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College students assault villager
Dera Bassi, August 9 According to eyewitnesses, the students about 24 in number reached the spot in cars and motor cycles and pounced upon Gursevak Singh, alias Babla (25), attacked him and sped away leaving him critically injured. Shopkeepers and residents of the locality took him to the Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, from where he was shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh, after his condition deteriorated. The eyewitnesses revealed that the dispute arose when a student leader, Jaipal Palli, who was attending a political function at a local community centre, received a phone call from his friend that some persons from Dappar village had challenged him. According to Mintu, a brother of the victim, Palli reached the village along with other students and instead of targeting the actual persons, they attacked Gursevak. The Station House Officer, Lalru, claimed that the police had taken a serious view of the incident. No case was registered till the filing of the report.
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Workshop for teachers at PU
Chandigarh, August 9 The main aim of the workshop is to help the teachers to identify, handle and cater to the needs of the students. Results declared: The results of Prak Shastri Part-I and II and B.A. III (additional, improvement and compartment), examinations conducted by PU in April/May 2005 have been declared. The gazettes will be made available at the New Enquiry counter of the university on Friday from 11.00 am onwards.
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14 employees get stay on termination
Chandigarh, August 9 Hearing a bunch of applications, the Tribunal today directed the officials concerned not to terminate the services of 14 contractual employees till regular appointments were made against the same. The applicants in their plea stated that the UT Chief Engineer in his orders on August 5 last had terminated their services in reaction to a stay on termination granted by the Tribunal in a similar case. Terming the action of the officials as arbitrary, the Tribunal said terminating the services of the employees was not in public interest as there was a shortage of assistant linemen in the department. Of 106 vacancies of the linemen, the department had advertised for 19. The applicants stated that there were 140 vacancies of linemen. To cater to the complaints from the public, the department advertised around 30 contractual posts in 2004. Around 17 contractual line men were taken for six months and the beneficiaries were given appointment letters starting from January last. When the contract period of two of the employees neared its end, the employees went to the Tribunal stating that their contract could not be terminated as the department had not made regular appointments.
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Street plays on social issues
Panchkula, August 9 For the past one week the Passi Drama Group in association with Piya Sharma Charitable Trust is organising street plays in two colonies and its surrounding areas. The group claims that during this week, they have managed to spread awareness about various social issues among 400 slum dwellers. “Depending on the type of audience, they would stage plays. In case the large number of audience were women, play on checking female foeticide was staged. For adolescents, themes like keeping away from drugs, AIDS were chosen,” said Ms Pooja S.Passi, Project Director, Piya Sharma Charitable Trust. She says that an audience of 70-80 persons would assemble each day when the play was staged. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had sent the group. After staging the plays for six days, the grand finale was organised at Valmiki Mandir at Rajiv Colony today. |
Slum kids click their plight
In a step to encourage poor children, the Children’s Theatre International, a local group, today organised an exhibition of photographs taken by slum children. Displayed at the English Department, PU, the works offer vignettes into the lives of the not-so-fortunate ones who are struggling to make the both ends meet. The exhibition is titled “Basti”.
Fresh and creative, the frames are refreshing and inspiring. The organisers
have provided a lucrative platform to the slum children who will share proceeds
from the show. Every picture has a price tag of Rs 70 and the organisers will buy books and notebooks
from the money for slum children. A part of the money will also go in preparing some plays like “Mangu kee muchhein” and “Bantu ki bakri”. Among the children whose pictures form part of the
show are Mohit Gautam, Maninder Singh, Ajay, Mohit, Amit, Anuj, Rohit, Pankaj, Bharat, Tony, Aman, Ravi and Arjun.
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Engineer who builds verses
An young civil engineer had never dreamt of writing poem till he happened to listen to a soulful rendition of a song penned by Shiv Kumar Batalvi way back in 1992 at his wedding. “The intensity and ardour of the couplets weaved romantically had a compelling charm and it inspired me to write verses”. Already into light vocal music I took up classes to accomplish more under Prabhjot Bali who trained me to sing a song written by Shiv Batalvi at a
function,” says Goverdhan Gabbi. This encouraged me to have a tryst with poems, he adds.
Gabbi grew as a poet of thought and intellect drawing inspirations from the reminiscences of childhood, paternal love, idyllic environment and myriad episodes worth capturing in the poetic ethos of spontaneous interest. As he is not smitten by the
love bug or any other influence his poetic creations has the emotional themes having a close proximity with the realities of life. While poems like ‘Karumblan’ and ‘Tohfa’ celebrate the
paternal love, his heart goes out for the resurrection of the subjugated Iraqis in ‘Vishwaas’ and sympathises with ailing Amrita Pritam in ‘Sirnama’. He subjects himself to introspection in ‘Sirnama’. Gabbi in all reverence adores the divine Guru Nanak Dev as the omniscient poet. Endowed with peculiar emotional sensibility, Gabbi, an admirer of Shiv Batalvi, has written verses in various moods. He is a regular columnist for leading regional newspapers and magazines in the USA and Canada. Noted Punjabi poet Gurdev Chauhan, who penned the preface of the book states that both anthologies ‘Dilwali Fatri’ and ‘Ateet de sirnavein’ have been widely appreciated.
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Rock garden at 3 BRD
A mini rock garden has been set up at the Air Force’s No. 3 Base Repair Depot (3 BRD) here, which was inaugurated by Nek Chand, the creator and director of the world famous Rock Garden, here today.
The mini rock garden-cum-environment park has been created in the Air Force camp area under the supervision of the President Air Force Wives Welfare Association (Local), Mrs Manjit Virk, with relentless efforts of the women and personnel of the depot. Nek Chand expressed his immense satisfaction of their excellent work. He also impressed upon utilisation of wasteful items and using creativity and ingenuity to put them to good use. The park’s foundation stone was laid by the Air officer Commanding, 3 BRD, Air Cmde S.P.S. Virk.
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Slide lecture
Artist Ravinder Sharma presented a slide-lecture on ‘The role of museums and art galleries in the cultivation of the spirit’. The programme, was organised by the Chandigarh Lalit Kala academy at the Government Art Museum auditorium here on Tuesday. Ravinder Sharma had led a team of eight awardees of the Camelin national contest had visited many art galleries including The Louvre in Paris, besides the National Art gallery, Tate Modern and Pompido.
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