Snatching: Five persons arrested

Hoshiarpur: The city police arrested five persons allegedly involved in different snatching cases. They were produced them in the court, which sent them to judicial custody. City SHO Gobinder Kumar said the arrested suspects had been identified as Prince, Mukesh, alias Dani, Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Jandi village, Manjot Singh, alias Peter, and Randhawa Barota resident Ajay. The police claimed that during interrogation the suspects confessed their involvement in snatching cases. A gold chain, two gold earrings, two bikes and a mobile phone were recovered from the suspects. OC

Attempt to break open HDFC ATM

Hoshiarpur: Thieves made an unsuccessful attempt to break open an automated teller machine(ATM) of HDFC Bank in Rajpur Bhaiyan village on Saturday. Branch manager Davinder Kumar told the police that at 8 am he got information that an attempt was made to break open the ATM machine. He reached there and found that the shutter of the ATM booth was half-open and someone had tried to break open the machine. On receiving information of the incident, Balwinder Singh Bhullar, SHO in-charge of the Mehtaiana police station reached the spot along with police party. The police are investigating the case, he said. OC

Nominate Young Teacher till Aug 31

Jalandhar: The date for the nomination of teachers for the ‘Young Teachers Award’ launched by the Education Department Punjab has been extended till August 31. The nominations can be done till 9 am. Spokesperson of the department said in view of the short time allotted to the department for the encouragement and award of young teachers, suggestions were being received to extend the time for the nominations for the ‘Young Teacher Award’. Hence, the date has been extended. The date of first nomination for this award, which was started for the first time, was fixed from August 26 to 28. TNS

DC pays surprise visit to hospital

Nawanshahr: Deputy Commissioner Shena Agarwal on Friday paid a surprised visit to ‘I-TREC’ project (a platform for integrated tracking, referral, electronic decision support and care coordination) at CHC Mukandpur. She enquired about the online entry of villagers on Asha app who commonly suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes and cardio-vascular diseases.She said the findings under the project had the potential to revolutionise care for deadly chronic diseases across all 75 villages in the district. Asha workers gave the detailed working of the app and further ANMs, staff nurses and medical officers informed the DC about the syncing and execution process of the app and delivery of the free medicines to patients. District Family Welfare Officer Dr Sukhwinder Singh Heera, Dr Naranjan Pal, Dr Navaldeep, Block Extension Educator Harpreet Singh, staff nurse Mandeep, ANM Amarjit Kaur, Pooja and Asha workers Jaswinder, Sonia, Manjeet and Jaskarn were also present on the occasion. OC. TNS

52 KCL students get job offers

Jalandhar: Jalandhar: As many as 52 students of KCL Institute of Management and Technology received job offers during the recently held online placement drive.The students from the department of management and the IT were selected by Byjus, Jaro Education, Axis Bank, Zapbuild Technologies Pvt. Ltd and Netsmartz Chandigarh at a package of up to Rs10 lakh. The selected students were Harjinder Kaur, Manmeet Singh, Inderdeep, Manjeet, Ravi Kumar, Rahul, Saloni, Navdeep, Kajal, Mahesh Giri, Reetu Thakur, Diwaker Singh Thakur, Raman Kumar, Ravina and Pooja among others.Sukhbir Singh Chatha (Director, Academic Affairs) congratulated the students and their parents. He stated that since its inception, the institute has focused on quality education, overall personality development and top class placements of students. OC