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U’khand MahilaCong presidentjoins BJPDEHRADUN: In a shot inthe arm for the BJPahead of the upcomingassembly polls in Uttarak-hand, Pradesh MahilaCongress president SaritaArya on Monday joinedthe saffron party.The former Nainital MLAjoined the BJP at its stateheadquarters here in thepresence of Chief MinisterPushkar Singh Dhami,Pradesh party presidentMadan Kaushik and otherleaders.Arya was keen on a ticketfrom Nainital constituencybut was doubtful aboutthe Congress fielding her.She had lost the seat toSanjeev Arya in the 2017assembly polls when thelatter had contested on aBJP ticket. He is now inthe Congress.

50 policemenhit by Covid inHamirpurHAMIRPUR : About 50police personnel here inHimachal Pradesh are be-ing treated for Covid-19.Thirty-five of them werefound positive in the lastone week and were inhome isolation, Hamirpurdistrict police chief Dr.Akriti Sharma said hereon Monday.Earlier, 14 policemenwere found positive. Theentire staff of the Nadaunpolice station had also be-come Covid patients.The officer said actionwas taken against 127people during the last oneweek for not wearing facemasks.

Akali-BSP candidateParminder SinghSohana intensifieselection campaign,continues meetingswith people

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LEADING ENGLISH DAILY

Punjab Assembly electionpostponed to February 20AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 17

The Election Commission of India(ECI) has decided to postpone thevoting dates for the Punjab Assemblyelection to February 20. Earlier, theState was scheduled to go for polls onFebruary 14.

This comes after several politicalparties, including Congress,Bharatiya Janata Party and formerchief minister Captain AmarinderSingh's party Punjab Lok Congress,requested the Commission to post-pone the elections.

Sources said that the request wasmade as many people from theScheduled Caste community from

State are likely to visit Varanasi, inview of Guru Ravidas birth anniver-sary on February 16.

According to the statement issuedby the ECI, the last date for filing thenomination for the candidates is onFebruary 1, while the candidates canwithdraw their nominations till Feb-ruary 2.

The results will be announced onMarch 10. Earlier Punjab Chief Min-ister Charanjit Singh Channi urgedthe Election Commission of India topostpone the February 14 assemblypolls by six days in view of GuruRavidas Jayanti. Voting for Punjab's117 assembly seats will be held onFebruary 14 and the counting of voteswill take place on March 10.

No person can be forcedto get vaccinated against

wishes: Centre to SC

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 17

COVID-19 inoculationguidelines issued by theUnion Health Ministry do notenvisage forcible vaccinationwithout obtaining the consentof an individual, the Centrehas told the Supreme Court.

The Health Ministry inan affidavit filed before thetop court submitted that In-dia's vaccination programmeis the largest in the world andas on January 11, 2022, a to-tal of 1,52,95,43,602 doseshave been administered.

It said that 90.84 per centof the eligible adult popula-tion has received their firstdose of the vaccine and 61per cent has received theirsecond dose as well.

"Furthermore, a total of

23,768 doses have been ad-ministered to disabled per-sons who have voluntarilychosen to be identified assuch by using their UniqueDisability ID Card/DisabilityCertificate for registration atthe time of their vaccina-tion," it said.

On the issue of exempt-ing persons with disabilitiesfrom producing vaccinationcertificates, the Centre toldthe apex court that it has notissued any SOP that makes itmandatory to carry the vacci-nation certificate for any pur-pose.

The Centre said this in itsaffidavit filed in response to aplea by NGO Evara Founda-tion seeking door-to-door,priority COVID-19 vaccina-tion for persons with disabil-ities.


The India Meteorological Depart-ment (IMD) has predicted rain overDelhi NCR from Friday night due tothe influence of a Western Distur-bance lying over North India.

"This Western Disturbance isweaker compared to the last onewhich caused intense rainfall", saidRK Jenamani, senior scientist, IMD.According to him, the rain will startin Delhi from January 21 night and itwill continue till January 23 morning."There will be light to very light rain-fall."

As a result of the Western Distur-bance, the sky will remain overcastincreasing the minimum temperature

to 13 degree Celsius. "Day tempera-ture to remain low due to rainthroughout North India, Rajasthan,Haryana", Jenamani informed.

There is a possibility of hailstorms also in Punjab, Haryana, headded. As per IMD predictions, Mad-

hya Pradesh, Bihar, Lucknow will seedense fog on Tuesday.

"Cold wave conditions over Pun-jab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Ut-tar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Ra-jasthan during the next two days",said IMD. The weather would im-prove from January 19 onwards dueto the influence of western Distur-bance, informed IMD scientist Jena-mani.

Meanwhile, Delhi witnessed aminimum temperature of 8 degreesCelsius at 7 am on Sunday while themaximum temperature is expected totouch 16 degrees Celsius.

A blanket of fog engulfed Delhion Sunday morning. Following thedip invisibility, several Delhi-boundtrains were running late.

AGENCYSHIMLA, JAN 17

Three persons were hit by a shootingstone(boulders) during a landslidewhich occurred Monday afternoonnear Menus under Shllai subdivisionof Sirmaur district on Poantasahib-Shallai National Highway 707 in Hi-machal Pradesh.

Spokesperson of state disastermanagement Sudehs Mokta said, "shooting stones (during a landslide)

hit a Taxi and earthmover driverand a labourer when the wideningwork of PoantasahibShallai Nationalhighway 707 was underway by Poak-

lane near Menus.He said an earthmover(Poaklane)

driver , labourer and a Taxi driver hadgone near the spot when a heavyboulder fell carrying shouting stone

hit them. The deceasedwere evacuated fromunder the debris whileone died on the spot twoothers were declareddead in Chopal Hospi-tal.

The deceased areidentified as KahanChand(Taxi driver -60)S/o Fakir R/o Sainj POAtal Tehsil Tiyuni Distt.

Dehradoon Uttrakhand, JitenderSingh (worker) S/o Sh. Khem SinghRathor R/o Girwar Tehsil

Hurda Distt Behlwara Rajasthanand Ashok(Poaklane driver) S/o Sh.

Late U.B. Sharma Village RajgarhDistt Churu,Rajasthan.

District Administration Sirmaurhas sent SDM , Patwari to the inci-dent site and bodies of the deceasedare sent to Ronat (Shallai) and Chopalfor Autopsy.

The district administration hand-ed over immediate relief ofRs.10,000/ to the next of deceased.

Deputy Superintendent of PoliceVirbhadur said police would probethe incident .He said bodies of twodeceased engaged in widening worksof Rs 1350 Cr NH Project 25 kmworks was handed over to DharatalConstruction company,


Chief Minister Arvind Kejri-wal on Monday flagged offDelhi Transport Corpora-tion's first electric bus andsaid 300 more such buseswill soon join the publictransport in the city.

Terming the flag off asthe beginning of an era of theenvironmentally friendlypublic transport system inthe national capital, DelhiChief Minister said 2000electric buses will be pro-cured by the government incoming years.

Since 2011, not a singlenew bus was procured by theDelhi Transport Corporation(DTC), he said in the flag-offceremony at Indraprastha(IP) depot here.

Now we will see a revo-lution so that when older

buses are rolled out of serv-ice, new electric buses willbe inducted. The first e-busis being sent on the roads to-day. By April we will see 300electric buses running on theroads of Delhi,"

It is the first time since2011 that a new bus has beenprocured for DTC that peo-ple used to say was "jinxed",that has been overcome now,Kejriwal said.

The AAP convenor,along with Delhi transportminister Kailash Gahlot andsenior Transport departmentofficers also participated in aHavan conducted on the oc-casion. The e-bus can becharged within one to one-and-half hours on a fastcharger. It can run for a min-imum of 120 km in onecharge, and depots are beingequipped with charging sta-tions, he said.


Several Supreme Courtlawyers once again on Mon-day received calls from vari-ous international numbers,allegedly from Sikhsfor Justice (SFJ), thatthreatened the SCjudges regardingPrime Minister Naren-dra Modi's securitybreach during his visitto Punjab on January5, 2022.

Supreme CourtLawyer Vishnu Shankar Jain,who last week also filed acomplaint with the Delhi Po-lice in this regard, todayagain received threat calls.

Jain stated that he has re-ceived threat calls from theSFJ for filing complaintsagainst them.

"They have furtherthreatened the judges of SC.The pre-recorded calls, al-legedly from the SFJ, reiter-ated its threat againstSupreme Court lawyers thatthey will not allow SC toconstitute a committee head-ed by retired SC judge Indu

Malhotra to proceed with theinquiry into the PM's securi-ty breach in Punjab," he saidin the complaint.

Other than AdvocateVishnu Shankar Jain, Advo-cates Apoorv Shukla and

Nishant Katneshwarkar havealso received calls from in-ternational numbers with pre-recorded audio, threateningthem for lodging complaintsagainst SFJ. Recently, theDelhi Police has registeredthe First Information Report(FIR) under various sectionsof the Indian Penal Code(IPC) and Unlawful Activi-ties (Prevention) Act (UAPA)on the basis of lawyers' com-plaints stating that they havereceived calls threateningjudges over the case relatedto Prime Minister SecurityLapse.

Kejriwal flags offDTC's 1st electric bus

Zomato deliveryboy shot dead in RewariREWARI : A delivery boyof online food deliveryplatform Zomato was shotdead in Rewari when hewent to serve an order inAnsal township in Sector19.His mobile and walletwere also found missingand the police suspectedthat he was shot with in-tent to rob. An FIR hasbeen registered at theModel Town police sta-tion. The police identifiedthe deceased as Mahen-dra Singh (30), a residentof Hudithal village of dis-trict Palwal and he wascurrently living in DurgaColony, Rewari and usedto work as a delivery boyin Zomato. On Sundaynight, he went to Ansaltownship with a food or-der.

Three persons die in shooting stone incident in HP


Ahead of assembly elections, DelhiChief Minister and AAP leaderArvind Kejriwal on Monday saidthe party will announce its ChiefMinister candidate for Punjab onTuesday.

He said this to the media on thesidelines of a function here wherehe flagged off the city's first electricbus.

"The name of the party's Chief Ministeri-al candidate for Punjab will be announced to-morrow."

Last week, the AAP launched a toll-freenumber and sought suggestions from the peo-

ple of Punjab to pick a Chief Minister of theirchoice. Kejriwal had said that though he pre-ferred Bhagwant Singh Mann, MP, as theChief Minister, the latter wanted the people ofPunjab to decide.

AAP to name CM candidate today

CIRCULATED IN DELHI, CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB, HARYANA, HIMACHAL AND J&K

SC lawyers receivethreat calls from Sikhs

for Justice again

IIT Bombay studentjumps from seventhfloor of hostel, diesMUMBAI: A 26-year-oldpostgraduate student ofthe Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT) Bombaydied allegedly by suicideon Monday morning, po-lice said.As per information re-ceived by Mumbai police,the student jumped fromthe seventh floor of thehostel and died.Police recovered a sui-cide note from the stu-dent's room which statedthat he had depressionand was under treatment,so he did not hold anyoneresponsible.Further probe is under-way.

IMD predicts rain over Delhi NCR from Friday night onwards

BUREAU AMRITSAR: Punjab Congress ChiefNavjot Singh Sidhu on Monday wel-comed the Election Commission of In-dia (ECI)'s decision to postpone thePunjab Assembly elections.

Addressing a press conference inAmritsar today, Sidhu said, "We wel-come the ECI's decision to postpone

the Punjab Assembly elections."Speaking further at the press con-

ference, Sidhu said: "He (FerozepurRural candidate Ashu Banger, whoquits Aam Aadmi Party today) will bejoining the Congress party."

Earlier today, the ECI decided topostpone the voting dates for the Pun-jab Assembly election to February 20.

Earlier, the State was scheduled to gofor polls on February 14.

This comes after several politicalparties, including Congress, BharatiyaJanata Party and former chief ministerCaptain Amarinder Singh's party Punjab Lok Congress,requested the Commission to postponethe elections.

Sidhu welcomes EC decision

NEWSPAGE2

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one

you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday informed that over 3.5 crore children between the 15-18 age group have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine so far in the country, since January 3, the commencement of vaccination drive for the age group. Taking to Twitter, Mandaviya said, "Amazing enthusiasm among Young India for COVID-19 vaccination. Over 3.5 crore children between the 15-18 Age group have received 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine, since 3rd January. Congratulations to all my young friends who have got vaccinated." As per the Union Health Ministry, with the administration of more than 39 lakh (39,46,348) vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 157.20 Cr (1,57,20,41,825) as per provisional reports till 7 am today.

Over 3.5 cr children between 15-18 receive 1st dose of COVID vaccine in India so far

also chaired an all-party meeting at the Secretariat to discuss the future course of action on the subject.

Meanwhile, BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan walked out of the all-party meeting and said that they do not support the NEET resolution.

"We do not support the resolution. Even during the last Assembly session, we've not supported the resolution passed to scrap the NEET exams. We are having a political stand of supporting the NEET exam in Tamil Nadu," said Srinivasan.

On February 28, 2021, the DMK MPs gave a memorandum against the NEET exam to the President, the CM said.

Speaking on the floor of the Assembly, CM Stalin said, "The entrance examination coaching AGENCY Shah in Delhi in connection with memorandum stating that they are will only benefit the rich students. NEW DELHI : A delegation of the State's demand for exemption against the NEET examination in NEET exams have made school v a r i o u s p o l i t i c a l p a r t y from the National Entrance-cum- Tamil Nadu.education costlier. We cannot representatives from Tamil Nadu Eligibility Test (NEET). Earlier on January 8, Tamil remain a mute spectator."met Union Home Minister Amit The delegation handed over a Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

NEW DELHI ): Centre on request after the amicus curiae Monday sought time from the and other counsel finish their Delhi High Court to frame its submissions.stand on the issue relating to the Currently, senior advocate criminalisation of marital rape. Rajshekhar Rao, who is Amicus

Solicitor General Tushar Curiae in the matter is assisting Mehta, representing Centre, Court on the issues.urged a division bench of Advancing his argument, justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Amicus Rao said, "When an act Hari Shankar, to grant some violates her sexually, believe more time to formulate its stand that you are raped but the law on the issue. says it is not rape. He also

SG Mehta said that submitted that the law also considering the fact that it is a denied the ability to prosecute 2015 matter, the govt needs a the husband for that act."reasonable time as this is a In a woman's mind, the only matter which might need reaction would be that the law is consultation. SG Mehta also sanctioning rape by her stated that nothing imminent is husband, the amicus argued.going to happen in the coming Amicus will further weeks. However, Justice continue his arguments on Shakdher clarified that once the Tuesday. The court was hearing bench has started hearing the a batch of petitions including by matter it would conclude it. SG the NGOs RIT Foundation and Mehta insisted on a couple of All India Democratic Women's weeks' time saying that it would Assoc i a t i on who have not make a difference. challenged an exception to

Justice Shakdher said that section 375 and the Indian Penal the court would consider his Code.

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100071 to Ankita Vashisht for all changed my name and 100078 after marriage my name is h e r e a f t e r b e k n o w n a s hereafter be known RAM I, Harshdeep Singh S/o future purposes. shall hereafter be known I Vijay Kumar S/o. Raj Kumar, Parkasho Devi in in-laws BALWINDER KAUR. SAROOP Sukhvir Singh R/o Vpo.

40008 as Ravinder Kaur. H.No. 1185, Pheruman Road, side. In future I should be 72778 72737 Sihan Daud Teh-Payal I Harnak Singh son of Jarnail 900020 Back Side SDSPP School, known as Parkasho Devi and I, Deepak Kumar S/o Sat Pal I , h i t he r to Known a s (Ludhiana) changed my Singh V..P.O Sidhwan Dona, I, 15428873F Rank SEP Rayya, Distt. Amritsar declare Sundra Devi. That both R/o H. No. B-1/363, Street K A R A M J E E T K A U R name to Harshdeep Singh District Kapurthalahave Tayade Sachin Prabhakar that I am known as Vijay Parkasho Devi and Sundra No 2 Maqsudan, Jalandhar MAKHTAR SINGH GILL Chahal.changed my name from R/o 2023 FD Hospital Kumar & Vijay Kumar Sehgal Devi are my names. have changed my name D/o MAKHTAR SINGH 63372Harnak Singh to Harnek Singh C / o 5 6 A P O h a v e in My Documents. So Vijay 100046 Deepak as given name and BAKSHI SINGH GILL W/o I , V i r p a l K a u r W / o . All Concerned please note. changed my wife’s name Kumar & Vijay Kumar Sehgal I, Amrik Kaur , W/O Angrej Kumar as sarname SATWINDER PAL SINGH Kamalpreet Singh Gill R/o

98706 from Jayshri Ravindra is one & same Person. Singh R/o Said Kheri, Patiala, 72778 R/o. 559 Street 7/2 Kartar Vill: Acharwal Teh-Raikot B a r a b d e t o J a y s h r e e Concerned Note. Pun jab-140401 . have I, Harwinder Singh S/o Nagar Road New Model (Ludhiana) changed my Sachin Tayade. 900026 changed my name and shall Gurmit Singh R/o V.P.O. House Jalandhar Punjab. name to Virpal Kaur Gill.

900020 hereafter be Known as Mazara, Tehsil Balachour, have changed my name and 63372Lakhwinder Kaur . Distt S.B.S. Nagar, have Shall hereafter be known as I Kulwant S ingh S/O

72778 changed my name Harwinder KARAMJEET KAUR. Amarjit Singh R/O H.No. I, Tanav Manroy S/O Singh to SurName Singh 72737 4129, Mohalla Tahli Wala, Rajeev Manroy, R/o Flat Harwinder. I, Sonia D/o Jeet Singh R/o K a r t a r p u r , D i s t t . No-W-1, Omaxe Royal 72778 H.no. 51, Sant Nagar, Chotti Jalandhar Have Changed View Homes, Pakhowal I, Harkunwar Singh S/o Line, Yamuna Nagar Haryana My Name Kulwant Singh R o a d , T h a k a r w a l , Pushpinder singh r/o- 4, B- Declare That Davinder Kaur To Kulwant Singh Heer.Ludhiana, Punjab-142022, b l o c k , R a n j i t Av e n u e And Sonia Are The Names Of 63372have changed my name and Amritsar-143001 have One And The Same Person. I Ramphal S/O Sudhan shall hereafter be Known as Changed my name to 100060 Ram R/O VPO Popra Angad Manroy Harkunwar Singh Brar I, Harjeet Kaur alias Harjit Tehs i l Assandh Dis t t .

72778. 72737 Kaur W/o Parmjit Singh R/o Karnal My Son Sagar @ I, Rajeev Manroy S/O Late I, Rajiv Dogra S/o Avinash Powat (Ludhiana) changed Sagar Turan Are One And S u r i n d e r K u m a r C h a n d e r D o g r a my name Harjeet Kaur. Same Person.Manroy,R/o W1, Omaxe R/o.H.No.2319/10 Chatti 63372 63372R o y a l Vi e w H o m e s , Gali Kt. Dullo Amritsar have I, Pawan Kumar S/o Sham Pakhowal Road, Ludhiana, Changed my name to Rajeev Lal Garg R/o H.No. 439 Thakarwal, Punjab-142022 Dogra Khalifa Bagh Dhuri Road have changed the name of 72737 (Sangrur) changed my name my minor daughter Ananya I Rajwant Singh S/O Chand to Pawan Kumar Garg.Manroy aged about 17 Years Singh R/O Vill. Jang, Po. 63372and She shall hereafter be Jhoke Tehal Singh, Distt. I, Sumandeep Kaur D/O known as Krisha Manroy Ferozepur Have Changed My Kulveer Singh R/O Chak

72778 Name To Rajwant Singh Gandha Singh Wala (Sri I, Aarti Attri , W/O Ravinder Sandhu. All Concerned Mukatsar Sahib), Have Singh Brar R/o 90 Sunny Please Note Changed My Name To Enclave, Desu Majra, Sector 72737 Sumandeep Kaur Dhaliwal.125, Kharar, SAS Nagar I, Sawaran Singh S/o Major 63372(Mohali), Punjab-140301 . Singh R/o.Vill. Thathian I, Sonia D/o Rajinder Singh have changed my name and Mahantan Distt Tarn Taran R / o V p o . S a l o h Te h -shall hereafter be Known as have Changed my name to Nawanshahr (SBS Nagar) Avneet Kaur Brar Sarwan Singh changed my name to Sonia

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72778 name Lovepreet and singh Inderjit Singh.I, Gurbakash Kaur W/o as a Surname . 63372Rajinder Pal R/o Vpo 72737 I, Shital Singh S/o Pritam S o f i p i n d D i s t t I , h i t he r to Known a s Singh R/o Village Tohra, Jalandhar.144024 Punjab, B H A D A R S I N G H Tehsil Nabha (Patiala) have India. Have Changed My DHALIWAL S/O GURDITA changed my Sital Singh.Name From Gurbakash SINGH R/o. VPO Ghanian 63372Kaur To Gurbaksh Kaur . Near Dana Mandi Tehsil Jaitu I, Vijay Laxmi W/o Ganesh

72778 District Faridkot Punjab. Kumar R/o H.No.9, Kesari I h i the r to Known as have changed my name and Colony, Ram Nagar, Khanna DALJIT KAUR W/O Shall hereafter be known (Ludhiana) have changed my S A T N A M S I N G H BHADAR SINGH name to Vijay Lakshmi.R / o V I L L . H A R D O 72737 63372S A N G H A . P O K O T I, hitherto Known as JANGIR I Hitherto Known As Roopa B A D A L K H A N . K A UR W/o GULZAR W/O Mohan Lal R/O VPO JALANDHAR 144039 SINGH R/o. Dhol ki Patti, Sargundi, Teh. Phillaur, Distt. PUNJAB, INDIA. Have Ranian, District Moga Jalandhar, Pin Code-144409 changed my name and shall Punjab. have changed my (Punjab) Have Changed My hereafter be known as name and Shall hereafter be Name And Shall Hereafter Be KASHMIR KAUR known as JASVEER KAUR Known As Roop Rani.

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Samajwadi Party taking 'money under the table' for tickets, alleges UP CMGHAZIABAD : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday slammed the Samajwadi Party for not announcing its candidate list publicly and alleged that the party is "taking money under the table" for giving tickets for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Speaking with the media here, Yogi Adityanath said, "The habit does not improve very quickly and that's why in a hurry to hide faces, SP has avoided making the list of candidates public and is silently alloting the party symbol under the table and is taking money for it." Further, the Chief Minister alleged that Samajwadi Party "has once again revealed its true character by giving election tickets to criminals." "When BJP comes to power again, we will bring all these criminals to justice," said Adityanath. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister had arrived at Ghaziabad to review the COVID-19 facilities here.He criticize the Opposition parties, especially the Samajwadi Party, and said that in the last five years, criminals and history sheeters have lived in fear. Lashing out at the Samajwadi Party for its candidates from Kairana, Bulandshahar, and Loni, Adityanath said, "By announcing the criminals responsible for the exodus of the traders from Kairana, the criminals of the Muzaffarnagar riots and professional history-sheeters as its candidates, the Samajwadi Party has once again shown its true character."

Tamil Nadu political delegation meets Home Minister Amit shah over NEET

Criminalisation of marital rape: Centre seeks time from Delhi High

Court to formulate its stand

I, Lovepreet Singh S/o Gurnam Singh R/o Vill: Khilchian Teh-Baba Bakala Sahib (Amritsar) declare that my wife Sandeep Kaur is out of my control. So i disown with her from my m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with her at his/her own risk.

63372I, Lachhman Dass S/o Mala Ram R/o 5532 Gauoshala Road Jandiala Guru (Amritsar) declare that my elder son Chaman Lal (unmarried) is out of my control. So i disown with h i m f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with him at his/her own risk.

63372I Darshan Singh S/o Gurmej Singh Resident of Vil lage Baghrian Tehsil & District Tarn Taran declare that my son Shamsher Singh and his wife Simranjit Kaur are totally out of my control. I disown them people from my all movable and immovable property. I will not be responsible for any good or bad deeds done by them.

63372 I, Army No. 15498239W Rank SOW Baljit Singh S/o Mangal Singh R/o Vpo Rupowali Kalan, Tehsil and Distt. Amritsar, Punjab 143502 have changed the name of my son from Arshdeep Singh to Arashdeep Singh due to incorrect name ment ioned in my serv ice record.

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I Daulat Ram S/o Late Gokal R/o VPO Nangal Khurd, Tehsil H a r o l i , D i s t t U n a H.P. Disown My Son Santosh Kumar and his Wife Sangeeta Kumari From my Moveable / Immoveable Propert ies. I f Anybody Deals With them Will Do So At Their Own Risk.

100010I Maninder Kaur w/o Sukhdev Singh 3/306 Guru Nanak Colony, Pehowa (Kurukshetra). I declare that I evict my son Gurpreet Singh from my m o v a b l e a n d i m m o v a b l e property. If anyone deals with them in future, then he himself will be responsible. I or my fami ly wi l l not have any responsibility.

400011I, Ram Pal S/o Sh. Dina Lal R/o House No. 8-B, Prithvi Nagar, Industrial Town, Jalandhar declare that my son Saurav is out of my control. I disinherit him from my all moveable and i m m o v e a b l e p r o p e r t i e s . Anybody dealing with him shall be self responsible.

42778I, Manju Devi W/o Sh. Charan Singh R/o Village Gheer, Tehsil And Distt. Karnal Declare That Shivam Kamboj Is Out Of My Control. So We Are Disown Him From My Moveable/immoveable Property. If Anybody Dealing With Him At His/her Own Risk.

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I, Taljinder Singh S/o Pritam Singh R/o Village Rorgarh Tehsil & District Patiala do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under, I became owner of 0Kanal-6.66Marla i.e 20/1923 share out of 32K-1M property Khewat No. 298/278, Khatoni No. 629, Khasra No. 5//8(1-17), 5//9(4-15), 5//12(7-13), 5//13(2-17), 5//18(2-16), 5//19(8-0), 5//22/1min(3-3), 5//26(1-0), Kitey 8, situated in the revenue limits of Brahman Majra, Distt. Fatehgarh Sahib, it was purchased by me vide sale Deed No. 2021-22/26/1/1315 dated 25-08-2021 & its previous original sale deed No. 2583 dated 16-02-2016 was taken by me but the same has been lost by me & i have not misused the same. I am availing a loan from S.B.I. Branch Anaj Mandi Sirhind Mandi. I f anyone having object ions regarding this fact can approach the above said Bank within 15 days from today, to lodge claim.

PUBLIC NOTICE

I Anil Kumar S/o Rajinder Parkash R/o House No.2, Jarnail Enclave, Phase-1, Zirakpur, SAS Nagar, solemnly affirm and declare that his registration document vide vasika no. 2663, December 1997 (Seller Gurmakh Singh and Purchaser Manjit Kaur), Registration Document Vide Vasika No. 8651 Dated 14-10-2010 (Seller Manjit Kaur and Purchaser Arvind Mohan Bhatt-Prem Singh), Registration Document Vide Vasika No. 3762, Dated 26-06-2013 (Seller Prem Singh and Purchaser Mr. Arvind Mohan Bhatt). I lost all my document somewear. I complaint this in zirakpur police station wide Sr. No. 198421/2022 dt. 11-01-2022. I have given notice in the newspaper regarding the loss of the said registry.

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LOST & FOUND

LOST & FOUNDI, Murti Devi W/o Vinod Kumar, R/o H.No.320/19, Punj Mohalla, Kaithal, Haryana declare that My Plot No. 110, Block-C, Suncity possession letter dated 24-05-2016 has been lost near karnal road, kaithal. If anybody find, please contact 94167-46583.

100039It is Notified for the information that my original examination Certif icate of Main Senior Secondary Examination of the year 2015 and Roll No.2681126 issued by CBSE has been actually lost. Name of the Candidate Rajat full address house No.6730 khai mohala Lahori gate Amritsar-1 Phone-9780993539

72737I, Deepinderjeet Singh S/o Sarbjit Singh R/o Fatehgarh PS Morinda (Rupnagar) declare that my 10th class certificate Roll No. 1017687793 and 10+2 c lass cer t i f icate Rol l No. 2810262 and Birth certificate has been lost in Morinda dated 28-12-2021. If anybody found then contact at my above address.

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16 accusedinvolved in illicitliquor trade heldSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: District Police, Karnal, tookaction against people during a oneweek special operation being carriedout to arrest the accused for illegalliquor trade, gambling, drug traffickingand possession of illegal weapons. Onthe sixth day, January 16, strict actionwas once again taken against the ac-cused involved in the illicit trade ofliquor and the accused involved inspeculation. On the sixth day, 16 ac-cused involved in liquor business werearrested from different police station ar-eas of Karnal district. 198 bottles of ille-gal liquor and 640 litres of Lahan wererecovered from their possession. 05 ac-cused were arrested while doing thesame speculation. Cash worth Rs5,090 was recovered from their posses-sion. Cases were registered againstthese accused in various police stationsof Karnal district under sections of Ex-cise Act and Gambling Act and appro-priate legal action was taken as perrules.Under this campaign, on Sunday, inone case of Assandh police station, oneaccused was held with 12 bottles of il-licit liquor, in three cases of Butana po-lice station, three accused were heldwith 15 bottles of illegal liquor and 60litres of Lahan in a case of Thana Indri.One accused was held with 11 bottles,two accused in two cases of police sta-tion city with 18 bottles, two accused intwo cases of police station Kunjpurawith 16 bottles, two accused in two cas-es of police station Madhuban with 16bottles, one of police station Munak Inthe case one accused was held with n150 litres of Lahan and 45 bottles of il-licit liquor, in two cases of Nising policestation two accused were given 430litres of Lahan and 05 bottles of liquorand in two cases of Thana Sector-32/33two accused were held with 60 bottlesof illegal liquor. In the four cases of thesame police station city, civil line, Sadarand Taraori a total of five accused werearrested while speculating. A total of Rs5,090 in cash was recovered from theirpossession.

Dr. Karwal newplastic surgeon ofAdesh Hospital

GOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD: Dr. Vinay Karwal will bethe new plastic surgeon of Adesh Hos-pital and Medical College. He has takencharge as a plastic surgeon in AdeshHospital. It is noteworthy that beforethis Dr. Vinay Karwal rendered his serv-ices in Arjikar Hospital, Calcutta forthree years and in other notable hospi-tals. Talking to reporters, Dr. Vinay Kar-wal said that plastic surgery on burn pa-tients or amputation is best done at nor-mal cost and there is nothing to worryabout in this surgery. Plastic surgery isa means to save the lives of patients byrepairing their burnt and amputatedlimbs and giving them new life. He saidthat the palate of newborns is different,it has holes in it but it can be cured byplastic surgery. He said that many timeswhen the children are born, the lips areconnected and this is also cured by thismethod.Dr. Karwal said that nerve cuts, cosmet-ic surgery, hair plantation etc. are a partof plastic surgery and all these facilitiesare being provided in Adesh MedicalCollege and Hospital at low cost. Givingthis information, the chairman ofAadesh Group, Dr. H.S. Gill said thatAadesh Hospital Mohri is a hospitalwhere experienced doctors of seriousdiseases are present under one roofand the people of Shahabad and Am-bala as well as Kurukshetra, Ladwa,Yamunanagar, Jagadhri, Thol, Ismail-abad, Pihova and Karnal. Taking ad-vantage of physicians. Manager HariOm Gupta said that Aadesh Hospital istrying to make the best treatment avail-able at low cost.

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Haryana Governor, Sh. Bandaru Dat-tatraya on Monday flagged off twotrucks containing 4000 hygiene kitsprepared by the Indian Red Cross So-ciety for 22 districts of the state for theprevention of Corona. This kit con-tains soap, oil, toothpaste, toothbrush,napkin, etc. Each district will get 150to 200 kits.

Sh. Dattatraya said that the use ofmasks, social distancing and cleanli-ness are very important to prevent co-rona. He said that these kits shouldreach the poorest of the poor in all dis-tricts so that they also become awareof the best practices to check thespread of corona.

He said the workers of the RedCross Society have done a commend-able job during Covid-19 by helpingpeople in many ways. 6000 volunteersof the Indian Red Cross Society are

working for awareness and vaccina-tion to prevent the third wave ofCovid-19.

Sh. Dattatraya said that 500 oxy-gen concentrators have also beenmade available in the districts by theIndian Red Cross Society. He ap-

pealed to the officials and workers ofthe Red Cross Society to create aware-ness among the public about vaccina-tion to avoid the third wave of Covid-19 and disseminate information aboutCovid protocol among the generalpublic.

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A program was organized onbehalf of Art of Living inApna Ashiana, a social serv-ice organization of Karnal.The program was presidedover by social workersPravesh Gaba, Sanjay Salujaand Ramit Sachdeva.

Under this program, itwas decided by the socialworkers that due to the in-creasing cases of Corona epi-demic and Omicron, medi-cines of Sri Sri Tatva weredistributed among the peopleto increase their immunity, sothat poor and helpless peoplecould escape from this waveof Omicron and live a healthylife.

Pravesh Gaba said theseAyurvedic medicines will bevery beneficial for the needypeople in this winter season.

Medicines called ShaktiDrop, Tulsi Extract, KabasurKudi Neer, Turmeric Plus,

Amrit were distributed tothem today. In order to makethis event a success, theworkers and officials of theArt of Living organization,together with the managerand staff members of theAshiana, participated in thissacred work and performedthe work of service.

In this program especial-ly Haryana State Art of Liv-ing Coordinator Shuchika

Batra, Haryana Apex Bodymember Ramit Sachdeva, SriSri Tatwa Chief DistributorMukesh Batra, District Development Com-mittee Chairman SanjaySaluja, Lalit Sukhija andPravesh Gaba gave their fullsupport. On this occasion, so-cial worker Anu Madan gavedetailed information aboutthe activities of his Ashianato all.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birthanniversary to be celebrated on Jan 23ANIL KUMARJIND : The Bharatiya Janata Party is going to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose'sbirth anniversary on 23rd January as Parakram Diwas at booth level across the state. To re-view the preparations for this program, BJP state president Omprakash Dhankhar reachedJind BJP district office today to take a meeting of key workers. In the meeting, State Educa-tion Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar, State General Secretary Vedpal Advocate, District In-charge and Haryana Youth Commission Chairman Mukesh Gaur, Jind MLA Dr. KrishnaMidha and Youth State President Rahul Rana addressed the meeting prominently.

RANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL, JANUARY 17

Deputy Commissioner Pradeep Dahiyasaid that it has come to the notice of thedistrict administration that many hospi-tal operators are not performing bio-medical waste properly as per rules,which is not visually good for humanhealth. In future, necessary action willbe taken against hospitals which do notproperly dispose of biomedical waste.As per the Chief Minister's announce-ment, tenders worth Rs. 7 crore 80 lakhshave been floated for the developmentworks of the city. Upon completion ofthe tender process, the process of gettingall the development works completedqualitatively will be completed. In orderto provide protection to the public fromCovid-19 in the district, the first dosehas been applied while fulfilling the tar-get, which is 102 per cent, while thegraph of the second dose is more than 75per cent.

Deputy Commissioner PradeepDahiya was addressing a press confer-ence in the hall of Koyal Complex onMonday. Accompanying him on the oc-casion were Superintendent of PoliceLokendra Singh, IPS officer Prabina P.,ZIP CEO Suresh Ravish, CTM GulzarAhmed, DIPRO Dharmaveer Singh,DDA Dr. Karmachand, EO KuldeepMalik etc. were present. DC PradeepDahiya said that the district administra-tion is working with commitment to-wards giving a good governance freesystem. Due to Covid-19 and in view ofthe growing influence of Omicron, allthe arrangements for health services inthe district have been completed.

Players will be fit after treatment ofligament injury: Dr. SinghSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Virk Hospital and Sarbat Da Bhala Trust organised a freecamp on knee, hip and ligament related injuries. The camp was held atVirk Hospital from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in which patients were examinedfree of cost while X-rays of needy patients were also done. Giving infor-mation, Pravesh Gaba and Hardeep Walia said that most of the pa-tients in the camp were sports injured players. The orthopaedic special-ist in the camp, Dr. Dr. Balbir Virk and Sports Injury Specialist. Aman-

preet Singh and Dr.Vikas Goyal, Dr.Sanjeev, while exam-ining the patients,said that they wentback to the dayswhen players used toend their careers onthe playing field dueto injuries. But thingshave changed. Afterbreaking the liga-ment-ACL, the play-ers get ready to play

again after undergoing treatment.He pointed out that the treatment of ACL fractures, the most importantligament of the knee in sports injuries, is now much safer and betterthan in the past through arthroscopy. Dr. Dr. Balbir Virk and Sports In-jury Specialist. Giving information to the sports injured players, Aman-preet Singh said that ligaments are such groups of rope-like fibreswhich provide stability to the bones by connecting them together. Dueto this the joints work smoothly. ACL surgery provides stability to theknee, he explained. In football, basketball and skiing, etc., when theknee becomes more stretched, a situation arises where the ligamentbreaks while pulling. In this case, the knee becomes swollen and thereis pain in it.

Mahakal International Groupdoing social work: Malik

RAVI KUMARBABAIN: On arrival at Babain, Deepak Malik, Aman Malik and Dhar-mendra Banchal from Mahakal International Group were warmly wel-comed by Babbu Bhagwanpur and Gaurav Bhagwanpur and otheryouth. On this occasion, Deepak Malik and Aman Malik from MahakalInternational Group reached a wedding ceremony in Babain and whiletalking to reporters said that Mahakal Group has always been cooper-ating for the poor youth in Haryana. Deepak Malik said that Mahakal In-ternational Group will open an orphanage in the coming days and pro-vide education to the orphans. He said that Mahakal InternationalGroup has also provided assistance in marriages of poor girls. Dhar-mendra Banchal said that he was honoured by the Group for returninghome after winning a medal in the Olympics.Dharmendra Banchal said that Mahakal International Group is increas-ingly participating in social work and we should serve the poor. Servingthe poor brings virtue. He appealed to the youth that we should give upevils like intoxication and focus on sports and studies. Babbu Bhagwan-pur, Gaurav Bhagwanpur, Anuj Soora, Rakesh Malik, Jaswinder Singhand other dignitaries were present on this occasion.

Darpur team winscricket tournament

R K KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI: The two-day cricket competition on behalfof Chuharpur Kala Grameen Committee came to an end at Hy-del Colony Bhadkala and the team from Darpur won the finalmatch. In the competition, the team of Dhaba Uttar Pradeshwas the runner-up. Outgoing chairman of the block committeeVirendra Chaudhary honoured the winning team by giving tro-phies and cash prizes. On this occasion, he said that there isno shortage of talent in the rural areas, just need to give it theright platform. Participating in these types of competitionsawakens the spirit of the game inside the player and also instila sense of discipline in the player.While honoring the winners, Geeta Ram Kashyap, District Gen-eral Secretary of OBC Morcha of BJP Mandal Pratap Nagarand Pratap Nagar Mandal Media Incharge were also presentalong with the chief guest. Members of Chuhardpur KalaGrameen Committee Bunty, Manga Ram, Vicky, Preet, Billuetc. were also present on this occasion.

Govt should withdraw casesagainst farmers: RanaRINKU GONDARNISSING: District President of Bhartiya Kisan Union Yashpal RanaAungad said that there should be no delay in withdrawing the lawsuitsfiled against the farmers during the agitation with immediate effect. Hesaid that compensation should be given to the farmers who were mar-

tyred in the peasant movement.Rana said that the governmentshould make a law on MSP sothat the farmers can get a fairprice for their crops. He said thatall the farmers support the ongo-ing labour movement across thecountry and the farmers standwith the workers of the country. Healso alleged that the governmentand administration are engaged inharassing the people regardingthe Corona infection and underthe guise of Corona, people arebeing charged Rs 500 as challan.The government should take ap-propriate steps to protect the peo-ple due to the Corona epidemicand not put a burden on them.The government and administra-

tion should help the people who are suffering from depression. Ranaaccused some farmers 'organisations that they are going to contestelections in Punjab under the guise of farmers for their own benefit.a

Memory Day of PrajapatiBrahma Baba heldDARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI: Today Prajapita Brahmakumari Ishwariya Vish-wavidyalaya Nilokheri celebrated Prajapita Brahma Baba's MemorialDay. Prajapita Brahma Baba founded Prajapita Brahmakumari Ish-wariya Vishwavidyalaya in 1937. He formed a sisters' trust in the name

of Om Mandali and gave allher property to that trust. Thisorganisation started with somesiblings and today it hasbranches in about 140 coun-tries all over the world. Brah-makumari Prem Bahan, whocame from Karnal, said thatPrajapita Brahma remainedunited with Parampita Para-matma all her life. This pro-gramme was presided over byBrahmakumari Sangeeta Ba-

han, Chief Director of Nilokheri Centre.He shed light on the life of Brahma Baba and said that the cosmicname of Brahma Baba was Dada Lekhraj. He was a diamond mer-chant. They were full of divine virtues. He was a Karmayogi. The life ofBrahma Baba is an example for us children. He got perfection throughyoga and penance. On this occasion Brahmakumari Suman Bahan,Brahmakumari Poonam Bahan, Brahmakumari Meena Bahan, AnilKhanna, Satpal, Gurmej, Mahendra Bakipur, Parveen Sikri, Amit Goyal,Ajay Kumar, Satish, Ram Kataria, Hemant Mehta, Sanjeev Joshi werealso present.

Immunity boosting Ayurvedic drugsdistributed to Ashiana inmates

SDM holds meeting forR-Day preparations

Guv flags off two trucks containing 4000 hygiene kits for 22 distts

Netaji’s birthday to be celebratedwith fervour: Happy Khedi

NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, JAN 17

BJP Mandal President Happy Khedi on Monday visited thevillages like Bhagwangarh, Rajhedi, Rapdi, Madhobans, Kar-tarpur, Mandhar, Palewala, Potli, Thaska and Khurdaban.During this, he presented Netaji's portrait, leaflets and tricol-or to the villagers. Happy Khedi informed that the birth an-niversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose will be celebratedwith enthusiasm in the entire state on January 23. BJP work-ers will organize programmes at the booth level and takepledge to work in the interest of the country by taking inspi-ration from Netaji's life. Mahendra Nagal and Satish SainiKhurdban were present on this occasion.

Radaur councilors resent delay insalaries to safai workersNIRMAL SAINIRADAUR: The councilors met the municipal secretary regarding theproblem of non-receipt of salaries of safai karamcharis. During this, thecouncilors raised the issue of non-payment of salaries of the safaikaramcharis for the last two months by the contractor and demanded

that it be resolved at theearliest. The secretaryassured that he is withthe sanitation workersand understands theirproblem.Efforts will be made toget the salary releasedas soon as possible bytalking to the contractor.Councilors KuldeepNambardar, RavindraSaini, Rajan Pasi,Roshanlal Saini, Bhag-watdayal Kataria and De-

vendra Lakki said that the contribution of janitors in the city's sanitationsystem is commendable. The credit for the better position of the munici-pality in the sanitation survey also goes to these employees. But for thelast two months, these employees have not been paid by the contrac-tor.ll belong to poor families and are supporting their families with thissalary. In such a situation, due to non-receipt of two months salary, it isbecoming difficult for them to run their households.The contractor has been contacted many times but his attitude is notright. He is also not giving PF to the employees properly, they alleged.As a result, there is anger even among MC councilors.The councilors said If he does not correct his attitude soon and doesnot pay his salary to the employees, then a meeting of councilors will becalled and a strict decision will be taken regarding the matter. They metthe secretary today regarding this problem.

Ensure some benefit forevery poor at Antodaya

fairs: DC to officialsSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JAN 17

Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav today said thatAntodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana is the highest priority schemeof the government, because at its core the poor especiallythose families who have no means of employment and in-come, have to be connected with some form of employmentso as to increase their income.

The Deputy Commissioner was conducting weekly reviewwith the departmental officers involved in Antodaya schemesin a meeting held in the auditorium of Mini Secretariat onMonday. In the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner reviewedthe three points, Unattended, Rejected and In Progress.

He informed that such applicants / beneficiaries whose ap-plications have come and they have not been considered yet.

The second application was rejected for one reason or an-other and the third application which has been considered andis in progress. He clarified to the officers that no one has toshow unattended, it is a matter of convincing the applicant, i.e.he must give benefits in one scheme and not in another.

He gave an example and said that if an applicant says thathe does not have to take a loan, then ask him to get employ-ment in MGNREGA. Because there is no loan and no repay-ment in MGNREGA. This way no one will return empty hand-ed. Regarding the rejection, he said that if one does not quali-fy in one scheme, he try to give him benefits in anotherscheme. Don't delay it and forward it to another department.He took progress reports under follow-up by the concerned de-partments.

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI, JANUARY 17

Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sumit Sihag con-vened a meeting of the concerned officers ofthe sub-division in the rest house of the mu-nicipality on January 26, 2022 to observe theRepublic Day celebrations with dignity at thesub-divisional level and instructed the officersof the concerned departments to Do the dutygiven to the department with fidelity and de-votion. Sihag informed that like every year,this year also the Republic Day celebrationswill be held in the premises of Indri's newgrain mandi. Therefore, the concerned offi-cials should make all kinds of preparations inadvance to celebrate this national festival inAnaj Mandi Indri. The officers and employeesof the departments who did commendablework in the Independence Day celebrationsby the administration will be honoured andthe relatives of the freedom fighters will behonoured by visiting their homes. He said thatonly children above the age of 10 will be ableto participate in the Republic Day celebra-tions. Only Haryana Police, NCC boys andgirls teams will participate in the March Pastsalute in the Republic Day celebrations. The

forum was moderated by Dr. Surendra Dutt.During the meeting, Sumit Sihag also dis-

cussed important points related to cleanliness,drinking water, construction of toilets, stagedecoration and other events with the con-cerned officers and also directed the concernedofficers to ensure special arrangements in thisregard. On this occasion, section developmentand panchayat officer Angrej Singh Mor, sec-tion education officer Rammurti Sharma, head-master Dr. Surendra Dutt, Agriculture Devel-opment Officer Sachin Kumar, Supervisor ofHorticulture Department Shubham Kamboj,Accountant of Nagarpalika Hakam Singh,DPO Sandeep Kumar, Supervisor of Womenand Child Development Department Mamtaand Rajni and other officials of other depart-ments were also present.

‘Action to be taken if biomedicalwaste treatment not proper’

PM to conduct online'Pariksha Pe Charcha-2022'

CHANDIGARH– Similar to previous years, Prime Minister, Sh. NarendraModi will conduct an online 'Pariksha Pe Charcha-2022' programme withthe students. A competition is being organised by the Union Education Min-istry to participate in the programme. Giving information in this regard, anofficial spokesperson said that an online competition is being organised forthe students, their parents and teachers to participate in the discussion dur-ing 'Pariksha Pe Charcha-2022' programme with the Prime Minister. In thisprogramme, students of government and private schools studying from classIX to class XII, their parents and teachers can participate.

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India urgently needs an annualcomprehensive Covid-l9 Plan: Expert

Two time MLA Luv Kumar Goldy joins Punjab Lok CongressCHANDIGRAH: Senior Congress leader and two time MLA from Garhshankar, Luv Kumar Goldy today joined thePunjab Lok Congress along with hundreds of his supporters including sarpanches, members of municipal council andblock samitis. While joining the party, Goldy said, he had always faith and confidence in the leadership of CaptAmarinder Singh. He said, after taking his supporters into confidence he had decided to join the PLC.

Goldy said, Punjab needed the leadership of Capt Amarinder the most as his successors had proved utter failures.He said, the Congress party was in a state of civil war and the Congress candidates will lose deposit in most of theconstituencies. Welcoming Goldy into party fold Capt Amarinder, who is in isolation due to COVID, in a special mes-sage said, Goldy belonged to a respectable political family of Garhshankar which had great contributions towards thefreedom of the country and welfare of the state. Dharam Singh Fauji, a Municipal Councillor from Barnala also joinedthe Punjab Lok Congress today along with his supporters.

Ex-Punjab Min SarwanS Phillaur & his sonquit Cong, join SAD-SCHANDIGARH: Ahead of Punjabassembly elections, former JailMinister Sarwan Singh Phillaur and hisson Damanvir Singh Phillaur leftCongress and joined Shiromani AkaliDal-Sanyukt (SAD-S) on Monday.The father-son duo Sarwan formallyjoined SAD-S in the presence of PartyPresident and former Union MinisterSukhdev Singh Dhindsa here.Sarwan Singh Phillaur is a five-timeMLA. He was earlier with ShiromaniAkali Dal (Badal) and had joined theCongress in 2016.Welcoming them into the party fold,Dhindsa said Sarwan Singh Phillaurand Damanvir Singh Phillaur areknown for working for the upliftment ofthe backward classes and haveserved the people of Doaba region forthe last many years, adding that theSAD-S will be further strengthenedwith the joining of the father-son duo.He also announced that SarwanPhillaur will be the Senior VicePresident and Damanvir will be theGeneral Secretary of the party.Speaking on the occasion, SarwanSingh Phillaur said all parties like theCongress and Akali Dal (Badal)arehands in glove with drug, sand andtransport mafias.

DEO given informationabout new schedule

released by commissionDALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, JAN 17

Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election OfficerSmt. Apneet Riyait informedthat the Election Commis-sion of India has madechanges in the schedule ofLegislative Assembly elec-tions in the state. Accordingto the new schedule issuedby the commission, the noti-fication for voting will be is-sued on 25 January 2022 andthe last date for filing nomi-nation papers will be 01 Feb-ruary 2022. Scrutiny ofnominations will be done on02 February and the last datefor withdrawal of nomina-tion papers is 04 February2022. She informed that thevotes will be held on 20 Feb-ruary 2022 and the countingof votes will take place on 10March 2022.

The District Election Of-ficer said that the ModelCode of Conduct is beingstrictly followed in the dis-trict and instructions havebeen given to all the officersof the district in this regard.She directed the officers towork with full dedication toimplement the instructionsof the Election Commissionand ensure that action is tak-

en against the violators. Dis-trict Election Officer Smt.Apneet Riyait informed thattraining of election staff hasbeen done in several phasesto ensure smooth conduct ofelections in the district. Shesaid that during the electionprocess in the district, com-pliance of Covid rules wouldbe ensured and any kind oflaxity would not be tolerat-ed. Apneet Riyait informedthat in order to complete theelections in a transparentmanner, where the complaintregistered through CWizzleapp is being resolved in 100minutes, a 24-hour griev-ance cell has also been set upby the district administra-tion. Is. She said that surveil-lance teams, flying squadsetc. have been formed in thestate to conduct the pollingin fear-free and peacefulmanner.

542 positive patientsof Covid-19 and 2deaths in the districtDALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: Giving informationabout the condition of COVID-19, CivilSurgeon Dr. Parminder Kaur informedthat today with the receipt of 3170 newsamplings with suspected flu-likesymptoms and receiving the report of2912 samplings 542 positive patientsof Covid-19. And 02 deaths. She saidthat the total number of positivepatients so far is 31722 from thedistrict samplings and with the receiptof 2371 positive cases from theoutlying districts the total number ofpositive cases of Covid-19 hasincreased to 34093. The total numberof samplings of Covid-19 taken so farin the district is 1029821 andaccording to lab reports, 994063samplings are negative. While 5843samplings are awaiting report and thenumber of deaths so far is 1010. Thenumber of active cases is 2421 whilethe number of cured patients is 30662.

Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary, alongwith family, pays obeisance atGurdwara Mau Sahib

ASHOK KAURAPHILLAUR: Indian National Congresscandidate from Phillaurassembly constituency and formerPunjab Youth Congress presidentVikramjit Singh Chaudhary paidobeisance at the historic Sri GuruArjan Dev Ji Gurdwara Mau Sahibaccompanied by his father, Member ofParliament Santokh Singh Chaudhary,mother Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary andwife Shveta Raj Chaudhary onMonday. He was also accompanied bylocal Congress leaders and workers atthe gurdwara. After the Congress partyannounced his name in the first list ofcandidates for the forthcomingassembly polls, Vikramjit Chaudharyvisited the holy shrine beforekickstarting his election campaign.Along with his family members, heprayed for the prosperity ofPhillaur and the success of hiscampaign.

JALANDHAR, JAN 17

Omicron is likely to cause infectionsto both vaccinated as well as unvac-cinated people. The World HealthOrganization reported 15 millionnew Covid-19 cases globally for theweek of January 3-9, a 55 per centincrease from the previous week. In-dia urgently needs a comprehensiveCovid-19 plan, from now till the endof the year, with scenario mappingand responses. This should consist ofdaily public communication, rapidtesting and scaling up home supportservices, expanding tele medicineand shoring up the health infrastruc-ture, recruiting more health person-nel and also pay those at the frontlines better. Accompanying this mustbe a rapid expansion of the vaccina-tion plan which is inadequate.

National Communicable Dis-ease Control Programme - Advisor,Dr Naresh Purohit told UNI here af-ter addressing a webinar on Combat-ing Omicron Surge organised by thePathankot based Chintpurni MedicalCollege on Sunday, that even thoughCOVID is a communicable disease,its worst effects are visible in thosewith non- communicable diseases–cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,hypertension, obesity and chronicrespiratory diseases. Front line

Covid warrior Dr Purohit said thatwith the ongoing Covid-19 pandem-ic the need of the hour is to createmore awareness regarding preven-tive healthcare.

He averred that the recent surgein Covid–19 cases and the threat ofOmicron variant has once again ledto restrictions and shutting down of

public places including gyms, em-ployees have again returned to 'workfrom home' and students are back toonline classes mandating the longsitting and screening sharing hours atthe cost of numerous health prob-lems. Hence, it is pertinent to keepthe mind and body healthy and ab-staining from illness by following

the work-from-home healthylifestyle through practicing Yoga.Experts in the webinar said that thepandemic has made us stronger thanever before. With a stronger mind,body, coping mechanisms we knowthat we will get through this stormlike we did before and this too shallpass.

3 more die of coronain 2 daysAnil VermaBATHINDA: The scourge of theCorona epidemic is growing by theday. The death toll in Punjab is also onthe rise, while in Bathinda the Coronaepidemic is on the rise. In Bathinda, 3persons died in last 2 days In the last10 days, more than seven deaths havebeen confirmed by the healthdepartment. Hundreds of patients arecoming back positive every day As aresult, even the hands and feet of thehealth department seem to be swollen. The victims are being cremated as perthe rules by the public service workerswearing PPE kits.Sahara JansevaPresident Vijay Goyal said in a pressstatement that a 55-year-old man fromHaji Ratan died at DMC Ludhianayesterday. Another died at the privatehospital in Bathinda due to coronationand was cremated. He said that awoman who was pregnant yesterdayalso died due to corona. Civil SurgeonTejwant Singh appealed to the peopleto abide by the rules of Coronaepidemic and said that as many peopleas possible should be vaccinated.

SAD Badal appoints Sodhias Deputy President of

Amritsar District

JANDIALA GURU (KULJIT SINGH): Shiro-mani Akali Dal Badal Party's district Amritsar Pres-ident and former MLA Vir Singh Lopoke appointedAmrik Singh Sodhi Devidaspura as Senior vicepresident of Amritsar rural in return for his excellentservices to the party. The responsibility has been en-trusted to him by the high command, he will performdiligently and honestly and will work day and nightto strengthen the party. On this occasion ShamsherSingh Shera, Savinder Singh Chandi, Ranbir SinghRana, Sunny Sharma, Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma,Harpal Singh, former sarpanch, Jasbir Singh,Gurvinder Singh, Jasmeet Singh Khaira, SalwinderSingh Sohi, and others were present.

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JAN 17

Center No. 278 Kikkar DasMohalla of Ward No. 29 ofBlock Bathinda under the di-rection of Child DevelopmentProject Bathinda Lohri of 7girls was celebrated at nearbyChhajju Wala Gurudwara un-der the leadership of CDPOUsha Rani and SupervisorBaljit Kaur. Aganwadi work-er Amandeep Kaur celebratedthe Lohri of children by recit-

ing Sukhmani Sahib. CDPOUsha Rani said that nowadaysthere is no difference betweena boy and a girl. Girls alsosupport their parents like boys.People were urged not to killfetuses and to give equal rightsto girls. Supervisor Baljit Kaurexplained to the woman aboutanti anemia bare . On the oc-casion workers AmandeepKaur, Daya Rani, helper Mo-hinder Kaur, Sunita Rani andother women Narinder Kaur,Indu Verma were present.

Anganwadi workerscelebrate Lohri of 7 girls

JASPOONAM KOHLIDINANAGAR, JAN 17

Congress candidate fromDinanagar constituency andCabinet Minister ArunaChaudhary has receivedoverwhelming responsefrom the people on the firstday of campaigning today.She shri ganesh her electioncampaign from village Bal-apindi and then held meet-ings in Daburji, Marara,Abadi Chandigarh, Makoda,Jhabkara, Nabha Das

Colony, SC Basti Tanda,Jagochak Tanda and Amanvillages and ask the voters tocast her vote in the name ofdevelopment works. SeniorCongress leader AshokChaudhary was also present. In these meetings, MadamChaudhary said that thelarge turnout despite the se-vere cold proves that peopleare happy with the develop-ment work they have donein the last five years andwant to bring it back.

Shri Chaudhary, while

Aruna Chaudhary campaignsin her constituency

SUMER GARGSANGRUR, JAN 17

For the vaccination of maxi-mum citizens at the specialcamps & to ensure the suc-cess of the campaign in thedistrict, the District ElectoralOfficer(DEO), Sangrur, Mr.Ramvir inspected the variouscamps of Covid Vaccinationat Dirba and Chhajli

During his visit while hereviewed the progress madeby the staff of the health de-partment he has encouragedthe people of villages, townsand cities to be motivatedand sensitized for immuniza-tion.

DEO said that it wasvery important to follow thenecessary precautions to pre-vent the spread of Omicronvirus. He said that one

should avoid risking the pre-cious life of oneself andone's family by ignoringhealth counseling. While at-tending special camps atJanal and Chhajli villages ofDirba sub division, the DEOalso interacted with the citi-zens who had come there forvaccination and made themaware about the importance

of vaccination. He said thatto ensure protection againstcorona, it was very importantto wear masks, wash handsfrequently and maintains so-cial distance from each other.

Mr. Rajesh Sharma andMr. Jaspreet Singh both re-turning officers respectivelyfor Dirba and Sunam werealso present on the occasion.

DEO conducts surprise checkingto expedite Covid vaccination

We will strongly oppose Dr. Agnihotriin constituency: Gurminder Rataul

TARN TARAN (YADWINDER KADGILL): The rebel-lious Congressmen openly expressed their displeasure over there-ticketing of Dr. Dharmbir Agnihotri from Tarn Taran Assem-bly constituency. Agnihotri has sounded the drum of resoluteprotest. Congress workers gathered in the office of Congressleader Gurminder Singh Rataul who has been associated with theCongress party for almost 40 years. On the contrary, the Akalileaders were pushed forward, which is why we have spent fiveyears in despair. We have been claiming injustice for 5 years butthis time again the party has done injustice to us by giving ticketto the same candidate and now we have decided to defeat Dr. Ag-nihotri this time. Classic workers will be made to feel ignored.He said that the party did not even consider it appropriate to holda meeting with the old Congress workers as the party workers haddecided to defeat Dr. Agnihotri to avenge the injustice done tothem. On this occasion Kabal Singh Khabe Transporter, BaljitSingh Kot Dharam Chand Transporter, Pehlwan Jamal SinghPidi, Happy Jalewal, Banwari Lal, Jasmeel Singh etc.

New instructions issued regardingprecautionary dose in view of

forthcoming Assembly Elections-2022 TARN TARAN (KULJEET HONEY): UpcomingAssembly Elections 2022, the government has is-sued new guidelines regarding precautionary dosesof Covid vaccine. Disclosing this here today DistrictElectoral Officer Tarn Taran Mr. Kulwant Singh said

that according to these newguidelines all the officers andemployees who are on duty in thepolls must be given precaution-ary dose even if the second doseof vaccination is not yet 9months have happened. He saidthat these guidelines have beenissued in view of Covid and the9-month condition will not apply

to the officers and employees who are on duty in thepolls. Civil Surgeon Tarn Taran Dr. Rohit Mehtaalso appealed to the officers and employees on dutyto strictly follow these instructions and also to adoptQuid Appropriate Behavior (wearing mask, use san-itizer, adhere to social distance) while on duty. Hesaid that it was necessary to administer precaution-ary doses and these instructions have been issued inview of prevention of Covid epidemic.

Ankur Garg becomes youth

wing chiefRAJ SADOSHABOHAR, JAN 17 Ankur Garg, former presidentof Yuva Aggarwal Sabha, hasbeen nominated as the statehead of All India Aggarwal Ma-hasabha (Youth Wing). He hasbeen entrusted with the right to

form the execu-tive committee.The NationalPresident of theM a h a s a b h a ,Satish Aggarwal,National Presi-dent of the YouthWing, J.K. Jain

and National General SecretaryDr. Hari Krishan Aggarwal(Bikaner) issued the appoint-ment letter and wished Ankur abright future. While expressinghis gratitude to all the officebearers, Ankur assured them tofulfill the responsibility entrust-ed to him with utmost sincerityand honesty.

Congress leaders and workers distributing laddus at Seengo Mandi on Sunday as the news came inthat Khushbaj Singh Jatana has been allotted the party ticket from Talwandi Sabo constituency.

Agroha Dham to be connectedwith railway line : Garg

HISAR (SUMER GARG): On the occasion of holy festivalof Purnima, Chhappan Bhog of Mata Lakshmi Devi, Bhan-dara and a program of worship was organized in AgrohaDham. The members of Agroha Dham also held a meetingunder the chairmanship of National President of AgrohaDham, Bajrang Garg, in which along with the developmentwork and the beautification of Agroha Dham was discussed.Garg said that with the consultation of Chief Patron of Agro-ha Dham and Rajya Sabha MP, Dr. Subhash Chandra, a 21members' advisory committee of members of Agroha DhamVaishya Samaj was constituted. Garg said, "It is our endeav-or that there should be maximum development in Agroha,which is the city of Maharaja Agrasen.There was a talk withthe Union Railway Minister and Tourism Minister throughRajya Sabha MP Dr. Subhash Chandra.

Death risk of Covidinfected person reduces,

after two shots SANGRUR (SUMER GARG): Following the di-rections of Civil Surgeon, Sangrur, Dr. ParminderKaur and in view of the increasing outbreak ofCorona epidemic, the working civil surgeon, Dr.Jagmohan Singh encouraged all the officers andstaff of district Sangrur to ensure 100 percent covidvaccination. He said that if anyone after two doses

of covid vaccination, comes coronapositive than the risk of one's deathwould be reduced, so being a re-sponsible person, it was our duty toget both the doses. He advised allthe officers and other employees,who have been deployed in electionduty should get the booster dose.District family welfare officer, Dr.

Inderjit Singla said to control corona virus, maxi-mum sampling of persons should be done. Districthealth officer, Dr. Vikas Dheer said that if anyonehas cough, fever or difficulty in breathing than oneshould contact the nearest health center. District im-munization officer Dr. Sanjay Mathur said that vac-cination of children between the ages of 15 to 18years has been started, they should come forwardand get their immunization as much as possible.

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HIMACHAL/JKBJP starts microdonation campaignin HimachalHAMIRPUR: The Bharatiya JanataParty on Monday began its microdonation campaign under whichanyone could donate Re 1 to Rs1,000 in the party kitty. The campaignwas launched by former Chief MinisterPK Dhumal from Sujanpur Tira inHamirpur district with Rs 1,000.Dhumal said the step was aimed atstrengthening the finances of theparty, one of the largest organizationsin the world. He appealed to people todonate money for the party fund andbecome its members. Senior partyleaders and MLAs Narendra Thakurand Kamlesh Kumari, besides formerlegislators Baldev Sharma and VijayAgnihotri also took part in the microdonation campaign from other parts ofthe state. The party is gearing up fortheVidhan Sabha elections in 2022later. BJP will face stiff opposition afterCongress won three assembly andone Lok Sabha bye-elections in thestate last year.

Thirteenth batch ofstudents sit on chainhuger fastPANKAJ BHARTIYAHAMIRPUR: The thirteenth batch oftwo students today sat on chainhunger fast outside the campus of theHP Technical University here insupport of their various demandsincluding the appointment of a regularVice chancellor for the University andappointment of regular staff for theUniversity. Mahesh Bhardwaj, thespokesman of the ABVP who isspearheading the campaign said thatthe government was keeping mumover their demands and that was notunderstood. Bhardwaj, who is also theUnit president of the organization saidthat the big representatives of thestate government and governmentofficials were enjoying sitting in theircabins and taking the heater, whilestudents were forced to sit outside inthe freezing cold that showed theslackness on part of the governmentand the University both. Hethreatened to further intensify theiragitation if their demands were notmet shortly.

Former HP Congresschief not in race forpost againHAMIRPUR: Sukhvinder SinghSukhoo, the Former HP Congresschief and party MLA from Nadaunassembly constituency of Hamirpurdistrict has denied being in the racefor the President of HimachalPradesh Congress Committee andfor any other post. In a facebookpost, he said that some selfishelements wanted to present a wrongpolitical picture before the Congresshigh command by spreading rumorsabout him. “This is part of a well-planned conspiracy by politicalopponents. By doing this selfishelements are trying to fulfill theirinterests’ he said. “I am a true soldierof the Congress party, with whomthere is a hand mark, he is with everyworker, officer and leader. I have nopersonal agenda”, he further added.Jai Congress, Jai Hind, he said ,whileconcluding his post. It’s worthmentioning here that the present HPCongress Chief, Kuldip Rathore iscompleting his three years as thestate president and there wererumors in the social media thatSukhoo is lobbying for the top post.And that’s why, Sukhoo has beenable to put this to clear the air.

SDM MahendraPratap Singh takescharge in Jawali DAULAT CHAUHAN JAWALI: New SDM Mahinder PratapSingh has taken charge in Jawali onMonday, during which all the staffmembers congratulated him.Mahinder Pratap Singh passed theUPSC exam in the year 2019 andjoined Kaza as SDM for the firsttime.Now he will take charge as SDMin Jawali. Mahinder Pratap Singh hasalso served in the Navy before this,SDM Mahinder Pratap Singh saidthat speedy settlement of theproblems of the people and providingjustice to the people would be thepriority.He said that the public shouldalso cooperate with theadministration and follow theguidelines of the government toprevent corona. He said that hewould work by taking everyone alongand resolving the problems of thepeople would be the priority.

Block level youthweek celebratedJOGINDER DEV ARYABANGANA: Block level youth weekwas celebrated in the developmentblock Bangana with the help of YouthServices and Sports Department, Una.Painting competition was organized atArya Public School, Bangana today bythe Nodal Club Nehru Yuva KisanMandal Sasan (Tanoh). Arya PublicSchool, Bangana's Principal . SeemaSharma and Panchayat Samitimember Joginder Dev Arya presided.He honored Vanshika Thakur, who gotfirst place in painting competition,Akshit in second place and Indu atthird place by giving memento. On thisoccasion, teachers of Arya PublicSchool Bangana Pankaj, Nisha,Poonam and volunteer Ravi Kumar ofBangana block of Nodal Club NehruYuva Kisan Mandal Sasan, SecretaryNitish Kumar were present.

Light tremor jolts parts of Kangra districtSANJAY AGGARWALDHARAMSHALA: A light tremor measuring 2.70 on the Richter scale jolted partsof Kangra, 15 kms South West from district headquarters Dharmshala onMonday morning, the India Meterogical Department(IMD) confirmed.Spokesperson of Shimla Met Office said that the earthquake was felt at 1028 hrsthis morning in parts of Kangra district. The magnitude of the quake was 2.70 onthe Richter scale and epicenter was located at 32.26 degrees North, 76.16degrees East and 9.1 kms depth near Shahpur of Kangra district about 15 kmsfrom Dharmshala and 169 kms from the state capital Shimla. Earthquake wasslightly felt by the people but did not cause any loss to life or property.

CM inaugurates Gau Sadan at SunniAGENCYSHIMLA, JAN 17

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurtoday inaugurated Gau Sadan atSunni in Shimla Rural VidhanSabha area today virtually fromShimla, which has beenconstructed by spending anamount of Rs. 2.22 crore.

Chief Minister said that theState Government hasconstituted Himachal PradeshGau Seva Ayog to provideshelter to the destitute cowsroaming on the roads and tomake arrangements for theirfodder and management. He saidthat according to the recentlyconducted 20th Animal Censusof the Government of India,there were 36,311 destituteanimals across the state. He saidthat the State Government hasreleased Rs. 31.16 crore duringthis period for the establishmentand strengthening of cowsanctuaries and Gau Sadans indifferent parts of the State.

Jai Ram Thakur said that thevery first decision of the presentState Government was to lowerthe age for availing the benefitsof old age pension without anyincome limit from 80 years to 70years and also to constitute Gau

Seva Ayog and construct cowsanctuaries in different parts ofthe State to provide shelter to theabandoned cattles. He said thatcess of rupees one per bottle onliquor was also imposed togenerate resources to run theCow Sanctuaries and GauSadans. He said that specialefforts must be made forensuring proper care of cows inthe Gau Sadans, particularlyduring the winters. He said thatthe State Government wasproviding an assistance of Rs500 per cow per month to theGau Sadans in the State underthe Gau Vansh Yojna. He alsoappealed to the people to come

forward to contribute towardsthe cow sanctuaries and GauSadans.

Chief Minister said that saidthat 220 Gau Sadans were alsobeing operated by Non-Government Organizations inthe State out of which 127 GauSadans have been registeredwith Himachal Pradesh GauSeva Aayog. He said that theState Government has recentlysigned an MoU with a privatecompany, under which the saidcompany would provide shelterto about 3000 cows per cowsanctuary on PPP mode withoutthe assistance of theGovernment.

Jai Ram Thakur said that acow sanctuary has beenestablished in Kotla Badog areaof Sirmaur district by spendingan amount of Rs 1.67 crore forproviding shelter to destitutecows. He said that Rs 2.97 crorehas been spent on theconstruction of Handa Kudi Cowsanctuary in district Solan.

Animal Husbandry MinisterVirender Kanwar said that GauSadan at Sunni would havecapacity to house 500 cows andwould ensure proper shelter forthe stray cattle. He said that theState Government, soon aftertaking over the reins of the State,decided to establish Gau SewaAyog in the State to provideproper shelter to cowsabandoned in the State.

Jal Shakti MinisterMahender Singh Thakur, MLANachan Vinod Kumar, ChiefSecretary Ram Subhag Singh,Additional Chief Secretary J.C.Sharma were present at Shimlawith the Chief Minister,whereas, Shimla district BJPPresident Ravi Mehta, ViceChairman Gau Sewa AyogAshok Sharma, BJP leader Dr.Pramod Sharma, DeputyCommissioner Shimla AdityaNegi were present at Sunni.

HAMIRPUR, JAN 17

Entire lower Himachal Pradeshconsisting of the districts ofHamirpur, Una, Bilaspur, Kangra,Solan and parts of Mandi are inthe grip of severe cold wavesthanks to the icy cool sweepingacross the region and emittingfrom nearby ranges of Himalayas.The day and night temperatureboth have fallen sharply and skywas overcast with dark clouds onMonday. At many places therewas drizzling for a few minutesgiving the indication that theregion is going to experience rainsin the coming three days asforecast by the Department of Meton Sunday. Fearing the wrath ofthe Cold on one hand, growingCorona virus on other hand,people in the region are compelledto adorn heavy woolens and to

remain indoors. Since educationalinstitutions are closed till January26th and only fifty percentgovernment staff is on duty in theoffices, the movement of thepeople in the main bazaars of thedistrict was thin. Traders wereseen gossiping among them andwarming their hands with help ofthe heaters kept inside theirestablishments. Meanwhile,braving the chilly weather, thestaff of the health Department wasseen busy in their vaccinationwork to the school children on onehand, and others including theaged people on other hand. CMO,Hamirpur, Dr RK Agnihotri saidthat the work for the vaccinationwas going on with full pace allover the district despite chillyweather and he was hopeful thatall the targets given to them wouldbe achieved in time.

Lower HP in gripof severe cold

Stolen tipper recoveredfrom scrap store in LudhianaDAULAT CHAUHANJAWALI, JAN 17

Kangra police has succeeded in nabbing thekingpin of the vehicle thief gang. Jawali Policerecovered the body and cabin of Tipper stolen fromKotla under Jawali Police station from ChhattiMotor Store Transport Nagar Ludhiana, which has

been identified byTipper driver.According to thei n f o r m a t i o nreceived, Tipper(HP 68A-3232) wasstolen from Kotla on18 June 2021, onwhich the police hadregistered a case oftheft on 22 August

2021 and was engaged in the investigation. Thematter was being investigated by Kotla outpost in-charge Sanjay Sharma. Recently, a truck was stolenfrom Nalagarh, which was fitted with a GPSsystem, on the basis of which the Nalagarh policeraided the Chanti Motor Store, Transport Nagar,Ludhiana and recovered the parts of the truck andarrested the owner of the store. Based on this, theJawali police also raided the tipper's driver inLudhiana and recovered the tipper's body andcabin from there. SP Kushal Sharma said that soonthe vicious people involved in this vehicle thiefgang will also be pushed behind the bars.

Villagers say if there is no road construction,then ropeway will not even be inaugurated

SANJAY AGGARWALDHARAMSHALA, JAN 17

Villagers protested against the stategovernment on the streets with plates andinstruments in their hands due to non-starting ofthe road construction work from Burnt today.All the villagers sat on a dharna at the main gateof the Kangra DC office while protesting andthey warned the government in clear words thatthey would continue to sit on the dharna untilthe government gave permission to start theroad construction. The villagers also warnedthat they would gherao Chief Minister Jai RamThakur, who was reaching Dharamsala on 19thby showing black flags and they would notallow the ropeway to be inaugurated. On thisoccasion, Zilla Parishad member JoginderPanku said that a budget of Rs 40 lakh has alsocome for the construction of the road, but evenafter that the government is hesitant on theconstruction of the road. This road wascompletely damaged due to heavy rains on 12thJuly last year and there is no other way for thepeople of the village to come and go. He saidthat the youth of the village have demandedconstruction of the road many times from thegovernment and administration, but thegovernment and administration haveconsistently ignored their urgent demand. He

said that the government is playing politics withthe people regarding the construction of theroad, due to which a huge protest has arisenamong the people. He said that when thegovernment cannot build a road for the people,then for whom is the government building aropeway. Before the ropeway, the constructionof the road was necessary.He said that all theformalities regarding road construction havebeen completed, even after that the roadconstruction is not being done. He alleged thaton one side, the government is saying that thereis a double engine government in the state,from above the government is also saying thatwe do not have a budget. He said that thegovernment is reluctant to construct about twokilometer of road. We want to know underwhose pressure the government is stopping theroad construction work.

Bureau of Indian Standardsholds workshop

UNA, JAN 17

A one day workshop was organized today at Bachat Bhawan Unaunder the aegis of Bureau of Indian Standards Himachal PradeshBranch Office Parwanoo. Additional Deputy Commissioner Dr.Amit Kumar Sharma presided over the workshop. The ADC saidthat the Standardization and Certification Scheme of Bureau ofIndian Standards works especially towards product safety andconsumer protection along with benefiting consumers andindustries. It also ensures quality monitoring in areas such as foodsecurity, environmental protection, building and construction. Hedirected the concerned officers that it is absolutely necessary tohave ISI mark on products. Apart from this, officers shouldconduct periodic inspections and samples of the products shouldbe collected and tested. If any deficiency is found in the test as perthe prescribed standards, then appropriate action should be takenagainst the concerned product manufacturer. State Branch Headof Bureau of Indian Standards Animesh Kumar gave informationabout the departmental methodology and Joint Director PankajAttri gave information about the certification scheme forhallmarking of gold jewellery. AC Gaurav Chaudhary, StandardPromotion Officer Atul Chaturvedi and officers of variousdepartments were present.

Yuva Shakti Parakram team builds bridgein Loharli Churudu Khad

UNA, JAN 17

Thousands of people passthrough this ravine everyday for Loharli Churudu.Due to the absence of abridge over this ravine,people have to face a lot oftrouble. During the rainyseason, one has to walk 25-30 kms through deep waterputting their life at stake. Atemporary culvert was builton this ravine by the localpeople due to which thepeople got a lot of reliefespecially for those who goon scooters andmotorcycles. But due to therain in the last days, that

temporary bridge broke andagain trouble arose for thepeople. In such a cold,people had to pass throughcold water. The mostdifficult thing is for thosepeople who go through thisroute with children and

women. How difficult is itfor women to carry smallchildren and pass throughthis ravine in cold water.Once people had built atemporary culvert together,but now no one was comingforward. When the local

people told ChaitanyaSharma, District Councilorof Bhanjal Ward for thistemporary pulley, heimmediately sent his team ofYuva Shakti Parakram to thespot. Under the supervisionof Mahesh Yadav from YuvaShakti Parakram team andwith the help of local people,a temporary pulley has beenconstructed. Apart from theresidents of LoharliChurudu, people like LekhRaj Katnoria, NeerajSharma, Bobby, KushalSaini, Shashi Pal, Ladi,Deepak Thakur thankedCouncilor ChaitanyaSharma.

No seat has been kept for OBC for MD and MS ofmedical stream in govt colleges of state: NareshUNA, JAN 17

Advocate Naresh Kumar Sansonwal, president of Una district unit of Guru Ravidas MahasabhaHimachal Pradesh, condemned the government and said that no seats were kept for OBC for MDand MS of medical stream in government colleges of Himachal Pradesh. Demonstrates opposingideology. In the state government jobs too, instead of giving 27% like the center, 18% reservationhas been given, then why not for MD and MS. It is a matter of shame that OBC, SC, ST studentsand ministers are participating in this kind of exploitation of OBC class by closing their eyes,similarly PTA, PARA, PAT teachers were given by back door entry.

SJVN’s 1320 MW Buxar Thermal Projectenters Advanced Construction Phase

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, JAN 17

SJVN’s 1320 MW BuxarThermal Power Project inBihar achieved anothermilestone today with Jackingup of Ceiling Girder (1400tonnes) for First Boiler Unit.The activity was virtuallyactivated by Nand LalSharma, Chairman &Managing Director from theCompany’s CorporateHeadquarter at Shimla. NandLal Sharma informed that withthis Jacking-up activity, FirstBoiler Unit of the Project willstart taking its shape. He saidthat the entire process will becompleted in Four Stages andin each Stage Ceiling Girderwill jack up and jack down toadd Pressure Parts and otherComponents in the BoilerAssembly. Speaking on theoccasion, Nand Lal Sharma

reiterated the commitment ofSTPL to complete the projectas per schedule i.e June 2023for First Unit & January 2024for Second Unit. Sharmafurther informed that CapitalExpenditure of Rs. 4617.45Crore has already beenincurred on the project. Duringyear 2021-22, a capitalexpenditure of Rs. 2619.06Crore has been incurred tilldate. The Project is beingconstructed at an estimatedcost of Rs.10, 439.09 crores.

People get upset due tocancellation of drivingTest for regular license

KISHORI LAL BAINSUNA, JAN 17

People got upset today due to cancellationof driving Test for regular license. And nonews of the cancellation of the diving testwas reported in any newspaper from thisdepartment. Due to this a lot of anger wasseen among the people who had come fromfar away to give the Driving Test. Peoplewho came to give driving test say that thisdepartment should have been informedabout this by press release so that people donot get disturbed. When contacted Dr.Nidhi Patel SDM Una on this matter shesaid that MVI Una had to go for Shimlameeting so today's driving test had to becanceled. People have demanded that if thedriving test is ever canceled, then theconcerned department should be informedby giving news through the newspaper sothat people coming from far away do notget disturbed.

SAD leaders Fauji, Gakhi join Lok Congress PartyBARNALA (KARANPREET DHANDRAL): Dharam Singh Fauji, a five-time MC winner,who has been associated with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Badal for the last 25 years, todayexpressed his displeasure over his long association with SAD-BJP before announcing his de-

cision to jump the ship. Jasbir Singh Gakhi, DistrictPresident BC Wing, along with his associates also leftShiromani Akali Dal and joined Punjab Lok CongressParty. Regarding the growing popularity of the alliance,District President Punjab Lok Congress Party Gurdar-shan Singh Brar said that more and more leaders andworkers would come. Brar said that the BJP has taughta lesson to the Congress which has been looting thecountry and the country for the last 70 years.

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SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, JAN 17

Parminder Singh Sohana,joint candidate of Shiro-mani Akali Dal and BSP forVidhan Sabha constituencyMohali, along with all partymembers, have started doorto door campaign to sharethe series of information ofthe public welfare and de-velopment work done bythe Akali Government.

Parminder Singh So-hana in his address said thatthe development of Mohalihas only taken place duringthe Akali government.However, during the Con-gress rule, the developmentof Mohali was underminedby illegal occupations andnow rather the name of Mo-hali has become famous inscandals. Talking about theAam Aadmi Party, Parmin-der Singh Sohana allegedthat the Aam Aadmi Partyhas sold the party seats toits candidates and he assert-ed if even one such candi-date wins then obviously

he will spread corruptiononly . Parminder Sohanafurther while counting onthe achievements of theprevious Akali governmentsaid that Mohali was devel-oped only during AkaliGovernment. Manyachievements including in-ternational airport, excel-lent bus stand, and beautifulroads are due to the Akali

government. SAD Presi-dent Sukhbir Singh Badal'sdream is to make Mohalimore beautiful thanChandigarh. Parminder So-hana also said that It is be-fore everybody as how theAkali Government hasworked effectively on thevarious issues of national-ism, development and goodgovernance . Now , after

getting 'overwhelming ma-jority With the blessings ofthe people Akali-BSP gov-ernment will again do itsbest for Mohali .ParminderSohana’s supporters saidthat his clean image and thehard work has made theparty strong without anydoubt . Raja Rajinder SinghNanhedian General Secre-tary Punjab BSP, Sukhdev

Singh General SecretaryMohali, Swaran Singh Lan-dran General Secretary, Jas-pal Singh Saidpur RuralPresident, Harnek Singh,Sher Singh Former Presi-dent Municipal CouncilSirhind, Kuldeep SinghSaini, Balwinder Singh Soi, Gurmeet Singh Khatrawere also present at themoment .

Akali-BSP candidate Parminder Singh Sohana intensifieselection campaign, continues meetings with peopleDr. Sanjeev Goyal is

chief of advisorycommittee of IVF SUMER GARGFARIDKOT: The International Vaishfederation(IVF), Punjab hasconstituted it's an advisory committee

and Dr. SanjeevGoyal anophthalmologist fromFaridkot, has beenappointed as it'schairman. StatePresident of the IVF,Surendra Singlasaid that a 31-members committee

would be formed by includingrepresentatives of all the districts ofPunjab. The Secretary of theorganization, Sarjeevan Jindal saidthat a meeting of the advisorycommittee would be held soon and adetailed discussion for the upcomingprograms of the institution. He toldthat the birthday of Babu RamdasAgrawal, founder president of the IVFand the former MP would becelebrated every year as Vaish EktaDiwas on 17th March and foundationday would be celebrated in all thedistricts of Punjab on 6th July.

Grant not released forstadium: Sarpanch

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU: About 6 monthsago, there was a proposal to build asports stadium in the remaining part,leaving some part of the pond onJandiala Gehri Mandi Road in thevillage under constituency JandialaGuru. Its purpose was to make theyouth aware of sports in village GehriMandi. For the construction of thestadium, after spending a grant of Rs5 lakh, the soil of the thatch builtinside the village was removed, thesoil was put in this outside thatch.After the soil was poured, the workwas stopped again. Balram Kumar,Surjit Singh, Rajinder Singh, HardevSingh, residents of Gehri Mandi, saidthat far from the construction of thestadium in this shed, the garbage wasnot even cleaned here. In this case,the village sarpanch Kuldeep SinghSarpanch replied bluntly that thegrant of Rs 5 lakh was released toraise the level of this chhappad andto make proper arrangement for thedrainage of dirty water in the innerchhappad. From there the soil wasremoved and put here. But even afterseveral months, why the constructionof the sports stadium was not started,he could not give any clear answer,just said that no grant has beenissued for this.

Behniwal and Jassi honouredat blood camp

VIKAS VERMADHURI: Sahota Lok BhalaiFoundation Punjab today set up thefirst bloody camp at Gurdwara AkalParkash Sahib Sherpur in view of theoutbreak of Kovid 19. It wasinaugurated by Chamkaur SinghVeer, candidate of Shomani Akali DalBSP alliance from Halqa Mahil Kalan.About 40 youths from the areadonated their blood to the blood bankteam from Government HospitalBarnala. On this occasion Presidentof Sikh Intellectuals Forum PunjabMaster Harbans Singh Sherpur,President of Gurdwara Akal ParkashSahib Sherpur Ma. Charan SinghJawandha, BSP leader DarshanSingh Jhaloor, Chamkaur Singh Veer,Dr. Jagjivan Singh, former DSO,congratulated the members of thefoundation on the camp and said thatthe initiative taken by them is acommendable step as today ouryoung generation is mired in drugsand other social evils. Is gettingworse. We can also make a valuablecontribution in saving many lives bydonating our blood where the youthwill get good guidance from suchevents. Distinguished social activistsJai Bhan Singh Jassi and Hon'bleformer police officer Ranjit SinghBehniwal, who provided freeeducation to slum children, werehonored on the occasion. Theorganization also honored the blooddonors with a letter of appreciation.The Chief Managing Director of theFoundation, State President MandeepSingh Sahota, Dr. Manjit Singh Kheri,Supinder Singh Sangrur, RamdasHerike, Gurwinder Singh Kheri,Satgur Singh, Johnny Singh, Dr. IqbalSingh Thulewal and Sukhpal SinghHerike were present.

LK BANSALMOHALI, JAN 17

In a major political devel-opment just before thePunjab Assembly elec-tions, former Jail MinisterSarwan Singh Phillaurand son Damanvir SinghPhillaur have quit Con-gress and joined Shiro-mani Akali Dal -Sanyukt.The move will prove to bea massive gain for the Shi-romani Akali Dal-Sanyukt-BJP-PLC (Pun-jab Lok Congress) al-liance in the state.

The development isalso being seen as a hugeset back to the PunjabCongress in mainly theDoaba region, where thePhillaur's have consider-able political clout. Sar-

wan S. Phillaur is a six-time MLA and he with hisson Damanvir S Phillauron Monday quit the Con-gress and formally joinedShiromani Akali Dal-Sanyukt in the presence ofSAD-Sanyukt's Presidentand former Union Minis-ter S. Sukhdev SinghDhindsa here. Political an-alysts say that the movecould result in a gain of 5-6 seats in the Doaba re-gion. It is noteworthy thatSarwan Singh Phillaur

was earlier with the AkaliDal (Badal) which he hadleft to join the Congress in2016 after being victim-ized by the party for beinga towering Dalit leader,championing the cause ofoppressed people. Wel-coming them to the partyfold, S Sukhdev SinghDhindsa said that SarwanSingh Phillaur andDamanvir Singh Phillaurare known for working forupliftment of the op-pressed classes.

Massive gain for SAD-Sanyukt-BJP-PLC alliance asformer Jail Minister Sarwan Phillaur and son Damanvir

Phillaur join Shiromani Akali Dal-Sanyukt CS JOLLYCHANDIGARH JAN 17

Only 8 minutes drive fromAerocity and strategically lo-cated on NH 205A, the Banur– Tepla road is all set to give afillip to business growth & theeconomy with leading real es-tate groups of the region plan-ning to set up Industrial Parkson the stretch.

A not very known indus-trial stretch a few years backthe Banur-Tepla road is now ahub of warehousing facilitieswith over 40 warehousing andlogistics entities based hereand over a dozen under con-struction. Not only warehous-ing, the 'Industrial spot' locat-ed on the Banur-Tepla roadhas become a hot economichub. Neeraj Kansal, Manag-ing Director, Royale EstateGroup(REG), emphasized onthe need of offering a 360 de-

gree solution for all industrialneeds of the region. He said avision document is being cre-ated by the Royale EstateGroup with many industrystalwarts involved in the plan-ning . A plan based on the in-tegrated development princi-ple – live, work and play tohave the best-in-class infra-structure is the need of thehour and is being shaped upfor all industries looking to set

up businesses on theBanur-Tepla road. Theregion has a strategiclocation from the sup-ply chain and logisticsperspective withprominent catchmentareas in and aroundPunjab which has theBaddi- Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrialbelt, and Ludhianawhich is a key indus-trial hub. In addition

to proximity to the dry port atShambhu bordering Punjaband Haryana, and connectivi-ty to Amritsar-Kolkata Indus-trial Corridor (AKIC) with theAirport cargo road from Mo-hali International Airport tobe contacted here in future,the area is all set to give a ma-jor boost to industrial devel-opment, investment ecosys-tem and economy of the region.

Banur -Tepla road on way to become Punjab’s 'economicpower house', giving a boost to region’s economy

CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, JAN 17

Shiromani Gurdwara Par-bandhak Committee (SGPC)President Advocate HarjinderSingh Dhami hasstrongly con-demned the attackon Sikh Sangat inBhojpur district ofBihar in whichsome Sikhs were in-jured while return-ing from Takht SriHarmandar Ji PatnaSahib.

He said that theincident of stone-pelting and cane-charging onthe Sikh Sangat is highly un-fortunate and the Bihar gov-ernment should get this inci-dent impartially probed.

SGPC President said thatthe Bihar chief minister (CM)Shri Nitish Kumar who didgreat service during the birthcentenary of Sri Guru Gobind

Singh, the tenth Guru, shouldcome forward for providingjustice to the victims in thisincident. He said that theSGPC will coordinate withBihar government and a letter

has been writtento Bihar CM, fortaking strict ac-tion against themiscreants whoattacked the SikhSangat in Char-pokhari area ofBhojpur districton Sunday.

Meanwhile,SGPC PresidentAdvocate Dhami

strongly condemned the inci-dent of reported gang-rapewith a specially-abled girl inAlwar, Rajasthan. AdvocateDhami said that the case ofgang-rape of an innocent girlin Alwar is a disgrace on theforehead of humanity and theaccused involved should notbe spared.

SGPC strongly condemns attack on SikhSangat returning from Takht Sri Patna Sahib

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, JAN 17

Kharar Sadar Police have ar-rested one person after seiz-ing 10 boxes of liquor beingsmuggled from Chandigarhto Punjab.

In this regard, under theguidance of Bikramjit SinghBrar DSP Circle-1, a policeparty under SHO InspectorAsok Kumar of KhararSadar Police Station got se-cret information that Jasveer

Singh, Manjit Singh andKulwinder Singh werebringing liquor from Chandi-garh and they were selling itto their customers.

Police took immediateaction and arrested the ac-cused Jasveer Singh with 10boxes of liquor which couldbe sold only in Chandigarh.He has been remanded in po-lice custody for two days bya Kharar court. The searchfor the other culprits contin-ues.

Kharar Sadar policearrests one after seizure

of 10 cases of liquor

CHANDIGARH, JAN 17

Shri Dharampal, Adviser toAdministrator inaugurated anew Mini COVID Center atIMA Complex in Sector-35with 45 bed capacity. ThisCentre has been set by SriGuru Granth Sahib Sewa So-ciety- Tera hi Tera in associa-tion with IMA.

Shri H. S. Shabahrwal,from Tera-hi-Tera shared thatall the beds are oxygenatedbeds and qualified medicaland para-medial staff havebeen provided to take care ofthe COVID positive patients.

He further explained that twodedicated Mobike Ambu-lances have been provided atthe Mini COVID Care Centreand arrangements have beenmade for indoor games andnutritious food for theCOVID patients.

Shri Dharampal, Adviserappreciated Sri Guru GranthSahib Sewa Society- Tera hiTera for coming forward andassociating with the Adminis-tration during the ongoing thecrisis. He mentioned thatTera-Hi-Tera has set-up an-other Mini COVID Centre inBal Bhawan, Sector-23.

Inauguration of new miniCOVID Care Centre

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, JAN 17

Aam Aadmi Party has be-come a favorite of peoplenot only in Mohali but inentire Punjab. This is thereason why the leaders ofother parties are joining theparty, the party is also get-ting a lot of support fromthe general public.

These words were ex-pressed by Aam AadmiParty candidate KulwantSingh during a meetingwith a large number of peo-ple from Balaungi today.Thanking the residents ofBalaungi on the occasionand speaking about thesupport received, he saidthat it was the love of thepeople that made him standin these elections. He said

that he does not intend torule in this area but themain aim of his life is tosave the people of Mohalifrom all the problems dueto which the developmentof Mohali is incomplete.

On this occasion, Bal-aungi residents, who gath-ered in large numbers un-der the leadership of Astra,said that it is already surethat Kulwant Singh is go-ing to represent Mohali inthe assembly because thereis no other leader like Kul-

want Singh in Mohali. Atthe same time, the residentsof Balaungi also put for-ward some of their prob-lems and demands beforeKulwant Singh and re-quested that it should besolved at the earliest. Onthis ocassion, Buddh Ramfrom Balaungi, Ashok Ku-mar, Namrata, KiranbirKaur, Khanian Balaungiand a large number of resi-dents of Azad Nagar, Bal-aungi joined the Aam Aad-mi Party.

AAP become favorite partyof people: Kulwant Singh

Covid vaccination crosses16 lakh mark in Mohali

MOHALI (SHASHI PAL JAIN): More than 16 lakh peoplehave so far been vaccinated against the Covid pandemic in thedistrict. Sharing the details, Civil Surgeon DrAdarshpalKau-rand District Immunization officer DrGirishDograsaid a totalof 10,01,792 people have been vaccinated in the district tilldate out of which 6,05,326 people have been given both thedoses. In addition 2257 people have been given booster doses.Booster dose is currently being admin-istered to health workers, front lineworkers and people over 60. Similarly,a total of 14,645 teenagers of 15-17group have been given the shots. Thenumber of beneficiaries above 18 yearsof age in the district is 7,43,811 and thenumber of 15-17 age group is 67,214.Notably, Covishield and Covaxin arecurrently being injected, while Sputnikis only available in private hospitals.Covid vaccination is free at all government health facilities. Itmay be mentioned that people from outside the district are alsocoming to the district to get vaccinated. Expressing satisfactionover the pace of immunization, the officials said that it was theresult of joint efforts of the health department and the districtadministration that more than 16 lakh people have been vacci-nated in the district. Health officials said there was no shortageof the vaccine in the district.

MCM holds Panache 2022CHANDIGARH: The Department of Office Man-agement and Secretarial Practice at Mehr Chand Ma-hajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh organ-ised a hands-on 3-day online workshop 'Panache2022'. The workshop aimed to acquaint the studentswith the art of Resume Writing, Interview Skills,Communication Skills and other facets of personali-ty development including personal grooming andprofessional etiquette. It consisted of three sessionsconducted by Dr. Jasmine Anand, Dr. Apara Sharmaand Ms. Ruchika Singh from the college's Depart-ment of English. On day 1, Dr. Jasmine Anand ap-prised the participants of the nitty-gritties of ResumeWriting and Interview Skills. Focusing on actual er-rors in resume writing, Dr. Anand discussed the ap-propriate resume length and content. She also famil-iarised the students with interview skills and helpedthem to work on standard interview questions, dis-cussing the various responses to behavioral inter-views, case interviews, stress interviews, online in-terviews. On day 2, Dr. Apara Sharma shared with theparticipants tips for better communication skills. Sheimpressed upon the participants to incorporate read-ing habits, deliberate on important issues and engagein discussions with their classmates on regular basisfor enhancing their communication skills. The thirdday's session titled “Body Language and BusinessEtiquette: Decoding the Basics” was conducted byMs. Ruchika Singh. She apprised the students of thenuances of non-verbal communication, primarily thebody language with respect to business etiquette.

R. P SINGHPATHANKOT, JAN 17

MLA Amit Vij started theelection campaign by pray-ing in the temple, gurudwaraand church.Temple commit-tee president Vinod Malhotraand other dignitaries wel-comed him at Ashapurnitemple and blessed Amit Vijand other dignitaries presentwith him by presentingmother's chunari. After this,in the famous Kali MataTemple and the historical

Gurdwara Sri Bharath Sahib.This morning he firstreached Congress Bhawanwith his supporters and afterthat took blessings of eldersfrom Rehri Market of Gand-hi Chowk. Amit Vij said thatthe way people had ex-pressed confidence in him byforming the Municipal Cor-poration of Congress, nowhe is confident that the peo-ple of the community willform the Congress govern-ment again keeping thisfaith.

MLA Vij launches campaign bypraying in temple, gurudwara

Convict arrestedfor jumping bail

ASHOK KAURAPHAGWARA, JAN 17

The Nakodar sadar policehave arrested a convict forjumping bail. The investigat-ing officer (IO)GurnamSingh said that the accusedhas been identified as KuldipSingh, a resident of ChakKhurd village. Superinten-dent Central Jail, Kapurthalain an official communicationto the police has said thatconvict was released fromjail on December 11 ,2020 foreight weeks parole whichwas extended from time totime due to Covid pandemic,but he did not present himselfat jail after expiry of leave.IO said that a case section 7/8of The Punjab Good ConductPrisoner Temporary ReleaseAct was registered againstthe accused.

Balkar Sidhu meetsshopkeepers at PatialaMandi in Rampura city

HEMANT SHARMARAMPURA PHUL, JAN 17

Aam Aadmi Party candi-date Balkar Sidhu metshopkeepers, artisans andtraders of Patiala Mandi inthe city and expressed con-fidence in Aam Aadmi Par-ty and announced support toAAP candidate Balkar Sid-hu. He apprised the gather-ing about the problems fac-ing Patiala Mandi.On thisoccasion AAP candidateBalkar Sidhu said that theentire shopkeeper commu-nity which was getting a lotof support from RampuraPhul was impressed by theplans and policies of AamAadmi Party supremoArvind Kejriwal.


Decreasingtemperature putpeople in house

UNA: The increasing cold in districtUna for the last few days has forcedpeople to hide in their homes. Due tomist and cold, they are going to theshelter of fire. People were seenburning fire. If we talk about thetemperature, then 5 degreetemperature was recorded in themorning and 9 degree temperature inthe afternoon. At the same time, thetemperature was estimated to reach 6degrees in the evening. Due to poorvisibility due to fog and people had toresort to the lights of vehicles.Meteorological Department haspredicted the possibility of fog, hazeand clouds in the low-lying areas.

Active corona casesreach 1000: CMOUNA: Outbreak of corona has startedincreasing once again in District Una.While the active cases of coronainfection have crossed one thousand inthe district, the rate of infection hasalso increased to 16.95 percent. In thereport on January 15, the infection rateof RAT was 21.09 percent while that ofRT-PCR test was 4.67 percent. Givinginformation about this, CMO Una Dr.Raman Kumar Sharma said that all theresidents of district should takeprecautions and follow the Coronarules. He said that health workers anddoctors are also vulnerable to coronainfection, so take all precautions and donot come out of homes unnecessarilyand use masks in public places andkeep proper distance.

Meeting held on securityin view of Pb polls

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH: Baddi SP Mohit Chawlatold that due to elections in Punjabstarting from February 14, we share 65km of bondary in which 15 km isshared with Haryana and 50 km withPunjab because now the electionprocess has started inside Punjab. Inthis regard, meetings are held fromtime to time to maintain law and ordereffectively. Recently, DGP Himachalhas inspected all these places due tothe election process, NalagarhAnandpur Kiratpur Nalagarh Baddi, andefforts will be made to follow whateverguide lines are there.

HMV a key to successHARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: HMV Collegiate Sr. Sec.School, Jalandhar has attained newerheights in North India and became thefirst choice of the students with theblessings of Padamshree Dr. PunamSuri, President DAVCMC New Delhi.The school is situated in the campus ofHans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya andis a renowned name in the field of

education. Theschool is committedto provide the bestenvironment ofacademics, culturaland sports to itsstudents. Theschool is

continuously doing efforts to provideskills in innovation,critical thinking andanalysis to its students as per neweducation policy 2020. The school isproviding education to its studentsthrough online mode in addition totraditional classroom teaching. It isproving very helpful to students residingin far off places. The school is providingthe facility of state of the artinfrastructure, interactive classrooms,various labs of science, home science,IT, psychology, music and dancerooms. The school is offering educationin medical, non-medical, commerceand arts stream. 108 subjectcombinations are being offered to thestudents in the arts stream. Thepreparation of competitive exams likeJEE, NEET, CA is also being offered tothe students within the school.

Lohri celebrations atPCM SD College

JALANDHAR: To instill love for the richcultural heritage of India in its students andto further strengthen their bonding with thetraditions of the land, PCM S.D.College forWomen, Jalandhar celebrated the festivalof Lohri with great zeal and fervour.Speaking on the occasion,the worthyManagement and Principal of the collegeDr. (Mrs.) Pooja Prashar congratulated thestudents and members of the staff on thispious occasion. Acknowledging the bestwishes of the students pouring in throughonline modes, the Principal averred thatthe society is progressing at a very fastpace and in the present scenario genderdiscrimination should be completelybrought to an end as boys and girls bothhave equal potential.

NEWS AT AGLANCE


No seat has been kept for OBC for MD and MS of medicalstream in government colleges of state: NareshUNA: Advocate Naresh Kumar Sansonwal, president of Una district unit of Guru RavidasMahasabha Himachal Pradesh, condemned the government and said that no seats werekept for OBC for MD and MS of medical stream in government colleges of HimachalPradesh. Demonstrates opposing ideology. In the state government jobs too, instead ofgiving 27% like the center, 18% reservation has been given, then why not for MD andMS. It is a matter of shame that OBC, SC, ST students and ministers are participating inthis kind of exploitation of OBC class by closing their eyes, similarly PTA, PARA, PATteachers were given by back door entry. Even after recruitment was done, 82% of thevacancies were filled from general category without any reservation roster, whichcontinued to be regularized later. Therefore, the General Assembly demands from thegovernment that the OBC category should be given proper representation in MD, MS.

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India's Covid-19 curve showedmarginal improvement onMonday as the country reported2.58 lakh cases in the last 24hours, which is around 5 percent lower than yesterday.

As many as 385 people havedied of Covid-19 in the last 24-hour, according to the UnionHealth Ministry.

With this the total tally ofCovid-19 cases in the countryhas reached at 3.73 crore.

The active cases stands at16,56,341 which is nowcomprise 4.43 per cent of thetotal infections, while thenational COVID-19 recoveryrate has decreased to 94.27 percent.

The daily positivity rate isup from 16.28 per cent to 19.65per cent while the weeklypositivity rate was recorded at14.41 per cent as per the data.

Delhi on Sunday reported18,286 Covid-19 cases and 28

deaths, while the positivity ratedropped to 27.87 per cent from30.64 per cent a day ago,according to health departmentdata. State Health MinisterSatyendar Jain has said that thecity is conducting three timesmore diagnostic tests than thenumber recommended by the

ICMR.Maharashtra is reported

maximum number of the casesin the country which stands at41,327 and 29 deaths in the last24 hours. Eight new Omicronvariant cases were alsoreported, taking the totalnumber of variant cases in the

state to 1738 ,as the datasuggested.

Meanwhile, India'sOmicron tally today reached8,209, an increase of 6.02 percent since yesterday. Out oftotal cases 3,109 people havebeen recovered or discharged.

On the vaccination front,the government has beencontinuously speeding up thevaccination drive across thecountry.

According to the bulletinissued by the Ministry today70.37 crore tests for Covid-19have been done so far.

“India has administered156.02 doses of Covid-19vaccine so far under theongoing nationwide vaccinationdrive” Ministry data said.

More than 158. 12 croresvaccine doses were provided toStates/UTs so far.

Over 13.79crores balanceand unutilized Covid-19vaccine doses are still availablewith the States/UTs to beadministered, the ministry said.

India logs 2.58 lakh Covidcases in last 24 hrs

Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker reviewsongoing development works in Pkl

SD SHARMAPANCHKULA, JAN 17

The Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker,Gian Chand Gupta directed the officersof the concerned departments topersonally go to the field so as to ensurethat development works being carriedout in Panchkula are completed in astipulated time bound manner. Besides,he also directed them to ensure thatquality material is used in thedevelopment works. He was presidingover the meeting to review the progressof the various ongoing developmentworks in Panchkula AssemblyConstituency at PWD Rest House,Sector 1 here today. DeputyCommissioner, Sh Mahavir Kaushik andMayor, Municipal Corporation, ShKulbhushan Goyal were also present inthe meeting. Gupta directed to expeditethe development works and complete thesame in a prescribed time period so thatthe people get the benefit of the same.

Reviewing the progress of the RailwayOver Bridge being constructed onChandigarh-Ambala railway line inSector-19, Sh Gupta directed to completethe remaining work by March 31, 2022.Apart from this, he directed to completethe work of the underpass being built inSector-19 by February 15, 2022. Whileexpressing concern over the condition ofa building in village Rally in Sector-12situated alongside the drain passing fromthere, he directed the MunicipalCorporation that in view of the safety ofthe people, the condition of the buildingshould be got examined through anindependent agency so as to avoid anyuntoward incident. While the excavationwork for the construction of MCH blockin Civil Hospital Sector-6 has beencompleted and the construction work ofthe building would be started soon. Apartfrom this, 97 percent construction workof PHC in Barwala has been completedand the building would be completed inall respects by March 2022.

Chandigarh Welfare Trust anNGO for holistic development

of city and its people launched

RN KHERACHANDIGARH, JAN 17

With the mission of creating afuture full of opportunities,tolerance and social justice,with community well-being atits core, a first of its kind NGOdedicated to development andwelfare of the Chandigarh city--Chandigarh Welfare Trust waslaunched here, today, aligningwith the UN's SustainableDevelopment Goals includingEducation, Gender Equality,Health & Well Being, EconomicGrowth, Peace, Justice, &Strong Institutions, Poverty, andClimate Action. The NGO wasformally launched by S. SatnamSingh Sandhu, Chancellor,Chandigarh University, andFounder, Chandigarh WelfareTrust. Rashpal Singh Dhaliwal,

Chairman Chandigarh Group ofColleges also graced theoccasion. Famed CharteredAccountants and prominentcivil society members, Mr SunilKumar and Mr RampalDhiman, who are also membersof the Governing Body of theTrust were also present.

Talking to media, SatnamSingh Sandhu said thatChandigarh was the firstmodern city of the country andis among very few such citiesacross the world to havesucceeded in terms ofcombining monumentalarchitecture, cultural growth,and modernisation. "However,with passing times, things havechanged, with growingpopulation and considerablestagnancy in correspondingresources.

SGPC President urges local Sikh organisations to highlightcases of youths trapped in India due to COVID-19 to govt

CHARANJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, JAN 17

A group of Punjabi youthswho could not return to NewZealand due to COVID-19pandemic held a meetingwith Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee(SGPC) President andsought his support inresolving the issue.

Following, SGPCPresident had a telephonicconversation with BhaiDaljit Singh, President ofNew Zealand based Sikhorganisation ‘Sikh SupremeSociety Auckland’ andurged him to resolve theissue. A letter was alsowritten to Bhai Daljit Singhfrom SGPC side.

The Sikh youthsassociated with New

Zealand who held a meetingwith the SGPC Presidentinformed that over 800Punjabis are facingproblems as they could notreturn to New Zealand due

to COVID-19. A largenumber of these people alsohave their family membersin New Zealand.

They have been deniedentry due to COVID-19restrictions for the lastnearly two years andmeanwhile, the validity ofvisas of a large number ofthese persons has alsoexpired. The youthsinformed that they arefacing many problemsrelated to this issue andtheir family membersresiding in New Zealand arealso going through mentalanguish.

After holdingdiscussion with these Sikhyouths, SGPC Presidentcoordinated with theSupreme Sikh Society ofNew Zealand, active as a

big Sikh organisation thereand urged them to helpthese affected youths.During the conversation,Bhai Daljit Singh ofSupreme Sikh Societyassured the SGPC Presidentthat he is serious forresolution of this issue andmaking efforts that theyouths who went to Indiareturn at the earliest. Heinformed that the discussionwith the government on thisissue is ongoing.

Meanwhile, SGPCPresident also wrote a letterto the President of SikhSupreme Society and madean appeal to make aconcerted effort tocoordinate with thegovernment to ensure thatthe Sikh youths are reunitedwith their family members.

HP government to organise onlineemployment fairs: Bikram Singh


Industries Minister Bikram Singhsaid that the State government waslaying special emphasis onproviding employmentopportunities to the youth of thestate and was consideringorganising online employment fairsso that more employmentopportunities could be generated forthe youth. He said this whilepresiding over a meeting withvarious representatives of industrysector, here today.

The Minister said that thecorona pandemic had adverselyaffected the organising employmentfairs in the state and to cater to theissue a draft was being prepared andnecessary data was being collectedto organize online employment

fairs. He said that the data related toLabour and Employmentdepartment would also be providedonline. Bikram Singh directed theofficers to work with active visionto resolve the various issues ofindustrialists. He said that the stategovernment has made multi-pronged efforts in ease of doingbusiness and to encourageinvestment in the state. He said thatthe state government has takenevery possible step to provide reliefto industrialists and to ensure

security to labourers working in theindustries during covid pandemic.He said that the industries havecontinuously contributed in GrossDomestic Product of the state.

The Minister appreciated theefforts of industries in strengtheninghealth infrastructure in the stateduring covid crisis. He urged theindustrialists to make morecontribution in health, education,environment conservation, etcunder Corporate SocialResponsibility.

'Supporters express happiness over Amit Vijgetting ticket again

VK DOGRADHAR KALAN, JAN 17

The list of candidates hasbeen released by theCongress Party HighCommand for the 2022assembly elections inPunjab. In which there wasa wave of happiness amongthe supporters when AmitVij, MLA from Pathankot,was made its candidate forthe second time by theCongress. There was aninflux of peoplecongratulating Amit Vij athis residence in PatelNagar, MLA Amit Vij.Congress corporators andother supporters, includingsupporters from theirrespective wards withdrums and drums,congratulated MLA AmitVij by garlanding them and

sweetening their faces withladdoos. Along with hissupporters, Amit Vij,Mayor Panna Lal Bhatia,Congress leader Ashish Vijalso danced to the beat ofthe dhol and expressedtheir happiness on gettingthe ticket. Congressmensaid that the inclusion ofMLA Amit Vij's name inthe very first list ofCongress High Command

has also ensured his victoryfrom Pathankot. MLAAmit Vij expressed hisgratitude to the Congresshigh command and thepeople of the area formaking him his candidatefor the second time fromarea Pathankot. He saidthat I will live up to yourtrust and it will be mypriority to keep Pathankotcontinuously developing.

First meeting to deploy manpower forensuing Vidhan Sabha elections held

CHANDAN SARPALLUDHIANA, JAN 17

The district administrationtoday conducted the firstrandomisation to deploymanpower for the ensuingVidhan Sabha elections inthe presence of officials ofthe district administration atthe District AdministrativeComplex here. The firstrandomisation was done inthe presence of ADC(General) Rahul Chaba,DRO Pardeep Singh Bains,DIO Inderjit Singh, besidesseveral others.

During therandomisation, DeputyCommissioner-cum-DistrictElection Officer VarinderKumar Sharma said thatemployees from the Centre

and state government, banksand public sectorundertakings would beassigned several dutiesduring the poll.

He said as per need, the

services of the employeeswould be used for countingand polling. They will beassigned duties assupporting staff, micro-observers and booth level

officers (BLOs). Sharmasaid the randomisation wasaimed at assigning duties tothe staff in the days to come.

The DC said in the firstrandomisation for thedeployment of 16,684polling personnel for theirfirst training at 2,979 boothsof 14 assemblyconstituencies of thedistrict.

He said there were26,50,344 voters in districtLudhiana. Sharma said ofthis, 14,14,750 voters weremale, 12,35,471 voters werefemale and 123 were thirdgender voters, adding thatthe district administrationwas duty-bound to ensurethat every voter was able toexercise their franchisefreely.

Two held from Srinagar forcommitting burglary in KaithalRAMAN GUPTAKAITHAL , JAN 17

Superintendent of Police Lokendra Singhsaid that Shamshadin Khatana, a residentof Awara District, Kupwara, Jammu andKashmir, whi has recently retired from theArmy and is living with his family in arented house in Friends Colony, Kaithal.He travels with his family to sell warmclothes. On the morning of January 10, helocked the house and went to work alongwith hi family. When he came home in theafternoon, the lock of the house was foundbroken. An unknown person had brokenopen the lock of the iron box kept in theroom and had stolen cash. The SPinformed that the investigation of the casewas investigated by ASI Surendra Singhof Thana Civil Line Police under theleadership of Thana Civil Line SIBirbhan. ASI Surendra Singh, whileconducting a thorough investigation,arrested the accused Ashfaq Ahmed and

Ulfat Majeed, both residents of Parepuradistrict, Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmirfrom Naya Bazar, Srinagar. Afterintensive interrogation of the accused, thestolen cash was recovered from theirpossession. After extensive questioning,the two accused were produced in thecourt on Monday, where they wereremanded in judicial custody.

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MILKSHAKES. TAKE THEIR LOVE.

WALLY LAMB

IF YOU ASKED ME FOR MY NEW YEAR RESOLU-TION, IT WOULD BE TO FIND OUT WHO I AM.

CYRIL CUSACK

Alittle over one hundred years ago, on December23, 1921, in the early hours of the morning, theVisva-Bharati Parishad Sabha was officially es-

tablished by Rabindranath Tagore in the vicinity of Am-rakunja. Although by some accounts, the work of Visva-Bharati’s foundation had begun three years earlier, it wasin December 1921 that Tagore formally announced, “To-day is the first session of the Visva-Bharati Parishad. Iformally hand over the University to all likeminded in-dividuals within and outside India who care for its wel-fare and nurture belief in its ideal, to them I submit thisinstitution.” (Author’s translation.)

With this larger aesthetic view, Tagore gave birth toVisva-Bharati, a Global India — uniting India and theworld — in an age when globalism was not yet a catch-word as it is the case today.

Tagore records the following on a journey while vis-iting Japan: “I looked at the land; it was so different tomy eyes, so picturesque. [A] Japanese passenger cameon the deck and stood by the railing. He did not see onlya picturesque land; he saw a land whose woods andrivers and hills had been given a new form by contactwith the minds of his countrymen, not a material but ahuman form... As a man’s native land is not only naturalbut human — that is why it is a source of such joy tohim...” (“The Aesthetic Philosophy of Tagore” by AbuSayeed Ayyub.)

The central doctrine of Tagore’s aesthetic philoso-phy — it informed the vision for Visva-Bharati — liesrooted in human emotions, which act as a bridge be-tween the individual and the world. Our emotions trans-mute the material world around us, thereby becoming asource of joy. For Tagore, art has no utilitarian signifi-cance. Art arises when the desire to express one’s emo-tions makes the artist want to forget the material world.Here, Tagore’s vision reflects the philosophy of JohnKeats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

One may argue that emotions can also be negative.True, they may arouse horror and repulsion. Whilewatching Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, one experi-ences revulsion at the ingratitude of his two daughters(“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have athankless child!”); there is pain, there is pathos, whenKing Lear roams in the sharp cold winds in the wild likea madman. But the play reveals a universal understand-ing of man’s place and, in this moment of oneness, of-fers the joy of comprehension. Contrary to popular per-ceptions, emotions in Tagore’s view are not subjective.Much like science, they retain a degree of objectivitythat cuts through materiality to reveal a subterranean,universal oneness.

Inner vision


Editorial

Literature & HealthSwapping just one food item daily

makes diet planet-friendlyAs per a new Tulane University

study, Americans who eat beefcould slash their diet's carbon

footprint as much as 48 per cent byswapping just one serving per day for amore planet-friendly alternative.

The study has been published in 'TheAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutri-tion'.Using real-world data from a sur-vey of what more than 16,000 Ameri-cans eat in an average day, researchersfrom Tulane University School of PublicHealth and Tropical Medicine and theUniversity of Michigan calculated howmuch of a difference people could makeif they swapped one high-impact fooditem for similar, more sustainable op-tions.

They examined how the changewould impact two metrics -- their dailydiets' greenhouse gas emissions and wa-ter scarcity footprint, a measure of the ir-rigated water used to produce the foodsthey eat that takes into account regionalvariations in water scarcity.The highestimpact item in Americans' diet is beefand around 20 per cent of survey re-spondents ate at least one serving of it ina day. If they collectively swapped oneserving of beef -- for example, choosingground turkey instead of ground beef --their diets' greenhouse gas emissions fellby an average of 48 per cent and water-use impact declined by 30 per cent."

People can make a significant differ-ence in their carbon footprint with verysimple changes -- and the easiest onewould be to substitute poultry for beef,"said lead author Diego Rose, a professor

of nutrition and food security at TulaneUniversity's School of Public Health andTropical Medicine.

The study also examined how thechange would affect the overall environ-mental impact of all food consumptionin the U.S. in a day -- including the 80per cent of diets without any changes. Ifonly the 20 per cent of Americans whoate beef in a day switched to somethingelse for one meal, that would reduce theoverall carbon footprint of all U.S. dietsby 9.6 per cent and reduce water-use im-pacts by 5.9 per cent. Agricultural pro-duction accounts for about a quarter ofglobal greenhouse gas emissions andabout 70 per cent of global freshwaterwithdrawals.

For the study, researchers built anextensive database of the greenhouse gasemissions.

Colonial administratorRobert Clive oncecompared the an-

cient city Gomorrah, noto-rious for vice and depravi-ty, to Calcutta and dubbedthe then capital of BritishIndia as "one of the mostwicked places in the uni-verse".

Clive, who was the firstgovernor of Bengal Presi-dency under the East IndiaCompany in the 18th centu-ry, earned the title "Clive ofIndia" as he played a keyrole in establishingBritain's colonial domina-tion over India.

In July 1765, in a letterto East India Company of-ficial Sir Francis Sykes,Clive compared Gomorrahfavourably to Calcutta.

"I will pronounce Cal-cutta to be one of the mostwicked places in the Uni-verse. Corruption licen-tiousness and a want ofprinciple seem to have pos-sessed the minds of all thecivil servants, by frequentbad examples they aregrown callous, rapaciousand luxurious beyond con-ception "

This anecdote has beenshared by BJP MP M J Ak-bar in his new book"Doolally Sahib and theBlack Zamindar: Racismand Revenge in the British

Raj", a chronicle of racialrelations between Indiansand their last foreign in-vaders. The author says onhis return from England inMay 1765, the first deci-sion Clive made was tocurb 'gifts', a euphemismfor rampant corruption.

"All presents between1,000 and 4,000 now re-quired permission - any-thing above that went intoCompany coffers. This

shocked and infuriatedCompany officials, who be-lieved that they needed3,000 pounds a year tomaintain their lifestyle, andthrice that amount to takeback as retirement benefits,at a time when the salary ofa member of the governor'scouncil was 330 pounds.

"The historian PercivalSpear, using floridmetaphors appropriate tocolourful larceny, writes:

'The brotherhood of ex-ploitation, the freemasonryof graft, had been violated.Clive had put himself out-side the pale. They sharp-ened their mental knives ofrevenge on the grindstoneof hate while dipping theirquills of complaint in theink of defamation'," thebook says.

Published by Blooms-bury India, the book drawsupon the letters, memoirs

and journals of traders,travellers, bureaucrats, offi-cials, officers and the occa-sional bishop. A multitudeof vignettes, combinedwith insight and analysis,reveal the deeply ingrainedconviction of 'white superi-ority' that shaped this histo-ry.

So who is Doolally?According to the book,

'Doolally' derives from De-olali, a transit camp situat-

ed in Nashik about a 100miles from Bombay and re-ferred to the feverishDoolally Sahib and theBlack Zamindar eccentrici-ty of the English soldierwaiting to go home.

Among many other in-teresting bits of informa-tion, Akbar writes aboutone of Mahatma Gandhi'sless-known talents - hisability to use laughter as apiquant missile in the ar-moury of non-violence."During his visit to Eng-land in 1931 for the secondRound Table Conference,Gandhi was asked by jour-nalists what he thought ofWestern civilization. Itwould be a good idea, theMahatma replied," hewrites.

"The quip must havebeen especially pungent forWinston Churchill, still anintermittently successfulprovocateur rather than theicon he would become.Churchill, the eternal impe-rialist, had famously dis-missed Gandhi as a 'malig-nant subversive fanatic' andseditious lawyer 'now pos-ing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, stridinghalf-naked up the steps ofthe Viceregal Palace', afterGandhi's pact with theViceroy Lord Irwin inMarch 1931," he says.

When Clive named Calcuttaone of 'most wicked places'!

Many are alarmed byChina's growing mil-itary ambitions, with

heated tensions in places likethe East China Sea, SouthChina Sea, near Taiwan andthe Indian border. The Peo-ple's Liberation Army (PLA)has benefitted greatly from adeluge of cash and copiousamounts of cutting-edgeequipment being added to itsinventory.

Last year was full of dis-concerting surprises, includ-ing the discovery of massivesilo fields for intercontinentalballistic missiles, and the test-ing of a fractional orbitalbombardment system. How-ever, more surprises await in2022.

Kurt Campbell, the USNational Security CouncilCoordinator for the Indo-Pa-cific, warned last week of a"strategic surprise" in the re-gion. He told the Center forStrategic and InternationalStudies in Washington DC:"If you look and if you askme, where are the placeswhere we are most likely tosee certain kinds of strategicsurprise - basing or certainkinds of agreements orarrangements - it may well bein the Pacific." The American

official said the issue was theone he was "most concernedabout over the next year ortwo". Expressing urgency,Campbell said, "And we havea very short amount of time,working with partners likeAustralia, like New Zealand,like Japan, like France, whohave an interest in the Pacific,to step up our game across theboard."

Campbell did not elabo-rate on what he meant by"strategic surprise", but incontext his comments hintthat China may be brewing upa significant basing agree-ment somewhere in the re-gion. It could be that he was

hinting at a specific develop-ment of which he is aware, orperhaps that he expects Bei-jing to throw its economicand military weight round ingenuinely unexpected ways.

However, such commentsdo not bode well. The USAshould have been preparingfor China's rise for the pastdecade or two. The Americanintelligence communityshould be on top of how Chi-na is muscling in on othercountries.

Unfortunately, the USAhas dropped the ball by ignor-ing friends and refusing op-portunities in the Asia-Pacificregion.

China is ready to springmilitary surprises

To gain a better understanding ofwhy the timing of exercise pro-duces different effects, an interna-

tional team of scientists carried out themost comprehensive study to date of ex-ercise performed at different times of theday.

The findings were recently pub-lished in the journal 'Cell Metabolism'.

Their research has shown how dif-ferent health-promoting signalling mol-ecules are produced by the body in an or-gan-specific manner following exercisedepending on the time of day. These sig-nals have a broad impact on health, in-fluencing sleep, memory, exercise per-formance and metabolic homeostasis."A better understanding of how exerciseaffects the body at different times of daymight help us to maximise the benefits ofexercise for people at risk of diseases,

such as obesity and type 2 diabetes," saidProfessor Juleen R. Zierath fromKarolinska Institutet and the NovoNordisk Foundation Center for BasicMetabolic Research (CBMR) at the Uni-versity of Copenhagen.

Almost all cells regulate their bio-logical processes over a 24-hour period,otherwise called a circadian rhythm.This means that the sensitivity of differ-ent tissues to the effects of exercisechanges depending on the time of day.

Earlier research has confirmed that exer-cise timing according to our circadianrhythm can optimize the health-promot-ing effects of exercise.

The team of international scientistswanted a more detailed understanding ofthis effect, so they carried out a range ofexperiments on mice that exercised ei-ther in the early morning or the lateevening. Blood samples and different tis-sues, including brain, heart, muscle, liv-er and fat were collected and analysed bymass spectrometry.

This allowed the scientists to detecthundreds of different metabolites andhormone signalling molecules in eachtissue, and to monitor how they werechanged by exercising at different timesof the day. The result is an 'Atlas of Ex-ercise Metabolism' - a comprehensivemap of exercise-induced signalling mol-

ecules present in different tissues fol-lowing exercise at different times of theday. "As this is the first comprehensivestudy that summarises time and exercis-es dependent metabolism over multipletissues, it is of great value to generateand refine systemic models for metabo-lism and organ crosstalk," added Do-minik Lutter, Head of ComputationalDiscovery Research at the HelmholtzDiabetes Center in Munich, Germany.

New insights include a deeper un-derstanding of how tissues communicatewith each other, and how exercise canhelp to 'realign' faulty circadian rhythmsin specific tissues - faulty circadianclocks have been linked to increasedrisks of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Fi-nally, the study identified new exercise-induced signalling molecules in multipletissues, which need further investigation

to understand how they can individuallyor collectively influence health."Notonly do we show how different tissuesrespond to exercise at different times ofthe day, we also propose how these re-sponses are connected to induce an or-chestrated adaptation that controls sys-temic energy homeostasis," said Associ-ate Professor Jonas Thue Treebak fromCBMR at the University of Copenhagen,and co-first author of the publication.Thestudy has several limitations. The exper-iments were carried out in mice. Whilemice share many common genetic, phys-iological and behavioural characteristicswith humans, they also have importantdifferences. For example, mice are noc-turnal, and the type of exercise was alsolimited to treadmill running, which canproduce different results compared tohigh-intensity exercise.

Exercise performed at different times of the day has different effects

MarianaA still small voice spake unto me,‘Thou art so full of misery,Were it not better not to be?’

Then to the still small voice I said;‘Let me not cast in endless shadeWhat is so wonderfully made.’

To which the voice did urge reply;‘To-day I saw the dragon-flyCome from the wells where hedid lie.

‘An inner impulse rent the veilOf his old husk: from head to tailCame out clear plates of sapphire mail.

‘He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;Thro’crofts and pastures wet with dewA living flash of light he flew.’

I said, ‘When first the world began,Young Nature thro’five cycles ran,And in the sixth she moulded man.

‘She gave him mind, the lordliestProportion, and, above the rest,Dominion in the head and breast.’

Thereto the silent voice replied;‘Self-blinded are you by your pride:Look up thro’night: the world is wide.

‘This truth within thy mind rehearse,That in a boundless universeIs boundless better, boundless worse.

POEMS

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

handigarh :Kia India, the fastest growing carmaker in the country, today revealed that the Kia Carens has received a tremendous response from the Indian customers, with C7738 bookings registered on the very first day. The company opened the pre-

bookings for prospective customers on 14 January’22 through the Kia India official website www.kia.com/in and via any of the authorized dealerships of Kia India by paying an initial booking amount of INR 25,000. Commenting on the development, Tae-Jin Park, Managing Director and CEO, Kia India, said, “We are delighted with the overwhelming response that Kia Carens has received from customers, within the first 24 hours of starting the pre-bookings. It is the highest first day booking we have received for any of our products in India. With the Carens, we offered a choice of multiple engine and transmission options, coupled with the standard Robust 10 High Safety package and many first-in-class features, to ensure it suits the requirement of anyone who wants a sophisticated and safe family mover.

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Chandigarh: Porsche consumers know how to make their dreams come true, even if it means going out of their way to do it. Porsche India client Ashique Thahir placed his 911 Carrera on his office wall to highlight one of the brand's goals of 'Exclusivity and Social Acceptance.' Mounted on the wall of the Team Thai office in Calicut, the 911 was bought in 2010 and its claim to fame is the 1,00,000 km-plus figure on the odo. Thahir, who is a hardcore petrolhead and a popular Porsche enthusiast has a workplace in Calicut which already had a grand appearance for the visitors. Just when one thought it couldn't get any more attention, the office now has the iconic 911 mounted on the wall, making the ambience even more spectacular. Car enthusiasts like Thahir create history by demonstrating their enthusiasm for what they want, and this has to be one of the most unusual installations and outlandish ideas in the history of Indian car enthusiasts.

Wall mounting the majestic 911 with Aashique Tahir

handigarh : Samsung, India’s most trusted smartphone brand, today announced the launch of Galaxy Tab A8 with all new design, Cimpressive large screen, bigger battery and ultimate audio experience.

Galaxy Tab A8 is the most powerful Tab A Series device for learning, entertaining, connecting and more.Starting January 17, Galaxy Tab A8 will be available in three vibrant colours – Gray, Silver and Pink Gold. Galaxy Tab A8 WiFi variant is priced at INR 17999 for 3GB+32GB and INR 19999 for 4GB+64GB. The LTE variant of Galaxy Tab A8 is priced at INR 21999 for 3GB+32GB and INR 23999 for 4GB+64GB.

“At Samsung, we work relentlessly to deliver meaningful innovation andgreat device experience to our consumers. In the last few years, tablets have emerged as a must have device for all consumer segments. Galaxy Tab A8 is a comprehensive package which has been designed keeping our consumer needs in mind. With bigger display, long lasting battery and Dolby quad speakers, it is theperfect device for getting yourwork done," said Sandeep Poswal, General Manager,New Computing Business, Samsung India. Galaxy Tab A8comes

with expanded 10.5-inch screen with slim bezel and 16:10 common aspect ratio. The result is an 80 percent screen to body ratio, which enables much more immersive viewing experience than past tablet models. The display ensures vivid and dynamic viewing experience and the quad-speaker with Dolby Atmos provides rich soundscape with unparalleled detail, depth and realism.Users can enjoy rich stereo sound with quad speakers that offer immersive cinematic experience.

Samsung Introduces Galaxy Tab A8 in India

atiala Herat attack accounts as one cholesterol level,High blood sugar of the leading causes of death level,Excessive smoking & Pglobally. But around 45% of heart drinking,Obesity,Inactive lifestyle &

attacks are silent i.e. people are clueless Unhealthy food,Age & Family history about their heart damage until weeks or And Stress.months due to missing signs and Silent heart attacks are often symptoms. mistaken for other problems and

Dr Deepak Katyal Interventional increase the possibilities of heart cardiologist, Manipal Hospital, Patiala problems and even death at the later said,”A "silent heart attack," also known as stage of life. Unfortunately, many silent myocardial infarction (SMI), shows people are ignorant about their health no or unidentified symptoms that are hard and do not realize the serious health to be recognized, making people ignorant issue their bodies may be facing. But about this heart injury. With SMI, you may a heart attack of any kind can be life-feel- fatigued, have mild distress, poor threatening. sleep, or general age-related issues. Also, Here are a few ways you can the location of the pain is not extreme and maintain your heart health to live a often misunderstood as typical symptoms longer and better life:,Regular of digestive disease, acidity, or heartburn. exercises or an active lifestyle,Proper He Said, some of the common warning sleep to reduce stress,Maintaining signs of SMI that one should never healthy weight,Lifestyle changes and ignore.Discomfort or brief pain in the chest a balanced diet,Reduce intake of for a short span or repeat after some sodium, sugar, & packaged time.Uneasy stress, aches, or stuffing food,Limiting the intake of alcohol or around the center of the chest or upper quitting it,No tobacco or smoking.body.Soar or strained muscles around the If you are someone who is

A silent heart attack impairs your heart back, neck, or jaw area. Difficulty in lifting suffering from a chronic condition, you are at just like a regular heart attack. SMI both arms. higher risk of another heart attack. damages the heart muscles and leaves Some people might experience Therefore, do not avoid your health, take scars that can increase the risk of prolonged tiredness, flu, or indigestion. proper medications, do not skip doctor cardiovascular problems. Some of the These are not the typical symptoms of a appointments, and follow all the instructions common risk factors that contribute to heart heart attack, and people tend to ignore them carefully. attacks.High blood pressure level,High easily.

Kia India registers 7738 bookings for Kia Carens within the first 24 hours!

OctaFX Copytrading redesigns its Copying Settingsew Delhi): OctaFX Copytrading is a popular service that allows its customers to profit by copying orders from professional traders, also known as Master Traders. The service recently introduced Nmajor changes to its copying settings - users can now copy the Master Traders' orders in equal,

double, triple, or any other desired volume. The new year means new beginnings. Global broker OctaFX decided to jumpstart 2022 by updating some crucial settings of its Copytrading service.OctaFX Copytrading is a top-rated service among the company's clients. There are two great reasons for its popularity. First, you can easily access the service through the OctaFX Copytrading App or desktop. Second, you need little Forex expertise to start making a profit.

Wondering how it works? The clients, known as copiers, choose professional traders to copy orders from them. Whenever a Master Trader opens an order, the same order opens in a copier's account automatically. This way, a copier can simply trust a Master Trader's expertise and profit with minimum effort. Recently OctaFX Copytrading has been working on making the subscription process to Master Traders more transparent for the copiers. They updated the parameters a copier can set when subscribing to a professional trader. Firstly, a copier can choose to copy a Master Trader's orders in equal (x1), double (x2), triple (x3), or

any other volume. Upon selecting a copying mode, a copier will see the investment required to start copying this Master Trader in this mode. Another new feature for the Copiers is the support funds. Copiers can choose to add support funds to protect their investments from unexpected market movements. This amount will only be used to support the trading strategy when the market fluctuates.The required investment for each Master Trader is calculated automatically. An algorithm calculates this optimal amount from a pro's trading history.

umbai: BankBazaar.com, India's largest fintech co-branded credit card issuer and online platform for free credit score posted 80% Myear-on-year growth in credit card issuances between December

2020 and December 2021.The growth was built on new credit card issuances via completely digital processes and a co-branded business model that currently accounts for 50% of the company's credit card issuances. This fits into the wider trend of rising credit card and digital payment adoption in India, fast-tracked by the pandemic. Parallelly, on the revenue front, BankBazaar tightly controlled EBITDA burn at 6% of revenue even as December 2021 revenue grew 68% over June 2021.This growth was supported by some crucial business changes. The company expanded its portfolio to include co-branded credit cards. The first of such partnerships is with YES Bank for the YES Bank-BankBazaar FinBooster co-branded credit card. The co-branded cards tackle the most important concern expressed by credit card customers in pandemic - managing credit prudently to keep credit score at its peak. They double-up as an advisor on credit health and management and provide accelerated reward points on digital spends. The company is looking to scale up to 1 million BankBazaar co-branded credit cards in force. Adhil Shetty, Co-founder and CEO, BankBazaar.com, said, "For many, credit cards are the first preference as they help users handle several aspects of their financial life, from payments to credit to incentives. Small wonder that the number of outstanding credit cards in India rose to 67.6 million. As the first movers in enabling contactless digital KYC solutions especially during the pandemic, BankBazaar has been indispensable to both its 50 million registered customers as well as its bank and NBFC partners.

BankBazaar caps the year of the credit card with 80 percent growth in issuancesew Delhi : In just a few months' time, the COVID crisis

has brought about years of change in the way companies Nin all sectors and regions do business.To stay competitive in this new business and economic environment requires new strategies and practices. During the pandemic, consumers have moved dramatically toward online channels, and companies and industries have responded in turn.One such industry which has had a major shift is the fire and security industry. Government regulations and mandates concerning workplace safety, increasing awareness of the benefits of installing fire safety & security equipment, and the demand for state-of-the-art protection equipment are the major factors fuelling the growth of this landscape.Keeping in mind that majority of our society is working from home, there has been a drastic increase in residential fires over the last couple of years which has prompted many to reinforce their structure with fire-resistant materials and take Fire Safety seriously. Great job! If you have done this.Let's face it, life is uncertain. Unexpected and dangerous events like a fire or natural disaster can occur without any warning. If you are prepared, there is a huge possibility that you will survive. If you are not, you may not make it. The global COVID-19 pandemic has created an environment where buildings are largely unoccupied, and employees are adjusting to hybrid working practices. This creates two significant considerations for our customers, the evolution of evacuation procedures and the need to connect fire systems to remotely reinforce building protection. In the "new normal" it is often uncertain how many people are in the office or another workplace.

Adaptation of Fire Safety in times of Covid 19

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SVP Global Ventures Ltd. is now SVP Global Textiles Ltd

umbai : India's leading compact cotton yarn manufacturer and one of the fastest growing Mmultinational textile companies, SVP Global

Ventures Ltd. will now be known as SVP Global Textiles Ltd.The SVP Global Ventures Ltd. is mainly into manufacturing of cotton yarn and hence a need was felt to include Textile in the name. The Company plans to be a fully integrated Textile Company from Fiber to Fashion with forward integration into fabric and garments.It has already declared its venture into Technical textiles with a capex of Rs. 100 crore in setting up green-field facility at Jhalawar, Rajasthan with capacity of 4,375 MT per annum.Highlights:Over 125 years old Textile Group provides employment to 3500 directly and over 10,000 indirectly. Supports over 2 lacs cotton grower farmers.

ARIDABAD / ROHTAK : Mahindra’s Truck and Bus Division (MTB), a part of the Mahindra Group, today announced their unique and disruptive customer value Fproposition “Get More Mileage or Give Truck Back” Guarantee for their entire BS6 range

of BLAZO X Heavy, FURIO Intermediate, and Light Commercial trucks including FURIO7 and JAYO.The new range features the proven 7.2L mPower Engine (HCVs) and mDi Tech Engine (ILCV)

with FuelSmart Technology, Mild EGR with proven Bosch After Treatment System that leads to lower Ad Blue Consumption and many other technological advancements, besides the cutting-edge iMAXX Telematics solution, all of which together, ensure guaranteed higher mileage. Given the fact that fuel is a major component of a transporters’ operating cost (over 60%), Mahindra BS6 truck range, with this competitive advantage will provide them an edge, complete peace of mind and scale up their transport business, delivering higher prosperity. Speaking on the occasion, Veejay Nakra, Chief Executive Officer, Automotive Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, said, “The ‘Get More Mileage or Give Back Truck’

Guarantee across the range of trucks is a landmark move for the light, intermediate and heavy commercial vehicle industry. Given the spiraling fuel prices, there wasn’t a better time to introduce this Customer Value Proposition. I firmly believe that it will reaffirm our customers’ faith in Mahindra’s ability to create technologically advanced, class-leading products .

Mahindra announces, “Get Highest Mileage or Give Truck Back”

Flipkart launches its flagship startup accelerator program handigarh: Flipkart announced the evolution of its flagship startup accelerator program - Flipkart Leap to identify wider and relevant market opportunities for its selected startups. After the successful completion of the first cohort of the Cprogram, Flipkart Leap will now evolve into two new programs - Flipkart Leap Ahead (FLA) and Flipkart Leap Innovation

Network (FLIN). Flipkart Leap is proud to announce this launch on National Startup Day, a day recognized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently to help startup culture spread better across India.

Designed to cater to the dynamic needs of startups across different stages, these two programs - FLA and FLIN will support the startups through insights, mentorship and funding as needed, while helping them scale and build disruptive innovations. With the introduction of these programs, the startup ecosystem will be able to access end-to-end partnerships with Flipkart across their growth stages. Ravi Iyer, Senior Vice President and Head - Corporate Development, Flipkart, said that as a homegrown company, we are thrilled to bring innovative propositions back to the ecosystem to foster new-age startups. On the back of its early success, we are evolving Flipkart Leap and bringing relevant offerings that can support startups in the long run. With dedicated tracks for early-stage and growth-stage startups, this cohort will now expand its benefits to a much wider pool of entrepreneurs who are solving for Digital India - be it meaningful partnerships and potential projects with Flipkart or equity investment that enables them to scale up further.

HANDIGARH: Strengthening its presence in El Salvador, Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest Cmanufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, has

expanded its operations and commenced retail sales at a newly opened flagship store in the country’s capital city San Salvador. Customers have been thronging to the company’s new state-of-the-art dealership located in El Pedregal to purchase Hero MotoCorp’s products. The showroom that offers 3S (sales, service, spares) operations and is spread over 600 sq. mt, displays Hero MotoCorp’s world-class products such as the Xpulse 200, Hunk 160R and Hunk 150 motorcycles and Dash 125 scooter. The workshop with five service bays provides the best-in-class aftersales service and spare parts to customers. In keeping with its commitment to provide a world-class customer experience, the company offers a 4-year or 40,000 km warranty across its range of products. Speaking on the occasion, Sanjay Bhan, Head – Global Business, Hero MotoCorp, said, “The strengthening and expansion of our network in El Salvador clearly underscore the market's importance for Hero MotoCorp. There has been a steadily growing demand among the customers here for our wide range of products and with this state-of-the-art flagship store in the capital city.

Mahindra announces, “Get Highest Mileage or Give Truck Back”

AMMU: Mahindra’s Truck and Bus Division (MTB), a part of the Mahindra Group, today announced their unique Jand disruptive customer value proposition “Get More

Mileage or Give Truck Back” Guarantee for their entire BS6 range of BLAZO X Heavy, FURIO Intermediate, and Light Commercial trucks including FURIO7 and JAYO. The new range features the proven 7.2L mPower Engine (HCVs) and mDi Tech Engine (ILCV) with FuelSmart Technology, Mild EGR with proven Bosch After Treatment System that leads to lower Ad Blue Consumption and many other technological advancements, besides the cutting-edge iMAXX Telematics solution, all of which together, ensure guaranteed higher mileage. Given the fact that fuel is a major component of a transporters’ operating cost (over 60%), Mahindra BS6 truck range, with this competitive advantage will provide them an edge, complete peace of mind and scale up their transport business, delivering higher prosperity.

MBALA / SONIPAT : India’s leading telecom services provider, Vi has rolled out Voice Over AWiFi (VoWiFi) calling service for pre-paid and

post-paid customers in Haryana circle. The service is now available for Vi customers in Ambala, Hissar, Karnal, Panipat, Rohtak, Sonipat, Yamunanagar, amongst others. Vi VoWiFi calling service provides seamless and extended indoor coverage on all broadband networks. Get superior call quality with no call drops at home or office while connected to a WiFiVi pre-paid and post-paid customers in Haryana circle can now undertake VoWifi calling at no extra charge. VoWiFi calling service can be activated on the smartphone absolutely free of cost by following these simple steps: Check if the smartphone supports Wi-Fi calling (www.myvi.in/vi-wifi-calling). Have a Vi 4G Sim with active VoLTE, calling service , Get on to a Wi-Fi network, and switch on Wi-Fi calling on the device Vi VoWifi calling service is currently available in Delhi & NCR, Gujarat, Mumbai, M&G, Punjab, Rajasthan, UP and West Bengal. Vi is in the process of extending VoWifi to more locations over the coming months.

Prestige Estates Registered Record Quarterly Sales of Rs 42,676 Million

handigarh: Prestige Estates, has announced its updates on real estate operations for the quarter Cending 31st December 2021 & 9MFY22. During

Q3FY22, The Group has registered highest ever quarterly sales of INR 42,676 mn, up 111% YoY and has clocked highest ever collections of INR 24,316 mn, up 70% YoY, resultant 9MF22 sales at record INR 71,134 mn and collections at INR 50,054 mn, up 97% and 51% YoY respectively. Commenting on Q3/9MF22 performance, Mr. Irfan Razack, Chairman, Prestige Group "We are delighted to announce another robust performance during Q3F22. Prestige has clocked highest quarterly sales of INR 42,676 mn, up 111% YoY and collections of INR 24,316 mn, up 70% YoY. The new sales were backed by the great response to our newly launched project; Prestige Avalon, Aspen & Eden Park, Part of The Prestige City, Bengaluru, Prestige Beverly Hills, Hyderabad and the existing inventories across geographies. It is a very exciting time for the brand, with new launches and markets to support the ambitious growth plans we have set for ourselves. Thanks to the relentless dedication of our employees across the cities. We look forward to continuing to expand our footprint in high growth opportunity markets" Commenting on this, Mr. Venkat K Narayana, Chief Executive Officer, Prestige Group "We are pleased to announce another record quarterly performance. Throughout 9MFY22, our team continued to deliver, despite the underlying challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic, leading to 9MFY22 new sales growth.

handigarh : Teachmint, an education infrastructure startup and the creator of CIndia’s largest teaching platform, has

partnered with the Administration in Punjab to provide its teaching platform to over 500 government schools in the region and enable them to run their classrooms efficiently. With Teachmintfor Institute, the schools will be able to digitize their operations and ensure their students have continuous access to teachers and digital content through Teachmint’s proprietary platform. The first phase of this partnership will be driven in Pathankot, touching the lives of 50,000+ students and helping boost their learning outcomes with advantages. Commenting on this partnership, Aditya Agrawal, Vice President - Business, Teachmint, said, “We are humbled to partner with the Punjab administration to empower schools, educators and students in the region with tech-enabled education. We’re delighted to start this in Pathankot. Amit Vij’s vision of progress is truly inspirational and has the potential to make a long term, positive impact on education in the region. Teachmint has built the fundamental infrastructure for online and digital education to help teachers and schools everywhere connect and teach their students easily. We believe that digitization of education is critical in today’s world and our platform is designed to enable education at the grassroot level. Today, Teachmint has over 10+ million students and teachers using its platform from 5,000+ cities and towns in India. We are proud to be a part of India’s education story and will keep working relentlessly.

Teachmint partners with Punjab Admn to empower 500+ schools in region

ew Delhi: Esri India, country's leading Geographic Information System (GIS) Nsoftware and solutions provider, today

announced GeoInnovation 2022 - an acceleration platform for startupreneurs, in partnership with AGNIi (Invest India).GeoInnovation program aims to help start-ups leverage Location Intelligence technology to build new businesses. As per Geospatial "Artha" Report, India's geospatial economy has the potential to grow to Rs. 63,100 crore by 2025 with a CAGR of 12.8%. GIS ecosystem in India has been growing steadily over the past few years. In addition, recent government policies like liberalization of geospatial data & new drone policy have laid the foundation of new Geo-enabled era, which is opening a huge opportunity for start-ups. GeoInnovation 2022 would be divided into three phasesPhase 1 - Applications Phase (ending on 25th Jan 2022) Phase 2 - Technical guidance and business focused mentorship from Esri India, AGNIi and Funding companies (Feb - March 2022) Phase 3 - Business pitch (April 2022)On the occasion, Agendra Kumar, Managing Director, Esri India, said, "Now is the right time to make bold transformations, aided by GIS technology.

Esri India partners with AGNIi (Invest India) to Roll-out 'GeoInnovation'

MAHE Manipal featured in the India Book of Records 2022

Discovery+ launches Mission FrontlineCHANDIGARH: This Republic Day discovery+ celebrates the tales of bravery and courage with 'Home of Patriots' campaign by launching new series from the fan favourite franchises Mission Frontline and Breaking Point. Premiering on 20th January, Mission Frontline features the actor, writer, producer, and director Farhan Akhtar along with the supremely popular action director and producer Rohit Shetty. Followed by the launch of 4 new episodes from the hit series Breaking Point on 21st January. Post the overwhelming response of Mission Frontline starring talented actors like Rana Daggubati and

Sara Ali Khan, the action-packed episodes will see Farhan Akhtar, and Rohit Shetty spend a day with the Rashtriya Rifle soldiers and J&K Police's Special Operations Group in Srinagar respectively. F u l l o f a d v e n t u r e , e n d u r a n c e , backbreaking training, and powerful visuals, each episode traverses through the life of India's brave warriors through the eyes and experiences of these celebrities. Yet another interesting release scheduled for the month is popular franchise Breaking Point, a 4-part series that will showcase

different groups of soldiers in training including the paratroopers, Armoured Corps, Army Artillery, and Army Aviation. A staggering slate that is sure to fill your hearts with pride and gives the audience a never seen before look into the training imparted at India's premier institutions across cities like Nashik, Jodhpur Ahmednagar, Agra, Jaisalmer and Sarmathura. Each moment of the series takes the viewer a step closer to how the soldiers are transformed into warriors of the Indian Army.Speaking of his overall training experience, Farhan Akhtar said, "If I could express the feeling in one word, it would be humbling for me. Back when we were filming Lakshya, we went up close and personal with the lives of our jawans, but stepping into their shoes and experiencing the hardships they go through on-ground is a life-changing experience. It was extremely difficult for me to get trained in such tough terrains and weather conditions, but their support and encouragement made it possible. It is an honour to have got the chance to be a part of discovery+ 's Mission Frontline."

Tata Motors’ flagship SUV, the Safari joins the #DARK range

HANDIGARH/LUDHIANA: Tata Motors, one of India’s leading automotive brands, today announced Cthe launch of the Safari #DARK, the latest flagship

addition to the company’s successful #DARK range. The Safari #DARK Edition is now open for bookings and available at dealerships nationwide starting at INR 19.05 lakhs (ex-showroom, Delhi).The Safari #DARK will be clad in the signature Oberon Black exterior body colour, which many have now come to associate with the #DARK range. The mascots on the fender and the tailgate as well as the 18” Blackstone alloy wheels lend the exteriors the signature #DARK look. As part of the interiors, Safari #DARK offers a premium Blackstone Dark theme with exclusive touches to the key elements. Additions like the distinct dark finishes, special Blackstone Matrix dashboard & premium Dark upholstery (Nappa Granite Black colour scheme with Blue Tri Arrow Perforations and Blue Stitching) complete the insides of the Safari #DARK. Commenting on the launch, Mr. Rajan Amba, Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Service, Passenger Vehicles, Tata Motors, said, “Launched in July last year, with a power-packed line-up featuring India’s safest premium hatchback – the Altroz, India’s first GNCAP 5star rated car - the Nexon, Tata Motors’ premium midsize SUV with the Land Rover DNA - the Harrier and India’s highest selling passenger electric car – the Nexon EV, the #DARK range has, in a very short span.

Silent heart attacks - what are the signsSon of Kargil martyr's paintings

showcase artistic brilliancehandigarh: A two days Solo Art Exhibition titled 'Black Vibgyor' exhibited by a city based young architect- cum-artist Karan Bajwa at Punjab Kala Bhawan, Sector 16 concluded Ctoday. In his maiden solo exhibition, the artist Karan Bajwa displayed as many as fifty

paintings, which were brilliant amalgamations of different facets of human’s emotions.The exhibition was inaugurated by Shrimati Jyoti Pattabhiram, Founding Director and present chairman of Sadhana Sangama Trust, who is Karan’s Guru. Major General Anil Duvedi and Brig Satinder Singh Aulakh, Director Defence Services were the guests of honour at the inaugural ceremony. Karan who is the son of Kargil martyr Major BS Bajwa, Sena Medal (Gallantry) said, "I have

used the PortIllustraitism concept in my paintings. It is a form of art created to reveal a profound, conceptualized illustration of a portrait. It has a vast effect on modern art movements and the various upcoming trends of art." Working in charcoal and acrylic on canvas, Karan used the seven tones of rainbow, which provide to his paintings a strong physical presence. That presence is enhanced by his skill at rendering figure forms and his sharp eye for manipulating proportion.The exhibition had two paintings dedicated to Karan's father. "These two paintings are inspired by my dad. It is my humble tribute to him."

HANDIGARH: Mr. Suresh Shenoy, Chief Manager – HR, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal has been featured in the India Book of Records 2022 for maximum number of Collage Art Works in a day. He has completed C10 unique collage art works within 6 hours and 30 minutes. MAHE Manipal honoured him on January 14, 2022 in the

presence of Dr. H.S Ballal, Pro Chancellor, Lt. Gen. M.D. Venkatesh, Vice Chancellor, Dr. H. Vinod Bhat, Executive Vice President and former VC, Mr. Nishith Mohanty, Group President – HR & Academia, MEMG Bengaluru, Pro Vice Chancellors, Registrar, Senior Leadership of Kasturba Hospital and other Officials of MAHE. The collages made by Mr Shenoy are artistic wonders created out of pages of old magazines without a drop of paint. The achievement remains one of its kind as no one else has attempted it yet. Speaking about Mr Shenoy’s achievement Dr. H.S Ballal, Pro Chancellor, MAHE said “We are extremely proud of Mr Suresh being featured in the India Book of Records. Through his unique sense of creativity, he has brought out the beauty of collages and exposed the world to this unique form of art. We congratulate him on this prestigious honour”

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LPU’s three Engineeringstudents qualify forWorldSkills Competition-2022 to be held in Shanghai

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Under the aegis of theGovernment of India Ministry of SkillDevelopment and Entrepreneurship(MSDE); National Skills DevelopmentCorporation (NSDC) had organized‘IndiaSkills Competition-2022’ atregional and national levels to find outskills-based talent from across thecountry. Proving their mettle among allcompetitors, three engineering studentsof Lovely Professional University (LPU)have qualified nationally for making anaccess to high-status 46th WorldSkillsCompetition-2022, to be held inShanghai, China. Known as the‘Olympics of Skills’-this biggestvocational education and skillsexcellence event reflects thebenchmarks of the global industry.Congratulating the globally talentedstudents, LPU Chancellor Mr AshokMittal appreciated them for their winningpassion and perseverance with whichthey competed, and are further workingto win world accolades.

House gutted in FireASHOK KAURAPHAGWARA: Valuables includinghousehold goods were reduced toashes in a devastating fire which brokein the Single storey House of a PainterJaswinder Kumar near civil dispensaryat Village Bahram on Phagwara---Banga Road this afternoon. ShortCircuit in power lines was said to be thecause of fire, said ASI Bahram SurinderSingh. Dozens of Villagers put hardefforts to control the fire before arrivingof Fire Tender from Nawanshahr. Exactloss could not be estimated till now.

I-T Dept seizes Rs 6.60 crin cash after raids on abusiness group in HryJASWINDER SHARMAKARNAL: The Income Tax Department(I-T Department) seized Rs 6.60 croreof unaccounted cash and jewelleryworth Rs 2.10 crore during search andseizure operation conducted on adiversified business group in Haryana.The department had conducted raidson over 30 premises of the group,spread across the cities of YamunaNagar, Ambala, Karnal, and Mohali, onJanuary 11. The group is engaged inmanufacturing of plywood/plyboard,MDF board, inverter and vehiclebatteries, and in refining of lead. Duringthe search operation, digital evidenceand various incriminating documentswere found and seized in relation toentities of the plywood business, theMinistry of Finance said in a release,without revealing the name of thegroup. These included a parallel set ofaccounts books recording the entries ofcash transactions of purchase, sale,payment of wages, and other expensesof group entities, in addition totransactions of investment inimmovable properties. The evidencerevealed the modus operandi (MO) ofthe group that is involved in generationof cash by suppression of sales to theextent of about 40 per cent of the actualsales, the release said. The preliminaryanalysis of incriminating evidenceindicates that the group hassuppressed sales to the tune of Rs 400crore in the last three years, it said.Regarding the battery manufacturingbusiness, the search team discoveredincriminating evidence concerningpayment of wages and purchase of rawmaterials in cash aggregating to Rs 110crore which was not recorded in theaccount books. "In the case of batterymanufacturing as well as lead refiningconcerns and its related entities,suspicious purchases exceeding Rs 40crore from non-existent concerns havealso been identified," it added.

Assembly elections in Goabetween Congress and BJP:ChidambaramPANAJI: Former Union Minister PChidambaram on Monday claimedthat the contest in assembly electionsin Goa is between Congress andBharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AamAadmi Party (AAP) and TrinamoolCongress would only fracture thenon-BJP vote. In a series of tweets,the senior Congress leader said, 'Myassessment that the AAP (and theTMC) will only fracture the non-BJPvote in Goa has been confirmed byMr Arvind Kejriwal. The contest inGoa is between Congress and BJP.''Those who want a regime change(after 10 years of misrule) will votefor the Congress. Those who wantthe regime to continue will vote forthe BJP. The choice before the voterin Goa is stark and clear. Do youwant a regime change or not? Iappeal to the voters of Goa to votefor a regime change and voteCongress,' he said.

Students urges to Emulate SIR Benjamin FranklinASHOK KAURAKAPURTHLA: Science City organized a webinar to celebrate birth anniversary of SIR Benjamin Franklin.Around 100 students and teachers from different schools of Punjab participated in this event. Speaking at theoccasion, Dr. Rajesh Grover, Director Science City said that, this Day is celebrated with an intention toappreciate and honor Benjamin Franklin on his anniversary. He has made incredible discoveries and theoriesin the field of electricity. He highlighted the contributions made by SIR Benjamin Franklin to Scienceespecially on how he made use of astute observations to deduce many aspects of nature. further he said thatFranklin was definitely not one to think inside the box. He believed, to create, we must first identify theproblem, then offer the best solution. He urged the participants to take inspiration from him and focus theirattention on identifying problems in the society and also, make efforts to find their solutions. The most notableinventions of him include a lightning rod, the Franklin stove, bifocals, a carriage odometer and a musicalinstrument. He informed that PGSC is going to setup a gallery on Electricity very shortly in which concepts ofelectricity can be understood in an interactive manner.

NEWSDEO urges voters, partiesto make maximum use of

online portals SHARANJEETPATHANKOT, JAN 17

District Election OfficerSanyam Agarwal urged thevoters and political parties totake advantage of the onlineportals and mobileapplications created by theElection Commission ofIndia for their convenience.

He said that throughthese IT applications theElection Commission hasincreased the transparency inthe entire process by pavingthe way for greater publicparticipation.

He said that these onlineportals and mobileapplications include C-Vigilfor Complaints, SuwidhaPortal for Political Parties,Suwidha Candidate App,PWD App for handicaped,National Service Voter Portalfor Voters, Voter HelplineApp and Voter Turnout andNational Grievance ServicesPortals. He said that themobile-based C- Vigil appprovides a platform for thegeneral public to lodge onlinecomplaints of violation of theModel Code of Conduct. Bydownloading this app on

mobile, anyone can upload aphoto or video of a violationof the Code of Conductanywhere, and the process iscompleted in 100 minutes.

The District ElectoralOfficer has urged to thegeneral public, voters,contesting politicalparties/candidates of DistrictPathankot to make maximumuse of these IT applicationsso that using the onlineplatform, the war againstCovid-19 could also be madeeffective.

Himachal Govt proposes outlay of Rs. 12638 cr for budget 2022-23


While presiding over the meetingwith the MLAs for finalization ofpriorities for the Budget 2022-23with the MLAs of Solan, Bilaspurand Mandi districts in the morningsession here today, Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur said that due to theeffective financial managementand resource allocation of the StateGovernment, an outlay ofRs.12,638 crore has been proposedfor Financial DevelopmentalBudget-2022-23. Jai Ram Thakursaid that the State Government hasdedicated all its efforts for thewelfare of every section of thesociety and for overalldevelopment of the State duringthe last four years. He said that theState Government has initiatedseveral programs during thisperiod to make development of theState more inclusive and holistic.

Chief Minister said that theState Government has given toppriority on strengthening healthinfrastructure in the State. He saidthat today there were 1014ventilators in the State as

compared to only 50 two year ago.He said that under the AyushmanBharat scheme, 4.26 lakh familieshave been registered and 1.20 lakhpeople have been provided freetreatment worth Rs 145 crore. Hesaid that under the Chief MinisterHIMCARE Yojna 5.13 lakhfamilies have been registered and2.20 lakh families have beenprovided financial benefits ofabout Rs. 200 crore. He said thatunder the Ujjwala Yojna of theCentre and Grihini Suvidha Yojnaof the State Government, morethan 4.69 lakh families of the Statehave been provided with free gasconnections worth Rs 141.71crore. Jai Ram Thakur said thatunder the Jal Jeevan Mission, aprogram sponsored by the Central

Government, 8.23 lakh householdshave been provided tap waterfacility in the State and target hasbeen fixed to achieve the target tocover all the households by mid ofthis year. Chief Minister said thatduring the tenure of the previousState Government, a total of 779MLA priority schemes worth Rs3,200.34 crore were approvedthrough NABARD, whereasduring the first four years tenure ofthe present State Government, 825MLA priority schemes have beenapproved at a cost of Rs.3,347.20crore. He said that a totalprovision of Rs 2,363.80 crore wasmade for the implementation ofMLA priority schemes in the fiveyears of the previous government'stenure, whereas the present

government has made a provisionof Rs 3,183.37 crore in the firstfour years itself. Jai Ram Thakursaid that the provision of budgetoutlay has been made for repairand maintenance in all the DPRsunder NABARD from 1st April,2021. He said that NABARD hasso far sanctioned 186 projectsworth Rs. 965.41 crore undervarious MLA priority schemes forthe year 2021-22. He said that outof the projects of Rs.965.41 croresanctioned by NABARD duringthe current financial year, projectsworth Rs.465.05 crore have beenapproved for construction of roadsand bridges and Rs.500.36 crorehave been sanctioned for minorirrigation and drinking waterschemes.

Bajwa demands Congticket from Bhoa

R. SINGHPATHANKOT, JAN 17

Males have been given tickets from Sujanpur andPathankot by Congress high command. The highcommand should give ticket to a woman from

Bhoa, saidCongress's AllIndia YouthCongress in-chargeLeh LadakhHarsimran KaurBajwa. HarsimranKaur Bajwa, whohas raised the flagof the Congressparty in the area forthe past severalyears says there is a

demand of the people of the area that this time theMLA from Bhoa should be a woman. Therefore,being a woman, she should be given a chance toserve the people of Bhoa. While demanding theparty high command to give her a ticket, Bajwasaid that if the party gives her ticket, then she hasfull confidence that she will win the seat with a bigmargin for the Congress.

Wholesale ChemistsAssociation holds meetingR. SINGHPATHANKOT, JAN 17

A special meeting was organized on behalf ofWholesale Chemists Association, Pathankot,which was presided over by President AjaySood. Dapinder Arora, Rajesh Arora,Govardhan Gopal, Rajiv Khosla, AshwaniJandial, Surinder Mahajan, Rajneesh Mahajan,Jeevan Sharma, Gaurav Mahajan and otherdistinguished members of the group associationparticipated. On this occasion, the work of 100days of the post of President Ajay Sood wasreviewed. President Ajay Sood and DapinderArora informed that the association has beenformed to protect trade and business interestsand it is a matter of happiness that all 180members have full participation in it. Afterconsultation with the group members, theannouncement of the executive committee wasalso discussed. President Ajay Sood, DapinderArora and Rajiv Khosla along with others toldthat Pathankot has been divided into 6 zonesand accordingly the executive committee hasalso been formed. The main purpose of

dividing into six zones is to settle the problemsat the earliest and that administrative ortechnical problems can be resolved in time. Onthe occasion, the members praised the strategymade by the head regarding the executive andsaid that it is a matter of happiness that thegroup base including ethical business of pharmatrade, generic business, surgical and labbusiness, veterinary product business has beenincluded in this executive. History is witnessthat all problems can be solved only by unityand hard work. Giving good news to themembers present, Ajay Sood said that theoutline of the executive committee has beenprepared, which will be announced soon.

Urban votes of Kharar city will bedecisive in forthcoming assembly

election of Kharar constituencySHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, JAN 17

The election activities for Kharar Assembly constituency areintensifying day by day and public relations campaign hasbeen launched by the declared and potential candidates of allthe parties. A look at the voter list reveals that KhararAssembly constituency has become an urban constituency andmore than 94,000 votes in the constituencies under KhararMunicipal Council will be decisive for the victory or defeat ofany candidate. As per information, there are total 260932voters in Kharar constituency this time out of which 136986are male voters and 123940 are female voters. 316 pollingbooths have been setup in the constituency for smooth polling.A look at the voter list revealed that there are 94524 voters inKharar Municipal area. Similarly in Kurali Municipal areathere are about 28000 voters and in Nia Gaon there are about42000 voters. Thus it can be clearly said that only the votersin the area under Kharar Municipal Council will be decisiveon the results of this constituency. In 2017, Aam Aadmi Partyleader Kanwar Sandhu won the Kharar seat with nearly 2,000votes. This time the competition is likely to be very tough andthis contest will be at least 5 corners. While the SAD and AamAadmi Party have already announced their candidates, theCongress and the BJP and the farmers have yet to do so. As perinformation about 3 dozen candidates have applied for theticket of Congress party in Kharar.

Officers should complete development worksin stipulated time: Devendra Singh Babli

ANIL KUMARJIND, JAN 17

Haryana Development andPanchayat, Archeology andMuseums Minister DevendraSingh Babli held a meetingwith the officials on Monday inDRDA hall in jind to reviewthe ongoing developmentworks under the Shyam PrasadMukherjee Urban Missionscheme at the local PublicWorks Rest House, Jind.Shyam Prasad MukherjeeUrban Mission Schemeincludes villages BhagwanPura, Budayan, Darauli Kheda,Kakraud, Kheri Masania,Khedi Safa, Mankhand,Mangalpur, Nacharkheda,Palwan, Sedha Majra, Surbura,Kharkabura, Tarkhan UchanaKhurd under the ClusterUchana. The objective of thecluster scheme is to providebasic facilities like cities in the

village.Development andPanchayat Minister DevendraSingh Babli, in the meeting,discussed digital literacy,education sector, includingupgrading primary andsecondary schools, healthcenters being built in thevillage, inter-village roadconnectivity, LPG, housesbeing built under PradhanMantri Awas Yojana, skilldevelopment, Playground,Village Kakrod tookinformation from the officialsof the concerned departments

about the grant for thedevelopment works and issuednecessary guidelines to them.He said that the StateGovernment is continuouslytaking many importantdecisions in the public interestand they will ensure that everyperson gets the benefit ofthem. He said that it would behis priority to give furtherimpetus to the developmentworks and to provide facilitiesto the common people easily.He said that public moneyshould be spent on

development works for thepeople. The developmentwork should be completedqualitatively. Cabinet MinisterDevendra Singh Babli saidthat his aim is to provide basicfacilities like cities in thevillages, and public moneyshould be utilized properly. Hesaid that all the officers andemployees should workhonestly. It is the duty of all ofus that the money given by thegovernment for developmentworks should be usedhonestly. He said that thegovernment has to work withthe policy and zero tolerancepolicy of the government. Onthis mitting Director, RuralDevelopment Department,Sujan Singh assured thecabinet minister that thedevelopment works would becompleted soon incoordination with all theofficials concerned.

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, JAN 17

The Shiromani Akali Dal has alwaysrewarded the Taksali families from timeto time with good positions in the party.

Under which Balwinder SinghSandhu, candidate of SAD-BSP alliancefrom Raikot assembly constituencyhanded over the letter of appointment toDavinder Singh Thind, son of Taksalileader late Thakur Singh, by appointinghim as Vice President of DistrictLudhiana Rural. On this occasion,Balwinder Singh Sandhu while talkingto the media said that the trumpet ofassembly elections has been blown. So

as per the instructions of the ElectionCommission in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines, they were making door-to-door contact with the voters toapprise them of 13-point programme ofSAD-BSP alliance. By distributing theelection symbol elephant, votes arebeing sought for the BSP.

He appealed to the voters of theconstituency to extend their fullestcooperation for the formation of SAD-BSP alliance government. National VicePresident Youth Akali Dal, Gurjit SinghGill, Senior Vice President DistrictRural, Paramjit Singh Grewal, SatinderSingh, Sanjay Kumar and GurinderKumar, Davinder Verma were present.

Thind appointed as vice-presidentof Ludhiana SAD rural

AAP candidate Hakim SinghThakedar intensifies campaign

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, JAN 17

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from RaikotAssembly constituency, Hakim Singh Thakedarintensified his election campaign by visiting allthe major markets of Raikot door-to-door andcontacting all the shopkeepers and apprisingthem about the policies of Aam Aadmi Party. Heappealed to the voters of the constituency thatthe people of Punjab have so far given a chanceto the traditional parties. Due to their bad andcorrupt policies the situation in Punjab today hasworsened and due to which Punjab has a debt ofover Rs 3 lakh crore. Therefore, the Aam AadmiParty should be given a chance to take Punjab ona path of progress. Thanking the people for their

support and cooperation, he said that the loveand enthusiasm of the people shows that theyhave left the traditional parties and made up theirminds for a change of government. For whichthe Aam Aadmi Party is set to form thegovernment this time. He was accompanied byother leaders including Jagroop Singh Jupa,Balvir Singh former councilor.

SRINAGAR, JAN 17

Night temperature across theKashmir Valley improved amid acloudy sky on Monday and aforecast for more light rains andsnowfall.

The Meteorological Departmentsaid a western disturbance wasaffecting Jammu and Kashmir. Thiscould trigger light rains and snow inmany places in Kashmir and a fewplaces in Jammu region betweenMonday and Tuesday morning.

Wednesday could see similarrains and snow in the plains ofKashmir, with the possibility of afew inches of snow accumulation inthe higher reaches till Thursday.Rains and snowfall were also

possible in Jammu region.Srinagar, the summer capital of

Kashmir, recorded a low of 1 degreeCelsius against minus 1.2 degrees

the previous night. It drizzled inSrinagar on Monday.

Gulmarg in north Kashmir wascold at minus 4.6 degrees Celsiusagainst minus 7 degrees a day ago,which was 3.1 degrees above normalfor this time of the year.

Pahalgam in south Kashmirshivered at minus 3.6 degreesCelsius. The temperature atQazigund, on the Srinagar-Jammuhighway, was minus 1 degrees.

Kupwara was hit by 0.5 degreesCelsius but an improvement againstthe minus 2.1 degrees the previousnight.

Leh in Ladakh recorded minus13.1 degrees Celsius and Drassrecorded a low of minus 16.2degrees.

Kashmir braces for rains, snowfall

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Winning India openwas always on mybucket list, saysSatwiksairajNEW DELHI: Shuttler SatwiksairajRankireddy has said winning IndiaOpen was on his bucket list eversince he started playing bad-minton.The Indian duo of SatwiksairajRankireddy and Chirag Shettyclinched the victory in the men’sdoubles finals of the Indian Open2022 at the KD Jadhav Stadiumhere on Sunday.The Indian pair defeated the In-donesian duo of Mohammad Ah-san and Hendra Setiawan instraight sets of 21-16, 26-24 in amatch that lasted for 43 minutes.Satwiksairaj said he was happywith the game the two shuttlersplayed as defeating their "idols" inthe final was a dream for them."Winning India open is always inmy bucketlist eversince I startedbadminton. Really happy the waywe played today beating our Idolsin finals is a dream. Thank you somuch everyone for pouring yourwarm wishes. Can’t ask for better2022 start," Satwiksairaj tweeted.Apart from the duo, shuttler Lak-shya Sen also won the men’s sin-gles final after defeating Singa-pore’s Loh Kean Yew 24-22, 21-17in the summit clash that lasted for54 minutes.

Ireland stun WestIndies in third ODI toclinch historic seriesKINGSTON: Andy McBrine andHarry Tector smashed respectivehalf-centuries to help Ireland de-feat West Indies in the third ODIby two wickets on Sunday.With this win, Ireland registeredtheir first-ever ODI series winaway from home over an ICC FullMember after recording a two-wicket victory over the West Indiesin the final match of the series.West Indies had won the first ODIbut Ireland came back strongly toregister back-to-back wins.West Indies were folded for 212 inthe 45th over and Ireland surviveda late batting collapse to get overthe line in the third ODI.Ireland won the toss and chose tobowl first but didn’t get off to agood start as West Indies added72 runs for the first wicket.Craig Young removed both ShaiHope and Justin Greaves in hissuccessive overs to bring back Ire-land in the game.Those dismissals brought about amiddle-order collapse with WestIndies losing 7-57 in the next 17overs. Young picked two wickets,but it was off-spinner AndyMcBrine who wreaked havoc.West Indies were only able toscore 212 as McBrine returnedwith four wickets to dismantle thehosts’ batting line up.Chasing 213, Ireland lost openerPorterfield on the first ball of theinnings but Paul Stirling andAndy McBrine revived the inningsbefore Harry Tector smashed afifty to help visitors take full con-trol over the game.Ireland suffered a collapse justwhen they were about to reachthe target but the visiting sideheld their nerves to clinch thethird ODI.

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AGENCYMELBOURNE, JAN 17

Defending champion Naomi Osakaof Japan began her title defence atthe Australian Open with a resound-ing 6-3 6-3 victory over ColombianCamila Osorio on the Rod LaverArena on Monday.

"I thought I played pretty wellgiven the circumstances, I didn’thave a lot of information about myopponent," said Osaka after the win.

"I hope that we gave you a real-ly good performance. It alwaysfeels very special for me to comeback here," she added.

Osaka needed just 100 secondsto hold serve as she raced to a 3-0lead. The 20-year-old Osorio wasunable to convert a pair of gamepoints in the fourth game as Osaka,the more experienced of the duo,dictated play off both wings.

A slew of six unforced errors inthe ensuing two games off the rack-et of Japan’s top player – includinga flubbed overhead enabled Osorioto claw back some of the deficit.

Seizing the momentum, theColombian held to love and gener-ated two break points, but Osaka,wielding her powerful forehand,fended off both to clinch the set 6-

3.As clouds parted to make way

for the afternoon sun, Osorio creat-ed two break-point chances in Osa-ka’s opening service game, but wasunable to capture either.

The composed Osaka thenbroke Osorio and consolidated a 3-1 lead. Games proceeded on serveuntil the ninth game, when Osoriopummelled a backhand into the netto hand Osaka the win.

Osaka will face Madison Bren-gle in the second round, Brengle ad-vanced after her opponent DayanaYastremska of Ukraine retired aftertrailing 1-6, 6-0, 0-5.

Aus Open: Osaka startstitle defence with a win

AGENCYLUCKNOW, JAN 17

Two-time Olympic medallist P VSindhu will look to recover from herunexpected semifinal loss at the In-dia Open and end her title drought atthe Syed Modi International, whichbegins here on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old from Hyder-abad was well on course to win herfirst title since the 2019 WorldChampionship triumph last week be-fore left-hander Supanida Katethongof Thailand shattered her hopes witha three-game win at the India Open.

Sindhu, who had finished run-ner-up at Swiss Open and WorldTour Finals last year, will hope toturn things around this week whenshe begins her campaign againstcompatriot Tanya Hemanth.

The Indian will be itching to set-tle scores against Supanida, whomshe is likely to face again at the semi-finals at the Babu Banarasi Das In-door Stadium here.

Second seeded CanadianMichelle Li, a CommonwealthGames silver medallist, will be oneof the strong contenders for the titlein women's singles, which also hasPolish eighth seed Jordan Hart, sec-

ond seed Iris Wang of USA and Rus-sia's fifth seed Evgeniya Kosetskaya.

Men's doubles pair of Satwik-sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shettyhas decided to give the Super 300tournament a miss after claimingtheir maiden India Open Super 500crown.

Lakshya Sen, who secured hismaiden Super 500 title at New Delhion Sunday, also is likely to followsuit after playing continuously sinceOctober last year.

Among others, World Champi-onships silver medallist and top seed

Kidambi Srikanth also is unlikely tocompete this week as he is undergo-ing seven-day mandatory quarantineafter withdrawing from the maindraw last week following a positiveCOVID-19 result.

Third seed B Sai Praneeth, whohad pulled out of India Open aftertesting positive, is also awaiting aRT-PCR test result, while AshwiniPonnappa and Manu Attri are yet torecover from the virus and will missthe tournament.

Ashwini is part of the top seededwomen's doubles pairing, while

Manu and B Sumeeth Reddy areseeded third in the men's doublesevent.

On a comeback trail, former top-10 player H S Prannoy gave a goodaccount of himself before beingstopped by 20-year-old Sen in thequarterfinals last week.

Fifth seed Prannoy will hope togo deep in the draw this week whenhe opens his campaign againstUkraine's Danylo Bosniuk.

London Olympics bronzemedallist Saina Nehwal, seededfourth, too will test her fitness whenshe takes on Czech Republic'sTereza v b kov in the opening round.She had lost in the second round lastweek.

There are a host of other Indiansin men's singles, such as seventhseed Sourabh Verma, fourth seedSameer Verma -- who he is still re-covering from a calf muscle injury -- Subhankar Dey and youngsters likeKiran George, Mithun Manjunathand Priyanshu Rajawat.

In women's singles too, AakarshiKashyap, who had reached the quar-terfinals last week, will look to con-tinue her good run when she facesfellow Indian Mugdha Agrey inopening round.

Sindhu looks to end title drought atSyed Modi International


Ace cueist Pankaj Advani has recovered from COVID-19. After finally testing negative for the virus, Advanitalked about how he was bogged down after testing pos-itive.

"I was quarantined for 8 days after testing positive,and now I've finally recovered. For the first three days,I had severe fever and was shivering, so I chose to restas much as possible to fasten the recovery process. Iwas drinking hot beverages and inhaling steam, whichhelped tremendously," stated Advani in an official re-lease.

"To pass the time after a difficult three days, Ibinge-watched a few TV programmes. A couple of ro-mantic comedies helped me feel better. Because thiskind is spreading quickly, I would advise individuals tonot take unnecessary risks and follow all the protocols.Even after that, infection is a possibility, but I feel therecovery rate is now high and swift, which is a goodsign," he added.

Advani has had an incredible year, winning his 11th

National Billiards title at the famous Sage University inBhopal. It was one of the country's longest champi-onships. He also made history at the IBSF Global Bil-liards Championship in Doha, where he won his 24thworld title. Our hero also qualified for the IBSF WorldChampionship finals. He was all ready to win the glob-al championship this year, which had been postponeddue to an increase in Omicron cases around the world,and was scheduled to take place in Doha in January.

Cueist Pankaj Advani recoversfrom COVID-19

AGENCYMELBOURNE, JAN 17

Sixth-seed Rafael Nadal cruised into the secondround of the Australian Open after he defeatedMarcos Giron at Rod Laver Arena on Monday.

The 2009 AO champion Spaniard thrashedGiron from the USA by 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in a matchthat lasted for one hour and 49 minutes. Thiswas also the 20-time Grand Slam winner's 70thwin at the Australian Open.

In the second round, Nadal will either faceYannick Hanfmann of Germany or ThanasiKokkinakis of Australia.

Earlier in the day, Carlos Alcaraz lived up

to his status as a first-time Grand Slam seedwith a dominant 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 win over Chileanqualifier Alejando Tabilo. Strikingly dressed ina sleeveless shirt and all-red kit, the 18-year-oldSpaniard's first-strike tennis proved too muchfor Tabilo, who was making his second GrandSlam main-draw appearance. In his competitivedebut for 2022, Alcaraz put his game and hisphysique on full display after an offseason ofapparent improvement on both fronts. In the topquarter of the Australian Open draw--a sectionripe with opportunity due to the absence of No-vak Djokovic--Alcaraz will take on Dusan La-jovic, who defeated Marton Fucsovics 6-3, 4-6,6-1, 6-7(6), 6-1.

Nadal races into 2nd round with70th win, Shapovalov survives

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GLAMOURhe sudden demise of Kathak maestro Birju excellence. His ghungroos were on his ankles till he the clip.Maharaj has undoubtedly left a vacuum in the breathed his last.I always admired and respected him Birju Maharaj was a descendant of Tdance and music industry. as a giant of the medium of Kathak & will miss his the Maharaj family of Kathak

After learning about the unfortunate news, veteran presence on the firmament of dance," Hema, who is dancers. He trained under his actor Hema Malini penned an emotional note, saying also a trained classical dancer, tweeted. father and guru Acchan she will miss Birju Maharaj's presence on the firmament Veteran actor Anupam Kher, too, remembered Maharaj and uncles of dance. "The nation mourns the passing of a true Birju Maharaj, who passed away on Monday at the age Shambhu Maharaj and legend, Shri Birju Maharaj,Kathak exponent par of 83. Taking to Instagram, he uploaded a video to Lachhu Maharaj.

remember the Kathak legend from his days at the National School of Drama. He also talked about how he would try to understand his facial expressions as his "delicate details of acting were amazing".

"He (Birju Maharaj) used to tell me , 'teri aankho me bahut shararat hai. (there is a lot of naughtiness in your eyes),'" Anupam said in

Will miss Birju Maharaj's presence on firmament of dance: Hema Malini

Pandit Birju Maharaj was my gurubut also my friend: Madhuri Dixit

ehind every successful person, there "He has left behind grieving fans and students are unfailing efforts of teachers. Kathak but also left a legacy we will all carry forward. Blegend Pandit Birju Maharaj played the Thank you Maharajji for everything you taught

role of that guru in actor Madhuri Dixit Nene's me in dance along with humility, elegance and life. After learning about the demise of Pandit grace. Koti koti pranam," she added.Birju Maharaj, Madhuri, on Monday, took to Alongside the note, Madhuri posted a Twitter and opened up about her relationship throwback picture of her doing mukhdas with with him. "He was a legend but had a child like Pandit Birju Maharaj. For the unversed, Pandit innocence. He was my guru but also my friend. Birju Maharaj, who breathed his last on He taught me the intricacies of dance and Monday, had worked with Madhuri in films like Abhinay but never failed to make me laugh at 'Dil Toh Pagal Hai', 'Devdas' and 'Dedh his funny anecdotes," she wrote. Ishqiya'.

Julia Fox likely to play Debi Mazar's role in Madonna's biopic

ctor Julia Fox may soon be cast for an important role in "We got on the dance floor and tore it up. We exchanged Madonna's forthcoming biopic. After Madonna shared an phone numbers and that was it. We became friends," Mazar AInstagram post earlier this week indicating that she "went to previously told EW of meeting Madonna for the first time.

dinner with Julia (Fox) to talk about my movie," Entertainment Madonna has been working on bringing her life story to the Weekly has learned the 31-year-old performer is being considered big screen for several years, with Universal Pictures and Amy to play the role of actor Debi Mazar, the singer's longtime friend. Pascal producing the title with Madonna in the director's chair.Kanye West, Antonio Brown, and Floyd Mayweather were also She initially began writing the script with Oscar-winning pictured in the photos Madonna shared of her meeting with 'Juno' scribe Diablo Cody, whom EW previously confirmed Fox. Mazar, best known for her roles in the film 'Goodfellas' and finished a full draft of the script before moving on to other the series 'Younger' and 'Entourage', has a decades-long projects. Erin Wilson reportedly stepped in after Cody left.relationship with Madonna that began when they met in an Most of the film, Madonna has said in the past, will follow elevator while Mazar worked as an operator at New York City's her "struggle as an artist trying to survive in a man's world as a Danceteria nightclub in the 1980s. Mazar went on to star in woman, and really just the journey," which she described as a several of Madonna's music videos, including 'True Blue' and "happy, sad, mad, crazy, good, bad, and ugly" tale of the making 'Music'. of an icon.

Tanushree Dutta upset over herWikipedia profile description

ctor Tanushree Dutta has expressed her discontent with her Wikipedia profile description and she is unable to change it. Taking to her AInstagram handle on Sunday, the actor shared how the profile

describes her only as an "Indian Model".She wrote, "Hey Guys...there's something that's been bothering me for a while. It's the Wikipedia profile on me. So it's got a lot totally wrong about me and calling me just an "Indian Model" and diminishing my credentials. I tried changing but it keeps coming back to the same stuff."She detailed her accomplishments and expressed her dissatisfaction with her profile. "I'm a Miss India Universe & Bollywood actress/star so dunno why it says " Indian Model". It's the first thing people check when they google a public figure for work/awards etc & mine is all weird & shit. Imagine after doing so much in just one life I can't even have a straightforward, uplifting & accurate Wikipedia presentation," she wrote. She concluded by asking if anyone could help her out to fix it. She wrote, "Maybe the scriptures are right & my rewards & recognition are going to be in Heaven after all.

Akshay Kumar hopes to see a tiger during his visit to Ranthambore National Park

uperstar Akshay Kumar is currently vacationing the soil, feeding the cows, the cool breeze with his family members in Rajasthan. On of the trees...there is a different joy in SSunday, Akshay took to Instagram and posted a making your child feel all this)," he wrote.

video clip featuring him and his daughter Nitara Akshay also expressed his desire to see a feeding the cows. tiger in Ranthambore National Park.

Alongside the clip, Akshay penned a beautiful "Now if she sees a tiger in the forest caption. He stated that he felt extremely happy to tomorrow, then it will be the icing on the

make his child experience the beauty of nature. cake)! Visiting the beautiful "Mitti ki khushboo, gaay ko chaara dena, Ranthambore National Park. Thank God

pedon ki thandi hawayein...ek alag hi every day for incredible places like this," khushi hai apne bachche ko yeh sab he added. Meanwhile, on the work front,

mahsoos karwaane mein. Ab bas kal Akshay will be seen in several movies use jangal mein tiger bhi dikh jaye this year. He has 'Bachchan Pandey'

to sone pe suhaaga (The smell of and 'Ram Setu' in his kitty.

Sanjay Mishra opens up about working with Amol Parashar

head of the release of his film '36 Farmhouse', veteran actor Sanjay AMishra shared his experience

working with his co-stars including Amol Parashar and Barkha Singh."I have worked with most of them (the costars) so I was a bit familiar with their pauses and reactions. The main thing was to work with new ones, Barkha and Amol, so I left myself upon them for reactions. It is really very amazing for me to act in this manner which resulted in a very different kind of chemistry," he said.

Directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma and produced by Subhash Ghai, the film also

stars Vijay Raaz, Flora Saini, Madhuri Bhatia, and Ashwini Kalsekar in

pivotal roles.'36 Farmhouse' will be

out on Zee5 On January 21.

“Prachand Dev ji to cause huge havoc in Bhimrao’s life”, says Govind Khatri

handigarh : Veteran actor Govind Khatri is The life story of this extraordinary leader now seen in &TV’s EkMahanayak - Dr B.R. is known to everyone in India. Known as the CAmbedkar as Prachand Dev Ji - a self- Father of Indian Constitution, Babasaheb

appointed guardian of the upper caste who believes Ambedkar’s contributions as a social himself next to God. In this candid chat, the actor reformer, politician and jurist truly inspires talks about following the show even before joining everyone. The show highlights his the team, his newly introduced character, his indomitable perseverance, determination, previous roles and more. Excerpts from the and evolved vision and I am glad to be a part interview: of this great show. Any character that has How would you define your character of Prachand stayed with you till date and changed you as Dev Ji? a person? I had the good fortune of playing

Prachand Dev Ji’s entry will bring a lot of Karna in Shri Krishna and even today I receive troubles and challenges in young Bhimrao’s life. appreciation for the character from the Somehow Bhimrao and his paths intervene, audiences. The role leading to huge ideological differences, with shaped me into a him plotting to cause huge havoc in Bhimrao’s completely life. Prachand Dev ji also finds a partner in different Narrotam to fight against Bhimrao and his person and ideologies and resort to extreme humiliation holds a and cruelty. Prachand Dev Ji’s actions are the team? huge value backed by his evil agenda. However, the extreme EkMahanayak - DR B.R. Ambedkar is one of the in my life. Apart from steps adopted by Prachand Dev will only most well-known shows on Indian television right now that, the films I did strengthen Bhimrao to face these compelling and I have been watching it right from the beginning. shape my career situations boldly, bringing to fore his evolved vision, Interestingly, I have been watching some of the earlier immensely and I indomitable perseverance, and determination. The episodes again to understand the show better and as received a lot of mayhem that Prachand Dev creates in Bhimrao’s life part of my preparation to essay the new character. appreciation and makes for an extremely emotional yet inspirational The show focuses on the life of Dr Babasaheb love from the storyline for the viewers. Ambedkar. How much have you known about his audience.

Were you following the show even before joining achievements before entering the show?