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PAU students, authorities head for showdown
Ludhiana, June 14
Students and authorities of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here appear to be heading for a showdown. While the authorities have been insisting that students will have to pay the hostel charges separately if they want to stay during the summer break, students maintain that they have already paid the amount. They also staged a dharna on the campus today.

Students of PAU stage a demonstration on Tuesday in a symbolic protest against the PAU authorities for the imposition of hostel fee during the summer break. — A Tribune photograph

Residents up in arms against ex-DYC chief
Say cops, politicians shielding him 
Ludhiana, June 14
The Congress and the city police today found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding alleged complaints against former District Youth Congress chief Komal Khanna.

Your generosity can save his life

Ludhiana, June 14 Life has indeed been cruel to Ms Surinder Kaur who is in her mid-fifties. She looks much older her age as she tends to her 26-year-old son Gurdeep Singh, who is battling for his life. Ms Surinder Kaur with her son Gurdeep Singh, his wife and daughter, at CMCH, Ludhiana. — A Tribune photograph

COMMUNITY

Shopkeepers pool in resources to help fire-hit

Ludhiana, June 14 The milk of human kindness has not dried up. This came evident today, when shopkeepers of Chaura Bazzar pooled in resources to help reconstruct the shops that were burnt in a devastating fire here yesterday. Rebuilding work goes on in Chaura Bazaar after a fire incident, in Ludhiana on Tuesday. — Photo by Inderjit Verma

Projects for 2000 MW additional power in pipeline: Dawar
Ludhiana, June 14
The Punjab Government is aware of the huge gap in demand and supply of power in the state and various projects for generation of 2000 MW additional power at a cost of Rs 2000 crore are under different stages of execution. A 1000 MW gas-based power plant at Doraha in this district is among these power projects.

Rays of the summer sun form illusions of water on a road in Ludhiana on Tuesday. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Housefed to perpetuate memory of martyrs, writers
Ludhiana, June 14
Punjab Housefed will name libraries, playgrounds and other community utilities in its housing complexes all over the state to perpetuate the memory of freedom fighters, martyrs, prominent artists and writers from the region. This was announced by Mr Krishan Kumar Bawa, newly appointed chairman of Housefed, while addressing a felicitation function organised by Vishwa Punjabi Sabhyacharak Manch here today. 

CRIME

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BUSINESS

Power tariff hike jolts industry
Ludhiana, June 14
More than 10 per cent hike in power tariff, approved by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission, has sent shock waves in the industrial sector of Punjab. Mr Inderjit Singh Pardhan, President, Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU), while condemning the hike, said if the PSEB implemented the regulatory commission’s directions on reduction of line losses and staff strength, there would be no need to increase the tariff.

PCCTU hails Bhattal panel report
Sahnewal, June 14
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union today hailed the Bhattal Committee report on primary education. In a joint statement, Prof R.S. Brar, state president, Dr Parminder Singh, area secretary, Prof Kuldeep Singh, Prof Bandeep Singh and Prof Khushvinder Kumar, all executive committee members, have welcomed the recommendations of the committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal regarding the issue of non-privatisation of primary education.

From Schools And Colleges
10-day summer camp concludes
Ludhiana, June 14
A 10-day summer camp held at Everest Public Senior Secondary School, Moti Nagar, concluded here today. The motive behind organising the camp was to bring to surface the hidden talent of children and inspire them to pursue creativity.

Docs keen on promoting voluntary blood donation
Ludhiana, June 14
To commemorate the birth anniversary of Karl Landsteiner, the father of Transfusion Medicine, the International Blood Donation Day was celebrated at Dayanand Medical College and hospital (DMCH) under the aegis of the health education cell.

Free medical camp
Samrala, June 14
NRI Harbans Singh Kang from the USA organised a free medical camp in the hospital of Dr Tej Pal Singh here today in the memory of his wife, Mrs Ranjit Kaur. More than 650 patients were examined by the specialists like Dr Gurpreet Singh of Hero Heart Centre, Dr Manoj Kumar, Dr Varinder Gupta, Dr Hardev Singh, Dr Tejpal Singh and Mrs Tarkjot Singh.