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(1) Schoolgirls try to save themselves from rain during the Independence Day rehearsal in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
(2) Police personnel during the Independence Day rehearsals in Ludhiana.
(3) Million dollar smile: Teej fever grips students of the Government College for Girls
in Ludhiana. Tribune photos: Himanshu Mahajan
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Boy’s death sparks protest
Ludhiana, August 13
Relatives of eight-year-old Nitesh, who died after coming in contact with a live wire while playing in a park at Jawahar Nagar yesterday, staged a dharna outside ESI Hospital today.
Women hold protest at Bharat Nagar Chowk after the death of an eight-year-old boy in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Eating out in restaurants may cost more
Ludhiana, August 13
Eating out in the restaurants and stay in hotels is going to become costlier if the Excise and Taxation Department's proposal to levy tax according to the seating capacity in restaurants and rooms in hotels is passed.
The Excise and Taxation Department has proposed to levy tax according to the seating
capacity in restaurants and rooms in hotels. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Mayor spots open power cables
Ludhiana, August 13
After a man died due to lack of safety grills on the Elevated Road, recently, and residents protested against the municipal corporation, Mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria visited the accident site on the Elevated Road today and found the cables on the electricity poles open, which could lead to any accident.
Mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria checks open electricity wires; and (right) members of social organisations protest on Elevated Road in Ludhiana
on Tuesday. Photos: Inderjeet Verma
City to have its own radio channel from August 16
Ludhiana, August 13
Ludhiana has become the fifth city in the country after Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata to have its own FM Gold radio channel to be run by the country's public broadcaster, Prasar Bharti.
Agency found overcharging, selling LPG cylinders alongside road
Ludhiana, August 13
After an RTI activist, Arvind Sharma, complained against two gas agencies that were selling LPG cylinders on a tractor trailer alongside a road and overcharging consumers, the District Food and Civil Supply Officer
(Payal) swung into action today and conducted raids at Sargodha Colony.
LPG cylinders of Nirjag Gas Agency being delivered on a tractor-trailer alongside on Pakhowal Road.
A Tribune Photograph
Awareness through graffiti
Ludhiana, August 13
The boundary wall of the police lines will no longer wear a gloomy look.
In an endeavour to inculcate patriotic spirit among residents, the police department has invited schoolchildren for painting graffiti on the boundary wall of the police lines.
Students paint graffiti on the boundary wall of the police lines in Ludhiana on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
‘Drug addicts more prone to crime’
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 13
Drug addiction has emerged out as a single major factor responsible for all socio-economic problems rising among the youths of any strata of society today. Social organisations led by the Rotary Club president, Pardeep Sethi, and the Lions Club president, Inder Pal Singh Walia, have announced to launch a coordinated movement to aware the youths about designated set of cultural and allied norms in already endangered demographic set up.
Worker dies in factory blast
Mandi Gobindgarh, August 13
A 25-year-old labour was killed in a blast at a factory in Mandi Gobindgarh today. The blast took place when the victim was working at a furnace mill in Guru Ki
Nagri, M/s Taksis Steel Limited.
Family members mourn the death of Dhararsu, who died in a factory explosion, on Tuesday in Mandi Gobindgarh. A Tribune Photo
CBSE to change assessment pattern
Ludhiana, August 13
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to change the assessment pattern for classes IX and X. A circular has also been sent to schools stating that students from classes IX and X will have to appear for two summative assessments (SA) and score 25 per cent.
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GADVASU NOTES
LUDHIANA SCAN
Eight LPU students arrested
Khanna, August 13
Eight youths, studying in Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, were arrested by the Khanna police on a suspicion of committing loot and robberies in the region. The youths dressed in black innerwears were allegedly spotted by the villagers, performing ‘thikri pehras’, in Mandiala Kalan village and Kot Panaich late at night. Following the rumours of robberies by the Kala Kachha gang and the African gang, the villagers had initiated the practice of ‘thikri pehra’ to prevent thefts and loot.
Banned drug Finotel seized, one held
Khamano August 13
Sanghol chowki police, falling under Khamano police station, has arrested a youth and seized intoxicants from his possession. Chowki incharge, Assistant Sub-Inspector Baljinder Singh said they had laid a naka on the Sanghol-Ranwan road and while inspecting a scooter, as many as 1200 tablets of a drug, Finotel, was recovered. The youth riding the scooter tried to flee, but the police team managed to get hold of him.
CRIME BRIEFS
SAI to conduct trials again
Ludhiana, August 13
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) Training Centre, Ludhiana, will conduct trials again in two disciplines, judo and athletics, to shortlist talented players for their admission in the session 2013-14. The trials will be held here at Guru Nanak Stadium on August 16 and 17 to select aspirants between the age group of 12 and 18 years (athletics as well as judo) boys only under the residential scheme, besides boys and girls in the day boarding scheme.
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Residents of Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar (BRS Nagar), E-block, alleged that cracks have developed in their houses due to the construction of a five-storeyed building in the area.