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Amritsar
YATRIS FLEECED: Ms Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, BJP’s state vice-president has criticised the J&K government for demanding unreasonably high charges from Amarnath and Vaishno Devi pilgrims where facilities were poor. She wanted that funds for the pilgrimage and their utilisation be publicised.VARSITY PROJECT: Dr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Reader, Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University has been sanctioned Rs 3.57 lakh by he Indian Council of Social Science
(ICSSR), new Delhi for “Analysis of the Impact of Education, Health and Nutrition on the level of living in the Border villages of
Punjab.
Bathinda
FAKE BT COTTON SEEDS: High Grow Biotech Private — a Hisar-based company and Gurdarshan Singh of Lakhewali village have been booked for cheating under Sections 420, 120 of IPC by for selling fake Bt cotton seed. Mr Baljinder Singh purchased Bt cotton seeds from the Naruana village bus stand for Rs 2100 per bag of 750 gm. He purchased 15 bags. When he sowed the seed it was found to be spurious.HELD FOR FRAUD: Vishal Bhatia, who allegedly defrauded Canara Bank here by using alleged by a fake cheques of a US-based bank was arrested on Tuesday. He was remanded in police custody till August 6 by a court here on Wednesday. Vishal Bhatia, a resident of Jalandhar posed as an NRI and opened an account with the bank and withdrew more than Rs 10 lakh from the bank. He had committed the fraud with the help of Bhinder, Rinku and Raju. They are yet to be arrested.
Hoshiarpur
PANEL FOR COMPLAINTS: Flood control rooms at tehsil headquarters in the district will also deal with complaints of water and electricity supply. Farmers can make complaints in these rooms on power supply, damage to transformers and unavailability of water from canals. Committees in all subdivisions headed by SDMs had been constituted to deal with complaints. The committees will meet daily to dispose of complaints.BIRTH CERTIFICATES: Mr Kirandeep Singh Bhullar, Deputy Commissioner, said here on Wednesday that Health Department employees would visit houses to deliver birth certificate at the doorstep of concerned. He added the government had empowered panchayat secretaries to issue birth and death certificates in Punjab from January 1, 2004. SOLDIERS REMEMBERED: As many as 81 Army personnel of Hoshiarpur district sacrificed their lives from January 1, 1999 till today. Mr Gopal Krishan
Sabherwal, additional Deputy Commissioner disclosed it at a meeting of the District Sainik Welfare Board here on Wednesday. Earlier homage was paid to those who died fighting for the
nation. SAVERA: Dr Avnish Ohri was elected president of ‘Savera’ on Tuesday, the organisation has set up a cell under Dr Sardul Singh and Mr Harish Saini to create awareness about
cancer.
LUDHIANA
office-bearers: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Punjab Jail Guards Association, Central Jail unit: patron — Mr Gurjit Singh Penta; president — Mr Mahesh Lal Attri; vice-president —Mr Kamaljit Singh; cashier —Mr Gian Chand; secretary— Mr Hakam Singh; and chief adviser — Mr Kuldip Singh.
kirtan
samagam: The gurdwara management committee and the Gurmat Ragi Sabha will organise an ‘amrit varkha kirtan samagam’ at Housing Board Colony in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar here on Sunday. Langar will be served on the conclusion of the kirtan
darbar.
Nawanshahr
SAMMELAN: The Krishi Vighyan Kendra, Langroya, 5 km from here on Wednesday at a sammelan appealed to farmers to reduce area under paddy and wheat. Tele film ‘Koi Raah Disse” to motivate farmers to adopt diversification of agriculture was screened on the occasion. Farmers were advised to use pesticides judiciously. Phagwara
2 DIE IN MISHAPS: A boy (5) was killed on the Phagwara bypass near Hajipur village on Wednesday. In another accident Gurdial Singh (75) was crushed to death near Chiheru village on the GT Road. He belonged to Phagwara. Sangrur
RETIRES: Mr Harbhajan Singh Cheema, General Manager of the Sangrur Milk Plant was given a farewell party by his colleagues on his superannuation on Tuesday.

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