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Another opportunity to get voter I-cards
Ludhiana, January 21
The local administration has given yet another opportunity to city residents to get their voter photo identity cards made. For this purpose, photo identity cards would be made between January 28 and April 4 in Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the district.
Encroachments: public street remains blocked
Ludhiana, January 21
It sounds incredible but it is true that a public street in New Maya Nagar near Taj factory in Haibowal area, has remained barred to the residents for more than two years now. After a building in the street, being constructed in violation of the building bylaws, was demolished by the Municipal Corporation in 2001, the debris, including bricks and other material, was not removed and most of the street continues to be blocked, forcing the residents to take a longer route to reach the main road.
Accident victim’s father sore at negligence, apathy
Ludhiana, January 21
Relatives of Sarabjit Singh Thind, a student in Melbourne, Australia, who lost his right leg after he met with an accident at Kharar, Morinda, on December 29, have alleged that neither the police nor any other government official came to their aid in Chandigarh. Mr D.P. Singh, father of the victim, has charged the authorities of a premier medical institute in Chandigarh with ‘medical ignorance’, due to which his son had lost his leg.
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Sarabjit Singh Thind at a private hospital in Ludhiana.
— Photo by Inderjit Verma |
Development works in five wards reviewed
Ludhiana, January 21
Mayor Nahar Singh Gill has started a campaign to go round all wards to assess the need for area-specific development projects and review the progress of ongoing development works. He visited wards 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 yesterday and held discussions with the area councillors
concerned and residents of different localities.
First book bank set
up in Begowal village
Doraha, January 21
The first book bank in Punjab has been established at Begowal village with the joint collaboration of the Punjab State Rights Commission and British Council.
Mr Gursharanjit Singh, general secretary of the Punjab State Apex Body of NGOs, said Rs 45,000 had been provided by the British Council for this project in the form of books and furniture.
The first book bank in Punjab established in collaboration with the British Council and the Punjab State Human Rights Commission at Begowal village. |
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Kashmiris observe Holocaust Day
Ludhiana, January 21
Members of the Kashmiri Pandit community yesterday observed Holocaust Day in memory of the “forced” exodus from their homeland in Kashmir, which started on January 19, 1990. There are about 200 Kashmiri Pandit families living in Ludhiana. Most of them have come here in the aftermath of terrorism in Kashmir.
Jail guards stage a dharna and
raise slogans against the Central Jail authorities in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
— Photo by IV |
NHRC member to address meeting
Ludhiana, January 21
Mr
R.S. Kalha, member, National Human Rights Commission and former Indian Ambassador to Iraq and Indonesia, will address a meeting of the Ludhiana Management Association
(LMA) at Hotel Majestic Park Plaza here on Saturday. This was disclosed by Mr Manjit Singh, president, and Mr V. K. Goyal, general secretary of the association, in a joint press note issued today.
Man dies
as room catches fire
Ludhiana, January 21
A 50-year-old man was allegedly burnt to death in his house on the Barrota road in Shimla Puri here this morning after a fire broke out mysteriously in his room.
Mahipal, an employee of the Municipal Corporation, died after the quilt caught fire suspectedly due to a burning cigarette. The police was, however, keeping its finger crossed and conducting investigation under Section 174 of the
CrPc.
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