Amritsar
Refresher course rescheduled: The Academic Staff College of Guru Nanak Dev University has rescheduled a three-week refresher course in economics to be held from June 7 to 27. Now the course will be held from June 17 to July 7. Stating this, Dr H.S. Bhatia, director, Academic Staff College, said Dr S.S. Dhillon, professor of the Punjab School of Economics, had been appointed subject coordinator of
the course.
GND varsity entrance test: Guru Nanak Dev University will conduct entrance test for five-year integrated MBA and MCA courses on July 4 for admissions to MBA and MCA at university college, Jalandhar, and for MBA at ASSM College, Mukandpur. Prospectus will be available from June 5 at the university or its campus at Basti Nau, Jalandhar, and also at Mukandpur (Nawanshahr). The last date to apply for the test is June 27.
Devotees to protest at Katra: A delegation of devotees from the city will hold a protest at Katra in Jammu and Kashmir against the decision of the Vaishno Devi Shrine Board to charge fee from the devotees for paying obeisance at the shrine. Prof Darbari Lal, former deputy speaker, said here on Wednesday that the decision of the board was an expression of autocracy.
AISSF plea on rally: The AISSF has urged members of all panthic organisations to participate in large numbers in the Khalsa Insaaf March to observe the Operation Bluestar anniversary on June 6.
BANUR
Suspended: Pump operator Surinder Singh deployed at Banur Market Committee was suspended for submitting a fake certificate 23 years ago. The matter came into the notice of the committee officials around a month ago when Jaspal Singh complained to the department alleging that Surinder had submitted a fake certificate of Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Chandigarh, to get the job.
Barnala
Criticised: The Punjab Students’ Union has strongly criticised the postponing of the computer internship examination of the ITI students for the third time consecutively. District president of the union Pardeep Kasba said first, the university had fixed April 25 as a date of the examination. However, later the date was postponed to May 7 and then to May 31. Kasba said with the continuous postponing of the exams, the students grew frustrated. He apprehended that it may affect their performance in the exam. He said the union demanded that the examination was conducted at the earliest.
Bereaved: Former chairmen of the local Improvement Trust, Sukhmahinder Singh and Rupinder Singh Sandhu, were bereaved as their mother Gurdial Kaur (88) died on Tuesday evening after a brief illness.
FATEHGARH
SAHIB
Complaint: As many as 15 panchayat secretaries have complained against the behavior of their area block development panchayat officer (BDPO) to the Punjab rural development and panchayat minister Ranjit Singh Brahmpura. They alleged that the BDPO was not behaving well with the staff. They also leveled serious allegations against him and demanded immediate action against the
BDPO.
FAZILKA
BPEO suspended: Block Primary Education Officer, Fazilka- 2, Ram Krishan Dhunkian, was suspended on Wednesday. According to district education officer (elementary), Ferozepur, Bashpinder Kaur, Dhunkian had been suspended on the instructions of director general of the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, Punjab. There were allegation of irregularities under the Parho Punjab project of the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan. The DEO stated that detailed causes of suspension would be known on the receipt of the charge sheet. On the other hand, the suspended BPEO could not be contacted as his cell phone was switched off.
Jalandhar
Council consultor: Spokesperson for the city diocese Father Franco Mulakkal has been appointed consultor of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue. He will leave for his new job at Vatican City on Saturday. The 50-member council works for promoting dialogue with the followers of other religions.
KHARAR
Body found: Body of a youth was found at Dussehra grounds on Wednesday morning. There were no injury marks on the body. The deceased was identified as Harjit Singh alias Bhola, a resident of Kharar near Jain Mandir. His father Kesar Singh told the police that Harjit was an addict and often remained away from home without any prior information. He was missing since the past three days. The body has been sent for postmortem to the Kharar Civil Hospital.
Demolition drive: Around a decade old encroachments in Kharar grain market were razed on Tuesday morning. In a special drive, the market committee officials and police officials razed around 15 encroachments, wherein vegetable dealers had encroached upon the auction platform of the market.
MoU signed: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Prof Caroline Gipps, vice-chancellor, Wolverhampton University, UK, and Manjit Singh, executive director of Doaba Group of Colleges (DGC) for faculty exchange programme, joint research projects and admission to students for different courses.
MANSA
Hike in fuel price flayed: Leaders of different political parties criticised the central government’s move of raising the fuel prices. CPI (ML) leaders, Bhagwant Singh and Sukhcharan Singh, Radical People Forum’s Jaspal Kokhar and Sukhdarshan Natt, and CPI district secretary Buta Singh said that the government was not trying to find an alternative of raising the oil prices. They alleged that all this had been happening due to the pro-American policies of the government. CPM leader Kulwinder Singh said that with the hike in oil prices, the poor and common people would face more difficulties in this tight economic scenario.
ROPAR
New plant commissioned: DSM Anti Infectives commissioned its new plant ‘Jasmine’ today. Gerard de-Reuver, President, DSM Anti Infectives Limited, inaugurated the plant. Officials claimed that the project had been completed in record time of six months and with the investment of about Rs 25 million.
