ABOHAR
KILLED: A man was killed when a jeep carrying him collided head-on with a tractor-trailer on the Abohar-Sriganganagar road on Friday. Occupants of the jeep were going to Rawla in Rajasthan to attend a marriage party.

POPPY HUSK SEIZED: The Sadar Police on Friday seized 10 kg of poppy husk from Prem Singh Premi of Khemakhera village at a naka near Doda village on the Abohar-Hanumangarh road. A case has been registered under the NDPS Act.

KALA KENDRA: A meeting of the newly founded Lok Kala Kendra was held here on Saturday. Dr Iqbal Singh Godara, who presided over the meeting, said a cultural evening would be organised to explore talent among budding artistes. Dr Rakesh Sehgal also spoke.

AMRITSAR
REFRESHER COURSE: The staff of academic college of Guru Nanak Dev University will organise a three-week refresher course in education for college and university teachers from July 18. Prof A.N. Maheshwari, Chairperson, National Council of Teachers’ Education, New Delhi, will inaugurate the course while the Vice-Chancellor, DR S.P. Singh, will chair the inaugural function.

APPOINTED: Dr Kawaljit Singh has been appointed Head of the newly set up Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering at the Guru Nanak Dev University regional campus, Jalandhar, for a period of three years by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr S.P. Singh. He will also look after the working of the newly established Department of Electronics Technology of the university at Jalandhar.

ADMISSION TEST: The School of Punjabi Studies of Guru Nanak Dev University will hold an admission test on July 26 for filling vacant seats in the courses of BA (Honours), Punjabi, MA (honours), Punjabi and MA (Punjabi), according to official information.

CLASSES COMMENCE: The classes for B. Tech in computer sciences and electronics, MCA and LLB will commence from July 15 at the Guru Nanak Dev University regional campuses at Jalandhar and Gurdaspur.

LOK ADALAT: As many as 73 cases were settled and a sum of Rs 14.51 lakh was awarded to claimants at a quarterly lok adalat organised in District Courts and Sessions Court here on Saturday. This was stated by Mr Satwinder Singh, Civil Judge (Senior Division) -cum-Secretary, district Legal Services Authority, in a press note issued here.

CAUGHT: At least 17 employees were caught playing cards by Mr C.G., Chief Engineer (Border Zone), Punjab State Electricity Board, at 66 kv sub-station at Attari. He directed Mr M.S. Rataul, Additional Superintending Engineer, Amritsar (West), to take disciplinary action against them.

BATHINDA
CONDEMNED: Owing to continuous reservation for some categories, the working of public sector units was affected. This was stated by Mr Baljeet Singh, general secretary, GHTP Lehra Mohabat unit of General Category Welfare Federation, in a press note issued here on Saturday. He condemned the policy of the government to implement the Schedule of the Constitution under which reservation on caste basis was given for various posts.

GANG BUSTED: The police has arrested six members of a gang that used to loot people to collect money for purchasing narcotics. This was stated by Mr Ishwar Singh, SSP, in a press note issued here on Saturday. Harpreet Singh, alias Dimpi, was the leader of gang. Other members included Pankaj Kumar, alias Bobby, and Gurdeep Singh of Hazi Rattan area, Jagmeet Singh, alias Gurmi of Koni village, Shamsher Singh of Guru Nanak pura mohalla, Harjeet Singh of the Bhagu road.

OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been elected office-bearers of the local Maheshwari Yuva Sangathan: patron — Mr Rakesh Kumar Holani; president — Mr Gobind Kumar; vice-president — Mr Pardeep Holani; secretary — Mr Manish Holani; and treasurer — Mr Parvesh Lakhotia.

SEMINAR HELD: A seminar was organised at the Civil Veterinary Hospital, Nathana, on Saturday to make people aware about vaccination of pets. Dr Ashok Gupta, In Charge of the hospital urged residents of the town to get their pets vaccinated.

CREMATED: An unidentified person died at the local railway station on Friday. A post-mortem examination of the body was conducted before it was handed over to Sahara, an NGO, as there was no claimant. A TB patient, Ram Lal, 40, died at the local civil hospital where he was undergoing treatment. His body was also handed over to Sahara for cremation. Both were cremated by the NGO, as per a press note issued on Saturday.

COMPLAINT CENTRE: Residents of Parasram Nagar and other nearby localities have urged the Deputy Commissioner and the PSEB authorities to open an office where they could deposit electricity bills and lodge their complaints regarding power supply. This was stated by Mr Vijay Kumar, Municipal Councillor in a press note issued on Saturday.

FAZILKA
ALLEGED: Charanjit Kaur (25) was allegedly poisoned to death by her husband, Karam Singh, alias Karma, of Mandi Ladhuka and her mother-in-law. According to an FIR lodged by Jarnail Singh, father of the deceased, Karam Singh and his mother, Kulwant Kaur, had been harassing Charanjit Kaur for not bringing adequate dowry. A case has been registered under Section 304-B.

HOSHIARPUR
NETWORK EXPANDED: Mr Mohan Lal, General Manager, Telecom, Hoshiarpur, stated in a press release on Friday that during the month of June, additional 1122 new telephone connections were provided and a capacity of 1532 lines was added in different exchanges of the Hoshiarpur SSA. The EWSD, D-Tax exchange has also been expanded from 7000 lines to 11000 lines. He also inaugurated the intelligent network node exchange.

RALLY HELD: A joint rally of various employee unions was held in front of the office of Punsup in protest against the state government for withholding certain monthly allowances of the employees on Friday.

MUKTSAR
CORRUPTION MENACE: The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Usha R. Sharma, held a meeting with officials of the district on Friday. She said if any officer or employee was found guilty of not doing duty properly strict action would be taken against him or her. She said special measures would be taken up to check the menace of corruption. This was stated in a press note issued on Saturday.

NAWANSHAHR
ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Private College non-Teaching Employees Union, RK Arya College: patron — Mr Balbir Chand; president — Mr Ashok Sharma; senior vice-president — Mr Satish Kalia; vice-president — Mr Ram Padarath; secretary — Mr Bhupinder Thakur; joint secretary — Mr Jatinder Kalia; and finance secretary — Mr Mukesh Sharma.

ARRESTED: Dr Naresh Kumar Arora, SSP, in a press release here on Friday said the police had arrested three opium smugglers — Gurmit Lal, Kulwinder Singh and Karamjit Singh — and seized 2 kg and 510 gm of opium from them.

WIDOW HELPED: The Lions Club Charan Kanwal and Lions Club (City Smile) of Banga donated furniture and other household items to a widow of Chak-Kalal village on the occasion of the marriage of her two daughters. Earlier, the club had helped both these girls to get sewing and embroidery training. Mr Baldev Nayyar, District Chairman (Lions Club) handed over the items.

PATHANKOT
REMANDED: A woman reportedly died at Jaswali Lahri village, near here, after a ‘quack’ administered a drug to her for carrying out abortion. The police has registered a case under Sections 304 and 314 of the IPC. Mr Ranjit Singh, Judicial Magistrate (Ist Class), remanded the quack in police custody.

WORKSHOP: The local branch of the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology ( IIHT) organised an awareness workshop here on Sunday. The speakers at the workshop emphasised on the growing career opportunities in the field of information technology, especially in hardware and networking technologies. They claimed the institute was the only SCO-authorised education centre in India, which offered three levels of certification programmes. 

VALEDICTORY FUNCTION: Valedictory function of a month-long workshop on interior decoration was held here on Sunday. The function was held in the conference room of the Advance Care Centre, PGI. An exhibition of creative works was put up by the participants. The exhibition included works of silver foil embossing and painting, glass painting, pot making, pot painting, murals and soft toy making, which the participants had learnt during the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to develop creativity among women for interior designing at their homes and workplaces. The resource person for the programme was Ms Anuradha Gupta and it was coordinated by Ms Suman Sharma. The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Adult and Continuing Department, Panjab University. Dr Ajaib Singh, Director, Adult and Continuing Education, Panjab University presided over the function. Certificates were distributed to the participants. 

CERTIFICATES AWARDED: The UT Deputy Commissioner, Mr M. Ramsekhar, awarded certificates to 40 jail inmates who have successfully completed their courses in refrigeration and air-conditioning, at a function organised by the Jan Shikshan Sansthan in Burail Jail here on Saturday. The Superintendent of the Burail Jail, Mr D.S Rana, appreciated the efforts made by the team of the Jan Shikshan Sansthan in running these courses.

DEMAND: Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, MP, has demanded the restoration of medical facilities earlier available to the serving Central Government employees so long as a Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) dispensary is opened in the city. In a representation to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mr Shatrughan Sinha, Mr Bansal said the opening of a CGHS dispensary would not be enough as the number of serving employees in Chandigarh, SAS Nagar and Panchkula was very large. “The present dispensaries lack requisite number of doctors, para-medical staff and equipment. Moreover, there are no provision for emergency care”, said Mr Bansal.

SPICE CAMPAIGN: The Spice Communications Limited has found a unique way to launch its all night STD service by air balloon. The company claims that all night STD facility is available from 8 pm to 9 am for all post-paid connections of Spice without depositing any additional money. The unique launch has been doing the rounds in Chandigarh for the last five days and will now move to Ludhiana and later to Jalandhar.

PANCHKULA
BLOOD DONATION CAMP: A blood donation camp was organised by Nirankari Mandal at the Nirankari Bhavan here in Sector 9 on Sunday. A team of doctors from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, oversaw the camp. As many as 412 units of blood were collected in this camp.

SEMINAR: A two-day seminar-cum-workshop for kindergarten teachers organised at DAV School, Surajpur, concluded on Sunday. About 50 teachers from DAV Public Schools of Ambala zone participated in the camp. Lectures on concept of language development, phonetics , use of different teaching aids etc. were delivered to the participants.

MEDICAL CAMP: The State Bank of Patiala, Ramgarh Branch, organised a two-day medical check-up camp at Ramgarh village. As many as 185 persons, including women and children, were examined by a team of doctors. The camp was inaugurated by Mr S.K. Singla, Assistant General Manager, on Saturday. He also highlighted the various schemes by the bank.

SIRSA
SURVEY: Development works at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore were carried out during the past three years in this constituency. These were funded by the MP Development Fund. This was stated by the Member of Parliament, Dr Sushil Indora, here on Saturday when he visited Bajekan village on the first day of his two-day public contact campaign in different villages of the district. He said a survey was being conducted for laying railway lines from Odhan to Dabwali, Abohar to Dabwali, Bhattu to Fatehabad, Tohana etc.