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KMV on cloud nine
Advocates’ Strike
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Campus placements
Achievers
Court Fee Hike
LIC workers’ strike today
Rail booking from 100 post offices within 4 months
DAVIET professor wins accolades
Gate rally by PSEB staff
Diploma engineers hold dharna
Flags of Pak, China burnt
Notes on theatre
Young World
Fixing Damage
Trauma centre stuck with the flu
Doordarshan programme
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KMV on cloud nine
Jalandhar, September 15 Students of the postgraduate diploma in fashion designing (PGDFD) and MSc (physics)-II and MA (economics)-I won the first positions in the varsity. The students of the PGDFD made a clean sweep by securing the first six and the ninth positions in the merit list. Harpreet, Manjeet, In MSc (physics)-II Jatinder, Ruchika, Amrita, Komalpreet and Priyanka Yadav bagged the first, second, third, fourth and seventh positions, respectively. Another topper is Renu Sharma, a student of MA (economics)-I who got 359 marks out of 500 and stood first in the university.
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Advocates’ Strike
Jalandhar, September 15 The issue reportedly began after a group of advocates went to meet the president of the Kapurthala forum, Paramjit Singh Rai, to request him to adjourn cases put up for the day. Rai was here to hold a camp court in view of the high pendency of cases in the Jalandhar forum. A duel ensued between the lawyers and the forum president after the latter told the former that he could even decide a case without a representation by the advocates. The advocates said they found the statement derogatory and were forced to lodge a protest. The matter is said to have been resolved later after the intervention of president of Jalandhar forum A.K. Sharma. Rai, when contacted, said there was no major issue. He, however, stressed that the forum could decide a case even on the basis of a dak (post) sent by a complainant. He said the forum members too remain hard-pressed owing to high pendency. He said the national commission had directed every forum to hear 75 complaints a month which was possible only if five to six cases were decided daily.
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No show-cause notice to teachers yet
Jalandhar, September 15 As per the policy of the Education Department, all schools with a pass percentage below 20 were to be chargesheeted. The chargesheet of teachers with poor performance was issued in the mid of June last year. Sources in the Education Department have been passing the buck or blaming higher authorities for not taking action till date. However, ever since the results were declared in May, the authorities had been planning to issue show-cause notices to the teachers concerned. The district achieved a pass percentage of 65.11 in class VIII this year but that was owing to the better performance of private schools affiliated to the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) compared to the government ones. In fact, the results of some of the government schools were utterly dismal with just a few students clearing the examination. In class X, the pass percentage was approximately 66 with a majority of schools failing to reach the pass mark. Last year, teachers of 63 government schools across the district were issued show-cause notices for registering poor results in class VIII and XII examinations. This year, only 27 students of class X were in the merit list out of 420 merit holders across the state. Even in class XII, a majority of the schools failed to perform well. The schools, which registered 100 per cent failure in class VIII examination, include Government Middle School, Bulle, Government Middle School, Ladhran, Government Elementary School, Basherpur, Government High School, Jagral, Mundi Kasu, Public Senior Secondary School, Shahkot, and Government Middle School, Butra. Out of these, the school at Mundi Kasu registered 100 per cent failure last year as well. In class XII, staff of nine schools were issued notices for humanities results, five schools for the science stream and two schools for vocational trade results. When contacted, DEO (Secondary) Joginder Dass said they recently sent the details of the poor results of class VIII to the Education Department. The list of class X results is yet to be prepared. “The staff are working on the details and soon show-cause notices would be issued to the schools,” he added.
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Campus placements
Jalandhar, September 15 A team of three Army officers visited the campus and conducted a two-phase preliminary test. Students of final and pre-final years from engineering background (all streams) as well as B. Arch were eligible to take part in the test. The candidates were adjudged on the basis of their performance in group discussion and personal interview. The shortlisted students will appear for the SSB interview shortly and
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Achievers
Jalandhar, September 15 Those who have cleared the exam are Aditya Batla, Vaibhav Dhingra and Abhinav Jain from the Apeejay School, Ishpuneet and Himani Bhardwaj from Police DAV Public School, Ankur Bansal and Johny Minia from Swami Sant Dass School, Akshay Gupta from Innocent Hearts School and Ridhima Aggarwal from St Joseph’s Convent School. They will be entitled to a scholarship of Rs 6,000 per annum up to PhD or research level or till the time they continue their studies. Having been selected among the country’s top 720 students and state’s top 39 students, Abhinav Jain is feeling on the top of the world. A national-level table tennis player, he aspires to become an IAS officer. Likewise, Akshay Gupta, son of a city-based doctor couple, has been an inter-school chess player. His parents, Dr Ritesh Gupta and Dr Sangeeta Gupta, said their son had worked thoroughly on the science, mathematics and social studies syllabus of class VIII and IX to sail through extremely tough rounds of written tests at the state and national level. The interview, they said, was equally tough as the contestants were grilled through a series of questions based on physics. Vaibhav Dhingra, too, is delighted to have been able to qualify till the final rounds. He said his schoolteachers paid an extra effort helping them with mental ability questions and syllabi particularly related to political science, civics, physics and biology. School Principals, including Meera Javed of Apeejay School, Rashmi Vij of Police DAV Public School, Harbhajan Kaur of Swami Sant Dass School, Sister Sophie of St Joseph’s Convent School and K. Bowry of Innocent Hearts School, congratulated the students on their success.
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Court Fee Hike
Jalandhar, September 15 In a statement released to Press, members of the DBA criticised the move of the Punjab police to cane-charge and register FIRs in Bathinda and Ludhiana, respectively. As per the latest reports, members of the Bar Association filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court against this move of the government. The members also demanded non-implementation of the decision on evening courts.
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LIC workers’ strike today
Jalandhar, September 15 The members blamed the LIC management and the Union Government for not implementing the revised pay scales. |
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Rail booking from 100 post offices within 4 months
Jalandhar, September 15 Kumar said the main post offices at Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ferozepore and Ludhiana had already been providing rail reservation facilities to the customers for the past some time. To bring a total transformation in the functioning of postal services, the department had purchased three cargo planes and had set up three regions, northern region with its headquarters in New Delhi, western-southern region with its headquarters in Nagpur and eastern region with Kolkata as its headquarters, for air lifting the cargo from one region to the other. The Chief Postmaster-General said the Punjab circle was recruiting 150 postal assistants and 70 postmen for the speedy delivery of postal services. He said 25 post offices had been renovated and computerised in the first phase and 25 more would be covered under the renovation scheme in the next phase. He disclosed that all the postal services would be provided on a single window system and computerised token issued to cope with the rush on the windows. He said with the computerisation of all the post offices, the delivery of postal mail would be monitored daily in Chandigarh and Delhi and strict action would be taken against the erring officials for non-delivery of letters. Answering a query regarding fraud cases, he said there were nearly 100 cases of fraud, running into several crores, committed in connivance with employees of post offices, which were either at the investigation stage or the trial stage. The Chief Postmaster-General also visited Kapurthala where he inaugurated the renovated computerised branch of the head post office. Earlier, while addressing a function after inaugurating the main post office branch, he claimed that the air logistic service launched by the department had
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DAVIET professor wins accolades
Jalandhar, September 15 He was one of the 200 delegates in the conference who included scholars from IITs, TIFR, Mumbai, and many other reputed institutes. Virk said the conference was based on the theme of radiation effects of heavy ions, electrons and X-rays on insulators. The professor presented his experiment report under the title “Ion tracks toute to nano technology and carbon ion irradiation effects on cadmium oxide quantum dots” at the conference. Virk said he was optimistic about future collaboration between DAVIET and foreign research centres to boost research in nano techinology. He said he had received a proposal from one of the Russian companies for a joint Indo-Russian project with DAVIET as one of the collaborating institutions from India.
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Gate rally by PSEB staff
Jalandhar, September 15 The members maintained that the agitation led by various trade unions, farmer bodies and labour unions had succeeded in getting their demands accepted pertaining to the unbundling of the PSEB. President of the union Ram Jaggi said the union would further intensify their stir to demand withdrawal of the proposal of unbundling the PSEB. |
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Diploma engineers hold dharna
Jalandhar, September 15 Chairman of the council Satnam Singh Dhanoa said the government had failed to accept their long-pending demands, which included enhancement of local travelling allowance
from Rs 480 to Rs 2,000 per month. The members submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Ajeet Singh Pannu. |
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Flags of Pak, China burnt
Kapurthala, September 15 The state chief spokesperson of the Shiv Sena Jagdish Kataria and its district president Manoj Arora stated that the flag of Pakistan was burnt to protest against the atrocities on Hindus and harbouring terrorism. Similarly, the flag of China was burnt against violating the international border in Ladakh. |
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Notes on theatre
Jalandhar, Sepetember 15
“Good night,” someone from the back row of the auditorium (the students’ section, of course) chants and the cheeky remark is followed by an uncanny hush as embarrassed teachers look back to trace the culprit. “Not Good night, I don’t wish you to sleep while I speak,” the speaker quickly retorts and gets straight to business. The incident is soon forgotten once the pearls of wisdom begin pouring. The seminar on modern theatre techniques hosted by the APJ College of Fine Arts Jalandhar, bringing eminent theatre persons like Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry, Kewal Dhaliwal, Mahendra Kumar, Suresh Bhardwaj and Dinesh Khanna to the city, was a laudable first with irony writ large over it as the only people who played spoilsports were the college’s own students. Excerpts from what was discussed on the occasion: Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry: An eminent theatre person and professor at Panjab University’s Department of Theatre, who spoke on theatre training and methodologies. Starting with a brief history of theatre - Stanislavsky’s “the system” in the beginning of the 20th century, she concluded the lecture with an in-depth account her own style or theory of training students. Kewal Dhaliwal: The playwright laid stress on the importance of sets in a play, saying he disagreed with people who used actors as an excuse to downplay sets. Talking of the deep association of set design with environment, he provided valuable tips on costumes in a play, emphasising on colours and textures. Mahendra Kumar: Working for the Theatre Department of Panjab University, he spoke on set design. He upheld that sets are a support and should never dwarf the actors (as exception, though, he quoted his own play Agni Varsha, in which actors were eclipsed by an expanded stage made to look like an expanse of barren land). Suresh Bhardwaj: The man who introduced the DMX system at the National School of Drama, Delhi, he acquainted audience with the different aspects of lighting. He fondly looked back on experiments like the staging of plays like “Tughlaq” and “Andha Yug” at Purana Qila in Delhi. Dinesh Khanna: NSD faculty member, he emphasised that deftness in the art of penning dialogues is the foremost prerequisites for good scriptwriting.
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Young World
Jalandhar, September 15 Addressing the gathering, Kalia emphasised on the need to make more efforts to improve the education standards in Punjab. Professionals from leading corporate houses were present on the occasion. Chairman of Jalandhar, Improvement Trust Baljit Singh Neelamahal was the chief guest on the second day. University toppers Students of MBA (FYIC) of the 10th semester of Guru Nanak Dev University College, Jalandhar, secured top positions in the varsity. Kulbir Kaur, Shyna, Manpreet Bindra, Anu Gupta, Chandanu Babbar and Mehak Mahajan bagged the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and tenth positions, respectively. Radhika of MBA (FYIC) of second semester bagged the first position in the university. Meanwhile, Kirandeep Kaur, a student of MA-II (Indian classical dance) of BD Arya Girls College, Jalandhar cantonment, got the first position in university by scoring 672 marks out of 800. Sushil Kumar of MA-II (music instrumental) of the APJ College of Fine Arts got the first position in the varsity by scoring 663 marks. Special assembly A special assembly was held at Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara, to felicitate and honour the toppers of Guru Nanak Dev University. Rajinder Bhagat, a senior administrator from the IFS, was the guest of honour. Meritorious students were honoured with “robes of honour”. Meanwhile, an extension lecture on “immunities and privileges of diplomatic envoys” for the students of the PG department of political science was delivered by the chief guest. Navy placement The DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (DAVIET) conducted a joint campus placement under the university entrance scheme. As many as 150 students of DAVIET and other engineering colleges of Punjab, studying in the final year of various engineering disciplines, appeared in the interview. The candidates shortlisted by the selection committee would be eligible to appear in the final round of the SSB later this year. Cdr Krishnan said the finally selected candidates would join the Indian Navy at a starting annual salary package of Rs 6.28 lakh. Cricket stars Three boys of CT Public School, Ginish Sandal, Sukhdeep Singh and Manmohit Singh, have been selected to represent Jalandhar in the inter-district matches in the under-16 category. Hindi divas Guru Amar Dass Public School organised a Hindi poetry recitation competition on Hindi Divas on Monday. Ekamjot Singh and Deeksha of class VI, Nitish and Harsimran Kaur of class VII and Mansimran Kaur and Maninder Singh of class VIII bagged the first, second and third positions, respectively. A cultural programme was held at Police DAV Public School on September 14 on the occasion of Hindi Divas. The students were awarded for getting top positions in Hindi. The school also hosted a district-level Punjab School Education Board yoga competition for boys and girls. The department of Hindi of Kanya Maha Vidyalaya also celebrated Hindi Divas. Salsa workshop A seven-day “salsa” workshop was held at Virsa Vihar from September 9. Gautam Sharma, the project manager of the workshop, and Sangeeta Sharma taught salsa, hip-hop and zouk dance forms. A free workshop of Latin style cha-cha-cha was also held on the concluding day. Exhibition An exhibition on “save environment” was held at Ambika Modern School, Kapurthala Road, on September 12. The students presented different working models of science and technology, social science, mathematics and art and craft based on the topic. Guest lecture A guest lecture on International Year of Astronomy was held at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya on September 11. Sanjivan Singh Dhadwal, general secretary, Science Teachers Association, Punjab, spoke on the occasion. Meanwhile, a zoology lab was inaugurated by SDM R.P. Singh on the same day on the college campus. Extension lecture An extension lecture on “Recent trends in biotechnology” was organised by the department of biotechnology at Kanya Maha Vidyalaya on September 10. Dr P.K. Sehajpal, professor from the department of molecular biology and biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University, enlightened the students on tuberculosis. Fancy dress A fancy dress competition was held at State Public School in which students from nursery to class II took part. The competition was held to create awareness among the children regarding Indian culture. Talent hunt A talent hunt competition was held at Lyallpur Khalsa College in which students participated in the collage making, rangoli, installation, phulkari, flower arrangement, poster making, landscaping, etc.
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Fixing Damage
Jalandhar, September 15 In a press statement, Raj Kumar, president of the Jalandhar District Rice Millers Association, said the rice mill industry was going through a severe crisis as percentage of damaged grain in rice had been decreased from 4 to 3.5 per cent. “Grain damage in case of 201 variety of paddy is much higher as compared to newly announced norms by the Government of India. But the government toed the opposite path by slashing the damage percentage. Moreover, late sowing of paddy and use of combine harvesters during nights due to a shortage of labour are causing an increased moisture content and grain damage by fungal diseases eventually,” added Raj Kumar. According to the statement, there was pending quantity of about 90,000 metric tonnes. Non-availability of storage space with the Food Corporation of India and limit of only 20 days for procurement of paddy made
matter worse. Members of the association demanded that the rice mill industry should not be exploited at the hands of the FCI
and demanded earliest delivery of rice of the 2008-09 crop.
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Trauma centre stuck with the flu
Jalandhar, September 15 Equipped with facilities like ventilators, cardiac monitors, pulse oxymeters, central suction supply, image intensifiers, operation theatres, etc, the high-roofed rooms of the centre are still begging for optimal use. Core teams comprising specialists like neurosurgeons, anaesthetists and surgeons along with staff nurses, laboratory technicians and other experts is still non-existent. The authorities at the Civil Hospital say the experts would be provided from amongst the specialists in the hospital itself. On the other hand, the decision to recruit staff is still pending with the Director of Health Services due to technical reasons, including code of conduct. However, murmurs suggesting some different reasons can be heard. As per sources, another major reason for the non-usage of trauma centre for trauma patients is its conversion into an isolated ward for swine flu patients. As specified by internal sources, the central line for oxygen supply is available only for three beds and that supply is being used for full-blown swine flu cases. Further complications are that no injured patient can be admitted to the centre due to lowering of resistance trauma in the presence of even one mildly affected swine flu patient. As no other ward in the entire hospital complex is equipped with direct central oxygen supply, shifting of swine flu patients to the Civil Hospital complex is not possible. Location of the trauma centre is also being challenged by some quarters. As the centre is located in the heart of the city, it takes more than an hour to reach here from the outskirts. According to one experienced intensive care expert, “Post-trauma period is the most critical time span. The more we elongate it, less will be the chances of survival as doctors need to take quick decisions regarding replacement of fluids, minerals, etc.”
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It was a glorious moment for Kanya Maha Vidyalaya which registered impressive results in examinations conducted by Guru Nanak Dev University.
Jalandhar, Sepetember 15
