‘Child marriage’: cops unaware of law

Saturday 4 October '08

A case of alleged child marriage has come to light here after the step-mother of a boy, Kuldeep Singh, who she claims is still a juvenile, was married to a 23-year-old girl.

6,000 seats vacant in PTU colleges

Friday 3 October '08

Punjab Technical University (PTU) has failed to fill nearly 6,000 seats of engineering courses. Sources said PTU would face a loss of over Rs 150 crore due to these vacancies.

Kohar, aide acquitted

Thursday 2 October '08

Punjab Revenue Minister Ajit Singh Kohar and his personal assistant Jarnail Singh were acquitted by a local court in the case of corruption and disproportionate assets.

State’s first: Protesters booked for damaging hospital property

Wednesday 1 October '08

State’s first case under the Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property Act, 2008...

10-yr-old son of landlord kidnapped

Friday 26 September '08

The ten-year old son of a landlord in Partapra village near Jalandhar was kidnapped today morning from near his house. Sources say a ransom of Rs 30 lakh has been demanded from the family.

Jalandhar MC’s men, machines being used for BJP’s rally on September 28

Friday 26 September '08

Senior leaders of the BJP are leaving no stone unturned to make Vijay Sankalap rally on September 28 successful. So enthusiastic are the workers of the saffron brigade...

No teachers for remedial classes in Jalandhar district

Thursday 25 September '08

First they avoided the English test and now the remedial coaching classes. It seems the government schoolteachers are not interested in improving the education system.

Rahul praises Manmohan for nuclear deal

Thursday 25 September '08

Putting to rest all speculation, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi today clarified that for him, Dr Manmohan Singh was the next Prime Ministerial candidate and being a young member of the party...

Mid-day meal scheme faces teething troubles in Nawanshahr

Tuesday 23 September '08

Complaints regarding the packed midday meal, launched by Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur on September 16 in Nawanshahr district, have been pouring in almost from day one.

On a mission against chemical farming

Monday 22 September '08

The Punjab Organic Farming Association was formed recently by 60 like-minded people, including farmers, professors, doctors and engineers.

One sentenced to death for killing wife, two kids

Saturday 20 September '08

A man was here today sentenced to death by the court of District and Sessions Judge Gurdev Singh for killing his wife and two children on September 21 last year.

Villagers start work on cleaning Sutlej river bed

Friday 19 September '08

Fed up of official apathy, residents of about six villages in Gidderpindi area, where floods played havoc recently, today started work on cleaning of the Sutlej river bed.

Paddy arrives in mandis

Thursday 18 September '08

The early-maturing variety of paddy has started pouring in the mandis. Phillaur grain market today received 27 tonnes of paddy, while Jalandhar got almost its double.

Vocational courses not updated in 20 yrs

Tuesday 16 September '08

Vocational courses were started in various Punjab schools two decades ago to help students earn a living after they leave the institution.

Al fresco classrooms on embankment

Thursday 11 September '08

Flood waters have receded, but the woes of schoolchildren of Doaba haven’t.

Inebriated man strangles daughter to death

Wednesday 10 September '08

A Dalit man, under the influence of liquor, strangled his 17-year-old daughter to death on Monday night when she tried to intervene in a quarrel between her parents.

Rs 2,500 crore bungled in name of school education

Tuesday 9 September '08

Despite the fact that Punjab Government availed a grant of Rs 2,500 crores from the Centre in the name of setting up and implementing the Elementary Directorate in the state...

Doaba’s new route to foreign land: educational trip to NASA

Wednesday 13 August '08

When Harpreet Kaur, vice-principal of Doaba Senior Secondary School, called up from the US to inform parents...

Bundala remembers the boy who called himself London Tod Singh

Saturday 2 August '08

On the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, some of his followers had decided to pull down the Union Jack and hoist the tricolour at the Hoshiarpur court.

Boy killed, several injured in firing over sermons at dera

Wednesday 30 July '08

A dera chief allegedly shot a 13-year-old Dalit boy following spats over religious sermons.

20 missing Indians appear before NZ immigration dept

Monday 21 July '08

Twenty Indian Catholic pilgrims, who had gone missing in New Zealand’s capital Auckland during a stopover...

A lesson in rural economy regeneration

Friday 20 June '08

What is the spot-on way of regenerating our rural economy? Ask the 308 small farmers of Ghugial village in Hoshiarpur district...

WOMAN IN CHARGE

Sunday 15 June '08

sokhi, the 21-year-old woman sarpanch of phull village, dreams of change

Sons hire killers to murder father

Tuesday 10 June '08

Two NRIs, Amandeep and Sumandeep, and their brother, Rajwinder Singh, based in Shahkot near Jalandhar...

Term ended 2 yrs back, convict to be free at last

Saturday 10 May '08

For 45-year-old murder convict Dev Saran, it will be a dream come true when he walks free soon.