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PUNJAB

Abohar
Students bag medals: The students of a small and less developed town Sadulshehar, located at 30 km stone from Abohar shone in the district-level tournaments. Pawan Singh and Hawa Singh were accorded a warm welcome by the principal Amar Kaur, teachers and students of the CR Senior Secondary School. The budding players returned with gold and bronze medal on Tuesday. They had got two of the three top positions in the 400 meter and 110 meter obstacle race competitions respectively in the district athletic meet that was organised by the education department.

100 per cent result: Their joy knew no bounds as the students of Sriganganagar-based International Institute of Fashion Designing learnt through internet today that all of them have qualified the exams conducted by the Annamalai University. Director, Parul Bhatia, informed that toppers of the institute in fashion designing, interior decoration and textile designing courses included Monika Thareja, Preeti Arora, Nisha Kataria, Neeraj Singhal, Ujwal and Navneet Kaur.

BATHINDA
PPCC secretary: Ravinder Kumar Rosy has been appointed as secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee by state unit party chief Mohinder Singh Kay Pee. Rosy belongs to a family of freedom fighters and has also served as general secretary of the All India Seva Dal.

Nursing college inaugurated: Dasmesh College of Nursing, Faridkot, was inaugurated on Tuesday by S. Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon, ex-MLA, Faridkot. S. Kuldeep Singh Gill, vice-chairman of the society detailed about the function and achievements of the society. The chief guest was honoured by offering siropa by S. Kuldeep Singh Gill. In the ceremony S. Jasbir Singh Sandhu (secretary), S. Amarjit Singh Doad (joint director), Yashpal Kansal (vice-principal of Dasmesh Dental College), Jathedar Manmohan Singh (chairman Gurudwara Judicial Commission), S. Amarjit Singh Bassi (president Municipal Committee, Faridkot), S. Swaranjit Singh Gill (prominent social worker) were present along with other dignitaries.

Talent hunt programme: Talent Hunt Competition was organised at the Dasmesh Girls College of Education Badal on Tuesday. Jagdish Kaur Mann was the chief guest on this occasion while Dr Kuldeep Kaur Mann and Mr Malik were special guests. Dr SS Sangha, college principal, welcomed the guests. Mandeep and group presented a skit 'Maghar Singh Da Siapa'. Deepanjot, Upinder,and Nisha presented their views in a speech. In the end Gidha was presented. Dr Sangha honoured Mrs Sidhu by presenting memento.

Batala
Rs 2.68 lakh snatched: An amount of Rs 1.75 lakh and two mobile phones were snatched by nearly five persons on Sunday night. Owner of Jupiter Iron Foundry on the G.T Road Rajesh Aggarwal was about to leave for home and was talking to his foreman Rooplal and chowkidar Ram Dular when at least five persons with muffled faces arrived there and at pistol point asked them to hand over their belongings. In another incident, two motorcyclists snatched a purse, containing about Rs 3000, from a woman riding a Mopod. In yet another incident two motorcyclists snatched a purse  containing Rs 90,000 from the sarpanch of Kotal Suba Singh, about 25 km from here,  yesterday evening.

Jalandhar
Train-car collision: 2 struggle for life: Two persons, who were critically injured in a train-car collision at Suchi Pind, are still struggling for life in a private hospital. The condition of three others, who also sustained injuries in the accident, is stable. The injured have been identified as Gurdial Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Butta Singh, Kulwinder Kaur and Priyanka. They are relatives of a local municipal councillor and residents of the local Abad Nagar locality. The railway police has booked the driver of the car that was hit by the train at an unmanned level crossing on the Jalandhar-Jammu railway line.

Patiala
PSEB  management’s effigy burnt:The Technical Services Union of the Punjab State Electricity Board here today burnt an effigy of the PSEB management in protest against failure of the board to revise the wages of employees.Protesters said protests against the non-revision of wages would continue in the days to come and many associations and unions of employees had drawn up plans for concerted struggle to press the board management to go in for revision of wages of the board employees.

CHANDIGARH

Chandigarh
RTI week ends: The Right to Information week concluded at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 33-D, here. During the celebrations, an essay-writing contest was organised in which about 100 students participated. Rahul Sharma, Karan Mittal and Jasvir Sidhu bagged first three prizes.

Power Shutdown: Due to urgent maintenance work, power supply will remain suspended to parts of Sectors 41, 18, 19, 21, 47-D and parts of motor market and the Notified Area Committee of Mani Majra from 10 am to 4 pm and parts of Sectors 19, 20, 27, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 44, 45 and 46 and Burail village from 9 am to 5 pm on Wednesday.

Mohali,
Cracker-free Diwali stressed:The NSS helpline has urged teachers and students to celebrate a cracker-free Diwali. Dr Sarbjeet Kaur Sohal, NSS programme officer, and Dr Uma Sharma, PRO, Punjab, said district education officers, principals and students were being motivated to observe a cracker-free Diwali.The helpline, functional for the last three years, had saved many stressed students who were on the edge of suicide.Sharma said Diwali meant lamps, candles, rangolis, flowers, gifts and fruits, but not sweets. “Let us save money and the environment”, she said. 

Body Found: The 22-year-old youth, identified as Birbal Singh of Manauli, was found dead on the Chandigarh-Kharar railway track at Sanetta village here today.