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Chandigarh
Dy Commissioners to register marriages: The Punjab Government has appointed all the deputy commissioners in the state as district registrars of marriages. The appointment comes under the Punjab Compulsory Registration of Marriages Act, 2012. All the district revenue officers, tehsildars and naib tehsildars have been appointed additional district registrars of marriages, who shall register marriages within the area of their respective jurisdiction.
Moga
2 women held for drug trafficking: The district police has arrested two women on the charges of drug trafficking. Rajni Bala was arrested from Baghapurana for possessing 1,080 tablets of a banned drug while Manjit Kaur was arrested from Daulewala village for possessing 20 gm of heroin. Two separate cases under the NDPS Act have been registered against them.
Mohali
 Batth appointed
PSEB Secretary: Gurinder Pal Singh Batth was appointed the new Secretary of Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) here on Wednesday. Bath, who was serving as a Chief Engineer in the board, has been selected from a panel of six officials that included three PCS officers and the board's joint secretary Janak Raj Mehrok and senior legal advisor Sukhwinder Kaur Saroya. PSEB chairperson Dr Tajinder Kaur Dhaliwal said the decision to appoint Batth was unanimous.
Patiala
International meet at varsity: A two-day International Conference on "Socio-Economic Changes in South Asia", being organised by the Centre for South West Asia Study (Pakistan and Afghanistan), was inaugurated at Punjabi University,
Patiala, here on Wednesday. Delegates from institutes in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Iran participated in the conference. Prof. Shakti Kak from Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi, in her keynote said the 1990s economic reforms had made South Asian countries weaker. Delegates from Guru Nanak Dev University, IIT
Roorkee, IIT Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Jammu University also spoke on the issue.
Cancer screening
camp from Sept 28: A mega cancer screening camp will be held at Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital,
Patiala, from September 28 and 29. Patiala Deputy Commissioner GK Singh said patients will be tested free of charge. A team of specialist doctors from India and abroad will do the checkup.Sangrur
2 teenaged girls held for theft: Two teenaged girls and a woman were arrested in a theft case in Sunam on Wednesday. The police also recovered Rs 60,000. Station House Officer (SHO) Satnam Singh said while both minor girls had been produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sangrur, the woman was produced in the court of Sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Sunam. The teenagers were sent to Juvenile Jail till October 4 and the woman to judicial custody till October 4. A case has been registered. Three held with fake currency:
The district police on Wednesday arrested three persons and claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved in circulating fake currency in the market. They also seized fake currency worth Rs 2.52 lakh. The accused reportedly were in contact with a Bihar resident and exchanged Rs 70,000 of genuine Indian currency with fake currency worth Rs 1 lakh.
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