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MEDICAL CAMP: As part of a special drive to create awareness about the latest operative techniques to treat “phulveri” a one-day camp will be held at Skin Department of the local Guru Nanak Dev Hospital on May 26. According to Dr Paramjit Singh patients would be benefited by the camp as the latest technique takes much less time to cure the ailment as compared to the traditional
therapy.
BATHINDA
HEPATITIS-B : A three-day Hepatitis-B immunisation camp organised by the Army Wives Welfare Association at Military Hospital, Bathinda was inaugurated on Monday. According to a press note issued here by the Army authorities approximately 500 to 600 children below the age of 10 years of corps units would be vaccinated at the camp. Mrs Kusum Duggal, President Chetak AWWA, inaugurated the camp and Lt Gen G.K. Duggal, AVGM, GoC Chetak Corps, released a brochure on Hepatitis-B.
BUDHLADA
SKIN DISEASE CARE CAMP: More than 400 persons were examined and given medicines free of cost at a three-day “Skin Disease Care camp” organised by the Interact Club here in memory of Suresh Kumar Goyal, general secretary of DAV Model Senior Secondary School Managing Committee. Mr Megh Raj Goyal, Chairman, Management Committee, in a press note issued here on Monday said a team of doctors led by Dr Rajesh Rani Gupta, Head of the Skin Department, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot, examined the patients belonging to the town and surrounding areas.
FAZILKA
CRUSHED TO DEATH: Major Singh (40), a driver of an Army School bus, was crushed to death here by a bus on Monday on Malout road, while he was returning home on a moped. The accident occurred when a private bus hit his moped near new grain market killing him on the spot. His son, Iqbal Singh (10), sustained serious injuries was rushed to the local civil hospital. The driver of the private bus is absconding. The police has registered a case.
FEROZEPORE
RALLY: Members of the Uttriya Railway Mazdoor Union held a rally here on Monday in support of their demands regarding casual labour service, additional pension and vehicle allowance. The mass awareness campaign had been launched on May 15 and concluded on Monday. The speakers threatened to intensify their stir if their demands were not met by the authorities
concerned.
VISITED: Justice J.S. Kher of the Punjab and Haryana High Court visited the local Central Jail on Sunday and heard grievances of inmates. He decided cases of 14 undertrials who admitted their crimes. Justice Kher directed the District and Sessions Judge to decide the cases of undertrials on priority basis.
KHARAR
ACCUSED SURRENDERS: An accused Jaswinder Singh who escaped from the court of Mr Sanjay
Agnihotri, Judicial Magistrate, Kharar, on April 20 surrendered in the court of Mrs Harinder
Sidhu, Judicial Magistrate, Kharar, on Monday. The court remanded him to
judicial custody till May 24. MEMORANDUM: A delegation of Tewar village, led by its Sarpanch, Mr Mohinder Singh
Hundal, met the SSP of Ropar, Mr G.S. Bhullar on Tuesday and gave him a memorandum, demanding a high-level inquiry into the incident of May 17 in which some persons of Takipur village attacked and injured some residents of Tewar village. They have written that instead of punishing the guilty a criminal case under Section 326 was being registered against some residents of Tewar village.
LUDHIANA
MOCK PARLIAMENT: In order to educate the students about parliamentary procedures, the University Speakers Forum, PAU, organised the second phase of a mock parliament session in the Committee Room of the College of Agriculture recently. The “Speaker” conducted the proceedings, starting with the administration of oath to new MPs, observance of silence in memory of a deceased member of “the parliament”.
NAWANSHAHR
CHAKKA JAM: Mr Lehmber Singh Taggar, general secretary of the Punjab Kisan Sabha, said at a press conference on Monday evening that the five kisan unions of the state would observe ‘‘chakka jam’’ in the state for two hours on May 25 in protest against the anti-farmer policies of the government and to press the state government to waive the loans of the farmers. Mr Taggar said if their demands were not accepted by May 25 the kisan unions would gherao the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on the opening day of the next Assembly session and ‘‘karza mukti andolan’’ would also be
intensified.
PHAGWARA
FELICITATED: A Canada-based Punjabi writer-cum-journalist, Bhupinder Singh, was felicitated here on Monday by Punjabi Lekhak Sabhas of Palahi and
Phagwara. T.D. Chawla and Devinder Singh, president and vice-president of the sabhas respectively, presented a trophy to the NRI
writer.
APPOINTED: Dr Raman Aggarwal has been appointed Director of Studies of IMA College of General Practitioners — an academic wing of the Indian Medical Association
(IMA), Punjab. According to communication by Dr O.P.S. Kande, President of the Punjab IMA received here on Tuesday another local doctor J.S. Virk has been appointed joint secretary of the college.
PHILLAUR
STICKER MISUSE: Several vehicle owners are misusing stickers depicting a red cross and many vehicles displaying these stickers are allegedly being used to transport illegal weapons and spurious drugs. This was stated by Mr Shneel Kamal Singh, Assistant Director and Information Officer of the Indian Red Cross Society, while addressing a two-day “Tracing Orientation Course” organised by the Red Cross at Punjab Police Academy here on Monday. He displayed some stickers depicting signs for “doctors”, pharmacists and hospital vehicles and appealed to all concerned to use their own valid stickers to prevent the misuse of “red cross stickers”.
PATIALA
UNIFORMS DISTRIBUTED: The Red Cross Hospital Welfare Association Chairperson Mrs Ravinder Kaur Bir on Tuesday distributed school
uniforms and books to needy children of Jain Girls Senior Secondary School, here. She said medicines worth Rs 5.50 lakh had been distributed this year. She said more than 100 students had been selected for giving teaching aids.
SANGRUR
DHARNA: A large number of brick kiln workers, including women, under the banner of Lal Jhanda Punjab Bhatha Mazdoor Union staged a dharna in front of the office of the Assistant Labour Commissioner here on Monday. Workers raised slogans in favour of their demands which included the implementation of the Factory Act at brick kilns, Provident Fund scheme for the workers and hike in the wages of brick kiln workers.
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