Saturday,
May 17, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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ARRESTED: The police on Thursday busted a two-member gang of vehicle thieves and recovered three motor cycles from them. According to a police press note special nakas were put up at various places and Nachhatar Singh, alias Chiri, a resident of Azad Nagar and Mahinder Singh of Kot Dharanchand were arrested with the stolen motor cycles.SEMINAR ORGANISED: The Petroleum Conservation Research Association, Chandigarh, on Thursday organised a seminar at Guru Nanak Dev University to create awareness about the need to save fuel and energy. The Regional Director, Mr AS Bajwa, and Mr SP Singh, technical adviser, process equipment, urged the large and small consumers to use efficient equipment, including electric motors, which could save fuel. HOSHIARPUR
MEETING HELD: A meeting of district officers presided over by Mr Ganga Ram Teja, member, National Commission of Safai Karamcharies, was held here on Thursday to review the living conditions of safai mazdoors. Addressing the meeting Mr Teja said safai karamcharis were important functionaries of the society and people should protect their
interests. KHARAR
REMANDED: Ms Preeti Sahni, Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate of Kharar, has sent Nirman Singh, who was arrested by the Vigilance Bureau and is one of the alleged accomplices of former Akali minister Sohan Singh
Thandal, to judicial remand till May 26.
LUDHIANA
SEMINAR: The People Democratic Front organised a day -long seminar on the 'Relationship of Nature, Human Beings and Development of Human Society' at Punjabi Bhavan on Friday. Speakers said the lop sided social system was the cause of all ills in the society. The speakers included Mr Sukhdev Singh Bhopal, Mr Charanjit Singh Grover, Mr Kewal Singh, Mr Parkash Singh Mann, Mr Gurdial Singh Seetal, Mr Hardev Singh Grewal, Mr Shaminder Singh Langowal, Mr Darshan Singh and Mr Jagdeep Singh.NSS
CAMP: The valedictory function of the 10 -day NSS camp at DD Jain Memorial College for Women was organised on May 16. Mr Narinder Kumar Jain, president of the college managing committee, presided over the function. Many prominent citizens were present on the
occasion. Mrs Kamla Jain, Principal of the college, and Prof Antar Jyoti Ghai, were present on the occasion. Food preservation course and a trip to PAU museum, Nehru Rose Garden and Gurdwara Aalamgir Sahib were other highlights of the camp. An exhibition of handicrafts made by the volunteers was also held. At the end prizes were distributed among outstanding campers. Rajni (B.AII), Maninder (BA III), Aditi (BA I) and Reshma (BA II) were adjudged as the best NSS volunteers. As many as 110 volunteers attended the camp. Finally, Prof Lotika Gupta proposed a vote of thanks. SUMMER
QUEEN: Women of the Ramgarhia Club came all dressed in their summers best to participate in the Summer Queen Competition organised by the club on Friday morning. The women were divided in two age groups-above 50 and below 40
years. Fifteen women in Group B ( below 40) walked on the make shift ramp and competed for the coveted title of the Summer Queen. Ms Aman Vasai was declared the Summer Queen whereas Ms Raj and Ms Pinki were declared the first runner up and second runner up, respectively. In the Group A (above 40) Ms Santosh was declared the Summer Queen. Ranu Padam was the first runner up while Ms Roop was declared the second runners up. GRANT: The first installment of Rs 1.5 lakh out of a total grant of Rs 5 lakh was handed over by Mr Madan Lal Bagga, councillor, on behalf of Mr Gurcharan Singh Ghalib, MP, to Dr B. L. Kapoor Memorial Hospital here, on Friday. Mr K.L. Malhotra, general secretary, managing committee of the hospital, while expressing gratitude, both to Mr Ghalib and Mr Bagga for donating the amount for the 'Trauma and Casualty Ward', said the hospital would try to further improve its services. Among others Dr T.S. Cheema, Medical Superintendent, Dr Inderjit Singh and Mr Dharam
Pal, were present on the occasion. CAMP: Local army units, with the active participation of the 715 (I) AD Brigade and the 45 (AD) Regiment, will organise a blood donation camp at Central MI room on May 17. According to Brig Sunil Dhawan, Station Commander, the Armed Forced Transfusions Centre will arrange the collection. More than 300 donors, including Army personnel, NCC cadets from various colleges and schools and students were expected to donate blood. NAWANSHAHR
BLOOD DONATION: Sukhmani Hospital and Blood Donors Council organised a blood donation camp on the hospital premises here on Thursday. Mr Hussan Lal, Deputy Commissioner, inaugurated the camp. As many as 62 units of blood were collected. PLUS TWO RESULT: Students of the local government senior Secondary School have fared better than students of other schools in the plus two (science and commerce streams) examination conducted by the Punjab School Education Board. Vijay Kumar has got 10th position in the state in science group. He is second in the state among the students of government schools, says Mr Gurmail Singh
Sahlon, Principal, adding that in science group, 43 out of 6 students and in commerce group, 19 out of 26 students have got first division. HOSTEL NIGHT: Students of
IITT, Engineering College, Pojewal, about 25 km from here, organised hostel night “Raunakan” on Thursday. Mr Arun Joshi, Manager and Mr B.S. Saini, Vice-principal, presided over the function. Ravinder Pathania and Suman Bansal were adjudged the best hostellers. SEMINARS: Mr
K.C. Kapoor, District Education Officer, said here on Friday that block-level seminars on “New Education Policy and Implementation of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan” were organised in all eight elementary education blocks in the district on Thursday. CONFERENCE: The Council for Teacher’s Education
(CTE), Punjab and Chandigarh Centre, will organise a state-level annual conference on “Punjab Education Policy-2002 and Teachers’ Education” here at Dayanand Amarnath College of Education for Women on June 6. Eminent scholars and educationists would read their papers, said Principal Dev Ichha Shekhar. PATIALA
PROTEST: Members of the Punjab Bank Employees Federation organised a dharna in front of the head office of the State Bank of Patiala here on Friday in protest against the disinvestment policies of the Central Government. The employees raised slogans against the privatisation policy being followed by the government. FELICITATED: Government Mohindra College on Friday organised an interactive session with two of its illustrious alumni, Ankur Garg and Amit Singla, who have secured first and thirteenth position, respectively, in the IAS examination. Dr
R.K. Sharma, Principal of the college, presided over the function and presented mementos to the achievers and exhorted the students present on the occasion to pursue their dreams with dedication. SAMRALA
PATH: The local gurdwara organised Sukhmani Sahib path for those killed in the train accident near Ludhiana on Thursday . Prayers were organised for the speedy recovery of those injured in the accident. The MLA, Mr Amrik Singh Dhillon, the SGPC member, Jathedar Kirpal Singh Kheernian, and the secretary of the SAD (B), Mr Kuldeep Khullar, condoled the death of passengers in the accident. FESTIVAL: To give fillip to the cultural activities in the area the Paras Rang Manch will organise its 5th annual dramatic festival on May 31 at 8 pm in Harnam Nagar, Samrala. This was stated by the press secretary, Mr Baljeet Baghauria, and the president of the manch, Mr Punit Kumar. Mr Amrik Singh Dhillon, MLA, will preside over the function and Mr Tej Parkash Singh, Minister of Transport, will distribute the prizes. EXCELLENT
RESULTS: The local National Public Senior Secondary School, Samrala, deserves praise for its excellent results in Class VIII . Out of 102 students, who appeared in the examination conducted by the Punjab School Education Board, 80 stood first and the rest got second division. Amarpreet Kaur Kang stood first in Ludhiana district securing 757 marks out of 800 (94.6%). MEETING: In a meeting presided over by Mr J.S. Jassi, SDM, Samrala, in the office of local Nagar Council, it was decided to put a blanket ban on the embarking and disembarking of bus passengers at the main chowk in Samrala and to shift the local taxi stand in the new bus stand complex. To enforce the order of the SDM, Samrala, the police force will be pressed into service if the need arises. The Telecom Department will use the space vacated by the taxi stand. Mr Dhami, Divisional Engineer (Telephones), Mr Jasvir Singh Jassi, president of the committee, and all councillor of the committee attended the meeting on Friday.
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