Punjab News

Singing permits younger Guntajpreet Singh (16) to precise himself in a manner he wouldn’t be capable of do in any other case. A Class XI pupil of the commerce stream of Woodstock Public College, he has accomplished his household, college and the town proud by profitable the folks singing competitors within the prestigious Nationwide Kala Utsav People Singing meet, which concluded in Bhubaneswar lately. Fondly addressed as Guntaj by his lecturers and members of the family, he was among the many high six performers within the PTC Voice of Punjab competitors just a few years in the past. Thereafter, he received many district and state-level folks singing championships. He belongs to a modest household, his father Sukhpreet Singh being a farmer and mom Komalpreet Kaur, a authorities main college trainer. “Music heals all types of distress. The street might be much less tedious for all of us if we journey it with a track on our lips. Really, after I was in my youth, my dad and mom usually informed me that singing is the language of the soul,” he says. In Bhubaneswar, he represented Punjab and sang the folks track Mirza. Dr Satnam Singh Nijjar and Dr Satinder Kaur Nijjar, each members of the college administration, lately felicitated him. “They’ve inspired me to maneuver forward within the subject of music. People singing takes us again to the roots of our tradition. My ambition is to be one of the best in India. I observe my ambition passionately. I really like music and I hope to realize one thing massive with my conventional folks songs. I would like folks to know that music speaks when phrases fail. With out music, life can be so boring,” he mentioned. His college administration and lecturers are all reward for him. “Profitable on the Kala Utsav is certainly an enormous factor. There have been contributors from everywhere in the nation. We wish to convey one of the best out of him. Nobody respects a expertise that’s hid. Guntaj is younger and is an efficient learner. I usually inform him that expertise is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be grateful. Conceit is self-given, watch out,” mentioned Dr Satinder Kaur Nijjar, who can also be the college principal.

Don’t copy the counterfeiter

Gurdaspur cops have been planning this for the previous few weeks. The police had some data that pretend foreign money notes have been positively in circulation, however one way or the other the particular person behind this nefarious exercise was eluding them. Yesterday turned out to be a red-letter day for the cops after they lastly zeroed in on the accused, albeit after a lot exhausting work and perseverance. SSP Deepak Hilori had fashioned a particular crew to crack the case. The accused, Baldev Singh, had really saved a printer and had used it to print foreign money value Rs 2 lakh at his house itself. Now, that’s actually an embarrassingly straightforward technique to generate profits. The disclaimer right here is that don’t observe within the footsteps of the counterfeiter. In any other case, like he heard a knock at his door, you too may be disturbed by the cops in your early morning sleep.

(contributed by Ravi Dhaliwal)