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Winds of change blow at Jarkhar
50 girls overcome resistance, hone basketball skills
Ludhiana, January 25
Winds of change have started blowing at Jarkhar village, sports once known to be a male bastion is fast losing its ground. Now the villagers are encouraging girls to take part in sports.
Appointment of Registrar by MC chief illegal
Ludhiana, January 25
The appointment of PCS officer Mahinder Pal Gupta as Registrar, Birth and Death, of the MC by Municipal Commissioner AK Sinha is “illegal” as the latter has no power to make an appointment to the post.
Advertisers flout norms
as MC sleeps
 Samrala, January 25
The advertisements of private companies, tournaments and even conferences on important public places has become a common sight and perhaps the directions of the high court and other law enforcing agencies are meant only for common people.
Signages have been covered with advertisements at the main chowk in
Samrala. Photos by writer
Sewer spill near Raikhi Cinema irks residents
 Ludhiana, January 25
For the past few days residents as well as shopkeepers of the area around Raikhi cinema have been fretting over an overflowing sewer that is emitting a foul smell and giving pedestrians a tough time.Speaking to The Tribune, some shopkeepers averred, "This stretch, which had been transformed into a beautiful green area full of plants by the theatre owner, Vikas
Raikhi, has now been sullied by an overflowing sewer.
Overflowing sewer in front of Raikhi Cinema,
Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Pawar slammed for price rise
 Ludhiana, January 25
The Punjab Pradesh Aggarwal Sammelan has slammed union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar for unprecedented rise in prices of essential commodities, charging him with being hand in glove with hoarders and profiteers.
Punjab Pradesh Aggarwal Sammelan president Amrit Lal Aggarwal addresses mediapersons in
Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph
Move to introduce new police system hailed
Ludhiana, January 25
The Punjab government’s decision to introduce the police commissionerate system in three cities, namely,
Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar, has been welcomed by residents who hope it will help in bringing down the rising crime graph in the state’s industrial hub. It is also felt vehicular traffic and crowd control will become easier to manage.
Healthcare gets easy with home delivery
Ludhiana, January 25
With introduction of newer concepts and ideas in the field of healthcare, availability of medicines and facility of tests at the doorstep has become a blessing for the sick and elderly who are unable to move out on their own.
Anti-Encroachment Drives
Shopkeepers, slum-dwellers meet Bansal
 Ludhiana, January 25
Around 200 slum-dwellers and shopkeepers of Dholewal Chowk today met with senior deputy mayor Praveen Bansal and asked him to save them from the civic body’s anti-encroachment drives.The shopkeepers said: “We had been trading here for the past few years and the place was allotted to us by former MC commissioner SK Sharma.
A shopkeeper talks to senior deputy mayor Praveen Bansal in Ludhiana on Monday.
A Tribune photograph
Manch threatens stir over quota
Ludhiana, January 25
Demanding the rejection of Justice Rang Nath Mishra report on providing reservation to minorities, including Dalit Muslims and Christians, the Scheduled Castes Reservation Bachao Manch has threatened a nationwide agitation, including chakka jam and rail jam if the government persisted with any move to dilute 15 per cent reservation to the SCs.
Schools celebrate R-Day
Ludhiana, January 25
Children of Everest Play-Way and Nursery Wing of Everest Public Senior Secondary School, Moti Nagar, celebrated the Republic Day here today with great fervour. Tiny tots came beautifully dressed. Asha Sharma, principal, informed the students about the importance of the day.
PAU Notes
Programme on water storage tanks
Ludhiana, January 25
Precision Farming Development Centre (PFDC) in the department of soil and water engineering organised a two-day training programme on construction of water storage tanks for the officers of the department of soil conservation, Punjab.
Cops gatecrash wedding to arrest groom
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 25
Marriage celebrations at a marriage palace in Jagera village of Ludhiana district turned sour for families of bride and groom yesterday, when a police team from
the CIA wing, Khanna, raided the premises to arrest the bridegroom.
Industrialists meet Manmohan
Ludhiana, January 25
Industrialists and representatives of the trade and industry associations have urged the government to end the cross-subsidy for electrical power by 2012 since it was causing almost 20 per cent higher cost of power. A delegation of industrialists met the PM in Delhi recently in this regard. Giving details about the meeting, SP Oswal, chairman of the Vardhman Group, claimed that the PM concurred with their view that the cross-subsidy was pointless as subsidy being given to the agriculture sector did not get reflected as a cost factor while fixing the minimum support prices (MSP) for various crops and thus resulted in fixation of a lower MSP.
Youth dies in freak mishap
Samrala, January 25
A youth of Khattran village was killed in a freak mishap here last evening.Harpal Singh (29) used to transport sand and other building material on a tractor-trolley. He was returning home when he lost control of the vehicle, laden with sand, after negotiating a turn near Madpur village. In the process, one tyre of the vehicle got stuck in
the mud.
Four nabbed for
robbery attempt
Ludhiana,
January 25
The police arrested four persons who were planning to commit robbery in
the Model Town area.The accused have been identified as Gagandeep Singh,
Manwinder Singh and Amit Singh, all from Manjit Nagar, and Mohd Mumtaz,
a resident of Bihar. They were arrested when they assembled near the
community hall in Model Town and were planning to commit the crime.
Labourer killed in
accident
Samrala, January 25
A migrant labourer was killed when a speeding car knocked him down at
the main chowk here last night.
Two held with contraband
Jagraon, January 25
A team of Jalaldiwal police post under the Raikot police station of Ludhiana rural police arrested a man for possessing 55 kg poppy husk here today.
Two arrested for snatchings
Jagraon, January 25
The police has arrested two persons involved in various incidents of snatching.The accused — Dhawandeep Singh, alias
Dhamna, of Pabbian village and Bikramjit Singh of Lamme Jata Pura village, near Raikot — used to snatch chains, mobiles and purses of unsuspecting women and flee on a motor cycle
(PB 25 B 7786).
Ludhiana claim basketball, handball titles
Jarkhar (Ludhiana),January 25
Ludhiana made clean sweep in basketball and handball events of the 24th edition of Jarkhar sports festival organised under the aegis of the Punjab Rural Sports Promotion Council at Mata Sahib Kaur Stadium here today.
Avneet Kaur, Kuldeep Manak, Baljit Singh, and Rupinder Singh Ravi after being honoured by the organisers of Jarkhar rural games in Ludhiana on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Canada Kabaddi Cup
Moga club emerge champs
Ludhiana, January 25
Ambi Hathoor International Club, Moga, survived some anxious moments before romping home winners 41.5-40 against Dashmesh Club, Kalakh, in the final of the eight Canada Kabaddi Cup Tournament organised by the Malwa Sports Club in association with the Frazer Valley Sports Club of Canada at Guru Nanak Stadium, here yesterday.
Rich haul for SAI judokas
Ludhiana, January 25
Judokas of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Northern Centre reaped a rich haul of medals in the Inter-SAI Regional Judo Competition for boys and girls held at SAI training centre, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, recently.
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Around 10 kg of improvised explosive device (IED) was found from an abandoned car at Halwara near the Air Force base last night.
Thrill-seeking youngsters, most of them in their teens, zipping across lanes on busy streets on their motorbikes and in cars, have become a common sight in the city. The growing menace of underage driving is now fast assuming alarming proportions.
