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Canal mishap: PSEB ignored complaints?
Ludhiana, June 19
The canal mishap in which six persons died due to electrocution could have been averted had the PSEB authorities responded immediately to the complaints about the ‘tilted’ pole made by certain shopkeepers a week before the incident.

Deaths fail to deter youngsters
Ludhiana, June 19
No lessons seem to have been learnt from the recent tragic mishap at the Dugri bridge in which six persons were drowned after being electrocuted. Youngsters, especially children, flocked the canal today for swimming and bathing. Just four days after the incident, they were seen enjoying a splash in the canal waters.

Children continue to swim in the Dugri bridge canal despite the recent drowning of six persons. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Heroin worth Rs 2.5 crore seized; 2 arrested
Khanna, June 19
Police will extend supervision near religious palaces in the area as the smugglers have increased their activities near mandirs and gurudwaras. Police claimed that two heroin smugglers were arrested today from two different religious places and 2.5 kg of heroin worth Rs 2.5 crore was recovered.

It’s vote-bank politics: Janata Yuva Morcha
Ludhiana, July 19
The decision of Andhra Pradesh Cabinet regarding the grant of 5 per cent reservation for Muslims in government jobs and educational institutions has drawn criticism from the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

22 hurt as bus overturns  Mullanpur Dakha, June 19 Twenty-two persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a private bus on its way to Bathinda from Jalandhar overturned near Hissowal village on the Mullanpur-Raikot road this afternoon. The injured included three children. Two injured, Dhobi Lal and Shanti Devi, were admitted to the Ludhiana Civil Hospital. The ill-fated bus which met with an accident near Mullanpur on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

LUDHIANA CALLING Hapless PSEB linemen It is generally said that defence personnel risk their lives to save the country from enemy. But nobody sings anything in the praise of linemen of Punjab State Electricity Board who brave all weathers and risk their lives while climbing up a pole for rectifying a snag.

COMMUNITY

Congress accused of supporting militants

Ludhiana, June 19 A former Union Minister and senior BJP leader, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, today charged the Congress government in Punjab with lending overt and covert support to militant groups for ulterior political motives. A former Union Minister and senior BJP leader, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, (centre) addresses mediapersons in Ludhiana on Sunday. — A Tribune photograph

SOS call by NRI wife sends cops in a tizzy
Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 19
An SOS call by a Canada-based NRI woman that her husband was getting remarried in a village near here, sent the Jagroan police in a tizzy as the latter had to rush to the village to intervene.

Arrest of 3 leaders: unions to intensify stir

Ludhiana, June 19 Activists of the Democratic Teachers Front of the district along with the Bharatiya Teachers' Front, the Technical Service Union, the Inqualbi Kender, Punjab, the Lok Morcha, Punjab, the Moulders and Steel Workers Union, the Lok Ekta Sangarsh , the Jan Adhikar Suraksha Samiti Bharat , the Punjab Students Union, the PAU Employees Union, the Maha Sabha ,the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Vichar Manch, the Pendu Mazdoor Union and DMC&H Employee Union held a joint convention in Punjabi Bhavan here today.

Mr Kanwaljit Singh Khanna, Secretary of the Inqualabi Kender, addresses a convention in Ludhiana on Sunday.— A Tribune photograph

Welfare plan for SCs, weaker sections

Ludhiana, June 19 The Punjab Government has chalked out a comprehensive plan for the welfare of weaker sections and Scheduled Castes in the state and a corpus fund of Rs 450 crore has been set up for regular payment of old age pensions and for other welfare measures for more than 14 lakh beneficiaries in the state. Choudhary Jagjit Singh, Minister for Local Bodies, addresses a function to mark the death anniversary of Master Gurbanta Singh in Ludhiana on Sunday. — Tribune photo by Inderjit Verma

Seminar to mark birthday of Master Tara Singh
Ludhiana, June 19
The Panth Ratan Master Tara Singh Yadgari Committee will observe the 121st birthday of legendary Akali leader Master Tara Singh at Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College in Ghumar Mandi here on June 24. A seminar on Sikh history and politics will also be organised on the occasion.

Magician honoured
Ludhiana, June 19
Magic Club of Ludhiana honoured the magician OP Sharma with a ‘gold crown’ on completion of his 100th show in the city here yesterday. Mr Satpal Gosain, former Deputy Speaker, Vidhan Sabha, crowned OP Sharma with a gold crown and presented him an appreciation certificate.

Tips given on hair care
Ludhiana, June 19
“Fashion and advertising is witnessing a new age. People are becoming more beauty conscious. They are spending more money and time in health and beauty clinics”, said Ms Harpreet Kaur Grewal while answering a query during a seminar held at hotel here today. She said beauty clinics had now become a part of Indian Life.

Book market closed from June 23 to 26

INTUC unit’s plea to government
Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 19
The block unit of Indian National Trade Union Congress has urged the state government to impress upon the managements of the private and public sector undertakings to start work at their respective units and provide employment to the starving labourers.

Staff praised for efficiency
Ludhiana, June 19
The B.Ed aspirants who converged at local Government College for Boys for getting their roll numbers were not the only ones to undergo trying time. College staff members, too, had a tough time while grappling with the work load.

Eye check-up camp

SPORTS

Green XI sail to 8-wicket win
Ludhiana, June 19
An impressive spell of bowling (five for 25), including a hat-trick, by Drone Kanish of Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Sarabha Nagar, enabled Coaching Centre Green XI to register a comfortable 8-wicket victory over Coaching Centre Yellow XI in the inaugural match of the first phase of the ninth Chaman Lal Malhotra Cricket Cup Tournament (u-14) which began at Arya College ground, here today. Dr S.M. Sharma, Principal, Arya College inaugurate the tournament.

Basketball camp begins today
Ludhiana, June 19
The names of four Punjab cagers namely Talwinder Singh, Yadwinder Singh, Jagdeep Singh and Jasjot Singh, figure in the 14-member list of probables for the national coaching camp, which starts at Guru Nanak Indoor Stadium, here on Monday.

• City cagers for international meet

Pawandeep brings laurels to state
Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 19
Pawandeep Singh, a resident of Amarpura mohalla here, has brought laurels to the state by winning gold medal in the Sub-Junior National Power Lifting Championship that concluded in Rajasthan recently. The championship was organised by the Indian Powerlifting Federation, New Delhi.