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Abohar
ARRESTED: Aleesha alias Nishu, a resident of Patiala, was
arrested by the anti-fraud squad of the district police on a complaint
by Hans Raj, a resident of Sapparwali village. He alleged Alisha and
her mother had duped him of Rs 6 lakh for arranging a government job.
A case has been registered under Sections 420, 120 B of the IPC. She
was remanded to judicial custody by a court here on Wednesday. BOOKED: Bhim Sain a resident of the Nai Abadi locality, was remanded in judicial custody by a court here on Wednesday. He was arrested on Tuesday under Sections 498A, 323, 506, 148 and 149 of the IPC for allegedly intimidating his wife Savita, daughter of Babu Ram a resident of Bathinda who had lodged a complaint naming seven persons, including her husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law. CAMP ORGANISED: A three-day Internet awareness camp organised by the Hind Savera.Com concluded at G D Senior Secondary School here on Wednesday. Mr Bharat Bhardwaj Director, Pure Foods Limited, gave away the certificates to 200 participants. Two websites were launched at the closing ceremony. Others who addressed included Ms Praveen Bhardwaj, Mr Ram Kishor Shastri and Mr Ghanshyam Nagpal. They advised that promoting the Internet among the students was essential to move with modern educational technologies but care to safeguard the future of adolescents would have to be taken with responsibility. RESOLVED: The newly elected team of Teachers Club has resolved to honour all teachers who had retired during September1, 2003 and August 31, 2004. Mr Baldev Singh Pyasa, president, Mr D. K. Chaithley, secretary, and Mr Rakesh Raheja, treasurer of the club, said they would be presented mementoes at the Teachers Day function to be held on September 5. All heads of the school here had been requested to send nominations immediately.
Amritsar
LECTURE: Professor Hillel Levine, an eminent scholar of Sociology and Religion at University of Boston (USA) delivered a special lecture on “Between conflict resolution and reconciliation”, at Guru Nanak Bhawan Auditorium of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) here on Wednesday. He said religion had been playing a crucial role in the human history and legitimising the distinct identities. Dera
bassi
SAPLINGS PLANTED: Fifty saplings of ornamental plants were planted by employees of Punjab National Bank, Mubarikpur branch, in and around the bank premises at Mubarikpur village, about 2 km from here, on Thursday. Mr
R.M. Mittal, Senior Manager of the branch, inaugurated the plantation drive. Teachers and students of Government College, Dera Bassi, also participated in a tree plantation drive on the college premises. Mr Amritpal Singh, president of the Dera Bassi Municipal Council, who was the chief guest, inaugurated the drive by planting a
sapling.
LUDHIANA
ATM inaugurated: Mr K.R. Srikantan, managing director, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, inaugurated the 175th ATM of the bank here on Thursday. Talking to reporters, Mr Srikantan said the bank proposed to install more ATMs and branches in the city. The ATM will have connectivity with SBI network and cards issued by State Bank of India, its associate banks HDFC, UTI, Andhra Bank and Indian Bank will be operative on the ATM. PATIALA
VANAMAHOTSAVA: The Environment Watch Committee and NSS volunteers of Khalsa College organised a vanamahotsava week from August 21 to 26. Deputy Commissioner Tejveer Singh had inaugurated the function by planting a sapling on the college premises.TUMOUR REMOVED: Dr P.K. Singla, operated on a child and severed a tumour that had ballooned to a circumference of nearly five or six inches. The doctor said the operation was conducted successfully a few days back and that the child had now recovered fully. OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been elected office-bearers of the National Federation of General Insurance Employees Union:
president-Ghansham Dass; working president-C.M.S. Ahuja, general secretary-
R.S. Gujral, organising secretary-Harcharan Singh, senior vice-president- K.S. Kathuria and Mukkhtiar Singh and vice-president-Varinder
Malik. MEMBERSHIP: Punjabi University has decided to seek a membership of India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. Registrar of the university Param Bakhshish Singh said the decision to this effect has been taken by a high-level committee here on Thursday. He further said that as per the tie-up arrangements with IIC the faculty and research scholars would be able to avail of the library, hostel and auditorium facilities. Effigy
burned: Members of the Punjabi University Students Confederation burnt the effigy of the varsity administration in front of Law Department to protest against the ‘anti-students’ policies of the university here on Thursday. President of the confederation, Gurpal Singh Dhaliwal, alleged that the statement issued by the varsity authorities that they had accepted all the major demands of the students was baseless. He said the core issues, including the hostel facility, roll back of the massive hike in the hostel fee and the counselling fee and the decision to introduce internal assessment had not been taken up. Phagwara
SUICIDE: A youth, Anil Kumar (22) committed suicide by hanging himself at his Ranpura residence here on Wednesday. Domestic tension reportedly drove him to suicide. BOOKED: The local police has booked retired Colonel R.N. Khanna of Sector 26-A of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, under Section 420 and 406 of the IPC on charges of fraud and criminal breach of trust for duping Mr Paramjit Singh of Guru Nanakpura of Rs 3.5 lakh for sending him to Canada but failing to do so. NABBED: The police nabbed Mohammed Anwar alias Rafi near Kotrani village and recovered 1.2 kg of charas from him. Anwar belongs to gali no 9 of Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar. GANG BUSTED: The police claims to have busted a three-member gang of thugs who used to defraud fellow migrants and recovered Rs 6000 from them. They were identified as Sarwan Kumar, Ramesh Paswan and Ballu Kumar of Kishen Ganj in Bihar. ASSAULTED: Mr Bal Ram Sharma, president of the Khalsa Taxi Union, Phagwara, was allegedly assaulted with a sharp-edged weapon and injured in the arm here on Tuesday. The incident took place while he was trying to dissuade a youth, Banty, from beating up a rickshawpuller in front of his office near the bus stand on the GT road.This enraged the youth who attacked Mr Sharma with a “dattur” and fled away. SEMINAR: Prof S. Verma from L.R. DAV College, Jagraon, and Dr Baljinder Bedi from Toronto educated students on spirituality at a seminar held at S.R.P.A.B. College here
on Tuesday.

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