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Students have improvised their
cheating skills over the years Chandigarh,
Dec 15— With many of the city colleges in the midst of house examinations and students busy brushing their notes, there are some others who are banking upon their “imagination and creativity” in cheating to pass the exams. “Necessity is the mother of invention”. This epithet has a different meaning for all those students out there who think that the best way to pass an examination is to cheat through it. The large variety of imaginative ways which these students employ to cheat in the examinations and the hours and efforts which go into these methods is surprising. As the invigilators increasingly catch the students using the traditional methods of cheating, the students have also “improvised” their skills. While the innumerable visits to the loo and the water coolers continue to be addas of cheating, the most popular method of cheating remains the use of chits or parchi. These come in all shapes and sizes, some are folded in the Japanese fan fashion so as to make reading easy, others are folded in a very small balls which can be hidden in the mouth and then there are other chits which are kept in the folds of clothes. “A single parchi of the size of a palm can hold answers or atleast hints to one complete subject’s syllabus.” says a college teacher. “The students write in minute handwriting so as to fit in the largest number of words in the smallest possible space. And it is virtually impossible to catch them. You come to know that many students cheated when after the exam is over the room dustbin is littered with these chits.” The students have been putting technology to their use also. To avoid the “hard work” involved in copying out answers from books, pages from books are photostat in smaller sizes and the chit is ready. Then there are students who are using pagers and mobiles to cheat, call a friend and get your answers. Though most colleges do not allow students to take in mobiles and pagers, some other colleges remain lenient in this. Programmable calculators are used by the science students which other than the normal calculations can give answers to square roots, probability and trigonometry problems. One glance at the walls of the examination rooms of the colleges by the end of the year and one realises that the students have been busy writing text lifted straight from the books on to the walls next to which their roll numbered seats are. Then there are some less seasoned cheaters who simply copy out important names and dates on their palms. “Once I copied out the names of Akbar’s nine ratnas on my palm. And at times, dates and years. In History, there are so many of these that it is not possible to remember all of them.” says a student of the local Khalsa College. The palm is not the only place on the body which is used for cheating. Short skirts come in handy when the legs carry the answers. But then cheating is not always the student’s fault. “Cheating is many a times perpetuated. Chits come from senior teachers and sometimes even the Principal for VIP students who are appearing in the examination if they need any help. Its strange that the other students do not protest neither does the invigilator put his foot down,” says a local Government College teacher.
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UGC roll nos CHANDIGARH,
Dec 15 — The University Grants Commission, New Delhi, has directed universities to send by courier, roll numbers for the forthcoming UGC-NET examination on December 24, in view of the ongoing postal strike. Panjab University has made arrangements to send by courier the roll numbers to 4500 candidates. The roll numbers are expected to reach the students within this week. |
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Crowds throng
carnival CHANDIGARH,
Dec 15 — Many persons, apart from the school students, thronged the two-day winter carnival, which started at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, here today. The carnival will continue till tomorrow evening. Students had a joyful time at the carnival. Various stalls for games, joy rides, exhibition and eating joints were set up. Joy rides, attracted a lot of children. Various companies exhibited their products. A variety of eatables delighted the children. Exhibition stalls of books had a good collection of books and compact discs on adventure, expedition, sports and interaction. Teachers from various schools who visited the carnival were thrilled to be a part of it. Request stall for music was appreciated by all. |
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Colourful show by
Shivalik children SAS NAGAR,
Dec 15 — Shivalik Public School celebrated its annual prize distribution function in Phase VI here today. Mr Rajan Kashyap, Principal Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, was the chief guest. He said he would help the school in establishing a science museum. Children presented a colourful cultural programme which started with the school shabad. Manpreet of Class X presented a classical dance “Vandana” followed by a western dance by students of Classes III and IV. Dressed in costumes of Jammu and Kashmir, students of V and VI came up with a Kashmiri dance “Bhumro Bhumro”. Tiny tots gave beautiful performance in items like “Three Corn Buns”, Boogie Woogie” and “Good Habits”. An item which drew great applause was a Punjabi solo song “Charkha mera rangla” by Sharan. She has been selected for the TV serial Sa Re Gama for the singing competition. Students of Class X presented an item “Vandematram” a fusion of the classical and the western dance. Among the other items presented were a Punjabi skit “Interview”, Harayanvi, Bengali, Dandia and Rajasthani dance. Bhangra was the last item of the show which enthralled the audience. |
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AIDS awareness for
KV students CHANDIGARH,
Dec 15 — The Kendriya Vidyalaya AFS High Ground organised a programme to make aware the adolescent students about various aspects of HIV/ AIDS. The school invited three doctors from the State Aids Control Society ,UT. Dr Ajit Saroha , informed the students about the routes of transmission of HIV and prevention methods. Dr Vandana Dewan cleared the doubts of children regarding the relation of sexually transmitted diseases. Dr Jasjit Kaur took the session of blood safety and informed them about the use of safe and tested blood. Wg Cdr R.K. Choudhary, SMO Air Force along with the Principal and teachers of the school participated in the programme. |
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Lok Adalat today CHANDIGARH,
Dec 15— A special Lok Adalat will be held tomorrow in the UT District Court
Complex. The District and Sessions Judge-cum-Chairman of the District Legal Services Authority, Mr H.S. Bhalla, said here today as many as 16 Benches of the Lok Adalat had been constituted, including labour court to deal with various types of cases such as motor accident cases, matrimonial disputes, rent matters, recovery matters and also the summary cases involving traffic offences.
Mr H.S. Bhalla further added that there would be more than thousand cases of all categories for settlement. |
Culture is like an iceberg, says expert Chandigarh,
Dec 15 — ‘’Culture is a very complex concept thus very difficult to describe . Culture is like an iceberg or an onion as certain aspects of it are more apparent just as the outside layers of an onion or the tip of an iceberg are visible. This includes elements like behaviour, language, music, food and technology,’’ remarked Mr Christian Legner from Johannes Kepler University, Austria at a seminar on ‘Cross cultural management in international tourism’ organised by the Institute of Tourism and Future Management Trends here, today. He further said it was estimated that the number of people travelling internationally would increase from 613 million in 1997 to 1.6 billion by the year 2020. The phenomenal increase in the tourists brings prosperity to the host nations but also many problems along with
it. Cross cultural management in tourism aims at the removal of conflicts and misunderstandings between visitors and the people of the alien country , he added. He also informed that the basic objective of cross cultural management in tourism was to create awareness among the people about different cultures and to appreciate the cultural peculiarities of various communities and nations. Certificates were given away to the participants and Dr Gulshan Sharma, Director, ITFT also delivered a lecture on the same topic. |
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Neha and Sudhanshuare Mega Models 2000 CHANDIGARH, Dec 15 — Neha and Sudhanshu have walked away with the titles in the Mega Model 2000 contest which was held here in the Tagore Theatre on December 13. The results of the contest are as follows. In the girls category, the Model of the Year, “best figure” and “best catwalk” award went to Neha. Seema, who was declared the first runner up, also bagged the “best smile” title. Shweta was the second runner up, while Archana and Ritu won the ‘Miss Beautiful Eyes’ and “Ms Beautiful Hair” titles, respectively. In the boys section, the “Model of the Year” title went to Sudhanshu. “Best
personality" title and the first runner up award went to Hanny. Ajay Nain was declared the second runner up, and Raghav won the best walk title among the males. |
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Thodi Si Bewafai
man in city CHANDIGARH, Dec 15 — He is known more for his character in the prime time Sony serial Thodi Si Bewafai. But there is a lot more to Sooraj Thapar than the self possessed man he plays in the serial. Not one of those who enter the world of acting for the sake of it, Sooraj has a solid theatre background to back him, and that is perhaps why he has come a long way in the past and has to his credit over 50 serials on the small screen. The demure actor who is in town on a personal visit spoke to the Chandigarh Tribune about the world of glamour, about how he quit the Navy to become a full-time actor and also about what it takes to be a good actor in the highly competitive scenario of the day. “You could not just walk away with a good character role. It’s true that the television world is full of people who are available for the job, but then I think you should make sense if you have to go a long way,” said Sooraj, who has been associated with a theatre group called Yatri for long now and has done about 700 shows of 15 plays with this group. His background in theatre has consistently been reflected in all the roles he took up, especially in the one he plays in Thodi Si Bewafai where he is cast opposite a Bengali girl Diya. “I play a man who fails to come to terms with the infidelity of his wife although there are genuine reasons why the wife does so. The challenge before me was to evoke the sympathy of people in my favour, and I think I have succeeded in managing that to a large extent,” he says. Earlier, Sooraj has played in Daraar (on Zee), Ajnabi, Gumrah and many other serials. “I especially loved my role in Ajnabi and as far as directors are concerned, I like working with Lekh Tandon. For him I can even work free of cost.” The only thing which seems to be bothering Sooraj is the serious image he projects. “I have normally been playing roles which project me as an emotionally weak person. The one thing I want to alter now is my image. I want to get into comedy roles in a big way and bring about a total transformation. Variety in life is very important,” says Sooraj. The interesting part about the life of this actor is a large amount of time which he still reserves for theatre, and for obvious reasons. “Theatre keeps you in practice with acting. You get to explore yourself afresh in every performance. The instant reaction of the audience also goes a long way in building the talent ,” reasons Sooraj. |
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