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Surbhi Bansal of Innocent Hearts tops district
Over 90%, high fliers have a ball
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Surbhi Bansal of Innocent Hearts tops district
Jalandhar, May 28 Meanwhile bagging 97.8 per cent, she has also topped the district in the commerce stream. Continuing with the success stream of the girl brigade, the top three go-getters in the district are girls - again. Majority of the students grabbing top marks in the district are also girls. Both Palak Saini from the Apeejay School, Mahavir marg, Jalandhar and Bisman Singh from the MGN Public School, Jalandhar, are girls. Talking to The Tribune, Surbhi Bansal of the Innocent Hearts Schools said, who has also topped in the commerce stream, said, "It feels great that I have topped in the district and though I have been getting good marks all through, this occasion indeed feels very special." Having consecutively been a topper for the plus one and two exams , Surbhi said she credits her ability to concentrate as the prime factors which got her this success. "One must have confidence in oneself and nothing remains unachievable." Inspired by her CA father Sanjay Bansal, housewife mother Renu Bansal and elder brother Saurabh, she says he family has been the strongest support for her. "While my parents always gave me the freedom to do anything that I ever wanted to do, my elder brother has been the greatest backer. He heads an NGO called helping hands and inspired me to do social work. When I felt down, he took me for an outing and made me party to get my spirits high." While she is appearing for her entrance test on June 22nd, propagating her mantra to other aspirants she says, "Don't be glued to books just be regular and never set any time limit." She also ultimately aims for the IAS exams. Bisman Singh from the MGN Public School, though born to doctor parents, got inspiration from her teachers. Getting 97.4 per cent and topping the Medical stream in the district, daughter of District Transfusion Officer Gagandeep Singh and gynaecologist mother Dr. Harmeet, she says she was very happy to have teachers who backed her and guided her well all through her study days. Although she adds that her parents have also been great supports because they gave her always gave her total freedom to do and choose whatever she ever wanted to. While she just appeared for the CMC exams today, she aims for a good medical college, preferably AIIMS or Maulana Azad Medical College, to finally pursue her medical education from. Palak Saini, from the Apeejay School, bagged 97.4 per cent marks in the Non-Medical stream. A pretty different from her friends and classmates, she is a technology geek. "I'm not like the regular girl who can't handle computers and gadgets. I'm fascinated by machines and I usually figure out what to do with one. I'm curious and interested in how things work. Often I don't need held if my computer has a fault; I can fix it on my own. Yes, I am a bit different but I like the difference." Planning to be an aeronautical engineer, her
fancy for aeroplanes and flying machines is an extension of her technical self. Her father Raj Kumar is a chemist and her mother is a housewife, both of whom she says, have alwaus backed all her decisions including the stream she chose or will choose. She has had a hectic schedule all year because she travelled all the way from Phagwara for school and coaching and merely went home to sleep. She is aiming for the IITs. |
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Over 90%, high fliers have a ball
Jalandhar, May 28 As many as 230 students of the Innocent Hearts Public School appeared for the exams out of which 51 bagged more than 90 per cent marks, In the MGN Public School, total 275 students appeared for the exam, of which 44 students received more than 90 per cent marks. From the Swami Sant Dass School as many as 192 students appeared for the exam, of whom, 83 received more than 90 per cent marks, at the CT Public School, 107 students appeared of whom 35 received more than 90 per cent marks, at the Police DAV School as many as 28 students received more than 90 per cent marks, at DPS, of 66 appearing students, 16 got above 90 percent, at the Army Public School Jalandhar Cantt 15 students, Shiv Jyoti Public School nine students, MGN Urban Estate nine students received more than 90 per cent marks, at Kamla Nehru Public School Chak Hakim and DIPS, six students, each, received more than 90 per cent. Kanav of Apeejay School, both whose father Sanjeev Khanna is an Insurance surveyor and mother a doctor, said he was extremely happy to bag such glorious marks. Inspired buy former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, Kanav is looking forward to become a cardiologist is grades and ranks favour him well. Meanwhile, students of MGN Kapurthala also had great results with 32 students scoring over 90 per cent marks. At Sainik School Kapurthala five students bagged over 90 per cent marks. |
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Meeting with Local Bodies Dept official ends in political drama
Jalandhar, May 28 A member of the Joint Action Committee of the traders, Baljit Singh Ahluwalia, told Tinu, who too was present at the event, "Your alliance partner leader Arun Jaitley has now made it in the Union ministry as the Finance Minister. He had committed during the election that he will abolish property tax once the NDA gets to power. Now that he has made it, he must honour his commitment. He has all the control of finance in the country." "Even the CM had been saying that the UPA had been doing arm-twisting by asking the states to impose property tax or be prepared for cuts in grants of schemes of the Centre. Now that they are allies with the government in power at the Centre, they must get the tax abolished. There is no need of falling into various nitty-gritty's of taxes," said Ravinder Dhir and Gursharan Singh of the Jalandhar Industrial and Traders Action Committee. The duo, who had been holding protests on the issue in the district, announced that they would re-launch protest in the district on the issue in case their demands are not conceded to. There were more voices of dissent with people saying, "If the government stance did not change on issues pertaining to urban voters, they would have to face consequences again after three years." Tinu's take
Sensing the ire of the residents, Tinu chose the platform to express that no one else could realise the sentiments of the urban residents better than him. "It is me who has borne all the brunt", he openly said. Coming face to face with the public after his defeat, he tried to placate them, "If you get angry, the government will be helpless. We cannot run the government without taking you along and getting your viewpoint on all issues. I stand here as a representative of the CM and will take your grudges to him. He is in no mood to burden you with more taxes. "I am well aware of the corruption on in these departments. But I assure you that I will stand as guard on the issue and remain as your sewadar", he said. Representation from all fields
Representatives from associations of Focal Point, traders, rice shellers, doctors, petrol pump dealers and marriage palace owners made a point on why they need to be exempted from the commercial category. Narinder Saggoo of Focal Point Extension said, "Municipal Corporation has not taken over the Focal Point but it has started imposing property tax on us. We all revolted on the issue and did not pay up house tax all these years. We must be exempted from old dues." Gupta said that he would revert on the issue after 15 days. Sukhmohan Singh, a petrol pump dealer, said that the owners of self-owned pumps were a harassed lot especially since the companies were giving minimal cuts to them. "The pump has a huge vacant area around. We should only be levied from the built up area or be put in a separate class", he asserted. IMA Jalandhar President Dr Sushma Chawla said that the doctors should be exempted from payment of the tax as it would come as a burden on the patients only. Replace property tax
with house tax
Many representatives of the resident welfare societies and even marriage palace owners association including Prabhjot Sidhu and Ranbir Tutt of said that the property tax should be again replaced with house tax. "It was simple. Self-owned residential properties were exempted. It was more suitable", they asserted. They added that there was no heavy penalty provision earlier to which Gupta retorted, "The penalty on tax has already been done away with. You will get to know about it today or tomorrow". Ex-servicemen exempted
Lieut Col CS Chahal and Lieut Col SS Ghuman of the Indian Ex-Services League said that even as they were told that the ex-servicemen were exempted but were not being issued refund. Gupta replied, "The matter had been cleared by the Cabinet but was yet to be presented in the Vidhan Sabha. The final clearance will come and then the civic bodies staff will be in a position to give refunds or make adjustments". Collector rate
The most debated about issue in the meeting was reducing collector rate and delinking it with the property tax. The representatives said that while the market rates of the properties had fallen, the collector rates had not been slashed down. Gupta said that the DCs had already been instructed to hold a meeting for bringing down collector rates. Lone councillor
While a public meeting was held, several social leaders said that they were not called in. Other than Mayor Sunil Jyoti, there was just one BJP councillor Kawaljit Bedi of ward 22 who attended the meeting. There were no invites from the remaining 58 councillors. |
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Celebrity RJ Nav Bajwa hosts ‘BIG Funjabi Show’
Jalandhar, May 28 The people of Jalandhar were in for a treat today as the sprightly Nav Bajwa visited the city and shared his experience as a first time radio jockey and his journey from the Punjabi silver screen to the console. Nav was also seen live in conversation with celebrated Punjabi singer Preet Harpal as he was invited as a special guest to his show. Known for his fresh sense of subtle humour, great voice and high energy, RJ Nav Bajwa takes listeners through an entertaining journey of culture and trends followed by Punjabis, their likes and dislikes. The three-hour show comprises of fun elements such as Nav Shav and all based on what's happening around the city, entertaining news from within the Bollywood and Punjabi Entertainment industry and more. The show also sees other segments such as Takdi, Charchey tey Kharchey, Khabran Di Khabar, Celeb-Connect, Cross Connection, Ranjeet Singh aka Rocky special of the day with a culmination of RJ Nav's special tip of the day for the listeners. The BIG Funjabi Show sees the popular RJ interacting with celebrities on his / her upcoming movies, experience while shooting for the film and also gets listeners some chattpatta gossip and trivia's from behind the scenes. Connecting with Punjabi NRIs from around the world, RJ Nav gives them all the entertaining information of what is happening within Punjab, the information that humorously doesn't count as news and also takes stock from them as to what they know about the present day Punjab. Highly interactive and engaging in its approach, fresh and lively in its content and humour, The BIG Funjabi Show also has an interesting Funjabi old man called Ranjeet Singh aka Rocky. Rocky is absolutely young at heart, brimming with love for parties and all things fun. |
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Stamp duty recovery dips by Rs 129 cr
Jalandhar, May 28 It was in August last year that the state government had directed its sub
registrars to stop registering properties in illegal colonies, the stamp duty collection of the district which hovered around
Rs 320 crore in 2012-13 came down to just Rs 191 crore in the last financial year. Since the owners of the properties in illegal colonies were asked to get NOCs from the municipal corporation or PUDA, the registration of such properties came to a close. The Jalandhar-I tehsil, which had 119 crore recovery on this account in 2012-13, came down to just Rs 89 crore in 2013-14. A bigger loss, however, came from Jalandhar-II where revenue dipped by Rs 41 crore. |
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Help desks soon at Suwidha Centre: DC
Jalandhar, May 28 He found long queues of applicants at the counter for driving licence and said that additional counters for the service would be started. He said that token vending machine would be soon launched so as to bring transparency in delivery of service. He also went to the offices of sub registrar I and II and patwar centres. He said that the marriage registration powers of registrar-I had been vested with SDM-II so that the visitors do not have to make more rounds. |
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