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When money came in way of some
Ludhiana, April 14
So near but yet so far - this old adage holds true for seven convicts who could not come up with funds to pay the court penalty in order to be released from the city’s Central Jail on Thursday. However, fortune favoured three prisoners after a “do-gooder” came forward and deposited the money to furnish their bail bonds.
Punjabi medium students shown the door
Ludhiana, April 14
With just four government schools in the city imparting education in English medium, hundreds of students from the weaker sections are being denied admissions, resulting in disappointment among students and their families.
Car theft: Police refuses to
register FIR
Registers only DDR after protest by victim
Ludhiana, April 14
In order to show a decline in vehicle-lifting cases in their areas, cops are allegedly hushing up cases by filing daily diary reports
(DDRs).
Special training centres to adopt EWS students
Ludhiana, April 14
A total of 4,610 city-based children (6 to 14-year-old), who belong to the Economically Weaker Section
(EWS) and can’t afford education, will be admitted to residential and non-residential special training centres
(RSTC), as a part of initiative by Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.
MC construction at park ruining green space
Ludhiana, April 14
Though on one hand civic officials have been crying themselves hoarse about expanding the city’s green cover, on the other the overall area of an existing park has been significantly reduced due to construction of a double storied government building in it.
A view of the under-construction dispensary/Urban Health Centre at a park in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
City to have herbal park soon
Ludhiana, April 14
If all goes well, the city will soon get an herbal park for which the Municipal Corporation authorities have already started the process.
To be constructed near the D Zone office of the civic body in over two acres of vacant land along with Sidhwan Canal, the park will have a large number of medicated shrubs and plants.
The land where the Municipal Corporation is planning to set up a herbal park.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma
The Killer stretch:
City-Mullanpur road
Road mishaps have left over 150 dead in the last one year and left many crippled for life. But the trauma is unbearable for the families who are left behind to bemoan the death of their kin. Tribune Senior Staff Correspondent
Anshu Seth does a reality check of accidents on this killer stretch
The absence of protective measures to avert accidents on the killer stretch on the Ferozepur road between Ludhiana to Mullanpur on the National Highway No. 95 has resulted in 210 mishaps from January 2010 to March 2011 in which 153 people lost their lives.
Three vehicles involved in a pile-up on Baddowal road in Ludhiana on February 3, 2011.
File photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Reimbursement of arrears
Govt college teachers a worried lot
Ludhiana, April 14
Government college teachers have expressed their concern over the recent condition laid by the Central government that their arrears should first be released by state government and then Centre would reimburse it.
Pensioners seek dearness allowance
Ludhiana, April 14
Punjab government pensioners have urged the government for the release of dearness relief instalment of 6 per cent from January 1.
Man duped of Rs 50 lakh, 2 booked
Khanna, April 14
The police has booked two persons for defrauding another of Rs 50 lakh. Surjeet Singh, a resident of Khanna, in a complaint to DP Singh, Khanna
SSP, stated that two brothers of Umaidpur village- Ajitpal Singh Tiwana and Amar Singh- had taken ` 50 lakh from him on the pretext of purchasing land for him on July 10, 2006.
 National Blind Sports
Suraj, Harpreet shine in 100m
Ludhiana, April 14
Suraj and Harpreet Singh of Faridkot excelled in the 100m races of Under-12 (B-III category) and Under-16 (B-III category) during the seventh National Blind Sports being held at the Guru Nanak Stadium here.
Visually challenged players seated during the Seventh National Blind Sports at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Youngest visually impaired lifter sets record
 Ludhiana, April 14
Tripat Pal Singh, a 22-year-old resident of Tarantarn and an international
powerlifter, has established the world record of becoming the youngest visually impaired powerlifter to lift over 600 kg of weight during the International Powerlifting Championship for Blind recently held at Turkey.
Tripat Pal Singh
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Ludhiana, April 14
