HP CM to preside over State level Himachal Day function at Indora
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur will preside over the state level Himachal Day function on April 15, to be held at Indora in Kangra district, along with Deputy Speaker of HP Vidhan Sabha Hans Raj and Industries Minister Vikram Singh. While Vidhan Sabha Speaker Dr Rajeev Bindal will preside over the function at Solan, other Ministers would president in different cities — including IPH Minister Mahender Singh Thakur at Hamirpur, Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Kishan Kapoor at Chamba, Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj at Reckong Peo, Power Minister Anil Sharma at Shimla, Agriculture Minister Dr Ram lal Markanda at Keylong, Health and Family Welfare Minister Vipin Parmar at Una, Forest Minister Govind Singh Thakur at Mandi and Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr Rajiv Saizal at Nahan.
Self defense training to families of serving personnel
Chandigarh: The Western Command (WC) has taken an initiative of imparting self defense training to the families of serving personnel. The step has been taken in view of the recent attacks on army camps of Sunjuwan and Nagrota where the families of serving defense personnel became soft targets for the militants. The EME unit at Chandimandir organized a training session where trained professionals from a Martial Art Academy demonstrated self defense skills to women and children of the defense personnel.
HSE amended school cadre service rules notified
Chandigarh: Haryana Government on Tuesday notified the Haryana State Education School Cadre (Group B) Service Amendment Rules, 2018. School Education Department spokesperson said that under the new rules, TGT, Social Studies having two-year experience of teaching English would also be eligible for promotion to PGT. Similarly, MA Political Science or Public Administration, with at least 50 percent marks and BEd from recognized university, will also be eligible for PGT. In case of direct recruitment to the post of PGT, eligibility would be MSc Physics, Applied Physics, Nuclear Physics, Electronics Science or Electronics with at least 50 percent marks and BEd from a recognized university.
Haryana notifies sunflower’s harvesting, procurement period
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has notified the harvesting period of Sunflower from June 1 to 15, 2018, and procurement period from June 1 to July 31, 2018, said a spokesperson of the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department on Tuesday.
New women police station at Faridabad
Chandigarh: Haryana Government on Tuesday notified setting up of new Woman Police Station NIT in Faridabad. Home Department spokesperson said that new Woman Police Station would have all the powers as per the Code of Criminal Procedures, 1973, (Central Act 2 of 1974) for the registration and investigation of offences contained in the Indian Panel Code, 1860 as well as other local and special laws.
Online general transfer policy for JEs, ASDEs
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has formulated online general transfer policy for Junior Engineers (JE) and Additional Sub-Divisional Engineers (ASDE) working in Irrigation and Water Resources Department. The transfer exercise will be carried out only through approved web based application, said the spokesperson adding that all transfers and postings would be made online on the basis of preference given by the employees. The policy has been framed to ensure equitable, demand based distribution or posting of Junior JEs or ASDEs to protect public interest and effect transparency.
CBNAAT, mobile van to combat TB in Haryana
Chandigarh: The Central Government has provided Haryana with Cartridge-Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CBNAAT) and mobile van equipped with modern equipments. With this, Tuberculosis (TB) could be examined in just two hours. The mobile van would identify patients in all districts especially by visiting slum areas. Director Health Services (TB) Dr Veena Singh, after flagging off the mobile van on Tuesday, said that with the help of this van, new cases of TB would be identified and by providing treatment to all such patients, Haryana would become TB-free State by 2025. The van would be used to generate awareness about TB among the people, she added.
Dr Tejinder elected unopposed to Central Council of Homeopathy
Chandigarh: Dr Tejinder Pal Singh, an eminent homeopath and Punjab Homeopathic Council chairman, on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Central Council of Homoeopathy, under the Union Ministry of AYUSH. Only three persons filed nomination papers for the single seat from Punjab, and other two candidates — Dr Paramjit Singh Ranu and Dr Antreev Singh — withdrew their nominations, paving way Dr Tejinder’s election.
Four DSPs re-designated as ASP
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has re-designated four Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) as Additional Superintendent of Police, who have completed 10 years regular satisfactory service or more service in their own pay scale, with immediate effect. They include Gohana DSP Rajeev Deswal, Sirsa Headquarters DSP Vijay Kumar, Gurugram Assistant Commissioner of Police Mohinder Kumar, and Ambala DSP Rajesh Kumar.
City boy, school dropout in Forbes ‘30 under 30’ Asia-2018 list
Chandigarh: A school dropout from Chandigarh, now a cyber security expert, Trishneet Arora has made it to the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ Asia 2018 list. Twenty-five years old multifaceted young entrepreneur is part of the coveted list along with Anushka Sharma, PV Sindhu, Smriti Mandhana, among others from India. Arora is also an author and the founder CEO of TAC Security — a Cyber-Security company based in Mohali. In 2017, Arora was listed among 50 Most Influential Young Indians by GQ Magazine. He has received funding from investor Vijay Kedia and support from former IBM vice president William May.
KU to rope in alumni for fundraising
Kurukshetra: The Kurukshetra University has decided to rope in alumni for fund-raising and also mooting in to honour these alumni in various university activities, said vice-chancellor Prof KC Sharma. He added that various departments and institutes would soon identify ex-students for generous financial assistance for their respective departments in the university. Dr Sharma said that KU was working to attract foreign students and rope in overseas institutes for various research projects. He said that collaboration with organisations would be worked out for joint research in Physics, Chemistry, Nano-Science and other related subjects.