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Protest after newborn’s death
Ludhiana, June 6
High drama took place at the Civil Hospital here following the death of a newborn during treatment. The death sparked a protest against the doctor concerned and the newborn’s parents demanded action against him. The doctor has been identified as Yogesh Khanna.
Doctors during a press conference held following a protest over the death of a newborn in Ludhiana on Thursday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma |
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Two couples booked for fraud
Ludhiana, June 6
The city police has booked two couples, who allegedly used to pose as Army officials and dupe innocent residents on the pretext of getting their wards selected in the Army. The accused took Rs 3.6 lakh from three persons of Jamalpur assuring them that their sons would get jobs in the Army.
A respite from sweltering heat
Ludhiana, June 6
A dust storm, accompanied by light showers, brought some respite from the sweltering heat in the day this evening.
The maximum temperature during the day hit 43.4 degree centigrade whereas the minimum temperature was recorded at 31.5 degree centigrade.
A woman protects herself from the scorching sun with an umbrella.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
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Storm, light showers hit power supply
Ludhiana, June 6
Power supply in most parts of the city was disrupted after high velocity winds, accompanied by light showers, lashed the city late in the afternoon. A large number of trees were uprooted at several places across the city and in the areas along the highways, leading to the snapping of power lines.
State info panel directs Kapur Hospital to implement RTI Act
Ludhiana, June 6
In a significant order, the State Information Commission, Punjab, has ruled that the city-based Dr BL Kapur Memorial Hospital is a public authority under the terms of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and hence, the institution ought to implement the said act in letter and spirit.
Pharmacists’ stir enters 6th day
Ludhiana, June 6
Dharna by rural health pharmacists, veterinary pharmacists and class IV employees working in 1,186 rural health dispensaries and 582 veterinary dispensaries entered the sixth day today.
They burnt the effigy of the Rural Development and Panchayat Minister, Surjit
Singh Rakhra.
Activists of the Rural Veterinary Pharmacists Union burn an effigy of Punjab Government at zila parishad office in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
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Local industry flays reward policy of taxation department
Ludhiana, June 6
Local industry has termed the reward policy of the excise and taxation department as unjustified which is kindling "inspector raj" in the state. Knitwear industry has also shot a letter to the Chief Minister in this regard mentioning that although government promised to abolish inspector raj in the state. But the reward policy of the excise department is doing it otherwise.
Mayor visits Lakkad Bridge, Guru Nanak Bhawan
Ludhiana, June 6
Mayor Harcharan Singh Gohalwaria today visited the site of Lakkad Bridge and construction site of indoor stadium and the Guru Nanak
Bhawan. “I was told that some part of the bridge will become operational by July but that doesn't look viable,” he said.
On guard: Police personnel deployed at Jagraon Bridge in view of the 29th anniversary of Operation Bluestar in Ludhiana on Thursday. Tribune
photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
PAU NOTES
Agricultural varsity centre receives award for research work
Ludhiana, June 6
All-India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) Centre on Agro-forestry, operative in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has received the "Best Presentation Award 2013” for the research work.
gadvasu notes
Expert dwells on precautions needed for poultry farms
Ludhiana, June 6
Summer is a challenging season to poultry farming. For the hot summer months, there are many precautions which need to be taken right from the onset of rising temperature.
The information was shared by Dr Samita Saini of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University
(GADVASU).
Students of Spring Dale Senior Secondary Public School celebrate World Environment Day in
Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph |
Block
samiti/zila parishad elections
Bus operators demand payment
Ludhiana, June 6
The private bus operators, who had provided both their mini and district buses to the district administration for conducting the block samiti and zila parishad elections on May 19 said, “The state government takes the vehicles ‘forcefully’ when ever there is a rally, function or elections but never provides the payments on time.”
Nod to amendment in toll policy
Ludhiana, June 6
The Punjab Government has given its nod to the amendment in the toll policy to rationalise the toll rates across the state. The initiative would lessen the burden of the masses commuting through roads.
Residents suffer as I-T Dept rejects Aadhaar card as proof
Ludhiana, June 6
Although the Income Tax Department had included the column of Aadhaar card number in the application form number 49-A (it is required for making a Permanent Account Number) but it forgot to update the instructions to include Aadhaar card as an identity proof.
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Mridula Jain is chairperson of Shawl Club
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Ludhiana, June 6
The buyer and seller meet of shawl manufacturers will be an annual event at Ludhiana for all wool mark licenses of Amritsar and
Ludhiana. The announcement was made by Mridula Jain, MD, Shingora Textiles Ltd, Vice-Chairperson, Shawl Club (India), after being nominated as the chairperson of the Shawl Club (India) by Aamir Sheikh India, Head, Wool Mark Company. |
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| MridulaJain, MD, Shingora Textiles Ltd, Vice-Chairperson, Shawl Club (India), being nominated as the new chairperson of Shawl Club (India) by Amir Sheikh, India, Head Wool Mark
Company. Photo: Inderjeet Verma |
Villagers block traffic
Samrala June 6
Several residents of Kotla Shamshpur village blocked traffic last night against the ‘illegal’ occupation of a portion of the village pond by a family of the same area. The traffic blockade was opened after about half-an-hour when the police swung into action and persuaded the people to open traffic blockade.
Karnail singh nagar incident
Elder sister dies too
Ludhiana, June 6
Day after the death of a 14-year-old girl, identified as Bharti, her sister (19), too, died under mysterious circumstance at Guru Teg
Bahadur Hospital here last night. The incident has devastated the family of Satish Kumar (father of the girls), a resident of Karnail Singh
Nagar, who is physically challenged.
Chander Shekher Prabhakar with the wax statues of Bollywood stars Sunny Deol and Dharmendra in
Ludhiana. A Tribune photograph |
File TDS on time or face penalty
Ludhiana, June 6
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has asked the Income Tax Department to be strict with those who fail to deposit tax deducted at source
(TDS). The CBDT has issued directions to all the TDS range office to slap penalties in case one fails to deposit TDS in full and in time.
Teachers get useful tips at seminar
Ludhiana, June 6
A seminar on Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) was organised at Bhartiya Vidya
Mandir with an aim to acquaint the teachers with the system initiated by
the CBSE. The resource person, Harmeet Kaur, Principal of Nankana Sahib Public School, and Director of Sahodaya Cluster 16, briefed the importance of assessing the students from the very beginning till end.
Students of nursing college seek vacations
Mandi Ahmedgarh, June 6
Students of Guru Nanak Nursing College threatened to launch an agitation in case they were not granted holidays on the pattern of school students.
Maintaining that proper arrangements had been made to provide all amenities to students and the staff, principal Veenu Methew said holidays could not be allowed without permission of the authorities.
LUDHIANA SCAN
Pension for freedom fighters
Ludhiana: Deputy Commissioner Rahul Tiwari has appealed to freedom fighters and their dependents, which have not drawn pension, to fill in the forms by June 15 by attaching the documents that they or their ancestors were part of the freedom struggle. "The government is giving pension to those who were the part of the freedom struggle," said DC.
Three booked for kidnapping minor
Ludhiana, June 6
The city police has booked three persons, including a boy and his parents, for kidnapping and raping a minor girl by solemnising a marriage and deserting the victim after assaulting her.
23-year-old dies under mysterious circumstances
Ludhiana, June 6
A 23- year-old woman, identified as
Puja, died under mysterious circumstances by hanging herself from a ceiling
fan at her residence in Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar today. Kamlesh Rani, mother-in-law, said that her son Prince, brother-in-law of Puja, found her body hanging from the ceiling fan.
Man killed in road mishap
Jagraon, June 6
A migrant worker was killed when his bicycle, he was riding on, was hit by an unknown vehicle on the Ludhiana-Ferozepur national highway near Malak Chowk in Jagraon last night. The deceased has been identified as Ramesh Kumar (37), a resident of Baskar district in Nepal.
nri’s murder
Accused sent to two-day police remand
Ludhiana, June 6
The 62-year-old millionaire Jaswant Singh Grewal, accused of killing his elder brother, Kulwant Singh Grewal (75), over a property feud was produced before the court here today.
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