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Toll point shifted, but road
not cleared yet
Doraha, August 16
The toll plaza has been shifted near the Satluj bridge, but structures and big stones left behind on the NH-1 here are virtually a death trap for commuters.
Retailers find novel way to promote products
Promotional SMS annoys subscribers
Ludhiana, August 16
After product and services promoting telephonic calls, it is promotional text messages that have started giving a headache to residents.
Youth killed as car rams into tree
Sahnewal, August 16
The son of the recently appointed acting president of the nagar panchayat of Sahnewal was killed in an accident on the Sahnewal-Dehlon road this morning while he was going in his car, along with two friends, to pay obeisance at a holy place in Ajnaud village.
The Indica car which met with an accident on the Sahnewal-Dehlon road on Saturday morning. Photo: Lovleen Bains
Peti mafia going strong
Ludhiana, August 16
The “peti mafia” operating at the railway station here continues to evade taxes worth crores by sending goods without proper invoices. Repeated attempts by the enforcement staff of the excise and taxation department to nail the guilty, have failed to yield any result. It was after much deliberation and dilly-dallying that the railway authorities let the taxation department put up a temporary checkpost at the main entry to the railway parcel office.
 City Centre Scam
Vigilance for early framing of charges
Case adjourned till Sept 27
Ludhiana, August 16
Sessions Judge G.K.Rai today adjourned the multi-crore City Centre Scam case involving former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh till September 27.
Capt Amarinder Singh along with his supporters enter the district courts complex to face a trial in the City Centre Scam in Ludhiana on Saturday. Tribune photo: Sayeed Ahmed
Members of the Ludhiana Marthoma Church team which won the Bible quiz competition organised at the one-day retreat at the Railway
Club, Jalandhar,on Friday. A Tribune photograph |
Price Rise
CPI (ML) to hold rally on August 19
Ludhiana, August 16
The CPI (ML) plans to hold district-level protest demonstrations all over the state to mount pressure on both state as well as the Central governments to check inflation and bring down prices of essential commodities.
Congress rebuts Badal’s charges
Ludhiana, August 16
The Congress has tasken a serious note of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s statement wherein he had accused the Central government of step motherly treatment towards the states being ruled by the Opposition.
Global face of city’s
youth
Ludhiana, August 16
Sample this: Cool dudes and girls! Welcome to this community of people from the biggest city in the richest state. It is always rocking! You will simply freak out here.
Letters
Indifferent municipal corporation
Indifferent attitude of the municipal corporation, Ludhiana, coupled with heavy rains is a menace for the inhabitants of urban estate area. Several main and internal roads are severely broken, besides being a root cause of fatal accidents.
All roads are fractured with deep potholes and ditches. There is an urgent need for patch work, which is not being done despite repeated requests.
What adds insult to injury is that though due attention is being given to other wards of the city, nothing is being done for ward No. 50
(Dugri urban estate area). No councillor/MLA/ MP (past and present) has taken any interest to ameliorate the problems.
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Defying the maxim “practice what you preach” government hospitals have failed to ensure cleanliness in and around their institutes thereby adding to the patients’ misery. With its share of potholes and wild growth of plants, the sanitation condition at the civil hospital puts a question mark on the working of the state health department at large.