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Army officers’ houses burgled in cantonment
Police inaction emboldens thieves
Jalandhar, November 28
In what may be termed as the failure of the Jalandhar Cantonment police, thieves have been fearlessly striking at the houses of Army officers for the past around three months.

National model take part in LPU fashion show
Jalandhar, November 28
Models sashay down the ramp at a fashion show in Lovely Professional University in Phagwara. Nearly 200 students of the department of fashion technology of Lovely Professional University organised a four-day exhibition-cum-fashion show “Brand wagon” on its campus

Models sashay down the ramp at a fashion show in Lovely Professional University in Phagwara. A Tribune photograph

Regional training camp of BJP ends
Phagwara, November 28
After the end of the three-day training camps in three towns in Punjab today, Punjab BJP president Ashwini Sharma has summoned an executive meeting of the state party on November 29 at Patiala. Sharma said that all office-bearers, permanent special invitees, Chief Parliamentry Secretaries, MPs and MLAs, chairpersons of various boards and Improvement trusts, mayors, deputy mayors, conveners and co-conveners of various cells, besides district presidents and general secretaries have been invited to the meeting.

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	Army officers’ houses burgled in cantonment Police inaction emboldens thieves Kusum Arora Tribune News Service Jalandhar, November 28 In what may be termed as the failure of the Jalandhar Cantonment police, thieves have been fearlessly striking at the houses of Army officers for the past around three months. This is evident from the fact that at least the houses of three Army officers have been targeted by the thieves. The police has failed to make any headway in any of the theft cases occurred at various locations in the Army area. Two young Captains, whose houses are located on Fauji Road, considered as one of the safest area, have been the latest victims of the thieves. The thieves struck at their houses on the same night a few days back and decamped with electronic goods and gold jewellery worth Rs 2.5 lakh. Earlier, electronic goods and gold worth Rs 3 lakh were stolen from the house of a Colonel putting up at Ranjit Road. Similar theft cases of goods, gold jewellery and vehicles have taken place on the Bhagat Road, Haqiqat Road and Mall Road locations of Jalandhar Cantonment in the recent past. It has also been observed that thieves have been keeping a close eye on the houses of the victims as they struck at the places of Army officers during those days when they were out of station. However, surprisingly the police neither rounded up anybody in these cases, nor enhanced security measures in the cantonment. The police has reportedly not even put up nakas at these areas, which has further increased fear of thefts among the officers and jawans. When contacted in this regard, Inspector Rashpal Singh said adequate measures were being taken to curb the thefts in the cantonment. “Investigations are on to round up some suspects involved in the thefts. We also took the fingerprints of the local maids and other suspects to solve the cases. We have already deployed Additional SHO Sub-Inspector Mohan Singh to probe the theft cases,” he added. Inspector Rashpal said they were putting up three nakas daily at Thimmaiya Park, Phagwara Road and Chattri Chowk in cantonment. “We keep on putting up nakas everywhere along with the Military Police in the cantonment as and when the requirement occurs,” he said assuring that the theft cases would be solved at the earliest.
	National model take part in LPU fashion show Tribune News Service Jalandhar, November 28 Nearly 200 students of the department of fashion technology of Lovely Professional University organised a four-day exhibition-cum-fashion show “Brand wagon” on its campus, which concluded here yesterday. The conclusive day witnessed a ramp show of autumn-winter collection 2010-11 with ace models and choreographers like Hida of the Wills Fashion Week fame, Gulzar of Thumps Up ad fame and 28 other models of the national level. The fashion parade was well-designed with a total of 15 rounds. The last round of creation earned a wide applause as it presented future designer students of the university with the display of the best of their creations. On the occasion, Chairman of the Lovely group Ramesh Mittal, Vice-Chairman Naresh Mittal, Vice-Chancellor Vijay Gupta, Director-General H.R. Singla and other dignitaries were present. Inaugurating the fashion show, Singla said, “All programmes of the department from women to men wears, publishing to image, trends to styling, teaching to graphics are creative to the core. We are further planning to enhance the infrastructure for the department to ensure a permanent place with a redefined latest methodology.”
	Regional training camp of BJP ends Our Correspondent Phagwara, November 28 After the end of the three-day training camps in three towns in Punjab today, Punjab BJP president Ashwini Sharma has summoned an executive meeting of the state party on November 29 at Patiala. Sharma said that all office-bearers, permanent special invitees, Chief Parliamentry Secretaries, MPs and MLAs, chairpersons of various boards and Improvement trusts, mayors, deputy mayors, conveners and co-conveners of various cells, besides district presidents and general secretaries have been invited to the meeting. Meanwhile, the three-day regional training camp of the Bharatiya Janata Party concluded with the address of state unit chief Ashwini Sharma here today. Meanwhile, factionalism in the Phagwara BJP remained talk of the camp as most of the senior members abstained from the camp due to indifferent attitude of the ruling faction and ignoring them.
	Mann speaks in favour of ‘Khalistan’ Our Correspondent Tarn Taran, November 28 Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann raised his demand for the formation of “Khalistan” while addressing a Punjab bachao rally here today. Mann said that he was launching his struggle totally in a democratically and peaceful way. Clarifying his stand over “Khalistan” demand, he said he was in favour of a separate Sikh state to be established in the middle of India, Pakistan and China. He said as the Sikhs had no enmity with either of these communities this buffer state would be a guarantee for peace in the subcontinent. He said thousands of Sikhs were killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots but not even a single person had either been identified or convicted by any court. Mann alleged the elections to the SGPC were being delaying for no reason. He condemned the Union Government for not handing over the Punjabi speaking areas to Punjab and not solving the river waters issue.
	Panorama-2010 concludes at Innocent Hearts Tribune News Service Jalandhar, November 28 The three-day annual sporting Panorama-2010 concluded at Innocent Hearts Green Field, Loharan, here today. The carnival was inaugurated by DIG Surinder Singh Sodhi. A food court, kids zone and games zone had been installed on the campus. The final round of essay writing competition, held in schools in the surrounding areas was also held. Students presented a cultural programme. Deputy Commissioner Priyank Bharti was the chief guest at the concluding function. He gave away prizes to the winning teams. A Hero Honda motorcycle, an LCD TV set and a refrigerator were given in prizes in the lucky draw of raffle.
	Snatcher arrested Our Correspondents Nawanshahr: The SSP, Narinder Bhargav, in a press note issued here today said the Rahon police had arrested Hardip Singh, alias Deepa, of Kang village, and recovered Rs 1,500, mobile phone and gold earrings snatched by him from Avtar Singh and his wife by stopping their scooter near Kang village on Wednesday. The police also recovered a .12-bore country-made pistol along with a cartridge. Earlier, cases under different sections were registered against him at Rahon and Sadar police stations and he had also been sent to jail. He came out of the jail after getting bail on November 15 and again started committing crime. Proclaimed offender held Phillaur: The police has nabbed a proclaimed offender identified as Matwinder Singh, alias Money of Fallpota village, near Apra, in Phillaur subdivision today. DSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh told newsmen here today that the proclaimed offender was wanted in an attempt to murder case registered against him in September 14, 2008. The arrested PO was produced before the Judicial Magistrate who sent him in judicial custody, said the DSP. In the second case, the police arrested Vikas Kumar, alias Chetan, of Phillaur, and recovered three mobile phones from him which were snatched from different persons in Phillaur, added Khakh.