Abohar
Raided: A team from the health department on Friday raided two wholesale medicine shops near the municipal bus stand here. An official spokesman said the owners of the shops failed to provide the legal documents for storing 2.83 lakh prohibited medicines and 235 injections. The shops were sealed and action against the owners was recommended to the authorities. The district health officer also took samples of drinking water in different localities.
AMRITSAR
Govt ignoring poor farmers, says BKU: Atul Kumar Anjaan, national general secretary of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), addressed a rally to mark the birth anniversary of Shaheed Baba Sohan Singh Bakhna, founder member of the Gadhar Movement, organised by the CPI, here on Friday. Earlier, various leaders of the CPI and the BKU, along with hundreds of activists of the party, paid obeisance at the memorial of Baba Sohan Singh
Bakhna.
BARNALA
Medical camp: The Barnala Welfare Club will organise a free medical check-up camp at the Government High School in Barnala on Sunday. Giving this information, club chairman Vivek Sindhwani said patients of blood sugar, brain, heart, spinal cord and stomach ailments would be checked at the camp free of cost.
BATHINDA
School trip: Students from the Different Convent School went on an educational and religious trip to
Salasar, Churu, Sardargarh and Jaipur on December 29, a press note informed on Friday. It was a free trip in which around 25 students from class III onwards participated.
Celebrations: The Bathinda Vikas Manch on Friday held the birthday celebrations of Dishant
Sachedva, daughter of an office-bearer of Shri Arora Bus Sabha Yuva Prakosht, at Phus Mandi where woollens were given to 50 students.
Chandigarh
CM greets people: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday extended his greetings to the people of Punjab on the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh and exhorted them to follow the noble teachings.
Mehboob’s book released: Eminent Sikh scholar Harinder Singh Mehboob said here on Friday. “Sikhism could not be wiped out and its followers would remain in high spirits. However, these crisis have even made them stronger”, he said while speaking at the release of the fourth part of his epic “Elahi Nadar De Pende” here. Others who spoke were Balkar Singh, Gur Taran Singh, Gurtej Singh, Kulbir Singh, Daljit Singh
Bittu.
DERA BASSI
Two injured: Two persons were injured, one of them seriously, when a rashly driven truck, coming from Barwala side, collided with a car on Friday. The injured were rushed to the civil hospital and the truck was impounded. The driver of the truck fled from the spot and a case of rash and negligent driving was registered against him. The two injured include Amit Rana and Sahib Ram, residents of
Hissar.
Dead: An 18-year-old girl died due to poisoning on Friday. The victim, Mandeep
Kaur, a resident of Sheikhpura Kalan village, was unwell and undergoing some treatment. She reportedly consumed an expired medicine and fell unconscious. She was rushed to the Dera Bassi civil hospital from where she was shifted to Government Medical College and Hospital,
Chandigarh, where she died ON Friday afternoon.
Teachers transferred: Six teachers of Government High School at Chatt village have been transferred following disciplinary action. According to sources, head of the school Kamla Devi and five other teachers were transferred on Thursday following complaints that the school had shown very poor results. It was also reportedly discovered by the education department that the school staff had tampered with the results to project a better picture of the school.
Mansa
Traffic awareness: Under the leadership of M.F. Farooqi, senior superintendent of police,
Mansa, a ‘Road Security Week’ was organised on Thursday. On the occasion, a rally was also
organised. The principal of the DAV School, Sudeer Thakur, and the in-charge of the traffic police, inspector Hardyal Singh, flagged off the rally. The students carried placards to create awareness about the traffic rules. The students were made aware of the traffic rules by their teachers and the traffic police,
Mansa.
Moga
2 Cong leaders convicted: A local court has awarded two-and-a-half years rigorous imprisonment to senior Congress leaders and PCC members Amarjit Singh of Rajyana and Lalit Sharma of Baghapurana in a criminal case. Judicial Magistrate Rajvinder Kaur also slapped a fine of Rs 2000 each on them on Wednesday. The duo armed with fire arms trespassed the house of Hardev Kaur and threatened her to handover her husband to them.
Convicted: A local court has awarded two-and-a-half years rigorous imprisonment to senior Congress leaders and PCC members Amarjit Singh of Rajyana and Lalit Sharma of Baghapurana in a criminal case. Judicial Magistrate Rajvinder Kaur also slapped a fine of Rs 2000 each on them on Wednesday. The duo armed with fire arms trespassed the house of Hardev Kaur and threatened her to handover her husband to them.
PATIALA
‘Insure NRIs visiting India’: Baldev Singh
Baluana, president of the World Sikh Intellectual Council, at its meeting held on Friday, urged the authorities concerned to get all NRIs visiting India insured. Baluana also said there was no provision for banks to give loans to NRIs and urged the authorities to provide loans to them. He added that there should be Suvidha Centres so that NRIs could contact these if they had any problems. Baluana said he would take up these demands in an NRI sammelan to be held at Chandigarh and Jalandhar on January 5 and 6 respectively.
Elected: Jathedar Soudagar Singh Moondkhera has been unanimously elected chairman of Primary State Cooperative Agricultural Bank
(PADB) by its board of directors on Friday.
TARN
TARAN
Suspended BDPO booked: A case has been registered at Chabal police station against Rasal Singh,
BDPO, Bhikhiwind, for committing fraud in grants released by the state government under the Punjab Nirman Scheme. The services of the BDPO have already been put under suspension by the
panchayat.
