Jalandhar: Online evaluation of two projects ‘Udaan’ and ‘Ajj Da Shabad’ (English and Punjabi) will be held in the government schools. Google quiz will be held on May 10 (Udaan) and May 12 (Word of the day). Both the projects were started four years ago. Under ‘Ajj Da Shabad’, everyday a new word is selected from Punjabi and English textbooks. The word and its roots, origin, usage and textual context is scrutinised at the department level and then e-mailed to every school, which is discussed by the head of the institute during the morning assembly. The Education Department officials said literary forums, societies and celebrated writers perceive this arrangement as visionary, having far reaching impact on future generation. TNS

NRI comes up with essentials

Jalandhar: Amid the pandemic, Hari Singh Auluck (77), an NRI-based at Kalyanpur village, has helped the villagers by donating essential medicines at the government health centre, so that the villagers don’t have to go far away for their treatment. He has been helping the villagers for several years. Master Gopal Singh Memorial Government High School, Kalyanpur, is no less than any leading school in the city. It has a beautiful, stylish building, a full-fledged science lab and a library brimming with a plethora of books. Students of the school have one person to thank – Auluck. He went to Canada around 50 years ago, but his heart lies here. TNS

Three held with pistols, injections

Nawanshahr: The district police on Friday arrested three persons travelling in a Verna car at a naka and seized 60 intoxicant injections, pistols, nine magazines from them. A case has been registered against the accused under the Arms Act. The accused had looted the car at gunpoint on the Ropar-Nawanshahr road. The police said during interrogation, the accused also informed that to loot the Verna car, they had used a Swift car which they had also looted from the Garhshankar road. TNS