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One held with fake visa: The immigration authorities at the Amritsar International Airport, Rajasansi, has nabbed one Malkiat Singh of village Bakkar (Ludhiana) for allegedly possessing a fake visa here on Thursday. In a complaint lodged with the Rajasansi police station, Mr Sanjiv Kumar, Immigration Officer Airport, said the accused was arrested during immigration checking and his passport was found to be fake. He had returned from UK by flight number A8-187. A case had been registered.Charas seized: The district police has seized 500 gm of charas from Vijay Kumar, alias Billa, a resident of Gokal Avenue here on Thursday case under Section 20/61/85 Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act at local civil line police station here. Bathinda
One killed in mishap: An inspector working in the Food Supplies Department died after his car fell into a village pond on Thursday evening. Sources said the incident occurred when the deceased, Gurlabh Singh, was on his way to his village, Bhagwangarh. Some villagers pulled the car out of the pond and rushed him to the Civil Hospital where he was declared brought dead. NAWANSHAHR
Amardeep mela starts: The Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial College, Mukandpur,
organised inter-college poetical recitation, quiz, folk song competitions on the inaugural day of four-day-long ‘Amardeep mela’ to mark its raising day on Wednesday. In poetical recitation, Ramanjit Kaur (Guru Nanak College, Ludhiana), Gurjit Kaur (Govt College, Ludhiana), Jaskamal Kaur (Kamala Nehru College for Women, Phagwara) won the prizes. PHILLAUR
2000-yr-old Shivling found: Thousands of devotees thronged Shri Chintpurni Temple of
Himachal Pradesh on hearing the news of appearance of more than 2000-year-old ‘Shivling’, just before the old temple gate, during digging of stairs on Tuesday night. When The Tribune visited the shrine this evening, ‘Shivling’ was found installed near the entrance gate of the shrine. Temple Officer Madan Lal Sharma said during the digging a labourer, Jiwan Kumar, first saw the ‘Shivling’, and later ‘shivling’ was set near the entrance gate. TARN
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Mill officials locked up: The workers of the local co-operative sugar mill locked up the officiating General Manager, Mr SL Kaushal, and Chief Accounts Officer. Mr ML Wadhwa, of the mill for more than four hours protesting against the non-payment of their monthly salary for the past two months. Mr Subhash Chander Agnihotri and Mr Balwant Singh, the president and the press secretary of the Workers Organisation Co-operative Sugar Mills, Sheron, respectively, led the workers. The mill’s officials had to call the police force.
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