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15 booked in DTO office scandal
Ludhiana, April 11
The Ludhiana Vigilance Bureau has booked 15 persons including one clerk and 14 agents under the prevention of corruption Act. They have been charged with tampering with government record after incriminating evidence was found against them in a massive raid conducted at the District Transport Office here last afternoon.

SSI seeks help to counter WTO impact
Ludhiana, April 11
The Federation of Tiny and Small Industries of India has asked the Centre to provide adequate support and assistance to the small-scale industrial sector by way of responsive attitude and favourable policies to enable the sector to become globally competitive and withstand the onslaught by multinational companies in the WTO regime.

World Cup defeat haunts family
Ludhiana, April 11
Even as the cricket World Cup got over long ago and a new championship is underway in Bangladesh, the country’s defeat in the finals of the world cup is still haunting the family of a labourer in Mullanpur Dakha, near here.

REACHING FOR THE NECTAR: A honeybee helps itself to nectar from a flower at the PAU campus in Ludhiana on Friday. — Photo Pradeep Tewari

Primary teachers oppose new policy
Ludhiana, April 11
The Government Primary Teachers’ Association, Punjab, has condemned the new education policy of the government regarding setting up of new elementary directorate.

Death sentence in triple murder case
Khammano, April 11
The District and Sessions Judge at Fatehgarh Sahib, Mr Mohinder Pal, has ordered death sentence to a resident of Khamano, Kamli Jagjit Singh, who was involved in a triple murder case.

4 undertrials hurt in brawl
Ludhiana, April 11
A brawl between two groups of undertrials at Bakshikhanna in the old district courts complex here today left four undertrials seriously injured and several others bruised. Blades, bricks and empty bottles were used freely in the clash that took place allegedly over the non-payment of money lost by some of them in gambling in the jail.

• Two drown in village pond

COMMUNITY

‘Bring back my family’ Mullanpur Dakha, April 11 A pall of gloom engulfed Purshottam Singh’s family at Bank Colony here after the death of Kuldeep Kaur, another victim of the MiG-23 crash, who succumbed to her injuries yesterday. Purshottam Singh’s eldest daughter and youngest son mourn the death of their mother and two siblings who were killed in the MiG-23 crash in Mullanpur Dakha. — A Tribune photograph

Re-polling ordered
Khanna, April 11
The State Election Commission has ordered re-polling at booth No. 3 in ward No. 17 of the Khanna Municipal Council. The polling will take place on April 16. The result in ward No. 17 was delayed following allegations of tearing of 270 ballots papers by Congress candidate Ashok Tewari at the time of counting on April 5.

Aggarwala society refutes allegations
Ludhiana, April 11
The managing committee of the Ludhiana Aggarwala Cooperative House Building Society, while maintaining that the entire immovable property of Tagore Public School was intact and stood registered in the name of the school, has taken strong objection to the allegations of misappropriation of assets.

Valmiki Samaj to hold session Ludhiana, April 11 A two-day delegate session of the Bhartiya Valmiki Dharam Samaj will be held at Valmiki Bhavan, here from April 13. It will be dedicated to the 112th birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. The former Punjab Chief Minister, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, will attend the session on April 14.
Mr Vijay Danav, national convener of the Bhartiya Valmiki Dharam Samaj, along with other office-bearers, gives details of the two-day delegate session at a Press conference in Ludhiana on Friday. — IV

• Federation to hold protest

CRIME

Youth commits suicide
Ludhiana, April 11
Paramjit Singh (23) of Bhaini Gujjran village, Jagraon, committed suicide by hanging himself from a branch of a tree. Members of his family were away to attend a marriage when the incident took place.

BUSINESS

Minister for Bar, Excise Dept coordination
Ludhiana, April 11
The Higher Education Minister, Mr Harnam Dass Johar, yesterday called upon officers of the Excise and Taxation Department and members of the District Taxation Bar Association to work in full coordination so that problems and assessment cases of traders and businessmen could be settled at the earliest without any harassment.

Poor show by rural students
Ahmedgarh, April 11
Students with urban background performed better in comparison to those in rural areas in primary education, whereas general category students showed better results than those hailing from the Scheduled Castes in Class V examination.

National-level contest on IT
Ludhiana, April 11
Infovision, a national-level competition for students on events related to information technology, will be held at the Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, Model Town, under the aegis of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)-Students’ chapter on Saturday.

CULTURE

Dance training by foreign artistes Ludhiana, April 11

Learning Punjabi, Haryanvi or Rajasthani dances from local trainers has been common for schoolchildren but it was an altogether different experience for the students of Ryan International School, Chandigarh road, who are learning traditional dance forms of Poland, Kazakhstan and Russia from the choreographers of these countries. Ms Gulnar Kazbekova and Ms Yoanna Ponikiewska, choreographers from Kazakhstan and Poland, respectively, along with trainees from Ryan International School in Ludhiana. — A Tribune photograph

Rs 50,000 for poor patients
Ludhiana, April 11
Mr Harnam Dass Johar, Higher Education Minister, Punjab, has called upon private hospitals to ensure affordable treatment to the poor as at present the cost of treatment in hospitals is so high that it is out of the reach of the common man. He also announced a grant of Rs 50,000 for the treatment facilities for the poor patients at Christian Medical College and Hospital.

Safe Motherhood Day goes unnoticed
Ludhiana, April 11
Though the Government of India has declared April 11, the birthday of Kasturba Gandhi, as Rashtriya Janani Suraksha Divas, the Safe Motherhood Day went unnoticed in the city as hardly any awareness function was organised by the Health Department or the District Administration.

IMA condemns doctors’ arrest
Ludhiana, April 11
Even as the people at large, particularly those having suffered at the hands of doctors in Civil Hospitals and other government health institutions, see the Vigilance Bureau’s Raids on PCMS doctors in the city yesterday as a welcome step towards cleaning of the system, the Indian Medical Association and the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association have come out in the defence of the two doctors arrested from Jamalpur locality on the charges of carrying on private practice.