Gurdaspur
ELECTED: Mr Gurbachan Singh Babehali was elected president of Milkfed in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday. CANDIDATURE: The General Category Welfare Association decided at its meeting here on Tuesday to field Mr Prabjit Singh as a candidate for the Punjab University senate elections. The association also flayed the statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for advocating reservation in the private sector.
Hoshiarpur
PLEDGED: A function was organised at JR Government Polytechnic on the concluding day of an Eye Donation camp here on Tuesday. Dr. Y.C. Markan, Civil Surgeon, presided over the function. Mr J.B. Behl, president of the Eye Donation Association, Hoshiarpur, said during the camp about 87 persons pledged to donate their eyes.
Jagraon
POPPY HUSK SEIZED: The Humbran police seized 40 kg of poppy husk burried at Bhatha Dhuan village recently. A case has been registered under sections 15/61/85 of the NDPS Act against a certain person. In another incident ASI Amrik Singh, in charge, Bhundri police post seized 30 kg of poppy husk from Kot Umra and registered a case against Bittoo of Bhundri and against certain persons, of Sidhwan Kalan.
Nawanshahr
ORGANISED: The Arya Samaj organised a 10-day Ved Parchar & Jan Samapark Abhiyan here on Tuesday. A havan yajna to mark Shri Krishna Janmashtami was also organised at Doaba Arya Senior Secondary School. Ms Sushila Arya, veteran Arya Samaj leader, Mr Prem Bhardwaj, Mr Surinder Mohan Tejpal, president and secretary, respectively, Arya Samaj, and Mr Sat Pal Ummat, officiating principal of the school, among others, delivered lectures to highlight life and philosophy of Lord Krishna.
PATIALA
GITA GYAN LECTURES: A series of lectures on “Gita Gyan Yagya” by Swami
Subodhananda, head of the north India chapter of the Chinmaya Mission opened here on Tuesday. According to Mr Mohan Lal Garg, Secretary of the Patiala branch of the mission, the lectures will be held every day from 7.15 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. till September 13.
CONCRETE DAY: The Department of Civil Engineering and Indian Concrete Institute, Patiala Centre in association with ACC organised a seminar on the topic ‘Probabilistic procedure for design of reinforced cement concrete’ at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
(TIET) here on Wednesday. The Assistant Professor department of Civil Engineering, TIET Maneek Kumar said that the basic objective of the seminar was to mark the occasion of Concrete Day and to make engineers aware about various new designs.
Phagwara
URGED: The Senior Citizens Forum, Hadiabad, here on Tuesday urged the Union Railway Minister, Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav, to provide stoppage of two trains, Malwa Express and Sri Hemkund Sahib at Phagwara.
SAMRALA
TAKES CHARGE: Mr Baldev Singh on Wednesday took over as SDM, Samrala, here. He replaces Mr J.S. Jassi, who had been transferred to Malout. Earlier, Mr Baldev Singh was posted as SDM,
Malout.
DHARNA: Lawyers of the local Bar association staged a Dharna here on Wednesday in front of the courts complex in protest against the lathi-charge on lawyers in Lucknow. The lawyers wore black/red badges. The call was given by the Bar Council of India.
STRIKE: Teachers of the local Malwa College, Bondli-Samrala, observed strike for two periods starting from Wednesday to protest against the non-payment of salaries for the past four months. The president of the PCCTU, Samrala, unit Prof Baldeep Singh, said the grant had not been issued by the Punjab Government. He demanded release of the grant immediately.
ZIRAKPUR
SAPLINGS PLANTED: As many as 100 saplings of medicinal and other trees were planted by students and staff members of Kendriya
Vidyalaya, Zirakpur, to mark a vanamahotsav, here on Wednesday. Mr S.K. Sharma, president of the Environment Society of India, who was the chief guest. He stressed on the need to improve the environment besides protecting flora and fauna, informed Mr HK
Sikri, principal of the school.