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Swedish students here for feel of Indian culture
Police DAV Public School hosted a cultural extravaganza for a group of seven students and two teachers from Sollentuna International School, Sweden, currently on a 12-day visit to their campus under an exchange programme.

Students of Sollentuna International School, Sweden, and Police DAV Public School dance together in Jalandhar on Wednesday evening. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

Sufi singers from Pak to perform on Nov 10
Sufi singers and scholars from Pakistan are likely to take part in a seminar on “Punjabi Sufi poetry: relevance and uniqueness” scheduled to be organised by the Department of Punjabi at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya on November 10 and 11.

Two gems of education, architecture
Two great educational institutions, Aitchison School, Lahore, and Khalsa College, Amritsar, may have ended up in two separate countries by the Radcliff Line in 1947, but they still share a common architectural heritage.

Former students of Aitchison College, Lahore, with former students of Khalsa College, Amritsar. Both colleges were designed by Sardar Ram Singh. — Photo by Rajiv Sharma

400 medical posts lying vacant
Even as the Ayurvedic and Homeopathic systems of medicine are gaining importance worldwide, these two systems are being ignored in Punjab.

A story of riot victims
On the 22nd anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s murder on October 31 and continued till November 3 in different parts of the country, the novel “Kaal-Katha” becomes a relevant study of the historical tragedy.

Revolution on stage	Garbage junction
A scene from play “Main Bhagat Singh”, directed by Pali Bhupinder, which was staged during the 15th Mela Ghadri Babiyan Da at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall in Jalandhar on Wednesday night.	Garbage flows into Panj Peer trijunction from a vacant plot in Jalandhar. — Photos by S.S. Chopra

HP Singh elected GND University body chief
Dr H.P. Singh, Senior Medical Officer, Guru Nanak Dev University, was elected as president of the Guru Nanak Dev University Officers Association at the election held here.

Only child popular
Campaigns to check the population explosion are heading the right way. The ‘only child’ concept is becoming increasingly popular. People seem to be satisfied with that kind of family structure as it spells convenience and comfort in more ways than one, including the monetary factor.

Clean-city drive on Naya Morcha beats
While activists of the Naya Morcha, Punjab, beat drums to awaken residents of Jalandhar about the “lackadaisical approach” of the Municipal Corporation towards the sanitation and the development of the city and to caution them against “prevailing corruption” in the civic body, the Mayor and the Commissioner initiated a fortnight-long cleanliness drive in the city.