Harsimrat indisposed@@CHANDIGARH: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has postponed her visit to Amritsar on November 9 on the request of Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who is indisposed. She is suffering from dengue and was hospitalised recently in New Delhi. The fresh date of the President’s visit would be announced after Harsimrat’s recovery, an official release said. — TNS@@@@Badminton tourney@@Bathinda: The two-day badminton tournament began here at the Dunes Club on Saturday. The matches played were boys singles. The winner of today's matches were Bhageshwar, Gagandeep, Gurvinder Singh (Mour Mandi), Gurvinder, jasvinder, Surjit and Anish etc. The function was presided ober by SDM KPS Mahi. SSP Ashish Chaudhary was the chief guest. Deputy Director, Employment Exchange Harpal Singh welcomed all the delegates. — TNS@@@@Vigilance Awareness Week @@Bathinda: NFL Bathinda unit is observing Vigilance Awareness Week from November 3. Virendra Kumar, chief general manager, inaugurated the week-long activities by administering pledge to the employees. — TNS@@@@Civil defence@@Bathinda: The Civil Defence Warden's Club organised a debate competition at the SSD Senior Secondary School here. Students of about 10 schools debated on environment. Talking about civil defence, Shamsher Singh Azad of the club said, "In case of an emergency we look after various things like blackout etc. Children should know these things and our club is working on the lines of an NGO.” — TNS

Protest rally on Nov 13@@Abohar: Non-teaching staff of the DAV campus here on Friday staged dharna outside the offices of the principals. State joint secretary KK Sidana and presidents of the local units Rajinder Sharma, Raj Kumar and Kamal Huria criticised the state government for not implementing the UGC recommendations on revision of pay scales and allowances. They said employees will participate in the state-level rally at Khalsa College, Patiala, on November 13. — OC@@@@Calligraphy competition@@Bathinda: To celebrate Punjabi month, the Government Middle School, Fatehpur (Mansa) conducted calligraphy competition in Punjabi language. Jagjit Singh clinched the first position in class-VIII category while Manjit Singh and Harjinder Kaur got second and third positions, respectively. In class-VII category, Sandeep Kaur, Lakhvir Singh and Jaspal Singh bagged top three positions. In class-VI group, Lakha Singh, school head, lauded the students. Mohan Lal Salhan, principal, Government Senior Secondary School, Jhunir, encouraged the students. — TNS@@@@India heritage quiz contest@@Faridkot: Dasmesh Public School, Faridkot, romped home with the second position at the prestigious north zone “India Heritage Quiz competition-2009” held at the DAV School, Amritsar. Sauarv Aggarwal and Hamrazdeep Singh of Class X and Shubham Mehta of Class IX, gave a crushing defeat to the other state teams. Director principal 
S. Gurcharan Singh congratulated all the participants and teacher in-charge D. Grewal on the success. — TNS

Batala
One held for stealing: One Rajat Kumar has been arrested for stealing Rs 4.22 lakh of his employer Parveen Aggarwal. Out of the total amount, Rs 4.15 lakh has been recovered by the police. Parveen Aggarwal  of Mohalla Attarian, who deals in pig iron and had a office at  Railway Road here, had lodged a complaint against Rajat alleging the employee took the money from an almirah in the office by  making duplicate keys. It is alleged that Rajat, a resident of Mian Mohalla, took help of his friend Gagan in the task.

CHANDIGARH
Harsimrat indisposed: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has postponed her visit to Amritsar on November 9 on the request of Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who is indisposed. She is suffering from dengue and was hospitalised recently in New Delhi. The fresh date of the President’s visit would be announced after Harsimrat’s recovery, an official release said.

Hoshiarpur
Fake agents booked: Fake travel agents duped Sucha Singh of Majhi of Rs 11 lakh and 700 euros in the name of sending him to Italy. According to police sources, Sucha Singh alleged that Harbhajan Singh and his son Paramjit Singh took the money for sending him to Italy. But they neither sent him  nor returned his money. The police has booked them under sections 420  and 120-B of the IPC.

Phagwara
I-T operation triggers bazaar closure: Four main bazaars of Phagwara, including Bazaar Bansanwala, Mahavir Bazaar, Gaushala Bazaar, Banga Road, remained closed till afternoon yesterday due to fear among shopkeepers after a large-scale search operation conducted by high-level teams of the Income Tax Department at four trading, exporting and industrial houses here on Friday. Hundreds of customers were surprised to find the bazaars closed and assumed it might be owing to another bandh call.

SANGRUR
Bid to loot ATM: Some unidentified persons allegedly tried to break open an ATM of the State Bank of Patiala at Dhuri on Saturday. However, when they failed to get successful, they damaged the room housing the machine. On getting information, the police rushed to the spot. Investigations are on.