rd District Bathinda Schools Tournament which started at sports stadium, Bathinda today.
Fazilka
Honoured: Two state-level victorious athletes were felicitated at a function organised by Sher Singh, chief parliamentary secretary and MLA, Jalalabad here on Tuesday. Shallu had stood first in the 100 metre race and second in 200 metre race and was declared the best athlete in the state while Sandeep Singh had stood first in long jump at the state-level school games.
Hoshiarpur
Three youths snatch purse: Three motorcycle borne persons snatched a purse containing Rs 12,500 cash and a mobile phone from Kusam Lata Dogra of Mohalla Naloyian last evening. According to police sources, Dogra alongwith her daughter Smitri was returning on a rickshaw to her house from the market last evening. When they were about 100 yards away from their house, the three accused on a motorcycle appeared before them and snatched the purse and
fled away. A case has been registered.
Tributes to Nehru: Addressing a function organised in connection with the celebration of the birth anniversary of Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru at Hajipur, the union state minister for industries Ashwani Kumar paid rich tributes to the former Prime Minister and said he was an architect of modern India and played a major role in the development of the country.
Talking about the ongoing situation in the country, he said Congress was the only secular party which had always worked
above the petty party politics and in the interest of the country.
Jalandhar
Lok adalat: For quick disposal of pending cases in the labour court here, the labour department has decided to organise a lok adalat on Wednesday in the labour court complex here. Presiding officer of the labour court Balbir Singh said an effort would be made to resolve the matters amicably by mutual understanding between the two parties and awarding a compensation to the affected groups.
Timings changed: DC Ajeet Singh Pannu has ordered change of timings of sangat darshan programme held every Tuesday in the district administrative complex. He said owing to change in weather, the new timings from next Tuesday would be 10.30 am to 12 noon so that people from far-flung areas could reach the complex to put forth their
grievances.
Kapurthala
Golf tourney: The RCF Sports Association is organising the 52nd all-India railway golf championship from November 16 to 18 at the RCF golf course. This is the sixth time that the championship is being organised at
the RCF.
Nabha
Ex-MLA joins Cong: Former MLA Romesh Singla today once again joined the Congress by accepting a siropa from party president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. He has joined the party for the fourth time. The former MLA won the state Assembly election in 1992 as an Independent. In 1997 he contested from Nabha constituency as Congress candidate but was defeated. After being denied Congress ticket in the next election, he joined Rashtrawadi Congress of Sharad Pawar. After elections he joined the SAD. Singla again quit the Congress and contest as Independent after the party expressed their faith in
Randeep.
NANGAL
Vigilance week: The NFL Nangal unit is organising a Vigilance Awareness Week from November 12 to 16 as per the instructions of the CVC.
B.G. Singh, general manager O&M, led the employees of the NFL and the CISF in taking the pledge to do duties consciously and act without fear or favour.
BILASPUR
Resentment over quota: The district unit of the Himachal Pradesh Non-reservation Employees Union has warned the state government that any attempt to enforce the 85th Constitutional Amendment would be sternly opposed by the union throughout state. District president Lekhram Kaundal, general secretary Vinod Bhardwaj and finance secretary Chander Shekhar Vashisht said the reservation provision was made only for 10 years, but some political parties used this concession to create a vote bank and it was still continuing even after 60 years. Resolution said promotions on bases of castes would further strengthen caste barriers, apart from denying due promotions to lakhs of senior employees.
Voter cards: Photo identity cards of remaining voters, whose names are already included in the voter list, will be prepared between November 15 and 30. Information in this regard would be available from office of district election officer on phone number 222472 and the SDM offices at Bilaspur and Ghumarwin at phone numbers 224798 and 255227. A notification issued by district election officer-cum-DC Devesh Kumar said any mistakes in earlier made photo identity cards would also be corrected during this period.
Nahan
Man’s body found: The Kala Amb police found the body of a 65-year-old man near the TripurBala Sunderi temple at Trilokpur village on Tuesday. The body had no other identification mark except Singh Ram written on one of the arms. The police also found a pack of pesticide tablets from his clothes. The body has been sent for a post-mortem.
