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At Payal, he is demi God!
Doraha, October 6
Even as people burnt the effigy of Ravana today, residents of Payal, especially the Dubey family, offered their prayers to the Ravana. Their devotion continues despite criticism from people.
Husband objects to eve-teasing, ‘attacked’ with scalding oil
Ludhiana, October 6
Gurpreet Kaur, a resident of Street Number 22,
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, has alleged that two workers of a sweetmeat shop on the Dhandra Road, threw scalding oil on her and her husband after he objected to
eve-teasing. Gurpreet Kaur said in her complaint to the police that the workers
of the shop had passed lewd comments on her after which her husband objected to it. The accused then threw
oil on them.
Smack drove them to crime
Ludhiana, October 6
Just to get a kick from smack, three Punjabi youths, Tarandeep, alias Lovely, Sumit Bali and Prince, would rob and snatch valuables from elderly women in the city. All three were arrested recently and it was learnt that they are educated and belong to respectable families.
‘Aakash’ delights students
Ludhiana, October 6
Students are thrilled at the launching of the world’s cheapest tablet PC at Rs 2,250 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The tablet has touch screen computing and Internet access device.
Sharwan Kumar, a class VII student, said: “I do not have a computer as it is costly. I will buy this tablet for my studies.”
Admn’s promptness comes in handy, protesters relent
Dehlon, October 6
Tactfulness and promptness of local SAD leaders and officials in the administration avoided the situation from turning sour during a rally addressed by Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal.
Activists of the Technical Services Union protest near the grain market in Dehlon on Thursday.
Photo by writer
NRHM Protest
Admn fails to break deadlock
Ludhiana, October 6
Employees of the National Rural Health Mission, who climbed atop the water tank at Gill village to stage a dharna yesterday night, came down after assured of being heard by Health and Family Welfare Minister Satpal
Gosain, Principal Secretary (Health) A Karan Singh and Managing Director of NRHM SK Sharma tomorrow.
Police personnel try to convince an NRHM employee sitting atop a water tank to end stir.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
CM lays stone of health centre
Dehlon, October 6
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal laid the foundation stone of a new wing of the proposed community health centre here today. Health and Family Welfare Minister Satpal Gosian and Punjab Subordinate Service Selection Board’s chairman Santa Singh Umaidpuri were present on the occasion when Badal dedicated the project to the people.
Stone for fountain chowk beautification laid
Ludhiana, October 6
While the foundation stone for the beautification of Fountain Chowk, a significant landmark in the mega city, was laid by Punjab State Planning Board vice-chairman Rajinder Bhandari today, city residents were grappling with the unsanitary conditions due to the ongoing strike by safai karamcharis in protest against privatisation of the work for door-to-door garbage collection.
Army screens BTech students for SSB
Mandi Gobindgarh, October 6
RIMT hosted a campus recruitment drive by Indian Army, for the recruitment of officers in technical cadre.
Miscreants burn Ravana’s effigy
Raikot, October 6
The police has launched a manhunt to nab a few miscreants whose mischievous could have disrupted the communal harmony in the town and its surrounding areas.
1984 riots
Govt siding with illegal occupants, alleges Patna
Ludhiana, October 6
The Sikh Migrants’ Welfare Board has lambasted the Punjab government for its decision to regularise unlawful possession of LIG and MIG flats of Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority
(GLADA) here, saying it was not only a fraud upon genuine claimants (riot-affected families), but also tantamount to giving a free hand to “kabza mafia” and criminals.
NRIs to pay tributes to Gursharan at Surrey
Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 6
With an intent to recognise contribution of revolutionary writer and dramatist Gursharan Singh in the field of art and culture, Punjabis settled in Canada have decided to organise a function at Bombay Banquet Hall in Surrey (a country in southeastern England on the Thames) on Monday.
Three held for killing Kotala youth
Khanna /Samrala October 6
The Samrala police claims to have arrested three persons behind killing of a youth identified as Balwinder Singh, a resident of Kotala village last night. Khanna SP (Detective)
Balwinder Singh said a villager spotted the body of Balwinder Singh in the fields near Kakrala Khurd village.
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