Abohar
Shop burgled: With mercury diving after Diwali, the burglars have become active in the sub-divisional town. They targeted Seema Electricals located near a posh colony on the old Fazilka road on Tuesday night. Owners Neeraj and Naresh Kumar on Wednesday morning found that the miscreants created a hole in the rooftop and decamped with goods worth Rs 2.5 lakh. This included 35 packages of copper wire. The same shop had been targeted last year also. Since then, the city police has not been able to nab any of the culprits responsible for scores of thefts in the area, the shopkeepers rued.
Amritsar
Khalistan Zindabad Force member held: The Special Operations Cell of the Punjab police has arrested a member of the Khalistan Zindabad Force, officials said on Wednesday. The police said Barkat Singh was a trusted aide of Ranjit Singh, chief of the KZF based in Pakistan against whom many cases pertaining to terrorist activities had been registered. Investigations revealed that Ranjit Singh was trying to push in a huge consignment of arms, ammunition and explosives from Pakistan, which was to be received by Barkat through an accomplice in Jammu, the police said. An FIR has been registered.Bathinda
175 examined at free eye camp: A free eye check-up camp was organised by the Shaheed Baba Bhagu Ji Club at Gill Patti village, about six km from here.
Nearly 175 persons were examined at the camp. Medicines were given free of cost to patients.
CHANDIGARH
Trust told to set up more
eye hospitals: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday called upon the Sankara Eye Care Institutions to open such more high-tech no profit super-speciality eye-care institutions in other parts of the state to cater to needs of poor patients. Interacting with the Honorary Director, Project “Vision 2020", CN Srivatsan of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust which is running a chain of Sankara Eye Care Institutions with its mission headquarters in Coimbatore, the CM hoped that the upcoming 100-bedded Sankara Eye Hospital at Ludhiana, the first project of its kind in the state, would provide the best treatment to patients. He urged the trust to set up such more hospitals in the state.
Trust told to set up more eye hospitals: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday called upon the Sankara Eye Care Institutions to open such more high-tech no profit super-speciality eye-care institutions in other parts of the state to cater to needs of poor patients. Interacting with the Honorary Director, Project “Vision 2020", CN Srivatsan of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust which is running a chain of Sankara Eye Care Institutions with its mission headquarters in Coimbatore, the CM hoped that the upcoming 100-bedded Sankara Eye Hospital at Ludhiana, the first project of its kind in the state, would provide the best treatment to patients. He urged the trust to set up such more hospitals in the state.
Ferozepur
Discussion held: Critique Ferozepur Chapter and Philosophical Society of the Dev Samaj College for Women organised a discussion on the recent book 'God Market' written by the renowned scholar Meera Nanda, visiting fellow at Jawahar Lal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, JNU, New Delhi. The discussion was presided over by Navdeep Kaur. Bhawana, Pushpinderjeet, Rupinder, Kuldeep Singh, Rashpinder Singh, Ratan Singh, Rajan besides Ambuj Sharma from department of philosophy shared their views on the campus.
Moga
Single point connections: The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has started working on the project of providing 4.05 lakh electricity connections to the rural households including 1.49 lakh single point connections free of cost to the BPL households along with the electrical infrastructure.Revealing this in a press release, Harinder Singh Brar, chairman of the PSEB said the project would cost Rs 184 crore. "We have started the work and released 16,748 electricity connections along with the infrastructure to the BPL families while the balance work is likely to be completed by the end of February, 2010," he stated. Brar said in view of some of the panchayat lands not being irrigated due to lack of water for irrigation, the Board has allowed village panchayats to get more than one tubewell connection for irrigation. Adding that this step would increase the incomes of gram panchayats, he claimed that many panchayats had come ahead to get the tubewell connections under the scheme.
