Amritsar
CONDEMNED: Mr Gurnder Singh Sodhi, convenor of the Coordination Committee Para-medical and Health Employees, condemned the alleged illegal transfers of para-medical employees by Dr Davinderpal Singh Sandhu, Director, Health and Family Welfare, here. In a press note here on Monday. LIBRARIAN AWARD: The Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarian (SATKAL) will honour Dr T.A.V. Murthy, Director, INFLIBNET/UGC, with the Punjab National Librarian Award at its annual function to be held on December 16 at Guru Nanak Dev University.
INAUGURATED: The new block of Missionary Educational Society Public School, Tarn Taran road, was inaugurated by Mr Raminder Singh Buleria, former Deputy Mayor, Municipal Corporation, here on Monday.
SEMINAR: The district unit of the Field Publicity Department organised a seminar on AIDS and anti-drug abuse at Baba Bakala on Monday, according to a press note.
Barnala
GANG BUSTED: With the arrest of Raaje Ram, Kanshi Ram, Suresh Kumar and Sanjay Kumar, all from Dhanoe village of Hisar district, a gang of burglars has been busted. This was disclosed here on Tuesday by Dr Narinder Bhargav, SSP.
Faridkot
RALLY HELD: workers of the All-India FCI Workers Association covering Faridkot, Moga and Muktsar districts, held a rally on the premises of the District Food Corporation of India office here on Tuesday. They were protesting against the adamant attitude of the district management to properly implement the direct pay system. The protesters charged the management for delaying the clearing of their wages, overtime allowance and bonus.
Fazilka
BLAST VICTIMS: A sum of Rs 19,87,500 was distributed among 18 victims of mine blasts at Army headquarters here on Tuesday. Col Sudhaka G., Major Sanjay Dahia, Major Arjun Singh and Bhupinder Singh Saharan, SDM, Fazilka, distributed the compensation amount. The victims included Dalwinder Singh, Sumitra Bai, Gurdeep Singh, jaswant Singh, Nanak Singh, Meeto Bai, Surjit Kaur, Darshan Singh, Ranjha Singh, Resham Singh, Sohan Singh, Iqbal Singh, Jagir Singh and Mangal Nath.
Jalandhar
GANG BUSTED: The district police claims to have busted a three-member gang of thieves and recovered 80 kg of stolen electric aluminium wire from their possession. The arrested persons were later identified as Makhan Singh, Ram Abhilash and Suresh Kumar. A case has been registered.
Malerkotla
DENTAL CAMP: A dental check-up camp organised under the intensive dental health care programme of the Punjab Health Department at the local Civil Hospital concluded here on Sunday.
Nawanshahr
SAMRITI DIVAS: The local Ralla Mal Bhucher DAV Public School organised Ralla Mal Bhucher Samriti Divas on the school premises here on Sunday to pay homage to the great soul in whose memory land was donated for setting up the school. A blood grouping camp was organised.
