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Helping mothers of autistic
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Fake cases on rise
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Jennifer wants to seduce Rob
Camp on allergic rhinitis organised
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Helping mothers of autistic
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Jalandhar, November 30 Mothers of autistic children from across the state have been coming to the centre to attend the three-month course, which they feel helps them handle and improve the faculties of their autistic children in a better way. They sit and discuss their learning disabilities, communication problems, formulate strategies and course plan to work on these problems, offer suggestions to one another and pinpoint any visible signs of improvement in the children. There is a bunch of activities that are planned for the children daily using various educational aids. The mothers claim that their children, who otherwise are not really social by nature, had also started looking forward to the two-hour class every evening. Anjali Dada, in charge of the centre and mother of autistic child Dhananjay, revealed that she had herself taken the training for the purpose from the Delhi-based Action for Autism. “The idea of running the centre is not just to pass down the training tips to the mothers, but also help them have a feel of the positive vibes around, uplift their morale and just keep going,” she said. Anumeha, mother of Rahat, said her son was suffering from autism as well as cerebral palsy. “But he certainly has started showing improvement ever since I have taken the training and started doing home schooling for him,” she said. Satyam’s mother Kanchan, too, has been a regular at the centre. “Since I am local, I continued to get my son to the centre even after completion of the training. We have been learning from one another daily,” she added. A schoolteacher, Suman has been commuting daily from Kapurthala every evening just to ensure a training from herself and her son Vivek. Rimpy, yet another mother, has been coming daily from Jandu Singha just to ensure she can learn some ways to improve the life of her son Vansh. It is not just mothers, but also dads who often join in and like to note the progress of their children. Anuj Dada says, “The ultimate aim is to develop a soch (perception) that life still is beautiful and we should never feel defeated”. |
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Fake cases on rise
Jalandhar, November 30 The police arrested truck driver Harpreet Singh, alias Happy, of Panodita village falling under Bullowal police station on Tuesday for enacting a drama of theft of the truck loaded with gate walls worth Rs 15 lakh. Happy was taking the truck to Ahmedabad in Gujarat to deliver the assignment of gate walls at the behest of the truck owner Suba Singh of Bishanpur village in Kapurthala district. He enacted a drama on the night of November 28. The driver informed Suba Singh that he had parked the truck outside Delhi Punjab Goods Carriers falling under police station number two for some time but when he came out, he did not find the truck there. Subsequently, Suba Singh informed the police which registered an FIR under section 379 of the IPC. The ADCP said the police found flaws in Happy’s statement. When he was grilled, he revealed the truth and confessed that he had enacted the drama to sell the loaded material. He said he took the truck to his acquaintance’s place on the Pathankot road. He made a conspiracy to sell the gate walls a few days later and abandon the truck thereafter. A thorough investigation by DSP Bahadur Singh and SHO Sukhdeep Singh led to the findings in the case. Subsequently, the police arrested Happy and changed the sections (406, 511, 420 and 381 of IPC) in the FIR. The police cracked a similar false case of kidnapping on Monday. The police caught Rahul, a barber, for staging a drama of his kidnapping for getting ransom from his wife for paying off his debt. Earlier, four persons, including an NRI woman Rajwinder Kaur, were arrested for hatching a conspiracy to implicate Harjit Singh, her UP-based brother-in-law, in a robbery case by enacting a drama of looting. Similarly, in the last week of September, the police nabbed Pawan Sharma, a resident of Arbaz Nagar, for allegedly enacting a drama of snatching a bag containing cash and jewellery. The police also cracked a case whereby a youth had lodged a false complaint of motorcycle theft. Kalia said no person would be spared who tries to misguide the police by lodging false complaints.
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Awareness drive to curb illegal immigration
Jalandhar, November 30 The campaign, which has been largely funded by the Government of Belgium, will be organised in coordination with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organisation with 127 countries as its member and working for the promotion of international cooperation on migration issues and promotion of international migration laws. Paramjit Singh Sahay, Principal Adviser, CRRID, who also earlier served as an Indian Ambassador to Malaysia, said owing to very high rate of illegal human trafficking from Doaba region, the ministry and organisations concerned had zeroed in their efforts over the region. Quoting the estimates given in the recently compiled report of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), he said around 20,000 youth from Punjab tried to cross international border annually. As an element of illegality was involved in such immigrations, they obviously could not ascertain the exact figure in this regard, said Sahay. He said Punjab was the worst affected state in the country in this context, second being Andhra Pradesh. Dr Krishan Chand, Associate Research Coordinator at CRRID, who is also coordinator of the project, said extended public gatherings would be organised at 10 block-level headquarters and 20 various big villages of the district. He said masses would be educated regarding the various legal immigration channels through cultural performances, including plays, songs, movies, documentaries and skits. Dr Chand said the campaign would also be organised in other districts of the state and the departments and organisations involved would also try to persuade immigration agents not to adopt illegal measures.
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Jalandhar, November 30 On the occasion the students of PG Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics and B.Sc Home Science put up a stall on the college campus. A chart poster-making competition was also organised by the department. Declamation contest
The Red Ribbon Society of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya (HMV) organised an inter-college declamation contest. Dr Manish Soin, coordinator, Red Ribbon, Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala, motivated the students to play an active role in curbing social evils like drug abuse and female foeticide. Programme officer Dr Mahima Khosla familiarised the students with the aims and objectives of Red Ribbon Club. He made the students aware of the causes, consequences, symptoms and preventive measures of AIDS. Guest lecture
The PG Department of Mathematics of the Apeejay College of Fine Arts organised a guest lecture on “Probability and distribution”. Dr Amar Nath Gill from Panjab University, Chandigarh, was the key speaker. Dr Gill spoke about the concepts of mathematics and statistics. Earlier, an interactive session was held in which the queries of the students were addressed. Sporting extravaganza A sporting extravaganza concluded on third day on Innocent Hearts Green Field, Loharan. The carnival was inaugurated by Surinder Singh Sodhi. He hoisted the school flag and the band gave him grand of honour. PT display was presented by the tiny tots of Innocent Hearts School, GMT and
Lohoran. The students showed their talent on the stage and captivated the audience for two hours. The best house of the year was declared. In the final round of essay writing competition, as many as 80 students appeared in the
final round. Ball badminton team
Baljeet Kaur of the Prem Chand Markanda S.D. College for Women has been selected in the All-India ball badminton team for the Indo-Thai Ball Badminton Championship to be held in Bangkok from December 12 to 15. Principal Kiran Arora congratulated her for the achievement. Sports day
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Ji Public School, Sarhali (Jalandhar), celebrated its 8th annual sports day on November 26 and 27. School president Harminder Singh Samra inaugurated the event. Various track and field events were conducted. Medals and certificates were given away to winners. Principal Raghbir Singh Chahal congratulated the winners and exhorted the students to take part in games as they are an important part of the education. Tree plantation
Students of classes 9 and 10 of Eklavya Public School have planted trees in the school campus. The initiative was taken to empower children to protect environment. They planted saplings of jamun (black plum), croton, guava, neem and mango. The children talked to gardener and found how to take care of the plants and when and how much manure is to be added. They also found the botanical names of the plants. Students visit Tribune press
Students of Apex International School, Nakodar, visited the Tribune printing press in Jalandhar. They were explained the working of the press. Students took keen interest during the demonstration. Prizes in youth festival
More than 20 students from Lovely Professional University have bagged prizes at the North Zone Inter-University Youth Festival, Shaurya-2010, organised at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, in collaboration with the Association of Indian Universities and the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The students have ensured their entry to the inter-zonal national youth festival to represent the north zone in five events to be held at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. The teams of western song (solo), western song (group) and mimicry came first, whereas in mime and classical vocal they stood second. The university teams bagged third prize in classical dance and quiz. |
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Hollywood beauty Jennifer Aniston wants to remake the cult hit The Graduate, with her playing the older seductress and 'Twilight' heartthrob Robert Pattinson as her young lover.The Friends star has asked her agents to set up a meeting with the British actor."Jen's a huge fan of The Graduate. It's one of her favourite films and she would love to do a new version of it," said a source close to the 41-year-old actor. The original 1967 film starred actor Dustin Hoffman as a college graduate who is seduced by an older woman, played by Anne Bancroft."Jen thinks she and Rob would be the perfect duo to recreate the highly sexual roles," said the source. "This film would allow Jen to do something raunchy and sophisticated after all the romantic comedies she's done and would give Rob the chance to move on to more grown-up roles after Twilight," added the source."Jen is very excited at the prospect of teaming up with Rob. She loves his brooding good looks and just adores his English accent,” added the source. — PTI
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Camp on allergic rhinitis organised
Jalandhar, November 30 Free impedance audiometry test was done on visitors to detect the status of their middle ear functioning and free medicines and nasal sprays were given to the patients. As many as 163 persons attended the camp and were counselled about allergic rhinitis, its causes and preventive measures. Patients were educated about the common allergens like dust, fur (especially, if they have pets at home) and pollens. Suvidha Centre
Phagwara: The SSP, Kapurthala, Sukhwinder Singh Maan, inaugurated the digging work of Suvidha Centre at the under-construction Police Complex in Sukhchain Nagar here on Tuesday. The SSP said Suvidha Centre would start working before January 31, the deadline given by Punjab DGP. Several facilities like police verification for passports and no-objection certificates would be provided at the subdivision-level Suvidha Centre in the first phase and in the second phase, Suvidha Centres would be opened in police stations.
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It is a group of three mothers, who want to lend a helping hand to those like them facing a similar
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Jalandhar, November 30
