No crimes during holy times!
THE city police, busy with preparations for the Rath Yatra on Wednesday, have kept aside all their work for the Lord to arrive. They have declared that all cases will stay put until Lord Jagannath arrives. The stay on investigations, interrogations and arrests is such that even calling up the cops for any information should also be avoided, they suggest. A certain police inspector from Ellisbridge advised during such a call, "These are pious times, times of spiritualism. These are not the times to discuss homicides and murders." He went on adding, sarcastically, that during this time, "We assume even criminals seek the divine path". Well, probably to support the idea for an absolute no-investigation time!

Teacher gets a lesson from minister
JUNAGADH: THE State Government-sponsored three-day educational awareness drive saw the entire State machinery, including ministers, being pressed into service. On the first day of the drive that concluded on Saturday, a minister visited a primary school at Sasan (Gir) village in Junagadh. However, the school authorities seemed to have taken the programme too lightly for when the minister, accompanied by other officers, went to the school, he found that the school administration had failed to make adequate arrangements for said programme. To top it all, there're no loudspeakers even for the minister to address the gathering. This neglect raised the minister's eyebows on the spot and at the end of the programme, the outcome was as expected. The school principal was transferred to an isolated village school in Una taluka and a senior teacher was asked to take over the charge of the principal. Now, that's a lesson for principals and teachers.

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