AMRITSAR
210 gm smack seized, 1 held: The CIA staff of the local police district on Tuesday seized 210 gm of smack and arrested Pawan Kumar of Ram Nagar Colony, Islamabad, in this regard. A case has been registered. 

2 killed in cylinder blast: Meenu (35) and her five-year-old son Anoop Kumar were charred to death when fire erupted after leakage from a LPG gas cylinder in an area on the Fatehgarh Churian road here. Rajinder Kumar, her husband, was out of the house at that time. 

Bathinda
Flag hoisting: The Punjab State Electricity Board Employees Federation held a flag hoisting  ceremony on the main gate of the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant here on Tuesday. On the occasion, state president of the federation, Surinder Singh Pehalwan said that the federation would not let the government to conduct the unbundling of the PSEB. Jagjit Singh Bhullar has been made the convener of the Bathinda unit of the federation while Mela Singh and Munshi Ram have been made co-conveners. Malkit Singh Saini has been named the general secretary of the 
federation. 

Sangat darshan: A sangat darshan was organised on Tuesday in Ferozepur district on the orders of deputy commissioner Bhagwant Singh. As many as 65 complaints were received at the programme. While 37 were redressed on the spot, for remaining instructions were given to solve them on priority basis. 

LUDHIANA
BKI militant held: The police has nabbed another Babbar Khalsa International militant Sarbjeet Singh. He was accused of helping the accused Gurpreet Singh and Sandeep Singh, both arrested in the Shingaar cinema blast case and RDX smuggling case. He was caught near Mullanpur Dakha on Monday. 

MALERKOTLA
Youth commits suicide: Nirmal Singhof Ahan Kheri village, near here, committed suicide by consuming some poison at his residence on Monday. The police has registered a case. The body was handed over to his relatives after a postmortem examination. 

Mansa
Stolen: A Hero Honda motorcycle was stolen from water works road here on Tuesday. As per available information, one Rajan Garg, who lives in the same area, parked his motorcycle and went to a chemist shop. On return he found the motorcycle missing. A complaint has been lodged. 

Distributed: Asra Lok Sewa Club here on Tuesday distributed woollen clothes, shoes, pens and notebooks to poor children at Government Elementary School, Hirewala. M.M. Sabharwal, assistant commissioner (G), Mansa, was the chief guest on the occasion. A.P. Dubey, manager, State Bank of Patiala, Sudheer Thakur, principal of the school were also present. 

Nangal
Lease: Traders hold protest: Life was hit in Nangal town on Tuesday following a protest by traders against the BBMB. All business establishments in the town, even vegetable vends remained closed. The traders gathered before the office of the chief engineer (Irrigation), BBMB,and organised a dharna. The traders alleged that because of the policies of the present management of the board most of the traders here were facing threat of losing their livelihood. Most of the traders settled in the town in 1955 when the BBMB established a temporary market to cater to the demands of labourers employed for the construction of the dam. The traders have demanded that the BBMB should recognise the present occupants of the shops and enter into fresh lease agreements with them as they had been running business here since decades. They also alleged that the chairman of the board had formed a five-member committee to sort out the matter with lease holders in the town. However, the committee had not held even single meeting with the traders. The BBMB authorities said they were open to talks with the traders. 

Nawanshahr
Eye donation: Manjit Kaur donated eyes of her brother Jaswant Singh, who died here on Tuesday, to the District Eye Donation Society. Similarly, eyes were donated by Hardeep Singh (19) of Bhagauran village on Monday. Spokesman for the society Rattan Jain said the eyes had been sent to the Punarjot Eye Bank, Ludhiana, for transplantation. 

Sabha chief: Tarsem Lal Jain has been unanimously elected president of the local S.S. Jain Sabha for the second consecutive term. 

3 arrested: The police arrested three persons for allegedly committing a burglary at a mobile phone shop on the night of December 12. The accused have been identified as Deepak Kumar, a resident of Nepal, Surinder Kumar and Balbir Kumar, both of Mehndipur village. The accused have confessed their involvement in the crime. 

Phagwara
Man robbed of cash, gold: Over six unidentified miscreants robbed a man of Rs 1 lakh and a gold chain near Santokhpura level crossing on Tuesday evening. The victim, Randhir Singh of Adarsh Nagar, said when he was at the level crossing, six persons armed with base bats forcibly stopped him and snatched Rs 1 lakh and a gold chain from him. The Phagwara police has been informed about the incident. 

SANGRUR
Tehsildar held in graft case:The local Vigilance Bureau on Tuesday arrested tehsildar Ravinder Singh from Mohali in a corruption case registered against him on January 5. He had been arrested on the charge of accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh and demanding Rs 3 lakh more from a party of Daska village in connection with the “intkal” (mutation) of 4 acres when he was posted at Sunam.