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Prizes given to winners of British Library contests
Chandigarh, June 11 Mr Bipin Kumar, head, British Library, announced additional services to the members on the day. He said this year the focus was on working with the professional members of the British Library family and the endeavour was to provide best services and to meet the growing demands of professional and young aspirants. The library would be launching the Spoken English club, Doctors Week, Engineering Week, Management Week. Also on the anvil is a New Improved English Language Teaching Collection which would be launched shortly. Stating that there was a need for more author - member interaction; Mr Bipin Kumar said to start with, the library would launch “Slice of Life” by Dr Rana Nayar on June 17. The prize giving ceremony began with beckoning melodies on violin and keyboard by Dr Pallab Ray (a doctor with the PGIMER) and Ms Ananya Ray. Ms Raji P Shrivastava, Joint Secretary, (Finance), UT, Chandigarh, was the chief guest. She was in all praise for the winners and was glad to meet them all in person. She also appreciated the efforts of the judges who were able to devote some time for these competitions in spite of being busy in their respective professions. She was surprised at the age groups of the participants. She said she was glad to witness a resurgence of reading habits specially among the young. Stating that the role libraries played in inculcating reading habits should be seen as unified venture, Mrs Srivastava added that books can not be replaced by computers or Internet. “Good reading is what results in good writing,” she said. The Best Reader Award went to to Mr Mohmood Azizi and the results of the various competitions are as follows: Clay modelling competitions were judged by Bhumika Sharma and Avneet Vasudeva. The winners include Eshaan Tanda, Ashish Aggarwal and Shantal. Colour the picture competition was judged by Devika Ahluwalia and the winners include Shradha, Bhumika, Maitri Mittal, Simran, Aastha Dhingra, Arunima Goyal. The do what you like competition was judged by Ms Aditi Dua and the winners include Sunrose Billing, Sujai Jaipalli and Kumudvati. The Word Building competition was judged by Dr Deepti Gupta and the winners include Karnika Bains, Sana Arora and Anchal Aggarwal, The power point presentation competition was judged by Vivek Atray and the winners include Saurabh Gupta and Faiz Mohammed Siddique. The extempore was judged by Mr D V Bhatia and the winners were Mr Manish Verma, Ms Rajni Chopra and Ms Aditi Garg. The Word Building competition was judged by Col J M S Hattar and the winners include Bismark Singh, Ashish Goyal and Ashima Goyal. The Pen A story competition was judged by Dr Rana Nayar and the winners include Rajni Chopra, Manish Verma and Riti Brar. The poetry recitation competition was judged by Ms Jaspal Kaur and the winners include Sunrose Billing, Jahnavi Chopra and Tarini Goyal. The poetry recitation competition was judged by Jaspal Kaur and the winners include Saharsh Vir, Aditya Arora and Maitri Mittal. The Eve’s Special competition was judged by Ms Cavita Taragi and the winners include Hardeep and Gurpreet, Vidisha and Sneha and Anandita and Neeru. Dr J.R. Bapuraj won the power point presentation.
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Chandigarh boy selected for Biology Olympiad
Chandigarh, June 11 Back from Mumbai after attending the orientation-cum-selection camp for the Olympiad today, Rohan is now preparing to give his best shot for his country for the international competition that would be held from
July 9 to 16. Rohan along with seven others from the city were attending the weeklong selection camp held at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. Other than Rohan, three students from Delhi, another from Barawala in Madhya Pradesh and Chennai
have been selected to go to Argentina. “Other than being the only student from the city to be selected to represent India, Rohan was selected for ‘honourable mention’ for best performance in theoretical programme,” pointed out Rohan’s father, Dr Prajesh Khera. Rohan, a student of Moti Ram Arya School, Sector 27, here has been an outstanding student throughout. Other than the CBSE PMT Rohan was third in all-India MAHE
Manipal. “I intend to become a doctor. A cardiothoracic surgeon to be specific. It is just a tentative choice but surgery as a file enchants me,” he says. Rohan scored 92.2 per cent marks in his Class XII board examinations and 94 per cent in Class X. “In Class XII I got cent per cent marks in biology and in Class X, I got cent per cent in
science,” he says. Giving advice to students of Class XII, Rohan suggests that students should focus on the
basics and master these. “The problem with students in Chandigarh is that they try to gather a lot of information
most of which is not needed. The basics should be strong and the rest can be taken care of by simple logic,” he says.
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PU fee collection centre computerised
Chandigarh, June 11 The bank has computerised the entire system of collecting fee from the students and also shifted its base from the dingy basement to the building of the new enquiry office of the university. The formal inauguration of these counters would be done later during the month. From this session the bank would collect fee at these counters and issue three separate receipts. One will be given to the student while another would be kept with the bank. The third fee receipt would be handed over to the university. The receipt slip would also state the account for which the fee has been charged. Last year when the fee scam came to light it was alleged that large amounts of fee were bungled since it was not mentioned in any receipt the account for which the fee was being charged. Also it was alleged that since the amount was not written in words additional zeroes were added to the figure given on
the receipts. Once the fee collection system is computerised there is almost negligible chance of any bungling since the amount deposited would be available on every computer as the system would be internally networked. The accounts would also be available with the university for cross checking at all times.
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Summer camp concludes
Mohali, June 11 During the camp, many students from the school and other schools joined the activities organised by the school. These included communication skills, personality development programmes, doll-making, art and design, calligraphy and creative writing, computer and web designing, Vedic mathematics, judo and karate.
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Bheora’s counsel seeks sealing of case diaries
Chandigarh, June 11 The CJM has issued a notice to the UT police for June 12. One of the accused, H.P. Singh, had been interrogated by the police for his alleged links with Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, both accused in the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. The defence counsel alleged that if the sealing of the case diaries was not possible, the documents should be page marked with the signatures of the presiding officer on each page so that there was no tampering. He further alleged that during Bheora’s remand, the police did not place the diaries before the court.
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Vidhi captivates with eloquence
of kathak
Chandigarh, June 11 Vidhi commenced her recital in calm contemplation with an invocatory “Shiv Stuti” swaying gently to the composition in raaga Malkauns. She delineated the pure kathak syllables all set to 16-beat pattern displaying her nimble foot work in the thaats, uthaan, parans, tihais, tatkar etc. with consummate ease. Her footwork and eloquent body movements enlivened the ‘sawaal-jawaab’jugalbandi with the tabla which received thunderous applause from the audience. Her next presentation of a thumri “Kahe Ko Mere Ghar Aaye” depicted the romanticism associated with the thumris. She brought her moods and passions in full play to portray the sentiments of eroticism, wonderment and delight. Vidhi was at her best in the concluding traditional composition of Hazrat Amir Khusro “Aa re sakhi more piya ghar aaye”. She brought alive the ‘ras bhav’ with immaculate perfection. She was accompanied by Ravi Nagar on vocal, Bharat Kumar Mishra on tabla and Vinod Pawar on sarangi. Earlier, while talking to the Chandigarh Tribune Vidhi, Director of MIEMITS, a leading institute of fine arts at Lucknow , said ‘‘kathak is a blend of vastly different cultures as compared to Bharatnatyam which has a rigid code of conduct and is steeped in the religious traditions. Kathak is simple and the theme of its compositions is closely related to general life activities’’. Having a Masters degree in Commerce, she is a deeply involved in Kathak and also has a doctorate degree in Indian classical music and dance. She has also penned several books on dance and has undertaken many research projects. She had performed in neighbouring countries also. A dance composer and performer of various TV serials Vidhi had just completed her dream project of choreographic dancer of ‘Gitanjali’. She is the lead danseuse defining the 103 poems of Gurudev Tagore through her dance. The serial having over 50 episodes is being produced by Chidanand productions and is being directed by Dr Girish Behari, a former super cop. |
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Camp on Indian culture concludes
Panchkula, June 11 More than 350 students from the state participated in the course which was aimed at creating moral and spiritual awareness among the youth. Major General
R.P.S. Bhandari from Ambala Cantonment, who was the chief guest of the valedictory function, exhorted the participants to follow the teachings of Sathya Sai Baba. |
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Well known classical danseuse Dr Vidhi Nagar recapitulated the grandeur of kathak in her captivating performance at the 107th Baithak Programme organised by the Pracheen Kala Kendra here today.