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Students rush for Britain Chandigarh, November 25 “Education and cost of living in England may be costlier as compared to that in Australia. But no one comes anywhere near the UK as regards the quality of education imparted in British educational institutions”, asserts Ms Jacqui Allan, Education Promotion Manger-India, in the British Council Division in the British High Commission in Delhi. Moreover, many of the educational courses offered by British educational institutions are up to a year shorter than those offered by Australians, she says. This is a fact not very well advertised by the Australians with the result that the students choosing Australia over England as their destination end up spending more than what they would have in the UK. The UK has been welcoming international students for generations and more and more Indian students looking for a world class education are choosing the UK. With support from the Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, the UK is becoming an even more welcoming destination for Indians who can choose from thousands of courses from more than 3,000 educational institutions. Ms Allan was in town in connection with the one-day Education UK Exhibition organised by the British Council. Chandigarh constitutes the last leg for their five-city tour circuit consisting of Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and New Delhi. Over 113 academics from 72 leading UK institutions participated. Counselling services at the exhibition helped students decide on their course of their choice as well as provide advice on admission procedures. In an interview with TNS, Ms Allan said that British Council had chosen Chandigarh over other cities of the North for the exhibition because it had a large student population. Chandigarh also had a British Library which could help students interested in studying in England. There was also a large concentration of people who had at one time studied in the UK and had now formed and Association of British Scholars (ABS). Many of them including Mr Anil Malhotra and Mr Ranjit Malhotra, attended the day long exhibition and interacted with visiting students. British Council India is seeing an increasing interest from Indian students studying in the UK. As many as 11,707 student visas were issued from October, 2001, to September, 2002, representing an increase of 72 per cent over the same period last year. There was a 54 per cent increase in the number of visas issued to students from north India. According to Ms Allan, some of the reasons for the increase are: (i) Shorter course duration than other countries. Masters course take only 12 months and undergraduate courses only three or sometimes four years. (ii) Very high quality education (iii) A student can take part-time work during study ( up to 20 hours per week). Popular subjects included management and business studies, engineering, IT and communications, Art and Design, life sciences (biotechnology, bioinformatics, microbiology, molecular biology), media studies, medicine and paramedical courses (physiotherapy, pharmacy), law. |
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1,500 students visit education fair Chandigarh, November 25 The fair which was inaugurated by the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), in which 30 universities and colleges from the UK put up stalls for counselling the students about their programmes, courses, packages and scholarships. The fair also marks a series of seminars on various themes in which students clear their queries. The seminars were held at regular intervals during the fair on a variety of subjects which include scholarships, business and management, biotechnology, IT and engineering courses in the UK. The seminars were conducted by eminent scholars and learned professors from various universities. There are 130 Chevening scholarships being offered by the British Council. The fair was attended among others by Ms Jacquui Allan, Education Promotion Manager, India, and Mr Sushantha Banerjee, Manager, British Library, Chandigarh. |
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BJP to oppose DPS function Chandigarh, November 25 “We will hold a protest rally tomorrow, in the Sector 40 C market tomorrow, near the site, where the school foundation laying ceremony will be held,” the BJP President, Mr Yashpal Mahajan, said in a statement here today. He said the BJP continued to oppose the alleged land grabbing by the Political Secretary to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Mrs Ambika Soni, and the All India Congress Committee Secretary and local MP Mr Pawan Bansal. Mr Mahajan alleged that the Congress leaders had pressurised the Chandigarh Administration to amend land allotment rules for schools to get the land for their society and had filed wrong affidavits. He said the local unit of the party had already demanded a CBI probe into the allotment of land, cancellation of the allotment and registration of a case for providing “wrong” information and “misusing” position. |
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Impressive
show by Aanchal kids SAS Nagar, November 25
The chief guest Mr S.K. Sood, Principal Secretary, Finance and Planning, Himachal Government, was the chief guest and inaugurated the show. Students enthralled the audience with a semi-classical dance and offering their prayers to Goddess Saraswati. Various folk dances from different regions of the country were presented by the children. Tiny tots in colourful costumes astonished the audience through their action song in which they highlighted the need for preservation of the environment. Students of Class II to V brought alive the history of India staged through display of histrionics. Children also put up a spectacular taekowando show. Tanmay, Viswaprem, Aman and Harsimran took everyone by surprise by breaking marble slabs and wooden planks. A mock fight in Korean martial art was also put up. The cultural evening ended with a colourful giddha item. Baby show Shamrock Public School, Sector 69, organised a baby show here yesterday. A large number of parents brought their children to participate in the competition. All participants were given certificates while the winners in the various categories were given prizes. Shahrukh, Jashan Singh and Madhur won the first three prizes in the six-month to one-year category, while Hridey Singh, Mannat and Eknoor Kaur won the top three positions in the one-year to two-year category. Viren Bali, Akshat and Jasnoor Virk won the first three positions in two-year to three-year category, while Vanjula, Fiza Khurana and Saloni Aag won the first three positions in the three-year to five-year category. Bikramjeet, Junaid and Bhaskar won the first three positions in the four-year to five-year category. |
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Jat Sabha organises contests for schoolchildren Chandigarh, November 25 The competition was divided into three categories on the basis of classes of participants - category A consisting of students from class III to V, category B for students from class VI to VIII and category C for students from class IX to XII. The panel of judges comprised Mr Dilbagh Singh Sihag, Mr Nihal Singh, Mr Man Pal Singh, Mr R.P. Malik and Mr R.R. Sheoran. The Jat Sabha also organised Bhai Surender Singh Malik Memorial on-the-spot essay writing-contest at six centres simultaneously — Sh Bharat Singh Memorial School Nidani, Jind, Pathania Public School, Rohtak, Viswas Sr. Sec. School, Hisar, Hisar Kanya Gurukul, Sonipat, S.D. High School, Rohtak and Jat Bhavan here. More than 10,00 students from various schools, colleges and universities from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi took part in the contest. The topics included “Global war against terrorism” and “Corruption is the root cause of our decline and degradation”. The results will be declared later and the winners of the contest will be honoured on the eve of 122th Birth Anniversary of Deen Bandhu Sir Chhotu Ram on February 6, 2003. The results of the painting contest were declared today and cash prizes of Rs 400, 300 and 200 were given to those adjudged first, second and third, respectively along with two consolation prizes of Rs 100 each to the winners in each category. Ms Krishna Malik, Chairperson, Ch Bharat Singh Educational Society, Jind, and chairperson Kanya Gurukul, Sonepat, was the chief guest on this occasion. Ms Sarita Malik presided over the function. The following are the winners of the contest: Category A — first: Jasleen Kaur Kohli (Sacred Heart School, Sector 26): second: Sanna Parvez (Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Sector 28); and third: Anurudh (St. Kabir Public School, Sector 28). Category B — first: Madhavi Aggarwal (Tender Heart School, Sector 33); second: Simarpreet Kaur (Shivalik Public School, Sector 41); and third: Jaskiran Kaur (Tender Heart School, Sector 33). Category C — Subham Goyal (GMSSS, Sector 41); second: Rupam (St. Vivekanand Millennium School, Pinjore); and third: Reena Kapoor (GMSSS, Sector 19). |
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1,500 take part in painting contest Chandigarh, November 25 As many as 1,500 children from Chandigarh, Mohali, Ropar, Moga, Panchkula, Kalka and Yamuna Nagar participated in the competition which was inaugurated by Mr D.S. Mangat, DPI (Schools). Following are the results of the competition: Category A (7 to 10 years) — First: Ankita Gupta (DAV Public School, Sector 8); second: Jagdeep Singh Sandhu (Shishu Niketan, Sector 22); and third: Gurpreet Kaur (Gem Public School, Mohali). Category B (11 to 15 years) — First: Sarbjit Kaur (Saneta Public School, Ropar); second: Amit Aggrwal (DAV Public School, Sector 8); and third: Jasminder Kaur (GMSSS, Sector 35). Category C — First Manish Toor (DAV Sr. Sec. School, Sector 8); second: Himanshi (GMSSS, Sector 16);and third: Simran Kaur (GMSSS, Sector 35). The prizes will be given to the winners at the annual day function to be held later. Besides the works of the winners will also be displayed during the function. Meanwhile, Saint Soldier International School, Sector 28, hosted an Inter-School Shabad Gayan contest to mark the Prakash Utsav of Guru Nanak Dev. As many as 15 teams from different schools participated in the contest. The Balwant Kaur Rolling Trophy went to the Institute for the Blind, Sector 26. At individual level the first and second prizes were also won by the students of Institute for the Blind, Sector 26. |
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Award conferred on Prof
S.P. Khullar Chandigarh, November 25 Inaugurated by Prof
C.L. Kaul, Director NIPER, the Bibi Savitri Sahni Award was conferred on Prof
S.P. Khullar on the occasion. Dr Shyam Chandra Srivastava, secretary of the foundation, while welcoming the guests gave details of the award. The vice-chairman, Dr Hafiz Khan, introduced the recipient of the award. Dr Rakesh
Saxena, associate secretary of the Sahni Foundation, extended a vote of thanks to the gathering. Dr Kaul in his inaugural address highlighted the medicinal values of pteridophyte and suggested that these could be used for making life-saving drugs. |
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Memo submitted Chandigarh, November 25 The demands include extension of date for submission and tuition fee in various department and to have fee counters in each department for the students. |
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HIGH COURT Chandigarh, November 25 Delivering the verdict on applications filed by Mohinder Singh and 73 others convicts undergoing sentence in Ludhiana’s Central Jail, Mr Justice M.L. Singhal of the High Court further ruled: “It would be in furtherance of the intentions of the Union Parliament that remission should not be granted to a convict under the Act”. Dismissing the applications, Mr Justice Singhal added: “I am of the considerate opinion that these criminal miscellaneous applications fail and are, accordingly, dismissed”. In their applications, the convicts had sought directions to the state of Punjab and other respondents to allow them remission granted to “every other convict by the Punjab Governor under Article 161 of the Constitution of India”. Counsel for the state of Punjab, on the other hand, had contended that remission was refused because of the impression that there was a bar as far as the grant of the same was concerned. It was further added that the Central Government was the appropriate authority to grant remission and not the state government as the sentence had been passed under NDPS Act. The same, it was concluded, was a central Act.
Public notice
Taking up a petition filed by Naraingarh Sugar Mills Limited, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday directed the state of Haryana to issue a public notice informing the farmers to make their claims, on the price fixed by the Central Government, before Naraingarh’s Sub Divisional Magistrate. Pronouncing the orders, the Bench, comprising Mr Justice S.S. Nijjar and Mr Justice M.M. Kumar, also directed the SDM to intimate the petitioner the details of the farmers required to be paid claims. The Judges also fixed December 17 as the next date of hearing in the case. In their application, the petitioner had earlier contended that the main controversy in the writ petition pertained to the competency of the state government to compel them to pay sugarcane growers price much more than fixed by the Central Government. Counsel for the petitioner had added that the mill authorities had no objections in paying to the farmers the price fixed by the Central Government.
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Bar Council poll: counting begins today Chandigarh, November 25 Giving details, the Returning Officer, Mr Nirmal Singh Dhillon, said except for four districts, the ballot papers from almost all other places had already been received. He said the counting would begin tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the Bar room of the Bar Association of Punjab and Haryana High Court. As at least 30,000 advocates from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh were registered with the Bar Council. Declaration of election results would take at least 10 days. He said the ballot papers had been placed under supervision of the UT police and private security. Mr Dhillon further said 25 members, including Punjab Government employees and members of the Bar Council, would be involved in the counting. He said either the candidate or one of its party representatives would be allowed to seat in the counting room for cross checking the facts. Talking about the complaints of various nature received during the elections, Mr Dhillon said there was no question of repolling as only one complaint from Amritsar demanding “repolling” had been received so far. Most of the contestants were satisfied with the elections and were waiting for the result, he added. Meanwhile, one of the contestant, Mr Bhim Sen Sehgal, and the Chairman of the All India Ex-Servicemen Lawyers Association condemned incidents of violence, booth capturing and bogus voting during the elections. The association alleged that the incidents of mismanagement, rigging and booth capturing had occurred in Chandigarh, Gurdaspur, Ferozpore, Batala, Pathankot, Faridkot, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib and some other places. It was alleged that, at some places, even official machinery was misused to help the contestants. But the Returning Officer, Mr Dhillon, denied the allegation saying that many of the complaints regarding booth capturing, and mismanagement were solved on the spot by intimating the official concerned and the elections were held smoothly. |
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Three granted
bail Chandigarh, November 25 |
A beautiful mind in cruel state Chandigarh, November 25 In this backdrop a work of art which bares the state of paranoia of McCarthy days is a welcome viewing. Those were the days when the US establishment had launched a witchhunt against all creative minds except those on the right. The establishment which drafted Robert Oppenheimer in the atom bomb project at Los Alamos in New Mexico, in all probability would have taken in Princeton mathematics don John Nash for cryptographic assignments. But the account of those hoary days in the film "A Beautiful Mind" would want us to believe that the cryptographer's role was John Nash's delusion. (The film was shown in a city theatre recently.) Isn't it possible that during the cryptography assignment John Nash came to know too much for the comfort of the establishment. Insecure, as it was, the establishment acted before John by dubbing him a schizophrenic. For all practical purposes, John Nash was free to speak about unsavoury goings-on behind the high walls of intelligence agencies. But who would believe a deranged person. A cold-blooded murder indeed. Robert Oppenheimer was the darling of the US establishment as long as he produced the atom bomb. The moment he expressed his opposition to the hydrogen bomb, he was dubbed communist sympathiser (an euphemism for anti-national). The film shows that the shrink's shocks, pills and confinement in the asylum had no effect on John Nash's nature. He becomes aware of his out-of-sync behaviour with the social reality for he realises his reifying nature. In his long journey to the galaxy of Nobel laureates, only one person accepts John Nash completely and unconditionally, that is his wife. John Nash calls this acceptance the reason of all reasons — love. The reifying nature is common among artists. The bare-foot painter M.F. Hussain is one such artist. He is still having his way with the line and paint. A city-based artist, Abhinav Nayar, was another with this nature. Alas! he
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A lesson in rhythm & grace Chandigarh, November 25 Starting with a “Mangalacharan” — an invocation to Goddess Kali — Sonali made the statues of old temples come alive on stage. Her expertise on body movement gestures and eye movement gave a glimpse of what lay ahead. The next item “Mohane Deli Chah” based on “Sankarabhan” raaga, spoke volumes about Sonali’s ‘abhinaya’ skill as she depicted ‘Radha Krishna leela’ in a most alluring manner. The others that followed were “Staye” in raaga “Kiribani” and “Astha Sambhu” based on raaga “Malkons” in which she portrayed Lord Shiva in eight different lights. It was not just her expertise in techniques of Odissi which compelled the audience to applaud her throughout the performance but her style of blending into the role she played making each item special and tailor made just for her. The show was wrapped up with “Suryashtak”, telling a complete story by itself — how the statues of Konarak temple come alive at the time of Sunrise, worship the Sun and then go back to their inert stage as the Sun goes down. This was a piece which brought out the very best in Sonali - ‘abhinaya’, ‘mudra’s, ‘bhangima’s and rhythm. Sonali was accompanied by her father Nirmal Kumar Mahapatra as the vocalist while Niranjan Bishwal was on violin, Niranjan Patra on Pakhawaj and Jawahar Mitra on flute. |
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