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This Ms India has roots in Doaba
Jalandhar, June 5
Femina Miss India 2008 has a typical, tall, bubbly Punjabi Jatti appearance. And why not? She has her roots in a primitive Doaba village. Simran Kaur Mundi’s family hails from Mundian Jattan in Hoshiarpur. “I have been brought up in Mumbai, but my parents are thoroughly Punjabi. My mother belongs to Amritsar.

Simran Kaur Mundi was in the city on Thursday. —Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

• Simran interacts with slum kids

Water Table Depletion
19 paddy fields ploughed
Jalandhar, June 5
The Punjab government is leaving no stone unturned to make its Preservation of Sub-soil Water Ordinance-2008 a success in the region. In a bid to save the depleting water table, the department of agriculture is ploughing one paddy field everyday to prevent farmers from sowing paddy.

Bad Man comes to town
Jalandhar, June 5
The city residents today had an opportunity to see the ‘Bad Man’ of Bollywood up close and personal. As he moved past the GT Road from Company Bagh to near the Lilly Resorts in an open jeep.

Gulshan Grover waves to residents in Jalandhar on Thursday. —Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Small village girl makes it big
Jalandhar, June 5
It was not an easy job for Manpreet Kaur to attain the mammoth score of 95.6 per cent (just one mark short of the local topper) in the recently held plus two CBSE examinations. Belonging to a remote village in the Bholath township, it is a huge accomplishment for Manpreet, especially given her limited resources and family background.

Young World
Seminar, rally mark Environment Day
Jalandhar, June 5
The Punjab Pollution Control Board organsied a seminar on World Environment Day at Apeejay College of Fine Arts here on Thursday. Department of science, technology and environment secretary Dr A.S. Chhatwal presided over the function. He said, “While the figures speak of large scale environment damage all over the world, the good news is that the situation can be redeemed and for doing this no great steps are required”.

A student of Manav Sehyog School paints a leave on  World Environment Day in Jalandhar on Thursday. —Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

‘Save environment before it’s too late’
Kapurthala, June 5
There is a dire need to save the environment from further degradation because the increasing levels of air, water, noise and soil pollutions are going to make human life virtually miserable. This was revealed by Prof Arun Deep Ahluwalia during a function organised on the occasion of World Environment Day at the Pushpa Gujral Science City (PGSC) on Thursday.