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Farmers contest PSEB claims over 8-hr supply
Ludhiana June 14
Members of the Kirti Kisan Union today contested the claims of the Punjab State Electricity Board about the eight-hour power supply to the agricultural sector. Union members led by Hardev Singh Sandhu reached the office of the superintending engineer and asked him to verify the claims.
Members of the Kirti Kisan Union in the office of the PSEB superintending engineer in Ludhiana on Thursday.
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1 wounded in firing
Amloh, June 14
Yadwinder Singh alias Lakhi, son of Master Jarnail Singh, was seriously injured when some persons opened fire at a vehicle in which he was returning home along with his father and another person after a hearing in the District and Sessions court in Ludhiana yesterday.
Demands will be met: Badal assures Muslims
Ludhiana, June 14
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has assured Muslims that their long-pending demands would be looked into at the earliest.
The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid,Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Sanvi,explains a point to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at a meeting in Chandigarh on Wednesday. A
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Chahal’s arrest: Cong men scared
Ludhiana, June 14
The arrest of Bharat Inder Singh Chahal, the media advisor to the former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh seems to have created a sense of panic and fear among the Congressmen across the state. However, the Congressmen in the city seem to be horrified because of the close proximity to the developments surrounding his arrest. Not a single Congress leader from the city has so far met him in police custody.
Sangat Darshan
MP receives a heap of complaints
Machhiwara, June 14
In the district’s first Sangat Darshan programme under the present
SAD-BJP alliance government, which was organised at the local grain market, MP Sharnjit Singh Dhillon might have got tired listening to the complaints of the people all alone as no senior district official came to attend the
programme.
MP Sharnjit Singh Dhillon and former MLA Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal listen to the problems of a senior citizen at Machhiwara on Thursday.
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World Blood Donors Day
Tributes paid to Karl Landsteiner
Ludhiana, June 14
Thirty persons donated blood at a camp and another 200 registered themselves as voluntary donors at the World Blood Donors Day celebrations at SPS Apollo Hospitals here today.
A volunteer donates blood at SPS Apollo Hospital in Ludhiana on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
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Bhagat Singh’s statue in Parliament
Place martyrs’ portraits in Darbar Sahib museum: Mann
Ludhiana, June 14
SAD (A), while hailing the decision of the Akali government to meet the expenses of the statue of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh to be installed in the Parliament complex shortly, has asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on why his party has not done anything to place portraits of Sikh martyrs in the Darbar Sahib museum.
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A freshly carpeted Ferozepur road
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Rotarians vow to shun plastic bags
Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 14
Responding to a call given by their leader, the members of the local branch of the Rotary Club vowed to shun the use of plastic bags and conserve natural resources including water.
The oath was taken on the occasion of the annual function of the club organised
at M.G.M.N. Senior Secondary School here last night.
BSNL staff continue dharna
Ludhiana, June 14
The dharna by BSNL employees at the office of the general manager, telecom, here entered its third day today.
Activists of the BSNL Employees Union stage a dharna in Ludhiana on Thursday.
— Tribune photo by Inderjit Verma
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