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DAV students care two hoots for Lyngdoh norms
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Poll dates announced
Scuffle takes place at DBS PG College
Poll craze grips city
IBS holds workshop on personality development
Computer Society of India discusses emerging trends
St Soldier group announces scholarship for U’khand students
Rain leaves Kumaon scarred
Emphasise on social justice, transparency, Alva tells bureaucrats
Pankaj Dimri, Elam Singh to represent India
Inter-section swimming competition kicks off at RIMC
Carman, Col Brown to clash for title
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DAV students care two hoots for Lyngdoh norms
Dehradun, August 31 Students of DAV PG College did everything to shatter the notion that the college administration had - that of following the guidelines of the Lyngdoh Committee. They not only burnt crackers on the college campus, but have threw these in the air causing inconvenience for many. "I had a narrow escape while clicking photographs at the DAV campus today. All mediapersons were on the terrace above the admission centre when all of a sudden a cracker, thrown by an ABVP supporter, burst near my face," said a senior photojournalist. Pooja Vij, who had come to buy admission forms in the college, got stuck in the campus due to the huge election rallies. The excitement of elections made campaigners go to all extents possible. Carrying contesting candidates on shoulders, bribing voters with treats, showing movies and filling fuel in the vehicles of their supporters were malpractices which all parties openly indulged in. This was not all. Candidates also violated the half-an-hour time limit alloted for canvassing. The college administration and the police kept mum instead of imposing a check on them. Even the policemen deployed inside the campus were seen escorting the rallies, but did nothing to make way for other commuters on vehicles. Student leaders and their supporters were later seen overspeeding on city roads. They have hired buses and pasted posters and pamphlets on it. They shouted slogans and howled from the windows violating the decorum of the city too. For no reason, they drove buses from one corner to another causing inconvenience to city traffic. This lead to traffic jams on EC Road, Rajpur Road, Raipur Road and Sahastradhara Road. On the condition of anonymity, a faculty member of DAV College said, "There is no full stop to such activities in the college during students union election. Every year it happens the same way. All of us know that such activities are against the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, but it is a question of who will bell the cat." Several campaigners are reportedly outsiders or those who are seeking admission in the college. The contesting parties are bearing the expenses of mobile phone bills, lodging and food of their contestants and supporters. Huge crowds of campaigners have swamped the college with the non-stop shouting of slogans and bursting of crackers. Students, irrespective of gender, are participating in the poll process with gusto. This scenario will prevail for a few more days till the day of polling and its results are declared.
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SGRR presents a picture in contrast
Dehradun, August 31 The picture at the SGRR depicts the colourful side of the canvassing where students are witnessed sipping tea or cold drinks along with samosas in the college canteen. Students at SGRR believe in healthy interactions and friendly convincing methods, like showing a movie or treating the voters. Only one banner of every party is placed at the entry of the college following the guidelines set up by the Lyngdoh Committee. Instead of shouting slogans and beating drums inside the college campus, the candidates go door-to-door on foot to convince voters. According to Dr RP Bhardwaj, chief election officer of SGGR College, there have been no malpractices during the Students Union election in their history ever. "Though they do give treats on regular intervals, they do not offer any sort of bribe or monetary attraction to the students for casting votes as done by others. No case of flaunting weapons or getting into scuffles with rival party inside the campus has come to light, but to deal with any sort of untoward incident in future, the college administration has deployed the police at every post of the college," he added. According to the chief election officer of SGRR, the college has maintained the decorum at canvassing. No posters or banners have been placed within the premises of the college. Parties are allowed to campaign on foot, distribute leaflets or cards among voters without creating a ruckus or encouraging hooliganism inside the campus. "We have been given strict instructions by the election committee that the candidate will be disqualified from contesting elections if he or she violates rules,” said Anil, one of the supporters of the ABVP at SGRR College. "Campaigning is done during breaks between two classes or by calling up a small meeting at the auditorium on the permission of the chief election officer of the college and the Principal," said Ashutosh, one of the contesting candidates of the SGRR. "Every contesting candidate aims at the development and welfare of the college and its students. We have always received full support by students, staff and party head and hope to get this year too," asserted Ashutosh.
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Poll dates announced
Dehradun, August 31 The decision was taken during a press conference held at the college campus here yesterday. The college administration has also declared the list of election programmes. The decision was taken with the consent of the students' union and the police administration. "Our priority will be to conduct fair campaigning and polling within the college campus as recommended by the Lyngdoh Committee. Candidates can file their nominations on August 31 and September 1 and withdraw their names on September 2," said BL Nautiyal, Principal of DAV College. SGRR PG College, DBS PG College and MKP Girls PG College will conduct polling on September 4 on their premises.
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Scuffle takes place at DBS PG College
Dehradun, August 31 The scuffle erupted when an ABVP candidate tore the nomination paper of a counterpart from an independent party. Later, other members arrived on the scene and ended up with a physical fight amongst them. The aggression was
soon calmed down by cops deployed on the premises and no candidate involved in the scuffle was disqualified from contesting the elections.
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Poll craze grips city
Dehradun, August 31 Mohit Rohtang, BSc fresher in DAV College, has gone bald with the only design of party's name (ABVP) on his head to support the contesting candidate. According to him, this unsual act will attract more votes for his party as he is the only one who has shaved his head. He opines, "Though such activities (hooliganism on the college campus) is a breach of Lyngdoh Committee's recommendations, it is also a method to show off the reach and status of any particular party". As the election date approaches, the college has been painted into different colours of pre-election activities. The campaigners in various colleges can be witnessed interacting with new students and taking out election procession within and outside the college campus. Not only the campus is abuzz with the election fever, but acts of hooliganism are also being shown off on busy roads. Many supporters can be seen endangering their lives on top of buses shouting slogans, with banners in their hands and throwing leaflets on the roads. The act created chaos on the roads by providing inconvenience to passersby. "The traffic came to a halt for a while when buses overloaded with college students passed from the Chakrata Road. Such activities point out on the administration which seems to be the least bothered to keep a check on them," said an owner of a bakery located near Bindal.
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Ramman to feature in C’wealth Games
Pitthoragarh, August 31 The Games will be held from October 3 to 17. “The programme that is under the budget provision of the Commonwealth Committee may be staged on October 7,” said Dr DR Purohit, who is probably the only expert of this folk art prevalent in Uttarakhand. “The Ramman is performed in a small measure in several villages of the Alaknanda valley around Joshimath town, but elaborately in Saloor-Dungra, Barosi and Selang villages,” said Purohit. The performance is held on April 25 or 26 every year. Different episodes in the Ramayana give structure to the performance. Masked actors personifying mythical and human characters on tableaux enact the drama.“Chief among the masked characters are Narsingh, Prahlad, Suraj, Kalinka, Ardhanga, Ganpati, Gaura, Maheshwar, Maur, Banyan, chor and bagh. Wrestling is also held on the occasion,” said Dr Purohit. According to Dr Purohit, the main performance is the 18 ‘tal’ dance of Ram, Lakshman, Sita and Hanuman. The dance is performed to the beats of the dhol, damaun, trumpets and cymbals. The text is sung along with. “The traditional singer of Rama’s history is Bhaldas, a corruption of the word Bhat, who is invited from Bhalgaun, a village of traditional singers. “The Bhaldas is assisted in singing by the elders of the village. The narration begins at 8 am and continues till 6 pm. Neither dialogues are exchanged nor is any mime presented in the arena. The story is related by the dance gestures,” said Purohit. The medium of presentation is pure dance, supported by the corresponding text of the ballad. Other masked dramas like Mwar, Morin, Banyan, Khelwari Pattar are also performed during the main enactment. To coordinate their entry, a person sitting by the arena draws lines to count the tals. After every five tals, which is made up five beats of the drums and corresponding dance rhythms, these dramas are enacted one by one. Dr Purohit said that the Ramayana performance is held in about a dozen villages in the upper Alaknanda valley on the concluding banyat (yajna in the forest) ritual. It is the six-month-long procession of the one of the gods: Jakh, Dwari, Chandika, Kans and Ksetrapal. Everyday, the villagers gather for a circular dance late in the evening and sing the Ramayana. At the end of the dance, an arti is performed to the embodied characters of Ram, Lakshman, Sita and Hanuman. No dramatic renderings take place. In a third variant in the same valley, just the characters on a tableau are presented and only a few parts of the narrative are sung. “The most popular presentation is the one in Dronagiri village on the slope of Dronagiri mountain. Hanuman is obviously omitted from the cast,” added Purohit. In the Kedarnath valley, Ramman is sung on the occasion of Baisakhi by a group of dancers in a moving circle. The narrative is sung continuously for two days and ends with a dramatic enactment of Lanka ‘dahan’. In certain villages, the character of Hanuman enters the pile of embers on the occasion. A short presentation of the Ramayana is also made in the Mahasu temples of Tons valley which is called as Sitaran or Sita Haran.
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IBS holds workshop on personality development
Dehradun, August 31 The objective was to develop an insight into the most important facets of our everyday life. Neena Sharma, Chairperson, Synergy Consultants, discussed about the meaning, methods to develop and various challenges related to positive thinking in a very practical manner. She also introduced the concept of ethical hacking during the session “The Road Ahead”. The students during the second session were addressed by JB Pandey who is a senior consultant- TERI and Add Director (Retd) Uttarakhand, Agriculture. The talk was focussed on building attitude and motivation. He classified people according to learning ability and behaviour and also made students understand the important factors of attitude and motivation through small and short stories. “It is the attitude and not the aptitude that decides the altitude, and makes an individual progress and move forward”- Pandey’s talk was most motivating and laced with numerous examples. “In this fast and competitive world of today, it is the positive attitude of an individual that makes or mars his career and the growth of the organisation that he or she will be serving. We should always have a desire to learn from others,” he said. It was followed by a talk on stress management in which students were told about stress and its reasons.
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Computer Society of India discusses emerging trends
Dehradun, August 31 The CSI is the largest, non-profit association of IT professionals in India, that started in 1965. The purpose of the society is to make advancement in the theory and practice of computer science, computer engineering and associated technologies towards the betterment of society. Vinod K Taneja, DGM, NIC Services Inc (NICSI), and Vice- Chairman, CSI, delivered a talk on “De-mystifying the cloud”. Cloud computing remains the latest, most hyped concept in IT. Cloud computing is a revolutionary style of computing. It sets the stage for a new approach to IT that enables individuals and businesses to choose how they will acquire or deliver IT services. It offers potential benefits, but users must beware of the risks and vendor marketing spin. Sushovan Saha, Chairman, CSI, Dehradun Chapter, spoke on “Harnessing cloud for enterprise” and said, “The cloud model initially has focussed on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, complete application infrastructure needs to be easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled and managed in these virtualised hardware environments”. Also a humorous poem was recited on Byte by Brig KG Behl (retd). Students actively participate in Techno Knowledge Session “Tripod” conducted by Polash Bora and Team of GEOPIC, ONGC and won many prizes. Vinay Avasthi, secretary, CSI, Dehradun Chapter, said, “The promotion of Information Technology as a profession is the top priority of the CSI today”. To fulfill this objective, the CSI regularly organises conferences, conventions, lectures and gives various awards. The CSI also works towards a global approach, by seeking out alliances with organisations overseas who may be willing to come forward and participate in such activities. Dr Sudhanshu Joshi, Doon University, spread light on “Emerging Trends and Practices of IT in Business Processes".
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St Soldier group announces scholarship
Dehradun, August 31 Prof Manhar Arora, Managing Director of the St Soldier Group, while addressing mediapersons, said the institution had decided to offer Master Raj Kanwar Scholarships worth Rs 21 lakh to students of Uttarakhand for higher education. Students at the St Soldier Group of Institutions, Jalandhar, will be offered courses in engineering (BTech), management (MBA, BBA), information technology (MCA, BCA), pharmacy (BPharma, DPharma), biotechnology, teacher education, polytechnic, physiotherapy, law, nursing, hotel management and other degree courses. All courses run by the St Soldier Group are regular and approved by the national and the state-level regulating bodies. "Looking at the interest of the students of the higher education and seeing the opportunities for them after their education, our group has decided to provide equal opportunities to all students to study with us,” said Prof Manhar Arora. He said, “It is the wish of our Chairman Anil Chopra and Vice-Chairperson Sangeeta Chopra that every deserving student must get a chance to study. If there are barriers due to financial reasons, those can also be taken care by the educational groups. The institute will provide a scholarship of Rs 10,000 to every student having 40 per cent marks”. He added if these students performed well in the university examination, they would be given more benefits, even relaxation in the tuition fees in the forthcoming semesters. Special arrangements would be done to provide placements to the students who would enroll for this scheme and gave them job options in Uttarakhand through placements. Dr HS Payal, Director of the St Soldier Institute of Engineering and Technology, was also present at the conference.
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Rain leaves Kumaon scarred
Nainital, August 31 Several pedestrian bridges have collapsed in the region and a large number of people have been rendered homeless on account of water entering their premises or buildings collapsing. With rivers and streams in full spate, about a dozen villages in Bazpur area and a number of houses in Damuadunga area of Haldwani experienced water entering the houses along with silt and mud. While a dozen families from Damuadunga had to be relocated, one person drowned in the Kosi river in the Sultanpur Patti area on Monday. About a dozen villages in Bazpur faced a flood-like situation. The damage in Damuadunga was caused by the Rakasiya nullah which also washed away the bridge connecting the locality to Kumaon Colony. In Bageshwar district, several houses were damaged along with pedestrian bridges. In Liti village, six families were moved to safer locations and the drinking water scheme was damaged in Rathibagad village. According to the information available, the road connecting Ranibagh to Bhimtal witnessed a massive landslide near Salri village causing a blockade for about 10 hours. Similarly, massive landslides were reported at places on the Nainital-Kaladhungi road causing the vehicular movement to stop for seven hours. Several parts of the region continued to face water and power supply problems. Meanwhile, there are reports of shortage of foodgrains in the Haidakhan area as more than two dozen villages continue to be disconnected from the Kathgodam-Lugad road. Residents have been forced to walk up to 20 km and there has been no power supply in the area for the past several days. The woes of the people residing in the flood-affected parts of Sitarganj, Shakti Farm and Kashipur continued and housing those whose tenements have been destroyed continues to be the major challenge before the administration. A large number of people continue to reside in camps.
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Emphasise on social justice, transparency,
Mussoorie, August 31 Governor Alva, laid emphasis on the values and traditions, said, “Over the centuries bureaucracy has undergone a tremendous change and mutation, but certain basic values have endured over the years. Successful rulers have always admired and valued bureaucrats who had the qualities of efficiency, promptness, intellectual, integrity and sense of justice and fair play”. Quoting Indian political stalwarts such as R Venkatraman and C Rajgopalachari on the importance of values and necessity of character for the administrators, Alva said these values had thus remained unchanged over the centuries in Indian bureaucracy. She, quoting former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, said, “But the real fight is not with guns and lathis and shields, the real fight with ideas, it is with thinking.” The Governor also outlined the importance of good governance and said the functioning civil service would help to foster good policy-making, effective service, delivery, accountability and responsibility in utilising public resources. Underlining the need for having an innovative approach and an open mind, the Governor wishing trainees great success said that the administration today had to concern itself with productivity and service and in the changing environment bureaucrats had to acquire new skills and attitude to managerial skills, commercial skills and technical skills.” Director, LBSNAA, Shri Padam Singh, Joint Director PK Gera, Gaurav Dwivedi, Deputy Director and Course Coordinator of the 85th Foundation Course, Major Chaudhary, ADC to the Governor, and others were present on the occasion.
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Pankaj Dimri, Elam Singh to represent India
Dehradun, August 31 Pankaj Dimri will participate in the 800-m event, while Elam Singh will take part in the 3,000-m steeple chase. Both are part of the Indian athletics team consisting of 90 athletes (46 men and 44 women, excluding walkers) that will compete in 45 events to be held during the CWG-2010. According to Ravinder Chaudhry, Officiating Secretary, AFI, the performances of the athletes during from April 2010 till the Inter-State Athletics Meet held at Patiala in the beginning of August have been considered for the selection. In some of the events, three athletes are selected to compete, but in other events only a token participation will be considered for the team. As there is more than one month to go for the Commonwealth Games, it is likely that few more athletes may be inducted and those who do not maintain their performances, will go out. The final names for the 20-km Walk will be announced later. The selection of athletes for all four relay events will be done after September 15, 2010, although the entries will be filled for everyone. The selection committee met on three occasions which was chaired by Gurbachan Singh Randhawa and attended by other members, namely Adille Sumariwala, Anusuya Bai, Bahadur Singh, Gopal Saini, Parveen Jolly and Ravinder Chaudhry. The Asian Games Team will be finalised after the Commonwealth Games on the basis of their performances.
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Welham girls (Red) storm into seniors’ final
Dehradun, August 31 Though the junior players put up a good competition, the Welham girls managed to prevail over them. In the initial minutes of the game, MKP girls dominated the match and made some good goal bearing attempts. However, Welham girls got its act together and struck some goals on the rival team. This was Welham's striker Radhika who made good moves and did the trick for her side. She netted the first goal of the match in the 27th minute of the game. Getting good support from her teammates, Radhika (30th) minutes after scoring her first struck the second goal too. Down by 2-0, MKP girls succumbed under pressure and couldn’t make come back. While Welham scored its third goal through Shreya Gupta (36th) to finish the game on 3-0. Tomorrow, the second semifinals will be played between MKP Girls senior team and junior Welham girls (Blue) team at 4:00 pm.
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Inter-section swimming competition kicks off at RIMC
Dehradun, August 31 The cadets displayed a lot of zeal and enthusiasm for their sections and participated wholeheartedly putting up a very good show. The results of the first day of the RIMC Inter-Section Swimming Competition are as follows: 1. Seniors 400m Freestyle. a. Cadet Vanshaj Saxena - Ist (Ranjit) b. Cadet lalit Thapliyal - IInd (Pratap) c. Cadet Akshay Chugh- IIIrd (Chandragupta) 2.Juniors 50m Butterfly a. Cadet Aditya Kalsotra - Ist (ChandraGupta) b. Cadet Anuj Sable-IInd (Shivaji) c. Cadet Akash Yadav -IIIrd(Chandragupta) 3 Seniors 50m Butterfly a. Cadet Aaditya Udupa- Ist b. Cadet Deepak Bhardwaj- IInd (S) c. Cadet Prakhar kaushik-IIIrd (P) 4 Juniors 100m Backstrok. a. Cadet Saurabh Thorve-Ist (S) b. Cadet Taral Chanchani-IInd(R) c. Cadet P.Jadhav -IIIrd(P) 5. Seniors 100m Backstroke. a. Cadet Tonmoy Barua-Ist(S) b. Cadet Sai Ganesh- IInd(C) c. Cadet Lalit Thapliyal-IIIrd(P) 6 Juniors 100m freestyle a. Cadet Kush Kumar - Ist (C) b. Cadet Arunabh Saxena - IInd (C) c. Cadet Pratik Pegu -IIIrd(S) 7 Seniors 100m freestyle a. Cadet Vanshaj Saxena -Ist (R) b. Cadet Dhruv Gusain-IInd (S) c. Cadet Shailesh Naik -IIIrd (C) 8 Juniors 50m Breaststroke a. Cadet Anuj Sable -Ist (S) b. Cadet Akash Yadav- IInd(C) c. Cadet Prathamesh Kohale-IIIrd (C) 9. Seniors 50m Breaststroke. a. Cadet Anmol Rawat -Ist (S) b. Cadet Parth Indalkar -IInd (P) c. Cadet Myang Hang Rai -IIIrd (C) 10. Juniors 50m Backstroke a. Cadet Saurabh Thorve -Ist (S) b. Cadet Pratik Pegu -IInd (S) c. Cadet P Jadhav -IIIrd (P) 11. Seniors 200m Individual Medley. a. Cadet Aaditya Udupa -Ist (C) b. Cadet Arpit Sangwan- IInd (R) c. Cadet Tonmoy Barua -IIIrd (S) 12 Juniors 200m Freestyle a. Cadet Taral Chanchani - Ist (R) b. Cadet Arunabh Saxena -IInd (C) c. Cadet Sashank Dahiya -IIIrd (S) 13. Juniors 4X50m Freestyle a. Chandragupta Section -Ist b. Shivaji Section - IInd c. Ranjit Section - IIIrd 14.Seniors 4X100m Freestyle a. Shivaji Section - Ist b. Ranjit Section -IInd c. Chandragupta Section -IIIrd At the end of the first day, the overall point tally is was follows: Shivaji Section - 139 points, Chandragupta section - 137 points, Ranjit Section - 76 points, Pratap Section - 63 points The chief guest for the evening was Col PK Kumaria, Commandant, RIMC. The referee and chief Judge was Wing Cdr YS Panghaal and chief timekeeper was UP Dalvi. The overall coordinator of the competition was PN Naik.
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Pranav’s solitary goal fashions Cameron Hall’s win
Dehradun, August 31 Summer Valley played very good game, but a chance captured by rival team changed the game. Three well-deserved goal attempts were made by Summer Valley however the luck didn’t favour them. While Pranav made the full use of an opportunity he got in the 40th minute by netting a beautiful goal. Meanwhile, three other matches are scheduled to be played tomorrow. A total of 20 teams that are divided into six groups are participating in the tournament.
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Carman, Col Brown to clash for title
Dehradun, August 31 In the first semifinal, an early goal effort by Surashek enabled Col Brown School beat Hilton School 1-0 and register the final berth. In the second semifinal, the host team had to battle it out hard to beat Carman School Dalanwala 6-4 via sudden death. The match ended on 1-1. Manish (28th) of Carman School in the first half and New (21st) of Carman, Premnagar, in the second half scored a goal each for their respective sides. Later, the match was played through penalty shots in which both sides ended on four each. Following this, the sudden death round was played and the host win 6-4.
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