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Now, food test results to come in a fortnight
Ludhiana, August 24
With repeal of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, reports of laboratory tests of food samples can now be received within 14 days. Announcing this, Manoj Khosla, the health department’s food safety officer, said: “This Act has been repealed and the Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006 has taken effect from August 5, 2011.
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6-yr-old deaf-mute girl gets second chance at life
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Ludhiana, August 24
Like a newborn child, six-year-old Kashni blinked one moment while in the other she looked confused, putting her hand in her mouth. She looked scared as she tried to smile and got busy with eating snacks, perhaps to avoid the sounds in her surroundings, which she heard after a span of two years ever since she became deaf and dumb after being afflicted with meningitis.
Six-year-old Kashni Bhagat tries to communicate with her mother Mamta after a cochlear
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7,700 units told to shift base
Ludhiana, August 24
As many as 7,700 micro and small-scale units, a majority of them manufacturing engineering goods, particularly in the Shimlapuri and New Janta Nagar areas, are worried about their future as the area has been designated as residential in the Master Plan and owners have been asked to shift the units within 10 years.
rail link lost in transit
Duronto express skips city
Ludhiana, August 24
With the new ‘Duronto’ train between Amritsar and Chandigarh flagged off on Wednesday, city residents are feeling cheated as the promised new Ludhiana-New Delhi Shatabdi Express seems nowhere in sight. To make matters worse speculation is rife that the proposed train may be scrapped altogether or run from Jalandhar instead.
131 killed on Ludhiana-Mohali road in 8 months
Ludhiana, August 24
With 131 deaths out of 350 accidents reported on the 90-km Ludhiana-Mohali stretch in the past eight months, the road is fast turning into a death trap for commuters.
The situation will worsen in the coming months as the flow of traffic has been constantly increasing on the road.
File photo of a truck which rammed into a tree on
the Ludhiana-Mohali road stretch.
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SMEs can flourish, if corruption is curbed, feel traders
Ludhiana, August 24
The move against corruption has been highly appreciated by the business community, especially the Small and Medium Entrepreneurs
(SMEs). Terming it to be “the need of the hour”, the sector feels that the move will trigger a series of reforms essential for its survival.
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Ex-servicemen take to streets to express solidarity with Anna Hazare; and (right) students of Lal Bahadur Shastri School organise a ‘havan’ in Ludhiana. Photos: Inderjeet Verma
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City to get 40 low-floor buses
Ludhiana, August 24
The city is all set to get the much-hyped bus service next month as the Ludhiana municipal corporation (MC) officials have completed the survey of buses, which will ply on the city roads in
Lucknow. The officials stated that as part of the first phase, the city would get 40 low-floor non-AC buses, while the remaining 160 buses would be added to the fleet accordingly.
NRHM staff beg to mark protest
Ludhiana, August 24
To show their anger against the state government for not fulfilling their demands, National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM) employees today adopted a noble way of protest by begging from public in general.
NRHM employees beg to register a protest in support of their demands in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
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Power staff stage protest
Ludhiana, August 24
In order to press for the acceptance of their pending demands, the employees of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited
(PSPCL) today staged a dharna at the headquarters of the central zone here today. The joint forum of the PSEB employees and the PSEB employees federation organised separate
dharnas.
Employees of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited stage a protest dharna in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Photo: Inderjeet VErma |
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Shops being used as godowns
Jagraon, August 24
In a huge violation of norms, some of the shops at the recently constructed market by the municipal council at the Old Grain Market here are being illegally used as godowns by some of the shopkeepers and traders of the local Old Grain Market in connivance with the MC officials. No official from the local municipal council seems to have taken a notice of the illegal use of the shops owned by the civic body.
Mastitis causes huge loss to dairy industry
Ludhiana, August 24
Mastitis, inflammation of udder, results in Rs 7,165 crore annual loss to the dairy industry in India and Rs 503 crore in Punjab. The disease occurs in two forms: sub-clinical and clinical. The clinical mastitis results in visible alterations in composition of milk.
GNIMT students awarded gold medals
Ludhiana, August 24
Three students of Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, Model Town, were awarded gold medals during the ninth convocation held at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT),
Jalandhar. PTU, Jalandhar, had organised its ninth convocation to honour its gold medallists in various courses
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Ludhiana. Photo: INderjeet VErma |
Sleep deprivation among children worries parents
Doraha, August 24
A majority of parents, teachers and doctors share the same opinion that children, these days, are chronically sleep deprived. They view that it is high time that schools should ponder over the seriousness of the issue and think over pushing back school timings.
Vet varsity handbook challenges Gregorian calendar
Ludhiana, August 24
It may sound strange, but according to Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
(GADAVSU) Hand Book-2011, today is Saturday. August 15 was not Monday but Tuesday as per the vet varsity calendar.
The handbook of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University.
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New Zealand High Commissioner visits PAU
Ludhiana, August 24
Jan Henderson, High Commissioner of New Zealand, David Henderson and Melanie Chapman, education councillor in New Zealand High Commission, New Delhi, visited Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) today and held a discussion with PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Baldev Singh Dhillon on various agricultural subjects.
sgpc poll
Danga Peerat’s support a trump card for SAD
Ludhiana, August 24
The Danga Peerat’s support for the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) for the upcoming Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SGPC) elections might turn out to be a trump card for the party. This is so because around 10,000 Danga Peerat’s (victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots) reside in Dugri area, which falls in SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar’s Ludhiana (west) constituency.
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Students of Khalsa Institute of Management and Technology for Women celebrate Teej in
Ludhiana. tribune photo: Himanshu mahajan |
Teenage aggression proving fatal for families
Mandi Ahmedgarh, August 24
Short temper and aggression among children and teenagers has emerged as major factor behind devastation of families. What to talk of causing harm to their belongings, they do not hesitate to attempt suicide or kill their target without any provocation.
at the crossroads
The concept of romantic revolution
Human beings have always been enamoured with revolution. A time comes when the old order makes life of the common people miserable. Change becomes the crying need of the moment. Nothing seems too costly for the attainment of the objective in view. All hurdles in the way are disdainfully eliminated.
Cleaning up of Budha Nullah
Ludhiana, August 24
Regretting the slow pace of work on Budha Nullah, Ludhiana MP and national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress Manish Tewari today urged the Punjab government to expedite process.
Saloni first in declamation contest
Ludhiana, August 24
A majority of the girls at Government College for Women said “Yes” to westernisation at the end of declamation contest titled “Don’t go West, Indian Woman” held at the college auditorium.
Residents cry foul
Ludhiana, August 24
Commencement of commercial run of the Amritsar-Chandigarh Duronto Express train from today has further fuelled the brewing resentment over the delay in introduction of new Shatabdi Express from the city for New Delhi promised in the Union Railway Budget.
Five held for stealing Rs 25,000 from temple
Ludhiana, August 24
With more cash and less security, the temple proved to be the right place for committing theft.
In police custody, the five suspects, who stole around Rs 25,000 from two donation boxes on August 10, said they were planning to strike at another temple.
Addict stabbed woman to death after tiff
Ludhiana, August 24
What started as a quarrel ended in the brutal murder of a 32-year-old woman, Saira
Bano, who was stabbed to death by a drug addicted youth at her home on Tibba Road on Tuesday.
Drug addict sets afire two mobikes for fun
Ludhiana, August 24
A drug addict created panic in the Field Gunj area after he set two motorcycles on fire that were parked outside a gurdwara last night.
The accused, identified as 25-year-old Vinay Sharma of New Moti Nagar, was nabbed by the police here this morning.
The badly charred motorcycles in
Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph
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Murder Case
Three get life term
Ludhiana, August 24
The court of Additional Sessions Judge Mandeep Pannu sentenced life imprisonment to Sunil Kumar, alias
Soni, of Harcharan Nagar, Shahzaad Khan of Gulabi Bagh, Tibba Road, and Gurdit Singh, alias
Baljita, of Hawas village, Basti Jodhewal, Ludhiana, in a blind murder case.
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