Sunday,
October 22, 2000, Chandigarh, India
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ABOHAR AMRITSAR AWARENESS WORKSHOP: An awareness workshop for educated and unemployed youth will be held on Monday by the State Bank of India. The workshop will be held at the local District Employment Office. GURDASPUR HOSHIARPUR ELECTROCUTED: Raminder Singh (40), son of Balwant Singh of Gobindpur Khun Khun village, was electrocuted on Thursday while he was repairing electrical wires in his house. LIQUOR SEIZED: As many as 135 cases containing 1620 bottles of country-made liquor and 1 kg of poppy husk were seized from a truck (No PP100-9674) by officers of the Excise and Taxation Department on Thursday. This was stated by Mr P.L. Pyasa, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner, on Friday. The cleaner of the truck, Harjit Singh of Jhinger Kalan, has been arrested while the driver Surinder Singh, alias Chhinda, has absconded. The sadar police has registered a case under Section 61/1/14 of the Excise Act. JALANDHAR KAPURTHALA NAWANSHAHR SEMINAR: The District Rural Development Agency organised a seminar on ‘‘Swaran Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna and Self Help Groups’’ at Baradari Garden here on Friday. The Deputy Commissioner Dr Roshan Sunkaria, inaugurated the seminar. PATHANKOT PATIALA ELECTED: Dr P.P.S. Cooner was elected the president of the ‘Patiala chapter of Old Nabhaites’ during a meeting of the old students of the Punjab Public School, Nabha held here on Friday. Following are the elected members of the executive committee: vice-president — Dr S.S. Sodhi; secretary — Col Baljit S. Longia; joint secretary — Major Manasahia; and treasurer — Mr Surjit Singh Talwar. RAJPURA |
AMBALA FARIDABAD FATEHABAD INAUGURATED: The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anil Malik, inaugurated a fully computerised branch of the State Bank of Patiala at Ratia in the district on Saturday. Mr R.S. Nanda, General Manager of the bank, presided. KAITHAL DEMANDED: The local Urban Estate Welfare Association has demanded the removal of congress grass, installation of street lights and draining out of stagnant water from residential areas. A delegation of the association’s members met Mr Kamal Choudhary, Chairman of the local municipal council, on Friday, and apprised him of their demands. SONEPAT CONSTABLE KILLED: A police constable Ajmer Singh, was killed and three others injured when a jeep carrying them collided with a truck at Gohana town, 35 km from here, on Friday. The police is investigating into the matter. MLA INJURED: Mr Dev Raj Dewan, local MLA, and two others were injured when their car was hit by a truck on the G.T. Road near Taraori, about 150 km from here, on Friday. The injured are said to be out of danger. ASSAULTED: Mr Diwan Singh of Kasandi village was allegedly assaulted by Ram Chander of the same village outside a court room at Gohana town, about 35 km from here on Friday. A case has been registered in this regard. LABOURERS HURT: At least nine labourers were injured, four of them seriously, when a portion of a roof collapsed on them in a factory being constructed at Nathupur village, about 15 km from here, on Friday. The injured labourers were
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