Abohar
Free medical camp held: About 200 physically impaired persons were escorted by their parents to the free medical camp that was organised by the Seth Shankar Dass Daulat Ram Nagpal Charitable Trust here at Jaycee Palace on Saturday. A team of experts led by Captain (retd) Dr RL Handa examined the affected persons, took measurements to prepare artificial limbs that would be fixed during the next camp on April 4 free of cost. The camp convener, JC Nagpal, informed that free medical check-up camp will also be organised here on Sunday as well.

Shyam Mahotsav: Business activities in the old walled city area came to a halt for half of the day as several persons joined the Dhwaja Shobha Yatra on the eve of Shri Shyam Mahotsav being organised by Shree Sanvaria Mittar Mandal to celebrate the foundation day of Shyam Bihari Mandir here on Saturday. A large number of devotees had converged from a dozen villages of Abohar and Fazilka sub-divisions.

Dev Arjun wins cycle race: Dev Arjun who displayed “Chak de India” motto topped in the cycling race during the thrilling Annual Sports Meet of the pre-primary section at the LRS DAV Senior Secondary Model School here Friday. The winners were honoured by the civil judges Ashok Kapur and Girish.

Toppers honoured: Toppers in house tests including Chandani, Sonia, Palak, Varsha, Jatinder Kaur and Mukesh were honoured during a seminar on “data structures” that was organised by the Swami Keshwa Nand Memorial College here yesterday. Lalit Goyal, senior lecturer from DAV College, Chandigarh was the chief guest. The college principal Saroj Nagpal honoured Ankita, Kiran, Sonia, Sumit, Prem Lata, Sandeep, Ashu, Piyush, Swaran Jit, Gaurav, Raman Brar, Aman Sharma and Neha who had won laurels during the youth festival held last year.

Amloh
Missing boy found:The police has managed to trace a class IX boy, who was missing since February 13.The police traced the boy with the help of phone calls that he made to his parents. Shashtri Guru Dutt Sharma, a resident of Ward No. 3, Amloh, had filed a missing report of his son Pryya Dutt Sharma, alias Kakoo.After working on various theories, the police succeeded in tracing the boy last night from Langer Kot village under the Kahnoowan police station (Gurdaspur). The boy was handed over to his parents today.

Bathinda
‘Udd de Panchi’ released:Cluster center Katar Singh Wala of the Parho Punjab campaign released “Udd de Panchi”, a magazine for primary students in which they mentioned their own poems and stories.Claiming it to be first of its kind in Bathinda district, the cluster master trainer Rupinder Kaur Sidhu said the focus of the magazine was to enhance the thinking power of the students. 

Blood donation camp held: Celebrating the birthday of founder president late Dr Valaiti Ram Bansal, the staff and students of the SSD Girls’ College and the SSD Women Institute of Technology, led by Dr Anil Bansal, organised a blood donation camp on Saturday where 30 volunteers donated blood.

Fazilka
Family planning camp held: In a campaign launched by the health department, a four-day special family planning camp was organised by the local civil hospital authorities on the directions of civil surgeon, Ferozepur, Dr Dalip Kumar, which concluded here on Saturday. In this camp, vasectomy and tubectomy operations were conducted by the team of surgeons. Senior Medical Officer (SMO), civil hospital, Fazilka, Dr YK Gupta said that team of surgeons led by Dr Rajesh Sharma and Dr Kavita Singh conducted 80 tubectomy operations of women and eight non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) operations of men were performed. Dr Gupta said that the health department has given incentive of Rs 1,100 to everyone who was operated upon in the camp.

Nurpur
Mobile shop burgled:Thieves broke into a mobile phone shop, Om Communication, in the Raja ka Talab area last night and decamped mobile phones and recharge coupons. Initially, the police had reported a loss of Rs 96,000 after lodging an FIR under Sections 380 and 456 of the IPC. According to shop owner, Harminder Singh, the total amount of robbery can be over Rs 2 lakh.