HSVB caught three officers accepting bribe
Chandigarh: Haryana State Vigilance Bureau (HSVB) has caught Satbir Singh of Patwari Ashan constituency, Jind red-handed while accepting illegal gratification of Rs 5000 from Shamsher Singh, a resident of village Ashan, district Jind in lieu of mutation registered of plot. A spokesman said that in another case, the Bureau has caught ESI, Bhim Singh posted at civil line Jind red handed while accepting illegal gratification of Rs 1,200 from Arti, a resident of Droli in Jind in lieu of submitting the challan in court case. The Bureau also caught EASI Dharmpal, posted at Police Station Adampur in Hisar red handed while accepting illegal gratification of Rs 5,000 from Sunil, a resident of Hisar. Three separate cases have been registered against them under section 7 and 13 of Prevention of Corruption Act at Bureau’s police station, Hisar.
Hooda presented a cheque of Rs 50 lakh
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was presented with a cheque of Rs 50 lakh towards Chief Ministers Relief Fund for the victims of Uttarakhand devastation by Ml Kaushik, Deputy Commissioner, Hisar. Principal Secretary to Chief Minister SS Dhillon was also present on this occasion.
Haryana’s aims to strengthen power supply
Chandigarh: Haryana Discoms has planned to strengthen power supply infrastructure in all villages and urban areas by laying the system of new technology the “Pillar Box System” so as to give safe and reliable power supply to the consumers round the clock. A spokesman said that the “Pillar Box System” of electricity distribution is the best solution to give reliable, safe and qualitative power supply in urban and rural areas. The introduction of pillar boxes, he said, had led to increase in the number of connections. The new connections are being released at spot by organizing camps in villages and urban localities.
Inter-School primary sports meet in Feb
Chandigarh: Punjab Education and language Minister Sikander Singh Maluka has said that the state government will promote sports in all the government schools from the primary level by organizing zonal level and state level tournaments. A State level tournament for all the primary schools will be organized on February 21 to 23 at Jalandhar. He also disbursed sports funds amounting to Rs 75.20 lakh to seven senior secondary schools for the development of sports. The Minister said that Punjab government has decided to grant additional marks to those schools students achieving first three positions in state, national, inter-national level schools games. Such students would get 15 marks for their State level School games achievements and 25 marks for their national as well as international achievements.
Docomo announces network expansion in HP
Shimla: Tata Docomo has announced expansion of their network in Himanchal Pradesh. The company will add 909 new cellular sites to its existing network, which will ensure that seamless coverage is available in 57 census towns and over 14000 villages across the state. Tata Docomo’s decision to add new cell sites in predominantly rural areas is designed to support its business objectives and is in keeping with its promise of bringing best in class mobility to consumers across the country.
Nutritional drink “Nutrimalt” launched
Rakesh Bakshi, VP Sales & Marketing, Big Value Wellness Pvt. ltd. N Wednesday said, after an indepth research and development, we are presenting “NutriMalt” a special product which will bring revolution in the field of nutritional drink market in India. We are launching this product nationally and Chandigarh is the city that we have chosen to be the first to launch this product as this city is systematic and the people here are highly educated and quality conscious. Within a month, we will have our presence in places like Amritsar, ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala and Mohali with the network of 20 distributors and our products will be available at 800-1000 retail out-lets.
College admissions: income limit for OBCs hiked
Chandigarh: The Central Government has raised the income limit of socially advanced persons or section (creamy layer) amongst the Other Backward Classes (OBC) in admission to Central educational institutions from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs 6 lakh per annum. A spokesman said that the Chief Secretary has directed all the Head of the Departments, Commissioner of all the four divisions of Rohtak, Gurgaon, Hisar and Ambala, Deputy Commissioners, chairman of all Boards and Corporations and Registrars of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar and Ch. Devi lal University, Sirsa to ensure strict compliance of these instructions.
Water supply to be hit on January 9, 10
Chandigarh: There will be low water supply in some parts of Chandigarh on Thursday and Friday evening. This is due to urgent replacement of sluice valve on 1200 mm dia PSC pipe line of phase-III near RD-6800, village Marauli. There will be no pumping of raw water on January 9,10 from Phase III and IV of Kajauli water works to water works Sector 39 Chandigarh. Due to this shut down, the timing of water supply for whole the city will be at low pressure from 6 pm to 8 pm on January 9 and 10.
Prof Kochhar gets Indira Gandhi prize
Chandigarh: Panjab University (PU), Honorary Prof Rajesh Kochhar has been selected for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science, a national level award given by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the highest academic body in the field of science in the country, for outstanding work by an individual for the popularization of science in any Indian language, including English. Prof. Kochhar would be conferred the prestigious award along with Prof. Hari Om Vats of PRl, Ahemdabad, for their outstanding contributions in popularising science through massmedia, especially print media, in English on a wide range of science subjects.