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New VAT numbers
Delay hits inter-state transactions
Ludhiana, November 19
Traders are facing a lot of difficulty in getting new value added tax (VAT) registration number. Applications are lying pending for the past one month.
Abhishek’s death
Police protecting culprits, says father
 Ludhiana, November 19
Controversy shrouding the mysterious death of Abhishek Banerjee refuses to die down. On one hand the police and doctors of the Civil Hospital seem to be convinced that Abhishek died due to drug overdose, his father, Dr AK
Banerjee, claimed that the police were shielding the son of an influential gas agency owner.
Police officials examine the crime scene. A file photo
lost in encroachments:
Encroachers have not even spared the foundation stone installed near Buddha Nullah. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Yet another cop dies, GRP rules out suicide
Ludhiana, November 19
A 42-year-old policeman died after being hit by a train this morning. The deceased has been identified as head constable Surjit Singh. He was deployed at the treasury branch in Mini Secretariat.
Councillor’s daughter was stalked
Ludhiana, November 19
Two days after the 16-year-old daughter of former Congress councillor Ashok Bagga committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of a house at Shivaji Nagar, it has come to light that the deceased was allegedly stalked and teased by a youth.
Online coaching on the cards
Khanna, November 19
The Punjab Government is committed to provide all kinds of assistance to government school students to make them as competent as the children studying in urban and missionary schools.
WiFi modems banned in govt schools
Ludhiana, November 19
To check the use of internet on mobile phones on school premises, the District Education Office has directed all government schools not to use WiFi-enabled modems.
Plantation drive
Students raise awareness
 Ludhiana, November 19
In support of the noble initiative undertaken by the Punjab Police, Spring Dale Public School participated in a plantation drive at
Sherpur.
A police team headed by ACP (South) Rupinder Kaur and Focal Point SHO Surinder Singh joined hands with the school to carry out a rally in the area.
Students of Spring Dale Public School plant saplings in Ludhiana on Wednesday.
A Tribune photograph
Three girls selected for Udaan scheme
Ludhiana, November 19
Three girls studying in Class XI at the Senior Secondary Residential School for Meritorious Students have been selected for the Central Board of Secondary Education’s “Udaan” project.
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Students felicitated
Ludhiana: Meritorious students who scored more than 90 per cent marks in various subjects besides those who excelled in sports were felicitated at Joseph’s School. Dr Satya Nand Sewak from Punjab Agricultural University presided over the annual prize distribution function. The function began with a hymn, followed by a dandia performance. Class XI and XII students presented bhangra at the end of the event.
Children in an animated mood during a puppet show at Mother’s Pride Pre-School.
Tribune Photographs
PAU NOTES
Training course concludes
Ludhiana: A three-week national-level training course on advances in resource conservation technologies for soil, water and crop productivity concluded at the farm varsity. Twenty-five people from different Indian Council of Agricultural Research institutes and state agricultural universities attended the course. In his address, the chief guest, Dr HS Dhaliwal, Dean, College of Agriculture, said the present scenario underlined a need for sincere efforts to evolve sound resource conservation technologies to sustain soil quality and crop productivity.
NCC officials, cadets attend conference
 Ludhiana, November 19
A Sainik Sammelan was organised by the Ludhiana National Cadet Corps (NCC) Group at the Punjab Agricultural University
(PAU) auditorium here today.
NCC volunteers of the Khalsa College for Women spend time with children at the Missionaries
of Charity, Jalandhar Bypass, on Wednesday. A tribune photograph
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Good Samaritans
Ludhiana: The NCC unit of the Khalsa College for Women visited the Missionaries of Charity at Jalandhar Bypass. Around 40 cadets took along with them grocery items, fruits, sweets and chocolates. They also donated their pocket money.
Education Dept gears up for students’ safety
Mandi Ahmedgarh, November 19
The Education Department has launched a coordinated movement to ensure safety and security of students of government and private schools of the area.
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Industrialists meet CM
A delegation of the Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organisation on Wednesday met Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. He assured the delegation that the industry would not have to pay the five years’ compulsory advance factory licence renewal fee.
Non-teaching staff seek release of arrears
 Ludhiana, November 19
Members of the Private College Non-Teaching Employees’ Union organised a sit-in protest at Arya College protesting against the non-receipt of arrears. Despite the revision of pay on January 1, 2006, and revised grade on November 1, 2012, no arrears have been paid by the government, said ML Khullar a member of the union.
Members of Private College Non-Teaching Employees’ Union hold a protest in Ludhiana. Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Mixed response to unexpected holiday at government schools
Doraha, November 19
As the Punjab Government declared a holiday today in all government schools in the state due to the outstanding performance of Punjab in the National School Games held at Sri Anandpur Sahib, the children returned to their homes excited. Some of them complained against the move.
BUSINESS NEWS
Ford launches new facilities
Ford India on Wednesday augmented its sales and service network in the city with the inauguration of five new facilities. The company inaugurated a 3S (sales, service and spares) Imperial Ford facility in Ludhiana. Located at the Ferozpur Road, Ludhiana, the new 3S facility will be spread across 20,000 sq ft and offer Ford’s 2014 line up of smart, safe and class-leading fuel-efficient products along with a host of unique after-sales services.
Students make people aware of water conservation
 Doraha, November 19
Sri Guru Harkrishan Public Senior Secondary School, Doraha, observed ‘Water conservation week’ from November 12 to 19.
The students took out a rally during this week and chanted raised slogans like ‘Save water save life’ on streets of Doraha. A total of 125 students participated in the rally.
Students hold a rally in Doraha. A Tribune photograph
3 injured in clash in Jagraon
Jagraon, November 19
Three persons - a pregnant woman and two brothers - were injured when members of two families clashed with each other following a minor argument in Galib Kalan village, near here, today.
Gill assumes charge as market panel chief
Jagraon, November 19
Senior SAD leader and former member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) from Jagraon Harsurinder Singh Gill today assumed charge as chairman of the market committee of Jagraon. Hari Om Mittal took charge as the vice-chairman of the committee.
Fresh case of dengue surfaces, toll reaches 207
Ludhiana, November 19
One more person tested positive for dengue today. With this, the total number of patients in Ludhiana hospitals has reached 207.
Of them, 155 belong to Ludhiana, 47 to other districts and six are from the other states.
A story about three brothers and the bond they share
 Ludhiana, November 19
The starcast and crew of upcoming movie Happy Go Lucky was in the city. Actors, including Amrinder Gill, Harish
Verma, Sumit Sandhu, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Isha Rikhi, Shruti Sodhi, Dakshita Kumaria and director Harry Baweja promoted the movie.
The star cast of Happy Go Lucky in Ludhiana. Tribune Photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Who is to blame?:
Posing a risk to the lives of commuters, cattle stray on to Domoria Bridge in Ludhiana. The authorities have failed to check the menace. Tribune Photo: Himanshu mahajan |
Police officials to learn traffic management
Ludhiana, November 19
The traffic police will organise “the eighth programme” at KVM School in Civil Lines on November 20.
Commissioner of Police Pramod Ban will inaugurate the programme.
samples of sweets
Report out a month after Diwali
Ludhiana, November 19
The samples of sweets collected two days before Diwali have passed the purity test. Twenty samples were collected by the Health Department.
The halwai association said the department should collect samples 15 days before Diwali so that the results are declared a day or two before the festival.
Urban health mission to benefit the poor
Ludhiana, November 19
The Punjab Government will launch the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) from Ludhiana on November 21.
Health Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani, in a press release issued today, stated that cities with a population of 50,000 and above would be covered under the Centrally-sponsored scheme which aimed at providing affordable quality health services to the urban population with emphasis on urban poor and vulnerable population.
Man held with opium
Khanna, November 19
The Khanna police have claimed to have arrested a elderly person and recovered 250 gm of opium from his possession.
As per information, a police party of the CIA, Khanna, was on patrolling in the area near Galwadi village. When the team reached near Galwadi, they spotted a person walking. When they signalled him to stop, he tried to return back but was later overpowered.
Two bikers snatch purse
Ludhiana, November 19
Two motorcycle-borne youths snatched a purse from a clerk of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today.
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