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Two injured in shootout: Two persons were seriously injured when two groups fired at each other at nearby Reona Niwan village today. The groups clashed over a land dispute. The injured, Ishwar Singh and Amritpal Singh, were rushed to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh. A case has been registered but no arrest has been made so far.Medical practitioners to protest today: Members of the Punjab Medical Practitioners’ Association
(PMPA) will hold a dharna against the state government tomorrow for not fulfilling their demands. Dr Sukhdev Singh, PMPA district president, said the government was trying to browbeat them by filing false cases against its members. Dr Ramesh Bali, state president of the association, would lead the protest and burn an effigy of the state government. Rs
86.57 lakh spent under MGNREGA: This fiscal year, Rs 86.57 lakh were spent under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA) in Fatehgarh Sahib district. As many as 4,077 job card holders got work for 15,422 days. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Baljit Singh said of the Rs 138.57 lakh received, 63 per cent of the amount had been spent on providing jobs to the needy in rural areas. The ADC said a total of two lakh saplings were planted during this monsoon season by MGNREGA workers. Of these, 44,500 were planted in Amloh block, 44,250 in
Khamano, 36,250 in Khera and 33,500 in Sirhind block. Jalandhar
2 injured in blast at Ranbaxy plant: Two Ranbaxy employees got injured when a blast rocked the company’s plant in Tonsa village near Balachaur late on Friday evening. The injured, Rajan Sikka and Rajinder
Dewan, were first referred to a private hospital near Balachaur and thereafter shifted to another hospital in
Mohali. Tension prevailed as villagers and labourers gathered outside the premises of
the plant following rumours that a few employees had died. Kathgarh police stepped in to resolve the matter.
Patiala
Unpaid pensioners stage dharna: Perturbed over non-payment of dues, Punjabi University pensioners have been staging a dharna on the university campus for several days. They alleged on Sunday the university was in a financial mess and that it was spending huge sums on unnecessary projects. Babu Singh, general secretary of Punjabi University Pensioners’ Welfare Association, said the university was harassing the pensioners who were not even medically fit to stage a
dharna. He said the authorities were not paying heed to their demands.Sangrur
Seven injured in road mishap: Seven people got injured when a bus collided with a truck on Sangrur-Barnala road near Bahadurpur village, about 10 km from here, on Saturday. The injured were taken to the local civil hospital. The victims have been identified as: Ranjit Singh (bus driver), Harjit Singh (conductor), Durgesh Mishra, Manjit Singh, Vinod Kumar, Amandeep Singh and Sukhjit Singh. The police has registered a case under Sections 279, 337 and 427 of the
IPC against the truck driver at Longowal police station.
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