RTA offices to be closed today
Chandigarh: Intensifying its drive against corruption, the Chief Minister (CM) Flying Squad on Wednesday conducted raids at all the offices of Regional Transport Authority (RTA) in the State and seized the record for investigation. The drive would be continued to scrutinize the record and in view of this, all RTA offices in the State would remain close on Thursday, said the spokesperson, urging the people to cooperate for inconvenience. Spokesperson assured that it would prove to a big step towards eradicating the corruption at all levels.
Dial 0177-262158 for food commodities
Shimla: In case of non-availability of essential food commodities being distributed through public distribution system in fair price shops in Himachal Pradesh, the consumers can contact on 0177-2621583, said a spokesman of HP State Civil Supplies Corporation on Wednesday.
Tree Plantation Drive
ludhiana: The landscaping wing of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University on Wednesday organized Van Mahotsav (tree plantation drive) in the campus on the theme - let The Scene Be Green. The drive, carried out in collaboration with varsity’s NSS wing, was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor Dr AS Nanda. A total of 400 plants were planted in different areas of campus. Different types of plants like trees of Moulsari, Neem, Pilkhan or Ficus virens, Sukhchain, Amaltas, Gulmohar, etc, fruit trees of Mango, Jamun, etc, and shrub plants or small trees of Hamelia, Chandani, Jatropha, Har shingar, Plumeria rubra, Plumeria alba etc were also planted.
TBS observes Nagasaki Day
Chandigarh: The students of The British School, Sector-44 on Wednesday paid homage to the victims of Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic disasters that shook humanity. The students watched a biopic on Hiroshima Nagasaki, flew white balloons, took a pledge to care and love all life forms. “On Nagasaki Day, the school also initiated a ‘Peace Club’ which will spread the message of world peace and love for all of humanity through different activities and events,” said the Principal Mona Sethi.
cop wins car at festival
Chandigarh: Ravinder Kumar, a constable of Chandigarh Police, drove home in a brand-new Tata Tigor worth over Rs 4.5 lakh with his familyon Wednesday as grand prize winner of the Elante Summer Shop and Win Festival. His name was drawn from a box containing 8,000 entries at a felicitation ceremony organised by Elante mall, which had organised the summer shop and win festival 2017 from July 7 to 23. Nexus Malls’ executive director Anil Malhotra said: “With each passing year, we have tried to make our promotions bigger and better as we strive to raise the bar of customer satisfaction.”
personality development
Chandigarh: PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday organised a one day workshop on ‘Personality Development and Business Communication Skills’ at PHD House in Chandigarh to address the growing need of professional and business development amongst the corporate sector employees and industry managers. The event, held in association with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation of Germany, was attended by nearly 50 senior and middle level managers, entrepreneurs, executives, business professionals, engineers, sales and marketing professionals.
Tata Docomo offers 28 GB data
Chandigarh: Tata Docomo announced new data plans at Rs 249 offering 28 GB of high speed 3G data for its new and existing pre-pay customers in Punjab and Haryana. The data packs - FRC-249 and RC-249 - come with a validity of 28 days and offers 1 GB data on per day basis. This offer is available to all pre-pay customers on 2G, 3G and 4G handsets.
Agri Udaan launched
Mohali: To help agri-entrepreneurs to ideate, incubate and accelerate their innovative early stage agri-startups that are scalable to become competitive food and agri-business ventures through capacity building, mentoring, networking and advisory support, the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) had launched its own, innovative Technology Business Incubator (TBI), a-IDEA (Association for Innovation Development of Entrepreneurship in Agriculture). An ambitious plan will be managed by ICAR-NAARM’s technology incubator along with IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation.