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Regional potpourri
Bathinda FATEHGARH SAHIB Hoshiarpur
Cash stolen: Thieves struck at two villages in the district and stole cash, desi ghee, ration goods and tube-well motors last night. According to police sources, miscreants broke into the shops of Balwant Singh, of Duggal village and Ranjit Singh of Randhawa village at Adda Randhawa and stole ration goods, cash and about 20 kg desi ghee. Thieves also stole six tubewell motors of different persons from their fields at Mansurpur village in Mukerian. RAJPURA Tarn Taran Man booked: Mintu (22) of Bath village, 8 km from here, has been booked by the Sadar police for molesting a married woman of the same village. According to information, the accused forcibly entered the house of the woman when he found her alone in the house. But the accused escaped when she sounded alarm. A case under sections 354, 452 of the IPC has been registered against the accused on the statement of the victim.
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MOHALI ZIRAKPUR
CHANDIGARH Ravidas Jayanti: Haryana Governor AR Kidwai and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda greeted the people on the occasion of Guru Ravidas Jayanti. In a message issued here on Sunday, the Governor described Guru Ravidas as a great saint and said he led a life of faith and devotion and dedicated himself to the cause of the poor, irrespective of caste, creed and religion. KARNAL SIRSA YAMUNANAGAR Gram panchayats honoured: Ambala Commissioner Mahender Kumar honoured 39 gram panchayats of the district, which had done excellent job in development of their village during a one-day workshop of gram panchayats of the district held here on Friday. The gram panchayats had spent more than Rs 5 lakh on various development works under the NAREGA scheme. The Commissioner said Rs 2 crore had been spend under the employment guarantee scheme and Rs 5.61 crore for cleanness drive launched in the district.
BILASPUR CHAMBA Grievances panel meeting: Public grievances with regard to the PWD, IPH Department, Police Department and Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board could not be redressed in absence of concerned officials in the subdivisional-level grievances committee meeting held at Tissa on Saturday. The meeting was presided over by SDM Hem Chand Thakur. He said the matter was reported to the Chamba DC for further action. Fifty complaints were put up in the meeting out of which 20 were disposed off on the spot while remaining 30 were sent to the concerned departments for forthwith clearance. DALHOUSIE NURPUR
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Jammu Father-in-law held on rape charge: Mohammad Zalal Bhat (50) of Peer Mitha was arrested by the police for allegedly raping his daughter-in-law in the heart of the city here, police source said. Bhat allegedly committed rape on his daughter-in-law when the victim’s husband was not at home on Saturday evening. A case has been registered and accused has been arrested. Ice-cream company fined: An ice-cream company was fined Rs 15,000 for deceiving consumer of information regarding product and not displaying contact details on its packs here in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The Department of Legal Metrology on Saturday fined M/s Devani Food Products Company, Solan (HP), the manufacturer of Cream Bell Ice-cream, a sum of Rs 15,000 for not abiding by the rules and regulations under the amended rules of Packaged Commodity Act. Leh BSNL services disrupted: Mobile and Internet services of
BSNL, which is a main service provider of telecommunication in Ladakh, remain paralysed for the sixth consecutive day here on Saturday. BSNL divisional engineer Phunchok Dorjey said the services were affected due to breakdown of optical fibre cable at Gumri near Zojila Pass. Srinagar Regional potpourri
Disease left lower body of Pooja Sharma paralysed, when she was in teens, but it could not dampen her spirit. In March 1991, just before final matriculation examination Pooja, had fever, which virtually changed the life of this bubbly adolescent girl. Besides being brilliant in studies, she used to participate in sports and co-curricular activities in school, but the disease confined her to bed. But, neither Pooja nor members of her family, let the disease rule her destiny. With her determination, cooperation and motivation of parents - Ram Gopal Sharma, Suman Sharma, younger sister Preeti and brother Parbodh Sharma, Pooja started regular studies again. From matriculation to graduation, she won national scholarships. After completing graduation with mathematics and economics and B.Ed. from colleges in Nawanshahr, Pooja, used to commute daily to pursue post-graduation in English from the Government College, Ludhiana, as regular student. In January 2001, she got first appointment in a government school as math teacher and in November 2001, she was selected English lecturer. She joined Government Senior Secondary School, Musapur, where she also acted as officiating principal for a few months. Director-General, School education ( DGSE), Krishan Kumar, recently got her transferred to Government Senior Secondary School, Nawanshahr. Besides teaching, she has been pursuing her study. She has also done MA (Sanskrit) and is doing M.Phil. from Punjabi University, Patiala. Recently, Pooja was honoured by Social Security Minister, Chaudhary Swarna Ram at the Republic- Day function here. Mental maths champion at 11
Lakshay Kansra (11 ) , student of Challengers Academy in Batala and studying in class VI, stood first in state-level Challengers Abacus and Mental Arithmatic competition held on January 25 at 70 centres in Punjab. Four thousands candidates between six and 13 years from the state appeared in this test . Vinod Sharma, programme instructor of the academy, said 51 students of the academy appeared for the test at Wood Stock School, Batala, apart from 35 students of other centres of Gurdaspur district. Sharma added 100 mental maths sums were given to each student to attempt in 20 minutes. Lakshay Kansra attempted all 100 sums correctly in seven minutes thus breaking records of earlier test held by the academy at Chandigarh Batala Abacus Centre is a franchisee of Challengers Abacus Edu-Tehc (India) Chandigarh. Lakshay Kansra is younger son of Dr Ashwani Kansra , Director , C.T Institute of Management and Information Technology, Maqsudan campus, Jalandhar, and Neeru Kansra , science teacher, Arya Girls High School, Ohri Chowk, Batala). Keeping alive family tradition Parveen Singla belongs to family of freedom fighters and enjoys helping the needy. His father Babu Sant Ram Singla was an advocate and used to fight cases of freedom fighters free of charge. His elder sister Urmala Singla too was a social worker, used to organise eye and medical camps besides resolving domestic disputes of people . She was a regular blood donor. Parveen Singla has been carrying forward the family tradition, organises eye and medical camps provides for artificial limbs , arranges marriages of poor girls donates necessaries, distributes woollens , shoes and other articles among poor students. These days he is busy campaigning against drugs, dowry and female foeticide . Apart from blood donation camps at various places in Mansa, he has donated blood more than 108 times. To give constructive direction to the youth and serve the humanity he formed P Club. With articles/necessaries he dispatched volunteers to Delhi , UP and other riot-hit areas in 1984. Preferring social work to politics Rampal Dhepai is a political leader who prefers social work to politics. He started public life as sarpanch of Dhepai panchayat in Mansa district. He remained sarpanch for 14 years and was honoured with best sarpanch award by then Speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Harnam Das Johar. He also launched campaign against drugs and set up gyms in 60 villages of Mansa and a stadium at Dhepai village. During the Governor’s rule in Punjab, Dhepai village was brought under model gram scheme and Rs 1 crore spent on its development with his efforts. Ram Pal Dhepai had contributed to the development of Government Nehru College, Mansa, after becoming the president of the Old Students Association. He was also vice-chairman of the Tube Well Corporation, Punjab, and is now general secretary of the Punjab Congress. He felt ignored after the death of Rajiv Gandhi in the party. He has been planning to help cancer patients of Malwa region facing the disease due to contaminated water. (Contributed by Parmod Bharti, Balraj Mahajan and Parmod
Mehta)
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