New laser technique
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, July 27
Dr Ritu Laiker, cosmetic laser and surgical dermatologist at Axis Laser Technique Centre, has claimed to have come up with a new technique which could correct any shortcoming in the external looks and portrayed personality by adopting this latest space age laser technology.

Dr Laiker said that problems of pits and scars, lumps, bumps, red spots, streaks, patches, moles, black or white birth marks, burn scars, keloids and unwanted hair can be solved easily with this new technique.

Dr Laiker also claimed that the results in the treatment were better in most cases, as they were less painful, recovery in most cases was comfortable, anaesthesia was avoided in most of the cases and patients were able to resume their normal activities, the same day.

PNB form hockey academy
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, July 27
To promote the game of hockey by providing opportunity to the talented youngsters through grooming and education and moulding them into outstanding players, the Punjab National Bank has formed an academy.

According to a press note issued by Mr P. N. Khurana, General Manager, PNB, Punjab Zone, Ajit Pal Singh, former captain of the Indian hockey team, has been engaged by the bank as adviser.

The bank has extented invitation to the budding hockey players to join this academy in the pursuit of excellence, Mr Khurana said.

The academy would arrange schooling, boarding and lodging, stipend at the rate specified from time to time, absorption into the service of the PNB subject to bank’s recruitment rules to form PNB hockey team after the completion of school education and attaining the desired proficiency level in hockey. Selection will be made through trials at Jalandhar. The trial dates will be announced shortly, the note said.

The students below 15 years of age, studying in Classes VIII and IX and who have played hockey at inter-school, inter-zone and district-level and prepared to stay and continue their education at Delhi are eligible to apply for the same.

The interested students may send their applications along with passporst size photograph, bio-data with full details of the experience of playing hockey.

The applications should reach latest by August 27 to the Director, PNB Hockey Academy, HRD (Sports Cell), 4th Floor, Bhikhaji Cama Place, New Delhi. And for any clarification in this connection, Mr A.K. Jaitley, Chief Manager, PNB, Zonal Office, Ludhiana, can be contacted on telephone no 400055.

Cricket meet: The Ludhiana District Cricket Association (LDCA) will organise the Ist Samrat Coolers Cricket Tournament for boys (u-16) from July 28 here on the Arya College for Boys ground.

Five teams: Chaman Lal XI, Lokesh Khanna XI, Satish Mangal XI, Tony Mahajan XI and Sham Lal XI will take part in this tournament to be played on league basis, according to a press note issued yesterday by Mr Vinod Chitkara, general secretary, LDCA. 

ADMINISTRATION

Red Cross gets sublet shop razed
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, July 27
The district administration demolished a shop near the Red Cross Bhavan on Mall Road here today. The kiosk had been allotted to a woman as compensation some 12 years ago and she had allegedly sublet it. The demolition squad came with bulldozers and a strong police force.

Mr S.C. Mallik, Secretary of the Ludhiana unit of the Red Cross, said the structure had been demolished on the order of the District Magistrate, Mr Anurag Aggarwal.

He said the woman whom the Red Cross had given this place as compensation had sublet it at a huge price.

When the Red Cross found what she had done, it cancelled the allotment. Since then, the Red Cross had been telling the new shopkeeper to vacate the place, but he had ignored every notice. “We had no option but to get the kiosk demolished,” Mr Mallik said.

Khanna MC passes all resolutions
Our Correspondent

Khanna, July 27
A meeting of the local municipal council was held under the presidentship of the acting president Mr Nirmal Singh Jassal, at Municipal Town Hall here yesterday. All resolutions were passed unanimously. Six members of the Congress and one supported by the Congress boycotted the meeting.

The meeting was attended by 24 members. The local MLA, Ms Harbans Kaur Dullo, did not attend the meeting.

However, tension prevailed amongst the members over the issue of presidentship of the council. On Wednesday, Mr Onkar Rai Mehta, was removed from the post of the president by a no confidence motion passed by 18 out of 26 members.

However, the Local Bodies Department issued an order to reinstate Mr Mehta who took the charge on the same day.