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Auto drivers rescue 3 missing kids
Ludhiana, February 23
While autorickshaw drivers are under the police scanner these days owing to their involvement in certain crime incidents, a group of such drivers left their work to rescue three missing children.
The children, two sisters Roshni and Anju, along with a boy, Taheer, all aged between 4 and 7 had gone missing from Shivpuri after attending school. The autodrivers found them crying near Jalandhar bypass chowk at about 9 pm.
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| Autorickshaw drivers are all smiles while posing for a picture with the three rescued children.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
Tribune Impact
Judges to visit jails for extending remand
Ludhiana, Feburary 23
In a landmark move, the district and sessions Judge G K Rai has decided to send the judicial magistrate to local jails for the purpose of extending the judicial remand of undertrials.
Gang of robbers busted;
5 arrested
Ludhiana, February 23
The CIA wing-II of the police has achieved a major breakthrough against criminal elements by busting a gang of five robbers who were allegedly involved in as many as 42 incidents of theft, snatching and robbery.
Exhibition by INIFD students opens
Ludhiana, February 23
The International Institute of Fashion Design (INIFD) opened its two-day annual exhibition “Designer Tadka” on their premises here today.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Ritu Kochhar, director of INIFD corporate,
Chandigarh. She awarded the students and complimented them for their hard work and the aesthetic values they had put in their collections.
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| Students of INIFD show their creations at an exhibition in Ludhiana on Saturday.
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Training on managing water resources ends
Ludhiana, February 23
Punjab Agricultural Management & Extension Training Institute (PAMETI), Punjab Agricultural University
(PAU) campus, organised a six-day national training programme on ‘Conjunctive Use of Surface and Ground Water Including Use of Brackish Water’ from February 18 that concluded today.
Honour for anti-narcotic cell members
Mandi Ahmedgarh, February 23
Recognising their outstanding role in busting notorious gangs of smugglers and seizing massive quantities of drugs and narcotics, the Ludhiana (Rural) district police has decided to honour the in charge and members of the anti-narcotic cell of the district.
Holiday carnival
Ludhiana, February 23
Thomas Cook India and Travel Corporation of India today conducted a holiday carnival showcasing various travel and emerging destinations.
50 donate blood
Ludhiana, February 23
The department of transfusion medicine, Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, here organised a voluntary blood donation camp for thalassaemic children at Devki Devi Jain Memorial College for Women.
Industrialists rue hike in steel rates
Ludhiana, February 23
Despite assurances, large steel producers have increased steel rates, rued the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU).
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