Abohar
Protest march held: The local unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party on Monday organised a protest march to express resentment over the alleged killing of four RSS workers in Kerala. Party workers led by president Ravi Setia assembled at Geeta Mandir and marched to the office of the SDM. There, they handed over a memorandum addressed to President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil censuring the Leftist government in Kerala. In the memorandum, they urged the President to direct the Kerala government to check the occurrence of such incidents.
Health camp: About a dozen major surgeries were performed by doctors from the health department at a free camp organised at Mrs Triveni Devi Sanatan Dharam Hospital on Abohar-Sriganganagar road here on Sunday. President Pramil Kalani said six such camps had so far been organised within two years of the functioning of the charitable hospital.
Elected: Chand Soni was unanimously elected as the president of the newly formed “Press-Public Manch” during a meeting held at Arorvansh Dharamshala here on Sunday. The NGO will coordinate with other organisations to work in the fields of education, business and health among others, he said.
Celebrated: The Vishav Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday celebrated ‘Dharam Raksha Nidhi Utsav’ here at Geeta Mandir, district president Lila Dhar Sharma informed today. Khem Chand Sharma, Ram Kumar Goyal former MLA, city BJP president Ravi Setia, former councillor Suversha Narang, district BJP vice-president Dhanpat Siyag expressed concern over atrocities allegedly being committed on Hindus in some states.
Barnala
Retd agri officers meet: Retired Agriculture Officer Welfare Association, Barnala, has decided to participate in a training camp for farmers scheduled to be held on April 2 at Bazakhana road here. The decision was taken at a meeting of the association held here today. Kewal Krishan Singla said the problems being faced by the pensioners were also discussed at the meeting and a resolution was passed to get the association registered.
Tea stall set on fire: An unidentified person set a tea stall on fire near Sekha railway crossing here on Sunday night. The owner of the tea stall, Malkeet Singh, said that he came to know about the incident through security employees.
BASSI
PATHANA
Campaign: Senior medical officer Dr Kuldeep Singh Kang inaugurated the pulse polio campaign for children of migrant labourers in the sub-division by administering polio drops to a newly born child on Sunday.
GURDASPUR
Free food scheme: Punjab agriculture minister Sucha Singh Langha inaugurated a free food scheme for inmates of the Red Cross Drug Deaddiction and Rehabilitation Centre here on Monday. The minister also announced an annual grant of Rs 5 lakh to provide food free of cost. He said the government would shortly provide land for the construction of the building of the centre at a suitable place so that drug addicts could treated and rehabilitated.Hoshiarpur
IMA chief elected: Dr Keshav Sood was re-elected president of the Indian Medical Association, Hoshiarpur, for the third consecutive term in a straight contest here on Sunday night.
Office-bearers: In the annual session of the Punjab Police Pensioner's Welfare Association,Hoshiarpur, the following office bearers have been unanimously elected for the period of two years. Chairman Malkiat Singh, vice chairman Mohinder Singh, secretary Sarwan Singh, joint secy Shamsher Singh and cashier Garib
Dass.
Jalandhar
Farewell to Malik: The station director of All India Radio, Jalandhar, Dharam Pal Malik retired from his service on Monday after serving AIR for over three decades. Malik was given a warm send off by his staff. He was lauded by superintending engineer AK Dixit and assistant station director Suman Pal for his administrative skills.
Mansa
Medical camp: The Asra Lok Sewa Club, Mansa organised a free heart and cancer check-up camp at Gaushala Bhawan here on Sunday. Deputy commissioner Surjit Singh Dhillon inaugurated the camp. Project chairman of the club Tarsem Semi said that doctors, including Shiv Preet Samra and Rohit Modi examined the nearly 195 heart Patients and Sandeep Jain examined 105 cancer patients. The team of doctors was honoured by branch manager of the State Bank of Patiala A.P. Dubey. On this occasion, former- MLA Sukhwinder Singh Aulakh and some representatives of social organisations were also present.
Memorandum submitted: Workers of village Dalelsingh Wala today submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner of Mansa in relating to their demands. Mazdoor Mukti Morcha led the delegation. State secretary of the organisation, Bhagwant Singh said that they had demanded facilities of toilets in houses
and five marla plots for poor. He said that workers residing in almost all the nearby
villages had been facing similar problems.
Moga
Honoured: A charitable trust, Zinddi.com today honoured several persons for their commendable contribution in different fields. These personalities were adjudged as Pride of Moga. Those honoured included principal National Convent School (education), Harmanpreet Kaur (sports), Sanjeev (dance), Sonu Sood (acting), Bhupinder Singh (drama), Harmohinder Singh (painting), Jaswinder Singh (modeling), Jagdish (technical film), Janardhan Sharma (song writing), Dr. Gagandeep Singh (medical), Indu Puri (business), T. Singh (police), Captain Ranjeet Singh (freedom fighter), Sat Parkash (writing), Najar Singh (life-time award), H. L. Sharma (education) Naseeb Bawa (jury award).
Phagwara
Car crushes man, injures two: A middle-aged man was crushed to death and two students were injured by a speeding car near Cahchoki village here on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Dharam Singh, while those injured were Malwinder Singh and Lakhwinder Kumar.Police said Dharam was waiting to cross the road when the vehicle, which was on its way to Ludhiana, first struck a roadside tree and then hit Dharam and the other two.
PATHANKOT
Fete-cum-exhibition: A fete-cum-exhibition was held at Defence Colony near here on Monday. Col G.S. Pathania, a former CO of the Elite Gurkha Regiment, who was the chief guest, appreciated the enthusiastic participants of the fete. A couple of multinational companies showcased their latest gadgets, luxury cars, cell-phones, toys and certain other items.
PATIALA
Elected: K.P Singh defeated Barjinder Singh Sodhi by 137 votes while Inderjit Singh Mann garnered 460 votes to beat Rajiv Kaushal and become general secretary of the general elections of the Patiala District Bar Association held recently. Gurdeep Singh was elected joint secretary. He beat Rajpal Singh by 40 votes. Kuljit Singh was elected senior vice-president by beating Sanjay Khanna by 85 votes. Nisha Rishi was elected to the post of cashier. She beat Randhir Singh by 223 votes. Balkrishan beat Bir Davinder by 194 votes to be librarian.
CONCLUDES: Director of Philips Electronic India Limited Ramanjit Singh lauded the performance of students of Punjab School of Management Studies on the final day of the PSMS Fest 2008 here today. Ramanjit Singh, who was the chief guest, lighted the ceremonial lamp to mark the formal inauguration of the second day proceedings of the festival which was christened ‘Memoire-a-Jamais’. Dr Pushpinder Singh Gill, professor in
PSMS, welcomed the chief guest. The cultural bonanza included solo dance competition, skit competition, group dance, photography and advertisement competition.
SANGRUR
Teachers flay govt: The local Computer Teachers Union has criticised the Punjab government for allegedly doing “injustice” to them for the past three years. President of the union Gurvinder Rattan said the state government had not been regularising their services. The government had not given pay grades to them so far.
Dalits hold rally: Activists of the district unit of the Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan on Monday held a rally under the leadership of district president Harbans Singh at the district administrative complex. Their demands included eradication of bonded labour, waiving of loans of agriculture workers, permission for cremating deceased Dalits in any cremation ground of villages.
