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Youth giving up Sikh way of life: Vedanti
Ludhiana, December 24
Akal Takht Jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti said that educational institutions could play a major role in educating students about glorious past of the community and bring them back to the Sikh way of life.
CPI concern over poor law and order
Ludhiana December 24
The executive committee of the Communist Party of India, Ludhiana, District at a meeting expressed grave concern at the deteriorating law and order situation in the district. In a statement Kartar Singh Bowani- district secretary, Dr Arun Mitra- assistant secretary and Mrs O.P. Mehta, city secretary said that the party felt that the police had utterly failed in checking lawlessness.
Expansion of Antodaya
Anna Yojna
Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 24
As the civil administration has initiated the process for the expansion of the Antodaya Anna Yojna here, the municipal councillors have been asked to recommend two to three families of their areas to be included in the scheme.
Year-ender
40,000 challaned for violating traffic rules
Ludhiana, December 24
Getting tough with traffic rules offenders, the police challaned more than 40,000 violators this year with special focus on black filming, redlight jumping, without number plate driving in year 2004.
Agitation by IT staff a boon for tax evaders
Ludhiana, December 24
The refusal of income tax employees and officers to perform certain administrative work to go out on field duty for survey during the ongoing agitation, has come as a boon for the business community as no survey or inspection could be carried out during this month to check concealed income.
Objectionable ads continue to appear in media
Ludhiana, December 24
Objectionable advertisements are being placed both in the print and the electronic media with impunity, without attracting any penal action from the health administration which is the enforcement agency in this case. Advertisers have been taking advantage of the “slackness” of the regulatory mechanism to flout law.
Christmas cards by underprivileged kids in demand
Ludhiana, December 24
Though millions of cards are exchanged as Christmas and New Year greetings every year in the city,
the cards designed with creativity and colourful touch, much in demand these days, are the ones made by underprivileged children. The sale of these cards is up and more and more people prefer to buy these for the welfare of these children. Catchy line printed on cards says “I love, feel and cry, and I, too, have dreams”.
PSSF convention on Dec 30
Ludhiana, December 24
The Punjab Subordinate Services Federation (PSSF) will hold a convention here on December 30 to focus on demands of government employees and to prepare course of action for these demands. Among other trade union leaders, the state president of the federation Mr Mahan Singh Rori will address the convention.
Pattar now on Net
Ludhiana, December 24
Noted Punjabi poet and president of the Punjabi Sahit Academi Surjit
Pattar, who recently returned form his Canadian tour, will talk to lovers of poetry across the globe on www.newpunjab.net chat room. For the first time, a Punjabi poet will be talking to readers on the Internet. Pattar will appear on the website on December 27, 2004 at 6.30pm (Indian time). Since long, Pattar’s readers from foreign universities and colleges were demanding him talk online.
Udham Singh’s birth anniversary function
Ludhiana, December 24
The 105th birth anniversary of revolutionary, Shaheed Udham Singh will be celebrated on December 26, at 10.30 am at the Pensioners’ Bhavan, Mini Secretariat (near SSP Office), Ludhiana by the Shaheed Udham Singh Memorial Trust.
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