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Amritsar MUSICAL NITE: A music night ‘Punjabi Beats’ was
jointly organised by Alpha Punjabi and ETC Punjabi here on Friday.
Shankar Sahni, Mikka besides other singers regaled the
audience. ELECTED: The following have been elected office-bearers of
the AIHRA: chief secretary - Dr Shubh Darshan; joint secretaries — Mr
Kulwant Singh Matharu and Mr Ashok Kumar Soni; organising secretaries
— Lt Col Bishan Dass (retd), Mr Bikramjit Singh Khaira Giani
Purshottam Singh, Mr Sanjeev Jain, Mr Kuldip Singh Sallow; press
secretaries — Mr Davinder Sharma and Mr Sanjay Garg and administrative
secretary — Mr Ajit Singh Multani. Barnala Doraha 100 per cent results:
Tagore International Senior Secondary School, Sahnewal, got 100 per cent results in the class X. Mamta Mahan stood first in the school by securing 90 per cent marks, Harjit Sandhu stood second with 88 per cent marks and Sukhdeep was third with 87 per cent marks. Sixtyfive per cent students got first division and 35 per cent got second division. Mr B.K. Aneja, president of school management committee, congratulated the Prncipal, Mrs Renu Singh, staff and students of the school for putting in hard work. Kapurthala Khanna SARDAR OBEROI REMEMBERED: A meeting of Khanna Press Club was organised under the presidentship of Iqbal Singh in memory of Sardar Singh Oberoi. Sardar Singh died on Sunday after a brief illness. Journalists Somesh Batta, Kamaljit Kamal, Sunil Sharma, Pardeep Happy, Vikram Mann, Jatinder Bittu, Pawan Dheer, Harish Gupta, Sat Pal Bhambri, Mangat Singh and Harpreet Singh Prince attended the meeting. One-minute silence was observed in memory of the late Sardar Singh. Ludhiana WORKSHOP: A five-day workshop on personal grooming by Indra Ahluwalia at Grace Beauty Clinic and Institute concluded on Saturday. Topics like skin care, make-up tips, hair care and hair styles were discussed at the workshop. Mansa Pathankot Phagwara Phillaur Tarn Taran BOOKED: Manga Singh, a resident of Patti township, was booked under Sections 294, 509 of the IPC for passing indecent remarks against girls passing through the streets of the town.
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Fatehabad CASE SETTLED: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunals settled 16 cases in a Lok Adalat organised here on Saturday. A sum of Rs 13.57 lakh was awarded as compensation to the victims in these cases. The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) organised the Lok Adalat. Mr Sushil Kumar Garg, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Fatehabad, and secretary of the DLSA, told media persons here on Sunday that 17 civil cases, 14 criminal cases and nine cases under the Shop Act were also settled by his court. Panipat Pension adalats:
Pension adalats will be held under the auspices of the Divisional Railway Authorities at Jaipur and Bikaner on June 15. Pending cases and other allied grievances of railway pensioners of the Jaipur division as well as the Bikaner division will be settled at these two adalats. As many as 10 cases of railway pensioners of the Rewari region have been forwarded to Bikaner division while two other cases have been submitted to the Jaipur division. Arrested:
The police has arrested two more accused in the murder case of Israna resident Harender and his father Dayanand. The accused, Rampal of Israna and Sandeep alias Neetu of Noorankhera village had been absconding since June 4, 2004. Rewari |
Bilaspur WATER SHORTAGE: Residents of Dalit Basti, Dugali, are sore over the inadequate supply of drinking water to their village. Village leaders Om Prakash, Nand Lal and Shiv Ram, who led a deputation to the Deputy Commissioner said all other villages were directly linked through pipes to the tank while this facility was being denied to their basti. Kangra CRAFT MELA: R.D. Nazim, Deputy Commissioner, inaugurated a 10-day-long craft mela at the Dhalpur maidan here on Saturday. The fair is being organised by the Traditional Crafts Creation Women Association, Lucknow, under the aegis of the Ministry of Textile, Government of India. As many as 120 craftsmen from 11 states of the country are participating in the fair. Nahan PROTEST MARCH: Muslim organisations on Friday protested against the alleged desecration of Koran by the American army. At Paonta Sahib Muslim organisations held a protest march and submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister of India through the SDM Paonta. They demanded strict action against the miscreants. Shimla
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Message mania
Sending an SMS may be simple fun for most mobile phone users but for Deepak Sharma of Haibowal in Ludhiana, it is nothing short of an obsession.
He sent 1,82, 689 SMS last month itself. Now, he is striving to touch the 2-lakh mark by the end of May and the 3-lakh mark next month. He had sent 91,235 SMS in March 2004, 77,000 in November last year and 1,13, 556 in January this year. For all this prolific messaging, Deepak got a whopping 1,410-page-long bill giving details about the SMS he had sent. Owing to the sheer volume of papers, he had to take the help of a friend to show the bill around. Interestingly though, the amount of the bill was miniscule compared to the number of messages sent. Deepak had to pay just Rs 121 for sending the 1.82 lakh-odd messages. The reason being that he had availed of a package that entitled him to unlimited SMS. “Initially, I was not paying anything for the SMS, as under a corporate scheme I could send unlimited messages free of cost from 2003 to January this year. But seeing the high number of messages sent, the company officials wanted me to pay something,” he informs. He then started paying Rs 99 per month as charges for the unlimited SMS and went on to clock over 1.82 lakh messages in one month. The owner of a shop that sells and repairs mobile phones, Deepak never realised that he might have set a record until he saw a programme on TV last month. A national news channel had broadcasted the interview of a youth from Kapurthala who had sent 55,000 SMS in a month recently. He is not sure whether the Guinness Book or the Limca Book of Records have introduced a category for SMS, but he certainly would like to stake his claim for recognition. Knit-picking
The Bahadurke Textile and Knitwear Association in Ludhiana has taken an initiative that has not just helped it fulfill a social responsibility but also meet its needs for trained hands. The association collected funds and set up an institute which provides specialised training in sewing, cutting, folding, packing, elastic moulding and button-hole stitching. The setting up of this institute assumes significance not just because it is an industry initiative, but also since it provides training on machines that are in use in the textile industry. And all this comes for a nominal fee. While the land for the institute was given by the Sri Baba Jai Ram Das Jain Charitable Trust, the machines, on which the association spent around Rs 10 lakh, have been imported from the UK and Japan. They include laser cutters, overlocking machines from Japan, folding sets, elastic moulding machines etc. Not only has this helped generate employment, it has also solved the problem of labour shortage when the migrant labourers go back to their native states. The association also absorbs students in its units on completion of the courses. In the last three years of its establishment, the institute has trained over 500 students.
Says Vipin Singh, a student from Phagwara: “Specialised training at such low cost is hardly available here. I am doing this course so that I may get a job in one of the textile units here.”
Recognising the initiative of this association, NABARD recently started giving a grant for running the institute. Epic contribution Government servants generally adopt a laidback lifestyle on retirement. But for Lal Das Thakur ‘Pankaj’ it has turned out to be the most productive time of his life.
At 80, he is writing poetry and has, penned a book, ‘Mahabharata Kuluvi Boli Ne’, the first version of the epic in the Kuluvi language. Thakur was born and brought up in Chipni village of the Banjar area in Kulu district. His son, O. C. Thakur, who is the DIG, Central Range, helped his father in editing and revising the book before it was published by the Rupi Kala Srikhand Manch, Kulu. “I started writing the ‘Mahabharata’ after I retired in the mid-1980s and it took seven years to complete,” says Thakur, who has also written a book on Urdu shayiri in the Devnagari script, ‘Phasihat-O-Khuraphat, and translated the ‘Srimad Bhagavadgita’ into Kuluvi. His version of the ‘Mahabharata’ has 18 parvas and 2000 chandas, and comprises 1400 pages. He feels that the state needs to develop a language that borrows words universally from all dialects — Kangri, Kuluvi, Mandyali, Lahauli, Mahasuvi, Sirmauri and others. “It will unite the people, bridge the gap between lower and upper Himachal, and between Kuluvi and Kangri. It will also enrich Pahari literature and foster
brotherhood among the people”, he says. Contributed
by Jupinderjit Singh, Shveta Pathak and Kuldeep Chauhan
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