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Abohar
DEATH: The daughter of a migrant, who was set on fire by a youth inside her residence, succumbed to burn injuries at the Nehru Memorial Civil Hospital here on Friday. The Pravasi Mazdoor Union condemned the incident and urged the police to arrest the culprit immediately. BOOKED: The Railway Police has booked Sukhwinder, Om Parkash and Surender Kumar, residents of Sirsa, on the basis of an alleged “suicide note” found in the pocket of Harshran Singh who reportedly committed suicide by jumping before a train on the Abohar-Bathinda section. They had borrowed money from him but allegedly threatened him of dire consequences when he requested for repaying. SENTENCED: Seven persons have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment each under Section 295 A and Cow Slaughter Prevention Act by a local court. The police had arrested Panchhi Ram of Dhani Bisheshar Nath, Anvar Mohammad of Kandla, Babu Khan and Usman Ali of Neola, Akram Chaudhry of Muzaffarnagar and truck driver Satish Kumar in 1997 as they were taking 53 cows from here to UP.
Hoshiarpur
FINALISED: As many as 30,678 cases of pensioners in various categories, including old age, destitute children, widows and handicapped persons, have been finalised by the Panchayati Raj in Hoshiarpur district during a special session of panchayats. Disclosing this, Mr D.R. Bhagat, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development), said here on Thursday that with new enrolment the number of pensioners in the district had now increased to 81,508.Nawanshahr
ORGANISED: All branches of Punjab National Bank (PNB) in the district organised a “retail lending function” here on Thursday. Mr A.R. Mishra, Senior Regional Manager, Jalandhar, presided over the function and disbursed loans amounting to Rs 6 crore on the occasion. Addressing the officials of the bank, he said keeping in view the decision of the Centre regarding enhancing credit facility to the agriculture sector, the PNB had asked its rural and semi-urban branches to link at least 100 farmers with institutional credit for promoting self-employment ventures like horticulture, fisheries and organic farming. PROTEST MARCH: Activists of the Jamhoori Kisan Sabha, Jamhoori Kandi Sangarsh Sabha and the Jamhoori Dhodhi Sabha took out a protest march in the town and held a dharna in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner on Thursday in support of their demands, which included grant of Rs 10,000 per acre as drought relief, restoration of free power and supply of irrigation water to the farmers. RAKHI MAKING CONTEST: Ralla Mal Bhucher DAV Public School organised a Rakhi-making competition here on Saturday. While Abhinav, Deeksha and Harleen excelled in junior classes,
Baljot, Aarnish, Nishant, Kulwinder and Suraj won top positions in the senior category. Mr Yogesh
Duggal, Principal, gave away the prizes. PATIALA
DEMONSTRATION: A live demonstration of fire fighting equipments was given to the students and staff of Kendriya Vidyalaya No 1 by a fire fighting expert from ‘Ceasefire’ Mr Gur Avtar Singh here on Friday. The principal of the school S.K. Sharma was present. SEMINAR: The Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative
(IFFCO) organised a seminar on Friday to apprise farmers under its “opinion leader” programme about the latest techniques of hybrid seed production, fruit and vegetable production and maintenance of farm machinery. Mr Amarinder Singh, Manager,
IFFCO, Patiala, said IFFCO was making efforts to promote a balanced use of fertilisers. Former IFFCO Director M.S.
Guara, Dr S.S. Malhi, former Associate Director, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Patiala, Dr
J.S. Chandi, Deputy Director of the Krishi Kendra here and Dr S.S. Sodhi, soil scientist of the Punjab Agricultural University, also interacted with the farmers. PAINTING CONTEST: Karamjeet Singh, Simranjit Singh, both local students, and Gagan Singh, Nabha bagged first, second and third position, respectively, in a district-level painting competition (age group of 5 to 8 years) organised by the District Children Welfare Council at Government Senior Secondary School, Civil Lines here on Friday. In the age group of 9 to 12 years, Sarbjit Singh and Baljinder Kaur, local students and Ramanpreet Kaur of Zirakpur, were first, second and third respectively. In the age group of 13 to 16 years, Jagjit Singh, Mandeep Kaur, Nabha and Ekweer Kaur, of here got first, second and third respectively. In the physically-challenged category of the age group between 13 to 16 years, Swathi Gupta and Sunita Rani both local students were bagged first and second respectively while Kamal Deep Sapna of Nabha was third. The Deputy Commissioner presented cash prizes of Rs 400, 300 and 200 respectively to the winners. Phagwara
LAUNCHED: An eye donation awareness campaign had been launched by the Health Department, said Dr Subhash Sharma, SMO, Civil Hospital, Phagwara. It would continue till September 8, he said here on Thursday. DONATED : The Rotary Club,
Chachoki, donated 65 desks to the Government Elementary School, Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar,
Tibbi, here on Friday. According to a press note, Rotarian Sukhdev Singh Lall gave 45 desks and Rotarian Ramesh Kumar Mittal donated 20 desks in memory of his brother, Charanjit Mittal. The SDM, Mr Pritam Singh, was the chief guest. The club had adopted the school. It had repaired its ramshackle building, installed 12 fans besides blackboards. Phillaur
STOLEN: A car belonging to Mr Rashpaul Singh Gill, manager, Punjab and Sind Bank Phillaur, was stolen from his residence in Green Park area here on Friday. A report was lodged with the police.

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