AMLOH
SMO JOINS: Senior Medical Officer Tirath Ram Goyal, following his transfer from the Civil Hospital, Mandi Gobindgarh, has joined as SMO at the Civil Hospital, Amloh. The post had been lying vacant for long.HEALTH CAMP: The local Manav Bhalai Manch has decided to hold a health check-up camp at Government Elementary School, Bhadhalthua village, on October 2. This was stated by Mr Manohar Lal Verma, general secretary of the manch, in a press note here on Saturday.
APPEAL FOR AID: Mr Dilbagh Rai Sood, local resident and former general secretary, District Congress Committee, has appealed to government and charitable organisations to come forward to save the life of his brother, Mr Rattan Chand (54), a law graduate, undergoing treatment for kidney at Hoshiarpur. The family has exhausted all its resources on his treatment. The donors may contact the hospital authorities directly, he stated.
Amritsar
ARRESTED: The Kotwali police
has arrested Tej Bahadur, Ravi, Surinder Kumar and Mandeep Singh of
Brothers Dhaba for allegedly stealing the purse of an NRI, Ms Naval Rao,
a resident of Sharjah. A case under Sections 379 and 380 of the IPC has
been registered. The NRI said her purse contained $ 5,000, Rs 50,000 in
Indian currency, one mobile phone, passports and train tickets.
NABBED:
Senior Superintendent of Police Dilbagh Singh Gill said the Vigilance
Bureau had nabbed junior engineer Rashpal Singh of canal lighting
subdivision Harike, while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from Mr Jagtar
Singh of Lohia village, Jalandhar, on Friday. A case has been
registered.
SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMS: Supplementary under-graduate
examination of Guru Nanak Dev University will commence on September 27.
A university press note issued here on Friday said the roll numbers had
been despatched and the students who did not receive the roll numbers by
September 22 should collect it from the examination branches before
September 24.
MEETING: The delimitation board for demarcating municipal
wards in the city, headed by the Chairman, Dr Swarn Singh, Divisional
Commissioner, Jalandhar, would write to directorate local bodies for
re-survey of the population figures. This was decided at a meeting,
attended by Municipal Commissioner K.S. Kang, Mayor Sunil Datti, MLAs
and four councillors each representing a political party, held here on
Friday.
APPOINTED: Navdeep Singh, has been appointed general secretary
of the Punjab unit of the National Students Union of India. MEDICAL
CAMP: Ms Anu Chona, vice-president, Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA),
inaugurated a week-long health fair here on Friday. The camp is being
organised by the Military Hospital, Amritsar Cant.
ALLEGATION: Capt
D.K. Khanna (retd), resident of Ranjit Avenue, alleged that residents in
his locality were cutting trees to facilitate encroachment. As a result
the road was becoming narrower leading to traffic congestion and
frequent brawls in the locality. Mr KS Kang, Municipal Commissioner,
said the matter would be looked into and the encroachments would be
removed.
FATEHGARH SAHIB
VISIT: A delegation comprising eminent agriculture scientists along with innovative farmers from China, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka visited Mr Manjit Singh’s farm situated at Jandali village in the district on Tuesday. The delegation was welcomed by Additional Deputy Commissioner M. P. Arora. The members took keen interest in various activities adopted by farmers. Manjit Singh has successfully
adopted the water conservation technique by transplanting Basmati without puddling. He has also successfully used integrated post management technology in rice and saved big chunk by cutting down the use of pesticides in rice. Dr Ajmer Singh, Director, Agricultural, Punjab, also accompanied the delegation.
Kharar
FLAYED: Mr Harsukh-inder Singh, general secretary of the All India Youth Akali Dal (Badal), flayed the Punjab Government for failing to provide adequate power to the farmers of the state. While talking to mediapersons here on Friday, he said if no immediate solution was worked out by the government, the Youth Akali Dal would be forced to launch an agitation in this regard. He said when the government was collecting lots of revenue from farmers by withdrawing the facility of free power, it should have acted in a more responsible way. Farmers were agitated as their paddy fields were almost drying up due to shortage of water.
PROTEST: Employees of Gharuan subdivision of the Punjab State Electricity Board organised a dhol march in protest against the move of the government to privatise the board. They raised slogans against the government. The protesters said the government should scrap the Power Bill, 2003, in order to safeguard the interests of board employees. They said unbundling of the power board would lead to deterioration in power services. They said if the government privatised the board even power consumers would be burdened as power would be provided at a much higher tariff.
LUDHIANA
INSTALLATION CEREMONY: The new team of the Lions Club Vishal under the leadership of Arun Jindal will be installed on September19. The installation ceremony will be performed by past multiple council chairman KK
Sawhney.
HINDI DIVAS SAMAROH: Indian Food Corporation organised Hindi Divas here on Saturday. District organiser Amrik Singh urged the people to give a place of honour to
Hindi. There would be obstacles in using it for everyday use in official work, but the obstacles have to be overcome, he
added. Mr Pramod Kumar Sharma assistant director of Hindi language Department was the chief
guest. Others present on the occasion were Mr Vidya Bhushan, Mr Gurucharan S, Mr Rajinder Gupta, Sudesh Kumari. Mr Jagdish Bal had compered the
show.
DELEGATION MEETS PM: A delegation of Guru Gobind Singh Study circle went to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. It apprised him of the steps their organisation was taking in curbing the menace of drugs in Punjab. They also emphasised that the government should assist NGOs in this job.
Patiala
blood donation camp: The Rotary Club, Patiala mid-town organised a blood donation camp in collaboration with the NSS unit of the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology on its campus on Friday. It was inaugurated by Dr
C.S. Saxena, Director of the Institute, while Mr Devi Dayal, president of the club, presided. Nearly 100 units of blood were collected.
Plea: The National Theatre Arts Society (NTAS), Patiala, during the Hindi Divas celebrations held at NTAS Mandir here stressed the need for adapting popular Hindi plays into regional languages and vice versa to promote love for the national language.
FUNCTION: The Ramgarhia Cultural Council in collaboration withthePunjabiRangmanch organised a function here on Saturday. Dr Dalip Kaur Tiwana, a noted writer released a book ‘Yug Vartara Te Hor Natak’written by P.N
Shahi. The function was presided over by Dr Gurdev Singh, ex-head of Punjabi department of Punjabi University.
DEBATE: Punjab College of Education, Raipur ,organised a debate on corporal punishment in schools should be banned for B.Ed students course here. As many as 20 students
participated. The Principal - Director of the college Dr Agyajit Singh, said that corporal punishment should be banned .It effects mental health of students.
LECTURE: Jasdev Singh Sandhu College of Education organised an extension lecture : ‘Overview of Psychiatric problems in children’ by Dr Sukhinder Singh Aulakh.
PAINTING COMPETITION : The HDFC Standard Life Insurance organised a painting competition at Playways High School here on Saturday. As many as 600 school students participated .
INVITED: Mr Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan, Chief Forensic Investigator and president of North Zone Forensic Association, has been invited to present his papers: ‘Executant Genuine but agreement forged’ and‘Can the departed soul be lived again’ at the 8th Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences being held from September 19 to September 24 at the Philippines.
Phagwara
CRUSHED: An unidentified passenger was crushed
under the rear tyre of a private transport company bus on the traffic
light crossing on the GT Road near Civil Hospital here on Friday. He
died on the spot.
BURGLARY: In a daylight burglary, valuables worth Rs
80,000 were stolen from the house of Mr Jagjit Singh of City Heart Nagar
in Hajipur village here. The burglars broke open the locks when the
occupants were away to Jalandhar and decamped with 8 tolas of gold, one
photo-camera, new clothes and Rs 9,000 in cash.
CONTAMINATED WATER:
Residents of the local Dashmesh Nagar on the GT Road here were shocked
when dirty water started flowing from their taps on Friday. The
residents alleged that even sullage particles were visible in the
drinking water of the municipal taps in the
locality.
Ropar
OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been elected
office-bearers of the Samaj Kalyan Ate Sadbhawna Sabha, Gobind Nagar,
Naya Gaon: president- Mr Karamjit Singh; vice-president- Mr Mohinder Pal
Sharma; general secretary- Mr Pritam Singh; secretary- Mr Ajit Singh
Saini; cashier- Mr Nanak Chand; and auditor- Mr Vipin Kumar.
Sahnewal
LAND OCCUPIED: Harbans Singh, son of Bhola Singh of village Bhaura, Salem Tabri, Ludhiana, has alleged that Hardev Singh, Surjit Singh and Ajit Singh, sons of Sunder Singh and Gurmukh Singh, Sukhminder Singh and Gurdeep Singh, all residents of village Barwala, tried to beat his servant in his absence and tried to occupy the land, which, is now in his possession. A case has been registered.