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12
office-bearers, workers of BSP quit party
Ludhiana,
July 1
Hundreds of Bahujan Samaj Party workers, led by more than 12
office-bearers of the district urban and rural units of the party, today
announced their decision to quit the organisation for what they
described as the failure of ‘self-seeking’ leaders to safeguard the
interests of the Dalit community and the under-privileged.
Singla
inaugurates help centre for taxpayers
Ludhiana,
July 1
As a part of the countrywide programme of setting up ‘help centres’,
the Customs and Central Excise Department today opened first such centre
here to guide and help the small assesses and provide them an
institutional mechanism to redress their problems and doubts. Mr
Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, formally inaugurated the help centre
at an elaborate function.
PSEB staff
strike work over lineman’s death
Mandi
Ahmedgarh, July 1
Activists of various employee unions of the Punjab State Electricity
Board suspended work and organised a rally to protest against the
indifferent attitude of the authorities towards the death of a lineman
due to alleged negligence of a junior engineer.
Couple alleges harassment
by family
Raikot, July
1
Denial of share in property and husband’s inability to borrow money
for repaying the loan abetted a woman of Kalsian village attempt
suicide.
Raj Guru Nagar
residents resent cutting of trees
Ludhiana,
July 1
Residents of the Raj Guru Nagar have lodged a protest against the
cutting of three alesthomia trees outside the plot number 5-A.
Homage paid to
H.D. Shourie
Ludhiana,
July 1
Mr B.R. Kaushal, chairman, Punjab State Pensioners Confederation, an
association of Pensioners Advisory Board constituted by the Punjab
Government mourned the demise of Mr H.D. Shouire, a Social Activist,
whose contribution to public cause has been immense.
Stopover of
Malwa Express at Khanna
Khanna, July
1
Following a change in its stoppage schedule, the Malwa Express bound
from Jammu to Indore made its first-ever halt at Khanna here today.
56 trained in
civil defence
Ludhiana,
July 1
The Civil Defence Department, imparted training to 56 persons from June
23 to 30. They were taught first aid, fire-fighting, rescue operations
and to cope with emergencies.
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