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Surprise checks at PU evaluation centres
Ludhiana April 23
With a number of complaints pouring in regarding the evaluation process, Panjab University, Chandigarh, is conducting surprise checks at evaluation
centres. Recently, a committee headed by the Dean, Academics, visited a local college to see whether evaluation of answersheets was being conducted as per the norms.
GADVASU is one-year old
Vet varsity to focus on livestock: VC
Ludhiana April 23
he Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University completed one year of its existence on April 21. The university was set up after much resistance by a section of teachers and scientists from its parent institute, Punjab Agricultural University.
V.K. Taneja, VC, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Husbandry University, Ludhiana.
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Govts fail to pay diver his dues
Ludhiana, April 23
Two successive governments have come and gone, but the struggle of a diver, who helped the administration in fishing out several bodies and was subsequently promised employment as a reward, continues unabated.
Satyan Sahni, a diver, who has fished out several bodies during the past one decade, has grown an old man, running from pillar to post to get his due, but he has always been shown the door.
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City couple dies in mishap
Ludhiana, April 23
A 28-year-old man and his pregnant wife belonging to Janta Nagar,
Ludhiana, died in a road accident near Dhatt village, 4 km from Mullanpur Dakha, in a head-on collision with a Tata Sumo.
The mangled remains of the cars that were involved in an accident near Mullanpur Dakha in which a couple from Ludhiana died on Monday. — A Tribune photograph |
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Govt targeting Cong sarpanches: Khangura
Ludhiana, April 23
The Qila Raipur MLA, Jassi Khangura, today alleged that the Akali-BJP government in the state had started selectively targeting sarpanchs of the area who were associated with the Congress.
Qila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura along with Congress sarpanchs of the area addresses a press conference in Ludiana on Monday.
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Bhandari’s elevation as BJP chief hailed
Ludhiana, April 23
Members of the Punjab Commerce and Management Association (PCMA) comprising faculty members of commerce and management working in different colleges of Punjab congratulated Prof Rajinder
Bhandari, senior faculty member in the Commerce Department of Arya College,
Ludhiana, as he was elevated to the post of state chief, Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP).
Overbridge at Doraha bus stand sought
Doraha, April 23
The Youth Forum of Doraha submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner of Ludhiana today, stating that an overbridge or a subway was urgently required at the bus stand of
Doraha. It said many mishaps occurred in the area, killing and injuring pedestrians.
A lame person helps four visually challenged ones as they beg for livelihood in Ludhiana on Monday.
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Political interference in
varsities condemned
Ludhiana, April 23
The general body meeting of the Peoples Awareness Forum, an NGO, today strongly condemned political interference in the working of the universities and other seats of higher learning. The meeting called upon political leaders to stop playing with the autonomy of seats of higher learning.
Social Security Dept to raise pension
Ludhiana, April 23
Swarna Ram, minister for technical education, industrial training and social security, Punjab, has said that the Social Security Department has proposed to enhance the rate of all pensions under different schemes of the department from Rs 250 to Rs 400 per month. The proposal has been sent to the government for approval.
Leaders must be role models of
Sikhism: Badungar
Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 23
Absolving Sikh youth from deviating from gurmat and falling prey to the menace of addiction, Prof Karnail Singh
Badungar, former president of the SGPC, claimed that the situation could not be improved till religious, social and political leaders presented a role model by doing what they preached.
Prof Kirpal Singh Badungar receives a memento from office-bearers of the Gurdwara Singh Sabha at Ahmedgarh.
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Tributes paid to freedom fighter
Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 23
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Rich tributes were paid to the INA freedom fighter, Amar Singh who died at his native village Dhaler near, here, today. Body of the deceased was cremated with the state
honour.
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Jaspal Singh Jassie (extreme left) and others pay tributes to Amar Singh, INA freedom fighter, at Dhaler village near Ahmedgarh on Monday.
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Amar Singh, INA
Freedom Fighter
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