Every Wednesday and Friday

Town planners housed in dingy building
Jalandhar, September 18
It is a dingy, dilapidated building in which the futuristic planning for the whole town is prepared. The district town planning department, situated in the narrow lanes right on the back of Narindra Cinema, gives an impression of an old, abandoned building.

No To English Test
DGSE cracks whip on defiant teachers
Jalandhar, September 18
The school education department has decided to issue notices to 375 teachers who refused to appear in the “certificate course in teaching of English” test being conducted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to hone their skills.

Happy days are here at last
Jalandhar, September 18

With the decision of the cantonment board to finally initiate development work in Bhoor Mandi, the residents of the area have heaved a sigh of relief. As the area has always remained clogged with dirt and grime, the news has virtually rekindled the spirits of the Bhoor Mandi area residents.

With cantonment board clearing the decks for development work, dirt and grime would be a thing of past in the Bhoor Mandi area in Jalandhar. — Photo by S.S. Chopra

Colourful Crescendo

Students of Police DAV School perform during a function in Jalandhar on Thursday. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Travel agent arrested for fraud
Jalandhar, September 18
The anti-fraud wing of the district police today arrested a Raipur Peer Vaksh village-based travel agent allegedly for cheating a Nakodar resident on the pretext of sending him to Spain. Three other suspects in the case have absconded.

‘Fired’ man, daughter allege religious bias
Phagwara, September 18
A Muslim man and his daughter have been dismissed from their respective jobs in a private school here allegedly due to discrimination on the basis of religion.

Young World
Nidhi gets first prize in poster-making contest
Jalandhar, September 18
A poster-making competition was held at St. Soldier College under the guidance of vice-chairperson Sangeeta Chopra. Surjit Kaur, head of the department of fine arts of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts, and college principal Veenu Dada were the chief guests. Students of B. Arts made posters on female foeticide, environment pollution and domestic violence in water colours.

Two snatchers caught, several cases solved
Phagwara, September 18
The police claims to have solved several incidents of snatching purses, chains and mobile phones with the arrest of two snatchers.

St. Soldier swimmer wins two golds
Jalandhar, September 18
Jatinderpal Singh, a student of St. Soldier College, Basti Danishmandan, brought laurels to his institution by bagging gold medals in 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly and the silver medal in 200m individual medlay events in the recently concluded inter-district school swimming championship which was organised at Sports College here last week.

Soccer tourney from Sept 20
Jalandhar, September 18
The 31st sub-junior national football championship for the Mir Iqbal Hussain trophy, 2008, would be held at Mahilpur, Hoshiarpur, from September 20 to October 6. As many as 27 state teams of India would take part in the championship. The opening match would be held between Punjab and Pondicherry on September 20 at 9.30 am.