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Food scarcity due to neglect of farm sector: Expert
Patiala, November 16 Such a situation called for the state intervention and strengthening of the related institutional framework. Prof G.K. Chadha, member, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, and Professor Emeritus of JNU, New Delhi, said environmental crisis had strong connections with the market-oriented development patterns. The issues of undernourishment and resource-depletion were posing a serious threat, while the oil-syndrome, based on the geo-politics and economics, had disturbed the economic equilibrium, particularly among developing countries. The global food security problem, he said, was the result of the long drawn neglect of the agricultural sector in the economic policy with India as a consequence rendered from a food surplus country till 2002 to that of food-deficit at present. Vice-chancellor Jaspal Singh said the sustainability of capitalistic economic development, based on pure market forces, was facing a serious global recession. This had further added to the already prevalent high degree of diversity and economic development process of the Asian Societies, which required revamping of the policy processes to enhance the economic prosperity and overcome severe constraints in the light of increasing threats of food security and environment crises. Political, economical and social systems, he said, needed to function in harmony so that diversity and development process could co-exist and prosper to deliver sustainable development. Professor S.S. Gill, programme coordinator, CSWAS, said about one-fourth of world population had no access to safe drinking water there had been a serious threat to agricultural land, air, water, forests and marine resources. Three million people, he said, died because of pollution every year in the world while global warming had disturbed the entire existence of many countries. The major challenge before Asia is the maintenance of balance between environment and development, Dr Gill added. Dr Lourdes G. Salvador, executive director, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, emphasised the humanistic vision of development. Among those who presented their research papers included Dr Sukhpal Singh, IIM, Ahmedabad, Professor Surjit Singh, Director, IDS, Jaipur, Xu Xiangyang from China, Munim K. Barai from Bangladesh, Anoma S.P. Abhayarantne from Sri Lanka, Kaushif Ur Rehman from Pakistan, and Dr Simon Bishop from England.
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1,000 examined at eye camp
Patiala, November 16 Talking to mediapersons here today, Dr Sukhdip Singh Boparai, chief consultant of Patiala Eye Hospital and Lasik Laser Centre, said the camp had been organised at the initiative of the committee. Raj Kumar
Babbu, president, and Dr Anil Rooprai, vice-president of the committee, said a team of doctors from Patiala Eye Hospital and Lasik Laser Centre led by its chief consultant Dr Sukhdip S. Boparai, Dr Kiran Verma and Dr Anuradha Raj examined the patients and also performed phaco surgeries. Dr Boparai said during the free phaco camp, patients diagnosed with cataract underwent phaco emulsification and also underwent free intra-ocular lens implant. Patiala Eye Hospital is performing almost all kinds of microscopic eye surgeries under topical and local
anaesthesia. It has been organising free eye check up camps in the rural areas of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan with the help of the non-governmental organisations and social service organisations. This includes phaco emulsification with intra-ocular lens implant for the poor and needy patients. Inaugurating the camp, former Punjab minister and legislator from Dakala Lal Singh lauded the role of the committee in organising the camp. |
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Encroachments choke Ropar market
Ropar, November 16 Last month, the district administration had chalked out plan to run traffic in area one-way and mark specific entry and exit points. "But it was followed just for a day or two. There are no traffic police personnel in the market to streamline traffic," said Kuldeep Singh, an area resident. The situation is worse in the areas near the city police station where it is even difficult to walk. "It takes more than 30 minutes to cross the Pratap Market in a vehicle," added another resident Gurpartap Singh. Most of the locals avoid entering the markets and instead take longer routes to reach their destination. At times, minor scuffles and verbal duels are witnessed in the market over the issue of giving space to others. General secretary of Ropar Beopar Mandal P.S. Makkar said the organisation had submitted a map of the area to administration with some suggestions, but to no avail. "There are no permanent traffic cops to look navigate traffic. SPOs and home guards have been put on these jobs, who are no expert," he added.
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Mehar Trust holds disease awareness camp
Bassi Pathana, November 16 A team of doctors and field workers of the MBCT, led by Ajay Malhotra, took the blood samples of the villagers between the age group of 18 to 80 years, and majority of the persons were found to be diabetic. Mejie said that MBCT initiated diabetes and blood pressure awareness camp with the aim of making the villagers aware of these diseases by telling their symptoms, causes and remedies. For the empowerment of rural women, the Trust also arranged a meeting of women and girls of the villages with Seema Arora, director, Fashion Technology Park, Mohali. She told them that they could start their own business, join any boutique or form self-help group under MBCT.
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Spurt in accidents on Kalka-Charnia road
Kalka, November 6 Due to the traffic of heavy vehicles from the industrial towns of Himachal Pradesh, Barotiwala and Baddi, several accidents have taken place on this road, which have claimed three lives in last months. A speeding truck in Majra Mehtab village had crushed a 14-year-old boy to death. Another 22-year-old railway employee had also lost his life as his motorcycle had hit by a speeding private bus of Himachal Pradesh 15 days back. On November 14, a recklessly driven unknown vehicle crushed a 38-year-old migrant labourer, who died on the spot. Both the accidents had taken place near Bharat Nagar T-point. It must be mentioned here that despite the repeated requests by the residents of Bharat Nagar and Tagra villages to construct speed-breakers on this stretch, the PWD or the local administration has not taken any initiative. Notably last month, the residents of the Majra Mehtab village blocked traffic on Kalka-Paploha road for more than 5 hours for their demands in this regard. The Kalka SDM and Tehsildar had given assurance to construct the speed-breakers within 20 days, but nothing has happened till date, alleged
the villagers. The villagers have urged the district administration to issue directives to SDO, PWD, Kalka, to construct the speed-breakers on
this road.
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Kharar, November 16 He was working as a cook with Mohali company Sigma. Investigating officer ASI Narinder Singh said the police got information at around 1 am about the accident. The victim had received head injuries and it seemed that he met with accident while crossing the road, Narinder Singh said. He added the police got a few visiting cards from the deceased's pockets. "We called on the numbers given in the cards and were able to contact someone known to the deceased in the Burail area of Chandigarh. We called that person. He was able to identify the deceased but could not tell us about his whereabouts," Narinder said. Later, the police managed to get to the deceased's employers at Sigma, who identified him as their employee. The police has registered a case against the vehicle. — TNS
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Health hazard: After dengue, it’s unhygienic food
Patiala, November 16 In an attempt to check the practice of selling unhygienic food items in the open air, civil surgeon Kuldeep Kaur has asked officials of her department to be alert. Under the Epidemics Act, all kinds of cut fruits, sweets, beverages, including juices, lassi and sharbats need to be protected against contamination and dust. However, the sale of open eatables exposed to flies and other insects continues to be unabated. Also, the sale of ice, aerated water, and candies made from ice, etc is banned. However, these are also being sold openly, particularly in the walled parts of the city, in the periphery of the bus stand and railway station. Kuldeep Kaur assured that steps would be taken to check the sale of such eatables. This is posing a health hazard to school and college students, as most of the ‘rehriwallas’ tend to sell their products near educational institutions. A senior official of the civil surgeon’s office disclosed that in the absence of a proper address it is difficult to fine ‘rehriwallas’. In such an eventuality, prosecution becomes difficult, he added.
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Annual function held
Ambala, November 16 While addressing students Gupta said besides academic education, the
students should actively take part in the sports and cultural
activities. He asked the students to work hard to achieve their goal. He
distributed the prizes to the meritorious students of the school. The
students presented a colourful cultural programme on the occasion.
Qawwali, Haryanavi dance, modelling, English play, western dance,
aerobics, skating, giddha and bhangra was the main attraction of the
function.
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Man injured in police custody
Ambala, November 16 According to information, Nirmal, a resident of a village of Patiala district, had been arrested by the Yamunanagar police in a theft case on November 5. Later, he was handed over to the Ambala police for the interrogation in another case. A local court remanded Nirmal to the police custody for eight days. According to a doctor of the nursing home, Nirmal sustained multiple injuries and plates have been inserted in his right leg. It could not be ascertained so far how Nirmal sustained the injuries. However, the police said Nirmal had fallen down in the toilet that resulted in injury. Group clash Ambala:
Panic prevailed in 11 Cross Road area at Ambala Cantonment on Sunday evening when two groups started pelting empty bottles and stones at each other. According to information, several people were injured in the clash. Senior police officers reached at the spot and rounded up several persons.
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Press Day observed at Ropar
Ropar, November 16 Rupnagar DPRO Harjit Singh Grewal was the chief guest at the function. Addressing the gathering, speakers highlighted the importance of day and pondered over the efforts needed to protect the freedom
of press. They also highlighted the need for introspection by the media fraternity to remove various shortcomings in functioning. Harjit Singh Grewal lauded efforts made by the Rupnagar Press Club in observing National
Press Day. He also urged the mediapersons to pay more attention towards developing journalism. In view of the theme of this year's National Press Day “Women and Media”, it was also resolved to highlight problems of women in the media this year. It was announced that the election of new office-bearers of the Press Club would be held in first week of January next year. It was also decided to institute an award for outstanding journalist
of Rupnagar.
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26-year-old woman ends life
Panchkula, November 16 According to police, the deceased, Neelam, had a tiff with her sister-in-law in the morning. She was found hanging in the house in the afternoon. The doctors at a hospital declared her brought dead. The police has registered a case.
Stolen
Kharar: Eight computer monitors, three mouse and other parts of computers were stolen from the hotel management campus of Rayat and Bahra Institute, Sahauran. In his complaint to the police, the institute director Col Satinder Singh has stated that the monitors and mouse were stolen from the computer lab of the institute on Saturday night. The thieves had broken into the lab by breaking windowpanes. It was only in the morning today at around 8.15 am, when college staff came to know about the theft. A case in this connection has been registered.
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PU Inter-College Tourney Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 16 In another league match, SGGS College, Chandigarh, beat PU Campus (25-20, 25-16, 25-17) and SCD Government College, Ludhiana, prevailed over Government College, Sector 46, (25-09, 25-12, 25-21). Also, SCD Government College, Ludhiana, beat PU Campus (25-16, 25-05, 25-23). While on the second day of the ball badminton (women) tournament, GGS College, Sector 26, outclassed PU Campus (29-11, 29-22, 29-12). On the first day of the korfball (men and women) tournament, SGGS College, Chandigarh, edged past GGDSD College, Chandigarh, 18-07, to enter the final. In the second semi-final, PU Campus thrashed DAV College 13-08 to join SD College in the final.
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SD-32 and PEC record easy wins
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 16 SD College defeated Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Sector 26 by five wickets and PEC routed Government College, Sector 11, by eight wickets. In the first match, SGGS College batted first and was all out for 162 in 24.2 overs. Sourav top scored with 55 and Geet Krishan and Vijay contributed 24 and 23, respectively. Harmeet Bansal and Sandeep Bhatia bowled well and claimed three wickets each for 38 and 30 runs, respectively. In reply SD College achieved their target with ease by scoring 163 for five in 23.2 overs. Gurkirat played a brilliant knock of unbeaten 42. Bharat and Vaibhav made 37 and 28, respectively, as SD College romped home with a good margin. In the second match, Government College, Sector 11, batted first and posted 114 for nine in 25 overs. Kishore scored 38 and Prabhjhot remained not out on 17. Vikram claimed four wickets for 22 runs. Angad Singh captured three wickets for 20 runs. Propped up by Nipun (35) and Haramdeep (28 not out) PEC achieved their target by scoring 115 for two in 21 overs.
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Talk show to promote cricket in US
Chandigarh, November 16 These programmes would be telecasted by the Channel 2 Group in the US. Sethi, who is also the chairman of the Channel 2 Group, said since the cricket was not so famous in the US I wanted to uplift the cricket in the US through the Indian cricketing soap operas. Only last month Channel 2 Group had hosted and promoted “Legends of Lords” at Dubai, a star-studded show, which saw cricketing legends like Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar, Mohinder Amarnath, Sayeed Kirmani, Krishnamachari Srikanth, Ravi Shastri, Roger Binny, Madan Lal and others coming together in Dubai to be a part of the mega
celebrations of “Legends of Lords.” He said, “The main aim of the mobilisation on part of Channel 2 Group Corporation is to pay back for the contributions of these iconic cricketers of world cup winning Indian squad of 1983.” The Channel 2 Group has exclusive radio and TV rights for several BCCI tournaments in South Africa and sub-Sahara countries and exclusive radio broadcast rights for all ICC cricket live matches in Middle East and Internet rights globally till 2015, including World Cup. |
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Tennis c’ship from Dec 2
Chandigarh, November 16 According to Devinder Kapoor, director Total Tennis, the championship will be played in different
age categories i.e. boys under 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 whereas girls will play to win the title in the age categories i.e. under 10, 12 and 14. The entries will close with Devinder Kapoor on December 1 at 5 pm. Interested participants may send their entries at Fax No. 0172-2707291 or email at devinderkapoor@yahoo.com and for further queries one may contact at 09814200030. |
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Wrestling trials from Nov 22
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