Briefly State

Man held with Rs 75,000 fake currency

Patiala: The Barnala police have arrested one person with fake currency notes worth Rs 75,000 in the denominations of Rs 1,000 and Rs 5,00. Senior Superintendent of Police Gurpreet Singh Toor said the Crime Investigation Agency staff,along with a police party,arrested Gurcharan Singh,a resident of Balluiana Mohalla in Jalalabad,at a special check post. During interrogation,he said the fake currency had been brought from the Nepal border. The police said Gurcharan’s questioning was on.

Exam form submission date extended

Chandigarh: The date for submission of forms for ‘special examination’ to be held in December 2010 has been extended upto October 30,according to a communication from the Punjab State Board of Technical Education and Industrial Training. This has been done to facilitate those students who stay outside the state and are working. All details are available on the board’s website,www.punjabtechnical.com.

Discrepancies in SGPC voter list: Calcutta

Amritsar: In a written complaint to Chief Commissioner,Gurdwara Election Commission,former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) secretary Manjit Singh Calcutta has alleged large-scale discrepancies and bogus entries in the voters lists being prepared for the ensuing SGPC elections. He demanded that strict action be initiated against the erring officials. “The SGPC constituency 97 — Amritsar Central — has 25,445 voters as per the CD provided by officials,whereas No. 96 — Amritsar East — has nearly 85,000 voters. In most voter lists,the name of the localities to which the voters relate is shown at the top of the list only. It is very difficult to ascertain to which locality a particular voter belongs in the absence of street number and house number,” he said in the complaint.

GNDU dean on MCI board

Amritsar: The Board of Governors of Medical Council of India (MCI) has nominated Prof Dr Jaspal Singh Sandhu,Dean,Faculty of Sports Medicine,Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU),as member of the reconstituted Board of Specialty in Sports Medicine for drafting and updating the curriculum of MD and diploma courses in the Specialty of Sports Medicine. A statement issued by the university said Prof Sandhu had returned to Amritsar after delivering a keynote address of the 16th Asian Games Science Congress concluded at Guangzhou,China,recently.

Obama must not skip Golden Temple: Harsimrat

Chandigarh: Member of Parliament from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal has urged the US government not to abort the proposed visit of President Barack Obama to the Golden Temple in Amritsar as sudden cancellation of his visit would send a wrong message to the Sikh community living all over the world. The US Embassy had invited a group of MPs recently to have an interaction to finalise the itinerary of Obama’s India trip. Harsimrat was one of them. The Akali Dal MP impressed upon US Assistant Secretary of State (South Asia) Robert Blake that several international dignitaries had paid obeisance at the Golden Temple without any security hassles and issues like observance of Sikh Maryada could be mutually sorted out at diplomatic level. She also impressed upon Blake that the US First Lady Michelle Obama should consider visiting the countryside in Bathinda district to see the level of women’s empowerment achieved through the Nanhi Chhaan programme.

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