Abohar
Van Mohatsav celebrated: The Rotary Club, Abohar Midtown, and the Innerwheel Club celebrated Van Mahotsav by planting saplings in the Saraswati College of Pharmacy on the outskirts of the town on Tuesday.
One found dead in Abohar: A rickshaw-puller, identified as Jagdish, was found dead in a water course near the city bypass on Thursday. Prima facie, it appeared that he might have fallen while trying to quench his thirst. He had been living alone in a rented room, some rickshaw-pullers informed. The body has been kept in the mortuary at the local civil hospital awaiting his kin.
Bassi Pathana
Honoured: The Arhtiya Association and the Rice Millers Association organised a function to honour Jagdeep Singh Cheema for his appointment as SAD’s district president at the grain market on Thursday. Commission agents, rice millers, traders and leaders of other social, religious organisations attended the function.
Bathinda
Engineers’ Day observed: The North West Institute of Enginering and Technology, Dhudike in Moga district, observed Engineer’s Day on Wednesday in the honour of renowned engineer M.
Visvesvaraya. Principal and chief guest V.K. Sarda was received by Registrar Paramjit Singh and Prof.
Rakesh, the coordinator. The contribution of Visvesvaraya was highlighted on the occasion. Paper reading and essay competition with ‘Planet Earth’ as the theme was
organised. Prof. Samra, Madhu and Dr. V.K. Sarda presented their papers and also read the message of chairman Lakhbir Singh Gill, who was indisposed.
Chandigarh
Probe against Amarinder: Probe of case against Amarinder Singh has been entrusted case to a team headed by Vigilance Bureau joint director (Crime) Inderjit Singh Randhawa, Bureau. SP (economic offences wing) Chaman Lal and SP (flying squad) Paramjit Singh Khaira will assist him.
Fatehgarh Sahib
Development works: Deputy commissioner Surjit Singh on Thursday asked all department heads of the district to complete various developmental works of their area within the time frame. Addressing a meeting of department heads at Bachat
Bhawan, he asked officials concerned to remove encroachments along roadside during the paddy season. The SDMs were told to listen to the grievances of people. He also discussed the various development works going on in the district.
Gurdaspur
BSF camp: As many as 500 residents of various villages in this district were examined at a medical check-up camp organised by 109 battalion of the Border Security Force (BSF) at Dhinda village. At the camp, which was inaugurated by DIG S.S. Sandhu, the patients were given free medicines and food packets as refreshments. The camp was organised in association with the Lions Club Diamond,
Kahnuwan.
PWD men protest: Sixteen activists of the PWD Field and Workshop Workers Union observed fast to protest against the non-regularisation of their services. Union district president Ramesh Chand alleged that the Punjab government had failed to regularise the services of the daily-wagers despite the promise made by the ruling party in its poll manifesto.
Hoshiarpur
Rs 30,000, camera snatched: Yogesh Kumar of the local Mohalla Kamalpur lodged a complaint against Moti, Hansu of Mohalla Prahlad Nagar and Gaurav of Gautam Nagar last evening. According to police sources, Yogesh alleged that the accused stopped and assaulted him near the ITI, Kutcha Toba, and snatched Rs 30,000 and a camera from him. The city police has registered a case under sections 307, 379, 324, 323, 341, 506, 148 and 149 of the IPC against
the accuse.
Jalandhar
Translation workshop: Madhumeet, an English lecturer of KMV, attended a three-day Punjabi-English translation workshop at Shimla from September 13. She was invited by the Sahitya
Akademi, New Delhi. She translated two short stories, “Chure Wali Bahn” by Jasveer Singh Rana and “Iqbal Hussan Murya Nahin” by Ajmer
Sidhu.
Free medical camp: Students of ICFAI National College, Jalandhar, organised a free medical check-up camp in the slum area of Chuggitti on September 14. Senior deputy mayor Kamaljeet Singh Bhatia presided over the event.
Mock fire drill held: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
(BPCL) conducted a mock fire fighting drill at Suchi Pind here on Wednesday. The exercise aimed at controlling devastating fires at filling stations and other establishments.
On a high: Sun Microsystems has roped in a third-year student of Lovely Professional University as its Sun ambassador. B. Tech (III) student Raghav Puri was selected from the list of thousands of resumes that the company had called for the post. The techie has been hired by the computer giant for providing technological interventions and services.
Kapurthala
‘Punjabi needs public support’:There is need for public participation for proper implementation of acts passed in the assembly regarding the Punjabi language. This was stated by education minister Upidnerjeet Kaur while speaking at a function at Mahli Khurd village on Sunday.Malerkotla
Dowry death, 4 booked: Shrifan wife of Nirmal Khan of Pharwahi village, died due of burns near here on Wednesday . Mukhtiar Khan, son of Bashir Khan of Phalewal village said she was killed by her in-laws for dowry. The in-laws of Shrifan allegedly sprinkled kerosene on her and set her afire. She had 90 per cent burns when admitted to civil hospital here . Doctors referred her to Ludhiana but she died on the way. The police has booked Nirmal Khan husband of the deceased, father -in-law Gulzar khan, mother-in-law Bhuro and sister-in -law Paveen under Sections 304B, 148 and 149 of the
IPC.
Mansa
‘Reduce fuel prices’: Radical Peoples Forum has demanded decrease in price of petrol and diesel following fall in oil prices in the international market. Leaders of forum Sukhdarshan Natt and Jaspal Kokhar said here on Wednesday that Central government should sincerely review the oil prices as people had been under heavy burden high fuel prices. They alleged that the government was providing benefits to the oil companies and was not taking care of people. They demanded that oil prices should be decreased in view of falling oil prices in the international markets.
Phagwara
Attack on journalists flayed:The media fraternity here under the banner of the Journalists Club flayed the attack on some journalists at the behest of some politicians during the municipal council elections in
Moga. Club president Haripal Singh demanded that stern action should be taken against the culprits after a high-level inquiry.
SANGRUR
15 hurt in accident: Fifteen persons on Thursday sustained injuries when a private bus and a truck collided head-on near Cheema village, near Sunam. The bus was on its way from Sunam to Cheema while the truck was coming from the opposite side.
BJP launches drive: The BJP Kisan Morcha on Tuesday launched Jan Jagran Abhiyaan from Ealwal village, near here, with the aim of increasing its base in the district. About 500 villages will be covered under the drive. District president of the BJP Jatinder Kalra asked the Centre to rollback the prices of diesel immediately as crude oil prices had come down drastically in the international market.
