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Power theft racket busted, 2 held
Ludhiana, November 10
With the arrest of two persons, the anti-power theft police of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has claimed to have busted a racket of power theft at Alamgir village under the Sarinh sub-division in the district.
Shimlapuri residents live in fear of snatchers
Ludhiana, November 10
Residents of Shimlapuri here are up in arms against the "callous" attitude of the police in catching the snatchers in the area who have created panic among the former.
Death after injection; doc booked
Ludhiana, November 10
Dr Ranjit Singh, who allegedly administered a wrong injection to a 40-year-old woman during a medical check-up camp after which the patient died, has been booked under Section 304-A.
Bravehearts’ sons get shabby treatment in police jobs
Ludhiana, November 10
While the cops laid down their lives fighting militants during the dark days of terrorism, their children are paying the price of their fathers' sacrifice.
Two more blast victims dead
Ludhiana, November 10
Shaadi Lal (65) and Raj Kumar (32), admitted to the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital here, succumbed to their burn injuries around 10 am today.
Gurpurb celebrated with religious zeal
Ludhiana, November 10
Gurpurb was celebrated across the city to mark Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary today. Teachings on universal brotherhood, love for God and care for others were recounted.
Food of faith:
Devotees partake of langar on Gurpurb at a gurdwara in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
MC demolishes, shop owner constructs
Ludhiana, November 10
It seems that encroachers in the city are having a free run. It is true when it comes to constructing a shop in Ghumar
Mandi. Owner of this under construction shop, which was demolished by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation (MC) third time yesterday, has reconstructed a portion of it today.
Shiv Sena protests price rise
Ludhiana, November 10
Shiv Sena activists organised a protest against the rising prices of essential commodities and burnt an effigy of the UPA government here today.
The president of the state unit, Rajiv Tandon, said with rampant corruption and the spurt in prices of food items, the common man was finding it difficult to survive.
Shiv Sena activists burn an effigy of the UPA government to protest against the rising prices of essential commodities in Ludhiana on Thursday. photo: inderjeet vema
Sikh migrants’ body threatens stir
Ludhiana, November 10
Charging the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) with denial of justice to Sikh migrants by sitting over the allotment of dwelling units to eligible riot-affected families for years together, the Ludhiana Sikh Migrants Welfare Board today served an ultimatum to the GLADA to complete the process of allotment of flats by November 25, failing which it would launch an agitation, which would include a dharna, followed by a chain hunger strike.
On top of the world today
Doraha, November 10
Gursharan Kaur Sekhon, head of the postgraduate department of political science at Guru Nanak National College here, feels on top of the world. The reason is that her 50th birthday falls on 11/11/11.
Gursharan Kaur Sekhon
Cancer awareness day
Mandi Gobindgarh, November 10
Cancer is curable if detected at an early stage. Dr Zora Singh, chairman, Desh Bhagat Group of Institutes, who was the chief guest of a cancer awareness day function celebrated at DB college of Nursing said this.
MoU signed
Ludhiana, November 10
The PCTE Group of Institutes has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International School of Law and Business, a private university of applied sciences in Lithuania.
Freshers welcomed
Ludhiana, November 10
Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College, Hospital and Research Institute organised a freshers’ welcome function for first-year BDS students here today. The college chairman declared the event open. College principal DS Kalsi exhorted freshers to work diligently towards achieving their career goals. The students organised cultural events. —
TNS
Minimum temp dips in city
Ludhiana, November 10
Though weather will remain cloudy, it is not going to rain in the next 24 hours. The minimum temperature in the city, which has witnessed a sharp fall in the past two to three days, will increase due to the clouds due to western disturbance.
‘Only corruption and repression’
Ludhiana, November 10
Charging the SAD-BJP government with intimidating, harassing and implicating Congress activists, former minister Jagmohan Singh Kang yesterday said the coalition government in the state had broken all records of corruption and state repression against political adversaries and agitating groups.
Low turnout of dairy farmers baffles Ranike
Jagraon, November 10
Gulzar Singh Ranike, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Dairy Development and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Caste’s, Punjab, inaugurated the newly constructed building of the local Civil Animal Hospital today afternoon.
Weather changes, brings allergies
Ludhiana, November 10
The changing weather has started making an impact on the health of residents. Many people are falling prey to fever, sore throat and cold.
New Bus Stand: Commuters still feel harried
Jagraon, November 10
While the newly constructed bus stand can boasts of better infrastructure and improved services, commuters are still facing a lot of inconvenience due to encroachments by vendors and lack of upkeep of the building.
Though a new bus stand building has been constructed in Jagraon, private operators continue to pick passengers outside it. A Tribune photograph
Schools show scant regard for govt directions
Mandi Ahmedgarh, November 10
Showing scant regard for the directions of the Union and the state governments, authorities of government and private schools failed to organise functions to pay tributes to first education minister of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed on his birth anniversary today.
Colour on wings of imagination
Ludhiana, November 10
The dynamism of colour preponderates his underlying themes, that vary from social to environmental, and soars in the spiritual flight of imagination. Tejinder ‘Ladi’ Singh’s art exhibition was organised at a hotel here yesterday.
Minor’s Rape
Man nabbed from Jharkhand
Payal, November 10
The police has arrested a migrant labourer, who had allegedly killed the 10-year-old daughter of another migrant residing at Rampur village in the Ludhiana district after raping her three weeks ago.
Gold jewellery, cash worth Rs 5 lakh stolen
Ludhiana, November 10
Thieves decamped with 20-tola gold
jewellery, Rs 15,000 and an LPG cylinder from a house at Guru Ram Das
Nagar, on the rear of the Central jail, past night.
5 kg opium seized, two arrested
Mandi Gobindgarh,
November 10
The Gobindgarh police, which was tipped off about the movement of two drug smugglers, stopped a motorcycle (PB 10 AC 1011) and seized
5-kilogram opium from their possession yesterday.
 Kabaddi
Cup
Punjabi Greek to Turkmenistan eves
Ludhiana, November 10
Turkmenistan women kabaddi team is trying hard to make authorities of the
kabaddi cup understand their sign languages but it’s still all Greek to them.
Kabaddi players from Turkmenistan play billiards at a hotel in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
 Stadium
spruced up to host final matches
Ludhiana, November 10
Guru Nanak Stadium is being spruced up to host the final matches in the men’s
as well as women’s sections of the 2nd edition of the World Kabaddi Cup slated
for November 20.
Indian kabaddi team in jubillant mood in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo: HImanshu Mahajan
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Throwing all rules to the wind, the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation’s advertisement sub-committee member Bharat Bhushan Ashu has got his posters pasted on direction boards.
