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JALANDHAR
Passports: Passport applications received at
the office here up to serial number 402/109913/98
till December 18, last year have been processed.
Passports have been despatched to the persons
concerned whose applications were complete in all
respects till the week ending April 12.
LUDHIANA
Wheat arrivals: Fresh arrivals of wheat crop
have been reported at Asia's biggest grain market
in Khanna, 40 km from here. Official agencies had
purchased 3,18,205 quintals of wheat till
Wednesday at the official fixed price of Rs 550
per quintal.
Special drive: The district administration
has decided to launch a special drive to check
the sale of substandard eatables, rotten fruits
and vegetables and to remove garbage in the city.
This decision was taken at a meeting of officers
of different departments held here on Thursday
under the chairmanship of Mr Arun Goel, Deputy
Commissioner.
Agitation: The Punjab Trade and Industry
Forum and the Punjab Pradesh Beopar Mandal have
decided to launch a joint agitation in protest
against the "anti-trade and
anti-industry" policies of the state
government. Mr Harish Khanna and Mr Jagmohan
Sharma, presidents of the forum and the mandal,
respectively, said here on Thursday that the
protest would begin by observing a "black
day" on April 26.
Training programme: Dr Sarjit Singh Gill,
Additional Director, Extension Education,
Communication Centre, Punjab Agricultural
University, has exhorted farmers to adopt
mechanical and biological control in the
management of sugarcane borners with least
emphasis on the use of insecticides. He was
addressing a seminar-cum-training programme on
"Bio-Intensive Large Scale Integrated Pest
Management Trial on Sugarcane" at
Nawanshahar Cooperative Sugar Mill on Friday.
MOGA
Sessions court sought :The President of
the Moga Bar Association, Mr Nasib Bawa, while
addressing members of the bar today urged the
Punjab Government to set up a sessions court
here. He further sought the merging of Dharamkot
town and its neighbouring villages into Moga, as
promised by the then Chief Minister of Punjab,
Beant Singh.
Action sought: Residents here have urged the
authorities concerned to check the misuse of red
lights on vehicles and sought action against
those found guilty.
Rates fixed: The Deputy Commissioner Mr
Kulbir Singh Kang,has fixed the rates of both
bricks and tiles in the district. The prices has
been fixed at Rs 1,350 per thousand bricks and Rs
1,500 per thousand tiles.
PATIALA
Elected: The following have been elected
office-bearers of the local Lions Club (Qila
Mubarak) here: President — Mr Rakesh Cajla;
Secretary — Mr R.C. Aggarwal; and Treasurer
— Mr Arun Gupta.
Camp: The Dedicated Brothers Group organised
a special health check-up-cum-free medicine
distribution camp at Rauni village on Thursday.
It was held to commemorate 300 years of the birth
of the Khalsa Panth.
Urged: The Punjab State Karamchari Dal met
here on Thursday and urged the state government
to increase LTC, house rent, remove ban on
recruitments, give bonus and DA on central
pattern and to implement the anomaly committee
report.
Special exam: Mr Madan Lal Hasija, Director,
Language Department, Punjab, said in a statement
here on Thursday that a special exam for Punjabi
Parbodh will be held on April 20 here.
Medical camp: About 3,000 patients were
examined and given medicines free of cost at an
eight-day free homoeopathic medical camp
organised by the State Council of Homoeopathic
System of Medicine, Bhai Ghanyaji Charitable
Trust and Prerna Charitable Trust at Gurdwara
Dukhniwaran Sahib here to mark the 300th birth
anniversary of the Khalsa.
SANGRUR
IBP tanker crashes :An oil
tanker belonging to an IBP dealer of Dhuri
yesterday hit a chowk at a crossing near the
local PWD rest house. Failure of brakes was said
to be the cause of the accident, according to the
driver.
SAMRALA
First-aid camp: The local branch of the State
Bank of Patiala organised a two-day first-aid
camp in front of the bank building from April 13
to provide medical facilities for the devotees
coming to Anandpur Sahib.
Office-bearers: The following have been
elected office-bearers of Malwa College and Malwa
Public School Parbandhak Committee: President
— Mr Umrao Singh Kang; Senior Vice-President
— Mr Sohan Lal; Vice- President — Mr
Shivdev Singh; and General Secretary — Mr
Rajinder Nath Aggarwal.
SAMANA
Crop destroyed: Wheat crop in 50 acres was
destroyed in a fire at Dharmheri, Hasanpur and
Dutal villages due to a short-circuit recently.
Killed: Randhir Singh of Bibipur village was
killed at his farm when he was operating a
harvesting machine. The combine of the machine
hit the latter and he died on the spot.
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