power generation at comfortable position
Chandigarh: The power generation from BBMB power houses during 2017-18 till July17 is 322.1 crore units which is over 7% more in comparison to Central Electricity Authority’s (CEA) target of 299.1 crore units for the period, said DK Sharma, chairman BBMB. He said that BBMB has also met water requirement demand of the partner states of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan during this summer i.e. April to June 2017. Today’s water level of Bhakra reservoir is 1596.60 ft. against the last year level of 1584.13 ft. Similarly, water level of Pong reservoir is 1320.31ft. against last year’s level of 1304.56 ft. Twelve feet higher level at Bhakra and 16 ft. higher water level at Pong compared to the last year level as on date has been possible by optimal reservoir operation leading to effective utilization of inflows of the Satluj, Beas & Ravi rivers, he added.
1 killed as bus turns turtle in Haryana
Chandigarh: A youth was killed while 29 other persons, many among them women, were injured when a private bus carrying 40 passengers turned turtle on a national highway in Haryana’s Sirsa district on Tuesday, police said. The bus was headed from Malout in Punjab to a Dera in Sikanderpur in Sirsa district when the mishap occurred. “Amit Kumar of Malout in Punjab, aged 20, was crushed under the bus as it turned turtle. Twenty-nine passengers, many of them women, sustained injuries. Thirty women and 10 males, including the driver and conductor, were in the bus,” Inspector Jagdish Chander, SHO, Odhan police station in Sirsa district, said over the phone. He said the driver lost control over the vehicle after which it jumped the road divider, hit some trees and turned turtle.
‘Wellness Destination’ award for himachal
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has bagged ‘Wellness Destination of The Year’ award at the India International Travel Mart (IITM) held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu from July 15 to 17. Over 200 Government and national and international private institutions engaged in tourism industry participated in the event. The IITM was an international level platform to deliberate on mutual issues related to tourism. A spokesman of HPTDC said that stalls depicting adventure tourism in Himachal Pradesh were center of attraction for the people at Chennai and thousands of people visited the stall of HPTDC and sought information about various tourist places.
Nikita Gupta unveils her book
Chandigarh: 15 years old Nikita Gupta from Solan who has been nominated for the ‘Himachal’s Youngest Author’ title, unvield her book “We are imperfectly perfect” at Chandigarh Press Club. The young author, a student of MRA DAV Public School, Solan, chose ‘Wattpad’, a digital platform to express her views, which got her appreciation from around the world in the form of 2.5 lakh readers and getting her novel in the ‘Top 10’ in her genre. She also got AMAZING AWARD in people’s choice category on ‘wattpad’ Her novel - ‘We are imperfectly perfect’, a love-fiction, is about two childhood friends who meet after a gap of nine years and what drastic changes they experience in each other.
Short term course began at NITK
Kurukshetra: One week short term course on ‘Signal Processing in Power System Protection and Control’ (S3PC-2017), organized jointly by Departments of Electrical Engineering & Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra began on Monday. On the occasion, Electrical Engineering Department, Director, Satish Kumar emphasized the need of interdisciplinary approach for finding solutions to industrial problems. He put forward the point that nowadays all problems pertaining to the areas like Smart Grids, Integration of Renewables, Hybrid Vehicles, Electrical Power Networks etc cannot be solved in isolation by any one of the departments but need synchronization of various departments to achieve the feasible solutions.
Sr citizens attend talk on Urological problems
Mohali: A talk on Urological Problems was held at Fortis Hospital, Mohali. Dr Priyadarshi Ranjan, Consultant, Kidney Transplant, Fortis Hospital Mohali talked about the increase in number of urological problems in the golden age. The talk was attended by about 120 senior citizens. Dr Ranjan said, “lower urinary tract symptoms (lUTS) is one of the most predominant urologic problems faced by elderly people. BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) and Prostate Cancer are some of the common disorders which can cause these symptoms.”
Panel lawyers sensitised about their duties
SAS Nagar: Archana Puri, District & Sessions Judge, SAS Nagar on Monday called a meeting of panel lawyers. who have been given duty to represent the accused during remand hour, when the accused is produced by the Police before the court, seeking remand, either police or judicial. The panel lawyers were sensitized about their duties, in which, they have to represent the unrepresented accused produced in custody, oppose remand, move bail application , miscellaneous applications etc. and undertake such other actions as may be necessary to effectively represent the accused at the stage of remand.