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SDM acts tough, orders sealing of 25 generator sets
Ludhiana, August 7
In the first order of its kind against the use of generators in the city, SDM Devinder Singh has directed the city police, Punjab State Electricity Board
(PSEB) and the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) to seal more than 25 generators in the commercial-cum-residential Surya Kiran building, the mall, here.
The Surya Kiran building where generators would be sealed.
— A Tribune photograph
Greed turns friend into killer
Ludhiana, August 7
Greed of pocketing Rs 4.56 lakh turned a friend into a killer in the Mandi Gobindgarh iron trader Hira Lal murder case. Gurpreet Singh of Tanda Road, Jalandhar, the alleged killer, on being signalled refused to stop his car at a police barricade near Amaltas Hotel. He was nabbed late last night after being chased by the Salem Tabri police.
Power Theft
Even farmers don’t lag behind
Ludhiana, August 7
Of some 25,000 agricultural connections in suburban and Khanna circles falling in the Central Zone, checked by the field staff of the PSEB till July this year, nearly 2,500 were found to be indulging in power theft by way of either kundi connections or having unauthorised load.
PSEB raids 180 units
Ludhiana, August 7
More than 12 teams of the Punjab State Electricity Board’s (PSEB) enforcement wing yesterday raided 180 industrial units that were found violating mandatory weekly off as laid down for different categories of industrial consumers.
Undertrials clash
in bus
Ludhiana, August 7
A former press photographer facing trial in a case of cheating was allegedly beaten up by a group of undertrials in a police bus outside the Bakshikhanna, district court complex, this afternoon.
7 MC officials chargesheeted
Ludhiana, August 7
The vigilance department of the local bodies has chargesheeted seven officials of the municipal corporation in the indoor stadium project at Pakhowal road.
Cotton extravaganza at Nehru Sidhant Kendra
Ludhiana, August 7
Weaving a spell of colours around Ludhianavis, the Rajasthani textile art is back in the city with the ongoing exhibition at Nehru Sidhant Kendra.
Members yet to convene general house meeting
Differences between PCCTU factions persist
Ludhiana, August 7
The present office-bearers
of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU), who were
nominated by a seven-member committee to resolve the rivalry between the
two groups, have yet to convene their first general house meeting.
8 liquor vends fined
Ludhiana, August 7
Officials of the excise and taxation department challaned eight liquor vends in prime locations of the city here last evening.
DMCH OPDs shut for 2 hrs
Ludhiana, August 7
In response to a bandh call given by the Punjab state unit of the
IMA, OPDs of the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) remained closed today from 10 am to 12 noon. According to DMCH principal Dr Daljit Singh, the OPDs were closed to express solidarity with the
IMA, Punjab, in support of the immediate enactment of the law on the patterns of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu, against increased incidents of violence against doctors.
Hospital employee suspended
Ludhiana, August 7
Ashok Bhagat, a class four employee of ESI Model Hospital,
Ludhiana, was suspended yesterday following his irrational behaviour with the MS (medical superintendent) and women staff working in the hospital.
Workshop for progressive beekeepers
Ludhiana, August 7
The monthly state-level training-cum-workshop for members of the Progressive Bee Keepers Association was organised at Kairon Kisan Ghar on the Punjab Agricultural University campus yesterday. At least 70 progressive beekeepers from different parts of Punjab took part in the training
programme.
PAU launches afforestation campaign
Ludhiana, August 7
Forest cover in Punjab is
about 6 per cent against 33 per cent in accordance with the National
Forest Policy. Because of better returns, farmers prefer to grow field
crops like paddy and wheat that account for nearly 85 per cent of the
total land use.
Road of inconvenience
Ludhiana, August 7
Residents of Tibba Road, Gopal
Nagar, Puneet Nagar, Manjeet Nagar, G.K. Estate, Grewal Colony and many other areas have complained that the Tajpur road has become a pond of slush.
4 chemist shops raided
Ludhiana, August 7
As part of the ongoing drive of the health department, a special team constituted by Dr Satpal Sharma, civil surgeon, raided at least four chemist shops in different parts of the city and seized unaccounted medicines allegedly being sold to addicts.
Railing from Jagraon bridge falls
Ludhiana, August 7
Commuters on Gurdwara Dukhniwaran Road had a narrow escape when railing on the Jagraon bridge came down today afternoon.
Letters
Check water contamination
Whenever the degree of essential elements like turbidity (muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended) hardness, iron as well as calcium etc. exceed the limit prescribed under the standards of the
ISI, potable water is called as contaminated and can cause several water-borne diseases.
Farmers told to avail credit from banks
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 7
H.S. Shant, chairman, Sutlej Gramin Bank Ltd, has urged the farmers of the area to avail themselves of institutionalised credit facilities instead of losing their income by paying exorbitant interest to unauthorised moneylenders.
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