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War against female foeticide begins with two arrests
First case registered in Punjab; foetus dug out
Fatehgarh Sahib, March 9
For the first time in the state since the implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostics Act, a case has been registered against someone for female foeticide.

Stadium is game for privatisation
Ludhiana, March 9
The Municipal Corporation is preparing to set up a sports club and privatise Guru Nanak Sports Complex that includes Guru Nanak Stadium, Shastri Badminton Hall, Basketball Stadium and Multipurpose Hall.

Police plans to settle election disputes
Ludhiana, March 9
In view of a large number of election-related disputes between supporters of different parties, the Jagraon police has decided call special village meetings to urge these persons to forget the enmity.

10 injured in group clash
Khanna, March 9
More than 10 persons were injured in a clash of two groups near the local meat market here yesterday.

Another dowry death
Doraha, March 9
A married woman was allegedly burnt to death by her in-laws at Doraha. According to the mother of the deceased, Poonam, her 19-year-old daughter had been married to Vikas Kumar of Doraha, five months ago. 

COMMUNITY

Housing society in the thick of controversy
Ludhiana, March 9
The Zenith Cooperative Housing Society, having hundreds of members living in the colony by the same name in the city, is once again in the thick of a controversy with some members alleging arbitrary change in the layout plan amounting to the victimisation of some members while giving direct benefit to the office-bearers of the society or their relatives.

City roads to be widened; offenders warned

Ludhiana, March 9 Yesterday morning, at about 9.15 am, two cops astride a white PCR motor cycle, duly fitted with a PA system, stopped their vehicle at a crossing on Metro Road in the Focal Point area. The uniformed cops got down their bike and one of them took out the microphone and started speaking into it.  A PCR motor cycle team tells the public about the police campaign to widen roads in the Focal Point area of Ludhiana, on Friday. —Photo D.B. Chopra

Phone dealers allege harassment
Ludhiana, March 9
Several Connect dealers in the city are up in arms over what they term as witch hunt by the Punjab Police and sheer indifference by the company. The Jalandhar Police is allegedly harassing local Connect dealers following the registration of a case against an employee of a Jalandhar-based distributor for Connect telephones on the complaint of the distributor.

Freedom fighters condemn communal violence
Ludhiana, March 9
A well-attended meeting of the freedom fighters and their successors from all over the state held here last evening under the chairmanship of Dewan Jagdish Chander, general secretary, All-India Freedom Fighters Organisation, condemned the Godhra train attack and burning down innocent passengers.

Graduation clause for poll unresolved
Ludhiana, March 9
With the transfer of the Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana, Mr S.K. Sandhu, also president of the Satluj Club here, the issue of the abrogation of the graduation clause for contesting elections for various posts in the club has been delayed further.

Bank men resent cut in holidays
Ludhiana, March 9
The Indian National Bank Employees Congress (INBEC) and the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) and the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (labour cell) have condemned the previous Akali-BJP government for curtailment of holidays for the employees of commercial banks, LIC and other financial institutions under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.

• Kirtan darbar on March 17

CRIME

Burn victim dies
Ludhiana, March 9
Ms Geeta (32), a resident of Manjit Nagar, who had been admitted to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, with serious burn injuries on March 2, succumbed to her injuries at the hospital yesterday.

Dowry death on Women’s Day
Ludhiana, March 9
International Women's Day did not bring good luck for a 19-year-old married woman who was allegedly murdered by her in-laws and then burnt to show the death as an accident in Doraha late last evening.

BUSINESS

Cycle manufacturers withdraw strike
Ludhiana, March 9
The Cycle and Cycle Parts Manufacturers’ Association has decided to postpone its proposed strike scheduled to begin today to protest against the hike of 4 per cent excise duty on their products.

AGRICULTURE

Ex-scientist paying to save research material
Ludhiana, March 9
A terminated scientist of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Dr Amarjit Grewal, is in a centre of a controversy as research material pertaining to the theleria vaccine for tick-borne diseases of the cattle, worth crores of rupees, developed by him is facing the threat of being damaged. 

Agencies gear up to procure wheat
Ludhiana, March 9
The official procuring agencies of the Punjab Government are fully geared to meet the challenge of wheat procurement which would start arriving from the middle of next month.

EDUCATION

2-day course on oral implantology

Ludhiana, March 9 “Earlier people went for full dentures or half dentures but now teeth implants for functional and cosmetic purposes are being increasingly used. It has taken 20 years for implantology to find widespread acceptance,” said Dr J.L. Joshi, Principal, Christian Dental College. Centre: Mr Surinder Dawar, MLA, chief guest at an oral implantology workshop in the CMCH, Ludhiana, on Saturday.— IV

Annual fashion show

Ludhiana, March 9 Students of Ramgarhia Girls College taking a one-year home science diploma course presented their annual fashion show here today. Girls attired in sarees, office wears, formal suits, parallel suits and cotton suits presented themselves very gracefully. Students of Ramgarhia Girls College participate in a fashion show in Ludhiana on Saturday. —Photos Inderjeet Verma

CULTURE

Delicate hands that draw godly sketches
Ludhiana, March 9
The tender and delicate hands of Sumit Vaid seem to defy his age as he draws the picture perfect sketches of various deities, gods and goddesses. Show him an image and he will present you with a perfect sketch within no time. So far, he has been drawing the pictures of gods, gurus and temples.

HEALTH

Philanthropists save a few lives

Ludhiana, March 9 Who said Good Samaritans do not exist ? An answer to this common statement are unknown philanthropists who paid a couple of lakhs for the treatment of two women and a man belonging to very poor families and who would have died without the help of such people. Kusum, who had been given a new lease of life by philanthropist people, is on the way to recovery. —IV

CMCH doc gets fellowship
Ludhiana, March 9
Dr Rajneesh Calton, Head of the Department of Cardiology in Christian Medical College and Hospital, has been awarded the fellowship of the Indian Academy of Echocardiology for his work in the field of echocardiography.