Monday,
November 19, 2001, Chandigarh, India


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AIRLINES’ INCENTIVES: Uzbekistan Airways, Central Asia’s largest airlines which is operating five weekly flights from here to various destinations throughout the world, has offered special incentives to frequent fliers. The spokesman for the airlines told reporters here on Saturday that under the new scheme, regular passengers could avail concessions like upgrading to the first and club classes from the economy class. Regular fliers could earn premium, silver and gold cards after flying more than 30,000 km, he added. WORLD DIABETES DAY: Public awareness is must to control diabetes and the government and NGOs should come forward for this purpose. This was stated by Dr O.P. Mahajan, Principal, medical college, at the celebrations of World Diabetes Day at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital here on Saturday. The programme was organised by the Novo
Nor disk Education Foundation along with the Department of Medicine and Cardiology of the medical college. STOLEN: A truck and a car were stolen in separate incidents from the Bhagtawala and Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh areas here, respectively, on Friday. A case has been registered under Section 379, IPC. Meanwhile, the police has booked four persons, Amarjeet Singh, Harjidner Singh, Ram Singh and Manjit Kumar, for gambling under Sections 13, 3 and 67 of the Gambling Act.BATHINDA
CHILDREN’S DAY: Blooming Buds, a local pre-nursery school, on Saturday organised a function to celebrate Children’s Day. Mr Harminder Singh Jassi, MLA and president of the District Congress Committee was the chief guest on the occasion. About 70 children participated in a fancy dress competition on the occasion. Ms Ranju Bala, Principal, SSD Girls School, and Ms Arvinder Kaur were the judges for the competition. GURDASPUR
CAMP FOR HANDICAPPED: As many as 90 persons were provided with artificial limbs at a charitable camp for the disabled held here on Sunday by Sri Satya Sai Samiti to celebrate the 76th birthday of Sri Satya Sai Baba. According to Mr Dina Nath Mahajan, state coordinator of the samiti, the camp was the sixth of its kind organised by the samiti. In the earlier camps, as many as 552 persons had been provided with artificial limbs. HOSHIARPUR
DENTAL EDUCATION: Dr B.S. Parmar, Professor and head of Department of Oral and maxillofacial Surgery, Dashmesh Dental College, Faridkot, has emphasised the need to provide dental education to schoolgoing children. He was addressing the inaugural session of the one-day certificate course in oral surgery and cosmetic dentistry organised here on Sunday by the local unit of the Indian Dental Association. JALANDHAR
DENTAL CAMP: The district health authorities, in collaboration with NGOs, organised a free dental camp under the dental healthcare fortnight at the Civil Hospital here on Saturday. Mr Satish Chandra, Commissioner, Jalandhar Division, inaugurated the camp. Dr Ashok Sharma, Nodal Officer, said more than 250 patients were examined and provided with free medicines. Besides, 30 poor patients were provided with free sets of dentures.
KHAMANO
ACTION SOUGHT AGAINST COPS: Vehicle owners are sore over the alleged misconduct of traffic control cops in demanding bribe from them if their vehicle documents are incomplete. They have demanded strict action against this malpractice by the administration. LUDHIANA
PULSE POLIO AWARENESS RALLY: A pulse polio awareness rally of school and college students was held by Dr Rajinder Kaur, Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana. Ms Santosh Bhatia, Deputy Mass Media Officer, in a press statement said the rally ended at Old Civil Hospital covering areas near Gurdwara Kalgidhar, Subhani Building and Brown Road. Various placards and banners with slogans of “Pukare baal aatma, polio ka khatma” were displayed on the
occasion.
MOGA
BURIED ALIVE: Two labourers digging tubewells at Dhilwanwala village under the Baghapurana police station in the district, were buried alive on Saturday when a mound of earth fell on them. The bystanders immediately started removing earth and extricated the labourers’ bodies which have been sent for a post-mortem examination. NAWANSHAHR
MEDICAL CAMP: Guru Gobind Singh Charitable Trust, Ludhiana, in collaboration with Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial College, Mukandpur, about 20 km from here, organised a free medical check-up camp on the college premises on Sunday. Dr S.S. Johal, former Vice-Chancellor of the PAU and Chairman of the college managing committee, inaugurated the camp at which a team of doctors from the CMC, Ludhiana, examined more than 1,500 patients. DEATH ANNIVERSARY: Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial College, Mukandpur, on Saturday organised a programme on the campus to mark the death anniversary of Shergill in whose memory the college was established. As many as 20 students also donated blood at a blood donation camp organised by the Lions Club to mark the occasion. THEFT: Cash and gold jewellery were reportedly stolen from Bhuvneshary Mandir, Rahon, about 7 km from here, on Saturday. A case has been registered and investigations are on.
PATIALA
FUNCTION: Children visiting the Bal Bhavan at Sular village on the outskirts of the city participated in a fair organised on the occasion of ‘Bal Divas’. The children were exposed to a unique project instituted for the less
privileged among them. The children participated in on-the-spot painting, clay modelling, collage and quiz competitions. They were exposed to the efforts made by the Devendra Cultural Centre to provide recreational activity to slum children of the neighbourhood. The children residing in slums in the village are getting rudimentary education. Over 650 children from 45 schools participated in the competitions on Sunday. A cultural programme was also organised by students of Saraswati Public School, Patiala, according to the centre executive secretary, Dr Ravi Bhushan. Deaf and dumb students also participated in various events on the occasion. Prizes were also given to the children by Ms Satwant Kaur, who is also chairman of the Bal Bhavan. Dr Bhushan said drawing sheets were provided by the North Zone Cultural Centre (NZCC) while the prizes were sponsored by Juneja Realtors.

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