Seven arrested for gambling in Mohali

Mohali: Seven persons were arrested for gambling on the terrace of a showroom in Phase 1 here on Wednesday night. A sum of Rs1,00,300 and playing cards were recovered from them. The suspects have been identified as Rajesh Paswan, Irfan, Sikattar, Rakesh Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Dinesh Kumar and Rajesh. The police said four of them were from Chandigarh, two belonged to Mohali and one was from Balongi village. TNS

Demand to put Bill on hold

Patiala: Eleven states and a Union Territory opposed several clauses of the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill-2020 during a power ministers’ meet and demanded to put it on hold, said VK Gupta, spokesperson for the All-India Power Engineers’ Federation. tns

Entrance exams date extended

Chandigarh: The PU extended PU-CET (UG) and BA/BCom, LLB (Hons) (5 years) Integrated Course exam to October 4, PU-CET (PG) to October 10 and 11. PUTHAT will take place on October 16, followed by PUMEET and PULEET on October 18, PU-LLB (3 years) on October 22, MBA (Executive) for USOL on September 30 and MPhil, PhD, on November 7. TNS