Amritsar
273 complaints received: The district election office has received 273 complaints of violation of the model code of conduct till now. Deputy Commissioner Bhagwant Singh said about 250 complaints had been disposed of. He said three counting centres were established at Khalsa College, Medical College and Mai Bhago Government Polytechnic. In order to speed up the announcement of results, votes polled in favour of candidates in each assembly constituency would be installed on the website of the Election Commission for public view.
Bathinda
Dashmesh students excel: Dashmesh Public Senior Secondary School, Bathinda, today honoured students who fared well in Class VIII and Class V boards. Two students, Rupinder Kaur and Anjali have scored 93 per cent and 92.5 per cent in Class VIII, respectively. Rupinder scored 100 marks in home science, 99 in maths and 96 in Hindi. Anjali scored 100 in home science and maths. Around 80 per cent students have secured first class.
Hoshiarpur
Student awarded: Bahader Singh, a student of MA (I) of DAV College, has been awarded by the Indian Red Cross Society of Punjab, on the recommendations of the college principal. Bahader has received the award for donating blood nine times and for organising four blood donation camps in the college. The Punjab Governor and the society president presented the award to him on World Red Cross Day at
Chandigarh.
Jalandhar
The digital one-stop shop: After Patiala and Amritsar, LG Electronics launched its premium brand Shoppe in Model Town here on Thursday. During the inauguration, Moon B. Shin, MD, LG India, claimed that the global recession had not caused any adverse effect on the company. The LGIEL achieved a turnover of Rs 10,730 crore in 2008. He said the Shoppe serves as a one-stop shop for all the digital needs of the household. He was accompanied by Deepak Jasrotia, regional manager (North) and Harvinder Singh Gogia, branch manager, (Punjab).
Orane Beauty Academy: The Orane Beauty Academy has opened three branches in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar. The admission to these well-equipped beauty academies has begun. Academy director Kuljinder Sidhu said the students would not only get a chance to get international-level education here but also find it easy to go abroad to start career in beauty industry. He said, “Orane Canada offers the interested Indian students a chance to get higher education after doing their relevant courses in beauty and hair from Orane (India).”
Ludhiana
Counting tomorrow: Counting of votes of nine assembly segments falling under the Ludhiana parliamentary constituency will be held in the city on May 16.
Counting of East, South and Atam Nagar segments will be held at Government College for Boys and that of Central, West, North, Gill, Dakha and Jagraon on the PAU campus.
Nokia Ntheatre launched:
Nseries, sub-brand of
Nokia, has launched Nokia Ntheatre, available on its range of multimedia devices, including the Nokia N79,
N85, N95 and N96. Consumers purchasing Nokia Nseries phones will be entitled to select five movies from genres.
Appointed: ICICI Prudential Life has appointed V Vaidyanathan as the managing director and chief executive officer of the company from May 1, 2009. He has replaced Shikha Sharma. He was earlier the executive director with the ICICI bank.
Power shutdown: Power supply will remain suspended in Daba Colony, Gobind Nagar, Janata Nagar, New Janata Nagar and Daba Road from 9 am to 11 am on Friday due to maintenance works.
Mansa
Homage paid to Vimla Dang: A condolence meeting was organised here on Wednesday by the Punjab Istri Sabha and homage was paid to CPI leader Vimla Dang, who died recently. District president of the Sabha Rekha Sharma said contribution to the social sphere by Vimla Dang would always be remembered.
Moga
Class
VIII exams — Harshla tops in Moga dist: Harshla,
student of the Arya Girls Senior Secondary School, Moga, stood
first in the class VIII exams, conducted by the Punjab School
Education Board, in Moga district by securing 93.3 per cent marks.
She got 746 marks out of a total of 800 marks.