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Illegal change of land use
LIT waiting for murmurs to turn into chorus
Ludhiana, November 18
Despite the Punjab and Haryana High Court directing the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) and the Municipal Corporation to take action against illegal change of land (CLU) use in residential properties and shop-cum-flats, the authorities seem to have done precious little in this direction.

Water supply hit
Ludhiana, November 18
Residents will have to go without water as the afternoon supply (from 12 pm to 2 pm) will remain suspended till February 2015.

Robbery at sweetmeat shop owner's house 
Involvement of cop, ex-serviceman suspected
Ludhiana, November 18
The police are suspecting the involvement of a policeman or a retired official in the November 16 broad daylight conning incident. Seven swindlers, posing as Income Tax (I-T) officials, raided the house of a sweetmeat shop owner, Rakesh Kumar, On November 16. The imposters took away Rs 20 lakh.


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Reality check: Ward Number 59
Illegality the only bane of area, say residents
Ludhiana, November 18

Illegal shanties/vehras dot Ward No. 59. As far as basic amenities are concerned, residents have no complaints. They said the authorities could ease congestion by rehabilitating slum-dwellers. Punjab Mata Nagar, Karnail Singh Nagar, New BRS Nagar, Jawaddi Village, Prakash Nagar, Bhagat Singh Nagar and Vishal Nagar fall in Ward No. 59.

drug peddling 
Former sarpanch of SAD cries foul
Ludhiana, November 18
Former SAD sarpanch of a village in Tarn Taran Surjan Singh, who along with 17 others, was booked for running an international drug smuggling racket, has cried foul and claimed that the police had implicated them in false cases.

Police crack blind murder, arrest two
Ludhiana, November 18
With the arrest of two persons, the police claimed to have cracked a blind  murder case. Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Jaswinder Singh said the victim, identified as Desraj, a resident of Sant Vihar Colony in Kailash Nagar, Salem Tabri, was killed for Rs 4,000 by his friends. His body was found near the Karabara area on October 24.



COMMUNITY

agricultural diversification
National symposium at PAU

Ludhiana, November 18
The chairman of the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences, Dr RS Paroda, addresses a gathering during the national symposium at PAU in Ludhiana A national symposium on agricultural diversification for sustainable livelihood and environmental security began at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) today amid eminent farm scientists and delegates from across the country.

The chairman of the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences, Dr RS Paroda, addresses a gathering during the national symposium at PAU in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan

Special camp marks children’s week at dental college
Ludhiana, November 18
Students celebrate children’s week at Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College in Ludhiana  on Tuesday. Children’s week was inaugurated at BJS Dental College, Hospital and Research Institute today. Chairman Baba Jaswant Singh inaugurated the event. Students of Government Primary School, Moti Nagar, Ludhiana, also attended the special camp. 

Students celebrate children’s week at Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College in Ludhiana  on Tuesday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma

94 cadets vow to fight againt female foeticide
Ludhiana, November 18
On the second day of the NCC week, cadets of the Khalsa College for Women took a pledge against female foeticide and dowry system. Members of PI staff from 3Pb girls Bn NCC graced the occasion. 

COLLEGE NOTES
Eye camp
Students take part in a cleanliness drive at the Khalsa College for Women in Ludhiana. Ludhiana: The NSS unit of Gobindgarh Public College, Alour (Khanna), organised a free eye check-up camp on its premises on Tuesday. The camp was organised in association with the Lions Club Mandi Gobindgarh Supreme, Mandi Gobindgarh. The camp was inaugurated by Lion Sanjeev Dutta.

Students take part in a cleanliness drive at the Khalsa College for Women in Ludhiana.  A tribune photograph

Play on female foeticide strikes a chord
Jagraon, November 18
Students enact a scene from the play “Sirjana” at the Khalsa College for Women at Sidhwan Khurd near Jagraon To spread awareness about female foeticide, the Department of Social Security and Woman and Child Development, Punjab, in association with the Khalsa College for Women, Sidhwan Khurd, organised a seminar on ‘Female Foeticide’ on the college campus today. An awareness camp on reduced sex ratio was also organised during the occasion. A large number of college students and their parents were present during the seminar and awareness camp.

Students enact a scene from the play “Sirjana” at the Khalsa College for Women at Sidhwan Khurd near Jagraon. A tribune photograph

Fourth international conference concludes with cultural programme 
Khamano November 18
Fourth international conference on the theme civil paths to violence free world and global peace, search for alternative strategies concluded on the Cordia campus, Sanghol.

from schools
Quiz at GSSMS
Ludhiana: District-level quiz in maths and science was organised by the District Education Officer at Government Senior Secondary Model School (GSSMS), PAU, on Tuesday. As many as 19 teams, comprising three students each, participated in the event. There were four rounds in the competition.

Bal Swachhata Week
School campuses abuzz with activities
Mandi Ahmedgarh, November 18
Visitors take a look at the cultural milieu at Government Senior Secondary School in Guram near Ahmedgarh Campuses of various local schools are buzzing with activities on the occasion of Bal Swachhata Week. Responding to a call made by the school principal, Pardeep Sharda, volunteers from various classes of MGMN Senior Secondary School cleaned laboratories, art room and dispensary today.

Visitors take a look at the cultural milieu at Government Senior Secondary School in Guram near Ahmedgarh. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan

SAD-BJP alliance rock solid: Dhillon
Ludhiana, November 18
Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Punjab Irrigation Minister, inaugurates a pedestrian underpass at Aggar Nagar in Ludhiana on Tuesday Calling statements made by certain political leaders their “personal grudge” against some other leaders, the Punjab Irrigation Minister, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, today said the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine was “rock solid”.

Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Punjab Irrigation Minister, inaugurates a pedestrian underpass at Aggar Nagar in Ludhiana on Tuesday. Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan

police-public meeting
SAD, BJP leaders come on verge of exchanging blows
Ludhiana, November 18
A high drama took place during a police-public meeting at HL Colony when BJP leader Prem Sagar Aggarwal and SAD councillor Sukhdev Singh Gill came on the verge of exchanging blows.

Tributes paid to Sarabha
Ludhiana, November 18
The Sehajdhari Sikh Party, under the leadership of its national president, Dr Paramjeet Singh Ranu, took out a peace march at Sarabha village and garlanded the statue of Kartar Singh Sarabha.

Local Verka plant to provide milk products in villages
Ludhiana, November 18
Verka Milk Plant chairman Ajmer Singh Bhagpur flags off a van carrying milk products to village cooperatives from the plant in Ludhiana Five vans were flagged off from the local Verka plant to supply milk products to 862 cooperatives in villages. Plant chairman Ajmer Singh Bhagpur said in order to provide milk products to people residing in villages, the milk plant has been divided into five zones.

Verka Milk Plant chairman Ajmer Singh Bhagpur flags off a van carrying milk products to village cooperatives from the plant in Ludhiana. Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan

City has a date with television actors
Ludhiana, November 18
Television actors were in the city to promote their shows today. Purvi Mundada, who stars in a Star Plus television show, “Nisha Aur Uske Cousins”, besides Sumeet Raghavan and Rupali Bhosale from “Badi Door Se Aaye Hain” (Sab TV) talked to the mediapersons.

Online submission of details by VAT dealers
Tax lawyers oppose department’s proposal
Ludhiana, November 18
The Punjab Tax Bar Association has opposed the Excise and Taxation Department’s proposal of making it mandatory for VAT dealers to submit details of dates and other particulars concerning statutory returns and forms online.



CRIME

Bag stolen from car at Karimpura
Ludhiana, November 18
A bag containing Rs 45,000 and important documents was allegedly stolen from a parked car after breaking its windshield at Karimpura the previous night.

 

Akal Academy shine at athletics meet 
Doraha, November 18
With promotion of rural sports on its mind, Punjab Youth Welfare Club organised an inter-school athletics meet in collaboration with the village panchayat at Lopon today. Students from 12 schools participated in the event.

Children take part in the tug-of-war event during an inter-school meet at Lopon village on Wednesday. A tribune photograph



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