PB appoints nodal officer FOR Sangat Darshan plaints
Chandigarh: Punjab Government has appointed chief engineer-cum chief vigilance officer, Punjab Directorate of local Government Department Anil Kumar Kansal as a nodal officer to expedite the process of redressal of complaints received during online Sangat Darshan of Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab. A spokesperson said that review/video conference, by Secretary Punjab local Government to expedite the working of local Government Department has already started the process from February 18.
Renewable Energy DepT TO HOlD FUNCTION ON MARCH 3
Panchkula: A State-level function will be organised by the Renewable Energy Department of Haryana on March 3 to facilitate various gram panchayats and institutions for their contribution in renewable energy and energy conservation programmes of the State Government. Balraj Singh, Director, Renewable Energy and HAREDA will be the chief guest. The function will be held at the Akshaya Urja Bhawan at Sector-17 Panchkula from 11 am onwards. The Haryana Government is implementing various renewable energy and energy conservation programmes with the involvement of village panchayats and every year, State and district level awards are given to the village panchayats for their excellent performance in these programmes.
Chhabra demands roll back of petrol price hike
Chandigarh: Chandigarh Congress Territorial Congress Committee president Pardeep Chhabra has condemned the hike in prices of petrol and diesel and demanded a roll back. Chhabra slammed the Narendra Modi-led Union Government for effecting another increase in fuel prices within a two week span. A day before, petrol price was hiked by Rs3.18 per litre and diesel by Rs3.09, which is the second increase in a span of 14 days, said Chhabra, adding that the earlier increase was made on February 16 with a hike of 82 paise for petrol and 61 paise for diesel. This had reversed a trend of 10 successive cuts for petrol since August 2014 and diesel six times since October 2014, he added. Chhabra sought to know if it was fair to burden people with successive price hikes when the full benefit of global crude oil cuts was not passed on to consumers.
HDFC bank’s sports competition kicks off in out
Chandigarh: HDFC Bank ltd has launched the third edition of its annual sports competition for its employees in Chandigarh. This event, known as Josh Unlimited, is a platform for the bank employees to participate in multiple sports such as cricket, football, badminton, throwball, athletics, carom, chess among others. The competition is organised in 25 cities across India. The event in Chandigarh was held at Tau Devilal Stadium Sector 3 at Panchkula and close to 431 employees and their families participated, from Chandigarh as well as neighbouring towns and cities.
Balmer lawrie signs MOU with CGDA for air travel
Chandigarh: A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) and Balmer lawrie & Co. ltd. for the development and implementation of an air travel module in the Defence Travel System. Currently, the Defence Travel System provides the facility of booking railways tickets to Armed Forces personnel. It comes as a welcome move as Chandigarh has a number of armed forces personnel and after the development of the air travel module, air tickets can also be booked on the Defence Travel System.
UT secures third place in malware detections
Chandigarh: The detections from the ‘The state of Internet in India' Report affirm the rise of malware infections in the country and States Chandigarh was the 3rd most mobile infected city in 2014. According to this F-Secure labs' brand new report, the top malware infection in India is still Botnet related. Hackers manage to own your PC's and use them for spamming, DDOS (Type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack) or other malicious activity to make substantial amount of money. The report also states that banking related malware has been consistently topping the chart in India. The ‘Ramnit' malware steals bank user names and passwords and it mostly spreads through USB removable drives. Sality, Ramnit, Trogan.lNK.Gen, Trogan.Script and Virtob are the top 5 malicious family detections; and Delhi (20%), Hyderabad (9%), Chennai (9%) and Chandigarh (7%) were the top malicious cities in 2014.
Sky School organises day-long Mini Olympics
Panchkula: Bringing together children from across the city, the Sky World School in Sector 21 here organised day-long sporting events to mark its annual sports day, popularly called the Mini Olympics. Edusports, India's leading professional entity in sports supervised and managed the event. The unique feature of the event was participation of students from all Panchkula schools.
‘Over 14 cr spent on developing infra in schools’
SAS Nagar: Punjab Government is according top priority to the development of infrastructure in schools. As a part of this strategy, a sum of Rs14.03 crore has been spent on developing infrastructure in government higher secondary, upper primary and primary schools falling within the district, said Deputy Commissioner Tejinderpal Singh Sidhu. He said that the Government has released grant for the purpose of constructing additional rooms, toilets for boys, ramps for physically disabled, repairs in primary schools and construction of boundary walls in the schools situated in rural and urban areas. He added that Rs56.10 crore are being spent on the construction of building of Government Senior Secondary School, Derabassi.
ca Jaswant Dhawan elected chairman of ICAI
Chandigarh: CA Jaswant Dhawan will be the new chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI), Chandigarh branch who was appointed unanimously at a meeting held at CA Bhawan, Sector 35 here. ICAI which is a statuary body formed by the Act of Parliament safeguards the interests of over 2,000 CA professionals and around 5,000 aspiring CA students from the tricity. His newly formed managing committee would be strengthened by CA Naveen Soni as vice chairman, CA Pramod Vats as general secretary and CA Mastan Singh Chambiyal as treasurer.
Annual sports day held at Harkrishan Model school
Chandigarh: Pre-primary wing of Sri Guru Harkrishan Model Sr. Sec. School at Sector 38-D here organised their annual sports day with the massive participation of around 300 students at Sports Complex at Sector 7. The tiny tots welcomed their parents with a welcome song and released colourful balloons. The children of pre-nursery presented a pom-pom drill and fan dance to the delight of the audience. The little angels of nursery stole the hearts of one and all with ‘Butterfly dance’ which was followed by dance on western song by the boys. The programme concluded with the beats of bhangra and medal ceremony.
Union budget perfectly balanced: Kent RO chairman
Chandigarh: Mahesh Gupta, chairman Kent RO Group and senior VP PHD Chamber has rated the Union Budget as perfectly balanced Budget. He said that the utmost preference of Finance Minister to tourism, skill development and rural India is best step and definitely help for all sectors of the society to march together. He added that ‘Make in India’ and skill development, both the programmes supplements each other. Gupta said, the newly introduced schemes like insurance, rural loans, Sukanya bonds will definitely help in providing social security to a large section of the society.
NIIT unveiles Mathlab impact study
Mohali: NIIT, a leader in skills and talent development has unveiled the Mathlab Impact Study at an event organised at Manav Mangal Smart School, Mohali. A breakthrough initiative based on NCERT curriculum, Mathlab Plus by NIIT aims at making the vital subject of mathematics simpler, easier and fun to learn for school students, resulting in improved performance and proficiency in math results. Vivek Suman, Regional Manager, NIIT ltd. said, “NIIT Nguru Mathlab is a well-researched solution that ensures the students get a thorough grasp on the subject, thus laying a foundation to initiate students to think, analyse and articulate logically.” The recent NIIT Mathlab Impact study, conducted by one of the big four research agencies in 34 schools across 11 states in India to understand the impact of Mathlab both at the quantitative and qualitative levels, highlighted that 20% of children (and adults) suffer from math anxiety.