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Chandigarh Fatehgarh
Sahib Hoshiarpur Man booked
for fraud: Travel agent has duped Rs 5 lakh of gullible persons on the pretext of sending them to Malaysia on work permit visa. Chabbewal police has booked Ram Pal of Kangna Bet under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC for duping Rs 5 lakh of Lachhman Singh, son of Kabal Singh, Shingara Singh, son of Amrik Singh, both of
Bhuno, Nirmal Singh, son of Mast Ram of Bhilowal and Rajesh Kumar, son of Hari Ram of
Jhanjowal. Lachhman Singh and others alleged that Ram Pal took Rs 5 lakh for sending them to Malaysia on work permit visa. But instead of providing work permit visas he got tourist visas for them. Patiala Senior Deputy
Mayor challaned: The Patiala police on Wednesday challaned former PUNSEED chairman Surjeet Singh Abhlowal and Patiala Senior Deputy Mayor Jagdish Rai Chowdhary for illegally using red beacons atop their vehicles. Hardeep Singh Badoongar, Traffic Inspector, Patiala, said they would crack down on those misusing red beacons. Atta-dal scheme
for more people: Food and Civil Supplies Minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon on Wednesday said the state government would double the number of beneficiaries under the atta dal scheme from the existing 15.40 lakh persons. He said the state government had spent roughly Rs 2,013 crore on this. Kairon claimed that the state’s atta-dal scheme was much better than the food security Bill. He was in Patiala to send 25 trucks loaded with relief material to
Uttarakhand. Rajindra Hospital gets free medicines : Government Rajindra Hospital Emergency services got a shot in the arm on Thursday as the Punjab Medical Representatives Association
(PMRA) contributed medicines worth Rs 40,000 to the hospital. The PMRA has decided to contribute medicines worth this much every month. Rajan Sharma, president of the Patiala unit of
PMRA, handed over the first lot of medicines to Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr Harshinder
Kaur, in charge of the emergency. The hospital
is often under scanner for short supply of free
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