Parshuram jayanti: Haryana CM greets people
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Tuesday extended greetings to the people on the eve of Bhagwan Parshuram Jayanti. He urged the people to celebrate this sacred occasion collectively by rising above caste, colour, creed and religion. “Bhagwan Parshuram, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu, an epitome of valour, had immense knowledge and was a great warrior,” he said.
Punjab VB nabs two policemen in bribery case
Chandigarh: Punjab State Vigilance Bureau nabbed two police officials red handed while accepting bribe of Rs 10,000. Spokesperson said that constable Amritpal Singh and home guard Sukhvir Singh, posted at Phul Police Station in Bathinda, were nabbed red handed on the complaint of Bathinda’s Dhingar village resident Jagsir Singh who had alleged that the accused police officials were demanding Rs 12,000 to furnish report for his passport verification. After verifying the information, the VB team laid a trap and both the accused police officials were arrested on the spot taking Rs 10,000 bribe in the presence of two official witnesses.
lBSNAA’s knowledge portal for IAS officers
Chandigarh: All the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers in Haryana can upload their case studies, research papers and best practices on the ‘Knowledge Management Portal’ of lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Administration (lBSNAA), Mussoorie. The portal aims at encouraging peer learning, amplifying good initiatives, institutionalizing evidence based approaches to policy making and improving outcomes in programme implementation. It appears as a link on lBSNAA website — www.lbsnaa.gov.in, said the spokesperson adding that officers can log in using their NIC username with ias.nic.in domain name and password.
Computer Course for colony children held
Chandigarh: Chandigarh Police and Infosys jointly organised one-month computer course, especially for the children of colony areas for which transportation facility was also provided. During the course, conducted at Computer lab in RTC at Sector-26 Police lines from March 8 to April 5, computer basics, including Microsoft word, excel and power-point were taught to students. Total 33 children, including 22 boys and 11 girls, who have successfully completed the course, were given certificates by UT SSP Nilambari Jagadale.
Haryana approves upgradation of 4 schools
Chandigarh: Haryana Government has decided to upgrade Government Girl’s Primary School, SGM Nagar, Faridabad, and Government Primary School, Mangana, Pehowa in Kurukshetra district to Government secondary schools by giving relaxation in norms. Announcing this, the Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said that Chief Minister has approved a proposal in this regard, besides an approval for the upgradation of Government Primary School, Malhaka in Mewat district to Government secondary school and Government High School, Nimbi in Mahendergarh district to government senior secondary school.
WHO team for external audit at PGIMER
Chandigarh: Under the aegis of World Health Organisation (WHO), a delegation headed by Dr David Featherstone from New Zealand and Dr Kaveri from KIPM&R, Chennai, was on two-day visit to PGIMER’s Department of Virology on April 16 for second external audit. The Department became ‘WHO National Measles laboratory’ in 2015 and has been serving as reference centre for serological testing of measles and rubella. It underwent an external audit in 2016 as per ISO 15189:2012 standards. To keep up with ambitious global goal of ‘measles and rubella elimination by 2020’, the Department, in association with WHO, has been instrumental in outbreak surveillance for the past three years and have also recently initiated case-based surveillance in a phased manner.
lPU hosted women entrepreneurship event
Jalandhar: Uprising women entrepreneurship in the society, lPU and Startup Metamorphosis hosted the North-India’s biggest women entrepreneurship event — The Enterprising SHE, where more than 15 top entrepreneurs motivated thousands of lPU students to think big and adopt entrepreneurial career. Former IAS Vivek Atray, HR and leadership consultant, SOPAAM Indra Sood, Empathy (SHEROS) director Avani Parekh, fitmein.in founder Nidhisha Varshney, and many more were specifically present to motivate the students.
MIA holds seminar on e-way bill system
Mohali: Seminar on e-way bill system was held by Mohali Industries Association (MIA) on Tuesday in association with GST Division, Mohali. MIA joint secretary Jagdeep Singh welcomed all members and officials. AC-GST Division 1 Mohali Kanav Sharma, while giving a presentation on e-way bill system, described that under the GST, for inter-state movement of goods with a value of Rs 50,000 and above, e-way bill is mandatory. For Interstate transactions, e-way bill is being implemented from April 1, 2018, and for intra-state movement of goods, e-way will be implemented later on.