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Govt will fulfil poll promises: Dullo
Ludhiana, October 16
The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) President, Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, today maintained that the Congress government in Punjab would fulfil all its promises made in the manifesto during the elections. He further claimed that the farmers had already been provided free power for tube wells while the Schedule Caste families had been exempted from paying power bills upto 200 units for domestic use.

Potters busy making diyas for Divali
Ludhiana, October 16
With just two weeks left for Divali, city-based potters have their hands full. A visit to Qilla Mohalla reveals that the potter families living in the locality were busy making diyas of various shapes as also piggy banks which sell like hot cakes at roadside fairs held near various city temples.

LOOKING FORWARD TO DIVALI: Children of a potter's family arrange colourful diyas at Chander Nagar in Ludhiana on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Police inaction blunts drive against quacks
Ludhiana, October 16
Even as the health authorities here have gone in an overdrive to deal with quacks in the district, the ongoing drive is yet to achieve the desired results just because the police, for reasons best known to it, is still dragging its feet in bringing the culprits to book.

Cycle manufacturers all set for elections

Ludhiana, October 16 Campaigning has intensified for the elections to the United Cycle and Parts Manufacturers Association Ludhiana, scheduled on October 22. With Mr Joginder Kumar parting ways with his associate G.L. Pahwa and deciding to contest for the post of the president against the latter the election to the association promises to be keen and close.

Mr G.L. Pahwa, Mr Manmohan Singh Ubbi and others at a meeting of cycle manufacturers in Ludhiana on Sunday. — Photo by Inderjit Verma

Passing Thru
Anju Gupta, Delhi-based artist.

LUDHIANA CALLING Increased penetration of media is giving ample opportunities to artistes. Auditions and talent hunt shows by various television channels and companies have become quite frequent. While big cities have no dearth of training schools in acting, music and even anchoring, artistes in city complain of lack of such facilities. For the industrial town, this only shows a lack of interest in the arts. Industry houses need to take the lead.

COMMUNITY

New alignments in Akali Jatha
Ludhiana, October 16
New alignments are taking place in the Akali Jatha (city-Badal) and dissensions have taken place among the three top leaders of the jatha. A group of the city Akali Jatha led by Mr Avtar Singh Makkar, who is vice-president of the Shiromani Akali Dal, has joined hands with the group led by Mr Jagdish Singh Garcha and Mr Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, MP and president, youth wing.

Rly inquiry service not satisfactory

Ludhiana, October 16 It is around 12 noon. Outside the inquiry window at the local railway station there are standing half a dozen men peering inside and looking patiently and expectantly at the two empty chairs. Goods piled up at the railway station in Ludhiana on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

N-power expensive, unsafe: experts
Ludhiana, October 16
"Nuclear power is neither safe, nor economical and it cannot be the answer to India's future energy needs," concluded a seminar of health experts, peace activists and scholars, organised by the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) at Dumra Auditorium of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here last evening.

Row over damage to ad board Ludhiana, October 16 An advertisement company partner accused a member of the District Grievance Redressal Committee of getting an advertisement board of the company damaged through some goons on the Jagraon bridge this morning. A damaged board on the Jagraon bridge. — Photo by I.V.

Stress laid on communal harmony

Ludhiana, October 16 To commemorate the 112th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s world famous Chicago Address (in the world parliament of religions in 1893 at Chicago, USA), the Swami Vivekananda Study Circle organised a Sarv Dharam Conference here today. Speakers of different religions were invited to share their views on the topic ‘Apne dharam mein dusre dharmon ke prati samman ki bhawana’.

At a function on the 112th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago address, Mr Sarabjit Singh, Mr J.C. Joshi and Rev Father Daniel are honoured by members of the Vivekananda Study Circle on Sunday. — Photo by I.V.

Discourses by Swami Paramanand Giri
Ludhiana, October 16
Swami Paramanand explained the “art of living peacefully” to his disciples while serving discourses at Gill Chowk, Gill Road, here, today. He explained vedanta's complex subjects in a simple and logical way that city residents flocked to attend his lectures.

CRIME

Mystery shrouds boy's death
Ludhiana, October 16
Mystery shrouds the death of a minor boy whose body was found in a vacant plot near the 33-foot road in Mundian today morning. The body of Ashish, aged 8, son of migrant labourer Ram Chowdhry, was found dead under mysterious circumstances by a passerby. As news of his body spread, his parents and neighbhours who were already searching for him came there and identified him.

BUSINESS

Small Savings’ agents exhorted to get collections
Ludhiana, October 16
The Director, Small Savings, Punjab, Mr Chander Shekher Talwar, today exhorted the agents to strive hard to generate maximum collections under different schemes of Small Savings so that the fixed target of Rs 4,200 crores for the current year could be achieved.

From Schools
Students apprised of career options
Ludhiana, October 16
A seminar on “Career counselling” was organised at Bharatiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar, Ludhiana, yesterday for students of Class XII (science and commerce) by Mr Manoj Verma ,Business Development Officer, with a team of four members from the Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training, Ludhiana.

CULTURE

Musical evening organised
Ludhiana, October 16
Admirers of Lata's rich voice, members of Parampara - the music people, organised an evening at Guru Nanak Bhawan here yesterday to pay tributes to Lata's singing prowess.

British surgeon to visit city
Ludhiana, October 16
Mr R.C.G. Russell, Consultant Surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and a pioneer in hepatobiliary and laparoscopy surgery, will be on a four-day visit to the city from October 21.

Docs send relief to quake-hit
Ludhiana, October 16
A truck load of relief material for the earthquake victims of Jammu and Kashmir, collected by the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), was flagged off by Dr L.S. Chawla, president of the body, from Tagore Nagar here today.

SPORTS

Vatish, Deepa win TT titles
Ludhiana, October 16
Deepa of Ropar and Vatish Kapoor from Amritsar today romped home victorious to bag titles in the sub-junior girl's and boy's sections, respectively, of the 3rd Punjab State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament being held at Hindi Putri Pathshala, Khanna, 25 km from here.

Basketball body condoles coach’s death
Ludhiana, October 16
The Punjab Basketball Association (PBA) has condoled the death of former international cager and reputed coach Gurdas Ram who died after a prolonged illness in Jalandhar yesterday. He was 64 years old.