Batala, January 4 A nagar kirtan was taken out in the town today to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh. The procession, started from Gurdwara Kandh Sahib, was led by Panj Pyaras.  A devotee holds swords and shouts slogans during a procession on the eve of birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Amritsar on Thursday. — AFP photo

Over 20 pc polling booths sensitive: DC
Jalandhar, January 4
Over 20 per cent polling stations are either sensitive or hypersensitive in the 10 Assembly constituencies of Jalandhar district. This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Returning Officer, Mr A. Venu Prasad, at a press conference regarding poll arrangements today.

Miscreants damage foundation stone
Hoshiarpur, January 4
Miscreants have damaged the foundation stone of a causeway jointly laid by Ms Santosh Chaudhry, Chairperson, National Safai Karamchari Commission, and her husband, Mr Ram Lubhaya, MLA, on December 24 at Hargarh village.

Batala, January 4
A nagar kirtan was taken out in the town today to commemorate the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.

The procession, started from Gurdwara Kandh Sahib, was led by Panj Pyaras. It passed through Dharampura Colony, the Quadian octroi post, Jalandhar Road, Sukha Singh Mehtab Singh Chowk, Shastri Nagar, Vishwakarma Road, Gurdwara Guru Teg Bahadur, Guru Nanak Nagar, Nehru Gate, Bhandari Gate and concluded at Gurdwara Kandh Sahib in the evening.

The entire procession route was decorated with banners.

The police made elaborate arrangements in this regard.

HOSHIARPUR: A Nagar Kirtan on the eve of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh was taken out by the Singh Sabha in the town. Thousands of men, women and children, including leaders of various political parties, participated. Bazaars were decorated and illuminated to mark the occasion.

PATHANKOT: A nagar kirtan was taken out here on Thursday.

The procession started from Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Saraian mohalla, and passed through various decorated bazaars.

Sweets were distributed among devotees at many places.

Jalandhar, January 4
Over 20 per cent polling stations are either sensitive or hypersensitive in the 10 Assembly constituencies of Jalandhar district. This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Returning Officer, Mr A. Venu Prasad, at a press conference regarding poll arrangements today.

The number of sensitive polling stations may further increase as all stations would further be reviewed after January 29, the last date of withdrawal of nomination papers, he added.

As of now, 271 stations are sensitive and 13 hypersensitive out of the 1,368 polling stations in the district. The highest number of stations is in the Kartarpur constituency with 45 sensitive and one hypersensitive.

He said 13.63 lakh electors might exercise their right to franchise. While 41,186 new voters were registered, 38, 550 were deleted as either they were shifted to some other place or died. In other words, an increase of 0.19 per cent of the electors had been recorded in 2007 electoral rolls as compared to the 2002 Assembly elections, he added.

While the final publication of the voter list was done on Wednesday, even then those eligible voters whose name had been missing in the list might contact electoral registration officers concerned of his constituency to get his or her name included in the list by January 15.

He said the work of photography of voters would be done till January 15 and voters without photo identity cards should avail this opportunity to get themselves photographed.

Nawanshahr, January 4
It is just like a dream come true for the common man. For getting their legitimate work done, the people do not have to waste their time, money and look for a ‘sifarish’ or hanker after middlemen. A number of facilities, including preparation of driving licence, SC/BC/ handicapped /domicile certificate, birth and death certificates, pension cases, arms licence, registration of vehicle and ration card, marriage, electricity bill payment counters and railway ticket booking, are available at the double-storey centrally air-conditioned “Suvidha Centre” set up at District Administrative Complex here.

Besides, satellite Suvidha Centres have been set up recently at the villages of Kathgarh and Rahon. People of remote Kandi and Bet areas in the district can get various services under one roof at these centres.

For NRIs, it has been proving a boon. It has become easy for them to get the copy of the ‘farad’ or register the marriage. Certain NRIs visiting the centre say they get facilities on a par with foreign countries on their motherland.

At present, around 15-20 marriages are registered daily, says Mr Krishan Kumar.

For the convenience of the people, especially those form rural areas, a scheme “Patwari at your call” has been introduced in the district. 

Phagwara, January 4
The local police, headed by the ASP, Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, last night busted a gang of highway robbers, who used to commit robberies in police uniforms and made targets mostly employees of money exchangers.

Dr Gill said today that the police arrested three occupants of the car and seized arms, ammunition and cash from them. The car was intercepted near the Saprod village bus stand on the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway.

The arms include a .32 revolver, one .22 pistol and 22 cartridges, besides a cash of Rs 1.5 lakh from their possession.

The accused were identified as Harjit Singh, a resident of Ludhiana, Jagdeep Singh, a resident of  Nushehra Pannuan in Tarn Taran district, and Surjeet Singh, a dismissed cop of the Punjab police and resident of Aulike village in Bathinda district.