Abohar
Burglary: Miscreants continue targeting shops in this sub-divisional town as the authorities failed to implement the community police officer (CPO) scheme. And on Thursday night, unidentified persons burgled a godown hired by a cloth trader near Chintpurani Mata Mandir in the Prem Nagar locality here. Mohit Chagti, proprietor of the godown, informed that the cloth rolls worth Rs 1 lakh had been stolen.
Awarded:
Shreshta Kumari and Amit Juneja of the DAV College of Education here
have been awarded gold medals during the 57 th annual convocation of the Panjab
University for topping in B.Ed. and M.Ed. exams respectively, in 2005 and 2006,
the principal of the college informed.
Fire:
One Amit Kumar of Jain Nagar and his mother had a miraculous escape as
their Maruti car caught fire inside the municipal bus stand on Friday
afternoon. It took half an hour to bring it under control. The cause is yet to
be ascertained.
Killed: One
Phoola Singh of Thakar Abadi here was killed on the spot while his two sons
sustained injuries when their jeep collided head on with a truck coming from
Hanumangarh on the city bypass Friday.
AMRITSAR
Poland govt decision welcomed: SGPC president Avtar Singh on Friday welcomed the decision of the government of Poland to allow the Sikh community to set up a gurdwara in Warsaw and practise their religion in the fullest form. He said this reflected that the people of Poland had respect for human sentiments.
Bathinda
Panchayati tournament: The Punjab State Panchayati Tournament for boys and girls in the under-16 category would be held at the Sports Stadium here from January 27 to 29. More than 2,500 sportspersons and officials are expected to take part in it. Giving details, Upjit Singh
Brar, additional deputy commissioner, Bathinda, said, “Events like athletics, basketball, hockey, kabaddi and volleyball would be held.” Sukhwinder Singh
Buttar, district sports officer, informed that events like volleyball (girls) would be held at the grounds of Government Senior Secondary School (Girls),
Bathinda. Hockey and volleyball (boys) events would be held at the Police Lines, basketball at Khalsa School and the remaining games at the sports stadium.
Selection trial: Selection trials for the Pepsu women’s hockey team for the Senior Women’s Hockey Championship, to be held at Jalandhar from February 1 to 9, would be organised at the Sports Stadium here on January 20. The District Women’s Hockey Association, Bathinda would conduct the trial. According to Rajwant Singh Mann, secretary of the association, “After the selection trials, a ten-day training camp would be organised for the probables at Bathinda from January 21 to 31. Final selection of the team would be made on January 31.”
CHANDIGARH
‘Industrial situation not encouraging’: Senior leader of the BJP Balramji Dass Tandon on Thursday said the reports regarding clashes of Sikhs and dera followers in the state were very unfortunate. It gave a wrong impression of the Punjab government, he said and added that the condition prevailing on the industrial front in the state was also not encouraging at all.
SP, Investigation, transferred: The Punjab government on Friday transferred Karamjit Singh, SP, Investigation, Lokpal, as assistant commandant of 6th IRB Ladda
Kothi.
FATEHGARH SAHIB
Top honours: Sohajbir Singh Ubha, a student of class X at Divine Light International School,
Sirhind, bagged the first position in state-level essay writing competition organised by Reserve Bank of India. Sohajbir competed against 1,700 participants from across the state and won cash prize of Rs 7,500, a trophy and certificate.
FAZILKA
Blood donation: A blood donation camp was organised at the local civil hospital on Friday to mark the 150th anniversary of Namdhari sect saint, Baba Ram Singh.
PATHANKOT
Drive to educate auto drivers: The police, besides educating autorickshaw drivers, has also roped in various non-government organisations (NGOs) and schoolchildren for regulating traffic. As part of education and awareness, the police has even started distributing sweets among the drivers. Pathankot SP Harpreet Singh claimed that over 35 police personnel had been put on duty to regulate vehicular traffic on city roads.
RAJPURA
Online Local Bodies records: The state government has decided to computerise all records maintained by the Local Bodies Department to streamline its working. The project will be begun at Mohali and completed this month, following which it will be implemented across the state. This was stated by local bodies minister Manoranjan Kalia here on Thursday.
SHAHPUR
KANDI
Dam employees block traffic: Members of the Ranjit Sagar Dam joint action committee staged a dharna and blocked the Pathankot-Ranjit Sagar Dam road for over two hours in support of their demands.They raised slogans against the previous and present state governments for not releasing the pension of retired staff, besides deducting the gratuity and other monetary benefits.They complained that the SAD-BJP-led government had started harassing them by starting the recovery of money.The members threatened to intensify the agitation if their problems were not redressed.
TARN
TARAN
6 medical officers promoted: The Health Department has promoted six medical officers (PCMS-I) to the rank of deputy director. The promoted officers are Dr Maheshwar Dutt Sharda, BBMB Hospital, Nangal, Dr Santosh Sharma, SMO, Civil Hospital, Anandpur Sahib, Dr Parveen Sikka, ESI Hospital, Ludhiana, Dr Neelam Bajaj, DMC, Faridkot, Dr Surat Singh Mahia, District Family Planning Officer, and Dr N.K. Kaushal, working on deputation at Chandigarh. The orders have been issued by Vijay Jain, principal secretary of the department.
