Two books authored by Hry DGP released
Chandigarh: Justice (Retd.) Iqbal Singh, Former Director, Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Prof. Virender Kumar and Prof. Veer Singh, former Vice-Chancellor, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law, Hyderabad alongwith other dignitaries released two books entitled “Abodhisatva” a collection of stories and second edition of “Criminology, Penology and Victimology” authored by KP Singh, Director General of Police, Haryana at GOs Mess, Police Lines, Panchkula near here. While the “Abodhisatva”, a collection of stories in Hindi which introduce the readers with the truth of life, has been authored by KP Singh, the second edition of “Criminology, Penology and Victimology” highlighting the importance of various laws especially relating to juveniles and women was penned jointly by Deepa Singh, Malvika Singh and KP Singh.
CM mourns demise of Shaunkiya Ram
Shimla: Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has expressed his deep condolences over the demise of the former MLA Shaunkiya Ram, who died at his native village old Junga in district Shimla on Sunday at the age of 81. Shaunkiya Ram twice represented Kasumpti assembly constituency once in1972 and then again in 1985. In his condolence message to the bereaved family members, Chief Minister prayed to the Almighty to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss.
Bank of Baroda launches savings products
Chandigarh: Bank of Baroda has launched two new savings bank schemes namely Baroda Mahila Shakti Savings Account and Baroda Senior Citizen Privilege Savings Account at the hands of PS Jayakumar, MD & CEO and S L Jain, Executive Director. On the same day, Bank also introduced “Baroda Samriddhi Deposit Scheme”- a fixed deposit product for 444 days offering high interest rates of 7.15%. However, senior citizens will get benefit of additional interest rate of 0.50% on deposit under captioned scheme.Shanti Lal Jain, Executive Director said that special benefits and privileges such as discounts on lockers rentals, waivers in loan processing charges and premium variants of debit card to name a few have been bundled in the products developed for woman and senior citizens .
Experts concerned about e-cigarettes
Chandigarh: A consultation on health effects of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) with subject experts, decision makers and implementers was held by school of Public Health PGIMER in collaboration with Indian Medical Association Chandigarh and Strategic Institute of Public Health Education and Research (SIPHER). ENDS, popularly known as e-cigarettes are highly addictive and potentially lethal products and are mostly being used by children and youth because these are glamorised by the e-Cigarettes manufacturers, mostly tobacco companies. Subject experts and decision makers from the region shared their concern,views and developed a Chandigarh declaration on ENDS to be shared with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) and Public Health community, to tackle this alarming upcoming menace in view of increasing use by teenagers, youth and habitual smokers. Dr Rakesh Gupta, Deputy Director, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab who has been working on ENDS consistently since 2013, deliberated further on the process that started with Punjab declaring these as unapproved products under Drugs and Cosmetics Act in 2013 followed by 9 states following the suit and finally Govt. of India issuing an Advisory to all states in August 2018 to act against sale of ENDS.
Conference of ISVIR held
Chandigarh: The 4th annual conference of the Chandigarh, Panjab and Himachal Pradesh State Branch of the Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR) organized in collaboration with the Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh was inaugurated by Prof. Jagat Ram, Director of the Institute. The highlights of the program were discussions on acute stroke and acute pancreatitis. The experts discussed important issues in the diagnosis and management of these diseases. A video-session highlighting important interventional radiological procedures was also conducted. This session sensitized the young and budding radiologists to the various techniques of the interventional radiological procedures.
Sonalika Tractors registered growth
Chandigarh: Hoshiarpur based global tractor brand Sonalika International Tractors recorded phenomenal growth of 130% in exports with sales of 1694 tractors in January’19 as compared to 735 tractors same period last year. “Overall, the company has registered robust growth of 11% with 7494 tractors (Domestic +Exports) in Janurary’19. Continuing growth trajectory, the company has recorded overall growth of 20% with sales of 95,001 tractors on cumulative basis (Apri’18-Jan’19), as compared to 79,209 tractors same period last year” said Raman Mittal, Executive Director, Sonalika Group.