Amritsar
SEMINAR: The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysis of India (ICFAI) organised a seminar on ‘Career planning to achieve personal goals’ on Tuesday. Mr N. Balaji, senior manager of the institute, said the objective of the seminar was to help identify the challenges and opportunities in the new emergent India and relate them to personal objectives and career prospect.NRI CELL: The district authorities established an NRI cell on the local court complex to redress their grievances. Stating this in a press note issued here on Tuesday, Mr Raminder Singh, Deputy Commissioner, said the cell had become operational and would deal with various problems faced by NRIs. For this purpose the NRI sabha would work and would even take help of the police, he added.
Jalandhar
HEROIN SEIZED: The district police has arrested a migrant labourer on the allegations of smuggling narcotics and seized 2.5 kg
heroin from his possession. According to the police, the arrested person has been identified as Narayan Singh of Betai district in Bihar. A case under Sections 20, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act has been registered.
KISAN SABHA: The Punjab Kisan Sabha on Tuesday urged upon all political and farmer organisations not to issue provoking statements over the issue of SYL canal which could flare up sentiments of the people in both states. Mr Lehmbar Singh Taggar, state general secretary of the sabha, in a press note, said Punjab has no surplus water to share with Haryana.
LUDHIANA
DIKSHA JAYANTI: Prayers meetings were held in various parts of the town on Tuesday in connection with the diksha jayanti of Acharya Atma Ram Maharaj. Rattan Muni Maharaj spoke on the life of Acharya Atma Ram after a recitation at the Samadhi of Acharya Moti Ram on the Gaushala Road. He said that Acharya Atma Ram worked for establishing a society having no discriminations.
KANWAR SANGH: A meeting of the Jai Bhole Kanwar Sangh, which was held at Naya Mohalla here on Tuesday, decided to send a batch of 31 kanwars to Hardwar from where they would bring holy Ganga water to be offered at the local Sanglan Wala Shivala on July 15, according to Mr Ram Lal Singla.
KAVI DARBAR: In the memory of Baba Banda Bahadur, the management of gurdwara Singh Sabha, Sarabha Nagar, in collaboration with Sikh Missionary College, would organdie a shaheedi kavi darbar on June 27, according to a press release by the gurdwara management. Among the prominent poets who would take part in the darbar are Rabinder Singh
Masroor, Balbir Singh Ball, Sadhu Singh Dard, Satnam Singh Komal, Sukhjinder Kaur Sukhi and Joginder Singh Kang.
CHATURMAS: Shri Amar Muniji Maharaj, a disciple of Shri Atma Ramji, will spend his
"Chaturmas" at the Jain Sthanak in Rupa Mistry street, according to Mr Moti Lal Jain, president,
S.S. Jain
Biradari. The muni will be arriving along with his disciples at the sathanak on June 25 to spend his
"Chaturmas" in the company of Bhole Baba Rattan Muniji there as directed by his acharya Shiv
Muniji.
INSTALLATION DAY: Shri Gopal Mandir at Iqbal Ganj here celebrated its eighth annual idol installation day with religious fervour on Monday. The celebrations got off to a flying start with the holding of
havan-yajna under the supervision of Pandit Badrinath. Later, a sankirtan was held in which members of the Shri Mahadev Sewa Dal and members of the Mahila Sankirtan Mandal rendered hymns.
Moga
TRADER ROBBED: Employees of an octroi contractor allegedly snatched Rs 20,000, a mobile phone and some documents from a Mansa-based trader at Badhani Kalan village on Monday night. The Badhani Kalan police has registered a case and arrested the octroi contractor, Sukhdev Singh, and one of his employee Mandar Singh. The trader, Mr Sham Singh, was on his way from Amritsar to Mansa, when around 11 pm, some armed persons in an open jeep allegedly looted him at gunpoint.
Nawanshahr
DEMAND: Residents of the local Jain Colony here submitted a memorandum to the Executive Officer, of the municipal council here on Tuesday demanding that the licence for the proposed opening of meat shop near the Jain Colony at the Rahon road should not be granted. Besides, Jain Colony, a number of educational institutions are also situated in the vicinity of the proposed site of the meat shop, said Mr Munish Jain, a resident of the colony.
HONOURED: The Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Education Trust Dhahan Kaleran, organised a ‘sanmann samaroh’ on the trust premises on Tuesday. Dr Inderjit Kaur, president of the All-India Pingalwara Charitable Society, Amritsar, presided over the function and honoured distinguished personalities of about 15 villages, who have not only been donating wheat but also extending cooperation to collect wheat from about 250 villages for the langar for patients and their attendants, for the past two and half decades.
