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Educational institutes violate directions
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 30
Even three years after the implementation of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, most of the educational institutions in the area have failed to execute the explicit orders by the district administration asking them to comply with the provisions of the Act.
IMA cautions against smoking
Ludhiana, May 30
The Ludhiana branch of the Indian Medical Association has cautioned the people against smoking which carries serious health hazards, and can lead to life-threatening diseases like cancer in addition to other diseases of cardio-vascular system and respiratory tract.
Scientists, please note
Farmer sows paddy directly
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 30
If claims made by Gurinder Singh, a young farmer of Kalarh village in Ludhiana district, regarding successful cultivation of paddy by direct sowing method are true, then, many problems like waning water table, animal diseases, increased pest pressure and water logging will come to an end.
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Cops smell rat in assault tale
IRB constable says ex-MLA’s son beat him up
Ludhiana, May 30
The case of the alleged assault on an IRB constable by a son of former Congress MLA Malkiat Singh Birmi today took a new turn with the police on pre-liminary investigation claiming that the constable may have cooked up the assault tale.
A match between Goa and Madhya Pradesh in progress during the
25th Junior National Softball Championship being held at the PAU
ground, Ludhiana, on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Sayeed
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Murder
Lawyers go on strike
Ludhiana, May 30
City lawyers today went on strike for two days in protest against the murder of a litigant and serious injuries to another in the district court complex yesterday even as the city police sought to ensure them security by opening a police post in the complex today.
Beware! Branded ACs might be Chinese made
Ludhiana, May 30
The next time you want to buy a branded airconditioner, ensure that it is not made in China. Top branded airconditioners are learnt to be smuggled into the country from China.
More dera followers return to Sikh fold
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Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 30
More families of Dera Sacha Sauda followers in the area have come into the fold of Sikhism after the sect took a defensive stand. Families from Mullanpur and Baddowal today officially gave up the dera way of life.
Jagdish Garcha, former SAD minister, and Raghbir Singh Saharamajra pose with Sacha Sauda sect followers who returned to the Sikh fold on Wednesday.
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DC for mutual settlement of disputes
Ludhiana, May 30
Sumer Singh Gurjar, deputy commissioner, has directed officers of different departments to make sincere efforts in settling the disputes mentioned in the complaints of the people presented in the sangat darshan programme by bringing about mutual understandings, in case, the dispute pertains between two parties, which would help in removing tension among the contestant parties.
PAU ex-scientist takes to serving the poor
Ludhiana, May 30
Scores of physically challenged, or else extremely poor and sick people lying on footpaths and crying for help in the industrial capital of Punjab is not an uncommon sight.
In a city with sizeable migrant population, thousands of people continue to live
in slums, that too in completely unhygienic conditions with no body to listen to
their woes. The conditions that these poor people are forced to live in, more
often than not, lead to severe malnutrition, disability, infectious diseases
with the victims not being able to afford treatment even for life-threatening
diseases.
Luxmi with her parents in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph
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