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FOUR BOOKED: The district police has booked four persons, including a woman, for allegedly defrauding people on the pretext of providing jobs in Government Guru Nanak Dev Hospital here. They are Manjit Kaur, Rashpal Singh of Naushehra Colony, Lakhbir Singh of Jamarai village and Nirmal Singh of Maude village. A case under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the IPC has been registered against them.DEMANDED: Members of the Panchayat Secretary Struggle Committee on Monday demanded that the panchayat secretaries be selected on the basis of the written test conducted in 1999. In a press release here on Tuesday, Mr Tarsem Singh, vice-president of the committee, alleged that the state government was trying to reinstate the candidates who had been declared ineligible by the state government on the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. HONOURED: Mr Amrik Singh, Senior Executive Engineer, PSEB, City division, Batala, was honoured with gold medal by Mr Ashwani Sekhri, Tourism Minister, on the eve of Republic Day here. STRESSED: The former Vice—Chancellor of Gorakhpur University, Mr Bhoomittra Dev, while addressing a day-long workshop on faculty development programme at BBK DAV College for Women here stressed the need to create environment for creativity among teachers and students. Mr Dev said that the University Grants Commission had set up a national accreditation and assessment committee to evaluate the quality of higher education, which was a move to upgrade the standard of education in universities and colleges. Jalandhar
HEALTH CAMP: A heart check-up camp was held at BBC Heart Care Hospital, here on Tuesday. Dr Charanjit Singh Pruthi, Managing Director of the hospital, said to commemorate the 8th
anniversary of the hospital, charges for all heart care facilities had been slashed.
KHANNA
CRUSHED TO DEATH: An old man was crushed to death by a train near the Lalhari railway crossing on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Tota Ram (65), a resident of Meerut. He came here to met his family members. The postmortem was conducted at the local Civil Hospital.BLOOD DONATION CAMP: A blood donation camp in the memory of Principal Naresh Chand Khanna will be organised at A.S. Senior Secondary School, Khanna, on Thursday. The officiating Principal, Mr H.S. Bhatti, said members of the management, staff and students of the school would donate blood. LUDHIANA
KNITTING CONTEST: Students of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School took part in a knitting contest organised by Vardhman Spinning and General Mills Ltd. here on Wednesday. The contest was organised on the spot and went on for one hour. Students of Classes VI to XI competed in five categories. During the contest students knitted beautiful patterns, caps, socks and miniatures of purses and bags with the colourful yarn. The craft teacher of the school selected three best patterns per category. The school-level winners will compete at the zonal-level competition to be held in February when 10 best patterns from each category will be selected. In the final stage, three state-level prizes will be selected and awarded with a cash prize of Rs 5,100, Rs 3,100 and Rs 2,100 for first, second and third prize,
respectively. Nawanshahr
JAIL SECURITY: Mr Malkeet Singh Birmi, Minister of State for Jails, Housing and Urban Development while talking to mediapersons here on Monday did not rule of the possibility of a nexus between officials and conspirators in the Burail Jail incident. He said with a view to strengthening the security system in jails, effective security measures, including the installation of close circuit TVs in jails would be taken up. PATIALA
WATER TANK: The repair work of 20,000 km roads of the state would be completed before March 31 this year. Along with this, pre-mix would be in 5500 km roads at a cost of Rs 800 crore. This was stated by Finance Minister Lal Singh at function held at Devinagar village of the district here on Wednesday. He was here to inaugurate a water tank constructed at a cost of nearly Rs 24 lakh. With the help of the tank, 2000 people of Devinagar and Khari Burna villages would be provided 40 litres of water per person on daily basis. Phagwara
TWO KILLED: Two motorcyclists were killed and five others, including a couple, were injured in different road accidents here on Tuesday.
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