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PAU Polls
Mundi group unseats Maur

Ludhiana, November 30 Harbans Singh Mundi, representing the PAU Employees Federation, today became the president of the PAU Non-teaching Employees Union after defeating D.P. Maur by a margin of 114 votes here. The polling was held yesterday.

Harbans Singh Mundi and his supporters at the PAU in Ludhiana on Friday. A Tribune photograph

World AIDS Day Today
Widows battle stigma; to fight till the end
Ludhiana, November 30
Three women with AIDS, deserted by their in-laws following the death of their husbands, are the sorry face of the fight against the disease by NGOs and the government.

School sans building, furniture
Ludhiana, November 30
The government has changed but not the fate of children who are forced to study under a tree in the absence of proper shelter.

Icon award for Ishmeet
Ludhiana, November 30
Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle will award Ishmeet Singh, winner of Voice of India, with the “icon of Sikh youth” award. The award would be conferred on him at a modelling competition, “Young Sikh star of Punjab”, to be held on December 2 here, Charan Kamal Singh, chief secretary of the study circle, said.

BJP leader dead
Ludhiana, November 30
BJP leader Lala Lajpat Rai passed away after prolonged illness this morning. Thousands of people, including leaders cutting across party lines, thronged the Civil Lines cremation ground to bid adieu to the leader. Lala Lajpat Rai was born on May 15, 1917, and was founder-president of several organisations, including the Bharat Vikas Parishad. 

COMMUNITY

Kathak dancer Swati Sinha performs at BCM School in Ludhiana on Friday. —A Tribune photograph

Tourism expo from today
Ludhiana, November 30
Nearly 50 tourism boards, state tourism department, travel organisers, hotels and resorts will participate in India Travel Mart (ITM) that will begin here tomorrow.

Govt dithers over resignation
Ludhiana, November 30
The controversy over the resignation of Vinod Sharda, an assistant commissioner with the municipal corporation here, refuses to die down with the government undecided on whether to accept his resignation or not.

Punjab Cong general secy booked
Ludhiana, November 30
Following an altercation between former minister of jails Malkit Singh Birmi and Punjab Congress general secretary Ashok Prasher, the local police has registered an FIR against Prashar.

Probe into death of migrant begins Our Correspondent
Mandi Ahmedgarh,  November 30 The Dehlon police has initiated an investigation into the death of a migrant labourer, Rassa Ram of Salarpur village of Sarabasti district in UP, whose body was found lying on a cot in the house of a farmer, Hardeep Singh, of Chhapar village, near here, yesterday. Strangulation marks with a rope made the police suspicious about the cause of the death.

IGNOU exams from today; 588 centres set up
Khanna, November 30
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has set up 588 examination centres, including 35 in overseas and 11 in the jails for its inmates to appear in the examination to be conducted in December.

COURTS

Car driver convicted of causing death
Ludhiana, November 30
Judicial Magistrate Tarsem Mangla has sentenced Jaswant Singh, resident of Raikot, to undergo one and a half years’ imprisonment on the charge of causing death of a pedesterian, Amrit Lal, of BRS Nagar, while driving his car rashly and negligently.

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