Abohar
PTI booked: A Physical Training Instructor (PTI) has been booked under various sections of the IPC, police sources said on Sunday. Some students put up posters on the boundary wall of Government Senior Secondary School at Tarkhanwala village near here claiming that they had found the PTI in a compromising position with an ad hoc computer training teacher inside a classroom. Resenting this the villagers held a demonstration on the school campus. The police has taken the PTI into custody, sources added.
Amritsar
Implication alleged: Demanding a probe, the Shiromani Khalsa Dal and the Khalra Mission Committee on Sunday alleged that Palwinder Singh Khadoor Sahib, who was arrested by the Tarn Taran police for allegedly having links with ISI on February 3, was being implicated in a false case. In a joint statement here Mr Balwinder Singh Jhabal of the dal and Mr Jasbir Singh Padri, Chairman, KMC, alleged that the CIA staff of Tarn Taran had been harassing and torturing Palwinder, his brother Jaswinder Singh and other members of the family for the last one month.
Jalandhar
Gang busted: A gang of auto lifters was busted by the police with the arrest of two of the members of the gang on Monday. Those arrested are Punit Kumar and Vinod Kumar alias Tinku, both residents of Basti Sheikh. They have been booked under Section 379 of the IPC. The police has also recovered five motorcycles and one scooter from their possession. The officials said they were looking for two other members of the gang, Raju and Kali.
Decision hailed: The railway employees here have hailed the
judgment given by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). The tribunal has cancelled the letter issued by Railway Board on July 23, 2004 in which it had proposed the merger of Station Master, TI, and ward masters. CAT has also instructed the Railway Board to once again give reservations under the Reservation Policy within a period of three months. The tribunal has also stalled all proceedings specified in the letter and has said that the merger would not be applicable anymore.
Art exhibition: Art Dot, a venture in visual art, organised a painting and drawing exhibition at Desh Bhagat Yaadgaar Hall that concluded on Monday. Works of as many as 30 artistes from Kapurthala, Phagwara, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur were put on display. Ms Surjit Kaur of Art Dot said the main purpose of the exhibition was to bring about aesthetic awareness among the visitors.
Campus interview: Lyallpur Khalsa College would hold a joint campus placement for 17 colleges of Punjab on Wednesday, February 8. Representatives from Wipro Technologies choose IT graduates for its Wipro Academy of Software
Excellence Programme. Also on offer are sponsorships for a four-year integrated Masters in Software Engineering at BITS, Pilani. Last year, Wipro had selected 24 candidates from the campus.
Honour: The Punjab Publishers’ Association on Monday honoured Mr Sohan Lal Khanna of Raj Publishers with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the printing and publishing industry, a press release said.
Kapurthala
Election: NRI Sabha’s Kapurthala unit will hold elections for the post of the President on February 15 at Bachat Bhawan. Ms Ranjit Kaur, General Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, informed this in a press release issued here on Monday. All the members of the district NRI Sabha could participate in the election, the release added. Mr A.K. Sikka, SDM, Kapurthala, has been appointed the returning Officer.
Phagwara
Newborn’s body found: The Railway Police recovered the body of a newborn male child dumped in the shrubs near the Satnampura railway track at the back of the sugarmill on Saturday.
Ropar
Adventure camp: An adventure camp organised for the students of the Dashmesh academy and neighbouring schools to inculcate trust and empower them to take the task of responsibility concluded here on Sunday. A team of professionals was called to help the students to overcome fear, trust others, work as a team, said the Principal of the academy, Mr Arun Kumar Sharma.
