Amritsar
GND varsity results: The results of PGDCA, B.Sc. (Biotechnology) Part-II and B.Com (Hons) part-II and III examinations of Guru Nanak Dev (GND) University held in April would be declared on July 15. Dr R.S. Bawa, registrar, said the results could be accessed on the university website www.gndu.ac.in after 5 pm.
Counselling: GND University will hold counselling for admissions to M.Tech (Communication System) on July 18 at the Department of Electronics Technology here. The candidates, who had taken the entrance test on June 30, should bring their original certificates at the time of counselling. Meanwhile, the university has invited applications for admissions to one-year part-time certificate course in French, German, Japanese, Russian and full-time diploma course in Russian. The last date for the receipt of application forms is July 18.
Barnala
Manjeet Kaur elected as sarpanch: Manjeet Kaur was unanimously elected as sarpanch of Naiwala village here on Monday. In this election, Mahinder
Kaur, Harjinder Singh and Roshan Singh and Rinku (all panchayat members) supported
Manjeet. Surjeet Kaur Barnala helped in bringing about a consensus over
Manjeet' name. Manjeet expressed gratitude towards Surjeet Kaur
Barnala. She said that she would strive hard for accelerating the pace of development in the village.BATHINDA
Women nab armed intruder: Setting an example of exemplary courage, women of Vishal Nagar on Monday nabbed one of the three masked miscreants with pistols in hand. According to police sources, at around 1 pm, three masked dacoits entered a house in Vishal
Nagar. Noticing it, women in the neighbourhood gathered and nabbed one of them. SHO Kotwali Davinder Pal Singh said he has been identified as Jaswinder Singh of Partap
Nagar. A case has been registered.
Cops clueless: The Balianwali police have not made any arrests in the case related to forged property related documents registered on July 10. Parkasho
Devi, widow of Kapoor Chand, resident of Urban Estate, Hissar, complained that her daughter-in-law Kiran Bala attempted to grab her husband’s property. She named three, Parminder Singh, Rajinder Kumar and Jangir Singh. In-charge, Balianwali police post, Gulzar Singh said, "The case is being probed.”
SBOP branch: The State Bank of
Patiala, on Monday, opened a new branch at Milk Plant, Bathinda. This is the bank's 102nd branch in Bathinda zone and 41st branch in Bathinda district.
N.K. Mehta, DGM, and R.K. Tiwari, GM, Milk Plant, inaugurated the new branch. Anil
Malhotra, AGM-1, spoke about the facilities available.
Ferozepur
Pickle manufacturing unit raided: A team of doctors of health department raided a pickle manufacturing unit in Abohar and seized around 45 quintals of unhygienic and fungi affected pickle. According to civil surgeon S.S.
Walia, the health department had got specific information regarding use of unhealthy ingredients in the pickles. Walia said that a team of doctors including Rakesh
Sikri, Jasbir Singh and food inspector Kamaldeep Singh reached the place where pickle was being prepared and found the raw material including mangoes and lemons being used in the pickle were fungus affected and that the pickle was being prepared in a cowshed. Walia said that the team seized the samples which have been sent to the lab for testing. Walia further said the premises has been sealed. He said that the next action would be decided after getting the test report from the lab.
Hoshiarpur
Body recovered: The body of a 23-year-old girl was found from the Chagran Choe on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Anju Bala, daughter of Kuldip Singh of Piplanwala, a suburb of the town. According to police sources, Anju Bala left her house on July 11 for taking a ration card from the office of the civil supplies department, near local railway station, but did not return home. The Sadar police after getting conducted the postmortem of the body, handed it over to her family.
JALANDHAR
Five arrested: The police arrested five migrant labourers for pilfering iron ore and seized 560 kg of iron from them on Monday. The accused, Janet,
Rahul, Baabu, Bablu and Sonu, all from Uttar Pradesh, were arrested during a raid in
Gadaipur. The police said the suspects were booked in similar cases at Gauraia police station.
Kharar
Bitten by snake: Ranjit Kaur, a resident of Bukhri village, was bitten by a venomous snake on Monday afternoon. The incident took place when she was at home. She was taken to the civil hospital Kharar and further referred to the
PGI, Chandigarh. Her condition is said to be serious.
Nawanshahr
New courses: The Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial College, Mukandpur is going to start MBA and MCA courses from this academic session. The college has been allotted 40 seats in each course by Guru Nank Dev University, Amritsar. Giving details, Dr Atamjit Singh, principal, said the college was set up in 1993 by an NRI Gurcharan Singh Shergill in memory of his son Amardeep Singh
Shergill.
Patiala
Invited: Dr Yogesh Gambhir, reader in the Punjabi University’s department of theatre and television, will present his research paper “Critical Study of Various Versions of Ramayana” at the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society
(WSEAS) Conference to be held at Heraklian, Greece, from July 22 to 24.
