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‘Invest pennies, earn pounds’
Rented accommodations for migrant labourers
Jalandhar, January 6
If you have a small vacant plot in any narrow lane of the city, you have a good chance to earn a quick buck every month by investing only a trickle.

Dark, unventilated rooms that have been given on rent to migrant labourers in Mohalla Gobindgarh in Jalandhar . Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma 

Soon: 4-laning of Kapurthala road
Jalandhar, January 6
The Punjab government has started the process of four-laning the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road. The four-laning of the 12.60-km road from the Variana village turn to the Sultanpur Lodhi turn will be done by the Jalandhar and Kapurthala branches of the PWD (B&R) at an estimated cost of Rs 11 crore.

Residential Plot
PUDA told to refund extension fee
Jalandhar, January 6
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has asked PUDA officials to refund the extension fee, pay up Rs 5,000 as compensation and Rs 2,000 as cost of litigation to the owner of a plot in Chhoti Baradari (Part I).

MC to set up integrated solid waste treatment plant
Jalandhar, January 6
The local municipal corporation (MC) is in the process of setting up an integrated solid waste treatment plant in a 67-acre land near Jamsher dairy complex here.

CPI (ML ND) to protest detention of Maoist
Jalandhar, January 6
The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist New Democracy) has decided to organise a march in the city on Wednesday to protest against the alleged illegal detention by the Jalandhar police of Maoist Anupam for more than two weeks.

Youth body starts peace campaign
Jalandhar, January 6
The Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) has started a campaign to spread awareness among youths of the nation against terrorism after recent Mumbai attacks. This was stated by the NYKS vice-chairman Amardeep Singh Cheema during a visit to the city.

Amardeep Singh Cheema addresses a press conference in Jalandhar. A Tribune photo

Young World
NIT holds winter school
Jalandhar, January 6
The department of mechanical engineering of the Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, is organising a week-long winter school on the topic “modelling, stimulation and control of engineering systems MCSE 2009. As many as 35 participants from all over the country have come to take part in the winter school.

Students of CJS Public School during a peace march in their school.  A Tribune photograph