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Lohri: Coins, currency notes sold on black market
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 13
With none of the local commercial banks willing to provide new currency notes and coins, illegal sale of Indian coins and currency of lower denominations in ‘black’ flourished on occasion of Lohri.
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Birds head for home after sunset in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
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MC gets tough with reckless drivers
Imposes fine for damaging public property
Ludhiana, January 13
Now reckless driving will cost dear as the Municipal Corporation (MC) has started recovering the cost of the damage to public property due to rash driving.
Theft at Idea showroom
Ludhiana, January 13
Thieves decamped with three computers, a scanner and a printer from an Idea showroom near Cheema Chowk in the Industrial Area-A here in the wee hours of today.
Low on cash, MC passes
300 items
Ludhiana, January 13
Despite the fact that the municipal corporation is reeling under financial crunch, wilting under the political pressure, the high-powered Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) passed more then 300 items related to development work at its Thursday’s meeting.
Govt’s assurance mere lip service: Traders
Yet to announce 75 pc VAT refund on indemnity bond
Ludhiana, January 13
Government’s assurance to refund 75 per cent of VAT on the basis of monthly returns against indemnity bonds to manufacturers and traders, up to Rs 1 crore limit, has proved hollow.
Residents share Lohri warmth, dance to dhol beats
 Ludhiana, January 13
Lohri was celebrated with great zeal in the city today. The sky remained dotted with colourful kites during the daytime. While in the evening people sat around the bonfire and munched peanuts and
gachak. Screams of “bo kata” by boys could be heard throughout the day. While a few had arranged dholis for the music, others played it on their music systems.
Members of New Hope, an NGO, celebrate Lohri with inmates of Swami Vivekananda Ashram in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Institutions keep the tradition alive
Ludhiana, January 13
Lohri was celebrated with great zeal on the PAU campus by the faculty club, department of floriculture and landscaping, college of agriculture, department of farm machinery and power engineering, and the college of agricultural engineering and technology.
Girls dance and sing folk songs around a bonfire during a state-level function organised at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo :Inderjeet Verma
Government schools
Names of prominent personalities to figure on notice board
Mandi Ahmedgarh, January 13
Names of politicians, artists and social activists, who have studied in government schools, will now figure on “achievement boards” of their respective organisations.
Surprise check at market committee
Officials found absent from duty
Khanna, January 13
Ludhiana DMO Rajpal Singh Dhaliwal conducted a surprise check at the office of market committee in Samrala and found some officials absent from duty. The DMO with his team reached the market committee office at 9:30 am and found mandi supervisors Basant Singh, Surinder Kumar, auction recorders Jaswant Singh and Lakhwinder Singh, clerk Simranjeet Singh and peon Harjot Singh absent from the duty. Later, they visited sabzi mandi and found Charnjit Singh, mandi supervisor, Pardeep Kumar and Pawan Kumar, auction recorders, absent. He took records of the two firms in his possession. The DMO said more checks would be conducted in future also.
Parents at wits' end as wards say no to woollens
Ludhiana, January 13
Every morning, the Duggal household witnesses a re-run of the famed "beta sweater pehno" advertisement, followed by frantic exchange of heated words between the mother and her teenaged daughter.
From Schools
Lohri celebrations
Ludhiana: Lohri was celebrated with great zeal on the premises of St GDS Convent School. Students of KG block were dressed in Punjabi attires. All of them were looking beautiful. Students sat around a huge bonfire lit on the campus, sang songs and danced to the beats of Punjabi numbers. Groundnuts and rewaris were distributed among students and staff members. Director of the school Manmohan Singh and principal Manisha Talwar encouraged students to follow their tradition and culture. They also appreciated staff members for their efforts.
PAU Notes
Lohri celebrated
LUDHIANA: Lohri was celebrated with zeal on Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) campus by the faculty club, department of floriculture and landscaping, College of Agriculture, and the department of farm machinery and power engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology. Dr Manjit Singh Kang, Vice-Chancellor, expressed concern over the dwindling number of girls and exhorted everyone to celebrate Lohri for both girls and boys.
SOI to hold camps, interact with students
Ludhiana, January 13
The Students Organisation of India (SOI) will organise a two-day camp in all colleges in the state on the pattern of Punjab University from January 25, to interact with students, learn about their day to day problems and as a follow up action, initiate necessary measures to address the crucial issues.
Wife booked for poisoning man to death
Ludhiana, January 13
A case of murder has been registered against a woman and six others for allegedly killing a man in May last year. The case was registered by the Jodhewal police under Sections 302 and 34,
IPC, here today.
150 take part in bodybuilding meet
Ludhiana, January 13
More than 150 participants competed in the Junior Punjab State Bodybuilding Championship organised by the Ludhiana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (LABFA) under the aegis of the Punjab Amateur Bodybuilding Association (PABA) at Luxmi Narayan Mandir, Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, here, recently.
Handball meet from Jan 15
Ludhiana, January 13
More than 40 teams from across the country will be seen in action during the 27th edition of the Sub-Junior and 12th Mini National Handball Championship for girls to be organised by the Punjab Handball Association (PHA) at Dr Harbhajan Singh Sports Complex, Kirpal Sagar Academy, Rahon, from January 15 to 21.
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Three more incidents of children being injured while flying kites were reported today at Dayanand Medical College & Hospital (DMCH), taking the number of such cases in the city to over two dozen.
