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Scientist’s experiment with politics
Ludhiana, August 4
Hari Singh Brar is a retired scientist from Punjab Agricultural University. However, he is not tired of taking up the issues of common interest.
Having served as president of the Punjab Agricultural University Teachers’
Association (PAUTA) for 15 years.
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Vegetable
Retailing
Residents cheer, vendors groan
Ludhiana, August 4
The foray of corporates into the field of direct marketing of vegetables has made consumers happy while small shopkeepers in the field are beginning to feel the pinch.
Women flay inaction in molestation case
Ludhiana, August 4
A mahila panchayat yesterday flayed the administration for not pressing charges against Swami Shankaranand Bhuriwale, who is accused of allegedly molesting a woman besides beating her and her brother in a dera complex on July 25.
Polio drive deferred
Ludhiana, August 4
The pulse polio drive for children of migrant population in the district, which was scheduled for August 5, has been put off for the time being.
6,090 blue cards distributed
Mandi Gobindgarh, August 4
As part of the atta-dal distribution scheme to be launched by Punjab government from August 15, 6,090 blue cards were distributed by former Lok Sabha MP Satwinder Kaur Dhaliwal yesterday during a function organised by Cooperative Agriculture Service Society at Saunti village. Dhaliwal assured the gathering that the government will implement all the promises made in the SAD election manifesto.
Campainging: Parties give
their all
Ludhiana August 4
With just two more days left for the campaigning for the election to the municipal corporation, electioneering has reached its peak.
State BJP president Rajinder Bhandari addresses mediapersons in Ludhiana on Saturday.—
Photo by Inderjeet Verma
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Candidates must follow code of conduct: DC
Ludhiana, August 4
The district administration has urged all the political parties to comply with the the directions of Model Code of Conduct enforced by State Election Commission during the electioneering for the municipal polls being held on August 8.
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Too much at stake for SGPC chief
Ludhiana, August 4
Manvinderpal Singh Makkar, the SAD-BJP combine candidate from ward No. 48 (Model Town) may be sitting pretty about the fact that the ward he is contesting from has a predominantly urban Sikh and
Akali-inclined population. But it is his father, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SIP) president Avtar Singh Makkar, who has a lot to worry about.
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Industrial town producing talent
Ludhiana, August 4
Talented youths from the city, who are making a mark in several reality shows being aired on television channels, are drawing the relatively indifferent residents to voting for them.The
latest such contestants are Arshpreet Kaur, a student of Ramgharia Girls’
College and Ishmeet, a student of Government College for Boys. The two have
managed to figure in 'Bemisaal 12' on Star Voice of India.E-mails and text
messages seeking votes for them are doing the rounds.
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Dr Aggarwal not arrested: Khanna police
Ludhiana, August 4
Khanna police today clarified that it did not require arresting Dr Nitin Aggarwal in a case related to the controversy about the Khanna Nursing Home.
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