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Haryana Cabinet meeting

Chandigarh: The Haryana Cabinet will meet under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the Committee Room of Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh at 11.30 am on May 2.

PunjabAssembly session

Chandigarh: The Governor of Punjab, Shivraj V Patil has summoned the fourteenth Punjab Vidhan Sabha to meet for its fifth session on May 3 at 10 AM in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Hall, Vidhan Bhawan, Chandigarh.

North India’s biggest Real Estate expo ends

Chandigarh: The leader in real estate information, Estate Avenues, concluded its two day North India’s largest B2B and B2C real estate Expo here at Chandigarh with participations from key real estate developers, professionals, investors, and brokers. The highlight was the power-discussion of real estate bigwigs on crucial issues & challenges of the sector. Key participants were Ansal, DlF, Alpha G’ Corp, Amrapali, Unitech, Shri Group, Comic, Sandal lands, Assotech, ilD, Spaze, The Imperial, BOP etc grand the proceedings was chaired by Kulwant Singh CMD Janta housing Mohali, Ananta Singh Raghuvanshi Director DlF, CMD Group, Darpan Kapoor Vice President CII, Manish Kumar Patty Director Jll amongst others.

Investiture Ceremony at St Anne’s Convent School

Chandigarh: An Investiture Ceremony of new School Captain, House Captains and Parliament of St. Anne’s Convent School, Sector 32, Chandigarh was held here at School premises. A total of 20 students of Parliament were sworn in the Oath by School’s Principal Sister Gracy Jose. Entire School students and management were present on the occasion. Principal Sister Gracy presented the flags after attiring them with sashes. Kensiya Kennedy was named as the School Captain for this session while Aaditya Sharma was made the vice-captain.

MaxHospitalpromises medical aid within 30 minutes

Mohali: Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mohali has launched specialsed Max Emergency Services. Understanding the criticality of timely medical assistance, the hospital has

introduced 30 minutes MAX ambulance service and Pre-Hospital Thrombolysis for cardiac patients. With this initiative, the hospital promises to aid the patient with ambulatory services within 30 minutes of receiving the call. During the heart attack, the heart muscles die within 80-90 minutes right after the heart attack, due to the lack of blood supply.

Senior Secondary exams of Haryana Board

Chandigarh: Haryana School Education Board, Bhiwani will conduct the senior secondary first and second semester examination March-2013 of geography, history, chemistry, physics, business studies, Hindi core, public administration and economics subjects

on May 6, 2013 on the scheduled place and time. The examination of these subjects has earlier been cancelled. A spokesman of Board said that earlier these examinations were to be held on May 5, however, due to examination of PMT on the same day, now these exams will be held on May 6. All the concerned educational institutes have been asked to inform students about new date of examination.

Public Health cadre in Haryana

Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Fauji on Monday said that there was a proposal to introduce a new public health cadre so as to strengthen the medical and health care facilities and also the delivery of services under various health programme in the State. Fauji said that this would help in bringing the health issues to the community level in the villages, along with inter sectoral coordination. Besides, with a view to make available the health facilities more effectively, there was also a proposal to revise the norms in the recruitment of employees in the Hospitals.

Gang of snatchers busted

Panchkula: Haryana Police has busted a gang of snatchers from district Panchkula and arrested two persons involved in snatching and theft. A spokesman of Police Department said that the accused who have been identified as Deepak Kumar alias Deepu, a resident of village Dandaroo, Police station Chandimandir and Diljit Singh alias Banka, a resident of village Raielly, Sector-12A, Panchkula have been arrested from sector 12 market, Panchkula. During police custody they have confessed 13 incidents of snatching and theft.

HP Secretariat Staff Association calls on CM

Shimla: A delegation of office bearers of newly elected HP Secretariat Employees Association led by its President Rajender Sharma called on Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh here on Monday. The Chief Minister said that employees were the backbone of the Government and playing a vital role in implementation of

policies and programmes of the Government in right earnest. He said that State Government had always been considerate towards the genuine demands of the employees. The delegation assured the Chief Minister that the employees would fully support the initiatives taken by the State Government.

Maruti Suzuki Dzire fifth launch anniversary

Chandigarh: Maruti Suzuki celebrated the fifth anniversary of its entry level sedan Swift Dzire with its customers in the city. Over 60 customers with their families participated in the ‘Dzirable Mileage Rally’ held here and covered a distance of 45 kms. The rally was second in the series of celebrations to mark the 5.5 lakh cumulative sales and the 5th anniversary of the launch of Swift Dzire. Sukhdeep Singh Sahota won the coveted crown for clocking in the best mileage of 49.7 kmpl in the diesel category while G.S. Bajwa won in the petrol category with 45.1 kmpl mileage. The average fuel efficiency in the city event was 32 kmpl for petrol and 35 kmpl for Diesel. The certified fuel efficiency of Swift Dzire petrol is 19.1 kmpl and Swift Dzire Diesel is 23.4 kmpl.

Axis Bank launches ‘eDGE loyalty Rewards’ scheme

Chandigarh: Axis Bank on Monday announced the launch of its new and exclusive Bank wide loyalty program – eDGE loyalty Rewards. The program is designed to reward customers for every relationship they have with the Bank cutting across savings account, cards and electronic channel transactions. The program is open for customers having certain savings account and card relationships with the bank and will cover around one-third of the Bank’s customer base.

Punjab, Haryana HC condoles Justice Reddy’s demise

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday convened a Full Court Reference to condole the sad demise of noted Justice, jurist and legal luminary Justice O. Chinnappa Reddy, Former Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Supreme Court of India, in which all the judges of High Court took part. While sharing the grief, the Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Justice Jasbir Singh said that Justice Reddy was a symbol of simplicity, dedication and commitment and was also known for his high professional caliber. He described the demise of Reddy as a huge loss to the legal fraternity. Acting Chief Justice further said that the legal fraternity has lost a great human being and legal luminary.

Spend a day with Adam Gilchrist

Chandigarh: Kings XI Punjab announced for its ardent fans to get training and tips from the legendary cricketer – Adam Gilchrist on May 10 at PCA Stadium, Mohali. The fans who buy a ticket worth Rs. 8,000 or above to watch Kings XI Punjab match to be held in Mohali on May 6 & 9 can participate in a lucky draw. Through the draw, 15 lucky winners will be selected to attend the clinic where Adam will share his experience and insights about what it takes to be a great wicketkeeper and an outstanding batsman.