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Tribune Impact
MC puts contentious projects on hold
Ludhiana, October 23
Taking a serious note of various reports published in The Tribune, the municipal corporation’s finance & contracts committee (F&CC) today stalled various projects in which irregularities were reported and those which came under ‘luxury spending’.
 Six depts told to shift to A, B zones
Residents blamed for traffic menace
 Ludhiana, October 23
The officials, who were invited to speak on the topic of “City development, issues and challenges” spoke straight from the heart and discussed a volley of issues concerning the city which requires immediate attention.
L to R: SSP SS Gill, DC Vikas Garg, LMA president VK Goyal and DIG SS Chauhan at the LMA meeting on civic development in Ludhiana on Friday.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Mushrooming liquor vends, rising crime top agenda
Thieves decamp with cash, gold worth Rs 40 lakh
Ludhiana, October 23
Thieves decamped with jewelry and cash worth Rs 40 lakhs from an industrialist's house in Model Town Extension here this evening.
City Concerns
Most children in Ludhiana do not have playgrounds for outdoor games, forcing them to become couch potatoes by watching TV and playing video games.
Dengue
Number of cases may be higher, fear physicians
Ludhiana, October 23
Of the total 27 cases of dengue reported in the city this month, 10 hail from Ludhiana district, while the rest 17 belong to other districts of the state.
14 women honoured
Ludhiana, October 23
The Shaheed Memorial Sewa Society celebrated the 43rd Great Women's Day at Ramgarhia Girls Colleges.
The society honoured 14 women from different fields.
Fourteen women were honoured by the Shaheed Memorial Sewa Society in Ludhiana
on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Problems of women entrepreneurs discussed
Ludhiana, October 23
An interactive programme between a delegation from the US-based Women's Earth Alliance (WEA) and local women entrepreneurs for exchanging information and knowledge was today organised at Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET).
Schools & Colleges
Trends in academics underlined
Ludhiana, October 23
A workshop for coordinators, heads, vice-principals and principals commenced today at BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri
Nagar, here.
A resource person during a workshop at BCM School in Ludhiana on Friday.
A Tribune photograph
Awareness programme on iodine
Mandi Ahmedgarh, October 23
To educate masses about deleterious effects of deficiency of iodine, the district health authorities launched a comprehensive awareness programme on the occasion of Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day recently.
Mass weddings performed
Ludhiana, October 23
An NGO, Kasturi Lal Mahajan Helping Hands, today organised mass marriages of needy couples in the city. The event also involved the distribution of the necessary articles among the couples.
Safai workers stage dharna
Ludhiana, October 23
Members of the Safai Labour Union and Disposal Worker Union staged a dharna in support of their demands outside the municipal corporation’s A-zone office here today.
Members of the Safai Labour Union stage a protest at municipal corporation’s
A-zone office in Ludhiana on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Raid on illegal slaughterhouse
Khanna, October 23
A squad of the district administration raided an illegal slaughterhouse in Jain Colony near Basti Jodhewal and rescued 15 goats kept for slaughtering here this afternoon.
Death due to negligence
Medical council ‘siding’ with doctor
Ludhiana, October 23
The Punjab Medical Council (PMC) has been accused of siding with the medical fraternity after the council failed to deal with the complaint of a city resident against a doctor charged with causing death of his son due to medical negligence.
Suspected polio case
WHO team surveys city
Ludhiana, October 23
Following a suspected case of polio from a slum in Ludhiana, a team of experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) conducted a survey in the city.
Concession
Rly pensioners hail relief for attendants
Ludhiana, October 23
The Northern Railway Pensioners Welfare Association has hailed the decision of the Railways board to allow attendants of the first class pass-holder railway pensioners to travel in upper class by paying one third of the fare for higher class after deduction of the sleeper class fare. This concession will be available to those pensioners, who had attained the age of 70 years.
CPI raises concern over rising crime
Ludhiana, October 23
The Communist Party of India (CPI) has expressed concern at the deteriorating law and order situation in the city.
Residents oppose dumping of waste on roads
 Khanna, October 23
Residents of the Amloh Road are upset over the dumping of waste by safai karamcharis on roads.
Employees of the municipal council often dumped waste by the roadside after cleaning drains.
Marks of tyres on sewerage waste dumped on a road at Khanna. A Tribune photograph
Man held with psychotropic drug
Jagraon, October 23
The police has arrested a man for illegally possessing 40 bottles of Rexcof, a habit-forming drug.
Man booked for assaulting woman cop
Ludhiana, October 23
The city police has booked a man for thrashing his wife, who is a woman constable.
Tehsildar case adjourned to Nov 5
Ludhiana, October 23
The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate JPS Wehniwal today adjourned the tehsildar assault case — in which SAD youth wing president Simarjit Singh Bains is among the accused — to November 5.
Alpine, DAV girls to fight for title
 Ludhiana, October 23
Alpine International School, Ludhiana, and DAV International School,
Amritsar, wrapped up their semifinal matches to set up the title clash in the girls U-16 category on the second day of the 26th CBSE Cluster TT Championship being held at MGM Public School here today.
A player in action during a table tennis match in Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph
Cricket trials from Oct 30
Ludhiana, October 23
Trials will be held at Kamla Lohtia Sanatan Dharam College, near Daresi Ground, here, to select the Punjab cricket team (U-17) for the coming National Twenty20 Cricket Championship slated to be conducted at Sunder Nagar in Himachal Pradesh from October 30.
Athletics: Peace Public students bring laurels
Mullanpur Dakha, October 23
Energetic students of Peace Public School brought laurels to their school by exhibiting their vibrancy in the playfield of Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana, where Zonal Athletics Championship was held recently.
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Ludhiana, October 23
