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2 held for financier’s murder
Accused owed Rs 33,000 to victim
Ludhiana, May 1
Inability to repay a loan had allegedly led two persons to murder a septuagenarian financier and saw mill owner whose body was found on a bank of a canal near Sahnewal on April 8 late night.
Drug addicts stab gym owner
Rob him of Rs 55,000
Ludhiana, May 1
Four youths, including a drug addict, allegedly snatched Rs 55,000 from a health club owner and left him to die after stabbing him with a dagger thrice this afternoon.
Panchayat Poll
Election duties rag teachers
Ludhiana, May 1
Lecturers in government colleges here have asked the district administration not to put them on panchayat election duties. Many senior as well as junior lecturers, who have been asked to perform duties, said they were already giving duties as invigilators and superintendents at various examination centres. If they were put on "non-educational" duties, the university examination work will suffer and students will be the ultimate sufferers.
Power plays truant in city
Ludhiana, May 1
In the wake of persistent rise in temperature and heat wave-like conditions prevailing in the region, the drastic power cuts, being imposed both in scheduled and unscheduled manner on the urban feeders in the city, have thrown life in the city out of gear.
Husband gets 7 years for dowry death
Ludhiana, May 1
Court of additional sessions judge M. S. Virdi has convicted Sahib Singh of Gandhi Colony, Tibba Road, Ludhiana, in a dowry death case. He was sentenced to undergo seven years imprisonment and fined Rs 5,000.
Employees hold rallies on May Day
Ludhiana, May 1
Employees of various departments and industries held rallies to mark May Day here today.
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Employees Union, Punjab circle, staged a
rally in the Bharat Nagar telephone exchange complex.
Construction hit as sand rates double
Ludhiana, May 1
Construction activity here got a blow as sand prices have doubled within the last one month. Thanks to the auction of quarries this time at prices many times higher than the last auctions, coupled with low arrival of sand in the market with trolley operators refusing to continue their work, the rise in prices is continuing.
MC swimming pool without lifeguard
Ludhiana, May 1
Beating the heat with a dip in the municipal corporation run swimming pool in Rakh Bagh here could prove dangerous for amateurs with no lifeguard presently posted there.
Sachdeva to head mass media officers’ body
Ludhiana, May 1
Satish Sachdeva, district mass media officer in
the office of the civil surgeon here, has been elected president of the Punjab Health Department Mass
Media Officers Association at the general body meeting held here today. Gurmeet Singh (Patiala) will be the new general secretary of the
association.
Lakhowal chief of state unit of BKU
Alamgir, May 1
Ajmer Singh Lakhowal was unanimously elected as the president of the Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) here today. The elections were held after a gap of four years and the sitting president was re-elected.
Wheat crop burnt
Mullanpur Dakha, May 1
Ripened wheat crop in 3 acres was reduced to ashes in Gahaur village near Mullanpur here today. Sparks from a tranformer installed in the fields reportedly caused the fire. Villagers rushed to the fields to douse the fire.
Food fest to tickle your taste buds
Ludhiana, May 1
Place a premium on things but cuisines that tickle your taste buds can not be measured in dollars, as Zaika -e- Lahore, the ongoing food festival at hotel Fortune
Klassik, has given the Ludhianvis every reason to rejoice. Mouth-watering
delicacies from yakhani shorba, pistey wala doodh and murg malmali kabab as
starters to masaledaar jangari biryani followed by tikhi macchi in assorted
salads leave a glint in the eyes of diners at Fortune Klassik.
Zaika-e-Lahore, the ongoing food fest, at a hotel in Ludhiana offers mouth-watering delicacies to city folks.
— A Tribune photograph
Jyoti wins cotton sari contest
Ludhiana, May 1
Astha Ladies club organised a ‘Cotton Sari Competition’ at Hotel Friends Regency today. Making a ceremonial announcement of summer season, the club members walked down the ramp in style.
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Ludhiana, May 1
Ludhiana is all set to get its metro rail project shortly. A team of officials from the Metro Rail Corporation, New Delhi, today visited the city and surveyed different areas to study the viability of the project.
