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Tension over fare for shifting paddy
Officials insist for Rs 400; truckers for Rs 2,600 per trip
Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 18
Tension prevailed at grain market at Kup and Falaund Khurad Purchase Center near here over the issue of wide gap between fare demanded by truck operators and that offered by PUNGRAIN authorities.
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Policemen keep a watch on the situation at the Kup purchase centre near Ahmedgarh.
— A Tribune photograph
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Students from across Ludhiana and nearby villages queue up outside Punjabi Bhawan to submit their compartment forms for Class X and XII as it was the last day to
submit the forms.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma
Children perform bhangra at the founder’s day celebrations at
KVM School, Ludhiana. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed |
Training on resource management concludes
Ludhiana, October 18
Punjab Agricultural University’s department of soil organised a three-week
training course on the “Natural Resource Management for Ecological Agriculture”,
under the aegis of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Soil Science.
PU heritage festival concludes
Ludhiana, October 18
Four-day Panjab University Diamond Jubilee Zonal Youth and Heritage Festival- 2007, organized at SCD Government College concluded here
today. Today's items included ladies traditional and ritual songs, including suhag, ghori, dholak/ghara song, sithnies, kavishri, vaar/kali, folk dances, embroidery, dasuti or crossstich, mehandi and crochet work.
From Schools
Sacred Heart students pledge to fight poverty
Ludhiana, October 18
"UN Universal Pledge" against poverty, hunger and disease echoed at Sacred Heart Higher Secondary Convent School, Urban Estate, Jamalpur. All students of the school assembled to join hands with the people of 189 countries against poverty.
From Colleges
GPC students attend camp at Nashik
Ludhiana, October 18
Twelve students of Gobindgarh Public College, Allour, represented Panjab University, Chandigarh, at the national-level residential camp on the "Relevance of Gandhiji's Philosophy today" held at Yashwantro Chavan Open University,Nashik, Maharashtra, from October 9 to 15.
US students visit RIMT
Mandi Gobindgarh, October 18
A five-member team from the department of International Business and Economics, Wilkes University, Pennsylvania,
USA, visited RIMT-Institute of Management and Computer Technology, Mandi Gobindgarh. The students were accompanied by the member of the faculty of the department Dr Wagiha
A.Taylor.
Chief Justice lays stone of judicial complex
Ludhiana, October 18
Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Vijender Jain today laid the foundation stone of new Judicial Complex at Jagraon Subdivision, 35 km from here. The new complex will be constructed at cost of Rs 1273.15
lakh. It would be a double-storied building with space for four courts.
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