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Amritsar
ARRESTED: The district police here on Friday arrested three persons for allegedly making and selling adulterated petrol and seized huge quantity of spurious petrol from them. The arrested persons were Gurinder Singh of Dhakka Colony, Pawan Kumar of Fair Land Colony and Surinder Arora of Gurbux
Nagar.
Bathinda
TRAFFIC: In view of the visit of the President here on May 16, the district administration has decided to divert traffic from Bhucho Chowk to Bibiwala Chowk for five hours. The traffic from Bathinda to Rampura will pass through Bibiwala Chowk, Bibiwala village,
Gobindpura, Bhucho Kalan and Bhucho main crossing. Traffic coming from Rampura towards Bathinda will pass through Bhucho Kalan Chowk, Gurdwara Laverisar Road, Tungwali village,
Bhagu, Phoos Mandi and Jassi Pauwali. MEETING: A meeting of the Regional Teachers’ Forum was held at the local Punjabi University regional centre on Thursday. Members discussed the position paper prepared by the Association of Indian Universities on GATS and its implications on higher education. Dera
Bassi
MEDICAL CAMP: More than 200 patients were examined at a
general medical check-up and dental care camp organised at Janetpur
village by the Sri Sukhmani Institute of Medical Sciences and Research,
Dera Bassi, on Thursday. A team of doctors from the hospital with the
help of volunteers of the NSS unit of the Sri Sukhmani Institute of
Engineering and Technology, Dera Bassi, examined the patients and
distributed medicines free of cost to them.
Hoshiarpur
CONTAMINATED WATER: Mr Jai Gopal Dhiman, president, Social Democratic Party of India, has lodged a complaint with the District Health Officer regarding supplying of contaminated drinking water by the Municipal Council in Premgarh Mohalla and Bazar Vakilan. In a press note here on Friday, Mr Dhiman said water samples were submitted to the health officer. He urged the health officer to get water samples tested and ensure regular chlorination of water.Jalandhar
DHARNA: Irked over the Municipal Corporation move to close down the Sanjay Gandhi Market for vehicular traffic, shopkeepers of the market organised a dharna at the BMC Chowk here on Friday and threatened that they would close their shops in case the flow of vehicular traffic was
stopped.
Kharar
BLOOD DONATION CAMP: As many as 84 persons, including 27 women, donated blood at a camp organised by Shaheed Bhagat Singh Blood Donors Society at Pamour village on Saturday. The camp was inaugurated by Mr Didar Singh Bhatti, member, SGPC. The society had organised nine blood donations camp in one year in which 677 units of blood was donated.
Moga
INSECT FOUND: Sartaj Singh, a teenager from the city, found an insect in a Verka ice-cream bought from an outlet located on Dutt Road here. Sartaj’s father, Dr Narinder Singh, said he had bought Verka’s Milky Treat ice-cream having batch No. 95 and date of manufacture as April 5. He has lodged a complaint with the Civil Surgeon in this regard.
Nawanshahr
MINOR RAPED: A four-year-old girl, Rajni, daughter of Raj Kumar, a hair dresser, was allegedly raped and murdered on Thursday night. According to information, Raj Kumar when came back from his shop at 9.15 pm he found that his other three children were present in the house except Rajni. He asked his wife whereabouts of Rajni, she said she might be playing in the street. After making enquiry from neighbour, they started search for her. At about 11 pm the body of Rajni was found in an ice-box near shops of scrap dealers. They took her to a hospital and reported the police. A case has been registered.PRIZE DISTRIBUTION: The local WL Arya Girls Senior Secondary School organised a prize distribution function on Friday. An NRI couple, Mr Varinder Kundra and Mrs Priyavanda Kundra presided over the function. As many as 55 students were honoured. They donated Rs 21,000 for installing water-cooler in the school. Phagwara
SEIZED: The police here on Friday arrested three motor-cyclists, Umardeen of Khothran road, Jagdish Chander of Sarai road and Pal Singh, alias Ghungari, of Khera village and seized fake currency notes of Rs 30,800. All notes were of Rs 100 denomination. BURNT: Two youths signalled a motor-cyclist Ninder Pal of Begampura to stop on May 12, threw some liquid on him and set him on fire before fleeing. Ninder Pal got serious burns. He was taken to the local Civil Hospital from where he was shifted to Jalandhar KILLED: An unidentified man was killed under Shalimar Express here on Friday. The body was sent to the Civil Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Tarn Taran
GHEROED: A petrol pump situated at Bhagupur village falling under Patti subdivision was gharoed by residents of the area. They alleged that adulterated diesel and petrol were being sold from the pump.
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