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Students throng CII fair Chandigarh, May 31 Among others the IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd, School of Foreign Languages, promoted by Air Hostess Academy, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, HSBC and State Bank of India have put up their stalls at the fair. An official manning the SBI counter said, “We are offering education loans up to Rs 7.5 lakh for study in India and up to Rs 15 lakh for studying abroad, at a rate of interest of 10.85 to 11.85 per cent. The loans are available for vocational courses having potential for jobs in the market.” The IMS Institute is offering courses in communication skills and guidance for CAT and other entrance tests. Ms Reeta Verma, a student of plus two claimed that she was looking for a career in aviation industry. Since some of the students of the Air Hostess Academy had already joined Jet Airways, Indian Airlines and Air Sahara, she said, she would seriously consider about that course. A senior official of the ICFAI claimed that there was good scope for commerce students in the field of chartered finance. They would be involved in managing the finances of the companies. However, they would require rigorous certification process. Even students of engineering, arts and science stream were doing well in this field. The ICFAI was offering a course for financial professionals who would have the requisite knowledge and skills to compete and thrive in the new emerging business environment, he added. |
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Splendid show by Saupin’s Chandigarh, May
31 Classes I to VI had displayed their projects on various topics. The children had worked along with parents and teachers and the collective effort was clearly visible. Class I did its project work on the ‘Camel’ Class II on ‘Polar Bear’, with children performing skits and poems on the topics allotted to them. Class III carried the message ‘Help Save a Whale’, with a massive whale collage welcoming the students and parents. Class IV educated the visitors on ‘Dental Care’ as their topic was ‘Teeth’. The huge dinosaurs’ models prepared by Class V amused everyone. The class VI students had worked on ‘Egyptian Pyramids’. The show ended on a happy note with everyone looking forward to their next projects after the summer holidays. |
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BBA, BCA results today Chandigarh, May 31 Copies of the result gazette will be available at the main enquiry counter tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm and on all working days during working hours between 7.30 am and 1.30 pm. |
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SCHOOL WORLD
HISTORY
At best of times war only results in misery for both the victor and the vanquished. One such, which entered the imagination of Maharashtra, was the battle of Panipat. "Panipat jhale". A Panipat has happened. This is still a common statement made in Maharashtra to say that things have gone terribly wrong. On 14th January 1761, by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a comprehensive disaster had played out on the fields of the village of Ugrakheri near the present town of Panipat. On that day over 45,000 Maratha soldiers fought a pitched battle against the army of Ahmad Shah Abdali. When the killing stopped some 20,000 Marathas were dead. The rest were forced to flee from the field of battle. Walter Hamilton estimates that about 40,000 from the Maratha side were captured alive and then murdered by the Afghans. As the Marathas retreated the villages through which they fled attacked them. The soldiers of the kingdom of Awadh too joined in looting the fleeing Marathas. In all, the historian Jadunath Sarkar estimates the Marathas lost some 50,000 horses, 200,000 oxen, 1000 camel and 500 elephants. An entire generation of young men had died either on the field of Panipat or in the rout that followed it. "Two pearls have been dissolved, twenty two gold mohurs have been lost, and of the silver and copper the total cannot be cast up". This was the cryptic message sent to Peshwa Balaji Bajirao at Pune. He died of shock soon thereafter. It was as comprehensive a military defeat as was ever witnessed in the history of India. But was there a victor? Actually no. For, Ahmad Shah had to retreat into the Afghan mountains, never to return to India. For his men were fed up with the constant hostility of the Punjab peasantry. Moreover, they could not stand the heat and dust of the north Indian plains. It was for control over North India that the Marathas and Afghans had fought each other to extinction. Neither had it. Peshwa Balaji Bajirao had dreamt of establishing Maratha rule over all of India. "Maratha svarajya" is what he called it. Control over Delhi was seen as an important step in this direction. Ahmad Shah, of the Abdali tribe, had first come to India as a military commander of the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739. After the assassination of Nadir Shah in 1748 Ahmad Shah began to consolidate the power of his own tribe over the rest of Afghanistan. This was the time when the Mughal Emperor of Delhi, Shah Alam II was an emperor only in name. Neither could he protect himself nor could he protect his people Delhi was up for grabs. Both the Marathas and the Afghans coveted it. The Afghans ravaged the plains of Punjab in search of wealth while the Marathas did the same in Central India and in the Kingdom of Awadh. "If only we could establish our own rule over Delhi", both seemed to say while pressing the peasants of these lands to give them protection money. Once they had subjugated everyone else the one needed to conquer the other. That was how the Battle of Panipat came about. Today, the story goes, all that remains of that infamous battle is a door frame made out of the wood of a "kala amb", a mango tree that had turned black because of the large amount of blood that flowed from the battle into its roots. Pundit Shugan Chand got two door frames made from the wood of this unique tree. One was presented to the English monarch and the other used in the Victoria Hall at Panipat.
M. Rajivlochan, Department of History, Panjab University Chandigarh
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School World Helpline
Parents cannot underestimate the importance of their role in the formative years of the child’s life. The way a parent nurtures the child in infancy profoundly effects the way the child develops. Every baby needs a warm, intimate relationship with a primary caregiver over a period of years, not months or weeks. This is far more important to the emotional and intellectual development of the child than educational toys and games. If this relationship is absent or interrupted a child can develop disorders of reasoning, motivation, and attachment. Early attachments shape the children’s attitudes and behaviour, including their sense of self, and their cognitive and social development. Children who are securely attached as infants are more likely than those who are not to have high self esteem, to grow up to be intellectually curious, willing to explore and to have a positive social relationship with peers and others. Research studies have found that family patterns that undermine this ongoing nurturing care may lead to significant cognitive and emotional problems. Listening to the human voice, for example, helps babies learn to distinguish sounds and develop language. Exchanging emotional gestures helps babies learn to perceive and respond to emotional cues and form a sense of self. Just as early interference with vision can lead to functional blindness or life long problems with depth perception and spatial comprehension, early emotional deprivation is associated with changes in brain physiology. Early relationships, attachment to parents does not develop suddenly but emerges in a consistent series of steps in the first 6 to 8 months of life. The quality of an infant’s attachment to parents is determined by early parent-child interactions. Although feeding is an important context in which mothers and babies build a close relationship, attachment bond does not depend on satisfying the infant’s hunger. Research evidence indicates that comfort provided by contact is more central to the development of attachment rather than satisfying the child’s hunger. Moreover, parents who are responsive to the infant’s needs give their infant a sense of control over the environment, seem to have more securely attached babies. The basic features of caring relationships between a baby and a caregiver are responsible for a large number of vital mental capacities. These “ reciprocal interactions” teach babies how to take initiative. When there are secure, empathetic, nurturing relationships, children learn to be intimate and empathetic and eventually to communicate about their own feelings and develop their own relationships with peers and adults. Relationships also teach children which behaviours are appropriate and which are not. Early emotional interactions also form the foundation of morality, a person’s sense of right and wrong. Morality comes from empathy, the ability to understand another person’s feelings and perspective. We can feel empathy only if someone else has been empathetic and caring about us. We cannot experience the intimacy of love unless we have had that experience with someone in our lives. That experience may be with a grandmother, an aunt or even a sibling, but it must be there. Early relationships lay the groundwork for other relationships to build up in childhood and in adulthood. Addressing the child’s need for a consistent nurturing care is one of the most basic needs. Practices in childcare, family functioning, in education and health care must necessarily focus on this. What parents do for their children in early formative years is crucial. Providing secure basis for attachment, emotionally vibrant experiences, age appropriate cognitive stimulation, and a physically safe environment for the child will set the stage for a happy, secure and independent life. In case you have any questions regarding your school going children, please email Dr Prahbhjot Malhi at: apc1@gilde.net.in *Dr Prahbhjot
Malhi,
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1,675 cases disposed of at Lok Adalat Chandigarh, May 31 The UT District and Sessions Judge, Mr H.S. Bhalla and the Member Secretary-cum-Judge, Permanent Lok Adalat, Mr Sant Parkash, visited various courts. Giving details the UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash, said 16 Benches were constituted for taking up all categories of civil cases, including matrimonial disputes, bank disputes, service matters, landlord-tenant controversies, MACT cases and compoundable criminal cases. The CJM said the next lok adalat would be held on August 30. The Lok Adalat started functioning in the morning and continued till the evening. For the convenience of the litigants, two make-shift reception-cum-enquiry counters, with all details of cases fixed before the various Benches, were also set up near the main gate of the District Courts. |
Plaza Carnival concludes Chandigarh, May 31 Variety was the hallmark of the show today. The two-and-half-hour programme showcased about 30 dance items ranging from traditional folk to modern remixes both in solo and group category. The programme started with an invigorating Bollywood number ‘Chamma Chamma’ by Aanchal Saini which paved the path for other hit numbers like “Pyar kiya to darna kiya”, “Sharara sharara” among others. While majority of the solo dancers sticked to popular filmi songs, the groups like Heera National Bhangra group, Waaris Punjab and Shangra dance group captured the magic of rural Punjab, rejoicing the harvesting season. Plaza carnival today completed 230th show before going for a long break which starts from June1 till the end of September. “We are closing for this session after this and plan to re- start sometimes by the end of September, once the rainy season is over,” said Ms Maniki Deep, president of the Centre for Carnival Arts, organisers of the carnival. Other attraction of the show was artistes corner which attracted a lot of visitors for trying out tattooing and get their portraits done by the young talented students of the Government College of Arts, Sector 10. The carnival characters in colourful costumes mingled with the crowd and distributed sweets. The show was sponsored by The Tribune and Coca Cola.  |
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FILM REVIEW Ram Gopal Varma has established his name in terms of innovations in different subjects. This two-hour presentation is bereft of songs, another rarely attempted genre in Hindi films. The Salim-Suleiman duo have worked out a creditable music line for the spine-chiller. Producer Nitin Manmohan’s show is ably backed by excellent camerawork. The film has dared to follow a path far from the popular ones attempted in Bollywood by the Ramsay brothers in this class of films. The horrendous figures of ghosts spilling and savouring blood have been replaced by the element of the supernatural in the Varma presentation. Instead of collapsing forts, broken down ‘havelis’ and wild corners of the countryside, this flick has used the settings of a flat in busy Mumbai for unfolding of the horror saga. Urmila Matondkar has given an excellent performance as a normal modern girl and also in the role of a possessed woman. Ajay Devgan, Victor Banerjee and Rekha also have decent roles. The end looks a little lesser than expected easy ending predictable in horror movies. The attempt of Fardeen Khan in a negative role is surely one he would like to forget. Sound has been excessively used in portions to create an ambience of fear but rarely leaves imprints of any chilling encounters to lurk in memories. Not a very great show but surely an inch above the average presentation in majority of releases in the past couple of years. ‘Jajantram mamamtram’ (Nirman) is an interesting film for children. Using the image of a sleeping giant Bakasur, this one is on lines of Lilliputian adventures. The images of the pygmies and the giants are surely ones which children would love on the screen. The film stands out for its special effects attempted under the eyes of Biju D. This one has been directed by Soumitra Ranade and features Javed Jaffri, Joy Fernandes, Gulshan Grover. Nitin Raikar has written the lyrics for the music by 3 brothers and a violin. |
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Early childhood is the most critical and the most vulnerable time in the child’s development. Research demonstrates that the foundation of intellectual, emotional and moral growth is laid down in infancy. Children who are not nurtured in early years are going to start lagging behind, and no matter how hard we try we may not be able to help them catch up.
Despite certain chinks in the overall packaging, ‘Bhoot’ (Jagat and Suraj, Panchkula) stands out in terms of slickness and terseness of presentation in terms of storyline and characterisation rarely attempted in the Bollywood arena.