Abohar
Function held: The Flower Valley Public Senior Secondary School here organised a birthday function for the students of its pre-nursery, nursery and KG classes who were born during the month of April on Friday. The students, while celebrating their birthday, jointly cut a huge cake. The teachers and members of the managing committee prayed for their happiness and prosperity.
Free medical camp: The Sarojini Naidu Health and Welfare Society has decided to organise a free medical check-up and vaccination camp for children and pregnant women on Sunday. President
S.K. Juneja said on Friday that a team of physicians and specialists including, S.S.
Sandhu, Arun Jhamb, Harsharanjit Kaur Sandhu, Ruchi Midha and Renu Jhamb, would provide services at the Shakti Nursing Home in the Sunder Nagar locality during the camp, which would start in the morning.
Amritsar
MC removes hoardings: The local municipal corporation today removed many hoardings from main chowks of the city. The large hoardings, put up by the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, were eclipsing the statues of freedom fighters. The corporation has also removed the hoardings displaying big pictures of mayor Shavet
Malik.
Three nabbedA: District police seized 225 grams of smack from Kirpal Singh and booked him under NDPS Act on Friday. Two satta operators Kewal Krishan and Rajesh Gupa were also arrested and Rs 3,350 were recovered from them.
IPR club launched:
The Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology observed the Intellectual Property Right
(IPR) Day by launching a campus club on Friday. The club aims at creating awareness on
IPRs, facilitating filing of patent forms and provide patent search
facilities for students and staff.
Transfer of officials hailed: The Punjab
Non-Gazetted Forest Officers’ Union here on Friday welcomed the decision of the state government to transfer top officials of the Punjab Forests Corporation following unearthing of discrepancies in the stock of wood during a check conducted in all divisions of the state. Jagdeep Singh
Dhillon, president of the union, said the new team would work for the welfare of the department. Those transferred include the managing director and all five divisional managers in the state.
Batala
Drunken driving: The traffic police conducted a special drive against drunken and high-speed driving with latest gadgets like
alco-meter and speed radar for the first time here on Thursday. Some drivers objected to the speed test as there is no sign board throughout the city displaying the speed limit.
Hoshiarpur
Forest blaze: The fire in the forest areas of Kot and Bahera villages which was controlled in the wee hours today, resumed again in Kot village at around 1 pm. It engulfed a stretch of six km and gutted house of Thakur Jiwan Singh. Till filing of this report, the divisional forest employees and fire fighters along with villagers were still struggling to control fire.
2 held with 4 kg heroin: Two persons, Raj Kumar of Amritsar and Surinder Pal Singh of
Mustafabad, Gurdaspur district, were arrested by sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence,
Ludhiana, on Thursday night near Mahavir Spinning Mills, Purhiran, here while they were ferrying 3.990 kg of heroin in their car to
Chandigarh. Both accused were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate here who remanded them to judicial custody till May 9.
Smack, opium seized: The district police arrested
Veena, widow of Vijay Kumar of ward No. 8, Tanda, and Beeru Ram of Boliwal Haveli police station,
Una, and seized 83 gm smack and 7 gm opium from them, respectively. Separate cases have been registered against them.
Mansa
Jagriti yatra: The ‘jagrati yatra’ being organised for the tercentenary celebrations of Shri Guru Granth Sahib would be welcomed here on April 30. It was decided at a meeting of district officials that was held here on Friday. The members also discussed the arrangements to be made for the
yatra. The meeting that was presided over by deputy commissioner Surjeet Singh Dhillon was attended by members of the Shiromani Gurdwara
Parbandhak Committee also.
Moga
Annual day function: Lala Lajpat Rai group of institutes held their annual function on their main campus near here on Friday where students presented colourful
programmes, including ‘shabad’ recitation, Rajasthani dance, solo dance, group songs, ‘giddha’, choreography and skits.
R.G. Tathgir, principal of Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology, read the annual report of the institutes.
The chief guest at the function, revenue minister Ajit Singh Kohar, gave away prizes to the meritorious students in the fields of academics, culture and sports. The guest of honour on the occasion was chief parliamentary secretary Sheetal Singh.
NABHA
ong approach flayed: Prem Kumar Gagat, member, Working Committee, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, on Friday flayed the casual approach of the party towards the Dalits and economically backward sections of the society. In his communiqué, he said whenever the party staged protests or announced waivers, the beneficiary was largely the farming community.
Nawanshahr
Language lab: An English language laboratory set up at the Kirpal Sagar Academy was inaugurated by the academy’s patron Surinder Kaur on Thursday.
RAJPURA
Industrial visit: The department of management of Patel Memorial National College, vocational courses wing, organised an industrial visit for its students to Amber Enterprises India Pvt Ltd on Thursday. Students of BBA-II and BBA-III visited the company under the aegis of Prof Bharti Madaan and Prof Reena Chaudhary.
