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Drive to target
deras telling fortune
Talwandi Sabo, June 3
A significant number of persons
have set up their deras in some rural areas of Bathinda and
surrounding districts and have been allegedly insulting Guru Granth
Sahib and cheating innocent villagers by posing as fortune-tellers.
A
treat for art lovers
Patiala, June 3
The Creative Mind Art Limited, a
company started by three artists of Khanna, has a rare treat to offer
to the art lovers of the city. Balwinder Singh, Jaswinder Singh and
Daljit Singh have a collection of oil paintings, sculptures and pencil
sketches, respectively, exhibited at the Banasar Art Gallery, Sheesh
Mahal.
Artists Jaswinder Singh and Daljit Singh with their creations at an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and pencil sketches, organised by the North Zone Cultural Centre at Banasar Art Gallery in Patiala on Thursday.
— Photo by Rajesh Sachar |
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BBMB
to limit desilting work to monsoon months
Nangal (Ropar), June 3
In a major relief to farmers of
Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh, the Bhakra Beas Management Board
has decided to limit its desilting operation in the balancing
reservoir of the Dehar power project to just monsoon months —
June-end to September.
422
ITBP recruits take oath
Jalandhar, June 3
Following 44 weeks of intensive
training, 422 recruits of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) took
oath at 20th Battalion, Jalandhar, during an impressive passing-out
parade here today.
ITBP
getting ready for disaster management
Five
ITBP battalions to move from J-K to North-East
Cold
drinks found contaminated
Bathinda, June 3
Be careful while buying a cold
drink. A casual approach while quenching your thirst with a bottled
cold drink can put you in trouble. For the past many days, markets in
this area have reported cases of contaminated cold drinks of famous
brands Besides, sale of fake cold drinks has been going unchecked
despite the fact that this town is in the grip of jaundice and
gastroenteritis.
Kartarpur
residents block traffic
Jalandhar, June 3
Shopkeepers and residents today
blocked traffic on the Jalandhar-Amritsar road at Kartarpur, near
here, for half an hour in protest against the failure of the Municipal
Council to clear the chocked sewerage system for the past two months.
Woman
sustains burns as stove bursts
High
Court
Registrar records
girl’s statement
Chandigarh, June 3
The Registrar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today recorded the
statement of Ms Harpreet Kaur, a young girl, who along with a boy had
been allegedly picked up by the Patiala police on May 31.
Sheetal
Vij bail plea declined
Ludhiana, June 3
A city court today dismissed the
bail application filed by an industrialist and exporter of Jalandhar,
Sheetal Vij. The court also declined the bail applications filed by
two co-accused, Ravinder Jain and Rajinder Kumar.
Gang involved in
looting passengers busted
Bathinda, June 3
The police today busted a gang
involved in looting passengers at railway stations and lifting their
luggage on trains with the arrest of two of its members from near the
local railway station.
Ex-sarpanch
booked
Bathinda, June 3
A case against a former sarpanch
of Pathrala in this district and his mother was today registered in
the Raman Mandi police station for their alleged involvement in
forcing his wife, mother of two daughters, to commit suicide.
Undertrial
escapes from police custody
Bathinda, June 3
An inmate of the Ferozepore
Central Jail escaped from police custody today when he was being
brought to a Malout court in Muktsar district. The escaped jail inmate
has been identified as Sukhdev Bittu.
Martyr’s
family robbed of Rs 65,000
Jalandhar, June 3
A robbery took place in the house
of a Kargil martyr, Major Kanwal Gulzar Singh, in Bank Colony near
Maqsoodan today. Three unidentified persons entered the house after
breaking open the locks and decamped with Rs 65,000 and jewellery worth
lakhs of rupees from the house.
Computer
in charge, student booked in abduction case
Tarn Taran, June 3
Harbinder Kaur Khalsa, in charge
of the local NIIT computer centre, and her student Aman have been
booked under Sections 363,366 and 120-B for abducting a girl student
of the centre.
18 bottles of liquor
seized
PTU panel to make
draft on online education
Jalandhar, June 3
The Punjab Technical University
(PTU) today constituted a four-member academic council committee to
formulate a comprehensive draft for restructuring online education
system to impart technical education to students by using latest
technologies.
Bir
Devinder writes to VC on language issue
Patiala, June 3
Punjab Vidhan Sahba Deputy
Speaker Bir Devinder Singh, who is also member of the Syndicate,
Punjabi University, has today written a letter to the Vice Chancellor
condemning his decision to reduce marks of Punjabi and English
language at the graduation level while introducing a new compulsory
subject of computer application in all affiliated colleges of the
varsity.
New
session of PTU from July 26
Jalandhar, June 3
The new academic session of
Punjab Technical University (PTU) will start from July 26. The
academic calendar of the university was planned during a meeting of
the academic council held at Lovely Institute, Phagwara, today.
Kabir
Chair to be revived, says minister
Amritsar, June 3
The Bhagat Kabir Chair which was
established in Guru Nanak Dev University some years ago will be
revived and the government will provide adequate funds for this
purpose.
Chaudhary Jagjit Singh lights a lamp to mark the birth anniversary of Sant Kabir at a function organised at the Guru Nanak Dev University auditorium in Amritsar on Thursday.
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Remove Boparai, demands
sabha
Contractors not to
bid for govt projects
Ludhiana, June 3
The Punjab Government Contractors
Association has decided not to bid for any government project as the
rates have not been enhanced. The contractors said against this the
rates of various input materials used in the project had increased
manifold.
Credit
plans of banks reviewed
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 3
To review the progress of banks
in the district under the district credit plan, a meeting of the
District Consultative Committee was convened by the State Bank of
Patiala here yesterday. Mr S.K. Ahluwalia, Deputy Commissioner,
presided over the meeting.
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