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Amritsar
STABBED TO DEATH: Vijay Kumar, a resident of Khuh Bombaywala stabbed his brother, Raj Kumar (60) to death in the busy Karmo Deorhi in the walled city here on Thursday. He along with his son also seriously injured Rohit Kumar, son of the deceased. A dispute over a shop is said to be the cause of the crime.
Bathinda
CAMP: As many as 500 boys and girls attended a summer camp organised from May 24 to June 8 at the local military station. The camp was conducted under the supervision of Ms Kiran Nandrajog, president, Chetak AWWA, in two sessions.FOETUS: A five-month-old male foetus was found lying near the Bathinda branch of the Sirhind canal on Thursday. MEETING: The annual meeting of chairmen and principals of army schools of Corps Z was held at the local military station on Thursday. HEFTY BILL: Jaspal Singh of Gulabgarh village was stunned after receiving a hefty telephone bill of Rs 11,475 from the BSNL last month. Though he claimed that the bill was a result of ‘‘corrupt practices’’ of some telephone exchange employees, the BSNL said it was probing the matter and it could be due to a technical snag. The BSNL also issued him a fresh bill for Rs 577 on Thursday. Doraha
Hospital gets ISO: Sidhu Hospital Pvt. Ltd. Doraha has been awarded the prestigious ISO 9001- 2000 certification for management and control of its sperating theatres, post-operative recovery and intensive care facilities . This recommendation of quality was conferred to the hospital by a team of specialists from Davis Langton International quality control system Australia which is accredited to JAS-
ANZ. Sidhu Hospital, Doraha, has the latest state of the art operation theatre complex with six operation theatres equipped with most modern high tech world standard equipment. Ferozepore
RAIDS: A team of the Drugs Control Department raided various places in Talwandi Bhai, Mudki, Zira, Guruharsahai, Jalalabad and Ferozepore and seized huge stocks of intoxicating medicines and drugs. Giving details, Dr Barinder Pal Singh, Civil Surgeon, said the team comprising Mr Ajay Singla, Assistant Drug Controller, Punjab, along with Mr Gurbinder Singh, Mr Dinesh Gupta, Mr Sanjiv Garg, all drug inspectors, raided various chemist outlets in the district and recovered huge quantities of illegal and spurious drugs from these places. Hoshiarpur
ABDUCTION: A case of abduction of a teenaged girl has been reported at Tanda police station. According to police sources, Tarlochan Singh of Tanda lodged a complaint regarding the abduction of his 16-year-old daughter. he suspected that Balvir Singh of Bolewal village along with Panna of Tanda abducted his daughter on Thursday when she went to the market at 11 a.m. The Tanda police has registered a case under Section 363 and 366 of IPC against the suspects. Jalandhar
INAUGURATED: Ms Gurkanwal Kaur, Punjab Minister for Social Security and Child Development, inaugurated an Awareness generation camp for women, in which a large number of women, social workers and activists of NGOs participated here on Thursday. Kapurthala
CRUSHED TO DEATH: A 26-year-old man was crushed to death under a train at Hussainpur near here on Thursday. According to information received here, the deceased, Balbir Singh, a resident of Bhalana village near Rail Coach Factory, was deaf and dumb.
Ludhiana
HOUSEFED CHIEF: Mr Krishen Kumar Bawa, newly elected Chairman of the Punjab State Housing Cooperative Federation
(Housefed) on Friday promised that he would infuse fresh life into the federation. Addressing a press conference here today, Mr Bawa thanked the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, without whose support, his election as the chairman would not have been possible. ANNUAL MELA: An annual mela and bhandara of Pir Baba Bhole Shahji will be held on June16 and 17 at the “dargah” located in Ahluwalia Colony at Kuliawal village, Jamalpur
Awana. According to Mr Gora Lal, spokesman, thousands of people from all communities and religions would pay obeisance to the Pir during two days of celebrations. MEDICAL CAMP: Nearly 650 patients were examined at the 6th medical camp, organised by Rishi Harmilapi Nursing Home at Jassian Road here on Thursday with an active participation of Dr Eva Maria Velerado and Dr Love Bridge from Europe. Dr Maria and her colleagues were helping the poor patients in different parts of the world. Dr Rajinder Singh, eye surgeon, Dr Harjinder Singh, medicine specialist, Dr Sunil
Lakhotra, child specialist, Dr Vinay Kakkar, medicine specialist and Dr Inderjit Singh and Dr K.S. Bhalla from the Drug De-addiction Centre of Dr Kotnis Hospital rendered their services at the camp to provide medical consultation to the patients free of cost. DOCTOR COMPLETES FELLOWSHIP: Dr N.K. Aggarwal, Director, Institute of Orthopaedics and Super Speciality Trauma Centre, here has completed an update fellowship in joint replacement surgery at Kings College Hospital in London. One of the prominent orthopeadist in the region, he had earlier trained in UK, Switzerland and the USA. He worked for many years in the UK before coming back to India and has served in leading medical institutions like Christian Medical College and Hospital and Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here. Business
school: Synetic Business School (SBS) which is managed by the Zayn Education Trust, will start a full-time, job-oriented, Masters Programme in Business Management from July 2005.Its trust has a mix of industrialists, professionals and academicians. The business school is having protege of the renowned academician Dr M.A.Zahir (retd professor of Management and Dean College of Basic Sciences, PAU). Muktsar
SENTENCED: The Additional Sessions Judge of the Fast-Track Court, Mr Hardayal Singh, on Thursday sentenced a person to life imprisonment in a murder case. Sources said the deceased, Surjit Singh of Bharu village, had a land dispute with Parvinder Singh of the village. Surjit Singh had urged the sarpanch to sort out the matter. On the fateful day, the deceased was working in the fields with his brothers and nephews, when Parvinder Singh reached there on his tractor. An altercation broke out following which the accused crushed Surjit under his tractor. He succumbed to his injuries at the Civil Hospital, Gidderbaha. Nabha
DHARNA: Students belonging to the Punjab Students Union (PSU) staged a dharna at the Bauran Gate on Tuesday in protest against a sharp increase in the fee of academic institutes and blocked vehicular traffic to Patiala, Malerkotla and Sangrur for more than an hour. Phagwara
ARRESTED: The police has arrested six persons playing dara (gambling) and recovered from them Rs 11000 and a large number of slips used for it on Thursday. The arrested were identified as Kabul Hasan, Rakesh, Ramesh Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Pawan Kumar and Nirmal Kumar. FARMER KILLED: Bhag Singh, 60-year-old farmer, was killed under his own tractor while he was working in his fields at Duggan village on Friday. The tractor he was driving overturned and he was crushed under it. GOLAK STOLEN: A golak was stolen from the Sanatan Dharam Mandir at Bhagatpura Mohalla here on Thursday night. Mr Narinder Sharma, president of the mandir committee, on Friday said that the golak contained about Rs 2,500.
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