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Near-total strike by petrol dealers
Industry, residents flay oil price hike
Ludhiana, June 20
City residents had a tough time as a majority of the petrol stations in the city remained closed today on account of a nationwide strike by petroleum dealers. While most of the petrol pumps remained closed on account of the strike, a few pumps were open, resulting in long queues.

Employees rest as petrol pumps remained closed in Ludhiana on Monday due to petroleum dealers’ strike.

Closed petrol stations cause inconvenience Akali leader flays hike in petro prices

Farmers rue power shortage during peak paddy season
Ludhiana, June 20
Farmers are sore over the power shortage during the peak paddy transplantation season. They said the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) had failed both in terms of quality as well as quantity in supplying power to the farmers.

Taps water go waste at the Ludhiana railway station. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Engineering students boycott exam
As many as 21 students of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College here quit their advance electrical machines, M Tech power engineering II semester paper today as the question paper distributed to them was totally out of syllabus. Though the superintendent had another set of question papers but she refused to distribute it to students, saying as per the datesheet sent by PTU, question papers with code PEE 507 were to be distributed to them and not PEE 505 (code) papers.

INA veteran’s wife struggling for pension
Ludhiana, June 20
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice of motion to the Punjab Government and the Deputy Commissioner, here, for the grant of the freedom fighter pension to Ms Sarjeet Kaur, an octogenarian INA veteran’s wife here.

3 revenue officials booked
Khanna, June 20
The police on Saturday booked seven persons, including three revenue officials, on charges of fraudulently selling a piece of land at Somal Kheri village in Payal subdivision.

Probe sought into road repair work
Ludhiana, June 20
Member of prominent NGOs working in ward no. 40 — the Urban Estate Welfare Association, the Urban Vihar Citizen’s Council, and the National Forum for Human Rights — met today at the residence of Dr. Ajay Sahi, President, Ward No. 40, Congress Committee to discuss the undergoing repairs and construction of roads in Phase I and Phase II of Urban Estate and Urban Vihar area of Ward No 40.

Abolish PMT, says ex-minister
Ludhiana, June 20
Senior Akali leader and former minister for medical education, Mr Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, today suggested that the Punjab government should abolish the pre-medical test (PMT) and the common engineering entrance test (CEET) given the controversies surrounding these tests.

COMMUNITY

Tikka flays BJP leader’s comments on Cong regime
Ludhiana, June 20
The Senior vice-president of the Pradesh Youth Congress, Mr Amarjit Singh Tikka, today condemned the allegations levelled by the BJP leader and former Union Minister, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, that the Congress Government in Punjab was supporting terrorism.

Protest against supply of contaminated water 

Ludhiana, June 20 In order to protest against the scarcity of water and the supply of contaminated drinking water and sewer problems in Ward Number 9, the Area Councillor staged a dharna in front of the Zone-B office of the local Municipal Corporation here today. Mr Harinder Singh Gogi,who stages a dharna in front of Zone-B office of MC, shows bottles filled with contaminated water being supplied in his area on Monday. — Photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Residents lose sleep over land acquisition notices
Ludhiana, June 20
As many as 59 families of Passey Nagar and Moti Bagh Colony are having sleepless nights following land acquisition notices issued to them for construction of missing link road from Pakhowal Road to Urban Estate, Phase-III here.

• Kaler Deputy Director, Local Bodies
• Scooterist killed

• Two drowned

CRIME

Four booked for snatching chain
Jagraon, June 20
The Sidhwanbet police has registered a case against Mehnga Singh, Bagga Singh and two others for snatching a gold chain from Dharminder Singh of Bahadurke village. The case was registered after four days of the incident.

BUSINESS

Mahavir Spinning profit doubles 
Ludhiana, June 20
The Board of Directors of Mahavir Spinning Mills Ltd has declared the audited results of the company for the financial year 2004-05, along with the results for the last quarter ended March 31, 2005.

Normalcy back at PAU campus 
Ludhiana, June 20
Normalcy returned to the Punjab Agricultural University campus today as the strike by students was called off on Friday. The university authorities have put up fresh date sheet for the semester examination which starts from tomorrow.

Teachers’ training camp concludes
Samrala, June 20
A ten-day training camp for upper primary teachers following the Central Government Education promotion Scheme “Sarv Shiksha Abhiyaan” to provide education to all children between the age group of six to 14 years with quality education which started on June 7 concluded on Saturday at Government Senior Secondary School (Boys) here.

Doctor invited to Philadelphia
Ludhiana, June 20
Dr Tejinder Singh, Professor and Vice-Principal at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, has been invited to attend International Medical Education Day to be held in Philadelphia, USA, in October.

Medical camps organised
Ludhiana, June 20
A large number of people attended the free medical camp organised by Hero DMC Heart Institute at the Dera of Sant Baba Ram Singh Ji at village Daudhar. Nearly 400 people attended the camp and got free medicines.

SPORTS

Green XI register second win
Ludhiana, June 20
Coaching Centre Green XI defeated Coaching Centre Blue XI by 79 runs to register second consecutive victory in the first phase of the ninth Chaman Lal Malhotra Cup Cricket Tournament (u-14) being held at the Arya College ground here today.

Their handicap did not deter them

Ludhiana, June 20 It was an emotional moment for the four visually impaired athletes of Punjab who had gone to Manchester, England, to take part in the British Open Athletics Meet when they were accorded a warm reception at the local railway station . Punjab athletes who represented India in British Open Athletics Meet at Manchester, England. — Photo by Inderjit Verma