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LUDHIANA: Two people were killed and as many injured after a tourist bus ran into a stationary truck on a flyover on Delhi-Ludhiana National Highway, near Khanna, early on Wednesday. Police are yet to ascertain the identities of the deceased.
Yaseen, a passenger who was injured in the accident, said, “I had boarded the bus from Sitamarhi to Ludhiana and paid Rs 1,600. The bus was overloaded till Delhi and some passengers were standing in the vehicle. When we reached near Khanna around 3am, we heard a loud bang and fell down. I tried standing up, but couldn’t. A few more passengers were injured.”
LUDHIANA: Two government teachers have been selected for Online Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme from entire country. They will be trained on digital tools to develop basic English language proficiency. The training is divided into two phases — Phase I, which will be from June 21 to June 28 and Phase Il from June 28 to July 2.
Shakti Kumar, a lecturer in English at Shaheed-E-Azam Sukhdev Thapar Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Bharat Nagar and Rohit Singh Saini, lecturer in English at GSSS Kadianwali have been selected by the ministry of external affairs.
Chander Shekhar, state resource person, English and social studies (SST) said, “We sent names of six lecturers and two have been selected and these are from Punjab.