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Construction around Halwara AF 
Station to be banned
Ludhiana, October 28
Hectic activity is on around the Indian Air Force Station, Halwara, to identify and mark an area of 900 m from the outer parapet of the station, following a recent notification by the Ministry of Defence which bans any constructional activity in the notified area.

City being decked up for festive season
Ludhiana, October 28
The municipal corporation is giving effect to its commitment of giving a new look to the city roads in the wake of approaching Divali. Giving details sources in the MC told Ludhiana Tribune that around 400 km of roads with bitumen top had already been covered under the patch work programme.

Painters repaint road lines and zebra crossings as part of a programme to recondition of roads in Ludhiana. — A Tribune photograph

Dalit women’s abduction: ADGP told to probe
Ludhiana, October 28
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PHRC) has directed the ADGP with commission to inquire, within three weeks, about an alleged kidnapping and beating case of two women of Tusse village, that took place last week and the alleged police inaction on their complaint.

Cycle traders oppose VAT
Ludhiana, October 28
The Cycle Trade Union has opposed the government’s decision to introduce the value added tax (VAT) system in the state, apprehending that this may create bureaucratic hurdles in the functioning of the industry.

2 run over by police bus 

Ludhiana, October 28 Two persons, who were changing a tyre of a three wheeler, were killed when they were reportedly run over by a police bus near the Dholewal Chowk this morning.  Cops examine the site of an accident in which two persons were run over by a police bus near Dholewal Chowk in Ludhiana on Monday. — Photo Inderjeet Verma

COMMUNITY

Capt Ravinder’s statue unveiled
Ahmedgarh, October 28
With the ceremonial unveiling of the statue of Capt Ravinder Singh, a martyr of 1965 Indo-Pak War, and naming the government girls middle school as Capt Ravinder Singh Memorial, Latala village gets a rare distinction of having the maximum number of patriotic memorials including Kartar Singh Dukki Memorial, Government Senior Secondary School.

Gift the needy kids to celebrate Divali
Ludhiana, October 28
This Divali spare a few moments for those children who have been orphaned and have no one to look after. Children who need the support of people to get a home where they can grow up.

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Industry resents PSEB scheme
Ludhiana, October 28
The Northern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry has resented the PSEB scheme to club various cases of industrial consumers for one-time settlement and asking them to pay the charges for a three-year period. According to Mr Balwant Rai, president of the chamber, the move has been made without taking industrialists into confidence.

Minister for improving higher education
Ludhiana, October 28
Mr Tej Parkash Singh, Punjab Minister for Transport, has exhorted teachers to strive hard to improve the standard of higher education and assured them that necessary steps will be taken in consultation with their associations at the earliest, so that the real purpose of the higher education can be achieved.

NIFD students organise exhibition

Ludhiana, October 28 A two-day Divali exhibition, organised by students of the National Institute of Fashion Designing (NIFD) at Sarabha Nagar, concluded here today. The students had made different types of attractive diyas for Divali. There were colourful wax, oil and shell diyas with flowers, Ganesha and Lakshmi made on them. Students of the NIFD display different types of candles and gift items at a Divali exhibition in Ludhiana on Monday.— Photo Pradeep Tewari

A day of music and creative contests

Ludhiana, October 28 The second day of the Panjab University Zonal Youth Festival saw seven teams competing in a number of events. Competitions were held in shabad singing, Indian classical music (vocal and instrumental), geet, gazal and folk songs.  A contestant gives final touches to a model during the clay-modelling contest at the Panjab University Zonal Youth Festival in Ludhiana on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

CULTURE

Exhibition of fine arts at Sutlej Club

Ludhiana, October 28 A two-day exhibition of fine arts was inaugurated at Sundial Hall of the Sutlej Club here today. The exhibition, organised by Dr Sangeeta Lamba, has a display of canvas paintings, stick work, leather work, glass paintings, decorated pots, greeting cards, candles and embossed glass paintings. Visitors at a painting exhibition held at the Sutlej Club in Ludhiana on Monday.

SPORTS

Inter-varsity hockey meet from November 17
Ludhiana, October 28
Eight top university hockey teams of north zone will vie for top honours in the Ist Guru Gobind Singh Inter-University Hockey Tournament (boys) to be organised by the Ludhiana Sports Welfare Association (LSWA) scheduled to be held here at the astro turf ground of Punjab Agricultural University from November 17 to 21.

Ludhiana b’ball championship
Ludhiana, October 28
Khalsa College, Sidhwan Khurd, in the women’s section and BCM School, Shastri Nagar, Model Town, in the junior boys section recorded victories in the 53rd Pepsi Ludhiana District Basketball League Championship which began in Guru Nanak Sports Complex here today.