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Budha Nullah clean-up: Officials review progress of work
Ludhiana, October 22
Senior officials of the municipal corporation, the district administration, the Punjab Pollution Control Board and the Irrigation Department held a meeting in Chandigarh today to monitor the progress of work on cleaning Budha Nullah. The meeting was chaired by the Chief Secretary.
Festival season: Industry faces labour shortage
 Ludhiana, October 22
The Ludhiana industry is facing a labour shortage, yet again. This time it is due to the festival season. With Dasehra and Diwali around the corner, labourers are rushing back home to be with their families.
Migrants are heading back home to celebrate the festival season with their families.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Blood donation proved a blessing for him
Ludhiana, October 22
Donating blood proved to be a blessing for this resident of Gill Chowk, who donated blood for a newborn baby in 2005 at the Christian Medical College and Hospital. Only after the blood donation did Gobinder Singh, a medical representative, get to know that he was suffering from hepatitis-C.
10-year-old Dalit raped; 2 booked
Khanna, October 22
A 10-year-old poor Dalit girl was raped allegedly by two youths at a marriage palace in Machhiwara on the Samrala road late last evening. According to the Machhiwara police, the victim, a Class III student, whose mother works as a domestic help in the home of the marriage palace owner, had gone to the palace along with her seven-year-old sister to have food.
PCS officer deputed at Academy
 Ludhiana, October 22
To run the Ishmeet Singh Music Institute in a smooth manner, a PCS trainee officer, JP Singh, has been deputed at the academy. Since it is a government-run academy set up in the memory of Ishmeet Singh, the winner of the Indian Idol reality
show.
Ishmeet Singh Music Institute in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: himanshu mahajan
Cluster development scheme boon for small, medium firms
Ludhiana, October 22
The cluster development scheme is a key strategy for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of micro and small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In Ludhiana, which houses many small and medium business units, clusters can play a very pivotal role in their development.
Dance institutes come to aid of dandiya revellers
 Ludhiana, October 22
It is time to pick up sticks, make rounds and dance in a group. As Navratras head for a conclusion, the tempo and excitement for the days ahead is increasing.
Students learn dandiya at a dance class. photo: inderjeet verma
Devotees have hard time finding girls for ashtami puja
Ludhiana, October 22
Thanks to the skewed sex ratio, it is getting hard to find girls even for Ashtami
Puja. During the Navratras Ashtimi Pooja, people had a hard time looking for young girls for performing the Puja in the morning today.
Showcasing martial art skills
Youths perform "gatka" during the opening ceremony of the All-India Sahibzada Ajit Singh Hockey Championship at the PAU. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Worn-out bridge poses threat
Doraha, October 22
The authorities at this point of time, seem to be ignoring the old bridge at Tibba chowk. The reason being that they are entirely engrossed in the erection of the new one, which it contends, shall be ready in the coming months.
Youth showcase skills at PAU fest
Ludhiana, October 22
The "Golden Jubilee Inter-College Youth Festival" of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), for the session 2012-13, was inaugurated here today amidst gaiety and ecstasy. Spectators in a large number gathered in the open air theatre to see the cultural procession, representing four-constituent colleges of the PAU including College of Agriculture (COA), College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology (COAE&T), College of Basic Sciences and Humanities (COBS&H) and College of Home Science (COHS).
from schools
Musical Nite
Ludhiana: Green Grove Public School, Khanna, staged a rocking and thrilling “Musical Nite” to usher its new talent with its own School Rock band 'Green Grove
Dynamoz'. The programme began with 'instrumental music' followed by a series of songs.
Orphanage welcomes new member
 Jagraon, October 22
In the days of Navratras when people worship the girl child, certain persons abandoned a girl child at “panghura” set up at the Red Cross
Bhawan, Amritsar.
Secretary of the Red Cross Society, Amritsar, Thakur Randhir Singh hands over an abandoned child to the staff at an orphanage at Talwandi Dham near Jagraon.
Philatelists upbeat over release of new stamps
Ludhiana, October 22
A commemorative postage stamp on the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity in Hyderabad was recently released by the postal department.
Psychological lifestyle changes to blame for hypertension in teenagers, says
Ludhiana, October 22
Hypertension is a lifestyle disease and obesity and junk food are like adding fuel to the fire. However, "psychological life style" changes are making teenagers suffer from hypertension.
Samples of sweets taken
Ludhiana, October 22
The District Health Department today collected samples from various sweet shops in the city. The samples of traditional sweets, including barfi, rasgulla, laddu, gulab jamun and kalakand, were collected from Sharma Sweet Shop and Bikaner Mishthan Bhandar at Model Town, Raj Sweet Shop at Model Town Extension, Giani Sweet Shop on the Gill Road and Shubham Sweet Shop at Mundian Kalan, said Harpreet Kaur, Food Safety Officer.
Mismanagement mars school games
 Ludhiana,
October 22
It was the common excuse of the Education Department officials for every
blunder, “we do not have sufficient funds to organise the inter-district
primary school games”.
Players and officials from Bathinda protest against the organisers at the Guru Nanak Stadium in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: himanshu mahajan
A match between the PNB and Namdhari in progress during the All-India Sahibzada Ajit Singh Hockey Championship at the PAU in
Ludhiana. Tribune photo: himanshu mahajan |
Inter-school cricket meet kicks off
Mandi Gobindgarh, October 22
The RIMT Inter-School Cricket Tournament-2012 began on its campus in Mandi Gobindgarh here today.
Bathinda win overall trophy
Ludhiana, October 22
Players from Bathinda won the overall trophy of the 28th edition of
Inter-District Primary School Games held at Guru Nanak Dev Stadium here today.
In the individual events Ludhiana district stood overall first.
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