Every Wednesday and Friday

New Year’s Eve
Celebrations going to be subdued affair
Jalandhar, December 30
The city residents are gearing up for the New Year celebrations but the party mood is not upswing like the previous years. Reason: Mumbai attacks. Even the hotel industry has kept the New Year celebrations a low key affair.


Hotel Maya getting ready for the New Year celebrations. Photo: Suryakant

Glimpses of 2008
Floods: Admn exposed on preparedness
Jalandhar, December 30
It was a mixed year for the people with the some good and bad tidings. The year began on a bloody note with the gruesome murder of KMV College principal Rita Bawa. Though the murder mystery continued to baffle the local cops, the crime was finally solved by the Ludhiana cops with the accused being apprehended from Bihar.

New heads of civic bodies
Jalandhar, December 30
The year that is passing saw the appointment of new administrators of all civic bodies in Jalandhar.

Civil hospital: Waiting for the big fire
No one from the security staff knows how to operate the fire-fighting system in case of emergency. No formal training has been given to staff to operate it.
Jalandhar, December 30
Accident, casualties, criticism, policy change, money inflow, lack of maintenance and again accident. These are some of the cardinal steps which constitute whole pomp and show after any incident, irrespective of the magnitude of incident.

Yearender
Crime rate on rise
Jalandhar, December 30
Kidnappings for ransom, murders, shootouts, looting, duping, drug and liquor smuggling and other incidents of the crime marred the 2008 keeping the district police authorities on their toes throughout the year.

Yearender
Full of sporting action
Jalandhar, December 30
The sports hub of the country, Jalandhar, witnessed many prominent sports activities this year.

Yearender
PTU gets regular VC
Jalandhar, December 30
Punjab Technical University virtually remained headless throughout the year 2008. The board of govenors and the state government delayed the appointment of a regular vice-chancellor for over seven months after former VC Dr S.K. Salwan declined to continue in the post.

Award for Channi
Jalandhar, December 30
Charanjit Singh Channi, chairman of CT Group of Institutions, has been conferred the “Business Achiever of the Year Award” for his contribution in education in Punjab.

Yearender
Kapurthala votes for SAD-BJP alliance
Kapurthala, December 30
While most of ruling SAD-BJP candidates won Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) and local bodies elections of Kapurthala held in 2008, it is interesting to see whether the majority of the electorates of this district will favour the ruling SAD-BJP or the opposition Congress candidate in the coming Lok Sabha elections in 2009.

Dept honours football team
Jalandhar, December 30
The Punjab Sports Department honoured the members of “Sikh temple football team” from Vancouver, Canada, on December 28.

Yearender
Education gets promotion
Jalandhar, December 30
The field of education witnessed mixed achievements in 2008. If the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) launched new projects for upgrading the existing education system then there was news of students from government schools availing scholarships through the central government.

Young World
Laptops for MBA students
Jalandhar, December 30
The ICFAI National College distributed laptops among students of MBA (semester-II) free of cost on December 27.