L U D H I A N A

FIR amended; murder case registered
Sahnewal, March 23
A case of death of by accident has been converted into murder here. The murder was allegedly committed by a woman with the connivance of her lover with whom she reportedly had illicit relations for the past two years.

Rash drivers — beware of hidden cameras
Ludhiana, March 23
Rash drivers beware. The traffic police has installed hidden cameras at various crossings in the city to keep an eye on the people violating the traffic rules. Besides speed monitoring machines, alcometers to check people who drive after consuming alcohol, have also been installed at various places in the city.

Mr Satish Malhotra, DSP (traffic), demonstrates the camera installed at the Old Court crossing and (right) policemen watch the monitors inside a van. — Photo Rajesh Bhambi

Women’s grievances cells to be set up
Ludhiana, March 23
To check exploitation of women lecturers and girl students, women’s grievances cells will be set up in all colleges of Punjab. Complaints of underpayment, mental torture and harassment of women on the campus will be taken up in the cells.

Protest march against sacrilege
Ludhiana, March 23
Protesters here today took out a procession to flay the sacrilegious acts committed at Amritsar and Patiala. Besides, a contingent of the police, some of whom were mounted on horses, provided security cover to the procession to ensure that no untoward incident took place in view of a call given by ABHSS for a demonstration here today.

Sale of cut fruit banned
Fatehgarh Sahib, March 23
Mr B.S. Sudan, Deputy Commissioner, issued an order today to ban, the sale of cut fruits kept in open, besides the import, manufacture, sale and exposure of ice-candy, mineral water and aerated water unless these items had been declared fit for human consumption.

BOTTOMLINE
A Thapar who remembers Sukhdev
Ludhiana, March 23
Mr Meg Raj Thapar (80), a resident of Nau Ghara in the Chaura Bazar area (birth place of martyr Sukhdev) now, was a Class IV student of Arya School here when he first heard about the martyr from his elders. Sukhdev Thapar was always discussed in his family as the one who had joined the freedom struggle at a young age.

COMMUNITY

Apathy towards national heroes
Ludhiana, March 23
Seventyone years of martyrdom. Fifty four years of independence. Yet there is no memorial of Sukhdev, who was hanged to death along with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru on this day in 1931.

Badshahi sawari tonga: is it on the way out?
Ludhiana, March 22
The good old days of the Raj are now over, but the royal carriage in the form of tongas continues its struggle to survive. According to the 60-odd tongawalas operating in the city, the tongas will continue to ply, notwithstanding the overcrowding of the city roads by cars, buses, three-wheelers and rickshaws.

TTE manhandles PCO owner
Ludhiana, March 23
A railway travelling-ticket examiner (TTE) allegedly manhandled an elderly person, Mohan Lal Sharma, owner of a PCO, inside the railway station here after he asked him to pay the charges for a telephone call that he had made to Delhi.

Noise pollution: disturbing facts
Ludhiana, March 23
The recent facts on noise pollution disclosed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) say that prolonged or excessive exposure to noise whether in community or at work can cause serious permanent medical conditions like hypertension and heart diseases.

Three samiti men held
Ludhiana, March 23
Three persons, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Suraksha Samiti, who were allegedly planning to create some kind of communal tension in the city, were arrested by the city police in separate raids conducted last night.

Photographers to strike work on March 27
Ludhiana, March 23
In response to a call given by the Punjab Photographers Association, all the still and video photographers in Punjab and Chandigarh would go on strike on March 27 to voice their protest against imposition of 5 per cent service tax on photographers in the Union Budget proposals for the next financial year.

FLAVOUR OF THE WEEK
ALMOST all schools have declared the results of exams conducted by them. Only results of board exams remain undeclared. Students are excited buying new books, copies and stationery items.

AT THE CROSS ROADS
The images of life
Ludhiana, March 23
The other day I thought that I had a fictional frame and a poetic soul. My mind, of course, is preoccupied with metaphysical musings. Not that I want to understand the secrets of life or to know the purpose of existence. My concern is with the ‘constant turmoil within’.