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Congress on firm footing: Johar
Ludhiana, December 20
The massive participation of people in the Congress rally held at Lambi, the home constituency of SAD president Parkash Singh Badal, has proved that the people of Punjab were fully sporting the policies of the Congress and would again vote for the party in the forthcoming Assembly elections.
Govt staff protest against reduction in EPF rates
Ludhiana, December 20
Employees of various government departments and industry workers today protested against the reduction in Employees Provident Fund interest rate to 8.5 per cent.
On a call given by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, workers from cycle, brick-kiln, hosiery and other industries and from several government departments held a dharna outside the Provident Fund office here today.
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CITU holds a protest outside the provident fund office in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
— Photo by IV
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Tax evasion unabated in city
Ludhiana, December 20
In the wake of ambitious revenue collection targets fixed for the department of Income Tax for the current financial year, the top brass of the department kept themselves busy in devising ways and means to step up the collections while the members of trade and industry, as well as from other affluent sections of society, continued to elude the tax collectors’ net.
Seminar on traffic rules
Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 20
After coming to know about the consequences of violation of traffic rules at a district level seminar and function organised at Sangrur, hundreds of students from local schools vowed to abide by traffic rules.
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