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How can VB alone fight corruption?
Ludhiana, April 14
Is the Vigilance Bureau fighting the war against corruption in isolation? The answer seems to be in the affirmative if a perusal of action taken by different departments on vigilance reports is taken into account.
PCR squads boon for
liquor trade
Ludhiana, April 14
For once the arch rivals in liquor trade in this district, the liquor baron from Uttar Pradesh, Mr Ponty Chadha, and the Garcha group headed by Mr Man Singh Garcha, brother of former Punjab Minister for Technical Education Mr Jagdish Singh Garcha, came together, albeit for a different reason.
City sanitary conditions in tatters
Ludhiana, April 14
The affairs of the Municipal Corporation seem to be in a mess as sanitary conditions are deteriorating day by day in the city. Huge heaps of garbage can be seen all over the city and civic body appears to be nonexistent.
Similarly, the condition of roads is bad and no concrete steps have been taken to repair these.
MESSY AFFAIR: Garbage littered all over a road in Ludhiana. |
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Relive historic day at war museum
Ludhiana, April 14
For those who want to relive December 16, 1971, the day in the history of India and Bangladesh when Lieut-Gen Amir Abdullah Khan
Niazi, former Martial Law Administrator of East Pakistan, had signed the Instrument of Surrender with Lieut-Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer, Commanding-In-Chief, Indian and Bangladesh Forces, a visit to the local war museum is enough to go down the memory lane and rediscover the importance of the day. |
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| The moment of surrender depicted at the local war museum in Ludhiana.
— Photo Inderjit Verma |
Crossword puzzles are
stress-busters
Ludhiana, April14
“I cannot unwind after a tense day in office till I come home and solve a crossword puzzle. I get so totally lost in finding words ‘across’ and ‘down,’ that by the time the puzzle is finished, I am totally relaxed and ready to face the complexities of life once again,” says Mr Rajesh Kulkarni, working in a bank.
Moderate
response to truckers’ stir
Ludhiana, April 14
There was a moderate response to a chakka jam call by the
All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) in the district on its
first day today. Although all major transport unions have endorsed the
call, many are waiting for the response at the national level before
they too follow suit.
US-Iraq war theme
dominates fancy dress
Ludhiana, April 14
The theme of US-Iraq war dominated the fancy dress competition for the students of primary wing of Kundan Vidya Mandir held here today. Clad in blood-stained gown, Poojan Chibba of Class IV, acted like a wounded Iraqi woman. Arnish Rawal, of the same class, mimicked Saddam Hussain.
MSP of wheat: BKU stir today
Khanna, April 14
The Bharatiya Kisan Union will launch a rail roko agitation at Rajpura tomorrow from 12 noon to 2 PM in protest against the Union Government’s decision to freeze the minimum support price of wheat at Rs 620 per quintal.
PPCC Legal Cell to be
reorganised
Ludhiana, April 14
The Chairman of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Legal Cell, Mr S.K. Pipat, has said the cell would soon be reorganised. He assured members of the local legal cell that important assignments would be given only to sincere, hardworking and loyal partymen in the new committee.
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