BALACHAUR
ARRESTED: Sarwan Singh of Cheema Khudi village in Gurdaspur district was arrested on Friday for carrying 36 bottles of whisky. A case has been registered.

BARNALA
LOK ADALAT: A lok adalat was organised at the local civil courts complex on Sunday by the District Legal Services Authority, Sangrur. Mr Justice H.S. Bedi of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who is also the Executive Chairman of the Punjab Legal Services Authority, Chandigarh, and Mr Justice Amar Dutt supervised the adalat. Mr Dilbagh Singh Johal, Additional Civil Judge (senior division) and chairman of the Legal Services Committee, Barnala, said that of a total of 392 cases, 210 were settled on the spot.

MEDICAL CAMP: The Lions Club (Harmony), Barnala, organised a medical camp at the local Gobind Bansal Charitable Trust complex on Sunday. Hearing aids were given to 50 persons at concessional rates on the occasion. Dr Charanjit, skin specialist, and Dr Gaurav Grover, ENT specialist, examined at least 200 patients.

FARIDKOT
RETIRED: Mr S.K. Bhatia one of the three members of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, retired after completing his five-year term here on Monday.

HOSHIARPUR
CHEAT ARRESTED: The police arrested Baljinder Singh alias Raja of Gignowal village in Jalandhar district. Mr R.P. Mittal, SSP, said here on Sunday that Baljinder Singh used to get motor cycles financed on fake names from financing companies and after preparing fake registration certificate sold them. Four motor cycles have been recovered from him.

COPPER WIRE STOLEN: Some miscreants stole copper wire and other parts worth Rs 30,000 of a transformer of the PSEB at Mehmowal village on Saturday. A case has been registered.

CHAIN FAST: The chain fast started by the Super Bazar Employees Joint Action Committee entered 8th day here on Monday. A rally was also held which was addressed by Mr Mohinder Singh, president, and Mr Kamaljit Singh, general secretary, of the committee. The speakers emphasised that the government controlled stores must exist and allowed to run both in the interest of the Administration and the public.

MAZDOOR SANGH: About 110 delegates participated in the tri-annual conference of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh here on Monday. Inaugurating the conference Mr Ram Dass Pande, all-India secretary of the BMS reiterated the resolve of the sangh to continue unrelenting fight of the organisation against the entry of the multinationals. According to him these were adversely affecting the bread and butter of the Indian workers. The conference unanimously adopted three resolutions, pragmatic abolition of contract labour system by suitably amending the Contract Labour (abolition and regulation) Act 1970; stoppage of indiscriminate disinvestment of public sectors and handing of vital national assets to private sectors; and applicability of the Bonus Act 1975 to all irrespective of any limit as also the abolition of maximum limit of bonus payable. Through another resolution the sangh urged the Chandigarh Administration to revise the rate of minimum wages to Rs 3,500 and to implement all the labour laws effectively. Following office-bearers of the BMS, Chandigarh, were also elected: president — Mr J L Bajaj; working president — Mr Ranbir Sood; vice-president — Mr Darshan Lal Singh; general secretary — Mr Subash Talwar; secretaries — Mr Deepak Sharma and Mr Kali Ram and cashier — Mr Moti Ram. 

HEPATITIS B: The Audit and Accounts Employees Welfare and Health Care Society, UT, completed its three-day hepatitis B eradication camp. The camp was being held at the main office building in Sector 17. According to Mr R.S. Heer, general secretary of the society, more than 1,350 persons were vaccinated during the camp. 

ASSOCIATION: The City Center Sector 34 Building Owners Association has decided to keep themselves away from the auction of residential and commercial sites in their sector on December 6 and 7. The reason sited behind the decision was the feeling of harassment by the building owners of the city sub - centers. In a press release, the president of the association has alleged that despite repeated requests to the officials concerned and the Administrator of Chandigarh, nothing has been done to improve the basic amenities in the area. The association has decided to observe a silent protest and dharna in front of the auction site of the Estate Office on December 7. 

MEMBERSHIP: Mr Peter H Sutherland, Canadian High Commissioner to India, was given the honorary membership of Rotary Club of Chandigarh at a regular meeting of the club, here on Monday. The commissioner while addressing the rotarians talked about the multi-cultural and multi-lingual character of Canada and appreciated the Indians, especially from this region, for contributing to the Canadian economy and society. Mr Sutherland said great opportunities existed for both Canada and India to join hands in the field of infrastructure, banking, insurance and information technology. He compared the Indian economy to an elephant which might be slow at the earlier stages but once it gained momentum it could continue to pursue the path unlike a tiger which could be changing direction every now and then. Earlier, the Rotary Club presented Rs 30,000 to a family of a Kargil martyr. 

AMBALA
RALLY: An inter-state AIDS awareness rally, flagged from Jallandhar, reached here on Sunday. The counsellors participating in the rally talked to the people at bus stand, rickshaw stand and road side dwellers about the methods for preventing AIDS. Two vehicles of Indian Medical Nursing Training Institute have been provided by Mr Kulbhushan Jain and the rally will cover the states of UP, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and reach Chandigarh, a press note issued by programme coordinators, Mr A.S. Kailay and Mr Manav Jain, said. 

HCTU: The Haryana College Teachers Union has welcomed the assurance given by the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, that all long standing demands of the college teachers would be met. The HCTU General Secretary, Dr Sudarshan Gasso, said the announcement was welcomed for giving a time-bound schedule for the payment of pending salaries for the month of September, October and November by December this year. Mr Chautala has announced that the arrears of the new UGC pay scales for the period 1.1.1986 to 1998 would be cleared as soon as the state government receives Centre's share from the HRD Ministry to which the government has already applied, a release said. 

BARWALA
BLOOD DONATION CAMP: As many as 64 units of blood were donated at a blood donation camp organised by the NSS unit of Government College, in the college premises here on Saturday. The camp was inaugurated by Ms Harjit Kaur, principal of the college, and Mr S.K. Monga, Deputy Commissioner of Panchkula ,was the chief guest. 

FARIDABAD
5 KILLED: Five persons, including two women, were killed on Saturday in different incidents here. Kamlesh, a 30-year old woman, died when she was given wrong injection by a private practitioner at Hodal. Another woman was killed by a train while crossing the railway track near old railway station. In another accident, three persons — Raj Kishore, Gopal and Mohan — were killed when the scooter they were riding on was hit by a truck.

NARNAUL
CATARACT OPERATIONS: A medical camp was organised by the local Bharat Vikas Parishad at Civil Hospital here on Saturday. As many as 72 cataract operations were performed. A total of 574 patients were examined.

NAIB TEHSILDAR: Residents of Ateli sub-tehsil have complained that there has been no permanent naib tehsildar in the area for about three months. They demanded one soon as they have to face hardships because of the non-availability of the present naib tehsildar, who also has charge of Narnaul.

BODY RECOVERED: An unidentified body of an old man was recovered by the local police on Saturday evening. The cause of his death is said to be cold weather.

SONEPAT
LAWYERS’ STRIKE: On a call of the coordination committee of the Haryana State Bar Association, lawyers observed a strike here on Monday to press for their demand to set up separate high court for Haryana. The striking lawyers also held a march and submitted a memorandum to the district authorities demanding immediate acceptance of their demand.

MANHANDLED: Certain officials of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam were reportedly manhandled by some persons at Mahra village, 15 km from here, on Sunday. According to official sources, the officials had gone to the village for detecting power theft cases.

ARRESTED: The police on Sunday arrested Krishan at Kharkhauda town, 19 km from here, and recovered a stolen car and a motor cycle from his possession. A case has been registered.

BURN INJURIES: A woman sustained serious burn injuries when her clothes caught fire while she was working in her house in West Ram Nagar here on Monday. According to a report, the woman was referred to a Delhi hospital.

BLANKETS BURNT: Blankets worth thousands of rupees were burnt in a fire when a truck carrying them struck transmission wires on the Tarana road here on Sunday. On receipt of information, the municipal fire brigade arrived on the spot and brought the fire under control.

STRANDED: Scores of passengers, mostly commuters, remained stranded for several hours here and at nearby railway stations on Monday following the cancellation of some long-distance trains by the Northern Railway.

KUMARHATTI
BURGLARY: Five shops were burgled on Saturday night here. Burglars decamped with Rs 6,000 and other valuables.

SHIMLA
MEDICAL CAMP: The Rotary, Shimla Midtown, organised a medical check up camp on Sunday at Primary Health Centre, Kufri. Doctors from Indira Gandhi Medical College and private practitioners examined patients.