BASSI PATHANA
Liquor seized: The police recovered 24 boxes of smuggled whisky from an Esteem car during a naka on Monday. The driver of the car, however, gave a slip to the police leaving behind the car on a canal bridge at Alampur village. The liquor was meant for sale in Chandigarh only. A case has been registered under the Excise Act. Search was on to nab the accused, said the police.
CHANDIGARH
Mountaineer honoured: Member of the Punjab State Scheduled Caste Commission Dalip Singh Pandhi on Monday honoured Mountaineer Mamta Sodha for scaling the Mount Everest. Sodha was a member of the National Adventure Club and had earlier scaled other peaks. She is also a national Handball champion. Congratulating
Sodha, Pandhi said she had not only won laurels for Haryana, but had made the country proud.
Orientation workshop: To train students about the
Gatka, the School Education Department will organise an orientation workshop for physical teachers from July 6 to 7 at the Punjab School Education Board,
Mohali. Deputy Director (School Education), sports, Amarjit Kaur said the ancient Gatka game had been introduced recently into the school sports calendar and it was required to train physical teachers about this new martial art.
DERA
BASSI
Bid to loot ATM: An ATM of the State Bank of India branch Lalru was broken at 2 am on Monday, but there was no loss of cash as the safe could not be broken. According to sources, out cover and time lock of the ATM were found broken, but lock of the safe could not be broken. Bank manager Sushil Wadhwa said the matter had been reported to the police, including the camera recordings. Meanwhile, the police said the bank manager had filed the report of damaging of the ATM not of attempt to break the ATM.
Factory worker killed: A factory worker was killed in a road accident near Lehli village on Sunday. A speeding car that was coming from Chandigarh to Ambala hit the factory worker while he was crossing the national highway. The deceased was identified as Pappu Singh, resident of Momli district,
Aligarh, Uttar Pardesh. He was employed as a worker in steelstrips factory and was going for duty when the accident happened. Car driver fled. The police has registered a case against unidentified car and driver under Section 279, 304 of the
IPC. The case was registered on the statement of Tarsem Singh, supervisor in the factory who was also waiting to cross the road at a time of accident.
JALANDHAR
Quota for BCs sought: Taking a strong note of not providing reservation to Backward Classes
(BCs) students in Panjab University admissions, former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur on Monday demanded that BCs and OBCs should be provided 27 per cent quota in admissions in
PU. She also demanded that GMADA should also reserve plots for BCs like other categories in its proposed Aerocity in
Mohali.
Ludhiana
Lucky draw: Tata Indicom, the CDMA brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, organised a retailer meet in Ludhiana to felicitate and motivate its partners for their contribution towards the company’s success. The meeting included a prize distribution ceremony for the winners of two lucky draw schemes introduced by the company.
Under the first scheme, on a purchase of 20 Tata Indicom SIMs/pre-paid starter kits, retailers were entitled to a lucky draw coupon. While under the second scheme, retailers could avail of one lucky draw coupon on the purchase of 11 Tata Indicom handsets. Approximately 100 retailers participated in the first scheme, while 25 were actively involved in the second one.
Harish Palta from Hargobind Nagar won a Hero Honda bike; while Ram & Sham Electrical and Deepak Communication won a 21-inch Flatron television each and Kanwal Telecom & Bhalla Telecom won a Microwave each. Also, many other exciting prizes like juicer mixer grinders, music systems, hand blenders and steam irons were given away to the winners.
