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New colonies can come up on 25 acres: CM

Wednesday 23 September '09

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had good news for builders on Tuesday.
CM defends clean chit to Crown Town

Wednesday 23 September '09

Claiming that there was nothing extraordinary in issuance of no-objection certificate for 100-acre Crown Town mega-housing project at Lalton Kalan in a quick time, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that any company...
Sugar prices continue to head northward

Tuesday 22 September '09

Belying hope that unearthing of huge stocks (about 1.10 lakh quintals) of sugar during the past few days will bring down the sugar prices...
Controversial Crown Town set to take off

Tuesday 22 September '09

The 100-acre Crown Town coming up at Lalton Kalan will finally get a license from Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority.
Paddy season at fag end, PSEB now buys less power

Monday 21 September '09

With the paddy season set to get over, the Punjab State Electricity Board has started austerity measures.
Rs 4-crore stock found during raid at sugar godown

Monday 21 September '09

The district food and civil supplies department, along with the executive magistrate and the police, raided another sugar godown in Ludhiana on Sunday and seized 9,780 quintals with a market value of Rs 4 crore.
Rs 4-crore stock found during raid at sugar godown

Monday 21 September '09

The district food and civil supplies department, along with the executive magistrate and the police, raided another sugar godown in Ludhiana on Sunday and seized 9,780 quintals with a market value of Rs 4 crore.
MC finally wakes up to pending house tax bills worth Rs 60 crore

Saturday 19 September '09

A day after councillors raised questions on pending projects in the General House meeting, several Municipal Corporation departments swung into action on Friday.
‘Financial planning needed for proper functioning of MC’

Friday 18 September '09

“The financial health of the municipal corporation needs to be improved. Serious measures need to be taken to reduce expenses, check pilferage and ensure proper planning. Once you have enough funds in your kitty...
MC meet lasts 8 hours, councillors give agenda a miss

Friday 18 September '09

Thureday’s general House meeting of the Municipal Corporation turned out to be the longest ever in the history of the civic body as it lasted for nearly eight hours.
Traders’ body election tomorrow, campaigning picks up pace in city

Thursday 17 September '09

It is a busy time for more than 1,400 members of the Asia’s largest association — United Cycles Parts and Manufacturers’ Association.
Admn gets poor response, draw of lots today

Wednesday 16 September '09

Though the adminstration claims to have adopted a transparent system of alloting cracker stalls after last year’s allegations of corruption, the idea does not seem to have gone down well with dealers.
Sewer lines choked, but MC ready to spend Rs 14 cr more on roads

Sunday 13 September '09

Although Rs 14 crore has been earmarked to recarpet city roads, sewer lines in Ludhiana are in dire straits because hardly any step has been taken to upgrade the drainage system in the past five years.
Now, MC will not tear religious hoardings

Friday 11 September '09

If a religious organisation fixes a hoarding at a wrong place, the MC team will not remove or tear it on their own, instead they shall summon the organisation concerned and ask them to rectify the mistake.
PWD for upkeep of main roads in city, MC told

Thursday 10 September '09

Since January 2009, the Public Works Department (PWD) has sent at least three reminders to the Municipal Corporation suggesting it (Pwd) be allowed to maintain at least the main roads of the city.
Clerk courageous: MC employee catches undertrial

Wednesday 9 September '09

Forty four years old Amarjit Singh Tona was received like a hero by his teenaged sons on Tuesday when he came home with a bouquet of flowers gifted to him by Municipal Commissioner A K Sinha.
Industry says not fair

Wednesday 9 September '09

The decision of the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission to hike the power tariff by 9.5 per cent in the industrial sector, with effect from April 1, 2009, has come as a rude shock for the industry.
Improving finances on top of new municipal chief’s agenda

Tuesday 8 September '09

Even as the civic body struggles to improve its functioning, the newly-appointed municipal commissioner, A K Sinha, assured that “something good will be done, but it will take sometime and team work”.
Stray dogs inside court complex give sleepless nights to staff

Monday 7 September '09

The court complex in the city is beset with a unique problem these days — stray dogs. And they are giving sleelpless nights to security personnel and the housekeeping staff.
Experts say Janakpuri sewer project not needed, govt to resume work soon

Monday 7 September '09

After much hue and cry, sewerage board experts have stated that the Rs 97-lakh Janakpuri storm sewer project was not needed at all.
This Diwali, five new sites in city to sell crackers

Friday 4 September '09

Apart from allotting cracker stalls through a draw of lots, the district administration has added five new places for setting up stalls to sell crackers, thereby taking the total number of such sites to 12.
No provision for green belts in colonies, says MC

Friday 4 September '09

Two days after a demolition drive in BRS Nagar, the Building Wing of the Municipal Corporation categorically stated that all the colonies under their jurisdiction would have end-to-end roads and that there was no provision for making green belts.
With only 8 fogging machines on road, relief from mosquitoes still a dream for residents

Wednesday 2 September '09

Even as malaria patients pour in to hospitals and a dengue threat looms large, the Municipal Corporation has managed to get only eight fogging machines for the city’s 75 wards.
Six years on, PSB’s all-women branch dominated by men

Friday 28 August '09

It was in June 2003 that the Punjab and Sind Bank launched an all-woman branch in the Model Town extension area.
Water supply cut, but no applicant for regularisation

Thursday 27 August '09

After the gastroenteritis outbreak in Punjabi Bagh claimed two lives and over 500 others were taken ill last month...
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