Sunday, June 25, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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AMRITSAR NO RATION CARDS: The residents of Sahibzada Fateh Singh Nagar, outside gate Hakima, have complained that the civil supplies authorities have not issued ration cards to them. No officer has ever visited the area to conduct a survey for ration cards, they claimed. The Public Welfare Society has requested the authorities to look into the matter and do the needful. HOSHIARPUR MALERKOTLA MOGA DEMONSTRATIONS: Members of the Water Supply Sewerage Karamchari Union’s local unit on Friday staged demonstrations in protest against the alleged manhandling of their co-workers by shopkeepers in the main bazar when they were digging nullahs in the area. They threatened that if the local administration did not take action against the shopkeepers concerned they would stop their work and intensify their agitation. NAWANSHAHR PROMOTIONS SOUGHT: A deputation of the Punjab State General Category Welfare Federation, under the presidentship of Mr Shamlal Sharma, met the DPI (Schools) and the Education Secretary, Punjab, at Chandigarh on Thursday and urged them to expedite their promotions. The deputation also urged them to prepare rosters for granting promotions to fill the backlog of vacancies. OFFICE-BEARERS: Mr Vinod Kumar Arora and Mr R.K. Jain have been elected president and secretary, respectively, of the local Rotary Club. PATHANKOT PATIALA HIJACK CASE: The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr M.S. Chouhan, on Saturday adjourned hearing into IC-814 hijacking case, in which an Indian Airlines plane was diverted to Kabul after taking off from Kathmandu. The three accused — Abdul Lateef, Yusuf Nepali and Dalip Kumar — were produced before the judge under tight security arrangements. While Abdul Latif and Yusuf Nepali had been apprehended from Bombay during the stand-off at Kabul, Dalip Kumar had been arrested from Kalimpong. Latif and Nepali are accused of supplying arms and ammunition to the hijackers. Dalip was responsible for procuring these. — TNS JE's STIR: The 24-hour chain fast by Junior Engineers of the Punjab State Electricity Board against the violation of wage formulation committee recommendation entered the third day on Saturday. Mr Davinder Singh, Additional General Secretary of Junior Engineers Council, said in a press release that they were fighting against injustice meted out to their cadre in regard to pay scales and promotional scales. APPEAL: Lion’s International appealed to the people of Patiala on Friday for donation of their eyes. Mr N.K. Dutta donated his late father V.P. Dutta’s eyes, who died on June 13. His eyes have benefited Gurdial Singh of Jakhwali village and Sukhwinder Kaur of Lambe village. Mr V.D. Shoria appealed to the residents of Patiala to come forward to help those who were deprived of the beautiful sight of this earth. PHAGWARA TWO KILLED: One Radhey Shyam Tewari was killed in an accident near Rawalpindi village on Friday. He hailed from
Ghaziabad. Gulshan was injured in the mishap. In another accident, a scooterist was knocked down by a speeding vehicle here.
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ROHTAK CREMATED: Lt. Col (retd) Balbir Singh Bahiya (78) was cremated on Friday in the presence of a large number of prominent citizens and political leaders, including Mr Ranbir Singh, a former MP and freedom fighter, and Ms Krishna Gehlaut, Ms Shanti Rathi and Mr Mehar Singh Rathi, all former ministers. He died at Base Hospital, Delhi, on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He is survived by his wife and four sons. Born in this district in 1921, he joined the army in 1939 and participated in World War II. He also took part in the Indo-China war in 1962. VC TO MEET PUBLIC: The Vice-Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand University, Maj-Gen B.S. Suhag, will be available for meeting the public from 12.30 p.m. to 1.15 p.m. during week days. The Vice-Chancellor’s secretariat has introduced a schedule for disposal of office business with immediate effect. The time for meeting deans of faculties, heads of university teaching departments and branch officers will be 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 noon. SIRSA THREE HURT: Three persons suffered injuries in a shootout between two groups of a family in Kuttabarh village of the district, according to the information received here on Friday. An old dispute between Chanderpaul and his cousin Ram Lal and Satpal led to the incident. The police has booked
Richpal, Dharampaul, Subhash and few others in connection with the incident. SONEPAT
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BILASPUR PANCHAYATS WARNED: Deputy Commissioner Jagdish Chander Sharma has given a warning to all panchayats in the district to issue ration cards as per rules. He has directed that the names of only those living permanently in the panchayat area should be included in the ration card and the names of those belonging to a panchayat but living outside its jurisdiction should not be included in the ration card. ALLOCATED: Mr Suresh Chandel, MP, has said that the Centre has allocated Rs 300 crore for the construction of Banupali-Bilaspur railway line. Accompanied by Himachal Minister of State for Cooperatives Rikhiram Mondal, he addressed a series of public meetings at Jarloo, laid the foundation stone of a mahila mandal bhavan at Karch, inaugurated a Rs 2.20 lakh bridge, laid the foundation stone of a mahila mandal bhawan at Sangaswin and opened a mahila mandal bhavan at Tamri in Gehadwin assembly constituency on Thursday. MANDI NAHAN SENTENCED: Mr Manoj Kumar Bansal, additional Judicial Magistrate, has sentenced Kanheya Lal and Shahid Mohammad, both workers of a local rosin and turpentine factory, to simple imprisonment for 3 months each and imposed a fine of Rs 1000 each on them. On January 22 this year, both accused
trespassed into the official residence of Mr S.D. Sharma, General Manager, HP Rosin and Turpentine Factory, manhandled and abused him and threatened to kill him.
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