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Man vanishes from village; wife booked
Mother claims she has killed him
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
The Payal police has booked a woman of Kadon village in Ludhiana district for alleged mysterious disappearance of her ex-serviceman husband about four months ago.
95,000 given polio drops
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
Over 95,000 children were administered polio vaccine at nearly 255 booths set up in the local town and surrounding villages of Sangrur and Ludhiana districts.
A child being administered polio drops in Ludhiana on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph |
Dr K.C. Goel, DHO, Sangrur, inspects a pulse polio camp at Shree Ram Mandir Dharamsala at Ahmedgarh on Sunday.
— Photo by Mahesh Sharma |
Nurse, 9 more staffers
of hospital booked
Ludhiana, January 6
Three months after the police booked a number of officials of Kapoor Hospital for allegedly molesting a staff nurse, it has, in a U-turn, booked the victim nurse along with nine other employees for the incident.
Farm scientists to go abroad for higher studies
Ludhiana, January 6
The Punjab government proposes to send young agricultural and dairy scientists to advance and developed countries for training to form a core team for giving a second push to the agriculture and allied sectors of development in Punjab.
Forum penalises Spice Jet
Ludhiana, January 6
The District Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum has directed Spice Jet to pay a compensation of Rs 25,000 for deficient services to a city resident, whose baggage the airlines lost in transit.
Ludhiana Calling
A view of Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Model Town Extension, which is under threat of being demolished
in Ludhiana. — Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed |
Sale of groundnuts picks up with Lohri festival approaching in Ludhiana. |
Decision on PAU
appointments today
PAUTA against giving extension
Ludhiana, January 6
The fate of a large number of senior as well as junior scientists, applying for the key posts at
PAU, will be decided at a meeting of the board of management tomorrow at
Chandigarh. Speculations about the selections are rife within the faculty but the sources say that everything has already been decided and it will just be a formality tomorrow.
PAUTA members meet Langah
Ludhiana, January 6
PAUTA members met agriculture minister Sucha Singh Langah here at PAU today. They discussed problems being faced by the university, with the minister in detail. The members apprised him of the grant of pension to which the latter gave assurance to personally look into the matter.
Road Safety Week
Sensitising students to make roads safer
Chandigarh, January 6
The Chandigarh traffic police yesterday organised a conference on road safety and school area management at the Sector 29 Traffic Auditorium, in which principals from various local schools participated.
Terror deterring NRIs for investing in Punjab
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
Terming attempt of seditious forces to revive terrorism as catalyst for discouraging NRIs from investing in the native state, office-bearers of Sikh organisations of Canada and the USA urged the state and union governments to check extremist activities with a stern hand.
Parents to bear road tax burden
PTA urge govt to review decision
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
Terming imposition of special road tax on buses deployed for ferrying students, studying in private-affiliated school and colleges, as direct burden on the parents, office-bearers of a few parent teacher associations have urged the state government for reviewing its decision and waive the tax.
BJP for action
against Mann for maligning leaders
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
Terming statements of Simranjit Singh Mann against senior BJP and SAD
leaders as character assassination for getting cheap publicity,
activists of the local unit of the BJP and the BJYM have urged the
government to initiate action against the SAD (A) leader.
Innocent youths being branded as terrorists
Ludhiana, January 6
With one after another terrorist being arrested in Punjab, Delhi and elsewhere the allegations that innocent youths are being framed have also started cropping up. It was the booking of innocent youths that had become an encouraging factor for terrorism in the troubled days of militancy.
Industrialist bereaved
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 6
Office-bearers and activists of a few social, religious and political organisations paid tributes to Lakshami Devi Aggarwal, mother of Anil Kumar Aggarwal, executive director, Shryans Industries Limited and president, Ludhiana Management Association.
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