26 trucks carrying illegal sand, gravel caught
Chandigarh: Haryana Police has caught 26 trucks carrying illegal sand and gravel from various places in Yamunanagar district on Saturday. A spokesman of the department said that police had set up permanent check posts to check illegal mining. He said that the apprehended trucks have been handed over to their related departments. The trucks were overloaded and have been entrusted to RTO office. The trucks related to illegal mining have been handed over to Mining department and Excise and Taxation department. He said that police is fully prepared to stop illegal mining and strict actions would be taken against defaulters. A campaign has been launched by police against mining smugglers and they would not be spared. The police department has also appealed people for their help in stopping illegal mining.
Two-day Kisan Mela at ludhiana from Mar 20
Chandigarh: Punjab Government would organise Kisan Mela on March 20 and 21 at Punjab Agricultural University, ludhiana. Director of Agriculture, Dr Mangal Singh Sandhu on Sunday said that the Government has provided financial and technical assistance to organise Kisan Melas, one each in Kharif and Rabi season. The focus would be laid to educate youth to opt new techniques in the field of agriculture especially in remote areas which are not agriculturally developed. Proper training would also be imparted to farmers, he added. Similar Kisan Melas will also be organised in Regional Research Station at Gurdaspur and Bathinda on March 25 and March 27 respectively.
National pharma training school at PU
Chandigarh: A one-week faculty training school, ‘From Drug Discovery to Drug Delivery: Contemporary Trends’, will be organised from March 16-21 by University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) at Panjab University campus, for Pharmaceutical teachers drawn across the country under the initiative of UGC Networking Resource Centre. The coordinators of the initiative are professors Bhupinder Singh Bhoop and Kanwaljit Chopra, who are UIPS chairman and Dean Faculty of Pharm Sciences respectively. The training school will commence on Monday at 9:30 am in Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall of Panjab University Campus.
Chhabra condemns espionage on Rahul Gandhi
Chandigarh: Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee president Pardeep Chhabra has strongly condemned the Delhi police action of visiting Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s house and making “unnecessary and weird inquiries”. Hitting out on BJP-led Central Government, Chhabra said that it was a case of political espionage and BJP Government should give an explaination in this regard. “What happened in Rahul Gandhi's place was espionage. This is not a police job. We want an explanation from the Government about the motive behind it,” said Chhabra adding that these were pressure tactics being used by BJP Government to hide their own shortcomings that have been exposed during their nine months regime.
PB ed dept informs SC, BC students through SMS
Chandigarh: Punjab Education department on Sunday exhorted all class XII Government school students belonging to SC, BC community to apply for free coaching of Punjab Medical Entrance Test (PMET) through SMS. Spokesperson said that SC, BC welfare department has invited applications in this regard, and the coaching will be imparted at Ambedkar Institute of Career and Course in Mohali. The last date for applying for the free coaching is March 21. SMS services have been recently started by the department to disseminate information of career guidance and counselling to the students.
Kasauli Rhythm & Blues Fest unveils its plan
Chandigarh: Genesis Foundation’s Kasauli Rhythm and Blues Festival on Sunday revealed its line-up for the fourth edition, to be held from April 3 to 5 April at Baikunth Resorts in Kasauli. Ten amazing bands and musicians promise to mesmerise the audience with a mix genre of music – western pop and rock and roll, sufi, fusion and Bollywood. The renowned names like sufi singer Rabbi Shergill, pop singer Suneeta Rao, besides renowned bands would perform and the amount generated by the show would benefit 10 critically ill, underprivileged children.
Dr lochan posted as DGHS-1
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has posted Dr D P lochan, Director General Health Service (DGHS) as DGHS-1 in addition to his present duties.
CMA organises Talk on Microbes
Chandigarh: Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) organised a talk on “Microbes-Friends or Foes” at Geology Department, Panjab University here. Dr Rupinder Tiwari, chairperson, Microbial Biotechnology, Panjab University was the key note speaker while Dr Anshu Kataria, president, CMA and chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges presided over the event. Tiwari explained in detail all the aspects of Microbes (bacteria-along with virus) and said that good bacteria help us improve our immune system and bad bacteria give us many diseases like diabetes, cancer, autism etc.
HealthKartPlus now in C’garh, Mohali & Panchkula
Chandigarh: HealthKartPlus, India’s drug search engine and online pharmacy network has announced to extend its operations in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. After making the grand success with over one and half million downloads, 15m hits on the web& app and currently more than 1 lakh medicine fueling its search engine in Delhi/NCR and Bhubaneswar. Now, the services can be availed in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. HealthKartPlus has tied up with vendors to ensure continuous and safe delivery of the products. Prashant Tandon, Managing Director & Co-founder, HealthKart.com said, “The focus is on delivering excellence and enabling the Indian consumers to play a more active role in ensuring their treatments are of highest quality.”
ABS organises visit to Avon Cycles, ludhiana
Mohali: Aryans Business School (ABS) has organised an industrial visit for its MBA students and around 60 students visited Avon Cycles Pvt. ltd. in ludhiana. They visited various departments of the company including Manufacturing, Marketing, Human Resources, Research & Development and Finance. The purpose of the visit was to make students aware of the various practical management aspects. MK Arora, general manager, Avon Cycles interacted with the students and explained about importance as well as uses of cycling to young one’s in today’s scenario replacing vehicles.
All India Ranker, 21 others felicitated
Chandigarh: GATE Revolution, a unit of Guru Gram Group of Institutions felicitated its 21 students who have brought laurels to the institute by figuring in the top 1000 All India Ranking (AIR) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2015 (GATE 2015). Ankush has bagged 3rd All India Rank, which is the highest in the region, while other top position holders are Abhishek Sethi, All India Rank 45; Megha Thakural, All India Rank 62 and Deeksha, All India Rank 63, informed Tarun Garg, and Darshan Jindal, Managing Directors, Gate Revolution, located in Sector 34 here. Ankush was presented with a cheque worth Rs1 lakh by Gate Revolution managing directors. GATE 2015 was conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and 9, 28,543 candidates had appeared for it.
Free health checkup camp, customer meet held
Chandigarh: Allahabad Bank under the aegis of 150th founder year celebrations organised a series of events to mark the ocassion. A free health check up camp was organised at Bank Square, Sector 17 here in which over 350 bank employees and customers were benefited. Doctors inspected ENT (Eye, Nose and Throat), Dental and Eye and distributed free medicines as well. later in the evening a Kavi Sammelan was also organized for the customers which was well entertained by well known poets including Ved Prakash Sharma, Naveen Neer, Manoj Sharma and others. A customer meet was also organised to review the grievances and suggestions from customers.