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Students’ lives at risk
Portion of school roof collapses due to rain
Ludhiana, July 11
Even as children of Government Elementary School at Kutcha Number 16 in Prem Nagar here continue to risk their lives, sitting under a partially collapsed roof, the district administration has merely ordered the repair of school instead of shifting the children to a safer place.

Children studying in a dilapidated room in Government Elementary School, Ludhiana, and; (right) a view of the partially collapsed roof of the school. — Tribune photos by Sayeed Ahmed

Five held for robbery bid Ludhiana, July 11 The Ludhiana police today claimed to have foiled a robbery of Rs 20 lakh from outside KG Forgings Company in the Focal Point area and arrested five persons. Five factory workers arrested allegedly for a robbery bid in Ludhiana on Monday.  — A Tribune photograph

Is city becoming a haven for criminals?
Ludhiana, July 11
On July 3 family members living in the lower portion of a kothi in Beant Pura along the Chandigarh Road woke up to find that the upper portion had been thoroughly ransacked by burglars who decamped with Rs 5.5 lakh, a revolver and some jewellery. Mr. Sarabjit Singh, a mill owner, had locked the residential portion before leaving for Chandigarh along with his family.

Polythene bags give MC tough time
Ludhiana, July 11
Before you throw polythene bags in sewers, spare a thought for the sewermen of Ludhiana Municipal Corporation, (LMC). Polythenes result in choking of the system and it is the civic body who has to take the blame for the persistent problem.

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COMMUNITY

Power cuts are back
Ludhiana, July 11
Not even a few weeks of relief from power woes had passed that residents are suffering cuts again. With scheduled off days having been withdrawn by the Punjab State Electricity Board, power cuts up to four to five hours are being imposed in various residential areas in the city.

Stray dog issue may rock MC House meeting
Ludhiana, July 11
The issues of stray dogs and non-payment of dues to Park Management Committees, are likely to rock the general house of the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation scheduled for Wednesday.

Village adoption drive evokes huge response
Ludhiana, July 11
An ambitious plan of the Indian Medical Association to reach out to the rural population in the country by adoption of a village each by all 1,600 units of the association all over the country, has evoked a huge response.

Farmers resent disinvestment of sugar mills
Ludhiana, July 11
Various farmer organisations have resented the government’s move to privatise some loss-making sugar mills in the state. Leaders of these organisations maintained that the government was deliberately trying to promote the private sugar mills while making it difficult for the cooperative sugar mills to survive.

BJP councillors threaten to gherao Mayor
Ludhiana, July 11
The BJP councillors today threatened in the house of the Municipal Corporation that if the MC authorities postponed the meeting of General House scheduled for Wednesday, they would gherao the city Mayor, Mr Nahar Singh Gill.

S.K. Garg president of bank officers association
Ludhiana, July 11
Mr S.K. Garg was unanimously elected president of the All India Bank Officers Association at a meeting of the association here last week.

CRIME

ASI booked on bribe charges
Machhiwara, July 11
ASI Hakam Singh, investigating officer in the case of forcible cutting of hair of a Doraha-based laboratory technician, Lakbir Singh on July 5 was booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act today.

Jeweller’s shop burgled
Ludhiana, July 11
Modern Jewellers in Charakhria bazar, Jagraon, has been burgled. The thieves stole gold, diamond and cash valuing Rs 19,72,200. According to Mr Rajiv Ahir SSP, Jagraon, the shopkeeper was away to attend a marriage when the thieves struck.

BUSINESS

China biggest rival in textile segment: Oswal
Ludhiana, July 11
After the end of the quota regime in textile (apparel segment), the gains for India are not substantial whereas China and Pakistan did achieve good results.

Students on shopping spree as classes begin today
Ludhiana, July 11
With the admission process in all the colleges coming to an end and the classes to be commenced in a day or two, students are on a shopping spree these days.

Science students look towards Ukraine
Ludhiana, July 11
Having failed to make it in the Punjab Medical Entrance Test, hundreds of students from the state are learnt to have applied for admission into Odessa State Medical University, Ukraine.

MA (I) Punjabi students feel harassed
Ludhiana, July 11
Students of MA (I) Punjabi are sore over the dilly-dallying attitude of Panjab University in conducting re-examination of Punjabi Paper II of ‘Sahit Sidhant Ate Punjabi Alochna’ for which two different question papers were distributed on May 10.

Plea to exempt officers from maths test
Ludhiana, July 11
Plant Doctors’ Association, Punjab, has demanded that agriculture officers be exempted from compulsory test of accounts and mathematics “since it does not help” them in any way during their service career.

Sikh Missionary College holds gurmat camp

Ludhiana, July 11 To save the children from the clutches of drugs and to make them learn more about Sikhism, a gurmat camp was organised by Sikh Missionary College here today at Sargodha Khalsa Senior Secondary School. Children who participated in the gurmat camp organised by Sikh Missionary College and college staff in Ludhiana on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

Seminar on World Population Day

Mandi Gobindgarh, July 11 A seminar on the occasion of World Population Day today was organised at Desh Bhagat Ayurvedic College (DBAC), Mandi Gobindgarh. Mr Sandeep Hans, SDM, Amloh, was the chief guest. He emphasised on family planning. Students of Government Senior Secondary School for Girls with banners and posters on World Population Day at Sahnewal on Monday.

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COURTS

Elementary teachers on judicial remand
Ludhiana, July 11
Members of the Unemployed Elementary Teachers Union, who were arrested on Saturday last, were remanded in 14-day judicial custody yesterday.