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Office-bearers elected: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Lions Club Harmony Barnala for the session 2006-2007: president Mr Harish Goyal; vice-president Dr Bharat Vipin Garg; secretary Mr Sanjay Bansal; treasurer Prof Mandeep Ghai; and PRO Prof R.P. Sharma. The following have been elected office-bearers of the Barnala Chartered Accountants Tax Association for the session 2006-2007: president Mr Balraj Singla; secretary Mr Pardeep Goyal; and treasurer Mr Rahul Dev Garg. BATALA
Youth Cong protest: A slogan-shouting procession was taken out by Youth Congress workers of Shampura village in this tehsil to protest against the alleged high-handedness of the sarpanch, Mrs Harjinder Kaur, and her husband Gurinder Singh Shampura who is also a member of the SGPC. The processionists raised slogans against the BDPO of Batala and Mr Shampura. They alleged harassment to a minority community. HOSHIARPUR
Seminar on AIDS: A seminar on the Correct and complete information could prevent from AIDS was organised by the ESI Hospital at Appollo Fibres Limited, Chohal, 12 km from here, on Wednesday. Mr Dipankar Ganguly, Managing Director, Appollo Fibres, said prevention was the only treatment of AIDS. He emphasised the need for mass awakening about this disease. Dr Manjit Kaur, Civil Surgeon, Hoshiarpur, who presided over the seminar, said out of 4.3 crore persons suffering from AIDS, 50 per cent were women in the world. The main cause for spreading this disease was unsafe sex. Man shot at: Mr Harbhajan Singh, alias Babba, was seriously wounded when Bhupinder Singh, alias Bhinda, an employee of the Punjab police posted at Ludhiana, allegedly opened fire on him from his revolver at Sikri PS Hariana village on Tuesday evening. He was admitted to the local Civil Hospital from where he was referred to DMC, Ludhiana. The Hariana police has registered a case against the two under Section 25 of the Arms Act and Sections 307 and 34 of the IPC. NAWANSHAHR
Mandir panel poll: The following have been elected office-bearers of the Prabhandhak Committee, Shiv Mandir, Chowk Pattuan, Rahon: Chairman Mr Inderjit Sehajpal, President Mr Vinod Sehajpal, senior vice-president Mr Jagdish Lal Verma, vice-president Mr Neeraj Chopra, general secretary Mr Naresh Parbhakar, secretary Mr Satya Dev Joshi, joint secretary Mr Pawan Kumar Joshi and cashier Mr Gulshan Kumar Sharma. TARN
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School gets fund: Mr Gurminder Singh Rataul, Chairman of the local Market Committee, presented a cheque for Rs 1.70 lakh to the Rural Education Development Committee (REDC), Government High School, Rataul, on Wednesday under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan.
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