L U D H I A N A

Sarabha’s house to become national monument
SARABHA (Ludhiana), Nov 16 — Martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha’s ancestral house in his native village here would be restored and preserved as a national monument. Work on this would commence in the next few days and completed within one month.

The Chief Minister of Punjab, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, offers floral tributes at the statue of martyr Kartar Singh Sarabha in Sarabha village on Thursday.

Arya College boys go on strike
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — The students of Arya College for Boys went on strike today demanding that a teacher of the college who was also a leader of a students’ group be expelled from the college.

Spurious drugs flood market
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Next time you purchase medicines try to ensure that these are original and not spurious. However, identifying the medicine may prove too difficult, even for the doctors.

Hoax caller still untraced
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Security agencies and officials of the Railway Department have so far been unable to catch a Jammu-based person who had called up officials at the Phillaur railway station on Tuesday and claimed that a bomb had been planted on the Jammu-Indore train.

Electricity poles stand out in middle of roads
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Imagine the plight of a motorist, cruising on a reasonably good speed on a newly laid and widened stretch of road, when out of nowhere, an electricity pole, standing right in the middle, comes in view and the shell-shocked driver has to suddenly apply the breaks or else, out of panic, swerves his vehicle right and left to avoid hitting the pole, head on.

Hawala racket unearthed
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — The local police has achieved a major success by unearthing a hawala racket of over Rs 8 lakhs and arresting two hawala operators with the money.

COMMUNITY

Slow pace of work irks rail commuters
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Daily commuters demand it, railway officials admit its urgent requirement and the smooth flow of the traffic of trains also needs it, yet a platform has been under of construction here for the past three years.

Chaos is the order of the day here
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Chaos continues to prevail outside the local bus stand here with all kinds of vehicles including trucks, buses, autos, scooters and even rickshaws coming from different directions getting messed up. The absence of proper traffic management and the failure of the Municipal Corporation to clear the way for a proposed rotary road which would have taken away the load of traffic coming down the flyover are termed as major reasons for accidents in this area.

Record paddy arrival at Khanna
KHANNA, Nov 16 — A record arrival of paddy has been reported at the local grain market this year.

Freedom fighter dead
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Comrade Chanan Singh Warola, a well-known freedom fighter and member of the state council of the Communist Party of India, expired in the early hours today after a brief illness in his village Pandharkheri, about 30 km from here. He was 78.  

Family gets hoax phone call
SAMRALA, Nov 16 — A hoax telephone call created panic in Neelon Kalan village. According to reports, a person identifying himself as a Thanedar of Ludhiana claimed that Mr Harjinder Singh of Neelon had been killed in a road accident and his body was lying in the Civil Hospital. Incidentally, Mr Harjinder Singh had gone to Ludhiana for visiting his relative in a private hospital.

CRIME

1 hurt in road mishap
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Gudial was seriously injured when he was run over by a Tata Sumo car ( PB-14B-6250) near the Sarabha Nagar bridge on Wednesday. It is learnt that the injured was on his motor cycle. After the accident, the driver of the car, fled from the scene.

COURTS

MC chief pays fine
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Mr S.S. Sandhu, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, has deposited Rs 4,000 as fine for non-compliance of a District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum order. With the depositing of the amount the arrest warrant issued against him stands cancelled.

Consumer forum orders go unexecuted
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum is facing a piquant situation as a number of decisions taken by it against outstation companies have gone unexecuted.

SPORT

Patiala, Jalandhar reach finals
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — Jalandhar reached the final of the 46th Punjab School Inter-District Cricket Tournament, here today. In the first semi-final, Jalandhar defeated Muktsar by three wickets and 109 runs. Muktsar won the toss and invited Jalandhar to bat first. Jalandhar set a target of 222 runs for Muktsar in 25 overs, after losing seven wickets. Muktsar could score only 113 runs in 18.1 overs and lost all wickets.

Govt committed to youth, sports
LUDHIANA, Nov 16 — The Punjab finance minister, Capt. Kanwaljit Singh, yesterday claimed that the state government was committed to the welfare of youth and sports. He said the government had given special attention to create more and more job opportunities, besides launching various self employment schemes for educated unemployment.

ADMINISTRATION

Private collection of octroi begins
KHANNA, Nov 16 — The private collection of octroi was started by a municipal council contractor, here yesterday.