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Cover-up bid by MC
3-yr girl drowns in manhole
MC employees get busy in operation cover-up
Ludhiana, April 27
Three-year-old Radha drowned while her seven-year-old sister, Jyoti, had a miraculous escape after falling in an open manhole in Jeewan Nagar at about noon today even as the allegedly negligent MC employees launched an operation cover-up instead of owning up the responsibility for the incident.
Pramod Kumar and Mala Devi, inconsoloable parents of Radha, outside hospital in Ludhiana on Friday.
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Cheers! Liquor to be cheaper for 2 days
Ludhiana, April 27
With the process of allotment of new liquor shops for the next 11 months beginning May 1 having been completed by the Excise and Taxation Department late evening on Thursday, the prices of both country liquor and Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) are set to crash, albeit for just two or three days.
Parliamentary delegation leaves for Indonesia
Ludhiana, April 27
A parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha deputy speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal has left for Nusa Dua (Bali) in Indonesia to attend the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to be held there from April 29-May 4.
Parties not happy with demarcation of municipal wards
Ludhiana, April 27
The demarcation of the wards of the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has been done and the number of wards has been raised to 75 from 70. Surprisingly, no political party and independent aspirants seeking to contest the election to the municipal corporation are satisfied with the demarcation of the wards.
Delimitation haphazard: Senior dy mayor
Ludhiana, April 27
The map of the delimitation of wards in Ludhiana was prepared at midnight on April 23 and none of the local officials were allowed in the local bodies department. Even city mayor Nahar Singh Gill was kept away from the entire process.
Koomkalan goes to Khanna
Dakha is now in Ludhiana-Urban police district
Ludhiana, April 27
The new police districts of Ludhiana-Urban, Ludhiana-Rural have finally come into place with a revised demarcation of areas of Khanna police district as well. DIG Ishwar Singh issued the formal orders in this regard today.
Labourers demand increase in minimum wages
Ludhiana, April 27
Labour activity in the industrial town is once again expected to pick up. Workers, who have been assuming a relatively low profile, have not only chalked out a comprehensive awareness generation programme but have also threatened to resort to agitation if revision in minimum wages is not affected at the earliest.
Tale of treachery and dejection
Ludhiana, April 27
When Tejinder Kaur, a resident of Janta Nagar had married an NRI bridegroom 10 years ago, little had she realised that her life would become a tale of treachery and dejection and she would have to wage a long battle for her rights.
At that time she was studying in BA-I and she had left her studies thinking she would fly to the world of opportunities and spend the rest of her life there.
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Tejinder Kaur
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Protest against distorting image of Bhagat Singh
Ludhiana, April 27
Members of Krantikari Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal protested against the creators of stickers and makers of video games for distorting images of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, today morning at Jagraon Bridge.
Members of Krantikar Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal (regd) protest against the company distorting the image of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, in front of his statue at
Jagraon Bridge. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
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Bitta files complaint
Machhiwara, April 27
Lashing on the sticker making companies which used the face of martyr Bhagat Singh as a comic character in video games, the president of All India Anti-Terrorist Front, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, has warned the administration that if it failed to take stern action against the erring companies within one month, a petition would be filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court. Bitta along with K. L. Mintu got a complaint registered against the sticker printing companies.
Book on Gurbani released
Ludhiana, April 27
"O mind, give up your cleverness and surrender unto the Supreme Lord" is the core message of title of the book ‘Chhaad Syanap Sagli
Manaa’ which was released at a function organised by Gurbani Research and Study
Centre, Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle at Model Town Extension, here on Thursday.
World Veterinary Day today
Ludhiana April 27
World Veterinary Day will be celebrated by the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), here, today. The vice-chancellor of GADVASU, V.K. Taneja, will inaugurate the vaccination and deworming camp on the campus.
Soldiers deserve honour, says body
Samrala, April 27
At a meeting of the Ex-Servicemen Association, Samrala, presided over by Major Harchand Singh Neelon
(retd), the members expressed concern at rising number of suicides by soldiers and at soldiers being mocked at specially when they returned from leave.
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