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Health Minister Satpal Gosain on transferring spree
Ludhiana, July 7
Health and Family Welfare Minister Satpal Gosain is on transferring spree for doctors these days.
Dr Ashwani Malhotra, who has been transferred twice in a week
Inter-state gang of snatchers busted
Ludhiana, July 7
With the arrest of six suspects, the Focal Point police claims to have busted an inter-state gang of snatchers, who had created panic in the area following a spate of theft and snatching incidents.
Kingpin a dead man walking!
Ludhiana, July 7
Dalip Kumar, kingpin of the gang who is wanted by the police in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (UP) in murder, dacoity and snatching cases, had feigned his death sometime ago.
Civil Hospital callousness: Patient suffering from tetanus kept in well-lit, noisy room
Ludhiana, July 7
Lying helplessly in a bed of an “unknown male ward” of the local Civil Hospital, Munshi Ram, in his mid-80s, struggles with his breathing. This, because he is suffering from tetanus, which causes his jaws to lock. His eyes constantly gaze the ceiling. And on hearing the sound of an opening door, he becomes restless.
Munshi Ram, ailing from tetanus and under treatment at the Civil Hospital Ludhiana. Photo Inderjeet Verma
Akali youth wing goes into overdrive to glorify Sukhbir
Ludhiana, July 7
Sycophancy appears to have got the better of the rank and file of SAD(B)’s youth wing, Youth Akali Dal (YAD), with members on their toes to mark the birthday of their leader, Punjab deputy chief minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal, as "Giving Day”. With a budget of Rs 55 to Rs 60 lakh, which YAD members claim to have pooled in, the birthday celebration in the city on July 9 will focus on giving away 1,100 tricycles costing Rs 4,000 each to the physically challenged from all over the state.
A tricycle that would be given to the physically challenged on Sukhbir Badal’s birthday on July 9 bearing the SAD’s
election symbol. Tribune photo: Inderjeet Verma
Rights panel asks DC to file report
 Ludhiana, July 7
Acting on a report published in these columns on May 27 highlighting the thrashing of a class-VII student of BCM Senior Secondary School for not doing well in a class test, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tiwari to file a fact-finding report within 15 days.
Ankit shows injury marks in front of his school in Ludhiana. A file photograph
Fuel dealers call off stir in ‘public interest’
Ludhiana, July 7
Members of the Petrol Pump Dealers Association, Punjab unanimously decided on Thursday to call off their protest “in the larger public interest”. The decision was taken in the evening by the group’s executive committee at a meeting chaired by JP Khanna, president of the association.
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Sub-tehsil office inaugurated
Jagraon, July 7
Zila Parishad chairman Manpreet Singh Ayali inaugurated the newly constructed sub-tehsil office at Mullanpur Dakha on Tuesday. The state government has spent about Rs 25 lakh on its construction.
MC razes 16 structures in Model Town
Ludhiana, July 7
A team of municipal officials today partially razed 16 rooms and structures in the Model Town Extension locality. These rooms and structures were constructed by covering a portion of a road. In another part of the city, a projection of four shops, marked for demolition, fell while trying to dismantle it. However, shopkeepers and a few others had a providential escape.
Providential escape Projection of four shops that collapsed on the Shahpur road; (right) a bulldozer pulls down portion of a residential building in Model Town extension in Ludhiana
on Thursday. Photos: Inderjeet Verma
Well-off migrants cashing in on money transfer
Ludhiana, July 7
Transferring money through nationalised banks has emerged as a remunerative business for a few well-off migrants and their relatives settled at their native villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Private buses take passengers for a ride
Doraha, July 7
People are upset with private bus operators for displaying misleading routes on board their buses. They turn black and blue when private buses, in which they are travelling, take the route other than the one displayed on the boards. But, divers and conductor simply don’t care two hoots about them.
“Private bus operators, least bothered about passengers’ inconvenience, take to the route other than the displayed one as per their convenience.
Major tragedy averted as bus, truck collide
Ludhiana, July 7
Nearly 20 passengers of a CTU bus have a miraculous escape, following a bus-truck collision at the Bhagwan Chowk here today.
It can take 3 hours just to apply for a driver’s
licence!
Ludhiana, July 7
It often takes as long as three hours for a city resident to submit a form applying for a driver’s licence, and that too after standing in long lines and facing harassment because of interminable delays due to computer snags.
Endless wait Sheenam, along with her father Vijay Batta, waits for her turn to submit her documents for a driver’s licence at a suvidha centre in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
SHO made ‘scapegoat’
Jagraon, July 7
Inspector Inderjit Singh, the SHO of the Jagraon city police station when the incident of honour killing took place on July 2 and who was later shifted to the police lines on July 5 for his failure to trace the kidnapped youth after allegations levelled by family members of the victim Gagandeep Singh, was allegedly made a scapegoat by a few senior police officials.
Ludhiana hospitality has this Sheikh’s heart racing
 Ludhiana, July 7
A Dubai-based sheikh has a big word of praise not only for the medical acumen of doctors in the city but also of the hospitality of its people.
Shiekh Muhammad Abdullah from the UAE is in Ludhiana to receive treatment for a heart ailment.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Delegation meets SP, seeks exclusion of names from FIR
Jagraon, July 7
A delegation met Ludhiana (Rural) police SP (D) Paramjit Singh Goraya and demanded exclusion of the names of at least four persons, including two uncles of the girl-Janak Singh and Saudagar Singh--- besides Gurcharan Singh and Surjit Singh of Lakha village from the FIR registered in the case. They have openly come out in support of a few accused in the honour killing case that took place on July 2.
Gang of carjackers busted; two arrested
Ludhiana, July 7
The local police claims to have busted a six-member gang of criminals involved in two carjacking incidents in the past 10 days with the arrest of two persons.
In the net Two members of a gang of carjackers in police custody in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Rickshaw-puller dupes trader
Ludhiana, July 7
A rickshaw puller duped an industrialist and fled with 14 sewing machines worth Rs 40,000. According to Kuldeep Singh, owner of LML Industries in Lakka Bazar, the incident took place last night when he hired a rickshaw for ferrying sewing machines to Transport
Nagar.
PSPCL’s Rs 1.14 lakh demand quashed
Ludhiana, July 7
Permanent Lok Adalat has quashed Rs 1.14 lakh arrear demanded Punjab State Power Corporation Limited
(PSPCL) from a consumer on the pretext power theft.
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Malhotra Palace near Jalandhar bypass here today when more than 22 people fell sick after eating snacks served at the wedding venue.
