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BCI norms far cry at Law Department of DAV College
Panel aims at making education interesting
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Aspiring actors need patience, says acting guru Taneja
People used to say that an actor can’t be trained, but we did it. No doubt acting is inborn talent, but it has to be polished. Just like a singer or dancer needs to practise regularly, an actor requires to rehearse to improve his skills. — Roshan Taneja
28 graduate in security course
Graduates of the security management course at Doon University in on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
China gaining strength in mid-Himalayas: Expert
Only professional courses at Institute of Professional Studies
Bharatnatyam, kathak contest-cum-exam held
Schoolchildren at a function at Kankhal in Haridwar on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
WII places traps in wake of leopard attack at campus
Soccer camp concludes
Students union backs statehood protesters
HCC thump Diamond Cricket Club by 88 runs
A batsman faces a delivery at the second Basudev Raghav Memorial Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Khukhri Club beat Indra Club 2-1
Players in action at a match at the District Football League in Dehradun on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
Naren Thapa fashions Uttarakhand Club’s victory 4-1
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BCI norms far cry at Law Department of DAV College
Dehradun, June 8 The department, which had been successful in dodging the BCI team two years ago, can no longer be sure of gaining success again by repeating the same. The college, which has been running the same department for more than 40 years, came under BCI norms after the body set up the norms two years ago for all law colleges in the country to get and maintain recognition accorded by it. BCI teams visits these department once in two years. Surender Pundir, advocate who accompanied a BCI team two years ago, said: “I, along with some other colleagues, went in support of the college when it played the game before the BCI team and showed them a fake building and classes of other subjects as of the Law Department. On other norms such as small size of rooms, lack of mock court room, the Head of the Department (HoD) convinced the BCI team of fulfilling them soon. We too persuaded them for giving the department some time to do. But, two years have passed and the college has neither made a new building nor other arrangements of a standard library, cafeteria, study material, etc”. As per the norms, the Law Department must have a separate building, big classrooms, big mock court room, library, cafeteria and a faculty room, etc. Pundir also said earlier even the faculty members were not qualified LLMs, mandatory degree to teach law classes. Even Head of the Law Department SK Aggarwal himself is not an LLM, he added. However, Aggarwal maintained that all faculty members of the college were LLM degree holders whereas Principal of DAV College BL Nautiyal did not seem to be knowing anything about the matter as he said: “We have recently employed four faculty members for the Law Department. They must be LLM”. Another passout from college Bhanu Pratap Sisodia, who also accompanied the BCI team, said that he wanted the Law college to continue to serve poor students as college fees (3,000 a month) is nominal compared to the fees charged by private law colleges. “The college trust should build a new building for Law College, but ironically they lack the willingness to do so as they themselves want to close this department and run it separately on private college pattern to make good money. Their earlier attempt to do so was foiled by students union,” he said. Both the Principal and the HoD assured the BCI team of constructing a new building for the department before its scheduled visit, a claim which Pundir said that they had been making for the past many years. In this matter, the Principal expressed his helplessness in the matter citing reasons of acute financial crunch. He says: “The students are not ready to raise the fees, not even the price of prospectus. In such a scenario, the college do not have enough funds to undertake construction of a new building. But, still we would make some more rooms on the back of the five rooms where law is being taught these days.” Whether college fulfils its norms or not, the law fraternity is committed to support it whenever BCI teams come. Bhanu says: “I am a product of this college, who could not have made his living if this college had not existed. Moreover, this college is running for more than 40 years and we don’t want to see it closed. Now, the college authorities have improved upon faculty, so they are bound to improve in quality too which is a good sign for the future batches
of lawyers.”
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Panel aims at making education interesting
Dehradun, June 8 Rashmi Wadhwa, Dehradun Chapter Head-FEIL, showcased a power point presentation followed by a panel of discussion on “Quality education-the need of the hour”. Panelists Dr Peter McLaughlin, Headmaster, Doon School, Swamy, Principal, PYDS, Prem Kashyap, Principal, Pestle Weed College, Dr Preetima Varma, psychologist, St Joseph Academy, Soshovan Saha, Tula Institute, and Neha Sharma, Dehradun Institute of Technology, participated in the discussion related to education. Manisha Panwar, state Education Secretary, was the chief guest who inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp. Dr Peter McLaughlin, Headmaster, Doon School was the guest of honour. Other members at the event were Rashmi Wadhwa, Rajeev Sacchar, Harinder Juneja, G S Ahluwalia and Rashmi Bhardwaj. List of dignitaries that received the honour were Sunderlal Bahuguna, Anil Joshi, JS Mann, Pankaj Gupta, Anand Sharma, Rakesh Dhavan, Abhishek Maindola, Kusum Pant, Prateek Panwar, Rijul Bakshi and Chitrashi Rawat.
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Aspiring actors need patience, says acting guru Taneja
Dehradun, June 8 Taneja shared his views with The Tribune while he was in the city to launch Doon Talent Acting School, the Dehradun franchise of the Roshan Taneja Foundation for Performing Art on Monday. Taneja is a founder and former head of the Acting Department at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, which began operations in 1963. He is accredited with training many of India’s leading film, theatre and TV actors for four decades, besides nurturing talents of a host of other actors. Taneja, a well-known man in the film industry, had recently completed 45 years in service. He himself took to acting since his childhood and participated in many plays during his school and college days. Having trained at the prestigious Neighbourhood Playhouse School of Theatre, New York, under legendary American guru of acting, late Sanford Meisner and Sidney Pollack, Taneja is not only one of the first teachers of acting at the Pune institute, but also a pioneer of method acting in the country. He went to the US for four years in 1958 for getting trained in acting. “The Principal of the acting school in the US got impressed with the letter I had sent for admission in the course that she gave me a scholarship for two years. It helped me a lot. Two years I relied on the scholarship and the remaining years I worked over there to meet my daily needs,” he reminisced, adding “after returning I struggled a lot, but found that I was not suitable for film industry thus decided to open a training institute for those who want to make career in acting”. The 77-year-old guru has a never-to-die spirit. “I am 77 and did not celebrate my 75th birthday as I don’t want to think even that I am growing old,” he affirmed. Reminiscing the commencement of the Acting Department at the FTII, he said: “People used to say that an actor can’t be trained, but we did it. No doubt acting is inborn talent, but it has to be polished. Just like a singer or dancer needs to practise regularly, an actor requires to rehearse to improve his skills. Everything needs a foundation stone and acting schools help in knowing the basics of acting before getting into it,” he said. Asrani and Subash Ghai were among his first students at the Pune institute, while Anil Kapoor and Gulshan Grover trained in his institute in Mumbai, which he opened in 1976. On being asked how different he finds earlier struggling actors and today’s, he said: “Previously people used to take proper training and give their 100 per cent and they actually worked hard to learn each and every point related to acting, but now the youngsters wanted to become stars in a moment which is not possible. Everything takes times. It’s not that you took the training and a good role is waiting for you, you need to be patient,” Taneja said. “Many people come to me. They just want to take a training for 15 days and become an actor. But this formula hardly works,” he added. “I am not a doctor who can give some medicine and an actor is born,” he quips. Taneja finds TV a worst medium of acting as he says there is no need for an actor to act in a serial. They are standing and the sound track is doing its job. There is a long list of his students who are doing well in Bollywood. The list is endless.
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28 graduate in security course
Dehradun, June 8 “It was the strength of the course that over 80 per cent graduates have got jobs. The six months’ course is ideally suited to bright young students graduates who do not wish to pursue higher studies, but can do excellently in the field of safety, security and counter terrorism. The graduates from our university are well trained by skilled as well as experienced officials and can manage the human resource by developing leadership qualities or learning managerial skills,” said Lt-Gen KK Khanna, faculty member of the university, while addressing the media. On the occasion, Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof Girijesh Pant, presented certificates to the graduates. He congratulated the pass-out candidates as well as students who have been selected in the campus placement. He asked the young graduates to apply the knowledge gained at the university to ensure a high standard of safety and security at their respective organisations. Present at the ceremony were Lt-Col Prem Thapa, faculty member, Deepam Seth, Additional Secretary (Home), Thireesh Kapoor, Chairman of the Uttaranchal Gramin Bank, Brig Charanjeet, Col KN Roy, Prem Bhalla and others.
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China gaining strength in mid-Himalayas: Expert
Pitthoragarh, June 8 “The most serious threat from China we are facing today is environmental threat as China is trying to divert the flow of rivers coming from Tibet into the Indian territory. Initially, during the Nehru regime we would have utilised the flow of these rivers, but we missed the chance thereby creating a vacuum for China to use them at present,” said Professor Sharma. “Even if Indira Gandhi in 1971 had bargained wisely with Pakistan, the Line of Control with Pakistan would have become permanent border today,” said Professor Sharma. He said in the matters concerning Tibet, India was in no position to bargain now as China had fully occupied this region. “We have accepted Tibet as part of China, but China is not accepting Arunachal Pradesh as our part. It is a strategically a failure on the part of India,” said Professor Sharma. “China today is facing pressure from its Sinching province which is bordering mid-Asia and is inhabited by Kirgiz Muslim population. With China setting up a nuclear plant there and the demand for autonomy being raised by the local population, this is the place we can play our card with China only,” the Professor said. Elaborating the Indian stand with neighbouring countries, Professor Sharma said, “In the South Asian region our diplomacy had failed. Though we support our neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal, none of them is our friend in need,” he said, adding that it was due to a lack of geostrategic thinking in our diplomacy.
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Only professional courses at Institute of Professional Studies
Nainital, June 8 Dispelling any doubts about the future of the institution following certain recent developments, the Vice-Chancellor of the University Dr VPS Arora said, “The IPSDR will continue as a prime professional institution. Courses like Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in e-business and tourism will be run from here along with Masters in Science (MSc) in Geo Informatics and Information Technology. There will be separate board of studies and research degree committees for these streams”. Dr Arora further disclosed that Prof NS Rana had been appointed the new Director for the institute. The new appointment follows the departure of Dr RC Mishra amidst a controversy. Dr Arora further pointed that owing to certain tough decisions taken by the university over the past six months, the university has managed to get a sum of Rs 19 lakh due to it. This money is the part of payment made by students under the self-finance scheme for various courses offered by the institute. It is for the first time since the inception of the institute that the university has got this money. The university had recently decided that from the next session no admission for the general MBA course would be held for this institute and the courses would be run only from its Almora and Bhimtal campuses. Dr Arora had pointed that the campuses at Almora and Bhimtal that offered the courses were barely utilising 25 per cent of the resources available and it would be better if the resources there were utilised to the optimum. The university had decided that since the IPSDR was set up to run vocational courses, only vocational courses would be offered. While this decision was being taken, Dr Mishra quit his post and joined the Uttarakhand Open University from May. The academic council and the executive council of the university had also recently decided how one university had two different institutions offering an MBA course, one being run by the university itself at Almora and Bhimtal, while another being run by the IPSDR. Earlier in the year, the IPSDR-Microsoft IT Academy which was functioning on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Kumaon University and a franchise of Information Technology (IT) giant Microsoft Limited for running an IT Centre at the pristine Hermitage Building here was scrapped. The decision to scrap the MoU was taken with the university saying that the franchise had decided to abandon its functioning without any information on December 31, 2009. It was also stated that the centre was neither paying any rent for the premises being used by it to the university neither was it giving 40 per cent of the fees to the university charged from the students under the self-financing pattern on which it was functioning. Besides the centre was also running a series of short term courses without the consent of the university. Dr Arora stated that when the payment due to the university was sought from the franchise, it was told that he had been sharing one-third of the power cost of the premises.
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Bharatnatyam, kathak contest-cum-exam held
Haridwar, June 8 Dressed in classical attires and make-up, the participants showcased their talent and skill with near perfection and got flying colours from the judges as well as a standing ovation from the audience. Judges for the competetion were from Allahabad-situated famous Prayag Sangeet Samiti and they appreciated the dancing skills of the participants remarking bright future for most of them. Most of the participants gave a flawless performance and every move, expression was in sync with the background music and made everyone fall in awe while these children gave their performances. Speaking about the training imparted to these students, trainer Govardhan Maharaj said that students were given intensive training by the skilled trainers at the centre besides are given tips by renowned exponents of classical dance forms. The centre has decided to include the folk dances and folk music too in the curriculum, informing this centre head Poonam Shivpuri said that the focus is also on to preserve the Uttarakhand’s traditional hilly culture and the young kids be apprised of this diverse culture too. Among those who secured high grades were Shrishti Chaudhari, Sanjala, Manasvi Sharma, Simran, Khushi Arora, Kriti Chawla, Prithvi Pratap, Yukti Bajaj, Unnati Banga, Vipra, Muskan and Ishana. SSP of Haridwar Sanjay Gunjiyal lauded the efforts of students as well as the Uttarayan centre for imparting classical skills to the younger generation.
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Gold Cup tourney lucky for Saurabh
Dehradun, June 8 Tiwary has been selected in the 15-member squad for the Asian Cup Cricket tournament to be held in Sri Lanka this month. The 20-year-old cricketer had participated last month in the gold cup tournament and it was being deemed that he would be the next fortunate to become the star of the national squad. Though his selection in the national team is a reward of his good performance in the third leg of the Indian Premier League
(IPL) but his participation in the gold cup cannot be neglected of being auspicious for him considering such national team players on whom the gold cup has been fortunate. Indian team skipper Mahendra Singh
Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, pacer RP Singh, all-rounder Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar, and Piyush Chawala are some of the big names, who entered the national side after participating in the gold
cup. Tiwary led the Jharkhand Cricket Association team, which emerged as the winner of the 28th edition of the gold cup last month. “The coach of Tiwary rang me up yesterday after he got to know of his selection in the national team. I congratulated him on his success and he promised that his team would play in the next leg of the gold cup too,” said beaming PC
Verma, secretary of the Uttaranchal Cricket Association that organises this cup every year. “All Punjab players, including Reetinder
Sodhi, Pankaj Virmani and Rathore have played in the gold cup,” Verma added. However, he maintained that the association’s efforts have only been to bring good cricketers and good teams for the participation in the gold cup.
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49 to cross Lipulekh Pass today
Our Correspondent
Pitthoragarh, June 8 “The Lipulekh Pass is witnessing continuous snowfall since Monday morning and nearly 10 cm fresh snow cover will have to be crossed by these pilgrims who are scheduled to enter Tibet between 8 and 10 am on June 9,” said BR Arya, yatra officer at the base camp of Dharchula. “After crossing the Lipulekh Pass, the Indian pilgrims will reach at the Pala camp inside Tibet from where they will be taken to the Taklakot camp which is 15 km away. They will start their pilgrimage the next day after spending a night there,” said DK Sharma, regional tourist officer, KMVN.
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WII places traps in wake of leopard attack at campus
Dehradun, June 8 On May 27, two of Dehradun-based WII employees got injured in a leopard attack and since then the institute officials are working with a caution. The institute authorities have already asked its officials and even those residing in the official accommodations to be alert and cautious. The Dehradun Division Forest authorities confirmed putting three cages inside the WII. “We have installed three leopard cages inside the WII campus while putting two more cages at Kailashpur village today,” Meenakshi Joshi, DFO, Dehradun, said. Meanwhile, as mark of caution, the WII officials conducted mass cleaning exercise to remove lantana from the campus as the weed was proving to be excellent hideout for leopards. Other bushes too have been uprooted. Lighting arrangements at the institute have also been improved with directive for keeping alight all pathways issued to one and all. As per WII reports, one adult male, a female and two cubs are part of the WII biodiversity. With few of the prey species in the campus, except monkeys and stray dogs, the leopard coming in conflict with humans for food, seems quite evident. Significantly, the WII campus also has accommodations for scientists and their family members. The presence of leopards in the campus could create problems for the research scholars, employees and families of the staff.
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Soccer camp concludes
Dehradun, June 8 A good number of budding footballers participated at the camp and took basic tips of the sport under the watchful eyes of known football players of Uttarakhand. Vijay
Khattri, former Gorkha Brigade and Services player, was the camp coordinator, while assistant coaches were Vishnu Khattri (former Gorkha Brigade and Services player), Pratap Khattri (former Dempo Club player), Naresh Thapa and Sudesh
Gurung. Such camps are being organised at 11 zones and this was the practice camp of the eighth zone that concluded. The practice camps at the three zones are currently
underway. Budhiman Thapa, president of the Grassroots Sport Foundation, said the camps were being organised in morning and evening according to the availability of the grounds and the response of the youngsters had
been tremendous.
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Students union backs statehood protesters
Dehradun, June 8 At a joint press conference today, Ashish Bahuguna, president, DAV (PG) Students Union, and Digvijay Singh, president, DBS Students Union, said the students would give full-fledged support to the ongoing agitation of the unemployed demanding the exclusion of Class III and IV posts of the state government out from the purview of the state public service commission. They alleged that by including Class III and IV posts in the Public Service Commission examination, the bureaucracy only wanted to open up these posts for outsiders. “By depriving locals of government posts, the commission is only forcing the youth to take to Maoist tendencies,” they said. The students union office-bearers sought action against the UPC members. Sanket Nautiyal, Anil Tomar and Pradeep Kumar were present on
the occasion.
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HCC thump Diamond Cricket Club by 88 runs
Dehradun, June 8 The winning team batted first after winning the toss in the T20 match. Opening batsman Vijay (48) was the mainstay of the team’s innings. Varun (26) supported him from the other end while rest of the batsmen had coming and returning affair to the pavilion. Himanshu of the rival team bowled an impressive spell of four overs capturing four wickets for 31 runs. Pramod and SS Yadav also took a wicket each. While chasing the target, the DCC had a disastrous batting performance. It was HCC’s Manish and Varun who thumped the batsmen of rival side. Manish bowled a stupendous four overs gaining four wickets of just five runs. Varun got three wickets in four overs for 17 runs. The DCC was packed off for 59 runs in 17 overs. In another lop-sided match played today, the DRCA registered seven-wicket win over the Friends Club.
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Khukhri Club beat Indra Club 2-1
Dehradun, June 8 Putting a good show the teams gave a neck-and-neck competition to each other and the first half went barren despite good efforts. With the first half ending goalless, the players gave their utmost in the next to score goals. Anshul of the Khukhri Club netted the first long-awaited goal of the match in the 69th minute. His teammate, Sagar (71st) scored the next to lead the team 2-0. To make the match more interesting, Deepak struck the first goal for the Indra Club in the 73rd minute. With the Khukhri Club, which was one goal ahead of its rival, the players made full use of its skills to at least level the fixture, but success didn’t meet them. Tomorrow, Doon United and the Shivalik Club are scheduled to meet in another match.
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Naren Thapa fashions Uttarakhand Club’s victory 4-1
Dehradun, June 8 In this action-packed match, Jeetu (16th) of the Uttarakhand Club scored the first goal to lead his team. Naren of the winning side retaliated in the 23rd minute to level the match. Another player of Western Boys Rahul Thapa (30th) gave the second jolt to the rival team to put the team on 2-1 before the first half finished. Western Boys dominated the second half and made several goal-bearing attempts. It attained the success in the 41st and 55th minutes when Naren struck again to haunt the Uttarakhand Club. Meanwhile, in another league match to be held tomorrow, Uttarakhand Tiger will face the Sarvodaya Club. Former demo club player Pratap Khattri was the chief guest at the today’s match.
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