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Scholarships for the disabled Chandigarh, May 10 Meritorious students with disabilities are often unable to pursue technical and professional education for the want of financial support which forces them to learn soft skills or take admission in non-technical correspondence courses, and abandon up-scale careers. To do away with this constraint, the Disability Placement Unit has devised annual NCPEDP-Samsung scholarships. The objective of the scheme is to enable meritorious disabled students to get education or professional training of certificate, diploma, graduate, postgraduate or doctoral levels in technological courses like civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, computer, telecommunications, instrumentation, architecture, information technology. The scholarship will be awarded only for one year to disabled students pursuing technical courses at Rs 1200 per month. According to an official announcement, the scholarship may be awarded to students with the following disabilities: blindness or low vision, speech or hearing impairment, locomotor disability, including those arising from leprosy, cerebral palsy and allied disorders, thalassemia, haemophilia, learning disability or any other disability, as recognised by the NCPEDP from time to time. Eligibility criteria lays down that the candidate should be an Indian national between 18 and 35 years of age. However, age can be relaxed at the discretion of the awarding authority. The candidate should be either pursuing or should have gained admission to a full-time course in an Indian university/college or technical institute, established by law or in a recognised equivalent institution. Applications can be made for any one of the following courses/subjects: graduate, post-graduate and doctoral in mechanical, civil, electronic or any other branch of engineering, computer science, architecture, certificate or diploma courses being offered by polytechnics in the field of technical education, certificate or diploma courses being conducted by technical institutes like NIIT and APTECH in fields related to information technology. At the discretion of the awarding authority, a scholarship may also be awarded for a technical course like BCA/MCA, of Ignou or any other recognised open university. A scholarship will be provided for 12 months only. If the student has already completed some part of the course, he/she will be awarded the scholarship only for the remaining period. During the course, one failure may be condoned by the awarding authority on the grounds of illness or other extraordinary circumstances. The scholarship amount will be released every three months on receipt of the progress report from the Head of the Institution. The continuation of the scholarship will depend not only on academic progress, but also on the conduct of the student as reported by the Head of the Institution. A Medal/Certificate of Merit will be awarded to the student who performs very well in his/her studies among the chosen scholars. |
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2 city engineers to join IIM Ahmedabad Chandigarh, May 10 Son of Mr Rakesh Chadha, who runs a shop in Sector 22, Prashant said he had been preparing for the test for the past one year. Another city girl, Navpreet Mann, working as software engineer with Motorola at Bangalore, has made it to IIM Ahmedabad, Indore and Kozhikode. Talking to Chandigarh Tribune, Mr S.S. Mann, father of Navpreet, said the choice of her daughter would be IIM Ahmedabad.
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‘Pune Highway’ to unfold in city Chandigarh, May 10 Slated for May 17 at Tagore Theatre, “Pune Highway” stars the versatile and talented team of English theatre artistes with veterans like Rajit Kapur, who is already a well-known face in the field of advertising and films, Bugs Bhargava Krishna, Rehaan Engineer, Yamini Namjoshi and Shankar Sachdeva. The play has riveting performances by the actors. Revolving around a series of happenings in the lives of three young men who get held up in a seedy hotel room just off the Mumbai-Pune highway, it throws bare a plethora of emotions, undercurrents, sub-conscious dilemmas and the darker side of human nature. Scared, tired and on the run, they have just witnessed the stabbing of a fourth friend while on their way to the hill station resort of Lonavala. What occurs in the hour following the incident forms the crux of the play. Limited donor cards for “Pune Highway” are available at the foundation’s office in Nehru Bhavan, Sector 24, here on a first-come first-serve basis. |
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Punjabi singers
to perform Chandigarh, May 10 According to Mr Samir Kasal, a director, of Brilliant Entertainment Networks, “We provide a platform for internationally acclaimed Indian Artistes to come together and perform worldwide.” Adds Mr Raman Raheja, another Director of Brilliant Entertainment Networks, “This concert is the first of a series of concerts we plan to have across the world to popularise Punjabi folk and pop music with the help and assistance of music lovers world wide.” |
Packaging in style, decorating with class If design and style have become a part of the mundane lifestyle, can the special occasions escape the onslaught of jazz and style? Adding that extra zing, colour and fizz to your special occasion is Ms Japneet Kaur Bawa and her mother, Ms Puneet Kaur. The mother-daughter duo has come up with a unique business of celebrating Punjabi weddings, housewarming ceremonies, mundane ceremonies or festivals like Lohri and Divali— with class and pizazz. Their venture “Wraps’ R Us” , which involves designer packaging for all occasions, is making waves with exclusive packaging stuff and home decoration ideas for special occasions. They have home linen for trousseau, silk bed linen and table linen, special thaals for engagements and shagun ceremonies, suit, saree and shoe packings, jewellery boxes, potlees, shagun envelopes, fruit baskets, bangle cushions et al. Rich colours and fabrics — electric blue, purple, red, yellow, pink, violet, gold and silver — are used, and embellished with artificial flowers, ribbons , tissue flowers, beads, glitters and swarovski. The ideas for creating the packings are innovative and specially designed keeping in mind the customers’ requirements. The engagement thaal will be a platter with embellishments all over, and a lotus in the centre for keeping the engagement ring. The saree and suit covers to pack the gifts for the groom’s family or for the brides’ trousseau are either simple bags, or pakhis with a zip at the back for packing the dress material. The wrought iron box for packing eatable to be presented for a housewarming ceremony are in the shape of huts and the packaging for giving eatables or gifts at mundan ceremonies have a baby doll on top. Though most of her packaging celebrates Punjabiyat (pakhis and potlees are traditionally Punjabi), she also plays with the Ganesha symbol on her stuff. Japneet says she buys fabrics locally and wrought iron boxes are custom-made at a factory. Their outlet also stocks home accessories — prints of paintings, kitchen decoration items, and artificial flowers — which are brought from Mumbai and dyed or sprinkled with glitter before these are sold. A textile designer by training, Japneet says her creative instinct led her to hold an exhibition of her wrapping material in the city almost nine months back. “I got a good response at the exhibition, and a lot of orders for the trousseau packing. Within 10 days of holding the exhibition, and getting orders, I realised that my workshop at home was small, and overnight shifted to this SCO in Sector 26,” she recalls. Japneet says the value of the gift is no longer that important, but the way it is presented and its packaging is what determines the class and style of the person who presents it. She churns out packaging material for four or five weddings a month, besides deciding on their home decor for the occasion. The packaging for each wedding, which includes several functions, costs between Rs 20,000 and Rs 50,000. “We also advise on and decorate homes in different colour combinations for different functions,” she says. Her future plans? “A lot of my clients now ask me tips on interior designing. We propose to go into interior designing in the near future,” she says.
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Students make ‘the final expression’ FIVE final-year students of the Government College of Art have joined hands to give expression to their creativity. Titled as “The Final Expression” the onging exhibition at Kalagram provides variety in terms of media — oil, etching, aquatint and stone and wood sculpture. Experimenting with basic colours and geometrical forms, Ritu Garg moves from complexity to simplicity of life as she explores all media. Sapna Goel curves out her dreams on stone and wood. Kavita Guleria explores man-woman relationship, while Preeti Sharma puts forward the philosophy that there are ups and downs in life, but it goes on. Divya Bansal explores the theme “Space and Stand” with a series of black and white photography and etching. The exhibition concludes on Tuesday. OC
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Wedded to theatre, musicals his love Director of Delhi Music Theatre, Pulinkala has brought the musical from Music and Theatre Limited, London, and adapted it to suit the capacity of the 600 children who are part of the musical. “It is not a pure opera for to stage one, we need to have professional singers of very high standard,” says Pulinkala. Though all the 14 songs included in the musical are presented live, the director has used music tracks instead of a live band. However, one has limited scope for adaptation of musicals as Music and Theatre Limited as well as Music Theatre International, New York, which are the main sources for Pulinkala’s musicals, are strict about terms and conditions. “When we buy the copyright, we have to give the companies in writing that we are not going to change much of the script or music. In this region, not many people are trying their hand at staging musicals,” says Pulinkala. What about Indian productions? “We have rich subjects fit for musicals, but one or two attempts in this direction have failed to click,” says Pulinkala. Though Bipin Kapoor tried to capture the grandeur of the Taj in his opera “Story of Taj” and Kanchi Ram attempted “Story of Ram”, these could not materialise. “We do not have many composers as one needs plenty of time to compose. One needs to have a knowledge of both theatre and music,” he says. For Pulinkala, music came naturally as he played a number of instruments like the violin, the piano and the keyboard all his life. “I played the violin for Delhi Symphony for 20 years,” he says. Theatre came later to this commerce and economics teacher, who taught for 33 years at Mount St. Mary’s School, New Delhi. His love for music and acting gave birth to Delhi Music Theatre in 1995, where he trained people in production-oriented courses. “In my company, I mostly teach college students, free of cost. Once the production is over, we pay them a nominal amount for their labour,” says Pulinkala. Delhi Music Theatre, which used to present at least three productions a year, is now suffering a setback following the anti-tobacco policy. “The minimum cost for a musical falls in between Rs 7 lakh and Rs 14 lakh. “Cigarette company Four Square used to sponsor all my shows, but now that tobacco companies are not allowed to sponsor such shows, we are left in the lurch,” says Pulinkala. Provided he finds a sponsor, Pulinkala’s dream is to produce something on Tipu Sultan. “I am not a composer, but am going to take help from my son Ivan, who teaches choreography at Murray State University in Kentucky, to work on the life of Tipu Sultan, — an excellent subject for a musical,” he says. |
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For men, the summerwear collection has on offer slim-fitted shirts with diagonal, vertical and horizontal stripes with seersucker and crinckle effects. These range between Rs 599 and Rs 899. The summer range also has on offer denim shirts and kurtas, priced between Rs 649 and Rs 849. Diwan Saheb, a menswear designer brand, is all set to launch its new white cotton collection. It has been designed keeping in mind the comfort and freedom to fit. The collection has variations in designing as well as workmanship. Crafted out of white cotton voil fabric with self-white embroidery as well as plain without embroidery, white on patchwork voil kurta, or kurta with cuts like front placket in wave, curved and straight cuts can be worn during summer on any occasion. Diwan Saheb’s white cotton collection is also available with matching jutti. Prices range between Rs 1,500 and Rs 5,000.
Consisting of exquisite styles for men and women with emphasis on the urban, fashionable and functional feel, Lee Cooper’s latest collection has fashion bottoms such as damaged jeans for the rugged retro look to the ultra-casual jog-in jeans and summer T-shirts and shirts in prints and textures. The surprise element of the collection is crushed jeans. Keeping in mind the comfort and the aesthetic factor, the new jeanswear collection is made from fabrics such as lycra, double-dyed denims, textures denims, multicounts, broken twills, heavy slubby fabrics, imported cross-hatches, thick and thin streaky fabrics. Apart from the cool clean blues, the shades are brick, grape, choco, blue lagoon, tan, coffee and emerald. These are priced at Rs 399 and above. TNS
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George Pulinkala can take even the most sensible human being to the world of fantasy by exploiting his deep-rooted desire for eternal childhood.
After establishing himself as the most sought-after musical director in the region with his earlier productions, “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Annie”, Pulinkala is here again to take you to yet another adventure trip to the magical island of “Neverland” with his mega-musical “Peter Pan”, that opened at St Kabir in Chandigarh on Monday.
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Uno, a denimwear brand, has introduced its latest summerwear collection. Cool and chic, the collection is stylised towards the basic look, which is very in this season. According to Mr Narinder Singh, managing director of Hi-Fashion Clothing Company, “Corresponding to the current trends, the Numero Uno girl collection offers, short denim kurtas that have been stylised with floral embroideries and range between Rs 499 and Rs 599. These are available in cool cotton and crip linen”.
Lee Cooper, a jeanswear brand, has announced the launch of new products in its spring and summer collection. The new colour palette defining the theme for the season is “characteristic greys” such as granite, charred, smoke, gravel, ash, lead, earth, anthra and tar.