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Officials as busy as a bee
Ludhiana, March 18
Officials of more than 15 departments, including the Municipal Corporation, Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL), GLADA, PWD (B&R), Education, Mandi Board, Civil Surgeon, District Food and Supply Controller (East and West) and Drainage etc seem to have started doing their “homework” after the Deputy Commissioner called a meeting for reviewing the ongoing development works, projects in the district on March 29.
Police can’t crack cases, eat humble pie
Ludhiana, March 18
Be it a high-profile murder of Moga DSP Balraj Singh Gill and Monica
Kapila, who were found dead in a farmhouse on the Hambra Road on February 1,or finding the killer of barber Satish Kumar, who was shot dead outside a temple in Maya Nagar on March 5, the city police has failed crack these.
SIT finds crucial links
Ludhiana, March 18
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the brutal double murder case of Moga DSP Balraj Singh Gill and Monika Kapila has found crucial links that indicates involvement of Makhan Singh, who along with his accomplices Jagga and Salem had murdered ASI Harbhajan Singh in Barnala district last month.
Admn prepares list of 267 panels
Ludhiana, March 18
Responding to the directions issued by the High Court, the district administration and the municipal corporation have jointly prepared a list of about 267 monitoring committees for each commercial area/market within the city. The list has to be submitted to the High Court before March 28.
Struggling sewing machine units want Pak to lift ban
Ludhiana, March 18
Struggling sewing machine industry of the city wants the Pakistan government to lift the ban on import of sewing machine parts from India. While India can export industrial sewing machine to Pakistan, there is a complete ban on the export of domestic sewing machines and its parts. Recently, more commodities were included in the negative list between India and Pakistan, but sewing machine was left behind.
A worker repairing a sewing machine in old city of Ludhiana. Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan
8 artisans hurt as mini-truck overturns
Ludhiana, March 18
Eight artisans sustained injures after a mini-truck they were travelling in overturned near the Fountain Chowk here last night.
The injured have been identified as Mohammad Rayaz, Mohammad Kallu, Mohammad Ijaz, Mohammad Shehzad, Mohammad Kalim, Mohammad Rafi, Mohammad Akthar, Mohammad Babu Hasan and Mohammad Salem, all residents of Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh and its surrounding areas. The accident took place while they were returning to their rest house following the day’s work at Saras Mela.
Educationists unhappy with Budget
Ludhiana March 18
Educationists in the city are unhappy with the attitude of the Central government as they feel that the share alloted to the education sector in the Union Budget is quite small. According to a recent research by Dr Sukhpal Singh, Punjab Agricultural University, despite the implementation of the RTE Act, 9.5 percent of children in the state in the 6-14 age group are still out of school. This proposition is 14 percent in the Malwa region of Punjab.
Supporters of Balwant Singh Rajoana protest against the High Court’s decision to grant death sentence to him in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Punjab Ayurveda students lag behind
Ludhiana, March 18
Students passing out as Ayurvedacharya from Punjab lag behind their counterparts from other states as many of them do not even know the basics of
Ayurveda. This was observed in an interview conducted by Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth for "Guru Shishya
Parampra" - a national level project.
Roll schools out of financial crisis: Ex-VC
Ludhiana March 18
Is it just a perception that none of the ministers holding the education portfolio has made it back to the Punjab assembly so far? Whatever be the case, it would be a real challenge for the new education minister to uplift the standards of education in the state. The department requires some strong decisions as the former Director General of School Education took during the tenure of former education minister Upinderjit
Kaur.
Children enact play during annual function
Ludhiana, March 18
Maple Bear Canadian Playway and Nursery School, Udham Singh Nagar, Ludhiana, celebrated its Annual Function-2012 "The inimitable-Girl Child" at the Lions Club, Ludhiana. The tiny tots put up a great performance and the event which began on a classical note.
Children perform a dance during the annual function of Maple Bear Canadian Playway and Nursery School in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Class X question papers go missing
Ludhiana March 18
A high drama was witnessed at Saheed Sukhdev Thapar Government Senior Secondry School, Bharat Nagar, when examination controller and school principals found the board science and physical education question papers of class X missing in the lot sent to the schools by Punjab School Education Department (PSEB). Class X examination of PSEB is going to start from March 20 and principals along with examination controller were there to collect the question papers.
Professional etiquettes must for success, says expert
Doraha, March 18
A series of extension lectures, for the outgoing students of arts, commerce and computer streams of Guru Nanak National College, Doraha, by the Career Guidance and Counselling Bureau of the college, concluded here yesterday.
Board to charge for corrections
Ludhiana, March 18
Now, schools have to pay Rs 100 for the correction of each mistake in the continuation forms of class XI students. Schools had sent these continuation details to the board in July, 2011, at the time of making admissions to class XI. A continuation form is sent to the board by a school with details of all the students who continue their studies from class X to class XI at the school.
Bus Passengers a Harrowed lot
 Jagraon, March 18
While the Jagraon bus stand boasts of various improved services at the newly constructed building, the commuters are still facing a lot of inconvenience due to several reasons, including illegal encroachments by the vendors and the lack of proper maintenance for the bus stand building.
Passengers board buses outside the Jagraon bus stand.
A Tribune photograph
Industry unhappy with RBI’s decision
Ludhiana, March 18
Expressing dissatisfaction over the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to keep interest rates unchanged, local industry said rate cuts were needed to make it invest more and drive economic growth. “Industry is dissatisfied with the RBI’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged. It was needed, given the lower industrial production in the past few quarters,” said Badish Jindal, president, Federation of Punjab Small Industries Association.
Man killed in car accident
Samrala March 18
A car borne person was killed in a road accident on Ludhiana-Chandigarh road near Chahilan village. According to information received, Mantu Chopra (30), a resident of Jagraon, was going to Ludhiana in his Maruti car when the accident took place.
Residents irked at overflowing sewerage
Samrala March 18
Fed up with the leakage of sewerage, the residents of street no II of Harnam
Nagar, Samrala, organised a protest today, raising slogans against the Nagar Council Samrala for not paying heed to their problems.
Residents protest against the sewerage problem at Samrala. A tribune photograph
At the crossroads
Urdu poet of new awareness
Generally an officer who is a poet is considered a poet among officers and an officer among poets. But in the case of the IPS officer Faiyyaz Farooqui (DIG, Ludhiana Range), it can be said that he is an Urdu poet in his own right. In his recently published collection of ghazals, there is not a single couplet that indicates his official status. He is primarily a poet engaged in depicting his innermost feelings in the line of Mir and Momin as well as Firaq and Faraz. He is immersed in the classical mode of Urdu ghazal, but the terminology he uses brings forth the changing patterns of new awareness. Therein lies the appeal of his poetic endeavour that is at once charming and captivating.
Crime busters turn entertainers
Ludhiana, March 18
It is not often when you see the police personnel don the colourful costumes and win the hearts.
The ongoing Saras Mela at Government College for Girls saw a youthful cultural show by the Punjab Police cultural troupe from Patiala in the evening.
Loudspeaker, incandescent bulbs in use at the venue for Saras Mela. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
City gets Sachin’s wax statue
Ludhiana, March 18
Sachin Tendulkar was in the city today. Well, almost. His wax sculpture made by Prabhakar, an artist, did the honours of sharing a 30-kg cake, celebrating Sachin’s 100th ton with hundreds of his admirers at the Sarabha Nagar market here today.
Residents, flanked by Sachin Tendulkar’s wax statue, celebrate his 100th ton at Sarabha Nagar in Ludhiana on Sunday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Traffic congestion on roads, encroachments say it all
Ludhiana, March 18
One of the oldest bazaar of the city, Chaura Bazaar, presently no longer stands by its name. Once known for its sprawling roads, today it is difficult even to walk on the narrow roads of the bazaar. Traffic congestion and encroachments are the major problems faced by the century-old bazaar.
Vegetable prices go up
Ludhiana: The vegetable prices have gone up. An increase of Rs 5 has been seen in the prices. “Once the vegetables of the season start arriving in abundance, the prices will become normal,” said a vegetable vendor.
reporters’ diary
Reviving old school memories
Few days back I met one of my friends from the school days. It was nice meeting her and reviving the old memories of the school time. One memory of the school days which left us laughing was of the day when our teacher took us to the lab as he wanted to find out what happened when an egg breaks in boiling water. He prepared everything and dropped it in the water.
After dropping the egg he looked at his stop watch and realised he was holding
the egg in his hand and it was the watch that he had dropped in the water. Such
was the school life, where even small incidents and happenings use to amuse us
and take us to another world. We miss our school days!
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In a development that could make residents, who have stopped visiting the Chaura Bazaar due to frequent traffic jams created by auto-rickshaws, cheerful the city police has decided to make it an auto-rickshaw free zone.
A scintillating batting display by Dr Dalbir Singh (74 runs off 42 balls) helped Bathinda Brotherhood XI script an emphatic seven-wicket win over Sacred Heart Convent School, Batch-1982 XI, in an exhibition cricket match played at Don Bosco Global School on the
Ludhiana-Ferozepur road here today.
Mandi Ahmedgarh, March 18
