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MC In A Mess
Non-techies running the show
Jalandhar, July 19
Going against the Punjab government’s order regarding technical posts in municipal corporations, the town planning wing of the Jalandhar MC is being run by non-technical staff.

Book DSP too in suicide case: MP
Kapurthala, July 19
Jalandhar MP Rana Gurjit demanded Kapurthala DSP Sukhdev Singh Chinna should also be booked in the case regarding the suicide case in Tarlokpura locality.

Now, read English version of ‘Basra Ki Galiyan’
Jalandhar, July 19
City-based writer Dr Ajay Sharma’s acclaimed work ‘Basra Ki Galiyan’ has become the first contemporary Hindi novel to be translated into English from Punjab. Prof Sandeep Chahal, lecturer in English at Doaba College here, has translated the work, now titled as ‘Basra’s Streets’.

Collision Course

Bang, bang: Three heavy vehicles collided at the busy PAP chowk on the Delhi-Amritsar National Highway on Thursday noon. — A Tribune photograph

Young World
NTSE: 14 Apeejay school students make it to final
Jalandhar, July 19
Fourteen students from Apeejay School have made it to the final round of the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE). The students have passed a written examination conducted at the national level and are preparing for the most rigorous hurdle, a viva, to be held in the first week of August.

3 fake travel agents held
Phagwara, July 19
The police has registered a case of fraud against three fake travel agents, Anil Arora, Amit Arora and Jaswant Singh of Kurukshetra in Haryana, under sections 420, 465, 407 and 471, IPC, on the charge of cheating Charanjit Singh of Sandhwan and Harjit Singh of Palahai village of Rs 18 lakh on the pretext of sending them abroad.

‘SAD (B) has deceived people’
Jalandhar, July 19
Accusing the Shiromani Akali Dal of deceiving people of Punjab in the name of religion, the Janata Dal (S) said the party had virtually delinked itself from its 90-year-old background.

Laurels for city professor
Jalandhar, July 19
A research article by HoD of biotechnology department of Lyallpur Khalsa College here has been selected for a US publication. Dr Arun Dev Sharma’s article, ‘Advances in microbial inulinases: Its production and properties’, would be included in a book being published by Nova Publishers