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Seminar: The Chandigarh CFA Association organised a seminar on ‘World Financial Crisis-Is the worst over?’ in the city. Anil Katia, state head of the HDFC Bank, and Satindra Singh Ahluwalia, faculty, ICFAI Business School, were the key speakers. Katia highlighted the state of affairs and analysed the measures and packages announced by the American government. He concluded that the worst was yet to come. He explained how the ripple effects of the American credit crunch were being felt by most of the countries of the world depending on their economic ties and financial involvement with the US. Meeting: A meeting of the committee of ward No. 13 was held recently under the chairmanship of senior vice-chairperson Anita Chaudhary at Community Centre of Sector 44. The issues that were taken up at the meeting included non-maintenance of street lights, speed breakers at sensitive areas, theft of vehicles in residential areas, recarpeting of roads, dumping of malwa, construction of community centre and non-filling of digging area by the forest department. Other members were also present. Elected: Parminder Singh has been elected president of the All-India Development Officer (administration) Association. Other office-bearers include G.S. Lamba senior vice-president, Sawaran Singh vice-president, G.P.S. Kohli general secretary, Ashwani Sharma cashier, A.K. Jindal, Kamal Kumar and Swinder Singh Sethi executive members and Harpal Singh, Pankaj Sharma and Bhupinder Singh local coordinators. ZIRAKPUR
Office-bearers elected: The following have been elected as office bearers of Kalgidhar Enclave and Market Welfare Society, chairman - Col J.S. Sodhi; president - Col B.S. Sandhu; vice-presidents - Major Gurcharan Singh and Col G.S. Khaira; general secretary - Col D.R. Chauhan; treasurer - S.K. Sharma; media advisor - Pooja Arora; legal advisor - Col S.R. Gogar; planning and development in charges - Prof Sudhir Sharma and Sukhpal Dhiman and executive members - Major Ranjit Singh, Sunil Bansal, Rakesh Jain, Ved Prakash, Col Sucha Singh, Mohinder Singh and Rashpal Kaur.
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One dies: Sombir (20), a resident of Dinod village, fell down from the rooftop of a roadways bus at the Tosham bypass on Monday. He died on the spot.
CHANDIGARH
Registrar appointed: Ramesh Arora, controller of examinations and secretary to vice-chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, has been appointed as registrar of Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonepat.REWARI
Mullana flays Sampat Singh: The HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana on Monday vehemently flayed INLD leader and former finance minister Sampat Singh for his reported press statement, in which he described the Hooda government’s Free Plot Scheme as a “political gimmick”. Mullana lashed out at INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala terming him as ‘enemies of the poor and the downtrodden”.
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Workers’ union: The Himachal Pradesh Transport Workers Union, affiliated to BMS, has threatened to gherao the office of the state transport minister on October 6 at Chamba. In a release, president of the local unit of the sangh Ajmer Thakur accused the transport minister for not solving various problems of the transport workers. He accused the minister of adopting the policies of central government and not ensuring job security and pension benefits.
KULLU
Youth employment: The state government has fixed the target of providing employment to 26,000 youths, including 18,000 teachers in the state, during the current financial year. This was stated by Khimi Ram Sharma, deputy speaker, Himachal Vidhan Sabha, while addressing a public meeting at Kashdha village on Saturday. He said Rs 80 crore had been earmarked to implement the ‘Atal Bijli Bachat Yojna’ under which 16 lakh households in the state would get four CFL bulbs free of cost. He said the use of CFL bulbs would not only save power, but also save peoples’ money by curtailing their electricity bills.
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4 Bangladeshis held: Four Bangladeshi nationals were arrested on Monday, while trying to cross over to Pakistan from Samba district. Police sources said on being challenged by the police, a group of four persons fled towards the international border in Dag Avtal forward area in Samba district. The group was later arrested by the police. The four were identified as Mohmmad
Sadiq, Kali, Mohmmad Yousef and Mohmmad Zakir, all residents of Bangladesh. Police officials said the group had infiltrated into India from Bangladesh in West Bengal in July this year and visited various states of the country before reaching Jammu last week. However, nothing incriminating was found from the possession of the four.
Plea to release salaries: The Jammu Muslim Co-ordination Committee
(JMCC) has urged Governor N.N. Vohra to ensure release of salaries and allowances to government employees of all communities on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr and
Navratras. While reviewing the outcome of JMCC's meeting with Vohra on September 27, the members expressed satisfaction over the manner in which the delegation had presented facts and issues that needed immediate attention of the Governor. The JMCC expressed grave concern about non-payment of salary and festival allowances to employees on the eve of Eid and Navratras despite standing orders from the state government's finance department.
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Rs 1,350 cr for power transmission system: Under the Prime Minister's Reconstruction programme (PMRP), Rs 1,350 crore was being spent in the state for improving the power transmission system. The government has earmarked over Rs 469 crore for modernisation and upgrade of the transmission system for the current fiscal. An official spokesman said Rs 316.23 crore had been utilised by August end and six grid stations with a capacity of 360 MVA had been completed so far. Of them, two grid stations with a capacity of 160 MVA had been commissioned. In addition, 893 kms transmission lines of 220/32 KV, 132/33 KV and 132 KV level were being erected in the state under the PMRP, while 108.67 km transmission lines had been completed up to August end. Under the Central sector, work on seven power projects with an installed capacity of 2,799 MW was presently in progress. The projects include 330 MW Kishan Ganga, 1,020 MW Bursar, 1,000 MW Pokaldal, 240 MW Sewa-II, 45 MW Nimo Bazgo and 44 MW Chutak projects. Girl drowns: A girl drowned in Baramulla district on Monday. The girl was identified as Safi and was playing on the banks of the Mayan stream when she accidentally fell into the water near her house at Nagadari village in Baramulla district. Safi’s body was later fished out.
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