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Improvement Trust in the eye
of a storm
Allegations rife over hike in prices of flats
Ludhiana, June 30
After allegations of irregularities in allotting tenders in city centre project, the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) is once again in the eye of a storm over raising of price of MIG flats in Rishi Nagar and remitting of non-construction charges levied against some residents.

Monsoon hits Punjab
Ludhiana, June 30
The monsoon has hit Punjab. The normal onset of monsoon in Punjab is around first week of July, but this year the onset was early and northern limit of monsoon covered the entire state on June 29, according to Dr L.S. Brar, Professor and head of the Department of Agronomy-agrometereology of Punjab Agricultural University. Due to the high temperature prevailing during the last week, low pressure area was developed in the North-Western India and it speeded up monsoon activity in these regions.

Icy relief for this bear Ludhiana, June 30 Kala, a Himalayan bear, which is spending his first summer in the plains, is really finding it tough to cope with the prevailing heat. For there is no air-conditioner or a desert cooler to cool his small cave-like, concrete enclosure to soothe him. Kala, Himalayan bear, tries to reconcile with the alien atmosphere he has been placed in, after having been brought from Himalayan lands to Ludhiana zoo. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed

Pay and get child’s homework done
Ludhiana, June 30
Most of the parents of the schoolchildren and hiring people to do the “job work” for their children. With summer vacations in most of the schools about to come to an end, the parents have started feeling the load of the pending vacation homework of their wards.

Exonerated, yet jailed
Jagraon, June 30
The release of Balwinder Singh, alias Binder, and Gurpreet Singh, both of Butahari village, on bail by the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Jagraon, Ms Jitender Walia, in a criminal case has brought to light serious lapses on the part of the Punjab police and its functioning.

Bus overturns, 18 hurt
Jagraon, June 30
A Punjab Roadways bus overturned on the Jagraon-Ludhiana G.T. road yesterday in which 18 passengers were injured. Two of the injured are serious and had been shifted to a hospital in Ludhiana while others were discharged after providing first-aid.

COMMUNITY

Badal warns against maligning Sikhs’ image

Ludhiana, June 30 Former Chief Minister and the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Mr Parkash Singh Badal today condemned the attempts to malign the image of the Sikhs in the name of terrorism. SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal along with Akali workers at a function at Gurdwara Sabzi Mandi to commemorate the birth anniversary of Master Tara Singh in Ludhiana on Wednesday. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma

Farmers demand restoration of free power

Ludhiana, June 30 Hundreds of farmers today staged a demonstration at Mini Secretariat here. They were demanding scrapping of loans of the debt-ridden farmers and the restoration of free power to the tubewells. The demonstration was jointly organised by five Leftist kisan organisations which included Kul Hind Kirti Kisan Sabha, Jamhoori Kisan Sabha Punjab, BKU Ekta (Sidhupur), Punjab Kisan Sabha and Punjab Khethri Kisan Vikas Front. The speakers at the convention pointed out that the plight of farmers was the worst in Punjab. Farmers stage a demonstration in front of Mini Secretariat in Ludhiana on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

First IT help centre opens in city Ludhiana, June 30 Mr SJS Pall, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, today inaugurated the first ‘aayakar sahayata kendra’ (help centre) at United Cycle Parts Manufactures Association office building near Campa Cola Chowk on Gill Road here. Mr S.J.S. Pall, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (third from right), along with city Mayor Nahar Singh Gill and Mr Om Parkash Munjal of the Hero group inaugurates the first ‘aaykar sahayata kendra’ in Ludhiana on Thursday. — Photo by Inderjit Verma

Lotteries bring misery to many
Ludhiana, June 30
Mahesh was the owner of three houses and now he has none. He was addicted to buying lottery tickets and lost everything in the hope of making more money. Presently, he lives in one-room tenement and works as a daily wager.

Lecture on meditation at DMCH Ludhiana, June 30 “Meditation and pranayama has tremendous influence on the state of mind, besides relieving tension and curing many physical ailments.” Participants at a lecture on “pranayam and meditation”, organised by the health education cell of the DMCH in Ludhiana on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

CRIME

Cop assaulted

BUSINESS

Textile industry looking up, feels Oswal
Ludhiana, June 30
“The overall scenario for the textile industry in Punjab seems to be of promise. But at the same time, the promise is not without threat from countries that have expanded the capacities significantly and their factors of cost have been on international norms. The factors of cost are of power, infrastructure and interest.”

Programme on cosmetics ends
Ludhiana, June 30
A month-long entrepreneurship development programme on cosmetics and allied industry, conducted by the Small Industries Service Institute (SISI), concluded here today.

Teachers to hold dharna 
Ludhiana, June 30
The anti-privatisation teachers morcha, which was formed by 32 teachers’ organisations, will hold a protest dharna in front of their district headquarters on July 7, 8 and 11. The meeting between the office- bearers of different organisations was held under the presidentship of Mr Rajinder Singh Garcha here yesterday

170 children display works at exhibition

Ludhiana, June 30 A one-month summer camp at Kidzee Rainbow School concluded here today. Around 170 students took part in an exhibition, which displayed their works during the camp. Parents of the children had been invited to see their work. Students of Kidzee Rainbow School go around an exhibition on the concluding day of a summer camp in Ludhiana on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph

Placement boom at GNDEC
Ludhiana, June 30
A large number of engineers passing out of GNDEC in the current session have been placed in highly reputed establishments and companies through campus interviews. The average offer is Rs 2.4 lakhs.

Soil scientist donates literature to PAU
Ludhiana, July 30
Dr O.P. Meelu, a former Chief Scientist in the Department of Soils, who retired from Punjab Agricultural University a couple of years ago has donated all his personal collection of books, journals, magazines and international research papers for the library of PAU’s regional research station for kandi area at Ballowal Saunkri.

Jhar Sahib college excels

Summer camp concludes
Ludhiana, June 30
A five-day summer camp organised by Kuldeep Singh Hadley at Government Primary School, Sherpur Khurd, concluded yesterday.

PAU  appointments
Ludhiana, June 30
The Board of Management of Punjab Agricultural University today approved the candidature of scientists to key positions in the varsity.  

CULTURE

Meaningful verses need of the hour, says Nikku
Doraha, June 30
Renowned Punjabi singer Inderjit Nikku, who is all set to release his new album in the coming days, is determined to present it as a masterpiece of meaningful verses replete with poetical overtones and thoughtful expression.

Anti-anaemia campaign by IMA from July 1
Ludhiana, June 30
The Indian Medical Association will launch an Anaemia-Free India Campaign on Doctors’ Day — July 1 — all over the country.