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Regional potpourri
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Bathinda CHANDIGARH Physical efficiency test: Physical efficiency test for the recruitment of intelligence assistants in the Intelligence Wing of the Punjab Police will be conducted at Commando Complex, Bahadurgarh (Patiala) on September 29 and 30. Results for the tests will be announced the same day and successful candidates given letters for the written test on the spot. Forty men and 20 women intelligence assistants are to be recruited in the rank of constables. Dussehra greetings: CM Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal felicitated people of Punjab on the eve of Dussehra. Ministers Manoranjan Kalia and Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon appealed all to celebrate the occasion with religious fervour. Fatehgarh Sahib Security beefed upb: Security has been tightened in and around the district in view of Dasehra. Special nakas were laid at all main roads of the district and vehicles were being checked coming towards Fatehgarh Sahib. Senior police officials have conducted meetings with members of the Dasehra committee, Sirhind, and adjoining towns. Special police force will be deployed at Dasehra grounds. Kharar LALRU Nawanshahr RopaR SANGRUR Pen-down stir planned: Members of the Punjab State Ministerial Services Union will observe pen-down strike on October 9 in the state to protest against the government for not implementing their accepted demands. It will also launch statewide protests from October 1 to October 8. Union spokesman Raj Kumar Arora said rallies would be held by the ministerial staff in front of their respective offices.
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Function held: The Qaumi Virsa Kender on Sunday organised a function in connection with martyrdom centenary of Madan Lal Dhingra. The keynote speaker was Kender convener Malwinderjit Singh Waraich, who said one could not be a revolutionary without being a thinker.’Only those who have a lust for life can make a sacrifice. OPDs closed today: The OPDs of GMCH-32 will remain close tomorrow on account of Dasehra. However, emergency services will remain functional as usual.
KALKA Navratra mela ends: Navratra mela concluded here on Sunday. During the mela, traditional puja was performed at Kali Mata temple and at Naina Devi Mata temple situated on Shivalik hill. Om Parkash Bharti, priest at Naina Devi temple told that during Navratras thousands of devotees from Haryana, Himachal, Chandiarh and Punjab visited the historic temples to pay their obeisance. Kurukshetra Sirsa Yamunanagar
DALHOUSIE NURPUR Man nabbed: The local police on Saturday nabbed a proclaimed offender (PO) Raju of Kharor near Rehan. According to police information, the accused had been first arrested on July 20, 2007, under the Excise Act. But a local court had declared him PO on July 9, this year, for not attending court hearings. He had reportedly changed his name and was living near Rehan. The police has lodged another case under Section 174 (A) of the IPC against the accused. The court has sent him to four-day judicial custody.
JAMMU Sikhs hold protest: Various Sikh organisations held a demonstration on Sunday and burnt effigies of police officers, including former Jammu SSP Manohar Singh and others who were suspended in connection with the Amandeep murder case. The protest was held under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir United Forum. The protesters raised slogans against Vijay Chowdary, SHO of Trikuta Nagar who arrested a youth who later died. They were demanding stern action against the accused police officer. SRINAGAR Creative-writing workshop: A week-long creative writing workshop organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) got underway at Leh on Sunday. It was inaugurated by Dr Farooq Anwar Mirza, Editor, JKAACL. Writers from different regions of the state are meeting for the first time in Ladakh. “During its 35 years of existence, the academy has for the first time organised such a programme in Ladakh. The multilingual workshop is of great interest to all writers,” said a group of participants. Haj quota:
The decision on 1,500 seats under the additional Haj quota will be made through a draw of lots at Haj House on Monday. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the State Haj Committee on Sunday.
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Regional potpourri
Dhesi is an NRI based in Leicester( UK). “I, and my wife Surjit Kaur Dhesi live at Lambra, near here, where we have green house for trees and plants”. After retirement in late 1990s in Leicester, “I decided to do something for Punjab which I had left for the UK in 1962. I discussed it with friends and wife but failed to reach conclusion. It was April and we passed by a school where a class was held in the open. Almost all schools had treeless grounds”, said Dhesi. This impelled us to plant trees in schools as first step, said Dhesi. “Some people laughed at us, some ridiculed our effort and some even called us mad couple as we carried saplings in car from one school to other requesting headmasters to have these planted in school yards”, he added. As we continued many people joined us. “We have planted more than 1.50 lakh trees. In Rasoolpur Kalan, near Jalandhar 20,000 trees have been planted”, said Dhesi. Amrik Singh, an NRI from Rasoolpur, has given Rs 1 lakh for plantation in his village. “We have kept a retainer on Rs 3,000 a month in the village for the upkeep of trees”, adds Dhesi. On more people joining us, we formed — Savi Dharti (mother earth) — and from schools extended tree planting to hospitals, religious places, parks, cremation grounds and roadsides. We have planted trees in Lohara, Lallian, Avadan, Kala Sangha, Chitti, Raikot, Mehma Singh Wala, Samipura, Lambri and other places. Indigenous and exotic species were being planted. Books on global warming, air, water and soil pollution, noise pollution, desert and population, droughts, vehicular emission and mental pollution have also been published and distributed free of cost. “Now people from Majha and Malwa also come to us for help in tree plantation and we support and guide them”, said Dhesi. — Contributed by Sarbjit Dhaliwal
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ally held on Bhagat Singh’s birthday:
Trees on both sides of the link road to Rasoolpur Kalan, near Jalandhar is very sightly. On a query Dr Nirmal Singh, who has clinic at Lambra and publishes Punjabi literature and message of clean environment, rings up someone and invites him to his clinic. A man with white beard turns up and greets us with folded hands. “He is Ram Singh Dhesi who has made Doaba’s countryside wear green look”, said Dr Nirmal Singh.