Every Wednesday and Friday

Lohri Lahorian di
This Sunday, as the month of Magh will set in, it will be time for hundreds of members of ‘Lahorian biradari’ to get together, rejoice and hold traditional ceremonies at a temple here in a unique fashion. Not just the local devotees, but Khannas, Malhotras, Seths and Kapurs from all parts of Punjab, Mumbai and abroad, who had migrated from Lahore, will pay obeisance at the temple of Baba Laloo Yash Rai at Mandir Lahorian situated in the narrow lanes of the Mitha Bazaar near the Phagwara Gate here.

Baba Laloo Yash Rai Mandir Lahorian at Mitha Bazaar in Jalandhar. A Tribune photograph

27 booths sensitive
AS many as 27 polling booths in Phagwara have been identified as sensitive, including 15 in rural areas. The ASP said one polling booth was identified as hypersensitive in the constituency.

Young World
Police DAV students for NASA competition
W hile it was Apeejay School last year, this time it is the students of Police DAV Public School who have been selected for the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design competition organised by NASA.

• Workshop
• Workshop
• NSS units

Just a thought
Crossover traumas
I N the love legend of Sohni and Mahiwal Sohni risks her life to cross the river on a pitcher to be with her lover in the dead of the night. Green with jealousy, Sohni’s sister-in-law substitutes the pitcher with an unbaked one.

Canadian minister in ancestral village

M ost residents of Shankar village, 25 km from Jalandhar, learnt a few days ago that Mr Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar, has made it big in Canada. Mr Takhar is a minister in Canada’s Ontario province. Canadian minister Harinder Jeet Singh Takhar being welcomed by elders of his ancestral village Shankar near Jalandhar on Thursday. Tribune photo Pawan Sharma

Festival of Warmth 
W E celebrate change with passion, the change of season, harvest time or the changing phases of the moon. It has been incorporated in our culture, lending colour and gaiety to the social fabric. Traditions associated with the celebrations, however, change with time. Every festival has evolved and Lohri is no different. Jalandhar Plus chats with a cross-section of people to find out how the celebrations of this winter festival have changed with time.

• Keep it pollution free

Bonhomie marks reunion

It was celebration time at the CRPF Complex in Jalandhar on Wednesday and Thursday. Serving and former officers of the 1971 batch of the Direct Appointed Gazetted Officers, along with their families, were in the city for a reunion. A reunion of the 1971 batch CRPF officers in Jalandhar on Thursday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma