Friday, May 26, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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BATHINDA DHURI FATEHGARH SAHIB LUDHIANA MALERKOTLA APPOINTED: Mr Sayed Mumtaj Ahmed Shah appointed chairman of the local Improvement Trust for two years at a function held here on Wednesday. Mr Nusrat Ikram Khan Bagga, Cabinet minister, SDM Jaspal Singh Jassi and DSP Surinder Singh Saini were also present on the occasion. NAWANSHAHR PATIALA PHILLAUR ROPAR ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Panchayati Raj (PR) Class-I Engineers Association: president- Mr Satish Chawla; general secretary- Mr Mohinder Pal; and vice- president- Mr Kuldip Singh Garcha. PROTEST: The ETT candidates held a protest march and sat on a dharna in front of the local secretariat on Wednesday against the decision of the Punjab Government to consider B.Ed. candidates for the recently advertised primary teachers posts. Mr Avneet Chada, general secretary of Unemployed Elementary Teachers Union alleged Mr Tota Singh, Education Minister, Punjab, had gone back on the assurance given to the ETT candidates on January 16, 2000. He had said the government would not consider B.Ed. candidates for these posts. However, now the B.Ed. candidates have been asked to apply for the posts. SAMRALA |
AMBALA GATHERING: The Senior Vice-President of the Kisan Cell of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Mr Randhir Chaudhary, said on Thursday that hectic preparations were on for the farmers gathering to take place at Hisar on June 20. Mr Chaudhary said: We are making all arrangements to ensure that the gathering of farmers is a success. He said that various issues concerning the farmers would be deliberated upon at the gathering. HISAR JHAJJAR SONEPAT ARRESTED: The Gohana police has arrested two of the three culprits, identified as Bijendra of Busana village and Surat Singh of Aahar village, who made an attempt to loot Rs 2.90 lakh on pistol-point from Mr Ved Prakash, a trader from Gohana, on Wednesday. CASE REGISTERED: The
city police has registered a case against an SDO and a
contractor of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing
Board (HSAMB) on the charge of using substandard
materials in the construction of a road between Atlas
Cycle Industries Limited and Milton Cycle Industries
Limited. However, no arrest has been made in this regard. |
CHAMBA NAHAN RALLY: The District Congress Committee organised a protest rally here on Thursday to register its protest against price hike and the "anti-people" policies of the state government. Former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and state Congress President Sat Mahajan led the procession up to the Deputy Commissioners office where they gave a memorandum to him. SOLAN |
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