ABOHAR
Arrested:The city police-2 on Wednesday arrested Krishan Rajput, resident of government seed farm colony, under the NDPS Act on the recovery of 20 gm smack from his possession.
Action sought:
A deputation of the Sadar Bazar Association met the SDM here on Wednesday and demanded action against the employees of the electricity board for causing a fire that gutted a beauty centre in the bazar in the morning.The employees had gone to deal with a fault in the shop next to the beauty centre, but the wrong handling of the wires caused the fire,it was alleged.
BATHINDA
Crushed under train:Atma Singh, a farmer of Bhai Bakhtaur village of this district, died under mysterious circumstances after he was crushed to death under a running train near the Maiser Khana area on the Bathinda-Mansa rail section on Wednesday morning.Volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa, an NGO, who took the body to the local Civil Hospital, said Atma Singh was under psychological pressure. A case under Section 174, CrPC, has been registered.
Heat kills one:The rising temperature in the region has claimed the life of a destitute belonging to Uttar Pardesh in this town on Wednesday. Though volunteers of Sahara Jan Sewa took the deceased to hospital, he died on the way.So far, about four persons have died due to sunstroke in the city in the past two weeks.
MALERKOTLA
Youth murdered: A youth Kor Singh (28), son of Jagga Singh of Panjgrani village (Faridkot), was allegedly murdered by some unidentified persons and his body was thrown in a field at Sangala village, near here, on Wednesday. Kor was missing from his residence since last week.A case under Section 302,IPC, has been registered.After a postmortem examination at the Civil Hospital here,the body handed over to the relatives.
JALANDHAR
Lawyers show solidarity:The Lahore High Court Bar Association has expressed gratitude to the Punjab unit of the All-India Lawyers Union (AILU) for expressing its solidarity with the lawyers across the border in their struggle for independence of judiciary, according to AILU president D.S.
Dhillon.
Buddha Purnima:The Buddha Vihar Trust celebrated Buddha Purnima at Sofi Pind here today.Followers assembled at Buddha Vihar in the morning and congratulated each other. Children from Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 at Jalandhar cantonment, Elementary School at Sofi Pind and Dr Ambedkar Public School at Bulandpur also participated in the event.
Hoshiarpur
11 arrested:The police has arrested 11 persons under Sections 61, 1 and 14 of the Excise Act and seized 1,21,500 ML liquor from them.The Mahilpur police arrested Major Singh and Surjit Singh, both resident of Sarhala Khurd and seized 36,000 ML
Shole rum from their possession.
In-laws held:The Tanda police has arrested Amandeep Vij, his father Subhash Chander and mother Komal Vij, all of Jalandhar, under Sections 498-A and 406 of the IPC for torturing and maltreating Suman Bala, daughter of Yashpal Bajaj of
Salempur.
Nawanshahr
Awareness rally: District level NGOs Coordination Society,
UPKAR, mobilising the masses against female foeticide and drug addiction, took out a rally in villages falling under Balachaur sub division in the district. ADC, Pritam Singh Johal flagged off the rally.
Patiala
MAY DAY: Students of DAV Public School, Bhupindra Road, presented a play “Path Finder”, written by Hermon Ould on the occasion of Labour Day, on the school premises here on Tuesday.“Save me father, save me” were the words of slave boy-come-actor of an English-African play, on the theme of slavery in Africa. It was followed by another play “Rani Laxmi
Bai”, presented by students of Class VI.In the series of events, the students also made dustbins and dusters for their school with the spirit of “work is worship”. School principal S.R. Prabhakar urged the students to believe in dignity of labour. He also highlighted the importance of Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings.
NO TOBACCO DAY: The Generation Saviour Association observed "No Tobacco Day" at Senior Secondary Model School, Punjabi University, here, on Wednesday. An inter-school painting competition was organised by students of this school on the theme "Smoke Free Environment". Principal of the school S.K. Nirmal Goyal made the students aware of the abuses of tobacco. The main objective of the competition was to make the children aware of the deadly consequences of drug addiction. Dr B.S. Sandhu, dean, College Development Council, presided over the function and advised the students to keep themselves away from drugs. The participants from various schools held a rally on the university campus.
SANGRUR
World Asthma Day: The World Asthma Day was celebrated at the ANM Training Centre in the local Civil Hospital on Tuesday. Sangrur civil surgeon
S.K. Bansal was the chief guest at the function, which was attended by ANM students, staff members, women of the Lions Club and others.A child specialist,Dr
V.K. Ahuja, told the gathering that asthma affected about 10 per cent of the children, but more than 80 per cent of asthma could be diagnosed by six years of age. He also emphasised on the need of keeping pollution under control to check the disease.
