Bathinda
VOTERS’ LISTS: On the orders of the Election Commission, work on the special general revision of the voters’ list in this district was started on Wednesday. Mr K.A.P. Sinha, Deputy Commissioner, said the first publication of the lists of the constituencies falling in this district was done on Wednesday. The claims and objections could be submitted by October 15. He said the last date for publication of the voters’ lists would be January 3. SAMAROH: A Guru Vandan Chhatter abhinandan samaroh was organised by the Bharat Vikas Parishad at RBDAV Senior Secondary School here on Wednesday. Various local schools, including Guru Nanak Senior Secondary School, Dashmesh Public Senior Secondary School, DAV Senior Secondary School and Sri Harkishan Public School participated in the function.
Fatehgarh Sahib
CELEBRATIONS: Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, chapter of the Institute of Engineers, has celebrated the 37th Engineer Day to mark the birthday of Sir Mokshagundam
Visvesvaraya. Mr S.K. Salwan, Vice-Chancellor, Punjab Technical University, presided over the function, while Mr M.K. Dhawan, Chief Engineer, PSEB, was the chief guest. Various contests were organised.
Hoshiarpur
INAUGURATED: Mr G.S. Aujla, Director, Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, inaugurated the preliminary training of 778 trainees of Jharkhand Armed Police at the Police Recruits Training Centre, Jahan Khelan, 8 km from here, on Tuesday. He also inaugurated a children’s park and gymnasium.
Patiala
LOK ADALAT: As many as 220 of the 223 cases were taken up and Rs 46,550 recovered as compounding fee in a Lok Adalat organised at the Civil Courts in Nabha on Wednesday. Two Benches presided over by Mr H.S. Grewal and Mr Balwinder Kumar settled the cases. A legal literacy camp was also organised at Zirakpur under directions of the Punjab Legal Services Authority.
AWARDED: The State Bank of Patiala has been awarded the trophy for “Overall Excellence in Lending to Agriculture Sector” for the year 2003-04 by the Union Finance Minister. Mr A.K.
Das, Managing Director, received the trophy.
VISIT: Railways Additional Member, Production Units, S.C. Manchanda and other senior officers visited the Diesel Locomotive Modernisation Works to access the diversification plans being carried out at the unit. Mr A.K. Gupta, Chief Administrative Officer, highlighted various projects being carried out at the unit.
SCHOLARSHIPS: The State Bank of Patiala Ladies Club has given scholarships to 13 girl students of Government Multipurpose Senior Secondary School, Model Town. Ms Sukla
Das, president of the club, handed over cheques to students.
RE-ELECTED: Mr Sanjeev Kumar has been re-elected president of the Patiala (Urban) Rice Millers Association at a general body meeting.
WORKSHOP: A workshop for the English translation of ‘Mahan
Kosh’ (Encyclopaedia of Sikh Literature) by Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha was organised at Punjabi University here on Tuesday. At least 40 scholars participated in the workshop. Dr Dhanwant Kaur, Head of the Department of Development of Punjabi language, said only those scholars were invited who had at least two pages of the encyclopaedia and vetters had found their work satisfactory.
INVITED: Dr Navjot Kaur, Senior Lecturer, Punjab School of Management Studies, Punjabi University, has been invited to present a paper titled “Evaluation of Customer Interrupation Cost for Reliability Planning of Power systems in Developing Economies” at the eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power systems. It is being organised at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Iowa, USA, from September 12 to 16.
HONOURED: The National Theatre Arts Society (NTAS) honoured Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra, Editor-in-Chief, Hind Samachar group of Newspapers, Jalandhar, for his contribution to the journalism and humanity and Shaheed Privar Fund at the conclusion of the week-long Moorti Sthapna celebrations of the newly-built Sri Krishan Mandir, Kusht Ashram, in Dr Kushdeva Singh Colony, here on Monday.
Nawanshahr
PROTEST MARCH: BSP workers of the district took out a protest march on Tuesday from the Ambedkar chowk to the office of the Deputy Commissioner. They held a dharna and burnt the effigy of the owner/Editor of a Hindi daily, to protest against “derogatory” words used in the newspaper against the BSP president, Ms Mayawati. They submitted a memorandum to the DC.
VANAMAHOTSAV: The NSS unit of Doaba Arya Senior Secondary School in collaboration with the Doaba Social Welfare Society organised a Vanamahotsav on the school premises here on Tuesday. Mr Swatantra Murgai, Vice-Chancellor, Gurukul Kangri, Haridwar, inaugurated the camp.
Sangrur
PROEST RALLY: The District unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP), led by Mr Jagtar Singh Charachon, district president of the
party, held a rally in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner
here on Tuesday. They were protesting against the publication of an
objectionable word in a national daily against the BSP chief, Ms
Mayawati.
SAMRALA
BLAST: A blast took place this afternoon in the furnace of a workshop in the main bazar here. The workshop manufactures agricultural implements. A big fire broke out and the roof and the walls of the workshop were blown away. The debris were scattered in an area of one kilometre. The bazar was immediately closed and people started running for shelter. The workers at the workshop had a miraculous escape as they ran away through an opening caused by fall of a wall. The SDM, Mr Baldev Singh, the DSP, Mr Jasveer Singh, the Tehsildar, Ms Balraj Kaur Grewal, along with the police force came to the scene. The fire was controlled within two hours with the help of the local people.
Tarn Taran
SHOT DEAD: Mangal Singh (35) was shot dead while Sukhdev Singh was injured at Rattoke village, about 25 km here, on Tuesday following a dispute regarding irrigation waters. Wassan Singh of the same village allegedly opened fire on the two. A case has been registered.
