Bathinda
Body found: Volunteers of the Sahara Jan Seva found the body of a man, about 50 years of age, floating in the Sirhind Canal here on Wednesday. After conducting a post-mortem examination, the police initiated the inquest proceedings. As the deceased could not be identified, the volunteers cremated the body.

Youth run over by train: A youth, identified as Vishnu and belonging to Nepal, was crushed under a train on the Bathinda-Dabwali track near Dabwali outer on Tuesday night. He worked as a waiter at a hotel in Dabwali. Receiving the information, volunteers of a social NGO, took him to the local Civil Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The GRP staff has initiated the inquest proceedings. 

Woollens distributed: The Bathinda Vikas Manch distributed woollens among 70 students of the Government Senior Secondary School and 20 elders of Haraipur village near here on Wednesday.

AIDS awareness: AIDS awareness sessions were organised at Government Des Raj School, the ITI and Government Senior Secondary School, Balluana, here on Wednesday, where community AIDS educator Narinder Kumar Bassi was the key speaker. 

‘Vardhman Aao Bune’  contest held: Over 400 students from 30 schools participated in “Vardhman Aao Bune”, an on-the-spot contest, held here on Wednesday. During the contest, which stretched for two hours, the students knitted patterns, booties, caps and miniatures of purses and bags with colourful yarn provided by the Vardhman Textiles Limited. Ten best patterns from each category have been short-listed for final evaluation phase. State-level final winners will be decided in Ludhiana by a panel of judges in December and the announcement of the same will be made in January. 

CHANDIGARH
Vidhan Sabha session: The 13th Punjab Vidhan Sabha session has been summoned by the Governor to meet for its eighth session on Monday in the hall of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. This was disclosed here on Wednesday by Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon. 

Kharar
Office inaugurated: The Child Development Project Office was inaugurated near the BDPO complex, the Civil Hospital road, today. Darshan Kaur Shergill has been appointed as the child development project officer. She asked her subordinates to implement the Central and state schemes for child and women development. District programme official Ajit Kaur Multani said opening of the second office would accelerate work pace as well as would benefit the people around.