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Cyanide 2001 begins CHANDIGARH, Feb 19 — Cyanide 2001, the annual festival of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, took off to a colourful start at a local music store here today. Youngsters filled in the participation forms for various events like Cyanide dares, Just a minute, Preliminaries to Mr and Ms Cyanide and Made for each other contest. The main attraction today were the preliminary rounds of the Mr and Ms Cyanide contest which had the boys and girls line up to compete in question-answer rounds. Girls outshone boys in the winners list. Achla from Home Science College, Sector 10, won the first prize for the round titled ‘onion dare’ while Arti from Panjab University stood second. Manu Kanwar of the Department of Chemical Engineering won the chillin round’ while Aman of GGDSD College and Deepti of the Department of Bio-Physics were also declared eligible. |
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Non-school going kids to be identified CHANDIGARH,
Feb 19 — Stage is all set for conducting a survey to identify all non-school going children under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan project by next week. The children between the age group of 6 to 14 years will be concentrated upon. All government school teachers, who are presently not doing census duty, will be involved in the exercise. The teachers will go from door to door during the five-day project. Registered NGO’s will also be involved in the project. Main aims of the Sarv Shiksha
Abhiyan:
Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan is a holistic stride towards achieving the goal of universalisation of elementary education through a time-bound integrated project in partnership with states. The campaign is an effort to recognise the need for improving the performance of the school system and to provide community-owned quality elementary education in the mission mode. At the central level the National Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan Mission has been established with Prime Minister as its chairman. The mission will be an independent and autonomous wing of ministry of HRD and which may be vested with full executive and financial powers in its sphere of work. It will be a nodal body for all matters relating to elementary education at national level. The national mission shall have a governing council and an executive committee. Similarly it proposes a state-level implementation society to be established under the chairmanship of CM or education minister for UEE. The Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan envisages achievement of universalisation of elementary education through formal schooling, alternative innovative educational strategy and education guarantee scheme.
The project has two major aspects, it provides a vide convergent frame work for implementation of elementary education scheme. It is also a programme with budget provision for strengthening vital areas to achieve universalisation of elementary education. All investments in the elementary education sector from the state and the central plans will be reflected as part of the framework. |
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Results of STSE 2000 CHANDIGARH,
Feb 19 — The Regional Officer, CBSE, Mr Y.R. Sachdeva, today gave away prizes to winners of the STSE 2000, School Science and Mathematics Contest organised by the State Institute of Education, Sector 32, here. The results are as follows: General category: Priyanka Khanderpal (Sacred Heart School) 1; Kusha Goyal (Sacred Heart School) 2; Ramanpreet Singh (Shishu Niketan School)3; Varun Bindal (Shishu Niketan School)3; Gaurav Mital (Shishu Niketan School)4; Gyanda Sachdeva (Sacred Heart School)4; Gurjit Singh (St John’s High School)4; and Pratush Dev (St John’s High School) 5. Reserve category: Gurpreet Singh (Shivalik Public School) 6; and Hardeep Singh (St John’s High School) 7. School science contest: Malvika (GMSSS, Sector 35)1; Bhavneet Kaur (Ajit Karam Singh School, Sector 41) 1; Samidha Gupta (Carmel Convent School) 2; Amrita Kaur (Carmel Convent School) 2; and Priyanka (Sacred Heart School) 3. Urban category: Sanchey (DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8)1; Navdeep (DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8)2; and Piyush DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8)3. Rural category: Naveen Kumar (GMSSS, Mani Majra) 1; and Suman (Vedic Girls Senior Secondary school, Mani
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6-month RI for selling adulterated drinks CHANDIGARH,
Feb 19 — The UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash, has sentenced Prem
Parkash, a resident of Burail, to six months’ rigorous imprisonment under the Food Adulteration Act. It was alleged that the Food Inspector had inspected the premises of the accused on June 12, 1995 and had found about 240 bottles of sweetened carbonate of water lemon mixture of sugar and sucrose meant for sale from
him. The Inspector had purchased 200 ml as a sample. The sample was sent for the public analysis and was found to be adulterated. The accused was sentenced 6-month rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1000. Bail granted Case against the accused had been registered under Sections 148, 149, 353, 452 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code on the complaint of Mr R.K Jain, on January 19,at Sector 31 police station. Cheating case It was alleged that the accused was arrested by the city police for using a car with false number plate and a forged registration number. |
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Club poll case adjourned CHANDIGARH, Feb 19 — A local court today adjourned the case pertaining to the grant of ad interim injunction restraining the defendants from holding the Chandigarh Club elections, proposed to be held on March 3. The complainants had appealed to the court to restrain the defendants from including the names of 1000 members in the voter list who were not eligible to vote. The court adjourned the case till February 20 for the defendants to file a reply before the court on the same date. The president and secretary of the club had appeared before the court on February 17. Mr Satnam Singh and another person had filed a complaint against the president of the club and 14 others for the grant of ad interim injunction restraining the defendants from holding election with the members enrolled with effect from May 7, 1999, to February 2, 2001, being able to vote. |
Dr Nivedita regales CHANDIGARH,
Feb 19 — For those who have even a little interest in classical music, this day brought a lot in its fold. Performing at a cultural evening organised by the National Society of Sciences, Crafts and Creative Arts, was a noted classical vocalist based at Delhi. Dr Nivedita Singh, who is famous for her powerful rendering of
khayal performed for the classical music lovers for about an hour at the Punjab Kala Bhawan today. Dr Nivedita, who presented compositions in
raaga yaman, bihaag and bharavi here today, has been a
shishya of Prof Tara Singh who belonged to the famous Gwalior
Ghairana. Nivedita began her rendering with a bhajan Bhavani jagdambe surdevi
in raag yaman. She then went on to sing another composition Main to
jaane na dehun balma. The next in line was Nivedita’s performance in
raaga bihaag (teen taal) in which she sang Mandir deep
dhare. From there she graduated to shabad gayaki and presented
Sahib mera meherbaan in raaga bhairavi. Accompanying Dr Nivedita were Paramjit Singh of the PU Music Department on the tabla and Neeraj Gandhi on the harmonium. Speaking on the occasion, the singer said though classical music had been faced with challenges throughout the 5000-year span, it had always managed to emerge stronger. Putting to rest the apprehension that it was becoming increasingly difficult to arrange classical music concerts in the age of pop music, Nivedita said there was no such fear because such concerts always had a select gathering. |
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Self bared in prints CHANDIGARH, Feb 19 — The most striking thing about Niyeti Chadha’s works is their simplicity and honesty. The 14 works — all graphic prints — by this final year student of print making at the Government College of Art, Sector 10, are all about personal experiences. That is exactly why the exhibit, which went on show today at the IndusInd Bank Art Gallery in Sector 8, has been personally titled. The young, budding artist explained, “I have deliberately called this exhibition Very Personal. Actually the show was not planned. Nor have I really worked with the motive of showing my prints. I was ready with the works that I am now displaying. They are all classroom products.” It was good to learn that the prints had been created in an academic ambience. Good because they do not look monitored at all. There is a certain degree of freedom and space attached to each graphic print in evidence. The works have been inspired by the daily diary entries by the artist who has chosen to reach out to the world in her own special way. So there different moods being played within different frames. Where in one work, Niyeti works on the consequences of lost dreams, in the other she shows herself standing at the crossroads of youth and adolescence, wondering over what has gone by and what lies in store. Moon figures specially in her works. “That is not quite deliberate. Just that the moon lets loose a number of hidden desires. I have tried to artistically bare some feelings which would otherwise never have been expressed. I tend to think on a very different wavelength whenever I am bathed by the moonlight.” Though the works are personalised, they have a universal value in the sense of relativity they carry. One can easily identify with the feelings which lie hidden behind the frames. The exhibition was inaugurated by Principal of the College of Art, Prof Prem Singh. |
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Rathods, Jassi to
perform in Festival of Gardens CHANDIGARH, Feb 19 — Renowned ghazal and playback singer couple, Roop Kumar Rathod and Sonali Rathod, and Punjabi pop singer Jasbir Jassi will perform during the three-day Festival of Gardens scheduled to be held here from February 23. While Roop and Sonali would perform on the evening of February 23, Jassi would enthral the audience on February 25 at the Leisure Valley, Sector 10, said Mr SP Singh, managing director of CITCO. On February 24 evening qawals Chanchal Bharati and Sarfaraz, would perform, he added. The Chandigarh Administration has finalised the schedule for various events during the festival, which will be inaugurated by the UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (Retd) at the Rose Garden on February 23. The “Rose Prince” and “Rose Princess” competitions, a photography contest and antakshri competitions will be held at the Rose Garden on February 24. On the same day, “the Garden of Annuals”, developed by the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh in Sector 44, will be inaugurated by General Jacob. |
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