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Rs 350 crore for rural roads: Birmi
Ludhiana, March 14
Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Jails) Malkit Singh Birmi today said the state government was committed to improving the existing rural road network and a sum of Rs 350 crore had been released for repair and upkeep of the roads. He was addressing panchayat members of 12 villages, besides villagers of nearby areas at a function held at Seera village, near here, today.

Hawara arrested, but not in police records
Ludhiana, March 14
The chief of the banned Babbar Khalsa organisation, Jagtar Singh Halwara, may have been caught by the police after he remained a fugitive for over a year but as per the police records here he is still one of the most wanted.

20 schools to be transferred to Zila Parishad
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 14
Twenty primary schools of this block have been listed initially for transferring their control to the Zila Parishad.

COMMUNITY

Holi Hai Bhai Holi Hai ! Girls of the Khalsa College for Women splash colours on one another in Ludhiana on Tuesday. — Photo by I.V.

MC meeting likely
to be stormy
Ludhiana, March 14
The general house meeting of the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation, scheduled for Thursday, is likely to be stormy if some councillors are to be believed. The fact that the MC is meeting after six months is a bone of contention among councillors who claim they are frustrated with the way the MC is functioning. One of them had even gone to the court against the delay in holding the meeting. The inordinate delay had generated a lot of heat as councillors were demanding that the meeting should be held soon.

Govt staff hold protest against Punjab Budget
Ludhiana, March 14
On a call given by the Punjab and UT Employees Joint Action Committee, several employees' associations protested against "anti-employee and anti-labourer" Budget presented by the Punjab Government, outside the mini secretariat here today.

CRIME

Eight booked in assault cases
Ludhiana, March 14
The Samrala police has registered a case under Sections 341, 323 and 34 of the IPC against four persons on the complaint of Mr Joga Singh, son of Ujagar Singh, a resident of Barma village.

Mandi Gobindgarh, March 14 “We, the Indians, are proud inheritors of over 5,000 years’ old education system having world-renowned institutions like Taxila and Nalanda, which gave us many a scholar. In this era of globalisation, the only field for Indians to excel is education. The performance of our students is far better than those living in the countries, which spend 10 or 12 per cent of the GDP on education.

Dr Harbans Singh Sidhu, Chairman, Punjab School Education Board, presents a degree to a student of Government Girls College, Tooran, near Mandi Gobindgarh, on Tuesday. — Photo by Bhushan Sood

Seminar on female foeticide
Ludhiana, March 14
A seminar on Reproductive Health and Female Foeticide was organised in collaboration with the Centre for Adult Continuing Extension and Education, Panjab University, at the Master Tara Singh Memorial College for Women here today.

Students apprised of embedded technologies
Ludhiana, March 14
The training and placement cell of the Ludhiana College of Engineering, Katani Kalan, near here, organised a seminar for the final and pre-final year students of the IBM mainframe and embedded technologies today.

Seminar on women and child health
Ludhiana, March 14
The district branch of the Association for Social Health in India organised a seminar at Nishkam Seva Ashram at Daad village here today to focus on women and child health, nutrition, oral health and hygiene, cancer and drug addiction.