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Amritsar
THREE BOOKED: The district police on Thursday booked three persons, including a woman, on the charge of murdering Dilbagh Singh of Boharwala village in November last year. Dilbagh was allegedly poisoned to death by Harjit Kaur, her husband, Resham Singh, and Rajbir Singh of Nive Tung village. The police has registered a case under Sections 302, 201 and 34 of the IPC at the Civil Lines police station.Hoshiarpur
CASE REGISTERED: On a complaint of Kavita, wife of Sameshwar Dutt Mehra a resident of Ward 6, Dasuya, the police has registered a case under Sections 498A and 406 of the IPC against her husband, father-in-law Lekh Raj Mehta, mother-in-law Sandhya, brother-in-law Nikhil and sister-in-law Raj Reema, residents of Datarpur. In her complaint, she alleged that her in-laws had thrown her out of the house for not bringing dowry. Jalandhar
INTERACTION: A large number of ex-servicemen interacted with Dr Swaran Singh, Jalandhar Divisional Commissioner, during his visit to the District Sainik Welfare Office here on Wednesday. Lieut-Colonel Manmohan Singh, Deputy Director of the Sainik Welfare, Jalandhar, briefed them about the courses being run by the Zila Sainik Board and its pre-recruitment training centre. The Commissioner also visited the Punjab State War Memorial and its “Kargil Corner”. Kapurthala
VISIT : Mrs Lakshmi Raman, wife of Lt-Gen S. Pattabhiraman and president, Vajra Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA), visited the Military Station, Beas, on Thursday and attended a family welfare meet organised by the Double Victory Brigade. Mrs Raman also inaugurated ‘‘Suvidha’’, the AWWA grocery shop, at the Double Victory shopping complex. Eleven war widows from neighbouring villages were honoured on the
occasion.
Moga
ELECTROCUTED: Hakim Singh, a lineman of the PSEB, was electrocuted which he was repairing a transformer in the town on Thursday. His body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.
Nawanshahr
CONVOCATION : Dr Amarjit Singh Dua, Dean, College Development Council, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, presided over the annual convocation at the local BLM Girls College here on Thursday. He conferred degrees on 220 graduates. He also honoured three college students — Nisha Sharma, Arti Sengar and Arti Chawla — for excelling at the national and state levels in co-curricular activities. Ms C. Tassavur, Principal read out the annual report of the college.REPAIR OF ROADS : Mr B.C. Gupta, Finance Commissioner, Punjab, while presiding over a meeting of district officials here on Thursday, said the state government would spend Rs 264 crore to ensure round-the-clock power supply in each village of the state by June 30 this year. He said the government had completed the repair of roads constructed during 1994-95 and would start the repair of 20,000-km length of roads constructed during 1996-98. Sangrur
INAUGURATED : Mr Arvind Khanna, local MLA, here on Thursday inaugurated a water treatment plant, installed at a cost of Rs 10 lakh, at the swimming pool in Banasar Garden. The MLA also laid the foundation stone for the repair of the Sangrur-Sunam road. The road will be repaired at a cost of Rs 46.45 lakh in about 40 days. OFFICE-BEARERS : The following have been elected office-bearers of the Revenue Class Four Union, Deputy Commissioner’s office, Sangrur : president — Mr Karamjit Singh; vice-president — Ms Vidiya Devi; general secretary — Mr Rajwinder Singh Haripura; and treasurer — Mr Parshotam
Kumar.
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