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CM to inaugurate vet varsity
Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, May 22
The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, will formally inaugurate Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University on June 2. The Minister for Animal Husbandry, Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, said this here today, after reviewing the arrangements at a high-level meeting held at the Punjab Agricultural University.

The university has been awaiting formal inauguration for quite some time. The inauguration had been cancelled on two occasions earlier. The university has already started functioning and started the admission process.

Today’s meeting was attended among others by Vice Chancellor D.S. Bains and other senior scientists, professors and officers of the newly set up university.

Summer camp inaugurated
Our Correspondent

Students perform Naga dance at a summer camp in Rajeshwari Kala Mandir, Ludhiana, on Monday. — A Tribune photograph

Ludhiana, May 22
A summer camp was inaugurated at Rajeshwari Kala Mandir by Ms Santosh Vyas, head, dance department, A.P.G. College, Jalandhar, here yesterday. Hundreds of students witnessed various dances. The kala mandir is going to conduct computer, beautician, pot-painting, candle-making, interior decoration, dance and music, dress and textile designing, fabric painting, etc. After 40-day workshop students work would be displayed.

Toppers: Students of the Khalsa College for Women have shown excellent results in BCA II and BCA final year examinations. Anita Singh of BCA II stood second in Panjab University by scoring 83 per cent marks. Alka Singhal and Isha Arora of the same class stood fourth and eighth with 81 per cent and 80 per cent marks, respectively. Shifa Kohli of BCA final year came third with 82 per cent marks.

Students of the SDP College for Women also performed well in the BCA I examination. Sakshi scored 75 per cent marks, while Srishti got 71 per cent.

NSS camp: A 10-day camp organised by the NSS unit of Guru Nanak Girls College, Model Town, concluded here on Sunday with a cultural fest.

The valedictory function was presided over by Mr Gurbir Singh, president, Guru Nanak Education Trust.

Dr Charanjit Mahal, Principal, and Dr S.S. Mahal, Senior Agronomist, PAU, were present, among others.

Ms Parminder Kaur, Programme Officer, presented the report of the camp. Prizes were distributed among volunteers and winners of various declamation and poetry contests.

Quiz: A quiz was organised at Bhartiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Udham Singh Nagar, by the chemistry club of the school here on Monday.

Selected students from Class X and XII participated. There were six participating teams namely Alpha, Beta, Gama, Delta, Omega and Theta. Each team comprised three students. There were three rounds — general, discovery and calculation and unit and formula. The Theta team won the contest, followed by the Gama team.

Poetry recitation: A poetry recitation competition was organised at KVM here on Monday.

The Headmistress, Ms Namita Raj Singh, presided over the function and asked the students to take part in various extracurricular activities. The results are:

English recitation: Harsha Gupta(1), Sakshi Gusain (2), Zennia Arora (3) and Aditi Jain (consolation).

Hindi recitation: Anisha Sehgal(1), Sakshi Devgan (2), Sanchi Gupta (3) and Sonal Arora (consolation).

Students honoured: Sacred Heart Convent School, Urban Estate, Sector 39, Chandigarh Road, held a function to honour students for their performance in Class X examination of ICSE Board.

HEALTH

Free prostate camp at Khanna
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 22-
A free prostate camp was organised by a team of doctors from Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) at Khanna on Sunday. More than 300 patients suffering from urinary and other prostrate related disease were examined at the camp. The camp was held under the guidance of Dr Kim Mammen, Head, Urology Department, CMCH.

Giving details about the camp, Dr Kim informed that the CMCH had been organising such camps from time to time as its commitment to the community health.

Dr S.K. Jariwala, Dr Shahid Lambe and Dr M.L. Zou were among the team of medical professionals which conducted the medical examination and rendered follow up advice.

According to Dr Kim, all patients with BPH and urinary symptoms were examined and medicines free of cost were also distributed among the patients. Dr Jariwala said patients in need of further investigations, follow up and surgical treatment, had been advised to come to the urology OPD at CMCH.

The camp was organised with the cooperation of Khattri Chetna Manch, Khanna unit.

Complex knee replacement at Apollo Hospitals
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, May 22
A constrained condylar unlinked type of knee replacement was done at SPS Apollo Hospitals here by Dr Harpreet S. Gill, consultant Orthopaedic surgeon. According to Dr Gill, the patient was presented with inability to bear weight on the leg for about two months. Whenever she attempted to put weight, her knee joint would go inward and strike the opposite knee. Because of this deformity and resulting pain, she was unable to walk and remained confined to wheelchair.

Dr Gill said normally due to osteoarthritis, there was outward bowing of leg. However, in this case, it was inward bowing of the leg and also the ligaments, which stabilised the knee, were lax or loose. Hence this special type of knee replacement had to be done. This type of knee implant was normally used for the revision knee replacement surgery (in those cases where knee replacement had failed or giving problems).

Commenting further, Dr Gill said such constraint implants were needed when soft tissues and ligaments around the knee could not handle the stress and load as the soft tissues might be lax or loose leading to joint instability. "Each case must be decided carefully. The amount of instability present, type of knee deformity, and other patient factors should be considered. The aim of this surgery is to ensure a pain-free, stable knee in normal anatomical alignment", he added.

City firm to represent ayurveda at World Health Assembly
Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, May 22
As a part of its annual global event, al event, the World Health Organisation (WHO) holds a World Health Assembly every year at its headquarters in Geneva, in which member countries participate to exhibit their respective country’s achievements in the field of health.

This year, the assembly is being held from May 24 to 26, 2006, which will be attended by health ministers, health secretaries, diplomats, directors and other senior officers of health departments from176 countries.

In this departmental showcase during the global meet, the AYUSH department of Government of India , has included India’s first certified ayurvedic GMP unit here— Pentavox Herbals— to officially represent the system of ayurveda. It was noteworthy that in this prestigious event, only few of the most reputed companies of indigenous systems had been chosen to represent ayurveda, unani, sidha and homeopathy.

Besides, Pentavox Herbals from Ludhiana, the other Indian companies attending the World Health Assembly included Baidyanath, Maharishi Ayurveda, Dabur, Zandu, Himalaya, Hamdard, Soukya International, Dr JRK’s Sidha and Sami Labs. This show case from India will be inaugurated by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Ambumani Ramadoss on May 24, 2006 at Geneva.

Dr Pradeep Nagrath, CEO and Chief of Pentavox Herbals’ Research and Development Wing, along with Mr Jaideep Nagrath, Executive Director, shall be officially participating in this prestigious Indian show case at the event.

While expressing his gratitude towards the Union government, Dr Nagrath said this opportunity given to their company was like a reward for his company’s efforts for globally hoisting the ayurvedic flag of the country. He said representing for the cause of the nation’s brilliant image at such an international forum was a matter of pride for the company.

He further said by participating in the World Health Assembly, as a representative of ayurveda, the company would get an opportunity for further exploring various possibilities for the promotion and development of the system of ayurveda. “For India also, this global front will be helpful for the country to leave a stamp of great achievements and potentials of the ayurvedic system, especially in the treatment of chronic problems.”

SPORTS

Chess contest held at Ryan School
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, May 22
More than one hundred students from class Vth to Xth took part in the inter-house chess competition organised at Ryan International School, Urban Estate, Chandigarh Road, here today.

Addressing the students, Ms Jaishree Gupta, Principal, said it was important to lay stress on indoor games, especially ones that help in analytical thinking. Children need to be given opportunities to sharpen their skills through sports.

Results: Group A (Aryabhatt House)— Vikram Chawla, Kamaldeep Chawla, Akshay Kumar, Prachi Garg, Radha, Sourabh and Brahm 1; Einstien house- Garima Singh, Kartar Singh, Kamaldeep, Gurpreet, Akash and Ashish 2; Newton house- Seerat Kumar, Anshul Aggarwal, Gurdeep Singh, Akshil Chawla and Raghav Aggarwal 3.

Group B (Roman House) —Simranjeet, Sankriti, Shashank, Jaskaran and Rahul 1; Newton house- Rishab Sukhija, Abhishek Garg, Vaibhav Abhlokher and Likhit Khanna 2; Aryabhatt house- Joel Stephen, Kulhal Guglani, Aveez Mongia and Paramveer Singh 3.

Group C- Aryabhatt house- Tarun Jain, Astha Kapoor, Abhinav Kapoor, Abhaya Thakur, Sanyyam Ahuja, Manjot Singh, Jai Singh and Taranjot Singh 1; Newton house- Yuvreet Singh, Shivam Shukla, Akshat Gupta, Pushap Aggarwal and Gurveer Singh 2; Einstien house- Nishant, Mohit, Ankit Aneja and Navdeep Bansal 3.