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IT surveys yield Rs 6 cr concealed income
Ludhiana, March 9
As the current financial year is about to end, the income tax department here has gone into overdrive mode in a bid to achieve the target for revenue collection. A series of simultaneous surveys conducted on eight business houses in different parts of the city on March 7 and March 8 had yielded an unaccounted income of Rs 6 crore while surveys on a couple of more units were still in progress.

Dead girl’s identity: Police still groping in dark

Ludhiana, March 9 Mystery still shrouds the identity of a girl found murdered and packed in a trunk aboard Malwa Express at railway station here on November 9, last year. Policemen inspect the body of the girl found in a trunk aboard the Malwa Express on November 9, last year. — A Tribune photograph

Punjab can't stop water to Rajasthan, Haryana: experts
Ludhiana March 9
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's assertion to stop all water to Rajasthan and Haryana notwithstanding, legal and constitutional experts maintain that Punjab, as on now, cannot stop flow of water to any of the states for various legal and practical reasons.

Health admn order quashed 
Ludhiana, March 9
The district health administration had to eat a humble pie as its orders to seal an ultrasound scan centre in the city were quashed.

Desperate father pins hopes on new govt 
Ludhiana, March 9
Formation of new government in the state has rekindled hopes of this desperate father who lost his son and had been fighting in vain for justice during the regime of former Congress government.

 

COMMUNITY

Seminar on role of women in media
Ludhiana, March 9
“When a few years ago I was doing journalism, there were a few women in the profession. But I am glad to see more women in this profession now and doing a very good job,” minister for jails, stationery and printing Hira Singh Gabria said.

Exhibition on products for women 
Ludhiana, March 9
The Woman 2007, an exhibition dedicated to women, was inaugurated here today. The three-day event would offer a wide range of products, including apparel and jewellery for women.

Narrow escape for woman
Ludhiana, March 9
A local resident on the Mall Road had a narrow escape when a huge bill board fell in her house after getting dislocated from the top of a multi-storey Lodhi Complex building here this morning.

Seminar on women power
Raikot, March 9
The College of Education for Women, Jalaldiwal, and the Bengal Institute of Health Sciences, Raikot, celebrated International Women’s Day with great zeal and fervour yesterday. On this occasion a seminar on ‘Women Empowerment’ was organised.

From Colleges
705 girls awarded degrees
Ludhiana, March 9

As many as 705 students of various streams of postgraduates and graduates classes of Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, Ludhiana were awarded degrees during the annual convocation of the college held here today.  Students of Guru Nanak Girls College, Ludhiana, after receiving degrees at their annual convocation held on Friday. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma

Antakshari auditions
Chandigarh, March 9
The auditions for Star-One TV programme Antakshari (Annu Kapoor fame), for north zone will be held at Ramgarhia Girls College, Miller Ganj, Ludhiana from 10 am to 6 pm on March 11. The auditions will be for the close relations like sisters, brothers, mother-daughter, father-daughter etc. There is no age bar.

SPORTS

Ritu best athlete
Ludhiana, March 9
Ritu secured 25 points and was declared the best athlete in the 11th annual athletics meet of Satguru Ram Singh Government Polytechnic Girls College, Rishi Nagar, which concluded here today. Ritu won three titles yesterday and added one more to her kitty today besides finishing runner up in the 100 m sprint today.

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