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Kidney racket victim awaits justice
Ludhiana, August 9
Even as more than a year has passed since a victim of the kidney racket had sought help from the police, he is yet to get justice. Although the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) had asked the Sahnewal police to put up a challan in the court, the police is yet to do so.
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Students of GNI School display mehndi patterns at a
competition organised in the school on Saturday. — A Tribune photograph
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Work resumes on flyover
Money to PWD released
Ludhiana, August 9
Work on the proposed flyover to replace Lakkar Pul, which was suspended by the Public Works Department for more than a year, has been resumed.
The department has assured the Municipal Corporation not to make any claim on account of escalation of costs during the intervening period and to complete the project simultaneously with the ongoing work on elevated road between the Jagraon bridge and Chand Cinema, into which one leg of the flyover is to be integrated.
Park management panels refute
status report
Ludhiana, August 9
The Federation of Park Management Committee has filed a petition before the Punjab Human Rights Commission, seeking a direction to the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation and the Punjab Government to fulfil the agreement arrived at with the park management committees for the maintenance of parks in the town.
SAD castigates Cong govt
Ludhiana, August 9
The SAD has castigated the Congress government in Punjab for imposing taxes on people, effecting a hike in tuition fee for higher education, rampant corruption in all departments and withdrawal of welfare schemes and incentives provided by the previous SAD-BJP government to weaker sections.
Need to popularise Punjabi food, says Birmi
Ludhiana, August 9
Mr Malkiat Singh Birmi, State Minister for Jails and Housing Development, has stressed upon the need to popularise traditional Punjabi food. The present trend of shifting to the fast food culture was dangerous for the health of young generation, he said.
NCW urged to help abandoned woman
Ludhiana, August 9
Mr Gurdeep Pandher, a resident of Siahar village in the district, has urged the National Commission for Women (NCW) to rescue an old woman of the village who has been leading a miserable life after her sons forcibly took all her agricultural land and other valuables.
Flies in soft drink bottles
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Ludhiana, August 9
Even as the soft drink companies are struggling to fight the ‘pesticide controversy’, a shopkeeper in the posh market near Malhar Cinema has been supplied a full crate of Mountain Dew drink in which dead houseflies were floating. Some of the bottles had only plain water.
Flies seen in two bottles of Mountain Dew purchased by a shopkeeper on Malhar road in
Ludhiana. — Photo Inderjeet Verma |
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Man run over by train
Ludhiana, August 9
A man lost his life when he was crushed by a train near Rajguru Nagar here while he was crossing an unmanned crossing. Two more were injured after they were run over by trains near the bus stand here.
Sanitation funds
misused?
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