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Move to include Mayor’s ‘attendant’ on UK trip slammed
 Ludhiana, March 4
Whether the city would benefit from Mayor Hakam Singh Giaspura’s visit to Leicester (UK) as part of a five-member delegation of elected representatives remains a moot question. The other members are Senior Deputy Mayor Praveen
Bansal, MC’s Finance & Contract Committee member, Pal Singh Grewal, Executive Engineer of the Building & Roads Branch HC Salaria and Executive Engineer of the Operations & Maintenance Branch Kamlesh
Bansal.
Karwal takes a U-turn, Bains talks of unity
Ludhiana, March 4
Three days after a local councillor and an accused in the tehsildar stripping and assault case, Kamaljit
Karwal, was seen hobnobbing with Mayor, Hakam Singh Gyaspura, an arch rival of his closest aide and district president of the Youth Akali
Dal, Simarjit Singh Bains, he took a U-turn today and said he was latter's bosom pal and would never desert him.
City’s textile industry observes bandh
Workers also join industrialists
 Ludhiana, March 4
Regular and daily wagers, too, joined the industrialists in the protest against the proposal to levy 10 per cent central excise duty on readymade garments. The daily wagers went on hunger strike today in the larger interest of the industry.
Workers and textile industrialists protest outside the central excise office in Ludhiana against the proposal of 10 per cent excise duty to be imposed on them.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Excise duty on garments
Tewari for restoring status quo
Ludhiana, March 4
Ludhiana MP and the national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress Manish Tewari had demanded that the excise duty regime be made optional as it existed prior to the 2011-12 Budget.
City lad wins global award for designing ‘Incredible India’
 Ludhiana, March 4
Suyash Gupta, a Class X student of Alpine International School, Barewal, has added another feather in the city’s cap by bagging an international award at the Adobe’s Annual Asia Pacific School Innovation Awards in the “web” and “regional” category. He designed a website “Incredible India” that contains full-fledged information on renowned places of the country.
Suyansh Gupta
Move to regularise 3,000 sanitary workers
MC pins hope on state budget
Ludhiana, March 4
In the wake of the acute financial crunch being faced by the Municipal Corporation, the civic body authorities are now banking upon the upcoming state Budget for regularising 3,000 odd sanitary workers of disbanded Mohalla Sanitation Committees (MSC).
Rain stalls MC’s ambitious project
 Ludhiana, March 4
Lack of proper planning of the Municipal Corporation in executing an ambitious project of covering of a drain from gurdwara Dukh Niwaran sahib to Shingar Cinema has come to fore as the heavy flow of water in the drain has halted the ongoing work.
BJP councillor Gurdeep Singh Neetu visits the construction site and instructs workers regarding embankment in Ludhiana. Tribune photo:
Inderjit Verma
Women lawyers should work harder: Judge
Ludhiana, March 4
Justice MM Kumar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court exhorted women lawyers to work harder and carve out a niche for themselves in the legal profession.
Textile students relive memories
Ludhiana, March 4
Government Institute of Textile Chemistry and Knitting Technology (GITC&KT) held its annual prize distribution function and alumni meet here today.
Knit world exhibition kicks off
Ludhiana, March 4
“Knit world” exhibition started here today at Dana Mandi,
Bahadur-ke-road.
Besides India, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and China are also participating.
Tickle your taste buds
 Ludhiana, March 4
Get rid of your daily food like “daal makhni” and “shahi paneer”, try something more traditional but in a unique manner.
In order to make traditional but rare dishes of various states popular among
people, students of various hotel management colleges of the state participated
in a food festival “Daawat-e-khas” organised by the PCTE Institute of Hotel
Management.
Students prepare cuisines at the PCTE Institute of Hotel Management on Friday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
NRI strangulated
Ludhiana, February 4
A 28-year-old NRI and father of three daughters was strangulated to death in mysterious circumstances at the Dhanra-Kheri road here today.
Punjab Games
Rain brings out the best in athletes
Ludhiana, March 4
The Shaheed-é-Punjab games witnessed one of the rare sporting spectacles when 22 women athletes battled it out for the top slot and braved the rain
during the 5-km race held at Guru Nanak Stadium last night.
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| BRAVE SHOW: The Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana wears an empty look due to a downpour on Thursday evening. (2) Despite rain, OP Jaisha of the city, clinched the gold medal in the 5 km race. (3) Winners of the Punjab Games being given medals.
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All-India Hockey C’ship
12 top teams to vie for cup
Ludhiana, March 4
Eight top teams of the country in men’s section and four in the women's section have confirmed their participation for the inaugural edition of the All-India Sahibzada Ajit Singh Prize Money Hockey Championship scheduled to be held at the Prithipal Singh Memorial AstroTurf Stadium on Punjab Agricultural University campus here from March 9 to 14.
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Ludhiana, March 4
