BATHINDA
Eye camp: The Vivek Mission Charitable Trust will organise a free eye camp on December 11 and 12 at Shaheed Niab Singh Vivek Eye Hospital, Jalal, about 50 km from here. According to Mr Baldev Singh, Secretary of the trust, medicines and spectacles will be given free of cost to the patients.

FAZILKA
Killed: Gurdip Singh Brar (45), Inspector, Food and Supplies, posted at Mandi Arniwala, 22 km from here, was killed in a road accident on Monday evening while three others were injured. It is learnt that Brar and Parladh Singh (50), a watchman with the department, were coming here in a car. A tractor from the opposite direction collided with the car, resulting in serious injuries to Brar who died on the way to the local Civil Hospital.

FEROZEPORE
Felicitation: A function was held at the DCM complex here on Tuesday to felicitate Mr Anirudh Gupta, Administrator-cum-Coordinator of the DCM group of schools. Mr Gupta was presented the National Educational Excellence Award by the Union Minister of State for Defence, Mr Bachi Singh Rawat, in New Delhi on November 25.

HOSHIARPUR
Youth festival: A three-day Zonal Youth Festival of Panjab University was inaugurated by Mr Kamal Chaudhary, former MP, at DAV college here on Monday. According to Dr R.P Bhardwaj, Principal of the college, 300 students of nine colleges of the zone are participating in the festival. Mr I.S. Dhillon, Director, Youth Welfare, Panjab University, presided over the opening session of the festival.

JALANDHAR
Protest: To protest against an incident of "misbehaviour" by a police officer with a local journalist and to press for the suspension of the former, reporters based here have decided to hold a dharna in front of the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police on December 1. The police authorities have already transferred the SHO, allegedly involved in the incident, to the Police Lines, but the local media has been demanding his suspension.

LUDHIANA
Invited: Dr K.S Aulakh, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University, has been invited to participate in the Internal Programme Review and Planning Workshop 1999 of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre (AVRDC), scheduled to be held at Shanhuaa in Taiwan from December 1 to 3. The workshop will deliberate on reviewing the findings and ongoing plans of the current AVRDC programmes and will discuss research strategies in the new millennium.

ICAR book: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is publishing a book by compiling the success stories of different progressive farmers throughout the country. This was stated here on Monday by Dr P. Dass, Deputy Director-General (Extension Education), ICAR. The Communication Centre of the PAU will contribute the success stories of Punjabi farmers for the book.

MOGA
Losses: Vegetable growers in the district this year have suffered heavy losses due to what they describe as "lowest prices" of their crops available in the market. A deputation of vegetable growers of the district, led by Mr Swaran Singh, said the best quality of cauliflower sold in the market at Rs 70 a quintal, whereas its retail rate was Rs 2 per kg. Similar was the case with several other vegetables.

NAWANSHAHR
Concluded: The local Health Department organised a dental health care fortnight from November 15 to 29. The Civil Surgeon, Dr Surinder Kaur, presided over the concluding day function here on Monday. She distributed 175 dentures free of cost among the needy patients, according to an official press note.

Medical camp: The local Rotary Club organised a medical camp here at Jain Sewing Training School on Sunday. As many as 260 children were given hepatitis-B vaccination at the camp, according to Mr Vinod Kumar, Secretary of the club.

Conference: A district-level delegates' conference of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) was organised at the nearby Rakkaran Dhan village on Sunday. It was inaugurated by Mr Santokh Gill, Joint Secretary, and presided over by Mr Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon, President of the state unit of the DYFI, respectively. As many as 73 delegates and 15 invitees participated in the conference at which resolutions to mobilise the youth to wage a war against social evils like dowry, drug-addiction and corruption were adopted.

PATIALA
Adult education camp: About 50 women attended a three-month long free adult education camp organised by the local mid-town Rotary Club. The concluding function of the camp was presided over by Ms Parneet Kaur, MP. Stating this, Secretary of the club, Mr O P Gupta, said adult education camps had become an annual feature.

Medical camp: The Dedicated Brothers Group organised the 132nd special check-up-cum-free medicines distribution camp at Mohala village in Sangrur on Sunday under the presidentship of Dr Rakesh Vermi. Specialists examined 365 patients at the camp. S. Darshan Singh Deepak, Branch Manager, State Bank of Patiala, Amargarh Branch, was the chief guest.

PHILLAUR
Land sold: A piece of 1.79 acres of land of the Canal Department was sold on Monday at the rate of Rs 1 crore 31 lakh per acre at Rurrka Khurd village in the subdivision. The SDM, Mr Prem Chand, informed that the department collected Rs 2,34,49000 against the sale of the land.

Inaugurated: A two-day course on "Departmental Inquiries and Proceedings" was inaugurated on Monday by Mr S S Bains, IGP (retired), at the Punjab Police Academy here. As many as 25 NGOs from various towns participated in the course. In his inaugural address, Mr Bains said police officers should acquaint themselves with the latest laws and rulings of the courts related to departmental inquiries.

SAMRALA
Newspaper launched: A new weekly Punjabi newspaper Hosh was released here on Sunday, according to its Editor, Dr Sohan Lal Balagan. Mr Balagan said the paper would represent, especially, the Scheduled Castes and backward classes.

Competition: A 'dastar bandi' competition of school-going children was held here on Monday at the local Nankana Sahib School to mark the birthday celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. Ms Kuldeep Kaur, Principal of the school, said the prizes were given by Jathedar Kirpal Singh Khirnian, member, SGPC.

Social worker dead: Mr Sher Singh Dhillon, a social worker and a big landlord of the city, died here on Monday on the eve of the marriage of his son, Bably. Prominent residents of the city attended his funeral.

Award: The Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, will felicitate Mr Siri Ram Arsh with the Guru Ravidass national award at the 15th national conference of the academy to be held on December 5.

DERA BASSI
Challaned: Eighty traffic rules violators were challaned by the Lalru police in November. Sixteen trucks and tractor-trailers overloaded with husk were also challaned.

SAS NAGAR
Representation: The Ajay Electrical Industries Workers Union in a representation to the Punjab Labour Minister has urged him to pressurise the management of the factory to re-employ over 100 workers who had put in several years of service. The President of the union, Mr Gurcharan Singh, alleged that the management of the company had employed labour on contract basis.

SHAHABAD
Appointed: The President of the local Youth Wing of the INLD, Mr Suba Singh Aujla Teori, has appointed the following office-bearers of the unit: Vice-Presidents — Mr Gurmel Singh, Mr Gian Singh, Mr Rakesh Sharma and Mr Maluk Singh; General Secretaries - Mr Rameshwar 'Rama', Mr Karam Singh, Mr Gurmit Singh 'Toni' and Mr Avtar Singh; and Secretaries - Mr Hakam Singh, Mr Gurmit Singh, Mr Parmal Singh and Mr Baj Singh.

SIRSA
Arrested: The district police has succeeded in apprehending Vijay Kumar, a proclaimed offender, according to the information received on Tuesday. Vijay was booked along with two others, Satpal and Bagga Singh, on the complaint of Rajkumar of Mandi Kalanwali for allegedly injuring Raj Kumar when he was going to a hotel on January 28. The police had arrested the other two, but Vijay had been absconding and was declared a proclaimed offender.

Medical camp: A free health check-up camp was organised here on Monday by the local branch of the Indian Medical Association in collaboration with Cipla at Seth Tula Ram Dharamshala. Giving this information, Dr M.M. Talwar, President of association, said 110 patients were examined by members of the association and medicines worth Rs 20,000 were distributed free of cost among the patients.

SONEPAT
Arrested: The Ganaur police has arrested two youths, Sanjay and Surinder, of Lalehri village on the charge of allegedly extorting money from shopkeepers at pistolpoint. The third culprit, Mukesh, of the same village is still at large and a hunt is on to apprehend him. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr K.P. Singh, told mediapersons here on Tuesday that the culprits were arrested following the registration of an FIR on Friday by Romesh, a local kiryana merchant, stating that the above-mentioned culprits had come to his shop and demanded money from him by threatening him with a pistol. They forcibly took the money from his cash box.

Recovered: The Rai police took prompt action and recovered a Maruti car within a few hours after it was allegedly stolen from Kundli village in the district on Saturday. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Mr K.P. Singh, told mediapersons here on Tuesday that Vijay, a property dealer, had lodged an FIR with the police stating that he had parked his car outside his office and went inside. When he returned, he found the car missing. On receipt of information, the police sealed the border along Delhi and UP. The culprits escaped after leaving the car at a deserted place near the Haryana-Delhi border.

Arrested: The SSP here said the police had arrested two youths, Narinder, alias Kala, of Panchi Jatan village and Ravinder of Haldana village in the district in connection with a theft committed by them on November 22. He said the culprits had entered the hostel of Government Engineering College and escaped with clothes and electrical gadgets of some residents after breaking open the locks of their rooms.

Procession: A large number of workers, affiliated to the CITU, held a procession here on Monday in support of their demands. Carrying placards and raising anti-government slogans, they marched through the main bazars of the city and reached the mini secretariat. Mr Howa Singh, President of the district unit of the CITU, submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner and urged him to take steps for the fulfilment of their demands.