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UPES team wins int'l fest on natural energy
Rain, snow intensify cold wave, throw life out of gear
Tallabagar residents seek development package
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Ex-servicemen flay ‘sale’ of sainik farm
‘Bigger role for Cong leaders post LS poll’
CM Rawat rides a bicycle
Body found
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UPES team wins int'l fest on natural energy
Dehradun, February 15 This competition saw 400 future leaders of the oil and gas sector competing against one another on various platforms over four days. The festival saw participation of students from 17 Indian and 6 international institutes. The winners of various competitions under the paper presentation competition called ‘Technumati’ included the team from PDPU, Gandhinagar, comprising Vikhyat Sihag, Charmi Aggarwal and Siddharth Parmar, in the ‘drilling’ category; the team from UPES comprising Manav Lakhina, Rohan Chunara and Saumya Bhalerao, in the ‘chemical’ category; the team from ISM, Dhanbad, comprising Pankaj Shukla, Abhishek Gupta and Sohail Ahmed, in the ‘unconventional’ category and the team from UPES comprising of Steffones K, Abhishek Tyagi, and Akul Narang, in the ‘reservoir and production” category. Winners of the symposium were the team from IMA, Dehradun comprising Gentleman Cadet Bhagwan Jha and Gentleman C Vikramjeet Singh. The poster presentation competition called ‘Virtuoso’ was held under two categories, the winners in the category ‘reservoir & production’ was Vidit Mohan from RGIPT, Bareilly, while the winner in the category ‘drilling, chemical & HSE’ was Mahender M from Kongu Engineering College. The final of ‘source code competition’ dealing with C, C++ and Java was won by the UPES team comprising Shivam Saxena and Siddharth Gulati. Winners of the quiz competition on oil & gas industry called ‘noesis’ was won by the team from UPES comprising Arjit Gidwani, Shruti Joshi and Pranav Pal Singh. The ‘mud challenge’ competition where the participants were required to create different drilling mud was won by the team from UPES comprising Shakya Dutta and Suchit Saurabh. The Schlumberger Case Study competition was won by the team from RGIPT, Bareilly, comprising of Praneet Mathur, Prateek Kumar, Rohan Chunara and Vasundhara. The participants
sat through many work-shops and conclaves organised by the oil and gas industry including ONGC, Schlumberger. Eperts included Chandershekhar and Pankaj Kumar from office of the Jayant Malhotra, director (offshore), ONGC, HP Bhalla, global accounts manager, Schlumberger, Vaibhav Joshi, midstream operations, Cairns India Ltd, Ankit Dutt, engineer from Schlumberger, and Anant Mehra from Baker and Hughes. Anton Paar conducted a workshop through its experts comprising Arun Singh, Vikas Sharma, Manoj Mukul and Anurag Dixit. UPES team comprising Vidhi Mallik, Saurabh Dasgupta and Sneha Mittal, were declared winners of the best model. The fun events winners saw a dominance of UPES students with the teams from UPES called ’Roshambo’ and ‘Youth United’ winning the football competition called “Petrabol”. The photography competition called ‘Snapshot’ was won by UPES students Abhas Mirg for Let’s Eat, Vasu Agarwal for Spring of Colours and Abhas Mirg for Story of
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Rain, snow intensify cold wave, throw life out of gear
Dehradun, February 15 According to Director, Dehradun Meteorological Centre, Anand Sharma, while rain had lashed the entire state today, the weather was likely to improve from tomorrow. In capital Dehradun, rain that started yesterday continued throughout the day throwing normal life out of gear. It led to a
fall in the mercury levels leading to a cold wave. The roads gave a desolate look and most of the people preferred remaining indoors. By evening, Dehradun also experienced a sudden heavy hailstorm. The higher reaches of hill districts of Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Tehri and Nainital received snowfall for the second consecutive day with the peaks remaining covered under sheets of snow around these places. Fresh snowfall blocked nearly half a dozen roads, including Joshimath-Auli and Mandal-Chopta routes in Chamoli district, and Rishikesh-Yamunotri and Rishikesh-Gangotri highways in Uttarkashi, affecting traffic. The minimum temperature in Dehradun recorded a drop of over one degree celsius today, the Met Department said. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 8.6 degrees Celsius as against yesterday's 10.4 degrees Celsius, it said, adding that the temperature will drop further tomorrow when the weather is likely to clear up. |
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Tallabagar residents seek development package
Pithoragarh, February 15 Being close to the Indo-Nepal border, the region remains cut off from other areas of the state. Educational and primary health facilities do no0t exist for the villagers in the region. "We have been compelled to travel 80 kms to avail the primary health facilities as the allopathic hospital opened in the area 22 years ago has no doctor," said Anand Singh Dhami, a Tallabagar resident . The residents regretted that their demand of upgrading the only high school in the region was not fulfilled by successive governments." We have been demanding to upgrade the only high school in the area to the intermediate level for long. The school serves to students from 30 villages of the area," said Dhami. The residents said though most of them are dependent on livestock to earn a living, the authorities had failed to open a veterinary hospital in the area. "If farmers will get better medical treatment for their animals, they would be able to produce enough milk to sustain their lives," said Harish Pal, a resident of Dyura village. "As the new CM knows the region well, he should release a development package for Tallabagar villages," said Pal. The residents also sought roads to link the area with Tanakpur to Tawaghat highway at Jauljibi besides an ITI to train the local youth. Fact file
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Ex-servicemen flay ‘sale’ of sainik farm
Dehradun, February 15 While hinting at the possibility of rehabilitating van Gujjars on the land, Brig KG Behl (redt), president of the league, said," For a long time, efforts were being made by many people to grab the valuable land and when they did not succeed, they tried to hoodwink the authorities on the pretext of rehabilitating the poor so that they could grab the land from them thereafter." Behl said, "We would request the Governor to ask the state to place facts concerning the issue before him to set the things right. This injustice can't be tolerated and the matter will be taken at all levels to expose the authorities. We fail to understand how the State Sainik Punarwas Committee was easily swayed."Notably, in the Assembly on Wednesday, leader of the Opposition Ajay Bhatt had produced a government order that was signed by Additional Secretary Shailesh Baiguli recommending that formalities for the sale of land be initiated. The order was issued on January 15 this year. |
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‘Bigger role for Cong leaders post LS poll’
Dehradun, February 15 Presiding over the State Working Committee meeting in Dehradun today, Soni said the Congress believed in honouring its workers and would certain give them positions of responsibilities after the impending elections. She said the Uttarakhand disaster had delayed the process. Soni also cautioned party workers against poll surveys and asked them to work for the success of the party in the state.
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CM Rawat rides a bicycle
Dehradun, February 15 Speaking on the occasion, Harish Rawat said that it was important to make people aware about road accidents. He stressed on the importance of apprising students about traffic rules. The CM further said that more and more people should opt for bicycles, keeping the increasing pollution in mind. He stated that the use of cycle should be promoted and welcomed suggestions presented in the interest of the state.
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Body found
Dehradun, February 15 Neighbours knocked at the door of the house of Ratan Singh, who hails from Tehri, but did not get any response. They broke open the door and found him dead. They informed the police about the incident. A police team led by Rajendra Singh Rautela reached the house and sent the body for a post-mortem. Ratan used to live alone in the house.
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