An Uno car that caught fire on the Jalandhar bypass in Ludhiana on Thursday night.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
Dowry Death: Man, mother get life term
Ludhiana, April 25
A fast-track court headed by an additional sessions judge has convicted a man and his mother in a dowry death case. They were sentenced to undergo rigorous life imprisonment.
Bhupinder Singh and Nasib Kaur were convicted of burning alive Harpreet Kaur. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the accused.
Assaulted by in-laws, man seeks
police help
Alleges wife being confined by her parents
Samrala, April 25
Apprehending threat to the life of his recently wedded wife Kirandeep Kaur, Hardeep Pal Singh has urged the higher authorities to impress upon the police to help Kirandeep, who has been confined by her parents.
He alleged that they had abducted her after assaulting the couple yesterday.
A fire brigade personnel tries to control a fire in the basement of a commercial complex in Ludhiana on Friday. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
— Photo by Inderjeet Verma |
BSNL services go on the blink
Ludhiana, April 25
A technical snag in Bhartiya Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) mobile and broadband services left the city subscribers high and dry today.
The snag affected mobile users as well as Internet subscribers, who had to look for nearby cafés to access the Internet.
Removal of hoarding invites Cong wrath
Doraha, April 25
The removal of a hoarding consisting of pictures of Congress icons from the Kaddon Chowk by the MC, as part of the election code, has invited the wrath of Congressmen who are planning agitations for the restoration of the hoarding.
A number of Congress leaders, including Adarsh Pal Bector and Surinder Pal Sood, former MC presidents, today assembled at the chowk today.
Girl left to fend for ailing father, brother
Mandi Ahmedgarh, April 25
With meager resources at her disposal, Krishna Rani, eldest daughter of a family of Rangoowal village, near here, is striving hard to help her 26-year-old brother Gurcharan reach his maximum potential and revive her father
Butta Singh from paralysis attack.
Changi Kheti
Varsity asks bank to make amends
Ludhiana, April 25
Punjab Agricultural University has approached the bank seeking reasons and revalidation of cheque or any possible solution to “carelessness” in not getting a special cheque cleared within time, which led to the university not supplying copies of its magazine to villages under a special government scheme.
Khalsa School alumnus get together
Ludhiana, April 25
Around 45 alumnus of the erstwhile Khalsa School, Kila Raipur, now Government Senior Secondary School, got together to discuss preservation of old glory of the school and help upgrade the existing infrastructure
here yesterday.
An alumni, Dalip Singh (right), being honoured at an old students’ meeting of erstwhile Khalsa School at Government Senior Secondary School at
Kila Raipur village. — A Tribune photograph
Power cuts test people’s patience
Ludhiana, April 25
With mercury rising and heat wave-like conditions prevailing in the region, the power situation has worsened, thereby disrupting the day today life of the people.
Tariff revision by June
Ludhiana, April 25
The process of revising power tariff for the year 2008-09 has been set in motion with the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission
(PSERC) holding its first public hearing on the aggregate revenue requirement for the current financial year filed by the Punjab State Electricity Board
(PSEB) last month here today.
Artefacts from North on display
Ludhiana, April 25
City mayor Hakam Singh Gyaspura today inaugurated the gram shree mela at Kidwai Nagar here today.
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