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Bonhomie
Members of a bhangra team belonging to GNIMT in Mandi Gobindgarh break into smiles as they pose for a photograph during the Youth Festival on the Gujarkhan campus in Model Town, Ludhiana, on Monday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
NGO lends support to District Health Official
Ludhiana, March 14
Having failed to obtain any support from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, the District Health Officer (DHO), Dr Jagpal Singh, who was allegedly abused, intimidated and refrained from taking samples from a grocery store in Janakpuri, has received support from an NGO, Universal Human Rights Organisation (UHRO).
More thefts at mobile shops
Ludhiana, March 14
After a lull of nearly a month, theft incidents at mobile shops have again started gaining momentum in different parts of the city, catching the city police napping.
The revival of theft incidents has hinted towards the involvement of an organised gang of thieves, which had struck at mobile shops located alongside the Ferozepore road earlier this year.
 Punjab Budget
Varsities cry for more funds
PAU
The authorities in Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) are not happy with the Budget announced by the Finance Minister Dr Upinderjit Kaur here today.
MS Sidhu (Head, department of economics and sociology, PAU)
Industry left high and dry
Industry has been left high and dry in the state budget. Nothing has been allocated to the industry except Rs 10 crore for upgradation of industrial focal points, while in 2010-2011, the state government has spent Rs 30 crore for the same. The budget has proved to be an utter disappointment for the industry.
ALL EYES: People watch the budget speech of Finance Minister Upinderjit Kaur in Ludhiana on Monday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Medical fraternity welcomes allocation for weaker sections
The medical fraternity has welcomed the provision of Rs 25 crore for free healthcare to the backward classes/castes and economically weaker sections with income below
Rs 30,000 per annum.
Petrol continues to be dearer
The biggest disappointment from the state budget has came to residents, who were expecting that in their last budget, the state government would focus of decreasing the duty on petrol, which is making it dearer in the state contrary to the whole of the region.
Excise duty: Industrialists feel the heat
Textile industry has an annual turn over of more than ` 18,000 crore. But today, the industry in the city is witnessing a complete shut down and even wholesale market is against the Union government to levy duty on it.
‘VAT surcharge proposal welcome’
The proposal of increasing the share of VAT will ensure more income for civic bodies and will give more impetus to the working of the civic body. In the same manner, the setting up of Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company for undertaking and funding of various infrastructure projects in urban areas is also a welcome step.
Protest against excise duty
Poor show by industrialists
Ludhiana, March 14
Despite a daily loss of several crores and much hue and cry regarding the levying of the excise duty by Union government on cloth, industrialists failed to present an impressive show in a protest rally held at local grain market here today.
Building Violation
Coloniser told to pay Rs 15 lakh
Ludhiana, March 14
Efforts of building branch of the Municipal Corporation (MC) to recover pending dues from building violators by terrorising them with ditch machines met stiff resistance from general public, who opposed the MC’s move.
MCPI-U slams Centre, state for ‘anti-people policies’
Ludhiana, March 14
The Marxist Communist Party of India-United (MCPI-U) today slammed the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and the SAD-BJP government in Punjab for its anti-people and anti-poor policies.
District Congress chief stands against UPA
Ludhiana, March 14
Political compulsions, in view of the coming state assembly elections, forced the district president of the Congress to join hands with BJP leaders and industrialists to unfurl the banner of revolt against the Budget presented by the Union Government of his own party.
District Congress president Jagmohan Sharma (encircled) at a rally against the Union Government at the Grain Market in Ludhiana on Monday. A Tribune photograph
MC violates law to appease BJP
Ludhiana, March 14
In a glaring example of how the Municipal Corporation authorities leave no chance of appeasing their political bosses, even by violating prescribed norms, civic body officials sent tankers of water to serve their political masters at a venue of rally organised by BJP leaders.
Strike by safai sewaks makes Doraha stink
Doraha, March 14
The strike by safai karamcharis and the consequent piling up of garbage heaps has created an awful situation in the town. It has not only exposed the residents to dirt, squalor, filth and foul smell everywhere, but has also made them conscious about the sanitation and health all of a sudden.
Heaps of garbage lie scattered in a residential area of Doraha due to the strike by
safai sewaks. Photo by writer
Man who replicated film stunt dies
Ludhiana, March 14
Replicating a film scene cost him his life as after struggling for nearly two days with a bullet injury, victim Ramanath Bhanot (42) succumbed at Dayanand Medical Hospital here today.
Reaching out to grandparents
Ludhiana, March 14
Students of Mother’s Pride School celebrated Grandparents Day at the Nehru Sidhant Kender today.
A child enjoys Grandparents’ Day at Mother’s Pride School in Ludhiana on Monday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Students forced to join agitation
Ludhiana, March 14
The situation turned ugly at the College of Agriculture Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University
(PAU), today when several students, who were on a strike, forced about 100 students of the College of Agriculture Engineering to come out of their classrooms and support the agitation.
Megha crowned Miss Farewell
Ludhiana, March 14
BCom and MCom final-year students of the Khalsa College for Women, Civil Lines, bid farewell today.
Thieves decamp with $4,000
Ludhiana, March 14
Thieves seem to be eyeing on foreign currency these days. A day after the thieves struck at a house of a property dealer at Krishana Nagar and fled with US $10,000 and Canadian $20,000 bills, along with gold ornaments and other valuables, another identical incident came to light today after thieves broke into a house at Avtar Nagar near Thrike and decamped with foreign currency notes and ornaments worth Rs 1.5 lakh.
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prime commercial sites on the main Ferozepur Road, a national highway, the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) had no other option, but to put off the open auction after waiting till 4 pm here today.