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Appointed: Dr V. K. Khosla has been appointed director of the neurosurgery wing of Fortis Hospital. Dr Khosla was earlier head of the department,
neurosurgery, PGI, Chandigarh.
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In-laws thrash woman : A woman, Sunita Yadav (30), was allegedly thrashed and administered some poisonous substance by her in-laws at Gugodh village, near Kosli, on Friday. When her condition worsened, she was admitted to the local Civil Hospital, where her statement was recorded by Judicial Magistrate (first class) Rajesh Garg. The police has registered a case of cruel treatment and causing hurt by means of poison against her husband Dalbir Yadav, mother-in-law Rewati Devi, brother-in-law Jagbir Yadav, sister-in-law Reena Yadav and three others.
Teenager killed: A teenager, Neeraj (19), a resident of Akbarpur village, near here, died on the spot when the motorcycle he was riding on was reportedly hit by a trailer on the circular road near the Ramlila ground here on Saturday. The police has registered a case under Sections 279 and 304-A of the
IPC.
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BILASPUR
Help for widow: The district unit of the State Electricity Board Employees Union on Friday handed over a cheque for Rs 24,550 to the widow of a board employee, who died in an accident recently. Unit president Keharsingh Chandel and general secretary B.M. Durrani accompanied by other members of the union handed over the amount to Satyadevi at Behna Jattan village.
Advice to parents: All parents should give attention towards their children so that they do not go astray by modern and western influences and get proper training in our cultural heritage. Sant Asaram Bapu said this while addressing a special session of his first discourse for students here on Friday. A large number of school and college students and also thousands of disciples were present. CHAMBA
One dead: A person was killed as his feet slipped from a footpath and he fell into a gorge on Saturday evening at Khadli near Bharmour, about 70 km from here. The deceased was identified as Kunwar Paul, a resident of Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, who earned his livelihood by carrying out his business on a rehri. Official sources said he was brought to Bharmour hospital but he succumbed to his injuries. After the autopsy, the body was handed over to his family. An immediate relief of Rs 10,000 was provided to his family, the sources added. DALHOUSIE
HRTC depot sought: Residents here have sought the creation of a regional depot of the HRTC at Dalhousie as the only regional depot at Chamba can barely cope with the problems of bus services on the zigzag roads of the hilly area. The opening of a new depot would go a long in keeping check on the quality of services and the safety of ramshackle old buses, which ply jam-packed with commuters. KUMARHATTI
Camp concludes: A five-day comprehensive camp, which was held at Dagshai Public School, Dagshai, near here, under the aegis of ‘Satnam Sarva Kalyan Trust’, concluded on Saturday. Dr Harjinder Singh Majhail, director principal of the school, gave a detailed introduction about the activities of the camp and the trust in his concluding address. More than 100 students from different schools participated in the camp and learnt meditation, yoga, music, Gurmat sangeet, martial arts (Gataka), hiking, and trekking etc. NURPUR
BJP minority cell: The minority cell of the Himachal Pradesh BJP has alleged that the minority wing of the Congress was misleading people. Yakoob Khan, state vice-president of the cell, said here on Sunday that the minority community sammelan organised by the state unit of the Congress wing on Saturday was a flop show as no senior Congress leader turned up for the same. He said the previous Congress government had failed to accord OBC status to Muslims in the state notwithstanding a notification issued on April 4, 2000, by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the Centre. Eye check-up camp: With permission of the state director of Health, the Mission Hospital, Ambala, organised a free eye-operation camp on the premises of the Civil Hospital here on Sunday. Patients from far-flung areas of Nurpur and Jawali subdivision got their eye ailments examined. As many as 180 eye patients were operated by eye surgeons of the hospital.
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Bonded labourers freed
: The police on Sunday freed eight members of two families, including six minors, working as bonded labourers in a brick-kiln at RS
Pura, border town in Jammu and Kashmir. Acting on a complaint filed by one Gayan Kaur of Punjab alleging that her family has been kept as bonded
labour, a brick-kiln at Porobane village was raided on Sunday.
Poonch
Hideout busted: The 40 RR of the Army and the police busted a militant hideout and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including six kg of RDX, from a forest area near Chamrer area of Mandi tehsil here on Friday. Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt-Col S.D. Goswami said the recoveries from the hideout included six kg of RDX, 50 electronic detonators, one pistol with three magazines, six Chinese hand grenades and 61 AK rounds.
Udhampur
Fresh registration cancelled: Even as the protest continued against the decision of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board to introduce paid darshan, the authorities were forced to stop registration of pilgrims due to unprecedented rush at Katra, which is the base camp of the yatra. Thousands of pilgrims had to wait for hours together to get their turn at
Katra.
Regional potpourri
Town where every home has a blood donor
Captain Kanwaljit Singh Cooperation minister Punjab honours
Dr Mohinder Singla president Blood Donors Society, Bassi Pathana |
Blood donation has become part of life of the residents of Bassi Pathana a small town.There is hardly any home which does not have a blood donor.Though the condition of the town is deplorable and the government is little to better the lot of people, but they are doing their best to serve the suffering humanity by donating blood and got the town known as " City of Blood Donor's" . The Blood Donors Society was formed in 1986 by late Prof D.N.Mittal, Lt Des Raj Gupta, Dr Mohinder Singla and Shiv Malhotra motivatng people to" donate it, don't shed it" during militancy. Since then the society has been organising blood camp after 90 days. At every camp more than 100 units of blood is collected. The society has hundreds of donors on its list which includes farmers, businessmen, industrialists, daily- wage workers, students and members of social organisations and almost every home has a donor. The society has Shiv Malhotra, Dr Mohinder Singla, Kamal Gupta, Ajay Malhotra, Surinder Dhiman and Kulbhushan Malhotra, who have donated blood more than 100 times. On the achievements of the society, Dr Mohinder Singla, president, claimed more than 18,000 units had been donated to the PGI, AIIMS, Rajindera Hospital Patiala and other hospitals. He said rare groups of blood are kept reserve for emergency needs, if they get a call from hospitals or needy persons; the society sends the donor there. As blood is needed all the time the society is motivating youngsters for the cause. The people, particularly, the younger ones are coming forward for blood donation. The society has been given many national and state awards. Impressed by spirit of the residents of the town, Dr Usha Rao, team in charge blood collection, the PGI Chandigarh and Dr Neelam Marwaha, head Department of Transfusion Medicine said debt of Bassi Pathana residents could not be repaid. If any patient comes to the PGI and just mention the name of Bassi Pathana town, they provide blood free of cost. They added the society had donated more than 15,000 units to the PGI Chandigarh alone. The society has started motivating people of towns like Morinda, Kurali, Sirhind, Mandi Gobindgarh, Khamano, Dera Bassi etc.to form blood donation societies and five towns had already formed these, claimed Dr Mohinder Singla. Will the government reward the town with a package, people of which are pursuing a noble cause?
Hat -trick by Sangrur boy
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Anupam Dev Goel
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Perhaps for the first time in the history of the town a boy of Sangrur has achieved third major success in 10 days at the national level. Anupam Dev Goel has secured second position in the All- India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), 2008 result of which was declared by the CBSE on Tuesday evening. Earlier on May 30 Anupam secured 26th rank in the IIT-JEE at the national level doing residents of Sangrur town proud in the country. On May 26 he was selected by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, for participating in the International Chemistry Olympiad to be held at Budhapest in Hungary in July this year. Nowadays Anupam is receiving training in Mumbai’s Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education for taking part in the International Chemistry Olympiad. Achhvinder Dev Goel, father of Anupam and pharmacist in the Punjab Health Department, said his son had given a gift to her mother Meenakshi Goel, a Punjab National Bank employee here, on her birthday (June 3) by securing second position in the AIEEE. He said despite getting his education up to plus two level from small towns and cities like, Dhanaula, Barnala, Sangrur and Longowal, his son had risen to this position which was a matter of pride.
Panj Pirs’ tombs have tourism potential
Men, women and children, regardless of caste, creed and religion throng the mazaars (tombs), of Panj Pirs (five saints) to pay obeisance every Thursday. The tomb is located on a dune 500 feet from the historic’ theh’ which reminds us of Abu Nagari that had caved in 550 years ago. It is said under the British rule in 1893 Abohar town was more of a mound of sand with population of less than 6,000. River Sultej flowed by the side of the ‘theh’ known as Abha Nagari. Some historians have referred it as Abu Nagari. Its creator was Suryavanshi King Abu Chander. Later Bhatti Rajput King Abhayrao ruled the region. Third successor of the kingdom Raja Hari Chander had only one daughter who was adept at horse riding and shooting. The King caught leprosy. She was told by some physicians the King could be cured by applying blood of the horses of PanjPirs of Multan state (now in Pakistan). The brave daughter went to Multan and took along 81 horses from Pirs' stud farm. But the King could not be cured. The Panj Pirs dispatched messengers to King’s daughter requesting to return the horses but she refused. Finally all five Pirs reached Abu Nagri and camped on a hillock of sand near the town to get back the horses. But she again turned down their request. After a long wait their wives too arrived here. This annoyed the Pirs who cursed them resulting in their burial on the spot. Angry Pirs then cursed the kingdom which made the town cave in say legends. Later when a new town was built, some persons developed the mazaars of the five Pirs also and warned the citizens against making residential constructions near the tombs. But with time a colony developed near the dune in connivance with officials of the Department of Custodian of Property and Waqf Board. The board recently was in the dock for changing the lease deed to get its control from caretaker Bool Chand Sama. However Sama still serves the mazaars along with his wife. His family had migrated from Pak Pattan, sacred land of Baba Farid in West Punjab province of Pakistan after the partition of India. Sama family developed the mazaars and provided basic amenities for visitors. There was no colony around the complex a few years ago but vested interests have developed Dharam Nagri and Panj Pir mohalla near the mazaars without planning, leaving it to municipal council to provide facilities of drinking water, sewerage and streetlight besides paved streets. As the complex gained reference in global websites the state government in 2005 initiated a move to bring it on tourism map but no progress was visible so far. The mazaars attract thousands of people during annual fair in July every year. The devotees believe some of the problems, including skin disease, vanish after paying obeisance here. The beneficiaries revisit the complex to express gratitude. Contributed by Surinder Bhardwaj, Sushil Goyal and Raj Sadosh
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