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Farmers
seek
MSP for wheat
Mansa, February 17
The Bharatiya Kisan Union, Ekta has
demanded announcement of the minimum support price for wheat crop for the season
by the Central Government.
CPI expels
councillor
Mansa, February 17
Mr Seopal Chand Pala, local
municipal councillor, has been expelled from the primary membership of
the CPI for anti-party activities, according to a press note issued
here today by Mr Rekha Sharma, secretary of the local unit of the
party.
More encroachment opposite
Qila Mubarak
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Patiala
The main entrance of Qila Mubarak in the inner city, which has already been robbed of much of its grandeur with most of the open space in front of it being encroached, saw another act of encroachment during the election days with a concrete roof being put on a shop opposite the gate, which earlier like others in its vicinity had only a small tin as a covering on its top.
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The pucca roof which has come up over a shop in front of Qila
Mubarak in Patiala recently. — Photo Subhash Patialvi
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Greatden Browny, who won the first prize in the
All-India Dog Show in Jalandhar on Sunday, seen wearing "Miss
India" title. — PTI photo |
A ‘market’ on
rail track
Moga
One sees large-scale
encroachments, but what is surprising is the sight of a full-fledged
‘‘rehri’’ market in the midst of railway tracks at the main
bazaar level crossing here. As one crosses the bazaar and enters the
four shunting tracks on the busy Ferozepore-Ludhiana section, one is
stunned to see a number of rehris standing in the space between the
tracks, thus forming a mini-market.
Dr
Garg
elected IMA chief
Barnala, February 17
Dr R.C. Garg, a Barnala-based
doctor has been unanimously elected president of the Punjab state
Indian Medical Association (IMA) unit for the session 2002-2003,
following the withdrawal of nomination papers by four candidates.
Wheat crop of 40
farmers ruined
Tarn Taran, February 17
The wheat seeds provided to more
than 40 farmers of the area by KRISHCO, an agriculture-based company,
through the Shahabazpur Cooperative Agriculture Service Society,
Shahabazpur, has ruined their crop.
Two murdered,
jewellery looted
Amritsar, February 17
Raghubinder Singh and his
mother-in-law Chanan Kaur, both residents of Verka, were brutally
murdered by six armed persons late last night. According to reports,
the attackers, who reportedly came at about 1 a.m., forcibly entered
the house and demanded money and jewellery from them. When Raghubinder
refused to give the same they attacked him with iron rods.
One
booked
for cheating
Amritsar, February 17
The city police has registered a
case of cheating against Balwinder Singh who allegedly impersonated a
Manager of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and collected
money from people by assuring them jobs in the SGPC.
Diet and exercise vital in controlling diabetes
Patiala, February 17
“Not only do changes in diet and physical activity prevent and delay the development of diabetes, they actually help restore normal glucose levels in many people with impaired glucose tolerance”.
This was stated by Dr Bindu Kaushal and Dr Munish Chander, both working in the Department of Sports Medicine, National Institute of Sports, while delivering a research paper during the fifth Punjab Science Congress held at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology.
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