CM’s roadshow tomorrow

Phagwara: Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh will hold a roadshow here in support of Congress candidate Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal on October 18. He will reach the Congress office after 11 am and the roadshow will begin after that to take the round of the Phagwara Assembly constituency. The cavalcade of the CM will pass through Easy Day Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Banga Road, Paper Chowk, Sugar Mills Chowk, Hadiabad, Kot Rani, Gobindpura, Kherra, Nangal, Mauli, Pandhwa, Nihalgarh, Jagatpur-Jattan, Ucha-Pind, Darvesh, Atholi, Narangshahpur, Hardasspur, Miherru and the Lovely Professional University. Afterwards, the CM will proceed towards Jalandhar. oc

Stubble burning cases rise in dist

Jalandhar: Even after issuance of several instructions by the state government and introduction of various straw management programmes, there is no respite from the menace of stubble burning in the district. A large number of straw burning incidents have been reported in recent days 

from various villages in the district. As the harvesting season is still on, a total of 71 cases have been recorded from September 23 to October 15.