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Paper out of syllabus
Chandigarh, December 10 “We made repeated rounds of the department to find out the syllabus for the paper. However, we were not given any clear cut answers. This led to confusion and resulted in the out- of-syllabus paper. The campus unit the of the NSUI demanded that all students, appearing for the examination be given 60 per cent grace marks.
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Students were apprised of lecture shortage
Chandigarh, December 10 Dr R.S. Grewal, in a statement issued today said regarding the shortage of lectures of students of B.A. LL.B. (Hons) First Semester, a notice had been put up at the students’ notice board at the commencement of the session in August, 2004, informing the students that the requirement of attendance is 75 per cent in aggregate. They were informed about the consequences of the shortage of lectures also. He said every month lectures were counted and put up on the notice board for the information of the students and the copy of which was sent to the DUI for information. The students who were falling short of lectures were called by the office and advised to be regular. The students had the access to the Central Library of the University, Department of Laws Library and The Library of University Institute of Legal Studies. He further stated that all students whose lectures were falling short beyond 50 per cent had shown very poor academic result in their first internal assessment examination. Almost all of them are failing in four to five papers out of six. Mr Grewal said the students were non-serious in their academic pursuits. They had taken university as a place for excursion and not for education. The university authorities have appealed to parents of the agitating students to urge their wards not to resort to wrong tactics.
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Arts college in dilemma over MFA courses
Chandigarh, December 10 Just 10 days ago College of Arts finished admitting students into the Master of Fine Arts courses following the provisional approval of the AICTE. Now the AICTE has questioned the start of these courses while asking the college to “show cause as to why a punitive action should not be taken against the college.” In a letter received by the Chandigarh Administration on December 8, a technical committee of the AICTE, which inspected the college on November 23, had raised certain objections. The college authorities are in a predicament. They had the letter of the provisional approval of the AICTE and went ahead with the admissions. The last date for admissions was November 30 under the rules of Panjab University to which the college is affiliated. While the AICTE sent its list of objections on December 8 much after the last date of admissions. The letter of the AICTE says the technical committee, in its visit on November 23, observed that the college had no regular principal ; the faculty was ad-hoc and there was no professor and the academic session was midway. The AICTE says in absence of the approval this is a serious violation of regulations. It also says the provisional approval was subject to condition of verification of infrastructure and facilities. Sources in the educational circle pointed out that the administration could go ahead and carry on with the courses. MFA was taught at six places and only one at Jamia Millia University, Delhi, has the approval of the AICTE, others were affiliated with the respective universities. The principal of the college has apprised senior officials about the letter and the matter on what is to be done will be discussed on Monday. The administration may seek sometime from the AICTE as the students have been admitted and their professional year cannot be wasted, said an official. The college has admitted students in MFA for the painting, sculpting and arts in graphics courses.
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15 teams take part in
Aero Quiz
Chandigarh, December 10 The quiz, held in Hansraj Public School, Panchkula, comprised three rounds. The first was the preliminary round on current affairs, followed by a round on intelligence. After these two rounds, four teams were picked up for the third round which had three sections, including audio and visual rounds. The results, in order of merit are: Ashish Khullar and Nikhil Chaudhry (St Stephens School, Chandigarh); Vaibhav Nangia and Ajachi Chakraborty (St John’s High School, Chandigarh); Swati Dahiya and Abhishek Saxena (Shishu Niketan, Sector 22) and Yogesh Sharma and Megha Sangwan (Chamanlal DAV, Panchkula).
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Campus Beat
Chandigarh, December 10 Dr M. Syamala Devi, Chairperson of the DCSA, inaugurated the workshop. The objective of the workshop was to revise the BCA syllabi and change from the annual to semester system. Around 50 teachers from various affiliated colleges, including Ferozepore, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Chandigarh participated in the workshop. Issues like eligibility criteria, scheme of examination, core and elective subjects in four sessions were discussed. The detailed contents of the first two semester subjects were discussed and changes were recorded. Roll numbers dispatched
The roll numbers of all eligible candidates appearing in the UGC-NET examination to be held on December 26, 2004 at Chandigarh (Centre Code-48) have been dispatched. Those who may not receive their roll numbers by December 12 should contact the Coordinator, UGC-NET, Prof K.K. Bhasin, in the Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, along with the two attested photographs. Post of Director ( Sports) to be re-advertised
The post of Director (Sports), Panjab University, would be re-advertised. An agenda item on the issue is being tabled in the tomorrow's Syndicate meeting. According to the information, the selection committee, on December 5, found no suitable candidate from among the six applicants. Meanwhile, the process of selecting the Deputy Director ( Sports) has been postponed till December 17. The selection has been postponed after one of the
applicant, Mr Kewal Krishan, objected to the wrong criteria being adopted for the selection. Around 16 candidates had applied for the post. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr K.N. Pathak said proper procedure would be followed while selecting the candidate.
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AKSIPS holds annual function
Chandigarh, December 10 Mr D.S. Mangat, DPI (Schools), was the chief guest. The Principal of the school, Ms Jagjit Sekhon, read the annual report. A cultural show was organised in which students presented songs “Hari Hari Vasundhara Pe Neela Neela Ye Gagan”, “Chale jaise hawaein sanun sanan” and “Prem se hum ko jeene do”, a Punjabi skit and gymnastics. Dr B.N.S. Walia, former Director of the PGIMER and Chairman of the AKSIPS, was present. Kids Kingdom
The third annual function of the Kids Kingdom, Sector 8, was held at the Art Gallery auditorium, Sector 10, here today. The show began with a fashion parade by the tiny tots of pre-nursery. LKG students presented Hawain dance and a Hindi play. The issue of national integration was highlighted by students of nursery in a play. Boys presented bhangra. The Director of the school, Mr Rupinderjit Walia, welcomed the chief guest, Ms Kamlesh, Mayor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.
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Shemrock’s annual day
Mohali, December 10 The programme commenced with the school song “Deh Shiva Var Mohe” and speech by the principal. This was followed by the lighting of inaugural lamp. In the orchestra, students created a melody to the tune of ‘Sare jahan se achchha’. Giddha and bhangra had mesmerised the audience. The school awarded medals to students for attaining full attendance in the previous session.
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Contempt notice to Sports Director
Chandigarh, December 10 In their order, Mr L.M. Goyal and Mr J.S. Dhaliwal, Vice-Chairman and Judicial Member, respectively, of the Banch, asked Mr Sandhu to show cause why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him. An application for initiating contempt proceedings was moved by Mr Rajiv Sharma, who alleged that the CAT orders had been “willfully and knowingly” flouted by the Chandigarh Administration while appointing Dr Reet Mohinder Singh as the General Manager. The appointment of Dr Reet Mohinder Singh was quashed by the CAT on August 17 terming it as “arbitrary, capricious and unjust”. The tribunal had then directed the administration to fill the vacancy in accordance with the law within three months after advertising it. However, the
applicant alleged that with a view to accommodate Dr Reet Mohinder Singh, the administration changed the rules without calling a general body meeting of the Chandigarh Sport Council (CSC). The administration reportedly received the copy of the CAT order on August 18,2003 and, showing undue haste, issued an advertisement for the post of the General Manager on August 23 “altering” the rules. Certain persons, who had applied for the post, were allegedly not called for the interview conducted by the
administration. Terming the interview as an “eyewash”, the application alleged that the entire exercise was done to “hoodwink” the orders of the CAT. And to top it all, Dr Reet Mohinder Singh was appointed General Manager for a period of three years against one year as advertised in newspapers, the complainant alleged.
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Non-bailable warrants against lawyer
Chandigarh, December 10 The Housing Development Finance Corporation(HDFC) Limited, in its application before the court, alleged that the accused had taken a loan of Rs 3.3 lakh from the corporation. The accused did not adhere to the repayment schedule and defaulted on paying instalments. On June 20,2002, a cheque bearing number 004422 for Rs 60,000 was drawn on UTI Bank in Sector 34-A. However, the cheque was returned by the bank with the
remarks" insufficient funds”. The complainant alleged that repeated attempts were made to serve notices on the accused, but he deliberately avoided the receipt of the notices. The complainant demanded an action against him under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,1881.
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The actor’s tribute
to a life well-lived
VERY rarely does one come across sincere productions. Anupam Kher’s one-man act, “Kucch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai”, is one such play that dares to celebrate the human virtue of honesty as it is — simple and basic.
Picking threads from his rather dramatic life that takes birth in Shimla, Anupam Kher weaves a tapestry rich with emotions, showing the world the other side of glamour where a star is as vulnerable as a struggler. Structured as a comedy, the production, staged at the PGI’s Bhargava auditorium in Chandigarh on Friday, is vibrant with mordant wit. It showcases the childhood years of Anupam who copes with the demands of tradition valued enormously by his Kashmiri Brahmin family. As a student, he labours to make a mark both on the personal and academic front. As a man on the verge of youth, he experiences the bliss of the first romance. In every act, he makes a promise to return in style and in substance. The play is about Anupam’s classic struggles as an actor — the theft he commits in his own house to manage enough money so that he can reach Chandigarh and the audition for the course in the drama department; the atrocious audition he gives in front of Balwant Gargi who dismisses him as an actor, but complements him for his courage to act as a woman; the stint at the National School of Drama where he learns the richness of the medium of theatre from Ebrahim Alkazi; his eternal struggle in Mumbai which costs him his love; his misses like the role of Pandit Nehru in Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi”; and his hits like the role of B.V. Pradhan in “Saaransh”. There is every bit of Anupam in the Firoz Khan-directed autobiography which has the power to sell. The actor himself, however, does not look at the play as a commercial venture. For him, it is an alibi to pause and reflect on his failures and successes. The glamour of Bollywood, the pressure of performance; the smokescreen of a starry status become a solid backdrop against which Anupam tells the truth of his life which has seen as many crests and troughs as any one of us has. During the course of enactment, Anupam pays tributes to many people who made his life worth living, including Mahesh Bhatt, Manmohan Desai and his grandfather. His marriage with Kiron Kher, earlier his friend for eight years, features in the brightest spot as the actor declares on stage, “Kiron has been lending purpose to my life, earlier as a friend and now as a wife.” As for the climax, the play never really ends while it lists the recent failures in the actor’s life, including his directorial debut, “Om Jai Jagdish”, his production house and his game show, “Sawaal Das Crore Ka.” Put together, the story is well told and inspiring as it stresses the power of will over everything else. On crossroads of life and career, it’s an actor’s tribute to a life, well lived. The play was sponsored by The Tribune and was held in collaboration with Vivek High School, Sector 38, Chandigarh. Another show of the play will be held tomorrow at the same venue.
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Sardar Anjum couplets to welcome Pak guests today
“THO hamsaye bhai ban kar duniyan par chhaa jayenge, Yahi sdayen uthti hein akaash pe chaand sitaron se.... Rabb ki rehmat dharti ke tapte seene pe barsegi, Yaar milenege jis din “Anjum” khol ke baahen yaaron se...”, this ode of resolute yearning for Indo-Pak amity came from Dr Sardar Anjum as both the Chief Ministers of Indian and Pakistani Punjab greeted each other at the inaugural ceremony of Indo -Pak Games at Patiala.
Endowed with vision, the poet of fragrance and fire Dr Anjum , sick of bloodshed and illusory love, had made a fine endeavour to catch the spirit and élan of both Punjabs in his couplets. Chief Minister Parveiz Elahi and Fakkar Zaman, president, world Punjabi Society, had a special admiration for the poet. On his recent visit to Pakistan as he stepped on to the Pakistani soil the virtues embalmed in his poetic “paigaam” spelt... “Dilon ki roshni ban kar, mohabbat ki zubaan le kar, tumhari sar zameen par aye hain, Hindostan le kar” won him applause from hosts in Pakistan. At a “Mushaira” in Pakistan , a crowd of 11,000 admired him for the felicity of expression, grace and exuberance as he appreciated them for the peace initiative through an edifying note “ Khilona ban kar tutne se bach gye Anjum, mila kuchh bhi nahin dono ko bazm-e- raigan ban kar”. At the gala celebration of the sporting spirit and friendship with an attitude of gratitude to Pakistani guests at the closing ceremony of the games, a poetic tribute by Padmashri Dr Sardar Anjum, specially recorded for the historic event, will reverberate the Yadvindra Stadium on December 11. The redeeming perspective reflected in couplets calls for ending the pragmatic egoism and resolve to pledge...“Aao sarhad pe dharen dil ki madhur shehnai, apni banno ki ye baraat bahut achhi hai; Isko nafrat ke andheron se bachaye rakhna, ab ke ye pyar ki saugat bahut achhi hai...; Iska anjaam bhi ‘Anjum’, bahut acchha hoga, kum se kum ab ke shuruat, bahut achchhi hai”.
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This Pustak is for slum children
“IT is better to go to the cinema than to school,” says father of Parwana, a nine-year-old, who hails from Bihar. The boy had left his home about two years ago and had come to Chandigarh to earn a livelihood along with his father. His mother is still in Bihar.
Parwana works at a tea stall and earns Rs 35 daily, which he gives to his father. He works for at least nine hours a day. But at night he devotes at least two hours at a night school, Pustak, which is being run by an NGO, Youth Technical Training Centre. The school is run in a verandah in front of a bank in Sector 17, Chandigarh. Parwana immediately catches attention with his broad smile. But no one can imagine how much pain is hidden behind his smile. “ I miss my mother and the food prepared by her. I talk to her on the phone. I want to stay with her but my father forces me to earn money. I have joined this school because I like to study,” he says with tears in his eyes. Does he has an ambition? “How can I think big when I don’t even have money for food. I come to this school because I want to do something better in my life.” Dinesh (10), hails from a small village in Uttar Pradesh. His father died a few years back and he and his mother were left alone. They didn’t have anything to eat at their village and they migrated here. Longing for the tender care of his mother, he says, “Whenever I saw other children going to school, I also wanted to join them. I joined this school so that I can get answers to my questions at least. There is no one except my teacher with whom I can share my thoughts and feelings.” His innocence is lost counting money Rs 25 which he earns at the end of the day. Ask him about his birthday and he expresses ignorance. There are 20 students in this school and every student has a different story to narrate. Ajay Kumar, who has been teaching for the past six months, says, “When they come back from their work they are so tired that it becomes difficult to make them understand anything. But I love to teach them and I derive satisfaction from it. Many of them come to school for safety reason only. They are beaten up by their fathers who are usually drunk. They even stop them from coming to the school and sometimes come here and create nuisance. Their parents are using them just for making money. It becomes difficult for us to deal with situations sometimes.” According to Col Ravi Bedi (retd), chief functionary, Youth Technical Training Centre, “Our organisation trace these children from various places, especially from the dhabas and motivate them to study. It is very difficult for us to bring them together at one place. We want them to study in good schools but they all have come here to earn money and have their own problems. So we took the initiative to educate them at the basic level. I know we don’t have a proper place but they need to be taken care of. In fact, we are looking for an old bus or a large car which could be converted into a mobile classroom. But so far our effort has not borne fruit.”
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Sculptures that reveal a world
of wonderment
Gurpreet Kaur’s art works are uniquely traditional. Created out of the most contemporary mediums of wood and metal, her sculptures represent of culture in context with newness. A product of Benaras Hindu University where she studied Masters in Fine Arts, Gurpreet uses her mediums rather effortlessly to bring alive the issue of her own displacement from the culturally vibrant Benaras to the modern Chandigarh.
The holder of various scholarships, including the National Culture Scholarship and the junior fellowships, both awarded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Gurpreet nurtures a series of sculptures drawing her inspiration from people and surroundings. Landscape is visible in her works as a recurring motif so is the architecture of her new found home in Chandigarh. Mounted on the walls of the Alliance Francaise gallery in Sector 36 in Chandigarh, her works on the theme of squares so peculiar to the city architecture are truly impressive. As she says, “Ever since I came here I have been toying with the idea of giving form to squares. The works have emerged suddenly. There has been no conscious attempt to create. The spirit, the colour and the texture of this city has been my inspiration”. Inaugurated on Friday by art historian, Dr B.N. Goswami, Gurpreet’s exhibition is equally rich with drawings in the mixed media. They are especially praiseworthy for the wonderful employment of polythenes as an element for creative expression. The artist uses polythenes with the idea of suggesting “enigma”. “As you unfold this, you will discover a world of wonderment. In these are colours and various images which I have carried forward from Benaras. Now they form a part of my memory.” The works are, thus, aptly titled “Reminiscences”. Among sculptures, Gurpreet has focused largely on the shelter. Her work “Sharing the same shelter” leaves a lasting impact on a discerning viewer. Ask the artist about her inspirations and she replies, “The works in this show are a representation of two views, each having its own individual way within the square frames, and the aura of their relationship with the frames both giving and taking from the positive and negative forces inherent in the frame. Looking, sculpting and again looking is the way I work.” The exhibition can be viewed between 9 am and 6 pm.
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Bonsai orange tree
A tree is laden with dozens of oranges. Nothing exceptional, except for the fact that it is less than a metre in height.
A bonsai orange tree in Model Town, Ambala City, is the centre of attraction. The bonsai tree has been nurtured by Mr KK Puri and Ms Asha Puri. Ms Asha Puri said the oranges looked like real oranges. “We are happy that the bonsai tree is in bloom,” she said. “We are taking special care of the bonsai orange tree with regular pruning of the leaves,” she added. Ms Puri said they had planted the orange tree about three years back.
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