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AHMEDGARH AMRITSAR DIRECTOR: Prof Satish Verma, Senior Professor, School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, has taken over as Director of the distance education programme of the university on Monday. ASTROLOGY CENTRE: The Indian Council of Astrological Sciences (ICAS), which has established a vedic astrology centre at DAV College for Boys here, is starting its fifth batch. Admissions will start this month, Ms Kiranjit Kaur, centre in charge, said here on Monday. PROTEST RALLY: On a call given by the Non-Teaching Employees Federation (Punjab and Chandigarh) and the Punjab School Education Board, the non-teaching employees association of Guru Nanak Dev University held a protest rally, here on Tuesday. The activists of the association have demanded regularisation of staff and bonus. AWARENESS CAMP: The Amritsar Consumers Welfare Forum organised an awareness camp on Tuesday for the Block Development Panchayat Officers of the district. It was organised under the presidentship of Mr Mahinder Singh, District Development Panchayat Officer in which rights and responsibilities of the consumers were explained. BAN ORDERS: The district administration has passed prohibitory orders against the unauthorised use of red lights atop vehicles in view of the Assembly elections. The orders are passed under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Ambulances and fire tenders are exempted from the ban which will remain in force for two months. HOSHIARPUR POPPY HUSK SEIZED: The Mahilpur police has seized 540 kg of poppy husk from a truck at a naka, near Mukhu Majra, on Wednesday. Occupants of the truck, Jasbir Singh of Jandoli, Onkar Singh of Handowal, and driver Deepa of Khera, have been arrested under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act. Meanwhile, the Dasuya police registered a case of cheating under Section 420, IPC, against Jagir Singh of Bhuchhan village on Tuesday. Bhan Singh alleged that Jagir Singh took Rs 7,15,000 from his for giving his son a job in the Merchant Navy. KHAMANO MOGA WEIGHED: Supporters of the Punjab Education Minister, Mr Tota Singh, on Tuesday weighed him against laddoos in the Dashmesh Nagar locality and distributed these among the poor and partymen. Mr Tota Singh will be contesting the Assembly elections from the local constituency. CRITICISED: The former president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Mr Kuldeep Singh Sandhu, on Wednesday criticised the cooperative society of Mahesar Kalan village of the district for its failure to pay profits to its members for the past 65 years. The society had not paid any profits to its members since 1935, he said. PATIALA APPOINTED: The Indian Youth Congress president, Mr Randeep
Singh Surjewala, on Wednesday appointed Mr Raj K. Pappan and Mr
Harvinder Nippy as general secretaries of the Punjab Pradesh Youth
Congress Committee, Patiala (urban). SAMRALA SUNAM
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SHIMLA URGED: Mr Balak Ram, senior BJP leader and member of the state grievances committee, has urged the Chief Minister, Mr P.K. Dhumal, to open a government college at the Dhami bypass as students of the area have to travel long distances daily to pursue higher education. The 16-mile point on the bypass is well connected with link roads and as such students from the nearby villages of Suni and Arki tehsils can easily reach it, he said. PAONTA SAHIB
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Town sans children’s park PLAYING of games is important and essential for children’s life and growth. But here in Paonta Sahib there is no park where children can play. On the banks of the Yamuna there is a park, Yamuna Bal Park, but there is no facility for games. The Municipal Council as well as local administration are to blame for its absence. In 1983, the then SDM, Mr C.R.B. Lalit, who is now DC of Lahaul and Spiti, had built Yamuna Bal Park, which was inaugurated by then Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. But now the condition of the park is deplorable. There are no swings, see-saws, slides, etc (see photo) on which children can play. Rubbish is strewn all over. There are three statues of Jawahar Lal Nehru, Y.S. Parmar and Mahatma Gandhi. At the entrance of this park in the left side is a statue of Maa Yamuna. The condition of statues is no better. Only on the occasion of Yamuna Sharad Mahotsava is this statue decorated, otherwise nobody cares for it. Near HPPWD Rest House, the Municipal Council has built a garden named after Guru Gobind Singh, but its condition is bad. Local people are demanding proper maintenance of these parks, so that they can play without hindrance. HP women college’s laudable progress It was a celebration of academic achievements, cultural as well as sport activities, when 3,300 young women of Shimla’s Rajkiya Kanyamahavidyalaya, the only women’s government college in Himachal, had assembled to greet Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who was accompanied by his wife, Shiela. It was the college’s annual prize-distribution-cum-thanksgiving day. The Principal of college, Dr Rama Gupta, spoke of academic excellence achieved by students in streams of arts, science and commerce in the previous year’s session. Miss Bhishma Khatri had topped the university in B.Com whereas five others were on the merit list in other subjects. The general pass percentage of the college far exceeded the university’s pass percentage. Cultural activities were equally impressive. In the North Zone Inter-University Festival at Patiala, the college bagged the second place among 17 participating universities. At the HP University Youth Festival, RKMV secured the first position in solo classical dance, one-act play, group folk dance and Rangoli competition. Despite lack of its own playground, RKMV teams stood out in various events and 12 sportswomen were selected for all-India inter-varsity championships and 10 for national championships. Centenarian’s secret of longevity One will be surprised that in this district there is a model of longevity. A man even at the age of 122 years still works and his health as good as that of a young man. Kehar Singh Mistri, a resident of Wadaghar village under Baghapurana police station in this district, who was born in 1879, goes to his fields on a bicycle almost daily to supervise field work. He also takes his normal diet, including milk, tea and meals, daily. Village residents say he has a large number of relatives including nearly four dozen children and grand-children. The village folk pointed out that they had never heard about him being ill and he was always in good health. He told this correspondent, during a visit to his village, that his wife died about 60 years ago. Being a mason, he had built many buildings, particularly the gurdwara of Sixth Patshashi at his village in 1914. The centenarian said he seldom read newspapers, nor did he take medicine. Contributed by Sarbjit Sakhowalia, Rama Sharma, and Sarv Mitter
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