Seven new cases, 1 death in district

Jalandhar: Seven new Covid cases were reported in Jalandhar today. With this, the district Covid tally in Jalandhar today reached 63,494 cases. Another new Covid death was reported today, with which the district deceased tally has reached 1,499 today. As many as 61,962 persons have recovered from Covid in the district while the number of active cases in Jalandhar is 33. Of the 18,29,426 samples collected in the district, so far, 16,94234 samples have tested negative. Results of as many as 1,381 samples is yet awaited. Meanwhile, no new case of Covid was reported in Kapurthala today and the Covid tally remained 17,868. No death from Covid was also reported at Kapurthala ton Wednesday either. TNS

Self-employment fair from today

Hoshiarpur: Under the door-to-door employment mission of the Punjab Government, a self-employment fair will be organised on December 2 and 3 by the District Employment and Business Bureau. Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyat said the interested candidates should arrive at the District Bureau of Employment and Enterprise at 9.30 am with the necessary documents to participate in this self-employment fair. She said many schemes were being run by the government to provide self employment to the unemployed youth. These schemes include the PEGP, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana and Stand-Up India etc. Apart from this, unemployed candidates can apply for loans for self-employment from loan agencies of other departments. She said the unemployed candidates, who want to start their own business, or want to further extend their ongoing work, can also take part in this fair. She said aspiring candidates can participate in self employment fair by bringing along their Aadhaar Card, certificates of study, caste certificate, bank copy, hard copy and two passport size photos. OC

25-yr-old man run over by train, dies

Jalandhar: A 25-year-old man died after being run over by the Howrah mail train near Dakoha railway tracks on Wednesday morning. The victim has been identified as Deepak Kumar, a resident of Babbiyanwal village. The accident occurred when the deceased was trying to cross the railway tracks. After receiving information about the incident, Railway Police Chowki, Jalandhar Cantt in-charge, Inspector Sukhwinder Singh and ASI Manjit Singh reached the spot and took the body in their possession. ASI Manjit Singh further stated that the deceased had been identified as Deepak Kumar. After contacting the family members and receiving statements of father Ashok Kumar, inquest proceedings were initiated under Section 174 of the CrPC. After postmortem, the body was later handed over to the family members for cremation. TNS

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