The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

Oops! This is the wrong way
Vishal Gulati
Tribune News Service

Faux pas or ignorance? Office-bearers of the District Congress Committee of Jalandhar seemed to be asking this to each other after the rally of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, was over at the PAP complex in Jalandhar on Monday.

The party is in a fix after the rally that how the pictures of Dr Manmohan Singh and the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, got printed on posters showing their turbans tied the wrong way. (Actually, the turban is tied from left to right, but in the photos it is the other way)

Interestingly, the picture of the PPCC chief, Mr Shamsher Singh Dullo, on the posters showed the turban tied in the right way. The posters also contained the photo of the Congress chief, Ms Sonia Gandhi.

“I am amazed to see the posters. It seemed the party activists have no idea or the knowledge about the printing of the posters,” said a leader of the party, on condition of anonymity, when he was pointed out the discrepancy.

He said the printer actually flipped the photos of the Chief Minister and the Prime Minister as they were looking outside the posters. When their photos were flipped their faces turned inward but their turbans pointed outward.

Sources in the party said the posters were got printed by the new DCC chief, Mr Arun Walia, from a local printer.

Send-off given to DIET Principal
Tribune News Service

Students and staff of the District Institute of Education and Training of Sheikhupur in Kapurthala district has organised a farewell party of the Principal, Mr Surinder Singh Atwal.

Ms Harjit Kaur Gill, DEO (Elementary), was the chief guest at the function.

Mr Onkar Singh, district science supervisor; Ms Gurcharan Kaur, Principal, GSSS, Wadala Kalan; Mr Satish Sharma, Principal, GSSS, Dhapai; Mr Nav Chetan Singh, Principal, GSSS, Bholath; Mr Sukhjit Singh, Principal, GSSS, Sultanpur; Mr Chander Mohan Tondon, Principal, GSSS (G), Sultanpur; Mr Balbir Singh Vasi; Mr Chander Shekhar Joshi; Mr Roshan Khera; Mr Baldev Kumar Passi; Mr Gurcharn Singh Multani; Mr Rajesh Bhaskar; and Ms Kulwant Kaur, Principal, GSSS, Hussainpur, were present, among others.

Students of DIET presented a cultural programme. Ms Harjit Kaur Gill praised Mr Atwal for his devotion to the cause of education.

The Vice-Principal, Mr Sudesh Kumar Passi, Mr Amrik Singh Dhillon and Mr Jarnail Singh honoured Mr Atwal.

Young World
Farewell to students
Tribune News Service

A farewell function was organised at Lyallpur Khalsa Collegiate Senior Secondary School to bid adieu to the senior-most batch of students.

The junior batch danced to the beats of Punjabi numbers “Dhol jagiro da” and “Soorma”. All aspects of Punjabi wedding were highlighted in a cultural show “Rankan Punjabi vyah diyan”.

Award

Priyanka Bhatia of BCA-III from Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya has been conferred with role model award by the Swami Vivekanand Study Circle.

After qualifying the state-level contest, she was shortlisted with other 15 candidates. She won on the basis of her meritorious result, oratory skills, trophies and medals won during various contests and research papers written by her for various journals.

Technical contests

“Plasma” was organised by the Department of Computer Science and IT at Lyallpur Khalsa College in which 248 students from 32 colleges participated.

In the website development contest, Sunita and Sabrina of BD Arya Girls College won the first prize. In net savvy contest, Sheetal Tandon of APJ Institute of Management stood first. In software showcase, Ravinder Singh and Rohit Talwar of Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus stood first. In idea snapshot, Jaspreet Kaur of Basti Nau campus of the university won prize.

BD Arya’s Sandeep Kaur and Nitu won the prize in the end of bug’s life contest. Aseem, Sameer and Vivek of Apeejay College of Fine Arts won the first prize in the why, what and when contest.

Book released

A book on concepts and practices of research methodology was released at Lovely Institutes. The book is written by Harpreet Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Lovely Professional University. Harjeet Kaur, faculty member in the Bhutta College of Education is a co-author of the book.