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Vote Ballet
Cash demand by voters leave candidates jittery
Ludhiana, May 11
Hours to go for the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections tomorrow, a number of voters seem to have put a price tag on their precious ballot.
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All set for today’s
civic poll
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| Police personnel man Government College for Women; and (right) SDM Amit Kaur Gill assigning duties to the poll staff in Ludhiana on Sunday.
— Photos by Inderjeet Verma |
10 cases of liquor seized
Ludhiana, May 11
The Sudhar police has seized 10 cases of liquor being used to woo voters during the campaigning of the panchayat samiti elections at Dhandran village, sources said
today. The police suspects the involvement of a block-level Congress leader The police is investigating the case.
— TNS
Youth dupes parents of Rs 20 lakh
Refused bike, enacts own kidnapping
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 11
Failing to convince his parents to buy him a motorcycle of his choice, a youth of Kothala village near here enacted his own kidnapping in connivance with his brother-in-law and the duo made his parents part with a ransom of Rs 20 lakh two days ago.
Dog trouble
Ludhiana, May 11
Directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to check stray dog menace in the state notwithstanding, the stray dogs continue to multiply even as the municipal corporation fails to address the problem.
Traffic chaos at the Jagraon bridge in
Ludhiana. — A Tribune photograph |
Book cops for torturing youths: Cong men
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 11
Terming transfer of an erring official during electioneering as administrative obligation, Congress leaders of Payal subdivision have urged the authorities to book those persons on whose instance the SHO Payal had allegedly tortured five youths.
City’s malls, high-rise buildings
at risk
Fire dept ill-equipped; time for MC to wake up
Ludhiana, May 11
The city boasts of a number of malls, shopping plazas and high-rise buildings but the municipal corporation’s fire department is not even equipped to deal with natural or man-made disasters.
A physically challenged woman takes rest inside Lord
Mahavira College, Ludhiana, where a function to distribute artificial limbs was organised on Sunday.
— Tribune photo by Sayeed Ahmed |
Talks on conserving power
Ludhiana, May 11
“How to conserve electricity in buildings?” was the subject for the talk show organised by the Ludhiana Architects Association here today.
PCCTU panel to prepare common
voters’ list
Ludhiana, May 11
In an important development towards resolving the issues of contest between the warring factions of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU), the special committee today was authorised to prepare a common voters list for the voting at a common venue.
Dr Mehta is ADG of ICAR
Ludhiana, May 11
Vegetable expert Dr Ashok Kumar Mehta, working as zonal coordinator (zone-I) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at the Punjab Agricultural University, has been appointed as the assistant director general (ADG) of ICAR.
Five hurt in furnace blast
Mandi Gobindgarh, May 11
Five labourers sustained burn injuries in a blast that took place in a furnace of Jogindra Casting Private Limited. The incident took place at about 11.30 am when they came in contact with hot iron.
— TNS
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