Amritsar
Two arrested with 1 kg heroin: The special narcotics cell has arrested two smugglers and seized 1 kg of heroin from them. According to the cell, they were waiting for a customer to deliver the consignment on the Chamrang road here when they were caught. The accused were identified as Randhir Singh and Udeek Chand. A case had been registered against them.
Gang of robbers busted: The police on Thursday arrested four members of a gang and recovered cash and vehicles from them. The police authorities in a press note stated that Santosh Roy of Ranjit Avenue in a complaint to the police had alleged that four car-borne youths armed with daggers had looted some cash, three mobile phones and four jackets from him. The police swung into action and nabbed Vikramjit Singh of New Golden Avenue, Gurbhinder Singh and Yudhvir Singh of New Partap Nagar and Baldev Singh of Jujhar Singh Avenue in this regard.
PCCTU hails govt decision: The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has welcomed the decision of the Punjab government to take back the contentious clause of Punjab Affiliated Colleges Security of Service Amendment Bill - 2007. H.S. Walia, former president, PCCTU, in a press note here on Thursday said a meeting to this effect was held in Chandigarh between Jaspal Singh, secretary, education, and representatives of the union. He said that the government had agreed to include employees working in unaided institutions and against unaided posts under the 1974 Act, granting security of service to them.
SGPC chief honours NRI: Bhupinder Singh Holland of Netherlands was honored by Avtar Singh, president, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee at the Golden Temple for his book “How Europe is Indebted to the Sikhs”. Holland said as the Sikhs had made tremendous contribution in the World War I and II it was necessary to bring out the significant role of the community in the two wars.
Abohar
Donation: A philanthropist, Parkash Vati Setia, presented a cheque of Rs 5 lakh for the development of an old age home to the additional deputy commissioner Jaskiran Singh during his weekly sangat darshan here on Thursday.
Bathinda
Lohri celebrations: Lohri functions were organised on Thursday at Gurukul College and Government Secondary School in village Jassi Pau
Wali, here on Thursday. At Gurukul College, chairman of the college, Sant Saroopa Nand gave his blessings to the students and advised them to become role models for the upliftment of society. The function at Government Secondary School, Jassi Pau Wali was organised for new-born girl children with the help of the District Literacy Committee,
Bathinda
Chandigarh
Project on Golden Temple: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Punjab Pollution Board will initiate a joint scientific study to save the Golden Temple from pollution. Science and technology and environment minister Bikram Singh Majithia has said assistance of the CPCB has been sought because it had already worked on protection of the Taj Mahal from pollution.
Ferozepur
Arrested: The Ferozepur police arrested two persons, identified as Balkar Singh and Sonu Singh, both residents of
Jalalabad, on charges of drug peddling and recovered 80 kg of poppy husk from their possession. A case was registered against the duo under the NDPS Act.
Hoshiarpur
Man found dead: Body of Sanjay Kumar (24) of local ward No. 11, Garhshankar, was found in a street opposite DAV Girls College, Garhshankar on Thursday. Kumar was an addict. Police has sent the body for postmortem.
Shop burgled: Miscreants stole goods worth Rs 1.50 lakh from a shop at Attowal on Wednesday night. Miscreants broke into a submersible pumps shop owned by Gurnam Singh alias Gamma of Bibi Di
Pandori, by breaking the shutter and decamped with goods worth Rs 1.50 lakh. A case has been registered.
KAPURTHALA
Armed men loot petrol pump: Six assailants robbed employees of a petrol pump and a customer, a resident of Patra village at gun point, at a petrol pump in Dian village on the Kapurthala-Kartarpur road of Rs 50,000 and a mobile phone on Wednesday night. SSP Rakesh Aggarwal and DSP Sukhdev Singh Chhina visited the pump on Thursday.
Mansa
Demanded: The Classical Teachers’ Union here has demanded the increase in drawing periods. President of the union Surinder Pal Mittal demanded that the pay-scale for drawing teachers should be at par with that of the language teachers. The union president went on to demand more posts of art and craft teachers in the
district.
Open darbar: An open darbar was held at Bhopal village in Mansa. DC Surjit Singh Dhillon presided over the function. Around 85 applications came up for consideration, which were sent to the departments concerned. The problems were mostly related to drinking water, sewerage, power supply and old age pensions.
PATHANKOT
Proclaimed offenders held: Two proclaimed offenders Roop Lal of Deeda, Dinanagar, and Sadiq Masih of Salimpur, were arrested here on Thursday. They were wanted in an case registered under the Excise Act at a Gurdaspur police station. Meanwhile, Sukhi, Shingara Singh, Baldev Raj, Chaman Lal, Manjit Kumar and Tilak Raj were arrested under the Excise Act and 967 lt of illicit liquor were seized from them. Sunny of Jammu and Kewal Krishan of Sujanpur were arrested under the NDPS Act and 17 bottles of Corex and 500 intoxicating capsules were seized from the.
PATIALA
Honoured: Scholar Fields Public School organised its annual function on the school premises on Thursday. Senior Akali leader Surjit Singh Rakhra was the chief guest, who inaugurated the function in the morning session. The evening session was presided over by Bikramjit Singh
Khalsa, chief parliament secretary, technical education and industrial training. As many as 150 students, who excelled in the field of academics, sports and co-curricular activities, were honoured by Bikramjit Singh.
