Wednesday,
June 12, 2002, Chandigarh, India
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Children
get creative ideas Ludhiana, June 11 At the camp, children are learning various creative ideas for making crafty items out of cotton, leaves, paper, cloth and the other such material available at home. While yesterday, they prepared snowmen, the kids were busy preparing lampshades today. They will also learn origami, puppetry and the art of hospitality. Dr I.J.S. Jaswal, Head of the Department, said, tomorrow, the kids would be taught how to arrange birthday parties, decorate rooms and make innovative invitation cards. He said the response to the camp had been tremendous, but the admissions had to be stopped as the number of participants had reached the upper limit of 30. He said, at the conclusion of the camp on June 21, an exhibition of items made by the participants would be held. |
Dental education course Ludhiana, June 11 Dr T.P.Singh, president of the district unit of the IDA, said that more than 53 dental surgeons of the city attended the course. Dr Vimal Sikri, a renowned endodontist taught the latest innovative techniques of doing root canal treatment, using state-of-the-art audio- visual aids like LCD projector and later demonstrated the latest way of doing the RCT with rotary instruments and special files. Dr Singh said that with the advent of new instruments, doctors would be able to do the RCT in a few minutes and in few sittings which was earlier not possible manually. He also elaborated that the RCT was the most commonly done procedure now-a-days and was the only way by which severely injected and badly broken teeth could be saved with predictable success. Dr Jairath, honorary secretary of the IDA, promised to hold more continuing dental education courses in the coming days to update the doctors on the latest changing trends of advancements in dentistry. |
Entrance
test dates clash Ludhiana, June 11 The candidates informed that the Baba Farid University for Medical Sciences as well as Guru Ram Das College of Medical Sciences, Amritsar, were conducting their tests on July 21. They demanded that either of the institutes should alter their schedule so that it became convenient for them to appear for both the tests. |
SI gets
bail in graft case Ludhiana, June 11 Sub Inspector was posted as in charge of the Sherpur police chowki, when he was booked under the prevention of Corruption Act. He remained in custody for more than a week after his arrest. The SI was caught allegedly for taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 from an industrialist during the raid conducted by Mr Nau Nihal Singh, SP, City (I), on June 3. |
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