Jalandhar, May 29
Breaking previous record of the district, Dilsher Bhangal, a student of Guru Amar Dass Public School, has topped with 98 per cent marks in the CBSE class X examination this year.

Dilsher achieved this feat by scoring full marks in mathematics and social studies, 99 marks in science, 96 in Hindi and 95 marks in English.

Like his father, Narinder Singh Bhangal, a professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Dilsher too wants to become an engineer.

“I was in the school when the result was declared on the internet. After the result appeared, I was stunned for a while since I was expecting marks between 93 and 95 per cent,” he said.

Sharing the happiness of her son’s success, Harmanjit Bhangal, a PRO with Lovely Professional University, said that she was on her way to office when the news came.

“My son always had a casual attitude. Even during examination days, he would listen to music and read newspapers. But he has been a topper since beginning,” said Harmanjit.

Raghav Aggarwal of Seth Hukum Chand School scored 97.2 per cent marks. Lagging behind with just one mark is Garima Bhardwaj of Delhi Public School with 97 per cent. Garima scored 98 marks in English, perhaps the highest in the city, and full marks in social studies, 99 in mathematics, 94 in science and Hindi each.

Valleri Aggarwal from Apeejay School has obtained 96.8 per cent. Vikas Gupta from Seth Hukum Chand School has settled for 96.4 per cent. A student of Swami Sant Dass School, Gaurav Sharma got 96 per cent. Students from MGN Public School, Jasleen Chhabra and Manjinder S. Randhawa, have scored 95.6 per cent each. Mohit Thukral from Apeejay School and Jasween K. Sodhi from Guru Amar Dass School have scored the same percentage of marks.

Somya Vij from Police DAV Public School, Rajat Khandurja from DPS and Aseem Handa from Apeejay School scored 95 per cent marks. A student of Swami Sant Dass Public School, Himanshu bagged 94.8 per cent marks. Vardaan Sharma from Guru Amar Dass School, Ayush Chhabra from MGN School, and Harleen Kaur and Anshu Madaan from Innocent Hearts School have scored 94.6 per cent each.

Students of MGN Public School, Daminderjit Sunner and Ajayveer Singh Randhawa, have scored 94.4 and 94.2 per cent marks, respectively. Garima Handa from Innocent Hearts School has also attained 94.2 per cent. MGN student Aseem Syal and Police DAV Public School Raghav Vadera are at 94 per cent. Harkaran Singh and Prabhdeep Singh of Guru Amar Dass Public School and Kritika Katyal from Apeejay School have managed 93.8 per cent each.

Five students including Gagandeep Singh from MGN, Arpit and Abhay Raj from Swami Sant Dass School, Onkar Singh and Anurag from Innocent Hearts School have scored 93.4 per cent marks. Rinkle Malik and Anjali from Swami Sant Dass School, and Ritesh from Dayanand Model School, Dayanand Nagar, have scored 93.2 per cent each.

Rohan Sardana of Apeejay School, Amanpreet Kaur from Police DAV Public School and Tanik Sharma from Shiv Jyoti Public School have got 93 per cent marks. Rupali of Dayanand Model School and Khushveen from Swami Sant Dass School have got 92.8 per cent each. Vineeta Singh from Police DAV Public School, Kamaldeep from Dayanand Model School and Gurwinder Singh Sidhu from MGN public school have attained 92.6 per cent each.

Five students, Aditya Mahendru and Akshdeepika from Dayanand Model School, Harsimran Singh and Ramandeep Kaur from Police DAV Public School and Amanjot and Sahil Arora from Swami Sant Dass School, have scored 92.4 per cent marks each. Ramanpreet Kaur and Siddarth Bhagat from MGN and Gunjan Sharma from Delhi Public School scored 92 per cent marks. Dayanand Model School student Heena Sethi and MGN student Karandeep Singh Malhi have scored 91.6 per cent marks each.

MGN students Rahul Mahajan and Navinderjit Singh and Swami Sant Dass student Ashwinder have got 91.4 per cent. DPS student Sanchit Gupta and MGN students Vipul Khinder and Fateh Iqbal Singh have got 91.2 per cent each. Those who have got 91 per cent marks are Ritika Aggarwal, Atul Kohli and Harmanpreet Kalra from Swami Sant Dass School and Manpreet Kaur from DPS. MGN student Anandbir S. Bath has got 90.8 per cent while his schoolmate Manvir Singh is just short of two marks.

Uday Sharma and Ravneet Kaur of Dayanand Model School has got 90.2 per cent while Seth Hukum Chand student Surbhi has obtained 90.2 per cent. Those getting 90 per cent marks are Deepakshi Madaan from DPS, Vaibhav from Swami Sant Dass School, Amanjot from Seth Hukum Chand School, Kritika Kapoor from Dayanand Model School, Humjot from MGN and Parneet Kaur and Pawandeep Singh from State Public School.

Twins Rajanroop Kaur and Harsroop Kaur, both studying in Innocent Hearts School, have scored 93.2 and 91 per cent marks, respectively. Rubina Chauhan from the same school has obtained 90 per cent marks.

Ranjot Kaur, Ravneet Kaur Cheema and Jaskanwalpal Singh of DIPS Dhilwan secured 93.8, 93.6 and 92.6 per cent marks, respectively, in the class X examination.

Jalandhar, May 29
Jaisandeep Bharaj of Innocent Hearts School has stood first in the district in plus two examination conducted by the CBSE by scoring 92.4 per cent marks in the non-medical stream. She not only dreams to be an IAS officer but, she is also planning to be a feature film maker too.

Jaisandeep shares keen interest in painting, music, dance and acting. Believing in working and playing hard she bagged the third position in her class X examination in entire Jalandhar district. She also won a cash prize of Rs 15,000 for written examination conducted by the DIPS and also won the National Talent Search Examinations (NTSE).

Her passion also lies in production and direction of short and documentary films. After doing her B.Tech, she plans to join the IAS.

Her calling is to work on social issues through short films and documentaries. She also plans to direct full-length feature films. Her parents Ashwinder and M.S. Bharaj vouch for developing personality of their daughter.

And the proud daughter admits it whole heartedly. “What I am today is due to my parents and their unflinching support to me. As for my goal is concerned I want to get inducted in the IAS and at the same time I want to be a film-maker also. My priority will be to complete my B.Tech first. I will be preparing for my two goals while doing my degree,” said an enthused Jaisandeep.

Kapurthala, May 29
Students of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV), RCF and DIPS school, Dhilwan, have brought laurels to their schools by performing well in 10th and 10+2 CBSE examinations for 2006-07 session. All 50 students of KV passed the +2 examination, whereas 100 out of total 101 students passed the tenth standard examination.

Gaurav bagged first position by scoring 92.8 per cent in +2, where as Monica bagged first position in the school by attaining 95.8 per cent in 10th standard. S.K. Suri, RCF GM, honoured both the students by giving cash award of Rs. 2000 to each of them.The principal of KV Somdutt said that 19 students in +2 and 24 students in 10th got more than 80 percent marks.

Similarly in DIPS Dhilwan, the pass percentage for 10th was 99. 2 whereas for +2 it was 90.54 per cent. In class 10th Ranjot Kaur with 93.8 per cent bagged the first position, Ravneet Kaur Cheema with 93.6 per cent bagged the second position and Jaskanwalpal Singh stood third with 92.6 per cent marks. So much so, three students Ranjot Kaur, Inderdeep Singh and Prabhjot Kaur got 100 marks in Maths in X CBSE.

Similarly, in +2 Navneet Kaur Padda stood first with 87.6 per cent, Arun Arora 2nd position with 86.2 per cent and Neeru Stood 3rd with 84.8 per cent. Arun Arora got 100 marks in economics. Two more students got above 90 per cent marks.

Ballan (Jalandhar), May 29
A section of the residents of urban areas are shunning fast food due to its reported ill-effects to their health. However, on the contrary, fast food is becoming the liking of several villagers as some fast food shops have been opened in the recent past in a number of villages. Ballan village located on the Jalandhar-Pathankot highway is no exception. A fast food shop is being run successfully in the village for about six months and that too by a woman, Meenakshi, living in a nearby Kala Bahiayan village. At her shop, one may get burger, noodles, samosa, tikki and so on.

Youths of the village who go to nearby places to study in different educational institutions usually like and buy fast food from her shop, Meenakshi says. At the same time, she does not forget to add that the women of the village also do not lag behind in buying spicy fast food from her shop. Meenakshi says she is selling fast food items worth Rs 800 daily on the average nowadays. Earlier the sale was not as good as it is now, she adds.

Her mother-in-law Avtar Kaur is assists Meenakshi in running the shop.

Earlier, Meenakshi was running her fast food shop at her own village, Kala Bahaiya, for about one and a half years. Later he shifted her shop to Ballan village.

Her husband Narinder Kashyap is publishing a fortnightly magazine “Kashyap News” for the Kashyap community.