Abohar
Rs 70,000 looted: Taders from Haryana were allegedly robbed last night by an unidentified person, who served them sedatives mixed in biscuits, sources said. On gaining consciousness, Gobind Ram and Bal Raj reportedly told the city police that they had Rs 70,000 with them and were to purchase buffaloes from Dabwali, but reached here as someone had served them biscuits laced with sedatives. They found their pockets empty. The police is investigating the case.
AMRITSAR
CPI holds protest march: Activists of the Communist Party of India (CPI), led by Dr Joginder Dayal, central executive committee member, held a protest march against the recent increase in the prices of petrol and diesel here on Wednesday.Starting from Ekta Bhawan at Putlighar Chowk, the march culminated at the deputy commissioner’s office here. Dr Dayal said there was no justification for taking this step as the prices of petrol and diesel had gone down in the international market.
Woman nabbed with smack: The district police nabbed drug smuggler Santosh Kumari of New Jawahar Nagar, Mehta Road, here on Wednesday. She was wanted in many cases registered under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychological Substances Act. Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh, district police chief, said 200 gm smack was recovered from her possession.
BATALA
Shobha yatra taken out: A shobha yatra was taken out here on Wednesday on the eve of Guru Ravi Dass birth anniversary.Devotees singing hymns and chanting religious slogans passed through the main bazaars of the city. Jhankis were also displayed in trolleys.The procession concluded at about 5:50 pm.
BATHINDA
‘Saudagar’ on Feb 24: The Punjabi adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic ‘Merchant of Venice’ will come alive on stage on February 24 at the Government Rajindra College here. The ‘Saudagar’ is written and directed by Preetpal
Rupana, who has graduated from the National School of Drama, Delhi.
BASSI
PATHANA
Social worker dead: Sham Lal, a renowned social worker of the area popularly known as ‘Veer Ji’ expired on Tuesday. Thousands of people from every walk of life attended his cremation. MLA Didar Singh Bhatti laid wreaths on behalf of the state government and SAD (B).
Protest: Hundreds of farmers of the Bhartiya Kissan Union
(Ekta) led by state president Pishora Singh Sidhupur organised a dharna on Tuesday on railway track at Sirhind-Bassi Pathana railway section in support of their demands. The dharna continued till evening and the speakers criticised the governments and warned that
if their demands were not met, the agitation would be further intensified. The administration had made elaborate security arrangements.
DERA
BASSI
1 held with charas: The CIA staff of the Mohali police arrested a person with one kg of
charas. The accused Bansi Ram, a resident of Baajigar Colony, Nagla village, was arrested on Tuesday evening from near Singhpura village. According to the police, the accused was bringing the drug from Himachal to Punjab.
FARIDKOT
Paper reading session: The English department of the Government Brajindra College,
Faridkot, organised a paper reading session to develops basic skills of English language. The chief guest at this literary function was vice-principal Jaspal Singh and retired professor Spencer Philip delivered the extension lecture.
PATIALA
Seminar: A seminar on ‘Biotechnology
- A Bane or Boon’ was organised at Government In-service Training Centre on
Wednesday. NRI Shamsher Singh Boparai, who was the chief guest, spoke on the
latest trends in biotechnology. Co-ordinator of the programme Archana Mahajan
gave a speech and showed a film on genetic engineering and cloning to the
participants from Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib. Principal of the
institute Surinder Kaur welcomed the guests. The programme was sponsored by the
Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Chandigarh.
Campaign launched: “Punjabis not only in their own state, but also living abroad need to be sensitised about social problems, especially
female-foeticide and effects of globalisation,” said NRI Dr Sawraj Singh, a pioneer in the field of laser surgery and a well-known litterateur and thinker. He was addressing a press conference, organised by the National Theatre Arts Society (NTAS),
Patiala, at the launch of anti-foeticide awareness theatre campaign.
TARN
TARAN
Seminar on health awareness: A health awareness seminar was organised at the local Police Lines by the Police Department with the association of the department on Wednesday to make women members of the policemen aware about their health problems. Harinder Singh Chahal, SSP, presided over the seminar. A team of six doctors, namely Dr Madhu Nagpal, Dr Harbhajan Kaur, Dr Anita Puri, Dr Deepika, Dr Sandeep Kaur and Dr Surinder Kaur gave valuable tips to the women.
Cheques distributed: Prof Virsa Singh Valtoha, MLA, distributed cheques worth Rs 3.33 crore to different gram panchayats of block Bhikhiwind and Valtoha at a function at Amarkot, 35 km from here, on Wednesday.Professor Valtoha said the grants would be utilised to develop the villages, especially border area villages, under the Border Area Development
Programme.
