AMRITSAR
22 cylinders seized: The Food and Civil Supplies Department raided various commercial establishments and seized LPG 22 cylinders in various parts of the city on Monday. Deputy commissioner Kahn Singh Pannu in a press note said the raids were conducted in Daim Ganj, Islamabad, and a bakery in the Putligarh area of the city.He said cases had been registered against the accused under Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act.
Abohar
Postponed: The District Kumhar Sabha has decided to postpone the proposed mass rally and demonstration over the infamous Choohriwala Dhanna episode. The rally was scheduled to be held from January 22 to February 1. The decision was taken during a meeting, presided over by Dev Raj
Nirania, here. Those present in the meet included, Prithi Raj Singhmar, Mohinder
Goyal, Ved Parkash Bazidpura and Amit Sokhal Sayeedwala.
Bathinda
Stove burst: A woman, Swati, was injured as flames engulfed her residence at Multania road on Monday after a stove burst. The volunteers of the Sahara Jan Seva rushed her to the civil hospital where the police and a duty magistrate recorded her statement.
Distributed : Bathinda Vikas Manch on Monday distributed jerseys to nearly 100 students.
Barnala
Calendar released: Deputy commissioner R.L. Mehta released a New Year calendar published by the local Palak Printing Press. Applauding the calendar work, Mehta said this was very useful for the public as it contained important telephone numbers of doctors, administration, media persons, health services etc.
Hoshiarpur
On cloud nine: Nitasha Sehgal, a student of bio-chemistry (honours) of Panjab University,
Chandigarh, has won three gold medals consecutively by standing first in her masters’ degree. Daughter of Prof
S.P. Sehgal of the commerce department of the local S.D. College, Nitasha will be honoured at the 57th Panjab University convocation on January 16. She will also receive Dr Ram Ji Narain Omvati gold medal on the occasion.
Annual day: The local Kumaon Vikas Mandal would be celebrating its ninth annual day on January 20 at Kumaon Bhawan near region centre of Guru Nanak Dev University. Local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia would also inaugurate the Kumaon Bhawan on the same day.
Park inaugurated: Punjab minister for medical education and research Tikshan Sud inaugurated Gul Mohar park at ward number 2 here on Saturday. The park has been developed at the cost of Rs 6.5 lakh by the municipal council.
JALANDHAR
Ex-PSEB
official grilled: District police on Monday grilled former PSEB official
H.M. Jain at the CIA staff office in connection with the murder case of KMV college principal Rita
Bawa. He was also quizzed along with three other persons on Saturday. Confirming this, SP (city-I) Surinder Kumar Kalia said that Jain’s fingerprints were also taken as part of the investigation. If required, he would be questioned again, he added.
PATIALA
Inaugurated: Punjab co-operation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh inaugurated Dara Singh Memorial Library, named after his father who was a known barrister, at the Bar Chamber in the district courts yesterday. Capt Singh announced a grant of Rs 6 lakh for a water cooler and furniture for the library. Also present were district and sessions judge Inderjit Singh Walia; additional sessions judge Kuldip Singh, and other dignitaries.
Blood donation camp: Punjab State Cooperative Bank chairman Jasjit Singh Bunny gave a clarion call for making blood donation a mass movement on Monday. Speaking on the inauguration of a blood donation camp at Gurna Kheri village, Bunni said social and voluntary organisations could play a key role in this field. Forty-three units of blood were collected during the camp organised by the Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha Youth Club, in collaboration with Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital.
PATHANKOT
Health mela ends: A three-day health mela, which was inaugurated by Vinod Khanna,MP, on Saturday at Gurdaspur concluded on Monday. As many as 4,000 patients were examined and ECG, ultra-sound, X-rays and lab tests were conducted free of cost. P.S.Rana,civil surgeon, and 40 medical staff with expert doctors supervised the camp.
BSNL promotional offer: The BSNL Punjab Telecom Circle has introduced a new promotional offer for subscribers of its pre-paid cellular service. Mussadi Lal,GMT, said here on Monday that as per this offer, a recharge coupon of Rs 1,000 (plus taxes) would be available with full talk value of Rs 1,000, instead of Rs 900, and also the validity of this recharge had been increased to 365 days from 120 days.This offer is for limited period only and available to all subscribers under General, Anant, Student power and Bundled SIM plans of prepaid cellular service.
Nine arrested: Lok Nath Angra, SSP, said in a special drive launched by the police against drug and illicit smugglers, the Kahnuwan police on Monday arrested five persons under the NDPS Act and recovered 11,400 intoxicating capsules from them and four persons under the Excise Act and seized 2,271 litres illicit liquor from them.The arrested persons were Krishan Kumar, Jaspal Singh, Surjit Singh, Sudershan,Sucha Singh, Devi, Harish Kumar, Harbans Lal and Soni Kumar.
