NEW HIGH: A man balances a cycle atop a pole during the Kila Raipur sports
festival on Sunday. A Tribune photograph |
City to get playgrounds
MC to identify sites
Ludhiana, February 11
The MC would provide playgrounds in various parts of the city after identifying sites.
This was announced by the commissioner, Vikas Partap, during a meeting of park management committees here today. He assigned the SE, Dharam Singh, the job to
Power Outages
Work hit as employees grope in dark
Ludhiana, February 11
Frequent power outages have been creating problems in abundance for employees of various departments located on the second floor of the mini
secretariate. Employees of the education department and the district town planning department are the worst hit, as they are virtually working in the dark.
Civil hospital lacks infrastructure
Ludhiana, February 11
On one hand the state government is “trying hard” to promote medical tourism whereas on the other it is not providing basic healthcare facilities to the common men. In the absence of proper neo-natal nursery, staff and infrastructure at the civil hospital here, it has become difficult for the authorities, too, to take care of the brought them in critical condition.
Fed up, industry decides on bandh
Ludhiana, February 11
Failing to move the government into action despite daily protests against the rise in steel prices, the industry today decided to observe a bandh on February 14.
Traders and industrial units in Jalandhar and Phagwara too have decided to observe bandh
on that day. This decision was taken at a meeting of over 60 industry associations here this evening.
Four booked for stealing car
Mandi Ahmedgarh, February 11
The Sudhar police has booked four persons under Sections 379 and 411of the IPC for allegedly stealing a car from Mullanpur yesterday. Two of the accused were arrested from Hissowal village today and the stolen vehicle was impounded.
SAD general secretary Onkar Singh Thakur addresses a press conference in Ludhiana on Monday.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
At the Crossroads
The missing
silver lining
The definition of truth has always been elusive. But reality is that the sombre colours of dishonesty and falsehood are taking a deeper hue. It is difficult to pinpoint the wrongdoers as they know the craft of turning tables on others when they find themselves in trouble!
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