Ludhiana: The six-month-old ‘Xcelerator Ludhiana - Sadda Karobaar, Punjab Di Shaan’ business accelerator programme has started yielding results for the entrepreneurs, who have signed up for the programme, and is paving the way for the participants to become local success stories.
The programme led by the government of Punjab, Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) and Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) is aimed at catalysing the growth of businesses in Ludhiana.
“After the first session of Xcelerator with customers, I was able to strike better conversations with my end retail customers and got new orders by talking about my products and my business value proposition. This has helped me scale up my business in a short period,” said Siddhant Pruthi of Robin International, associated with the programme.
Ludhiana: The election campaigning for the city’s Lodhi Club seems to have gathered steam as the date of the annual general meeting (AGM) of the club draws near. As per orders of the club president-cum-deputy commissioner, Ludhiana, Varinder Kumar, the AGM has been scheduled to take place on February 21. It is on or after the AGM that the date of club elections will be decided by the president. As per sources in the club circle, the elections may be held on February 28, which is the last Sunday of February because as per last trends, elections have been held in February only.
35-year-old Gurlal Singh was declared brought dead at hospital.
BATHINDA: Faridkot district Youth Congress president Gurlal Singh was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen on Thursday evening.
The 35-year-old was taken to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
As per the eyewitnesses, nearly 6 round of bullets were fired at Gurlal which hit him in the head and chest.
Police team at the incident spot
The incident took place at a busy point in the town. Though, exact reason is yet not know, but it is believed that a business dealing could the reason behind the shootout.
Navreet Singh s grandfather Hardeep Singh Dibdiba with Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in Jalandhar on Tuesday.
JALANDHAR: Hardeep Singh Dibdiba, grandfather of young farmer Navreet Singh who was killed during tractor parade in Delhi on January 26, has urged the farm union leaders to strongly raise the issue of violence inflicted on farmers by the Delhi Police, of which his grandson became a victim.
“Farm leaders showed weakness and apparently got carried away by the false narrative set by the government. They should now speak out on the violence inflicted on farmers who entered Delhi and push the issue into centre stage to seek justice. The government indulged in false propaganda and ‘aggressors’ played the victim card to defame our movement,” he said.
Ludhiana: A court here on Monday adjourned a revision petition filed by Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh and his son against lower court order allowing ED to inspect fresh records filed by income tax department in the alleged tax evasion cases against them. The next hearing of the case in the court of additional district and session judge Atul Kasana is on March 1.
On September 18 last year, the court of judicial magistrate Jasbeer Singh, while allowing ED application, had allowed the investigating agency to inspect fresh income tax records related to the cases of Amarinder Singh and Raninder, and had allowed ED to inspect those on September 28. Later, the court of additional district and sessions judge, admitting two revised petition filed by Amarinder and Raninder against the September 18 order, had ordered stay on ED inspection of records related to the cases.