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Servant flees house after doping employer’s kin
Ludhiana, May 26
Four members of the family of a leading electronic appliances trader in the city were allegedly sedated by their newly hired servant at their Gurdev Nagar home on Tuesday night. The matter, which had been kept under wraps, came to notice after the police went to the house of GS Bedi, owner of Bedi Electronics, to record his statement.

Visitors pant as MC, food & supplies dept grapple over rent
Ludhiana, May 26
Public is being made to pay for the “infighting” between two government departments — the municipal corporation and the food and civil supplies department.

out of bounds Unaware about the fact that the lift was not available from the DFSC office, an old man waits for it to reach the ground floor in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma

Thieves strike at city boutique
Ludhiana, May 26
Five members of an organized gang of thieves including four women is said to be targeting high-end boutiques located in the city’s posh localities of the city. In the latest incident the suspects were caught on a CCTV camera after they stole five expensive women’s dresses worth about Rs 50,000 from a boutique, Kalakriti, on College Road on Wednesday night.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT A CCTV grab shows suspects making a quick exit from a boutique in Ludhiana.

Sarpanch suspended for pocketing dead residents’ pension
Ludhiana, May 26
It took a legislator of the ruling party a year to get a sarpanch booked, who had pocketed old-age pension of the dead, and three months to get him suspended despite the inquiry report of the administration against him.

Tewari whip keeps Cong flock together
Ludhiana, May 26
All-India Congress Committee spokesperson and local MP Manish Tewari’s “whip” forced the rank and file of the Congress to put up a united front at the “coronation ceremony” of newly nominated president of District Congress Committee Pawan Dewan here today even though several leaders cribbed and cringed in private about the new appointment.

City residents have no use for small change
Ludhiana, May 26
It appears most people in this affluent city people have given up on coins of small denomination. Though the Reserve Bank of India has asked the public to exchange 25 paise coins and those with lower denominations at banks before June 30, the day from which they would be demonetized and cease to be legal tender, hardly any one has bothered to do.

COMMUNITY

Illegal Construction
MC demolishes roads, boundary wall in four colonies
Ludhiana, May 26
Cracking the whip against mushrooming of unauthorised colonies on the periphery of the city in violation of the Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act (PAPRA), a team of Municipal Corporation (MC) officials today demolished under-construction roads, boundary walls and razed illegal construction in four unauthorised colonies on the Kakowal road and Gurnam Nagar locality here.

Sans BPL card, needy patient looks to philanthropists for help
Ludhiana, May 26
Fighting breathlessness, Hansraj, a resident of Kakowal, lies on the bed of the trauma ward of the local Civil Hospital. Unable to get up on his own, he requests his mother Jeeto to massage his back so that he can catch some breath. Comforted by his mother, he again lies down. Hansraj has been suffering from renal failure for the past six years and is undergoing regular hemo-dialysis. His condition has worsened over the period and needs AV fistula for further dialysis. To make matters worse, the family, despite falling in the below poverty line category, doesn’t have the relevant documents to prove it. This has deprived him of the benefits given under the category.

Hansraj, a resident of Kakowal village, along with his mother at the Civil Hospital in Ludhiana. photo: Inderjeet Verma

5-day workshop by kathak dancer Mahua
Ludhiana, May 26
Noted kathak exponent Mahua Shankar says like Guru Pasha (who teaches dancing skills to handicapped, deaf and dumb kids and youngsters), she also wants to teach kathak to handicapped and disabled children.

in sync Mahua Shankar (in white suit), an international kathak dancer, teaches dance skills to women and girls during a five-day workshop in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo: himanshu mahajan

Ludhiana Scan
Talk for senior citizens tomorrow
Dr Harinder Singh Bedi, head, department of cardio-vascular and thoracic surgery, CMC&H, will deliver a talk on “being heart smart-tips for senior citizens” in the hall of Community Centre, H-block, Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, on May 28.

Appointment of teachers
Aspirants seek correction of eligibility criteria
Mandi Ahmedgarh, May 26
If guidelines on eligibility for appointment of teachers in the education department are to be followed then history has ceased to be a part of social studies and elective English has been introduced as a subject in the stream.

From Schools
Music, theatre activities mark summer camp
LUDHIANA: Activity, colour and cheer marked the opening of the summer camp here at KVM School. Workshops on art and craft, music, dance, personality development, theatre, maths made simple and animation have been organised. Almost 1,200 students are participating in the workshop. Principal Navita Puri motivated the children to work with enthusiasm and stated that such workshops are the opportunities, which can be availed by students to polish their skills. This weeklong summer camp will close on the May 31.

Head constable crushed to death
Ludhiana, May 26
A 51-year-old head constable, identified as Hardeep Singh, was crushed to death by an over speeding vehicle near Vishwa Karma Chowk on Tuesday night.

Double trouble: Dog bite cases on rise, anti-rabies vaccines scarce
Ludhiana, May 26
It is a double trouble. The number of stray dogs is multiplying as the government has failed to provide a solution to the stray dog menace and the anti-rabies vaccines supplied by the government for poor patients are in short supply.

Dist Advisory Panel
Just four members turn up for meeting
Ludhiana, May 26
A month after a local Akali leader flayed the administration for not listening to the suggestions of representatives and announced his resignation from the district advisory committee, just four committee members attended the meeting conducted here today.

CRIME

Woman booked for forgery
Ludhiana, May 26
The city police yesterday booked a woman yesterday for furnishing bail bond of undertrials in the local court by submitting fake documents.

BJP leader among 11 arrested for gambling
Jagraon, May 26
The police has arrested local BJP leader Gopal Katyal, alias Pala, his brother Naresh Katyal, alias Bobby, and nine other persons under for gambling. Katyal and his other associates were caught red-handed while gambling at a cold drink agency godown owned by one of the accused at Disposal road here during a raid conducted by a police team led by SHO Inderjit Singh late last night.

The accused BJP leader and others in police custody in Ludhiana on Thursday. A tribune photograph

Three gangs busted; seven arrested
Ludhiana, May 26
With the arrest of seven persons, the police claims to have busted three gangs involved in murder, vehicle theft and car battery theft.

Two dead in house collapse
Amloh, May 26
Two persons died and four were injured of a family when a “kutcha” house collapsed at Bhambri village, three kilometers from here today. The injured were brought to the Civil Hospital, Amloh, where two were given first aid and others were admitted for treatment where their condition is stated to be out of danger.

in ruins A view of the collapsed kutcha house at Bhambri village in Amloh on Thursday. A Tribune photograph

One killed, 3 injured in road mishap
Samrala, May 26
One person was killed and three were injured in a road accident at Chahilan village near here about 4.30 pm on the Ludhiana-Chandigarh road.

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