AMRITSAR
Lineman electrocuted: Balbir Singh, an assistant lineman with the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), posted at Ajnala subdivision, died at Bhakhe village on Saturday when he was repairing some fault. He died on the spot. He is survived by his wife and two children. The police has handed over the body of the deceased to his family after conducting post mortem.
Purse snatched: An unidentified motorcyclist snatched the purse from a woman in the B-block market of Ranjit Avenue here on Saturday. Prabha
Kureel, an employee of Bajaj Allianz Insurance Company, in her complaint lodged with the police said she her office diary, ATM cards, some cash and important documents of the office in it. A case has been registered.
Batala
Woman’s purse snatched: A scooter-borne person snatched the purse of a woman in Umar Pura on the Batala-Jalandhar road here on Friday evening. Harpinder Kaur, wife of Jaspal Singh, was going along with her sister-in-law when a scooterist came from behind and snatched the purse containing Rs 22,000 and gold ornaments.
UGC seminar: A University Grant Commission-sponsored national seminar on “Judicial Activism vs Popular Sovereignty in India” was held at R.R.Bawa DAV College for Girls here on Saturday. The chief guest was
J.S.Garewal, SDM, Batala. Principal Veena Watni welcomed the guests. C.L. Narang, former deputy district attorney, Gurdaspur, and Dr R.S.Sandhu and Dr.S.S.Narang of GND University, Amritsar, were among those present.
BATHINDA
Awarded: Jashanveer Singh, a student of class X of St. Xavier’s Convent School, Bathinda, has won a cash prize of Rs 1,000 for getting the first position in mathematics test conducted by principal Suresh Kumar at Swami Vivekananda Girls College, Bathinda.
Lok Adalat: In the court complex, the quarterly Lok Adalat was organised on Saturday, which was presided over by district and sessions judge, Sabina. Around eight courts were organised, in which 347 cases were put up for redressal. Around 148 cases were cleared and
a compensation of around Rs 20,61,000 was granted.
Faridkot
Distributed: The local chapter of the Lions Club distributed shoes and socks to the needy students of the Government Harindra Primary School here on Saturday. The secretary of the club, S. Monga, said a free dental check-up camp would be organised at the primary school on February 23.
FEROZEPUR
DC’s order: Deputy commissioner Megh Raj has issued orders to all district officials not to leave district headquarters without prior sanction.
Case registered: The police here registered a case against Lakhwinder Singh and Karaj Singh, both residents of village Kohar Singhwala, for the alleged murder of one Jagga Singh. Police sources informed that the two accused had a verbal duel with Jagga Singh over some issue which took a violent turn later. Both the accused are absconding.
Hoshiarpur
Tech training: The National Institute of Technical Training and Research Centre
(NIoTT&RC), Chandigarh, arranged a computer aided design pro-E related course to impart training in developing different machines and buildings through new
techniques.
PATHANKOT
Girls recovered: The local police claims to have recovered two minor girls, who were missing since February 14, from their hut and handed them over to their parents on Saturday.
Harpreet Singh, SP, said Somwati, daughter of Dhani Ram, and Pooja, daughter of Raju, residents of Chander Nagar ( MP), were missing from Nirankari Bhawan here. They were left near Dental Mediacl College coming up near Badoi village, near here.
PATIALA
Symposium: A two-day national symposium on ‘Plant Cytogenetics - Recent Trends’ was organised by the department of botany, Punjabi University, concluded on Saturday. More than 100 plant cytogeneticists from different parts of the country participated in the symposium. As many as 20 plenary lectures and 32 research papers by senior and young scientists were presented.
