Bank ATMs continue to churn out soiled notes causing undue harassment to residents. A resident received one such soiled note from the ATM of IDBI Bank in Bhdaur House in Ludhiana. The note is torn off from the upper right hand corner, thus damaging the number. A Tribune photograph |
Students plump for vocational courses
Combine jobs and studies
Ludhiana, April 16
Ludhiana is fast adopting the metropolitan culture where work and studies go side by side for youngsters. Those working, a majority of them from lower and middle class families, prefer to continue with their studies through distant education
programmes. These career-oriented youth feel that vocational courses, being offered by various government and private institutes, provide ample job opportunities
as compared to the traditional courses like BA, BSc, BBA etc.
Bank ATMs continue to churn out soiled notes causing undue harassment to residents. A resident received one such soiled note from the ATM of IDBI Bank in Bhdaur House in Ludhiana. The note is torn off from the upper right hand corner, thus damaging the number. A Tribune photograph
1,300 ETT teachers in dark about their future
Ludhiana, April 16
After years of agitating and suffering police brutality, nearly 1,300 shortlisted ETT teachers will continue to suffer for some more time.
Brick-kiln workers shift to harvesting
Industry faces threat of closure
Ludhiana, April 16
Work at over 300 brick-kilns that stopped 12 days ago failed to resume today also with brick-kiln owners saying that their work force was lured by high wages being paid for harvesting this time.
4 held for assaulting journalists
Ludhiana, April 16
The city police today finally arrested four persons for allegedly assaulting two journalists of vernacular dailies in Field Gunj last Sunday afternoon.
Kalia blames ‘anti-agriculture’ policies of UPA government
Ludhiana, April 16
Manoranjan Kalia, minister for local bodies, industries and commerce, Punjab, today held the “wrong polices” of the UPA government, relating to agriculture, responsible for the steep increase in the prices of essential commodities in the country and warned that the agitation against zooming inflation, launched by the BJP, would be taken to a mass level.
PRICELESS VEGGIES: BJP activists wear vegetable strings to express their displeasure over the increasing costs of essential commodities in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Rly pensioners seek better health unit
Want cases to be referred to local hospitals than
those in Ferozepur, New Delhi
Ludhiana, April 16
Lamenting the inadequate healthcare and diagnostic facilities in the railway health unit here for serving and retired employees, the Northern Railway pensioners welfare association has reiterated its demand for upgrading it.
Scientific techniques must for pesticide use: Dr Tanda
Ludhiana, April 16
Renowned entomologist Dr Amarjit Tanda from Australia visited Punjab Agricultural University today. The vice-chancellor Dr Manjit Singh Kang and director of research, Dr Paramjit Singh Minhas, had an interaction on pesticide usages with Dr Tanda.
NRI undergoes metabolic surgery
Doraha, April 16
Hardev Kaur (57), who lives in Toronto, Canada, has been suffering from diabetes for the past seven years. She came to India to undergo metabolic surgery (Duodeno-Jejunal Bypass).Nowadays; she is recuperating at a private hospital here.
‘Kachche Lamhe’ to be staged on April 26
Ludhiana, April 16
Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam (LSS) will stage Salim Arif'’s play ‘Kachche Lamhe’ for its members here on April 26.
Addressing a press conference, Sunil Kant Munjal, president of LSS, said, “It has rarely happened that two celebrated writers have come together on a common stage which makes this play exceptional.
Sunil Kant Munjal, president of LSS, addresses a press conference in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Inderjeet Verma
8 more pledge to donate their bodies
Ludhiana, April 16
Inspired by the initiative of New Hope, a city-based NGO, to motivate people to donate their bodies and vital body organs after death for furtherance of medical education and alleviate the suffering of critically ill persons, eight more prominent city residents from different walks of life today pledged to donate their bodies after death to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital.
Boiler cleaning: 1 dead, another injured
Khanna, April 16
One person was killed while another fell sick while cleaning the boiler pipeline at one of the steel factories in the town, late yesterday evening.
N.S. Nanda, president of New Hope, announces the names of those who have pledged to donate their bodies at a press conference in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
Tribune photo: Inderjeet Verma |
Banda Bahadur’s portrait put up at art gallery
Ludhiana, April 16
A portrait of “Shiromani Shaheed” Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was put up at Justice Gurnam Singh art gallery in Punjabi Virasat Bahwan on the Pakhowal Road here yesterday.
Meeting on animal rights
Ludhiana, April 16
To promote animal welfare between India and Pakistan, a meeting of representatives of both countries was recently organised in Delhi.
Road project inaugurated
Ludhiana, April 16
Chief parliamentary secretary Harish Rai Dhanda today inaugurated a road development project in ward No. 45 in Atam Nagar.Area councillor Inderjeet Singh Gill was also present on the occasion.
Night camp at Green Grove
Doraha, April 16
The World Holidays Adventure Club organised an adventurous night camp at Green Grove Public School, Mohanpur, last night. About 200 students from the middle section participated in a number of adventurous activities under the guidance of instructors from Chandigarh.
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