Artistes from Spain and Mexico during a visit to Ludhiana on Thursday. photo: inderjeet verma |
Tight security in place
Ludhiana, November 22
Security in and around Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has been beefed up in view of President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to the university, scheduled for November 27.
Sarna aide Channi's house raided
Ludhiana, November 22
The city police raided the house of Charanjit Singh Channi, an aide of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president Paramjit Singh Sarna, in Dugri last night.
PAU employees hold
protest
Ludhiana, November 22
PAU Employees Union launched a protest in front of the Thapar Hall at the PAU campus due to non-payment of 70 per cent arrear of revised pay scales here today. Five employees namely, Joginder Ram, Lakhwinder Singh
Sandhu, Jarnail Singh, Iqbal Singh Lally and Kartar Singh sat on the dharna.
Schools told to upload data on monitoring website
Ludhiana, November 22
Office of the Director General School Education has sent instructions to schools to update the data on the schools monitoring website www.epunjabschool.com .
According to the instructions sent, all the government websites have to upload the data about the students, school staff and infrastructure.
College teachers observe 2-period strike
Sahnewal, November 22
The joint action committee, comprising members of the Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers Union (PCCTU), Retired Employees Association and the Non-Teaching Employees Union, support of the Principals’ Federation, has decided to fight tooth and nail the alleged insensitive attitude of the Punjab Govt towards the implementation of the pension and gratuity scheme at the earliest. The teachers observed a two-period strike in their respective colleges. The members of the committee will start a chain fast tomorrow.
Man falls into trench, hospitalised
Doraha, November 22
A resident of Kaddon village, near Doraha, suffered serious injuries after his scooter fell into a trench that had been dug up for linking sewerage lines, on Tuesday night. The contractor, who has been awarded the work, had allegedly not installed any safety reflectors at the spot and the trench had been left uncovered.
From schools
Students felicitated
Ludhiana: Over 200 students of Government Senior Secondary School Dehlon, who achieved distinguished position in academics and extra-curricular activities during the year, were felicitated at the Annual Jollification function organised at Dehlon village near here on Thursday. Balwinder Singh
Grewal, principal, presided over the function, while Darshan Singh Shivalik MLA Gill, was the chief guest. A cultural programme was presented on the occasion during which the performers spread awareness about adverse effects of social evils, including dowry, illiteracy and female foeticide.
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Notices served on 1,500 encroachers
Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tiwari said that encroachments on the link roads will not be tolerated. Slapping notices to about 1500 defaulters in the district, Tiwari said in Ludhiana, there were link-roads in 5,000 kilometers and on more than 1,000 kms roads, the land-mafia had encroached. He asked the defaulters to remove the encroachments within 15 days else criminal cases will be registered against them.
Kingpin of drug peddlers’ gang held
Mandi Ahmedgarh, Nov 22
The Dehlon police has nabbed the kingpin of a gang of drug peddlers and seized a rich haul of pharmaceutical products at Dehlon near here today. The accused has been identified as Md Shakeel of Bhoomsi Mohalla at Malerkotla in Sangrur. The Assistant Commissioner of Police, said the police arrested the accused while he was on his way to supply a consignment of habit-forming drugs to his customers.
3 arrested for murder charge
Mandi Ahmedgarh, Nov 22
The police claimed to have arrested three residents of Kup Kalan village for allegedly killing two persons including an under-trial woman of the same village 4 days ago.
The accused have been identified as Sandeep Singh, Kulwinder Singh and Bhawkhandan Singh of Kup kalan village.
2 hurt as minor argument turns violent
Jagraon, November 22
Two brothers were critically injured in a clash following a minor argument on the Raikot Road this afternoon. The place where the clash took place is close to the Raikot Adda Police Chowki, but no policemen reached there even as the clash continued for around 20 minutes.
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In view of President Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Punjab Agricultural University on November 27 for the "International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Food and Livelihood Security", the university is being decked up.
