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‘Old city needs a facelift’
LUDHIANA is a city with two faces
— the bright and the dark. While some parts of the
town are neat and tidy, others are no better than slums.
The well-kept parts include more than 50 posh colonies
which house the palatial buildings. The Mall, the Rakh
Garden, the Rose Garden and the Punjab Agricultural
University campus are the beauty corners of this part of
the mega-city.
Tohra flays Centre on autonomy issue
LUDHIANA,
July 6 — The SHSAD
President, Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra, today flayed the
Union government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee for
rejecting the autonomy demand raised by the J and K
government.
Railway inquiry goes hi-tech
LUDHIANA,
JULY 6 — In order to
end the problems faced by the public, especially railway
commuters of the city, the local railway authorities have
upgraded the railway enquiry from the present manual
system to the hi-tech Inter-Active Voice Recording System
( IVRS ).
Cop’s suspension recommended
LUDHIANA,
July 6 — The
recommendation for the suspension of a Sub-Inspector
posted as a head clerk in the SSP’s Office has been
made to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Ludhiana
Range.
City Mayor lauds Rotarians
LUDHIANA,
July 6 — City Mayor
Apinder Singh Grewal has lauded the commendable services
done by the Rotary Club and exhorted the Rotarians to
work for the upliftment of the weaker sections of
society.
Patar awarded Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad
Puruskar
LUDHIANA,
July 6 — Surjit Patar,
an eminent Punjabi poet, has been awarded the coveted
Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Puruskar for the year 2000. He
received this award from the President at Rashtrapati
Bhavan on June 30. This award is presented to four
literary figures every year.
Three killed in mishap
SAHNEWAL,
July 6 — A retired
militaryman, his wife and a daughter, were killed on the
spot when a truck rammed into their scooter on the
Sahnewal-Dehlon road, last evening.
Traffic disrupted on highway
LUDHIANA, July 6
— Traffic on the Jalandhar-Ludhiana highway was
adversely affected after a truck loaded with apples and
plums overturned near here late last night.
City in grip of heat wave
LUDHIANA,
July 6 — The city is
beginning to hot up again after the relatively cool
weather that followed the heavy downpour on Saturday
last.
The greatest national sin
“I CONSIDER that the greatest national sin to be the
neglect of the masses and that is one of the causes of
our downfall. No amount of politics would be of any avail
until the masses in India are once more well educated,
well fed and well cared for ——. If we want to
regenerate India, we must work for them.
Remembering Krishan Adeeb
Krishan
Adeeb was not an enigma but an open book. Whenever he
talked of his past, he was truthful to a fault. He left
his home town Phillaur, where he was born on November 21,
1925, after doing his matriculation. After trudging a
long path that passed through Delhi, Assam and Bombay, he
settled in Ludhiana in 1965. He was a tramp that loved
leading a carefree life. He could sleep on the pavement
under the star-studded sky without entertaining in his
mind any thought for tomorrow. At long last he lived his
life 'not wisely but too well'.
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