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Unsafe buildings pose threat
Residents’ complaints to authorities go unheeded
Ludhiana, April 15
The tragic death of two children in a banister collapse in Vishnupuri near the Shivpuri area two days ago has brought to the fore the faulty construction of buildings that is taken up by residents.
Crop destroyed in fire
Ludhiana, April 15
Standing ripened wheat in approximately one acre of land in Chhabewal village
near here was reduced to ashes following a short circuit in the overhead wires
this morning.
Subsidies retard state’s growth: FM
Khanna, April 15
Subsidies being given to various sections of societies seem to have been irking
the Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal, who here today said Punjab could
have been made a developed state provided no subsidies were being offered
by the government.
Police Inaction
Family of murdered boy sits on fast
Ludhiana, April 15
The family of a minor migrant boy, who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered on March 28, today started a fast outside the deputy commissioner's office in protest against the police inaction in the case.
Swimming yet to pick up in city
Ludhiana, April 15
Swimming, the favourite sport of city residents in the summer season, is yet to pick-up in the city.
Woman blames cop for killing husband
Seeks help from SSP, PHRC
Jagraon, April 15
Accusing an ASI for getting her husband eliminated, a woman of Sidhwan Kalan
had sought justice from the Punjab Human Rights Commission and SSP Ludhiana district (rural). Manjit
Kaur, wife of late Sewa Singh Sidhwan Kalan, said her husband was employed with a commission agent, Bharpur Singh Toor of
Mullanpur, for the last 15 years.
Workers protest against inflation
Ludhiana, April 15
Hundreds of workers protested against inflation at the Mini Secretariat
by holding a rally here today.
Despite ban, cut fruit being sold openly
 Ludhiana, April 15
Street vendors and push carts selling cut fruit like papaya, water melon or mix fruit are a common sight in all parts of the city.
Cut fruit being sold by vendors openly in blatant violation of a ban imposed by district authorities in
Ludhiana. — Tribune photo by Inderjeet Verma
Work halts at 300 brick-kilns
Labourers refuse to report on duty
Ludhiana, April 15
Operations have come to a halt at more than 300 brick-kilns in the district as labourers have refused to continue working.
Insect found in fruit drink bottle
Ludhiana, April 15
For Seetal Singh, an elderly shopkeeper in Jeewan Nagar locality here, the mango fruit drink ‘Maaza’ turned out to be the shock of his life.
Seetal Singh shows a bottle of Maaza containing a big insect in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
— A Tribune photograph
Suspecting infidelity, man ties up wife
Payal, April 15
In a bizarre incident, Jagjit Singh, a truck driver of Ghudani Khurad village, assaulted and chained his wife Paramjit Kaur to a cot and locked her in the house yesterday.
Chajjewal resident killed in Canada
Raekot, April 15
A pall of gloom descended on Chajjewal village near here when a family received the tragic news of the death of their only son, who had immigrated to Canada five years ago in search of greener
pastures.
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Municipal corporation employees, who were agitating against the Vigilance Bureau action against their colleagues, were back to work
Biz Word
Associate dean, The Business School, Humber College, Toronto, Peter
Maddot, visited BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar,