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Security deployed in mela area
Bhardwaj set to be elected to RS
Bhajan Lal loyalist quits party posts
Workshop on consultancy development
Farmers threaten to intensify stir
IAF Marshal visits Ambala airbase
Novel system to ensure kids’ safety at school |
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Security deployed in mela area
Kurukshetra, March 18 Stating this to media persons here today, the district police chief, Mr Sanjay Kumar, said the solar eclipse mela (fair) area had been divided into 12 sectors and each sector in charge would be a gazetted
officer. Detailing about the police force to be deployed, Mr Kumar said seven superintendents of police, 25 deputy superintendents, 48 inspectors, 458 non-gazetted officers, 641 head constables, 1858 constables, 60 traffic constables, 150 female constables and officers and 1500 home guard jawans would be deployed to maintain law and order in the mela area. Mr Kumar further said police barriers had been erected on all entry points to the mela area where pilgrims would be screened and vehicles checked. Under the anti-sabotage system, the services of mounted police force and the dog squads would be at the disposal of the district police administration while the commando force and bomb disposal squad would be on duty. In addition to the present Thanesar City Thana, a separate Mela Thana would deal with the mela area cases, Mr Kumar added. To fully watch the suspicious persons’ activities, close circuit television sets were being installed in the mela area where videography and photography teams would also be pressed into service. Mr Kumar further informed that all school managements had been directed to carry their class 10 and 10+2 students up to the examination centres for their board examinations in their buses. Similar type of security arrangements had been made for the pilgrims attending the Chait Chaudas mela scheduled to be held at Pehowa, 25 km from here on March 27 to 29, Mr Kumar added. |
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Bhardwaj set to be elected to RS
Chandigarh, March 18 Mr Bhardwaj’s nomination papers were found in order today during scrutiny by the Returning Officer (RO), Mr Sumit Kumar. Mr Bhardwaj and the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, were present in the Haryana Assembly when the RO, who is also the Secretary of the Assembly, checked the candidate’s papers. Mr Bhardwaj had filed three separate sets of papers and all three were found in order. No other candidate has challenged Mr Bhardwaj and his getting elected is now a mere formality. He will be officially announced elected on Monday, the last date for the withdrawal of papers. Mr Bhardwaj’s name has been proposed by 29 MLAs, including Mr Hooda and the HPCC chief, Mr Bhajan Lal. While two sets of papers were proposed by 10 MLAs each, the third set was proposed by nine MLAs. According to the rules, at least nine MLAs are needed to propose a Rajya Sabha candidate from Haryana. The Opposition INLD has nine MLAs, but the former Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, who is the INLD representative from the Rori constituency, is abroad for health reasons. Even if Mr Chautala was here, the INLD perhaps would not have challenged Mr Bhardwaj’s candidature since the Congress, with 68 MLAs in the 90-member House, has a huge numerical advantage over the INLD. Mr Bhardwaj, who is a native of Haryana, was earlier a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh. The Union Law Minister, at a function organised at the Punjab and Haryana High Court here on April 12 last year to felicitate him, had opposed the demand for a separate High Court for Haryana. He said it was a parochial demand. However, on Thursday, when reporters talked to him in the Assembly where he had gone to file his papers, Mr Bhardwaj said Haryana’s demand was under consideration of the Central Government. He, however, added that it was a complex issue. |
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Bhajan Lal loyalist quits party posts
Chandigarh, March 18 According to a press release issued by Mr Krishan Murti, he had resigned from the posts of party spokesman and chief of the media cell of the HPCC in protest against the state government’s “poor” performance. The former minister took umbrage at the uncertainty on the issue of retrenched public sector employees, the alleged poor law and order situation, the delay in recruitment of teachers and the rape of girl students by teachers. |
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Workshop on consultancy development
Hisar, March 18 Addressing the participants, Dr Bajpai said consultancy development had the potential to serve as a bridge between the manufacturer and users of technology. “Technical know-how in various knowledge-based areas is must to face the emerging technological challenges in this era of global competition,” he added. Mr V.S.Pandey, Managing Director, NITCON, asserted that the consultant as well as the manufacturer would have to make all-out efforts to ensure that the consumer got the utmost benefit of
technology. He added that the technical experts would have to adopt the needs of the consumers. The Head of the host department, Prof Harbhajan Bansal, maintained that apart from playing a key role in the progress of institutions, consultancy development also provided an opportunity to university teachers and students to enhance their knowledge. The director of the workshop, Prof M.S.Turan, and its convener, Dr Karmpal, expressed hope that it would have positive and far-reaching consequences. |
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Farmers threaten to intensify stir
Panipat, March 18 General secretary of the morcha, Om Prakash Dhankhar criticised the Centre for its decision to import wheat as an anti-farmers step. He asked when good quality wheat was available in the country why was the need to import it. Criticizing the UPA government, he said farmers would suffer further as there would be no buyer for the country’s produce. He said the government preferred to pay a hefty sum of Rs 900 per quintal for the imported wheat while it pays only Rs 650 per quintal to the Indian farmers. He said farmers in the state had suffered heavy losses due to the reported damage to mustard and wheat crops. Lamenting the Hooda government, he said the state government had done nothing in this direction. |
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IAF Marshal visits Ambala airbase
Ambala, March 18 Air Marshal A.K. Singh,
AOC-in-C WAC, accompanied MIAF Arjan Singh. This was his first visit to the airbase after taking over as the Marshal of the Indian Air Force. The visit helped revive old memories of his association with the Ambala Air Force station. MIAF Arjan Singh was the first Station Commander of the Ambala airbase after
Independence. MIAF Arjan Singh and Ms Teji Singh were received by Air Commodore
H.H. Patel, Air Officer Commanding, Air Force Station, Ambala, and Ms Veena Patel, president of the AFWWA (Local). During the course of his visit, MIAF Arjan Singh interacted with Air Force officers, Army officers and civil officials. While addressing the gathering, he expressed satisfaction over the performance of IAF, both in operations and in aid to civil services, especially during tsunami and earthquake. Later, Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi, Chief of the Air Staff, and Ms Vandana Tyagi, president of the AFWWA (Central), interacted with MIAF Arjan Singh.
MIAF Arjan Singh had commanded the Air Force station, Ambala, from August 16 , 1947, to August 15, 1948. |
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Novel system to ensure kids’ safety at school
Ambala, March 18 Thanks to a novel effort by the 25-year-old sarpanch of village Pasiala, parents will no longer have to worry about the safety and security of their wards during school hours. Knowledge of electronics coupled with the need to keep a check on the local government school following the rape of a school girl by a school teacher in village Chudiala in Ambala has led to the development of a system under which the images from the school will be constantly beamed into the households of the village. The system has been developed by Mr Balram Saini, who is one of the youngest sarpanch in the area. The new system will be in place when the next academic session begins in the next couple of weeks. Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Mr Balram Saini said that video cameras are being installed in different rooms of the school as well as the corridor. "I am preparing a 20-metre high transmitter for the transmission of the video and audio signals," he said. He said that the video camera of every class room will transmit images on different channels. The channels will be tuned accordingly. "Each and every household in the village within a 4-km radius will be able to watch what is happening in their school on their TV sets," he said. He said that the entire cost of the project is Rs 50,000 and it is being carried out through panchayat funds. "This system can be easily replicated in other villages. The only thing which is required is the basic knowledge," he stated. "I have developed this system following the drop in moral standards of some teachers and it will definitely check errant behaviour," he added. Mr Balram Saini, who did his BA from Government College, Ambala Cantt, is also credited with developing a machine to burst crackers. The machine bursts crackers and there is no risk of injury. However, Mr Saini is disillusioned with the lack of support towards encouragement of knowledge at the grass-root level. "We are capable of doing a lot more. But nobody has come forward to help us out.” |
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From Schools & Colleges
Ambala, March 18 State Education Minister Phool Chand Mullana was the chief guest, while Anjali Bansal was the guest of honour. Mr Mullana stressed the need for having a positive
outlook, developing a creative mindset and facing the challenges of life with courage, truthfulness, honesty and calm mind. He expressed hope that the awardees would work for the collective interest of the society. Two hundred and two graduate and postgraduate degrees in humanities and commerce were conferred on students. Twenty-nine students were given prizes for academic excellence and 10 were given prizes for achievements in different field. The prize for best student of the year went to Randeep Kaur. The other prize winners included Sonia, Dimple, Shashi Bala, Madhu, Deepa Gupta, Amita, Palwinder Kaur, Razzi, Asha Roya, Sakshi and Meenakshi. Among others, college Principal Neena Bedi, K.L. Verma, Col Satish Dhawan (retd), Bhushan Oberoi, Ravinder Malhotra, Dr Desh Bandhu, Dr S.S. Phulia and Dr Santosh Dhamija were present. Graduation ceremony
A graduation ceremony was held at PKR Jain Vatika School, Ambala City, today. School committee president Bharat Bhushan Jain said prizes were given to students. A cultural function was held in which classical dance club students mesmerised the audience with kathak, orchestra club students played different soundtracks and music club students sang a western song. A puppet show was presented by LKG students, while a street play on the life of a seed was presented by Eco Club students. School Principal Uma Sharma read out the school annual report. Students win laurels
Dera Bassi: Students of the Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology (SSIET) have brought laurels to the institute in various inter-college technical-cum-cultural festivals. In the “Scintilla 06” at the AIET, Faridkot, the bhangra team of the institute bagged second position and Divesh Arora stood second in cyber net contest. Also, Manpreet Singh stood third in the creative writing competition, according to a press note. Similarly, in “Confluence 06” at the NIT, Kurukshetra, Ankit Dev and Parth won the first position in dance competitions. The SSIET also won a badminton tournament for women organised by Punjab Technical University recently. Prof Gurpreet Kaur, Dean Cultural Affairs, and Surinder Singh, sports officer, appreciated the efforts of the students. Top honours
Fatehgarh Sahib: Top four positions out of five in the State Faculty of Ayurveda and Unani System in Medicine were bagged by students of Desh Bhagat Ayurvedic College, Mandi Gobindgarh. According to Dr Zora Singh, chairman of the Desh Bhagat Group of Institutes, Neeraj Sharma stood first (484/600 marks) and Parveen stood second (454). He attributed the success to the hard work of students as well as staff. Certificates given
Patiala: As many as 100 students were given merit certificates for participating in different activities and 13 students were honoured for their academic achievements at the university and college level by Deputy Commissioner Tejveer Singh while presiding over the 61st annual prize distribution function of the local Government Bikram College of Commerce here today. Welcoming the chief guest, Principal Ranjit Kaur Tuli read out the annual report of the college. Mr Tejveer Singh lauded the results of the college in different fields. He also announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the development of the college. The roll of honor was awarded to one student while the college colour for session 2005-06 was given to 35 students. Besides, 11 students were honoured for excellence in sports. |
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