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Functional disorder
Showing norms the door, pvt parties in the city are regularly holding functions by blocking roads 
Jalandhar, August 28
Throwing public convenience to the winds and blocking the road completely to hold a private function seems to have become the order of the day here.

Sale of substandard drugs flourishes
Phagwara, Augusts 28
Despite the state government’s tall claims of a major crackdown on the sale of substandard drugs and quackery, the menace goes on unabated in the town. 

Bio-diesel Reactor
Another high for CT students
Jalandhar, August 28
Students and faculty members of mechanical engineering from the CT Institute of Engineering and Management claim to have made a bio-diesel reactor which can be run on a commercial diesel engine for power generation and various agricultural applications.

Woman conceives quadruplets through IVF-ET technique

Jalandhar, August 28 The IVF-ET or test-tube baby method has been considered to be an excellence in the medical science because this technique helps those married couples to have children where the women are not able to conceive for one reason or the other. One such case was executed at Vardaan Medical Centre here. Vardaan doctors address a press conference in Jalandhar. — A Tribune photograph

Young World
Dayanand model students celebrate rakhi
Jalandhar, August 28

Students of Dayanand Model School, Model Town, celebrated Raksha Bandhan on Tuesday. Kindergarten children, dressed in colourful attires, prepared greeting cards. Children from junior and senior sections participated in a thali making competition. Principal Suman Sharma explained to the children the significance of the festival. Chairman Gurbachan Singh and staff members of DIPS plant saplings on campus. — A Tribune photograph

Stuck in snarl Bad roads, poor management have made traffic jams order of the day in Jalandhar. — Tribune photo by Pawan Sharma

City gets Flying Cats’ retail school
Jalandhar, August 28
Flying Cats, a aviation training school, has opened a branch of Global Retail School, its subsidiary, here.

Reliance jobs for NIS Academy pass-outs
Jalandhar, August 28
The NIS Academy, which recently opened its hi-tech education centre in Chandigarh, under its expansion plan will be offering integrated courses in management studies with guaranteed placements and job opportunities for meritorious students in Reliance ADA group of companies.

Kamini tops MCA exam
Jalandhar, August 28
Kamini of the Lovely Institute of Management has topped with 85.9 per cent marks in the MCA (second semester) examination of Punjab Technical University. Ishu Gakhar of the Apeejay Institute of Management has stood second with 85.7 per cent, while Manpreet Kaur of Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran, is third with 85.6 per cent marks.

Blind inmates have a gala time Jalandhar, August 28 A team of Big FM staff, including radio jockeys, spent the last Sunday with around 30 inmates of Rashtriya Andh Vidyalaya here. Team members of an FM channel cheer inmates of Rashtriya Andh Vidyalaya in Jalandhar. — A Tribune photograph

Missing Daughters
It is a myth in Punjab that nurturing a girl is like watering a neighbour’s plant. She is a bad investment, whereas a son is like buying insurance for the old age.