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Rescue team without safety kits
Ludhiana, February 5
The civic officials’ apathetic attitude towards the safety of sewage workers
came to fore once again today during a failed bid to save an employee engaged in
opening a sewer line, who died because the rescue team was not equipped with
safety kits.
25-yr-old married woman ends life
Was being harassed for dowry
Ludhiana, February 5
Not able to stand the greed of her in-laws, a 25-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by setting herself afire at her in-laws house in Chawni Mohalla today afternoon.
Raids shelved after illegal meat shops tipped off
Ludhiana, February 5
After information about impending raids on illegal slaughterhouses and meat and poultry shops in the city leaked out a team of officials of various government departments and including a few high court lawyers has postponed the drive for the time being.
Tipsy cops get the boot
Ludhiana, February 5
The police has suspended two head constables -Raj Kumar and Shamsher Singh - after they were found to be in an inebriated state while on a naka duty opposite PVR Cinemas, Malhar Road, last night.
Kila Raipur Games
Fighting fit at 70-plus
Veterans give youths run for their money
Kila Raipur, February 5
Septuagenarians gave an inferiority complex to youths watching the sports event at the Kila Raipur games as they sprinted the 100-metre dash without a huff.
Owing it to traditional Indian food habits and persistent scientific experimentation, the veterans held that food items constituting
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Still going great:
Veteran athletes during the 100-metre dash at the Kila Raipur
games on Saturday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Japs join in
Kila Raipur, February 5
Unable to contain their gusto, members of N TV, a Japanese media company making a documentary on Kila Raipur Sports Fair, took part in a number of non-traditional events.
Inioto, a member of the troupe, went to the extent of leading her team in the tug-of-war event.
Appreciating gesture of Indian sportspersons in general and Punjabis in particular, Inioto said nowhere in the world she had seen the splendour and originality of games as was being showcased at Grewal Stadium.
JAPANSESE POWER:
Inioto, a Japanese, leads her team in a tug-of-war event at Kila Raipur on Saturday.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
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Villagers make girls feel at home
Kila Raipur, February 5
Punjabi hospitality was at its best in this village near Ludhiana where the “rural Olympics” is under way with women residing there leaving no stone unturned to make sportspersons, especially girls, comfortable. The large hearted villagers did not allow female participants in the event to stay at the stadium but invited them to their homes and looked after them very well.
Day III: Kila Raipur sports fair
Octogenarians, children steal the show
Mandi Ahmedgarh, February 5
Defying gender and age, a large number of sportspersons, including children and octogenarians, stole the show by performing rare feats on the third day of the Platinum Jubilee Edition of the Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as Mini Olympics.
Bullock cart race rage in Maharashtra too: Farmers
Kila Raipur, February 5
Punjab is not the only state to be known as a nursery for producing and promoting bullocks for taking part in cart races during rural sports.
Farmers of Maharashtra claimed that the event was first launched in their state. They said their forefathers had been participating in the event since decades.
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Bullock cart race in progress during Kila Raipur rural sport on Saturday. Tribune
photo: Himanshu Mahajan
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Budding players have much to cheer
Six-a-side hockey for U-14, 17 boys introduced this year
Kila Raipur, February 5
Sports organisations and educational institutes of the area have much to cheer with the introduction of the six-a-side hockey for junior boys in the Kila Raipur Sports.
Earlier, due to lack of number of players various sports organisations and educational institutes used to fail in sending their teams for various state and national-level competitions. |
Hockey players in action during six-a-side match
at Kila Raipur on Saturday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Rs 20-lakh gold cup to be out this time
Ludhiana, February 5
After remaining locked for two years, owing to an controversy following factionalism among the organisers Grewal Sports Association, the Rs 20 lakh Bhagwant Memorial Gold Cup will be taken out of locker tomorrow in the Kila Raipur rural Olympics underway here.
The Bhagwant Memorial Gold Cup
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Levying of processing fee in e-tendering
Deadlock between MC officials, contractors over
Ludhiana, February 5
Finally the stage is set for carrying out development work worth Rs 75 crore in the city as the deadlock between the municipal corporation authorities and contractors over levying of the processing fee in e-tendering broke on Saturday.
Price Rise
Activists of sangharsh committee flay UPA govt
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Ludhiana, February 5
Led by activists of the Lok Sangharsh Committee, Punjab (LSC) and New Trade Union Initiative, hundreds of workers and labourers today held a protest rally at Chattar Singh Park against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.
Activists of the Lok Sangharsh Committee and New Trade Union Initiative workers and peasants burn an effigy of the UPA govt in Ludhiana on Saturday.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma
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Mining contract ends
Ludhiana, February 5
Mining contract awarded in 32 villages of Ludhiana district came to a close today. Vishav
Bandhu, general manager, District Industries Centre, Ludhiana, and mining officer, said the contract was awarded for six month only in the state as per the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Strike in PAU
Capt comes out in support of students
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Ludhiana, February 5
After all the support coming from various sections, including farmers, social organisations and other trade unions, it was former Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, who supported the striking students of Punjab Agricultural University
(PAU) today.
Former Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh listens
to the agitating students at Punjab Agricultural University on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
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City loses 2 gems
Ludhiana, February 5
City lost its two gems in the fields of literature and culture. Well-known Punjabi singer Parminder Sandhu and writer Dr Ajit Singh Sikka have died.
Parminder Sandhu (52), who died here today, was suffering from cancer. She was admitted at Mohan Dai Cancer Hospital where she
breathed her last in the morning around 4.
3 killed as factory wall caves in
Police books contractor
Khanna, February 5
Three labourers were killed when a newly constructed wall of a feed factory at Rahaun village on Slaudi Road collapsed on Thursday. The police has booked the contractor,
Padeshwari, a resident of Bihar, under Section 304 of the IPC in this connection.
Badminton
Ludhiana, Nagpur in quarterfinals
Ludhiana, February 5
Host Ludhiana, along with Nagpur region, began its campaign on a positive note, wrapping up the matches in the women’s as well as men’s sections in the team events on the opening day of the 6th edition of the All-India Badminton Tournament of New India Assurance Company Limited being organised by the New India Assurance Sports and Recreation Club,
Ludhiana.
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