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PUNJAB

VANAMAHOTSAVA: Students and staff led by the Principal of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College organised a function on the college campus to celebrate the concluding ceremony of 10-day vanmahotsava festival here on Sunday. Addressing the function, Dr Dilbagh Singh Hira, Principal, highlighted the need for plantation as pollution had increased many fold. He said during the campaign more than 2,000 saplings were planted on the college campus.

KAPURTHALA
ELECTED: The following have been installed office-bearers of the local Rotaract Club: president — Raja Jagbir Singh; vice-president — Mr Hitesh Chopra; secretary — Mr Gurpreet Singh Sahai; and cashier — Mr Rajan Walia.

LUDHIANA
PLANTATION DRIVE: The Rotary Club, Ludhiana North, organised a sapling plantation at the Government College for Women on Saturday. Saplings were planted by members of the club and Rotract members of the college on the college premises. Before plantation drive, installation function for installation of Rotractors was held in common room of the college. More than 50 Rotractors (College students) and 20 Rotarians attended this meeting. Ms Amrita was installed as president, Ms Aarti as vice-president and Ms Shika was appointed as secretary.

LECTURE ON HEART DISEASES: Mid Town Rotary Club organised a talk on ‘Prevention of heart diseases’. Dr Rajeev Gupta, consultant psychiatrist and secretary of the club, discussed about the faulty eating habits and high calorie diet that were leading to high incidence of obesity and increasing the risk of heart disease. Dr Gurpreet Wander, chief cardiologist from Hero DMC Centre, said number of people suffering from coronary artery diseases was rapidly rising in the city. The younger people were falling prey to heart diseases. Diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity among the younger people were making them prone to heart diseases. The best way to prevent these was to change the lifestyle. One has to exercise and keep a check on the calories. Stress has to be tackled through yoga’ and meditation.

NSS CAMP: One-day NSS camp was attended by volunteers from Research and Development Polytechnic, Ludhiana. The camp was organised on the martyrdom day of Shaheed Udham Singh under the leadership of Mr J. S. Rahi, Assistant Director, Youth Services, with the assistance of Mr B S Brar and Mr Ajit Pal Singh, APO. Unwanted bushes and grass in and around the playgrounds was removed during the camp. Mr B. S. Sangha, Principal, advised the volunteers to maintain discipline in every field for sure success. About 50 volunteers participated in the camp.

TARN TARAN
TEEJ CELEBRATED: ‘Teej’ festival was celebrated on Saturday at the SGAD Government Girls Senior Secondary School here in where Mr Sukhwinder Kaur chairperson of the Hospital Welfare Society and wife of SDM Bakhtawar Singh Shergill was the chief guest.

HARYANA

AMBALA
FEE HIKE FLAYED: The local unit of the NSUI has condemned the hike in fee and increase in the number of paid seats in professional courses. Mr Ajay Saini, president of the unit, while addressing students at a meeting urged the state government to withdraw the decision. The president of the District Congress Committee (urban), Ms Kiran Bala Jain, also spoke at the meeting.

ESCAPEE NABBED: The police has succeeded in nabbing the prisoner who had managed to flee from police custody on Saturday. The prisoner, Arun Kumar, lodged in Ambala jail under Sections 326 and 307 had fled from the Civil Hospital where he was admitted following an illness. The SP, Mr Hardeep Singh Doon, said the CIA Staff nabbed him at the Ambala Cantonment railway station when he was trying to board a train.

FATEHABAD
ADMITTED: An accused, who was brought here from the District Jails, Hisar, for hearing in a local court, had to be admitted to the General Hospital after he complained of severe pain in the chest. According to reports, Bansi Lal, a resident of Baliala village, is in judicial custody for the past four months.

POWER THEFT: A vigilance team of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) raided a factory on the Hisar road on Friday and detected power theft on a large scale. It imposed a fine of Rs 1.80 lakh The team, according to sources, raided the premises around 2.30 a.m. and found that factory owners had been stealing power by tampering with meter.

KAITHAL
THEFT: Thieves decamped with Rs 75,000 and some jewellery from the house of Krishan Lal, a resident of Guru Tegh Bahadur colony, on Friday. The victim said the thieves also stole some cash from his shop. A case has been registered. In another case, a motorcycle, of Lakhwinder, a local resident, was stolen from outside the Red Cross Computer Centre on Friday.

INJURED: Bittu, a local resident, complained that he, his brother and other family members were allegedly attacked by Daya Nand, Om Parkash, Sunil and Zile Singh when they protested against obscene postures made by one of them towards his wife.

HIMACHAL PRADESH

‘KHULA DARBAR’: A “Khula Darbar” was organised at the office of Assistant Commissioner here on Saturday, Mr Raghu Raj, MLA, was the chief guest. Official from other departments were also present. Six cases were settled on the spot.

SHIMLA
BODY FOUND: The body of Bupinder Singh, a resident of Nehra village, was found on the roadside near Sandhu, about 42 km from here, on the Hindustan-Tibet highway on Sunday morning. The injury marks on the body indicated that he was knocked down by some vehicle. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination.