From Schools
Dance contest organised at Moti Ram School 
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
An inter-school dance competition was organised at Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 27. The competition was organised to pay homage to the late Hardyal Mahajan, founder president of the institution. As many as 80 students from 12 schools participated in the folk dance competition.

Earlier, an inter-school poem recitation and on the spot card making competitions were also organised on the occasion. The following teams bagged the prizes in the inter-school dance competition: Moti Ram Arya Senior Model School –1; Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, 2; D.A.V School, Sector 15, 3.

Distributed

Woollen sweaters, shoes and socks were distributed among 42 students of Sankalpa Night School for slum children, Nehru Colony. The function was presided over by Mr Bahadhur Singh, project officer, Education Department. The school is being run by Kusum Arora Memorial Trust.

Pulse polio rally

A pulse polio rally was organised by Government High School, Sector 30, in connection with the pulse polio campaign organised here today. Dr G.P. Singh, Dr Rachna and staff of ESI dispensary, Sector 29, participated in the rally.

PU staff to intensify stir
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
Panjab University’s Joint Action Committee of teaching and non-teaching employees decided to intensify their struggle to press for the implementation of a pension scheme at a meeting held here today.

An-hour long rally of the teaching and non-teaching staff will be held at the Administrative Block on the campus tomorrow morning and will continue for a week. If rallies do not elicit a favorable response from the authorities concerned, the employees would resort to chain fasts and indefinite fasts.

The committee also decided that every member of various PU staff unions would contribute Rs 50 to set up a corpus. It would be utilised to sustain the agitation.

The president of the Non-teaching Employees Federation, Mr Dharam Paul Sharma, said the committee would launch a signature campaign to press for pension to PU employees. Copies of the signature list would be sent to the office of the Prime Minister, the Finance Minister and the MHRD among others.

“We will meet the local MP, Mr Pawan Bansal, and former MP Satya Pal Jain to accompany us to Delhi. We expect them to use their connections to help us get permission of the Ministry of Human Resource Development or else we will launch a campaign against them as well,” he said.

Also, it was decided that two teams of the committee would be formed. While one team would be assigned the task of meeting central ministers and submitting memorandum in Delhi before the session of Parliament, the other one would be responsible for carrying on a struggle on the university campus by holding regular rallies and demonstrations. 

Roll numbers to Law Dept students
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
Mr Vikas Rathee, an office-bearer of the Panjab University Student Council, today said the 50 students of first year of Law Department who had not been issued roll numbers due to shortage of lecturers would be issued the roll number tomorrow morning. The papers of the first year students are beginning from tomorrow. The students have been advised to come before the examination so that they could collect their roll number from the department.

The case had been sent to the Vice-Chancellor for approving the issuing of roll numbers.

Prof D.D. Bansal on ‘Natural Product Radiance’ board
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
Prof D.D. Bansal of the Department of Bio-chemistry, Panjab University, has been nominated by the Research Council of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi, on the editorial board of “Natural Product radiance”.

This scientific journal publishes articles and reviews on new developments in areas of natural products. Dr Bansal is involved in research on the benefits of tea, olive oil and trace minerals in biomedical sciences.

Students hold rally
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
To create awareness about a safe-blood-donation programme among public, a rally of 200 school students was flagged off by Ms Rajinder Kumari Aulakh, Assistant Director, DPI (Colleges), Punjab, at Punjab Red Cross Bhavan.

Students from Government Model Senior Secondary School, Mohali, Government NTC Co-Educational Senior Secondary School, Rajpura, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Kurali, and Government College, Dera Bassi, participated in the rally.

The rally passed through Sector 17, Main Civil Secretariat and Mini Secretariat. Students pasted stickers and distributed cards and newspaper bags among people. 

CULTURE

‘Ants’ director to produce film on meditation
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
City-based Sunil Babbar, producer and director of two international awards winning English feature film, "ANTS", will now produce an international documentary film on meditation to explain the use of 'preekshadhyan' a technique of meditation based on the wisdom of ancient Indian philosophy.

Babbar will be producing and directing a documentary film on this subject in two languages, English and Hindi. The English title of the film is "Know yourself through yourself" and the Hindi title of the film is "Swa se swayam ka sakshatkar ". The duration of the film is 50 minutes. It is written by. Bharati, who earlier wrote the English film "Ants" for Babbar. The 10th Acharya of Terapanth, Acharyashree Mahapragya, who discovered the techniques of 'Prekshadhyan', is himself appearing in this film to give details of this meditation technique. The Hindi version will be released on television and in video formats in India and the English version is due for release throughout the world by a Hollywood-based film distribution company.

The 10-day shooting of the film is going to start on November 21 at Siriyari in Rajasthan.

Babbar says it was during the course of research and writing of the script of "Interview" a movie, that he came across an interesting mode of meditation 'Prekshadhyan', a technique of meditation being practised by Terapanth, a sect of Sri Jain Shwetambar Panth. It is a technique of meditation for attitudinal change and behavioural and integrated development of personality.

The synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern scientific knowledge can help humanity in achieving amity, peace and happiness in the world by eradicating the bestial urges such as cruelty, retaliation and hatred. 

Magic show on Nov 21
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 18
A performance of "Illusion India" a magic show would be held at St Anne's Convent School, Sector 32, on November 21. The show, hosted by Kerala Sastra Kala Manch, would demonstrate magical art that serves entertainment and a medium to educate on the values of Gandhian principles. The main mission of the Kerala Manch was illiteracy eradication.

SPORTS

Warehousing Corpn sports meet concludes
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, November 18
The Third National Warehousing Sports meet-2004 concluded this evening at the Sector 7 Sports Complex. This three-day meet was organised by the Punjab Warehousing Corporation. Andhra Pradesh sportspersons won the best overall performance trophy with 54 points while in athletics, the overall trophy was won by CWC, Delhi. Mr Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, Punjab was the chief guest while Mr SS Randhawa, Parliamentary Secretary, Punjab, presided over the same.

Results: Athletics; women; 100 metres: Shobha1, Rekha 2, DV Mala 3. men; 1500 metres: Jagdish Chand 1, Suresh Yadav 2, Rajesh 3.

100 metres final: Santosh1, RS Bhadoriya 2, MD Tariq 3.

Kabaddi: Maharashtra1, AP 2, Punjab 3. Cricket; Delhi1, Punjab 2, Maharashtra 3. Tug of War: finals: Punjab b Delhi.

Volleyball: MP 1, Maharashtra 2, AP 3.

TT: Sushil 1, KK Jain 2, Ashwani Anand 3. carrom: Amrik 1, R Choudhary 2, Alok Kohli 3.

Mumbai varsity surge ahead

Gujarat University, Gujarat and Mumbai University, Mumbai surged ahead by beating Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra by 2-0 and Jadavpur University, Kolkata also by 2-0 respectively in the All-India Inter University Tennis (women) Tournament being played here today at Panjab University campus grounds. In other matches of the day, NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijaywada beat Kota University, Kota by 2-1.

G N Public School win

The Emily Gosain Memorial Sub-Junior Basketball Tournament in below 12 and 14 section began here today at St Xavier’s High School, Panchkula.

In the matches held today, in under 14 section, Guru Nanak Public school, Chandigarh beat Tender Heart school, Sector 33 by 32-20, New Public school, Sector 18 b Bhavan Vidyalya, Panchkula by 22-14 and St Xavier’s Panchkula defeated St Kabir, Sector 26 by 9-6. In the below 12 section, St Xavier’s ‘B’ team beat St Xavier’s Panchkula 7-4, St Xavier’s, Chandigarh defeated Little Flower, Panchkula by 29-05 while St Stephen’s School, Sector 45 beat St Joseph’s Chandigarh by 26-10.