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Private participation in plantation drive
Ludhiana, August 4
The Municipal Corporation has chalked out a plan to seek private participation in the ongoing plantation campaign in the city.
Educational institutions, government departments, trade and commercial bodies and non-government organisations have been asked to join hands with the civic body in the sapling plantation drive.
Privatisation of PSEB complaint cell resented
Ludhiana, August 11
The Punjab State Electricity Board Employees' Federation has termed the proposed privatisation of the complaint cell in the city as an unimaginative scheme, involving wasteful expenditure.
 Life as a portrait of struggle
Life for him had never been a bed of roses. He had been struggling hard since he was five in 1929. The demise of his father at a very young age left him with no option but to fend for himself, his mother, two sisters and a brother. Instinctively he knew that education alone could salvage him from the lower depths of misery.
Stray animals give nightmares to motorists
Ludhiana, August 11
Stray animals squatting in the middle of the busy roads forcing desperate motorists to try hard to avoid them or street dogs chasing vendors and children in thickly populated localities or still worse, pigs and other strays scattering mud, garbage and household waste all over the streets, has become a routine rather than an exception in the city.
READERS WRITE
Playing with people’s lives
This is in reference to the extensive and widespread reports about Coca Cola and Pepsi containing pesticides in huge proportions sufficient to cause immense harm to human beings. It needs to be verified and responsibility needs to be fixed since it concerns hundreds and thousands of people in the country who have been consuming these drinks.
DGP urged to check use of intoxicants
Ludhiana, August 4
Welcoming the appointment of Mr A.A. Siddiqui as DGP, Punjab, the Bharti Kisan Union today urged him to wage a relentless war against the use of intoxicants in rural Punjab.
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