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Two NRIs allege raw deal by housing society
Ownership ‘illegally cancelled’, plots ‘sold’
Ludhiana, September 12

The Satluj Co-op House Building Society, which has 600 plots in Friends Colony on Ludhiana- Chandigarh road since 1982, is in the thick of controversy with two UK-based NRI families alleging illegal cancellation of ownership and selling of their two plots by society managers.

NRIs Prem Brar and Shashi Sharma show proof of ownership of plots bought from the Satluj Co-op House Building Society in Ludhiana on Tuesday. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma

Leave educational institutions alone, Nayar tells parties
Ludhiana, September 12
Eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar today asked political parties to keep away from educational institutions. He regretted that political parties were prejudicing the minds of young students, which was not good for society and nation.

SAD (A) activists wave black flags to Kuldip Nayar

Ludhiana, September 12 Activists of the SAD (Amritsar) today protested against eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar’s visit to the city by waiving black flags and shouting slogans against him. Mr Nayar was to address a seminar on the student-teacher relationship at the Ramgarhia College for Girls. The seminar was organised by the Punjab Sabhyacharak Samajik Bhalai Sanstha.
Activists of the SAD (Amritsar) stage a protest against the visit of journalist Kuldip Nayar to Ludhiana on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

Yellow metal loses sheen
Ludhiana, September 12
Rapid fluctuation in gold prices failed to attract buyers leaving jewellers an unhappy lot. The yellow metal, driven by international forces, has witnessed a reduction of more than Rs 500 per 10 grams in the last four days. However, customers failed to turn up with an increased number of people taking to forward trading, said jewellers.

17-year-old battles for life
Ludhiana, September 12
Monu (17), a resident of Punjab Mata Nagar colony in the city, has nothing to look forward to. Afflicted with life-threatening blood disease of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (blood cancer), he cannot even afford the basic treatment, which is way beyond the resources of his family.

COMMUNITY

Rs 9,000 cr released for development works: Pandey
Ludhiana, September 12
The Minister for Science, Technology and Horticulture, Mr Rakesh Pandey, has claimed that during the past four and half years a record development had taken place in the state and funds amounting to around Rs 9,000 crore have released for different developments and welfare programmes in Punjab.

Members seek probe into club’s ‘lavish expenditure’
Ludhiana, September 12
Several members of the Sutlej Club Ludhiana have taken strong exception to the excessive expenditure being incurred on various expansion work in the club. They have also questioned the purpose of constructing a separate office for the club president in the premises. The Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner happens to be the ex officio president of the club. The presidents have so far been operating from their main or camp offices. In fact the Deputy Commissioner’s residence is located next to the club premises in the Rakh Bagh area.

Mayor hears villagers’ problems
Doraha, September 12
Mr Nahar Singh Gill, Mayor, Municipal Corporation Ludhiana, alongwith Mr Ramnath, general secretary, district Congress committee, Mrs Sukhbir Kaur Garcha, councillor, had a special meeting with prominent personalities of the village as well as the villagers today when he announced specific dates for solving the problems of villagers.

Psychiatric society to hold annual conference
Ludhiana, September 12
Roshni, a registered NGO in collaboration with the Indo-Pak Punjab Psychiatric Society (IPPPS), will organise the first annual conference of the IPPPS from September 15 to 17 at Ludhiana and Chandigarh.

Seminar on innovation management
Ludhiana, September 12
The Ludhiana Management Association (LMA) organised a seminar on Innovation Management here last evening.

5 booked in dowry case
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 12
The local police has booked five persons of the local ward No. 7 under Sections 498 A, 307 and 120 B of the IPC for allegedly harassing for more dowry and attempting to murder Maninder Kaur. The victim is admitted to a private hospital in Ludhiana.

AGRICULTURE

FCI all set to procure paddy
Ludhiana, September 12
The Food Corporation of India has made all arrangements for the smooth procurement of paddy in the state.

EDUCATION

The students of Spring Dale Senior Secondary Public School, Ludhiana, who were selected by a panel of judges of the CBSE for a national-level science exhibition. More than 120 teams from the North participated in the competition held at Apeejay School, Jalandhar. — A Tribune photograph

From Schools and Colleges
Grandparents Day celebrated with zeal and zest
Ludhiana, September 12
‘Health is wealth’ may seem a cliche but no one can repudiate the veracity of this aphorism. Keeping the health of the future generation in mind and following the guidelines of CBSE, BCM School, Dugri, has constituted a health club in the school.

ASER survey on status of education
Ludhiana, September 12
In order to provide a true picture of the tall claims of the government of providing quality education to all children between the age of 6 to14 years, the Annual Status of Education Report, a chapter of Pratham Organisation, an NGO, will be conducting a survey on the status of education all over India. In Punjab, the survey would be conducted from October 2 to 29.

COURTS

Lok Adalat to dispose of pending challans
Ludhiana, September 12
In order to clear the backlog of thousands of traffic challans in different courts of Ludhiana, a Lok Adalat would be organised by the District Legal Services Authority under the supervision of its Chairman Harbans Lal on September 16 at Judicial Courts Complex.

81 donate blood at two camps
Ludhiana, September 12
The Department of Transfusion Medicine in Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here organised two voluntary blood donation camps at Durga Mandir, Sarabha Nagar, in the city and at Jain Eye Hospital at Raikot in collaboration with JCI Ludhiana Central and JCI Raikot yesterday in which 81 units of blood were collected by a team of doctors led by Dr Rajesh Kumar.

SPORTS

Ekamjot shines in rural sports
Ludhiana, September 12
Ekamjot Kaur of Khanna won two titles (100 m and 200 m) in the Khanna Block Rural Sports for the boys and girls (u-16) organised jointly by the Sports Department and the Sports Authority of India in association with rural sports clubs and the Zila Parishad at Principal Naresh Chander Stadium, Khanna, on September 10 and 11.