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IT Survey
Industrial units surrender 2.7 cr
Ludhiana, August 30
The surveys conducted by the Income Tax department on five business premises of a textile manufacturer, a dyeing unit and a textile processing unit in the Focal Point area here yesterday, have yielded good results with the three business houses surrendering concealed income worth Rs 2.70 crore.
WORK UNBOUND: Heavy showers that lashed Ludhiana on Thursday seem to bring no respite to this beast of burden. A Tribune photograph |
Mahal group sweeps PAUTA poll
Ludhiana, August 30
The "neutral" group led by Manjit Singh Mahal has swept the Punjab Agricultural University Teachers' Association elections held here
today. The group won all posts.
PUDA Auction
15 SCOs fetch Rs 22.6 crore
Ludhiana, August 30
PUDA today auctioned 15 sites for shop-cum-office measuring 160 sq. yds each at Dhandhai Kalan, Phase -IV, for Rs 22.60 crore against the reserve price of Rs 9.60 crore.
Traffic was blocked for over an hour at the Jalandhar bypass when the procession carrying the ashes of the Dalit youth killed in Gohana passed from there. Various Dalit organisations, apart from activists of the BJP SC-ST cell, burnt effigies of the Haryana government at Clock Tower Chowk while The BJP Mahila Morcha burnt the effigy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
CMC Road
A nightmare for patients
Ludhiana, August 30
The road leading to the Christian Medical College and Hospital is dangerously narrow. Located in the heart of the city, the hospital sees hundreds of visitors daily, besides a number of emergency cases everyday. However, all of them have to negotiate through various labyrinthine bottlenecks that refuse to go.
Milk plant working to be revamped
Ludhiana, August 30
Cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh has announced that the working of all milk plants was being revamped so that such units could compete with those in the corporate sector. Also, milk procurement would be raised to make 75 per cent of the plants operational.
Dr Ishwar Singh’s birth anniversary today
Doraha, August 30
The eighty-sixth birth anniversary of Dr Ishwar Singh is being celebrated here tomorrow. Singh was a multi-faceted personality, highly respected in official and social circles.
Study circle annual function in October
Ludhiana, August 30
The Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle would celebrate its 35th annual function from October 11-14 at Gurdwara Sant Nishchal Singh, Sewa
Panthi, Santpura, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. The circle’s chief secretary, Dr Charan Kamal Singh, stated this yesterday.
Creating magic, the miniature way
Ludhiana, August 30
The need to be highly individualistic has led Satwinder Singh Bhogal to create awe-inspiring things. He is devoted to the cause of reviving old traditional objects of Punjab and has painstakingly created miniatures in bottles. And this has happened by sheer hard work.
Talking to TNS, Bhogal said, “A carpenter by profession, I am keen to capture
all the traditional things in bottles and display them so that the children as
well as the adults get a taste of the old days."
Satwinder Singh Bhoga with his amazing creations captured in bottles. Tribune photo: I.V.
Mazdoor union takes out rally
Jagraon, August 30
Hundreds of the members of Pendu Mazdoor Union, including women, on Thursday took out a protest march in the various bazaars of Jagraon against the state government demanding
kanak-dal scheme without any condition to the labour class and landless farmers.
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The move to appoint MLA and chief parliamentary secretary Harish Rai Dhanda as the Mayor of the city under a compromise formula devised by Akali leadership seems to be fizzling out and thus the field is wide open for other aspirants.
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