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Cotton production down: experts Ludhiana, October 24 Mr Aulakh said the crop could offer a viable substitute for diversification of farming from rice-wheat rotation system. Therefore, the new technologies, which are environmentally compatible, socially acceptable and economically viable, must be generated and disseminated among the farming community. Dr Aulakh further said the research on cotton in PAU had been intensified, under the World Bank-funded National Agricultural Technology Projects. Dr A.S. Khehra, former Vice-Chancellor of the PAU, and Co-Chairman, Scientific Advisory Panel of Irrigated Agro-Ecosystem, at the national level, said one of the biggest challenges of cotton production was from the global competition as a result of the implementation of open trade under WTO. Dr Khehra said in order to inculcate the spirit of competition among the farmers, the system of giving free inputs like power must be dispensed with and he appreciated the Punjab Government for its bold stand to charge the farmers for electricity consumption. However, he termed this measure as half-hearted as the consumers must be made to make the payment on the basis of units consumed rather than flat rate. This would help in making judicious use of already scarce underground water. Dr V.S. Upadhyay, Principal, Production System Scientist, Irrigated Agro-Ecosystem, ICAR, said the objective of the workshop was to identify the gaps between the potential and actual production of cotton and devise suitable measures to fill these gaps. He said that high cost of production was one of the reasons of decline in productivity as well as the area under this crop. Dr Govinder Singh Nanda, Director, Research, PAU, in his welcome address said 97 research projects (under the World Bank-funded NATP projects), with a total outlay of Rs 25 crore were in operation at Punjab Agricultural University and the Cotton Research Project was one of these under the project. Dr Nanda said in this workshop, various aspects of cotton production like socio-economic analysis and characterisation of cotton based system, control of leaf curl viral diseases in cotton and development of protocols for mass multiplication of predators, evaluation and identification of suitable pest tolerant compact cotton varieties amendable to mechanical harvesting, evaluation of genotype for cultivation as a spring season crop, efficacy of bio-inoculants in cotton wheat based production systems, management of citrus orchards in cotton-based cropping systems, evaluation of tillage, residue and nutrient management practices for cotton wheat system, etc., would be discussed. Dr Darshan Singh, Additional Director, Research (Agriculture), PAU, and Nodal Officer for National Agricultural Technology Projects (NATPs), revealed that more than 50 scientists from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar; Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal; Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur; National Research Centre for Citrus, Nagpur; Regional Fruit Research Station, Abohar, Dr Punjab Rao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, PAU, Ludhiana; Agricultural Research Station, Sri Ganganagar; College of Veterinary Sciences, Gannavaram (Hyderabad); Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, were participating in the workshop and would deliberate on the above issues during the workshop. |
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300 students take part in exhibition Ludhiana, October 24 The exhibition was organised by the District Science Supervisor, Mr Virendra Sharma. In the first phase of exhibition, chart-making competition and quiz contest were held. Extempore speech and teaching aid competitions for teachers were also held. On the second day, in the model display contest around 175 models were displayed under six sub-themes. The results of the various competitions are: Quz contest: first — BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, second — Atam Public School, and third — BVM Senior Secondary School. Chart-making contest: first — Manoj Kaur of GGN Public School, second — Rajvir Kaur of Atam Public School, and Sandeep Kaur of Government Senior Secondary School, PAU, and third — Roop Khangura of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, and Gurpreet Kaur of Shri Harkrishan Public School. Teaching aid competition for teachers: first — Ms Kusum Lata of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, PAU, second — Ms Mandeep of GGN Public School and Ms Geeta of Joseph’s School, and third — Ms Meenu Arora of BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School and Mr Arun Kumar of RS Model School. Extempore: first — Ms Swati of Atam Public School, second — Ms Kusum of Government Senior Secondary School, PAU, and third — Ms Amarpreet of BCM Arya Senior Secondary School, and Ms Nidhi of GGN Public School. In the model display competition, BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Shri Harkrishan Public School, Doaba Road, Joseph’s School won prizes among others. Mr Virender Sharma praised the school for organising the exhibition. A trophy was presented to the Principal of the school, Ms E. Joseph, for excellent organisation. |
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Impressive
exhibition by GPS students Mandi
Gobindgarh, October 24 The exhibition had models of subjects like home science, physical science, chemical science, biological science, social science, art and craft, computer science and career guidance. Some of the working models of physics, chemistry and biology were hydro electric power station, 3-D model of DNA, acid rain, shapes of molecules. Thermal power station, epi scope, automatic railway crossing etc. The Social Science Department also exhibited a galaxy of models. Some of the outstanding models were Bharat Petroleum Refinery, Howrah Bridge, working model of destruction of World Trade Center, light house, water cycle, India Gate, Qutab Minar, Great Wall of China, Renaissance Buildings, Jallianwala Bagh , Mayan Temples, Metro Railway, many models based on environmental science. A model of Bharat Oil Refinery was adjudged as the best Model in the exhibition. The art and craft pavilion with fancy soft toys, stain-glass items, variety of pottery items and paintings like oil paintings, foil paintings, was impressive. Home science students with their designs, rangoli and mouth watering dishes made the exhibition more colourful. The Computer Department exhibited the school website, C++ Project on intelligent banking, internal combustion engine presentation, one interesting project to ‘Know the name of your wife, real model of various storage devices and system unit, models on LAN, MAN, WAN along with presentation on computer, miniature of computer, working of the webcam and scanner and the most interesting presentation was of the tiny tots presenting the ABC computer alphabets and toddlers at typing. The Physical Education Department had exhibited some of the working models like accuracy test of cricket, efficiency test of basketball, models of hockey stadium, cricket stadium. |
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PAU
youth fest from Nov 8 Ludhiana, October 24 The festival will start with shabad gayan competition at 10 a.m. on November 8 at the Paul Auditorium. This will be followed by classical instrumental, classical vocal light debate, elocution cartooning, painting competition, poster making quiz, clay modelling, creative writing, rangoli, poetic symposium and haas ras which will be held at Students Home till November 13. The main programme will start on November 14 with a cultural procession which will start from Flag Post, College of Agriculture, at 9.30 a.m. and the youth festival will be formally inaugurated in the open air theatre at 10.30 a.m. Other events to be held in the open air theatre from November 14-16 will include folk songs, group songs, dance, one-act plays, skits etc. The prize distribution function will be held on November 16 in the open air theatre. |
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Henna
competition organised Ludhiana, October 24 Fifty students participated and applied henna on the hands of their friends. Ms Shweta Sharma was the judge. The results are as follows: Group A — Priya and Nancy first; Malkeet and Sangeeta second; and Shina and Ruhi third. Group B — Shilpa and Haneet first; Kiran and Priyanka second ; Sapna and Baljinder third. The Director, Mr Randhir Sharma, distributed prizes to the winners. |
Maestro casts a melodious spell Ludhiana, October 24 His sonorous voice did travel 31/2 octaves fluid notes as told by his daughter. Peace, tranquility and calmness descended on the mesmerised audience once he started singing. Such was the power of his magical voice that no one wanted to do anything to break the magical spell. Pure musical notes from the trained vocals of Pandit ji kept the audience in a trance. On his request the lights over the audience were kept on as Pandit ji wanted to see the effect on his audience. If Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, president of LSS, was earlier skeptical whether Ludhiana audience would be able to pay rapt attention to ‘khayal singing’, his doubts were put to rest when Pandit ji said after his performance, “Why did it take me so late in my life to come to such a receptive audience?” After half an hour of “Vandana”, he sang a beautiful bhajan depicting Radha’s longing for Krishan and how she loses track of everything including her name, with “Sham, Sham ratat mai Sham ho gayee”. Music transcends the barrier of languages so the next piece that he sang in Sanskrit was as enjoyable as the other easily understandable ‘bhajans’. The way he repeated ‘choram’ with such deep devotion, his face glowing, sheer tears of joy came into eyes of many a listener. His bhajan “Sumiran kar le mere mana, mere mana” not only caressed the soul, but it also seemed to bring euphoria to the listeners. Indeed after listening to the devotional music of such purity and beauty one felt as if one had been to a pilgrimage. At the start of the programme, his daughter Durga said it was circumstances which cut short her father’s career as a tabla maestro. He is a living legend whose name has been institutionalised. She joined her father and lent grace to his renditions. Mr Ratan Mohan Sharma whose Gayatri Mantra by Times Music has broken all records also ably assisted Pandit ji. On popular request he sang Gayatri Mantra twice. Mukund Pedkar on harmonium, Vijay Ghate on tabla were excellent. Vijay Ghate’s ‘jugal bandi’ with Pandit ji brought forth a lot of applause. Sridhar Parsasarthi on mridgangam added to the fast tempo of the music. Mr Rai, the secretary of LSS, said, “We are fortunate to have a doyen amongst us and we will be able to tell our children with pride that we had the good fortune to listen to great vocalist of Panditji’s stature live. Indeed the listeners last night were a fortunate lot. His notes like colours of rainbow depicted every shade of classical music. |
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Council
honours folk artistes Ludhiana, October 24 Mander Brothers, Davinder S. Mander and Gurpreet S. Mander, regaled the council members with their folk songs. They were also honoured by the council for promoting Punjabi culture worldwide. Mr Daljeet Singh Jassal was nominated as the president of the council by the its Chairman, Mr Davinder Singh Chhina. Prof Nirmal Jaura was elected secretary general of the council. Ms Sarabjeet Kaur Mangat (gidha artiste), Mr Maninder Singh Moga (jhoomer expert), Mr Kanwaljeet Singh Shanker, Mr Pali Detwalia (folk singer), Mr Gurdev S. Dhillon (comedian), Pritpal Singh Pali (journalist) and Mr Bansi Lal (drummer) were nominated as directors of the council. Mr Devinder S. Saini was nominated as chief legal adviser. Mr Sukhpreet Singh was elected Art Director, while bhangra stars Parminder S. Nona, Bhupinder S. Vicky and Gurcharan Singh were elected general secretaries of the council. Mr Nirmal Singh Bhangoo will be the patron-in-chief of the council. Mr Davinder Singh Chhina, while speaking to reporters, said the folk ensemble had participated in 10 international folk festivals in Europe and South-Korea this year. “The council would strive hard to promote culture of peace”, he added.
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Mushaira
in
Malerkotla Ludhiana,
October 24 Mr Ramankant Garg, IPS, Deputy Director of Income Tax (Investigation), Ludhiana will be the chief guest. Mr H S Ghai, Joint Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Punjab (Patiala), will light the candle. Eminent Urdu poets across the country are participating, these include like Tabish Mehndi, Wasim Barelvi, Afzal Manglauri, Wafa Siddiqui, Mohinder Paratap Chand and Sardar ‘Panchhi ‘ etc. Besides this, Allama Iqbal and Headmaster Kifayatullah Awards will also be conferred on literary personalities. Mohammed Ayaz, a spokesman of the organising committee, said the mushaira would revive the dying form of art.
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