Jalandhar
Salaries not paid: Owing to non-payment of salaries, resentment prevails among the employees working in the water, sanitation and sewerage department, divisions I and II. In a press statement, the press secretary of the Punjab Field and Workshop Workers Union said the department had failed to pay salary for March to its workers.Applications invited: The Nehru Yuva Kendra has invited applications for recruitment of volunteers in the National Youth Core. Qualification up to class XII and age less than 25 years have been standardised as the minimum qualification to join the core. The last date for submission of applications is April 27.
Nakodar
Three booked: The Nakodar police registered a case under section 306, IPC, against Jaswant Singh, his mother Gurmaij Kaur and brother Narinder Singh on the charge of torturing Manjit Kaur, wife of Jaswant Singh, in nearby Chack Muglani village on Friday. Manjit Kaur, who reportedly attempted to committ suicide by setting herself on fire by sprinkling kerosene on her clothes on April 7 in her in-laws’ house, succumbed to her burns in a hospital.
Nawanshahr
Lok adalat: A lok adalat was organised at Judicial Complex here on Saturday. Five Benches, headed by District and Sessions Judge Gurcharan Singh Sra, Additional District and Sessions Judges Ashwani Kumar Mehta and
N.S. Gill, CJM Poonam Ratti, Additional Civil Judge R.K. Sharma, were set up for the purpose. As many as 178 cases were put up for hearing, out of which 100 cases were settled.
Houses burgled: Two houses at Ibrahim Basti of Sohan Lal and Tilak
Raj, who have been working as labourers at the local Grain Market, were burgled in the broad daylight on Saturday. Sohan Lal and Tilak Raj had left their houses in the morning and when they went to their houses at about 1.30 pm they found locks of the main doors broken and household articles lying scattered. The miscreants took away cash and gold ornaments.
Pathankot
New school building: A newly constructed building of Senior Secondary School,
Dunera, in Dhar Block, 40 km from here, was inaugurated by Punjab Transport Minister Master Mohan Lal on Saturday.
Phagwara
Wheat straw gutted: Wheat straw in 75 acre land of Dhyan Singh was reduced to ashes in nearby Wahid village on Friday. Fire engines from Phagwara controlled the fire. The cause of fire could not be known yet.
Medical camp:
A free medical check-up camp was organised by activists of the District Youth Congress (DYC) at Khatri Bhawan here on Saturday. The camp was inaugurated by Charanjit Kaur Bajwa, wife of Pratap Bajwa, MP from Gurdaspur. More than 500 patients were examined by a team of doctors and medicines were distributed among the patients.
RAJPURA
2 arrested with illegal firearms: The police has arrested two Moga residents for possessing illegal firearms and live cartridges. The accused have been identified as Sukhchain Singh Chainna of Kukri Kalan village in Moga and Srabjit Singh Sarbha of Sant
Nagar, Moga. The accused were intercepted during a special naka near
Rajpura. Two pistols, six live cartridges and Rs 50,000 were recovered from their possession. They even failed to produce the documents of the vehicle they were travelling in.
