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In Basta
Investors duped: Woman untraced for 5 years
Ludhiana, November 18
A woman agent with the district small savings department and the head post office has not been traced even five years after she defrauded about 1,000 investors of Rs 2.5
crore.
Artistes enact a scene from play staged at Guru Nanak Bhawan in Ludhiana on Saturday. A Tribune photograph |
A fat eunuch wedding
Mandi Ahmedgarh, November 18
It was a marriage with a difference. Both groom and bride were part of the baraat with the procession led by turbaned “Krishna” and charmingly dressed “Radha”. The baraat of over 400 gaudily-dressed eunuchs followed them dancing all the way from a marriage palace on Pohir Road to various bazaars across the town yesterday.
Subway for Agar Nagar
announced
Ludhiana, November 18
The Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, today said that a subway would be constructed between Agar Nagar A and B.
Not a penny spent on aids patients
Ludhiana, November 18
The seriousness of the state AIDS control society towards rehabilitation of HIV +ve and AIDS infected people in the state can be gauged from the fact that out of over Rs 7.32 crore received from the National AIDS Control Organisation by the society, not a single penny has so far been spent on the rehabilitation of 16,868 people living with HIV and AIDS.
Ludhiana Calling
IN violation of the directions of the Supreme Court and the prohibitory orders issued by the district administration, banning the use of loudspeakers from 10 pm to 6 am, certain religious bodies and residents continue to hold jagratas and other functions at night.
Sambar rescued after 16-hr operation
Ludhiana, November 18
It took the intervention of forest minister Tikshan Sud to swing the bureaucracy into action and rescue a trapped sambar from a well at the Baloke treatment plant here today.
PSEB on motivation drive
Tells people to conserve power
Ludhiana, November 18
The Punjab State Electricity Board will take steps to conserve energy and check power theft, both in the rural and urban areas. Consumers will not only be motivated to conserve energy but the board might go a step further and provide r compact fluorescent lamps at cheaper rates.
Chief engineer B.S. Bath (third from left) with PSEB officials at an awareness programme against power theft at Gausgarh village,
Ludhiana. — A Tribune photograph |
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Release of dearness relief
Railway pensioners rue bankers’ apathy
Ludhiana, November 18
Alleging harassment at the hands of “indifferent” bank officials, railway pensioners are sore that the payment of six per cent dearness relief (DR) announced by the central government on August 31, payable from July 1, is being denied to a majority of eligible beneficiaries.
Govt sanctions Rs 38 crore for upgrading ITIs
Mandi Ahmedgarh, November 18
The Punjab government has launched a project, under the centre of excellence scheme, for modernising the industrial training institutes in the state. And for this the technical education department has recruited 550
instructors for training people in those trades that had earlier been closed.
Chief parliamentary secretary Bikramjit Singh Khalsa lays the foundation stone of a hall at Dehlon in Mandi Ahmedgarh.
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Benefits of cow milk highlighted
Mandi Ahmedgarh,
November 18
Claiming that cow milk and urine contained antibodies for fighting otherwise incurable diseases, Swami Ram Tirath and Swami Pooran Chetan have called upon office-bearers and activists of social and religious organisations of the area to impress upon residents to optimise the use of the “natural gift”.
People worship a cow at Kaind, near Mandi Ahmedgarh, on Sunday.
Photo by Mahesh Sharma
Letters
Not so courteous
On November 5 while I was drawing my pension, I came across an elderly woman who was desperate to know whether her pension has been credited in the bank or not. Like a Good Samaritan I asked a counter clerk to check out whether her pension has been credited to by the Punjab government or not. But, the clerk refused to budge.
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Ludhiana, November 18
From Schools
Ludhiana, November 18
