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Class IX student slapped; teacher booked
Chandigarh, August 26 The mother of the student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sector 29, here, alleged that her son was beaten by his class teacher today following which he sustained injuries on his face. Seema Sharma, a resident of Sector 45, said, “My son Rishab was slapped repeatedly on his cheek by his computer teacher Pankaj. Rings worn by the teacher left deep bruises on Rishab’s face.” Rishab’s father is posted in Delhi, but he is studying here because he is undergoing treatment at the PGI for typhoid. Seema said he was tramautised and was refusing to go to the school tomorrow. She said the teacher was provoked because Rishab had forgotten his notebook at home. After he was beaten, he brought the matter to his English teacher, but she told him to place his handkerchief on his cheek. “It was only later in the day that he called me up”, she added. Rishab was not given any first-aid in the school, instead the school authorities were bent on hushing up the matter. Seema said the matter was brought to the notice of the police and a team headed by additional SHO, Industrial Area police station, visited the school. Principal Simranjit Kaur, however, tried to hush up the matter by saying that the teacher concerned would apologise. A written apology was tendered by Pankaj. Police sources said they had registered a case as corporal punishment is an offence. DPI Schools S K Setia said he was aware of the incident but being a Kendriya Vidyalaya, the matter would be dealt by the Kendriya Vidyalaya
Sangathan.
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Central Status to PU
Chandigarh, August 26 The ball is now in the Union government’s court to take a final decision on the matter. According to sources, the letter, sent to the Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), states that Punjab has no objection if the PU is granted the status of Central university, but with a condition that the status of statutory bodies of the varsity, including the Senate, does not change. Moreover, affiliation to the colleges in Punjab should remain the same and get equal benefits. A copy of the letter has also been sent to the PU Vice-Chancellor. The students, faculty members and employees of the varsity have hailed the government’s move. Former PUTA general secretary Prof Manjit Singh, who actively participated in the agitation by the teachers and students for Central status to the varsity for more than two months, said: “The letter is the outcome of efforts put in by all the faculty members. The V-C received the letter and was read out to all of us. The letter clearly states that the Punjab government has no issues with the PU being awarded the Central status till the agreement regarding Panjab having a world-class varsity and a Central varsity remains intact.” |
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First phase of PU Senate polls today
Chandigarh, August 26 While Ashok Goyal and Deepak Manmohan are in the fray from the combined faculty, Dr Keshav Malhotra and Akshay Kumar are contesting from the language faculty. From the Arts faculty, N.K. Ojha and A.K. Saihjpal are pitched against each other, while G.K. Chatrath and S.S. Virdi are contesting from the faculty of medical sciences. Observers feel that the contest between Chatrath and Virdi is likely to keen as both belong to the same group. Dr Naval Kishore and Guruteg Singh Gill are contesting from the faculty of sciences and Prof Rajinder Bhandari and Suresh Tandon from the law faculty. The varsity, known for academics, has turned into a political battlefield with one of the candidates circulating anonymous letters against Keshav Malhotra, contesting from the language faculty. The letter allegedly refers to Keshav Malhotra as an opportunist. In the second phase, elections for the lecturers, readers and professors’ constituency will be held. This will be followed by the elections to the graduates’ constituency and college teachers’ constituency on September 21.
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Home Secy
Chandigarh, August 26 The Haryana government had forwarded his name for selection along with two other IAS officers of the Haryana cadre. Pronouncing the orders on the petition filed by Mohali-based advocate Satyavrat Bhonsle, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Surya Kant also imposed cost of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner. Bhonsle had sought directions to the Union government against appointing a senior Haryana cadre officer as the Home Secretary on the ground that there were charges of corruption against him. Niwas had, however, refuted the allegations. In a
reply submitted to the High Court, Niwas had asserted the state government had ensured that there were no complaints or disciplinary proceedings against the officers while forwarding panel of names to the Department of Personnel, Government of India. He had annexed a copy of the estate government communication to substantiate his contention. He had submitted: “In view of this, there is no substance in the public interest litigation and as such the same be dismissed.” Niwas is presently posted as the Chief Administrator of Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Panchkula.
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Two firms in IT net
Chandigarh, August 26 The officials swooped down on a mobile and watch shop, Anmol Watches and Electronic, Sector 22 B, here, and three units of drug manufacturer Vardhman Chemitech in different parts of the city under the supervision of the commissioner, Income tax. While the officials refused to divulge details of the outcome of the surveys at both places, sources in the IT department revealed that multi-crore tax evasion had been detected after examining the records of Anmol and Vardhman. The sources said the income tax department disclosed that Vardhman Chemitech was the manufacturer of drugs and chemicals and but was also involved in import and export business. They said sales worth crores were found unaccounted for and there was no mention in the accounts about investments made in the real estate. Income tax sleuths, who conducted surveys at two shops of Anmol in Sector 22-B and at its owner’s residence in Sector 21-A, said though they showed Rs 25 crore sales in books, the profit was shown as Rs 2 lakh only.
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Delay in Garbage Processing
Chandigarh, August 26 The notice was given after a monitoring committee meeting held here under chairmanship of Roshan Sunkaria, municipal commissioner, and attended by officers concerned and representatives of the company. The MCC had signed a memorandum of understanding on July 8, 2005, and the implementation agreement on December, 2005, for setting up the plant at Chandigarh. As per the terms and conditions of the agreement, the company was required to set up the plant and start processing of entire city garbage by April 7, 2008, within 16 months after obtaining the approval. The plant, which was put on ‘stabilisation mode’ with effect from May 22, 2008, for a period of 3 months up to August 21, 2008, has not become fully functional despite availing the entire stabilisation period. The company had failed to follow the time schedule fixed in the terms and conditions for the setting up of the processing plant. The monitoring committee, on its visit, found that the rotary drier and hot air generator were still in the process of the trial run. There was no improvement with regard to intake of city garbage even after the completion of stabilisation period.
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Bus-queue shelters
Chandigarh, August 26 Instead of putting up the bus-queue shelters for the convenience of passengers, these have been purposely positioned to benefit advertisers, the UT’s local self-government department has pointed it out. Sources in the administration said while positioning the modern bus-queue shelters, builders have been allowed to use the best locations as far as the eye contact of road users was concerned. There have been complaints from passengers regarding the wrong location of these shelters. Not only the passengers, the CTU has also pointed out the wrong location of the facility. “Due to wrong location of the shelters, accidents take place. Some shelters have been located near roundabouts without applying the mind”, said an official. A driver of the CTU bus said after the introduction of the grid system, the location of the shelters had lost its relevance. Passengers preferred to wait for bus at spots other than the shelters. At some places, these shelters were positioned while not keeping in mind marking of the zebra crossing. “A passenger cannot cross from one side of the road to other to reach a shelter as there was fencing on the road divider”, said a commuter. Sources in the Municipal Corporation reveal that at the time of putting up the facility, the builders of the BOT sites had pointed out that due to trees, the bus queue shelters were not visible from a distance. As a result, advertisement at the site was not visible.
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GMSH-16 to outsource MRI facility
Chandigarh, August 26 Currently, the GMSH-16 has no MRI facility, forcing patients to go to private clinics. “The diagnostic facility will be equipped with an advanced MRI system,” said Dr S.K. Bhandari, joint medical superintendent, GMSH-16. The hospital will outsource trained professionals for diagnostic imaging services using MRI like CT scan. Dr Bhandari said: "The outsourcing will create a breakthrough by reducing diagnostic imaging costs for patients by approximately 30 percent as it costs Rs 3,700 in private clinics while it will be available at Rs 2,700 at GMSH-16. Bhandari added: "The outsourcing envisages our vision to make advanced healthcare technology affordable and accessible to needy patients.”
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Seminar on impact of climate change
Chandigarh, August 26 The seminar highlighted issues required to be addressed by the state in view of the climate changes due to the increasing green houses gases in the atmosphere. They key speakers of the seminar were Dr Nicolas Dempsey and Dr Raman Shibu, Oxford Brookes University; and Dr Prabhjot Kaur Sidhu, PAU, Ludhiana. They pointed that economists have estimated that the climate change is expected to reduce the global GDP by at least 5 per cent each year, which for some countries could be as high as 20 per cent. Dr Nicola Dempsey and Dr Raman Shibu from the School of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK made a presentation on Climate Change and Sustainability in India. More than 100 participants attended the seminar. “In the context of Punjab, the major impact of climate change is expected to be on agriculture and availability of fresh water. Since the state mainly has an agriculture-based economy, the effect on agriculture may cause widespread economic loss in terms of crop failure in productivity,” said one of the speakers.
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Milkfed honours ‘lassi boy’
Chandigarh, August 26 Taman, a BCom student of SD College-32, had prepared a power-point presentation on the production of ‘lassi’ at the Mohali-based Verka plant. The drink had outscored all exotic and alcoholic coffees at the programme. Breaking all previous records, lassi had got 90 per cent marks with A+ gradation. Taman is now looking forward to his next project to be presented in France in October to promote cultural heritage of Punjab. “At present, I am busy making the presentation and studying tourism. The idea is to promote our heritage sites like Golden Temple or forts of Punjab etc.” Before departing, Taman did not forget to pay his special thanks to his mentor and trainer Malik for his all-round support.
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Sedan owners in a jam
Chandigarh, August 26 The Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA), Chandigarh, is not registering the sedans, as certain models have not been approved as yet for registration by the UT Transport Department. Local car dealers selling the BMW’s 5 series 520d and the Volkswagen’s Jetta are awaiting approval from the UT Transport Department. A limited number of sedans of the two models have already been sold in the market. When contacted, Registration and Licensing Authority, Chandigarh, Niharka Rai said the code has not been assigned as yet. Till the registration papers are not issued, the vehicles cannot hit the road. The RLA does not accept the request to register the particular model till the transport department approves it as it assigns a code to every vehicle. Secretary, State Transport Authority, Dr Vandana Disodia said the authority had been asked to test drive the models. Once approved, the Secretary, Transport, would approve registration of the vehicles.
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Maestros delight music lovers
Chandigarh, August 26 Both displayed adroit mastery over the instruments while engaged in “swal-jawab” format of Jugalbandi. Sanjiv was however at his best as he delineated a dhun in Raga Bhairavi, composed by his guru. Prodigious Manik Kohli won applause for his accompaniment on drums in two compositions. The incredibility of the performance lay in the way Kohli improvised the western guitar to offer a rich melody of Indian classical music as produced in sitar and sarod. This basically is an attempt to popularise Indian music among lovers of western music. Earlier, ICCR Regional Director MM Sharma released two books “Avnad Vadya” and “How to Play Tabla” authored by Dr MP Sharma, disciple of maestro Chhote
Lal.
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Deol brothers make a surprise visit
Chandigarh, August 26 They visited the city for the promotion of Bobby Deol’s forthcoming film ‘Chamku’. The film, which will hit the theatres on 29th of this month, is a product of their home production ‘Vijeta’. The stars made a dramatic entry, interrupting the the screening of the movie, Singh is King. It took some time for the viewers to gather what was happening. The duo came in front of the screen to introduce the trailor of Chamku. It is a film based on the story of a killer born and brought up in a criminal environment. “The real name of the hero in the movie is Chandra Kumar Singh. But he is called Chamku, the character which is played by me,” said Bobby Deol. “Chamku is a killer in the movie who goes through a turning point in his life, which changes him entirely as a person,” he said. The movie has Priyanka Chopra playing the female lead. The Deol brothers also talked about their forthcoming movie, in which they will again share the screen space after ‘Apne’. “We are doing a movie together named ‘Ek, the power of one’, which will hit the theatres soon,” said Sunny Deol.
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No power supply
Chandigarh, August 26 According to a press note issued here today, for the last 26 days, the power supply to the colony had been disconnected. The people were reeling under hot and humid conditions. Residents had met all senior officers of the electricity department but to no avail. During past 3 years, no employee from the department had ever visited the colony to take meter reading. However, bills on the basis of monthly average were being sent through post, which had not been received by the residents. As a result, huge amount had accumulated. The residents wanted to pay the bills provided they were rectified, the press note added.
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Withdraw cases against protesters: Samiti
Chandigarh, August 26 It also demanded withdrawal of the cases against the protesters and a judicial inquiry into the criminal misconduct of the local police in attempting to dispose of the bodies of the martyrs. The samiti had presented the memorandum of these demands to the Punjab Governor, but he did not reply to it. P.C. Dogra, a retd DGP, said: “We are not against the Governor, but yes, we are offended that our letter was not replied to.” He added that the Hindus were not alien in Jammu and if government could give land to corporates and other organisation, then why not to the Hindus?
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AWWA anniversary festivity ends
Chandigarh, August 26 Among the various events took place during the week were a run for fun, which was flagged off by the GOC-in-C, Western Command, Lt Gen T.K. Sapru. The aim of the event was to enhance the spirit of brotherhood, develop sportsman spirit and bonhomie among one and all. A Healthy Tiffin competition as part of the co-curricular activity was also
organised.
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Check pvt schools
Almost all private schools in the city charge exorbitant fee, but do not pay their teachers even half the salary drawn by their counterparts in government schools. This lowers the morale of the teachers and without motivation, they find it difficult to give their best to the students. Also, the schools get lands at special prices, but don’t allocate 15 per cent seats to children from the weaker sections of society. In my opinion, DPI/CBSE must intervene and take action against the defaulting schools. Hardeep
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DAV students to visit S’pore in Oct
Chandigarh, August 26 After a formal welcome and participation in “havan” programme, the delegates were taken in classrooms, labs, library, sports facilities and multi-media lab. The attraction of the day was bhangra show with 200 performers from KB DAV-7 and they made the visitors dance to the tune of Punjabi dhols. D.R. Yadav, joint director of the CBSE regional office, Panchkula, presided over the programme. In a presentation of maths, teachers and students of KB DAV-7, Sivaprakasam Raju and Lee Soo Miang, maths teachers from Yishun Secondary School, Singapore, demonstrated IT lessons for teaching some topics which are common to both Singapore and Indian maths syllabi. Madhu Bahl, principal of KB DAV and regional director of 11 DAV Schools said, a delegation of 35 students and teachers of DAV schools with the help of the Yuvsatta, an NGO, will visit Singapore in October to further strengthen the education programme. Later, the visitors, along with their buddies, went on a tour of the city on Hop-on-Hop-off bus to Rock Garden and shopping centres at Sector 17 and 22.
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