BASSI PATHANA
Babla to take charge: Recently elected council president Kulbhushan Malhotra Babla and vice-president Ravinder Rinku are likely to take charge officially on Monday. With this decision all speculations regarding re-election of office bearers came to an end.

Bathinda
Tributes paid: Independence Day was celebrated at Arya Model High School. P.D.Goyal, president of the school committee, unfurled the national flag. School children enacted a play paying rich tributes to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the freedom struggle. They also organised a "Thalli" competition on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan in the school campus.

Assaulted: A person Jagseer was assaulted by four persons near Multania Phatak on Saturday. He was admitted to the civil hospital. The injured youth who works at a milk outlet in Moga said that while he was returning his milk tank, he was attacked by a rickshaw-puller and his accomplices with whom he had an altercation. They attacked him with iron pipes.

Elected: Balwinder Singh has been elected chairman of the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Welfare Club. Pratap Singh has been elected the vice-president while Harkirat Singh has been elected the general secretary. Jagjit Singh has been elected secretary, Indrajit Singh as cashier and Gurjit Singh as press secretary.

Dhanak Samaj: Chairman of the Punjab Pradesh Dhanak Samaj D.R. Bagri has appointed Makhan Singh Khanagwal as the chief general secretary. Earlier, he was the general secretary. He has been given the power to call meetings of general secretaries and the working committee and remove people inimical to social interests from their positions after warning them. But for this, he will have to seek the prior permision of the chairman. Acording to a press release issued here, Krishna Lal Nugaria and Baldev Krishna are have been appointed new office secretaries.

Hoshiarpur
Shop raided: Health officials raided Avtar Medical Store at Garhshankar on Saturday and seized a huge haul of prohibited drugs. Civil surgeon S.K. Gupta said the total seizure amounted to  Rs 1 lakh.

Jagraon
Bank celebrates foundation day: Indian Bank celebrated its 101st foundation day at Jandi village, 10 km from here, by holding a camp wherein the bank officers dwelt on facilities available for the villagers. The bank had chosen Jandi for its development. Senior manger S.R. Singla said about 1,562 branches of the bank had been computerised and 602 ATMs opened.

Jalandhar
Rakhi contest: On the occasion of Rakhi, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Suranussi, organised a rakhi-making competition for students of primary and secondary wings on Saturday. The winners of the contest were awarded prizes by school principal G.S. Sethi.

Doctor honoured: Dr Ravi Verma, Punjab president of Helpline NGO, was awarded a commendation certificate at the district-level Independence Day function here on Friday. Dr Verma was honoured by Punjab irrigation minister Janmela Singh Sekhon.

Nawanshahr
Cheques distributed: District education officer Prem Chand Gupta distributed cheques worth Rs 4.04 lakh among 43 primary and 27 upper primary schools for the development of infrastructure under the Sarv Shikhiya Abhiyan. Gupta exhorted the school heads to implement various schemes to impart quality education in the district.