Haryana Tourism Minister meets scientists
Chandigarh: Haryana Tourism and Art and Culture Affairs Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Tuesday met ISRO’s former scientist Dr AK Gupta and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited’s former executive director Dr MR Rao, who have been carrying out research on Saraswati heritage. The scientists, showing images of Saraswati River taken by satellite in which river’s course has been shown, said that during Vedic times, the flow of Saraswati River, which used to flow from Kachh to Arab Ocean, has drifted towards east due to natural changes and landed in Chambal River, and the river water is flowing into Ganga River at Prayagraj at the end.
BSNL’s Diwali mahadhamaka offer
Chandigarh: State-owned telecom giant, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), has launched two plans for Rs 1699 and Rs 2099 on Diwali for its prepaid mobile customers. Both new annual plans offer benefits such as unlimited voice calls, unlimited data, unlimited SMS and personalized ring back tone (PRBT) for 365 days. The offers are available from October 29 on PAN India basis. BSNL Punjab Circle CGM (Telecom) JC Menaria said that on the auspicious occasion of Diwali, BSNL has offered ‘Agli Diwali Tak Recharge se Azadi’ plan for our esteemed customers.
Punjab appoints 1,183 health workers
Chandigarh: Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Brahm Mohindra on Tuesday handed over appointment letters to first lot of 300 newly-appointed multipurpose health workers (male) — including 32 differently-abled candidates, out of the total 1,183 appointed by the Department through a recruitment process initiated by Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot. A counselling and online station allocation session for these new appointees was organised on Tuesday by the Department.
Haryana govt employees to file property returns
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided that all government employees Class I, II and III would submit their property return online for 2017-18 financial year. The deadline for the submission of online property returns is April 30 for every financial year. Spokesperson said that the website for filing the property return is http://intrahry.gov.in, and detailed instructions for the same are also available on the website. Departments could monitor employees’ property return submission status on http://hrmshry.nic.in with the departmental administrator user. Thus, all departments have been directed to nominate their departmental HRMS nodal officers so that the employees concerned could contact them for any clarification.
Haryana to honour winners of Sanjhi competition
Chandigarh: The winners of Sanjhi Competition, organised by Haryana Art and Cultural Affairs, in Karnal, Kurukshetra, Faridabad and Palwal from October 10 to 17, will be awarded during a function on the occasion of Haryana Day on November 1 at Haryana Raj Bhavan. The winners have been selected for awards by the Jury after closely inspecting the Sanjhi art by visiting house to house.
IIT Ropar held its first alumni meet
Ropar: Former students of IIT Ropar took a stroll down the memory lane during first Alumni Meet held at Bangalore. Around 100 former students from BTech were there. The Meet was attended by IIT Ropar director Prof SK Das, ICSR dean Professor Harpreet Sigh, and Alumni Coordinator Dr Puneet Goyal. Prof Das called for greater participation of alumni in the institute's development as many hold wealth of experience and responsible positions in top corporates like Google, Facebook, Flipkart, Walmart, Amazon, Uber, Pepsico, McKinsey & Company, ONGC, IOCL, etc.
