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Police thwarts attempt to stop Delhi-Lahore bus Jalandhar, August 14

An attempt of 40 activists of Hindu Vishwa Jagriti Manch Hindustan to stop the New Delhi-Lahore Sada-e-Sarhad bus at PAP Chowk was thwarted by the district police in front of the DC complex here. The police personnel under the supervision of Additional District Commissioner of Police S.K. Kalia and SHO division number 2 Sukhdeep Singh had laid a naka in front of the DC office. A little before 11.30 am the time of arrival of the bus at the chowk, the activists came on motorcycle carrying the Tricolour.

Activists of Hindu Vishwa Jagriti Manch Hindustan burn a Pakistani flag in Jalandhar on Saturday. A Tribune photo

President’s medal for SSP Angra
Pathankot, August 14
Lok Nath Angra, a senior IPS officer of the 1996 batch, who is presently posted as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) at Gurdaspur, will be conferred with the police medal on the eve of Independence Day (15 August) for his distinguished services. He is the only officer from the Punjab police department who has been selected for this award.

Free India’s neglected lot: Instead of going to schools, these poor little kids in Jalandhar have to sell Tricolour to make a living. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

Next-gen computers to read facial expressions, says expert
Amritsar, August 14
Pushing the limits of information technology further, the existing face recognition feature used in high-security zones across the world is all set be replaced by a far more effective technique with 100 per cent success as computers will shortly be able to recognise peculiar human emotions like anger, disgust, happiness, sadness and surprise.

Water woes for Sunder Nagar residents
Pathankot, August 14
Residents of the Sunder Nagar locality have complained of drinking water containing mud, sand and emitting a dirty smell was being supplied to the locality for the past one month. Onkar Chand, resident of the locality, alleged that a delegation from the locality had met Vikram Mahajan, the municipal councillor of the area, but nothing has been done in this regard.

‘Superbug a deep rooted conspiracy’
Phagwara, August 14
Former Indian Medical Association President Dr Davinder Chhabrra has described the statements of few British scientists, who have warned against a Superbug - which is resistant to most antibiotics and are calling it New Delhi-Metallo-1 - a deep rooted conspiracy against the country being hatched by some foreign powers, which are jealous of the popularity of medical tourism in India.

Science seminar for students
Nawanshahr, August 14
The State Institute of Science Education, in collaboration with the district education department, organised a district-level students’ science seminar and role play competition at Government Senior Secondary School here.

Police thwarts attempt to stop Delhi-Lahore bus
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 14
An attempt of 40 activists of Hindu Vishwa Jagriti Manch Hindustan to stop the New Delhi-Lahore Sada-e-Sarhad bus at PAP Chowk was thwarted by the district police in front of the DC complex here.

The police personnel under the supervision of Additional District Commissioner of Police S.K. Kalia and SHO division number 2 Sukhdeep Singh had laid a naka in front of the DC office. A little before 11.30 am the time of arrival of the bus at the chowk, the activists came on motorcycle carrying the Tricolour.

The leaders of the group who could not move further burnt the Pakistani flag at the spot while raising anti-Pakistan slogans.

As the members tried to move back, nearly 10 of them were rounded up by the police in their bus. The SHO said those held were sent back after sometime as the bus had passed off peacefully.

Mandeep K Bakshi, president of the manch, and Kamal Sharma, MC councillor, said the protest was planned to coincide with the Independence Day of Pakistan. “It was aimed to show opposition against the attempt of the Pakistanis to disturb the peace of Hindus in their country,” they said in a press note.

President’s medal for SSP Angra
Our Correspondent

Another proud recipient

Opinderjit Singh Ghuman, Assistant Inspector General of Police, Counter Intelligence, Jalandhar, has been conferred the President Medal for his outstanding services.

Pathankot, August 14
Lok Nath Angra, a senior IPS officer of the 1996 batch, who is presently posted as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) at Gurdaspur, will be conferred with the police medal on the eve of Independence Day (15 August) for his distinguished services. He is the only officer from the Punjab police department who has been selected for this award.

During the black days of terrorism, he exhibited extraordinary courage and bravery in many fierce encounters with dreaded armed terrorists, for which he was decorated with the prestigious President’s Police Medal for Gallantry. He was also awarded the President’s Police Medal for meritorious services. He was also awarded with Prakarma Medal, Kathin Seva Medal and Independence Day Medal for his hard work and continuous services.

Due to his dedication to his duty and hard work in every field of police working, the district Gurdaspur has been adjudged and declared the best district of the border range - which comprises districts like Tarn Taran, Amritsar-rural, Batala and Gurdaspur - after inspection by a team of 3 senior officers including Ishwar Chander, IPS, IGP, Zonal-2, Jalandhar, Babu Lal Meena, IPS, the then Comdt. 27 Bn. PAP, Jalandhar Cantt and Surinder Pal Singh, PPS, Comdt. 5th IRBn, Amritsar.

Next-gen computers to read facial expressions, says expert
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 14
Pushing the limits of information technology further, the existing face recognition feature used in high-security zones across the world is all set be replaced by a far more effective technique with 100 per cent success as computers will shortly be able to recognise peculiar human emotions like anger, disgust, happiness, sadness and surprise.

What will enable computers to analyse peculiar human facial emotions was the research based on principle of singular value decomposition (SVD), a linear algebra application for facial recognition system. Presently, the eigen value decomposition (EVD) technique was being used with the help of which faces of humans were recognised on the basis of data stored in computer.

“Expression recognition is the task of learning the appearance of an expression from a set of facial expression videos and then classifying the expression in a previously unseen video. Computers that can recognise facial expressions and respond to the emotions of humans, enable better human-machine communication,” said Ravneet Preet Singh Bedi, joint registrar of Punjab Technical University (PTU).

He presented his research paper, “A new technique for facial expression recognition system” at WORLDCOMP-10, an international conference on computer scicence, computer engineering and applied computing held at Las Vegas in the USA from July 12 to 15.

Expression recognition process relied heavily on the information such as geometry, texture, shape, models of muscular motion, features and complexion of a person. “The muscles that contract to produce the facial expressions of anger, fear, sadness, disgust and enjoyment are the same the world over, regardless of sex or culture. Facial recognition systems are computer programmes that are used for automatically identifying a person. Facial recognitions systems are used as a mass security measure and are comparable to the other biometric security systems available today such as retina scanners, fingerprint scanners, etc,” said Bedi while talking to The Tribune here today.

Bedi said the work on the next-generation computer technique was on in several parts of the world and the most common database used for facial expression system was JAFFE. The Japanese female facial expression (JAFFE) database contains 213 images of seven facial expressions, including neutral expressions posed by 10 Japanese female models.

Water woes for Sunder Nagar residents
Our Correspondent

Pathankot, August 14
Residents of the Sunder Nagar locality have complained of drinking water containing mud, sand and emitting a dirty smell was being supplied to the locality for the past one month.

Onkar Chand, resident of the locality, alleged that a delegation from the locality had met Vikram Mahajan, the municipal councillor of the area, but nothing has been done in this regard.

He alleged that sufficient chlorine was not being added to the water either. Residents also demanded that samples of water should also be collected by the municipal authorities and be sent for laboratory test. They alleged that by consuming this contaminated water, diseases can break out any time in the area.

On being contacted today, municipal council president Anil Vij said he had issued instructions regarding checking of the water supply lines in the area to the officials concerned and the problem would be solved as early as possible.

‘Superbug a deep rooted conspiracy’

Phagwara, August 14
Former Indian Medical Association President Dr Davinder Chhabrra has described the statements of few British scientists, who have warned against a Superbug - which is resistant to most antibiotics and are calling it New Delhi-Metallo-1 - a deep rooted conspiracy against the country being hatched by some foreign powers, which are jealous of the popularity of medical tourism in India.

Dr Chhabrra said people from the various countries throughout the world visit India for cheaper, better and early medical and dental treatment, but British scientists are spreading fear among people by giving it the name New Delhi-Metallo-1, whereas it was first diagnosed in Germany. — OC

Science seminar for students

Nawanshahr, August 14
The State Institute of Science Education, in collaboration with the district education department, organised a district-level students’ science seminar and role play competition at Government Senior Secondary School here.

Efforts were put in by District Education Officer Darshan Kaur and District Science Supervisor Blihar Singh Bains to implement the directions of the Director-General School Education (DGSE) Krishan Kumar to motivate students of government schools to participate in various activities. As many as 25 teams from different schools participated in the competitions, out of which 20 teams belonged to government schools. — OC