Abohar
Anmol adjudged best athlete: Kamaljeet and Anita shared the title of the best athlete among the girls in the X annual athletic meet that concluded at the Brahm Rishi Mission School on Sunday evening. Anmol was declared the best athlete among boys. BSF DIG Vimal Kumar Satyarthi was the chief guest on the occasion. Principal Brahmrita presided over the prize distribution function. Kamaldeep led the oath ceremony of the participants. Seema Juneja and Deepti conducted the function.

Medical camp on Nov 15: Aggarwal Navyuvak Sabha on Monday resolved to organise a special camp to examine persons suffering from thyroid, diabetes and heart diseases. President Anil Nagori informed that experts would offer tests at subsidised charges during the camp to be held at Sutlej Public School on November 15. The samples will be sent to Mumbai for examination.

TSU office-bearers elected: Maya Parkash, Ved Parkash, Krishan Chander Khichi, Narinder Behal and Sukhchain were on Monday elected as president, vice-president, secretary, joint secretary and cashier respectively of the Technical Services Union during the annual meeting held in the sub-division number III of the Punjab State Electricity Board. Observers from the divisional committee of the TSU were present. 

Dance competition: During a camp organised at the Venus Public School here on Sunday, 250 children from different institutions qualified in the dance competition. Out of them, 100 will be imparted free training by the Marshal Dance Academy during the next month, director Rajneesh Chaudhary announced on Sunday evening. Teachers Club president Amreek Singh, social activist Amit Baveja, councillors Ravtash Singh and Buta Singh presided over different sessions of the day-long function. 

Amritsar
Final youth fest of GND varsity starts: More than 1,000 students from various affiliated colleges of Guru Nanak Dev University have been participating in the four-day inter-zonal final youth festival of the university, which started here on Sunday. Former university Vice-Chancellor H.S. Soch inaugurated the festival by lighting the candles.

BATHINDA
Nursing college gets nod  to start B.Sc. course: The Indian Council of Nursing has given approval to the Desh Bhagat College of Nursing, Muktsar for starting B.Sc. Nursing course for the academic session 2009-10. The institute has been allotted 60 seats for this course.

Free eye check-up camp: About 500 persons were examined at a free eye and other diseases check-up camp, organised by the local SD Mahabir Dal Hospital on its premises here. Medicines were given free of cost to the patients. Bathinda SSP Ashish Chaudhary was the chief guest on the occasion. 

Science exhibition: A two-day science exhibition of tehsil Bathinda on the topic "Science, Technology and Society" began on the premises of Khalsa Senior Secondary School here on Monday. In this exhibition, the students exhibited their models on six sub-themes, like science and technology in sports, information and communication technology, changing climate. 

Pre-commission training: The District Sainik Welfare Office will impart training for the preparation of written examinations of the NDA and the CDS from December 1 to January 15 next year. The aspirants, who want to get pre-commission training, should send their applications  for this purpose to the District Sainik Welfare Office, Bathinda by  November 25.

Sammi dance: Folk dance ‘Sammi’ presented by the Dasmesh Girls College of Education, Badal, got the first prize in the Panjab University Inter-Zonal Youth and Heritage Festival held at Dev Samaj College For Women, Ferozepur. Arshdeep bagged the second individual prize in folk dance ‘Sammi’. Dasmesh BEd College bagged the first position at zonal level in ‘Sammi’ for the fourth time in succession and got the first position at the inter-zonal level. Earlier, in the zonal level youth festival also, the students of the college won 17 prizes. The event was held at DAV College Of Education, Abohar. 

CHANDIGARH
London conference: Sangrur MP Vijay Inder Singla is the Indian parliamentary delegate participating in an international seminar on parliamentary governance at London, Brussels and Edinburgh. According to a release here on Monday, parliamentarians across the world would participate in this fourth common wealth parliamentary association meet and would be discussing on the global imperatives of democratic concerns in governance from November 9 to 21.

Fazilka
PPCC secretary appointed: Municipal councillor, senior Congress leader Davinder Sachdeva, has been appointed secretary of Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee by the acting president of the PPCC Mohinder Singh Kay Pee. Sachdeva, who remained senior vice-president of the municipal council, is a known socialite of the area. It has been stated in his appointment letter that in light of his commendable services to the Congress party, he has been assigned the responsibilities of secretary of the state Congress unit.

Fatehgarh Sahib
Certificates distributed: Students who completed the basic computer course at the District Sainik Welfare Board were given certificates today.Vice president of the District Sainik Board, Jaswant Singh Panag, was also present. Virender Singh and Mandeep Kaur who stood first in the course. 

Pensioners seek hike: A meeting of the members of the Punjab Government Pensioners Welfare Association was held today at Pensioners Bhawan.District president of the association Balwant Singh said the members discussed the Pay Commission report. The pensioners demanded that employees retired after January 2006, should be given 50 per cent pension of their salaries.

Hoshiarpur
Man commits suicide: The alleged persistent persuasion by Aruna Kumari, widow of Surinder Kumar of local Shastri Nagar, for her brother-in-law Ishwar Chander of local Khanpuri Gate, to permanently live with her drove the latter to commit suicide. According to police sources, Sharda Devi, wife of Ishwar Chander, alleged that Aruna used to visit her house regularly and had developed illicit relations with her husband. The city police registered a case under section 306 of the IPC against Aruna Kumari.

Jalandhar
Ban on burning of straw: District Magistrate (DM) Ajeet Singh Pannu has banned the burning of straw in the fields within 1,200 yards of the Ammunition Depot, Mand, under section 144 of the CrPC. The orders would remain in force till December 23. The DM has also banned the burning of straw in the fields within 500 yards of the Ammunition Depot, Surranussi. The decision was taken keeping in mind the safety of the life and property of the residents, the District Magistrate maintained.

LUDHIANA
Swine flu: A doctor at the DMC here has been tested positive for swine flu. He had flu-like symptoms since Sunday, but was not sure whether he was suffering from swine flu or not. The reports came on Monday.

Mansa
Legal services authority day: National legal services authority day was observed in the courts complex of Sardulgarh today. On the occasion, a function was organized, which was presided over by the additional civil judge senior division Sham Lal. DSP Rajbir Singh was also present during the function. Addressing the gathering, justice Sham Lal said free legal services were being provided to poor people under the legal service authority Act. He also informed the people about the services of Lok Adalats. Among others, who are present, included BDPO Parvesh Goyal, Bar association president Baljit Singh Sandhu and Panch- Sarpanch of villages. 

Nawanshahr
25 challaned: The police today challaned as many as 23 vehicles for over-speeding and 2 for misuse of ‘Press’ here at a naka at Rahon Road on Saturday. The police impounded both vehicles displaying press.

Cancer awareness day: Sandhu Institute of Nursing, Mahalon (Nawanshahr) organised a seminar to mark World Cancer Awareness Day here on Saturday. Dr D.P.S. Sandhu, former director, Health and Family Welfare, exhorted the nursing students to work as a health worker to create awareness about cancer in their surrounding localities. Principal Krishna Thakur, and clinical instructor Navdeep Kaur delivered lectures on cancer. A special lecture on breast cancer was also delivered on the occasion. 

PATIALA
Wheat MSP hike flayed: The Indian Farmers Association has condemned the announcement made by the Union government to hike wheat MSP by Rs 20 per quintal. At a meeting held here on Monday, state president of the association Satnam Singh Behru said, “To express their resentment, they will distribute pamphlets highlighting anti-farmer stand of the Centre outside Parliament on the first day of the winter session of Parliament.” He said due to an “indifferent” attitude of the Union government towards their demands, a majority of farmers had stopped cultivating sugarcane.

HAMIRPUR
Govt ‘attitude’ rued: The Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Junior Engineers and Assistant Engineers Federation expressed their concern on alleged indifferent attitude of the board management towards their long-pending demands. In a press statement, state president and general secretary of the federation DS Datwalia and Vijender Chaudhary, respectively, said though the federation had been trying to take up their demands peacefully, the board management had not made any effort to resolve their problems. 

Man commits suicide: A person had reportedly committed suicide at his house in Mundkhar village under the Bhoranj police station.Police sources said Kulbir Singh (55) had consumed some poisonous substance at his house this morning and was taken to Government Hospital at Bhoranj, where he later died.

MANDI
Tributes paid: The Progressive Writers’ Association, Janvadi Writers’ Association and RTI Bureau, Mandi, on Sunday paid tribute to Prabhash Joshi, a journalist who died a few days ago. Holding condolence meeting here to pay tribute to the journalist, Sunder Lohia, president of the Janvadi Writers Association, said Joshi always stood for journalism of masses and exposed the political double-dealing through his write-ups. President, Progressive Writers’ Association, Dinu Kashyap said Joshi was a journalist of high calibre and did journalism for common man. 

Official fined: Gohar SDM Sunil Sharma recently imposed a fine of Rs 500 on Megh Singh, assistant secretary of Khalwahan panchayat in Gohar subdivision, after he was found guilty of not giving RTI information to applicant Sant Ram. Hearing to the appeal filed by Sant Ram of the RTI bureau, Mandi, at Gohar, the SDM found Megh Singh guilty of withholding RTI information on NREGA in panchayat. He gave incorrect information to the applicant that too after 50 days rather than within the 30 days time limit. 

SOLAN
Power shutdown: The senior executive engineer of Kunihaar division said power supply to 132 KV sub-station at Barotiwala, Solan, Jutog (Totu), and 33 KV lines feeding 33/11 KV sub-stations at Kunihaar and Subathu would remain suspended on November 11 from 9 am to 5 pm due to urgent maintenance work.