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AMRITSAR BATHINDA HOSHIARPUR KHARAR LUDHIANA TOPPER: Varun Wadhwa, a student of ABC Tutorials, has topped among Ludhiana students in CA intermediate examinations conducted this year. He has secured 75 per cent marks and stood 30th at the all-India level. Nine other students of the institute have qualified the test with good ranks. These include Abhishek Gupta, Munish Jindal, Jaspal Singh, Gaurav Sharma, Ashish
Maheshwari, Kuldeep Suneja, Alka Chauhan, Amit Gupta and Kuldeep Mishra. DRUG
DE-ADDICTION: several local social organisations joined hands to organise a drug de-addiction camp here at Shri Ram Mandir Dharamshala under the patronage of Param Sant Shankra Nand. As many as 124 addicts got ayurvedic treatment for de-addiction at the camp. BARSI: A function in connection with the 51st ‘barsi’ of Swami Chanan Ram Brahmchari started at Dehlon, about 20 km from here, on Wednesday, with an ‘akhand paath’. The ‘bhog’ ceremony of the ‘paath’ will be held on Friday. A ‘bhandara’ will also be arranged. MANSA BOY RETURNS HOME: Mr Yadvinder Singh, a class 9th student, who was kidnapped three days back, has returned home safely. He had been kidnapped by two sadhus at Mansa railway station while he was on his way to school. TWO DEAD: Two persons died while digging a tubewell at village Dhalewan in the district on Tuesday. Bhola Singh and Sardara Singh were digging the tubewell of Raj Singh when it caved in. They were buried under the
earth. NABHA PHAGWARA PHILLAUR SAMRALA CANINE
MENACE: The people of the city and surrounding villages are facing hardships due to stray dogs. In a meeting of prominent citizens of the city, Mr Kuldeep Khullar and Mr G.S. Prince, social workers, urged the Executive Officer of the Nagar Council, Mr V.K. Mehta, to launch a campaign to kill stray dogs to check this menace. STAMP
VENDORS: There are five posts of stamp vendors in the Samrala courts, but only two of them come to the courts regularly causing inconvenience to the public. Mr Narinder Kumar Nanda, president of the Deed Writers Association, and Mr Jaswant Singh Kolar, general secretary of the association, have urged the SDM, Samrala, Mr Jaspal Singh Jassi, to cancel the licenses of the stamp vendors who do not come to the courts regularly.
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AMBALA DEMAND: A former minister and senior Congress leader Nirmal Singh has urged the state government to invite leaders of various unions for dialogue on the HMITC lockout issue. In a statement, he said the government should not overlook the geniune demands of the employees since they were also a part of state machinery. He said there might be any compulsion before the government to lockout certain corporation but the employees of the affected corporation should be taken into confidence before taking any harsh decision. He urged that the employees of the HMITC should be accommodated in some other government department. PLAY STAGED: A play on Shaheed Udham Singh was staged at Gandhi Memorial National College, Ambala Cantonment, on Wednesday night. The play was enacted by Punjab Natak Academy. A Haryana minister, Mr Risal Singh, was the chief guest. Among others, MLA Anil
Vij, Mr Dhanpat Singh, ADC Neelam Kasni, Umrao Singh Shergill, Mr Surjit Singh Sondha and SDM M.K. Ahuja were present on the occasion. COMPLAINT: A number of women residing in Dalipgarh area went to the Babyal power house to complain about erratic power supply on Wednesday. The women said their area was not getting regular power supply due to some fault in the transformer. The women met the power officials at the power house. The officials assured the women that faulty transformer would be repaired. They said the complaint would be looked into and prompt action will be taken. FUNCTION: The prize distribution function of the District Badminton Championship was held at War Heroes Memorial Stadium, Ambala Cantonment. The Commissioner, Ambala division, Mr Maha Singh, was the chief guest at the function held yesterday evening. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Maha Singh, said sports play a major role to help ease stress. While competitions bring out the best in a sportsperson, it develops a healthy competitive spirit.
BHIWANI HISAR KURUKSHETRA NEW SUBSTATION: To mitigate the problems of low voltage and unscheduled power cuts in the UHBVNL has constructed a new 220 KV substation at Jorian village, 50 km from here. This newly constructed 220 kv substation was energised on July 25 and the HVPNL 66 kv substation, Ladwa, has been connected with this new substation through the existing line. |
A dream come true for villagers It was a dream come true for the residents of Manhera Jattan village as well as the surrounding villages, when the rural mobile vehicles scheme was introduced in the district for the first time. The people of the area had gathered in large numbers to watch the rural mobile vehicles (RMV) equipped with computerised system. Mr Vikas Paratap, Deputy Commissioner, who inaugurated the scheme, said to serve those people living in remote rural areas who had not yet got liquefied petroleum gas cylinders, they had provided this facility at the door-step. Thus residents of the surrounding villages would get the LPG gas at central rates ensuring proper quantity and quality, whereas earlier they had to depend on private suppliers, who used to supply cylinders that were at higher rates as well as under-weight. A team from the micro-bottling plant of Bharat Gas would visit the village twice a day and the cylinders would and be filled on the spot. he said this scheme had been introduced in this area all rural areas of the district would be covered. They would request the company to allot a permanent micro bottling plant exclusively for the district. Mr P.V. Kumar, the area marketing manager, said by this rural marketing scheme gas cylinders would be supplied at the doorstep of the rural people at controlled rates. A micro bottling plant could fill a maximum of 400 cylinders per day. Consumers were assured of correct weight and quality and thus get full value for their money. The RMVs were equipped with computerised systems that could detect even the minutest of leaks. Besides, consumers could also avail of the facility of new connections at minimal rates, with no over-charging and nor mandatory sale of hotplates. Consumers have another additional benefit of receiving training on various safety operating practices of LPG as well as conservation techniques. This project had been initiated due to the Deputy Commissioner’s keen interest and the company had also identified other locations in the district. These places would also be covered later. Mr Pritpal Singh, sarpanch of the village, and other sarpanches said this scheme was a noble one and now village residents could easily avail of the LPG facility. There were very few in the areas, who had the advantage of cooking gas but they had to buy the cylinders at much higher rates from Chandigarh, Sirhind or Mohali. Kangra students get top positions MCM DAV College in Kangra has won eight out of the first 10 positions in the first year of the Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) examination conducted by HP University in April. Girls bagged the first three positions. Mr S.K. Sharma, principal of the college, said his college captured the top five positions as well as positions eight to ten. This was certainly a new record as no other college had so far captured so many positions of merit. Amita Kumari secured the first position, Aman Kaur second while Jyoti Gularia got the third position securing 853, 852 and 799 marks respectively. Eco-friendly shopping bag Eco-Sages, a chapter of the Shimla Amateur Garden and Environment Society, introduced eco-friendly shopping bags last year at the Sages’ annual flower show. It was a small, but meaningful brake on the use of polythene carrybags. It reduces the risk of monkey attacks and reduces environmental pollution. The bag, designed by Eco-Sages headed by Rama Sharma and coordinator R. Sukumaran, is a strong, compact bag that weighs only 30 gm. It is economically priced and can carry more than 8 kg weight. (see photo). The bag has a built-in pocket (about 5"x6") and can easily be carried in a jacket pocket or purse. It can last more than five years with careful use. This translates into one ecobag saving roughly 3,500 to 5,000 polythene carrybags, assuming that a housewife uses on an average two carrybags per day. Eco-Sages got the bags stitched last year through the local sewing centre of the All-India Women's Conference, Shimla, and this year the by Women's Welfare Centre of Police Lines, Kaithu, Shimla. This provided an opportunity to woman trainees to earn money as well. The public response has been encouraging, with shops on The Mall and Lower Bazaar selling such bags without any commission or consideration. The environment chapter of Sages is also working on certification of educational institutions where a certificate would be issued to the students for making their school the most pollution free. Contributed by Surinder Bhardwaj, Ashok Raina and Rama Sharma
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