NATURE’S COLOUR PLAY: Gulmohar and amaltas in full bloom at the PAU in Ludhiana. Photo: Satwinder Basra |
Muthoot
Burglary
The super rich who wanted too much, too fast
Ludhiana, May 21
He has more air-conditioners in his house than a common man has coolers. But now he sleeps on cemented floor, under rickety fans, in the custody of the CIA police.
Puneet Aggarwal, accused in the multi-crore Muthoot burglary case, is probably the richest accused cooling his heel’s in police net.
Twentysix-year-old Puneet has bank savings and assets far more than the Rs 2.80 crore gold he allegedly stole in connivance with the acting bank manager, Ritesh
Pillai, on Saturday.
Petrol station raided
Ludhiana, May 21
A team from the department of district food, civil supplies and consumer affairs conducted a raid on Azad Fuel Station at Fountain Chowk here today.
A raid being conducted on Azad Fuel Station at Fountain Chowk in Ludhiana on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph
Park panels get notices
But where are the grants?
Ludhiana, May 21
Just two months after park management committees (PMCs) were announced, the horticulture wing of the MC has issued notices to 22 PMCs for not maintaining the parks well.
VHP, Bajrang Dal rally against terror
Ludhiana, May 21
Activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal today held a scooter and motorcycle rally in the city to register their protest against increasing disruptive activities of what they termed as “Islamic terrorism”.
Activists of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal took out a two-wheeler rally to protest against terrorism in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
 ‘Anti-terrorism day’ observed
Sub-registrar’s office
waterlogged for 3rd day
Ludhiana, May 21
Causing inconvenience to the public, the sub-registrar’s office here remained waterlogged for the third day today. People who had come to get sale deeds registered had to wade through the water to enter the office premises. Residents said though the office was shifted here a long time ago, no attention was being paid to facilities like drinking water or civic amenities.
The sub-registrar’s office that was flooded after showers in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
Jewellery Shop Attack
Police zeroing in on culprits
Mandi Ahmedgarh May 21
The police has tightened noose around members of a gang that had attacked a jewellery shop owned by Kuldip Singh
Karwal, general secretary, SAD youth wing, and thrashed his brother,Gurdeep Singh, after dragging him to the Railway road here on Monday. Though a few persons were reportedly rounded up by the police, no body was arrested.
Women empowerment project goes to PAU
Ludhiana, May 21
The department of biotechnology, ministry of science and technology, Government of India, has sanctioned a mega project,” An integrated approach to provide employment opportunities to women” with a budgetary allocation of Rs 54.96 lakh to Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) recently.
Tributes paid to Rajiv Gandhi
Ludhiana, May 21
Rich tributes were paid to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 17th death anniversary by functionaries of the District Congress Committee (Urban) at Congress Bhawan here today. The meeting was presided over by senior party leaders Vidya Sagar Rampal and Des Raj
Saini.
Villagers organise mela
Ludhiana, May 21
People attended the 9th annual mela organised in the memory of Lakh Daata Peer at Bulara village.
Letters
Banks must reach out to poor
Crop Damage Farmers seek claim; ICICI refuses
Ludhiana, May 21
Farmers living in villages in and around Jagraon have alleged that a private company from which they got their potato crop insured has refused to settle their claims despite they having inured huge crop loss. At least 40 farmers said the company charged a premium of Rs 1,600 per acre for which the sum insured was Rs 24,000 but,now it was refusing to make that payment.
Rain brings relief to cultivators
Mandi Ahmedgarh May 21
The two-day rain brought relief not only to urban population, but the peasants as well gained financially by cutting down the cost for preparing fields for cultivating paddy and cotton crops in this belt of
Malwa. Savings could have been much more had the administration given relaxed the ban on the early sowing of the paddy.
Rain helps farmers prepare fields for sowing paddy and cotton near Ahmedgarh. A Tribune photograph
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