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Focus on work, observers warn videographers, policemen
Ludhiana, January 23
Observers (senior IAS, IPS and IRS officials) appointed by the Election Commission to ensure fair and transparent elections in the district have once again made it clear that videographers or teams appointed by the Election Commission to monitor the activities of candidates must concentrate on their work only.
Weddings to be a dry affair
Ludhiana, January 23
The couples, who are getting married between January 28 and 30, will be witnessing a dry wedding as the Election Commission (EC) has banned on serving liquor on these days due to the Vidhan Sabha elections.
Over 20 cases of property defacement registered
Ludhiana, January 23
The police today registered over 20 cases of property defacement in various parts of the city. A number of complaints pertaining to property defacement by the SAD, Congress and Independent candidates had poured in.
The police received complaints from Atam Nagar and Ludhiana South, where Congress candidates Malkit Singh
Birmi, Ashok Prashar, SAD candidates Hira Singh, Hakam Singh Giaspura
Posters of Independent candidate Simarjit Singh Bains and SAD candidate Hira Singh Gabria pasted on a wall in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Gabria refutes allegations levelled by trader
Ludhiana, January 23
Barely a week before the elections, a city-based businessman accused Jail Minister Hira Singh Gabria of sheltering a swindler. Gurarpan Singh Chohan, a resident of Gill Road, alleged that Gabria had freed an accused involved in a fraud case.
Gurarpan Singh, owner of a scrap factory, said Rajinder Kumar, one of his employees, was booked in a fraud case under Sections 420 and 406 of the IPC following his complaint on October 15.
Gurarpan Singh, a trader, explains his point during a press conference in Ludhiana on Monday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Road safety missing from candidates’ manifestos
Ludhiana, January 23
While political parties have been promising moon to voters, they seem to have forgotten the ground reality.
The increasing deaths in road accidents have failed to draw the attention of politicians towards the issue of road safety which has failed to find a place in the manifestos released by political parties.
Watch online what your ward is doing in school
Ludhiana, January 23
Parents can now monitor online the activities of their wards while they are in play school. The facility has been introduced in The Olive Kid school. Parents would get a password and can see their children online as they take part in various activities.
Teaching standards need to improve: Experts
Ludhiana, January 23
Educationists in the city feel that there is a need to upgrade the infrastructure at school-level for improving the aptitude of students in science and maths.
Students face language problem
Ludhiana, January 23
Children in Punjab are finding it difficult to understand the EDUSAT programmes telecast on television as the language used is of a dialect different from their own. Often, the language spoken in the programmes is Taksali, which is difficult for students to understand who are conversant with the Malwai dialect.
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BJP leader Arun Jaitley was in the city to campaign for SAD-BJP candidates in the forthcoming elections on Monday.
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Traders hit as orders down by 30%
Ludhiana, January 23
The number of orders businessmen from the city have been receiving in the past has decreased by nearly 25-30 per cent due to the imposition of the election code of conduct.
FDP inaugurated at RIMT
Mandi Gobindgarh, January 23
One week faculty development program on ‘Understanding & Implementation of Technology in Teaching’ sponsored by Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, was organised at RIMT-Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mandi Gobindgarh. As many as 30 faculty members from the engineering and management branches participated in the event. RIMT Group vice-chairman Vijayant Bansal was the chief guest of the function.
Chain fast by rly employees
Ludhiana, January 23
Led by activists of the northern railwaymen union (NRMU), railway employees today commenced a 24-hour chain fast at the railway station here in the next phase of the ongoing agitation at Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Ferozepur, Pathankot and Jammu railway stations from January 16.
Egg prices drop to Rs 3, courtesy snowfall
Ludhiana, January 23
A downward trend has been witnessed in egg prices due to incessant snowfall in hilly areas.
Eggs from the city are sent to J&K and Himachal by road. As roads leading to Himachal and J&K have been blocked for the past one week, the supply of eggs has been cut off.
Campaign trail : Ludhiana West
Impressing voters with nukkad, door-to-door meetings
Ludhiana, January 23
In Ludhiana West constituency, Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu , who is a Congress councillor, is pitted against BJP candidate professor Rajinder Bhandari. The Akali-BJP has fielded Bhandari, who is also a former state BJP president and vice-chairman of the Punjab Planning Board.
Ludhiana West Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu interacts with residents of Model Town in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Cong, SAD candidates trade allegations
Ludhiana, January 23
With barely a week left for the Assembly polls, the allegations and counter-allegations traded between the SAD (B) and the Congress candidates from the Dakha Assembly constituency are flying thick and fast.
BJP MLA from Bihar comes calling to woo migrants
Ludhiana, January 23
To woo the migrant vote bank ahead of the state Assembly elections, a Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) MLA from Patna in Bihar, Nitin Nabin, is in the city.
Nitin Nabin said he was basically targeting the Bihari migrants as well as the youth living in Ludhiana and other parts of the state.
Sukhbir dismisses poll surveys
Jagraon, January 23
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today claimed that the SAD-BJP alliance would win more than 90 seats in the state and form the government again.
Ludhiana East
Seeking Gujjars’ support for Cong
Ludhiana, January 23
As the election draws closer, the contenders are leaving no stone unturned to mobilise voters in their favour. This was evident when Congress MP from Faridabad in Haryana Avtar Singh Bhadana, who is also the national president of All-India Gujjar Maha Sabha, played the caste card to canvass for party nominee Gurmel Singh Pehalwan in Ludhiana East Assembly segment here.
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Ludhiana, January 23
