A road being repaired during heavy traffic hours in Ludhiana on Friday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma |
Arya College Impasse
Those denied roll nos. all boys
Ludhiana, March 28
As many as 376 students have been denied roll numbers by the local Arya College authorities for not attending minimum lectures required to appear in the university examination. Interestingly, the list includes not a single girl student.
Brawl hits work at
sub-registrar’s office
Ludhiana, March 28
A lawyer and two cops were allegedly involved in a scuffle at the sub-registrar’s office today over the issue of entering the office by jumping the queue.
Barriers lifted; traders end stir
Mandi Gobindgarh, March 28
After mobile barriers put up by the excise and taxation department were lifted, industrialists called off their protest last evening.
Doctor injured in scuffle
at CMC
Ludhiana, March 28
A doctor seeking admission to a postgraduate degree course at the CMC has alleged that he was refused admission just because he did not have a bank draft with him and was later beaten by a security guard when he protested in this regard.
MC teams remove encroachments
Ludhiana, March 28
The tehbazaari department of the MC today removed encroachments from various parts of the city.
Kundanpuri flooded
 Ludhiana, March 28
The streets of Kundanpuri, near Budda Nullah, were today flooded with dirty nullah water.
The MC authorities claimed that it was because residents were dumping garbage in the
nullah. A cleaning operation was launched in the area and desilting of the nullah was ordered.
A view of a flooded street in Kundanpuri in Ludhiana on Friday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Educate people to use renewable energy: SAD leader
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 28
Kulwant Singh Gajjan Majra, SAD leader and member of the district Sangrur advisory committee on renewable energy, has called upon office-bearers of various social and constitutional organisations to launch a coordinated move to preserve socio-economic structure of the state by exploiting non-conventional resources of energy, including solar and wind energy.
At the Crossroads
Ornaments depict cultural orientation
Like Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) in English literature, Goel brothers have made their mark in Punjabi literature in recent years. Incidentally, all of them were born at Jaitu and graduated from from Brijindra College,
Faridkot.
MC employees intensify protest
Ludhiana, March 28
Employees of municipal corporation today struck work at their zone A office for two hours and staged a dharna to express their with their colleagues, who were arrested by the vigilance bureau two days ago.
| Staff of the municipal corporation stage a dharna against the arrest of two workers by the VB; and (right) an empty corridor of the office, in Ludhiana on Friday. A Tribune photograph |
Centre for learning-disabled children
Ludhiana, March 28
Panchkula-based Optimising Development in Education (ODE) Learning Centre, an organisation for remedial teaching, will open its centre in here on April 2.
Writers praise move to make Punjabi
compulsory
Ludhiana, March 28
The Punjabi Sahitya Akademy, Punjabi Bhawan, has hailed the two resolutions passed in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha recently. Punjabi writer and president of the akademy Dr Surjit Patar, Ravinder Bhatal and Gurbhajjan Gill appreciated the move to make Punjabi teaching compulsory in all schools up to matriculation level and to strictly implement Punjabi in the government offices for all official work.
Letters
Fix age of retirement
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At least 330 cases of dispute between workers and local factory owners were settled at the Lok Adalat headed by Additional District and Sessions H.P.S.Mahal,here today. About 361cases were listed for hearing. District and Session Judge Justice G.K.Rai said compensation worth Rs 15.25 lakh were distributed among the workers by the labour court. —
TNS
Ludhiana, March 28
SPS Apollo Hospitals here has embarked upon an expansion programme. The institution plans to set up a 100-bed cancer centre and a nursing college in the near future.