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Placement Officer in PU
sacked Chandigarh, July 23 Students alleged that Dr Sharma had asked students to spend between Rs 5000 and Rs 10,000 on accounts in addition to their normal fee without any proper records. They also alleged that placements revealed that there was certain
irregularities. Taking cognisance of the complaint, the department has replaced Dr Sharma with Prof S.C.Vaidya. The department will send the report to the Vice-Chancellor for necessary action. However, Dr Manoj Sharma alleged that the complaint was baseless as it had been filed by first year students who were now in the second year. They were not directly affected by the placement exercise during the period under question. He said as far as the finances were concerned, the department expenditure had been audited. He cited “professional jealousy” as one of the reasons behind his sack. |
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2004 to be Science Popularisation Year Chandigarh, July 23 “A Cabinet note for dedicating 2004 to science popularisation and contours of its programme has been prepared and Chandigarh could be the place from where the Prime Minister could announce the detailed programme,” a senior scientific officer of the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), Dr D.K. Pandey, told The Tribune here yesterday. Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttaranchal would figure mainly in the programmes being given the final touches, he said. Inter-ministerial and core committees for the purpose had been formed and the approval of the Cabinet was awaited, he said. This time the theme of programmes would be water and sanitation; health and hygiene; soil conservation and bio-diversity protection, among others, to make it a mass movement as a large number of people would be able to identify themselves with these issues. |
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College teachers’ union organises
dharnas Chandigarh, July 23 However, departing from the convention members of the PCCTU held dharnas at the colleges only in their free periods and went to take classes as per the timetable. At GGDSD College, Sector 32, teachers claimed that on account of the policies being followed by the Punjab Government, teachers and other employees were facing great hardships. At DAV College, Sector 10, dharna was held in front of the Principal’s office. Teachers and staff sat on dharna during their free periods. The members of the union claimed that the Punjab Government had failed to sanction funds under 95 per cent grant-in-aid and that the colleges had got Rs 57 crore out of Rs 100 crore grant. They also rued the non-implementation of the pension-cum-gratuity scheme which had been sanctioned by the government in 1992. They claimed that the scheme had not been implemented despite repeated assurances from the government. Besides these, the teachers of the non-aided colleges of Chandigarh and Punjab are demanding the retention of plus two classes in colleges, regular release of salary, grants, provident fund deduction on 10 per cent of the total salary. The protesting faculty, however, welcomed the decision of the Punjab Government to withdraw the enhanced fee of colleges in Punjab. They urged the Administration to withdraw the fee hike in colleges of the city as well. |
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All city quota seats at
PEC filled Chandigarh, July 23 Though a period of four days was given for completion of admissions to 85 per cent seats reserved under the Chandigarh quota, admissions were closed by evening in all categories. While the electronics stream elicited a tremendous response and admissions closed at rank 2834, admissions closed at rank 4326 in computer science, at 8630 in information technology, 6912 in the mechanical stream, at 9489 in the electrical stream, at 10611 in aeronautical, at 11021 in production, at 18425 in civil engineering and 21097 in metallurgy. The counselling for the remaining 15 per cent seats of the college would be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education which conducted the engineering test at the national-level. |
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Sainik Welfare Office to give scholarship Chandigarh, July 23 The application forms could be obtained from the office of the Zila Sainik Welfare Officer located in Sainik Rest House, Sector 21-D, on any working day. Application duly completed must reach the office latest by September 15, spokesperson of the Administration said today. TNS |
Class of '84 — talking friendship all the
way Chandigarh, July 23 Today's production also came from the kitty of Rahul da Cunha who has a sure way with words. As the acts impressed upon the audience at Tagore Theatre, one wondered why Rahul was apprehensive about the response to this play, especially so after the classic manner in which he scripted the story of seven college friends, who reunite after years to mourn the death of another friend Jojo. Making the production glamorous were the most revered faces in the world of theatre, from Rajit Kapur, Shernaz Patel and Sohrab to Joy Sengupta, Radhika da Cunha, Jaya Bhattacharya, Rituraj and Zaffar Karachiwala. The actors were at their best, doling out dialogues like heartfelt pieces of emotions, bred by genuine feeling. In each of the seven persons who played friends to one another, one could find an element of one's own character, waiting to be bared. The tale is set in not so happy times, but the moods of friends, uniquely different from one another, are upbeat. They have all gathered to rewind and unwind, in the backdrop of another friend's death, which later turns out to be a murder. With their diverse characters, these people make a point with every dialogue. They share elation, depression, rancour and affection, all in the same breath. Running each other down, scraping each other's wounds, but loving each other still, they share the darkest of secrets. The beauty of the script lay in its gradual maturity. Not even one did the story take the audience by surprise. It progressed subtly — first by baring the characters, one by one — from the cynical Fuzzy
(Shernaz) who talks endlessly about the assortments we call art-of-living courses to the wrecked
Raghu, who is too starved of money to make a good film. In between is materialist banker Sanjay Mehra and his charming wife
Raveena, coupled with the rustic yet substantive Bobby Tandon (Rajit Kapur) and socialite journalist Sierra
Moolah. Cyrus Cooper, the seventh friend, normally serves to break seriousness into humour. The strength of the play lay in its ability to prick the conscience. As the plot progresses, the characters discover that they have not been truthful enough to qualify as friends. Towards the end, the director gets his act together by bringing the characters back to the old habit of throwing up secrets. Class of '84 winds up again, with friends stripping off facades. |
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FM revolution sweeps region Chandigarh, July 23 It was on this day in 1927 that the first news broadcast took place from a private radio station owned by the Indian Broadcasting Service (IBS) in Mumbai. The IBS was set up on an experimental basis simultaneously at Mumbai and Calcutta under an agreement between the Government of India and a private company, Indian Broadcasting Company Ltd. All India Radio (AIR) came into being in 1936. After an almost total eclipse by television, radio seems to be on the comeback trail and is regaining lost fan
following. The radio revival is spearheaded by the FM broadcasting revolution which is sweeping the region with the establishment and commissioning of FM transmission stations at Chandigarh, Patiala, Jalandhar and Kasauli. In Chandigarh, an FM station was commissioned in 1997 but it was only last year that the broadcast of the Vividh Bharti programmes on the AM channel were discontinued and shifted exclusively to the FM channel. The changeover was also accompanied by certain imaginative policy changes offering prime airtime slots to private radio programme producers, says Dr
K.C. Dubey, Station Director, AIR, Chandigarh. “Radio offers entertainment, information and education”, he points out. “It could have become obsolete if it had not kept pace with the changing times. The changeover to FM broadcasting which offers top class sound quality has been a great help in attracting audiences. We are trying to further improve the broadcast quality by going stereo”, he said. The pioneer in the radio revival programme in Chandigarh has been Radiobuzz launched by two alumni of the Panjab University’s Mass Communications Department, Mr Charanjit Singh and Mr Hardeep S.
Chandpuri. While the former set up Chandigarh’s first full-fledged PR agency long time ago, Hardeep who was trained in broadcasting in the USA, returned to India to join hands with him to set up the broadcasting enterprise. But the revival bid was not without its share of problems. “Initially, there were no takers for our radio programme”, recalls Mr Chandpuri about his attempts to find sponsors. “ ‘Who wants to listen to radio these days…’ was the stock reply we got everywhere. But both Charanjit and I were convinced that our programme will be a hit as soon as it went on the air”, he said. It was on Sunday morning, November 10, 2002, that the city woke up to the radio anthem, “Radio Ga
Ga” on the one hour show which was such a hit that Radiobuzz was flooded with telephone calls. “All sorts of people were ringing up: young, old, housewives, senior citizens, hostellers and defence personnel from
Chandimandir. And calls came from as far as Mcleodganj in Dharmshala, Shimla, Ropar, Morinda,
Kurali, Ambala, Kurukshetra and, of course, from the areas surrounding Chandigarh, he informed. “One day, we got a call from a person in Panchkula who said his brother who was totally paralysed and could not move even a finger, had expressed his appreciation of the programmes with a rare smile. Another call was from a blind person in Maloya who said the new radio programmes had given him a new purpose in life. Yet another person rang up to say “thank you, for brightening up my Sunday morning’
“. Radiobuzz which began as a weekly programme, is now broadcasting for a total of seven hours six days a week. “Our programmes are now available on the internet and we are about to go on air in Canada to be followed by the USA”, says Mr
Chandpuri. The FM revolution has been helped in no small measure by cheap, inexpensive Chinese FM radios available in the market for as low as Rs 50. It has been a hit, particularly with car drivers. Chandigarh has five lakh four-wheelers and about 80 per cent of them have radios. Chandigarh, July 23 A private radio station owned by Indian Broadcasting Service in Mumbai broadcast the first news bulletin on July, 23, 1927. Take One Academy honoured some of the veteran broadcasters in the city including Col. James
Hattar, Prof H.S. Dilgir, Mr G.S. Tiwana. |
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Saakshi loves her new-found
image Chandigarh, July 23 Call her the ‘Parvati’ of Ekta Kapoor’s ‘Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki,’ running on Star TV or the ‘Devi’ of Ajay Devgan’s Devi, being aired on Sony TV Saakshi Tanwar is your quintessential Indian woman. Made of ingredients all traditional, this graduate from Lady Sriram College, Delhi, could have been anywhere she wanted — in Jamia Milia Islamia University pursuing journalism which she finds fascinating; in the Indian Administrative Services, which she finds challenging; or in academics in general. But as stars would have it, none of these occupations were tailored for her. That is precisely why she travelled to Mumbai, happened to meet Ekta Kapoor and ended up being the face of two serials, credited with being among the few that command the highest TRP. In the city today for the promotion of her ongoing teleserial on Sony TV, Devi, Saakshi Tanwar, described television as the “new found medium of the new age.” She was accompanied by the producer of ‘Devi’, Misha Gautam. “It is enriching to be a part of productions like ‘Kahani... or ‘Devi’. I have always been a firm believer of fate. It is fate that brought me where I thought I was never meant to be. Now I feel bound and I thank my stars for not being able to clear the IAS preliminaries.” Saakshi Tanwar portrays the ideal woman all the time. In Ekta Kapoor’s ‘Kahani...’ she is does the balancing act, setting examples of righteousness all time. In ‘Devi’, her role is even more magnanimous. Ask Saakshi if she is happy with so much of negativity being aired through the small screen women and she replies, “If you have to show the victory of good over evil, you have to portray evil in the highest degree. Otherwise the drama will fall flat.” Unable to counter the fact that most television serial makers these days peg their scripts on treachery, mostly embodied by women, Saakshi said, “I think it is fine. That is what people want to see.” Never mind the fact that loads of unsavoury ideas find their way into millions of homes where they are consumed by people all the time. Replying to whether or not such negative plots should be censored in the interest of general public, just as crude scenes playing up sexuality are censored, Saakshi said, “That should not be the case. It is all a part of portrayal.” On the wishlist of many a producer, Saakshi does not think she has been typecast. “I have featured in a digital film made by Sandeep Verma. I also have many diverse roles at hand. I think versatility is for the director to discover.” |
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