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No less achievers
Ludhiana, May 29
Physical disability could not prove to be a handicap for them who overpowered their impairment and came out with flying colours in the CBSE Class X examination.
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Garima Goyal of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, topped Ludhiana district in the Class X CBSE examination with 97.8 per cent marks.
 Jasleen tops in Sahnewal
Panchayat Poll
Results manipulated, says candidate
Ludhiana, May 29
A woman candidate having contested in panchayat elections from Kasabad village today submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner-cum district electoral officer, alleging the polling staff of manipulation in results.
Revolver stolen from museum recovered
Two teenagers held, but museum officials see insider’s hand
Ludhiana, May 29
The police claims to have solved a case of an antique revolver stolen from War Museum with the arrest of two teenagers. But museum officials have not satisfied, who suspect the police had ignored an "insider" involved in the job.
Respite from hot weather expected
Ludhiana, May 29
This year, the month of May remained the coolest in the last 15 years with the lowest temperature recorded at 22.5 °C (maximum) on May 20. The unusual cool and squally May was a sign of climate change.
Missing kid died of drowning: Report
Raekot, May 29
Sukhpreet Singh, a two and a half years old child of Kalsan village, who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances four days ago, died of drowning, opined doctors who conducted a postmortem on his body. The body was fished out from the village pond yesterday.
14-yr-old girl eats for the first time
Ludhiana, May 29
Navjot Kaur, a student of ninth standard in Government School in Saida Chowk in old city, has eaten for the first time ever since she was born. She is overjoyed with the pleasure of being able to open her mouth for the first time in her life. The lucky girl feels that she has literally been reborn, thanks to the Rotary Club of Ludhiana Mid Town.
Navjot, who has been given a new lease of life, flanked by her mother and Dr Ravindra Tah in Ludhiana
on Thursday. — A Tribune photograph
Oz adventurer to cover Ganges delta on cycle
Ludhiana, May 29
Forty-one-year-old Australian adventurer Richard Wierzbinski’s love for Indian culture has motivated him for a trip through the Ganges Delta on a bicycle.
He plans to undertake it in October this year. Wierzbinski would undertake his journey via Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. He has travelled 35 countries across the globe on bicycle.
Australian adventurer Richard Wierzbinski.
Akalgarh market, a firetrap
Ludhiana, May 29
Shopkeepers in the Akalgarh market here are virtually sitting on a powder kegm thanks to lack of fire safety measures in the congested market.
9 more pledge to donate their bodies
Ludhiana, May 29
The campaign for motivating people to donate their bodies for furtherance of medical education and research being run by New Hope, an NGO here, received a boost with nine more prominent city residents coming forward to pledge donation of their bodies to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here.
6 injured in accident
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 29
Six persons, including two occupants of a van, were injured when a bundle of over 20-foot-long angle-irons, loaded on a horse-cart, pierced windscreen and windowpanes of the van on Ludhiana-Malerkotla road near Alamgir village near here this morning. The injured were shifted to various hospitals at Ludhiana.
Letters
Teachers must vote wisely
Five booked for cheating traders
Khanna, May 29
Five persons have been booked for cheating traders at the cattle fair here today. The accused had also fought with the complainant and beaten him.
Snatching incident: stolen scooter recovered
Ludhiana, May 29
The city police has recovered the stolen scooter in the Rs 6.50 lakh snatching case. The money was snatched from a hosiery employee two days ago. The Bajaj Chetak scooter (PB-10-4643) was found abandoned in Shimla Puri last evening.
Prompt decision on fuel prices must: Dealers
Ludhiana, May 29
Petroleum dealers today blamed the government for dilly dallying on the price issue and creating panic among fuel consumers.
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