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Garcha’s charge of multi-crore city centre scam vindicated
Ludhiana, September 13
The alleged exposure of a scam in the Ludhiana City Centre Project has vindicated the stand of former Improvement Trust Chairman Ashok Singh Garcha who had resigned in June 2004, alleging corruption beyond his control in the same project.

LIT den of corruption, say agitating SAD members
Ludhiana, September 13
Activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal today staged a dharna against the alleged multi-crore scandal in the Ludhiana Improvement Trust outside the Mini Secretariat.

SAD activists stage a dharna in front of the Mini Secretariat in Ludhiana against the alleged scam of the Improvement Trust on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Gang of highway robbers lands in police net Ludhiana, September 13 A highway robber's gang which was striking at will in the region has finally fallen in the police net after a brief encounter in Subash Nagar on Tuesday morning. The gang of highway robbers presented before mediapersons in Ludhiana on Wednesday. — Photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Nurse booked for abortion bid
Ludhiana, September 13
The police has registered a case under the PNDT Act against Ms Mohinder Kaur, a staff nurse, posted at the primary health centre, Sidhwan Bet, in this district for an unlawful attempt to terminate the pregnancy of a local woman.

Rs 15-cr concealed income detected
Ludhiana, September 13
In the course of the stepped-up drive to unearth concealed income in the Ludhiana Chief Commissionerate, a series of surveys conducted in different towns in the region have yielded an unaccounted income of nearly Rs 15 crore during the past two months.

COMMUNITY

BJP alleges excise scam
Ludhiana, September 13
The state Trade and Industrial Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party today alleged that excise officials had fraudulently cheated a businessman, Mr N.K. Aggarwal, of Rs 64 lakh by crediting this amount to someone else’s name.

Bank employees hold protest Ludhiana, September 13 Protesting against the management policies, employees of the State Bank of Patiala held a protest demonstration in front of the bank’s regional office at Miller Ganj, here, today. State Bank of Patiala employees protest outside the regional office in Miller Ganj, Ludhiana, on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Dairy workers hold protest
Ludhiana, September 13
In protest against non-fulfillment of their demands, members of the Milk Plant and Dairy Workers Union held a demonstration outside milk plant here today. Employees of 14 co-operative milk plants and cattlefeed plants held demonstrations at three places, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Bathinda today.

NRI woman case: UP cops not helping local police
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 13
Accusing the UP police of obstructing investigations in a case registered against an NRI woman and her accomplice for allegedly duping innocent Punjabi youths in the name of fake marriages, the local police has appealed to the SSP of Sangrur to impress upon his counterpart to direct the Gorakhpur police to hand over certain pieces of evidence, including a Scorpio van for which a court had issued seizure warrants.

16 booked for assault
Jagraon, September 13
In four separate incidents, 16 persons have been booked by Jagraon, Sidhwan Bet and Dehlon police on charges of assault. In the first incident, Dehlon police booked Salem, Shahabudin, Aslam, Bashir, Ruldu Khan, Satar and Jamir of Dehleej Kalan of Sangrur district on charges of assaulting Sikander Ali, Farjand Ali and Lal of their village.

BHL adopts SAP solutions
Ludhiana, September 13
SAP India, a provider of business software solutions, today announced that Bajaj Hindustan Limited has decided to deploy its SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) for the management of its business processes.

Teachers demand pay on a par with private colleges
Ludhiana, September 13
A number of Punjab Commerce and Management Association members have strongly demanded incentive-based pay package for college and university teachers. They feel that in the wake of private universities and institutions offering handsome pay packages to even newly recruited teachers, it would be very difficult for the government to retain good teachers.

Teachers attend seminar
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 13
Hundreds of primary and upper primary teachers from Sangrur and Ludhiana districts have vowed to commit themselves to the Preparation for Learning Enhancement in Punjab at the elementary level, a programme launched by the Education Department under the aegis of Sarav Sikhya Abhiyan.

From Colleges
Navneet crowned Ms Fresher
Ludhiana, September 13
A freshers’ party was organised by the old students of the hostel of Government College for Women. The participants looked confident, happy and witty on the occasion. They wore traditional as well as western outfits to express themselves in the best manner.

Doraha college forms Punjabi Sahit Sabha
Doraha, September 13
To create and polish the literary talent among the students, the Punjabi Sahit Sabha was today constituted at Guru Nanak National College, Doraha. Rampal Singh of MA (Part -II) Punjabi was nominated president, Rupinder Kaur general secretary, Tejinder Singh senior vice-president, Gurminderjit Kaur and Sandeep Kaur finance secretaries, Arwinder Singh and Rajinder Singh as vice-presidents and Inderjit Kaur and Prabhjot Kaur as secretaries.

Patients checked for gum problems at camp
Ludhiana, September 13
A free dental check-up camp was organised at Thind Dental Clinic here yesterday in association with Colgate. The focus of the camp was on detection, management, treatment and preventive measures for periodontitis (infection of the gums).

SPORTS

Radhika adjudged best gymnast

Ludhiana, September 13 The girl gymnasts of the RS Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, Model Town, Ludhiana, gave an excellent performance to win the team championship in the District Schools Gymnastics Meet held at the multipurpose hall of Guru Nanak Stadium recently. Girl gymnasts of RS Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, Ludhiana, who won positions in the District Schools Gymnastics Meet, are seen with the school Principal, Mr Mohan Lal Kalra, and the coach, Ms Manmohan Chopra. — A Tribune photograph

Admn order on ex-servicemen
Ludhiana, September 13
The district administration has issued orders that due respect would be given to ex-servicemen in the government offices whenever they visited there for routine work and directions to this effect had already been issued to all district heads of various departments.