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Day of glory for budding designers SAS Nagar, June 5 Starting with Indian classical dresses to the latest casual wear, the fashion show displayed a wide variety of designs innovatively put together by the students at Dara Studio here this evening. The venue, jampacked with audience, did justice to the show with a 80-feet-long ramp provided for the presentation according to the international style. The show was choreographed by Kaushik Ghosh. The students had prepared screen slides describing themes of their collections, like “intoxication”, “Kama Sutra”, etc., which were shown between the presentations. |
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Kanika Garg tops PTU CET Chandigarh, June 5 The first three toppers, in the order of merit are Kanika Garg (040118), Deepak Jindal (040057) and Sumit Gupta (041010). The results are also available online at the university’s website, www.ptujal.com. Counselling for admission will take place as per the details provided in the counselling guide. A statement issued here today said that the publication of the results was delayed by 36 hours as some students had filled in incorrect technical data, which required manual cross-checking of answer
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SCHOOL WORLD
Gandhi provided most of the funds for the paper. He also wrote, and did so for the next 12 years, most of the material that was published. The Indian Opinion aimed to make the Indian community in South Africa more aware of itself and of its rights and responsibilities in this new land. South Africa, since the 1890s, had become a difficult place for Indians. In order to disable Indians from doing well in their businesses the government had passed a variety of laws. There was one which insisted that any Indian found roaming outside after 9 in the evening would be arrested. Another law demanded that all Indians carry identity papers issued by the government. At the same time the government demanded a sum equal to the monthly income of a labourer as fee for issuing the identity papers. Gandhi had organised Indians into the Natal Indian Congress in May 1895 in order to systematically protest against such discrimination. Numerous representations were made to the government in South Africa. Equally numerous requests were sent to the government in England to instruct the South African government to treat Indians equally. But the government continued to make rules that disallowed Indians the freedom to move, own property and interact with others. Such obduracy could only be countered through an agitation. But agitations require a large number of people who understand the cause, have loyalty towards it and are willing to put themselves out on a limb, as it were, to achieve justice. The Indian community in South Africa, however, was lacking in a feeling of oneness. Not all of them felt that the discrimination heaped on them needed any opposition since individuals could always find surreptitious ways of bypassing the restrictions. When Mr. P Subramaniam Aiyar launched the Colonial Indian News from Pietermaritzburg in 1901 he discovered that Indians were not even interested in knowing any news about their own community either. The newspaper simply could not sell. By 1903 it had to reduce its pages. Its publication became irregular and finally it had to be wound up.It was in such circumstances that Gandhi decided to launch the Indian Opinion. The paper addressed itself equally to Indians as also to the whites. Informing the one about the ideas, aspirations and problems of the other and making an effort to begin a dialogue between Indians and whites. As Gandhi saw it, he had launched not a paper but a movement. Indians, at least those who could pay, however, continued to show lack of interest. Without enough subscriptions the paper was soon facing financial troubles. “It had been reduced to ashes”, Gandhi noticed. He resolved the difficulty by reducing the overheads drastically in a most unique manner. Soon the Indian Opinion resurged from its financial ashes. M.Rajivlochan, Department of History, Panjab University Chandigarh
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School World Helpline
How babies come to achieve these early cognitive milestones has been actively researched and today it is believed that although sequence of brain development is genetically programmed, the quality of neural development is, however, shaped by a child’s experience. Babies are pint-sized scientists and their minds are actively absorbing new information, they learn through mini-experiments which they perform with common objects and by playing simple games like peek-a- boo. A baby contributes to cognitive growth by actively seeking information through observation and play. This information continuously evolves the baby’s mind. It is the baby’s tremendous capacity for “abstract mental representation” that has impressed the child developmentalists. Research reveals that even at the age of 4 weeks, many babies can transfer data taken in one sense over to another sense. They can distinguish their pacifiers both by touch and sight from an array of pacifiers. Their capacity for abstract thinking extends even to physics. Even 3-month-olds show surprise when they see rigged toys suspended in mid air defying laws of gravity. Babies have an inborn capacity to learn that even the simplest game can encourage. At age one, they begin to look where people point. This indicates that they are beginning to understand others minds. The baby now grasps that two minds can share an intention and turns his eyes in the indicated direction. Babies also begin to grasp by age one year the idea of shared feelings. If mother peeks into one box and looks disgusted and peeks into another box and looks delighted, the baby when given a choice to explore these two boxes will immediately reach for the second. He is learning to judge what is good and bad in the world by your reactions. Therefore, watch out for your expression as your baby is watching you and learning. Babies also have ability to form and retrieve memories. Two months olds can remember that certain actions bring rewards. Recognition memory improves steadily throughout infancy. By age 3 and 4 months a baby can stare at a new picture in a book for a few seconds and recognize it a few minutes later, while 5- month olds can remember it up to 2 weeks later. Babies love novelty, which they find more stimulating. Recall, however, does not emerge until 7 to 10 months of age. Babies soon learn to find toys hidden in front of them. This concept that objects and persons continue to exist even when they are out of sight is an important cognitive milestone. Research clearly indicates that babies come prewired to learn. Children learn about causes and categories, self and others, through watching and listening, and through playing simple games like peek-a- boo and hide and seek. The role of parents is to foster the development of a healthy and caring human being. Babies learn in social environment from people who love them, who delight in their achievements, and sympathize when they hurt. If you make the baby feel loved, connected and wanted brain development will inevitably
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Early cognitive development In case you have any questions regarding your school going children, please email Dr Prahbhjot Malhi at: apc1@gilde.net.in Dr Prahbhjot Malhi, Associate Professor, Child Psychology, APC, PGIMER
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M.L. Sharma PU Botany Dept Chairman Chandigarh, June 5 Professor Sharma is a botanist of international repute who has over 100 research papers to his credit. He has handled a number of projects for agencies like the DST, the
CSIR, the UGC and the ICAR. Professor Sharma has visited the USA, the UK, China, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore on professional assignments. He is also the Dean, Alumni Relations, of the university. |
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Had Gandhi not become a Mahatma he would have been an ace journalist. Influencing the minds of his readers, providing sensitive criticisms about government policy, urging the society to change. As it is Bapu, as he was fondly called by almost everyone who came in contact with him, became a politician. As a politician he needed to communicate with the people whom he sought to represent. So, this week, one hundred years ago, he launched a newspaper which carried his voice to a large audience. That paper was the Indian Opinion. Its first issue reached the people of Durban on the 4th June 1903.
If you are a proud parent of a new born, then your baby is fortunate as science today has provided us an extra-ordinary amount of information about little babies’ immense capacities and what parents can do to make these babies thrive physically, socially, emotionally and intellectually. Recent research indicates that babies know more and know it sooner than one can ever imagine and babies require early stimulation to develop their emerging cognitive skills. Even one month olds learn whether their parents respond to them quickly or slowly. From 4 to 6 months babies come to understand that some things change (e.g., mother’s clothes) but others do not (e.g. mother’s face). Between 7 to 10 months, they learn to carry out sequences of actions to achieve a goal (e.g. climbing onto a pillow to get something out of reach). By 18 months they can form intentions and understand the intentions of others.