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Angry over Naatshala raid, artistes stage dharna
Amritsar, January 22
The city theatre artistes along with their Pakistani counterparts, who had come here to participate in the fifth National Theatre Festival, held a dharna near the excise and taxation office here today.
Pak play, ‘Thirteen days in September’, drew a loud applause from audience. — A Tribune photograph
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Kalia, Dutt & Sharma are front-runners
Race for BJP district chief’s post hots up
Amritsar, January 22
The race for the post of the BJP district president is on, with names of a host of probables doing the rounds of party circles. Since the BJP would also nominate a senior leader as the chairman of the Amritsar Improvement Trust
shortly.
Snatcher meets his nemesis: Stone women
Amritsar, January 22
Two women thwarted an attempt of a scooter-borne snatcher to take away bags of two girls at Ranjit Avenue here on Sunday night. One of the women, who is a lecturer in Guru Nanak Dev University, said the incident occurred when she was having a stroll in a street near her house along with her
neighbour.
Drug Deals
Cops tighten noose around peddlers
Amritsar, January 22
Claims by the police to have controlled the drug menace in the city by as much as 90 per cent notwithstanding, the number of cases registered under the NDPS Act have risen from 296 in 2006 to 495 registered last year.
Involve writers in seminars on literature: Sandhu
Amritsar, January 22
Noted story writer and former Punjabi Tribune Editor Gulzar Singh Sandhu has lamented that seminars organised by the universities have been reduced to an academic and intellectual exercise without any involvement of creative writers.
Ballet brings to fore problems faced by HIV+
Amritsar, January 22
A 10-day workshop on “The right to live” was organised at Ryan International School in the city under the supervision of Utkarsh
Marwah, creative director of St. Xavier School and Ryan Group of Institutions.
JDS students get health tips
Amritsar, January 22
Director of sports in Jammu and Kashmir John visited JDS Public School to give training to school students in various sports, including cricket. He also gave health tips to them.
Salma & beau richest
Mexican beauty Salma Hayek and businessman beau Francois-Henri Pinault have landed at the first spot in a poll to find Hollywood’s ‘Richest Couple’. It was the pair’s combined fortune, which made them win the poll, conducted by In Touch Weekly.
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