Saturday,
April 14, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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GURDASPUR HOSHIARPUR BAN IMPOSED: Mr Iqbal Singh Sidhu, District Magistrate, here has imposed a ban on the entry of public within the radius of 200 meters of all examination centres of the ITI entrance test on April 14 and 15. THREE KILLED: Three persons were killed in two incidents in the district on Wednesday. Sanjiv Kumar and his cousin Nachhatar Singh of Mirzapur died on the spot when a Tata Sumo hit their scooter near Kahadiala Sainian. The driver of the Sumo fled after leaving the vehicle on the spot. The Hariana police has registered a case under Sections 304-A, 279 and 427 of the IPC against the driver. In another incident, Hans Raj Sharma of the local Bahadurpur Mohalla was killed when a Matador hit his two-wheeler near Piplanwala on Wednesday. SUICIDE: Raghubir Singh (27), alias Bobby, committed suicide by consuming poison at Kot Fatehu village on Wednesday. He was missing from his house since Monday. BURN INJURIES: Suman Devi (22), wife of Surinder Kumar of Toorpur village under Mukerian police station, succumbed to the burn injuries she sustained when her clothes caught fire from a burning gas stove in her kitchen on Wednesday. CASE REGISTERED: Balbir Singh of Adda Chalang Tanda has got registered a case under Sections 420 and 506 of the IPC against Prem Singh and Tarsem Singh, so-called travel agents of Chalang. In his complaint, Balbir Singh alleged that Tarsem and Prem took Rs 6.5 lakh from him for sending him to the USA. However, neither had they sent him to the USA nor returned the money, he alleged. JAGRAON KHARAR TARAKSHEEL CHETNA KAFLA: The Taraksheel Society, Punjab, is taking out a Taraksheel Chetna Kafla on Saturday in the morning from Landran village. According to a press note issued here on Friday, this rally would pass through Bhagomajra, Chadiala and Raipur villages. A Taraksheel mela would also be organised in Saneta village on the same evening. NEW DISTT SAD HEAD: In a meeting of SAD workers held here on Friday under the presidentship of Mr Prem Singh, local SAD president, the workers hailed the decision of the party high command of appointing Mr Pritam Singh Sallomajra as president of the Ropar district unit of SAD. Workers resolved that all of them would work hard under his guidance for the betterment of the party. LUDHIANA DENTAL COURSE: The Indian Dental Association will organise a two-day course on ‘Orthodontic and Prosthodontics for General Practitioner’. Renowned Orthodontist from Delhi, Dr S.P. Aggarwal, will be the course director which will be held on April 15 and 16 at Magnet Resorts. According to Dr Rajiv Bali, president, district branch of IDA doctors from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab will be attending the course. PENTAVOX HERBALS: The first batch of production of Ayurvedic Products of Pentavox Herbals will be released and launched for commercial sale on Sunday at the Majestic Park Plaza. According to an official press release the State Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Baldev Raj Chawla, will be the chief guest on the occasion and Mr Vijay Chopra, Mr Vinod Kumar Jain will be the guests of honour. LOK ADALATS: The District Legal Services Authority will hold Lok Adalats at Ludhiana, Khanna and Samrala on April 21. The Lok Adalats, to be presided over by Mr S.S. Arora, District and Sessions Judge, Ludhiana, will deal with the civil and criminal cases, including those under the Hindu Marriage Act, bank loan defaults and the motor accident claims. Giving details, Mr Surjit Singh, Assistant District Attorney, Legal Services, informed that at Khanna Mr J S Bhinder, Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), and Mr Munish Arora, Civil Judge (Junior Division), will hold the session of Lok Adalat while in Samrala Ms Asha Mehta, Additional Civil Judge (Senior Division), and Mr Ravinder Kumar, Civil Judge (Junior Division), will dispose of the cases taken up in the Lok Adalat. NOMINATED: Mr Mohinder Pal Singh (Raju), Organising Secretary of the All-India Sikh Students Federation (Mehta) has been nominated a member of the District Advisory Committee of the Excise and Taxation Department of District Ludhiana II. MANSA MEDICAL CAMP: As many as 601 persons were examined during a three-day free check-up camp which concluded here on Friday. The camp was organised by the district Red Cross Society. The society would provide 328 hearing aids and 143 artificial limbs to these persons on May 8, said Ms Raji P.Shrivastava, Deputy Commissioner, Mansa. APPOINTMENTS: Mr Balbir Singh Miani, Minister for Higher Education and Medical Education, Punjab, said on Thursday that 400 new lecturers would be appointed to fill the vacancies in government colleges of the state. NEW SDM: Mr Krishan Chand took over as the SDM, Mansa , on Thursday. The post was lying vacant since the promotion of Mr V.K. Meena as ADC, Mansa POST VACANT: Residents of Sardulgarh subdivision have urged the Punjab Government to immediately appoint a tehsildar in the subdivision. Mr Sher Singh Sidhu, senior leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (B), said the post has been lying vacant for quite some time. SECTION 144: Ms Raji P. Shrivastva, District Magistrate , has imposed restrictions under Section 144 of the Cr PC in a radius of 100 yards of the examination centres of the ETT test being conducted on Sunday. The orders have been issued to ensure peaceful conduct of the examinations. PATIALA PHAGWARA |
AMBALA BAN: To ensure against the outbreak of diseases in the approaching summer, the Deputy Commissioner of Ambala, Mr D.D. Gautam, has imposed a ban on the sale of adulterated sweets, stale food and directed the maintenance of hygiene till December 31. Mr Gautam said that the chances of spread of diseases increased if hygiene was not maintained, specially during the summer months. Keeping this in view, the ban has been imposed on uncovered sweets, biscuits, fried food and stale vegetables. He said that the ban has also been extended to the sale of items like sugarcane juice, where hygiene is not maintained, a note said. He said that to ensure that hygiene was maintained, officials have been directed to inspect shops. MEDICAL
CAMP: The Social Welfare Society, along with the Mission Hospital organised a general health, dental and eye check-up-cum-operation camp at village. President of the society, Dr Harprakash Sharma, said that about 400 patients were examined and provided free medication and consultation. Four eye-operations were performed. Eleven villagers have pledged to donate their eyes after their death. NPA
RISE WELCOMED: The Haryana State Ayurvedic, Homoeo and Unani Medical Officers Association has welcomed the decision of the Haryana Government to increase NPA. Dr Vishaw Kirti Bhardwaj, senior vice-president of the association, said that they were going to request the government to pay NPA similar to the Central Government and they should also be paid at par with the Allopathic doctors besides fulfilling their long pending demands, a note said. A delegation, headed by Dr Balwant Singh, will meet the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala and the health minister and apprise them of their wage-related demands.
BHIWANI HISAR PANIPAT POLIO DROPS: As many as 37,394 children up to the age of five years were administered polio drops by mobile medical teams which visited 36,795 houses in the towns and villages of the district. Stating this, the Civil Surgeon, Dr D.P. Arora, said 320 teams had been constituted for the purpose. SONEPAT CAR STOLEN: The car of Dr Viresh Shandilya, president of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front, Haryana, was reportedly stolen from outside the residence of Mr Dharampal Singh Malik, former MP, in the Model Town area here on Thursday. The police has registered a case in this connection. TWO INJURED: Two persons were seriously injured when a Tata 407 rammed into a parked truck on the GT Road near Bahalgarh village, about 10 km from here, on Thursday. The injured were rushed to a Delhi hospital. A case has been registered. YAMUNANAGAR |
BILASPUR STIR THREAT: The Himachal State Electricity Board Employees Union has warned the government that the union would launch an agitation if it went ahead with its plan to trifurcate the state electricity board into three corporations, state union senior Vice-President Dilwar Singh Thakur said this exercise had failed in Haryana and Kerala. TEACHERS’ DEMAND: The Himachal Government Highly Qualified Teachers Association has criticised the change in the schedule for vacations in government schools, Mr Hukam Singh Thakur, state President of the association, on Thursday said one-week vacation after the declaration of results on March 31 was sufficient and there was no justification for one week vacation during December and reduction in vacations from two months to one month during the rainy season. They demanded the restoration of old schedule. KULU |
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