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Parents sore over school facilities
Ludhiana, October 1
Parents of a number of students of G.D.Goenka School here levelled allegations against the school management for not providing enough facilities to their wards as mentioned in the prospectus. They said there was no sufficient playground for students and the school was frequently changing their teachers. "The studies of our wards get disturbed and the courses have not been completed yet", alleged one of the parent.
DC office: More problems, few solutions
Ludhiana, October 1
Everyday there is a long queue of people outside the Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner’s office. They come from different places in the district. At best, they are referred further to some other official and at worst the DC is not available and they have to come again.
A queue of people wait outside the DC office in Ludhiana with various grievances.
— Photo by Sayeed Ahmed
For some, Gandhi's birthday means empty stomach
Ludhiana, October 1
They take shelter under Mahatma Gandhi's memorial when he remains forgotten throughout the year. But these homeless are shooed away from his bust, put up on old GT Road, when the ‘‘ritual’’ of remembering him is performed on his birth and death anniversary twice a year.A
number of such people, who are without a house here, spend the night and even
run their small time businesses.But they will be forced to stay away when some
important persons will pay tributes to the father of nation on his birth
anniversary tomorrow.
A woman, who begs daily, will be
displaced from this place on Tuesday due to the Gandhi Jayanti
celebrations in Ludhiana. — Tribune photograph
No bhangra, it’s ‘Rockilution’
Ludhiana, October 1
The latest fashion in Ludhiana is not a bhangra contest, but what is known as “Rockilution” - a rock music contest.
The city went plumb crazy recently and swayed to performances by four
professional bands from Punjab at “Rockilution”. The event was marked by
drum beats, funky guitars and high-pitched vocals.
Ex- tehsildar booked for forgery
Ludhiana, October 1
A tehsildar posted as sub-registrar here in 2002, who had allegedly pocketed lakhs of rupees by preparing a duplicate sale deed of a plot in the Sherpur area in connivance of his employees and a car dealer, has been booked for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy on a complaint of plot owner Satwinder Kaur.
Excise raid on yarn manufacturers
Chandigarh, October 1
The Directorate-General of Central Excise Intelligence today conducted raids on two yarn manufacturing units in Ludhiana for evading excise duty through “illegal” means. The directorate has estimated duty evasion to the tune of Rs 1 crore, sources said.
1 killed in accident
Amloh, October 1
One person was killed on the spot near Preet Nursing Home here yesterday when he was hit by a bus. The Bhadson police has impounded the bus (PB11W 0393).
The SMO of the civil hospital flags off an awareness rally on National Voluntary Blood Donation Day in Ludhiana on Monday.
— A Tribune photograph |
Blood Donation Day celebrated
Call to make blood donation a mass movement
Ludhiana, October 1
To commemorate National Voluntary Blood Donation Day, a function was organised by Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here today.
Dr Amarjit Kaur, professor and head of Transfusion Medicine, said October 1 was observed as National Voluntary Blood Donation Day with the objective of creating awareness of blood donation and safe blood for transfusion to the critically ill patient which was only possible by regular voluntary blood donation.
"The message has to be conveyed to all donors so that blood donation can become a mass movement," she stressed.
BSNL celebrates seventh anniversary
Ludhiana, October 1
Employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) celebrated the seventh anniversary of
BSNL, here today. Addressing the employees, S.K. Nigam, general manager, telecom, said the employees should strive even harder to improve services provided by the
organisation.
“We should continue working towards the betterment of our organisation and results would follow.
S.K. Nigam, general manager, telecom, gives awards to schoolchildren who presented cultural items on occausion of seventh anniersary of BSNL in Ludhiana on Monday.
— A Tribune photo
Training
programme on plant disease diagnostics
Ludhiana, October 1
The department of plant
pathology, PAU, will organise an ICAR sponsored advanced training
programme on “Plant Disease Diagnostics” from October 3 to 23. The
director of this programme Dr S.K.Mann said this type of training was
extremely important for timely detection and diagnosis of plant
pathogens in planting material.
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Ram Kailash is already past 80. But the eminent folk singer from Uttar Pradesh sings the "Birah" with such a passionate longing as if he misses his beloved even now.
Birah, the longing for the beloved, is a popular folk form of Uttar Pradesh and is still sung with equal passion and longing.
Today when Kailash performed at the Wylie Memorial School in the morning in a programme organised by the
Spicmacay, his audience was little different.
Players from Uttrakhand and those from Punjab continued their dominance on the second day of the 4th National Athletics Meet for the visually challanged being organised by the Punjab Sports Association for Blind with the help of the Punjab Sports Department at Guru Nanak Stadium here today.
A blistering batting display by Inderjeet Singh, who hammered 64 runs with the help of six boundaries and three sixes, helped Salil XI to a comfortable win by 81 runs over Diamond Criket Club in the third match of the second Ludhiana District Twenty20 Cricket Tournament being played at the Government Institute of Textile and Knitting, Rishi Nagar here today.