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HARYANA

Hisar
PhD entrance test: Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology will conduct an entrance examination on December 21 for admission to 107 seats for doctoral programmes (PhD) in 14 teaching departments of the university.

KAITHAL
Field officer held: A CBI team from Chandigarh arrested a field officer of Oriental Bank of Commerce while accepting a bribe from a farmer here on Tuesday. The team was led by SP Karnail Singh. Naresh, a farmer of Shergarh, near here, applied for a bank limit of Rs 4 lakh and he contacted field officer Badan Singh, who allegedly demanded Rs 12,000 for the work. However, he settled for Rs 5,000. The farmer complained to the CBI office, following which he was arrested.

Husband gets life term: Additional District and Sessions Judge Naresh Katyal here has sentenced a man to life term holding him guilty of killing his wife. A fined of Rs 5,000 was also imposed on him. The brother of deceased Paramjit Kaur had alleged that on June 20, 2008, his brother-in-law Mili of Samplikheri village strangled his sister to death. He also alleged that Mili was a drunkard and used to beat up his sister under the influence of liquor.

REWARI
Man held for theft: The police has arrested Krishan, a resident of Dhokia village, near here, who reportedly looted a gold chain from Laxmi Devi, a resident of Goriya village of Jhajjar district, when she was travelling in a bus from Rewari to Kosli on Monday. The police also recovered the stolen chain from him. He was on Wednesday produced in the court of JMIC Saurabh Gosain, who remanded him to judicial custody. Earlier on a complaint filed by the woman, the police registered a case of assault and theft against the accused.

Rohtak
3 MBBS students, 2 clerks suspended: The authorities of the Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences here have placed two employees and three MBBS students under suspension on charges of copying and trying to leak the answersheet in the ongoing semester exam of the first year of the course. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Dr SS Sangwan, said strict action would be taken against anyone found violating the norms in the university. The students allegedly found indulging in cheating in the exams have been identified as Yogesh, Jitender and Yogesh Kumar, all first-year students. Suspension orders have been issued to Ajay and Vijay, clerks in the PGIMS.

JAMMU & KASHMIR

JAMMU
Non-teaching staff to protest: The Jammu University Non-teaching Employees Union and the Jammu University Non-gazetted Employees Union will go on a symbolic protest from Thursday. The protest would be observed from December 10 to 16. The protesting employees will sport black badges as a symbol of protest against the pay anomalies without affecting the normal functioning of the varsity. — TNS