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A squirrel licks an empty tea cup on the roadside in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Pug snatchers were kabaddi players
Ludhiana, July 12
It is now learnt the two young men who are suspected to have abducted a pug dog four days ago are ‘kabaddi players who want to make some money to buy performance enhancing supplements ahead of an upcoming series of matches.
Burglars make clean sweep of house
Ludhiana, July 12
Burglars struck at a house in the city’s Sant Vihar locality in Salem Tabri and decamped with gold jewellery and expensive home appliances while the house owner had gone to Phagwara to see his newborn son.
Dowry Death
Husband, father-in-law get 10-year RI
Ludhiana, July 12
The Court of Additional Sessions Judge Mandeep Pannu has convicted Sonu Mittal and his father Prem Singh in a dowry death case. They have been ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years each.
Endless wait for death, birth certificates
Ludhiana, July 12
The Civil Surgeon’s office continues to be in a mess as far as the issuance of birth and death certificates is concerned. If one submits an application, there is no chance of getting a certificate before four months even though the waiting period is 15 days.
People wait at the Civil Surgeon’s office for birth/death certificates in Ludhiana on Tuesday. photo: inderjeet verma
Doc accused of wrong treatment
Ludhiana, July 12
Relatives of a 38-year-old patient, Avtar Singh, today held a protest against
Dr Rajiv Khosla of Khosla Nursing Home, Model Town, alleging wrong treatment.
Relatives of a patient protest outside a nursing home in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
MC to relocate owners of demolished shops
Ludhiana, July 12
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has decided to relocate the owners of shops and booths, which were demolished by the civic body from Jawahar Nagar Camp area in January last year.
Health Insurance Scheme
ANMs provided age-old list of residents
Ludhiana, July 12
The auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), who were being given training for making pink cards under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, a Central government scheme, today rued that they were given lists with old addresses.
Kisan Sabha seeks remunerative prices for farm produce, subsidies
Ludhiana, July 12
Activists of the Punjab Kisan Sabha today called for remunerative prices for farm produce, rollback in hike of prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas as also more subsidies to offset the increased cost of diesel consumption.
Activists of the Punjab Kisan Sabha stage a dharna before submitting a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Man ‘poisoned’ by in-laws, survives
Ludhiana, July 12
A 35-year-old man had a providential escape after allegedly being poisoned by his in-laws yesterday. The victim was identified as Ashwani Kumar, a resident of the Tibba road. He allegedly fell unconscious after consuming a poison laced tea offered by his in-laws.
Ashwani Kumar recuperates in a multi-speciality hospital in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Conservation agriculture answer to agri problems
Ludhiana, July 12
The Ludhiana chapter of the Indian Society of Agronomy (LCISA), PAU department of agronomy, organised a seminar on “Global status of conservation agriculture”.
School encourages students to learn games
Ludhiana, July 12
For keeping their students physically fit, BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, has taken the help of a private company ‘EduSports’.
Students of the primary section of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School play games in the school.
Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Academic session starts at B-School
 Ludhiana, July 12
University Business School initiated the new academic session on July 11 by organising a two-day induction programme for the new batch of the MBA students. Experts from industry and allied areas visited the campus and interacted with the students.
Dr Deepak Kapur, director, Panjab University regional centre, said the purpose
of conducting induction programme was to extend welcome to the new comers,
familiarise them with the set-up and style of functioning of the B-School.
Save dairy animals from hyperthermia: Experts
Ludhiana, July12
Hyperthermia is one of the commonly encountered diseases among dairy animals in Punjab. The disease is more prevalent in exotic and crossbred animals, but has been observed in indigenous cows and buffaloes. The condition results due to high environmental temperature and humidity, said Dr SS Randhawa, director of research, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU).
With pets being targeted, locals stop walking their dogs
Ludhiana, July 12
Morning and evening walkers have started avoiding taking their pets to gardens and public parks after a pug was abducted by two snatchers from a homemaker while she went for a morning stroll in the Gurdev Nagar locality of the city.
Ludhiana scan
Saplings planted
Rotary Club Ludhiana Greater planted saplings at Satguru Ram Singh Women Polytechnic, Rishi
Nagar, on Tuesday. About 100 saplings were planted by the club members along with college staff and students. Dr Kulwant Singh, IMA president, inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling.
2 women booked for forcible possession of house
Ludhiana, July 12
High drama was witnessed in Shivpuri today after two women locked themselves in a house and poured kerosene on themselves and threatened self-immolation. However, after an hour-long drama policewomen succeeded in persuading them to come out of the house and booked them in a land grab case.
4 arrested for robbery
Phillaur, July 12
The Phillaur Police claimed to have busted a gang of robbers and arrested four of its members under Sections 382, 397 and 341 of the
IPC. SHO Sarwan Singh Bal said the arrested robbers were identified as Vijay Kumar, Kuldip Kumar, Harish Kumar and Sukhpreet Singh.
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