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Quake-hit village
adopted
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — Bhai Ghanayia Sewa International, a wing of
Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle, has adopted an earthquake-hit village,
Kali Saraswati, located about 17 km away from the Bhuj town in Gujarat
Drinking
water shortage
KHANNA, Feb 9 — Residents here are suffering a lot due to the
shortage of drinking water and choked sewers. There are more than 800 drinking water connections given by the
Municipal Council to the residents, who are totally dependent on the
supply given by Municipal Council, but for the past many years there
is a shortage of driking water. Taps remain dry for more than 21 hours
in a day.
MLA
alleges discrimination
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — Mr Bikramjit Singh Khalsa, MLA from Dakha,
accused the Punjab Government of partial attitude as far as the
development of the area was concerned. He said during the past one and
a half years, he had arranged Rs 40 lakh for the development works in
his constituency without any help from the government.
CONDITION
OF CINEMA HALLS
Naulakha, a pale vestige of
its past
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — Naulakha cinema, located in the vicinity of the
railway station, is one of the oldest cinema halls in the city. The
theatre, constructed in the year 1938, remained a hot favourite with
Ludhianvis for a long time. During its peak days, the cinema was so
famous that even the road passing in front of the cinema came to be
known as Naulakha cinema road.
FLAVOUR
OF WEEK
Feb 9 — The earthquake in Gujarat has opened the flood gates of
generosity in the hearts of Punjabis. Money and goods are still
pouring in. Teams of doctors from CMC and DMCH have returned after
rendering yeoman’s service to the wounded and the needy. Pathetic
and heart-rending stories of suffering of the people of Gujarat and
the gruesome state of affairs can leave no eye dry. Now it is the turn
of artists to do their bit. Last night some very famous artisets
regaled the audience and collected funds for the people of ravaged
Bhuj.
Work
on pensioners’ centre to begin shortly
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — Work for the construction of a pensioners
information centre in mini secretariat here will begin soon. The
design of the proposed centre was being prepared by the Chief
Architect, and the Executive Engineer, Provincial Division, PWD/B&R,
had been asked to provide an estimate for the same.
Man
bitten by 10 dogs
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — In a shocking case, a youth who was reportedly
in a drunken state was bitten by more than 10 dogs near Tibba village
in Dhuri sub-division last night.
Jatha
to visit Pak
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — A jatha of Sikh devotees will visit Gurdwara
Panja Sahib at Hasan Abdal and other gurdwaras in Pakistan on Baisakhi
this year.
Air
Marshal Sekhon visits Community Centre
LUDHIANA, Feb 9 — It was a memorable occasion for residents of
Shaheed Karnail Singh Nagar (Phase II) on Pakhowal Road in the city
when Air Marshal Navneet Singh Sekhon visited the Community Centre in
the colony. He was in the city to attend the bhog ceremony of his
mother, to be performed in Sarabha Nagar gurdwara on February 10.
Mass-marriage
function
KHANNA, Feb 9 — A mass-marriage function was organised by the NGM
Social Work Club in association with the Naina Devi Sewa Mandal,
Khanna, at the Shiv Mandir on the Malerkotla road here today.
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