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Amritsar
PLACEMENT: Nineteen students of MBA (final year), Guru Nanak Dev University, have been placed through campus recruitments. A salary slab of Rs 1.80 lakh has been offered to four students by a multi-national pharmaceutical company. “Eli-Lilly”, The HDFC Bank selected five students, while Malwa industries, Ludhiana, selected three. two students were selected y Khanna paper Mills here and Dhanwantri Ayurvedic, a pharmacy firm, selected one university student. Capart, New Delhi, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Rural Development, selected four students.WARNED: The SGPC President, Bibi Jagir Kaur, took a tour of Haryana to deter Sikhs from falling prey to alleged misleading propaganda indulged by some Haryana politicians to introduce a bill for the formation of the Haryana Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbhandak Committed, if voted to power KILLED: Kulwinder Singh, a resident of Gujjarpura locality was allegedly strangled to death by his brother Jatinder Singh along with Sher Singh and Nikku of the same area here on Monday. A case under Section 302 has been registered. According to information the accused, Jatinder Singh, allegedly had illicit relations with the wife of the deceased. SI Nabbed:
The Vigilance Bureau has nabbed Surinder Jit, SI, posted at Civil Line police station here while he was taking Rs 1000 as bribe to release documents of an auto rickshaw to the driver. The accused has been sent to a two-day police remand. A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered. Gurdaspur
NOMINATED: Col Dharam Singh (retd) has been nominated convener of the Punjab unit of the Rashtriya Raksha Dal. he was earlier the district president of the party at
Gurdaspur. Hoshiarpur
SENTENCED: Mr Balbir Singh, Additional Sessions Judge, Hoshiarpur, on Tuesday sentenced Gurwinder Singh of Denowal village to 10 years’ imprisonment and fined him Rs 1 lakh under Sections 15, 61, 85 of the NDPS Act. Khamano
SUSPENDED: Bahadar Singh, Deputy Director, Panchayat, Punjab, through a notification has suspended a lady panchayat member, Mrs Manjit Kaur, of Chari village, near here, and has barred her from taking part in any meeting of the village panchayat. This action was taken against her on the charge of illegal grabbing of village land. In the meantime, the lady panch has challenged the order in the court of Director, Panchayat, where she was given a stay order till February 2. FLAYED: Leaders of the Punjab Field and Workshop Workers Union, Kulwant Singh, Malagaar Singh Khamano and Sukhram Kalewal, through a press note flayed the lathicharge and arrests of unemployed teachers at Patiala. The leaders said the present Congress government is working like the past Akali-BJP government and is trying to rule Punjab with an iron fist. They also supported the struggle of powermen and warned against the privatisation of the Electricity Board. They also appealed to the workers to unite in the larger interests of employees.
Ludhiana
INAUGURATED: Rainbow, a Franchise of Kidzee at Sarabha Nagar opened here today. School for pre-nursery kids was inaugurated by Swami Mohan Dass Ji Maharaj. Kidzee has come up with a structured curriculum.
Nawanshahr
CRITICISED: Mr Lehmber Singh Taggar, state CPM committee member and president, Punjab Kisan Sabha, while
criticising the “anti-farmer’ policies of the previous SAD-BJP government as well as the present Congress government, said that the CPM had drawn up a comprehensive plan to intensify stir to raise the genuine demands of the farming community.
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