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Campaigning hots up in PU
Chandigarh, September 4 Abhilasha has stood for elections in college. “Today we went campaigning in the various departments and hostels too. I feel that there is a shortage of time for me to meet each voter. I was very happy with the response of the students, especially the girls were very supportive and promised to vote for me,” she said, adding that many persons had come and congratulated her. Sukhraj Singh from the Department of Law is being fielded by the NSUI as vice-president, Gagandeep Singh Brar as general secretary and Pulkit Jindal as joint secretary. After the NSUI decided to stand on its own in these elections, members of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) have also sprung a surprise and decided to contend alone. The presidential candidate for the ABVP will be Mohit Bhardwaj. Meanwhile, Naushad Ali, senior vice-president with PUSU, broke away from the party and has decided to contend for the president’s post as an independent. A student of the Department of Computer Science, Naushad claimed to have been working for the cause for the students for the past four years. Members of the PUSU and SOPU took out rallies through the hostels here this evening. PUSU members sloganeered in front of the girls hostels and presidential candidate Rupinderjit Singh Mann addressed the students. Members of the SOPU-INSO also carried out a rally in the university campus. “We started campaigning in the Law Department and moved through various departments. In the evening, we went to the girls hostel in a huge group. Speeches by the candidates were delivered and we also answered many questions put up by the PUSU-supporting girls students,” Vikas Raathi president INSO. The nominations will be filed by the candidates’ tomorrow morning in their respective departments and the nomination form would be scrutinised.
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Free membership of library for
teachers, students
Chandigarh, September 4 A special membership drive will be launched from September 5 to October 4 to promote reading habit among the college faculty and students. No library security will be charged from them. The students and the college faculty members can enroll themselves as members in either of the libraries or both. The Principal of respective colleges will attest the membership forms and obtain a guarantee that the teachers and student will take an NOC from both libraries before leaving the institution. Other terms, conditions and rules will remain the same as applicable to other library members. Only two books will be issued to teachers and students for a period of two weeks at a time.
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Governor greets teachers
Chandigarh, September 4 General Rodrigues said teachers had the primary responsibility of moulding individuals and developing their potential through visionary approach and qualities of head and heart . Paying rich tributes to Dr S. Radhakrishnan, former President of India, to whom Teachers’ Day is dedicated, the Governor said he had a great love for the teaching profession and value system.
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College students visit HMT
Chandigarh, September 4 They visited machine tools and tractor divisions of the HMT. Students had a first hand experience of the
production process and assembling of components. The purpose was to give them industrial exposure. Students had an active interaction with HMT employees.
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2 KV teachers to get awards
Chandigarh, September 4
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Dera Bassi judicial courts likely soon
Dera Bassi, September 4 With the District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) of Patiala, Mr Inderjit Singh Walia, inspecting the sites for the proposed court recently, the agitation launched by the legal fraternity seems to be paying off. And if the judicial court was set up, the long-pending demand of scores of villages would be met. Currently, the residents are put to a lot of inconvenience as they have to go to Rajpura for even routine judicial work such as paying fine for traffic offences, Mr Anmol Singh, general secretary of the Dera Bassi Bar Association, said here today. With Zirakpur and Dera Bassi emerging as major urban centres following the entry of big real estate players, litigation had gone up, particularly with regard to the land disputes. In some cases, the litigants had to travel over 70 km to Rajpura to attend hearings in their cases, Mr Anmol Singh said. In fact, it has been a long battle for the legal fraternity for the setting up the courts here. While the local lawyers had been agitating for a long time for setting up of the judicial courts, in April 2004 they petitioned the Punjab and Haryana High Court in this regard. The lawyers also organised a dharna outside the Tehsil complex here recently. The dharna was suspended following an assurance by the Vice-Chairman of the Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC), Mr Deepinder Singh Dhillon, who had been championing their cause. It was then that the DSJ visited the town and inspected a couple of sites such as an elementary school and a private building which could house the courts. When contacted, Mr Dhillon termed the demand for setting up the judicial court as “justified”. Mr Dhillon said the Punjab Government had offered to renovate the elementary school building to “suit the requirements” of the judicial court Official sources said the DSJ would submit a report to Mr Justice MM Kumar of the high court, who is the Inspecting Judge. The high court would set up court on the recommendation of Mr Justice MM Kumar, the sources added.
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Shobhaa De, the stylist, unveils her clothesline
Chandigarh, September 4 “Without sounding immodest, I believe I am a fairly well-known brand myself and I felt it was time to transform that into equity,” she smiled. “I may not be a designer but my collection is a reflection of my own sense of style and sensibilities,” she averred. “It is not sudden that I am doing this. Fashion has been always been with me and I am going to enjoy this.” This, in a nutshell, is what her life has been all about, self-expression, and she does believe she has been luckier than most. “The ‘whynots’ in my life have been the defining moments. Someone in my life has always prompted me into new things and I have taken up the opportunities that came my way.” She believes she has been fortunate not to have to choose between one thing and another. From being a state-level athlete to modelling to being a journalist, the editor for ‘Stardust’ magazine to writing novels, scripts for television and columns for national and international publications to her own line of clothes, Shobhaa seems to have had a fairy-tale stint. But at the end of the day it is her writing that keeps her going. “It is my one passion and I write like a woman possessed. Even today with everything else happening I write for at least six hours every day.” Today she is at the threshold of many exciting things. Penguin, the publishers of her novels, are planning to re-release her earlier works like ‘Starry Nights’ and ‘Socialite Evenings’ as classics and her ‘Starry Nights’ is to be the big book which has been translated into German at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October this year where India is to be showcased. She is also writing another book and another television script which will be on air early next year. So what is her best armour with so much of her writing derived from people and lives around her? “The truth is. If you are being a hundred per cent honest with yourself, then you have nothing to fear. I meet various characters from my books all the time but we are all mature,” she insists. |
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Stone of new hospital block laid
Mohali, September 4 The hospital is being upgraded to 200 beds from the existing 50-bed strength and Rs 8 crore is being spent on this work. The project will be completed within 15 months. The Civil Hospital will then have additional facilities of psychiatry and blood transfusion and the existing medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paedatric, orthopaedic, anaesthesia and dental wings will be strengthened. After the upgradation the hospital will be equipped with ultramodern facilities to tackle all types of emergencies under secondary health care and patients will not have to depend solely on the PGI, Chandigarh. Addressing a gathering which was made to sit in the open in the oppressive heat, Mr Singla said the health services, especially in the rural areas, were in a state of neglect. Doctors were reluctant to serve in villages and this “mismatch” was responsible for the poor state of health affairs. He said to improve the situation, 1300 service providers were employed in rural areas and there was a plan to employ another 1300 service providers to make health facilities available in villages. The minister said Mohali would become as important as Bangalore in the coming years as major power projects would be set up here and the Prime Minister had a vision to set up a super economic corridor here which the state of Punjab was lacking. He said the government had already allotted land to six major companies at concessional rates in this regard. Launching an attack on the SAD Chief, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, Mr Singla said the SAD-BJP combine had not fulfilled promises made to voters after it came to power. He said instead of working for the welfare of Punjab, Mr Badal allegedly amassed wealth and got a hotel worth Rs 700 crore abroad, apart from owning one in Haryana. Earlier, Mr Bir Devinder Singh, Kharar MLA, said Punjab already had four 200-bedded hospitals and the Mohali hospital was the fifth one. The hospital would have a panchkarma centre having facilities like sauna bath, massage etc. Among the others who spoke on the occasion were Mr D.S.Guru, Secretary, Health, Mr T.R.Sarangal, Managing Director, Punjab Health Systems Corporation, and Mrs Lakhwinder Kaur Garcha, OSD to the Punjab Chief Minister. |
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Gurbinder creates record in swimming tourney
Chandigarh,
September 4 Panjab University Campus, Chandigarh, won the team championship in waterpolo. DAV College, Chandigarh, was placed second while third and fourth place went to SD College, Hoshiarpur, and SCD Government College, Ludhiana. DAV College, Chandigarh (boys), clinched first place in swimming with 68 points. The second position went to RSD College, Ferozepore, with 54 points while SCD Government College, Ludhiana, and PU campus, Chandigarh, got third and fourth positions, earning 48 and 40 points, respectively. The results (men) : 100 m butterfly stroke: Mohit Sharma 1, Harpreet Singh 2, Gagan Matta 3 200 m backstroke: Harpreet Singh 1, Harbans Singh 2, Aala Singh 3 400 m freestyle: Harpreet Singh1, Navjot Singh 2, Mohit Sharma 3 50 m backstroke: Gagan Matta 1, Harbans Singh 2, Aala Singh 3 200 m freesyle: Gagan Matta 1, Mohit Sharma 2, Navjot Singh 3 200 m
individual rlay: Harpreet Singh 1, Navjot Singh 2, Harbans Singh Women section: 50 m backstroke: Gurbinder Kaur 1, Kirandeep Kaur 2, Monika 3. 100 m butterfly stroke: Gurbinder Kaur 1, Riti Parmar 2, Pooja Chauhan 3. 200 m backstroke: Gurbinder 1, Kirandeep Kaur 2, Monika 3. 4x 200m freestyle relay: DAV College, Chandigarh 1, SCD Govt College, Ludhiana 2, SD College, Hoshiarpur 3.
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Tribune Impact Tribune News Service
Mohali, September 4 The move comes after The Tribune carried a report headlined ‘PCA brazenly flouts rules’ which highlighted the highly irregular action of the PCA in starting construction without getting the plans approved. Even as the construction activity has been going on for at least two months, the authorities chose to look the other way. Today, the Deputy Commissioner, Mohali, who is also in charge of the GMADA, said the PCA had sent its plans for approval this morning. Sources disclosed that the PCA would have to pay a substantial amount as compounding fees as it had started construction work without getting the plans approved. Earlier, the PCA had reportedly constructed the stadium in violation of building byelaws and also allegedly encroached upon over two acres of prime land around it for which it has been recognised as a violator of the zoning plans laid down by PUDA.
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Domestic workers play
goodwill match
Chandigarh, September 4 The event was unique as it brought together so many male domestics from the region, who have never had a chance to know each other. They had all the chance in the world to enjoy themselves over a special goodwill football match organised under the aegis of the National Domestic Workers Movement (NDWM), with which all these domestic workers are registered. Partnering the NDWM in the cause was the Chhota Nagpur Adivasi Sangathan, which is engaged in extending support to the domestic workers who end up being targeted by traffickers. On the field, the boys played exceptionally well, driven as they were by the urge to win. They were divided into 14 teams which were then made to play in pairs. Finally, the victory belonged to everyone though the winning team was crowned and even rewarded financially. As for the organisers, they saw in the goodwill match an opportunity to being the domestic workers together as a group and institutionalise them so that all future battles can be fought on a united front. |
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Services team beat Sanjay academy
Chandigarh, September 4 Services started dominating the game and got the success in the very first minute through Arjun. After that, Services forward line broke Sanjay’s defence at many occasions. In the 11th minute, Services lads framed a good move through their experienced medio Elvish, who gave a pass to Kiran. Kiran made no mistake in sending the ball home. After conceding two early goals, Sanjay lads framed a couple of good moves. Gurwant Singh scored first goal for Sanjay in the 18th minute of play with his solo efforts. The other goals came through Elvish (20th min, 46th min), Kiran (33rd, 42nd min), Kh Chinglen Singh (78th min) and Arjun Tudu (79th min). Y. Bobo Singh after hitting a goal in 41st minute, scored four goals in a row including first hat-trick of the tournament. In the second match of the day, spirited Goa went down fighting with tough and stout UP by a narrow margin of 2-1 while the Chandigarh Football Academy drubbed Haryana by 9-1. Manoj, Maninder, Sukhdeep and Rakesh contributed two goals each whereas Ravinder netted one goal. Vivek of Haryana reduced the margin and scored first goal for his team in 89th minute of play. |
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KV students given medals
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Administration takes over law institute land
Chandigarh, september 4 The orders to take over possession of the plot were passed by Deputy Commissioner R. K. Rao last Friday and the compliance for scheduled for today. A team of the Estate Office led by Mr Vinay Singh, Land Acquisition Officer, oversaw the process of taking the possession. The 8 acre plot in Sector 38-A was allotted for Rs 2.25 crore. Talking to the Tribune, Mr Vinay Singh said the plot had been cancelled by the Administration, so the takeover was a mere formality. The venue witnessed some unpleasant scenes when the UT officials went to have an assessment in the morning. Similar scenes were witnessed by press photographers, who were asked to go out of the premises by certain lawyers who were seated in a makeshift hut erected in the middle of the plot, which has an overgrowth of weeds and grass. Among the owners of the company are two sons of a sitting Judge, Dr V.K. Bansal, former Chairman of the Department of Laws, Panjab University, and advocate Shailendra Jain, who is a Central Government standing counsel for UT. The court had given two months to the UT Administrator for taking necessary corrective steps. Citing the February 14, 2005, judgment of a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Administration wrote to the company’s directors, informing them that the land allotted to them for constructing a law college had been cancelled. Dr Bansal from the board of directors of the institute said, “the case was still pending in the Supreme Court. We were never served any notice by the Administration, so the action is totally uncalled for. We shall see what can be done in the court.” Dr Bansal said, “When I had expressed my desire about the institute, I was allotted the land in 2004. Someone went to the court against it. We are law abiding citizens. They have come to take the possession and we are clearing the premises but the sudden development without any notice surprises us.” Mr Neeraj Sharma, a resident of Jalandhar, had challenged the administration’s allocation of prime land to the law institute at throwaway prices. Officials confirm that there was no stay on the order of the high court by the Supreme Court, so the action of taking possession of the land was absolutely legal. The company may seek compensation from the Administration for the construction undertaken by it on the plot, which was stopped on the orders of the court. |
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