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Heavy rain lashes city
Ludhiana, August 23
Heavy rain lashed the city in the afternoon today, providing the much-desired relief from scorching heat and humidity.
Although the rain did not last for long, yet a number of
low-lying areas in the city were inundated.
A man uses polythene sheets to shield himself and his two daughters from rain on Wednesday afternoon in Ludhiana. Tribune
photo by Sayeed Ahmed |
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Jaipur sacrilege raises Mann’s hackles
Ludhiana, August 23
The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) has condemned the sacrilegious incident in which the hair of a Sikh youth was forcibly cut by youths when he objected to their indecent behavior towards a girl student.
Erring official transferred
Ludhiana, August 23
Municipal Commissioner Vikas Pratap today took disciplinary action against an Inspector with the Tehbazaari Department following allegations that he was extorting money from encroachers in different parts of the city.
Family firms under IT
scanner
Ludhiana, August 23
A team of the Income Tax department, comprising over 24 officials, launched simultaneous survey on business premises of a group of four companies owned by the same family at Kanganwal Road here yesterday.
Two die in wall collapse
Ludhiana, August 23
Two labourers were killed and two were injured when they were demolishing an old wall of a shop on the main Haibowal road this evening.
AOC-in-Chief visits Halwara IAF station
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 23
With the coveted Battle Honours being conferred by the President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on one of the squadrons located at Indian Air Force Station, near here, for Operation Safed Sagar, the air base received an applaud from
AOC-in-Chief Western Air Command, Air Marshal A. K. Singh on the conclusion of his two-day official visit today.
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| Air Marshal A. K. Singh, AOC-in-Chief, Western Air Command, with personnel of the IAF station, Halwara, during
his visit to the station on Wednesday. Photo by Mahesh Sharma |
Airmen’s wives get a morale boost
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 23
Ms Priya Singh, regional president of the Air Force Wives Welfare Association (AFWWA), Western Air Command, boosted the morale of families of Air Force personnel at the Air Force Station,
Halwara, near here.
Task force to look into burning of farm waste
Ludhiana, August 23
The Punjab Government Department of Science, Technology, Environment and Non-Conventional Energy, has nominated PAU Director of Extension Education,
Dr S.S. Gill as a member of the seven-member task force constituted to look into the problem of burning of agricultural wastes by farmers.
Inadequate water supply
Ludhiana, August 23
The Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) today rued inadequate water supply in the Industrial Estate in the city.
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