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National integration camp opens at PAU Ludhiana, November 10 Addressing the NSS volunteers, Dr K.S. Aulakh opined that sincerity and humility were the true merits of a human being, which were often relegated to a secondary position in the rat race of consumerism and acquisition of wealth. He lamented that despite achieving self-sufficiency in foodgrains, the production rate had reached a plateau whereas the population was growing in a geometric progression. The Director Students’ Welfare and camp director, Dr A.P.S. Mann, welcomed the participants and informed them that the NSS volunteers would follow a strict schedule and code of conduct during the week-long camp. They would be involved in activities like the eradication of congress grass, plantation and protection of plants, general cleanliness, women empowerment, techniques of plant propagation and flower bed preparation. He revealed that literary sessions would also be held in which persons of eminence would deliver talks. Dr K.S. Verma, Programme Coordinator, proposed a vote of thanks. Lighting of the lamp by the chief guest, NSS song by the students of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, and a devotional song by a student of Tamil Nadu University, Coimbatore, were the other highlights of the function. |
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PU Zonal Youth Festival begins Ludhiana, November 10 The chief guest for today was Prof Ramesh Kapoor, Dean, College Development Council, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He was presented a bouquet and he lighted a lamp to inaugurate the festival. Saraswati Vandana was sung by two students of BCM College while words of welcome came from the convener, Dr S.K. Nanda. The inaugural address was delivered by the chief guest, Professor Kapoor Today’s programme began with an announcement of the topic of debate. The topic selected was “In the opinion of the House, Indian women are losing their womenhood in modern
times. "The teams have a day to prepare on the topic and the debate will start at 9.30 am tomorrow. The first item of the festival was shabad/bhajan. Rangoli competition was interesting as students chose to make colourful portraits of different figures. It was followed by a competition in Indian classical music. ‘Vaar’ singing was another competition which invoked a lot of interest as the singers elaborated on the valour of heroes. Geet and ghazals, instrumental music, group song and folk song competitions followed. The nine teams had prepared well and the competition was stiff.
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Theatre workshop
for students Ludhiana, November 10 Each school had sent 10 to 15 students for taking training in drama as well as dance from artistes of Poland, Lithuania, Japan and Ukraine. The four-hour workshop was followed by a lively festival that was inaugurated by Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers. The wide and varied talent staged by students of the host school impressed the audience. All aspects of theatre, including make-up, set dances, dialogue delivery costumes and music, were appreciated by the guests. A foot-tapping Polish dance was staged by students from Poland. A story telling session was held later by the artistes of National School of Drama. The festival was hosted by the founder chairman, of the school Dr A.F. Pinto, and the director, Ms Grace Pinto. Ms Anupama Sapra, Headmistress, said the school aimed at carving a niche for itself in the arena of activity based ‘Education for excellence’. |
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Over 100 students take part in talent hunt Ludhiana, November 10 Mr Manpreet Singh, folk dance teacher from Guru Nanak Public School, and Ms Rattan from Kundan Vidya Mandir, were the judges. Ms Pritima
Behl, manager of the club, distributed the prizes. In the competition for action song,
(LKG), Mehar Jain, Denav Badyal and Akshit Batheya won the first, second and third prizes, respectively. Madhur
Seerat, Anshia Badyal and Parnika Bedi won prizes among the UKG children. Among the participants of Class I,
Amulya, Shivya and Vedanjali Mehta won the prizes. Raisen Saini, Aishwarya and Medha Gupta were declared winners among the Class II category category classes III and IV,
winners were Vibhu
Behl, Arshia and Anugeet. In elocution (LKG), Rohan, Harkaran and Karan Sodhi won the first, second and third prizes, respectively.
Shreya, Manthan and Aadesh won in the UKG category. Among the participants of Class I, Manu Aggarwal, Ambika and Aditya Gupta were the winners. Osheen
Dhingra, Abhinav Jain and Varun Sharma were declared winners among the Class II. category. The winners in the Classes III and IV category were Shreya Jain, Romika Channa and
Anukeerat.
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Computer carnival begins Ludhiana, November 10 In cyber splendour, computer-based painting competition, each participating school was represented by two students. The contest was open for students of Classes VI to VIII. The students were told to make paintings with ‘paint brush’ software in an hour’s time. They were told to pick any one topic from the four given to them on the spot. These included a jungle scene, a market scene, a hot summer day and Divali
celebrations. Amanpreet Kaur, a Class VII student from Gujranwala Guru Nanak Public School, won the first prize. The second prize went to Tushar Gupta, a Class VII student from the host school. Ahsaas Chawla of the same school received a special prize. The cyber quiz, based on questions related to hardware, software, networking and programming, was divided into two categories, one with students from Classes VI and VII, and another with students from Classes IX to XII. In the first category, the team from DAV Public School won the first prize. The host team was declared the runners-up. The quiz for the second category was partly held today but the final round was postponed for tomorrow due to some time constraints. The contests were organised by Mr Sanjay
Shroff, computer teacher. Sister Helima, Principal, inaugurated the carnival in the morning. The contests were managed by SS Hitech India with the support of Intel.
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Linki Verma excels in M.Com exam Ludhiana, November 10 Out of the first 10 positions in Ludhiana district, students of the college bagged six position i.e. first, second, third, eighth, ninth and 10th. The Principal , Mr B.D. Budhiraja, gave the credit to the hardwork put in by the students of the college and dedicated teaching of the members of the Commerce Department. |
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Retired teachers’
conference today Ludhiana, November 10 Dr Manmohan Singh, Secretary, Higher Education, will be the chief guest. Principal Sarwan Singh will preside over the conference while Principal B.K. Bhalla will present a report. Shabad Gayan will be performed by classical musicians of Shree Bhaini Sahib Sangeet Akadmi. Prof Ajit Kaur and Prof Aziz Parihar will present ghazals. Prof M.S. Cheema will address the audience on “Current challenges to teaching and learning.” Dr Joshi said the elders among the retirees, Dr K.C. Singhal, Dr Ujagar Singh Sidhu, Prof A. Malhotra, Prof Kartar Singh, Prof M. Malhotra and Prof N.P. Dhanda, will be accorded the award of honour. |
ITI ex-Principal gets
2-year RI Ludhiana, November 10 They have been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years each and a fine of Rs 4000 each has been imposed on them. Delivering the verdict, Mr Kaushik held that it had been proved that the accused embezzled property, tantamounting to misconduct under Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 468, 471 and 409, IPC. The Judge rejected the plea of leniency by the accused, terming the offences to be of serious
nature. The accused were booked by the Vigilance Bureau, Patiala, on November 3, 1995. According to the prosecution, the bureau acted on a tip-off that Hardial Singh and the storekeeper had misused their position and had misappropriated machines of the ITI which were neither condemned nor auctioned. The bureau conducted an inquiry and the allegations were found to be correct. It also came to light that the machines were “lifted” without verification on a holiday, causing huge loss to the government. However, Hardial Singh pleaded innocence and claimed that at the time of the occurrence he had the additional charge of the ITI Samrala and only had symbolic possession of the articles. Some articles were auctioned by the Controller of Store, Punjab. Apart from this, the articles were in the custody of the instructor concerned. He was informed by the instructor that some articles were taken away by the company concerned. Thereafter, he sent information in writing to the SHO, Samrala Police Station, for the registration of the case. Kuldip Singh pleaded that he was never in the possession of the articles. Convinced with the submissions made by the Additional Public Prosecutor and after examining the evidence of eight prosecution witnesses, the court came to the conclusion that the accused sent the information to the SHO after the Vigilance officials swung into action and in order to make a defence plea. The court also found that the duo tampered with the official record and fabricated documents to escape punishment. |
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