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PECFEST begins
today Chandigarh, March 15 The main feature of the festival will be the 28 stalls on IT. Lectures and panel discussions will be held on the inaugural day along with a mock press conference, a rock show, Ms and Mr PECFEST Talented competitions, Mimicry, Olympics, Pictionary, Catch-the-egg, Dance-to-tunes, clay-modelling, poster-making, blind fold and drawing competitions. There will be a whole section of events held at the Techno Hall of the college, where computer-related competitions will be held on the first day. Debates, quiz, plays, Star Nights, Catch-the-hen, dance finals, collage making and cartooning competitions will be the highlights of the second and the third day. |
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National conference on disordered
material Chandigarh, March 15 Prof Satya Prakash, Chairman of the department of Physics, PU, and convener of the conference welcomed the chief guest and informed the delegates about the department and the conference. Dr V.S. Sethi, Director, TBRL, expressed his willingness to extend collaboration with the department while Dr R.P. Bajpai, Director, CSIO, presided over the inaugural session. Professor V.D. Gupta in his inaugural talk stressed the need of studying the biological system from the physics point of view. He said that the universe is asymmetric from the very beginning. There should not have been any stars, planets and galaxies if the proton and electron existed with different charges. Polymers, material of the present century, follow right handed rules, a thoughtful design of nature. He pointed out that the intake of alcohol may lead to conversion of right handed DNA to left handed DNA and added that most materials in nature follow the right handed rules because the number of electrons that follow right handed rules were more. Scientists from institutes like TIFR, Mumbai, IITs, BARC, Mumbai, HBTI, Kanpur and from the leading laboratories like TBRL Chandigarh, SCL Mohali are participating in the two-day conference. |
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Baby show
organised Chandigarh, March 15 |
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A clarification The PU professor who has been nominated a member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Haryana School Education Board is Dr B.B. Goel and not Dr R.S. Goel as inadvertently mentioned in the March 13 edition of Chandigarh Tribune. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, Mach 15 Pronouncing the orders on a petition filed by Chiman Lal and Company challenging the award of contract by Ahmedgarh Nagar Council and another respondent, Mr Justice G.S. Singhvi and Mr Justice Nirmal Singh also asked Punjab’s Director of Local Bodies to ensure that in future “the auction was held strictly in accordance with the guidelines issued by the government”. In their petition, the company had earlier stated that the contract was awarded a sum which was Rs 12,80,000 less than the reserve price due to extraneous reasons and ulterior motive. They had added that respondent was related to an octroi inspector and a Municipal Councillor. Provide security to old woman Mr Justice S.S. Nijjar of the High Court today directed Jalandhar’s Senior Superintendent of Police to provide security to a 70-year-old woman and her daughter being allegedly harassed at the behest of a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police interested in taking possession of her house in Bhargo camp. Mr Justice Nijjar also asked him to ensure that the possession of the house was not forcibly taken, besides ensuring that the petitioner and her daughter were given free access to the house. The Judge also directed the removal of locks, placed by persons other than the petitioner. In her petition for protection and cancellation of bail granted to the respondents, Parkash Rani had earlier alleged that she was being harassed as a retired DSP, T.S. Sohal, had an eye on her property. Recoveries from teachers stayed On a petition filed by 25 school masters appointed by the state of Haryana on 89-day basis, a Division Bench of the High Court today stayed recoveries being made from the salaries of some of the petitioners. In their petition taken up by Mr Justice V.S. Aggarwal and Mr Justice K.C. Gupta, Ramesh Kumar, a maths master of a school at Mirchpur (Hisar), along with 24 others, had earlier stated that the salary for February was paid to some of the petitioners after making deductions in spite of an affidavit submitted before the Supreme Court claiming that all 89-day appointees were being paid the regular scale with effect from last November. Inspect engg. college site jointly Our legal correspondent adds: The society, which is running the engineering college and the management institute, was given provisional affiliation subject to certain conditions. The society approached the Director of Technical Education to include the name of college in the list of colleges inviting admissions for the 1999-2000 session. The Director of Technical Education appointed an inspection team to reinspect the institute for verifying the infrastructure. The petitioner-society challenged the Director’s order on the plea that the All-India Council of Technical Education and the university had inspected the college and another inspection by the state government was not justified. The students on the other hand, through two writ petitions approached the High Court for shifting them to another approved college in the state and to initiate action against the
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MADHAN CASE Chandigarh, March 15 Major Bhatnagar's plea seeking a bar on his trial was dismissed by the court yesterday, following which the defence, as per the law, had sought eight weeks to prepare its case. The court, in its ruling today, gave time till March 18. After his special plea challenging the jurisdiction of the court had been overruled, Major Bhatnagar, at the time of pleading guilty or not guilty to the charges levelled against him, had raised a plea in bar. Meanwhile, the writ petition filed by Major Bhatnagar seeking directions to the Central Government for taking action on his statutory complaint as well as release from military custody on bail, will come up for hearing before the Punjab and Haryana High Court tomorrow. In the other ongoing GCM, Major V.K. Madhan's counsel, quoting statements made by witnesses examined while agitating the special plea to jurisdiction, today argued that irregularities had been committed during the complete course of investigations, right from the court of inquiry (COI). The defence counsel maintained that the COI itself was incomplete and no opportunity was given to the accused to cross-examine witnesses. Therefore, any subsequent action initiated on the basis of the COI was bound to be illegal. Contending that the mandatory preliminary investigations under Army Rule 22 were not conducted, the defence claimed that the ordering and recording of the SOE were also illegal and full of irregularities. Irregularities and non-compliance with the rules, the defence contended, led to "corrupt" papers being put up before the GOC, 14 Corps, which misled him into ordering this GCM. In these circumstances, the defence maintained, the GCM had no locus standi to try the accused officer. |
French film festival
begins today Chandigarh, March 15 The film festival seems to have been consciously timed by the organising team comprising the Embassy of France in India and the Alliance Francaise, Chandigarh, to coincide with the International Women’s Day. Here is an attempt to understand issues concerning women. The ball will be set rolling tomorrow at 6.30 pm with the screening of Pascal Thomas’s production La Dilettante which focuses on the crests and troughs in the life of Pierrette, who plays the lead role. The story is about how this woman learns to live with the indifference of her children and how she tackles her newfound passion. The Blues of Cities by Stephane Brize deals with stagnation which has come to stay in the life of Solange. The woman suddenly feels insecure about her life after a meeting with her domineering friend, who has made it big in life. What follows is a woman’s attempt to redirect future. Chin Up, the story of a couple which is all set to brave misfortune, makes the viewer feel positive about life. It is the story of Emma, who discovers that she is suffering from breast cancer while she is expecting her first baby. Doctors advise abortion, but Emma’s lover stands by her. Finally the couple finds answers to their questions. Nothing to Do is about complex feelings, situations, and moods. It covers various aspects — right from the pangs of unemployment to the bliss of man-woman relationship. Love Me is a voyage, fascinating and overwhelming in its subject. It bares the sensitivity of a woman in search of love. She finally falls for the element of a man who is a singer by profession. Dream of Angels is not a film about class struggles but is a film where classes exist and where class conflict has something to do with the death of Marie, a girl who has been deserted in love. The last film in the line, Venus Beauty has won favour with many critics, who have called it a true delight. The story is about Angele, an attendant in a beauty parlour who escapes from the four walls to look for peace. |
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Embroidery exhibition Chandigarh, March 15 Among the materials used by the designer are cotton, crape, georgette, chiffon and semi crape. The sarees fall in the price range of Rs 1200 to 16,000, suits in Rs 1800 to 7000, and shirts in Rs 400 to 600. |
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Book of
poems Chandigarh, March, 15 This is the fifth book written by the author who has books like ‘‘Bhid ka Bhogol’’, ‘‘Samay Gawah Hai’’ and ‘‘Dhara ki Virodh’’ to his credit. Speaking on the occasion Mr Mittal said Vij‘s poetry highlighted the struggle and miseries of the middle class families. As the title of the book suggests it encourages people to face adverse circumstances bravely. |
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