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Master Plan
Farmers to wait and watch
Ludhiana, August 12
The farming community in the district is perturbed over the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision of including 300 villages in the recently adopted master plan of Ludhiana.
Ward 46
407 votes polled; counting withheld
Ludhiana, August 12
Repolling in booth no. 12 of Ward 46 here today seemed reduced to a farce. Whereas only 407 voters cast their vote, SAD candidate Surjit Kaur is already “leading with 513 votes.”
Four cops held for extortion
Ludhiana, August 12
Four cops were arrested late last evening on the charges of extorting money from truck drivers at a check post near Laddowal on Ludhiana-Jalandhar stretch of National Highway No 1. They were taking Rs 20 to 50 per truck.
MC Labour Lost
Recarpeted, gone in 15 days
Ludhiana, August 12
A fortnight after Shri Aggarsain Marg near Raikhy cinema was recarpeted under the ‘‘please all’’ drive just before municipal elections, the upper layer of the road has disappeared at several places pointing toward inferior quality material being used in the
recarpeting The road was recarpeted in a hurry just before the elections. But the road developed potholes soon after the elections. The residents of the area are now seeing red.
A road near Raikhy cinema that has worn out in Ludhiana on Sunday.
—Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
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Viruses are no longer restricted to computers. A lot of city residents are complaining of viruses hitting their mobile handsets. The result is software, in most cases that of text messages, getting corrupt. The virus comes through a text message from a strange number. The recipient then continues getting messages in large numbers. In most cases only after the receiver switches a set off that the messages stop coming. Technology, after all, does not only have boons!
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SPRUCING UP FOR I-DAY |
A cleanliness driver underway
in view of Independence Day celebrations where Parkash Singh
Badal, CM would unfurl national flag in Ludhiana. —Photo by
Sayeed Ahmed |
Democracy pride, corruption national shame: poll
Ludhiana, August 12
The International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO) today expressed its happiness over the verdict of Indian people who have said the Operation Bluestar and the anti-Sikh carnage of 1984 were a slur on the face of India.
Diarrhoea deaths: MC president’s resignation sought
Mohali, August 12
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Jasjit Singh has demanded the resignation of president of the Mohali Municipal Council, Rajinder Singh Rana, for his alleged failure in providing sanitary conditions in the Shahimajra village, which resulted in the death of two siblings there.
Move to demolish Ram Setu
VHP activists stage protest
Ludhiana, August 12
Hundreds of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists today staged a demonstration against the Central government’s move to clear the Palk Straits of Ram
Setu. The VHP activists alleged that the Central government was hurting the sentiments of the Hindus across the world for whom the
Ram Setu remains a holy relic.
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| BJP legislator Harish Bedi (wearing black specs) joins VHP workers in a protest against the demolition of Ram Setu in Ludhiana on Sunday.
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PCCTU plans protest on Teachers’ Day
Ludhiana August 12
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU) has announced the launch of an agitation in the next few days. At a meeting of the office-bearers of the union held here today under the presidentship of Prof S.S Hundal, it was decided to observe Teachers' Day as protest day when teachers will hold a massive rally in Chandigarh. The teachers will also court-arrest that day.
Fear of cancer haunts Khamano residents
Khamano, August 12
Four deaths in just a week due to cancer in Khamano town has created panic among the residents here. About fifteen patients of
Khamano, village Ranwan and some other villages are suffering from this deadly disease.
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