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Woman Power
Giving shape
to others’ dreams
MRS Sapna Nihar is an architect
and perhaps the only ONE who has her own team of carpenters, masons,
sanitary workers, etc. Sapna passed out from the Chandigarh College of
Architecture in 1989. After her marriage to Mr Nihar Mittal, she settled
in Ludhiana and has been working as a full-fledged architect for the
past seven years.
Student-police
interaction helps dispel myths
PHILLAUR, Jan 19 — It was
a novel experience of interacting with a “polite police” for about
60 students, belonging to rural areas and studying at various government
colleges of the state. A special 10-day course on ‘Youth
Development’, organised jointly by the State Education Department and
the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, that concluded today, provided them
a rare insight into the human face of the Punjab police.
SPEAKING OUT
Law and order
worsens in city
Jan 19 — ‘Protest against
youth’s murder’, ‘traffic blocked on GT Road, ‘Chowni Mohalla:
scene of gang wars’ are some of the headlines of city newspapers for
the past few days. Murders, kidnappings, looting and the subsequent
dharnas causing traffic jams have become the order of the day. The law
and order situation has worsened, causing a great deal of concern to
residents. There is a feeling of fear and horror at the killings of
innocent children.
‘Check
activities of hunters, poachers’
LUDHIANA, Jan 19 —
Keeping in view various incidents of straying of sambhars in the city
from Laddewal and Mattewara areas and alleged hunting in various areas
of the forest, the local chapter of the People for Animals has demanded
that the administration should depute more staff to keep vigil on these
hunters, poachers and hunting dogs.
Beating
the cold with fire
LUDHIANA, Jan 19 — The
current cold wave has hit the poor and the migrant labourers hard. Their
only way to keep themselves warm is to light a fire with whatever
material they find. They collect dry leaves, card-board, bits of wood,
plastic bags and bottles, pieces of rubber, waste paper for their
bonfires. Buying dry fuelwood is just out of the question.
Tributes
paid to Joginder Pandey
LUDHIANA, Jan 19 —
Glowing tributes were paid to Joginder Pal Pandey on his 14th death
anniversary here today. Pandey was shot dead by militants on this day in
1987. A simple function was organised at Sanatan Senior Secondary
School, which was attended among others by the former Chief Minister and
senior Congress leader, Ms Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, the local MLAs Mr
Rakesh Pandey, son of Joginder Pandey, Mr Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal,
senior Congress leader Mr Virender Kataria.
FLAVOUR OF THE
WEEK
LAST
week has been full of tension for the residents of the city. The murder
of a young man in a gang war, another murder at the hands of the police,
the kidnapping and murder of young children, have combined to send
people reeling with fear. Even the police is shaken and there has been a
shake-up in its administration. Added to these were the dharnas, rasta
rokos and bandhs that disturbed the peace of the city.
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