Members of the Aastha Ladies Club perform dandia at Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph |
Rs 5.5 lakh fraud unearthed
Ludhiana, October 1
Tehsildar-cum-Sub Registrar (West) today unearthed a fraud by catching a party that was going to execute a sale deed of a property worth Rs 5.5 lakh of a dead man red handed.
Leprosy gone, but fear of rejection ails him
Ludhiana, October 1
"I will never go back to Orissa because I am scared that my family will not accept me," said 45-year-old Seshav
Dunta, a farmer from Orissa, who had left home 15 years back after he was diagnosed with leprosy.
Sealing Drive
MC squad returns empty handed
 Ludhiana, October 1
Municipal corporation squad that had gone to seal a building near Krishna
Mandir, Model Town Extension, had to return empty handed after the area’s councillor intervened.
MC officials argue with the building owner when the former had gone to seal the construction site in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo Himanshu Mahajan
Water samples fail in rural schools
Ludhiana, October 1
Information collected from the health department revealed that 13 water samples out of the 33 taken from schools in rural areas in July were found to be unfit for consumption.
Twenty one samples of water out of 64 taken in August were also not fit for drinking.
PSEB employees seek revised pay scales
 Ludhiana, October 1
A protest rally by the coordination committee of employees and the engineers of Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) organised at zonal headquarters today demanded immediate implementation of the new pay scales as unanimously recommended by the Wage Formulation Committee
(WFC).
PSEB employees and engineers hold a rally at PSEB zonal headquarters
in Ludhiana on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
Youth Cong protests against power shortage, tariff hike
 Ludhiana, October 1
Activists of the District Youth Congress led by its president Dimple Rana today staged a demonstration in front of the city central division office of the Punjab State Electricity Board at the Old Sabzi Mandi Chowk. They were protesting against prolonged power cuts and the hike in power tariff.
Youth Congress activists hold a demonstration at the Old Sabzi Mandi Chowk in Ludhiana on Thursday. A Tribune photograph
No paddy harvesting at night
Ludhiana, October 1
Ludhiana deputy commissioner Vikas Garg today passed an order, banning the harvesting of paddy at night and the burning of paddy straw in the fields.
The order said the paddy crop harvested at night with combines contained much higher levels of moisture than the government-specified limit, due to which procurement agencies had been refusing to buy the crop at the time of procurement.
Teachers’ union stages dharna
Ludhiana, October 1
The Government School Teachers’ Union, Punjab, today staged a dharna at the Mini Secretariat under the presidentship of Bhajan Singh
Toor.
IELTS Exam
2 booked for fraud
Jagraon, October 1
The Sudhar police has booked two persons for allegedly taking Rs 1.23 lakh from complainant Jaswinder Singh “to get his wife’s IELTS exam cleared”, which they failed to do so.
Probe against fake export firms for duping govt
Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 1
A large number of fake export firms have swindled amounts worth crores by not fulfilling obligations as per the FTDR 1992 and the Revenue Recovery Act 1890 norms.
Teacher crushed to death
Jagraon, October 1
A retired teacher of Sidhwan Bet was killed yesterday when he was mowed down by a school bus.
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