Tuesday March 23, 2021 CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXVI, NO. 53 PAGES 12, RS. 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 12 6084 bottles of illicit liquor recovered, truck impounded FOLLOW US ON PAGE 4 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER WWW.YUGMARG.COM REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95 Join us at telegram https://t.me/yugmarg PAGE 5 No tuition fee for PG girls in Haryana CHANDIGARH: Tuition fees will not be charged from girl students pursu- ing post-graduation in Government and Gov- ernment Aided Colleges of Haryana, having fami- ly annual income of less than Rs 1.80 lakh from all sources. Giving this information, an official spokesperson said that the Director-General of Higher Education De- partment has forwarded a letter regarding the same to Principals of all Government and Gov- ernment-Aided Colleges in the State. School, colleges closed till 31 in Chandigarh CHANDIGARH: Chandi- garh Administration has ordered all schools and colleges in the union ter- ritory to close until March 31—a development that comes as UT reports a second spurt of coron- avirus cases. An order from the Chandigarh Ad- ministration's Director of Education said that it would revisit its decision to hold in-person exams for Classes 9 and 11. A revised schedule, if nec- essary, will be issued lat- er. Actor Kartik Aaryan tests corona positive MUMBAI: Actor Kartik Aaryan on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and asked his fans to pray for him. The 30-year- old actor, on Saturday, walked the ramp for de- signer Manish Malhotra at the ongoing Lakme Fash- ion Week, here. He was joined by his up- coming "Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2" co-star Kiara Advani. Delhi lowers legal age of drinking to 21 years NEW DELHI: The Delhi Cabinet on Monday ap- proved a new excise poli- cy lowering the minimum age for consumption of liquor to 21 years from 25 years, Deputy Chief Min- ister Manish Sisodia an- nounced. According to the new policy, no new liquor shops will be opened in Delhi and the government will not run any vend. "The new excise policy was approved by the Cabinet today on basis of the recommendations of the Group of Ministers. Umpire's Call is creating lot of confusion, grey area needs to be addressed, says Kohli Balbir Sidhu flags off Medicine Delivery Van Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram honours 'Loktantra Praharies' AGENCY NEW DELHI, MAR 22 Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut was named best actress for her roles in "Manikarnika" and "Panga" at the an- nouncement of the 67th National Film Awards on Monday. Manoj Bajpayee and Dhanush shared the best actor honour for their roles in "Bhonsle" and "Asuran", respec- tively. Director Priyadarshan''s Malayalam film "Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham" was declared the best feature film and Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan was named best director for Hindi film "Bahattar Hoorain" by the National Film Award jury, headed by filmmaker N Chandra, who said they judged the movies "not as gods but as parents". Late actor Sushant Singh Raput-starrer "Chhichhore" was adjudged the best Hindi film. The award for the best film on social issues went to Marathi film "Anan- di Gopal", the Nargis Dutt award for Na- tional Integration was given to"Taj Ma- hal" and the best popular providing wholesome entertainment was given to the Telugu film "Maharshi". AGENCY NEW DELHI, MAR 22 In a major development, the Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill 2021. The bill was passed amid opposition from various parties including the Aam Aadmi Party. The bill seeks to make it clear that the "government" in Delhi means the "Lieutenant Governor". The AAP has protested the bill claiming that it intends to reduce the powers of the Delhi Chief Minister. The Congress also opposed the bill, calling it “unconstitutional”. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the bill has become necessary as there have been ambiguity in certain issues related to the function- ing of the Delhi government and several cases were also filed in courts. "Please do not say that it is a politi- cal bill. It is being brought to end ambi- guity in certain issues as Delhi is a Union Territory. It will end certain confusion or technicality and enhance the efficiency of the administration," he said. Bill seeks to equate Delhi ‘Govt’ with Lt Guv passed in LS 67th National awards: Kangana is best actress Manoj Bajpayee declared best actor, Chhichhore best film 4 LeT militants killed, operation over in Shopian SRINAGAR: Four Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were killed by security forces in an encounter which ensued during a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Shopian, a police spokesman said on Monday. A soldier was also injured who was shifted to 92 Base hospital. Meanwhile, mobile internet has been suspended in Shopian as a precautionary measure to prevent any rumours. The Spokesman said on a tip-off about the presence of militants, troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF launched a joint CASO at village Manihal, Imam Sahib Shopian in the wee hours of Monday. However, when the security forces were moving towards a par- ticular area in the village after sealing all exit points, militants hid- ing there opened fire. Security forces also retaliated ensuing in an encounter, he said adding that security forces who were trapped inside a house were repeatedly asked to surrender.Lat- er, residents, including women, children and elderly persons, were shifted to safe place. SHASHI PAL JAIN CHANDIGARH, MAR 22: Punjab Chief Minister Cap- tain Amarinder Singh on Monday ripped into Arvind Kejriwal’s brazen claims and allegations, slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader’s shameless lies as a re-run of the spree of false promises and cheap attacks on the Congress he had re- sorted to back in the 2017 polls. “The people of Punjab were wise to your deceptions then, and can see through them again now,” said the Chief Minister, in a hard-hit- ting response to Kejriwal’s criticism of his government and the state Congress. Kejri- wal’s barefaced lies will be exposed again, just as they had been exposed in the 2017 Assembly polls, Captain Amarinder added, slamming the AAP national convenor’s fabrications and deceptions. “Punjab knows what a first- rate liar and master of deceit you (Kejriwal) are,” he added. Trashing his Delhi coun- terpart’s allegation of the Congress government in Punjab failing to fulfill its poll promises, the Chief Min- ister said it was ridiculous to compare his government’s track record of over 84% promises implemented with the Delhi government’s pa- thetic track record of less than 25% of AAP’s 2015 manifesto commitments ful- filled in 2020. “If this is the Delhi mod- el you (Kejriwal) are promis- ing Punjab then my people are better off without it,” he added. Instead of indulging in deceitful claims and talk- ing of `badla’, Kejriwal should focus on Delhi, which is still waiting for him to ful- fill even 50% of his poll promises, remarked Captain Amarinder. Capt reprimands Kejriwal for attacks on Cong Param Bir moves SC, seeks CBI probe in alleged 'malpractices' AGENCY NEW DELHI, MAR 22 Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai Police Commissioner on Monday filed a plea be- fore the Supreme Court, seeking a direc- tion to the CBI to immediately conduct an unbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fair investigation in the various corrupt mal- practices of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. The plea sought appropriate order or direction to one of the respondents, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to immediately conduct an unbiased, unin- fluenced, impartial and fair investigation in the various corrupt malpractices of Anil Deshmukh, the Home Minister of the Government of Maharashtra. Singh, in his plea also sought the is- suance of appropriate writ, order or direc- tion to quash and set aside the order, passed by the other Respondent state gov- ernment, concerning his transfer from the post of Police Commissioner in Mumbai as illegal and arbitrary. "The same is also in clear violation of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India, for each of the grounds namely for being without the completion of the min- imum fixed tenure of two years in teeth of the law laid down by this Court in TSR Subramanian against the Union of India (UOI) case, the petition stated. It further continued that it was held in many court judgments that the transfer of an officer from a sensitive tenure post re- quires serious consideration and good rea- sons that can be tested by the petitioner. Petitioner Param Bir Singh was moved out as Mumbai Police Commissioner on March 20, by the state Home Min- ister Anil Deshmukh and posted as Commandant General of Home Guards. Anil Deshmukh on Thursday said that NIA and Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) are investigating Sachin Waze case very professionally and Param Bir Singh has been transferred as Mumbai Police Commissioner so that investigation can be done without any hindrance. Pawar defends Anil Deshmukh MUMBAI: Following former Com- missioner of Police of Mumbai Param Bir Singh's allegations of cor- ruption against Anil Deshmukh causing a political storm in the state, National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has come to the defence of the Home Minister. While speaking on the Opposition's demand of Deshmukh's resignation, Pawar said: "It is clear that during the period about which the allega- tions were made, Anil Deshmukh was hospitalised. As this is clear, such demands hold no power." While Congress has discussed the issue at the internal level and has left the final decision to take by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to end the crisis, Incharge of Maharashtra HK Patil told. BJP demands narco test of Uddhav Thackery NEW DELHI: Amid the corruption al- legations in Maharashtra, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ram Kadam on Monday said that state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Home Minister Anil Deshmukh should go for a narco test if they are not lying. "If they are speaking the truth, they should go for narco test, everything will be clear. Even Sitaji had to undergo agni pariksha, so why the chief minister and the home minister are hesitant to go for a nar- co test," Kadam told . "He (Param Bir Singh) wrote this letter after his transfer so we must know what was his motive behind this letter, what po- litical pressure was on him. AGENCY NEW DELHI, MAR 22 At a time when the coun- try is in the midst of the second phase of covid-19 vaccination, the Centre on Monday revised the time gap between administra- tion of the two doses of Serum Institute’s Cov- ishield vaccine. As part of its latest guidelines, the Centre has directed all states and Union territories to ad- minister the second dose of the vaccine after 4-8 weeks of giving the first dose. Earlier, the time gap was 4-6 weeks. "In view of the emerging scientific evidence, the inter- val between two doses of a specific COVID-19 vaccine i e. COVISHIELD, has been revisited by National Techni- cal Advisory Group on Im- munisation (NTAGI) and subsequently by NEGVAC in its 20th meeting during which the recommendation has been revised to provide 2nd dose of COVISHIELD at 4-8 weeks' interval after 1st dose instead of earlier prac- ticed interval of 4-6 weeks, the Union health ministry said on Monday. In a letter written to the chief secretaries of states and UTs on Monday, Union Health Secre- tary Rajesh Bhushan said the ministry has accepted the recommendations of NTAGI and NEG- VAC. Keeping the ex- isting scientific evi- dence in view, it ap- pears that protection is enhanced if the second dose of Cov- ishield is adminis- tered between 6 to 8 weeks, but not later than the stipulated period of eight weeks, he said. Schedule for 2nd dose of Covishield revised Now, vaccine to be administered after 4-8 weeks Five states record surge in cases NEW DELHI: Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are reporting a surge in the COVID-19 daily cases and account for 80.5 per cent of the total new cases registered, the Union Health Ministry said on Mon- day. India saw 46,951 new cases being registered in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 30,535 (65.03 per cent). This is followed by Punjab with 2,644 while Kerala re- ported 1,875 new cases. Eight states including Maharash- tra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka and Haryana are displaying an upward trajectory in the daily new COVID-19 cases, the ministry said. India's total active caseload has increased to 3,34,646 comprising 2.87 per cent of India's total infections.
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CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXVI, NO. 53 PAGES 12, RS. 2
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6084 bottles of illicitliquor recovered,truck impounded
FOLLOW US ON
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REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95Join us at telegram
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No tuition feefor PG girls in HaryanaCHANDIGARH: Tuitionfees will not be chargedfrom girl students pursu-ing post-graduation inGovernment and Gov-ernment Aided Collegesof Haryana, having fami-ly annual income of lessthan Rs 1.80 lakh fromall sources. Giving thisinformation, an officialspokesperson said thatthe Director-General ofHigher Education De-partment has forwardeda letter regarding thesame to Principals of allGovernment and Gov-ernment-Aided Collegesin the State.
School, collegesclosed till 31 inChandigarhCHANDIGARH: Chandi-garh Administration hasordered all schools andcolleges in the union ter-ritory to close until March31—a development thatcomes as UT reports asecond spurt of coron-avirus cases. An orderfrom the Chandigarh Ad-ministration's Director ofEducation said that itwould revisit its decisionto hold in-person examsfor Classes 9 and 11. Arevised schedule, if nec-essary, will be issued lat-er.
Actor Kartik Aaryantests corona positive MUMBAI: Actor KartikAaryan on Monday saidhe has tested positive forCOVID-19 and asked his
fans to prayfor him.The 30-year-old actor, onSaturday,walked theramp for de-
signer Manish Malhotra atthe ongoing Lakme Fash-ion Week, here.He was joined by his up-coming "Bhool Bhulaiyaa2" co-star Kiara Advani.
Delhi lowers legalage of drinking to 21 yearsNEW DELHI: The DelhiCabinet on Monday ap-proved a new excise poli-cy lowering the minimumage for consumption ofliquor to 21 years from 25years, Deputy Chief Min-ister Manish Sisodia an-nounced. According to thenew policy, no new liquorshops will be opened inDelhi and the governmentwill not run any vend."The new excise policywas approved by theCabinet today on basis ofthe recommendations ofthe Group of Ministers.
Umpire's Call iscreating lot ofconfusion, greyarea needs to beaddressed, saysKohli
Balbir Sidhu flagsoff MedicineDelivery Van
Himachal ChiefMinister Jai Ramhonours 'LoktantraPraharies'
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut wasnamed best actress for her roles in"Manikarnika" and "Panga" at the an-nouncement of the 67th National FilmAwards on Monday.
Manoj Bajpayee and Dhanushshared the best actor honour for theirroles in "Bhonsle" and "Asuran", respec-tively.
Director Priyadarshan''s Malayalamfilm "Marakkar: ArabikadalinteSimham" was declared the best feature
film and Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhanwas named best director for Hindi film"Bahattar Hoorain" by the National FilmAward jury, headed by filmmaker NChandra, who said they judged themovies "not as gods but as parents". Lateactor Sushant Singh Raput-starrer"Chhichhore" was adjudged the bestHindi film. The award for the best film onsocial issues went to Marathi film "Anan-di Gopal", the Nargis Dutt award for Na-tional Integration was given to"Taj Ma-hal" and the best popular providingwholesome entertainment was given tothe Telugu film "Maharshi".
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
In a major development, the Lok Sabhaon Monday passed the Government ofNational Capital Territory of Delhi(Amendment) Bill 2021.
The bill was passed amid oppositionfrom various parties including the AamAadmi Party.
The bill seeks to make it clear thatthe "government" in Delhi means the"Lieutenant Governor".
The AAP has protested the billclaiming that it intends to reduce the
powers of the Delhi Chief Minister. TheCongress also opposed the bill, calling it“unconstitutional”.
Union Minister of State for Home GKishan Reddy said the bill has becomenecessary as there have been ambiguityin certain issues related to the function-ing of the Delhi government and severalcases were also filed in courts.
"Please do not say that it is a politi-cal bill. It is being brought to end ambi-guity in certain issues as Delhi is a UnionTerritory. It will end certain confusion ortechnicality and enhance the efficiencyof the administration," he said.
Bill seeks to equate Delhi ‘Govt’with Lt Guv passed in LS
67th National awards: Kangana is best actress Manoj Bajpayee declared best actor, Chhichhore best film
4 LeT militants killed,operation over in ShopianSRINAGAR: Four Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militants were killed bysecurity forces in an encounter which ensued during a Cordonand Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district ofShopian, a police spokesman said on Monday.A soldier was also injured who was shifted to 92 Base hospital.Meanwhile, mobile internet has been suspended in Shopian asa precautionary measure to prevent any rumours.The Spokesman said on a tip-off about the presence of militants,troops of Rashtriya Rifles (RR), Special Operation Group (SOG)of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF launched a joint CASOat village Manihal, Imam Sahib Shopian in the wee hours ofMonday.However, when the security forces were moving towards a par-ticular area in the village after sealing all exit points, militants hid-ing there opened fire. Security forces also retaliated ensuing inan encounter, he said adding that security forces who weretrapped inside a house were repeatedly asked to surrender.Lat-er, residents, including women, children and elderly persons,were shifted to safe place.
SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 22:
Punjab Chief Minister Cap-tain Amarinder Singh onMonday ripped into ArvindKejriwal’s brazen claims andallegations, slamming theAam Aadmi Party (AAP)leader’s shameless lies as are-run of the spree of falsepromises and cheap attackson the Congress he had re-sorted to back in the 2017polls.
“The people of Punjabwere wise to your deceptionsthen, and can see throughthem again now,” said theChief Minister, in a hard-hit-ting response to Kejriwal’scriticism of his governmentand the state Congress. Kejri-wal’s barefaced lies will beexposed again, just as theyhad been exposed in the 2017Assembly polls, CaptainAmarinder added, slammingthe AAP national convenor’sfabrications and deceptions.“Punjab knows what a first-rate liar and master of deceityou (Kejriwal) are,” headded.
Trashing his Delhi coun-terpart’s allegation of theCongress government in
Punjab failing to fulfill itspoll promises, the Chief Min-ister said it was ridiculous tocompare his government’strack record of over 84%promises implemented withthe Delhi government’s pa-thetic track record of lessthan 25% of AAP’s 2015manifesto commitments ful-filled in 2020.
“If this is the Delhi mod-el you (Kejriwal) are promis-ing Punjab then my peopleare better off without it,” headded. Instead of indulgingin deceitful claims and talk-ing of `badla’, Kejriwalshould focus on Delhi, whichis still waiting for him to ful-fill even 50% of his pollpromises, remarked CaptainAmarinder.
Capt reprimandsKejriwal for
attacks on Cong
Param Bir moves SC, seeks CBIprobe in alleged 'malpractices'
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai PoliceCommissioner on Monday filed a plea be-fore the Supreme Court, seeking a direc-tion to the CBI to immediately conduct anunbiased, uninfluenced, impartial and fairinvestigation in the various corrupt mal-practices of Maharashtra Home MinisterAnil Deshmukh.
The plea sought appropriate order ordirection to one of the respondents, theCentral Bureau of Investigation (CBI) toimmediately conduct an unbiased, unin-fluenced, impartial and fair investigationin the various corrupt malpractices of AnilDeshmukh, the Home Minister of theGovernment of Maharashtra.
Singh, in his plea also sought the is-suance of appropriate writ, order or direc-tion to quash and set aside the order,passed by the other Respondent state gov-ernment, concerning his transfer from thepost of Police Commissioner in Mumbaias illegal and arbitrary.
"The same is also in clear violation ofArticles 14 and 21 of the Constitution ofIndia, for each of the grounds namely forbeing without the completion of the min-imum fixed tenure of two years in teeth ofthe law laid down by this Court in TSRSubramanian against the Union of India(UOI) case, the petition stated.
It further continued that it was held inmany court judgments that the transfer ofan officer from a sensitive tenure post re-quires serious consideration and good rea-sons that can be tested by the petitioner.
Petitioner Param Bir Singh was movedout as Mumbai Police Commissioneron March 20, by the state Home Min-ister Anil Deshmukh and posted asCommandant General of HomeGuards. Anil Deshmukh on Thursdaysaid that NIA and Anti-TerrorismSquad (ATS) are investigating SachinWaze case very professionally andParam Bir Singh has been transferredas Mumbai Police Commissioner sothat investigation can be done withoutany hindrance.
Pawar defends AnilDeshmukhMUMBAI: Following former Com-missioner of Police of MumbaiParam Bir Singh's allegations of cor-ruption against Anil Deshmukhcausing a political storm in the state,National Congress Party (NCP)chief Sharad Pawar has come to thedefence of the Home Minister.While speaking on the Opposition'sdemand of Deshmukh's resignation,Pawar said: "It is clear that duringthe period about which the allega-tions were made, Anil Deshmukhwas hospitalised. As this is clear,such demands hold no power."While Congress has discussed theissue at the internal level and hasleft the final decision to take by ChiefMinister Uddhav Thackeray to endthe crisis, Incharge of MaharashtraHK Patil told.
BJP demands narco test of Uddhav ThackeryNEW DELHI: Amid the corruption al-legations in Maharashtra, BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) MLA RamKadam on Monday said that stateChief Minister Uddhav Thackerayand Home Minister Anil Deshmukhshould go for a narco test if they arenot lying. "If they are speaking thetruth, they should go for narco test,everything will be clear. Even Sitajihad to undergo agni pariksha, sowhy the chief minister and the homeminister are hesitant to go for a nar-co test," Kadam told . "He (Param BirSingh) wrote this letter after histransfer so we must know what washis motive behind this letter, what po-litical pressure was on him.
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
At a time when the coun-try is in the midst of thesecond phase of covid-19vaccination, the Centre onMonday revised the timegap between administra-tion of the two doses ofSerum Institute’s Cov-ishield vaccine.
As part of its latestguidelines, the Centre hasdirected all states andUnion territories to ad-minister the second doseof the vaccine after 4-8weeks of giving the firstdose. Earlier, the time gapwas 4-6 weeks.
"In view of the emergingscientific evidence, the inter-val between two doses of aspecific COVID-19 vaccine ie. COVISHIELD, has beenrevisited by National Techni-cal Advisory Group on Im-munisation (NTAGI) andsubsequently by NEGVAC inits 20th meeting duringwhich the recommendationhas been revised to provide2nd dose of COVISHIELD at4-8 weeks' interval after 1stdose instead of earlier prac-ticed interval of 4-6 weeks,the Union health ministrysaid on Monday.
In a letter written to thechief secretaries of states and
UTs on Monday,Union Health Secre-tary Rajesh Bhushan said theministry has acceptedthe recommendationsof NTAGI and NEG-VAC.
Keeping the ex-isting scientific evi-dence in view, it ap-pears that protectionis enhanced if thesecond dose of Cov-ishield is adminis-tered between 6 to 8weeks, but not laterthan the stipulatedperiod of eightweeks, he said.
Schedule for 2nd doseof Covishield revised
Now, vaccine to be administered after 4-8 weeks
Five states recordsurge in casesNEW DELHI: Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat andMadhya Pradesh are reporting a surge in the COVID-19daily cases and account for 80.5 per cent of the total newcases registered, the Union Health Ministry said on Mon-day. India saw 46,951 new cases being registered in a day,the highest single day rise so far this year. Maharashtra hasreported the highest daily new cases at 30,535 (65.03 percent). This is followed by Punjab with 2,644 while Kerala re-ported 1,875 new cases. Eight states including Maharash-tra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat,Karnataka and Haryana are displaying an upward trajectoryin the daily new COVID-19 cases, the ministry said. India'stotal active caseload has increased to 3,34,646 comprising2.87 per cent of India's total infections.
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98726 I, Binta Devi W/o Ravindra Kumar & My Mother's Name I, Priti Anand W/O Inder Gopal Nagar Majitha Road 900020 I, Amarjeet Kaur W/o Rajinder Singh R/O Sant Nagar VPO I, Manjit Kaur W/o Jasvir Singh Yadav (ALD)army No- Is Ritu. But My Real Is Nipun Preet Singh Anand R/O H. No. Amritsar declare that Ruchika I NISHA BAJWA w/O KULDEEP S i n g h R / o Vi l l : S r a b h a Landeke (Moga) Changed Multani Vill Mandi ,pehowa, 15496064a , Vill Sihali Khurd, Vig , My Father's Name Is 13-A, Maqbool Road, Opp. D Sharma and Ranjana both names SINGH employed as Computer (Ludhiana) changed my name Name Amritdeep Singh Sidhu.Kurukshetra My Minor Son Name Alwar, Teh Moundawar (raj) Pardeep Kumar Vig & My C Office Residence Amritsar mine & are of one and same person. Faculty at Govt. Sr. Sec. School, from Bholi to Amarjeet Kaur 63372Lovejeet To Lovejeet Singh. (301401)my Husband Service Mother's Name Is Ritu Vig. Have Changed My Name To Both names carry equal value & Sanghna Distt. Amritsar residing at after marriage. I, Rur Singh Sangha S/O Surjan
84661 Record My Wrong Name Binta Concerned Please Note. Preeti Anand . All Concerned legal validity Plot No.86, Street No.6, Ganda 63372 Singh R/O Vill. Bhodiwala Yadav But My Correct Name Is 84451 Please Note 72737 Singh Colony, Near Vaddi Kothi, I, Devinder Pal S/O Kulwant Rai Distt Moga Have Changed My Binta Devi. I Komaljit Singh S/o Ravinder 72737 I, Sawarnjit Kaur W/o Baldev Amritsar have changed my name to R/O Samrala Distt Ludhiana Name To Aroor Singh Sangha.
84661 Singh, Village Gujjarpura, I, hitherto Known as CHAHAT Singh R/o.Village Amishah, Tehsil NISHA. Changed My Name Davinder 63372Ajnala, Distt. Amritsar have LAKHANPAL D/o VIJAY patti Distt Tarn Taran Punjab 900020 Pal. I, Varinder Kaur W/O Davinder changed my name f rom KUMAR LAKHANPAL W/O declare that Sawaranjit Kaur and I, Sarbjit Singh S/o Mohinder Singh 63372 Singh R/O H.No.627 W.No.9 Komaljit Singh to Kamaljit SANYAM GUPTA R/o. 447, Swaranjit Kaur is one and the Same R/o H.No.112, Rishi Vihar Majitha I, Harjot Kaur W/O Sanamdeep Nanak Nagri Moga Punjab Singh. Please note. B l o c k - A , R a n j i t Av e n u e person both names carry equal Road District Amritsar have changed Singh Arneja R/O Machhiwara PIN-142001 Have Changed My
98728 A m r i t s a r P u n j a b . h a v e value & legal Validity my name to Sarabjeet Singh Distt Ludhiana Changed My Name To Parmjeet Kaur changed my name and Shall 72737 900020 Name Harjot Kaur Arneja. Dhami.hereafter be known CHAHAT I Ravideep Kaur Sidhu W/o I, Sawran Shakti S/o Buta Ram R/o 63372 63372GUPTA Sukhveer Singh Dhillon R/o H.No.297, Krishna Gali, Katra I Mehar Singh S/o Satnam Singh I Anu Mishra W/O Bharat
72737 Gobindgarh (Faridkot) have Khazana Amritsar have changed Vpo. Butter Distt Moga have Bhushan R/O Street No.3, New I, hitherto Known as RAWEL changed my name to Ravideep my name to Swaran Shakti. changed my name Mehar Chand Kalangidhar Colony, Rampura S I N G H B E D I S / o Kaur Dhillon after marriage. 900020 to Mehar Singh. Phul, Distt-Bathinda Changed G U R C H A R A N S I N G H 98723 I, Renu Bhagat W/o Sardari Lal 63372 My Name Anu Mishra To Anu.R/o.Chandu suja, po dhianpur I , Bhagwati Prasad S / o Sh Raja Bhagat R/o Gali Hakam Singh, I, Amanpreet Kaur Grewal W/o 63372Distt Gurdaspur Punjab. have Ram R / o H.no 156/3 Yamuna Gali Ward No.5, Fatehgarh Churian, Gurvir Singh Sekhon R/o I , J a g s h e e r S i n g h S / o changed my name and Shall , Dhobi Mohalla , Radha Krishan Tehsil Batala,District Gurdaspur Phullanwal Basant Avenue Sukhwinder Singh R/o Vpo. hereafter be known RAWEL Mandir Radaur Distt . Yamuna have changed my name to Kamlesh (Ludhiana) changed my name Khetla Teh-Dirba (Sangrur) SINGH Nagar Haryana Have changed My Alias Renu Bhagat. Amanpreet Kaur Sekhon. have known by both names
72737 Name To Bhagwati Prasad 900020 63372 Jagsheer Singh and Jagsheer I , h i t h e r t o K n o w n a s Shukla. I, No.3408028 L Rank L/NK I, No. 15411185M Rank Hav singh Mann.SATNAM SINGH ATHWAL 100046 Paramjit Singh S/o Balkar Singh Pawan Kumar Unit 2014 field 63372S/o BAKHSISH SINGH R/o. I, hitherto Known as JAGBIR R/o Unit 7, Sikh Regt have Hospital C/o 56 APO Bathinda I, Saravjit Kaur W/o Malkit Village Athwal, PO Majitha SINGH BHAT T I S o n o f changed my Daughter’s name Cannt. Declared that i have Singh R/o Vill: Lohian Khas Distt Amritsar Punjab. have DARBARA SINGH residing at from Mahik Preet Kaur to changed my wife name Chhaya Te h - S h a h k o t ( J a l a n d h a r ) changed my name and Shall VPO Khatrai Kalan, Tehsil Mehakpreet Kaur to Chhaya Rani. changed my name to Sarabjit hereafter be known SATNAM Ajnala , Distr ic t Amritsar 900020 63372 Kaur.SINGH Punjab have changed my name I, 15173627K, Lnk (OPR) I, No. 14674602W Rank SEP 63372
72737 and Shall hereafter be known as Srinivasa Rao Angirekula S/o Unnikrishna V Unit 988 AD Regt I, Harjit Kaur W/O Amanjeet I Satinderpal Singh S/o Late JAGBIR SINGH. Sambalah R/o 3-4/38, Flat WKSP C/o 56 APO Bathinda Singh Maan R/O H.No.63, M a j o r S i n g h R / o V P O 900020 No.502, Brindavan Appartment Cannt. Declared that i have St.No.1, Near Shiv Mandir, Bachiwind Amritsar have I, hitherto Known as PARKASH Somasundara Palem Tenali changed my daughter name Adya Gurbachan Colony, Lalheri changed my Father Name on KAUR W/o SAWINDER Guntur (AP) have changed my to Adhya. Road, Khanna (Ludhiana) my Passport Majer Singh to SINGH residing at H.No.498 wife’s name and Date of Birth 63372 Have Changed My Name To M a j o r S i n g h . P l e a s e Gali No.5, Guru Nanak Nagar, from Sri Kamala Kumari 17-11- I, No. 15412178H Rank Nk Harjit Kaur Maan.Concerned Note. Verka, Amritsar-143001 Punjab 1989 to Sri Kamala Kumari Suresh Kumar Pati Unit 2014 63372
72737 have changed my name and Shall Angirekula 09-09-1987 field Hosp C/o 56 APO Bathinda I, Gurkirpal Singh Jaggi S/O h e r e a f t e r b e k n o w n a s 900020 Cantt. Declared that i have Tarlok Singh R/O H.No.426, RAJINDER KAUR. I hitherto known as KALASH changed my wife name Lakshmi Doraha, Teh-Payal (Ludhiana)
900020 WAT I E W / o R AV I N D E R Kantam to Pati Lakshmi Kantam. Have Changed My Name To I, hitherto Known as NAVDEEP KUMAR Residing at, House No. 63372 Gurkirpal Singh.SINGH JASSAL Son of 11772, Street No. 3, Sahibzada Ajit I, No. 15412178H Rank Nk 63372BALBIR SINGH residing at Singh Nagar, District Ludhiana, Suresh Kumar Pati Unit 2014 I Vitesh S/O Vinod Kumar R/O Near Kothi School, Ward No.12, PUNJAB- 141003, India have field Hosp C/o 56 APO Bathinda # 712, Tilak Nagar, Gali No. 2, V P O M a j i t h a , D i s t r i c t changed my name and shall Cantt. Declared that i have Sr i Muktsar Sahib Have Amritsar-143601 Punjab have h e r e a f t e r b e k n o w n a s changed my son name Jyothira Changed My Name To Vitesh changed my name and Shall SURINDER. It is certified that I Sai to Pati Jyothira Sai. Kataria.h e r e a f t e r b e k n o w n a s have complied with other legal 63372 63372NAVDEEP SINGH. requirements in this connection I, No. 15412178H Rank Nk I, Harjinder Kaur W/o Babu
900020 90002 Suresh Kumar Pati Unit 2014 Singh R/o Vill: Lehal Teh-field Hosp C/o 56 APO Bathinda Payal (Ludhiana) changed my Cantt. Declared that i have name to Jaswinder Kaur.changed my daugher name 63372Vyshnavi to Pati Vyshnavi. I, Harjit Singh S/o Chand Singh
63372 R/o Vill: Chomon Teh-Payal I Daljit Singh S/O Karam Singh, (Ludhiana) Pb, changed my Vill Satoj, Teh. Sunam (Sangrur) name to Harjeet Singh Barha.Have Changed My Name To 63372Daljeet Singh. I Harjinder Kaur W/O Daljit
63372 Singh R/O Dera Pharmaha I, Amandeep Kaur Kaler W/O Wa l a , K o t k a p u r a , D i s t t Harbans Singh R/O Herian, F a r i d k o t ( P u n j a b ) H a v e (Ludhiana) Changed My Name C h a n g e d M y N a m e To Amandeep Kaur. Harjinder Kaur Jatana.
63372 63372I, Harbans Singh Kaler S/O I, Istkar S/o Anish Ahmad R/o Sadhu Singh R/O Herian, H.No. B-5/36 Gali No. 1 (Ludhiana) Changed My Name Garhshankar Road Labh Data Harbans Singh. Peer nawanshahr (SBS Nagar)
63372 changed my name to Istakhar I, Baldeep Kaur W/o Harjinder Ahmad.Singh Brar R/o Vpo. Pheroke 63372Teh-Zira (Ferozepur) changed I, Raj Pal Singh Kali Raman my name to Baldeep Kaur Brar S/o Kali Ram R/o VPO Kheri after marriage. Lakha Singh Yamuna Nagar,
63372 Teh. Jagadhri, Distt Yamuna I, Jaswant Singh Spal S/o Nagar have changed my name Sakander Singh R/o Vill: Raj Pal Singh to Raj Pal Singh Maksudra Teh-Payal (Ludhiana) Kali Ramanchanged my name to Jaswant 100060Singh. I, Sudesh Rani W/o Late
63372 Ragubir Singh R/o VPO I Nirmal Singh S/O Sewa Singh Bharoli, P.O. Bharoli Khurd, R/O Village Kanganwal Tehsil Teh. & District Pathankot Pb, Ahmedgarh Distt. Sangrur. have known by both names Have Change My Name To Ragubir Singh and Raghbir Nirmal Singh Pal. Singh is the name of one and
63372 same person.I, Anmol Singh S/o Hardev 400014Singh R/o Dhillon Colony Bathinda Road Kotkapura (Faridkot) changed my name to Anmol Singh Kanda.
63372I, Harpreet Kaur Jassal W/o Abinash Singh Dherdi R/o M o h a l l a D i b b i p u r a K o t k a p u r a ( F a r i d k o t ) changed my name to Harpreet Kaur Dherdi.
63372I , Rajwinder Singh and Rajwinder Singh Brar and my Father name Baljinder Singh & Baljinder Singh Brar R/O Vi l l age Ko the Na th iana District Bathinda are one and the same person.
63372I, Amitosh S/o Bhupinder Singh R/o H.No. 10 Hill Top C o l o n y B h a m i a K h u r d (Ludhiana) Pb, have known by both names Amitos and Amitosh Singh Mall.
63372Iqbal Singh Grewal S/O Hardev Singh R/O VPO Khanjarwal Distt Ludhiana Have Changed My Name To Iqbal Singh.
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Property CLASSIFIEDYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
PUBLIC NOTICESWe, Basant Singh S/o Labh Singh & Raj Kaur W/o Basant Singh, R/o Ward No.1, Tehsil Pehowa, District Kurukshetra declare that Our Son Sandeep Singh & his wife Ramandeep is out of our Control. We disown them from our Moveable-Immovable Properties. we will not be responsible for any work there in future.
100039I, 13742988M Ex Nk Gurbax Singh Vpo. Badla Teh-Dasuya (Hoshiarpur) Pb, declare that in my army record my daughter name speel Rana and her DOB 31-01-1987 has been written wrongly. Actually her name is speal Rana and her DOB is 01-02-1987 as per her matric certificate record.
63372It is general information that I Gurwinder Singh S/o Gurbaksh Singh residing at Ward No. 7 Street No. A-2 Lohgarh Road Baba Fateh Singh Nagar, Dharamkot Moga, Punjab-142042, declare that name of mine has been wrongly as Gurwinder Singh Dehot in my Passport No. M3768696. The actual name of mine as Gurwinder Singh, which may be amended accordingly. It is certified that i have complied with other legal requirement in this connection.
63372I, No. 15140595M Rank Hav (DS) R Palani Samy Unit 80 Med Regt C/o 56 APO Bathinda Cannt. Hereby declared that my son name Hawin is wrongly entered in my army service records. But his actual name is P Hawin.
63372I, No. 15472998Y Rank DFR Jagbir Singh Unit 7th CAV C/o 56 APO Bathinda Cantt. Hereby declared that my daughter name Kumari Kajal is wrongly entered in my army service records. But his actual name is Kajal.
63372I Gurjit Kaur Wife Of Lakhvir Singh Alias Bhola Resident Of Village Seerwali Sri Muktsar Sahib Hereby Informed That My Marriage Was Solemnised With Lakhvir Singh In 2003we Have Blessed With Four Children Which Are Residing With Me.My Husband Bhola Singh Has Been Indulged In Bad Company Since Last Six Seven Years.L Have No Relation With My Husband.If My Husband Will Do Anything Bad Or Take Or Give Anything To Anyone Then He Himself Will Be Responsible For This.L And My Family Members Will Not Be Responsible For This.All Kindly Note
63372I, Shinder Pal Kaur W/o JC 207901Y Ex-Sub Major Nachhatter Singh R/o Vpo. Langiana Khurd Teh-Bagha Purana (Moga) Pb, declare that my wrong DOB is 05-12-1961 and my correct DOB is 10-12-1960 according to my Aadhar Card.
63372This is informed to all public that Ohri Hospital Situated at G.T Road Putlighar (Opp. Railway Workshop), Amritsar is going to destroy the Medical Record of Patients who were admitted till 31st Dec 2015 If a n y b o d y r e q u i r e s a n y information pertaining to patients admitted before 31st Dec 2015 can contact the hospital within 7 days of publishing this notice Ohri Hospital,G.T Road, Putlighar (opp. Railway workshop, Amritsar) 0183-5003250,9876119456
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PUBLIC NOTICERef. No. RS/Publication/MAR/01 Dated: 22-03-2021This is to notify all the concerned that on behalf of my client, Axis Bank Ltd., I hereby give notice to the general Public that one customer, Sh. Baljinder Kumar S/o Sh. Jagat Ram R/o Ward No. 10, Amloh, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab. Has applied for a loan vide application no 80839158 on Shop-cum-House situated at Village Beer Amloh, Tehsil Amloh and Distt. Fatehgarh Sahib, area measuring 0-8 Marlas 4, ½ Sarsahis i.e. 255 sq. Yds, comprised in Khewat/Khatoni No. 243/320, Khasra Nos. 98(0-4), Kita 1, Total area 0-4 Marlas out of which 1/1 share i.e. 0-4 Marlas, Khatoni No. 322, Khasra Nos. 99(0-9), Kita 1, Total area 0-9 Marlas out of which ½ share i.e. 0-4 Marlas 4. ½ Sarsahis, hence total property in both the Khatonis comes to 0-8 Marlas 4. ½ Sarsahis i.e. 255 sq yds in the name of Sh. Baljinder Kumar S/o Sh. Jagat Ram vide Sale Deed No. 394 Dated 14-08-2015, sale deed No. 2019-20/25/1/1026 dated 13-12-2019 and vide mutation no. 4957, 5704 respectively as per revenue record. The borrower stated that previous original No. 4957, 5704 respectively as per revenue record. The borrower stated the previous Original Sale Deed No. 1801 dated 17-12-2010, Sale Deed No. 1802 dated 17-12-2010 and Sale Deed No. 1657 dated 26-11-2008 regarding the property mentioned above have been lost and regarding this the DDR has been got lodged vide No. 122798/2021 dated 20-03-2021 in Police Station, Amloh, Axis Bank Ltd., required this previous Original Sale Deed No. 1801 dated 17-12-2010, Sale Deed No. 1802 dated 17-12-2010 and Sale Deed No. 1657 dated 26-11-2008 to create equitable mortgage.So through this Public Notice, it is noticed that if any concern, bank or person having any claim, objection related to the said equitable mortgage of the above said property with Axis Bank Ltd he/she may kindly contact with above said Bank or with me within 7 days from the date of this publication in below mentioned address, failing which no claim will be enterain later and Axis Bank Ltd will disburse the loan to proposed customer. Detail of the property is above mentioned.Yours SincerelyRupinder Singh,AdvocateChamber No. 508, 4th FloorYadwindra ComplexDistt Courts, PatialaM:- 9914379170
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LOST & FOUNDThis is to inform that I have recently lost my Migration Certificate issued under Assam Agricultural University bearing roll number 2003VK-56. If anyone finds the same, Kindly contact us at below address. Pallavi Dass, Allenby Lines, Ambala Cantt-133001.
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PUBLIC NOTICEThe General Public is hereby Noticed that Harpreet Kaur W/o Sarpreet Singh R/o Doraha is desirous of availing loan from Punjab & Sind Bank Doraha after mortgaging her. Property measuring 0B-3 Biswa Comprised in Khata No. 341/438 Khasra No. 1470/1064/1, 1471/1064/1, 1472/1064/1 as per Jamabandi for the years 2011-12 situated in Village Harrianchan, Tehsil Payal. The property is to be. Mortgaged by way of evitable mortgage. The previous sale deed bearing wasika No. 3290 dt. 18-03-2010 in favour of Nidhi Kapila W/o Naveen Kapila and Wasika No. 2921 dt. 01-02-2011 in favour of Kiran Gupta W/o Vinod Kumar have been lost.Any person/institution/Bank having any right lien, charge or any other interest of any nature whatsoever may contact us within a period of 7 days from this notice otherwise it will be. Presumed that none has any objection in getting the property of Harpreet Kaur mortgaged as the same shall be considered as free from encumbrances after its purchased by her.
Villagers take oathto save waterR K KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI: In the village sec-retariat of Shahzadwala, Vijaypal col-lected villagers and administered anoath on the occasion of National WaterMission Day. All the villagers took anoath in the village secretariat that theywill use water properly and will alsostore every drop of water. Full coopera-tion will be made in promoting 'Catchthe Rain' of Jal Shakti Abhiyan. All thevillagers assured the government thatwater is a precious asset which they willuse judiciously.On this occasion, a live broadcast ofPrime Minister Shri Narendra Modi wasshown to the people, in which he moti-vated the people to save water. On thisoccasion, Coordinator of the organisa-tion, Virbhan, VLE Vijaypal, Village Sec-retary Balbir Sharma, Numberdar Angu-ra Ram, Youth Club members andwomen of self-help group were includ-ed.
SMO Dr. Parmarasks people to getvaccinated
NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR: Vaccination was given at 12centres in the area on Monday in whichin Radaur 130 people, Alahar 110,Jathalana 110, Nachraon 110, Sandhali16, Khurdaban, Dholra 95, Bakana 141,Sagadi 56, Antava 148, Bubka 113 andBandy 112 people were vaccinated.SMO Dr. Vijay Parmar said that onMonday, 1365 elderly people above theage of 60 years have been provided theCorona vaccine at 12 centers in the re-gion. He said that it is a matter of pridefor us that India has become an impor-tant link to overcome the Corona crisis.After the manufacture of vaccine, nowmany countries of the world are beingsupplied vaccine manufactured in ourcountry. Unfortunately some people inour country are spreading misconcep-tions about this. The country-made vac-cine is completely safe. That is why wemust take the vaccine when it is ourturn. It is in our country’s interest.
World Water DaycelebratedRAVI KUMARBABAIN: World Water Day was cele-brated today by the Public Health Engi-neering Department in the governmentschool of village Jalaludin Majra. Theprogramme was presided over by BlockDevelopment Coordinator Sompal,Public Health Engineering Department.Sompal said that the public health de-
partment ismaking peopleaware aboutsaving water.He said that to-day in the gov-ernment schoolof villageJalaludin Majra,a painting andslogan competi-tion was organ-
ised for children to save water. Sompalsaid that water samples are beingchecked by the department in every vil-lage and people are being sworn in tosave water. He said that today all chil-dren in the school were pledged to savewater. On this occasion, the Board ofPublic Health Engineering Department,Block Promotion Coordinator Sompal,recognised the children who madegood efforts to save water. In the com-petition, Tanu, a student of class VIII,secured first place, Jyoti, a student ofclass VIII, secured second place andRobin, a student of class VII, securedthe third position. On this occasion,Chief Guest Atmaprakash, Sunil Kumar,Balvinder Singh, Renu and other digni-taries were present.
Meeting planned tostrengthen CongressSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR: Joginder Singh hasbeen appointed Yamunanagar districtco-incharge of the Congress. On reach-ing the Yamunanagar district, he toldthe press that a meeting will be organ-ised on Wednesday, March 24 at 1 pmat PWD Rest House Jagadhri in whichdistrict in-charge Mahendra Ralavataand district co-in-charge Joginder Nalifor organisation expansion andstrengthening of the party They will gettheir views through the workers. Speak-ing on the occasion, Joginder Nali saidthat Haryana Congress President Seljais taking 36 fraternity along and theCongress party and the party has beensteadily growing ever since she be-came president.
Sacrifice of martyrscan’t be forgotten:SharmaRAVI KUMARBABAIN: Tribute was paid to Shaheed-e-azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru andSukhdev on the occasion of their mar-tyrdom, at Government Girls PrimarySchool, Bargat Thalipur. Addressing thechildren, the school's head master Yo-gesh Sharma said that we can neverforget the sacrifice and martyrdom ofthe three great martyrs. He said that thethree martyrs were hanged by theBritishers who, despite being innocent,sacrificed their lives for their homeland.He said that by giving a new direction tohis homeland, Bhagat Singh becamethe inspiration of youth. Today weshould serve the country by moving for-ward on the ideas of the revolutionar-ies.
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People actively participate in vaccination campMANMOHAN SHARMAHANSI: Senior citizens are now reaching local civil hospitals with the help of theirrelatives and family members to get Corona vaccine in Hansi city. Women are alsoreaching in large numbers and to motivate them to get vaccinated, District CMO ofHealth Department Dr. Ratna Bharti and SMO. Apart from Dr. Budhiraja and K.Asha Worker, nurses played an important role in this work.SDM Dr r JitendraAhlawat took a dose of vaccine and gave a good message to the people of Hansi.Senior journalist Manmohan Sharma said after the corona vaccine that I did not getany fever nor felt pain. Apart from Vice President of Bharat Vikas Parishad, Haryanaand LCI Cycles Ltd Director Kamlesh Garg and wife Veena Garg, Councillor Hari-ram Saini, Subhash Khardia, Shri Shyam Mintra President Jagdish Mittal.
SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 22
Deputy Commissioner Nis-hant Kumar Yadav repri-manded the company's repre-sentatives in view of the de-lay in beautification underthe bridges on the highwayunder the Smart City andasked the concerned officerto cancel the tenders if it doesnot work on time. 10 percentpenalty should also be im-posed.The DC on Mondayinspected the beautificationwork being done under thebridge at Devi Lal Chowk.The plaza, parking and seat-ing area will be built on theempty space of this bridge sothat people can also sit andhave breakfast here. He saidthat under the Smart City,there are 7 bridges on thehighway in the city from thebridge near Jhilmil Dhaba toNamastha Shouka. All these
bridges will be beautified, in-terlocking will be done, plan-tation will be done and seat-ing area will be made.
The DC said that thework would cost about Rs 2crore 25 lakh. He reprimand-ed the company officials onnot finding the work satisfac-tory during the inspection.He said that if the work is notdone on the scheduled time,the tender will be canceled.
He instructed the smart cityofficial to keep an eye on thework. So far the pace of workis very low, the companyshould be given notice so thatthey can complete their workin the coming 3 months.Smart City's Mohan Porstaywas also present on the occa-sion.
He informed the DeputyCommissioner about everyactivity.
Under the Smart City, all thebridges will be beautified: DC
SHIV KUMAR SHARMANISSING 22 MARCH.
State Chairman of SwachhBharat Mission SubhashChandra took stock of thegrain market on Monday inthe light of the wheat season.In the office of Mukesh Goy-al, the former vice chairmanof the market committee, healso heard the problem ofjobless farmers and labour-ers. He spoke to the officialsof the procurement agenciesincluding the Arhtiyas, Mar-ket Committee SecretaryBalwan Singh, Mandi Super-visors, NPA Secretary AshokKumar. He discussed thecleanliness of the grain mar-ket, the drinking water, roads,lights, gunny bags, wheat.Looking at the wheat season,
Subhash Chandra instructedthe officials to make properarrangements for pure water,electricity and sanitation etc.for the convenience of farm-
ers, labourers and otherscoming to the mandi, so thatno one faces any problem. Herequested the farmers to drytheir wheat and sell it after
cleaning it in the mandi.Their crop should meet thetest of government qualitycontrol and the farmers willthen a fair price for theircrop. Chandra also checkedthe system of city cleanlinessand gave directions to MCSecretary Ashok Kumar. Hesaid that special care shouldbe taken for cleanliness in thecity so that the city dwellersand the people of the area donot face any trouble. Heasked the MC Secretary toget the old grain marketdrains cleaned along withother places so that the peo-ple living there can get rid ofthe garbage. Amrit SinghMalli, Mukhtiar Singh,Akash, Vinod Kumar, Sushiland other agents were presenton this occasion.
Subhash Chandra takes stock of grain market
Pankaj Gaba honoured forblood donation camps
SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 22
Kulbir Malik, Secretary,Karnal Red Cross Societytoday honoured socialworkers for organisingblood donation campsduring Covid-19. PankajGaba organised 41 BloodDonation Camps to help1200 people. More youthdonated their blood. Onthis occasion, PankajGaba said that this honoris for those blood heroeswho donated blood irre-spective of their lives inthis Karona epidemic.Those who are fortunatecan give new life to some-one with their blood, threelives can be saved by giving blood once, one of your actionscan bring a smile on the face of millions of people.
On this occasion, Secretary of Red Cross Society, KulbirMalik said to save someone's life, you do not need a medicaldegree, you only need the degree of humanity, Sanjay Gupta,Satish Hans etc. from Kapil Kishore Manav Care Institutewere present among those honoured.
Tarlochan demands probe inproperty dealer suicide case
SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 22
District convenor of Congress Tarlochan Singhsaid that the officers have become uncontrolledin the home area of Chief Minister ManoharLal. Everything is going unchecked and the lawand order situation is breaking down. The peo-
ple of the city are nowcommitting suicide beinghelpless due to authoritiesin Karnal. He said that re-cently the property dealerParveen attempted suicideand accused DTP VikramKumar of taking Rs 27lakh. High-level investiga-tion should be conductedin this matter. He said that
there is darkness everywhere in the BJP rule.There is no visible government here. Ad-
ministration and People are groaning due to therepression of the present government. Thosewho speak against the government are beingprosecuted. The inflation is going up. The gov-ernment has hit the common man. He said thatthe Chief Minister himself is an MLA fromhere. He should at least pay attention. He madeit clear that the Congress will not sit silent. Thevoice of the people will be raised.
MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, MARCH 22
On the 90th martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Ra-jguru and Sukhdev Singh, a huge blood dona-tion camp was organised by social organisa-tion NIFAA and Indian Prajapati Organisationin the auditorium of BDPO office, India. Inthis blood donation camp, Sub-divisionalmagistrate Sumit Sihag attended as the chiefguest and encouraged the young people to do-nate blood. Youths who donated blood in thisblood donation camp were also honored bygiving a citation.Speaking at the Blood Dona-tion Camp, Chief guest and Sub DivisionalMagistrate Sumit Sihag congratulated the en-tire team of NIFAA, the organisation that or-ganised the blood donation camp, and themembers of the Indian Prajapati Hirose Orga-nization, said that the organisation held blooddonation camps across the country as part ofthe blood donation campaign. Today is a his-toric moment that blood donation camps arebeing organized by NIFAA in all parts of thecountry to pay homage to the great martyrs
Sumit Sihag said at the blood donationcamp that Martyrdom Day reminds us all ofthe martyrs of the country, martyrs like Sha-heed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and SukhdevSingh who sacrificed their lives in liberatingthe country regardless of their lives. He saidthat the Corona epidemic has affected the
whole world, our country and state have alsonot remained untouched by this epidemic. Atsuch a time, we needed a lot of blood to savepeople's lives. He said that blood donation hasbeen organized by many social organizationsof the country by organizing blood donationcamps to meet the shortage of blood.
About 105 units of blood were donated bythe youth in the blood donation camp organ-ised in the auditorium of BDPO office.On thisoccasion dignitaries including BDPO AngrezSingh Mor, Chairman of NIFA Institution,Preetpal Singh Pannu, Vipin Kamboj, Head ofIndri unit of NIFA, Deputy Principal ManuKamboj along with officials and members ofvarious social organizations were also pres-ent.
NIFAA holds blooddonation camp
NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, MARCH 22
On behalf of the Haryana Anti CorruptionSociety, a Havan programme was organ-ised at the Inquilab Temple at GumthalaRoad on the occasion of Martyrdom Day.In the programme, Pandit Vinay Swarup,Rajeshwar, Arvind, Dhanu Tiwari,Prakash Tiwari and Shubham Swarup ar-rived from Adi Badri and asked the vil-lagers to pray for the spiritual peace of themartyrs. At the same time, flowers wereoffered to the idols of the martyrs. Theprogramme was chaired by AdvocateVaryam Singh. Meanwhile, players fromInquilab Sports Karate showcased theirtalent. Many were awarded.
Varyam Singh said that the names ofShaheed Bhagat Singh, Rajguru andSukhdev are listed in golden letters in thecategory of martyrs. Today we are breath-ing in the open air only because of the sac-rifices they made. If the younger genera-
tions walks the path of martyrs and workin the country’s interest by rising abovecaste and discrimination, the day is not farwhen we will be able to build a united In-dia of martyrs' dreams and our countrywill become world leader. He called uponthe youth to contribute to the national in-terest and walk the path shown by the mar-tyrs. Sher Singh, Kulwant Singh, Sarvjeet,Avtar Singh, Gurmukh Singh, Dr. Shub-ham Saluja, Ma. Ratan Singh, Satish Bat-la, Amarjeet, Rajkumar Sharma, Harleen,Lovepreet, Gurunur Singh, Pankaj, Sonu,Amit, Ravneet, Satnam, Suraj and Deepakwere also present.
Haryana Anti corruption holds havan
SUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, MAR 22
BSC Sports Second Year student ofGuru Nanak Khalsa College, SachinGupta gave a brilliant performance inthe all-India selection process organ-ized in the Recurve category of Na-tional Level Inter-University Archeryheld in Bhubaneswar, capital ofOdisha, setting a new record and shin-ing the name of the college and thestate. On his reaching the college withhis parents, Principal Dr. MajorHarinder Singh Kang along with theentire college staff, warmly welcomedSachin Gupta and his father Shravan
Kumar Gupta. Giving further infor-mation about this, Dr. Major Kangsaid that Sachin has been performingbrilliantly in the field of archery sincethe beginning. Keeping this in mind,eighteen thousand rupees were givenas the scholarship to Sachin to prepare
by the courtesy of Jamna Auto Indus-tries. He told that in the All Indiaaforesaid selection process held inBhubaneswar, Sachin not only per-formed brilliantly with 684 marks, butalso set a new record. Now he willrepresent Indian universities by par-ticipating in the World UniversityChampionships to be held in Cheng-du, China from August 18 to 29. Onthis achievement, the patron of theCollege Management Committee,Bhupinder Singh Johar and ChairmanRandeep Singh Johar congratulatedall the professors of the sports andphysical education department of thecollege including Sachin.
Student of Guru Nanak Khalsa College setsnew record in national level archery
TARAORI, MARCH 21 (ROHIT LAMSAR). : There is an atmosphere ofhappiness among the workers, as the senior BJP leader Bhagwan Das Kabir-panthi, former MLA of Nilokheri constituency, has been made a special invitedmember in the Bharatiya Janata Party Scheduled Front National Executive. Theentire team of BJP activist Anil Sultanpur congratulated the former MLA on hisinclusion in the Bharatiya Janata Party Scheduled Front National Executive. Onthis occasion, the activists said that former MLA Bhagwandas Kabirpanthi is adutiful leader, if he gets this responsibility, the scheduled front will be morestronger. On this occasion, BJP leader Bhagwandas Kabirpanthi said that he willfulfill the responsibility given to him. He also thanked the leaders of the National Executive for getting the responsibili-ty. Many activists including Praveen Gupta, Devendra Kamra, Virendra, Ranjit Bhardwaj, Joginder Padwala, Rakesh Ku-mar and Naveen were present on this occasion.
BJP leader Bhagwandas Kabirpanthi felicitated onjoining BJP Scheduled Front National Executive
3 BJP workers given dist responsibilityGOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD: Three BJP workers of Shahabad Assembly have been entrusted with responsibility in the district. Thethree newly appointed office bearers were welcomed by former Minister of State Krishna Bedi at the rest house in Sha-habad and also thanked the BJP leadership. He said that he is confident that the responsibility given to these activistsassociated with the ground will result in positive results. He informed that Suresh Pal Mohan Pur has been appointedas District General Secretary, Kanwar Pal Tangour as Vice-President and Ravi Damli as District Secretary in the Execu-tive Committee of SC Cell constituted. He said that under the leadership of State President Om Prakash Dhankhar,BJP's base is growing. On this occasion large number of BJP workers including Mulakh Raj Gumbar, Chaudhary TevarKhan, Gaurav Bedi, Vikas Sharma Rawal Khedi were also present.
Dr. Verma honoured withGolden Excellence Award
BUREAU KURUKSHETRA, MAR 22
Talented personalities fromacross India were honouredwith the Golden Satyarth Sam-man National ExcellenceAward-2021 at the NationalHeadquarters Satyarth Bhavanat the 6th Satyarth NationalConference of Satyarth Group.President Ashok Kumar Verma,who was awarded the Presi-dent's Police Medal of Honour,was given the honour first. Dr.
Ashok Kumar Verma, servingas a sub-inspector in theHaryana State Narcotics Con-trol Bureau, was named at thetop. This award was conferredon him for notable and out-standing works in Haryana Po-lice Service and Social Service.Dr. Ashok Kumar Verma hasbeen serving in the Police De-partment since 1998 and due tocomplete devotion, honesty,passion and hard work, he wasawarded the President's PoliceMedal, the highest medal for
police service in the year 2020.Along with police services, heis also continuing duty towardssociety.
Dr Verma has made blooddonation 138 times whileplatelets have been given byhim 62 times. Dr. Verma, whohas organised 326 voluntaryblood donation camps, encour-ages bicycle riding and hasplanted thousands of plants forenvironmental protection. Hehas written many poems and ar-ticles.
6084 bottles of illicit liquorrecovered, truck impounded
AGENCYCHANDIGARH, MAR 22
Tightening screw against liquorsmuggling, Haryana Police has con-fiscated 6084 bottles of illicit IndianMade Foreign Liquor (IMFL) whenthe consignment was being loaded ina truck for smuggling from a scrapshop in Nuh district.
Giving this information here to-day, a Haryana Police spokespersoninformed that Police have impoundedthe truck bearing Rajasthan registra-tion number and seized the consign-ment which was packed in 507 car-tons.
Divulging the details, he said thata secret input was received that ac-cused Irfan had kept hiding boxes ofillicit liquor in his scrap shop locatednear Punhana-Hodal Road, which arebeing loaded in a truck for sale. Basedon input, a raid was conducted at the
location where accused shifting theconsignment from scrap shop into thetruck. Three accused fled as soon asthey saw the police approaching. Allhave been identified and police partiesare being dispatched to nab them.
A case under relevant sections ofExcise Act was registered against theaccused and further investigation intothis case has been taken up.
In another crackdown, Police has
arrested a proclaimed offender and re-warded criminal, carrying a bounty ofRs 5000, from Nuh district. Aboutone-and-half dozens of heinous crim-inal cases pertaining to murder, at-tempt to murder, cattle smugglingwere unearthed with their arrest. Po-lice had arrested Jameel from villageLuhingakalan following a secret in-put. Police had been looking for himfor a long time.
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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
SHASHI PAL JAIN CHANDIGARH, MAR 22
In view of maintaining adequatestock of medicines in Health &Wellness Centres (HCWs), theHealth & Family Welfare MinisterBalbir Singh Sidhu today flaggedoff a Medicine Delivery Van(MDV) at Paryas Bhawan Sector-38 Chandigarh. Community HealthOfficers (CHOs) have been as-signed the responsibility to main-tain the stock of medicines at theirrespective centres and they willsoon be authorized to place the de-mand for medicines quarterlythrough online mode in advancefrom Warehouses.
Disclosing this here on the oc-casion, Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu saidthat to ensure the supply of medi-cines at HCWs, the Punjab Govern-ment has decided to make the sup-ply of all 27 medicines to such cen-ters directly from regional drugwarehouse by MDV. He said thatsince March 2019, 79 lakh patientshave been provided OPD servicesat HWCs which means on an aver-age 21,643 OPDs conducted perday by CHOs. He pointed out thatat present, block-level health cen-ters are distributed the stock ofmedicines to all HCWs after gettingit from the regional drug warehous-es. This mechanism is not properlyfulfilling the overall requirement ofall the centers as per their demand.He said that to strengthen the OPDservices and ensure the supply ofmedicines, the State government is
going to cover all districts underthis progamme in a phased manneras this MDV project is implement-ed in 70 HWCs of District SAS Na-gar on a pilot basis, he added.
Divulging about key features ofMDV, Dr. Areet Kaur Director Na-tional Health Mission that now,CHOs have been assigned the re-sponsibility to maintain the stock ofmedicines at their respective cen-tres and soon, CHOs will be placedthe demand for medicines quarterly
through online mode in advance.Dedicated MDVs will then collectthe medicines from the warehouseas per demand and supply it to theHWCs without any delay.
Dr. Areet informed that Statehas operationalized 2820 HCWswhich includes 2380 Sub Centres,347 PHCs and 93 UPHCs. Punjabhas already achieved the target ofoperationalizing 1435 HWCs givenby Govt. of India for year 2020-21(196% achievement). HCWs are
proving to be pivotal force for Pun-jab’s Health Systems, especially inrural areas. The quantum of servic-es delivered and the pace of imple-mentation, inspire confidence thatthe programme is on track to realizethe vision to deliver affordableComprehensive Primary HealthCare services closer to people Shesaid adding that HCWs are alsoproved helpful to reduce the burdenof Primary Health Centres andabove health facilities.
Balbir Sidhu flags off Medicine Delivery VanModi college organizesNational Science dayJAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: The Post- graduateDepartment of Chemistry at MultaniMal Modi College here hasorganized Online National ScienceDay which was dedicated to thediscovery of ‘Raman Effect’ and wasbased on the themes of ‘ Women inScience’ and ‘Future of Science,Technology and Innovation: Impactson Education, Skills and Work’.This event was sponsored byPunjab State Council for Scienceand Technology and NCSTC, DSTGovernment of India, New Delhi.College Principal Dr. KhushvinderKumar while addressing thestudents on this occasion onMonday emphasized oninternalizing the concepts ofsciences by performing practicals.The convener of the event andHead of department Dr. RajeevSharma told that in this event thedepartment organized variousonline competitions such as GeneralScience Quiz, Scientific Rangoli,Poster Presentation, OralPresentation and Slogan Writing toexplore the potential and researchcapabilities of the students. Dr.Sanjay Kumar (Convener) explainedthe rules and regulations of all theevents. In the Online quiz 113students from various colleges anduniversities participated. The first position was secured byManisha from State College ofEducation, Patiala. Second positionwas jointly shared by Rahul Mittaland Rittik Goyal of MM ModiCollege, Patiala. Third position wasjointly shared by Meghali Gupta ofState college of Education Patiala,Neha Rani of MM Modi College andMukund Kumar of PunjabiUniversity. The themes of ScientificRangoli Competition were ‘Role ofSTI in education and Role of STI infighting Covid. In this competition 12teams of students participated inwhich the first position was won byArshdeep Kaur and Amandeep Kaurfrom Government College ofEducation, Patiala.
Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch rain starts in LudhianaLUDHIANA: In order to motivate the public to undertake water harvesting and other conser-vation measures, the flagship program Jal Shakti Abhiyan: 'Catch the Rain Where it falls whenit falls', was kick-started in Ludhiana on Monday. Participating in the video conferencing, Ad-ditional Deputy Commissioner (D) Sandeep Kumar said that water conservation was an urgentnecessity in these days when most parts of the country were witnessing sharp decline in thewater table. He said that the campaign was launched for sensitizing all the stake holders on wa-ter conservation through setting up rain water harvesting system, ground water recharge andmanagement of household waste water for reuse in agriculture. He said the state government,led by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, was making concerted efforts to save the deple-tion of groundwater further either by plantation of saplings, increasing green cover and othermeasures.
BUREAUCHANDIGARH, MAR 22
On the false propaganda be-ing done against the AamAadmi Party (AAP) regard-ing the Standing Committeeof the Parliament, the AAPstated that the oppositionparties were trying to mis-lead the people by lying. Ina statement issued from theparty headquarters, AAP'sstate president and Lok Sab-ha member Bhagwant Mannsaid that those who had nev-er tired of praising the blackfarm laws were now tryingto be benevolent by lying todefame those who were op-posing it.
He said that the Parlia-mentary Standing Commit-tee which was constituted,consisted of 31 membersfrom 14 parties, most ofwhom belonged to NDA.Mann said that in this stand-ing committee all the oppo-sition parties of NDA hadopposed it.
"I have said the samething in the standing com-mittee. I had raised myvoice in the Lok Sabhaagainst the black farmlaws," he added. Mann saidthat this law would give aboost to the hoarders andthe prices of cheap itemswill skyrocket and people
will find it difficult to sur-vive. Responding to the liebeing told by HarsimratKaur Badal about the stand-ing committee, Mann said,"I openly challenge her toget the minutes of the com-mittee from her old allyModi and prove it to me."He said that while in theModi government, Harsim-rat Kaur Badal and her en-tire family used to call theblack farm laws as very pro-gressive.
"Now that the peoplehave shown them the realplace, they are lying, mis-leading them and trying tobe farmer friendly," he said.Mann said that CongressMP Ravneet Singh Bittu hadalso said that all the opposi-tion parties of NDA includ-ing the Aam Aadmi Partyhad protested it in the stand-ing committee. He said thatthe Aam Aadmi Party hasbeen opposing these blackfarm laws from day one.
Opposition spreadingmisconceptions aboutPSC: Bhagwant Mann
SAD announces newappointments
KULJEET SINGHJANDIALA GURU: Newappointments led by Shiromani AkaliDal Badal's in-charge Jandiala GuruMalkit Singh AR. In this, VivekSharma, head of Youth Wing CircleJandiala, Nirmal Singh Nimma of SCWing, and Girish Miglani of IT Wingwere appointed. . AR said that thiswould further strengthen the party.After winning a landslide victory inthe assembly elections to be held in2020, the party will be honored byputting the party high command.Kukku, Sandeep Singh AR, FormerVice-Principal City Councilor SunnySharma, Former Counselor AvtarSingh Kala, Sonu Gill, SikanderChaudhary, Parikshat Sharma,Goldie Sharma, Sant Sarup SinghUrban Pradhan, Sukh Dhot, FormerCounselor Advocate Mani Chopra,Mandeep Dhot , Amar Singh, andothers were present.
17 awareness camps will beheld in Pathankot on April30 : Dr. Amrik Singh
GURDITT RANDHAWASUJANPUR: For the success ofSuccessful farmers Punjab programannounced by Punjab Government,under the orders of Dr. SukhdevSingh Sidhu, Director, Agricultureand Farmers Wellbeing Department,Farmer Awareness Camps will beorganized till April 30. Thisinformation was given by Dr. AmrikSingh Block Agriculture Officerunder the guidance of DeputyCommissioner Sanyam Aggarwaland under the leadership of Dr.Hartaranpal Singh chief AgricultureOfficer.On this occasion, Dr.Arvinder Pal Singh chief SugarcaneDevelopment Officer, Dr. ParminderKumar Farming DevelopmentOfficer, Anshuman Sharma,Subhash Chander, Gurdit Singh,Nirpjit Kumar, Balwinder Kumar,Amandeep Singh, Sarpanch RajKumar Neelu, Bhagwan Das, SohanLal, Farmers and peasant womenwere present in large numbersincluding Harminder Singh, NaveenKumar Sharma, Subhash Kumar,and Raghbir Singh.Dr. Amrik Singhsaid that during this campaign,farmers will get direct seedlingtechniques of paddy, handling ofcrop residues, latest techniques ofmaize and sugarcane cultivation etc.
DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, MAR 22
Deputy CommissionerApneet Riyait said that thenight curfew and other in-structions should be strict-ly followed in the districton the instructions of thePunjab government. Hesaid that violation ofhealth instructions issuedby the district administra-tion from time to time onCovid will not be tolerat-ed at any cost and actionwill be taken against theviolators in public inter-est. He was addressing ameeting of the DistrictTask Force on Covid atDistrict AdministrativeComplex today. Duringthis time SSP was withhim. Navjot Singh Mahalwas also present.
During this time, theDeputy Commissioner in-structed the police officersand SDM present in themeeting that strict curfew
should be strictly ob-served from 9 am to 5 amin the district. Apart fromthis, invoices should bemade for those who do notwear masks, violations ofsocial distance rules andviolations of other instruc-tions issued.
He asked the SDMs tovisit the respective areasof the police force dailyand ensure the instruc-tions issued. He said thatas per the new instruc-tions, the number of per-sons has been limited to20 at the time of rites / lastvisit, apart from marriageceremonies. Therefore,SDMs should meet withmarriage palaces, hoteland restaurant owners and
instruct them to followthese instructions and takeaction against those whoviolate the rules.
Apneet Riyait saidthat RTPCRs were takenby the police and healthdepartment teams to near-by hospitals / health cen-ters, who roam withoutmasks in public places,roads, streets etc. To getthe test done. He said thatit has come to his attentionthat some village pan-chayats are passing a res-olution regarding Coronatesting and vaccinations,which according to therules is absolutely wrong.He said that strict actionwill be taken against thepanchayats who do so.
Covid related instructions shouldbe strictly followed: Apneet Riyait MAHAVIR GOYAL
AHMEDGARH, MAR 22
Pooja Goyal who was hon-oured by MAD Club ofAhmedgarh for getting ad-mission in IIT Roopnagar hasset another example andbenchmark by donatingbooks to Education Must So-ciety who runs a Book Bankin Ahmedgarh.Pooja Goyalsaid,"My aim is to promotethe habit of reading competi-tive books among intelligentstudents and inspire others todonate books for needy andpoor students". She furtheradded that good books arehelpful in building relation-ships and communities.
Books help to improvethinking skills necessary forlearning experiences.DrPuneet Hind, President of Ed-ucation Must Society re-marked that there are poor,needy but intelligent studentswho can't afford competitivebooks but Pooja's contribu-tion of competitive bookshave sorted out the problemof those students".Kulb-
hushan Garg , Secretary ofSociety outlined that ourBook Bank curate collectionwith great care and our goal isto build a collection relevanceto all students.Members ofEducation Must Societyurged students to donate theirbooks to Book Bank so thatneedy students could borrowit and get benefit.They appre-ciated the mission initiated byPooja Goyal and appealedmore and more donors tocome forward to donatebooks."Book Banks are win-dows to the world and moti-vate to explore, achieve andcontribute towards society",uttered Anita Goyal mother ofPooja Goyal.
Pooja Goyal donates booksto Ahmedgarh book bank
SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, MAR 22
Looking at the increasingthreat of COVID-19 districtLudhiana rural police de-cided to take no risk withthe lives of civilians and hascame up with a new way tospread awareness regardingCOVID-19.
In this series, cops car-ried out checking at villagebarundi and Baini Aroraand people without maskswere made to get them-selves tested againstCOVID-19 with the supportof health department.Telling more about this, po-lice chownki Lohatbadhiincharge Amarjeet Singhsaid that as per the instruc-
tions of SSP CharanjeetSingh Sohal and under theguidance of SP SukhnajSingh and inspector AjaibSingh, police has stated aninitiative to spread aware-ness regarding increasingthreat of coronavirus. Hefurther added that peoplewho were found withoutmasks were made to under-go COVID-19 test and theones who denied undergo-ing test were fined and giv-en masks for free. He alsoappealed people to wearmasks and follow COVID-19 guidelines in order tomaintain safety. It is worthmentioning that police con-ducted 62 COVID-19 tests,distributed 100 free masksand held 2 fines.
Without mask peopleundergoing Covid testing
SUMER GARGSUNAM, MAR 22
Bharat Vikas Parishad(BVP), SUS branch has or-ganised it's general house'smeeting under the presi-dentship of Mukesh Goyal atDawat restaurant here today.The meeting was held regard-ing the of elections of newteam of BVP, SUS branch forthe year 2021-22.
Varinder Mahashaya Stateexecutive member of BVPwas appointed as the observ-er of this election. MukeshGoyal while welcoming allthe members had explainedthe activities & projectswhich had been done during
the year 2020-21. GopalSharma, State secretary hasexplained the activities andprojects which had been in-cluded in the agendas andwere organised at Nationallevel. Sharma further said,"Central government has ho-noured BVP, SUS branch forthe excellent work done by it,especially at the time ofCOVID-19 epidemic. Pre-
sent members have unani-mously elected Mr. PrabhatJindal as a new president;Rakesh as Secretary and Har-ish Gakkhar as Finance Sec-retary for the year 2021-22.Newly elected presidentPrabhat Jindal assured all themembers that he would con-tinue to do his best efforts forthe development of BVP,SUS branch.
Prabhat Jindal elected as newPrez of BVP, SUS Branch
CHETRAM SINGH RATTANNAWANSHAHAR, MAR 22
Punjab Industry and Com-merce Minister Sundar ShamArora will pay trib-ute to the martyrs atKhatkar Kalan on23 March at 10 amon the occasion ofthe Martyrdom dayof Shaheed-e-AzamSardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguruand Sukhdev. Meanwhile, hechanged the name of Kalanroad from Nawanshahar-Ban-ga road to Shaheed-e-Azan.He will also pay tribute toBhagat Singh. Giving this in-formation, Deputy Commis-sioner Dr. Sheena Aggarwalsaid that in view of the latest
guidelines issued by the Pun-jab government regardingcovid, it has been decided notto call more on the occasionof Martyr's Day. Today in
Shahid-e-Azam Sardar Bha-gat Singh Museum, KhatkarKalan. DM Banga Viraj Tidkeand Assistant CommissionerDeepjot Kaur reviewed thedecorations and otherarrangements being made topay tribute to the martyrs andgave necessary guidelines tothe authorities.
Arora to pay tributes tomartyrs on Martyrdom Day
Singla seeks operationof Bathinda-Bikaner
train for cancer patientsBATHINDA (ANIL VERMA): Former ShiromaniAkali Dal MLA Sarup Chand Singla has written aletter to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal asking for
train number fromBathinda railway sta-tion to Bikaner14722 from Aboharto Jodhpur. Singlasaid that Malwa re-gion is suffering fromcancer and majorityof patients go toBikaner for treat-ment. He has also ap-pealed to the RailwayMinister to visitBathinda to take
stock of situation.He has also sent a copy of the let-ter to the Railway Minister to former Union Minis-ter Harsimrat Kaur Badal demanded that this issueshould be taken up prominently before Centre.
ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 22
Late night intermittentrains in many parts of Pun-jab caused the wheat cropto fall following which thecrop of the farmers hasbeen severely damaged.Aggrieved farmers havedemanded immediatecompensation from thePunjab Government.Heavy rains lashed manyparts of Bathinda districtlate at night and strongwheat crop fell due tostrong winds. Farmer Sur-
jit Singh Nirmal Singh,Gurmeet Singh, AmrikSingh of village Balluanasaid that due to this rainthe crop has been severely
damaged. According to themeteorological depart-ment, strong winds andrains are expected in thenext few days.
Rain damages standingcrops, farmers upset
CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAR 22
Solar system is being in-stalled on the buildings ofSachkhand Sri HarmandirSahib, Sri Darbar Sahibcomplex. This informationwas given by the Presidentof the Shiromani CommitteeBibi Jagir Kaur after a meet-ing with the delegation ofUnited Sikh Mission Cali-fornia and Sikh Lens Foun-dation California. Bibi JagirKaur said that after the deci-sion of the Shiromani Com-mittee to install solar sys-tem, the head of United Sikh
Mission USA Rachpal SinghDhindsa has offered to servein this work, which has beenaccepted. Bibi Jagir Kaur in-formed that this service isbeing provided by UnitedSikh Mission and Sikh LensFoundation. The solar sys-tem will be of one megawatt,which will cost around Rs 80
million. Responding to aquery from the media, shesaid that commissioning ofthe solar system would savemore than Rs one crore an-nually. She said that in fu-ture, this project would beimplemented in TakhtSahibs as well as outsideGurdwaras.
Solar system to be installed in Takht Sahibs as wellas outside Gurdwara Sahibs: Bibi Jagir Kaur
3 drug smugglers arrested with 2 pistols,
150 gms of heroinMK SHARMASULTANPUR LODHIMAR 22:Police led by SonamdeepKaur SHO Fatudhigha,have cordoned off the areabetween village Ratra andvillage Khanpur and arrest-ed 3 drug smugglers in a carand recovered 2 pistols, 150grams of heroin and a carfrom them. DSP SultanpurLodhi Sarwan Singh Balsaid that under the opera-tion conducted on the or-ders of SSP KanwardeepKaur, the accused JagroopSingh son of BalwinderSingh resident of Saktra po-lice station Valtoha.
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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
Inclement weather brings respite fromprolonged dry spell in HimachalSHIMLA: Inclement weather brought respite from the prolonged dry spell in HimachalPradesh as thundershowers, rain and Snowfall were experienced in many places duringthe last 24 hrs. The dust strom, rain shower and Snowfall experienced in many places ofHimachal. Light to moderate spell of Snowfall also had in the High reaches of Kullu,Kangra and Lahaul Spiti today. Udaipur in Lahaul Spiti had 26 cm snow Gondla-15 cm,Keylong 9 cm and Hansa-five cm. Manali on Kullu got 30 mm,Tissa in Chamba-27, mmGohar in Mandi 23 mm, Seobagh and Shalroo of Shimla 19.2 mm, Bharmaur in Chamba& Kotkhai- in Shimla 15 mm each, Bhuntar in Kullu 13.5 mm,Bajura 13 mm, Kumarsen inShimla & Bijahi in Mandi 12 mm ,Kasauli in Solan Pandoh in Mandi & Chhatrari inChamba 11 each, Dalhousie, Mandi, Wangtoo, in Kinnuar, Theog in Shimla and Manditen mm, Narkanda in Shimla 8.5 mm.
HIMACHAL/JKCampaign to cleanpond in Ward No. 1 ofUper Bhanjal held
PANKAJ KATNAGAGRET: Village improvementcommittee Uper Bhanjal launched acampaign to clean the pond in WardNo.1 for beautification of the pondby the hard work of the youth. Youthcleaned the pond with the help oftractor and with their hands for thewhole day. Hardev Singh, SanjaySingh, Sachin, Aman, Rimpi,Saurav, Naresh, Sanju, Sunil, Jolly,Kalu, Akshay, Kaku, Harsha etc.worked hard to clean the pond forthis task.
Sombhadra-Swan Rivershould be cleaned to saveenvironment: Rajeev KISHORI LAL BAINSAMB: The Permanent Secretary ofSombhadra-Swan Samiti RajeevSharman appealed to the allReligious, Cultural and Socialorganizations of Una to clean theSombhadra-Swan River fromGarbage and industrial liquid water.He also urged the DistrictAdministration to save Sombhadra-Swan River from illegal mining andgarbage. He told that hisorganization is working with letterand spirit to save Sombhadra-Swan River from environmentalpoint of view. All the social activistof Amb tehsil Sub-Division isanxious from prevailing worstcondition of Sombhadra River.Sombhadra-Swan river is becomemajor challenge to environment.The Sombhadra-Swan Rivercondition is very deplorable from itsbeginning from Daulatpur-Ghanarito Distt Head quarter Una. It's theappropriate time to saveSombhadra-Swan River otherwise itwould be major threat toenvironment in coming days.Rajeev Sharman requested theHimachal Government to save theSombhadra-Swan River from illegalmining and environment point ofview as earliest.
2558 youth participatein recruitment, 363selected: Col. SanjeevJYOTI SYALUNA: The ongoing recruitment rallyat Indira Stadium in Una wasattended by 2558 youths of DistrictUna, Bangana and Amb Tehsils onSunday, of which 363 youth passedthe physical fitness test. Thisinformation was given by ArmyColonel Sanjeev Kumar. Heinformed that the ground gates forthe rally were opened at 4:30 amand the race for the youth startedwith the first ray of sun at 6:30 pm.The gate of the grounds foradmission remained open till 10:30AM and the physical fitness testprocess was completed by 1.30 PM.2609 registered youth from thedistrict Una are expected toparticipate in the recruitment forMarch 22. Colonel Sanjeev Kumarsaid that on the previous day falseand baseless allegations have beenmade by some candidates that thearmy was not eligible to race in therecruitment rally. These candidatestried to block the highway, makingfalse accusations. He pointed outthat the fact is that these candidatesused unfair means and techniquesto pass the race. In the debate, hisrace speed slowed down and hecould not pass the run test. Apartfrom this, in the last two batches,the candidates ran in large groupsand after seeing the army officers, itseemed that their purpose was totake along their friends who werenot good at running, suchcandidates cannot be selected inthe army.
AGENCYSHIMLA, MAR 22
Prime Minister Narendra Moditoday launched the Jal ShaktiAbhiyan: Catch the Raincampaign on World Water Dayvia video conferencing fromDelhi. He said that the campaignwould be undertaken across thecountry, in both rural and urbanareas, with the theme Catch theRain, where it falls, when it falls.It would be implemented from22nd March 2021 to 30November 2021 in the countryand would be launched aspeoples’ movement to take waterconservation at the grass-rootlevel through peoples’participation, he said.
While presiding over theState Level World Water Dayfunction at Kuthah ground nearJanjehli in Seraj Vidhan Sabhaarea of Mandi district todayChief Minister Jai Ram Thakurannounced that atleast one‘Water Harvesting Structure’would be constructed in every JalShakti Sub-Division of the Statefor rainwater harvesting andwater conservation during theGolden Jubilee year ofStatehood. Chief Minister saidthat the State Government has
taken this decision as per the callof the water conservation of thePrime Minister Narendra Modi toensure water conservation andrain water harvesting in the State.He also urged the electedrepresentatives of the State toensure water conservation andrain water harvesting in the State.To check the quality of water, aspecial campaign would belaunched in the first fortnight ofJune, under which samples ofwater to be taken in villages,schools and anganwadi centerswould be tested in the laboratory,he added. Jai Ram Thakur saidthat cleanliness drive for
cleaning all sources of waterwould be launched from 2nd to31st October this year on theoccasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Hesaid that the objective of theseprograms is to make the 'WaterQuality and Conservation'campaign a mass movement. Hesaid that this year the State wascelebrating the Golden Jubileeyear of Statehood and variousevents on ‘Water Quality andConservation’ were being heldfrom 25th January, 2021 to 24thJanuary, 2022 by the State JalShakti Department. He said thatspecial Gram Sabhas would beheld in all the 3615 panchayats
of the State in which VillageAction Plan would be approvedand Village Water and SanitationCommittee would beconstituted. He said that whenthe present State Governmentassumed the reins of the State,Shimla town suffered majorwater crisis. He said that it wasthen the State Governmentdecided to construct Rs 80 croreWater supply scheme forShimla town which wascompleted within a year. ChiefMinister said that the people ofState in general and people ofMandi in particular would misslate Ram Swaroop Sharma as hehad always taken up thedevelopmental demands andaspirations of the people of thearea during his tenure ofMember of Parliament. Hethanked the people of the Statefor their wholehearted supportto the present State Government.He said that it was due to thebenevolence of the people of theState that BJP has won all theelections and bye elections heldin the State during the presentBJP Government he said thatthe Government wascommitted to develop Janjhelias one of the major touristattraction of the State.
Water harvesting structure in everyJal Shakti Sub-Division soon: HP CM
Online examinationensuring transparency in
recruitment process: RanaSHIMLA, MAR 22
Chairman of the HimachalPradesh Public ServiceCommission Major General(Retd) Dharamvir Singh Ranasaid that the Commission hasearned many achievementsduring the last four years. Theonline examination process hasbeen effectively implementedand there has been transparencyand acceleration in therecruitment examinations beingconducted by the Commission.
While addressing a pressconference here today, he saidthat the commission has taken ahistoric decision of abolishingthe selection process based onpersonal interview only. Aspecial change has been done inthe selection process and now65 percent marks obtained in thesorting examination for the finalselection would be on the basisof the subject of the post andpreference has been given to 35percent marks obtained inpersonal interview. This hasbeen made mandatory so thatthe criteria of fairness and meritin the selection of the candidatecould be established. He saidthat online examination systemhas also been effectivelyimplemented due to which theselection process has been
intensified. On an average 374recruitments were done in pastfour years from 2012 to 2016,whereas after 2017 it hasintensified. In the year 2017there were 754 recruitments,1174 in 2018 and 1892recruitments in year 2019 while850 recruitments were made inyear 2020 during the coronacrisis. He said that as a result ofdevelopment in the field ofinformation and communicationtechnology, a lot of efforts havebeen made by the Commissionto conduct online examinations.At present, facilitation centershave been established forconducting online examinationsin every district of the state.DVS Rana said the commissionhas adopted one timeregistration facility (OTR) andthe candidate just need toregister them only once and theycould apply for different postsadvertised by the commissionfrom time to time.
Vashishta welcomes CM forextending legacy plan by Mar 31PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 22
District Taxation Bar Association PresidentAdvocate SD Vashishta has thanked CM JairamThakur for extending the Legacy Cases RegulationScheme by the state government till March 31.Vashistha said that the state government hasextended the last date of the Legacy Case
Resolutions Scheme by 31March which will benefit thebusiness class as well as the stategovernment. He said that thestate government has introduceda legacy scheme to recover thearrears of VAT before theimplementation of GST. The lastdate for which was March 21, he
was asked to deposit the outstanding tax. But dueto the Corona epidemic and the bank's strike andother holidays in March, traders and entrepreneurshad to face a lot of problems due to non-submission of tax of VAT pandering casinos underthe Legacy Scheme. Vashistha said that in view ofthe problems of businessmen and entrepreneurs,the District Taxation Bar Association had askedChief Minister Jairam Thakur to extend the LegacyCases Regulation Scheme by March 31, on whichthe Chief Minister has given relief. Vashistha hasthanked the Chief Minister for this decision. Hehas called upon businessmen to take advantage ofthis scheme.
Panchayat stalls work of PWDoffice in Upper Dehlan
PANKAJ KATNAMAHATPUR, MAR 22
The construction work of the Public Works Department officelocated at the PSC Complex of Upper Dehlan has beenstopped by the Dehlan Panchayats. Upper Dehlan chiefRajendra Pal Singh said that in this complex, the panchayathad six canals out of which, PAC has been made in elevenmarla while nine marle was allotted to the veterinary hospital.The medical department of the district replaced the veterinaryhospital with the office of the Public Works Department. Thework of Public Works Department of Dehlan Circle is goingon from here. He started construction of the building at theremaining five kanals. We had sought information about thisthrough RTI. In the information we were told that this placeis in the name of the panchayat itself. Without the permissionof the Panchayat, it has started working in the Public WorksDepartment which is illegal. Angry women of the villageshouted slogans against the administration. Pradhan said thatthere is a demand from our administration that this complexbe handed over to the panchayat.
60 units of blood collectedPANKAJ KATNADAULATPUR CHOWK, MAR 22
A blood donation camp was organized inthe area's village Dangoh Khas, in which60 units of blood was raised. The saidcamp was organized by the Tindy andSober Toomaro Foundation at the localHimaland Public School, with road safetyclub officials Rajesh Dogra and localSatish Kalia. Youth group donated blood.President of the Foundation SureshBhardwaj told that the 26th BloodDonation Camp was organised incollaboration with Punjab State BloodTransfusion Council on Sunday. About 60units of blood collected. He said that hiscampaign will continue in future also.
Kanungo found corona infected after deathJOGINDER DEV ARYABANGANA, MAR 22
The 50-year-old Kanungo hasbecome infected after death inThanakalan town of subdivisionBangana. The person also gotvaccinated at the CommunityHealth Center about 1 week ago.But it is being told that this personwas running unwell since thevaccine was given. At 7:00 am onMonday morning, this person's
sudden health deteriorated due towhich his son got him admitted fortreatment at the Community HealthCenter Police Station, where hewas declared dead. When the teamof doctors tested its corona, itturned out to be positive. The deadbody has been referred to TandaHospital for post-mortem.According to the information,Kanungo Mohan Lal Pekha ofRohru area of Shimla district, alongwith his son, was living in a rented
house with his son in Thana Kalantown for the last three-four years.The deceased's son stated that thefather was perfectly healthy beforethe vaccine was administered andhad taken the first dose of thevaccine with coronavirus as aprecaution. Block medical officerSK Kalia said that the person haddied before coming to the hospitalbut after investigation, thedeceased turned out to be coronapositive.
Bablu gives cricketkit to players
PRADEEP CHAMBAYALAMB, MAR 22
Sudarshan Singh Bablu, the state's famous philanthropist andCongress service group Young Brigade, has given a cricketkit to the players after reaching the sports ground atKatauhad Khurd on Monday. While encouraging the playerstowards sports and giving them sports facilities, SudarshanSingh Bablu said that possible help is being given to promotesports talent. Bablu said that there is no dearth of talent inrural areas, only they should get the right guidance andfacilities. Their aim is to refine the talent of the players sothat more and more youth can get inclined towards sports.He said that talent is hidden in rural areas, but if facilities arenot available on time, they fall behind. Therefore, cricket kitswere provided to these players, so that players can take a newposition by participating in every competition.
Four projects unveiledat Nauni Varsity
DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, MAR 22
Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Vice-Chancellor of Dr. YS ParmarUniversity of Horticulture andForestry, Nauni todaydedicated four projects to thestudents and farmers at theuniversity campus. Among theproject inaugurated was a stateof the art Soil and LeafAnalysis laboratoryestablished with the financialassistance of Rs 4.55 crore(over seven years) from theWorld Bank-funded HP-Horticulture DevelopmentProject. The laboratory isequipped with the latestequipment like AtomicA b s o r p t i o nSpectrophotometer, CHNSAnalyzer, Microwavedigestion system, UV-VISSpectrophotometers. It is wellequipped to analyze thedifferent soil properties
including different macro andmicronutrients and as per theanalysis values, therecommendations are alsogiven to the farmers. Thesamples received fromdifferent HP-HDP clusters ofthe state are being analyzed inthe laboratory and ad-hocrecommendations for High-Density Planting on clonalrootstocks are given. A fieldlaboratory of the Departmentof Plant Pathology constructedat a cost of Rs 14.17 lakh metout of the pesticide testing
scheme was also inauguratedtoday. Two projects- NaturePark and a Commercialplantation model of wildpomegranate developed underthe ICAR NationalAgricultural Higher EducationProject were also unveiledtoday. The nature campdeveloped by the Departmentof Floriculture and LandscapeArchitecture has beendeveloped as a recreation cumactivity area for the studentsand showcases differentlandscaping methods.
8777 people infected with corona virus conquered :Civil SurgeonGURDASPUR (GAGAN BAWA): Disclosing this here today Dr. Vijay Kumar, Civil Surgeonsaid that 433638 suspected patients were sampled in the district out of which 416257 were neg-ative, 5356 were positive patients (RTPCR), 1616 were positive patients who were tested in oth-er districts. There have been 107 positive patients tested through Trunet, 2826 individuals test-ed positive by antigen test and a total of 9905 positive patients and 2013 sampling report is pend-ing. He further said that 75 victims were admitted in other districts and 02 in Civil Hospital, 3in Civil Hospital Batal, 17 in Central Jail and 3 in Tibrikant. 712 Victims who have been asymp-tomatic / mild symptomatic have been secluded at home. A total of 8777 people have been in-fected with the corona virus, of which 8388 have been cured and 389 have been dischargedhome. There are 812 active cases. A total of 316 deaths have been reported in the district.
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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, MAR 22
On the ocassion of world waterday on Monday, the launch ofcatch the rain- "where it falls,when it falls", posters and pam-phlets were launched by K P SMahi, Additional Deputy Com-missioner, Chandigarh. Ms. San-jana Vatts,District youth officer,
Nehru Yuva Kendra Chandigarh,Ministry of Youth affairs andSports, Government of India,Saurav Arora, PCS, Joint Com-missioner, MC, Chandigarh, Ra-jiv Tewari, Director Public Rela-tions, UT Chandigarh andBikram Rana, State Liasion Of-ficer, NSS were also present.
Catch the rain campaign is be-ing launched at the National lev-
el under National Water Mis-sion, Ministry of Jal shakti, De-partment of water resources, Rd& GR, Government of India, tonudge the States and other stakeholders to create appropriateRainwater harvesting Struc-tures, suitable to the climaticconditions and sub-soil stratabefore monsoon. Nehru YuvaKendra Chandigarh under the
mission is conducting awarenesscampaign throughout the Dis-trict by organizing webinars bytopic experts, awarenessthrough wall paintings, nukkadnatak, knowledge competitions-Essay writing, poster/ paintingcompetitions, slogans writingand door to door awarenesscampaigns by a team of activeYouth volunteers.
Mahi launches posters for catch the rain World Water Day celebrated atSiswan Community Reserve
with cleanliness drive
SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, MAR 22
On the occasion of WorldWater Day, Ropar Divisionof Department of Forests andWildlife organized a cleanli-ness drive at Siswan Com-munity Reserve. Dr MonikaYadav, IFS, DFO wildlifesaid that areas near the waterbodies like Siswan reservoirneed to be clean as thegarbage thrown aroundeventually travels into thewater that not only contami-nates the water but also im-pact the health of people andanimals using that water.
Despite the unexpectedrain, more than hundred peo-ple participated in the drivewho diligently and honestlymade efforts to pick thegarbage. Students fromKhelshala participated in thedrive and the drive coveredthe complete stretch near theSiswan reservoir. Khelshala
also assured the departmentto participate in upcomingactivities of good cause geldby the department. The teamof Wildlife Division whowere present at the event toassist and facilitate the par-ticipants were Mohan Singh,RO, Mohali, SatinderpalSingh, BO, Siswan, Manin-der Kumar, RO, Siswan,Ramzan Khan, RO, Siswan.
Dr Monika Yadav, IFS,DFO Wildlife, said that thequantity of garbage has in-creased manyfold not onlyon the roads but also the for-est areas simply because wehumans do not consider theopen areas as our belongingand thus find it convenient toshrug off our responsibilityof maintaining its cleanli-ness.
She said that if we havethe right on water for drink-ing and other uses, weshould realise our duty to-wards valuing it.
Cancer AwarenessCamp held
MANISH GOELCHANDIGARH: A cancerawareness and free screeningcamp was organized by BisnouliSarvodaya Gramodyog SewaSansthan (BSGSS) in associationwith Indian Cancer Society (ICS).Mr Dhirendra Kharagata, IAS,Deputy Commissioner, Nuh was thechief guest. Since Nuh region isprone to the incidence of cancer,the camp helped identify more than100 potential cancer patients andtake remedial actions well inadvance. Col Ajai Tomar (Retd.),CEO, ICS, led the team of doctors.BSGSS, an NGO mentored by twoformer civil servants, Vijay KumarJha and Ms Nandita Bakshi, servingthe humanity for over two decadesin Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and UP,puts emphasis on empoweringwomen through various outreachprogrammes, including health,education, skill development andsustainable livelihood projects. Thecamp was held at the Jan ArogyamKendra, Hilalpur in Nuh disctrict ofHaryana, set up under the CSRinitiative of RITES Ltd. “With a full-fledged clinic and mobile medicalvan, the Jan Arogyam Programmehas had a tremendous impact onthe lives of the people,” said AnupKumar, Director Operations,BSGSS.
Power liftingcompetition heldAJAY ARORAKHAMANON: Lean and burn Gymhas organized a power liftingcompetition at Arjun Gill market inKhamanon. Gym coach lovelySingh told that contestant fromdifferent part of the area participatedin the contest. In 65Kg categoryAman got 1st, Rajesh 2nd andNitesh 3nd postion.In 70kg categaryBhupinder,Lalli and Akash got theirconsecutive position. In 80kgcategory Gurveer, Harwinder andBanni were in top three positionwhile 85kg category Sukhchain,Aman and Karan. In 90kg categoryJaskaran and Simarnjot got 1st and2st position. The medals wereconferred to winner by organizerBahadur Singh Shahi and DoctorRanjeet Singh. Advocate JPSLamba and Harpreet Singh werepresent on the occasion.
Dr. Aman Sharmaconferred with DGPCommendation awardSUKH NAHARJAGRAON: Dr Aman SharmaPCMS(1) , posted as Medical officerwith Punjab police ludhiana ( Rural)has been conferred with prestigiousDGP commendation Award for hisexemplary services to communityduring tough times of covid-19. SSPCharanjeet Singh Sohalcongratulated Dr. Sharma and saidthat Dr Aman Sharma, medicalofficer posted at police lines jagraondid commendable job by providingmedical care to police personneldeployed at police district ludhiana (R) . He went to each & every policestation, chowki, police family quartersfalling under police district ludhiana (Rural) & given treatment to policeofficers & their families at theirdoorstep, when all private clinicswere closed in days of curfew.
17th batch of Kul Hind KisanSabha leaves for Delhi : Mattu
GARHSHANKAR (LOKESH WALIA): To par-ticipate in the ongoing struggle of farmers on theborders of Delhi against the Agriculture Act, the 17thbatch of Kul Hind Kisan Sabha was today dispatchedfrom Garhshankar by the State Vice President Dar-shan Singh Mattu.
He said that the struggle of the farmers will con-tinue till the three agricultural laws are repealed andthe MSP is given legal status and all the illegal cas-es registered against the farmers are withdrawn. Onthis occasion the farmers leaders chanted slogansagainst the Central Government.
Conserve ground waterto save life on planetASHOK KAURAKAPURTHLA: Pushpa GujralScience City celebrated WorldWater Day by organizing a webinar.Around 175 students from all overPunjab participated in the programthrough zoom platform and youtubchannel . Dr. Neelima Jerath,Director General, Science Citygiving introductory remarks stressedon the need to implement strategiesthat have demonstrated success inconservation and purification ofwater. She said that if current trendof using water in manner continues,about 60 percent of all aquifers inIndia will be in a critical condition inthe next 10-15 years. There is a direneed for taking effective measuresto address the critical threat ofground water overexploitation.Further, we must save and keepnatural water resources if we reallywant our children to lead a healthyand prosperous life, sheemphasized.
SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, MAR 22
Satinder Singh, SSP, SASNagar briefed that under thesupervision of HarmandeepSingh Hans, SP(D) and Sh.Gurcharan Singh, DSP(D),Inspector Gurmel Singh (in-charge CIA) SAS Nagar suc-cessfully solved a murdercase with the arrest of Rohtas(murderer) and AjayAgarhari.
Police have recovered oneActiva (snatched), one coun-try made .12 bore pistol with1 live cartridge from them.SSP, further briefed that, on21.03.2021 Police party ofCIA Staff received an infor-mation regarding Rohtas S/oVinod Kumar R/o Vill.Safera, Distt. Jhunjhunu, Ra-jasthan currently residing as atenant in h.No. 371-C, Vill.Faidan, Chandigarh and AjayAgarhari S/o Sunil AgarhariR/o Vill. Tameshwarnath(Tama), PS Mahuli, Distt.Sant Kabir Nagar, UP cur-rently residing in H. No. 467near Prachin Shiv Mandir,Phase 2, Ramdarbar, Chandi-
garh both are thieves. Police party of CIA Staff
have arrested accused Rohtasand Ajay Agarhari near Jagat-pura, SAS Nagar and caseFIR no. 95 dated 21.03.2021u/s 379 IPC & 25-54-59Arms Act in PS Sohana, SASNagar has registered againstthem. During interrogation ithas come to notice that Ro-htas have murdered a personnamely Sanjay Yadav in Vill.Bar Majra, Mohali whoworked as a painter. AccusedRohtas have absconded withhis associates after commit-ting the crime.
On this, a case FIR no. 65dated 28.06.2020 u/s 302,450, 148, 149 IPC in PS Ba-longi, SAS Nagar have regis-tered against them. AccusedRohtas was wanted in thismurder case. Police have suc-cessfully solved a this casewith the arrested of accusedRohtas. During search, recov-ery of one .12 bore countrymade pistol with one live car-tridge from his co-accusedAjay Agarhari has also beenmade. Case is under investi-gation.
VERMAQADIAN, MAR 22
Bharat Vikas Prishad has con-stituted a new committee ofQadian branch. Punjab NorthPresident Shiv Gautam, Gen-eral Secretary Ramanpuri andState Incharge of DivyangAssistance Camp BudhishAgarwal were specially pres-ent for the formation of thiscommittee.
On this occasion he nom-inated Mukesh Verma as thePresident of Qadian Branchfor 2021-22 with the concur-rence of Lakhbir Singh Warri-ach, President of the old com-mittee. On the occasionMukesh Verma was given thecharge of the post of Presi-dent of Bharat Vikas Parishadby District Collector Gur-daspur Mr. Mohammad Ish-faq at the request of state offi-cials who had arrived at the
free disability camp for theinauguration. On this occa-sion Jasbir Singh Samra wasgiven the responsibility ofSecretary and Pawan Kumarwas given the responsibilityof Cashier. Similarly, VishwaGaurav and Gaurav Rajputwere nominated vice Presi-dents. All the above officerswere nominated by installingthe badges of Bharat VikasPrishad on their shirts.
On this occasion, thenewly nominated President
Mukesh Verma assured thathe would continue to help theneedy like this free handi-capped aid camp and wouldfulfill his responsibility in fu-ture also and will play dili-gently. While District Collec-tor Mohammad Ishfaq con-gratulated him on the ap-pointment, he assured himthat the district administrationwould extend full support tothe Bharat Vikas Parishad Qa-dian in its public servicework.
Jasbir becomes General Secretary andPawan Finance Secretary of BVP
HARNAMAN BHATIANANGAL, MAR 22
As part of the anti-drugdrive launched by Nangalpolice today, (ASI) Tajin-dar has arrested a manwith 23 grams of white
p o w d e r .Disc los -ing thishere to-day, hesaid thathe and hisco-workerwere pres-
ent at the Lal Tanki Nan-gal near the suspects.
He was waiting for thecustomers near the closedcolony Nangal near staffclub which was checkedand 23 grams of narcoticpowder was recovered.The accused has been
identified as Shiv Kumaralias Bunty son of DaljitSingh, a resident of AddaMarket, Nangal Police
Station, Nangal, on whoma case has been registeredunder Section 22-61-85and arrested.
SHARANJEETPATHANKOT, MAR 22
Kirtan Samagam was dedi-cated to 400 years of PrakashParv of Shri Tegh Bahadur Jiat Gurudwara singh sabhamodel TownPathankot,with the sup-port of Gurdwara Presi-dent Manpreet Singh Sah-ni, committee membersand devotees.
At the Samagam, BhaiHarpinder Singh Hazuri RagiShri Darbar Sahib, from Am-ritsar,did melodies Kirtan ofAssa di var and inspireddevotees to walk the pathshown by Guru Tegh BahadurJi.The cohesion was honoredby giving a siropa on behalfof the Gurdwara committee.
On this occasion, PresidentManpreet Singh Sahni,Gurvinder Singh Dikki, Bhai
Ranjit Singh, chief glandBhai Rachpal Singh, Manag-er Jasmeet Singh, PuranSingh, Ranveer Singh, DesaSingh, Surjit Singh, DavinderSingh Mintu, Inderjit Singh,
Charanjit Kaur, Bhai AnoopSingh, Bhai Mangal Singh,Jasmeet Singh, TaranpalSingh, Harvinder Singh Bab-bu, Manjeet Singh, RanbirSingh, Birpartap Singh,Davinder Singh, PritpalSingh Anand, HarkrishanSingh Maini, KanwalpreetSingh, Tarlok Singh Shingari,Gurdeep Singh, SukhwinderSingh, Navjot Nayar Etc.were present.
Police arrest man with 23 gms of white powderOne held with 700 gram opium
SRI KIRATPUR SAHIB: Police at Sri KiratpurSahib Police Station have arrested a man with 700grams of opium. Disclosing this heretoday Sunny Khanna, SHO, PoliceStation Sri Kiratpur Sahib said thathis police party was informed byASI Ser Chand of Special BranchRupnagar, ASI Lalit Kumar that Ac-cording to an informant, Ranveeralias Kaga, son of Ram Sarup, a res-ident of Karnal district, Karnal(Haryana), who smuggles opiumfrom other states to different areas of Rupnagar ille-gally. He is bringing opium from Dabota Nalagarh sideof Himachal Pradesh to Bharatgarh, which can be con-trolled after which barricading on village Kakrala turnBharatgarh-Dabota road under the leadership of ourpolice party ASI Balveer Chand.
BJP's Gaurav Kahol becomesVice President and Arun
Sharma becomes Secretary
ZIRAKPUR (AMIT KALIA): A special meetingof the Bharatiya Janata Party Zirakpur Division washeld in Zirakpur under the chairmanship of MandalPresident Shashank Duggal in which Gaurav Kaholwas unanimously appointed as the Vice President ofthe Mandal, Arun Sharma as Secretary, Gaurav Ka-hol, Arun Sharma thanked the party I will carry outthe body of my mind which has been given the re-sponsibility they said. District Secretary MoonMishra Ankush Uppal, Ajay Dhiman, Dinesh Shar-ma, Ajay Dhiman, Capt Arjun Singh were present inthis meeting.
Kirtan Samagam organizedat Gurdwara Singh Sabha
CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHAR, MAR 22
Following the guidelines is-sued by the Punjab govern-ment regarding the coronaepidemic, the district policealong with various medicalteams today conductedCovid test of 1183 personstraveling in public placeswithin the district. Disclosingthis here today, senior policecaptain Alka Meena said thatapart from this, challans to205 un-masked persons havebeen issued in the district to-day.
She said that similar ac-tion was being taken againstthe violators of the curfew atnight and today a case hasbeen registered against Dil-bag Singh, son of SuchaSingh, a resident of City Bal-
achaur. She said that the po-lice was appealing to thepeople in various villages ofthe district to wear masks byannouncing through theloudspeaker and not to takethis terrible disease lightly.
She said that the policehave been directed to takestrict action against the care-less people to check the
spread of the corona epidem-ic. She said that anyone whowas seen wandering in thedistrict without a maskwould be fined on the spotwith a Covid test. She ap-pealed to the people to fullyfollow the guidelines andrules issued about Covid, sothat the epidemic can bestopped.
Police conduct Covid test on 1183persons with help of medical teams
SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, MAR 22
Sant Baba Maingal Singh as-sociated with Nanaksar sect incollaboration with Lok sevasociety started a cam-paign of "Kanyadaanmahayagya" which isbeing taken forwardby his son Sant BabaArvinder Singh. 22nd"samuhik KanyadaanMahayagya" will beconducted on 4thApril in the premises of San-mati Vimal Jain sen. Sec.school at Matri Seva Sanghhall. Sant Baba ArvinderSingh released the card formahayajna and appreciatedlok seva society for its socialwelfare activities and prom-ised every possible help to theassociation. At this occasion,
association chairman GulshanArora, president Neeraj Mit-tal, secretary KulbhushanGupta, cashier KanwalKakkar, project cashier RajivGupta, PRO Manoj Garg and
vice chairman SukhjinderSingh Dhillon said that in thiskanyadaan mahayajna, the so-ciety will conduct weddingceremonies of 7 girls fromneedy families. They also saidthat the society will also do-nate the stuff of domesticneeds to girls and pray fortheir happy lives.
Lok seva society all set to conduct‘Kanyadaan Mahayajna’
SAS Nagar police solvesmurder mystery
Administrative officers takesecond dose of Corona vaccineSHAHPUR KANDI (SHIVJOT GHUMAN) : During theyear 2020, every resident of District Pathankot faced a lot ofproblems due to covid 19 and also gave their support, That iswhy it is our duty to all that in future also, we should followthe instructions given to save us from Corona and get out of
any kind of whim of Corona vac-cine. Surinder Singh ADC (G)Pathankot said these words afterhaving second dose corona vac-cine.Today, District AdministrativeOfficer Surinder Singh ADC (G),Dr. Nidhi Kalotra SDM Dhar kalanand officers and employees werevaccinated to get saved from Coro-na.Civil Surgeon Dr. HarvinderSingh informed that so far, 18,842
people have been vaccinated by civil Hospital Pathankot tosave people from corona.
NEWS AT AGLANCE
YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
Balkaran Phadhan leaves Akali Dal withsupporters, joins CongressKARANPREET DHANDRALBARNALA: Congress Party Vice President and Congress leader from Assembly con-stituency Barnala under the leadership of Sardar Kewal Singh Dhillon Former MC JasmeelSingh Dairy Wala Leader Balkaran Singh Dhaliwal today joined hands with the families ofthe Congress and only Dhillon inducted them into the party. Addressing a large gathering onthe occasion, Dhillon said that due to poor policies of Akali Dal, the countdown of Akali Dalhas started and by 2022, the Akali Dal will be completely empty-handed as the Congressparty is the leader of the party. The Congress party has always been at the forefront of giv-ing dignity to the workers and the priority of the Congress party has been to develop thecities and villages of the state as well as to give priority to their welfare and welfare of theworkers. He said that the buzz of development of district Barnala has spread to Canadawhich is being shared by NRIs from Barnala abroad.
781 students of DAVCollege selected forSummer Internship
HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: 81 students of DAVCollege Jalandhar have been selectedfor Summer Internship with the OutlookGroup. All the students were very happywith their commendable performanceand are really enthusiastic to start theirinternship with Outlook magazine.Principal, Dr. S.K. Arora applaudedstudents on their record breakingsuccess. He admired Prof. ManavAggarwal (Dean, Training and PlacementCell) and his team for their relentlessefforts to make the college best in termsof placements in the city. He assured thatin coming days, more companies will visitthe campus for recruitment.
Give Shaheed BhagatSingh name to mohaliairport: Youth of Punjab
BUREAUSAS NAGAR: Youth of Punjab hasdemanded to change name internationalairport of Mohali to Shaheed Bhagat SinghInternational airport Mohali from centralgovernment. A team of youth of Punjab gavea demand letter to Mr. Jagdeep Sehgal ,S.D.M of Mohali for forwarding Mr. H. S Puri,Minister of Aviation. Paramdeep SinghBaidwan, Chairman of youth of Punjab toldan international airport was constructed bycentre government on land of Punjab indistrict S. A. S Nagar some years ago, butgovt has not named the airport. He said thatyouth of Punjab has been demanding for 8years to name the airport on ShaheedBhagat Singh's name. Because ShaheedBhagat Singh is Icon of youths and thename of Shaheed Bhagat Singh isrespectable all over the country. Thereforecentral government must name ShaheedBhagat Singh International airport Mohali.M.C Rama Kant Sharma, Gurdeep SinghVICKY, Lakhvir Singh Lucky, Gurjeet SinghMama and Jaswinder Singh Shinda wereinvolved in the team.
Dhillon starts interlockingtiles, premix works in Barnala
KARANPREET DHANDRALBARNALA: Punjab Pradesh CongressCommittee Vice President Kewal SinghDhillon today inaugurated the work ofinterlocking tiles and premix at 22 acres and16 acres in the colonies under improvementTrust. Makhan Sharma, Chairman, TownImprovement Trust was also speciallypresent on the occasion Dhillon said thatthe condition of roads in both the colonieswas very bad and keeping in view the plightof the residents of the colony, interlockingtiles and premix works were started at a costof Rs. 89.62 lakh on 22 acres and Rs. Hasgone | Apart from this premix works wouldalso be started from Bhagwan BalmikChowk to Stadium Chowk at a cost of Rs 82lakh and from Bhagwan Balmiki Chowk tothe bus stand at a cost of Rs 91.70 lakh. Hesaid that the work in both the colonies wouldbe completed within 60 days and theconcerned contractors have been instructedthat if there is any shortcoming in the qualityof work, it will not be spared.
WB polls: TMC, BJP manifestos maintain focus on women, students, farmersAGENCYKOLKATA, MAR 22
The upcoming assembly electionin West Bengal is going to see atough fight between theTrinamool Congress (TMC) andBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) andthe same has been reflected intheir party manifestos. Leavingno areas to attract the attention ofthe Bengali people, BJP in theirmanifesto has given a large spaceto women, announcing that if theBJP comes to power, 33 per centjob reservation will be providedto the women, along with freetravelling for them in public
transport. It also includes freeeducation from Kindergarten(KG) to Post-Graduation (PG).The BJP will implement theAyushman Bharat Scheme andthe Pradhan Mantri Kishan NidhiScheme which the MamataBanerjee government has deniedimplementing in the state. It hasalso promised the provision ofsalt at Rs 3 per kg and sugar at Rs5 per kg. The BJP has alsopromised to implement theCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA) in the very first year of itsCabinet and has said that wouldmake strong efforts to strengthenborder fencing to stop infiltrators,
while Rs 10,000 every year forthe refugees family for five yearswill be ensured. On the otherhand, TMC's poll manifestofocuses on the youth, studentsand farmers. The party has
promised five lakh jobs in a yearand financial assistance to thefemale heads of any family forthe general category will be givenRs 6000 per year and Rs 12,000every yearfor those belonging to
the SC/ST community. Forfarmers. the party has said that itwould increase aid to them fromRs 6,000 to Rs 10,000 per acre.The manifesto of TMC alsopromised credit cards forstudents to get loan up to Rs 10lakhs with 4 per cent of interestand Health Scheme SwasthyaSaathi to continue providingexpense of Rs five lakh for thetreatment of families. Both TMCand BJP have claimed that theirmanifesto is a development-oriented manifesto for thepeople. While releasing the'Sonar Bangla Sankalp Patra',Union Home Minister Amit
Shah said that the manifesto wascompleted after taking in thesuggestions from the people ofthe state. Meanwhile, BJP leaderLocket Chatterjee has praisedthe party manifesto, saying thatit is an eye-catching manifestoand all the sectors have beentaken care of, while importancehas been given to all sectors,considering the budget. WhereasTMC leader Sougata Roy onSunday slammed the BJP,saying it is a jumla-basedmanifesto and lamented thatoutsiders are releasing themanifesto of Bengal, which is"sad for Gujarat".
People from Rajasthan, Gujarat understandwater-related problems: PM Modi
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
Prime Minister Narendra Modion Monday said that people fromRajasthan and Gujaratunderstand water-relatedproblems well.
While addressing the 'JalShakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain'campaign on World Water Day',Prime Minister Modi said,"People from Rajasthan, Gujaratunderstand water-relatedproblems well. I'm also fromGujarat, faced such problemstoo. That's why in Union WaterMinistry, we have a ministerfrom the region with suchissues."
The Prime Minister launchedthe 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch
the Rain' campaign on WorldWater Day today via videoconferencing.
The signing of the historicmemorandum of agreementbetween the Union Minister ofJal Shakti and the ChiefMinisters of Madhya Pradeshand Uttar Pradesh, in thepresence of the Prime Minister,to implement the Ken Betwa
Link Project, the first project ofthe National Perspective Plan forinterlinking of rivers, also tookplace.
The campaign will beundertaken across the country, inboth rural and urban areas, withthe theme "catch the rain, whereit falls, when it falls". It will beimplemented from 22nd March2021 to 30th November 2021 -
the pre-monsoon and monsoonperiod in the country, agovernment statement said.
It will be launched as a "JanAndolan" to take waterconservation at the grass-rootlevel through people'sparticipation. It is intended tonudge all stakeholders to createrainwater harvesting structuressuitable to the climaticconditions and subsoil strata, toensure proper storage ofrainwater, it added.
After the event, GramSabhas will be held in all GramPanchayats of each district(except in the poll-bound states)to discuss issues related to waterand water conservation. GramSabhas will also take 'JalShapath' for water conservation.
AMIT KALIAZIRAKPUR, MAR 22
As part of a special operationlaunched by SSP Mohali tocurb the rising incidents oftheft, the Mubarakpur Chowkiin-charge today nabbed a truckthief along with the stolentruck with great success.Disclosing this here todayArshdeep Sharma, in-charge ofMubarakpur Chowki underDera Bassi police station saidthat a few days back a truckwas stolen at Trivedi camp.Based on the CCTV footagereceived from the spot, thepolice have succeeded innabbing the stolen truck fromKharar along with the thief.The apprehended thief hasbeen identified as ManikaranSachdeva's son of SatpalSachdeva, a resident of Trivedi
camp. The outpost in-chargesaid that Manikaran Sachdevawas addicted to drugs and hadstolen the truck for the drugs.He said that he has beenremanded in police custody forone day and further theft isexpected from him.
Man held for stealingtruck in Zirakpur
ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, MAR 22
Industries, Labor and Employmentand Transport Minister BikramSingh Thakur said that under theleadership of Chief MinisterJairam Thakur, the StateGovernment is striving to makeHimachal the best investmentdestination in the country. In thisdirection, the Global Investor Meetorganized by the state governmentis proving to be a milestone.Bikram Singh Thakur wasaddressing a dialogue programmeorganized by Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Udyog Sangh at DoonAssembly constituency in Solan districttoday. Earlier, the Industries Ministerinaugurated the first floor of the newlyconstructed labor hostel at a cost of Rs 55lakh in Jhadmajri. It has arranged for 46workers to stay in 23 newly constructed
rooms. He planted a mango plant in thehostel courtyard. Doon MLA ParamjitSingh Pammi planted guava and GauSeva Commission chairman AshekSharma planted the pear plant. Thakursaid that the state government would
soon organize a second groundbreaking ceremony. In this, theMoUs of investment of crores ofrupees invested in Investors' Meetwill be implemented. He said thatthe Global Investors Meet hasdefined Himachal's investmentsector globally. He said that MoUsfor investment of more than Rs97,000 crore were signed in thismeet. He said that in the firstground breaking ceremony,projects worth more than Rs14,000 crores were implemented.Minister said that the StateGovernment is giving specialemphasis on development of allbasic and infrastructural facilities
in Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrialarea. He said that it is the result of theefforts of the state government that theconstruction work of the four-lane andChandigarh-Baddi railway line is beingstarted soon.
Govt committed to make state bestinvestment destination: Bikram Thakur
Developmental works inauguratedSHANTI GAUTAMBADDI, MAR 22
Former MLA KL Thakur todayinaugurated works costing crores ofrupees in Gram Panchayat Nand,including building of 64 lakh rupeesPHC in Nand and building of ScienceBlock Lab of Government SeniorSecondary School Nand for Rs 78 lakhWork. The work of reconfiguringDharmana Road from Gabar diversionwas started with a cost of Rs. 46 lakhs.The MLA told that after this, the road toLunas will also be paved at a cost of Rs75 lakh, while Ghadyach Road will bepaved at a cost of Rs 15 lakh. The workof widening and laying of culverts fromKavaran to Kanola Uparla, RedaDaghech Road at a cost of about Rs 10lakhs will also be started very soon.Doli, Jabal, Beri Talolti road and bridgewill also be widened at a cost of Rs. 25Lakh, In the same way, the road workfrom main road to village Nerli Chanalahas been started, whose culverts, dongs
and widening work has been completed.He said, with the blessings of HonorableChief Minister Jairam Thakur, the workof constructing roads in the hilly areaand paving them in a systematic manneris going on smoothly. Similarly, we arekeeping a close watch on people'sproblems, drinking water, irrigation,electricity, low voltage etc. In view ofthis, new electric transformers are beinginstalled, in which water, electricity andall kinds of facilities are being providedfor every new house.
AMRITPALSAMRALA, MAR 22
The history of our countryis full of sacrifices, wheremany freedom fighters laiddown their lives for MotherEarth by giving theirtestimonies. Today, March23, is the day of martyrdomof India's three great sonsBhagat Singh, Rajguru andSukhdev, who laughed andput the gallows to free thecountry from the shacklesof slavery. To open the earsof the deaf Britishgovernment, Bhagat Singhalong with his colleagueBatukeshwar Dutt hurledbombs at the assembly andinstead of fleeing, he madehis arrest. John Saundersresponsible for the death ofPunjab Kesari Lala LajpatRai was also tried byBhagat Singh and hisassociates, in which thecourt ruled that BhagatSingh, Rajguru andSukhdev should be hangedon 24 March 1931 andJaydev Kapoor, GayaPrasad, Vijay Kumar,Kamal Nath Tewari,Mahavir Takshak, ShivKumar Verma and Kishori
Lal were sentenced to blackwater. But a day earlier, on23 March 1931, the threegreat sons of the countryBhagat Singh, Rajguru andSukhdev were hanged andmartyred by the British
government. Of course,most of the leaders caughtin the mire of scams andscandals will be unaware ofthe sacrifices made by thosewho were crucified for thesake of their country at an
early age. Let us all carryforward the legacy of ourgreat martyrs and resolve tofight against oppression.Here are the views of someeminent persons withrevolutionary spirit.
'Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai,Dekhna Hai Zor Kitna Baazu-E-Qaatil Mein Hai'
Don't worship Bhagat Singh but try tounderstand: TarlochanFilm writer Master Tarlochan Singh Samrala says that we worshiped Bhagat Singh a lot,but did not try to understand his views. Bhagat Singh, for example, used to chant twoslogans together with his colleague 'Inquilab Zindabad' and 'Imperialism Murdabad'.Why? Ever think? He writes that this war will continue till the plunder of human beings byhuman hands is ended. So don't worship Bhagat Singh, but try to understand.
Bhagat Singh's battle was againstthe system: RajwinderRajwinder Samrala, director of Aks RangmanchSamrala, says the country was a slave yesterdayand is still a slave today. Warriors like BhagatSingh did not fight with the British but with thesystem and the system still stands today. Bribery,dishonesty, riots and plunder by human beings...States have changed, faces have changed, butunfortunately the system has not changed. So a revolutionary battleneeds to be fought to create the society of Bhagat Singh's dreams.
Spring colored turbans aresponsibility: ManinderRenowned Punjabi poetess Maninder Kaur Bassisays that Bhagat Singh should not be presented asa game, because following the thoughts of themartyrs means following his thoughts. But astoday's youth realize their duty by wearing spring colored turbanson 23rd March, they should realize that wearing spring coloredturbans on their head also becomes a big responsibility on theirhead. So understand the importance of the Basanti turban andrecognize Bhagat Singh, not just the outfit.
Bhagat Singh'sname is athought: BajwaProgressive youth and socialactivist Dalveer Singh Bajwasaid that Bhagat Singh himselfwas not a name but a name ofthinkingwhich hasruled thehearts ofmillions ofyouth ofthecountry.But sad tosay,Bhagat Singh's memorycomes to our youth only onthe day of his birth andmartyrdom. Let us prostrate tothe martyrs of March 23 andtry to make his dreams cometrue by creating a revolutionfrom house to house.
Corona vaccination begins atCivil Dispensary Bassian village HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, MAR 22
Corona vaccination is beingcarried out by CivilDispensary Bassian under theleadership of SMO SudharHarjinder Singh. In this regardDr. Harpreet Singh MedicalOfficer, Jaswinder KaurPharmacy Officer said thatpeople should come forward for the covid vaccination, so thatthe deadly disease can be controlled. On the occasion,Parminder Singh Jassi was vaccinated by the owners ofKalgidhar Medical Store Jhorran. Charanjit Kaur, BalwinderKaur, Satwinder Kaur, Baljit Kaur ANM, Gurmeet Kaur ANMetc. were present on the occasion.
Janjua inspects Dairywal cattlepound and veterinary polyclinicR.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 22
Vijay Kumar Janjua,Chief Secretary, AnimalHusbandry, IAS alongwith the officers ofAnimal HusbandryDepartment, Pathankotvisited the site of Cattle Pound Dairywal where helpless animalsare being taken care of and inspected the helpless animals. Dr.Ravi Singh in-charge of Veterinary Polyclinic Manwal briefedthe Chief Secretary about the work being done in the polyclinic.Dr. Kohli and Somesh Singh briefed the Additional ChiefSecretary in detail about the work being done at cattlePound.The Additional Chief Secretary commended the work ofcattle Pound and directed the Additional Chief Secretary to makefurther improvements in it. After this Additional Chief Secretaryvisited Veterinary Hospital Pathankot and expressed satisfactionover the work and sanitation arrangements of VeterinaryHospital Pathankot. On this occasion Manmahesh Bila, KishanChander Mahajan Veterinary Inspector , Dr. Rohit Lahoria,Sandeep Sarma and were also present.
Captain befooling people to regain power: Dr. Sharma
R.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 22
Captain Amarinder Singh came to power in2017 by fooling the people, but did nothingother than tax the people of the province. Dueto this, every section is upset with the Con-gress government.Now he has started prepar-ing to fool the people of Punjab once again in the assemblyelections to be held in 2022.These allegations were made bythe former BJP President Dr. Ashok Sharma during the meet-ing at the local restaurant.He said that the Captain has onceagain given the rank of Cabinet Minister to Electoral Strate-gist Prashant Kishore to bring him back to power in the up-coming assembly elections.He said that,this time people willnot vote for the Congress and will burn them by showing themthe way out of power.Prabhat Singh Makkha, Madan Lal,Jaswant Singh, Jaspal Singh, Sheela, Bhupinder Singh, Man-jeet Singh were also present on the occasion.
Beas Police comes in action to curb corona spreading
GURDARSHAN PRINCEBEAS, MAR 22
In view of the rising cases ofcorona in Punjab, importantand concrete decisions arebeing taken by the stategovernment. After this, PunjabChief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh called upon the police to be strict regarding thecorona guidelines in all the 11 hotspot districts of the state toprotect other districts from the grip of corona. Under this, thepolice department blocked the roads on national highways andlink roads across the district, besides checking vehicles and issuingchallans to those driving or traveling without masks. Police officerKulwant Singh, who was on the post, said that as per theinstructions of the Punjab government and the top officials of thedepartment, the vehicles entering Amritsar at the entry point of thepolice district are being closely monitored. Apart from this,appeals and warnings have also been issued to people, that noperson should come out of the house without a mask, but due tothe alleged negligence of some people, the department is nowissuing challans to those, who walk without a mask. MahinderSingh, ASI Pargat Singh and ASI Jagir Singh were present.
8PEACE COMES FROM WITHIN. DO NOT SEEK IT
WITHOUT.
BUDDHA
THE MIND IS EVERYTHING. WHAT YOU THINKYOU BECOME.
BUDDHA
YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
Last CurtainI know that the day will comewhen my sight of this earth shallbe lost, and life will take its leavein silence, drawing the last cur-tain over my eyes. Yet stars willwatch at night, and morning riseas before, and hours heave likesea waves casting up pleasuresand pains. When I think of thisend of my moments, the barrierof the moments breaks and I seeby the light of death thy worldwith its careless treasures. Rareis its lowliest seat, rare is itsmeanest of lives. Things that Ilonged for in vain and things thatI got ---let them pass.
(By: Rabindranath Tagore)
Biden aims to prevent border crossings from swamping agendaThe Biden administra-
tion is scrambling tomanage a growing
humanitarian and politicalchallenge at the US-Mexi-co border that threatens toovershadow its ambitiouslegislative agenda.
With the number ofmigrants surging, adminis-tration officials say Bideninherited an untenable sit-uation that resulted fromwhat they say was Presi-dent Donald Trump's un-dermining and weakeningof the immigration system.
But as Congress pivotsto immigration legislation,stories of unaccompaniedminors and families tryingto cross the border andseeking asylum and ofoverwhelmed border facil-ities have begun to domi-nate the headlines, dis-tracting from the WhiteHouse's efforts to promotethe recently passed 1.9trillion COVID-19 reliefbill.
Biden told reportersSunday at the WhiteHouse that "at some point"he would go to the borderand that he knows what isgoing on in the border fa-cilities. "A lot more, weare in the process of doingit now, including makingsure we re-establish whatexisted before, which wasthey can stay in place andmake their case from theirhome countries," Bidensaid upon returning from aweekend at Camp David.
The White House dis-patched Homeland Securi-ty Secretary AlejandroMayorkas to four Sundaynews shows in an effort tostress that it was working
to get things under con-trol. "Our message hasbeen straightforward theborder is closed," May-orkas said. "We are ex-pelling families. We areexpelling single adults.And we've made a deci-sion that we will not expelyoung, vulnerable chil-dren." The White Househas steadfastly refused tocall the situation a "crisis",leading to a Washingtonbattle over the appropriatedescription of the tensesituation. In the first daysof his term, Biden acted toundo some of Trump'smeasures, a rollback inter-preted by some as a signal
to travel to the UnitedStates. While the new ad-ministration was workingon immigration legislationto address long-term prob-lems, it didn't have an on-the-ground plan to managea surge of migrants.
"We have seen largenumbers of migration inthe past. We know how toaddress it. We have a plan.We are executing our planand we will succeed, May-orkas said. But, he added,"it takes time" and is "es-pecially challenging anddifficult now" because ofthe Trump administration'smoves. "So we are re-building the system as we
address the needs of vul-nerable children who ar-rived at our borders."
Biden officials havedone away with the "kidsin cages" imagery that de-fined the Trump familyseparation policy thoughTrump used facilities builtduring the Obama admin-istration but have strug-gled with creating theneeded capacity to dealwith the surge. Officialsare trying to build up ca-pacity to care for some14,000 migrants now infederal custody and morelikely on the way. Criticssay the administrationshould have been better
prepared. "I haven't seen aplan," said Rep. MichaelMcCaul, R-Texas. "Theyhave created a humanitari-an crisis down here at thisborder that you have seennow. And the reason whythey are coming is becausehe says words do matter,and they do. The messag-ing is that if you want tocome, you can stay." Theadministration also hasbeen pressed as to why itwill not allow media to seethe facilities at the border.Mayorkas said the govern-ment was "working onproviding access so thatindividuals will be able tosee what the conditions ina Border Patrol station arelike." But Sen. Tom Cot-ton, R-Ark., told "FoxNews Sunday" that "it'srich that Secretary May-orkas won't let press travelwith him to the border, buthe will come on your Sun-day morning show andpeddle the same kind ofnonsense that has createdthe Biden border crisis inthe first place."
Since Biden's inaugu-ration on January 20, theUS has seen a dramaticspike in the number ofpeople encountered byborder officials.
There were 18,945family members and 9,297unaccompanied childrenencountered in Februaryan increase of 168 per centand 63 per cent, respec-tively, from the month be-fore, according to the PewResearch Center. That cre-ates an enormous logisti-cal challenge because chil-dren, in particular, requirehigher standards of care
and coordination acrossagencies. Among the rea-sons for the surge: thou-sands of Central Americanmigrants already stuck atthe border for months andthe persistent scourge ofgang violence afflictingNorthern Triangle coun-tries Guatemala, Hondurasand El Salvador.
Still, the encounters ofboth unaccompanied mi-nors and families are low-er than they were at vari-ous points during theTrump administration, in-cluding in spring 2019.Pointing to the urgency ofthe situation at the border,Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,expressed confidence thatenough Republicanswould vote to pass an im-migration overhaul. "Wego into this debate,whether it's a crisis or achallenge at the border.Let me tell you, the crisis.We need to address ourimmigration laws in thiscountry that are broken,"said Durbin. "What we seeat the border is one exhibitof it, one exhibit of evi-dence in that. But there'smore across the board."
The White House alsopoints to Biden's decisionto deploy the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency to support effortsto process the growingnumber of unaccompaniedmigrant children arrivingat the border.
Mayorkas appeared onFox, ABC's "This Week",CNN's "State of theUnion" and NBC's "Meetthe Press", while McCaulwas on ABC and Durbinon CNN.
Literature & Health
Younger generation depressed due to increasing effect of snuff
China plans to dominate globalcommons of Antarctica
With an aim to domi-nate the Arctic andAntarctica regions,
China has been pouring in-vestments and aggressivelyconstructing a fleet of polaricebreakers as part of itsgeopolitical ambitions, ac-cording to a report publishedin The National Interest.
Alexander B Gray, a Se-nior Fellow in National Secu-rity Affairs at the AmericanForeign Policy Council(AFPC), in an article for theWashington-based magazinesaid that although the west-ern countries have taken noteof China's designs over theArctic, however, Beijing'smachinations in Antarcticaremain little-known. Antarc-tica is considered a globalcommons to be preserved"for peaceful purposes only"under the terms of the 1959Antarctic Treaty and "anymeasures of a military na-ture" are prohibited.
Gray wrote that both theUnited States and China aresignatories to the treaty andits most important addendum,the 1991 Madrid Protocol,which permanently prohibits
extractive mining, protectsthe unique flora and fauna ofthe continent. "The enforce-ment mechanism of theAntarctic Treaty and its pro-tocols is an inspection sys-tem, whereby signatories un-dertake periodic visits to thestations maintained byaround thirty countries. Notonly are these visits notori-ously infrequent, however,they are also incomplete,having failed to visit some ofChina's five research stationson Antarctica to date," saidGary while adding that Bei-jing has used some of itsAntarctic bases for satellitereceiving stations and high-powered telescopes, both of
which have military applica-tions. Despite the clear warn-ing signs, none of China'sbases has been inspectedsince 2015. Gray further saidChina's construction of a per-manent Antarctic airfield in2018, its growing fleet of ice-breakers, and an influx ofPeople's Liberation Armypersonnel at Beijing's re-search stations are just a sam-pling of Beijing's military ob-jectives.
Besides the military ob-jectives, a significant numberof Chinese experts believethat the Madrid Protocol ex-pires in 2048, along with theaccompanying ban on miningin the Antarctic.
SUSHIL PANDIT
India is progressing in every field, it ismoving forward. If we take a positiveview, then we have emerged as a su-
perpower in the world, whosecredit goes to the energetic think-ing and efficient leadership of theyoung generation here, but on thecontrary if the youth gets into thesituation of being intoxicated, it be-comes necessary for every coun-tryman to think.
At the same pace at which we have allgrown at present, the drug trade is also atits peak in the country, the intoxicationstarts from a fashion and ends at the orgyof destruction. Drugs are believed to bethe biggest reason for destroying humaninstincts and creating inhumanities. Psy-chiatrists believe that intoxication can
impair human thinking and can lead tovarious kinds of diseases and lead tomisguidedness from the original purposeof life. Causes to go. Today the youth ofthe country is seen getting caught in the
clutches of intoxication. In Indi-an society, intoxication has beenconsidered a symbol of evil, dueto this, the precious life of theyounger generation is sufferingfrom premature death, but thedrug business is seeing a double-digit increase in the number of
days. Most of the ingredients of intoxi-cation are banned in the country, but it isfound in the market indiscriminately.Apart from alcohol, marijuana, opiumand many other types of intoxication arebecoming prevalent in large quantities.If liquor is legally prevalent then Ganja-Opium etc. is prohibited in the country,
but the purchase and sale of these are se-cretly going on in the society. Ganja,Cannabis, Opium, Zarda, Gutkha, To-bacco and Smoking, Beedi, Cigarettes ,
Including hookah, chillum, deadly drugsand substances like charas, smack, co-caine, brown sugar are being used. Atpresent, Smack drug has caught the
youth in North India, Smack's pudding isbeing sold indiscriminately. I spoke tosome youths, who are suffering from de-pression of this drug, so they told that thepeople selling smack were initially less.They give it to the young people andteenagers for free 2 to 3 times and latermake it available to them from Rs 500to 1500 rupees for 1 gram. According toNCB data, the main reason for 90 per-cent of the crimes is drug addiction andthe age of the criminals is also low. Infact, the current drug addiction falls inthe category of synthetic drugs. Accord-ing to a report, from 15 years of adoles-cence to 30 years are in the grip of thisdrug. The number of youth up to the yearis immense, which is a frightening situ-ation for our country and society. Thisblack market of drugs is running underthe nose of the administration and the
government, although raids are beingconducted and drug traffickers are beingarrested by the antinarcotics and otherconcerned departments, then how is theeasy availability of drugs there? The po-lice administration is serious about drugtrafficking, but when the consignment ofdrugs crosses the borders of many statesand becomes available for sale in themarket, why should the local adminis-tration and government not take appro-priate steps at that time? The arrest ofdrug traffickers becomes the headlinesof the newspapers and after some time,this hoaxing starts at the same pace. Vir-tually any social evil cannot be solved bythe government and the administration,for this, the society itself has to take theresponsibility for all those aspects,which are the root cause of depressionlike addiction.
EDITORIALSoft target: Prisoners
and pandemic
Wilful amnesia may be a universal phenome-non, but it does not make problems go away.This was evident from a report by Amnesty
International that highlighted the sufferings during thepandemic of an already-beleaguered constituency:prisoners. The plight of the latter, in India and aroundthe world, appears to be two-fold. To begin with, theopacity of prisons makes society easily forget theasymmetrical relationship that binds inmates to theauthorities, manifest in routine violations of prison-ers’ rights and dignity. The pandemic — this is theother challenge — seems to have heightened thesetransgressions. Last year, the Supreme Court had or-dered all Indian states to consider releasing some pris-oners on parole to reduce overcrowding in jails duringthe Covid-19 outbreak. The apex court had also di-rected that video conferencing be introduced for pris-oners so that they can stay in touch with their families.The findings of the Amnesty report are damning inthis respect. Not only was the rate of release insuffi-cient to mitigate the magnitude of the risk but de-tainees, according to a source in Jammu and Kashmir,were also allowed just one call to their families in 15days. The State’s apathy towards the health of prison-ers is unlikely to change even as some states face asecond surge of the coronavirus. Given that prisonsare particularly vulnerable to the infection on accountof congestion — around 27 per cent of prisons acrossIndia are still overcrowded — it stands to reason thatinmates, nearly 70 per cent of whom are undertrials,ought to be prioritized for vaccination. Yet, whileprison staff were listed among three priority groupsfor vaccination, prisoners were dropped from the list.The embedded moral ambivalence towards the con-demned may have played a part here. The pandemiccould have been used as an opportunity to assess theweaknesses in India’s prison system and institute re-form. Sadly, this has not been the case. This is espe-cially ironic given the apex court’s push in this direc-tion — the overall prison occupancy came down to93.3 per cent from 117.6 per cent between April 1 andJune 30 last year on account of the Supreme Court’sdirective. This momentum must be taken forward toaddress a number of challenges that confront prison-ers — deplorable sanitary conditions, poor medicalfacilities, the flouting of social distancing norms andabsence of protective gear — each of which can turnthe country’s prisons into Covid-19 hotspots.
POEMS
Ladies in urban areas more averse to havekids in developed countries
Aresearch published in Ox-ford University Press,claimed that women in cities
that have a higher percentage of fe-males than males in the populationare less likely to conceive as com-pared to rural areas.
Although the majority of mod-ern cities have more women thanmen and thus suffer from lowerfertility rates, the effects of female-biased sex ratios - having morewomen than men in a population -is less studied than male-biased ra-tios. Researchers here analysedhow female-biased sex ratios arelinked to marriages, reproductivehistories, dispersal, and the effectsof urbanisation on society.
The research team from theUniversity of Turku, University ofHelsinki, and Pennsylvania StateUniversity used a massive internalmigration event that occurred inFinland during WWII when 10 percent of Finnish territory was cededto the Soviet Union and over400,000 citizens were evacuated.
The Finnish government imple-mented a settlement act to provideland for farmers to replace the ter-ritory they lost.
Each village in the ceded terri-tory was assigned to a specific lo-cation in western Finland to keepcommunities together, thoughevacuees were not required tomove to their assigned location.
HIMLA, : Shimla has cut pipeline damage 50% using ABB Softstarters to help lift Swater thousands of feet from a dam to
quench the thirst of millions. The town of Shimla in the Indian Himalayas is one of the country’s busiest tourist destinations. It receives millions of visitors a year, significantly augmenting the local population of 3 million. Known as the Queen of Hills, Shimla has experienced an acute water crisis as its popularity increased. The Himachal Pradesh Jal Shakti Vibhag (formerly known as IPHD) has thus developed a plan to modernize the existing lift water supply plan with construction and upgrading of old pumps to raise water from the Kol Dam on the Satluj River thousands of feet below the city. The aim was to bring safe, clean drinking water to the population with minimal water loss and minimal environmental damage. “With smart technology and our state-of-the-art products and solutions, ABB electrification products are helping residents of Shimla to get an uninterrupted supply of water,“ said C. P. Vyas, president of the electrification business for ABB India.
handigarh, The tricity cycling group – Cyclegarh organized 'Carrera de Ciclista' a cycle race wherein Cnearly 60 cyclists from tricity participated. This 50-km
race started from New Chandigarh and crossed through Baddi a n d K u r a l i t o conclude at the starting point itself. Organizer Misha Brar said that the p u r p o s e o f organiz ing th is e v e n t w a s t o e n c o u r a g e t h e amateurs to take cycling as passion in routine and also to inculcate the
spirit of sportsmanship in them through such competitions. Jai Dogra won the Roadies category while Ahnad Sandhu grabbed the Hybrid category title. The MTB title was bagged by Dikshant Johar. In the women category, Vanita Gupta became the champion in MTB category while Rupali continued to dominate in the road category. Tannu Mittal got the first position in the hybrid category. Vikram Seth got the title of Fastest Sprinter while Manan Kundal was awarded the title of Fastest Climber.
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CHANDIGARH, : To mark World Water Day, Nissan is providing ‘Free Foam Wash Service’ to its customers at all Nissan and Datsun service centres in India. With an average of 1200 foam washes in a day, this innovative technique aims at conserving around 86,400 litres of water per day. Guided by its corporate vision of enriching people’s lives, Nissan India’s eco-friendly technique not only requires 45% less water per caras compared to the conventional car wash that consumes 162 litres per car, but it also saves time and increases the gloss & shine in cars by 38%.Since its introduction in 2014, the foam-wash technique has helped Nissan India save around 15 million litres of water. “Underlining our commitment towards sustainable mobility, Nissan India continues to provide services that are best in the industry and benefit our local communities in the long-run.
Nissan India offers ‘Free Foam Wash Service’
umbai, Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, today announced the launch of the new Audi S5 MSportback in India. Powering the latestAudi S5
Sportback is a 3.0-litre, twin-turbo TFSI petrol engine delivering 354 hp and 500 Nm of torque, mated to an 8-speed Tiptronic gearbox that sends power to all four wheels. The four-door sports coupe is being brought to India via the CBU route and is priced from INR 79.06 lakhs (ex-showroom). Balbir Singh Dhillon, Head of Audi India, said, “The Audi S5 Sportback is the second
product launch this year and we are excited to launch this beauty in India. T h e A u d i S 5 Sportback stands o u t f o r i t s distinctive styling a n d e n g a g i n g driving experience
on one hand, and everyday usability and five-seat comfort on the other.” The Audi S5 Sportback receives revised styling elements that add in even more visual drama. The Singleframe grille is now flatter with slits above forming a link to the iconic Audi Sport quattro from 1984. S model bumpers with larger air intakes and a slick blade that forms the lower edge of the front bumper also lend the Audi S5 Sportback a bolder look.
Audi drives in striking new S5 Sportback
handigarh,: The convenor of Joint Employees' Union, Bipin Sher Singh, Cwho is also a lecturer at the Computer
Department of Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology, Sector 26, planted medicinal saplings along-with his wife and others at the college premises. Bipin Sher
Singh planted the saplings on the occasion of completing 25 years of service with the institution. Addressing the gathering, Bipin laid emphasis on the importance of plants and environment conservation. He also motivated the people present at the occasion to plant at least one tree in their life. Speaking on this occasion,
Prabhu Nath Shahi, President, National Veteran Forum of Employees from Chandigarh, congratulated Bipin Sher Singh and said, “Bipin ji has been giving awareness on 'environment' to many people for several decades. His enthusiasm and compassion towards the environment are highly appreciable.
handigarh: Royal Enfield, the global leader in mid-size motorcycles (250cc-750cc), today announced the launch Cof new colourways on the 650 Twin motorcycles - the
Interceptor INT 650 Twin and the Continental GT 650 Twin. The motorcycles will also be available with a host of new MiY options which the customers can choose to personalise their
motorcycles. The MiY options include s e a t s , t o u r i n g mirrors, flyscreen, sump guards and a host of options that add to the style and enhance the riding e x p e r i e n c e . Speaking on the new colours of the 650
Twins and the wide ranging MiY options Vinod K. Dasari, CEO Royal Enfield said “The launch of the 650 Twins marked a new chapter for Royal Enfield and for the mid-sized motorcycle segment. The global success of these motorcycles over the last couple of years has been phenomenal with the Interceptor growing the 500cc+ category by more than 4-times in India, and also becoming the best selling naked motorcycle in the mid-sized category in the UK in 2020.
If it weren’t for negative roles, I wouldn't have lasted in industry for so long– Sudha
This World Water Day, Coca-Cola reinvigorates, a decade of water stewardship in India
ew Delhi: On the occasion of World Water Day, Coca-Cola reinforces its Ncommitment towards water
management, conservation and replenishment, particularly across water distressed regions in India. With interventions spanning over a decade, Anandana - The Coca-Cola India Foundation, has successfully deployed innovative water stewardship strategies for sustainable development and inclusive growth in rural India, to contribute towards socio-economic upliftment of communities at large. The pioneering commitment that the Company made in 2007, to replenish 100% water used in its operations, is a reality today. On World Water Day, Coca-Cola has pledged to emerge stronger and further support the nation’s priorities around preserving Jal Shakti (water power) and saving every drop of water. With its inception in 2010, Coca-Cola India’s water stewardship journey in India began as a forward-looking endeavor to build a successful and resilient business that adds value to the communities and restores the ecosystem where it operates.
Medicinal Saplings PlantedHANDIGARH: India’s leading Science-based Ayurveda major Dabur India Ltd. today announced the launch of ‘Project CMadhu, an initiative to promote beekeeping or Apiculture as a
lucrative enterprise for farmers and small and medium entrepreneurs. As part of the initiative, Dabur is working with local Non Profit Organizations across three states to create an ecosystem that will bring together technical know-how, financing and access to market-place for these farmers and entrepreneurs to train and sustain them in the vocation of bee keeping. It is estimated that through the right interventions, India has the potential to increase its honey production capacity from the current 3.4 Million Bee Colonies - 1.20 Lakh Mt to 200 Million Bee Colonies – 70 Lakh Mt. Talking about the launch of the campaign, Mr. Prashant Agarwal, Marketing Head- Health Supplements, Dabur India Ltd said, “Project Madhu has been conceptualized to give momentum to Dabur’s ambition of making the bee-keeper community in India more self-reliant, self-sustaining and more scientific in its approach. We have been working in this direction for several years. However, with Project Madhu, we want to fortify our efforts and reach out to a wider audience across the country. The idea for us is to collaborate with government and private stakeholders and bring to life, a ‘honey corridor’ across the select states, which would look at contributing positively to the welfare of the farmers and the nation at large.”
"Gandhi Shilp Bazar" in Sector 34 Chandigarh
handigarh( ): Gandhi Shilp Bazar of handicrafts products Cbegins in Sector 34 Exhibition
Ground. Interacting with the media,Yamin Khan Coordinator( Haryana), Textile Ministry, Government of India said," Over 100 stalls are exhibiting their hand made products in the Gandhi Shilp Bazar from all over the country. To help the artists and the empowerment of women we are helping them to smoothly run the business. We have tried to eliminate the middle-men and home made products that come directly in the Shilp bazaar. The Government of India reimbursed their travel and freight charges. We have also deputed our official for the help of artists here so that they can do their business without any difficulty. Khadi, Lamps, Sarees, Carpets, clay toys , crockery items are displayed and customers are purchasing with keen interest."
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ABB soft starters help Shimla to getaccess to uninterrupted water supply
Dabur Launches ‘Project Madhu’
handigarh : New research these snacks, study participants ate their weeks, there was a reduction of suggests that there may be more regular diets and did not eat any nuts or 15% and at 24 weeks, a cthan one reason to add almonds nut-containing products. reduction of 16%.
to your daily skin care routine.A new Skin assessments were made at the start There was also a statistically study by researchers at the University of of the study, and again at 8 weeks, 16 significant decrease in overall California, Davis found that eating weeks and 24 weeks. At each of these facial pigment intensity almonds daily in place of typicalcalorie- visits, facial wrinkles and facial (unevenness of skin tone) in the matchedsnacksimproved measures of pigment intensity were assessed using almond group, There was a both wrinkle severity and skin 20% reduction by pigmentation in week 16 that remained postmenopausal women. The so at week 24. Further, study was funded by the body weight remained Almond Board of constant for both the Californiaand confirms and almond group and the expands upon findings in a control group from 2019 study. baseline to 24 weeks. In this 6-month randomized “Daily consumption of controlledtrial, 49 healthy almonds may be an postmenopausal women with effective means of Fitzpatrick skin type 1 or 2 improving the (characterized by increased appearance of facial tendencyto burn with sun wrinkles and skin tone exposure) completed the study. (indicated by Participants were randomly decreased pigment assigned to one of two groups: intensity) among in the intervention group, women ate high-resolution facial imaging and postmenopausal women with almonds as a snack, which accounted validated 3-D facial modeling and Fitzpatrick skin types I and II. for 20% of their total daily calorie measurement. Skin hydration, Consumers may describe this intake,or 340 calories per day on transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and reduced pigmentation effect as average (about 60 gms). The control sebum excretion were also assessed. having a more even skin tone,” group ate a calorie-matched snack that Researchers found a statistically according to Dr. Raja Sivamani, also accounted for 20% of calories: a fig significant reduction in wrinkle severity dermatologist and lead bar, granola bar or pretzels. Aside from in the group consuming almonds: at 16 researcher of this study.
H A N D I G A R H : Vikrant. Theatre and film actor K.C. Shankar Flipkart Video is reinventing plays the role of Inspector Vikrant in the Cinvestigative crime shows with its investigative series, who is an experienced
latest interactive fiction series - Crime cop with an eye for detail and a knack of Stories. Launched on the 13th of March, the solving perplexed crimes. The riveting series first of its kind, interactive investigative is giving audiences the chance to put on their crime series, is inspired game face, analyze by true crime stories. every move of the The show is made to suspects, identify the leave audiences at the culprit, and win exciting edge of their seat as all prizes - all from the the action takes place comfort of their phone.exclusively within the Commenting on his c o n f i n e s o f a n association with Flipkart interrogation room. The Video, actor K.C. storyline is then built up Shankar said, "Crime with flashbacks and fiction as a genre, is one recreations that take the t h a t i s n o t o n l y audiences to the scene of challenging to watch but the crime and showcase also to work on. I am interactions between the thrilled to be a part of suspects and the victims. Crime Stories - my first ever interactive,
Each episode, released daily, is a police procedural show in a format that is sure stand-alone case, revolving around the to get every person tuning in, hooked. It's interrogation of multiple suspects by a team been a challenging yet an exceptional of police investigators, led by Inspector experience to have portrayed the role.
handigarh : Sudha Chandran, has been in the industry for over 25 years and is now trying her Chand in anchoring with Dangal TV’s Crime Alert.
She is of the belief that – It is all about trying new things. She did some memorable projects as the protagonist when
she first came into the industry but she took up a challenge and stepped into the world of negative characters and the viewers seemed to love it. She herself considers it as one of the major reasons for surviving in the industry.When she was asked the type of characters she is attracted to, she said, “Actors cannot predict how good a particular character will be. And I also believe that no one can
tell which role will then become a turning point in one’s career. When I entered the industry, I only did good and positive roles. And once I tried my hand in playing the antagonist, the audience loved me as a vamp and encouraged me to take up more grey-shade characters.
Flipkart Video Launches Crime Stories
Cyclegarh organizes 'Carrera de Ciclista' cycling race
The Royal Enfield 650 twin motorcycles get new colourways
irakpur: The ‘National Iconic Awards 2021’ function was organised by Adira's Events and HM Entertainments at ZHotel Park Plaza, Zirakpur. Anish Garg and Tanishq
Ranga, Directors of Zeoveda, India’s Health Bazaar, said that they are happy to receive the Best India Health Bazaar Award at the
National Iconic Aw a r d s 2 0 2 1 ceremony. The duo f u r t h e r s a i d , “Zeoveda is an online ecommerce startup committed to supporting every single person who wants to be a better
version of themselves. Zeoveda wants to ensure that you achieve the best fitness, physically and mentally, with high quality clean nutrition - the one that your body truly deserves.” Only a year ago, Garg and Ranga, at the age of 21, started off with a dream of making it big in the skincare and lifestyle industry by investing a small amount. Their company Zeoveda has sold products worth Rs 10 Lacs in its first month of inception. Actually, Zeoveda is now a national and global hit. The company managed to build a business purely via ecommerce with a very small offline presence.
Zeoveda – India’s Health Bazaar gets the Best India Health Bazaar Award
Orientbell Tiles now in Dhariwal, Punjab at a store close to you
Ingestible Beauty: New Study Investigates the Effects of Daily Almond
New Holland celebrates 20 illustrious years of the 3230 tractor
ANIPAT / HISAR, February 2020: New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH PIndustrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) is
celebrating the successful 20th anniversary of its popular 3230 tractor model. Since the 3230’s launch in 2001, New Holland has successfully expanded the model’s legacy with variants such as the 3230 Nx, 3230 Tx and 3230 Tx Super during its two decades in production. Commenting on the anniversary, Mr. Kumar Bimal, Director of Sales, New Holland Agriculture, said: “We are extremely grateful to our customers for supporting the 3230 over all these years. The continuing success of the model illustrates the trust customers have in the New Holland brand. It is a reflection of the company’s approach to continuous improvement that has kept the model aligned to the changing requirements of Indian farmers. New Holland Agriculture is committed to transform the lives of farmers through innovation and appropriate adoptions of new farm technologies.”
Havells launchesStealth Puro Air- India’s first Air Purifying Ceiling Fan with 3-Stage Filtration
handigarh, :Havells India Limited, a technology-led Fast-Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) and Consumer Durable company today become India’s first company to unveil a ceiling Cfan that comes equipped with a 3-stage air purifier that filters PM 2.5 and PM 10 pollutant
along with VOC filtration and delivers an approximate Clean Air Delivery Rate (CADR) of130 cu. m/hr. The industry first Air Purifying ceiling fan -Stealth Puro Air is targeted to promote a healthy lifestyle and add superior comfort and well-being to consumer’s fast-paced life, priced at MOP Rs 15,000. Aligned with the brand philosophy of ‘making a difference’, Havells has established an array of innovation in the ceiling fan category by launching a fan that not only circulates air but also purifies it at the same time. In addition to this, the fan also embeds a HEPA filter, activated carbon and pre-filter that absorbs toxic elements and infuses fresh air with essential nutrients. Apart from this, the ceiling fan also has technologically advanced features such as remote-control operation, under light and LED air purity indicator, etc. With acute efficiency and a powerful air-purification system, the range offers an approximate CADR of 130 cu. m/hr. The fan also offers aerodynamic blades for silent operation and high air delivery. Havells has also introduced a personal lifestyle fan –Havells Fanmate fan for user’s comfort. The fan is also useful to remove bad odour and purify air with its carbon filters. It comes with air vent that allows to change the air direction as required. With a battery backup of about 3 hours, it can be charged through USB cable or a mobile charger, connected via a laptop and has a touch pad for its operations.Premium satin matt finish and leather handle makes it the perfect portable appliance in the hot summer days.Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ravindra Singh Negi, President-Electrical Consumer Durables, Havells India Limited said, “Electric fan is a hyper competitive and evolving market. This makes it a very important segment for Havells to understand the customer needs and deliver a product that elevates their overall experience.
handigarh:. Zee Punjabi is coming up with new romantic drama show ‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’. The Cpremises of the show revolve around a happily
married couple Vikramjit Kapoor and Naina Gulati with a huge age gap. To justify such an amazing storyline, the show features Parmeet Sethi and Keetika in the titular roles. ‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’, premiering on March 22nd, will be telecast at 8.00 pm every Monday to Friday.
‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’ drives on the idea of true love which is beyond the barriers of age, society and financial status. The story of Vikramjit Kapoor and Naina Gulati, a married couple deeply in love despite their age gap and society prejudices. Zee Punjabi, since its inception, has always tried to put forward stories that not only resonate with the majority of audiences but also tales that are beyond the imagination and make people believe in them. With ‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’, it
is another attempt to explore this unique love story. As Punjab has always been the land of love stories, from Heer-Ranjha to Sassi-Punnu, Mirza-Sahiba, Sohni-Mahiwal, love has always been in the air of Punjab. With Akhiyan Udeek Diyan, this love story will make people fall in love again. Apart from the unique storyline and concept, Akhiyan Udeek Diyan also marks the entry of Parmeet Sethi in the Punjabi industry which serves as a cherry on the cake for viewers. ‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’ launches on Monday 22nd March at 8:00 pm.
Zee Punjabi is all set to launch a romantic drama show ‘Akhiyan Udeek Diyan’
HANDIGARH: HDFC Bank’s “Mooh Band Rakho” campaign Cabout safe banking practices
successfully conducted its 1,000th workshop this March. The bank had launched a 360-degree campaign in November 2020 to educate people about Cyber Frauds and Secure Banking ways to counter online fraud. The bank leveraged print and digital medium to reach over 7 crore individuals. General public appreciated the online leg of the campaign which allowed them to evangelize the message with artificial reality filters launched by the bank. The workshops were conducted for a host of audiences ranging from Law Enforcement Agencies, Senior Citizens, Channel Partners, Housing Societies and Educational Institutes. The campaign was widely endorsed by Police Officials, National Payment Corporation of India, and ACI Worldwide. The bank took the campaign to all the regions of the country and extended the duration to over 100 days. “The 1000-workshop milestone is important for us,” said Mr. Prashant Mehra, Senior Executive Vice President and Head – Credit Programme, Analytics, Risk Intelligence & Control, HDFC Bank.
HDFC Bank’s “Mooh Band Rakho” campaign conducts
1,000 workshops
handigarh : Amazon.in announces Fab Phones Fest Cbringing together a host of deals
and offers on a range of the latest mobile phones and accessories. Customers can enjoy up to 40% off on their favourite mobile phones and accessories. From the latest launches like the OnePlus 9 series, Redmi Note 10 series, Samsung Galaxy M12, OPPO F19 Pro+, Samsung M02 and M02s and Mi 10i, this edition brings great deals on popular smartphones. The sale will be live till 25th March 2021. Customers can look forward to much awaited offers on popular brands like OnePlus, Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple, OPPO, Honor, Vivo and others. They can also avail great deals on top sellers like iPhone 12 Mini, OnePlus 8T, Samsung Galaxy M51, Samsung Galaxy M31s, Redmi Note 9 Pro Max and Redmi Note 9. Customers can get a 10% instant discount up to INR 1,000 using ICICI Bank Credit Cards. They can also avail additional exchange offers up to INR 2,000 with No-Cost EMI up to 12 months across top brands. Prime members can avail Advantage No Cost EMI on HDFC bank debit and credit cards with lower EMI options starting INR 1,333 per month.
Amazon.in announces Fab Phones Fest
Uber partners with Robin Hood Army to provide free ridesworth INR 50 Lacs
handigarh : Uber today announced a partnership with the Robin Hood CArmy, a zero-funds and volunteer
based organisation, for providing free rides worth INR 50 Lacs to its #SeniorPatrol programme for supporting the vaccination of senior citizens.Uber’s offer is a part of its recently announced pledge to support the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), State Governments and local NGOs with free rides worth INR 10 Crores during the second phase of the world’s largest vaccination drive.As RHA’s mobility partner, Uber will provide free rides to help vulnerable elderly to and from vaccine centres to receive their doses across 53 Indian cities, where both Uber and RHA operate. Under the partnership, RHA volunteers will help thousands of vulnerable senior citizens, including those living in old age homes and poorer neighbourhoods, register with the CoWin app and then transport them to get innoculated.Earlier in August, 2020,Uber partnered with RHA to help deliver free meals for the hungry, and those worst impacted by the Covid pandemic.
hariwal (Punjab) : In a legacy that spans over four decades, Orientbell DTiles one of the most professionally-
run tile brands is extending its reach and is now also available in Dhariwal, Gurdaspur in Punjab at Guru Gobind Singh Tile Studio. Orientbell Tiles is constantly trying to make the selection & buying of tiles easy. The addition of Guru Gobind Singh Tile Studioin Orientbell Tiles’ wide network of 2500+ channel partners is one more step to make their tiles easily available.Mr Raman Deep Singh, owner - Guru Gobind Singh Tile Studio says, “Our sole aim has always been to help our customers build their dream homes with minimum stress of dealing with how to select and where to buy from. I really believe that with new technologies, the way you select & buy tiles must be made simpler & more convenient. Today with our digital tools customers can- find a similar-looking tile by just uploading a picture from Instagram or a photo (Samelook) ,
ollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor's daughter joining Dharma Cornerstone Agency as their Shanaya Kapoor has joined ace filmmaker new talent, along with the previously BKaran Johar's new talent management agency announced Triptii Dimri, Gurfateh Pirzada,
Dharma Cornerstone Agency (DCA). The director took Dhairya Karwa, and Lakshya Lalwani.to his Twitter handle and shared an introductory video Though Shanaya is yet to make her Bollywood of Shanaya, along with the tweet, "Another beautiful debut, she has worked as one of the assistants on addition to our growing @dcatalent family! Welcome to Janhvi Kapoor's 'Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl' the #DCASquad, @shanayakapoor. Her enthusiasm, and has also made an appearance on the much-perseverance and diligence is so amazing to see. Join talked-about Netflix series 'Fabulous Lives Of us in showering your love & blessings as she begins Bollywood Wives'. Karan, in association with her first film with @DharmaMovies, this July!"Shanaya, Cornerstone Agency, recently launched a the daughter of Sanjay and Maheep Kapoor, will be collaborative space to promote budding talent.
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Kangana to launch trailerof on birthday'Thalaivi'
ollywood star Kangana Ranaut is Director Vijay said, "Thalaivi reflects the her struggles in the entertainment all set to release the trailer of her life of an inspirational icon for millions industry and rise to stardom to become Bmuch-anticipated film 'Thalaivi' on and it is a fundamental duty to do justice one of the most powerful and iconic
March 23, which also marks the actor's to the stature of the legend, hence we female politicians, India has ever birthday. The trailer of the biopic will be wanted to launch the trailer on a large witnessed.launched in two cities on the same day- scale." "Jaya madam is not just an idol Recently on the birth anniversary of Chennai and Mumbai. for the people of Tamil Nadu but a Jayalalithaa, the makers of 'Thalaivi' The film is a trilingual releasing in Hindi, renowned personality across the nation, announced the release date of the film.Tamil and Telugu, 'Thalaivi' caters to a so we decided to launch the trailer 'Thalaivi', presented by Vibri Motion wide range of audience beyond the across Chennai and Mumbai. Kangana pictures, Karma Media Entertainment and bounds of geographical demographics. Ji is a remarkable actor who slips into Zee Studios in association with Gothic Harping upon the far-stretched appeal, every character with the utmost ease. Entertainment and Sprint films, has been makers of the film have decided to For Thalaivi, She has adipate the produced by Vishnu Vardhan Induri and launch the trailer in a massive way absolute mannerisms of Jaya madam Shailesh R Singh and Co-produced by across Chennai and Mumbai on March that the character demanded," added Hitesh Thakkar and Thirumal Reddy. The 23, while keeping all the covid Vijay. Kangana Ranaut starrer is set to release guidelines in mind. 'Thalaivi' is based on the life of the worldwide in Hindi, Tamil and Telegu by Talking about the trailer launch events, legendary actor-turned-politician From Zee Studios on April 23, 2021.
Shanaya Kapoor is the latest addition to Karan Johar's DCA squad
Jake Gyllenhaal to play war hero in COMBAT CONTROL
ilm production house MGM is in dealings to obtain 'Battle Control,' Ffeaturing Jake Gyllenhaal and
directed by Sam Hargrave, who helmed of 2020 action-thriller 'Extraction.'Hargrave and Shelby Malone will fill in as partner makers close by chief makers Gyllenhaal and Ryan Cassells.The Hideaway Entertainment president Matthew Rhodes, CEO Jonathan Gray and VP Kristy Grisham will create and co-money the task. Rhodes, who some time ago drove Bold Films, worked with Gyllenhaal on 2014's "Nightcrawler."'Combat Control' is based on the New York Times blockbuster 'Alone at Dawn,' a true anecdote about American war veteran John Chapman (to be played by Gyllenhaal), composed by Dan Schilling and Lori Chapman Longfritz. Michael Russell Gunn ('Billions') wrote the screenplay. Ron West of Thruline Entertainment will likewise deliver. West carried the composition of the book to Hideaway Entertainment before the book was distrib uted, and Hidea way optioned the property in the midst of a warmed offeri ng war.
Richa excited to reunite with gang'Fukrey'
ollywood actor Richa Chadha on Monday expressed her excitement on reuniting with her B'Fukrey' team for the third installment of the
comedy franchise. The 'Section 375' actor took to her Twitter handle and shared a boomerang clip, that showed a box of presents that she received from the upcoming movie's production house, Excel Entertainment.Along with the clip, she tweeted, "Wow @excelmovies! Thank you for this lovely surprise Red heart! So excited to get back with the gang on Fukr3y. Can't wait! Flexed biceps @FarOutAkhtar @ritesh_sid @MrigLamba."Apart from Richa, the hit franchise 'Fukrey' stars actors Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, and Ali Fazal. Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's Excel Entertainment the first installment of the movie was released in 2013 emerging out as a blockbuster, which was followed by a sequel in 2017.Richa was last seen in the movie 'Madam Chief Minister', and had recently announced her production venture 'Girls Will Be Girls', along with her boyfriend and actor Ali Fazal. She will also be starring in Tigmanshu Dhulia's upcoming series, 'Six Suspects' opposite 'Scam 1992' fame actor Pratik Gandhi.
'Mumbai Saga rakes crores in weekendRs 8.74ollywood actors John Abraham and Emraan Shivratri festival as the film released on a Thursday instead Hashmi's latest outing 'Mumbai Saga', which hit the of Friday. Set in the 1980s and 1990s, 'Mumbai Saga' is Btheatres on Friday, minted Rs 8.74 crores during its helmed by Sanjay Gupta, who has previously
opening weekend.Indian film critic and trade directed films like 'Kaabil', 'Shootout at Wadala' and analyst Taran Adarsh shared the box 'Kaante'.office collection of the movie on his The gangster drama has been produced Twitter handle. He wrote, by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan "#MumbaiSaga jumps, witnesses Kumar, Anuradha Gupta, and an upward trend on Day 3... Sangeeta Ahir. 'Roohi' and Single screens/mass circuits 'Mumbai Saga' became show healthy gains... #Covid the major films to pandemic has played release theatrically spoilsport... All eyes on after the Ministry weekdays... Fri 2.82 cr, Sat of Information 2.40 cr, Sun 3.52 cr. Total: and Rs 8.74 cr. #India biz." The Broadcasting film, which also stars Suniel allowed cinema Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal, Rohit halls nationwide to Roy, among many others, had a operate at full capacity smaller weekend opening than the from February 1 with COVID-previous week's release 'Roohi'. However, 'Roohi' also 19 safety protocols put in enjoyed an added day to its weekend due to the Maha place.
Taapsee Pannu wraps up shootingfor 'Dobaaraa'
ollywood actor Taapsee Pannu on Monday announced the wrap-up for her upcoming new Bage thriller movie
'Dobaaraa'.The 'Badla' actor took to her Instagram handle and shared stories from the sets of 'Dobaaraa', completing the last day of her shoot. In the first clip, the ace actor can be seen hugging the movie's director Anurag Kashyap and jokingly claiming that "I know mera acha performance hai," which she also wrote with the clip, along with "Last day on set so making sure we shower a lot of love on our own selves."Another clip showed the director-actor duo joking about bringing out the best in other's work. Along with it,
Taapsee wrote, "His claim: he will give
himself a medal for that." Helmed by the ace filmmaker, 'Dobaaraa' marks the director-actor duo's third collaboration after 2018's hit 'Manmarziyaan' and biographical drama 'Saand Ki Aankh', which had Kashyap on board as a
producer. The movie will be produced by Cult Movies - a division under Ekta
Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms, along with Sunir Kheterpal's ATHENA and Gaurav Bose's
The Vermillion World Production. Kashyap was last seen in 'AK vs AK',
which was directed by Vikramaditya Motwane.
The film also starred Anil Kapoor. His last release as a director was the Netflix film 'Choked' (2020), starring Saiyami Kher and
Roshan Mathew.
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Adani Green Energy armget letter of award for300 MW wind projectNEW DELHI: Adani Green Energy(AGEL) on Monday said that its armhas received a letter of award for 300MW wind power project under a tenderof Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI). "AREHFL, a subsidiary of theAGEL, had participated in the tenderissued by SECI for setting up 1,200MW ISTS-connected wind powerproject (Tranche-X) and received theletter of award (LOA) to set up 300MW wind power project under thistender," a company statement said.According to statement the fixed tarifffor this project capacity is Rs 2.77/kWhfor a period of 25 years. With this,AGEL's total renewable capacity nowstands at 15,165 MW, of which 3,395MW renewable plants are operationaland 11,770 MW projects are underimplementation. Vneet S Jaain, MDand CEO, Adani Green Energy said,Wind energy forms an essential part ofour business approach and isexpected to continue a vitalcontribution to our growth plans. Thisaward... is in line with our commitmentto ramp up creation of a sustainableecosystem for transitioning towards agreener future. AGEL, a part of India-based Adani Group, has one of thelargest global renewable portfolios with15 GW of operating, under-construction and awarded projectscatering to investment-gradecounterparties. The companydevelops, builds, owns, operates andmaintains utility-scale grid-connectedsolar and wind farm projects.
Nepal Presidentleaves for 2-day statevisit to BangladeshKATHMANDU: Nepal President BidyaDevi Bhandari on Monday left for a two-day state visit to Bangladesh at theinvitation of her Bangladeshicounterpart President Abdul Hamid.Bhandari departed for Dhaka in a NepalAirlines flight from TribhuvanInternational Airport, reported TheHimalayan Times. The Ministry ofForeign Affairs (MoFA) of Nepalinformed that the Nepali delegation,accompanying the President, includesMinister for Foreign Affairs PradeepKumar Gyawali, along with secretariesand senior officials of MoFA, the Officeof the President, and other relevantministries. During the visit, PresidentBhandari will attend the celebration ofthe birth centenary of BangabandhuSheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of theNation of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. Onthe occasion, she will deliver astatement on 'Nepal-BangladeshRelations and Bangabandhu's BirthCentenary', as reported by TheHimalayan Times. She will also holdtalks with the President of Bangladeshat Bangabhaban. The President is alsoscheduled to visit the Embassy ofNepal, meet Nepali nationals inBangladesh, and attend the luncheonto be hosted in her honour by theAmbassador of Nepal to Bangladesh.
Taiwan premier, healthminister receive first doseof COVID-19 vaccineTAIPEI: Taiwan premier Su Tseng-chang and the Minister of Health andWelfare Chen Shih-Chung receivedtheir first shots of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Monday as the countrybegan administering the vaccinesagainst coronavirus. After getting his jabat National Taiwan University Hospitalin Taipei, Su told reporters that he feltno pain or discomfort and hoped thepublic would follow his lead and getvaccinated, according to Focus Taiwan.As per reports, Shuang Ho HospitalSuperintendent Wu Mai-szu, serving asthe first medical worker in Taiwan afterreceiving the AstraZeneca shot, said itwas like taking any other vaccine andhe was not at all worried. The COVID-19 vaccine program in Taiwan startedMonday at 57 designated hospitalsafter the country received its first batchof 117,000 AstraZeneca doses onMarch 3, Focus Taiwan reported.
US: 8 people stabbed in fight in DetroitDEITROIT: Eight people were stabbed during a fight that started insidea Detroit hookah lounge and continued into the parking lot on Sunday.Early on Sunday morning, eight people were stabbed the Detroit Policedeparted, said CNN. The stabbings happened at about 4:40 a.m. onGreenfield Road. The eight people who were stabbed werehospitalised, but none of the injuries were fatal, Detroit Police said in apreliminary report. "It appeared one person fired shots, but no one wasshot at the location," the police added.
Cargo traffic falls; down 7 pc in Apr-FebAGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
India's top-12 ports witnessedconsiderable decline in cargotraffic for the eleventh straightmonth in February to 600.62million tonnes (MT), accordingto ports' apex body IPA. Cargotraffic at 12 major ports that areunder the control of the Centredropped by 6.61 per cent to600.62 million tonnes (MT)during April-February thisfiscal, compared with 643.10MT in the year-ago period, theIndian Ports Association (IPA)
said in its latest report. All ports,barring Paradip and Mormugao-- which recorded 0.27 per centand 30.93 per cent increase incargo handling to 102.90 MTand 19.28 MT respectively, sawnegative growth. Cargohandling at Kamrajar Port(Ennore) nosedived 23.29 percent during April-February to22.23 MT, while ports likeMumbai and VOChidambaranar saw their cargovolumes dropping by over 12per cent during the said period.Cochin and Chennai portssuffered a sharp decline of
about 10 per cent. JNPT saw adecline of 8.06 per cent in cargovolumes, while Deendayal PortTrust and Kolkata ports logged
an over 6 per cent drop in cargovolume. Cargo handling at NewMangalore and Visakhapatnamslipped 5.30 per cent and 4.87
per cent, respectively.India has 12 major ports
under the control of the centralgovernment -- Deendayal(erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai,JNPT, Mormugao, NewMangalore, Cochin, Chennai,Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), V.O. Chidambaranar,Visakhapatnam, Paradip andKolkata (including Haldia). Inthe wake of the COVID-19pandemic, sharp declines werewitnessed in the handling ofcontainers, coal and POL(petroleum, oil and lubricant),among other commodities.
These ports handle about 61per cent of the country's totalcargo traffic. They handled 705MT of cargo last fiscal.
Ports, Shipping andWaterways Minister MLMandaviya had told Parliamentearlier that there was aconsiderable decline in the totaltraffic, containers traffic andother than containers traffic inMarch, April, May, June, Julyand August 2020, as comparedto the corresponding months in2019. The minister, however,had added that recovery hasstarted since June 2020.
Sensex ends 87 pts lower;financial stocks drag
AGENCYMUMBAI, MAR 22
Equity benchmark Sensexdeclined 87 points on Monday,tracking losses in index majorsHDFC Bank, ICICI Bank andReliance Industries amid a weaktrend in global markets.
The 30-share BSE indexended 86.95 points or 0.17 percent lower at 49,771.29. Thebroader NSE Nifty dipped 7.60points or 0.05 per cent to14,736.40.
IndusInd Bank was the toploser in the Sensex pack,
shedding around 4 per cent,followed by PowerGrid, ICICIBank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bankand Bajaj Finance.
On the other hand, TechMahindra, TCS, Sun Pharma,Infosys and HCL Tech wereamong the gainers.
"Domestic equities tradedlower as mounting concernspertaining to rise in COVID-19cases in various parts of thecountry and resultant restrictionscontinued to weigh on investorssentiments," said Binod Modi,Head - Strategy at RelianceSecurities. Further, weak global
cues and higher US bond yieldskept markets nervous. However,strong buying was seen in IT,FMCG and pharma space, whilefinancials and automobileswitnessed selling pressure.
"Notably, investors lapped-up quality midcap and small capstocks after recent corrections inthese spaces," he added.
Elsewhere in Asia, bourses inHong Kong, Seoul and Tokyowere in the red, while Shanghaiended on a positive note. Stockexchanges in Europe were alsotrading on a weak note in mid-session deals. Meanwhile, theglobal oil benchmark Brentcrude was trading 0.20 per centlower at USD 64.40 per barrel.
NEW DELHI: Gold in thenational capital tumbled by Rs302 to Rs 44,269 per 10 gramson Monday, reflectingovernight decline in global goldprices and rupee appreciation,according to HDFC Securities.In the previous trade, it hadclosed at Rs 44,571 per 10grams. Silver also tanked Rs1,533 to Rs 65,319 per kg, fromRs 66,852 in the previous trade.In the international market,gold was trading marginally up
at USD 1,731 per ounce whilesilver was trading lower atUSD 25.55 per ounce. HDFCSecurities Senior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patelsaid, "Gold prices traded underpressure limiting the upside onMonday as traders andinvestors are eyeing US bondauctions this week." "Theyellow metal also witnessedsome selling in early trade onstronger US bond yields andstronger dollar," he added.
Gold declines Rs 302; silvertanks Rs 1,533
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman said on Monday thatraising the FDI limit in theinsurance sector to 74 per centwas necessary to help insurersdeal with issues concerningfinancial stress. She said thiswhile moving the Insurance(Amendment) Bill, 2021 forconsideration and passage in theLok Sabha. The amendment bill,that seeks to hike the FDI limit ininsurance from 49 per cent to 74per cent, was passed by the RajyaSabha last week. The insurancecompanies are facing solvencyrelated issues, she said, adding,"if growth capital is hard to comeby, there will be a stresssituation. In order that the stresssituation is not left unattended,we need to raise the FDI limit."The COVID-19 pandemic,Sitharaman said, has furtheradded to the woes of theinsurance companies. Theminister observed that the FDIlimit was being raised on therecommendations of theregulator IRDAI which had heldextensive consultations with thestakeholders. The FDI inflow inthe insurance sector, the ministersaid, had increased significantlyafter the government decided to
raise the cap from 26 per cent to49 per cent in 2015. As much asRs 26,000 crore has come as FDIin the insurance sector since2015, she said, adding the assetunder management (AUM) inthis sector too have grown by 76per cent during the last fiveyears. Later, initiating the debateon the bill, Manish Tewari(Cong) said when the BJP was inthe opposition, it opposed anincrease in FDI. He said the thenUPA government could notbreach the wall put by lateSushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitelyin both Houses of Parliament. Hesaid the decision to hike the FDIlimit was like a somersault by theBJP. He also referred to certainparliamentary committees wheresenior BJP leaders, includingYashwant Sinha had opposedhike in FDI.
Insurance AmendmentBill passed in Lok Sabha
Erdogan and Bahceli move to banTurkey's third largest party
NICOSIA, MAR 22
Before the ink was dry onPresident Tayyip Erdogan'smuch-touted 'Human RightsAction Plan' announced onMarch 2, the autocraticPresident of Turkey showedhis real "commitment" tohuman rights, by grantingthe wish of his ultra-nationalist ally DevletBahceli to take action todisband the country's thirdlargest party - the pro-Kurdish People's DemocraticParty (HDP).
Last Wednesday, ChiefProsecutor Bekir Sahin fileda case in Turkey'sConstitutional Court to banthe HDP, allegedly for being"an undemocratic party thatcolludes with the terroristgroup PKK and seeks todestroy the unity of thestate." HDP denies any linkswith the PKK - which isdesignated a terrorist groupby Turkey, the EU and theUS- and said that theErdogan's ruling Party AKP,"being unable to overpowerHDP ideologically,
politically or at the ballotbox, is now aiming toeliminate the HDP fromdemocratic politics by meansof the judiciary." As if thiswas not enough, the Chiefprosecutor in his indictmentalso sought a permanentpolitical pan on 687 HDPofficials, including itscurrent co-chairs, PervinBuldan and Mithat Sancar,and the imprisoned formerco-chairs, SelahattinDemirtas and FigenYuksekdag, so that they areprevented from forming asimilar party under anothername. The leader of Turkey'sNationalist Movement Party
(MHP) Devlet Bahceliwelcomed the dissolution ofthe pro-Kurdish party, sayingthe party should be closeddown "never to be openedagain." Turkish seniorpolitical commentatorCengiz Candar, said thetiming of the HDP charges,just before an MHPcongress, showed Bahceli'sheavier hand in decision-making. "It illustrates thatTurkish autocracy is gettingmuch more repressiveagainst the Kurds and... evenmore nationalistic." Candarpoints out: "Either Erdoganis MHP's hostage, or acts inunison with them."
US State DepartmentSpokesman Ned Price in astatement expressedconcern, saying that a ban ofthe party would "furtherundermine democracy inTurkey" and added: "We callon the government of Turkeyto respect freedom ofexpression in line withprotections in the Turkishconstitution and withTurkey's internationalobligations."
Rupee gains 15 paise to endat 72.37 against US dollar
MUMBAI, MAR 22
The rupee appreciated 15 paise to close at 72.37against the US dollar on Monday, driven by foreignfund inflows and easing crude oil prices. However,subdued sentiment in the domestic equity marketsand a moderately strong dollar overseas weighed onthe rupee, forex dealers said. At the interbank forexmarket, the local unit opened at 72.47 against thegreenback and gained further to touch an intra-dayhigh of 72.34. It finally ended at 72.37 against theAmerican currency, registering a rise of 15 paise overits previous close. In the previous session, the rupeehad settled at 72.52 against the American currency."Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have bought closeto a net USD 2.5 billion worth of Indian equities sofar this month. FPIs bought a net USD 179.40 millionas of March 18, 2021. For the month of March, FPIswere net buyers of a total of USD 2.454 billion,"according to Reliance Securities. Global oilbenchmark Brent crude futures fell 0.46 per cent toUSD 64.23 per barrel. Foreign institutional investorswere net buyers in the capital market on Friday asthey bought shares worth Rs 1,418.43 crore.
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Indian referees invitedby Japan FA to officiatein international friendliesNEW DELHI: Four FIFA/Elite AFCreferees and assistant refereesfrom India have been invited bythe Japan Football Association(JFA) to officiate in two of their in-ternational friendly matches to beheld on March 25 and 29 respec-tively.These matches will take place atthe Nissan Stadium in Kanagawaand Kitakyushu Stadium in Fukuo-ka, and are for Japan's prepara-tion for the forthcoming FIFAWorld Cup 2022 Qualifiers &Olympic Games.Referee Rowan Arumughan,along with assistant refereesJoseph Louis Tony and SumantaDutta and fourth official Coimbat-ore Ramasamy Srikrishna, will offi-ciate in the international friendlybetween the national teams ofJapan and South Korea, which isslated to take place on Thursdayat the Nissan Stadium in Kana-gawa.On March 29, the Saison CardCup 2021 match between theJapan U-24 national team and Ar-gentina U-24 national team at theKitakyushu Stadium in Fukuokawill be officiated by CoimbatoreRamasamy Srikrishna, along withassistant referees Joseph LouisTony and Sumanta Dutta andfourth official Rowan Arumughan.Ravishankar J, Referees Director,All India Football Federation(AIFF), stated, "This is the firsttime the services of our Indian ref-erees have been sought for by theJapan FA for these importantgames. We wish our officials allthe best for the forthcomingmatches."
Saurabh Chaudhary,Manu Bhaker win goldin 10m Air PistolMixed team eventNEW DELHI: India's SaurabhChaudhary and Manu Bhaker wona gold medal in the 10m Air PistolMixed team event at the ongoingInternational Shooting Sport Fed-eration (ISSF) World CupRifle/Pistol/Shotgun here at theKarni Singh Shooting range.Saurabh and Manu defeated op-ponents from Iran 16-12 in the fi-nal. The Indian pair of AbhishekVerma and Yashaswini Deswalbagged a bronze medal in the10m Air Pistol mixed team event.Earlier in the day, India's 10m AirPistol shooters Abhishek andYashaswini attained the numberone rankings after their heroics inthe ISSF World CupRifle/Pistol/Shotgun. ElavenilValarivan also retained her spot onthe Women's 10m Air Rifle rank-ings, meaning three Indian shoot-ers now hold the top spot."3 Indian shooters are #1. 10m AirPistol shooters #YashaswiniDesw-al & @abhishek_70007 becomeWorld #1 after their gold & bronzeat the @ISSF_Shooting WorldCup. Women's 10m Air Rifle@elavalarivan retains her #1 rank-ing. #TOPSAthlete #Shooting," theSports Authority of India (SAI)tweeted.
Archer's return forIPL depends oninvestigation bymedical teamPUNE: England limited-oversskipper Eoin Morgan on Mondaysaid that the medical staff woulddetermine whether Jofra Archerwould return to India to play the In-dian Premier League (IPL) atsome stage this year.Morgan's remark came as Archerwas deemed unfit for the upcom-ing three-match ODI seriesagainst India. The pacer has alsobeen ruled out from the initialphase of the Indian PremierLeague (IPL) 2021."To be honest, I cannot give amedical opinion. We know the sit-uation with his elbow, it has pro-gressively gotten worse. We knowthat it needs investigation, onlytime will tell. He has given hisheart and soul to us since he hasbeen involved so we will give himfull attention in order to try andbring the best result possible,"said Morgan during a virtual pressconference on Monday."It all depends on the outcome ofthe investigation that the medicalteam will do (Archer's return to In-dia for IPL). They will determine thebest rehabilitation programme com-ing back and we will go from there.We fully trust our medical team,they have outstanding regardingplayer welfare and player rehabilita-tion. The trust is always there," headded. Archer is returning to theUK for further management and in-vestigation of his right elbow injury.Archer's elbow issue has deterio-rated over the course of the five-match T20I series and made it in-creasingly challenging for him tomaintain performance levels.
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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
India striker Sunil Chhetri rues the factthat he won't be able to be a part of theforthcoming international friendlies ow-ing to medical reasons. But Chhetri can'thide his excitement at the Blue Tigersgetting a chance to play against excep-tionally strong opponents like Omanand UAE in the March FIFA window.
Chhetri who has 72 internationalgoals to his name says that the Indianteam needs to make the most of thechance of getting back to internationalfootball and he also feels one shouldn'tgo around labelling the youngsters withtags that end up becoming burdens.
"Most definitely. To lose out on in-ternational football for an entire year
was such a big disappointment. Butthese are unprecedented times and theyaren't in our control. So, we have little tocomplain about. That said -- I am bothexcited and grateful about the twofriendlies which the Blue Tigers willplay this month -- and against somequality opposition which only bettersthe anticipation. Unfortunately, I won'tbe able to be a part of it," AIFF's officialwebsite quoted Chhetri as saying.
"It pleases me more than I can tell.I've always been on about how we needto better ourselves in Asia and that canhappen only when we come up againsttop opponents. Oman and UAE mostcertainly fit that bill. When I first heardof the possible opponents, I was ex-tremely excited even though it was justa possibility! I hope we, as a team,
make the most of this chance, give agood account of ourselves, and mostimportantly, learn from the experi-ence," he added.
Further talking about the growth ofIndian football, Chhetri said: "Like Isaid -- these are unprecedented times,but despite the circumstances, the factthat we have managed to get so muchfootball in, is commendable. We (Ben-galuru FC) were in a bio-bubble for fivemonths and trust me, it was difficult.You can only imagine how difficult itmust have been to put together the ISL,the I-League, and every other competi-tion.
There are countries where footballhas come to a complete standstill. So tobe able to keep it going is something weshould all be grateful for."
AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 22
With the emergence of youngtalent, shotgun shooting inIndia is set for a turnaroundhaving endured a barren runin the past few years, feelsnational coach MansherSingh.
Often credited with bring-ing shooting into focus in thecountry with double trapmarksman RajyavardhanSingh Rathore's first individ-ual Olympics silver for Indiaat the 2004 Games, shotgun
seemed to have lost its wayeven as the rifle and pistolshooters have risen up theranks. However, Mansherfeels a bright future awaits thediscipline. A reflection of it is
in Angad Vir Singh Bajwa andMairaj Ahmad Khan, the twoTokyo Olympics quota-hold-ers in men's skeet. "I think theroad ahead for shotgun is verygood, especially with the in-
flux of juniors," Mansher saidafter one of his wards won In-dia's first-ever ISSF WorldCup medal here on Sunday.Less than two years ago, four-time Olympian Mansher wasthe first to acknowledge thatthe discipline was goingthrough a crisis of sorts, pri-marily due to a lack of depthcompared to pistol and rifle.Despite it being a spectator-friendly discipline, shotgunstruggled in India due to poorinfrastructure, non-availabilityof equipment and high cost in-volved in training.
Road ahead for shotgun shooting inIndia is very good: Mansher
Can only better ourselves in Asia by playingagainst tough opponents, says Chhetri
AGENCYPARIS, MAR 22
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as ParisSaint-Germain won 4-2 at title rivalLyon to move top of the Frenchleague on goal difference.
Second-place Lille lost 2-1 athome to Nimes. PSG took controlwith first-half goals from Mbappeand midfielder Danilo against a sur-prisingly lacklusterLyon, which won 1-0 inParis earlier this season.
Winger Angel DiMaria scored early in thesecond half with a freekick which Lyon failedto clear, and the ballbounced just in front ofgoalkeeper AnthonyLopes before going in.
Neymar returned af-ter five weeks out with aleft adductor injury, replacingMbappe for the last 20 minutes afterhe notched his 100th goal in theFrench league.
"We came here to win, we knewLyon often cause problems for us,"Mbappe said. "They are a goodside."
There are eight games left in theclosest title race for many years, withLille visiting PSG on April 3 follow-ing the international break and fourth-place Monaco lurking just one point
behind third-place Lyon. Monaco hasbeaten PSG twice this season,Mbappe, who won the title withMonaco in 2017, fired a shot throughthe legs of Lopes in the 14th minuteand Danilo struck a sweet half-volleyinto the bottom left in the 31st. Soonafter Di Maria's free kick from theright eluded everyone, midfielderMarco Verratti's pass sent Mbappethrough on goal and he finished con-
fidently in the 51st.Substitute Islam Sli-
mani pulled one back forLyon 10 minutes laterwith a fine strike from theedge of the area, andwinger Maxwel Cornetmade it 4-2 in the 80th asPSG backed off toomuch. Earlier, Lille paidthe price for poor defend-ing. "We didn't play well.There are no excuses, we
just weren't in the game," Lille cap-tain Jose Fonte told broadcasterCanal Plus. "It's not about pressure,that's the same for everyone, it'smore about attitude ... When youdon't defend as a team things becomedifficult." In 30 games Lille has onlyconceded 19 goals two fewer thanPSG . But it was sloppy this time.Coach Christophe Galtier warned hisplayers not to take struggling Nimeslightly, but they could not prevent athird defeat of the season.
Umpire's Call is creating lotof confusion, grey area needs
to be addressed, says KohliAGENCYPUNE, MAR 22
India skipper Virat Kohli onMonday said that the 'Umpire'sCall' is creating a lot of confu-sion at the moment and thelawmakers need to look at it sothat it does not leave a greyarea when a big tournament isbeing played.
On Saturday, India defeat-ed England in the fifth T20I,and as a result, the hosts wonthe series 3-2. Now both teamswill lock horns in a three-match ODI series, beginningTuesday in Pune.
"Look, I have played in thetime where there was no DRS.The umpire made the decisionwhether the batsman liked it ornot, it stayed like that. Vice-versa, if the umpire gave it notout and it was out, it stayedlike that. Whether it was mar-ginal or not, according to me,umpire's call right now is cre-ating a lot of confusion. Whenyou get bowled as a batsman,you do not expect the ball tohit more than 50 per cent into
the stumps to consider yourselfgetting bowled.
"If the ball is shown clip-ping the stumps, basic cricketcommon sense, I do not thinkthere should be any debates onthat, if the ball is hitting thestumps, it should be out.Whether you like it or not, youshould lose the review," saidKohli during a virtual pressconference on Monday.
"If it hits the stumps ormissing the stumps, it shouldnot matter how much the ballis clipping because it is creat-ing a lot of confusion. Onemore factor that needs to beconsidered is how the fieldingteam responds to a dismissalthat is claimed.
This is somewhere defin-ing the soft signals as well.You have to question what thespirit of the game is and whatthose guidelines are because if things like that hap-pen with the Indian cricketteam overseas then you aretalking about completely dif-ferent conversation about spir-it of the game.
AGENCYANTIGUA, MAR 22
West Indies' Jason Holder took fivewickets to help his side end Sri Lanka'sfirst innings on 169 runs on day 1 of thefirst Test here on Sunday.
At stumps, the West Indies' scoreread 13/0, with John Campbell andKraigg Brathwaite on the field.
West Indies began their first inningson a steady note, with openers Campbelland Brathwaite ensuring they do not losea wicket and will resume day 2 with allwickets in hand.
Earlier, after being asked to bat first,Sri Lanka witnessed a poor start with
Dimuth Karunaratne (12)getting out in just the 11thover. Opener Lahiru Thir-imanne was then joined byOshada Fernando but theirpartnership also did notlast long as the latter gotrun out, bringing DineshChandimal out in the mid-dle.
Chandimal too failedto shine as he scored just four runs get-ting being caught behind off Jason Hold-er's delivery. While other batsmen werefailing to score runs, Thirimanne dis-played stunning performance and tack-led West Indies bowlers pretty well.
Sri Lanka kept losingwickets but Thirimanne's fiftyhelped them get past the 100-run mark. Niroshan Dickwellaand Thirimanne revived SriLanka's innings and playedcautiously. Dickwella played aknock of 32 before Holder dis-missed him. Holder thenpicked the much-needed wick-et for his side, removing Thiri-
manne (70). After this, Sri Lanka lostwickets in quick succession and were allout on 169 runs.
Jason Holder picked five wickets inthe innings while Kemar Roach scalpedthree.
Mbappe scores 2 asPSG beats Lyon 4-2
to top French league
Holder takes five as visitors'first innings end on 169
Buoyant India look to roarin ODIs after Test, T20I
AGENCYPUNE, MAR 22
After winning both the Test andthe T20I series, India is all set forthe final challenge against Eng-land - the three-match ODI series.
In the Test and T20I series,Virat Kohli's team won after be-ing one-down. During the tour,England always started on a highbut failed to maintain their win-ning run while India learnt fromthe mistakes and quickly adaptedto the conditions.
While India completely out-played England in the Tests, theT20I series had a good ebb andflow to it. The series went to thedecider, which the hosts clinchedby 36 runs.
The three-match series, be-ginning Tuesday, will be a part ofthe ODI Super League.
India last played an ODI se-ries last year against Australia andwas beaten 2-1. However, theforthcoming series will havecompletely different dynamics toit as India will be playing in homeconditions and with the confi-dence of winning the Test andT20I series against England.
India's squad on paper lookspromising as the team has multi-ple options for each batting posi-tion. In the opening slots, India
has four options to choose from,namely Rohit Sharma, ShikharDhawan, Shubman Gill, and KLRahul. The squad also has threepotential debutants: SuryakumarYadav, Krunal Pandya, andPrasidh Krishna. Suryakumartook the international stage bystorm and successfully proved his credentials in the re-cently-concluded T20I series. Inthe bowling department also, In-dia has all the boxes checked,having a good mix of both paceand spin attack.
Didn't rest Stokes as he was keen toplay ODI series, says MorganPUNE: England limited-overs skipper Eoin Morgan on Monday saidthat the management did not consider resting Ben Stokes for theODI series against India as the all-rounder was keen to play.On Saturday, India defeated England in the fifth T20I, and as a re-sult, the hosts won the series 3-2. Now both teams will lock horns ina three-match ODI series, beginning Tuesday in Pune.Before the T20 series had started, Morgan had clearly said that hewould want his side to play on turning tracks in order to get bestpractice for this year's T20 World Cup. But this was not the case inthe T20I series, but the Three Lions skipper hopes that turningtracks would be in store in Pune for the ODI leg.
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