50 donate blood during camp

Ahmedgarh: As many as 50 volunteers donated blood during a camp organised at Government Degree College, Karamsar, near here. Principal Jaswant Singh presided over the inaugural session and Head Granthi, Gurdwara Rara Sahib, Ajvinder Singh was the chief guest. Convener of the project Nirmal Singh said members of the Eco Club, National Service Scheme and Commerce Students Society donated blood to the Blood Bank Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana. Organisers felicitated the donors. OC

General body meeting held

Ludhiana: General body meeting of the Punjab National Bank Officers' Association, Ludhiana Circle, was held on Monday. Roshan Lal Arya, state secretary and chairman of Ludhiana Circle, presided over the meeting. He said the association was working for the welfare of members. He demanded regulated working hours for officials, to scrap anti-people and anti-national bank reforms and use of national savings for national development. TNS

Puja performed before Ramlila 

Ahmedgarh: Office-bearers and activists of the Trimurti Kala Manch and Ram Lila Committee said Ramlila would be staged to perfection at MGMN Senior Secondary School and Grain Market. Deepak Sharma and Vikas Krishan Sharma, presidents of the two outfits, led the artistes and assistants during the Puja ceremony. Municipal Council president Shiraj Mohammad, SHO Baljinder Singh and former president of the Municipal Council Ravinder Puri were the guests of honour on the occasion. Appreciating concern of residents, art lovers and devotees towards standard and accuracy of historical events during Ramlila, chairman of the Trimurti Kala Manch Bimal Sharma and founder president Ramesh Dhir said the organisers had been advised to ensure that only authoritative sequence of events should be presented before spectators so that there was no misconception about the historical facts. OC

Officials visit Ludhiana

Ludhiana: Two officials — Dr Rahul Bargaje and Susheel Sule —from Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical research company, visited Ludhiana to overview Hepatitis C programme, here on Monday. They will support the state in awareness activities and submit their feedback to the Managing Director, National Health Mission, to make a policy for awareness. They also met medical specialists, epidemiologist Dr Ramesh, Senior Medical Officer of the Civil Hospital, Dr Kulwinder Singh and Civil Surgeon Hardeep Singh Ghai. TNS

IMA meeting held

Ludhiana: A meeting of the Punjab unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA) was held here. In the meeting, IMA Punjab president Rajender Sharma suggested that Dr Ajit Singh Chawla should be allowed to continue as Joint Secretary, IMA Punjab, for another two years to run the state office smoothly. State Council members agreed to it. A new IMA Punjab state office was inaugurated at IMA House on that day. From now onwards, the office work of IMA Punjab will be done here and all office record will also be maintain here. Present on the occasion were Dr Rajender Sharma, president, IMA Punjab; Dr Navjot Singh Dahiya, general secretary, IMA Punjab; Dr Naresh Sud, finance secretary, IMA Punjab; Dr Avinash Jindal, president, IMA Ludhiana, among others. OC

International conference held

Geriatric Orthopaedic Society International Conference was held at Chandigarh. Doctors from the city also participated in the conference. Four live surgeries were telecast. All problems related to geriatric patients were discussed. City-based Dr Jagdip Madaan, who also participated in the conference, said to give best treatment, a patient having pain in knee or spine might need a joint replacement and spine surgery, but due to old age, surgery was not the best option so the other options were explored during the conference. TNS

Re-nominated 

Gurmeet Singh Kular, president, Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organisation (FICO), and chairman, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ludhiana Zone, has been re-nominated as head of the Punjab region of IamSMEofIndia (Integrated Association of Micro, Small and Medium Organizations of India). Industrialists from various circles congratulated Kular.  TNS