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Students don’t get admit cards online
BJP renames CBI
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Young World
Don’t indulge in mudslinging; let the work speak
LPU ties up with US-based company
Free training for Army recruitment
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Students don’t get admit cards online
Jalandhar, April 30 Showing the acknowledgement receipts as proof for having deposited their forms in time, they said they had come here after they failed to obtain their admit cards from the PTU’s official site. The harried candidates said they were taken to a room where the forms were stacked. Later, they said they were able to place their forms in a sack that had reached the office quite late even as they had been sent these through speed post. Since the forms had not been scanned, their data were not entered and no admit cards were available online. Deputy Registrar R.P.S. Bedi confirmed that he had received a speed post packet containing 125 forms quite late than the ordinary post. He said all such cases were being handled on priority and admit cards would be uploaded by late night. He said there were also some cases wherein the candidates had not filled ovals in the OMR sheets correctly, that resulted in discrepancies during scanning. “We have been handling such cases manually and trying to help them out,” he said. Bedi added that there were some cases in which the candidates rued that they were not being allotted centres in their hometowns. “We had allotted centres in nearby towns to some candidates of a heavily crowded centre. Some Jalandhar students had been allotted a centre in Kapurthala but they came here insisting that they should be allowed to appear in a centre locally. We are looking into the matter, what can be done into it,” he said. He added that to facilitate some students who had misplaced their form numbers, another option had been added on the site. “The search button for download of admit cards allows them to find their names in the alphabetically placed list”, he informed. It is for the first time that the PTU has allowed only online issuance of the admit cards doing away with the postal system. |
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BJP renames CBI
Jalandhar, April 30 Senior BJP leader and Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia yesterday said the removal of the Red Corner Notice (RCN) against businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi has exposed the “Italian nexus” between him and Congress President Sonia Gandhi. “There were directions from the top that the case was not to be actively pursued. That is why the RCN was not renewed in spite of the instructions issued from time to time by the Law Ministry. All this established the hand of 10, Janpath behind the developments,” Kalia alleged. The approval of the Attorney General’s opinion without any comments by Law Minister Hans Raj Bhardwaj also proves that he was under duress to do so at the earliest, Kalia said. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who had earlier admitted that he had not been taken into confidence before a clean chit was issued to Jagdish Tytler (a key accused in the 1984 Sikh pogrom) by the CBI, must now clarify whether his approval was taken by the investigating agency before giving a clean chit to Quattrocchi, Kalia added. The haste with which the clean chit was issued to Quattrocchi shows that the Congress has already accepted its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and the removal of RCN was a “farewell gift” of the Congress-led UPA Government to the Italian businessman, who is the lone survivor of the multi-crore Bofor scam, he said. Buttressing his claim that the Congress was using the CBI as a “political tool”, the minister said whenever any prominent leader of the mainstream party speaks something against the Congress, work on cases lying pending against them is speeded up the CBI. Kalia echoed the stand of the BJP leadership and said there was a dire need to probe into the role of the CBI itself and if voted to power, the NDA would constitute a commission for the task.
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No more a melancholy singer
Aparna Banerji Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, April 30 With his popular hit being converted into a duet in Pakistan and the likes of Gurdas Mann complimenting him for his songs, he has done quite many unthinkable things in his hitherto three-album-long career. Born and brought up at Pathankot, Romy was the only one of his three siblings who stuck to his father’s profession. Romy’s childhood was spent picking the finer nuances of music from his father Krishan Lal Premijatt, a Dogri and Punjabi singer and disciple of Lal Chand Yamlajatt, who was a rage in Jammu. By the time he completed his studies, music in the state was going through a bad phase. “In 1992 I joined a job at Jammu Radio.” After getting married in 1994, he shifted to Dharamsala. With a view to making him pursue music once again, his wife Shail brought him to Jalandhar where he released his first album “Dil Dede”, which, however, did not do much business. “My critics got a chance to say things about me. People teased me and my morale was at an all-time low. But my wife encouraged me to fight it out.” His second album “Ishq De Rang” finally gave him a taste of success which had eluded him for so long. Success came but was accompanied by an irreparable loss. His wife died just a couple of days after the video for a song of this album was shot. Romy’s sensitive and solemn personality coupled with his penchant for sad melodies popularised his image of a melancholy singer. Things started looking up for him again when he found himself a good team in music director Jeetu and video director Navraj. Recently coming up with his third album “Koi Ki Jane”, the video of the title track is currently doing the rounds of music channels. The album which had 10,000 of its copies sold within the very first weeks offers hope. “And in many ways this album is also my answer to those who think I can only sing sad numbers.” With an effort to promote Indo-Pak peace, he has collaborated with Pakistani singer Naseebo Lal (of Lambi Judai fame) for the song “Bhaichara” in the album. A fan of Shiv Kumar Batalvi’s “Loona” and the love story of Mirza-Sahiban, Romy perceives the music industry pretty differently as compared to his counterparts. “Many people outside Punjab harbour misconceptions about our culture owing to the way it is presented in popular mediums. I don't think anyone can talk or sing sense holding a dang or gandassi in his hand.” Talking about one of the best compliments he got so far, he says, “Gurdass Mann is one artiste who hardly sings the songs of other people. Once when I came to know (through Gurdass himself) that he had chosen one of my songs to sing at a show, I was overjoyed. I couldn’t have got a bigger appreciation than this.”
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Simran wins news-reading contest
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, April 30 Trade
fair
Eklavya Library in association with Scholastic Publications organised book exhibition from April 27 to 29 on the school premises. As many as 5,000 books ranging from fiction to non-fiction, autobiographies, current affairs, general knowledge, novels, books on self-development, yoga and osho were displayed. The exhibition was attended by academicians, students and parents. Attraction of the exhibition was best-selling books of authors like Sidney Sheldon, Chetan
Bhagat, Anurag Mathur and Salman Rushdie. Annual function
Kendriya
Vidyalaya-I, Jalandhar cantonment, organised its annual prize distribution function on Thursday. The president of the vidyalaya management committee, Col P.S.
Gota, was the chief guest. Students presented a cultural programme, which included solo dance, group dance and songs and skit. Students were given prizes for the performances in different fields. Farewell party
A farewell party,
Jashan-e-Rukhsat, was organised at St Soldier Management and Technical Institute, Kapurthala Road. Juniors students of the MBA, BBA and BCA courses arranged the party for their seniors. Students also presented a choreography to give the message to avoid drugs and save life. Goodbye wishes
The DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology
(DAVIET) organised farewell parties for the final-year engineering students. Students of ECE and EE joined to organise “Aasta la vista” which was followed by “Sham-e-Ruksat” by MBA and MCA students, while
DESPEDIDA’ 09- A warm good bye! was a combined event of IT and CSE. Singers like Inderjeet Nikku and Sufi Barkat Sidhu added charm to the event. Students presented a cultural programme in which MBA students presented a documentary on “child
labour”, while civil and mechanical students recalled the contribution of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and urged the students to work for creating their “Sapno ka
Bharat”. Secretary of DAV Institutions, Sholapur (Maharashtra), Dr Satish
Kapoor, was the chief guest. Freshers’ party
State Public School, Jalandhar cantonment, organised a welcome party for the pre-primary students. Tiny tots had a gala time enjoying the party. |
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Don’t indulge in mudslinging; let the work speak
The well-known definition of democracy as aptly said that “It is a government of the people, for the people and by the people”, has completely lost its shimmer. It is no longer the “government of the people” and “for the people”. It is the government of a select few who are sure of their victories whatsoever may be the circumstances.
No doubt, the participation of the people is there but this is just the theoretical part that public tends to play every five years in a stereotyped manner. Leaders discern that Indian masses don’t possess a sharp memory. No one anymore talks about the great Telgi scam, fodder scandal involving Lalu Parsad
Yadav, Taj corridor scandal involving Mayawati, cases of having disproportionate assets pending against Jayalalitha and Mulayam Singh Yadav or many criminal cases pending in the Supreme Court. That is the reason they continue with their reckless rhetoric and corrupt practices. But the people are now gradually opening their eyes to the big game of corruption that these politicians play without being scrupulous. How can the big names associated with big parties justify their properties worth
crores? The problem is that nobody in the country, be it the people or leaders, is ready to come forward and raise a strong voice for the removal of such malpractices. The tragedy is that even the intellectual minds do not make much contribution. They sometimes react in a flaccid comportment. The travesty is that all political parties seem to conspire on the issue of “criminalisation of politics” and “politicalisation of criminals”. Almost all the top political leaders of all the parties can be seen engaging themselves in verbal attacks. They leave no stone unturned to defame others with their disparaging speeches. When the much revered top leaders, too, become part of this dirty world of personal abuse and attack, it dampens the very spirit of democracy. Some politicians take it for granted that they are free to use any derogatory remark for their political rivals. Instead of wasting time in mudslinging, these leaders should pay attention to their work first. Let their work speak and not their words. Their work should impel public to vote for them not only for another five years but forever. Voters should also play their role dynamically. Every voter should evaluate and analyse the work of their candidates and then vote for the most deserving candidate. Voting should be done for the sake of revival of democracy. We should never vote for the persons involved in scams, scandals, embezzlements, frauds and criminal conspiracies. How long we will be befooled and ruled by the so-called (misappropriate) representatives of the people. Remember the saying of Swami
Vivekananda, “We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men.” Now it is the duty of the voters to elect the sensible, sane and sagacious candidates for the true success of democracy. |
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LPU ties up with US-based company
Jalandhar, April 30 Somasundaram also delivered a guest lecture. He advised the students to equip themselves with diverse skills. An IT professional could not be termed as complete unless he had the knowledge of software development, database management, data storage and networking, he said. The lecture was followed by an interaction with the students. EMC2 awarded a cheque for Rs 5,000 and a certificate to Danish Wadhwa, a B. Tech (IT)student for developing a joint website for the LPU and EMC2. The other students who had undergone training organised by EMC2 were also given certificates. The programme came to an end with the address of LPU executive dean Rashmi Mittal.
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Free training for Army recruitment
Jalandhar, April 30 Lieut-Col Manmohan Singh, District Sainik Welfare Officer, said the training would be provided almost free of cost. He said the outside candidates would be provided free hostel accommodation but they would have to pay for their dietary expenses. He said priority for admission would be given to the wards of ex-servicemen, widows and serving soldiers. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates and those from weaker sections would also be considered, he added.
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He represents the group of those extraordinary people who get up and move ahead, no matter how many times life conspires to make them fall. He doesn’t have a string of hits supporting his career or numerous contacts to flaunt but this melancholy crooner’s “asin peenon hat jaange” number has made hearts melt.
