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B. Pharma exams
postponed Chandigarh, March 1 Malwinder Singh Kang, president of the Panjab University Students Union, in a press note said that students demanded postponement because classes ended on March 5 and the examinations were scheduled to commence from March 8. This gave very little time to students for preparation. Also, the university should give information about examination dates well in advance. A student delegation of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad today met the DUI demanding postponement of the annual examination of B Pharma courses. A press note of the ABVP said that the annual examination of B Pharma were scheduled to commence from March 8 and a notice to this effect had been put on the notice board only a week in
advance. Vibhor Jain, the ABVP secretary of the campus unit, said that for the past few years, examinations used to commence in mid-April and this year, advancing of examination dates by more than a month came in as a surprise. Students should have been informed well in advance. A press note of Panjab University Campus Students Council said following discussions with authorities about the problems that students would face, the university had postponed the examination and they would be informed about the new dates later. |
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Students
block traffic Chandigarh, March 1 Students said that the police had even registered a complaint. However, no action seems to have been initiated. Recent visits to the police station also have yielded no results, a student said. Students have demanded a thorough probe into the matter and immediate action to nab the guilty. Students of another college are alleged to have staged the unpleasant scene during the youth festival. |
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3 prizes for fine arts teacher Chandigarh, March 1 According to a press release, the competitions were organised by the Chandigarh Librarians Association and St John’s High School in Sector 26 as part of the “Competition Master library-related competition, 2001”. He has won the first prize in slogan writing, second prize in cartoon making and third prize in the book mark category. In another competition organised by the Chandigarh Administration on the eve of the Festival of Gardens, Pawandeep Kaur, a Class VII student of the same school, has won the first prize in on-the-spot painting competition in 12 to 15 years category. |
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Kids learn about
vermiculture Chandigarh, March 1 The theme of the function was to generate awareness about vermiculture, the best and easy way to dispose of kitchen garbage. Ms Nanda advised the students to tell their parents about vermiculture and asked them not to throw rags, polythene bags on the roads. Ms Nanda said that the Chandigarh Administration would ask the leading cold drink companies to prepare dustbins and place them in different parts of the city. The Adviser went through the paintings made by schoolchildren. |
SC quashes plot resumption order Chandigarh, March 1 Mr Justice M.B. Shah and Mr Justice B.N. Agrawal, who handed down this order on February 19, further directed the Administration to recalculate the amount payable by the appellants after giving credit of the rent taken from the tenants from the date of its receipt. The Judges observed: “..this appeal is allowed. The impugned order of resumption passed by the competent authority is set aside on the basis of the facts of this case. However, the appellant shall pay any amount which is found due and payable within one month from the date of the receipt of the demand letter after proper calculations.” The appeal preferred by the appellants was that the plot was taken by them in an auction conducted by the Administration in April, 1990. The 25 per cent of the bid money was deposited at the time of the auction. The remaining amount was to be paid in three equal instalments of Rs 19.20 lakh each, commencing from 1991 onwards. The construction of the building was completed immediately, but it could not be utilised to earn income so as to finance the payment of instalments because of the lack of timely completion of infrastructural facilities like approach roads and parking by the Estate Office. The allotment of the site was cancelled on May 5, 1993 by the Assistant Estate Officer and the amount deposited by the appellant was forfeited. However, the Adviser to the Chandigarh Administrator had restored the site on October 25, 1995, and asked the appellants to pay a sum of Rs 31 lakh within 15 days and the balance amount in two equal instalments. The first instalment was to be paid within one month and the second within two months. Although a sum of Rs 31 lakh was deposited in the time, there was delay in paying other instalments. The court observed” It is to be borne in mind that the power of resumption of the plot under Section 8-A of the Capital of Punjab (Development and Regulation) Act, 1952, is a discretionary and enabling power. It is not mandatory for the authority to order resumption in each and every case. It should consider the facts and circumstances of each case before passing the order of resumption. The authority has to exercise its judicial discretion fairly before passing such order.”
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, march 1 The orders were pronounced by Mr Justice Mehtab Singh Gill of the High Court on a petition filed by a security guard of the Haryana Transport Department at Karnal. In his petition, Mr Ved Parkash had sought directions for the payment of pension and other retirement benefits along with interest at 18 per cent. His counsel had contended that the petitioner’s services were terminated in 1989, but he was re-appointed after a gap of few days, and again sacked on April 24, 1990, to prevent him from claiming right to regularisation. His petition challenging the termination orders was, subsequently, allowed, counsel had added. After going through the documents and hearing arguments, Mr Justice Gill further ruled: “There is a distinction between temporary employees, ad hoc employees and daily wagers... Since the petitioner was a temporary employee, he is entitled to all the pensionary benefits payable to a regular employee”. The Judge concluded: “The petitioner in this case was a temporary employee and not an ad hoc employee. His service for all intents and purposes would be counted from April 26, 1990, except that he will not be entitled to pay from that date.... If the service of the petitioner is counted from that date, then he has completed 10 years of service with the state of Haryana and other respondents. The respondents are, therefore, directed to pay all the pensionary and consequential benefits to the petitioner”. Pre-arrest bail
plea dismissed
Mr Justice M.L. Singhal of the High Court on Friday dismissed the anticipatory bail application filed by two Moga district residents, accused of accepting money for sending a youngster abroad. Delivering the verdict on petition filed by Gurmit Kaur and Rajinder Singh, Mr Justice Singhal observed: “As per the charge of the complainant Pritam Singh, he was cheated by Narinder Singh, wife Gurmit Kaur and son, Rajinder Singh on the representation that his son would be sent abroad. According to the complainant, Narinder Singh and Gurmit Singh were working as travel agents since long.... I find no ground to allow anticipatory bail. Dismissed”. Show-cause notice
to Coop Secy
Legal Correspondent adds: Show-cause notices have been issued to Mr S.S. Brar, Secretary, Punjab Cooperation Department, and Mr Ramesh Chander, Registrar of Cooperative Societies, by Mr Justice J.S. Khahar of the High Court for July 3 to show why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them. Mr Sham Singh and another Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies had filed the contempt petition contending that the respondent had failed to implement the High Court judgement dated September 12, 2001, vide which they were directed to pay arrears from their appointment date after their plea for seniority over direct recruits was allowed. The financial benefits were ordered to be paid, which were not given despite representations.
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PGI Director gets
bail Chandigarh, March 1 The magistrate adjourned the case for March 26 for consideration of quashing of the complaint filed against the PGI. It was alleged that the PGI had not taken a licence from the Central Labour Department to recruit contractual labour. Counsel argued that the PGI had taken a licence from the Local Labour Department and there was no need to get one from the Central Labour Department. On the other hand, counsel for the Central Labour Department argued that as the PGI came under the Central Government, it needed a licence from the Central Labour Department. |
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Jain remanded to
custody Chandigarh, March 1 The CBI alleged that it had recovered illegal assets and cash totalling Rs 3.5 crore from two officials of the Customs and Central Excise Department. The CBI also claimed that the agency had recovered assets disproportionate to his known sources of income valued at about Rs 2 crore from Amresh Jain, and similar assets valued at about Rs 1.45 crore had been recovered from Arun Singla, a Customs Inspector, posted at Chandigarh. The CBI had made recoveries on the basis of documents found during searches conducted at their respective residences in Ludhiana and Chandigarh. A Customs Inspector, Mr Arun Kumar Singla, has already been remanded to judicial custody till March 11. |
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Police remand for
Pak national Chandigarh, March 1 The investigating agency has sought the remand to recover the documents related to the forged “ration card” procured by the accused, Mohamad Riaz, with the help of Kuljinder Singh. The CID also took a specimen signature of Kuljinder Singh in the presence of the magistrate. Meanwhile, another accused in the case, Kehar Singh, an employee of the Municipal Corporation, was today granted interim bail by the magistrate. It was alleged that Kehar Singh had attested the documents of Riaz. Kehar Singh was granted bail to attend the marriage of his son, scheduled to be held on March 3. The magistrate has directed him to surrender before the court on March 4. It was pleaded before the court that Kehar Singh had just attested the documents and was in no way related to the forgery committed by the accused. |
Baring apathy through theatre Chandigarh, March 1 The plot centered around the screams of a tortured woman, who is seemingly being subjected to physical abuse inside her house. The pain of this woman, who remains hidden behind the scenes, is a metaphor for the Pain in the macro-context and through it, the writer touches upon a series of significant aspects — right from the apathy of people who reside in that colony to her pain, the hopeless effort of a poet to gather help for the dejected woman to the string of excuses people cite in favour of not coming forward to help the woman reflecting Apathy in the macro-context and the final mishap — which challenges the moral and social fabric of the society. Direction by Parveen Jaggi serves to drive home the point, baring the evil within each man. Two negative forces are at play all through, one portrayed by the man who molests the helpless woman and another, even more dangerous than the earlier, portrayed by the general public which revels in the routine and hides behind the translucent veil of excuses. No wonder in the end, it is humanity that dies a silent death.  |
Sukhmanpreet, Chetanpreet adjudged best shooters Chandigarh, March 1 Sukhmanpreet bagged gold medal in the air rifle peep sight senior men open and civilian and then in senior men section of the air rifle ISSF. He shot 580/600. He also helped Punjab in winning team championship along with Gurpranit and Sultan Singh Chhina. Chetanpreet had earlier shot 393/400 in air rifle women section. The other winners in various events were, Bhag Singh (small bore free rifle ISSF — senior men open), Gandharv (civilian and in junior men section), Anahat Dhindsa (517/600, small bore free rifle ISSF senior women-prone), Gurparnit Singh (564/600, air rifle ISSF junior men), Umesh Chandra (565/600, air pistol ISSF senior men open), Amanpreet Singh (air pistol ISSF civilian and also in the junior men section), Roopmeet Mann (296/400, air rifle OS-NR sub-junior women section), Veerpal Kaur (236/300, .22 std rifle OS- NR-prone senior women), Priti Sharma (205/300, .22 standard rifle OS-NR prone junior women, Akhil Pahuja (junior men), Vineet Kaur Grewal (sports pistol junior women), and Avtar Singh (standard pistol NR-senior men civilian section). Tennis meet Ashish Kapoor of Punjab captured two titles in the Third All India Police Tennis championship played here today at the CLTA stadium, Sector 10. The team championship final could not be completed due to rain. After leading in the first singles tie and then with one set up in doubles, Punjab were in a dominant position thanks to fine show by Yurinder, S.M. Sharma and Ashish Kapoor. Results (all finals): open singles: Ashish Kapoor (Pb) b B.N.S. Reddy (Ktk), 6-4, 6-1;
doubles: Ashish and S.M. Sharma b Ravideep Sahiand Partner, 6-4,6-2;
veteran Singles: R.K. Swamy (CRPF) b S.M. Sharma (Pb) 3-1; veteran doubles : R.K. Swamy and Anil Mohan b S.K. Upadhaya and P.P. Singh, 6-1, 6-4. Team championships: Yurinder Singh (Pb) b Madan Lal (AP), 6-1, 6-3;
doubles: S.M. Sharma and Ashish Kapoor (Pb) were leading against P.G. Kumar and Madan lal, 6-1,1-0 (match yet to be completed).
Cricket tourney North Zone and East Zone outscored their respective rivals South Zone and Headquarters XI by eight wickets and 47 runs, respectively, on the second day of the 31st FCI All-India Inter- zonal Cricket Tournament played here on Friday. Brief scores: (Ist
match): East Zone: 163 for nine in 35 overs (Arup Bandhu Bhattacharya 31, Saikat Mukharjee 28, S.S. Sharma 27 (n.o.), Joydeep Mukharjee 24, Sumit 2 for 23, Surinder Chopra 2 for 13, Balkishan 2 for 25).
Headquarters XI: Rajinder Bisht 44, Sanjeev Kohli 14, Puneet Sharma 14, Sumit Narwal 11, A.B. Bhattacharya 4 for 19).
Second match: South Zone: 140 for three in 35 overs (R. Sainath 61 n.o., K. Ravi 45).
North Zone: 141 for two in 13.3 overs (Ajay Ratra 53, Akash Malhotra 48 n.o., Naveen Negi 24).
Best athletes Ajit Kumar of BA II and Archana of BA I were declared best athletes among men and women sections of the 20th Annual Athletics meet of the Government Postgraduate College, Sector 46, here on Friday. Mr S.C. Nijhawan, Principal, gave away the prizes. A fancy dress competition and a bhangra show was also held on the occasion.
Athletics meet Preneet Pannu, a final year student applied art, and Parminder Singh, a second year student of sculpture art, were adjudged the best athletes among women and men section, respectively, of the annual athletics meet of the Government College for Art, Sector 10, here on Friday at the sports complex in Sector 7. Preneet secured gold medal in 100 m, long jump, javelin throw, shot put and discus throw. Parminder Singh bagged gold medal in discus throw, javelin throw and long jump. The BFA final year students won the tug- of-war event. Earlier the meet was inaugurated by Mr Brahm Prakash, Principal of the college. |
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