Man robbed of car at gunpoint in Gurdaspur
Gurdaspur: Three motorcycle-borne armed assailants robbed a man's car at gunpoint in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, police said on Saturday. The three masked men opened fire when the victim, Gurpreet Singh, stopped his car at a restaurant near Bariar village here. Singh, a resident of Kot Mohan Lal village, had a narrow escape but the attackers fled with his car, police said. Gurdaspur Senior Superintendent of Police Rajinder Singh Sohal said an alert has been sounded in Batala and Pathankot. A case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Gurdaspur city police station and an investigation is underway.
Extension of Battalion Headquarter Eco Dogra
Shimla: The Himachal Government would sympathetically consider the request to grant extension of Battalion Headquarter 133 INF BN (TA) Eco Dogra upto March, 2021. This was stated by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while interacting with Director General of Territorial Army, Integrated Headquarter, Ministry of Defence Lt. General DP Pandey here on Saturday. Lt. General Pandey apprised the Chief Minister that the objective of Eco Task Force was to carry out plantation/afforestation on the land allotted by the State Forest Department in the State. He said that plantation on an average 400 hectare area was being carried out every year by the Force. Additional Chief Secretary Forest Sanjay Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary Finance Prabodh Saxena, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister J.C. Sharma and other senior officers were also present.
Hry Govt to start online admission in ITIs
Chandigarh: Online registration for admission for the session 2020-21 in Engineering and Non-engineering trade courses in all state and private industrial training institutes in Haryana will start on the website www.itiharyana.gov.in from September 7. An official spokesperson of the Department said that the details of the guidelines related to admission, list of district-wise institutes, information related to the seats available trade-wise and institute-wise is present on this website. The online admission forms can be filled from September 7 to September 22. Information about the complete programme of merit and seat allotment for various admission stages will be made available on the website of the Department itself. The spokesperson said that in view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the applicants should submit scanned copies of the original certificates of educational qualifications, reservation and permanent address etc. and deposit the fees online or upload the information in the admission form itself so that the candidates do not have to go to the institute for admission process. The applicants can also download the ITI Haryana app of the Department to get the latest information of trades and institutions.
38L acre of agri land registered on MFMBp
Chandigarh: Stating that 38,88,304.45 acres of agriculture land was registered on 'Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ portal by 7,01,061 farmers, Haryana additional Chief Secretary of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department Sanjeev Kaushal on Saturday said that with the objective of ensuring accurate and timely verification of the millet crop data, the concerned Department has deployed more than 1,500 officers in all districts. A fool-proof mechanism has been developed for redressal of grievances of farmers, he added.