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Sister gifts kidney on Rakhi
Ludhiana, August 29
The festival of Rakhi was given a new meaning by 60-year-old Jaswant Kaur who donated a kidney to her brother Gurdeep Singh(54) at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital
(DMCH) here yesterday.
Gurdeep Singh who, received a new lease of life with a kidney donated by his sister Jaswant Kaur (right).
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Undertrials
SSP orders probe
Ludhiana, August 29
The city SSP today ordered a high level probe into the alleged biased treatment toward under-trials at the Bakshi Khanna at district courts following a Tribune report that a political leader was given preferential treatment.
Speaking Out
Petrol Rate Hike
The hike in petrol and diesel rates has left city residents unhappy. Petroleum dealers, too, are a dismayed lot. They say the measure would have a negative impact in the long run on the state's economy, writes Shveta Pathak
State of Rural Education
Badal wants religious heads to chip in
Jagraon (Ludhiana), August 29
Virtually admitting the failure of the state to provide quality education to rural students, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today rued the state of education in rural areas and appealed to religious organisations and their heads to step forward to fill the gap.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal addresses a congregation at Nanksar Kaleran in Ludhiana district on Wednesday.
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Unfair (Punjab) Trade (Centre) Practices
Hosts marriage parties, forgets industrial
events
Ludhiana, August 29
The Punjab Trade Centre, located at Millarganj, was set up to host industrial events and activities related to industrial development. However, it is actually being utilised as just another marriage palace.
Malls give building bylaws the go-by
Ludhiana, August 29
The shopping complexes located on Ferozepur Road are either not properly utilizing the basements, which are meant for parking, or are misusing them as banquet halls or for other commercial activities. This has led to an increase in traffic congestion on the four-lane road.
Photographic evidence available with The Tribune, which was acquired from police
files, the basements, which are meant for parking as per the building bylaws,
are being misused.
Vishal Mega Mart in Ludhiana uses its parking area in the basement as a store. |
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Two accused held 3 years after murder
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 29
Two of the five persons who were declared proclaimed offenders in a murder case registered at Sudhar police station three years ago were arrested by a police party two days ago.
Majlis Ahrar condemns
terrorism
Ludhiana, August 29
The All India Majlis Ahrar has condemned the use of religion for terrorist activities. The president of the Majlis and the Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, Ludhiana, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Ludhianvi said the terrorists had no religion and they deserved no sympathy.
40 wagons of fodder sent to Bihar
Ludhiana, August 29
Following directions from the Punjab government, one more goods train comprising 40 wagons loaded with wheat straw (toori) was dispatched from the Sahnewal railway station to the Lehria railway station in Darbhanga district of Bihar as fodder relief for the cattle of flood-affected people.
Book on legal practice in India, Germany released
Ludhiana August 29
Harpreet Sandhu, a local lawyer and former additional advocate general of Punjab, has brought out a book, “Law Functioning in Germany and India: a comparative perspective”.
Ludhiana lawyer Harpreet Sandhu presents a copy of his book, ‘Law functioning in Germany and India’ to Gunter Hirsch, president of the Federal Court of Justice, Germany, after its release in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
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Society elects office-bearers
Ludhiana, August 29
The elections for the office-bearers of the Basant Avenue Residents Welfare Society, Ludhiana were held here on Wednesday at the Shivji Park under the supervision of Narinder Kumar Sharma.
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