Haryana Speaker visits flood-hit areas
Chandigarh: Speaker, Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Kuldeep Sharma Wednesday visited the areas affected by flooded Yamuna river and said that he would soon urge Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to give relief to the affected people. The Speaker, who represents Ganaur Assembly Constituency in the Vidhan Sabha, has been touring the affected areas for the last two days in his Constituency. He said that the level of water in river Yamuna was now receding and there was no threat of any kind. He said that those affected people who were cautioned to vacate their houses and shift to safer places were given food and other essential commodities.
Haryana Urdu Academy
Chandigarh: Haryana Urdu Academy would honour 19 litterateurs for their outstanding contribution to further enrich Urdu language and literature in a ‘Sahityakar Samman Samaroh’ to be organized by the Academy at Haryana Raj Bhawan on June 24. The Academy would also honour six writers of Urdu on completion of 75 years of their age and for doing commendable work. Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Dr. K.K. Khandelwal, who is also the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Academy, said that Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia would be the Chief Guest on this occasion whereas Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda would preside over the function. He said that Fakhre Haryana Award carrying Rs1.5 lakh in cash would be conferred upon each Dr. Naresh and Mr. Kashmiri lal Zakir whereas, Hali Award with a cash prize of Rs1.21 lakh would be given away to Dr. Shakeel-ur-Rehman.
HDFC hosts customers’ meet in Shimla
Shimla: HDFC Bank on Wednesday organised a town hall meeting for customers in Shimla under the aegis of the RBI. The meeting was convened to educate the bank customers about the Banking Ombudsman (BO) scheme for grievance redressal put in place by the Reserve Bank of India. R K Sood, BO, Chandigarh was present at the event, which was attended by HDFC Bank customers.
Punjab & Haryana to get 169 Judicial officers
Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana would soon get 169 new Judicial Officers as year long Induction Training Programme was coming to an end and they would start holding their courts from July 1. The Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Sector-43 would host Valedictory Function on June 29 to mark culmination of the Induction Training Programme. Supreme Court Judge Justice P. Sathasivam would be the chief guest on this occasion and Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court-cum-Patron-in-Chief, Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, would preside over the function.
15-member Concept Committee constituted
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has constituted a 15-member concept committee for preparing concept papers of Baba Moti Ram Mehra Memorial in Fathegarh Sahib. A spokesman of the Punjab Government said that Sarwan Singh Phillaur, Minister, Tourism & Cultural Affairs, Punjab, Prem Singh Chandumajra, Hira Singh Gabria, Sewa Singh Sekhwan, Jaspal Singh Vice Chancellor Punjabi University Patiala, Prof. Kirpal Singh Badungar, Dr. Kirpal Singh, Dr. J.S.Grewal, Prof Indu Banga Punjabi University, Prof Prithipal Singh Kapoor, Manmohan Singh Bhagowalia, Nirmal Singh and president Moti Ram Mehra Trust would be members of the committee whereas Principal Secretary and Director Cultural Affairs would be convener and co-convener of the committee respectively.
Mechanical Engineering course in Jalandhar
Chandigarh: Punjab government has allowed CT Institute of Engineering Management and Technology, Shahpur-Udopur, Jalandhar to start a new course of Mechanical engineering (M.Tech.). An official spokesman of the department of Technical Education said that notification has been issued in this regard. Now the institute would be able to intake 18 M.Tech students from this session. He said that the seats have been allotted to this institute as it fulfilled conditions imposed by AICTE and the State Government.
Bharti Airtel reduces 2G data rates
Chandigarh: To augment the increasing data need, Bharti Airtel on Wednesday announced that it has reduced its Volume Based Charges (VBC) on Rs22, Rs25 and Rs125 recharges for its prepaid customers in Punjab and Haryana. VBC is the cost charged to a customer after the expiry of the individual’s data pack limit.
Himachal CM to hold urgent review meeting
Shimla: Chief minister Virbhadra Singh will take an urgent review meeting at Mandi on June 20 to ascertain the losses caused due to incessant rainfall, landslides and snow in Himachal Pradesh, particularly in the tribal district of Kinnaur, which suffered heavy loss of life and property. Industries and information and public relations Minister, Mukesh Agnihotri, said that the meeting had been called urgently to step-up the measures to be taken to speed up relief and rehabilitation work in the landslide hit areas of the state, besides evacuating the remaining stranded persons at various places in Kinnaur district.