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Ambika Soni inaugurates Chamba Millennium
Girls outshine boys in Plus 2 examination
Cub born to brown bear at Kufri
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Temple manager sacked
Teenaged boy hanged to death
Navratra fair concludes
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Ambika Soni inaugurates Chamba Millennium
Chamba, April 14 Ms Ambika Soni, Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, stated this while inaugurating a weeklong festival ‘Chamba Millennium’ here today. The millennium festivities got off to a traditional start. She also congratulated people of this region. Chamba town is located on the right bank of the Ravi and is celebrating 1000 years of its existence. The minister said the new tourist circuits would be identified and developed in Himachal like in other states of the country to attract tourists from across the world. ‘Chamba Millennium’ will be an attraction to the tourists. Referring to ancient monuments and heritage buildings in Himachal, she announced the Tourism and Culture Ministry would involve the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for the conservation and preservation of these monuments and heritage structures. Adequate funds would be provided to the ASI for the conservation and preservation of the monuments. She stated the Tourism Ministry had the highest scope of employment because of tourism potential in our country. Highlighting the significance of ‘Chamba Millennium’, she said the way in which the festival was being celebrated was unique. She said this function showcased history of this place. The millennium reflected secular fibre, which connected emotions and sentiments of the people from all walks of life of the country and abroad, she added. Earlier, Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced the setting up of a ‘Government Millennium Polytechnic’ at Chamba. The Chief Minister said that the celebrations would reinforce relations of ‘Chambiyals’ with Chamba living anywhere in the country. He said the festival was not an event of entertainment but a commemoration of long-chequered history of sacrifices and saga of the chambiyals, gaddis, gujjars and Pangwals. He said the millennium celebrations were an event of the ancient cultural heritage of this region. Since Chamba is going to complete six decades of its being a district in the state, the Chief Minister said that various developmental schemes had been launched for uplift and poverty alleviation of this mountainous area. A programme depicting old traditions and folklore was presented on the occasion.
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Girls outshine boys in Plus 2 examination
Kangra, April 14 Mr B.R. Rahi, Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, said the examination of the Plus Two, science group, was concluded on April 5 and results were declared in a record time of eight days. The results were declared fast so as to provide an opportunity to students to appear in competitions for professional courses, he added. Mr Rahi said the board had become the first education board in the country to declare results of the examination with in a week. Dr. K.D. Lakhanpal, Secretary of the board, said 12,493 students appeared in the Plus II science examination which included 7,538 boys and 4,955 girls . Out of these, 7,743 students were declared successful. 600 students were placed under compartment and 2,360 students failed in the
examination. The pass percentage was 61.98 per cent. He said Ashutosh Garg of Him Academy Public School, Hamirpur, secured 474 marks out of 500 and bagged the first position in the examination. Mr Lakhanpal informed that Aditi Sharma of the Govt Girls Senior Secondary
School, Nalagarh, obtained 456 marks and Anshul Gupta of NKSD Chand Public Senior Secondary School,
Guggar, Palampur, obtained 454 marks to bag the second and third position, respectively. The students who figured in the merit list of the board were Shailza Sankhyan of Him Academy Hamirpur, 450 marks (4th), Jeevanjot Sohi of Crescent Public Senior Secondary School,
Banuri, 446 marks (5th) and Kanishak Patial, Thomson Public School,
Ghumarwin, 445 (6th). Rohit Thakur, Arundaya Sr Sec School, Mohal, Kullu, and Ira
Jamwal, Kullu Valley School, Ramshila, both secured 444 marks and shared the seventh position. Neha Purohit of Purhoit Arunodaya
Sr. Sec. School, Mohal, Kulu, got 440 marks and stood eighth, Namita Sangrai of Negual Public Sr Sec School,
Bindraban, 439, (9th) and the 10th position was shared by Ankit Sood of Him Academy,
Hamiprur, and Nisha Devi of Govt Sen Sec School, Jaidevi, by securing 436 marks. |
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Cub born to brown bear at Kufri
Shimla, April 14 Park attendants noticed the newborn only on Wednesday when it ventured out of the cave in the thickly wooded enclosure. It is for the first time that Geeta, female bear, who has been in the zoo since 1997, has given birth to a cub. Earlier, a cub was born to Chunni, the other female bear in the zoo, in February, 2004. Both cubs have been fathered by Ramu, the lone male bear who has been in the zoo since 1985. Dr Sushil Sood, who has been overseeing the breeding programme, said the hair on the body and the size indicated that the cub must have been born about 45 days ago. He said the newborn opens eyes only after two weeks and do not venture out of the safety of cave till six to eight weeks. Mr K.K. Gupta, Principal Chief Conservator (Wildlife), said the department planned to bring brown bear from Europe under exchange arrangement to avoid inbreeding. |
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Temple manager sacked
Palampur, April 14 Stating this to newsmen at Baijnath today, Mr Sandeep Kumar, SDM, who is also president of the Shiva Mandir Temple Trust, said Mr Nitya Nand had committed a number of financial irregularities in the temple accounts. He had so far not submitted even the details of temple receipts during the Shivartari fair. He said the local Tehsildar was already conducting an inquiry against Mr Nand.
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Teenaged boy hanged to death
Kumarhatti, April 14 Deepak assisted his family in selling herbal medicines. His both hands were tied with a rope. His mother had gone to Kalka to fetch some medicines. On her return she found her son hanged. The murder was committed between 10 am and 12 pm. |
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Navratra fair concludes
Nahan, April 14 Over five lakh devotees from different states of northern India paid their obeisance to Bhagwati Tripur Bala Sundri during the fair.
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