10 per cent discount by Haryana Tourism
Chandigarh: Haryana Tourism will offer 10 per cent discount on food to guests visiting any of the tourist resorts of Haryana Tourism in the State on September 1 to commemorate 39 years of its existence on this day. Managing Director, Haryana Tourism Corporation, Sumita Misra said that different competitions for students will also be organised on this day at various resorts. Small gifts comprising sweets, balloons and biscuits will be distributed among kids. Welcome banners will be put up at all the resorts, she added.
Sandhu stresses on generating awareness
Chandigarh: Haryana Principal Secretary Health, Navraj Sandhu has stressed the need for generating more awareness among medical service providers about various laws pertaining to hospitals so as to provide satisfactory patient care service. She was inaugurating a conference on Medi-laws “laws pertaining to Hospitals” here. The objective of the conference was to focus on resolving problems concerning cases pertaining to laws on health and hospitals. It was attended by Directors, Deputy Directors, Medical Superintendents, Deputy Medical Superintendents, Civil Surgeons, Principal Medical Officers and Administrators with substantial administrative responsibilities, from Haryana.
Punjab RTS Commission
Chandigarh: The Punjab Right to Service Commission has chalked out an elaborate training programme for the nominated master trainers who would in turn sensitize the masses about the services being provided by the RTS Commission. A spokesman of the RTS Commission said all the DCs and DGP has nominated. Two master trainers from each district one from civil and another from police. He said the training programme would commence from September 9 to 10 at MAGSIPA, Sector-26 Chandigarh.
AC Bus stand in Gurgaon
Chandigarh: Haryana will soon have its first air-conditioned bus stand in Gurgaon, which would also be one of the first such bus stands in the country. The concept and design of this ultra modern bus stand has already been finalized and funds for the same have also been earmarked. Director General, Transport Department, Haryana Arun Kumar said the bus stand would be constructed over an area of three acres in Sector-29. It has been designed keeping in view the needs of Gurgaon, the Millennium City, and it would have all the key facilities like ticket counters, waiting hall, retiring rooms, office space, ATM, clock rooms, public convenience, especially for the handicapped, eating joints, book store, post office, medical room, railway booking counter and a room for the lost and found. He said that the proposed bus stand would also become the hub of the city bus operations for Gurgaon and luxury bus operations of Haryana Roadways from Gurgaon.
Talwandi Sabo Power Plant
Chandigarh: Conceptualised by Punjab State Electrcity Board (PSEB), the first unit of 660 MW of Talwandi Sabo Power limited (TSPl), the largest private sector investment in Punjab, is scheduled to go on stream shortly. The proposed 1980 MW (3x660 MW) supercritical thermal power plant is being set up at village Banawala in Mansa district. All the 1980 MW power generated at TSPl will be supplied to Punjab State Power Corporation limited (PSPCl). Apart from being the largest private sector investment in the state of Punjab, TSPl is expected to bring in a multiplier effect into the economy of the state.
Electricity shortage in Mohali today
Mohali: The Electricity department on Friday declared that several parts of Mohali will be affected by power cuts due to maintenance work on Saturday. A spokesman of the department said that power supply at Sec-71, Mohali shall be affected partially from 8am to 4pm and power supply in the Ph-3A,3B & Ph-4 areas will be affected partially from 8 am to 4 pm. Kansal and nearby areas will be effected partially from 8am to 4pm.
Machine to prevent breast cancer installed
Chandigarh: A state-of- the- art prone table breast biopsy system has been installed in the OPD of the Radiodiagnosis and Imaging department of PGIMER, Chandigarh. While stating this on Friday a spokesman said that this equipment is used for taking biopsy of non-palpable suspicious breast lesions seen on mammography and not visualized on ultrasound which helps in detection of very early breast cancer. These can then be treated with less invasive surgery with approximately 100 per cent survival rate.
Committee to solve water-logging problem
Chandigarh: A State-level committee to solve the perennial water logging problem in the southern districts has been constituted by Punjab Government. The committee has been entrusted to prepare an exhaustive surface and underground drainage infrastructure master plan for water-logged areas of southern Punjab for Identification of the extent of problem. A spokesman of the Irrigation department said Gen BS Dhaliwal, Technical Advisor to CM has been appointed as the chairman.
National Nutrition Week
Chandigarh: Haryana Women and Child Development department will celebrate National Nutrition Week from September 1 to 7 all across the State with the objective to create awareness among people especially among mothers and adolescent girls regarding the problem of malnutrition, hygiene, deficiency of micronutrients like Iron, Vitamin-A, Zinc, Iodine etc in food. Director of the department Renu Phulia said the theme of this year selected by Government of India is “Food Security for Healthy life”. Phulia said malnutrition in women, girls and children can be reduced by creating awareness about proper nutrition, balanced diet and protein, calorie rich foods.
Eminent physicist enlightens students of PU
Chandigarh: Physicist and condensed matter theorist Prof Jainendra K Jain addressed the students of Panjab University on the Composite Fermions at Physics Department on Friday. Earlier he also addressed the students of IISER Mohali. Prof Jain also interacted with the students and faculty members of the PU Physics Department. PU Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Arun Kumar Grover and former PU VC Prof K N Pathak and number of faculty members and students also participated. Prof Jain is a highly respected scientist, who was even considered for the Nobel Physics Prize. He is an ‘Evan Pugh and Erwin W. Mueller Prof of Physics’ at Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University in USA. While addressing the students, Prof Jain explained the “composite fermions,” theory, which he had postulated to explain the fractional quantum Hall effect and to develop a unified theory of the fractional and the integral quantum Hall effect.
ISB Super league kicks off
Mohali: The Indian School of Business (ISB) hosted two international sports luminaries at its Hyderabad and Mohali campuses as a part of the ISB Super league (ISl), the annual sports extravaganza. In keeping with the ISB’s philosophy of seamless integration across the two campuses, the ISl was simultaneously inaugurated at the two campuses. While Fauja Singh, the 102 year old, globally acclaimed marathon runner flagged off the event at the Mohali campus, Micheal Kasprowicz, former Australian cricketer, better known by his nickname, Kasper, unveiled the ISl trophy at the Hyderabad campus. The ISl is a one of its kind sports league in that it amalgamates business with sports. It is a comprehensive sports management exercise where students learn strategy-making, negotiation skills, manage available resources optimally, handling crisis situations and developing leadership skills in the process.