AMRITSAR
PM URGED: The president of the All-India Hindu Shiv Sena, Mr Surinder Kumar Billa, in a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, has urged him to extend the route of new Jammu Tawi-Hardwar express train up to Amritsar.BATALA
OFFICE-BEARERS: The following have been installed office-bearers of the Inner Wheel Club, Batala. president — Payal Aggarwal; vice-president — Meena Chandey; secretary — Rasneet Ahluwalia; and finance secretary — Tunu Bhagowalia.
INSTALLED: The following have been installed office-bearers of the Rotary Club, Batala. president — S.J. Bansal; vice-president — Bhupinder Singh; secretary — Iqbal Singh; and financial secretary — Amrit Sagar Mahajan.
BATHINDA
STIR THREATENED: Mr Malkiat Singh, general secretary of the Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant Employees Union, Lehra
Mohabbat, in a press note issued here on Saturday said senior officers of the plant were not following the policies adopted and agreed to by the employees in the past. He said if the demands of the union were not met by July 11, the union would be forced to agitate.
IMA STATEMENT FLAYED: Dr Arjan Singh Sethi, secretary of the Punjab Medical Practitioners Association, said in a press note issued on Saturday that the statement of the Punjab unit if the IMA that the Punjab Government should not allow the practitioners of alternative systems of medicine to
practice allopathy was uncalled for. He said those practicing Unani and ayurvedic systems of medicine were allowed to do so as per a decision of the Supreme Court.
FARIDKOT
TRIBUTES PAID: Thousands of people paid tributes to Mayadevi, wife of eminent freedom fighter Pandit Chetan Dev and mother of former Punjab minister and senior Congress leader Opinder Sharma, during the “bhog” ceremony here on Sunday. She died on June 25 after prolonged illness.
GURDASPUR
MEDICAL CAMP: More than 1,000 persons were examined at a medical
camp held by the Army at Jangal Bhawani on Saturday and Sunday. Refreshments were also given free of cost.
INAUGURATION: More than 500 persons attended the inauguration ceremony of the early cancer detection and rehabilitation centre organised by the local Inner Wheel Club here on Sunday. Mr Khushhal Behl, Education Minister, was the chief guest on the occasion. Mr Behl announced a grant of Rs 50,000 for the centre.
HOSHIARPUR
THEFT: The police has registered a case against Ashu Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Bharat Bhushan and Mintu, all residents of Talwara, for stealing a TV, a camera, an audioplayer, a neckless and Rs 650 in cash from the house of Mr Ajay Kumar at Sector 3, Talwara, on Saturday.
BOOKED: On a complaint by Charanjit Kaur of Laksihan village, the Mahilpur police has registered a case under Section 420, IPC, against Joginder Singh, a travel agent of the same village, and Bilbiro of Bathinda for duping her of Rs 12 lakh for sending her son abroad.
LAHAN SEIZED: A team of Excise staff headed by Mr Piyush Kant Sharma, Excise and Taxation Officer, raided Mochpur, Tairkiana, Passi Bet, Mullanpur, Talli, Rara, Johlan villages located in the Mand area of the Beas river in this district on Saturday. Ms Neelam Chaudhry, Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer, said 21,500 kg of lahan, 60,000 ml (80 bottles) of illicit liquor and four working stills had been destroyed in the Mand area. She said six bottles of illicit liquor had been seized from Neelam, wife of Roop Lal of Urmur Tanda. A case under Sections 61/1/14 of the Excise Act had been registered against them.
KHARAR
LICENCES ISSUED: More than 300 driving licences were issued on the spot at a camp organised by the local Rotary Club in association with the Licencing Authority here on Sunday. More than 600 persons attended the camp and submitted their applications. Mr Harpreet Singh
Rekhi, president of the club and Mr Vinod Kapoor, project chairman, said the remaining applicants would be issued licences on July
12.
MANSA
RAID: Officials of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau raided the residence of Tarsem Singh Mittal, Naib Tehsildar, posted at Sunam in the Sangrur district, here on Friday. The officials recovered a Santro car, a motor cycle, three air conditioners, 27 bottles of liquor, Rs 21,190 and other domestic articles. A case under the Punjab Excise Act has been registered in the City police station.
FAKE CURRENCY: The City police has apprehended Prem Kumar Jindal, a local businessman, while making payment through fake currency note of Rs 500 to Mr Uma Shankar Sethi, a local wholesale vegetable dealer. The dealer said Jindal had earlier also made payment through fake currency notes of Rs 500.
MOGA
POPPY HUSK: The city police on Saturday arrested Chamkaur Singh and Gurjant Singh, residents of Rajaana village in the district, and recovered 15 bags of poppy husk from them. They were arrested while waiting for a bus to transport the bags to some other place.
PATHANKOT
DHARNA : The dharna and chain fast led by the BJP leader and former Education Minister, Master Mohan Lal, entered its 11th day on Sunday. The protesters are demanding the cancellation of the FIR registered against Mr Vikram Mahajan and Mr Gulshan Kumar.
PHAGWARA
FIVE INJURED: Five members of a family, including two children and two women, were injured in an accident between a jeep and a van on the GT road at Chaheru on Friday. The injured have been identified as Maya Rani, Mela Ram, Rani, Baby and Gita.
NABBED: A proclaimed offender (PO), Bhapa Devi, has been arrested by the local police. She was wanted in cases registered in 1998. She had jumped bail. She was declared a PO by the court in the same year.
FIRE: A fire broke out in a shop in the local Bansanwala Bazar on Thursday. It spread to two adjoining shops. The Fire Brigade doused the flames. The loss could not be ascertained.
TARN TARAN
SITE FOR DISPENSARY: Several political, religious, social and others organisations of the town have urged the local civil administration to allot a site for the civil dispensary, which was at present functioning at mohalla Jasse Wala.
