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School brings hope for children of convicted women
Ludhiana, January 16
When five-year-old Karan sang ‘‘Johny Johny, yes papa. ...telling lies? no, papa’’ at the first-ever school opened in the Women Jail here today, he took a giant leap away from his life, in which he was born to a convict mother and had been forced by cruel fate to be incarcerated up to the age of six without committing any crime.
Children of convicted mothers at the school flanked by Lion Club office-bearers and DIG Jatinder Kumar Jain.
— Photo by Inderjit Verma
Bagga rebels, to contest from
Ludhiana North
Ludhiana January 16
Before the Congress could formally announce its candidate from any of the constituencies in the city, a party councillor from ward no 4, Mr Madan Lal Bagga, has already announced his candidature from the Ludhiana North.
 'Sex ratio improving in Punjab'
Ludhiana, January 16
The declining sex ratio in Punjab has improved to 789:1000 in the last one year.
The State Commission For Women is working towards improving the ratio
further. Voluntary organisations and NGOs have extended their help to
the Commission to curb female foeticide.
Bairagi Maha Mandal reconstituted
Ludhiana, January 16
The newly elected state president of the Bairagi Maha Mandal and secretary-general, Mr Ravinder Nandi, has nominated new office-bearers of the state unit as well as district presidents with the approval of Mr Krishan Kumar Bawa, national president of the body.
MC sleeping on water bills for five years!
Ludhiana, January 16
A number of residents of Beantpura, located on Chandigarh Road here, have not received their water and sewerage bills ever despite having paid the connection fee to the Municipal Corporation years ago.
MC develops footpath of unequal width
Ludhiana, January 16
The Municipal Corporation here is developing a footpath having unequal widths at different places on the Gaushala road allegedly to allow some influential shopkeepers to
encroach upon the space.
A road dug to develop a footpath on Gaushala Road in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma
Propagating vegetarianism his mission
Ludhiana, January 16
India, which has a history of vegetarianism, can play a key role in transforming the relationship between humans and animals. In spite of the fact that practices like breeding animals for consumption are on the rise here, chances that people, including the medical fraternity, respond positively to doing away with “malpractices” are high, feels Dr Jonathan
Balcombe, an animal behaviour research scientist with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington DC.
Cong govt failed on all fronts: Badungar
Ludhiana, January 16
“The defeat of the Congress is visible from the rebellious conditions prevailing in the party over the allotment of tickets, which had been delayed, where as Shiromani Akali Dal has already declared its candidates,” said professor Kirpal Singh Badungar, former SGPC chief and in charge SAD election campaign committee.
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Ludhiana, January 16
