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No end to encroachments in puda complex
City decked up for Christmas celebrations
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Chitti Bein a source of cancer, says survey
Yajna for speedy recovery
of gang-rape victim
Use of threads in sculptures highlighted
Aam Aadmi Party to resolve issues with Anna Hazare
Police chief's intervention sought
Two-day cluster seminar concludes
Workshop dwells on film-making nuances
Pakistan agriculture minister visits LPU
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No end to encroachments in puda complex
Jalandhar, December 23 The junk dealers have now started dumping their old cars on the footpaths and parking lots
opposite Women's Polytechnic College. Earlier, they used to dump their old cars and other material on the footpaths and parking lots opposite Suwida Centre, but after the issuance of notices and building pressure by the PUDA authorities, they removed encroachments from this area and started dumping their cars a few yards away from the earlier place. Meanwhile, thanking PUDA Additional Chief Administrator Sarojini Gautam Sharda for issuing notices to junk dealers, a resident of a nearby locality, Ravi Shankar Sharma, requested her to direct her subordinates to work in the direction to get rid of the problem
of encroachments from the entire PUDA complex located on the Ladowali road. When contacted Sarojini Gautam Sharda told The Tribune, "I was unaware that the junk dealers had started dumping their old cars and other material at a new place in the PUDA complex. We will try to solve the problem from the entire complex once
and for all." Earlier, the PUDA authorities had issued the notices to junk dealers to mend their ways after the area councillor of ward number 31 Raminder Kaur Dhindsa wrote on October 15 to PUDA Additional Chief Administrator for taking appropriate action for removing the encroachments by the junk dealers at PUDA Complex following Jalandhar Tribune highlighted the nuisance. In its news-items published on October 4 and 16, Jalandhar Tribune had stated that a number of automobile junk dealers located on the PUDA complex had encroached on the footpath and parking lot right under the nose of the authorities, which created a nuisance for the passersby, pedestrians and visitors to the complex. |
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City decked up for Christmas celebrations
Jalandhar, December 23 Churches across the city have been decked up with lights. The oldest churches of the city, St Luke’s Church in Jalandhar Cantonment and Golaknath Memorial Church in Mission Compound, were dressed in lights and looked pretty, as temperatures dipped in the city during the misty Sunday today right before Christmas. Other big churches of the city, St Mary’s Church in Jalandhar Cantonment and Sacred Heart Church, were also decorated with lights. Marked by decorations, various churches were also dressed up with scenes from Jesus’ life, like his birth in Bethlehem. Santas toured the city distributing goodies among children. While Christmas means the season of bells, sharing gifts and Santa Claus, many also shared the message of a Merry Christams full of peace and well-being for the poor. Father KJ Thomas, a Catholic priest belonging to the Catholic Diocese Church of Jalandhar, said, “Along with festivities, Christmas is also a season for spreading hope and joy among the under-privileged.” “It is important that the message of peace be spread and the rich share their joy and prosperity with the poor by distributing goodies among them and helping them during this season of eternal hope.”
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Chitti Bein a source of cancer, says survey
Jalandhar, December 23 The problem is acute in the villages located along the worst polluted rivulet -Chitti Bein-in Doaba region. The facts have come to fore in an ongoing survey being conducted by the Punjab Health Department. Talking to The Tribune, Shiv Dayal Mali, a nodal officer and incharge of the government's project said, "As per the latest data available, as many as 2,955 people have lost their lives to cancer in the past five years." "We have identified about 1,581 persons suffering from cancer and 7,140 people with symptoms of the deadly disease," he said. The survey, which began on December 1, has already covered more than 3,00,000 homes. "The detailed report will be with us in a few days as 20 per cent of the survey is yet to be completed," he said. A majority of the cancer cases have been reported from the villages located close to highly polluted Chitti Bein, he revealed.
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Lucknow Boys clinch hockey title
Jalandhar, December 23 Both the teams locked the score at 2-2 in the stipulated time. The final match was played at a fast pace. Lucknow took lead in the 23rd minute of the play when Manish Yadav scored from a penalty corner. In the first half, Lucknow maintained the lead with the scoreboard flashing 1-0. In the 42nd minute, Lucknow consolidated the lead when Jalandhar's goalkeeper scored self goal from the hard hit of Manish Yadav. Thereafter, the Jalandhar Boys scored two goals to equalise. In the 52nd minute, Lovepreet Singh and in 60th minute, Harmanpreet Singh scored for Jalandhar. In the penalty shoot-out, both the teams were locked at 2-2, after which the sudden death rule was applied in, that helped Lucknow to register the win. Punjab Assembly Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal gave away the prizes to the winners. The winners bagged Mata Parkash Kaur Cup and a cash reward of Rs 1.25 lakh. The runners-up bagged Rs 75,000 cash and a trophy while the third and fourth place bagged Rs 40,000 and Rs 30,000 as cash prizes, respectively. Krishna Pathak of Jaladhar was adjudged best goal keeper, Maninderjit Singh of Ratwara Sahib as best full back, Johan Barla of BRC Danapur as best half back, Sumit Kumar of BSNV Lucknow as best forward. Jalandhar’s Harmanpreet Singh was declared the top scorer of the tournament, Manish yadav of BSNV Lucknow as promising player of the tournament and Baba Gurmukh Singh Uttam Singh School Khadoor Sahib bagged Fair play trophy.
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Yajna for speedy recovery
of gang-rape victim
Jalandhar, December 23 Virendra Sharma said the case should be referred to fast track court, ensuring early justice to the girl. |
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Use of threads in sculptures highlighted
Jalandhar, December 23
At a 10-day workshop on sculpture-making, organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi at the Apeejay College of Fine Arts, the Jammu-based sculptor interacted with the budding artists as he elaborated, “The use of thread in our tradition starts right from birth. Threads imply bonding especially during various festivals like Raksha Bandhan. Whenever clothes get torn, we weave them again using thread. It is used in marriages and even during death.” Students at the venue, meanwhile, quizzed him that sculptures were meant to remain for long, but threads get worn out fast. Tiku, who has been a teacher at the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Jammu, gave an instant reply, “While giving an expression to his art form, the only thing that comes to an artist’s mind is to impart aestheticism and significance to the piece. Whether the art piece stays for long or not is not of any significance to him.” He put up a slide show highlighting his works done on limestone, redstone, wood and metal and explaining to them the significance of each. He explained how his own work had matured over the past 30 years when he largely began with figurative sculptors and now to more creative compositions. He asked the students to experiment with new materials, including fibre glass, ceramics and even textiles. Tiku, who has been a science and a law student from Kashmir University, said, “Science has actually helped me understand art in a better way. The topics such as dynamics and formation of rocks that I studied then have helped me understand materials well.” Tiku’s son Anish Tiku, who too is a sculptor, also participated in the event. The other participating artists are Rattan Singh, Kailash Singh, Koshal Kumar, Hridav Prakash, Mohinder Mastana, Sonika Mann, Sabnam Khan Rupalika and Dharmjit Singh.
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Aam Aadmi Party to resolve issues with Anna Hazare
Jalandhar, December 23 "Our party had been a part of Anna's movement but was in a different form then. Anna's movement was the progenitor of the Aam Aadmi Party," claimed Dharam Singh Dabas AAP's national observer. Along with the functionaries of the AAP, Dabas was here on a membership drive named 'Mission Buniyad' (Mission Foundation) to expand party's base. Referring to Anna's statement that party's convener Arvind Kejriwal had fallen prey to the temptation of power, Dabas said, "Anna is demanding Jan Lokpal Bill and we too are asking for the same. We are fighting for the same cause. There might be some differences but the goal is same. We will talk to Anna to resolve the differences soon." He, however, refused to say when the talks would take place and what subjects would be discussed. "As of now, I cannot say anything in this regard," Dabas said.
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Police chief's intervention sought
Jalandhar, December 23 Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Friends Colony, complained that thieves had broken into his house and decamped with cash and valuables. He said the theft took place on October 26 when his parents had left for Delhi to attend a marriage. The complainant said his father had lodged a complaint at police station division No 1 on November 3, but the police failed to make any headway. |
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Two-day cluster seminar concludes
Phagwara, December 23 About 80 MSMEs participated in the programme. The aim of the programme was to disseminate information on the IPR i.e. criteria for patent, trademark and copyright, industrial design and GI. |
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Workshop dwells on film-making nuances
Jalandhar, December 23
A film workshop being held at the Department of Mass Communication of the local Doaba College by filmmaker Daljit Ami, reiterated this point among students while doling out lessons in film making (and watching). The workshop, which started on December 21, will go on till December 25 and during its course, many Indian and foreign films and documentaries will be screened. So far, five films have already been screened at the workshop. The films include Polish film ‘Tricks’, a documentary on poet Rumi, the film ‘Father’ by legendary Iraninan filmmaker Majid Majidi and ‘Two and a Half Times in Hell’, a Hungarian film by Zoltan Fabri, made in the backdrop of the Second World War. Ami’s lessons to students in watching films as an enlightened, learned audience were especially intriguing. Based on the film (being screened), its terrain, its period and the music, students were asked to try and decipher the social and political contexts of the times (and place) the film was made in and compare them with contemporary times. Students were told to pounce on the subtlest of hints to gauge the real message the filmmaker intended to convey. “Being a human being as you watch the film is important. A consumer watches for money, but a human being watches for values,” he said. Clearly, Ami’s filmmaking lessons weren’t restricted to technical discourses. Talking to The Tribune, he said, “It is essential that discussions on filmmaking are seen in the context of vital present issues like the increasing crimes against women, the state of law in Punjab (or the country) and other subjects which play a key role in shaping our contemporary society.” With one of his upcoming projects being on gender violence, Ami said gender-sensitive issues had earlier too rode high on his mind. His first two documentary projects ‘Born in Debt’ (about farm labour) and Kar Sewa (based on the movement started by environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal) being the examples. While with ‘Born in Debt’ he discussed in detail the role of women labourers, in Kar Sewa, special emphasis was paid on the role of women in Baba Seechewal’s movement. Ami has made other path-breaking documentaries like ‘Unearthing Unfamiliar’ (on Sikh scholar Professor Pritam Singh) and ‘Sudarshan an Institution of Simplicity’ (on the life of a human rights activist). He is currently working on three projects - a film on gender violence, a film on the Ghadar Movement (the centenary of the Ghadar Movement is next year) and a third project on literary heritage titled ‘Sewa’, which has just been completed and might even be screened at the ongoing workshop. Given the state of social and political affairs in the state - especially the rise in crime - said filmmakers and intellectuals needed to raise their voice on various issues and those remaining silent were in no way serving the state or art. The workshop at Doaba College was attended by department students as well as the faculty of the department of mass communication, including head of the department Simran Sidhu.
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Pakistan agriculture minister visits LPU
Jalandhar, December 23 The delegates included Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Minister of Agriculture, Pakistan, Vice-Chancellor, UAF top educationists and progressive farmers of Pakistan. The visitors went around the campus and held discussions about the potentialities and scope of mutual work in the areas of agriculture and veterinary sciences with Chairman of Lovely Group Ramesh Mittal, LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal, Vice Chancellor Dr Ramesh Kanwar and Director General HR Singla. Aulakh, who also holds the portfolios of Minister for Cooperatives, Livestock and Dairy Development, Forest, Fisheries and Wildlife, Tourism and Resort Development said, “We would like to see universities of both the Asian countries, India and Pakistan, work together in harmony for the students’ growth. Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan also showed his keenness for possible collaborative pursuits. Other than Minister for Agriculture and Vice-Chancellor, UAF, Pakistan, the Pakistani delegation included Prof Dr Hafiz Abdul Qayyum (retd), Prof Dr Rai Niaz Ahmad, Dean, faculty of Agri-Engineering and Technology, Prof Dr Muhammad Iqbal Zafar, dean, Faculty of Social Science, and Dr Khalid Mustafa, Director, Institute of Business Management. Prominent among others were Dr Muhammad Anjum Ali, Director General (Extension), Govt of Punjab (Pakistan), Hamid Malhi, President, Heritage and Basmati Growers, and Mushtaq Ahmed, a progressive farmer. Trinity College celebrates its 10th anniversary Students and faculty of Trinity College celebrated its 10th anniversary function here yesterday. The students of the college had put up a cultural show 'Stepping towards excellence' recalling the various initiatives taken by the college in last ten years. Other programmes included classical dances, mimicry on unity in diversity and story on the birth of Christ. A Christmas band was also played. Alumni meet was also organised. The presidential address was delivered by Dr SP Singh, former Vice-Chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University. Minister for Local Bodies Bhagat Chunni Lal was the chief guest. Archbishop of North India Dr Anil Joseph Thomas Couto also addressed the students encouraging them to work hard to strive at their goals. The guests also announced the launching of Trinity Finishing School which would strive at enhancing employability of the students. The college announced to achieve gram swaraj as advocated by Mahatama Gandhi. Father Peter, assistant director of the college, Principal Father Dr George and vice-principal Father Simon welcomed the guests. Signature campaign to condemn crime Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, yesterday organised a signature campaign to condemn the heinous crime against the Delhi gang-rape victim Damini. The students and faculty members of KMV College prayed for the well-being of Damini. Expressing their concern, the KMVites felt that the crimes like rape and violence against women are on a perpetual rise. "The administration must ensure safety and security of women. The criminals must be given exemplary punishment," they voiced their concern. Ravinder, a student said, "The parents should inculcate strong moral values in their children and the children should follow those lessons in morality throughout their lives." The campaign was organised by Principal Atima Sharma, who said girls should physically and mentally strong, and should react against any kind of misbehaviour or cruelty.
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The Congress held a yajna yesterday at Lala Hans Raj Memorial School in Kishan Pura for a speedy recovery of the gang-rape victim of Delhi.
PPCC secretary Virendra Sharma, principal of Lala Hans Raj School Rajesh Verma, principal of Vijeta Public School Vijay Gupta and congress leaders Arun Walia and Yash Pal Dhiman participated in the
yajna.
