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AC vegetable carts given away to Sirsa SC farmers, rehri-pullers
MP Ashok Tanwar sits in an air-conditioned cart during a function to distribute these carts to the poor in Sirsa. A Tribune photograph
Govt to construct 3,308 houses for poor in Sirsa
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World Environment Day
Programme to fight rising burden of BP, diabetes, hypertension
Scientists caution against climate-change effect on farm sector
Of 9 districts, Sirsa's Disaster Management Plan in place
Haryana
MC poll
Short-term course on nano-materials ends
Nuh school to run on solar power
Student Legal Literacy Mission a 'significant' step
Junior men hockey championship under way
Rs 200 crore earmarked for four-laning Ambala-Kaithal road
NEET-UG EXAMINATION
Central council team inspects
Ayurvedic College
Members of the Central Council of Indian Medicines meet Vice-Chancellor Pankaj Mittal. Photo by BS Malik
Seminar, eco-march held to mark Environment Day
Junior Research Fellowship EXAM
Adventure camp for children
SRM varsity academic session from mid-July
Stregthening of roads top priority
'Financial Inclusion Day'
YGI bags award for excellence
Saplings planted
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AC vegetable carts given away to Sirsa SC farmers, rehri-pullers
Sirsa, June 6 Dr Tanwar said each air-conditioned vending cart, costing Rs 1.40 lakh, would be provided to the eligible beneficiaries at a meagre cost of Rs 14,000 only. The remaining cost of Rs.1.26 lakh would be borne by the Horticulture Department. Therefore, these would be available on 90 per cent subsidy. The solar kit-affixed air-conditioned vending carts would visit adjoining towns and provide fresh vegetables to the consumers. He said such vending carts would also be provided on 50 per cent subsidy to people belonging to the general category. The MP said that apart from agriculture, farmers of Sirsa district should also take interest in the micro industries concerning agriculture as there was potential for developing such units keeping in view the higher production of fruits, wheat and cotton in the district. He said that the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Programme would soon be launched in the district under the Cluster Development Scheme of
Government of India. Under this scheme, clusters of production units would be developed in various areas and a group of 15 to 20 people establishing micro industries would be constituted. A sum of up to Rs 20 crore would be provided to such a group on 90 per cent subsidy. He urged the people to constitute such groups and establish micro industries of up to Rs 20 crore. A cluster of micro industries had been set up at Darbi village with the assistance of the District Horticulture Centre and a proposal for it would be forwarded to the Central Government under the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Programme. He said Sirsa district was leading in terms of kinnow and cotton production. Various micro units for juice and grading processes had already been set up in the district. Similarly, small units could also be set up for hosiery, ‘juti’ and other trades.
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Govt to construct 3,308 houses for poor in Sirsa
Sirsa, June 6 Tanwar said a sum of Rs 4.51 lakh per house would be spent on the construction of each house. The houses would be allotted to the poor. The MP said under the RAY scheme of the Union Government, 50 per cent of the cost of these house was borne by the Union Government, 30 per cent by beneficiaries and 20 per cent by the state government. He said once implemented, Sirsa would become the first town of Haryana to implement the RAY scheme of the Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation Department of the Union Government. The house would have all facilities that were available in posh colonies in the district. He said Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would launch the state’s ambitious Priyadarshini Awas Yojna (PAY) throughout the state from Karnal on June 8. Under this scheme, 3.50 lakh houses would be constructed out of which 2 lakh houses would be constructed in rural areas and 1.50 lakh in urban areas. The MP said electricity would be made available in all 'dhanis' of Sirsa and Fatehabad districts. He said Hooda had approved a scheme under which Rs 200 crore would be spent on providing electricity in these 'dhanis'. He directed the officers of power utilities to prepare an action plan in this regard. Besides, he also directed the officials to get maximum work completed in villages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). He said during last year, Sirsa district bagged the second position in the state in the implementation of MGNREGS and hoped that during the current financial year the district would be on top in implementing this scheme. He said the green belt of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructural Development Corporation (HSIIDC) along the National Highway had been developed as a beautiful park. This park would be inaugurated on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi on August 20. He further said that a police post would also be set up in General Hospital, Sirsa. Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan, the SSP, Saurabh Singh, and other officials of the district also attended the meeting.
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‘Power conservation effective measure to protect environment’
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Hisar, June 6 Chaudhary said, “There is a big scope of saving electricity in all facets of life. By using energy-efficient equipments like compact fluorescent lamp, T-5 tubes, and other domestic appliances, 20 to 30 per cent electricity can be saved. Fitting and proper wiring is also important for energy conservation. In the domestic sector lighting, heating, air conditioning ventilation, and cooling forms the bulk of electricity use. It should be ensured that all doors and windows are closed in conditioned areas and that sheds, blinds or drapes are closed during the cooling periods. Heaters if used should be turned off during non-occupancy periods.” In the industrial sector, Chaudhary said, about 65 per cent electricity is consumed by motors and the value of electricity consumed by a motor is 200 times more than its original cost. The energy efficient motors pay their critical cost in electricity conservation. Motors should be run in a staggered manner so as not to affect the process and at the same time keeping the maximum demand within limits. Use of rewound motor causes drastic wastage of energy which could be much more than the cost of a new motor. “Electricity can be saved to a great extent in industries by using a transformer at 70 per cent efficiency of its rated capacity, avoiding rolled steel cores, sealing water leakages, steam compressed air and oil, replacing missing insulation, using proper lubricants, avoiding excessive heating and cooling, using electric controllers and voltage controllers, etc,” he said. He said there is a potential of conservation of about 30 per cent of electricity used in agriculture sector by using star-rated energy efficient motors and pump sets.
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Programme to fight rising burden of BP, diabetes, hypertension
Sonepat, June 6 Inaugurating the project here recently, D Prabhakaran, Executive Director of the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, Delhi, said India was home to over 61 million diabetic patients. “By 2030, India's diabetes burden is expected to cross the 100 million mark as against 87 million estimated earlier,” he said, adding that India’s diabetes burden was second to China. He said the chronic diseases disproportionately affect the economically disadvantaged, with 80 per cent of all NCD deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries like India. “NCDs are a major contributor to poverty and a barrier to social and economic development,”
he remarked. Dr Nikhil Tandon, Professor, Endocrinology, in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, said that jointly addressing diabetes and hypertension was
a public health imperative as about 75 per cent of the cardiovascular disease in those with diabetes
was due to coexistent hypertension. Dr Sudhir Kalra, Site Coordinator, UDAY, and Consultant, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, said that based on unique research, report and advocate framework, the programme aimed to demonstrate cost-effective scalable approaches for effective diabetes and high blood pressure management. “In Haryana, the project will be implemented in urban Sonepat and rural Kharkhoda
tehsil, with the intent to strengthen the diabetes and HBP care capabilities of the health system in terms of prevention, detection and effective management,” he added. The PHFI is a public-private initiative launched by the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, in 2006 to build human resource capacity in public health through various activities.
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Scientists caution against climate-change effect on farm sector
Karnal, June 6 The scientists participating in the brainstorming session on climate change impact on salt-affected soils and their crop productivity to commemorate Earthday-2013 were of the unanimous view that climate change had manifold effects on agriculture and the changes in temperature, precipitation, green-house gases and affected crop productivity. Inaugurating the brainstorming session sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Paritosh Tyagi, former Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board, GoI, and Chairman, IDC Foundation, said that issues like why climate change happened, what was its effect on agriculture and what we were doing and what should not be done to avoid its effects must be addressed. The scientists should make the farmers aware about the effect of climate change in agriculture. Ajit Tyagi, former Director-General, Meteorology, Department of Earth Sciences, GoI, said meteorologist, agriculture advisers and farmers should interact with each other before the start of the crop season so that planning may be done keeping in view the weather assumptions while Dr NK Tyagi, former member, ASRB, New Delhi, emphasised that the climate change created the problem of soil and water pollution. Dr DK Sharma, Director, Central Soil and Salinity Research Institute (CSSRI), said about 6.73 m ha land was affected by salinity, 52 m ha became frequently drought prone and 3.2 m ha got affected by waterlogging. He also said that the institute had reclaimed about 1.85 m ha of salt-affected areas. Dr SK Chaudhary explained that climate was a primary determinant of agricultural productivity and agriculture had been a major concern in the discussions on climate change which had manifold effects on agriculture and changes in temperature, precipitation and green-house gases. About 60 scientists working in related areas, progressive farmers with vast experience in improved farming and students from various universities/ICAR institutes participated in the session.
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Of 9 districts, Sirsa's Disaster Management Plan in place
Sirsa, June 6 Abhay Kumar Shrivastava, Course Director of the HIPA, stated this during a three-day training programme regarding the implementation of the District Disaster Management Scheme in Sirsa yesterday. Sirsa Deputy Commissioner J Ganesan was also present in the training
programme. Shrivastava said schemes especially city plan scheme, mini-secretariat security scheme, school-security scheme, court-complex security scheme and hospital-security scheme would be prepared by the Disaster Management Centre during the current financial year. In the first phase under the school security scheme, two schools from each district would be included and for this, study of fire incidents at Charkhi Dadri and Dabwali would be carried out. He said a provision of Rs 5 crore had been made for Haryana in the 13th Finance Commission regarding various aspects of the Disaster Management Scheme. Besides, the state government had created a natural calamity fund in which sufficient funds were available to deal with such situations. In this project, detailed information had been given regarding the schemes of management of natural and man-made calamities in the districts concerned. He said the incidents of earthquake, flood and storm had been placed in the category of natural calamity, whereas incidents like arson and stampede had been kept in human-based category. Shrivastava said that on the basis of a survey, 16 districts had been included in the list of highly sensitive areas. These included Palwal, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat, Rewari, Narnaul, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Ambala, Panchkula, Sonepat and Bhiwani. Flood-prone areas included those adjoining the Yamuna like Kurukshetra, Panipat, Sonepat, Faridabad and Palwal. Similarly, in the Ghaggar, Markanda and Tangri areas, districts of Ambala, Kaithal, Jind, Fatehabad and Sirsa had been included in the flood-prone areas.
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Haryana
MC poll
Karnal/Panipat, June 6 The BJP, which contested all 24 seats in Panipat, polled 41,868 votes out of the total 1,83,352 valid votes, which was 22.8 per cent. While the INLD, which also entered the fray from all wards, polled 19,046 votes (10.3per cent). The two parties which contested the poll on party symbols polled 33.1 per cent votes. The situation was worse in the 20-member Karnal Municipal Corporation where the BJP and the INLD fielded candidates from 17 and 18 wards, respectively, but won only three and two seats, respectively. The BJP that had left ward No 12, 13 and 17 for HJC-backed candidates polled only 22,837 votes out of the total 1, 29,441 valid votes that was 17.4 per cent, while the INLD polled 14,408 ((10.4 per cent) out of the total 1,39,097 votes polled in 18 wards. In Panipat, 11 BJP and 17 INLD candidates lost deposits and in eight seats candidates of both parties failed to save their security. Five BJP and 11 INLD candidates forfeited securities in the Karnal MC. It was a major setback for the BJP as it was supported by the HJC and both parties are considered stronger in urban areas. The BJP vote percentage was slightly better in Panipat as its candidate Rohita Rewari from ward No. 9 polled a highest number of 10,114 votes and won by the biggest margin of 8,403 votes. In Karnal, INLD candidate from ward No. 3 Pawan Sharma got the minimum number of 25 votes while Banita from ward No. 10 got the highest 2,536 votes. Jai Pal, BJP candidate from ward No. 16, secured the minimum 59 votes while the highest 2,852 votes was polled by Krishan Garg from Ward No. 11. The highest number of 9,303 votes was polled in ward No. 14 while ward No. 16 recorded the lowest voting of 5,304. In Panipat, the minimum number of 48 votes were cast in favour of INLD candidate Nafe in ward No. 13 while the maximum 3,896 votes were polled by Seema in ward No. 4. The BJP candidate from ward No. 5, Surinder Sharma secured the minimum 62 votes, while the maximum 10,114 votes were polled by Rohita Rewari in ward No. 9. The highest number of 13,286 voters exercised their franchise in ward No 5. while the ward No. 23 polled the minimum number of 4,464 votes.
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Short-term course on nano-materials ends
Kurukshetra June 6 NIT Director Prof Anand Mohan has inaugurated the course. About 50 participants from all over the country attended the course. AK
Srivastava, a scientist from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and Prof Akhilesh
Swarup, Dean (Research and Consultancy) NIT Kurukshetra were the guests of
honour. In his inaugural address, Prof Mohan said, “Nano science will
provide the technology that would drive the development of human society
in the future.” He called on scientists and academicians to work
together in fully exploiting the potential of this emerging science. Prof Swarup congratulated the organisers for holding a course in nano science. He said the institute had already identified this as a priority area for its academic and research
programmes. Prof Srivastava discussed in detail about the nano materials and their characterisation tools. He encouraged the participants to develop an understanding of this science so that at least some of them could take up the challenge of exploring the potential of this emerging science through research works. Course coordinator Prof JK Quamara said the Department of Physics had acquired a certain level of expertise in the field of nano science and, through this course, was sharing that expertise with all the participants who had come from various institutions from different parts of the county.
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Nuh school to run on solar power
Nuh (Mewat), June 6 The organisers claimed that this was the first school in the country equipped with a solar micro-grid to take care of its energy requirements. The experiment will be replicated in other schools across the country. Haryana Financial Commissioner-cum-Principal Secretary (Education) Surina
Rajan, Nuh Deputy Commissioner Vinay Singh Yadav and Venkatesh Kini, senior vice-president (operations), Coca-Cola India, were present. The school has been revitalised with contributions from Tetra Pak, SRF Foundation and Enrich Agro Food Products. The initiative is covered under the
Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School campaign. Representatives of Coca-Cola India also presented their
"eKOcool" solar cooler to a woman retailer from the area under a women-empowerment initiative of the company aimed at socio-economic uplift of women retailers at the grassroots level. The solar cooler is meant to chill soft-drinks and comes with value-added features like an in-built mobile charger and a port to charge a solar lantern.
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Student Legal Literacy Mission a 'significant' step
Fatehabad, June 6 “The main aim of this programme is to educate society about the constitutional and statutory rights and duties of people, of which they are unaware,” he said. HALSA in collaboration with the Education Department, Haryana, has been organising competitions on topics like protection of women from domestic violence, dowry prohibition, human rights, fundamental duties, rights of disabled persons, rights of destitute women and children, drug de-addiction and female foeticide. During 2012-13, about 45,000 students participated in such competitions. Around 25 lakh students had been connected with this programme under the guidance of Justice SK Mittal, Executive Chairman, Haryana State Legal Services Authority, said Gupta. He said steps were being taken to cover students of all schools and colleges. Gupta appreciated the school staff for giving attention to the legal aid movement. Pardeep Kumar, a student of the school, stood first in the state-level declamation competition held recently in Gurgaon. He received a gold medal and Rs 11,000 cash. Justice P Sathasivam, Supreme Court Judge and Executive Chairman, National Legal Services Authority, was the chief guest of the state-level function inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Justice Jasbir Singh, the then Acting Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court, and patron-in-chief, HALSA, presided over the ceremony. The keynote address was given by Justice SK Mittal. Earlier, welcoming the Judge, school Principal Ajit Singh Chugh said legal literacy programmes had helped students know law and their rights.
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Junior men hockey championship under way
Sonepat, June 6 This was stated by PV Rathi, the president of the Haryana Olympic Association, while inaugurating an 11-day 3rd Hockey India Junior Men Hockey Championship at the Motilal Nehru School of Sports at Rai recently. Rathi, who is also the Principal Adviser to Haryana Chief Minister for Home and CID, also announced that well-trained coaches would be provided in all the constructed and under construction sports stadiums in the state so that budding youths got the best possible coaching on their door step. As many as 32 teams from different states and organisations are participating in the championship. In the inaugural match, Haryana defeated West Bengal by 6-1 and defending champion Punjab trounced Kerala by 13-0. Deputy Commissioner, Pankaj Aggarwal, SP Arun Singh, SDM, Sonepat, Virender Lather, DSP Ajit Singh, state general secretary of Hockey India, Sunil Malik, Arjuna awardee and former captain of India women hockey team Pritam Siwach, and the Director, MNSS, Rai, Capt VK Verma, were also present.
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Rs 200 crore earmarked for four-laning Ambala-Kaithal road
Kurukshetra, June 6 This was stated by Haryana Finance and Irrigation Minister Harmohinder Singh Chattha while talking to the Congress workers after hearing the problems of people at Kisan Rest House Pehowa 20 km from here recently. Chattha said under the project, a piece of land measuring 428.6 hectares from Kaithal to Ambala would be acquired and six bypass roads, four under bypass roads, two over bridges and three ROBs would be constructed. Besides, 20 lay bypasses for buses and two for trucks would be constructed under this project. The minister directed the officers concerned to solve the problems of the people. It was also announced that Chattha will hear problems of the people during four days of a week, i.e. on Thursday and Friday at Kisan Rest House, Pehowa, and on Saturday and Sunday at the camp office, Kurukshetra.
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Shubham from Fatehabad, Kirti from Ratia excel
Tribune News Service
Shubham, son of Anju Singla and Dr Viney Singla, a physician from Fatehabad, has secured 683rd rank at the national level and 115th rank in the Delhi state level, where he was enrolled for the senior secondary examinations. Kirti, daughter of Indu Sharma, Principal of Akal Academy, Ratia, and Narender Sharma, a bank official at Ratia, got 938th rank at the national level. She has been ranked 78th in Punjab state and 121st in Haryana state. Kirti, a Haryana domicile, completed her senior secondary from Mansa in Punjab and topped the district with 94 per cent marks. Both Shubham Singla and Kirti Sharma are hoping to get admission to the colleges of their respective choice.
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Central council team inspects
Ayurvedic College
Sonepat, June 6 During the inspection, the team visited Ayuvedic Hospital, college, pharmacy laboratory, Panchkarma therapy centre, herbal garden, and hostel. Members of the team interacted with the students about the facilities available for them in the college. They held a discussion with Vice-Chancellor Dr Pankaj Mittal and explained him about the vision and mission of the council to upgrade of the Ayurvedic and Unani system of medicines in the colleges. Jha said the team would submit its report to the
council.
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Seminar, eco-march held to mark Environment Day
Yamunanagar, June 6 The theme of the event was ‘think before you eat and save the environment’ covering social and environmental issues, including status of natural resources and their depletion, role of environmental education in conservation of bio-diversity, control of pollution, disaster management and global warming, SEMBR president KR Bhardwaj said an eco-march was organised in which students, teachers, members of local NGO participated. They appealed to the local residents to come forward and contribute towards saving the environment. Bilaspur BEO Dharam Singh Rathee flagged of the march from the Main Gate of the school. Members of the society also planted saplings.
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Junior Research Fellowship EXAM Tribune News Service
Hisar, June 6 Stating this, the College of Agriculture (COA) Dean, Dr RK Pannu, said that out of these successful students, 20 were from COA, Hisar campus, and five from COA, Kaul (Kaithal), campus of the university. He said while Varun Saini and Ranvir had scored eigthth and 17th ranks, respectively, in the entomology discipline, Subhash Chander got the 16th rank in the horticulture discipline. The other achievers include Narender, Monu, Chandan, Sandeep, Bharat, Dheeraj, Pragat Singh, Hira Lal, Sada Ram, Robin, Anshul, Nitish and Mohammad Arif. Apart from them, Brajesh, Dinesh, Davinder, Rao Pankaj, Ankur, Reena, Vikram, Tepender and Kuldeep also scored very good ranks.
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Adventure camp for children
Chandigarh, June 6 A spokesman of the department said the camp aimed at boosting confidence of such children and providing them an opportunity to explore nature and its resources. He said participants would be taken division-wise for the camp in four phases. All participants would be taken for camping to Manali. In all, 756 children would participate in the camp. In the first phase, the Adventure and Nature Study Camp would be organised for 180 participants of Ambala division from June 11 to 16. In the second phase, 180 participants of Hisar division would be taken for camping from June 17 to 22. In the third phase, 180 participants of Rohtak division would be taken for camping from June 23 to 28
and 216 participants of the Gurgaon division would be taken from June 29 to July 4.
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SRM varsity academic session from mid-July
Sonepat, June 6 Talking to mediapersons, Dr Swaminathan said the courses being offered for this academic year were BTech in
ECE, EEE, IT, CSE and Mechanical, MBA, Integrated MBA, and BCom. The information about the process of admission and other details like fees and amenities had been mentioned on the university website
www.srmuniversity.ac.in, he added. After BPS Women University, Khanpur
Kalan, DCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal, and OP Jindal Global University,
Sonepat, this would be the fourth university within the revenue limits of Sonepat district.
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Stregthening of roads top priority
Kaithal, June 6 This was stated by the state Public Works and Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala during a public meeting organised at Kamheri village of Guhla subdivision. Today, He recently laid the foundation stones of development projects worth Rs 53 crore in the constituency during his one-day visit. He stated that the state government had introduced the single transformer scheme to improve power supply and Rs 350 crore had been spent under the scheme in
Kurukshetra, Karnal, Kaithal and Rohtak districts. He further said that Rs 40 crore had been spent in Kaithal district under the scheme.
— OC
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'Financial Inclusion Day'
Fatehabad, June 6 Inder Sen Batra, branch manager of the Haryana Gramin Bank at Ratia, informed villagers about education loans, importance of savings in life, Kisan Credit Cards, Self-Help Groups, Solar-Light Loan Scheme, Self-Employment Loan Schemes, Recurring- Deposit Loan Schemes and several other banking schemes. Madan Lal, sarpach of the village, Baldev Groha, municipal councillor, Ratia, Jai Chand and Harpal, both panchayat members, were present.
— TNS
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YGI bags award for excellence
Yamunanagar, June 6 The college was selected by the Big Brand Research, New Delhi. Yamuna Group Chairman Rajinder Singh, engineering college Principal Dr Rajeev Kanduja and Principal Polytechnic Nirmaljeet Singh received the award from Prahlad Kakkar, one of the leading ad film maker, at a ceremony held in New Delhi.
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The Sirsa MP, Dr Ashok Tanwar, gave away air-conditioned vegetable and fruits carts to 11 farmers and rehri-pullers belonging to Scheduled Castes on Tuesday.
A three-member team of the Central Council of Indian Medicines has recently completed its two-day inspection tour of Ayurvedic College, BPS Women University, Khanpur
Kalan. The team comprised CP Jha, a professor at Banaras Hindu University, Prof Divakar Sharma of National Institute of
Ayurveda, Jaipur and Santosh Nayar of Chaudhary Braham Prakash Ayurveda Institute, New Delhi.
Fatehabad, June 6
