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Residents want ‘red category’ units shifted
Ludhiana, August 8
Industry in the city might be crying hoarse over the Punjab Pollution Control Board’s
(PPCB) decision to shift ‘red category’ units from residential areas, but city residents are demanding immediate implementation of the decision.
PSEB 4-month power bill 990 cr
Ludhiana, August 8
The Punjab State Electricity Board has purchased power worth Rs 990 crore during the past four months in order to tide over the power shortage in the state. The PSEB has been purchasing 400 lakh units of power daily to fill the gap between the demand and supply.
Lawmakers give a damn
to these villages
Machhiwara, August 8
It is unbelievable if voters of a constituency say that they have never met their representatives after elections in a span of 58 years of Independence?
Local Bodies dy chief directs MCs to provide clean water
Ludhiana, August 8
The Deputy Director, Local Bodies, Mr S R Kaler, today directed the Executive Officers of Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats to prepare special projects to be executed by the special Municipal Funds created under the Budget of Government of India for 2005-06 for the development of cities.
Valmiki samaj moots religious education centres
Ludhiana, August 8
The Bharatiya Valmiki Dharam Samaj (BVDS) has mooted a proposal to set up centres to impart religious education to children of the Dalit community in a bid to consolidate its religious base while at the same time to check the menace of forcible conversions under the influence of Christian missionaries.
Mr Bhim Singh Anarya, convener, Bhartiya Valmiki Dharma Samaj, (second from right) addresses a news conference in Ludhiana on Monday.
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BKU protest today
Ludhiana, August 8
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal) will stage a protest demonstration at the Mini Secretariat here tomorrow, highlighting various demands. The BKU activists will submit a memorandum to the President and the Prime Minister through the Deputy Commissioner.
Furthering work of her father
Ludhiana, August 8
Every year during the Republic Day parade, one sees children below 15 from different states, who have performed extraordinary feats of bravery, seated atop elephants and saluting the President. Ms Nupur
Majumdar, wife of an Army personnel, has put their stories in a book — “18 Real Life Stories of Great Valour & Bravery”.
New way of losing fat
Ludhiana, August 8
The city witnessed a new concept of burning fat the Taebo Gold Fitness Art, introduced by Footloose Institute of Art and Fitness. Director of the institute Amit Verma, has launched this concept of weight loss in Punjab.
Participants work out at a workshop organised by the Footloose Institute of Art and Fitness in Ludhiana on Monday.
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Fulfil our demands, say pensioners
Ludhiana, August 8
The Railway Pensioners Welfare Association has rued that the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission regarding pensioners have not been accepted in toto. Except the fitment formula, demands have not been met, the association said.
Club plants saplings in villages
Ludhiana, August 8
Distressed at environmental degradation and rampant pollution, the Chahal Welfare and Sports Club, Uchi
Daud, celebrated this year’s vana mahotsava on a large scale.
The club has planted 200 banyan and pipal trees in different villages.
‘Hiroshima a dark chapter in civilisation’
Ludhiana, August 8
The All-India Progressive Women’s Association held a peace rally on Saturday.
The rally started from Manju Devi Hall and concluded at Jagraon Bridge.
The woman leaders said Hiroshima was a dark chapter in the history of human civilisation and its results were visible even today.
Workers, management
resolve row
Ludhiana, August 8
Conflict between workers and the management of Gobind Rubber Factory at Focal Point here ended late last evening following the police intervention.
Workers had resorted to violence last evening over the alleged non-fulfillment of their demands.
G.S. Bahia joins as Assistant
Commissioner
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