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‘We have done it without tuitions’ SAS Nagar, May 20 “I want to be nothing but an orthodontist,” said Brahmleen, the 95 per cent from Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, who is also sharing the top position in the city. “You’ll be surprised at the amount of physics and art that goes into being an orthodontist and both these I am interested in. So its medical stream for me in Class XI,” she pointed out. Brahmleen also said she had achieved her position in school and the city without any tuitions. “No tuitions are required and in fact whatever the school gives as notes, it is good enough. I have studied whenever I could. If I had time during the day I would study but most of the times I studied at night. Then it is more peaceful.” she said. Daughter of a doctor-mother and an engineer-father, Brahmleen is all set to make a mark in the field of dentistry. Similarly, for Tavpraneet Singh, her classfellow at school, who has stood second in the school and among the top 10 in the city with 93.4 per cent, tuitions were a big no. “I have always studied at home and concentrated on the matter provided by the school. Moreover, this time I appeared in the exams with a cool mind and that is what worked.” And what does he want to take up in the future? “Engineering. My Father is a Manager and my mother is a banker, but I want to become an engineer.” Interestingly, one of the toppers Abhinav Goel, son of a lawyer Sudarshan Goel based in the city, said that he wanted to join politics. “I want to take up law and join politics if I can.” And again he has been able to achieve this position without any tuitions. “I did take tuitions in computers and that too for programming, but as far as the rest of the subjects are concerned, no tuitions were required. Moreover, the tuitions I took were a value addition only” said Arjun Singh Channi, another topper. Preparing to take up medical Arjun said his parents have been his biggest support all through. Simar Grewal, another YPS student, is the city’s over all topper in the Class XII, ISC examinations. With commerce stream, for her it is going to be commerce only. “I want to join the Sri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi and with these marks I will simply breeze through. I am thrilled. Its been my ambition to be there and I have achieved it.” Miss YPS 2003, Simar seems to be a perfect combination of beauty and brains. “I have had immense help from my teachers in school to have been able to achieve what I have today.”
Chandigarh, May 20 A total of 935 students from eight schools in Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar had appeared in the examination conducted in March, out of which only 14 candidates were unsuccessful. “Feedback from principals shows that the performance of students has improved vis-a-vis last year,” Mr Harold Carver, convener of the ICSE schools in Chandigarh told Chandigarh Tribune. “The number of students scoring marks above 90 per cent has gone up, while the number of failures has gone down,” he added. Notably, students have shown a marked improvement in Hindi and science. A number of factors can be attributed to better academic performance. The abilities of the students, parental care and control, work performance of students and teaching methodology adopted by schools are among the factors that have had a direct impact on students’ performance. As per figures available, all 245 students of St Stephen’s School who appeared in the examination passed, with 22 students scoring 90 per cent and above marks. Thirteen students out of the 85 students from St Kabir Public School scored 90 per cent and above, while 36 scored between 80 and 90 per cent marks. Tender Heart School fielded 29 students, out of which two scored 90 per cent marks, while 10 students out of the 83 students from Little Flower Convent scored above 90 per cent. Of the 70 students who appeared from St Joseph’s School, only one student managed to score above 90 per cent marks. At Yadvindra Public School, three students out of 119 scored above 90 per cent. All the above mentioned schools reported 100 per cent result. At St Xavier’s Senior Secondary School where 298 students appeared — the largest number in Chandigarh — five students scored 90 per cent and above marks. However, 13 students from the school were unable to pass. Six students from Minerva Public School, Daon (Ropar) took the examination, out of which five were successful. “Earlier we used to judge a school’s performance by the number of students scoring 80 per cent and above marks. Now it is 90 per cent and above marks,” a local school teacher commented. 
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Traders down shutters at furniture
market Chandigarh, May 20 As soon as the enforcement staff, led by Tehsildar Bhagwan Dass Bishnoi and a large posse of police personnel, descended on the market and started removing encroachments, around 500 workers and 150 shopkeepers downed shutters and staged a day-long dharna. The market remained closed throughout the day. At a meeting of the Furniture Market Welfare Association, it was decided to keep the market open tomorrow. The traders said if the “repressive” measures of the enforcement staff continued they would be forced to close the shops for an indefinite period. Chairman of the association Sewa Singh Rait said the traders would launch an agitation soon against the alleged attempt by the authorities to finish the business in the market. Mr Rait said the furniture business could not run without polishing work in the sunlight, a fact which had been recognised by the previous Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), and officials a number of times verbally during the past 30 years. The agitating traders said the MC staff had been issuing either challans or impounding their furniture for the past one week. They said two truckloads of material was picked up today after four truckloads of the material had been lifted yesterday. Mr Rait claimed that some traders were issued challans thrice by the MC staff today. The traders here suspected that the drive, taking advantage of the new Administrator’s direction against encroachment, had been launched at the behest of the “khokha” market in Sector 40 on the Madanpura road. They alleged that while the Chandigarh Administration had recently started giving electricity connections to the “khokha” market shopkeepers, ignoring the fire safety norms, the rightful allottees were being made to suffer in Sector 34. The traders said though the MC staff had recently allowed them to use two feet of verandah space in front of the shops, they failed to keep their promise today. They alleged that even the policemen accompanying the staff engaged themselves in removing the furniture. General secretary Ashwani Kumar said the Chandigarh Administration had failed to allow them to use the rooftops for the purpose despite an assurance in this regard earlier. He said allotments of shops were done in the category of small-scale industries, in which activity in the open must be allowed. The traders said the layout of the shops was unfit for the trade and if upper floors were not allowed for polishing work and display, it would not be able to run the business properly. |
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Erratic streetlights a drain on coffers Chandigarh, May 20 It is happening in the city courtesy thefts and snags in about 100 mechanical timers out of a total of around 300. This fault, along with once a quarter mechanical time setting by the linemen, has been proving to be a drain on the Rs 6-crore electricity bill for streetlighting in the city. The erratic behaviour of the streetlights can be seen in up to 10 to 15 per cent of around 16,500 light points, sources told Chandigarh Tribune. Apart from the mechanical failure, the problem is aggravated because of the fact that the Municipal Corporation does not have sufficient staff to keep a check on snags. The variation in the timings of the sunset and sunrise over a period of three months, for which time is manually set, has also been leading to lights being switched on and off at odd hours. The corporation has recently tried to rectify this by using photo sensor-based timers on an experimental basis at 10 points but the entire lot of around 300 timers could not be changed as it required expenditure of about Rs 30
lakh. These sensors automatically switch on the lights as soon as the sunlight fades and switch off these when sun rises. |
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Mohali resident develops new calendar SAS Nagar, May 20 Mr Inderjit Singh, who retired as an assistant engineer from the Public Works Department (PWD), has claimed to have removed all errors in both Julian and Gregorian calendars. The Julian calendar assumed a year to be of 365.25 days, while a year of solar system comprised 365 days with every fourth year as a leap year of 366 days having 29 days in February. However, the changeover from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar was effected on September 3, 1752, by re-designating September 3 as September 14, 1752. Thereafter, from September 14, 1752, the year that was completely divisible by four was said to a leap year with the provision that the ending year of a century be a leap year only if it was completely divisible by 400. Thus 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was a leap year. Mr Inderjit Singh who has also contributed in developing Nanakshahi calendar told Chandigarh Tribune that the multi-millennium calendar is based on a simple technique. He said, “The calendar has eight tables and 11 rows, depicting 100 years each, with years being shown in different rows on the basis of that particular century. The corresponding months have to be matched with the year to find an alphabet between A and H. And the corresponding alphabet chart helps you find the day on a particular date.” “The formatting of the calendar has been done in such a way that the century tables and the month chart fall in one line so that one can easily match the year and the month that fall in the same row,” he said. |
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Stop demolition of rooms in backyards: BJP Chandigarh, May 20 Criticising the two bodies for the recent demolitions in Sectors 21, 37 and 38, they said there was a need for a policy on the issue to regularise the need-based changes in the houses. The councillors said the demolition should only be carried out after informing the area councillors, the resident welfare association and prominent persons of the area. Defending the constructions within the house premises, the councillors said the people whose rooms had been demolished had not encroached upon even an inch of the government land. They said the Administration had allowed the need-based changes already. |
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Miraculous escape Chandigarh, May 20 The incident took place on Tuesday when a
Panchkula resident went to the railway station to see-off his relatives. They were waiting on platform No.1 near the VIP entrance for the Jan Shatabdi train to depart. The five-year-old girl, Mehar Khanna, was rushed to the hospital for first aid. Her three-year-old brother was also standing alongside her. |
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Scribe bereaved Chandigarh, May 20 The cremation will take place in Jalandhar
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Liquor smuggling racket: 4 held Chandigarh, May 20 The four persons allegedly used to purchase pouches from a liquor shop at Palsora here and used to sell it in the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh at higher rates. The vend is owned by Mr Maninder Singh. As per police sources, acting on a secret information, a trap was laid at the roundabout near Palsora last night and a truck (HR 37 5540) loaded with liquor pouches was intercepted. Balwant Singh and Lakhbir Singh were arrested on the spot and liquor was seized from their possession. Two other accused, Narinder Singh of Panipat district and Brijpal, alias Billu, of Sonepat were arrested from Industrial Area, Phase I, here today. The registration number of the truck was also found to be fake. SAS NAGAR Stolen car recovered Mr H.S. Bhullar, SP, said in a press note here today that a red Esteem Car had been snatched, along with some cash, from a tehsildar at Raipur Rani in Haryana. The police got information that the thieves were roaming around in the town in the stolen vehicle after changing the number plate. He said the town was then sealed and checking of Esteem cars conducted. During a nakabandi at PCL Chowk, around 1.30 am, Inspector Pritam Singh noticed that an Esteem car was coming from the Madanpur village side. The police gave the car driver a signal to stop. The driver stopped the vehicle a little distance away from the chowk and fled in the darkness after leaving the car. The police has taken the possession of the car and the hunt for the thieves was on. |
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NRI beaten up, robbed of Rs
35,000 Chandigarh, May 20 His wife, Mrs Surinder Kaur Dhanjal however, escaped without injuries. She immediately called up the police which took her husband for medical examination in General Hospital, Sector 16. The miscreants fled away from the scene Mr Dhanjal was in the news last week, as he was cheated of Rs 12 lakh in a property deal relating to a house in Phagwara. The local police had registered a criminal case against four persons following preliminary inquiry by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and arrested Sukhpreet Singh Rana, one of the accused on May 14. Mr Dhanjal was released from the hospital after preliminary medical care. The victim revealed that the youth who attacked them were in the age group of 20 to 22 years. The complaint was lodged in police station, Sector 36. It could not be confirmed whether the FIR has been registered or the police was still waiting for the medical report.
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Protests by trade unions today Chandigarh, May 20 In a press note, Mr M. Ramsekhar, District Magistrate, has ordered that as an emergency measure, the ban had been imposed for 60 days, from May 21 to July 19. The timings of these restrictions is significant as all central unions have given a nationwide strike call on May 21, and the employees of public sector banks, insurance companies, the BSNL and state government departments would hold massive protests in city tomorrow. All branches of public sector banks, insurance companies and other services would remain closed tomorrow as part of the nationwide general strike. The call for the strike has been given by the central trade unions of the country in protest against government’s ‘‘anti-labour policies, privatisation, disinvestment in profit making public sector units and its failure to address the issue of unemployment in the country”. |
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