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EDUCATION

CBSE Class XII toppers
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 26
Some more students who have scored 90 per cent marks and above in the class XII examination, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, contacted this newspaper here today.

Deepika Kharbanda, a student of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, has scored 92.4 per cent marks in the non-medical stream. Harleen Kaur, a student of Carmel Convent, has scored 90.2 per cent marks in the commerce stream. Rakesh Chawla, a student of Government Senior Secondary School, Mani Majra, has scored 90.2 per cent marks . Rupinder Kaur, a student of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35 has scored 91 per cent marks in the medical stream.

Meanwhile, Government Senior Secondary School , Sector 38 (W), has produced 100 per cent result for the first time. In all, 37 students appeared, out of which five got the first division.

Ambala: In the Class XII examination, conducted by the CBSE, girls performed better than boys in Ambala City.

Divya Jain of DAV Public School secured 92.3 per cent marks in the non-medical stream, Sanjiv Thapar secured 91 per cent in the medical stream, Vinita Parman scored 87.8 in the commerce stream. Ruchikka Jain scored 92 per cent in the non-medical stream, Jiyotsana Bhatia scored 90 per cent in the non-medical stream while Varun Singhla and Shilpa Jain scored 90 per cent marks in the medical stream.

B. Com (I) result out
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 26
Panjab University declared the B.Com first-year results here today.

These are the fifth set of results declared by the examination branch of the university, the other four being the three compartment examinations results of BA (English) and B.Com first-year.

‘‘This is the first time in the history of the university that the result was declared in May, just a month after the examination was held. The B.Com second-year result will be declared on May 29 and the third-year result on May 31,’’ said Mr Ashok Raj Bhandari, Joint Controller of Examinations, PU.

The pass percentage of the examination this year is 66.90, against last year’s 58.56. Out of the 5,024 candidates who appeared in the examination, 3359 have passed.

The result gazette will be available at the inquiry counter of the university from Monday and on telephone numbers 784869 and 534818 on all working days from 7.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Rally for ecology
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 26
The Nature Club of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46, today launched ‘’Saturday as school environment day’’. It organised certain activities under National Awareness Campaign 2000-2001 to create awareness among the students. This year’s theme was to keep environment clean and green.

About 500 students along with staff members took out a rally which passed from residential and market area of Sector 46.

The President, Environment Society of India (Chandigarh), flagged off the rally.

COURTS

HIGH COURT
Varsity withdraws notification
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 26
In an affidavit submitted before a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Registrar of Punjabi University at Patiala, Dr Balbir Singh Bhatia, has stated that the notification derecognising Mr Bhupinder Singh Khera and seven other petitioners as office-bearers of the Punjabi University Teachers’ Association has been withdrawn.

He added that following the withdrawal of the notification dated April 20 “nothing survives to be adjudicated” and it would be “just, fair and in the interest of justice to permit him to place on record the new notification dated May 17 to dispose of the writ petition as having become infructuous”.

After going through the affidavit, the Bench, comprising Mr Justice Amar Bir Singh Gill and Mr Justice V.S. Aggarwal, held the petition to be infructuous. The Judges, on the last date of hearing, had stayed the operation of the notification issued by the Punjabi University Registrar.

Seeking the quashing of the notification issued on April 20, the petitioners had stated that the Registrar, vide the notification, had also conferred recognition on Dr Jamshed Ali Khan and four other respondents.

The action, counsel for the petitioners had added, was in violation of the constitution of PUTA. Giving details, he had stated that the elections could be held only during the annual meeting with the Registrar as the returning officer.

Order on retrenchment

On a petition challenging the move to retrench workmen of Barnala Cooperative Cotton Marketing and Spinning Mills Limited, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday observed that “if the petitioners were to be retrenched on account of closure or winding up of the institution, the same would be done after following due process of law”.

In their petition before Mr Justice R.S. Mongia and Mr Justice K.C. Gupta of the High Court, senior clerk Dwarika Parshad Joshi and nine other petitioners had earlier alleged that the cooperative societies in Punjab were running into losses due to “corrupt practices”.

Seeking the quashing of the retrenchment notices, the petitioners had also sought directions to the respondents against making appointments in the cooperative societies and other government undertakings till the petitioners were absorbed.

Issuing notice to the standing counsel for the Central Bureau of Investigation for July 17, Mr Justice K.S. Kumaran of the High Court has ordered that three Rohtak residents will be released on bail if they were sought to be arrested in an alleged bank fraud case.

The three — R.K. Jain, S.C. Jain and Ajay Kumar Jain — were apprehending arrest in a cheating and forgery case registered on April 29, 1998. The case, according to the prosecution, pertained to the alleged misuse of official position by a bank branch manager while releasing the payment of fixed deposit receipts.

Seeking the grant of bail, the three had contended that they were being implicated in the case. Claiming to be innocent, their counsel had stated that the petitioners had been roped in the case.

DISTRICT COURTS
Court notice to PU warden
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 26
The UT Judicial Magistrate (First Class) today issued a notice to the warden of Panjab University, hostel no 9, Sarojni Hall, Ms Veena Sachdev, for July 20 on a complaint moved by a city resident.

The complainant, Mr Jugal Kishore, a resident of Sector 20, had filed a complaint, alleging that the warden of the hostel had displayed a notice on the board of the hostel against him despite the fact that the warden had been served a notice of stay of the STD booth run by him.

It was stated in the notice, that it was brought to the notice of the residents of the hostel that STD operator had installed two computers for net surfing without prior permission of the authorities. It was also stated that by putting the premises to use other than STD, the complainant had violated the terms and conditions of his license deed.”

Judicial remand extended

The judicial remand of managing director of the Golden Forest R.K Syal, and other three officials, Pamila Syal, Neena Syal and Hritish Kumar Sinha, was extended to June 6 today by a local court.

Cases were registered against the four under Sections 406, 420 and 120 of the IPC at the Police Station, Mani Majra.

Plea rejected

The UT Additional Sessions Judge today dismissed an application for cancellation of bail of two Punjab police constables, Beant Singh and Gurdhir Singh, moved by Rajinder Singh Walia, a city resident.

The constables had already been granted bail by the court. The complainant, Rajinder Walia, had moved an application for the cancellation of the bail alleging that the accused had misused the concession of bail granted to them by a local court and had threatened him on many occasions.

The complainant Rajinder Singh Walia stated in the complaint that both the accused were his tenants. He alleged that the accused had beaten him up when he objected to their bringing girls in his house.

CULTURE

Chance for young talent
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 26
The Majlis Journalists and Artists Association (MJAA), a 24-year-old organisation engaged in promoting culture and theatre and educating the youth through entertainment, is reviving its play “Goodman Di Laltain”, a satire on the political situation in the country in the mid-eighties. The play was staged for a record 200 shows all over the northern region.

The play is a hilarious comedy and a stinging comment on corrupt practices that have engulfed society. It is a musical play woven around the folklore and dance movements of the region.

Majlis, over the years, has held numerous talk shows (including ones on student career guidance), live musical evenings and song competitions scouting for talented amateur young men and women, providing them a platform to perform. On popular public demand, the MJAA has now decided to revive “Goodman Di Laltain”.

Some key characters of “Goodman Di Laltain” as well as Majlis artistes are keen to update the play with new cast and talent. Besides, presently Majlis is producing another comedy, “Adhunik Mahabharat”.

The Majlis invites young boys and girls who have a streak and knack for acting, dancing and singing desirous of a breakthrough to contact MJAA at (0172) 548911, 548777 (between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.) and for screening and selection at Bal Bhawan on May 27 at 5.30 p.m.