OP Dhankar, Bikram Singh get new tasks
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government on Wednesday said now Agriculture Minister Om Parkash Dhankar will preside over the monthly meeting of District Public Relations and Grievances Committee at Panchkula and Gurgaon, whereas Minister of State for Cooperation Bikram Singh Yadav at Mahendragarh and Jhajjar.
ISGEC to set up mfg unit at Yamunanagar
Chandigarh: ISGEC Heavy Engineering ltd. will set up a unit for manufacturing of heavy engineering and boiler equipment at village Rattangarh of district Yamunanagar. A spokesperson on Wednesday said that the manufacturing Unit will be set up, over an area of 12.2 acres. The setting up of this facility is likely to provide a major boost to the manufacturing industry in Yamunanagar. The grant of ClU permission for such facility is at a very advance stage with the Government of Haryana and the same is likely will be issued very shortly. The project, when completed is likely to provide employment to more than 500 persons.
Symposium on Weather and Climate concludes
Chandigarh: The National Symposium on “Weather and Climate Extremes” concluded on Wednesday, at Panjab University. The four-day Symposium, organised by the Indian Meteorological Society in collaboration with PU, was attended by more than 400 eminent scholars, operational meteorologists, researchers, planners, hydrologists, agriculturists, disaster managers, instrumentation scientists and technology developers from various states of India. They deliberated upon the topics and issues like climate change, forecasting weather extremes and sectoral impacts of climate change. During symposium, over 108 research papers were presented, 9 plenary talks, 54 invited talks, 87 poster presentations and several industry presentations were conducted.
Badals condole demise of Jasjit Randhawa
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, and Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday condoled the passing away of former Punjab Minister and Congress leader, Jasjit Singh Randhawa, who died due to heart failure in Sri lanka. In their condolence message they described Randhawa as an honest, upright and a gentleman politician. He was one of those leaders who was totally dedicated to the cause of down trodden and always upheld the moral values in political life. Sharing their sympathies with the members of the bereaved family, CM and Deputy CM prayed to the Almighty to grant eternal peace to the departed soul.
Environment Park Derabassi infra upgrade
Chandigarh: Aiming to preserve the flora and fauna in its natural habitat, Punjab Government has approved a plan to upgrade the infrastructure of Environment Park in Derabassi. A spokesperson said that as a part of this proposal, services in the environment park would be improved and existing flora would be preserved by irrigation network. Shallow tubewells would be installed in the environment parks to provide irrigation backup during summers and the Government has floated e-tenders for boring and installation of shallow tube well at environment parks.
Fashion Discovery App, Wooplr Secures $5 Mn
Chandigarh: Wooplr, India’s first mobile fashion discovery and shopping platform, announced their Series A funding round of $5 million led by Helion Ventures. The Wooplr app helps people decide what to buy and where to shop based on their interests, location and social circle. It gives the user a personalised feed of curated fashion products. Wooplr’s fast growing community of shoppers of which 80% are women, share fashion inspirations and the latest trends on the go.