Tuesday, March 21, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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This page carries regional briefs from the edition dated March 20 because at the time of posting the edition, no new briefs were available, on account of the office being closed due to Holi yesterday.
BATHINDA FATEHGARH SAHIB FAZILKA FEROZEPORE THREE HELD: The local police has arrested there persons on a charge of theft of 15 bags of rice from a godown of the FCI here on February 8, according to Mr Gurcharan Singh, SSP. He said the arrested persons had been identified as Billa, Buggar Singh and Shama, all local residents. The police had recovered stolen foodgrains from them. GARHSHANKAR ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Garhshankar Homoeopathic Association: president- Mr Ashok Bhatia; general secretary- Dr Tarsem Lal; vice- president- Dr Kuldeep Bhatia; secretary- Dr Jasbir Kaur; and treasurer- Dr Kuldeep Singh. NOMINATED: The district president of the Youth Congress, Mr Arun Dogra, has nominated Mr Inderjit Singh as vice-president of the Youth Congress. KHARAR PCO: The PCO at the post office in Sahoran village, near here, has not been working for the past four-five years ever since it was disconnected from the Kurali telephone exchange. Residents of the village said telephone instrument was lying in the post office. They demanded that since the village had been connected with the Kharar exchange, the PCO should also be connected and should start functioning. LUDHIANA CONDEMNED: The Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings has condemned the sales tax imposed by the Punjab Government on cycles. In a press note issued here on Saturday, the General Secretary of the chamber, Mr Avtar Singh, said that the tax on a cycle was 6.6 per cent, whereas on a car it was 5.5 per cent. MALERKOTLA SUSPENDED: The Executive Officer of the Municipal Council,Ahmedgarh, Mr I.K. Khan, has suspended an octroi clerk, Sanjeev Sharma, for alleged misbehaviour with the Municipal President, Mr Kishori Lal Bandhan. BUDGET: The budget for 2000-2001 of the Municipal Council, Ahmedgarh, has been passed unanimously. While talking to mediapersons, Mr Kishori Lal Bandhan, President of the council, said 49 per cent of the money would be spent on the development of the city. He said the total income from all sources would be Rs 3.35 crore. ARRESTED: The police has arrested Teja Singh and Surjit Singh and seized 20 kg of poppy husk from them. A case under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered against them, according to the ASP Mr Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal. PHAGWARA PATIALA OFFICE-BEARERS: Mr P.C. Shukla has been appointed President of the local District Nationalist Congress Party (Urban). Mr Swaran Singh, President, Punjab Pradesh NCP, said in a press release here that Mr Bhagwan Dass Alipuria has been appointed the Vice-President. Other office-bearers are: General Secretaries Mr Raj Kumar (painter), Mr Satyndra Kumar Aggarwal, Mrs Saroj Khosla and Mr Harbans Pran. TARN TARAN FLAYED:
Members of the Punjab Roadways Workers Union organised a
meeting here on Friday which was presided over by Mr Dial
Singh Sandhu, state President. Nearly 200 office-bearers
of the organisation participated. The union opposed the
government move to privatise Punjab Roadways and demanded
bonus for its employees. |
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