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Charged Over Extra Charges
This Holi, think twice before you SMS
Ludhiana, March 7
Hundreds of cellular phone subscribers are irked with the extra charges levied by mobile phone companies for sending text messages on festivals.
City’s Underworld
Battle for supremacy on despite bloodshed
Ludhiana, March 7
Gangster Gurpreet, alias Billu Badshah’s, murder has thrown open the seat of power in the city’s underworld that runs the multi-crore illegal financial market and provides protection to illegal lottery traders as well.
 Johar On Yoga
‘Every Punjabi must fight foeticide’
Ludhiana, March 7
World reknowned bharatnatyam exponent and choreographer Navtej Johar feels ruffled when Punjab is condemned for the menace of female foeticide even outside the country.
Navtej Johar
Stray Dog Menace
7 residents attacked in 2 days
Ludhiana, March 7
With the much-touted move to sterilise dogs proving a non-starter in the city, stray dog menace has assumed alarming proportions.
Lok Adalat
Traffic violations 6,000 cases cleared
Ludhiana, March 7
About 6,000 out of 12,000 pending cases pertaining to traffic violations were cleared during the two-day mega traffic lok adalat that began here today. At least 17 Benches are engaged in clearing the pending cases at the New Judicial Court Complex. District and Sessions Judge G.K.Rai inaugurated the camp.
District and Sessions Judge G.K. Rai inspects the traffic lok adalat bench headed by Judicial Magistrate Jagdeep Sood in Ludhiana on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed
Transport dept ‘shielding’ bus operators
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 7
Leaders of various social and political organisations, led by Baldev Singh Latala, have accused certain operators of violating rules by not bringing their buses to the local bus stand.
Protesting docs hold rally at mini secretariat
Ludhiana, March 7
A large number of doctors, led by functionaries of the National Integrated Medical Association
(NIMA) held a protest rally at Mini Secretariat here today. They were protesting against the mob violence that took place at Shri Krishna Charitable Hospital in the Model Town area on Sunday. Subsequently, doctors was booked for alleged negligence.
Functionaries of NIMA submit a memorandum to DRO Inderpreet Singh Kahlon against mob violence at a hospital in Ludhiana on Friday.
— Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed
Gill Road, encroachers’ paradise
Ludhiana, March 7
Even as the municipal corporation claims to have removed encroachments from the city during the past few days, residents of the Gill Road are sore that it has become narrower, thanks to encroachers, who have usurped more than two thirds of the land.
Kiosks that have remained on the Gill Road despite a PIL against encroachments
in Ludhiana. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma
Plastics give tough time to sewer men
Ludhiana, March 7
Plastics are giving a tough time to sewer men of the local municipal corporation, who are always found grappling with the choked sewerage system of the city.
Sludge being removed from a sewer in Bhadaur house market in
Ludhiana. — Photo by Inderjeet Verma
LMA to hold post-Budget
session
Ludhiana, March 7
The Ludhiana Management Association (LMA) will conduct a post-Budget session for its members here tomorrow.
Burn victim needs monetary help
Ludhiana, March 7
Rattan Singh (28), a resident of Dhanipura village in Kurukshetra (Haryana) district, has been admitted in the burns ICU of the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here for the past 15 days. He is a daily-wage worker who has a wife and two kids to look after.
Seminar on female foeticide
Ludhiana, March 7
A seminar on "Female Foeticide and Drug De-additiciton" will be organised by the Punjab State Legal Services Authority in coordination with the Bar Association,
Khanna, and NGOs on March 8 at Grain Market, Khanna.
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