ABOHAR
Office-bearers elected: The following office-bearers of the Association of Engineers have been elected: Ajeet Wadhwa as president; N.K. Sikri as vice-president; N.K. Mehta as general secretary; Ramesh Kamboj as joint secretary; S.K. Jhamb as chief auditor, a press release issued here on Wednesday said.
Bharat Vikas Parishad: Pardeep Garg, Kashmiri Lal Bansal and Ravinder Gupta were installed as president, secretary and treasurer respectively of the Bharat Vikas Parishad (BVP), Shiva Ji branch, at a function held in the Arorvansh Dharamshala here on Tuesday. SDM N.S. Brar presided over the function. Outgoing president Surinder Mohan Goyal thanked the members for the cooperation extended during his tenure.
World Earth Day: Sardar Patel Medical Institute for Multipurpose Health Workers on Wednesday organised a function in connection with the World Earth Day. Chairman Sita Ram Sharma, principal Jagsir Singh, lecturer Puneet Bajaj and some students spoke about the significance of the day and also expressed concern over the unchecked female foeticide, a press release issue here said.
AMRITSAR
2 hurt in attack: Two persons were injured seriously in a quarrel at Bhittewadh village, 18 km from here, falling under Rajasansi police station late Tuesday night when they were attacked by their cousin Hartej Singh. The injured have been identified as Avtar Singh and Jagtar Singh who have been admitted at the local Guru Nanak Dev Hospital.
BASSI
PATHANA
‘Withdraw ban’: Senior Akali leader Kulwant Singh Khara, in a press release issued on Tuesday, urged the Chief Minister to withdraw the ban imposed on paddy plantation up to June 15. He said farmers and labourers would sit idle for two months and after June 15, there would be great rush for paddy plantation and it would be difficult to engage labour. He demanded that Chief Minister should direct the officials not to harass those who want to plant paddy now.
Batala
Board nomination: Satish Chander Sarin, a Batala resident, has been nominated as a member of Punjab Small industrial development board.
Bathinda
Body of baby girl found: The volunteers of Sahara Jan Seva, an NGO, found the body of newly-born girl floating in the Sirhind canal in Bathinda today. Vijay Goyal, in-charge of the NGO, said volunteers rushed to the spot immediately and informed the Kotwali police. After the postmortem, the police handed over the body to the Sahara volunteers.
Function: Physically Handicapped Association, Punjab-Chandigarh, will organise “Angheen Chetna Samaroh” at the Government Senior Secondary School (Boys), Goniana Mandi, on Sunday. Mahant Baba Kahan Singh will inaugurate the function while Rahul Tewari, DC Bathinda, will preside over the function.
Aggarwal Sabha: Aggarwal
Sabha, Bathinda, in a press release said a decision had been taken informing the district administration in the presence of Mahants that eunuchs will not pressurise people for more than Rs 500 on the occasion of the birth of male child and on marriages. The matter was discussed at the fourth annual function of Aggarwal Sabha and the general body meeting held at Teachers’ Home here on Wednesday.
Earth Day: Environment Awareness Organisation, Bathinda, with the help of Eco Club, Government Senior Secondary School, Jassi Pau Wali celebrated Earth Day at the school premises on Wednesday. Sukhdev Singh Sandhu, youth co-coordinator, Nehru Yuva Kendra was the chief guest while the function was presided over by Sandeep Singh.
Elected: Fakir Singh Sahota and Parampal Singh Sidhu have unanimously been chosen as the president and general secretary respectively of Punjab State Co-operative Bank Employees Federation.
Congratulated: Members of the S.S. Jain Sabha, Bathinda, congratulated Chiranji Lal Garg for being appointed as the national vice-president of the SAD (B). They also thanked CM Parkash Singh Badal and SAD chief Sukhbir Singh
Badal.
CHANDIGARH
PAC meeting on April 25: A meeting of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the SAD has been convened on April 25 to decide the name of the candidate to be nominated for the Amritsar (South) Vidhan Sabha by-election.
Seminar held: A seminar on monitoring, implementation, evaluation and accounting of government-sponsored projects called for identifying potential problems at an early stage was held here on Wednesday. Dr R. K. Gupta, professor and advisor, Finance, Panjab University, speaking at the seminar organised by the Punjab State Council for Science, said there was also a need for measurable objectives, a structured set of indicators and provision for collecting data and managing project records. FATEHGARH
SAHIB
Meeting: In view of the upcoming elections to the panchyat raj bodies, the deputy commission held a meeting on Wednesday with the senior officials of the district administration to oversee the arrangements being made for the poll.
Hoshiarpur
Agents under lens: To check fake travel agents, a special campaign has been launched against the so called travel agents by the district police. SSP, Hoshiarpur, Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, stated here on Wednesday evening that keeping in view the increasing number of cases of travel agents duping lakhs of rupees of innocent persons, the district police had registered as many as 31 cases against the 46 travel agents in the last three months (January 1 to March 31). The police received 286 complaints out of which 174 had been disposed of by its economic wing and
had got Rs 64, 22,000 returned to the aggrieved persons.
Memorandum given: The chairman, convenor and press secretary of the Coordination Committee of Para-Medical and Health Employees, Punjab, Randhir Singh, Balbir Singh and Surinder Ghai, respectively, in a press note here on Wednesday condemned the ‘dictatorial and irresponsible’ behaviour of the health minister, Punjab, towards problems and demands of employees of the Health Department. They submitted a memorandum to the Director Health Services (DHS) Office, Chandigarh, with a notice of state-level dharna on April 30 at Parivar Kalyan
Bhavan, Chandigarh. KHARAR
Case registered: The Kharar police registered a case on Wednesday against unknown thieves in the theft incident at market committee. Market committee's disposal motor was stolen two months back but police did not take any action. Despite repeated written requests from the committee authorities, police officials
did not once visit the spot of
incidence.
Mansa
Narcotics burnt: The police in Mansa on Wednesday destroyed a huge quantity of narcotics. Around 21 quintals of poppy husk, 400 tablets besides other drugs, collected from different police stations in the district, were destroyed by the policemen. On the occasion, chairman of the Drugs Destroying Committee, DIG Jitender Jain, SSP Mansa M.F. Farooqi, SP (D) of Bathinda, Sukhdev Singh Chahal and SP(D) Mansa, Sukhpal Singh Brar, were also present.
Nawanshahr
4 vehicle-lifters in police net:The police has arrested Gurpreet Singh of Durgapur village, Jaspreet Singh Jassa of Bharta Khurd village, Surjit Kumar of Khamancho village and Sandeep Pal Singh of Kulam road here. “As many as 7 stolen motorcycles were recovered from them,” said DSP Sat Pal Singh Bhangu and SHO city, Rakesh Kumar, at a press meet here on Wednesday.
PATIALA
Soz cremated: Hundreds of people attended the cremation of noted novelist and Punjabi writer Sohan Singh Soz on Tuesday. Soz gad died following a brief illness on Monday.
ROPAR
Attendance checked: Sixty-two teams checked teachers' attendance in 650 government elementary schools of the district on Tuesday. There are 1,769 teachers in these schools. Out of these, 284 teachers were found to be on leave and 21 were found absent.
TARN
TARAN
Three booked: The Verowal police has booked three persons, including son-mother, for kidnapping a teenaged girl of Mallha Kurri Walah village. The accused have been identified as Kalu and his mother Amarjit Kaur, residents of the same village, and Shingara Singh of Minda Pind falling under Goindwal police station. The case has been registered on the complaint of the father of the victim.
Protest held: Workers of the CPM, Punjab, at the end of their 24-hour fast at the office of the DC here on Wednesday, raised slogans against the state and the union governments against price rise. Led by party district president Kulwant Singh Chabal, they condemned the state government for not having its check the black-marketeers which is the reason for price rise.
ZIRAKPUR
Animal exchange: The Chattbir zoo will exchange its inmates with Mysore zoo. Sources in the zoo said the zoo would soon have a bison, a baboon, a lion tale macaque and a black swan. These animals would be brought from the Mysore zoo in exchange a chinkara, a goral and a pair of parrots.
