Amloh
Dharna: The Cane Sangharsh Committee of the SAD (Amritsar) staged a dharna in front of the main gate of Nahar Sugar Mills here on Thursday to protest against the non-payment of sugarcane at Rs 20 per quintal. The sugarcane was procured by the sugar mill last year at the rate of Rs 100 per quintal, whereas the farmers were paid Rs 80 per quintal and the balance of Rs 20 was promised to be paid later, which has not been paid as yet. They raised slogans against the Central and state governments and the mill management. Addressing the gathering, the chairman of the committee demanded payment of the balance amount with interest. Mr Satnam Singh Bheru, president, All-India Bharati Kisan Union, criticised the anti-farmer policies of the state government.POLICE-PUBLIC MEETS: To review the law and order situation and the problems of the people, Mr B.S. Randhawa, SHO, who has taken over the charge recently, called a meeting of the councillors, shopkeepers, sarpanches and media persons on Thursday evening. Mr Jeevan Kumar, president, Arhtiyas Association, pointed out that a police party from Ludhiana picked up at lease 12 youths and made searches in their houses without informing the local police or the councillors of their respective wards. The SHO assured to take up the matter with the higher authorities.
Body
building: The Amateur Body Building Association of Fatehgarh Sahib district is organising the second Mr Junior and the third Mr Senior Fatehgarh Body Building competitions in Mandi Gobindgarh on January 25. Mr Deepak Sapra, chairman of the club, said in a press release here on Friday that Mr Joginder Pal Singla and Mr Jagmeet Singh Sahota will be the chief guest and guest of honour, respectively.
Amritsar
WOMAN HELD:
Mahbooba, wife of Abdul Rasheed, a resident of Bahila village under Shipora Saula tehsil in Srinagar, was arrested at Attari railway station while boarding Samjhauta Express with a fake passport on Thursday. This is the first such case since the resumption of the bi-weekly Samjhauta Express.
PLEA: Mr Tarlochan Singh, Chairman, National Commission for Minorities
(NCM), has urged the SGPC to take up the matter regarding the banning of headgear in schools of France with the Secretary General of the UNO. The NCM has prepared a three-page note on this issue, which is likely to be submitted to the UNO, incorporating the Declaration of
1981.
Ludhiana
CELEBRATIONS ON R-Day EVE: Flag hoisting and singing of patriotic songs marked the Republic Day
eve celebrations at Pearls Nursery School, Gurdev Nagar, here on Friday. The kids came to the school wearing tricolour caps and badges as they carried the National Flag in their hands. Mr Rajnish Dhaliwal, chief guest, unfurled the flag as the tiny tots sang patriotic songs like
Nanna munna rahi hun and Vande Mataram. Teachers told the kids about the importance of Republic Day. The programme concluded with the singing of the National Anthem.
Basant
Panchmi: A three-day religious festival in connection with the Basant Panchmi celebrations opens at Dera Harisar at Kilaraipur village, about 25 km from here, tomorrow, according to dera sources. Swami Budh Puri, who heads the dera but spends most of his time at Malki village, is arriving to preside over the celebrations that are a great annual attraction for thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad. On the occasion, Swami Budh Puri would demonstrate a new method of meditation with the help of sun rays. The swami, who once taught at Engineering College, Allahabad, as a lecturer, has invented the method after a long research.
PNB Cultural
Meet: The 21st Punjab National Bank inter-region cultural meet will be organised here from January 24 to 25. A spokesman of the bank said here on Friday that Mr U.S. Bhargava, general manager, Punjab Zone, will be the chief guest and will inaugurate the cultural meet. About 130 participants from eight regions of the Punjab zone i.e. Amritsar, Bathinda, Chandigarh, Ferozepore, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana will participate in the Meet. The participants will take part in mono acting, light vocal solo, classical vocal-solo, classical instrumental, western classical instrumental, rare and innovative music (instrumental) and group song, one-act play and group dance followed by a prize distribution function. A committee has been formed under the leadership of Mr V.K. Gupta, deputy general manager.
Phagwara
ANNOUNCED: The Punjab Social Welfare Minister, Mr Joginder Singh Mann, on Thursday declared that the ‘ashirwad scheme’ would start from January 26, Under the scheme Rs
6,100 would be given for the marriage of SC and Christian girls, he said at a function.
BODY FOUND: A student of a local college, Jaspal who had been missing since Sunday, was found murdered near Chohal on the Hoshiarpur-Chintpurni road in Hoshiarpur district it. The body was recovered from a roadside ditch,
as learnt here on Thursday.
Phillaur
TWO DEAD: Two labourers, Bija of Chak Kalan and Nikku of Bihar, died in Shankar village due to suffocation caused by a poisonous gas in a plant. The bodies
were sent to Nakodar Civil Hospital for the post-mortem examination.
Tarn Taran
GRANTS: The Amritsar district administration has distributed grants worth Rs 66.35 lakh to ex-servicemen under different welfare schemes in the district during the current financial year. This was stated by Mr Raminder Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, while addressing a meeting of the ex-servicemen, family members of ex-servicemen at Chohla Sahib on Wednesday.
