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Trouble brewing on PU campus? Chandigarh, May 22 The chairman of the union Yadwinder Singh had as per a press note, removed Malwinder Singh Kang from his post as the president of the union. Kang in another press note announced the removal of Yadwinder Singh from the post of the chairman. Interestingly, none of the founders of PUSU are connected with these incidents. Concerned over the developments which have led to fistfights, students being injured and involvement of the police, the university has formally expressed its concern to the police. Mr R.K. Singh, Chief Security Officer, had informed the police well in advance about the possibility of such incidents occurring on the campus. The Vice-Chancellor is also learnt to have spoken to senior police officials regarding this matter. The DSW in a letter to the Senior Superintendent of Police has written, “I seek your cooperation and strict vigilance to stop such nefarious activities and help us in maintaining proper discipline on the campus”. Kang is not staying on the campus from the day “outsiders raided his hostel room and the other party involved too is learnt to have gone away from the city. The current peace, however, is likely to see a new light around the time of admissions, sources in PUSU said. Kang wants to contest as the president in the council poll in the next session while the opposite group wants a final year student from the local Khalsa College to take over, the sources said. Kang, while talking to Chandigarh Tribune, said he was not on the run but only wanted to avoid any unsavoury incidents on the campus. Kang and Yadwinder Singh apart, the name of Harmanpreet Singh, alias Prince, is also figuring in the incident in the university market. He was originally a worker of the rival student organisation, the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) who shifted his loyalties to PUSU in the last election. The university report submitted to the SSP says that “Harmanpreet Singh, alias Prince, was with six-seven outsiders in his personal vehicle. He was accompanied by some outsiders in two cars. They vitiated the atmosphere in the university market”. Insiders say that university administration was partially to be blamed for the present condition. The outsiders could be seen freely roaming on the campus and were allowed to carry on their influence, particularly in the hostels. Certain students involved in the incident also have old cases pending in courts. |
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PU in a fix over B.Com in evening Chandigarh. May 22 However, the Chairperson has sought certain concessions from the university. In a letter to the Chairman of the University Business School, Prof Santosh Gupta, the chairperson said “ the department in principle will run the B Com course with the help of faculty members and, of course, with the help and support from the university authorities”. In reply to the earlier letter of the Chairperson of the Evening Studies, the UBS had replied that “the syllabi passed by the Academic Council for B Com course circulated to all the affiliated colleges is also to be followed by the Department of Evening Studies”. Those arguing in favour of the course in the department said the university should make necessary changes in the conduct of the course to make it convenient for the category of students for whom it was meant. Certain portions could be deleted. One related issue is shortage of teachers. Instead of the required strength of six, the department has just two teachers. The department will have to make adequate arrangements for the practical. The Vice-Chancellor had said in the last Syndicate meeting that he had “received some information on the issue which needed to be examined. The UGC had prescribed more comprehensive framework for the course. It is also true that they (Evening Studies) could not run the course according to UGC norms”. |
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SCHOOL WORLD: HISTORY
On a cold wintry night in Pune, in the month of December 1895, Mahadeo Patwardhan and his sons, Vinayak and Ramchandra, presented what was then called the “magic lantern picture show” before an appreciative audience of important public figures from all over India. These important people had assembled at Pune for the annual session of the Indian National Congress. Surendranath Banerjea, a prominent critic of the English government, was the President of that session. The show that the Patwardhans had devised was based on a simple principle that persons in a picture seem to be moving if many pictures of the movement are shown rapidly one after the other with each picture depicting the movement done just a little bit more. On a 10’ x10’ screen made of canvas they projected larger than life images of human beings, illustrating themes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Since 1892 they had been showing this in the homes of rich people for a hefty price. Now, at the request of the President of the Congress, they had an opportunity to showcase it before the political bigwigs of the country. But technology was evolving rapidly. The very next year the Lumiere Brothers from France brought their movie show to India. It was one of their cameramen who showed the films. For a fee of one rupee, at the Watson Hotel in Bombay the public was on the 7th of July 1896 to watch and enjoy what was claimed to be “the marvel of the century”. It was an improvement over the magic lantern shows, and unique. So unique that it did not even have a name till now. A name had to be created for it. The Lumiere Brothers called it the “Cinematographe”. “Cinema” from the Greek word meaning movement and graphe or graph for picture. Each show in Bombay was to last slightly less than one hour. The audience was promised 6 short moving pictures for their entertainment. The first one was educational. Called the “Entry of Cinematographe” it was to inform the audience how the amazing moving pictures were created. After all, the Lumiere Brothers did not want a repeat of an experience in the US where one audience panicked on seeing larger than life-size moving images on the screen and called the invention of moving pictures a gift of the devil. The second was called “Arrival of a Train” and simply showed a railway train steaming into a station. Then there was “The Sea Bath” depicting the sea and people frolicking in it. “A Demolition”, was just that: a demolition on film. “Leaving the Factory” showed a crowd of workers going home after a hard days work. Finally there was this film with the intriguing title: “Ladies and Soldiers on Wheels”. It would be interesting to know what the content of that film was. The print was scratchy; in harsh black and white with very dark shadows, the image flickered disturbingly on the screen; the projector made an abominable noise and the reel broke quite often during the showing. On the positive side was an orchestra that provided live accompaniment to the show and once in a while even a singer was hired to sing songs appropriate to the scenes that were coming on the screen. Bombayites responded positively to the new fangled entertainment for it had a novelty value. Moreover it was cheaper than the magic lantern shows, though the price of 1 Rupee per head was still too high considering that for a quarter of a Rupee one could get a decent meal in the market. But were kids invited for the show? No, it was an all-adult affair since in those days children were still not supposed to go in for such costly entertainment. M.Rajivlochan, Department of History, Panjab University Chandigarh
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WORLD HELPLINE Language is one of the most wonderful tasks the human mind performs and babies are uniquely programmed to master it. Infants learn to map meaning onto words and quickly learn grammar and by age 3 most children are generating sentences they have never heard spoken. Vocabulary increases at an extra-ordinary pace during early childhood. At first, toddlers add to their vocabularies slowly, at a rate of 1 to 3 words a month. Over time, the number of words learned accelerates. Spurt in vocabulary takes place between 18 and 24 months. Children add about 10 to 20 new words a week. As children become aware that objects belong to categories they may simultaneously realize that all things can be named. This insight sparks great interest in acquiring verbal labels, and vocabulary expands. Striking individual differences in rate and form of language development exist. Girls show faster early vocabulary growth than boys, and reserved, cautious toddlers may be somewhat late in speaking. Sheer amount of parental speech is related to individual differences in vocabulary growth. The more words parents use when talking to toddlers, the greater the number that are integrated into the child’s repertoire. Moreover, words parents say often tend to be acquired earliest by children. Unfortunately, language does not always emerge without a hitch and speech delay is a common problem seen by professionals dealing with children. A delay in speech development may be a symptom of many disorders. In addition, speech delay may have a significant impact on personal, social, and academic life of a child. An estimated 3% to 7% children suffer from speech delay and this delay is 3 to 4 times more common in boys than in girls. Mental retardation is by far the most common cause of speech delay accounting for more that 50% of cases. A mentally retarded child demonstrates global language delay and has delayed comprehension ability and delayed use of gestures. In general, the more severe the mental retardation, the slower the acquisition of communicative speech. Hearing impairment at an early stage of development may lead to profound speech delay. Maturation delay also accounts for a considerable proportion of late talkers. In this condition, a delay occurs in the maturation of central neurologic processes required to produce speech. The prognosis for these “late bloomers” is excellent and they usually have normal speech by the time they go to school. Children with an expressive language disorder have normal intelligence, normal hearing, and normal articulation skills. The primary deficit is an inability to translate ideas into speech. Those children may use gestures to supplement their limited verbal expression. The child with expressive language disorder will not develop normal speech without early intervention and is at high risk for language based learning disabilities. Physical deprivation, (e.g., poverty, malnutrition) and social deprivation (e.g., inadequate language stimulation, emotional stress, parental absenteeism) may also have an adverse impact on speech development. Neglectful parents are more likely to ignore their children and less likely to use verbal means to communicate with them. Parents should be concerned about the language development of their child if he is not babbling by 12 to 15 months, not comprehending simple commands by age of 18 months, not talking by 2 years of age, and not making sentences by 3 years of age. One should also be concerned of if the child’s language is largely unintelligible after 3 years of age. Timely detection and early intervention may mitigate the emotional, social and cognitive deficits of this disability and improve outcome.
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Girls outscore boys in
CBSE XII Chandigarh, May 22 However, students from 70 Kendriya Vidyalayas in the Chandigarh region have scored 86.44 pass percentage, followed by students of 36 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (83.41 per cent). According to an official press note issued by Mr Yog Raj Sachdeva, Regional Officer, CBSE, 78.98 per cent of the candidates who appeared from 502 schools of the region have passed the examination. A total of 52,954 candidates had appeared in the examination held in March-April. The pass percentage of girls and boys is 85.5 per cent and 74.01 per cent, respectively. The pass percentage in 29 government schools of the Chandigarh Administration is 81.14 and 79.85 pass percentage in private schools. The note stated that individual school results would be made available to the schools concerned during office hours tomorrow. The results will also be available on the Internet site http://cbseresults.nic.in from 8 am onwards tomorrow.
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CBSE Class XII results today Chandigarh, May 22 Results of the Class X will be declared on Saturday morning. According to the spokesperson, the regional centre here will cater to the results of the schools located in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh. This time results are being declared nine days in advance as compared to last
year. Special arrangements have been made for helping those visiting the office tomorrow, the spokesperson added. |
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B.Com I results out Chandigarh, May 22
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HC notice to MC, Administration Chandigarh, May 22 Blaming the authorities for negligence, the father — Mr Sat Pal and others — contended that the boys had drowned in a ditch filled with the rain water. It was dug for constructing a road in Manimajra's Indira Colony. Seeking the compensation, the petitioners had submitted that the authorities were directly responsible for the act of criminal negligence as they had failed to fill the ditch and level the area. Arguing before a Division Bench, comprising Mr Justice V.K. Bali and Mr Justice Jasbir Singh, counsel had added that protecting the life and liberty of each and every citizen was the duty of the government officials. They were liable to pay compensation as they had failed to perform the same. |
Boogie Woogie hunts for talent Chandigarh, May 22 Auditions for the show, which is the brainchild of seasoned dancers and choreographers of the order of Javed
Jaffery, Naved Jaffery and Ravi Behl, began here yesterday. As per the schedule, auditions will continue for 10 days and will be open to everyone in the city, as also the adjoining regions of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Talking about the programme, the representatives of Boogie Woogie in the city said the channel was now looking for the best in the North. Auditions are going on in both Chandigarh and Delhi. On the audition schedule earlier this month was the east and the West Zone from where the winners have already been shortlisted. Informed the representatives, “Winners of the east, the West and the North Zone will compete in the mega final event that is scheduled to be held at the year end. Also this time we are going to highlight not just the dancing skills of the winners, but also their other finer points, if any. So if one can act, mimic or exhibit any other special talent, that would be an added advantage.” Meanwhile, the auditions in Chandigarh are being held at the Fun City from 10.30 am onwards every day. Video cassettes being prepared will be sent back to the core team of Boogie Woogie in Delhi. The experts will then select the final contenders. Road shows are also in the pipeline. There are three categories for auditions: men and women freestyle solo dancing; kids under 14 (from 4 years onwards) solo dancing and group special dancing.
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Love, action and romance are audience-hooking ingredients. Unfazed by recent failure, director Raj Kanwar promises love with action in “Andaaz”, a triangular love story. Touted as the launchpad for Miss Universe Lara Dutta, the film opens today at Batra, Chandigarh, and KC, Panchkula. Producer Suneel Darshan explores shades of love in the film. Akshay Kumar woos Lara Dutta in this film that also stars Miss World Priyanka Chopra. Raj Kanwar, whose “Ab Ke Baras” got a lukewarm response, is confident about this film. He has opted for softer canvas this time in which the audience will enjoy a subject that has universal appeal. As a trade analyst puts, it is a well-directed love story, backed by a good star cast and songs. In “Andaaz” Akshay Kumar plays the role of an Air Force officer who is caught between Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra. Film analysts are confident about “Andaaz” as they say that the plot has been treated differently this time. Shot extensively in South Africa, “Andaaz” is powered with story and screenplay by Robin Bhatt and Shyam Goel, respectively, and dialogue by Jainendra Jain. Nadeem-Shravan and Sameer have come out with a melodious score. The early buzz is positive and the film could turn out to be a surprise hit. *** After “Kaante”, Mahesh Manjrekar plays an important role in the bold film, “Pran Jaaye Par Shaan Na Jaaye” which opens today at KC, Chandigarh. The film is produced by Aashoo Nihalani, Shagoon Wagh and Raj Lalchandani. Sanjay Jha, the director, promises something different in the film. Aman Verma, Raveena Tandon, Sushmita Sen, Namrata Shirodkar, Diya Mirza, Shweta Menon and Rinkie Khanna are the other stars. Nitin Raikwar and Pravin Bhardwaj have penned the lyrics for music directors Dabboo Malik and Nitin Raikwar.
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Four girls, one boy enter Popstars 2 finals Chandigarh, May 22 Along with Ayushmann, four girls from the city have also been successful in the first stage of auditions. They are Laika Makkar, Vidima, Surveen and Anjali. Yet another girl, Rupali, has been selected from Ambala. Out of the thousands of youngsters who had arrived in Chandigarh for taking the Popstars auditions Channel V has selected 10 boys and eight girls. While one boy and four girls are from Chandigarh, the rest are from Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and other cities in the North. The letter of communication, which the winners received from the Popstars team today, congratulates them at becoming city finalists on Popstars 2. This selection was made after a four-phased first round held on May 2 and 3. The first round was a general round which tested the aspirants for their music skills. The second round was a semi-classical round, where they were required to sing tougher songs, the third one was a duet round where the jury members tested the candidates for compatibility. The final round was the harmony round which saw if the candidates could match the scales and still maintain the rhythm. From this stage, the winners have all the chances to go for a further screening to Mumbai, Keeping their fingers crossed, the winners are now waiting for the phone call from Channel V. Said Ayushmann, “They will now select 90 finalists from across seven cities. The video clippings will be closely observed after which the final 20 will be selected. Channel V people will call us on May 28 or 29.” |
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Thakur’s graphic works on display Chandigarh, May 22 After
executing some very famous art works in the city — Chef Lake View,
the mural in Lake View, art works in the Sector 43 bus stand, other
creations in the IT Department, PSIDC building, apart from some other
art works in Godrej and Headmasters salon in Sector 8 — Narinder is
now out with a full line of painting and graphics. Smitten by the
beauty of nature and open spaces, the artist has decided to reflect
yesteryears when life was more about living and less about survival.
Most of his paintings bring out the element of relaxation in the
company of nature. He uses greens and yellows, apart from marine
colours to paint nature at its best. In most of the works that are
figurative, men and women are focused in the backdrop of majestic
landscape. Some birds also find a way into the ensemble that is
striking with its appeal and execution. Most of the graphic works
concentrate on faces. Using pen and ink extensively, the artist brings
out myriad expressions on the human face and experiments with mediums.
The faces speak of integrity of character and reflect the power of
concentration. In many other works, the artist has painted man and
woman in company, exhibiting the human urge of togetherness. Finally,
the collection of paintings and graphics is all about the glory of
nature, portrayed in colours deep and loud and techniques interesting
and novel. |
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