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1 After four deaths were reported in the last 24-hours, the toll due to Covid-19 in the district increased to 625 on Tuesday.
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, March 16
After four deaths were reported in the last 24-hours, the toll due to Covid-19 in the district increased to 625 on Tuesday.
The district health authorities have also reported 118 fresh cases, with which the total count of infections has reached 17,126.
The deceased have been identified as Hardev Singh (45) of Kotla Sultan Singh village, Palwinder Kaur of Sudhar village near Ajnala, Tilak Raj (83) of Green Avenue and Sushila Dhawan (95), a resident of Court Road. The new cases include 78 influenza-like illness cases and 40 contacts of positive patients.
Sumit Paul
To know a person, one has to swallow the whole world,’ wrote the ever-polemic writer Salman Rushdie. But to know a man like Sahir Ludhianvi, whose 100th birth anniversary falls on March 8, even the world is not enough. One has to swallow the whole universe! Sahir remained an enigma till he breathed his last in 1980. ‘Ik muamma hoon main khud ke liye bhi/Mujhe samjhegi duniya mere jaane ke baad hi,’ (I’m a conundrum even to my own self/The world will understand me once I bid adieu to it), Sahir sent this couplet to his Jalandhar-born friend and composer Muhammad Zahoor Khayyam ‘Hashmi’.