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Duplicate telephone bills double postmen’s
burden
Ludhiana, April 1
The callous and irresponsible attitude of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has doubled the burden on the postmen, besides, harassing customers. The BSNL has issued duplicate bills to the same customers for the same period. The postmen have lodged a protest since it has doubled their work.
Miss World Punjaban contest in
Canada
Ludhiana, April 1
“If a language is lost, some thing is lost. But if culture is lost, everything is lost”, this is what Mr Kumar Sharma, a TV producer from Canada has to say about the reasons for his switching over to full time production of Punjab TV programmes.
INTUC to stage
protest
Ludhiana, April 1
The Punjab president of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Dr Balwant Rai Kapoor, and other members appealed to all the national-level trade unions to stage a protest on April 16, 2001, to show resentment against the Central Government for presenting 'anti-people, anti-labour and pro-capitalist budget.'
Pensioners’ memo to
PM
Ludhiana, April 1
The Government Pensioners Association, Ludhiana, has submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha urging them to review the Budget proposals regarding reduction of interest rates on provident fund and other small saving
schemes, deduction in interest income on bank savings and slashing of the limit for tax deduction at source on the interest income from bank savings.
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