CII extends helping hand to J&K
Chandigarh: In a bid to stand by thousands of people affected by the recent natural calamity in J&K, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) dispatched sustainable relief material for J&K from Chandigarh. Since there are issues of connectivity and reaching out to Srinagar, CII tied up with the Western Command, Indian Army, headquartered at Chandimandir which in turn air lifted the relief material including commodities of utmost requirement to Srinagar in the afternoon from 3 BRD Air force Station in Chandigarh. The relief material consisted of 4,200 torches with batteries, 20 water purifiers, 4,800 Maggi noodles packs, 2,400 juice bottles, 2,100 Glucon-D 100gm packs, 10,000 Glucose biscuits, 5,400 water bottles, 14 cartons of medicines, 800 blankets, toiletries etc.
Aryans team leaves for Srinagar
Mohali: A team of staff and students of Aryans Group of Colleges has left for Srinagar to help the J&K flood victims. The team has taken the medicines, food, water bottles, blankets, clothes to help the people. The team comprising of staff members and students boarded the Spice Jet Flight at 14.25 hours for Srinagar on Thursday. Earlier to this, thousands of Aryans students offered special prayers for the safety of flood affected people of J&K in a get together held at Aryans campus. The students prayed for the peace to the departed souls and patience for the bereaved families.
RlA public dealing counter to be closed
Chandigarh: The public dealing counters in the office of Registering & licencing Authority, Sector 17 here will remain closed on Saturday due to the open auction of registration numbers of series “CH01AZ” on September 13 and 14 from 9.30 am onwards.
‘Jashn-e-Haryana’ to be held at tagore theatre
Chandigarh: Haryana Cultural Affairs Department will organise Kul Hind Mushaira ‘Jashn-e-Haryana’ at Tagore Theatre, Sector-18 here on September 20. A spokesman said that Principal Secretary to Chief Minister SS Dhillon would be guest of honour. Renowned poet of Urdu from throughout the country, including Needa Fazli, Dr Kalim Kaiser, Dr Farooq Bakshi, Dr Naseem Nikhat, Naim Rashid, Dr Jaya Tonki and Shams Tabreji would participate.
Sohna now a Municipal Council
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has declared Municipal Committee of Sohna as Municipal Council in district Gurgaon thus, increased the number of Municipal Councils to 19 in the State.
Rado unveils watches at Ethos Summit
Chandigarh: Rado, the pioneering Swiss watchmaker and part of the watch conglomerate The Swatch Group, unveiled a special collection of watches on Thursday at Ethos Summit at Elante Mall here. The range of beautiful diamond studded watches was unveiled in style and class. The Rado Festive Collection offers an exclusive selection of the brand’s most celebrated products under the HyperChrome and DiaMaster range, said Manoj Gupta, Associate Director, Ethos limited.
UNICEF team visits haryana education dept
Chandigarh: A team of UNICEF and Tamil Nadu School Education department made a visit at Haryana Education Department to learn from Haryana’s experience for implementing National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) in Tamil Nadu. The team met Additional Chief Secretary School Education Surina Rajan and State-level team to know how successfully Haryana has implemented skilling the school students in integration with academic stream under NSQF. Tamil Nadu Government now intends to implement the National Programme from next academic session. Haryana has been able to implement the programme with four trades in 40 schools and further expanding it to cover 240 schools with seven skills reaching 25,000 students.
History of Jind included in research work
Chandigarh: The research work in Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind would commence from the next academic session and the students would be given the facility of doing subject specific research. Also, history of Jind would be included in the research work, said Vice-Chancellor, Dr Ranjit Singh while speaking after inaugurating the two days exhibition organised on the history of Jind in the University campus on Thursday.
‘Reliance Fixed Savings’ launched
Chandigarh: Reliance life Insurance Company (RlIC), part of Reliance Capital limited, has launched ‘Reliance Fixed Savings’, a unique endowment insurance plan that secures future through with fixed returns. Reliance Fixed Savings is a non-linked, non-participating and non-variable endowment insurance plan that helps a policyholder create a corpus for securing future goals through systematic savings over a period of time. The new insurance plan offers guaranteed benefits, including fixed regular additions that accrue every year. The plan also offers an additional lump sum at maturity along with a life cover to protect the family of the insured.
Dance Dacha starts yogic dance
Chandigarh: On its third anniversary, Dance Dacha has announced to start yogic dance. “The idea behind designing such a program was to introduce the concept of using dance in its true spirits to let out any negative and unwanted energies,” says Jasmeet K Shan, Director, JasKShan Dance Dacha. Jasmeet K Shan, an AAFA (American Aerobics & Fitness Association) certified trainer and Zumba licenced instructor said, “Dance is no rocket Science. It’s best done when unstructured and sans technique teaching.”