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Students find physics paper ‘very tough’
Chandigarh, April 19 Sugandha, a student of B.Sc first year said, “I was very shocked to see the paper and I got very tense as I didn’t know the answers of many questions. Many of questions were beyond my expectations. I don’t thinks so I will get the passing marks or if I will get then it will affect my overall percentage. After all I want to score good percentage”. Expressing the same fear Brahmit, a student of B.Sc first year said, “Tension prevailed in the examination hall when we saw the paper. For a few minutes I couldn’t understand anything and I didn’t know how to attempt it. It was totally opposite from what we had prepared for the examination. Though I have attempted it but I am very sure I will secure very less marks in it”. Neha and Shefali stated the same feelings. Renu Bedi, lecturer, Electricity and Magnetism, MCM DAV College said, “The paper was impossible to fortell and even the most intelligent students couldn’t solve many questions. The examination was more like an IIT entrance examination and it was very difficult for the first year students to solve it. A meeting was held with the lecturers of the local colleges today and we will present our case to Vice-Chancellor of Panjab University tomorrow. We don’t want any grace marks for the students but we want re-examination as it is the question of career of students”.
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ODE seminar from tomorrow
Panchkula, April 19 The seminar is aimed at empowering teachers and parents with methodology to optimise learning. Ms Bharati Kapoor, Director of ODE, in a press note issued today said that the seminar would put before the teachers and parents powerful learning tools so that children can learn more effectively in lesser time and with a great reduction of stress levels that have become synonymous with learning. Experts from all over the country, including Vimala Venkatesan, Director, Bhavani Child Development Centre, Jaipur, Kate Currawalla and Masarrat Khan, Founder President and CEO of Maharashtra Dyslexic Association, Mumbai, respectively, and Harleen Kohli, Director of CEVA, Chandigarh, will share their experiences with parents and teachers during the seminar.
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Samuel Thomson adjudged best singer
Chandigarh, April 19 The college was also adjudged the best institute for overall performance and awarded the trophy. The first and second positions won in different categories are under: First Prize Singing — C. Samuel Thomson; Couple Dance — Nilabh and
Shazia; Caption Contest — Varun Singh; Collage Making — Sangeeta and Aakriti ; Solo Dance —
Shazia. Second Prize Cartoon Making — Aakriti; Antakshri — Jaspreet, Nilabh and
Shazia; Caption Contest — Ravi Mittal.
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Lecturer cremated, police remand for husband
Mohali, April 19 The postmortem examination on the body was carried out at the Civil Hospital today. Ligature marks were found on the neck of the deceased. No marks of any struggle were found on the body. The death appears to have occurred due to hanging though viscera had been sent for a chemical examination to Patiala to know the exact cause of death. The husband of the deceased, Mr Charanbir Singh, who worked as an Assistant Professor at the PAU, Ludhiana, was remanded in police custody by a Kharar court for one day. He had been arrested by the police yesterday as the deceased had blamed him for harassing her in a note written on the door of a room where Davinderjit allegedly hanged herself.
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Bhatti appears in court in Hindu sentiments case
Chandigarh, April 19
Earlier the was granted bail in the case.
The VHP, had alleged that Bhatti and members of his Nonsense Club had hurt religious sentiments of Hindus at a demonstration in Sector 17 Plaza on July 21 last year.
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Athenian ambience recreated
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piquant comedy, ‘’A Midsummer Nights Dream’’ was staged by over 50 student artists of Yadvindra Public School at a packed Tagore Theatre today. The classic play created by William Shakespeare found an admirable expression under the direction of Harinder Sandhu, a passout of the local Department of Indian Theatre.
She managed to recreate the centuries-old Athenian ambience and culture, besides inspiring the intrusive minds of young actors in the age group of five to 17 to portray the traditional life characters on stage. Displaying talent and theatrical manoeurves, they all proved their mettle, realising their assigned roles to the maximum, though the sensitive theme of ‘love’ and all its manifestations was not within their conceptual grasp. The play, set in royal and pastoral environs, opened with Thesues, the Duke of Athens, in a romantic mood and deliberations along with his fiancé Hipployta when one of his subjects, Ageus, seeks the intervention of the Duke to invoke royal law restraining his daughter, Hermia, to marry her love, Lysander, instead of Demetrius as proposed by him. The Duke orders Hermia, to decide within four days or else face the consequences. The play progresses to depict the love quarrels of magical fairy land King Oberon and Queen Titania. The fictional sequences are so weaved to bring Demetrius and Helena too in the woods, applying the love potion on formers’ eyes through an aide, Puck, and various other acts generating genial laughter, suspense and sarcasm. The highlight of the presentation, however, was the inclusion of a Hindi play, ‘’Dhola Maru’’, in the main play, brought in as an aberration to replace the original ‘Myth of Paramus and Thisbe’. The audience, mainly parents, incessantly complimented their wards on stage. All actors contributed to the success of the event while the lead roles were played by Mantegbir Singh, Gurnain, Bhanu, Deepan, Roombir, Simran, Loveleen, Puneet, Haripal and Jaspreet. Besides the directorial elegance of Harinder Sandhu, the chiaroscuro effects by Chandrashekhar, background music by Ms Oh and Narinder deserve a special mention. The beautiful sets and costumes were made by Neelu Sandhu, Mohinder (the school carpenter), Vaishali, Gina Singh and Binda Lal (a school peon-cum-tailor).
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A flight from piloting to film-making
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car crash ended Navdeep Malhotra’s career as a pilot with the Indian Air Force in 1993 but today this 36-year-old filmmaker from the city dreams of making an elaborate Hindi film one day.
For now, he has written, directed, edited and produced “A Different Sunday”, a short 20-minute film on four friends and their antics in a day of male bonding in Chandigarh. The “club” has a certain curiousness about it. It is not a “club” that has made a mark in Mumbai film industry. It is an out-of-the-box television programme telecast on NDTV Profit as part of their assorted weekend programming. Conceived by NDTV’s Assistant Producer at Mumbai, Sonali Satpathy also researches and anchors her show watching up to 25 films per week along with a selection panel to select one that gets telecast on Friday at 7 pm in a one-hour format. “I used to report and cover film festivals for channels from Mumbai and I used to meet film-makers who had made their own films but were struggling to screen them. That is when I got the idea of starting a programme that would work as a launchpad for people who were making films and wanted to screen them.” Navdeep’s film is being telecast this weekend and reviewed by one of Bollywood’s stalwart film-makers, Kundan Shah. “I am really excited about the telecast since I have waited for a long time for this day. It is great to be able to show a larger audience what we had created and I am starting the process of sending my films to various international film festivals,” says Navdeep, sharing his passion with Chandigarh Tribune today. The film took eight days to shoot on a digital camera and Navdeep did the post-production on his home computer with the final edit in a professional studio. The whole process cost him a whopping Rs 2.5 lakh. The crew, equipment and lights were hired in Delhi and the actors were all friends. Navdeep grew up in the city, studying geology at Panjab University and joining the Air Force as a pilot in 1988. A car crash in 1993 resulted in the loss eyesight in one eye and an end to his flying career. After taking premature retirement from the IAF, Navdeep joined a two-year course at the National Institute of Fashion Design in Delhi specialising in accessory design. Working full-time as a visual designer, Navdeep has come a long way from his flying days. “I have the option to go to the UK and I hope to work with the visual and film-making industry there.” In a country with the largest film fraternity, short-film makers have never had the platform or forum to display their craft — until now. The show works on a unique pattern where the aspirant gets to air his film and a renowned filmmaker reviews the work. Sonali says: “The show was visualised as a medium to give young people a chance to showcase their work, to show the film industry that they have a hold on the craft of film-making, directing, scripting.” Navdeep’s film will be telecast on Friday at 7 pm on NDTV Profit with repeat telecasts on Saturday at 11 pm and Sunday at 4 pm.
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Inner beauty more important: Jassi
She looks beautiful now. Everybody wants to know more about her. Contact lenses have replaced spectacles. Braces have been thrown away. The hair has been given a new style. Our dear Jassi is now Jessica with
completely transformed looks. Mona Singh of ‘Jassi Jaisi koi nahin’ was in the city beautiful today.
As Jassi it was difficult for me to prove my intelligence to people or convey my message. Now since I am Jessica it has become easy for me to show that I have brains also. But for Nandu she is still Jassi who is clumsy and confused. She is of the view that beauty is not long-lasting and it is not of much help if a person is not beautiful from within. “But if you know that you can look pretty with little makeover then one should go for it. It will definitely load you with confidence,” she said. She is enjoying her new character extremely . Have viewers accepted her as Jessica? It is a bit difficult for them to accept the new Jassi who has completely changed. But now she can fight for herself in a better way. She wears good clothes, looks good. I think viewers won’t take much time to accept her. Mona, who has won many hearts, puts at least 18 hours a day in the serial and works for 30 days. Whenever she gets time she tries to catch up with her sleep. Had she not been acting in this serial then she would have been working as secretary in a posh office. But now she won’t mind joining Bollywood if she gets a challenging role like Jassi.
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