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Altercation between doc, ward boy
DMCH staff strike work for 4 hours, patients suffer
Ludhiana, March 1
Patients along with their attendants at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) were at the receiving end as paramedical and nursing staff went on strike for more than four hours today.
| Test of patience: A patient lies unattended following a strike by DMCH employees and (right) nursing staff seen chatting in a corridor of the hospital while patients are left waiting. Photos: Inderjeet Verma |
Lengthy CBSE physics paper dismays students
Ludhiana, March 1
The inordinately lengthy CBSE physics question paper left class 12 students in a flap in their very first board exam of the 12th standard, with the stress showing on their faces after they emerged from the hall after the three-hour test. Most of them complained they were unable to attempt a few questions at the end due to very little time left.
Post-exam blues: Anxious Class XII students coming out of an examination hall in
Ludhiana on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Accused in tehsildar case to rejoin SAD
Shakes hands with the rival of his aide
 Ludhiana, March 1
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This was evident today when a local councillor, Kamaljit Singh Karwal, who was thrown out of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) after he was named an accused in the tehsildar beating and stripping case, is all set to make his way back into the party through the city Mayor, Hakam Singh
Gyapsura.
Mayor Hakam Singh Gyaspura (second from left) hands over a kirpan to Kamaljit Singh Karwal, accused in the tehsildar beating case, in Ludhiana on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Policy on regularising illegal colonies a damp
squib
Ludhiana, March 1
The policy on regularising unauthorised residential colonies in urban areas, notified by the Punjab government last December, has failed to serve the intended purpose due to its inbuilt flaws and practical obstacles in implementing it.
Anti-encroachment committee
MC fails to hold meetings
Member shoots off letter to Principal Secy, seeks action against officials
Ludhiana, March 1
Levelling serious allegations against Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) officials for not holding regular meetings of the anti-encroachment monitoring committee, a member of the committee has written a letter to the Principal Secretary of the Local Bodies Department demanding strict action against them.
Shifting of sewerage line
MC officials, company at loggerheads
Ludhiana, March 1
Following the death of a seven-year-old boy after falling in an open manhole on the National Highway, war of words has begun between the Municipal Corporation (MC) and the private company, undertaking work of the NH widening, for shifting sewerage lines from the highway.
Budget fails to address key issues: CICU
Ludhiana, March 1
The Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) has criticised the Union Budget presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday. In the executive committee meeting of the chamber, the members termed the Budget as directionless which has failed to address the key issues affecting the industry.
10 pc patients are children: Expert
Ludhiana, March 1
Children and even infants are increasingly falling prey to kidney stones due to unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle. Out of the total patients of kidney stone, approximately 10 per cent of them happen to be children.
PSPCL gears up to provide uninterrupted power supply
Ludhiana, March 1
Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) is working overtime to augment and expand its distribution network to ensure eight-hour power supply to tube wells in the ensuing paddy season.
Ludhiana branch of CA institute awarded
Ludhiana, March 1
Ludhiana branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has been awarded for being the best branch at national level. The award was presented by DK Mittal, secretary, ministry of corporate affairs. Branch chairman Hukminder Sahi and managing committee members of Ludhiana branch received the awards.
PYS activists submit memo to
SDM
Amloh, March 1
In response to a call given by Swami Ram Dev for returning the black money deposited in foreign banks by politicians and bureaucrats and to root out corruption from the country, the Amloh and Mandi Gobindgarh unit of the Patanjali Yog Samiti
(PYS) organised a march and submitted a memorandum, signed by 10,000 people, to SDM Poonamdeep
Kaur.
Folk Dance Competition
Batala, Muktsar colleges grab title
Ludhiana, March 1
Guru Nanak College, Batala, and Dashmesh Girls’ College, Badal, Muktsar, grabbed the title of the 8th Annual Late Mohinder Singh Dangori Memorial Folk Dance Competition in bhangra and gidha, organised by the Mohinder Singh Dangori Foundation at Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan here today.
Youth Power: Participants from Chandigarh tweak their moustaches during the Mohinder Singh Dangori Memorial Folk Dance Competition in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Amandeep shines in declamation contest
Samrala, March 1
The Hope Society for Health and Humanity, a society with consistent efforts to spread awareness among people relating healthcare and improvement, organised a declamation competition at Government Senior Secondary School,
Sihala, near here.
From Colleges
From Schools
3 get life term for murder
Ludhiana, March 1
The court of Additional Sessions Judge Manjinder Singh has convicted three persons on the charges of killing Vikas Kumar of Madepur in Bihar following a dispute over Rs 6,000. They were ordered to undergo rigorous life imprisonment.
Organisers ignore sports events
Ludhiana, March 1
With the entire sports department machineryputting into use for making the opening ceremony a success, the sports events, which were to commence this morning, were virtually ignored by the authorities.
Players take shelter under a tree following rain in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Strict security plays spoilsport
Ludhiana, March 1
Strict security arrangements at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) are becoming an issue of disappointment for spectators of the Punjab games. Residents complained that they are missing the action as security guards deployed on the gate denied entry to the outsiders.
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Enumerators for Census-2011 have failed to visit more than 100 Housefed flats, 52 houses in Block D of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and hundreds of houses in urban areas like Harnam Nagar, Asha Puri, Urban Estate Dugri and Phullanwal in Ludhiana district.
