International Nurses’ Day Celebrated
Chandigarh: International Nurses Day was on Monday celebrated in School of Nursing Command Hospital, Western Command to commemorate the birth anniversary of the lady with The lamp, Florence Nightingale. Col (Retd) Shubha Nagpal presided over the function as Chief Guest. Maj Gen AK Nagpal, Commandant of Command Hospital Chandimandir, and Brig HS Bhatoe, Deputy Commandant, Command Hospital were the other distinguished guests. On the occasion, various competitions were organised such as calligraphy, embroidery, collage making, pencil sketching, solo song and dance to motivate the student nurses.
FortisHospitalcelebrates Nurses’ Week
Mohali: The inaugural session of the International Nurses’ Week celebrations of Fortis Hospital, Mohali was held at the hospital. To mark the occasion, the Chief Guest, Tejinder Pal Singh Sidhu, DC, Mohali and Abhijit Singh, Facility Director, Fortis Hospital, Mohali lit the ceremonial lamp. Sidhu complimented the hospital’s nursing faculty for the high quality of service and extreme devotion to their noble profession. Abhijit Singh said that Fortis attached utmost priority to the quality of nursing care and the hospital was proud of its nurses. He said that nurses were an integral part of a hospital, needless to say that a hospital revolves around them.
Summer Junior Golf Camp at CGA
Chandigarh: CGA Golf Range is conducting a Summer Junior Golf Camp from June 1 to 10. Trainees will learn the basics of the game. The camp will be in the morning from 9 to 10.30 am every day. Equipments and balls will be provided by CGA Golf Range. Mahesh Kumar Class A Teaching Professional will conduct the camp. There will be a competition on the last day of the camp, Jesse Grewal, Director CGA Golf Academy said. For Details, those interested can contact. Mahesh Kumar 9876119536.
Haryana Police recovers 22 stolen cars
Chandigarh: Haryana Police has recovered 22 stolen cars on the basis of information revealed by accused Shahid Khan, of village Tikhada, district Mewat, who was recently arrested from Faridabad. A spokesman of the Police Department said that during interrogation, the accused admitted that he used to lift cars from National Capital Region and sold these stolen cars after changing their engine and chassis number. The accused also revealed names of his associates Nadeem and Irfan, residents of village Fatehpur Tagaa who are still at large. The police had also recovered various tools used by them to steal cars including grinder machine, punching machine, number plate punching machine and master.
Safe Injection Environment Campaign
Chandigarh: The Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) is launching a nationwide Safe Injection Environment (SIE) Campaign to train pediatricians in safe injection practices. The campaign intends to train over 500 pediatricians and health professionals with the larger objective of protecting children from infections caused by unsafe injections. Injections are the most commonly administered procedure in the world with over 16 billion administered annually. A child’s journey for injections starts in his first few months through preventive immunization. While preventive immunization constitutes only about 5%, the rest of 95% are for therapeutic reasons. Healthcare professionals often reuse syringes or needles assuming that they are safe; they also recap the needles after use and throw the plastic and sharps waste in a single container. Such wrong practices need to be corrected through sanitization and training the best practices on Safe Injections.
Training programme for Under Secretaries Shimla:
Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) is organising a two weeks training programme as a part of State Attachment for the Under Secretaries of various Ministries of Government of India. Director HIPA, Dr. R.N. Batta said that during this training programme, the participant officers would have first hand experience of the best practices being followed by the State Government through in class training and exposure visits to Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam ltd. Hydel Project at Jhakhri, Gram Panchayat Nauni, Solan, Indian Institute of Advance Studies and Seog Catchment area during the course of training. The institute was also contemplating inviting departmental representative for discussion on various issues, he added.
FIITJEE students excel in JEE results
Chandigarh: Students coached by FIITJEE turned out trumps at the Joint Entrance Examination for entry to the country’s top engineering colleges, with maximum of Chandigarh FIITJEE students figuring in the merit list of 1.5 lakh students, who qualified the first round to write the JEE Advanced test 2013. Selection to other Engineering colleges will be done on the basis of a cumulative score of 40% of the normalized marks a student secures in the XII Board marks and 60% of marks obtained in JEE-Main. last year FIITJEE had created history when its students captured the top three ranks in the IIT JEE entrance.
Water sports training camp at Pong Dam
Chandigarh: Amit Jha, Principal Secretary, Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Department will flag off bus of delegation of sportspersons going for training to Regional Water Sports Centre at Pong Dam in Himachal Pradesh. An official spokesman said that Basic Water Sports training camp is being organized at Pong Dam for 50 boys of 10 districts of Ambala and Hisar division. To participate in this camp, all boys would gather at Sports Complex on May 15 and would return back to their concerned districts on May 30 after completion of their training. The Department would bear the travelling, food, accommodation and course fee expenses of the all participants, he added.
Electronic Stamping in Gurgaon
Chandigarh: The Gurgaon district administration has requested the State Government to introduce Electronic Stamping (e-stamping) in district Gurgaon to make the property registration process easier. Deputy Commissioner P C Meena has written a letter to the Government in this regard. Meena has requested the State Government to introduce
e- stamping in Gurgaon and also make provision of regular issuance of stamp papers from Treasury and bank. He has contended that with tremendous development in district Gurgaon, the stamp duty collection has also increased. last year an amount of Rs 1,250 crore was received on account of stamp duty in Gurgaon. Out of this amount, 40 percent was deposited in cash in the bank and rest was deposited either by way of cheques or through RTGS.
Sindhi Sweets opens new outlet
Chandigarh: Sindhi Sweets opened its new food outlet in newly opened shopping mall Elante in Chandigarh on Monday. They serve traditional Indian sweets and desserts to snacks and meals, food items at the outlet with a bevy of bakery products.