TARN TARAN: A motor vehicle trader of Booh Hawelian village in Tarn Taran district died of swine flu in Amritsar on Thursday. Joga Singh, 26, was admitted in Guru Nanak Dev Hospital in the wee hours of Thursday and shifted to isolation ward after he tested H1N1 positive. District epidemiologist, civil hospital, Tarn Taran,. Swaranjit Singh Dhawan said the deceased had undertaken a business trip of Moga and other places about 10 days back and had not been feeling well after that. Initially, he had taken treatment at a private hospital in Amritsar.
Undertrial escapes from court complex: An undertrial lodged in Gurdaspur jail escaped after dodging the policemen accompanying him at district court complex on Thursday. According to reports, Avtar Singh was brought to the complex under police security for a court appearance. Police have registered a case and begun investigations.
Father, son arrested with opium, poppy husk: Jalandhar (rural) police have arrested a father-son duo with opium, poppy husk and a revolver from Shahkot area. SSP Yurinder Singh Hayer said police had intercepted a jeep stolen from Chandigarh on a tip off and arrested Pooran Singh and his son Jodh Singh of Bhoepur village of Shahkot subdivision. SP(D) Rajinder Singh said Pooran was convicted in an NDPS case and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment but was out on bail after spending four and half years in jail.
2 youth caught with 1kg gold: Shambu police arrested two Mathura-based residents and seized 1kg gold from their possession when they failed to show any documents. A team led by SHO Manjit Singh had laid a naka on the Punjab and Haryana border and were checking a PRTC bus around 4.30pm, when two young men became nervous when asked about their destination. A search revealed seizure of gold worth Rs 40 lakhs from their possession. The accused have been identified as Sandip Kumar and Ghanaiya Sharma. They were taking the gold from Mathura to Patiala.
Meet discusses steps to check wastage: At a conference organized by at the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneur and Management in Sonipat on Thursday, experts blamed lack of skilled manpower and shortage of infrastructure for wastage of up to 40% of food produced in India every year. They stressed on the need for skilled manpower of around 35 lakh people in the next seven years for food processing industry, besides creating cold storage chains across the country to cut down the wastage. Minister of state for agriculture and food processing industries Tariq Anwar said that FDI in retail sector had been allowed with the conditions to invest 50% of the total money on creating infrastructure like cold storages and processing units.
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