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PTU introduces
course in tourism Chandigarh,
June 7 The undergraduate programme, Bachelor of Science in Tourism and Airlines Management (BScTAM) is of a three-year duration, including a six-month on-the-job training, which comprehensively covers all aspects of tourism and airlines management, with a thrust on cultivating inter-personal skills and customer care among the students. The programme also includes new emerging trends such as conferences and events management, automation in tourism industry, ayurveda and health tourism, business communication and club and resort management. The programme also covers essentials of airlines management and aims at preparing the students for suitable jobs in various segments of the airlines industry such as cabin crew, airport ground staff and city office staff. The postgraduate programme in conferences and events management covers all aspects of events management from conceptualisation, marketing, budgeting and implementation, while the programme in international business management covers subjects such as international trade theory, regional economic integration and cooperation, multinational accounting and finance, and human resource development. The third postgraduate programme is in tourism and airlines management, which covers global and domestic scenario, strategic and hospitality management, organisational behaviour, ethnic tourism, and many other subjects. All these programmes are of a one-year duration and include a three-month on-the-job training. An essential feature of these programmes is that the students are required to learn basics of computer applications and browse websites to keep themselves abreast with the latest developments in tourism, airlines and management, prepare case studies and project reports and carry out field surveys. |
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Seminar
on future of accounting Chandigarh, June 7 Speaking on the occasion, Mr R. Buphathy said the ICAI was the third largest accounting body in the world. He said accounting standards were required to maintain international level of financial statements. The institute had already issued 28 accounting standards. He said chartered accountants (CAs) would now need to provide added services. He stressed the need to form bigger accounting firms having specialisation in various field rather than smaller firms. He said as new fields were opening for CAs, they should make efforts to grab the opportunities. He said a financial report review board had been formed which would review financial reports of listed companies. He said the ICAI was also interacting with accounting bodies of other countries like that of Canada, the USA and the UK. He claimed that a CA in India was required to pass only five papers in Canada, if he wanted to practise there. So, he would be exempted from appearing in nine papers. Earlier, Mr Buphathy inaugurated the website of the Chandigarh branch of the institute. It was the only branch in the northern region to have its own website, claimed Mr Manoj Kohli, Chairman of the local branch. Among others, Mr Charanjot Singh Nanda, member of the NIRC, Dr Sunil Gulati, member of Central Council, participated in the discussion. |
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PU results Chandigarh, June 7 |
Fresh warrants against Bhardwaj Chandigarh, June 7 |
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13 cases
settled at Lok Adalat Chandigarh, June 7 He added that 23 cases were taken up in which huge amount of loan was to be realised from defaulters. A recovery of Rs 1,56,000 was made on the spot from borrowers.
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FILM REVIEW Nitin Manmohan’s production has B.H.Tharun Kumar in the director’s chair. He has done a commendable job in getting the actor’s worth from comparatively new comers. Rahul Bhat, Vikas Kalantri, Anuj Sawhney, Aslam Khan and Mahek Chahal, all have given fine performances in a story set in the suburban locales of a metropolitan. Music by Shanker-Eshaan-Loy also deserves special mention. ‘Nayee Padosan’ has not used the element of photography in exotic locales or of high voltage in the drama. In fact, the beauty of the presentation is more in maintaining a life-like conviction instead of adding the screen spices of passionate love, extreme opposition, poignant scenes of separation and savage fighting before a predictable happy ending as projected in most of the scripts. Mehak is a South Indian family girl who shifts in the vicinity of a new suburban colony. She is soon surrounded by Rahul, Vikas, Anuj and Aslam. Each tries to outdo the other to grab her attention and passion. All the lovers manage an entry into her house. One helps the mother in the kitchen, the other learns music from her father and the third one learns martial arts from her grand father. The last one to enter the scene is Mehak’s childhood friend who is just too good in martial arts, excellent in the kitchen and is blessed with a divine voice in singing. The three others are plotting to get him out of the way so that they can continue their pursuit of Mehak. ‘Khwaish’ ( KC) is a low-budget production which has ‘dared’ to go out of the normal Bollywood subject area of lovers and crooks battling out their wits and muscles in most of the flicks. This one is an attempt to explore the voyages in self exploration and also explorations of the silent emotional boundaries of the newly weds, in the context of a changed living scenario. Mallika Sherawat and Himanshu Malik have tread on the path of passion, excitement and poignancy in a marriage, particularly in the contemporary urban settings, which is followed by with curiosity, anxiety, uncertainty before the train of life catches on speed. Govind Menon has directed this movie of “modern love” produced by Vinod Nayak. ‘Haasil’ (Neelam) is another attempt of a love story in a college campus setting. Jimmy Shergill is pitted against Irfan Khan in a love pursuit of Hrishita Bhatt in a plot full of campus politics as the background.
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Grandeur
of France on display Chandigarh, June 7 There are a few scenes of La Defense complex situated just outside Paris which overwhelm you with their colourful compositions and others in which he has captured the intricacies and sheer scale of architecture that dominates this colourful city — its immaculate arches, the elaborate gates and the post card like lawns. The collection is the byproduct of three trips he took to France. He captured the images that pleased him during his stay in the country. “These 17 pictures are part of those moments which filled me with happiness and now I hope these will please my viewers,” says Atul who is in town for the exhibition. Sponsored by the French Embassy, his photographs will be displayed in all major cities of India, starting from Chandigarh. Atul, who left a promising law profession to be a full-time photographer, says it was the magic of seeing images coming out of plain paper which hooked him to photography in the first place. “Now I click everything that pleases me except food and fashion,” he quips. Working as an advertising photographer fulfils the money aspect while creative photography satiates his artistic appetite. A product of Mayo College, Ajmer, Atul has just his school days’ training to count for as professional training. “During my school days, I learned the basics of photography, but apart from that I have never had anyone to teach me photography,” he says. He learnt the art while watching experts at work, sometimes in darkrooms and sometimes exploring computer softwares. Atul has quite a few exhibitions to his credit, including his participation at the “Biarriz Terre D’Image” festival in France last year. His exhibition, ‘Exploration in Digital Imaging’ drew a favourable response in New Delhi last year and his images are already part of private collections in France, the USA, Germany and India. |
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On mission to revive Odissi ragas Chandigarh, June 7 His fame might come from his association with Sonal Mansingh, but for the people of Orissa and now in Delhi, Bankim Sethi is a complete entity in himself when it comes to Odissi compositions. A scholar in the field, he has not only composed 177 items for Mansingh, but also come up with a series a books on the subject. The artiste is in the city on an academic assignment with Pracheen Kala Kendra, Sector 35. Bankim’s journey into the world of classical music started under the tutelage of his brother, Gangadhar Sethi, who introduced him to the intricacies of Hindustani vocal at a tender age, but as soon as he was old enough to make up his mind, Bankim shifted his focus to Odissi music, the traditional music of Orissa. He completed his degree in the subject from Bhubaneshwar Sangeet Mahavidyala. “Ragas from Hindustani vocal and Karnatak music dominates the compositions in Odissi dance, but there are about 22 independent Odissi ragas which are almost extinct, because no one outside Orissa knows about these,” says Bankim. To revive those ragas, Bankim is trying to amalgamate these, along with Hindustani vocal music, in his compositions. It is not only the ragas which are getting a new look in his compositions, but also the subject matter. Bankim has come out of main theme of Odissi, which is predominantly Krishna Leela, to more contemporary issues like environment, gender issues, folk tales, patriotism and spiritualism. At present, he is working on a series called Notations of Pallavi, Notations of Geet Gobind and Alankar in Odissi under the senior fellowship received from the Central Government. Besides, his own research project on Traditional Odissi Music has taken a final shape under the title Shashtriya Odissi Sangeet Siksha which is about to hit the market. “I am also working on introducing the initial notes of traditional Odissi music at beginner’s level,” he says. He also runs a music institute called Odissi Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Delhi. |
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‘Nayee Padosan’ (Piccadily) is a decent comedy and surely a rare one, in terms of decency of the plot and dialogues.
This one is in line with Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s and Basu Chatterjee’s simple but funny plots during the 70s and 80s and strikingly different from the David Dhawan- Govinda and party’s situational comedy plots which often take liberty with decency in the dialogues.