Beware of fraudsters in BBBP’s name: govt
Chandigarh: Punjab Social Security Department on Monday cautioned the people to beware of fraudsters in the name of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Parhao’ scheme. The department, after noticing that certain anti-social elements and the NGOs are indulging in defrauding the people in BBBP’s name, made it clear that strict action would be initiated against such elements who try to defraud people by promising them undue benefits under the scheme. The people have also been exhorted to report such matters to the department.
MCC to start door-to-door garbage segregation
Chandigarh: Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, (MCC) will start door-to-door segregation of garbage from Sarangpur and Khudda Jassu villages. The city Mayor Rajesh Kumar will formally start the work at Sarangpur village on June 4 at 8 am in the presence of MCC Commissioner KK Yadav, besides senior MCC officers, and other prominent persons of the area. Total seven safaikarmacharis have been deployed for sanitation at Sarangpur village having two bins in Sehaj Safai Kendra near Gurudwara. Garbage in segregated form, that is wet and dry separately, will be collected from near about 450 houses from the village.
Khare given additional charge
Chandigarh: Haryana Government on Monday gave the additional charge of Additional Resident Commissioner, Haryana Bhawan, New Delhi, to Chander Shekhar Khare with immediate effect.
USA-based University invites IKGPTU faculty
Jalandhar/Kapurthala: Dr Varinderjit Singh, a faculty of IK Gujral Punjab Technical University Jalandhar-Kapurthala received an invitation from USA-based Indiana University, Bloomington, to join as guest faculty. Dr Varinderjit Singh is working as faculty at IKGPTU in the Department of Physical Sciences. In May last week, Dr Singh received an opportunity letter from Romualdo De Souda, Provost Professor of Chemistry and Physics Department Indiana University Bloomington. It was mentioned in the letter that the visiting faculty's appointment would be for initial 12-month period beginning November 1, 2019, and the Indiana University will pay 50,000 dollars to Dr Singh.
ZappFresh forays into Tricity
Chandigarh: ZappFresh, India’s first fully-integrated fresh meat brand, has launched its operations in Chandigarh Tricity. With this launch, ZappFresh now has a direct footprint in eight cities across India which includes Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula.
UT student shines at Olympiad Awards 2018-19
Chandigarh: A Chandigarh student made her parents proud by garnering International Rank in the SOF Olympiad. Over 50,000 schools from 1,400 cities across 30 countries participated in SOF Olympiad exams during 2018-19, wherein around 26,000 students from Chandigarh participated out of which two students shine by grabbing first rank. In International Company Secretary Olympiad, International Rank 1 was bagged by Nimisha Singh Sihag of Class XII from Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School got a gold medal and Rs one lakh cash prize.
Realme C2 to be launched in offline markets
Chandigarh: Realme here on Monday announced that the realme C2 – “Desh Ka Real Choice” will be available in the offline stores throughout the country in 8000 stores. It will go on sale in the offline stores from June 15 and customers can pre book the phone from June 8-14 in selected stores. Realme has 274 service centers across India out of which Punjab currently has 9 service centers. Nidhi Bhatia, Product Manager, said “We are expanding offline to give more touch and feel of the product to our customers. We strive to give our customers a combination of power and style in our products.”
Social stands for Team India
Chandigarh: With the Cricket World Cup back with a month-long celebration, Social in solidarity with the Indian team will offer up a variety of drink deals at Sector 7. It has come together with Uber to make match days better.
Mandira Bedi gives Excellence Award to Cloudnine
Chandigarh: Cloudnine Group of Hospitals has been conferred Punjab Entrepreneur & Excellence Award 2019 for providing the best fertility services in the tricity. Mandira Bedi, leading television actress awarded it to Dr Pawan Kumar, Regional Director (North) and Sushil Nagpal, Business Head, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals at a function held here.
Verka holds seminar on World Milk Day
Chandigarh: Verka, in association with the India Dairy Association (IDA), organized a seminar at National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Chandigarh, to mark the ‘World Milk Day’ on the theme of ‘Sustainable Growth in Indian Dairy’. The seminar was attended by officials of Punjab Dairy Development Board, MILKFED, Department of Animal Husbandry, and the people who show keen interest in learning more about sustainability in dairy farming.