Cancelled: The Sriganganagar district magistrate B.S.Detha on Thursday ordered the cancellation of 15 arms licenses, bringing the tally to 25 in the fake arms licenses scam. The DM had earlier suspended 300 licensees on the basis of investigation taken up by the CID (CB) branch of the police. It is pertinent to mention that the police had registered a case against many public servants including two former additional district magistrates.

AMRITSAR

London mayor visits  Golden Temple: “In my childhood, pictures of the Golden Temple used to fascinate me,” said Kenneth Robert Livingstone, mayor of London, who arrived here on Friday on a two-day personal visit. “The soothing tranquility that envelopes the Golden Temple despite a sea of people coming here every day, makes it all the more intriguing,” he said after paying  obeisance there.  Kenneth Robert Livingstone

New posting for Kirpal Singh: Additional municipal commissioner Kirpal Singh has been appointed ADC (General), Tarn Taran. This puts an end to the controversy over the appointment of his six-year junior DPS Kharbanda as commissioner of the Amritsar Municipal Corporation last week. The appointment of the 1992-batch PCS officer, DPS Kharbanda as commissioner, superseding the 1986-batch Kirpal Singh, who was working as additional commissioner had sparked a controversy following a bureaucratic reshuffle on November 5.

BANUR
SeminaR: A seminar on pharmacy practice and clinical pharmacology was organised in Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy, Ram Nagar on Thursday. The keynote speakers were Dr Pramil Tiwari, associate professor, department of pharmacy practice, NIPER, Mohali, and Dr Sonu Malhotra, clinical pharmacologist, Fortis Hospital, Mohali. The seminar was organised as part of the celebrations of National Pharmacy Week which is being celebrated through out the country from November 18-25, 2007. Over 200 persons participated in the seminar. 

Bathinda
Theft: Chiman Lal, the owner of a hotel reported to the police alleging that his servant Ajay Kumar took around Rs 55,000 and ran away on Thursday. Police sources said some one handed over the sum of money to him for delivering it to the owner of the hotel. Receiving the money he got dishonest and escaped. Kotwali police has registered the case of criminal breach of trust against the accused but could not nab him till filing of the report.

Arrested: The Talwandi Sabo police arrested Jagga Singh and Hakam Singh, both of mandi Maur for carrying 10 kg of poppy husk. The police sources said the accused were riding on a scooter and when police intercepted them they tried to escape. On checking them a bag of 10 kg poppy husk was recovered from them. The police registered a case under the sections of the NDPS act.

Blood donation camp: On the eve of the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Aas welfare society, Bathinda arranged a blood donation camp and collected 51 units of blood, at MC park, here on Friday. The camp was organized with the help of Red Cross and civil hospital Bathinda. Assistant commissioner Amit Dhaka inaugurated the camp. 

Assault: Raman police has registered a case against Sukhdev Singh and Kulbir Singh of village Raman and Gurjit singh of village Jassi Bag Wali for allegedly assaulting Harminder of Gulabgarh. Police sources said the above named accused had assaulted Harminder on November 13. The case has been registered on Thursday on the basis of the X-ray report. However, no arrest has been made till filing the report. 

Aids patient admitted: Acting upon the guidelines of Punjab health minister, the civil hospital Bathinda admitted an HIV positive pregnant lady. After the delivery of a baby, the lady and her baby both were in healthy state. Civil Surgeon, Maninderjit Singh said the all the victims of HIV aids are given preference for treatment in the hospital and names of the patients are not disclosed to anyone. 

Gurpurab: Tiny tots of Lord Rama Public School set an example of unity in diversity by liting colourful candles and floating earthen lamps on the eve of Gurpurab, here today.

Golden Jubilee: All India State Bank of Patiala (SOBP) Employees Federation is organising its Golden Jubilee Conference on November 24 and 25 at Polo Grounds in Patiala. General secretary of the CPI, A.B.Bardhan, will inaugurate the conference. President Rajan Nagar, general secretary C.H.Venkatachalam, joint secretary, Lalitha Joshi and All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) will be present on the occasion. Delegates and observers from all over India and more than 800 delegates and observers from Bathinda zone are participating in the conference. 

Hoshiarpur
V’ball tourney: Punjab state sub junior volleyball championship for boys and girls was inaugurated by Sant Baba Charan Singh at Bhikhowal, 12 km from here today. As many as 400 boys and girls from all over the state are taking part in the three-day championship. 

Jalandhar
‘Taxed’ traders: The Federation of Jalandhar Industrial and Traders Associations has demanded that the 4 per cent entry tax on iron, steel, sugar, chemicals and other items be withdrawn. In a press conference, Gursharan Singh, president of the body, said the tax had led to increase in prices of these items. He said Punjab was already getting raw material at higher prices because it was coming from other states. With an additional tax, the prices of the finished products would increase further, making the state industry incapable of competing with other states.

Mansa
Case registered: The Boha Police registered a case against five persons posing as journalists. DSP Budhlada Mukand Singh Malli informed that the accused now identified as Ajaib Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Jagdish Rai, Jaspal Singh and Jagjit Singh had blackmailed a shopkeeper Surinder Kumar of Rs 25,000. —OC

Phagwara
Lahore bus: Lahore-bound Pakistan bus was diverted towards Banga road as national highway was disrupted due to overturning of a tractor trolley near under construction Satnampura railway over bridge on Friday.

Dowry: Woman commits suicide: A mother of two small children committed suicide by consuming poison at nearby Gandhwan village last night. Narinder Kaur, daughter of Shinder Ram of Gandhwan village, was married to Surinder Ram of Zandiala Rangarra village, in 2000. She was being tortured physically and mentally by her in-laws for more dowry. Police has booked her husband Surinder Ram, father-in-law and mother-in-law, but no arrests have been made so for. The body was handed over to the parents after post-mortem.

Tarn Taran
Man murders wife: Raj Kaur, alias Rajwinder Kaur (35), was allegedly murdered by her husband Kuldeep Singh at Shakri village on Thursday. The Sarhali police has registered a case under Section 302 of the IPC. The deceased was a mother of three kids and married to Kuldeep about 16 years ago. A case has been registered.