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150 PUDA employees face
retrenchment, threaten stir
Ludhiana, May 18
As many as 150 employees of Punjab Urban Development and Planning Authority are fearing retrenchment following the dissolution of PUDA and formation of
GLADA.
Industry dumps hazardous waste treatment plant’s proposal
Ludhiana, May 18
The hazardous waste treatment facility at Dera Bassi has got negative response in industrial circles even before becoming operational formally. Industry is opposed to the recent proposal of getting the existing hazardous waste tested in the laboratory before treatment.
Role Reversal
Harassed by bahu, saas kills herself
Ludhiana, May 18
Women committing suicide due to troublesome mothers-in-law is often heard, but an aged woman of Urban Estate, Dugri, today jumped to death before a running train allegedly due to harassment from daughter-in-law. The woman claimed in a suicide note that she could not bear the harassment at the hands of her daughter-in-law and her relatives any longer and hence was ending her life.
City youth drowns in Kurukshetra
Ludhiana, May 18
Just a month before his marriage, a resident of Barrewal, here, allegedly drowned under mysterious circumstances in a sarovar at Kurukshetra on May 15.
Relatives of Parminder Singh, alias Bittu, who drowned under mysterious cicumstances in Kurukshetra.
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Man sets room afire to kill
ex-friend
Ludhiana, May 18
A plumber allegedly adopted an unusual way to murder two persons by setting the room, in which they were sleeping, on fire on Dabba road, Sherpur Kalan, this morning.
Looting case: Victims were raped too
Ludhiana, May 18
The armed robbery at Bonker Dogra village turned more gruesome today with the polcie claiming the accused robbers had allegedly raped two women also.
At the Crossroads
Trailing clouds of longings
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The name of Sahir Ludhianvi or Prof Mohan Singh acts as a catalyst to rouse a person residing in Ludhiana from his deep slumber. Manjit Indira's free verse, ‘Taarean da Chhajj’ (A tray full of stars), has captured the true image of Prof Mohan Singh as a person as well as a poet during the last decade of his life. She came into his contact as a teenager in 1969, so as to learn the art of poetic composition, when the poet was 65 years old.
He was at that time Professor Emeritus at Punjab Agricultural
University, Ludhiana, whereas she was studying in Govt College
for Women for her first degree.
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Manjit Indira
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Security tightened to keep dera trouble at bay
Raikot, May 18
Though the civil administration is claiming the return of normalcy to the town and its surrounding villages, the area close to Naam Charcha Ghar at Jalaldiwal, near here, has virtually turned into a cantonment.
Muslims pray for peace in state
Ludhiana, May 18
Members of the Muslim community here today prayed for peace and communal harmony in the state. Hundreds of Muslims, who offered the weekly Friday prayers under the leadership of Shahi Imam Maulana Habib-u-Rehman
Ludhianvi, prayed for peace in the state in the wake of recent violent incidents.
The Shahi Imam of the Jama Majid along with other devotees holds a prayer in Ludhiana for peace in the state on Friday.
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Ex-servicemen call to maintain peace
Ludhiana, May 18
While the state is grappling with violence and arson arisen out of the Dera Sacha Sauda controversy, ex-servicemen of Ludhiana have appealed to the masses to maintain peace and harmony so that this “difficult time too passes away”.
Insurance officers observe strike
Ludhiana, May 18
In protest against the "anti-officer" policies of their management the General Insurance Officers All-India Association observed a strike today.
Expect fewer power cuts this summer, says Bath
Ludhiana, May 18
PSEB Chief Engineer P.S. Bath, who took charge a few days ago, said customer satisfaction was his top priority in addition to ensuring that minimum power cuts were imposed during the peak summer season.
Road repair begins
Ludhiana, May 18
The councillor of ward number 49, Rakesh Prashar, today got inaugurated a road repair project worth Rs 24 lakh in Lakkar Bazar and Machine Market, here, today.
Anti-graft forum to support govt
Ludhiana, May 18
The Pubalic Anti-Corruption Forum has welcomed the announcement of the Akali-BJP government in the state to root out corruption from the government offices in the state.
Sangat darshan on May 23
Ludhiana, May 18
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation would hold sangat darshan to redress the grievances of residents of Zone-D on May 23.
Tributes paid on bhog ceremony
Khamano, May 18
Tributes were paid to freedom fighter Dharmpal Verma, on his bhog ceremony at Mansooran road,
Khamano. He had died a few days back.
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