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No bidders for LIT complex, auction called off
 Ludhiana, December 10
The public auction for a Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) commercial complex in an upmarket residential-cum-commercial area of the city slated for today failed to evoke any response. The built-up modern complex is located on Maharani Jhansi Road in an area of 2.22 acres
LIT chairman Ashok Juneja addresses mediapersons in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo by Himanshu Mahajan
Schoolteacher dies
Suspected to have contracted H1N1 virus
Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 10
A government schoolteacher of the local town, first suspected patient of Mandi Ahmedgarh, died at a multi-specialty private hospital in Ludhiana today. He had been admitted to the hospital two days ago. Health officials are keeping their fingers crossed and waiting for the report of his samples.
‘Jan Aushadhi’ fails to benefit poor
Ludhiana, December 10
‘Jan Aushadhi’, the low-cost generic drug store at the city’s Civil Hospital, has been unsuccessful in benefiting less well-off patients visiting the hospital as the doctors there reportedly continue to prescribe patented (branded) drugs that are not available at the drug store.
Three get life for
killing woman
Ludhiana, December 10
The court of Additonal Sessions Judge Munish Singal has convicted Balbir Singh of Agwar
Ladhai, Jagraon, Manjit Kaur of Lamme village and Sarabjit Kaur of Jatpura village,
Raikot, on the charges of killing Paramjit Kaur of Agwar Ladhai by setting her ablaze.
Industrial activity back to normal
Migrant workers still feel insecure
Ludhiana, December 10
Industrial operations at Focal Point, Dhandari and other industrial areas of the city has returned to normal after four days of violent clashes and imposition of curfew, with manufacturing units have begun functioning in right earnest.
As normalcy returns, the hoisery industry witness spurt in activities to meet the deadlines in Ludhiana
on Thursday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Cong blames govt for recent violence
Ludhiana, December 10
The District Youth Congress (DYC) today slammed the SAD-BJP government in Punjab, charging it with creating communal and regional hatred for its vested political interests.
Migrants in Malwa decide to stay put
Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 10
Apparently unmoved by rumours of an exodus of migrant workers in Punjab’s major cities flocking back to their native states, migrants employed as labourers in this part of the Malwa belt have decided not to quit and leave. Content with their living conditions and the treatment meted to them by the locals, they fear their children’s future would be ruined and they might even face starvation if they returned to their native villages.
Women seem to be unmoved by recent voilence in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Focal Point SHO transferred
Ludhiana, December 10
Focal Point SHO Pardeep Sandhu was today transferred to Ropar following an inquiry into the Dhandari incident in which a mob of angry migrants had held the city to ransom besides damaging property worth
lakhs.
Cake-mixing ceremony at a hotel announces the start of Christmas celebrations in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Post-violence kids living in fear
Ludhiana, December 10
The kids of Dhandari Kalan don’t sleep these days. They wake up at midnight and cuddle up with their mother and father. Reason: blood, cries and bullets to which they were witness.
Strike in PSEB offices
Jagraon, December 10
All PSEB offices remained closed due to the strike by the electricity department workers against the proposed privatisation of the PSEB.
Local bodies dept to probe fake bill scam
Ludhiana, December 10
The multi-crore fake bill scam where three contractors, including a BJP MLA and Deputy Speaker, Vidhan Sabha, Satpal Gosain’s grandson, has been indicted, would be probed by the Punjab Local Bodies Department too.
Road Construction
Contractors meet Municipal Commissioner, seek payment
Ludhiana, December 10
Contractors undertaking the road construction work met Municipal Commissioner AK Sinha here today to ask about the payments that were withstanding on part of the civic body.
Poor kids given woollens
Raikot, December 10
Showing a noble gesture, the Lions club, Raikot, today distributed woollens to the students of Government Elementary School, Talwandi
Rai, near here. More that 180 students of the school that were not wearing woollens as their parents could not afford them were given sweaters as per their needs.
Members of Raikot Lions Club with children of Government Elementary School in Talwandi Rai village. Photo: Rakesh Gupta
No-confidence motion against Nagar Panchayat chief
Khamano December 10
Eight members of Nagar Panchayat presented a no-confidence motion against present Nagar Panchayat president Jathedar Gian Chand to EO Surinder Kumar. There were 11 members in all.
Welfare body members elected
Ludhiana, December 10
The following have been elected office-bearers of the Rishi Nagar (F-Block) Welfare Association for 2009-10: Chairman-Satish Thaman; president-Raman Gogna; senior vice-president-Vinod Gupta; vice-president-Sandeep Salwan; general secretary-Bhupesh Gupta; joint secretary-Rakseh Arora and treasurer-Manoj Bhardwaj.
PAU staff start chain fast
 Ludhiana, December 10
The state government may have released a grant to Punjab Agricultural University
(PAU) for payment to teachers as additional amount for implementation of new pay scales but bitterness among the employees against the government's "callous attitude" refuses to die down. On the 15th day of their protest, the employees of farm university started their hunger strike today.
PAU employees hold rally in Ludhiana on Thursday.
Tribune photo: Interjeet Verma
PAU Notes
‘Light irrigation must for indoor plants in winters’
Ludhiana, December 10
In view of the dipping of mercury this winter, PAU floriculturists have advised that the sensitive indoor plants need to be protected against cold. head, Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, Dr. Ramesh Kumar said that a number of plants such as croton, ixora, agronema, syngonium and dracaena are weather sensitive.
Admin against religious preachings in schools
Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 10
Heads of all schools have been directed not to allow any type of religious or reformative discourse by missionaries or officials of any of religious organisations.
Seminar on de-addiction in schools
Ludhiana, December 10
The Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Gurmati Institute and the Aas Kiran de- addiction centre of Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle are jointly organising seminars against female foeticide and drug de-addiction in various city schools.
City Concerns
Planned project can wreck havoc
The railway over bridge that would come up in place of the Lakkar Bridge would not be connected to the elevated road thereby defeating the entire purpose despite Rs 60 crore spent on it. As per the design, the bridge is in a Y-shape with the tail starting from the Civil Lines. While the downward ramp would end at the Central Post office at the Mata Rani
Chowk, the upward ramp would start from the Reikhy Cinema chowk.
8 booked for burning woman
Raikot, December 10
The Raikot police has booked 8 members of a family for physically assaulting and burning a married woman. They suspected that she was having extra marital affair. Asha Rani of Mehal Khurd village in her statement at Life Care hospital,
Raikot, had stated that she was married to Rajan Singh of Johalan village near here for around 12 years and had two sons from this wedlock.
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