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Nine killed as busplunges intogorge in ChambaCHAMBA: As many asnine people were killedwhile nine others injuredwhen a bus in which theywere travelling fell into agorge in HimachalPradesh's Chamba dis-trict on Wednesday. Of-fering his condolences tothe bereaved families,Chief Minister Jai RamThakur informed that hehas instructed the Cham-ba district administrationfor relief work and the in-jured are being admittedto the hospital.

RAJENDRA KHATRYCHANDIGARH, MARCH 10

The no confidence motion brought bythe opposition Congress against theHaryana government was defeated inthe Assembly today.

The ruling coalition of BJP andJJP got 55 votes against 32 of the op-position Congress. In the 90 memberHaryana Vidhan Sabha only 88 mem-bers were eligible to vote. The loneIndian National Lok Dal MLAAbhyaSingh Chautala had earlier resignedover the farmers’ issue. While a con-gress member had been disqualified.

As soon as the no-confidence mo-tion fell, Congress legislators startedshouting slogans in the House. Dur-ing this, Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal also narrated a story re-lated to Mahabharata.

Earlier moving the motion,Leader of the Opposition BhupinderSingh Hooda demanded inclusion ofnearly 250 farmers killed in farmers'agitation in the obituary references ofHaryana Assembly. Hooda said there

is a minority government in Haryananow. He said in the 2019 assemblyelections, the BJP did not get a ma-jority. In fact, the BJP formed thegovernment with the support of JJP,which sought votes against the BJP inassembly polls, he asserted.

Hooda said the party needed tomove a no-confidence motion be-cause the BJP-JJP government has"lost public confidence" and thecoalition government, "betraying

public opinion, is taking anti-peopledecisions one after the other".

Hooda demanded secret votingon the no-confidence motion, whichwas rejected by Speaker Gian ChandGupta.

In his reply Haryana Chief Minis-ter Manohar Lal Khattar said ,``Weshall never win the confidence of op-position but will win the confidenceof masses’’. Taking a dig at the oppo-sition, he said 'Mistrust culture' is an

old Congress tradition. No Confi-dence' is also a Congress' culture.`'Alochana for sake of alochana nahikarni chahiye,'' he said

In the 90-member Haryana As-sembly, currently having an effectivestrength of 88 members, the rulingBJP has 40 members, the JJP 10 andthe Congress 30.

There are 7 Independent MLAs.Five of the Independent MLAs aresupporting the government, while onemember is of the Haryana Lokhit Par-ty, who also extended support to thegovernment. Yesterday the ruling al-liance issued a whip to its MLAs toattend the Assembly session and votefor the government.

However, going against the par-ty's stand, JJP's Devinder Babli com-mented last evening that his partyshould withdraw support to the BJP.At the same time JJP’s rebel MLARam Kumar Gautam and Jogi RamSihag, who had earlier spoken againstthe central farm laws in the House,said they were with the Khattar gov-ernment.

No confidence motion falls flat in Hry assembly Such motions are in Congressculture, says KhattarCHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar onWednesdayslammed the Congress party for moving the motionagainst the ruling BJP-JJP government. "Never having faith inanything is Congress' old culture," Mr Khattar said during the noconfidence motion discussion referring to the resignation of sen-ior Congress leader PC Chacko in Kerala. The 88-memberHaryana Assembly is currently ruled by BJP-JJP government inalliance having 40 and 10 members respectively, five ahead ofthe magical figure of 45 to prove their majority in the house.

Tirath Singh Rawat takesoath as U’khand CM

AGENCYDEHRADUN, MAR 10

Tirath Singh Rawat, BJP's Lok Sab-ha MP from Garhwal, on Wednesdaytook oath as the new chief ministerof Uttarakhand. He replaces Triven-dra Singh Rawat who had steppeddown from the post on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, Tirath Singhhad met Governor Baby Rani Mau-rya to stake a claim to form the gov-ernment in the state. The 56-year-old was elected as leader ofthe BJP legislature, party paving way for him to take over asthe state chief minister. In the early days of his political career,he was part of the Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Yuva Mor-cha, the BJP's youth wing, where he served as the state vice-president for some time before being elected to the UttarPradesh Legislative Council in 1997.

He was the first education minister of Uttarakhand in2000. He was elected first as BJP's Uttarakhand general sec-retary in 2007 and later as the party's state unit chief in 2013.

He was the BJP chief in Uttarakhand from 2013 to 2015.In 2019, Tirath Singh became an MP from the Garhwal Lok

Sabha seat. Trivendra Singh's resignation had come after BJPgeneral secretary in-charge of Uttarakhand Dushyant KumarGautam and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr RamanSingh, submitted a report to the BJP's central leadership, detail-ing the rebellion in the state unit of the party, as per sources.

Pb assembly condemns EDraid at Khaira’s house

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MARCH 10:

Punjab Assembly today con-demned unanimously the ED raidat MLA Khaira's House during itsongoing Budget Session, as un-constitutional and unwarranted.

Parliamentary AffairsMinisterMr. Brahm Mohindra said that theHouse expressed its concern inone voice against the use of Cen-tral Agencies such as CBI, ED,NIA, etc. to harass innocent people including the farmers, po-litically elected representatives, and even some governmentofficials whereas these were meant to ensure transparency inpublic life. The Parliamentary Affairs Minister further saidthat during the ongoing session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, aMember of this House, Sardar Sukhpal Singh Khaira, has beencompelled to remain absent from participating in the proceed-ings of the House and disabled him from discharging his con-stitutional obligations as an elected representative of his con-stituency due to the unwarranted and unconstitutional inter-ference by the Enforcement Directorate, which has been no-ticed and condemned by the august House, unanimously.

Injured in Nandigram,Mamata claims conspiracy

AGENCYNANDIGRAM, MAR 10

West Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee alleged there was a conspir-acy against her after she was injuredat Nandigram’s Birulia Bazar onWednesday, soon after filing hernomination to contest from the localAssembly seat.

According to the police, she wasmeeting local voters at the bazarwhen there was an altercation and the Chief Minister fell downinjuring her leg. She has also sustained a slight injury on herhead, they said.

However, the chief minister alleged that when she wascoming out from a temple and going towards her car, four-fivepeople suddenly pushed her car’s door and her right leg gotstuck in the door, injuring her right knee and ankle in theprocess.

UP khap panchayat bans jeansfor women, shorts for men

AGENCYMUZAFFARNAGAR, MAR 10

A khap panchayat in Uttar Pradesh'sMuzaffarnagar district has barredwomen from wearing jeans and menfrom wearing shorts, saying they arepart of western culture and that peopleshould wear traditional Indian clothes.

The Rajput community panchayat also warned that thosefound violating the diktat will be punished and face boycott.

The panchayat was convened on March 2 in Pipalshah vil-lage under Charthawal police station. Announcing the pan-chayat's decision, community leader and Kisan Sangh chiefThakur Puran Singh said it was decided to bar women fromwearing jeans and men from wearing shorts. He said theseclothes are part of the western culture. "We should wear ourtraditional clothes such as sarees, 'ghagra' and 'salwar-kameez'," he said.

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I hitherto known as BALJIT KAUR I, Uma Devi Wife of No – 3403343X I, Ramphal S/o Sudhan Ram R/o I, Sandeep Kaur Flora W/o Baljinder I, Charanjeet Singh S/O Jaswant Singh 63372W/O GURJANT SINGH WANDER HAV Jagdish Singh Resident of Village Popada Tehsil Asandh Distt. Singh Flora R/o Vill: Khusropur Po. R/O H.No.960, Guru Harkrishan I Surinder Singh S/O Ajit Singh Residing at Assa buttar road Village Sovra, Post Office Bhira Karnal Haryana Declare That My Pattar Kalan (Jalandhar) changed Nagar, Khanna (Ludhiana) Have R/O Village Ranbirpura Tehsil Surewala District Sri Muktsar Sahib Tehsil Thallsin District Pauri Garhwal Real Son Name Is Sagar Turan. All my minor son name from Prabhnoor Changed My Name To Charanjit Singh. And Distt. Patiala My Father Is PUNJAB 152025 have changed my have changed my Name from Uma Concerned Please Note. Singh to Prabhnoor Singh Flora. 63372 Known With The Names Of name and shall hereafter be known as Pawar to Uma Devi and date of birth 100046 63372 I Preet Ahluwalia S/O Late Manmohan Surjit Singh And Ajit Singh. BALJIT KAUR WANDER It is from 03 March 1984 to 02 February I Veerpal Kaur D/O Harnek Singh I, Harjit Kaur W/o Karam Singh R/o Singh Ahluwalia R/O H.No.19-20, Sara Both Name Are One And The Same certified that I have complied with 1986. Vide affidavit No AN226936 W/O Gursewak Singh R/O Village Vpo. Madhe-Ke (Moga) changed Kunj, Ranjit Vihar, Sirhind Road, Patiala Person.other legal requirements in this Dated 10 March 2021 Before Amritsar Doda (Kothe Kesar Singh Wale) Teh. my name to Harjit Kaur Sidhu. Have Changed My Name To Preet Mohan 63372connection Court Attested by Notary Public. Gidderbaha (Sri Muktsar Sahib) Have 63372 Singh Ahluwalia.

90002 72737 Changed My Name To Ramandeep I Paramjit Kaur W/O Narpinder I hitherto known as GURPREET I, Amarjit Kaur D/o Harjinder Singh Kaur After Marriage. S i n g h R / O Vi l l a g e B a t h a n SINGH BHULLAR S/O BOHAR W/o Rashpal Singh R/o H.No. 3, Gali 63372 Teh.Malerkotla ( Sangrur) have SINGH Residing at Village Chuharh No.3, Basant Vihar, Khandwala, I, Randhir Singh S/o Gurdial Singh Change my name to Paramjeet Kaur khilchi, Mehman district Ferozepur Chheharta, Amritsar have changed my R/o Bharana (Ferozepur) changed my .PUNJAB 152002 have changed my name after marriage Amarjit Kaur to name to Randhir Singh Sandhu. 63372name and shall hereafter be known as Mandeep Kaur. Please Concern Note. 63372 I , Pravj i t Kaur Aj imal D/O GURPREET SINGH. It is certified 72737 I, Pardeep Kumar S/o Satinder Kumar Parminder Singh R/O House No B-that I have complied with other legal I, hitherto Known as JASWINDER R/o H.No. 111 Golden Enclave Phase- 6/625 Bloo Donars Colony Saloh requirements in this connection KAUR CHHINA W/O SUKHCHAIN 1 (Ferozepur City) changed my son Road Nawanshahr Distt S.B.S

90002 SINGH R/o.Dashmesh Nagar ward name from Arnav Vinayak to Tanush Nagar Have Changed My Sur Name I Sukhmohinderjeet Kaur W/o No.9, Ajnala Distt Amritsar Punjab. Vinayak. Pravjit Kaur Ajimal To Pravjit Kaur Sukhwinder singh brar R/o B-14, have changed my name and Shall 63372 Bhogal.1485 Near Smal Tank, Distt, Sri hereafter be known JASWINDER I Jagvinder Singh, S/O Chamkaur 63372Muktsar Sahib changed my name to KAUR Singh , R/O – House No. 2, Khalsa I, Kuldeep Singh Gill S/O Baldev Sukhmohinderjit Kaur Brar 72737 Nagar, Padampur , Ganganagar, Singh R/O Mansurwal (Ferozepur)

90002 I, hitherto Known as PARBJOT Rajasthan – 335041 Have Changed Changed Name Kuldeep Singh.I Kour Singh S/o Varyam Singh R/o SINGH S/o MOHINDER SINGH My Name To Jagvinder Grewal. 63372B-14, 1485 Near Smal Tank, Distt, R/o.10361AB,Gali No.6 Kot Harnam 63372 I, Sukhdev Singh S/O Balbir Singh Sri Muktsar Sahib changed my name Dass Sultanwind Road Distt Amritsar I Anju Bala W/o Jaswant Rai Vpo. R / O M a c h h i a n ( F e r o z e p u r ) to Kaur Singh Punjab. have changed my name and Basiala Teh. Garhshankar, Distt. Changed Name Sukhdev Singh

90002 Shall hereafter be known PRABHJOT Hoshiarpur (Punjab) have changed Sandhu.I Satwinder Kaur W/O Sukhdev SINGH name of my minor daughter from 63372Singh R/O Vi l l .Khamachon 72737 Tammna to Tammna Rai. I, Rakesh Kumar S/O Brij Lal teh.Banga Distt.SBS Nagar.Declare I, Bumbadiya Mevaben SomaBha 63372 Bansal R/O H.No.454-B B.R.S that in my husband army service l e g a l l y w e d d e d s p o u s e o f I Anju Bala W/o Jaswant Rai Vpo. Nagar Ludhiana Changed Name record my DOB ment ioned No.15510334X SWR Kharadi B a s i a l a Te h . G a r h s h a n k a r , Rakesh Kumar Bansal.19.11.1983 which is incorrect .my Prakash Bhai R/o now at 46 Armd Distt.Hoshiarpur (Punjab) have 63372c o r r e c t d a t e o f b i r t h i s Regt C/o.56 APO declare that I have changed name of my minor daughter I, Satpaul Singh S/O Harminder 10.11.1984(tenth November one Changed my name from Bumbadiya from Manat to Mannat Rai. Singh R/O Plot No.10 New Kundan thousand nine hundred eighty four Mevaben SomaBha To Kharadi 63372 Puri Civil Lines Ludhiana Changed ).my correct DOB mentioned in my Mevaben Prakash Bhai vide affidavit I, Parmjit Kaur W/o Late: Parminder Name Satpal Singh.husband army service record . No. AN 253432 dated on 10 March Singh R/o Vpo. Shahabpu (Tarn 63372

900022 2021 before Notary pulic Amritsar Taran) changed my name from I, Gurnek Singh S/o Kashmir Singh I , Krishana Devi W/o Satpal Singh 72737 Parmjeet Kaur Randhawa to Parmjit R/o Village Sahdra ( SBS Nagar) R/o Vpo Songal Teh. & Distt. I, Tanushree Mahapatra W/o Army Kaur. changed my name to Gurnek Singh Kaithal Have Changed My Name No.15511551A rank SWR Rakhahari 63372 Sahdra.From Krishana Devi W/o Satpal Mahapatra presently residing at I Am Minder Kaur W/O Jagjeet Singh 63372Singh To Krishana W/o Satpal. Gholkund, Puruliya, West Bengal- R/O Sursing Pati Nangal Ki Tarn I, Gurpreet Kaur W/o Gurnek Concerned Please Note. 723151 India declare that I have Taran. I Have Changed My Name S i n g h S a h d r a R / o Vi l l a g e

84451 Changed my name from Tanushree From Minder Kaur To Mahinder Kaur. Sahdra ( SBS Nagar) changed I , a m M o h a m m a d Ya s i n mahapatra to Tanushree panda 63372 my name to Gurpreet Kaur (MUHAMAD YASIN) son of Noor Mahapatra vide affidavit No.AN I Muskan Arora W/O Nitin Arora R/O Sahdra.Mohammad (NOOR MOHD)purana 976327 dated on 9 March 2021 H.No. 2930 , Kheta Ram Street,Sri 63372qila Rahmatgarh Malerkotla District 72737 Muktsar Sahib, Punjab, Pin- I , Fatehvir Singh S/o Gurnek Sangrur has changed its name to I, Navdeep Singh Momi S/o Kuldeep 152026.Have Changed My Name To S i n g h S a h d r a R / o Vi l l a g e M o h a m m a d Y a s i n Singh R/o Vill. Kotli Nasir Khan Muskan. Sahdra ( SBS Nagar) changed (MOHD.YASEEN). Tehsil and Distt Amritsar have 63372 my name to Fatehvir Singh

98726 Changed my name to Navdeep Singh I Jashanpreet Kaur W/o Kamalpreet Sahdra.I Meena Rani W/O Nirmal singh 72737 Singh Ghataura R/o Vpo. Ajitwal 63372village Nurpur Jattan Tehsil & Distt I, Shruti Joshi spouse of Service no- Distt. Moga have changed my name to I , Yuvraj Singh S/o Gurnek Kapurthala declare that my name is 21002175 M, Gnr TA Mohit Sharma, Jashanpreet Kaur Ghataura. S i n g h S a h d r a R / o Vi l l a g e Meena rani But in my children’s r /o Vil lage- Alawalpur, P.O. 63372 Sahdra ( SBS Nagar) changed documents my name is Meena both Manumajra, Tehsil-Barara, Distt I, Manjeet Kaur Sekhon W/o Kulwant m y n a m e t o Yu v r a j S i n g h name pertain to be the same and one Ambala have changed my name from Singh R/o Manupur (Ludhiana) have Sahdra. erson. Please note. Shruti Sharma to Shruti Joshi vide changed my name into Manjeet Kaur. 63372

98748 affidavit no-10114, Dated-10-3-21 63372 I , M i n a k s h i B a n s a l W / o I Surjit Kaur wife of Bhupinder before Notary Public Barara, Distt I, Mandeep Singh S/o Rachpal Dimple Kumar R/o H.No. 360 Singh resident of Q.No. 847-D, Ambala. Singh R/o Dhani Fatuhiwala PO W . N o . 3 A g g a r w a l Type-I, Rail Coach Factory, 78645 Singhewala ( Sri Muktsar Sahib) Dharamshala Dabwali (Sirsa) Kapurthala , Punjab, India have I, Joginder Mohan Alias Joginder changed my name to Mandeep changed my name from Sunita changed my name from Surjit Kaur Mohan Narula S/o Kundan Lal Alias Singh S/o Rashpal Singh. Rani to Minakshi Bansal .to Sarabjit Kaur. All concerned Kundan Lal Narula R/o H.No.18, 63372 63372please note. Silver Oak Street, Nagina Avenue, I, Ghansham Das Goyal S/O I , Usha Bansal W/o Simple

98706 Majitha Road, Amritsar have changed J a g a n N a t h G o y a l R / O H . Kumar R/o H.No. 360 W.No. 3 I Kulvinder Singh S/o Hazara Singh my name to Joginder Narula. No.20435 St No.12 GTB Nagar, A g g a r w a l D h a r a m s h a l a R/o 75, Preet Vihar, Opp. Central 900020 Bibi Wala Road, Bathinda Have Dabwali (Sirsa) changed my Jail, Ward No. 4, Ajnala Road, I, Sunita Kumari Arora D/o Roshan C h a n g e d M y N a m e T o name from Usha Rani to Usha Amritsar, Punjab have changed my Lal W/o Joginder Narula R/o Ghanshyam Dass Goyal. Bansal.name from Kulvinder Singh to H.No.18, Silver Oak Street, Nagina 63372 63372Kulvinder Singh Pannu. Avenue, Majitha Road, Amritsar have I , Sandeep Kaur Flora W/o

98728 changed my name to Sunita Narula. Baljinder Singh Flora R/o Vill: I Amandeep W/o Satish Kumar R/o 900020 Khusropur Po. Pat tar Kalan Ward No. 33, Aare Wali Gali, I, Gurdeep Singh S/o Tarlok Singh R/o (Jalandhar) changed my minor Faizpura, Batala, Distt. Gurdaspur Village Leharka, Amritsar have son name from Paramveer Singh have changed my name after changed my name From Gurdip Singh to Paramveer Singh Flora.marriage from Amandeep to Kajal. to Gurdeep Singh. 63372Concerned note. 900020 I , G a g a n d e e p N a t t S / O

98728 I Angrej Singh S/o Gursewak Singh Manjinder Singh Natt R/O H:No I, Neerja Talwar wife of Ashutosh R/o Kothe Bagga Singh Wale Wara 364/31 Nsl Street No 07r Ward Talwar r/o 84 officers colony Daraka Distt Faridkot Have Changed No 12 : Atam Nagar Jagraon Ferozpur city have changed my My Name From Angrej Singh To Distt Ludhiana Have Changed name NEERJA TALWAR to Angrej Singh Brar All Concerned My Name To Gagandeep Singh NEERJA PURI.concerned note. May Please Note. Natt.

900011 900020 63372I, Sunita w/o Jagdish Chand r/o I , Prabhjit Kaur W/o Tejinderpal I Satwinder Singh S/O Dalwara Village Rattandera, Tehsil Thanesar Singh R/o Village & PO. Thathgarh, Singh R/O Vpo Swaddi Kalan, (Kurukshetra) have declare that my Tehsil & Distt. Tarn Taran have T e h s i l J a g r a o n D i s t r i c t name wrote Sunita in Voter card and changed my name from Prabhjit Kaur Ludhiana That I Have Change Neeta in other documents. Sunita & to Prabhjeet Kaur. To My Minor Daughter Name Is Neeta are the two name of same 900020 Kamaljit Kaur To Kamaljeet person. I, Anju Bala W/o S.Gurdish Singh Kaur.

52724 Chahal R/o Village & Post Office 63372I, Minakshi W/o Ashwani Arora R/o Khanpur, Tehsil Baba Bakala Sahib, I Pardeep Kaur Suniarey W/O BXL/26, Kadian Gali, Moh. Kot District Amritsar have changed my Amardeep Singh Matharoo R/O Kuljas Rai Batala, Distt. Gurdaspur name from Anju Bala to Anju Chahal. Gal i Ramgarhia , Lrm Road, have changed my name Anita to 900020 Jagraon, Distt Ludhiana Have Minakshi after marriage. Please I, hitherto Known as SUNIL KUMAR Changed My Name Pardeep Kaur concerned note. GUPTA Son of BAL KISHAN Matharoo To . After Marriage.

10005 GUPTA residing at D3 IInd Floor 63372I, Rameshar And Rama S/o Deshraj Modal Apptartment Street No.5 A, R/o Vill Ramgarh Road , Pehowa, Model Town, Beas, Baba Bakala, Kurukshetra Both Names Are Amritsar-143201 Punjab have Single Person. changed my name and Shall hereafter

84661 be known as SUNIL GUPTA.I, Mansa Ram S/o Hukam Chand R/o 900020106/16, Anaj Mandi ,pehowa I, hitherto Known as SUKHWINDER ,kurukshetra Changed Given Name KAUR Wife of MANGAT SINGH Mansa Ram Surnane Gupta . residing at V.P.O.Padhri Kalan, Sur

84661 Singh Road, Baba Beer Singh, Distt. I, Manju Rani W/o Mansa Ram Tarn Taran-143302 Punjab have Gupta R/o 106/16,anaj Mandi changed my name and Shall ,pehowa, Kurukshetra Changed hereafter be known as SURINDER Given Name Manju Surnane Gupta. KAUR.

84661 900020I, Shashi Rani W/o Mohan Lal I, hitherto Known as MANGAT Grover R/o H.no 94/11, Purana RAM Son of KRISHAN LAL Bazar , Pehowa, Kurukshetra residing at House No.1238 B, Gali Changed Name Shashi Grover. Baghan Wali, Main Bazar, Katra

84661 Baghian, Amritsar-1 Gandhi , I, Mohan Lal S/o Leela Ram R/o Amritsar, Punjab-143006 have H.no 94/11, Purana Bazar , Pehowa, changed my name and Shall hereafter Kurukshetra Changed Name Mohan be known as ASHWANI MAHAJAN.Lal Grover. 900020

84661 I, Manjit Kaur Gill D/o Gopal Singh I, Jaswinder Singh S/o Mangal Singh R/o Village Umra Nangal, Tehsil Baba R/o Vill Harigarh Bhorakh , Pehowa, Bakala, Distt. Amritsar, have changed Kurukshetra Changed Given Name my name from “Manjit Kaur Gill” to Jaswinder Surname Singh. “Manjit Kaur”. Concerned note

84661 please. I, Jasbir Kaur Wadhwa W/o Inderpal 900020Singh R/o.5-A Lane No.2 Dasondha I Jarnail Singh Kallon S/o Awatar Singh Road Lawrence Road Singh R/o Vill. Muradpura P.o. Bal Amritsar have Changed my name to Khurd Distt. Amritsar Punjab. Have Jasbir Kaur Changed My Name Jarnail Singh

72737 Kallon To Jarnail Singh.I, Sukhwant Kaur W/o Kashmir 900020Singh Randhawa VPO Udho Nangal I Shilpa D/o Ashish Kumar R/o Tehsil Baba bakala Distt Amritsar- H.no.16, Gali No.6, Judge Nagar, 143114 have Changed my name to Near Jaura Phatak, Amritsar Have Sukhwant Kaur Randhawa. Changed My Name To Shilpa Sharma

72737 900020I, Swarn Sing S/o Karam Singh I, Deepika Arora D/o Mukesh Arora R/o.Vill. Daburji Tehsil and Distt R/o 2028, Noordi Bazaar, Jandiala TarnTaran Have Changed my name Guru Amritsar have changed my to Swaran Singh note it namy name to Deepika Trehan.

72737 900020I, Navdeep Singh Momi S/o I, Pritika Ahuja W/o Akshay Ahuja Kuldeep Singh R/o Vill. Kotli Nasir R/o 426-F, Basant Avene, Amritsar Khan Tehsil and Distt Amritsar have have changed my name from Pritika Changed my name to Navdeep Singh Seth to Pritika Ahuja.

72737 900020

PUBLIC NOTICESI, Kulwant Kaur w/o Nishan Singh Village Siana Saidan Tehsil Pehowa District Kurukshetra My husband Nishan Singh is out of my ears to listen to me and does not listen to us, so we end up with him in all our ways. For any transactions and good and bad deeds done by him in the future, Will be responsible himself. I and any other member of my family will have no connection with this.

84661It is for general information that I SUKHCHAIN SINGH CHHINA Son of SURJIT SINGH Residing at Dashmesh Nagar ward No.9, Ajnala Distt Amritsar Punjab declare that in my wife passport my name is wrongly written as SUKHCHAIN SINGH CHHINA but The actual My name is S U K H C H A I N S I N G H respectively, which may be amended accordingly.

72737I, A. No. 3398575-K, Rank: NK (Retd), Name Jasbir Singh s/o Sh. Mukhtiar Singh of Sikh Regt, r/o St No. 10, Sunder Nagri, Abohar, Tehsil Abohar District Fazilka (Punjab) do hereby solemnly affirm and declare that the Date of Birth mentioned in my Army Records of my Wife 'Gursharan Kaur' is written incorrect as 13.07.1979 instead of 22.11.1975. All concerned note it.

600019I, Gulraj Singh S/O Sh. Swran Singh R/O Village Fazlabad Tehsil And Distt Kapurthala Declare That My Son Joginder Singh Is Out Of My Control. So I Disown With H i m F r o m M y Moveable/Immoveable Property. If Anybody Dealing With Him At His/Her Own Risk.

98765I, No. 15134461X Hav (GNR) Kuldeep Singh S/o Gurnam Singh R/o Vpo. Dhotin Teh-Tarn Taran Distt. Tarn Taran Pin-143411 (Pb) I have to change the name of my daughter Sandip Kaur to Sandeep Kaur and her correct date of birth is 08-08-2003.

63372I, No. 15134461X Hav (GNR) Kuldeep Singh S/o Gurnam Singh R/o Vpo. Dhotin Teh-Tarn Taran Distt. Tarn Taran Pin-143411 (Pb) I have to change the name of my mother Charanjit Kaur to Charan Kaur.

63372I, No. 15134461X Hav (GNR) Kuldeep Singh S/o Gurnam Singh R/o Vpo. Dhotin Teh-Tarn Taran Distt. Tarn Taran Pin-143411 (Pb) I have to change the name of my wife Sarbjit Kaur to Sarbjeet Kaur.

63372In my Late: Army father No. 4453371, his army record my n a m e e n t e r e d w r o n g l y Harvinder Singh. But in my Aadhar Card and educational record my correct name entered as Harwinder Singh. So i known by my correct name Harwinder Singh.

63372It Is For General Information That I Aakansha Chandra, D/O Gyan Chand, R/O – 224, D.D.A Flat, Lado Sarai, South Delhi – 110030 Declare That Name Of Name Of Mine Has Been Wrongly Written As Aakansha In My 10th Class Marksheet, As Akansha In My 12th Class Marksheet And Graduation Certificates And Akansha C h a n d r a I n M y B . E d Ceritificates. The Actual Name Of Mine Is Aakansha Chandra Which May Be Amended Accordingly.

63372I Khushal Goyal S/o Manoj Kumar Goya l r e s idence o f Kotkapura Tehsil Kotkapura, District Faridkot hereby declared that in Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasth University, New Delhi records my name registered is Khushal Kumar Goyal, whereas in my UIDAI, PAN Card, and Matriculation Certificate my name is registered Khushal Goyal. My correct name is Khushal goyal and kindly note the same.

63372I Sukhchain Singh S/O Nidhan Singh R/O Laxman Colony, W.No.17, Gali No. 3, Gidderbaha (Sri Muktsar Sahib) Do Hereby Solemnly Affirm And Declare That My Son Sukhbir Singh And His Wife Sukhwinder Kaur Were Out Of My Control And Falls In A Bad Company. So I Evicted My Son Sukhbir Singh And His Wife Sukhwinder Kaur From All My Moveable And Immoveable Property. If Any Person Will Deal With Above Said Persons, He Will Be Himself Responsible, I Will Not Have Any Concern/Relation With That.

63372I Sukhwinder Kaur W/O Late Amrik Singh R/O Dandewal Po Tutomazara Tehsil Garhshankar (Hoshiarpur) Have Disinherited My Son Jyoti Singh From My M o v e a b l e A n d I m m o v a b l e Property. One Who Deals With Him Is Responsible Of His Own.

63372I, Prem Singh S/o Kishan Singh R/o H.No. 6 St.No. 4 Near Chand Diary Partap Singh Bala Ji Nagari (Ludhiana) declare that my daughter Sonia is out of my control. So i disown with her from 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 her at his/her own risk.

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83 children contactcorona in SainikSchoolSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Corona cases are onceagain rising in CM City Karnal. Thespeed of the corona is steadily increas-ing. The serious thing about this is thatin positive cases, there is a rapid in-crease in school children which is a se-rious matter. Today 83 children ofSainik School in Kunjpura were foundpositive again. This was confirmed byDr. Yogesh Sharma, CMO, Karnal. Ear-lier, 57 children came positive in thesame Sainik School. The availability ofpositive cases in a large number ofschools is a matter of great concern. Allthe schools in the district are open atthis time. All the children are going toschool daily. Now even small childrenhave started reaching schools in gov-ernment schools, but in Karnal, thenegligence of the people is bad. Ac-cording to the report of the Civil Sur-geon, so far a total of 234358 personssuspected of Coronavirus infectionhave been found in the district, while219540 of these reports have beennegative and 11957 cases are positive,out of which 157 patients have died,474 active. 11326 patients have recov-ered and gone back home. 138 newcase positives were found in the districton Wednesday. For the last one month,people have become completely care-less not only in Karnal but in entire ruralareas. However, the number of positivecases has been increasing continuous-ly for the last 10 days. But the districtadministration has informed it today.Now 18 duty magistrates have beenappointed to teach the people a lesson.DC says that now the responsibility ofinvestigating the schools has beenhanded over to the District EducationOfficer. If the school directors are seento be negligent then the administrationwill take strict note.

Girls have to beindependent: Dr. DahiyaNIRMAL SAINIRADAUR: An adolescent Health Pro-gram was organised at CommunityHealth Centre, Radaur in which civilsurgeon Dr. Vijay Dahiya was the chiefguest. The programme was presidedover by SMO Dr. Vijay Parmar and Dr.Pallavi Marya. School students partici-pated. Dr. Vijay Dahiya, the Chief Minis-ter, gave detailed information about theproblems faced during adolescenceand their solutions. Dr. Vijay Dahiyasaid that girls have to become self-sup-porting. They have to muster up thecourage to stop doing anything wrong.Until the students do not come forwardin this way, their problems will not besolved. He said that during adoles-cence, there are many types ofchanges in the body of children andtheir development also takes place. Butthey are not fully aware of them.

People withoutmasks will bechallanedKARNAL: Deputy Commissioner Nis-hant Kumar Yadav said that the coronainfection is not yet over and so all thepeople of the district should follow therules of Covid-19. He asked the Super-intendent of Police to instruct all the po-lice in-charge of the district to challanthose who roam the markets withoutwearing masks. He instructed theschool to use masks for students in-cluding teachers. If anyone disregards itthen action will be taken against him.18 duty magistrates have been appoint-ed to inspect whether they are wearingmasks or not.The Deputy Commissioner was review-ing the preparatory activities of Covid-19 at the DC office located in the miniSecretariat on Wednesday. In thismeeting, Civil Surgeon Dr. YogeshSharma gave information about the ac-tivities going on in the district. He saidthat Covid-19 protocol is not being fol-lowed in schools due to which Coronapositive cases are increasing. For this,the Deputy Commissioner directed theDistrict Education Officer Rajpal to con-duct surprise inspections in rural andurban schools. If a teacher and studentdoes not use the mask, it should bechallaned.

Issues of bus stand andwomen's college inBabain echoed inAssembly : Mewa SinghBABAIN, (RAVI KUMAR): Ladwa MLAMewa Singh on Wednesday raised themain demands of Ladwa in the Legisla-tive session. He raised the issue offour-laning of the road from Pipli GTRoad to Yamunanagar in the Assemblyand received an assurance fromDeputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chau-

tala that work onpreparing the re-port on the projectis under process.MLA Mewa Singhalso raised voiceregarding the poorcondition of BabainBus Stand. He saidthat Babain bus

stand is in poor condition and till date,there has been no entry of the buses atthe Babain bus stand. He also raisedthe issue of women's College in Ladwaconstituency. He said that for the pastsome time, there has been a demandto open a government girls college inBabain. This demand was also raisedwith the previous government, but itcould not be met. Now he has made ademand to open the Government GirlsCollege in Ladwa again in front of theEducation Minister. The MLA said thatthe demand was also kept in the Leg-islative Assembly regarding the wirespassing over the houses of BPL Colonyin Jalkhedi village of Ladwa. He raisedthe demand in the Assembly to releasewater into the Rakshi and Saraswatirivers.

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2 arrested in assault caseRANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL: Two accused wanted in the case of firing with illegal pistols by entering inthe house of a person and abusing in village Kaul for about a month were arrested byDeputy Superintendent of Police Ravindra Sangwan. During the investigation, twoshells of cartridges have already been captured by the police from the spot while illegalpistols, two magazines and 4 live cartridges were recovered from the possession of thearrested accused. On 10 March, both the accused were sent to judicial custody as perthe order of the Court. Superintendent of Police Lokendra Singh said that on the com-plaint of Sandeep Kumar, resident of village Kaul, according to the case registered inthe police station, some youths of his village beat up his brother.

‘Action against illegal colonies tocontinue, 2127 FIRs registered’

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, MAR 10

Taking strict action against illegalcolonies, Haryana Government hasregistered 2,127FIRs against suchviolators. The gov-ernment will con-tinue to take strictaction in such cas-es.

This informa-tion was shared byHaryana DeputyChief Minister, Sh.Dushyant Chautala in response to aquestion asked by a MLA during theBudget session in the Vidhan Sabhatoday.

In response to another question,he said that the state government hastaken numerous steps to bring intransparency in the functioning of theRevenue Department, which hashelped the people to get their landregistered with ease. He further saidthat anyone can take online appoint-ment for registry of land deed. Be-

sides this, No Objection Certificatecan also be availed online by de-positing the outstanding fees.

Deputy Chief Minister, who alsoholds the charge of Revenue Depart-ment, shared that during the COVID-19 between February 1, 2020 to De-cember 31, 2020, 6,223 deeds wereregistered in violation of Haryana

Urban Development Regulation Act,1975 in the state. The state govern-ment has chargesheeted eight regis-trars and sub-registrars in this regard.The case is presently under police in-vestigation. He further said that theseofficers have been deployed in an-other division so that police investi-gation is not influenced.

Admission process in SABVGMC tocommence from this year: VijCHANDIGARH: Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said that the admission process inShri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical College at Chhainsa in Faridabad dis-trict will commence from this year. Responding to a question raised during the budgetsession of Haryana Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday, Mr Vij said that admissions will beprocessed for 100 seats in this college. He informed that at present, there are 12 gov-ernment and private medical colleges in 11 districts of the state. Besides this, PanditDeendayal Upadhyay University of Health Sciences is also being opened in Kutail, Kar-nal. The cost of construction of this college is estimated to be above Rs 750 crore forwhich work allocation has already been initiated. In addition, the National Cancer Insti-tute has been set up by the Union Government at a cost of about Rs 2,035 crore inJhajjar district.He said that the government is committed to enhancing health services in the state,thus new medical colleges are being set up in 6 districts of the state, namely Bhiwani,Jind, Mahendragarh, Kaithal, Sirsa and Yamunanagar. The construction work for thesecolleges has already been approved. Apart from this, the process of setting up All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences on an area of 225 acres of land in Manethi, Rewari is un-der process.

BUDGET SESSION

SD SHARMAPANCHKULA, MARCH 10

An anthology of Urdu poetry ‘ Safar dar Sa-far’ authored by well known poet and prolificwriter of Urdu and Persian Dr Ayyub Khan,was released at a simple but impressive cere-mony at the Haryana Urdu Akademi complexhere on Tuesday evening. Lt. General BKNChhibber ( Retd.) former governor of Punjabas also a keen literary enthusiast and eminentlitterateur Dr Chander Trikha , Vice Chairmanand Director Haryana Urdu Akademi and Di-rector Haryana Sahitya Akademi released the

book. Blessing the author Dr Trikha disclosedthat Dr Ayyub Khan , a Programme in chargeat Haryana Urdu Akademi has authored fivebooks and edited over a dozen books of ac-claimed writers. Born and raised at MalerKotla he holds a Doctoral degree in Persianbesides MA ( Gold Medal) and M Phil de-grees in Urdu literature. His ghazals are sungby eminent ghazal singers of the region.

Expressing gratitude to the chief guestworthy Lt. General BKN Chhibber ( Retd)and his mentor Dr Chander Trikha, the authorDr Ayyub Khan disclosed his new poetrybook is in the offing.

Urdu Poetry book ‘Safardar Safar’ released

Mahashivaratricelebrated in school

NIRMAL SAINIRADAUR, MARCH 10

The festival of Mahashivratri was celebrated at MaharajaAgrasen Senior Secondary Public School Gumthala. Studentsfrom class pre nursery to third participated in the programmeorganised in the school. The children participating in the pro-gramme arrived in the school dressed as Lord Shiva and MataParvati. Everyone got emotional after seeing them. The stu-dents also performed dances to the songs of Lord Shiva andParvati during this period.

Principal of the school, Dr. Sudesh Bansal said that weshould keep organising such programs. So that spirituality isdeveloped in children. Surendra Singla, Nakal Agarwal, VishaKamboj, Aruna Sharma, Gaurav Malik, Ashok Kamboj, NishaSaluja, Neetu, Pooja, Sushma, Vandana and Ritika etc. werepresent on the occasion.

Lack of awareness inaged about vaccine

RK KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI: There is a lack of awareness about theCorona vaccine among the elderly and they are not reachingthe vaccination cerntre in Chhachrauli area. In this regard, theChief Medical Officer of Chhachharoli CHC has appealed to thepeople above 60 years to take Coronavaccine. He said that there is a lack ofawareness among the elderly and per-haps the idea has come in their mindthat perhaps the message will come intheir phone and only then they will getthe vaccine. Somewhere in the elderlythere is also a fear that there may beproblem due to the corona vaccine.Putting an end to all the rumors, thedoctor said that there is no problem ingetting the vaccine. He said thatChhachrauli has so far dosed 800 corona vaccines, out ofwhich only 24 elderly people have been vaccinated with the co-rona vaccine.Question - Will there be a message about corona vaccine in-stalled in the mobiles of the people over 60 years of age?Answer ---- There is no such thing that it is mandatory for all theelderly above 60 years to get this corona vaccine and it is notnecessary that they have any message in their mobile, the eld-erly can come and get this vaccine themselves.Question - Will they have to register first?.Answer – If the elderly are not able to get the vaccine registeredto get the vaccine done, then they can be done or else the reg-istration of the elderly will be done in the hospital itself. For this,they will have to bring an ID with them.

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, MARCH 10

A huge religious procession was taken out inthe village with God’s statues for the PranPratishtha programme, in the Shiv temple ofvillage Indergarh. A large number of womenand men participated in this procession withreverence. A large number of male and fe-males were resent. Women and men runningwith band music and dancing with the idols,during the tour of the idols across the village,the people supported the whole village in theprocession by shouting Lord ji in procession.This religious ritual going on in the Shivatemple, under the leadership of scholars Pan-dit Deshraj Shastri and Shyam Lal Sharma, isbeing organised by the Brahmins in a ritualis-tic manner.

Pandit Deshraj Shastri said that during the

idol tour in Indergarh village today, I got tosee a celebration of great enthusiasm and rev-erence among the people and people are par-ticipating with full enthusiasm and reverencein the idol Pran Pratishtha Samaroh going onin the Shiva temple in Indergarh. The idolswill be installed in the village Indargarh onMarch 11 and a huge bhandara will be organ-ised on March 12.

Religious procession taken out

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAJIND, MARCH 10

The Anti-Corruption Foundation of Indiacelebrated the International Women's Dayin Charkhi Dadri on the occasion of the In-dia Pride Award ceremony in whichwomen and men and children from allover the country received the India PrideAward and Rising Star Icon Award. Thosewho have played an important role in anyfield, be it a sportsperson or a social work-er or any other social organization weregiven the awards.

Boxing player Suraj Rohilla of villageFatehgarh in Jind district was also award-ed the Rising Star Award by film actorsRakesh Bedi, Abhishek Bachchan, IG IPSSuman Manjari Haryana and DC RajeshJagpal of Dadri for their performance inthe Games and social work.Suraj Rohillasaid that the award ceremony was held atAryans Modern School in Dadri in whichmore than 100 women, men and children

from all over the country received this ho-nour.

On this occasion, National Presidentof Anti Corruption Foundation of IndiaNarendra Arora, film actors Rakesh Bedi,Abhishek Bachchan, IG IPS Suman Man-jari Haryana, DC Rajesh Jagpal Singh,Archana Gaur, Satish Rana, and otherplayers and other dignitaries were present.

Suraj Rohilla gets India Pride Award

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 10

On International Women's Day, Na-tional President Bharat Prem con-gratulated all the great women of In-dia who have brought laurels to thecountry in different fields on nation-al and international stage. Who doesnot know the late Prime Minister ofIndia, Indira Gandhi, KalpanaChawla who flew the flag of India inspace. Many Indian women are stillplaying an important role in political,economic, social, police, administration,and highlighting name of India globallydue to which, the pride of India is visi-ble on the world map. Unnat Bharat San-gathan Trust paid homage to all themothers, sisters and daughters who haveplayed their role in society. On Women'sDay, the state government has honouredthe women.

The Unnat Bharat OrganisationTrust congratulated all those women andcongratulates them for taking the coun-try forward. Among the many womenhonored by the government, the teacherBhagwati Yadav, wife of Sumer SinghYadav, Model Town Rewari Haryanahas been honoured by the Central Gov-ernment. The students taught are playingan important role in the development

oriented works of the state. Thewomen of Haryana state werealso honored with the Life TimeAchievement Award by the ChiefMinister of Haryana, ManoharLal Khattar. Bhagwati Yadav hasgiven 37 years of service to theEducation Department ofHaryana. This honor will not onlyinspire enthusiasm in RewariNarnaul Gurugram, but will alsoinspire women for social welfare.

The views were presented ina meeting convened by NationalWomen's President Sushma Nath.Women President Sushma Nath termedthe Chief Minister's action of honouringwomen on International Women’s as anhonour for Indian culture. Youth Presi-dent Akhil Nath said that this honor isnot only any honour but a source of in-spiration for the coming generations.

Bhagwati honoured for social work: Prem

Pads given to slum womenSushil PanditYAMUNANAGARH: Sanitary pads were distributed by the Jai Ma Ganga Group Yamunanagar to women inslums located at various places in the city on the occasion of International Women's Day. Giving informationabout this, Jai Ma Ganga Group executive member Madhu Gupta said that we should focus on the all-rounddevelopment of women, in which cleanliness is an important subject. She made women aware of hygiene andexplained how sanitary pads should be used during menstruation, because it is necessary to be aware anduse pads to prevent many types of diseases. She said that a large number of women in our country are stillnot aware of such precautions. He made women living in slums to be informed about the cleanliness and pre-cautions to be kept during the menstruation.

Shivaratri celebratedby Brahmakumaris

GOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD, MARCH 10

The festival of Shivaratri was celebrated withpomp at Prajapita Brahmakumari Ishwariya Uni-versity in Shahabad in which the social workerSandeep Garg participated as the headmistress inthe programme. Prajapita Brahmakumari Ish-wariya University in-charge of North Zone, in-charge of Haryana Zone, Sister Prem told the peo-ple about the attainment of Prabhu. She said thatthe basic meaning of human life is the attainmentof God but man is not understanding the truth oflife by getting stuck in worldly distractions. Hesaid that a person should renounce jealousy, fasci-nation, greed, and perform Lord Simran. SamajSevi Sandeep Garg said that every person born inthe world must have a special quality in his per-sonality, so every human should recognize thatquality and move forward in life.

He presented Rs 51 thousand for the generatorin the ashram and Harish Kwatara, former head ofNAPA donated Rs 21 thousand. Ashram's BK Sis-ter Niti welcomed the guests and thanked SandeepGarg for his great support for the generator. Sou-venirs were also given to the guests from theashram. On this occasion, a large number of dig-nitaries including sister Nija, Dr. Gulshan Kwatra,Deputy Chairman of NAPA.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 10

Municipal Corporation Commission-er Vikram Kumar on Wednesday vis-ited the colonies with officials withthe aim of resolving public problemslike water, drainage and repair ofroads in about 10 colonies of the cityand directed officials for solutions atall places. Neeraj Kadian and Execu-tive Engineers Priyanka Saini andSatish Sharma, AE Satish Mittal andJE Pradeep accompanied the Com-missioner.

The water and drainage problem inDayanand colony of ward number 11 willbe overcome.The corporation commis-sioner has taken note to solve a problemrelated to the drainage of rainy water inDayanand Colony. Citizens were alsotroubled by the problem of pits dug forcable laying by a communications com-pany. The comissionser got angry onthis and said that the company con-cerned had been given notice to fix the

roads but if the roads are not repairedthen action will be taken. Ginni Virk,husband of the female councillor of thisward, was also present in the tour. Forpermanent solution of rain water, colonywith NH Put a pipe from the emptyspace and asked them to solve the prob-lem by connecting them to the Mughalcanal line. For this, the pipe of PVC andRCC will be put for this, an estimate of30 lakhs has been made, work will startsoon.

MC Commissioner checksproblems in colonies

Kalyan raises matter of arrangingland for employees

HARYANA BUREAUKARNAL, MARCH 10

Gharaunda MLA Harvindra Kalyan has raised the voice of the public inan elaborate manner in the Vidhan Sabha session to solve the problems ofGharaunda. On Wednesday, on the fourth day of the assembly session,Kalyan announced the construction of Gharaunda sub-divisional office

building and various categories of sub-divisions, af-ter advocating for farmers to set up new tubewellsand provide electricity connections for agriculturalprojects in the Dark Zone adjoining the Yamuna belt.Kalyan raised the issue of residential facilities for theemployees, but it is said that no land is available forit in the Gharaunda municipal area.

After answering the question raised about Pan-chayati land, again Deputy Chief Minister DushyantChautala assured that if there is any Panchayati landavailable near the town of Gharaunda then surelyresidential facilities will be provided to the sub-divi-

sional level office for Gharaunda and officers and employees Residentialfacilities will also be constructed. Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister DushyantChautala said in response to the question that land is being earmarked forthe construction of the office building of Gharaunda subdivision and res-idential facilities for the employees of various categories of the said sub-division, after which the construction work will start. In the last six years,MLA Harvinder Kalyan has given new dimensions of development toGharauda under the patronage of Chief Minister Manohar Lal. Gharaun-da got sub division status, ITI, India's second-ranked NCC Academy, SkillDevelopment Centre for Employment, medical university.

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SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 10

Punjab Vigilance Bureau has ex-posed a big scam worth crores ofrupees under the Pradhan MantriJan Arogya Yojana - 'AushmaanBharat' scheme in which privatehospitals have obtained health in-surance claims from insurancecompany named IFFCO TOKIO onthe basis of fake bills for treatmentof beneficiary patients possessingsmart health cards. Contrary to this,the IFFCO TOKIO had rejectedhundreds of insurance claims per-taining to government hospitalscausing a huge loss to the state ex-chequer.

Disclosing this here today,DGP-cum-Chief Director VigilanceBureau BK Uppal said on the basisof inputs received from crediblesources, it has came to light thatseveral well known private hospi-tals based in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpurand Kapurthala districts have pre-pared hefty fake bills on the namesof smart card holders for their treat-ment under Ayushman Bharatscheme and took insurance claimsfrom IFFCO TOKIO. "A regularvigilance enquiry have been regis-tered by the bureau to investigatethis scam worth crores of rupees inthe state", he added.

Giving details of the prelimi-nary findings he informed that SSPvigilance range Jalandhar DaljinderSingh Dhillon have unearthed thisfraud in which several fake medicalbills of private hospitals had beencleared by the insurance companybut on the contrary reimbursementbills forwarded by government hos-pitals were rejected. In this connec-tion, major negligence has beenseen at the end of concernedDeputy Medical Commissionersand doctors of state hospitals/pri-mary health centres.

"The major reason for rejectingthe insurance claims of governmenthospitals by the company was toget extraordinary financial benefits.Rs. 52,06,500 (Fifty two lacs six

thousand five hundred rupess). As aresult, the Punjab government hasincurred a total financial loss of tothe state exchequer during the lastone year from these three aforesaiddistricts", said Uppal.

During investigations it hascame to light that a well knownhospital of Sultanpur Lodhi town inKapurthala district had claimed Rs.4,43,98,450/- (Four crore fortythree lacs ninety eight thousandfour hundred fifty rupess) for thetreatment of about 1,282 patientsand out of which 519 claims havebeen rejected. On the basis of thesemedical bills, State Health Authori-ty, Punjab have passed claims ofthis hospital to the tune of Rs.4,23,48,050 (Four crore twentythree lacs forty eight thousand fiftyrupess). Then IFFCO TOKIO in-surance company reimbursed theclaimed amount to the tune of Rs.1,86,59,150 (One crore eighty sixlacs fifty nine thousand one hun-dred fifty) out of Rs. 4,43,98,450 tothe said hospital. Revealing themodus operandi by the administra-tion of hospital under investigation(Name withheld not to hamper in-vestigations), vigilance chief fur-ther informed that a patient namedParamjeet Kaur village Turna in Ja-landhar district was admitted to thehospital for operating gall bladder

stone but due to her personal rea-sons she did not undergo the opera-tion. In this regard, the hospital pre-pared a fake medical bill of Rs.22,000 for this patient and took re-imbursement claim form IFFCOTOKIO under the AyushmanBharat health insurance scheme.

Furthermore, Uppal disclosedthat in another such case patientSukhjinder Kaur village Sidhupurwas admitted to the same hospitalfor gall bladder operation. She pre-sented her smart health card issuedby the Punjab government but thedirector of this hospital asked thepatient that her treatment could notbe done with one smart card.

In this connection, the hospitaldirector told the patient to either de-posit Rs. 25,000 in cash or bring 6/7smart cards to avail the benefit oftreatment. After this SukhjinderKaur’s family submitted threesmart cards belonging to her familymembers to the hospital while fac-ing under-compulsion. He said thatto cover up the fraud, this hospitalhas shoot fake videos of SukhjinderKaur’s family members by lyingthem on the hospital beds and tooktheir signatures on blank papers.The administrator of hospital hadinstructed them to reply on receiv-ing a phone call by saying that theyunderwent an operation.

VB unearths big scam worth croresunder Ayushman Bharat scheme

Five teachers, two studentsamong 81 new coronapositives reported JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: Five teachers and twostudents are among 81 more newCorona positives reported in Patialadistrict on Wednesday and with thistotal number of Corona positives inthe district also gone upto the figureof 17,976. Besides the total.numberof Corona active positives in thedistrict today shot up to the mark of861. As per the reports threeteachers and two students werefound Corona positives in a privatehospital in Sub divisional townshipof Samana . Besides one teachereach was also found Coronapositives in two government runSchools in two villages of the districtand all these schools wereimmediately closed for next 48hours and instructions were issuedto start immediate contract tracingof these positive cases in therespective schools and propersanitization too. Meanwhile taking aserious view of the development thedistrict administration has instructedall the heads of the schools in thedistrict to implement seriously thenorms and guidelines issued by thegovernment to check the furtherspread of Novel Corona Virusdisease as wearing of standard facemasks, time to time use ofsanitizers in the schools by thestudents and the staff.

Common entrance examination forsoldier GD postponedLUDHIANA: Director Recruitment ARO Col Sajeev N on Wednesday informed that Com-mon Entrance Examination for Soldier General Duty category has been postponed due to tech-nical issues and now the same would be organized on March 28, 2021, at Army Complex nearJagraon Bridge. He said that admit cards for the candidates from roll number between 1001 to1500 would be issued on March 15, from 1501 to 2000 on March 16, from 2001 to 2500 onMarch 17, from 2501 to 3000 on March 18, from 3001 to 3500 on March 19, from 3501 to4000 on March 20 and on March 22, the admit cards from 4001 to 4287 would be issued.Heappealed to the candidates to collect their Admit Cards as per schedule from Army RecruitingOffice Ludhiana.

BUREAUCHANDIGARH, MAR 10

Following the direction ofPunjab Education MinisterVijay Inder Singla, the SchoolEducation Department haslaunched a massive campaignto motivate the students andtheir parents for taking admis-sion in government schools.Under this campaign, teachershave started door-to-door vis-it to register the children forthe admission.

According to thespokesperson, the educationdepartment had made greatstrides last year in terms of en-rolment in governmentschools. In the last academicsession 2020-21, about 3.30lakh children were admittedin pre-primary classes in gov-ernment schools across thestate. Due to the hard work of

the department the admissionin government schools in-creased by a record 15 percent. During the lockdowncaused by Covid-19 last year,the students were kept con-nected to the curriculumthrough online education. Theincrease in the standard of ed-ucation during the tenure ofCaptain Amrinder Singh gov-ernment has boosted the con-fidence of the people in gov-ernment schools.

Therefore, the School Ed-ucation Department haslaunched a comprehensivecampaign to increase the ad-missions in governmentschools to provide quality ed-ucation to the children. Ac-cording to the spokesperson,'enrolment booster teams'have already been formed to make this campaign a success.

Teachers launch door-to-doorcampaigns to motivate peoplefor admission in govt schools

Lok hit society honorsDAV student

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON: DAV centenary publicschool student Riya made theinstitution and the city proud bygrabbing 5 silver medals in nationallevel archery championship andvarious associations of the city havebeen honoring the girl for herexcellence. In the same series, Lokhit welfare society honored Riya andcongratulated her on her success.School principal Brij Mohan Babbarsaid that the class 8th student hasmade the school extremely proud ofher by grabbing 5 silver medals innational archery championship. Hefurther added that the associationhonored Riya in the school campuswith eleven hundred rupees cash, 1trophy and siropa. At this occasionsociety chairman Ravinder Singh,Jagdeesh Pal Mehta, Karam SinghSandhu, Parem Singh Lohat,Balwinder Singh Chahal, ShingaraSingh, Brij Mohan, Asha Gupta,Satwinder Kaur, Renu Kaura, RajniBala, DPE Hardeep Singh Binjaland others were present.

ADM declares villages Mittewal,Ajnoha, Nadalon MicroContainment ZonesDALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: Additional DistrictMagistrate-cum-Additional DeputyCommissioner (ADC) Amit KumarPanchal in view of the currentsituation regarding COVID-19 inHoshiarpur and the directions of theHealth Department, issued Section144 CRPC. Using the powersvested in him, the village Mittewal ofTehsil Hoshiarpur Chaknoval,Ajnoha village of Garhshankar tehsiland Nadalon PHC. Paldi has beendeclared a micro containment zone.As per the orders issued in thisregard, only medical emergencyand urgent works will be allowed inthe micro containment zone. Hesaid that in the micro containmentzone the teams of healthdepartment would conduct door todoor survey and contact tracing. Inaddition, all positive cases will betransferred to health facilities as perhealth protocol.

Bibi Jagir Kaur givesbefitting reply to BJP leader

Harjit Singh GrewalAMRITSAR (CHARNJIT SINGH ARORA): Onthe remarks of BJP leader against the work beingdone by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commit-tee in favor of struggling farmers, Bibi Jagir Kaur,President of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) hasstrongly reacted to the remarks made by Harjit SinghGrewal. Bibi Jagir said that Harjit Singh Grewal is

making a statementagainst Sikh traditions.His statement as to whythe SGPC is helping thefarmers is an expressionof his ignorance of the re-ligion. Grewal does notknow that the Gurus al-ways gave priority toservice and taught tostand with the society.She said that the Shiro-mani Akali Dal was

aware of its rights and responsibilities. Grewal should keep his advice with him. Jagir

Kaur said that Guru Nanak Dev Ji gave great praiseto the farmers and guided them by farming himself.Today, due to the arbitrariness of the BJP govern-ment, the farmers are on the brink of disaster. At suchtimes, Harjit Singh Grewal should stand with thefarmers and not question the organizations that helpthe farmers. She said that following the path shownby Guru Sahibs, the SGPC has stood by the farmersand will continue to do so in future also. The langar,accommodation, medicines and other services willcontinue. She said that giving such statements doesnot suit the BJP leader being a Sikh, and he shouldthink before speaking.

SUKH NAHARLUDHIANA, MAR 10

In its fight against COVID-19 pandemic, Deputy Com-missioner Varinder KumarSharma and Commissionerof Police Rakesh Agrawal onWednesday solicited fulsomesupport of the Non-Govern-ment organizations to tacklethe second wave of infectiousdisease efficaciously.

Presiding over a meetingwith NGOs in BachatBhawan, Deputy Commis-sioner Varinder Kumar Shar-ma and Commissioner of Po-lice Rakesh Agrawal said thatCovid is not over yet andpeople need to follow allCovid protocols to halt thespread of the virus. Theysaid that the NGOs has a vi-tal role in the sensitization ofthe people about precautionsincluding wearing of masks,

maintaining social distancingand washing hands time totime to keep the virus at bay.They said that the surge inthe cases are being witnessedas the people are violatingthe precautions balantlyagainst whom challan driveis being carried out.

They added that NGO'svolunteers are connectedwith thousands of people atgrassroots and asked them toleave no stone unturned toensure every resident mustadhere to Covid protocols in-cluding mask wearing andkeeping physical distancingas these will help to breakchain.

They pointed that NGOsvolunteers must use smallvideos disseminating the in-formation of Covid protocolsand share among their groupsas visuals leave indelible im-prints on minds.

DC, CP solicit support of NGOsto assist administration in war

against covid-19 pandemic

R.SINGH PATHANKOT, MAR 10

A special program was or-ganized today at Gaushala inDairiwal village, under thesupervision of PresidentManmahesh Billa.

On the occasion, medi-cines were sent by the GauSewa commission for thetreatment of cows. At thesame time, the health of theanimals present in the cow-shed was also examined bythe team.President Manma-hesh Billa praised the effortsof the Gau Seva Commissionand said that the residents ofthe city should also comeforward to help the Gausseva

organization Dairiwal. Hetold that Nandi is also takencare here along with othercows who were wanderingin the district Pathankot. Notonly this, a temple of RadhaKrishna has also been builthere, which is a centre ofspecial attraction for peoplecoming here. He was ac-companied by other digni-taries during this period be-sides General SecretaryAshu Vashisht, ChairmanAnand Prakash, DeputyChairman Vaishno Babbar,Vice Chairman Garib Das,Mahila Wing Chairman Mrs.Neemal Saini, Neelam Kher,Satish Rani, and KantaKhosla were also present.

Gau seva commission sendsmedicines to Gaushala Dairiwal

for treatment of cows

PAWAN KALIAKAPURTHALA, MAR 10

District Legal ServicesAuthority(DLSA) on to-day organized CampCourt in the premises ofmodern jail on the direc-tions of District & SessionJudge, cum ChairmanDLSA, Kapurthala andduring this camp courtChief Judicial Magistratecum Secretary Ajit PalSingh not only disposedoff but also heard prob-lems being faced by jailinmates. During his jailvisits CJM Ajit Pal Singh

also visited Legal AidClinic, in the jail premisesand minutely inspectedthe record pertaining to le-gal aid being provided tojail inmates, Mr. Singhalso instructed the jail su-perintendent for encour-aging the jail inmates in

participations ofsports in order toimprove theirp s y c h o l o g i c a lhealth.

Providing in-formation on thisoccasion CJMAjit Pal Singh ap-prised that all the

jail inmates can be provid-ed the services of advo-cates free of cost to pleadtheir cases from subdivi-sion level to apex courtbesides all petty expensesof their cases are borne byDistrict Legal ServicesAuthority he guided.

CJM Ajit Pal Singh disposes offcases during camp court in jail

Employees burncopies of state govt

budgetGAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR, MAR 10Unhappy with the Punjabgovernment's budget, em-ployees burnt the budgetcopies on the PWD campus.During the protest, stateleader and district presidentRaghubir Singh Badhwalsaid that the state governmentis fooling the workers, due towhich there is a lot of angerin the group. Soon the statelevel meeting of PSMSUPunjab will be called and thestruggle will be wagedagainst the government of theDiocese. State ChairmanAgriculture DepartmentBaljinder Singh Saini saidthat the personnel of the Pun-jab Government have no con-fidence in the Finance Minis-ter, because the governmenthas been falsely luring peoplefor the last four years. DistrictFinance Secretary SawanSingh said that in the lastbudget, the Finance Ministerhas ignored the workingclass. At the same time,Jaspreet Singh from the Ani-mal Husbandry Departmentsaid that the Finance Ministerhas abolished the dearness al-lowance of four years duringthe budget visit.

MAHAVIR GOYAL/ BIPAN SETHI AHMEDGARH, MAR 10

Celebrating 'World SpellingDay',Madhuban Edu-cational had organ-ised an Online Inter-school Spelling Com-petition on 6thMarch, 2021 from11:00 a.m -1:00 p.m.Representing the Vic-toria Public School, Lehra,Pranjoli and Kritika Soni hadparticipated in the Category-2for Classes 6-8 and bagged2nd place.

The purpose of the eventwas to enhance learners vo-

cabulary and to instill in themthe healthy reading skills. Thecompetition held in 3 roundsand the contestants were giv-en 30 seconds to form an ana-

gram from the jumbledwords.Having a good com-mand on the language and theregular reading habit hasmade these two participantsgrabbed the position in thecompetition.

School girls shine inspelling competition

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHAR, MAR 10

Government of India has de-cided to celebrate the 75th an-niversary of independence on15 August 2022 and the eventis being launched 75 weeksago on 12 March 2021 withthe theme 'Azadi Ka AmritMahaotsava'.

Deputy Commissioner Dr.Shena Aggarwal made thisremark during a meeting withthe officials regarding thepreparations for the event.She said that four historicalplaces of Punjab related to thefreedom struggle have beenselected for the commence-

ment of the ceremony, includ-ing the ancestral village ofShaheed-e-Azam SardarBhagat Singh, Khattar Kalan-wala of district Shaheed Bha-gat Singh Nagar. Madam Ag-garwal said that the programwill be launched on March 12with a huge bicycle rally,which will start from TIGround Nawanshahar at 9 amand will end at the Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh

M u s e u m ,K h a t k a rKalan, wheretribute will bepaid to thestatue of Sha-heed-e-Azam.

On this occasion, she entrust-ed the duties of officers ofvarious departments forsmooth running of cycle rallyincluding route planning, se-curity system, smooth trafficsystem, drinking water, re-freshments, pilot vehicles,ambulance and deploymentof medical teams. She direct-ed to ensure strict adherenceto the Covid protocol duringthe cycle rally.

District to launch 'Azadi KaAmrit Mahaotsava': Aggarwal

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 10

Ex-Servicemen WelfareUnion Punjab on the rise ininflation and the CentralGovernment's patriotic poli-cies, Ex-servicemen's organ-ization across the countrycontinues to fight for repealof black laws in support ofthe United Peasant WorkersMovement Ex-servicemenfrom Rose Garden rallied tothe Suti government andstaged protests in the city'smain markets against thecentral government.

Former Army Leader Pres-ident Bhola Singh, BhagatSingh General Secretary said

that the dictatorial govern-ment at the Center was notbothered. Today the peopleof the country have rallied tooppose the present centralgovernment. He said that the

Union government has notspared even the soldiersguarding the homeland. Forexample, facilities like DAfreezing, One Rack One Pen-sion, CSC have been banned.

Ex-servicemen protest over inflation

KULJEET SINGHJANDIALA GURU, MAR 10

A new highway bypass isbeing constructed by thegovernment on the AmritsarMehta Road near hereand the farmers' landsare being requested formaking this bypass.Where the people arehappy with this bypass,but the farmers whoselands are there It is beingsaid that the farmers are introuble due to the economicloss due to it and fear of lesscompensation from the gov-ernment. The new roadfrom Pind to the village ofFatehpur Rajputan has been

prepared. The land of manylocal farmers will be ac-quired in it. He argued thatthe road with ninth ingot iswide and the governmentcan resolve the issue by

widening it. He said that ifthe government wants to ac-quire their land, then theyshould give a compensationof Rs 1 crore per acre withwhich the farmers can doany other business for theiremployment.

Government is givingcompensation to farmers: SDM

KARANPREET DHANDRALBARNALA, MAR 10

With the blessings of Ni-rankari Satguru Mata Sudik-sha Ji Maharaj, a cleanli-ness drive was organizedat Sant Nirankari MissionBarnala and in the ITI (ForGirls) located inside thecity.

Sanjoyak Jeevan Goyalof Barnala Branch told thaton 23rd February on occa-sion of birth day of Ni-rankari Baba HardevSingh Ji Maharaj the planta-tion was done at this place,this place was also adoptedby the guidance of SatguruMata ji to give a beautiful gift

to nature. It was then seenthat there is a great need ofcleanliness here. In view ofthis, this cleanliness drive or-ganized today and Nirankari

Sewadal did their services atthis place while followingproper Covid guidelines andwished for blessings from theSadhguru.

Sant Nirankari Mission organizescleaning drive in ITI Barnala

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CM expresses grief on loss of lives inChamba accidentSHIMLA: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has expressed grief over theaccident of private bus on Tissa-Chamba road near Tissa colony mod inwhich nine persons succumbed to injuries and nine persons were injured andhave been referred to Chamba Medical College and Hospital. Chief Ministersaid that he is extremely saddened by the loss of lives due to this roadaccident. He said that his heartfelt condolences are with the families of thedeceased and he prayed for the quick recovery of those injured. ChiefMinister said that an immediate relief of Rs. 20,000 has been provided todependents of the each deceased and Rs. 5000 each to injured persons.

HIMACHAL/JKCrime reviewmeeting held

PANKAJ KATNAUNA: A crime review meeting wasorganized under the chairmanship ofSuperintendent of Police Arjit SenThakur at Police Line Jhalera. Duringthe month of February, criminal eventsand title-wise prosecutions werediscussed and instructions were given toall the investigating officers and station-in-charge to settle the pending cases atthe earliest. The crimes falling under thesame special category were discussedin detail and all the special officers andpolice in-charge were asked to payspecial attention to the investigation ofthese crimes and instructions were givento complete the pending prosecutions atthe earliest. Instructions were given totake maximum action under the NarcoticDrugs and Excise Act.

One day training andawareness camp organizedfor sheep farmers

PANKAJ KATNAUNA: A sheep-rearing awareness andtraining camp was organized in thepremises of Deputy Director AnimalHusbandry Department today under thejoint aegis of Animal HusbandryDepartment and Himachal PradeshWool Federation. In this camp, Presidentof Himachal Pradesh Wool Federation,Tritlok Kapur participated as the ChiefGuest. About 150 sheep herdersattended the camp. Medical kits werealso distributed to sheep herders duringthis period. Addressing the participantsof the camp, Trilok Kapoor said thatsuch camps are organized from time totime by the department for theawareness and training of the sheepherders. In these camps, the sheepherders of the state get informationabout various schemes related to sheepfarming, while a platform is available toraise the problems faced by the sheepfarmers in this area. He said that theState Government is determined to solvethe problems of sheep farmers andconstant efforts are being made for this.He said that medical kits are alsodistributed to the sheep herders so thatthey can take primary care ofthemselves and the animals. He urgedthe district administration to provide allpossible help and appropriate action incases of stealing sheep sheep.

Piyush Chandel getsimportant responsibilityby Cong party in Assamelections

SHANTI GAUTAMBADDI: The bugle for the elections inAssam has sounded and the Congressparty has currently fielded its strongcandidate on every seat in Assam thistime. Congress party is leaving no stoneunturned and is putting a lot of emphasison forming a government in theelections. The party has assigned theresponsibility to its most strong activistsas incharge in Assam elections. Havingplayed an active role in politics inHimachal Pradesh since last 2 years,the former MP Suresh Chandel's sonPiyush Chandel has been assignedsignificant responsibility of Congressparty in Assam elections by Srinivas Bivi,the National President of YouthCongress. Piyush Chandel gets number106 Sunari assembly in Assam. Piyushsaid that he will be able to fulfill theresponsibility given by the President andon this seat, I will do my utmost toregister victory for my party. Chandelthanked Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhiand Srinivas for assigning him theresponsibility.

Jai Ram Thakur flags off ForestFire Awareness vehicles

AGENCYSHIMLA, MAR 10

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurflagged off three Forest FireAwareness vehicles from OakOver here today under theHimachal Pradesh ForestDepartment’s fire preparednessprogramme for 2021 season.

Speaking on the occasionChief Minister said that thesevehicles would travel on threedifferent routes in the State in thecoming eight days and sensitizethe community and stakeholdersabout the effects of the forest firesthrough PA systems equipped ineach vehicle. He urged the peopleto extend all possible help to theForest Department in their effortsfor combating the fire incidents.

Jai Ram Thakur said thatforest fire posed a threat not only

to the forest wealth but also to theentire regime including fauna andflora by disturbing the bio-diversity, ecology andenvironment of the region. Hesaid that during summers or indry months when there is no rain,forests become littered with drymaterial including pine needles.He emphasized that there areindirect effects of forest fire in theform of loss of timber increment,loss of soil fertility, soil erosion,drying up of water sources andloss to biodiversity.

Chief Minister said that thelivelihoods of rural people areintricately linked to the forestsecosystem and long term healthof the forest was more beneficialthan the short term goal of freshgrass. He said that fire season wasapproaching and participation ofthe community was important in

fire combating efforts. He said insuch a scenario community isrequired to aware about the ill-effects of forest fire and this typeof awareness drives playimportant role to spread themessage to the masses throughstreet plays in local dialects andexhibitions. He expressed hopethat the steps taken by ForestDepartment would go a long wayin preventing forest fireincidents. On the occasion Chief

Minister also released a book andbrochure on Forest Fire.Principal Chief Conservator ofForest Dr. Savita said that 45stations will be covered by thepublicity team on three differentroutes in eight days during thecampaign. The vehicles areequipped with informativematerials on various aspects offorest fire. Senior Forest Officersand other dignitaries were alsopresent on the occasion.

Him Annapurna Food Van flagged offSHIMLA: Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur today flagged offMobile Kitchen HimAnnapurna Food Van under theState Rural LivelihoodsMission of the RuralDevelopment Department fromOak Over here today. Thisfood van was being operatedby a self-help group, whichwould provide employmentopportunities to womenbesides strengthening theireconomy. Chief Minister saidthat traditional cuisine wouldbe served in this food vanwhich would beoperationalized by womenonly. He said that out of thetotal cost of Rs. 1.50 lakh forthe Food Van, 50 percentamount would be provided towomen from the CommunityInvestment Fund provided

under the State RuralLivelihoods Mission, whereasthe remaining 50 percentamount would be provided bythe department underCorporate SocialResponsibility Fund. Jai RamThakur said that this Food Vanwas flagged off from Shimla ona pilot basis and in futurewould also be launched inother districts of the State. Thisinitiative would help inrealizing Prime Minister'sdream of Self-reliant India andwould also provideemployment opportunities towomen self-help groups, headded. Secretary RuralDevelopment SandeepBhatnagar, DeputyCommissioner Shimla AdityaNegi were also present on theoccasion among others.

COVID vaccination atseven main hospitals from

March 12th in HamirpurAGENCYHAMIRPUR, MAR 10

Corona vaccination programmewill be started for people abovesixty years of age from March12th at seven main hospitals ofthe district besides the localMedical College hospital wherethis work had already started.Other hospitals are located atSujanpur, Nadaun, Galore,Touni Devi, Bhoranj andBadsar. CMO, Hamirpur, Dr.Archana Soni said today that theregistration work at thepanchayat-level would be

started from March 15th. Shesaid that registration of eligiblepeople would be done in thepanchayat offices every Mondayand Wednesday from 2.00 P.Mto 5 P.M. Thereafter, theregistered people could get themvaccinated at nearby hospitals intheir areas. The CMO also saidthat the people suffering fromserious illnesses in age groupsof 45 to 59 years could registerthem for vaccination at thepanchayat-level. Afterregistration, these people can goto the nearest vaccination centerand get vaccinated.

Blood donation camporganized by SJVN

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, MAR 10

Nand Lal Sharma, Chairman &Managing Director, SJVN inauguratedBlood Donation Camp organized atCorporate Headquarters, Shimla. TheBlood Donation camp was inauguratedin the august presence of Director(Personnel) Smt. Geeta Kapur, Director(Civil) Sh. S.P. Bansal and Director(Electrical), Sh. Sushil Sharma. TheChief Patron of Satluj Shri Ladies ClubSmt. Lalita Sharma and President ofClub Smt. Rekha Kaushal also gracedthe occasion along with members andoffice bearers of club. The camp wasorganized in association with IGMCBlood Bank, Shimla. On this occasion.Sh. Nand Lal Sharma said that SJVNhas been adopting various welfaremeasures for contributing in bettermentof the society and in current COVIDpandemic, there could be no betterservice to humanity, than BloodDonation. Due to the restrictions that

were enforced on account of COVID 19shortage of blood in blood bank is beingwitnessed. This blood donation campwould be useful to cater to the needs ofblood for the patients. Saurabh Raj Soodworking as Senior Manager with SJVNdonated blood for 78th time. 140 unitsof Blood were donated by theemployees, their family members,Satluj Shri Ladies Club, Shimla andcontractual workers, whooverwhelmingly volunteered for thisnoble cause. As recognition of thenoble efforts by the donors and toappreciate their valuable contribut-ionmementoes to the donors werepresented by senior officers of SJVN.

Police department organises culturalprogramme on Women's Day

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, MAR 10

The Himachal Police department organised a culturalprogramme here in the Gaiety Theatre on the occasion ofInternational Women's Day on the theme- celebrating thewomen in HP Police. Chief Secretary Anil Khachi, who waspresent as the Chief Guest appreciated the efforts of the statepolice officers and Jawans in maintaining the law and ordersituation in an effective manner in the state. He especiallylauded the role of women police employees in performingtheir duties with utmost dedication and devotion.

He also congratulated the women police employees forpresenting a colourful cultural programme on this occasion.He also announced on the behalf of Chief Minister to give Rs.1.51 lakh for Police Welfare Fund. Earlier, the Chief Secretaryopened the exhibition organised by the state police departmentto mark the 50 years of women in HP Police.

Thakur inauguratescomputer centre

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, MAR 10

MLA from Nalagarh KLThakur inaugurated thenew Shri Ram EducationalInstitute Computer Centerin Gram Panchayat Nandaand heard the problems ofthe public. Ram Thakur was provided money for this. He saidthat by providing Rs 78 lakh for the building of PHC Nandaand Rs 60 for the lab of Science Block of Government SeniorSecondary School Nanda, their tenders have been awarded andsoon their works will be started so that the public and childrencan get the full benefit of it. Thakur said that in the past toomany times the people had placed demand for me for theseworks and money was provided to them from Chief MinisterJairam Thakur. In order to benefit the public, the public hasbeen requested to start their work as soon as possible and itswork will be started soon. And he inspected the developmentworks going on in the panchayat and the public demanded tocomplete the works of the remaining panchayat as soon aspossible and KL Thakur said that according to the demand ofthe public from the Nand bus stop Rs 4 lakh have been givenfor the Galli of Nand village and the money has also come tothe account of the Panchayat, which will be started as soon aspossible and they told that if there is a shortage of money, thenmake the money available.

Kanwar meets victim's family, offers relief of Rs 10,000KISHORI LAL BAINSUNA, MAR 10

Rural Development andPanchayati Raj MinisterVirender Kanwar met thefamily of Surendra Kumar, aresident of Raipur, who housewas damaged due tolightning, and tied them up.Kanwar said that in this hourof grief, the state governmentis with him and everypossible effort will be madeto provide assistance to theaffected family.VirenderKanwar provided immediate

relief of Rs 10,000 to thevictim's family on the spotand instructed to put the case

in the Mukhyamantri AwasYojana for the construction oftheir house. Kanwar assured

that the state government willhelp the affected family in thereconstruction of the house ofthe affected family. RuralDevelopment and PanchayatiRaj Minister VirendraKanwar told that SurendraKumar's house was damagedand some items kept in thehouse were also burnt due tolightning strikes on Monday.District Council VicePresident Krishna PalSharma, Naib TehsildarDharam Pal Negi and otherdignitaries were present onthe occasion.

One day training camp organized byDepartment of Agriculture in Mehatpur

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 10

One day training camp was organized in villageMehatpur by Agriculture DepartmentDevelopment Block Una. According to theorder of Deputy Director of Agriculture, Dr.Atul Dogra, 60 farmers were trained in thecamp for the kitchen garden of 12 types ofvegetables. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar informed aboutPrime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme andWeather Based Crop Insurance Scheme, Chief

Minister Farmer and Agricultural Laborers LifeProtection Scheme, Chief Minister Nutan PaliHouse Scheme, Chief Minister Green HouseRenewal Scheme, Chief Minister FarmProtection Scheme, Natural Farming KhushalKisan Yojana and Mudra Health Card. Heinformed that 20 camps are to be organized inthe district. Out of which 15 camps have takenplace. He asked the farmers to contact theirnearest agricultural office to get moreinformation. He said that farmers are not takingadvantage of the schemes due to lack ofknowledge about the schemes. He has urged thefarmers to make the state better in agriculture bytaking maximum benefit of the schemes beingrun by the government. It is said that farmersshould get their fields cleared by soil testing andshould sow the crop according to the fertilepower of the soil. Baldev Sharma, AssistantAgriculture Officer, Raja Ram Sharma, VillagePresident Rajendra Kumar Chaudhary, DeputyPrincipal Amritsaria, Panchayat members andvillage farmers were present on the occasion.

Dehlan dispensary sansdoctor, facilities

PANKAJ KATNAMAHATPUR, MAR 10

Even in corona period,Dehlan's dispensary has nodoctor besides lackingfacilities. Dr. Dr. BalramDhiman, BMO, Basdehra, saidthat Dr. Raman Sharma, ChiefMedical Officer of DistrictUna has given assurance for appointment of a doctor inDehlan. But not even one of the two doctors was appointedfor long. The first priority of the government is healthservices. On one hand, the government is getting crowdeddue to the vaccination of CSC Basheda for the prevention ofcorona. On the other hand, due to not having a doctor inDehlan, the paramedical staff does not have work. Thegovernment has given the facility of vaccination in privatesector hospitals. Vaccination can be done after appointment ofdoctors in Dehlan. One will reduce the crowd of people inBasdehda. Amarjit Singh and Satnam Singh said thatPanchayat passed the resolution. District Medical Officer,District Magistrate and the Chief Minister of the state will besubmitted a memorandum through the District Collector.

Farmers acknowledged about natural farming at AmbJYOTI SYALAMB, MAR 10

Under the Amb subdivision, a 2-day campwas organized by the AgriculturalTechnology Management Tribunal and 2days by the Department of AgricultureAmb in the village panchayat DohalBatwala near Chintpurni in which allclasses including the farmers of the villageparticipated. The Agricultural TechnologyManagement Tribunal will teach farmershow to do natural farming by organizingnatural farming training camps. The sameagricultural department also distributedfree seeds of vegetables to the farmers. Inthis camp, the master trainer of the

Department of Agriculture, Sushma Devi,taught various tricks of natural farming tothe farmers. He was accompanied byAssistant Technical Advisor Dr. PallaviThakur Gram Panchayat President RajeshSharma, Deputy Principal Ashish Sharma,Panchayat Member, former Zilla ParishadSulochana Devi and other villagers.

Virendra Kanwar gets first dose ofCorona vaccination with family membersPANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 10

Virendra Kanwar, Minister forRural Development, PanchayatiRaj, Agriculture, Fisheries andAnimal Husbandry today took thefirst dose of corona vaccination atthe Regional Hospital, Una. Onthis occasion, Pushpa Devi, motherof Minister Virendra Kanwar, herwife Meena Kanwar and her staffmembers Bhagirath Modgil andKrishna Chand also got the vaccine of Corona. Kanwar said thattoday he has taken first dose of corona vaccination with familymembers. He said that vaccination campaign has also been startedfor senior citizens above 60 years of age and those in the age groupof 45 to 59 years suffering from serious diseases. He said that thereis no need to panic with vaccination. Corona vaccination iscompletely safe. Everyone should come forward for vaccinationand give full support of the government and administration ineradicating the corona by applying both its doses.

AAP MLAs stage walk-out from assembly over new taxCHANDIGARH: Opposing the bill introduced by Captain Amarinder Singh government dur-ing the ongoing budget session to impose a new tax of Rs 216 crore on the people of the state,the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs staged a walk-out from the assembly on Wednesday. Onthe issue, AAP MLA Aman Arora said that during the presentation of the budget on Monday,the Captain government had said that no new tax would be imposed on the people, however,two days later, the government introduced a new bill to impose a new tax. He said that the Pun-jab Infrastructure (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021, was introduced in theassembly by the Captain government but the government very cleverly withdrew it. He saidthat today, after all the work, this tax bill had been introduced. Arora said that this new taxwould be levied on diesel, petrol and all immovable properties which would impose an addi-tional burden of Rs 216 crore on the people. "People are already suffering from inflation. Petrol,diesel prices are skyrocketing and this tax will further increase fuel prices," he added.

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SHASHI PAL JAIN KHARAR/MOHALI, MAR 10

Under the guidance of DeputyCommissioner, InternationalWomen's Day was celebrated byDistrict Red Cross Society, SASNagar in association with BhaiGhanyaa Care Service Welfare So-

ciety. On this occasion the volun-teer girls of the Sewing TrainingCenter presented a bouquet toAshika Jain Additional DeputyCommissioner (J). On this occasionthe Additional Deputy Commis-sioner interacted with the girls andalso encouraged them to stand ontheir own feet. The said sewing

training center is being run jointlyby District Red Cross Branches andBhai Ghanyaa Ji Care Service De-velopment Society.

On this occasion Kamlesh Ku-mar, Skill Secretary, District RedCross encouraged the children toundergo technical training, blooddonation and first aid training and

wished them a bright future. He alsosaid that there is nothing we cannotdo, it is in our hands. Volunteer girlswho came on this occasion werealso given refreshments etc. KKSaini Chairman and SanjeevRabara, President Bhai GhanyaaCare Service and Welfare Societywere present on the occasion.

Pb govt will give all help to needy girls under'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme: ADC

Farmer trainingcamp at Village Tiraunder Atma Scheme

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR/MOHALI,MAR 10

To educat the farmers aboutthe benefits and preparationof vermin compost manure aformers training and welfarecamp was organized in nearby village Tira under theleadership of Chief Agricul-ture Officer SAS Nagar Dr.Rajesh Kumar Raheja.TheCamp was organized at thefarm of Avtar Singh in vil-lage Tira under the AtmaScheme.

Giving this information,Agriculture Officer Dr. Gur-bachan Singh said that thefarmers were advised tochange their farming methodand plant indigenous cropswhich they themselves

should process and marketso that pure and unadulterat-ed food could be provided tothe consumers. The farmerswere informed that by culti-vating in this manner notonly the consumers wouldget pure produce but also theincome of the farmers wouldbe increased. The Agricul-ture Officer said that thefarmers were advice to maketheir own vermin compostand use it in their fields andsell it to other people. Shar-ing his experience in com-posting, Avtar Singh told thefarmers that in order to makevermin compost, a shedneeds to be set up to protectGandoya from direct sun-light. The shed also protectsagainst heat, cold and heavyrainfall.

MCM holds felicitationfunction for Swachhtainitiatives

CHANDIGARH: In a felicitationceremony, Mehr Chand MahajanDAV College for Women honouredthe winners of various Swachhtacompetitions and initiatives, and theCommittees working under variousGovernment programmes. Duringthe ceremony, the winners ofcompetitions conducted under theaegis of Swachhta Committee werefelicitated that included BestLaboratory, Department Room,Office Cabin, Corridor, Library andBest maintained LawnCompetitions. The Committees thatwere felicitated for undertakingappreciable work under flagshipschemes of Government of Indiaincluded Ek Bharat ShreshthaBharat Club, RUSA Cell, GeetanjaliHelpline and Mental Wellness, NSS,NCC, Swachhta Committee,Swachhta Report Committee,Electoral Literacy Club, CharacterBuilding Committee, Eco Club, IIC,Renewable Energy Committee,UBA, Skill Development andPlacement Cell. In another novelinitiative, the college observed'Swachh Mann Diwas'- an activity topromote positive thinking by givingvent to one's inner conflictingthoughts and feelings. The activityentailed writing one's grudges ornegative thoughts on a piece ofpaper and dropping them in aforgiveness box. Staff membersenthusiastically participated in theactivity and said that it was anextremely creative activity thatpurged them of negativity in theirlives. Principal Dr. Nisha Bhargavaasserted that having the distinctionof being the Cleanest College in theCountry (2018), MCM is committedto the cause of Swachhta andsustainable practices. Appreciatingthe Swachh Mann initiative, Dr.Bhargava added that we must striveto cultivate thoughts and dreamsthat take us to success andexcellence, instead of living withnegative thoughts that trouble usand minimise our work efficiency.

Trolley collides with canter,driver diesSHARANJEETPATHANKOT: Last night, trolley andCanter collided.In this painfulaccident, the news of the death ofthe Canter driver has beenreceived. According to theinformation, around 10:30 pm, atrolley, which was coming in a greatspeed from Pathankot, towardsDamtal suddenly lost its balanceand went on the other side of theroad. Where the canter was alreadystanding on the side of the road.Thecollision of the trolley and the canterwas so tremendous that the Canterdriver died on the spot.Thisinformation was given to the policeby the local people. Unfortunately,everyday accidents are occurring onthis highway, whose main reason isthe speed of vehicles.

SbI ladies clubdonates ration,school bags

CHANDIGARH: SBI Ladies Club, anon-profit making club of wives ofofficers and senior executives of theState Bank of India, is engaged indoing various charitable events forthe upliftment and self-reliance ofthe needy people of the society.Today Mrs. Anita Khara, PresidentSBI Ladies Club donated ration,School Bags, Bedsheets etc to JyotiSarup Kanya Asra Trust, Khararwhich provides help to unprivilegedand neglected girls by providingthem education, residential andmedical help. Another donation wasmade by presenting cheque of Rs.1,00,000/- to ParaplegicRehabilitation Centre, Mohali whichprovides aftercare and rehabilitateparaplegic and quadriplegic 100%disabled Spinal Cord injuredsoldiers to make them self reliant byproviding suitable vocational trainingas per their medical fitnessSpeaking on the occasion Mrs.Anita Khara, President, SBI LadiesClub highly appreciated the nobleefforts being done by Jyoti SarupKanya Asra Society, Kharar for theunprivileged and neglected girls andParaplegic Rehabilitation Centre,Mohali for their outstanding effort inmedical care.

Vikrant Rana meets World Chairman ofinternational Human Rights regarding

fund raising for organization MOHLALI (MANISH GOEL): Advocate VikrantRana Director Legal of IHRO made a importantmeeting with Dr Nem Singh Premi the World Chair-

man of InternationalHuman Rights or-ganisation at DelhiHead-office regard-ing the fundraisingfor the organization.

Further Rana toldNonprofit organiza-tions don’t existwithout consistent,generous supportfrom their donors orin the absence of

fundsEvery good deed that is done, every task com-pleted, and every community helped – it’s all possi-ble due to financial support from supporters. Ranaexplained to Chairman that we will put more focuson the ventures with corporate to generate funds forthe organization which further be used for the safe-guards of human rights of society,Dr Nem Singh Pre-mi assured Rana that they will definitely do full sup-port to make successful ventures in punjab under hisleadership.

BUREAUMOHALI/KHARAR,MAR 10

Dedicated to InternationalWomen's Day,Women's Day wascelebrated at Dis-trict Administra-tive Complex.The uniqueness ofthis program wasthat the functionwas attended bywomen Mgnregaworkers workingin the district. Mr. Rajiv Ku-mar Gupta, AdditionalDeputy Commissioner (De-velopment) -cum-AdditionalDistrict Program CoordinatorMgnrega graced the occasionas the Chief Guest and con-gratulated the women on thisday. Gupta said that at present

there are 24296 Mgnregaworkers working in the dis-trict including 14204 women.Under Mgnrega schemecleaning of ditches, construc-

tion of animal sheds, pavingof streets and drains, fencingof schools, kitchen sheds inschools etc. are going on wellin the district. On the occa-sion Additional Deputy Com-missioner also distributed jag-gery and gram to the Mgnregawomen workers.

International Women's Daycelebrated in unique way at

District Administrative Complex SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI/ KHARAR,MAR 10

In a major breakthrough, SASNagar Police have arrestedtwo active members ofLawrance Bishnoi and RajuBasodia group Vijay Kumars/o Bahadar Singh r/o VillageMehmadpur Tehsil DerabassiDistt SAS Nagar along withManpreet Singh @Bhau s/oSukhpal Singh r/o Dhaipi PSJaito and recovered .32 calibrepistol along with cartridges.There are ten criminal casesregistered against both the ar-rested accused in Punjab,Haryana and Chandigarh.

Satinder Singh, PPS, SSP,SAS Nagar briefed the mediathat Vijay was lodged in Jail inthe year 2015, where he camein contact with gangsterLawrance Bishnoi. He was re-leased from jail in 2016 and

fled to Bangalore. In 2017,gangster Deepak Tinu andgangster Sampat Nehra whowere absconding in manycriminal cases, travelled tohim and he provided themhideout. Deepak Tinu got ar-rested by Haryana police andVijay managed to escape andabsconded. In March 2018, hetravelled to Malaysia with thehelp of some travel agent whois based at Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia.

SSP, SAS Nagar briefedthat during his stay in Malya-sia, he made extortion calls todifferent persons on the direc-tions of Lawrance Bishnoi andRaju Basodia. He has alsoplanned dacoities/robberies inAmbala and Chandigarh in2018 and 2019 respectively inone of the dacoities owner ofJewellery shop was murderedat Sarafa Bazar, Ambala. Inthese crimes, deceased gang-

ster Ankit Bhadu was also in-volved. In August 2019, hetravelled to Australia but hewas deported back to India byAustralian immigration au-thority due to his fake docu-ments. He shifted his base atBanglore again and startedhandling the criminal activitiesof the gang. SSP, SAS Nagarfurther briefed that ManpreetSingh @ Bhau is also old as-sociate of Lawrance Bishnoiand involved in criminal activ-ities of the gang. In Dec-2020,there was an attempt to murdercase registered at PS CityFaridkot in which the attackerswere provided hideout byManpreet Singh @ Bhau onthe directions of LawranceBishnoi. Both the above men-tioned accused Vijay Kumarand Manpreet Singh @ Bhauare arrested in FIR No. 16 dat-ed 10-03-2021 u/s 25 ArmsAct PS Sadar Kurali.

Handler of Lawrance Bishnoi, Raju Basodiagroup arrested along with one associate

R.SINGH PATHANKOT, MAR 10

Ration was distributed to80 needy families during145th monthly ration dis-tribution ceremony underthe chairmanship of Presi-dent Vinod Malhotra onbehalf of AshapurniSamaj sudhar Sabha.

On this occasion, Chair-man of Agriculture BankAvtar Singh Kaler special-ly attended and distributedration to needy familiesalong with other mem-bers.

General secretary kris-han Gopal Bhandari, Vi-jay Kumar fatha,Dharam-pal pappu, Rampal Bhan-dari, Rakesh Sharma, Su-

darshan kumar Billa,Hari-mohan Bitta,Ashish Mal-hotra, Ashwani Bajaj,Ashok Bajaj, Gopal shar-ma, Deepak Kumar, Abhi-nav, Sandeep, Adarsh etcwere also present. VinodMalhotra gave informa-tion about the religious

and social activities of theorganization. Chief guestAvatar Singh Kalerpraised the social and reli-gious works beingdone.At last, Avatar SinghKaler was honored by themembers of the organiza-tion.

Monthly ration distribution ceremony organizedon behalf of Ashapurni Samaj Sudhar Sabha

Private buses with UP numberare loading passengers at

Zirakpur bus standZIRAKPUR (AMIT KALIA): During the Coronaepidemic, UP numbered private buses had openlyflouted all the laws to carry out the migrant workerswhich is now continuing. Rides can be seen loadingnormally. In the name of bus documents, they onlyhave a receipt for reduction of Punjab tax. Passengers

in the bus said that theypay Rs. 500 for each rideto the bus owners. It is tobe mentioned here thatthese buses are parked in-side the bus stand at Zi-rakpur and there is a pri-vate tour and travel book-ing office located insidethis bus stand whichbooks these passengersand collects the passen-

gers and sent them to UP bihar by these buses. Thesebuses do not stop only inside the Zirakpur bus standbut also at the KFC point, Singhpura turn and nukkardhaba nera metro plaza. When contacted about thematter, an official of Sai Tour and Travel Office saidthat they have permission to park buses at the busstand, so they can park any kind of buses there. Whencontacted about the matter RTO Mohali SukhwinderKumar did'nt picked up the call.

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 10

Leading farmers of Amritsardistrict and officials of Agri-culture Department visitedthe Bathinda based EthanolUnit of BCL Industries.

This special programmewas organized by the Agricul-ture Department, Amritsar toprovide information to thefarmers on the method ofpreparation of ethanol frommaize. Under this programmea delegation of about 35 farm-ers from Amritsar reached thedistillery unit of BCL Indus-tries at Machhana on Bathin-da Dabwali Marg. Led byBhupinder Singh, team con-sisted of Inspector Jagdeep

Singh, Agriculture Depart-ment, Amritsar and Otherteam members includingTejinder Singh were alsopresent. Avtar Singh, SeniorGeneral Manager, BCL In-dustries and his entire teambriefed the farmers about theEthanol Unit.

There he showed the farm-ers how to make ethanol andother products with the helpof maize and other crops

grown by them. Questionsand answers were also askedby the farmers on the occa-sion which were answered bythe experts. An awarenessprogramme on crop diversifi-cation was also conducted.On the occasion Col. MS GodRita, Vice President, BCL In-dustries also apprised thefarmers about the need tosave water by adopting agri-cultural diversification.

Farmers, agri experts visitEthanol unit of BCL industries

DALJEET AJNOHA-HOSHIARPUR, MAR 10

BJP Himachal Pradesh In-charge and former MPAvinash Rai Khanna, con-gratulated and honored AnilKohli of Hoshiarpur on be-ing appointed asTechnical Directorin MaharashtraState. On this occa-sion, Khanna saidthat every residentof Hoshiarpur hasshone the name ofthe district withsome or the otherachievement.

He said that Anil Kohli'sappointment as technical di-rector in the state of Maha-rashtra is a matter of pride

not only for the city resi-dents, but also for the entirestate. He said that with theinduction of such intellectu-als, the co-operative sectorwill benefit a lot. He saidthat he fully hopes that Kohliwill fulfill his responsibility

with hard work and dedica-tion. He said that while illu-minating the name of the dis-trict, he has made the entirestate proud.

Anil Kohli's appointmentmatter of pride for Hoshiarpur

: Avinash Rai Khanna LOKESH WALIAGARHSHANKAR, MAR 10

An exhibition of antiquecoins, rare handwritten textsand antiquities collected byRajinder Singh Rampur,Dalbir Singh Rampur andParminder Singh at Gurd-wara Shaheed Mahilpur to-day was a major attractionfor the devotees of the area.

Shiromani Gurdwara Par-bandhak Committee mem-bers Bibi Ranjit Kaur, Prof.Apinder Singh and BhaiRanjit Singh Khalsa ofDamdami Taksal were spe-cially present on the occa-sion. On this occasion BibiRanjit Kaur MahilpurVpartfrom this, there were hugemanuscripts like Yoga Sad-hana, hand written Janam-sakhis, Sanatni Granth, TaadPatra, Saroop of hand writ-

ten Bani and various typesof ancient weapons. Theyoungsters, who collectedthese rare books and otheritems said that without thehelp of any organization orgovernment agency, theyhave been collecting thisheritage for nearly five and ahalf years, so that more andmore information abouttheir lost heritage can bepassed on to the next gener-

ations. This exhibition with-in the precincts of GurdwaraSahib was a major attractionfor the devotees. RajinderSingh Rampur, JaswinderSingh, Raghbir SinghSarpanch, Parminder SinghSangrur, Noblejit Singh Bu-lowal, Karnail Singh, Har-jinder Singh, Jujhar Singh,Vicky Rampur and VarinderSingh were also present onthe occasion.

Exhibition of rare handwrittentexts, coins, antique weapons

Residents resentover form issue

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, MAR 10 Candidates making numberof promises with the votersduring their election cam-paigns is common observa-tions but hardly the promis-es are fulfilled. During themunicipal council elections,the candidates made num-ber of promises and one ofthem was registration of"blue cards".

It has been alleged thatmany candidates distributedforms to the ward residentsclaiming that filling thoseforms will be enough to filefor Punjab government's"blue card" scheme butwhen people consulted thefood supply department re-garding this, they denied ac-cepting the forms.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021

NSG to conduct reconnaissance at Puri templeon March 18BHUBANESWAR: The elite National Security Guard (NSG) will reconnaissance theworld-famous Shree Jagannath temple in Puri on March 18, official sources saidWednesday. The reconnaissance is part of NSGs security inspection at majorpilgrimages and other sensitive places being done to pre-empt possible attacks. Afive-member team of the NSG comprising two officers and two personnel willconduct the mock drill along with the state police officers at the 12th-century shrine.In a letter to the Odisha Chief Secretary, the NSG has urged the state police to briefit about the security measures around the temple. The team has also requested thestate police to provide necessary assistance including accommodation,transportation, and messing. The state police has also been asked to give a liaisonofficer for better coordination with the reconnaissance commander, the letter said.

7PCM SD Collegeorganizes one-dayworkshop

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: The Department ofCosmetology of PCM S.D. College forWomen, Jalandhar organized one-dayWorkshop wherein Miss Khusboo ofHair and Make-up academy, Jalandhartrained the students in the skill of nailart extension. She also made a livepresentation in front of the students onJell nail extension and Acrylic nailextension. Not only this, the studentswere also guided regarding the nailextension production and various, nailart techniques. Speaking on theoccasion, the Principal of the collegeDr. Kiran Arora praised the efforts of theDepartment of Cosmology fororganizing such events in order toprepare the students for the job-market.

DAV College holdslecture

JALANDHAR: On the occasion ofInternational Women's Day, a lecturewas organised by DAV College's NSSand Red Ribbon Club. In this lecture,Social Sciences Prof. Ranjana Meghwas present as the keynote speaker.Principal Dr. S. K. Arora said that wehave to empower women and notweaken them. Prof. Ranjana Megh,explained the importance ofInternational Women's Day. NSSCoordinator Prof. S. K. Middha said thatwe cannot even imagine life without awoman. On this occasion, Prof. SahibSingh, Prof. Gurjeet Kaur, Prof. NidhiAggarwal, Prof. Gagan Madan andstudents were present.

Free eye check upcamp organised

AJAY ARORAKHAMANON: With the help of Friendsfoundation (NGO) Samrala and NRIVarinder Singh (USA) a free eye checkup camp was organized at nearbyvillage Nanowal Kalan Governmentdispensary. SMO Civil HospitalKhamanon Doctor Harbhajan Ram hasinaugurated the camp. During the campa team of doctors have inspected 550patients and selected out 118 patientsfor free eyes operation. The tests ofCovid 19 and other disease were alsocarried out by health staff.NGOPresident said that our motive is toserve human lives who can not affortfor treatment.

Over 17k new COVID-19 cases reported

UNINEW DELHI, MAR 10

India recorded 17,921 newcoronavirus cases and 133fatalities, taking the total tally to1,12,62,707, Union HealthMinistry said in its daily update onWednesday. As per the Ministry'sdata, there are 1,84,598 activecases at present. Besides, 20,652patients of Covid-19 weredischarged in a day. A total of1,09,20,046 persons have beendischarged so far. The totalnumber of deaths in the countryhas reached 1,58,063, as per theministry data. The recovery rate

stands at 96.96 against 97.98 percent recorded on Saturday, lastweek. The drop-in recovery rateand the increase in new andcorresponding active cases havebeen attributed to various factors,including the continued spike ininfections in Maharashtra and thesudden spurt in Punjab.Meanwhile, Maharashtra, Kerala,Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat andKarnataka continue to report asurge in the daily new cases,cumulatively accounting for 84.04per cent of the new cases reportedare from these states. The Ministryalso informed that 7,63,081samples were tested on Tuesday.

The cumulative tests done by theIndian Council of MedicalResearch (ICMR) so far stands at22,34,79,877. Till date, 2,43,67,906 doses of the Covid-19 vaccinehave been administered in thecountry since the mass drive began

on January 16. The third phase ofvaccination began on March 1covering 27 crores of people above60 and those above 45 years of agewith comorbidities at 10,000government and over 20,000private vaccination centres.

Two deaths, 189 newcases in Telangana

HYDERABAD: Telanganawitnessed a slight increase in itsdaily coronavirus cases with 189new additions, highest in afortnight. The total positives inthe state surged past 3 lakh withthe addition of 189 infections, astate government bulletin said onWednesday, providing details asof 8 PM on March 9. Two moreCOVID-19 patients died, takingthe toll to 1,646, it said.

The Greater HyderabadMunicipal Corporation (GHMC)accounted for the most numberof cases with 34, followed byRangareddy and MedchalMalkajgiri districts with 15 and12 cases respectively. The

bulletin said 176 peoplerecovered from the infection onMarch 9 and the cumulativerecovered cases stood at2,96,916. According to thebulletin, 1,780 were undertreatment. It said 39,000 sampleswere tested on March 9.Cumulatively, the number ofsamples tested was 90,55,741.The samples tested per millionpopulation was 2,43,303, it said.The recovery rate in the state was98.85 per cent, while it was 96.9per cent in the country, it said.The case fatality rate in the statewas 0.54 per cent, while it was1.4 per cent at the national level,the bulletin added.

Assam Assembly elections: PMModi, Shah, Nadda among 40

star campaigners of BJPAGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 10

Prime Minister NarendraModi, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah, Defence MinisterRajnath Singh and BJP chiefJagat Prakash Nadda areamong 40 star campaignersof the BJP for AssamAssembly elections.

Union Ministers SmritiIrani and Mukhtar AbbasNaqvi and Bihar ministerSyed Shahnawaz Hussainwill also campaign for theparty. Other campaignersinclude BJP general secretaryB L Santosh, Assam ChiefMinister SarbanandaSonowal and ministerHimanta Biswa Sarma. UttarPradesh Chief Minister YogiAdityanath, Madhya PradeshCM Shivraj Singh Chouhan,Manipur CM N Biren Singhand Arunachal Pradesh CMPema Khandu will also beseen campaigning for theBJP. BJP Vice President andparty Assam in-chargeBaijayant Panda, election in-charge Narendra Singh

Tomar and co- inchargeJitendra Singh are also on thelist of BJP's star campaignersfor Assam.

Bhojpuri actors ManojTiwari and Ravi Kisan willalso have the responsibilityto campaign for partycandidates. Polling for the126-member Assamassembly will be held onMarch 27, April 1 and April6. The counting of votes willtake place on May 2.

BJP has announced thefirst list of 71 candidates forPhase-I and Phase-II AssamAssembly Elections 2021. Ofthe 71 candidates, the partyhas given tickets to 11 newcandidates. It has also fieldedcandidates on seats that wereearlier held by its allies AsomGana Parishad (AGP) andformer partner BodolandPeoples' Front (BDF).

Large-scale job fairs will be heldin April: Shena Aggarwal

CHET RAM RATANNAWANSHAHAR, MAR 10

Deputy Commissioner ShenaAggarwal today reviewed theactivities of the monthlyDistrict Employment andTrade Bureau. She said that thePunjab government isorganizing a large number ofemployment fairs under theDoor-to-Door Employmentand Trade Mission in themonth of April. She directedthe officers of variousdepartments present in themeeting to ensure maximumparticipation of unemployed

youth in these employmentfairs. In the meantime, sheinstructed departments relatedto self-employment to expeditethe disposal of pending cases.

Reviewing the functioning ofthe skill development mission,she instructed that peopleshould be made aware ofschemes related to skilldevelopment, so that more andmore youth can stand on theirfeet by getting skill training.Additional DeputyCommissioner (ADC) AdityaUppal, District EmploymentOfficer Rupinder Kaur,Placement Officer Ghanshyam,Career Counselor HarmandeepSingh, Raj Kumar of SkillDevelopment Mission andother officials were present onthe occasion.

Bibi Jagir Kaur expresses grief over deathof Gurtej Singh Dhadde

CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAR 10

Member of Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee Bibi JagirKaur, President of the ShiromaniAkali Dal has expressed deep sorrowover the demise of Gurtej SinghDhadde, a member of the ShiromaniCommittee from Halqa Maur Mandiin Bathinda district. He was also amember of the Interim Committee.Shiromani Committee President BibiJagir Kaur termed Gurtej Singh'sdemise as a Panthic loss and expressedsympathy with his family members.She said that Dhadde had been activein the religious field for a long timeand was a guardian of Panthic

traditions and doctrines. Bibi JagirKaur prayed to the 'Karta Purakh' togive strength to the departed soul todwell at His feet and the family tofollow His will. Meanwhile, at theheadquarters of the ShiromaniCommittee, a condolence meetingwas held on the death of Gurtej SinghDhadde, in which after the recitationof Mool Mantar and Gur Mantar,prayers were offered and tributes werepaid to the departed soul. On this

occasion, senior vice president of theShiromani Committee Surjit SinghBhitewad and Chief SecretaryAdvocate Harjinder Singh Dhamiremembered the Panthic services ofDhadde. During the condolencemeeting, the intimate members AmrikSingh Shahpur, Bhai Manjit SinghBhurakohna, Bhai Ram Singh, JarnailSingh Dogranwala, Kulwant SinghMannan, Satpal Singh Talwandi Bhai,Additional Secretary Sukhdev SinghBhura Kohna, Partap Singh, OSDSatbir Singh Dhami, Deputy SecretaryBalwinder Singh Kahlwan, SulukhanSingh Bhangali, Gurmeet SinghButter, Baghel Singh, SuperintendentMalkit Singh Bahirwal, Manager, staffof Shiromani Committee.

Women's wing of Akali Dal to bestrengthened at Raikot

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, MAR 10

To strengthen the Shiromani Akali Dal in Raikot VidhanSabha, the women wing will be mobilized soon andappointments will be made. District president ofShiromani Akali Dal women's wing, Kirandeep KaurKadian while talking to reporters in Raikot office of SAD,said that the President of Shiromani Akali Dal Mr. SukhbirSingh Badal had issued instructions to expedite theactivities of Shiromani Akali Dal in all the constituenciesregarding the forthcoming Assembly elections. She saidthat as per the instructions, on the recommendation ofRaikot constituency in-charge Balwinder Singh Sandhu,hard working women workers would be given suitableposts to expand the women's wing in the constituency.Mandeep Kaur Sandhu wife of Balwinder Singh Sandhu(Halqa Incharge Raikot) presented Siropa to DistrictPresident Kirandeep Kaur Kadian. On this occasion, BibiKuldeep Kaur Bhatian Bet, Bibi Amritpal Kaur Sekhon,Bibi Amandeep Kaur Kalsan, Bibi Surinder Kaur, BibiKashmir Kaur, Bibi Jaswinder Kaur, Bibi Harpreet KaurBhaini Baringa, Bibi Usha Rani, Harbhaj Rai Bhatian Bet,Inderbir Singh Kadia etc. were present.

KVK organises workshop oncrop residue management

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, MAR 10

A two-day workshop on ‘Sustainable Approaches forManagement of Crop Residues’ was organized on March 9-10,2021 by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, S.A.S. Nagar for the officials ofdistrict Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Horticulture and SoilConservation Departments. This workshop was held todeliberate upon the various aspects of stubble burning andtechnological updating of officials of concerned departments. Inthe inaugural address, Associate Director KVK, Dr. ParminderSingh welcomed the delegates and highlighted the activitiesdone by KVK, SAS Nagar and their parent organization GuruAngad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Ludhianaregarding in-situ and ex-situ management of crop residues in lastthree years. Dr. Singh mentioned that the pollution emanatingfrom the burning of crop residues has become a significantenvironmental and political issue in recent years. Indian Councilof Agricultural Research, New Delhi through its vast network ofKVKs and Punjab State Govt. through agriculture and otherallied departments have vigorously sensitized farmers regardingthe ill effects of stubble burning and encouraged them to mix theresidue in the field rather than burning it.

Shiv Sena Punjab North India Chairmanand Himachal in-charge Satish Mahajan

taking first dose of Covid vaccine atCivil Hospital Pathankot.

Photo by: R. Singh

Devotees collect Rs. 9 lakhs forconstruction of Ram Temple

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDERBAHA, MAR 10

Devotees of Lord Ram at Gidderbaha haveorganized a fundraising drive for the constructionof Lord Ram Temple at Ayodhya. Under hisdevotees collected donations of about Rs. 9 lakhsand sent them to Ayodhya. Disclosing this heretoday Mahavir Singla and Mukesh Singla whowere associated with the campaign said that thecampaign ended on March 7 and they coveredabout 95% of the population of Gidderbaha andreached out to about 6000 families. Peoples ofGidderbaha contributed to the work of religionwith full devotion. They said that amount of Rs. 9lakh collected under this campaign has beendeposited in the account of Sri Ram JanamBhoomi Tirath Kshetra Ayodhya. On thisoccasion Ved Prakash Singla, Mehar Chand,Mahavir Singla, Mukesh Singla, Ramesh Kumar,Bhupesh Kumar, Om Prakash Broker, VinodBansal, Rajat Singla, Nishedh Kumar, AwadeshKumar, Sanjay Kumar and Neeraj Garg Honeywere also present.

R.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 10

In its last budget, the PunjabGovernment has presentedan evolutionary edge byFinance Minister ManpreetSingh Badal, showing theattractive masses to thegeneral public.Lollipop hasbeen given to the commonpeople, especially theunemployed, farmers of thekiln workers all over thestate. In this regard,Chairman of All IndiaBhartiya Seva Dal, BuaSingh while addressing theworker meeting , said thatthe promise of raisingpension from Rs 750 to Rs1500 for elderly, disabled,unemployed and dependentchildren across the state is asign of lollipop.Businessmen andshopkeepers do not knowwhat the government wantsto prove by approving theopening of the 24-hourshops business.On one

hand, people have beenstrangled by imposing 60%tax on petrol and diesel.Atthe same time, controllingthe inflation is no longerunder the control of the stategovernment.Farmers andunemployed are committingsuicides due to financialconstraints, while drugtraders are makingquadrupled progress dayand night. Development cannever be done by giving freetravel facilities to women inpink colored buses.BuaSingh termed thegovernment's policy of

stopping the water going toPakistan as "jumlebaaz" andsaid that no central orPunjab government of thecountry could stop the watergoing to Ravi, Beas, Sutlejto Pakistan because the stategovernment without themining policy is onlyworking.More water isbeing wasted.Thegovernment could notprevent the proper use ofwater. Jaspal, Jeevan Singh,Sheetal Das, Gurmej Lal,Chaman Lal, Hemat Chand,Lal Chand were present onthe occasion.

Government should give development andemployment rather than lollipop: Bua Singh

8HE WHO HAS A WHY TO LIVE CAN BEAR ALMOST

ANY HOW.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

NOTHING IN LIFE IS TO BE FEARED, IT IS ONLYTO BE UNDERSTOOD. NOW IS THE TIME TO UN-

DERSTAND MORE, SO THAT WE MAY FEAR LESS.

MARIE CURIE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021

Where ShadowChases Light

This is my delight, thus to wait andwatch at the wayside where shadowchases light and the rain comes in thewake of the summer. Messengers,with tidings from unknown skies,greet me and speed along the road.My heart is glad within, and the breathof the passing breeze is sweet. Fromdawn till dusk I sit here before mydoor, and I know that of a sudden thehappy moment will arrive when I shallsee. In the meanwhile I smile and Ising all alone. In the meanwhile the airis filling with the perfume of promise.

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

China's military expansionismChina's military ex-

pansionism in theSouth China Sea

(SCS) through island con-struction, drilling activi-ties, and overfishing haspushed the marine ecosys-tem of the region to thebrink of collapse, and thedestruction of coral reefsand the marine life theysupport is threatening thefood and energy securityof the littorals, reportedObserver Research Foun-dation (ORF).

Pratnashree Basu andAadya Chaturvedi in a pol-icy brief analysed the envi-ronmental impact of Chi-na's activities in the SouthChina Sea and highlightedits implications for the en-tire region.

The SCS is one of themost resource-rich marineareas in the world and thewaters are bordered byChina, Vietnam, Indonesia,Malaysia, Brunei, and thePhilippines.

China claims a vastportion of these waters -beyond what is placed un-der its sovereignty by theUnited Nations Conven-tion for the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS).

The marine ecosystemalready reeling under thepressures of being one ofthe world's busiest interna-tional sea-lanes has beencompounded by the over-fishing, clam extraction,dredging for constructionof artificial reefs, and hy-drofracking being done byChina, reported ORF.

Moreover, rising seatemperatures and sea lev-els due to climate changethreaten to render this

damage permanent. ForChina, fisheries are crucialto ensuring food securityfor its burgeoning popula-tion. Estimates project thatby 2030, the expandingmiddle class in China willaccount for 38 percent ofglobal fish consumption.The overfishing--and ille-gal and unregulated fish-ing--has resulted in therapid depletion of fishstocks in China's coastalareas.

The country has losthalf of the coastal wet-lands, 57 per cent of man-groves and 80 per cent ofcoral reefs in its own Ex-

clusive Economic Zone(EEZ)--these are importantfor the spawning, nursingand feeding of the fishstocks.

Moreover, Chinesefishermen are moving outfarther and deeper into thesea and utilising tech-niques such as cyanide anddynamite fishing, which inturn are causing furtherdamage to marine life.

Methods such as blast-ing using dynamite andcyanide poisoning kill orimpair scores of fish at onego, so as to increase thevolume of each catch. Dy-namite blasts not only kill

their subjects but also de-stroy the coral reefs thatserve as breeding grounds.Cyanide, meanwhile, ac-celerates the bleaching ofcoral reefs and sometimesoutrightly kills them.These methods are alsoused at greater depths,thereby impacting theseabed as well.

Further, the regionalrole of the islands, as asource of fisheries replen-ishment, could easily bediminished through theloss of habitat quality andworsening of local fish-eries exploitation becauseof the construction of per-

manent dwellings.Moreover, the Chinese

claims in SCS around"nine-dash line", and recla-mation of the islands andreefs either by increasingtheir size or creating newones, such as the SubiReef on the Spratly Islandsas well as the constructionof ports, military installa-tions, and airstrips--partic-ularly in the Paracel andSpratly Islands has led tothe destruction of reefflats, said the policy brief.

Dredging on these is-lands in a back-and-forthmotion, cutting through allsorts of material, hard

rocks to soft sediments hasdestroyed life along itspath. Increased sedimenta-tion in the water columnsof these reefs has also de-creased the absorption andchlorophyll in the region,which is essential for thesurvival of phytoplanktonand which in turn providefood for a wide range ofmarine life, reported ORF.

These activities haveled to increased turbidityand sedimentation on thelagoons surrounding thesereefs.

This has caused livecoral reef species to beburied and killed under thereef flats due to the con-struction activities. Once acoral reef has been buriedunder tonnes of sand andgravel, it is virtually dead.

Also, hydrofracking byChina for offshore oil andgas operations poses a sig-nificant environmentaldanger. These activities re-lease huge amounts of liq-uids, solids and gas intothe waters, damaging theecosystems and endanger-ing the species that inhabitthem, reported ORF.

The preliminary seis-mic surveys, the rig instal-lation and drilling, the hy-drocarbon production, andthe transportation of the oiland natural gas cause dam-age to the seabed.

Drilling operations dis-pose of a slurry consistingof mud, cuttings, wash wa-ter, drainage, and sewageinto the ocean. They alsocause harmful emissionswith frequent leakage andspillage of the extractedhydrocarbons, reportedORF.

Literature & HealthAttitudes based on feelings,emotions can stand test of time

US, India together stand readyto aid, defend

Depending on the topic, peo-ple's attitudes can changefrequently or last a lifetime.

New research drove by Associationfor Psychological Science revealsthat attitudes based on feelings andemotions can also stand the test oftime. Past studies have demonstrat-ed that opinions based on hardfacts and data can remain constantover time, but new research pub-lished in the journal PsychologicalScience reveals that attitudes basedon feelings and emotions can alsostand the test of time. This researchhas implications for both predictingwhose attitudes are fixed versusfleeting and how to nudge peopleto form more long-lasting opinions."We have known that encouraging

people to think carefully and ra-tionally can produce attitudes thatchange less in the future," saidMatthew Rocklage, a researcherwith the University of Massachu-setts, Boston, and co-lead authoron the paper. "Our research, how-ever, shows that opinions based onpeople's emotional reactions can beparticularly long-lasting as well."

As part of their study, the re-searchers asked more than 1,000people to what extent they believedattitudes based on feelings or emo-tional reactions were more stableover time than those based onthinking and rational analysis.Only 15 per cent expressed any be-lief that attitudes based on emotionwould be more stable over time.

Advancing India-Ameri-can ties, both sideshave till now conduct-

ed several joint exercises, in-cluding last month's YudhAbhyas missions.

According to a report byShare America, from Febru-ary 8 to 21, soldiers from theworld's two largest democra-cies, the United States and In-dia trained together for mis-sions ranging from countert-errorism operations to hu-manitarian aid. The Yudh Ab-hyas, conducted in Rajasthan,reiterated the two nations'commitment to advance theirstrategic partnership. Duringthe closing ceremony, IndianArmy Major General MichaelAJ Fernandez called the exer-cise "a step further in the con-tinuing journey of a closefriendship between our twogreat nations and world-classarmies." According to an offi-cial release by the US Em-bassy in India, the US ArmyPacific-sponsored exercise in-volved approximately 250 USArmy and 250 Indian Armysoldiers. During the defenceexercises, the Indian and USsoldiers celebrated the Basant

Panchami festival, practicedyoga and played sports.

"We came here seekingopportunities for interoper-ability, to train and to learnfrom the Indian Army," USArmy Major General XavierT. Brunson said while adding,"I think we achieved that."

Besides the Yudh Abhyas,the US has participated inAero India 2021 and Malabarnaval exercises. During theAero India 2021, a defenseexhibition and air show inBengaluru was held from

February 3 to 5, a B-1bomber crew from SouthDakota participated in the ex-hibition flyover alongside anIndian fighter aircraft, saidShare America.

Meanwhile, in Novemberlast year, India hosted theMalabar naval exercises inthe Bay of Bengal and theArabian Sea. During the exer-cise, India, Australia, the USand Japan forces trained tomaintain free and open navi-gation in the region's mar-itime spaces.

EDITORIALSpeed up vaccinations,refresh awareness drive

India has of late been witnessing a surge in the dai-ly caseload of Covid-19 infections with the num-bers going up for the last six consecutive days; it

is above 18,000 in the last four days. The number ofactive cases has also registered an increase for fiveconsecutive days. At present, six states — Maharash-tra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and TamilNadu — together account for more than four-fifth ofthe total cases now. Given the pattern of the virusspread, it is not before weeks if not days that the pan-demic will create another wave that could force thenation to go in for another shut down. India had onJanuary 16 rolled out an ambitious vaccination planthat, in its first phase, sought to inoculate three crorefrontline workers, including healthcare professionals.The target has now been met by two-thirds, with thenumber of people who have received at least one dosestanding at 2.26 crore. The second phase, launched onMarch 1, seeks to inoculate 27 crore people agedabove 60 and those above 45 with co-morbidities. Asof now, nine lakh people who belong to these cate-gories have been given the jab. A realistic assessmentof the spread of the pandemic and the speed withwhich the vaccination programme progresses calls forincreased efforts on both the counts — a massiveawareness campaign to stop the spread of the virusand a revitalised vaccination programme. The dailycaseload numbers reached their peak in October andthen started a downward journey. Except the Uniongovernment and some states such as Kerala, noneseems to have kept a tab on the numbers. Worse, theattitude of most states and the people there has beenakin to a situation where the virus has ceased to be athreat. The world in general, and India in particular,are better equipped to take on the virus than we werea year ago. Our knowledge base has improved, theprotocols are in place and the healthcare professionalsare trained to handle even extreme situations. How-ever, the people’s attitude has become less than ac-ceptable. The government must re-launch on a warfooting the campaign focussing on the importance ofsocial distancing, wearing of masks and hand hygiene.It must also revisit the restrictions on gatherings, es-pecially social, political and religious ones, which canturn super spreader events. India vaccinated morethan 16 lakh people on Monday, the highest since theprogramme started. At the present rate, India will takeanother year to vaccinate at least half of the population.

POEMS

Soaring as high as $5 trillionIndia, an economy of $ 2.8 trillion aims to

swell as high as $ 5 trillion by 2024. The tar-get to make India a $ 5 trillion economy was

announced during allocation of FY 20-21 budg-et, which seems an unachievable target for apandemic hit economy with a negative growthrate. India's economy contracted significantly in2020. To the times when growth rate was posi-tive India was one of the worlds' fastest grow-ing economies from 2014 to 2018 and currentlymore than a billion people reside in the country.Majority of them are young, which correspondsto low dependence ratio. Therefore, long termgrowth perspective of Indian economy remainspositive and so does the $ 5 trillion.

The lockdown imposed, forced thousandsof people to unemployment resulting in a sig-nificant contraction in economy. GOI has takenseveral initiatives to combat the after effects ofpandemic and to achieve the mentioned target.One of many initiatives, Atmanirbhar Bharat is

the leading drive announced; the campaign fo-cuses on making India a self sufficient country.To achieve the respective start-ups are beingpromoted, a significant proportion of budget isbeing allocated to infrastructure, research anddevelopment sector. Other crucial initiatives in-clude measures to attract foreign investments,pushing credits in manufacturing sector, promo-tion of green energy. All these steps direct togeneration of employment and bringing revenueto the nation.

Providing one tax free year and easing reg-ulations on one person companies is a step clos-er to a start-up India. Micro, small and mediumenterprises (MSMEs), the backbone of econo-my contribute 30% to GDP, GOI has providedcredits and has launched schemes to give amuch needed boost to this sector. Manufactur-ing sector has to grow on sustained basis andneed to become an integral part of global supplychains, to achieve the above mentioned Product

Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes are signed offto encourage foreign and local enterprises incountry's manufacturing sector. Also supportingIndia's homegrown vaccine manufacturers inexpanding the production has ranked India inone of the few nations across the globe whichare altruistically offering help to other nations,by effectively distributing vaccine doses atnominal or no prices. India is increasinglycalled as the 'Pharmacy of the world' as it is thelargest suppliers of generics, vaccines and af-fordable HIV medicines. The Pharmaceuticalsector is expected to grow by $ 100 billion by2025. Such visions have made India a hub ofservices and a manufacturer's base. GOI alsoneeds to focus on HDI and standard of living tocombat pandemic like situations in future. Dueto pandemic economy came to a halt, the vac-cine drive is working successfully in India andso far 9 million people have been vaccinated.The effective vaccination can revive the econo-

my to pre Covid times. The economy boost alsorequires a focused contribution to infrastructure,unlike other sectors demand and supply in thissector cannot be controlled by monitoring ex-change rate. Therefore, infrastructure is a vitalsector for faster economic growth and allevia-tion of poverty.

The need for infrastructure investment is vi-tal and large, National Infrastructure Pipelinetask force has pinned an investment for Rs111lakh crore over 2019- 2025. Recognizing theyawning gap GOI has allocated 20,000 crore forinfrastructure this financial year. The actionplan includes adopting a program and a sustain-able approach to the project. Development ofthis sector is the major focus, as improved in-frastructure will attract foreign investments;generate employment opportunities which in re-turn can generate an increased revenue.

By: Akanksha Dhir

handigarh/Bathinda March 10--: Twelve students of Aakash Institute from Chandigarh and 9 students from Bathinda have Cmade the city and the institute proud by scoring an impressive

99 percentile and above in the February session of JEE Mains 2021 Examination. Notable 12 chandigarh students are Gaurav Goyal securing 99.83 percentile Aryan Gupta securing 99.77 percentile,

Vaibhav Bajaj securing 99 .72 percent i le , Chi t raksh Dhingra securing 99.68 percentile, Aakash Sharma securing 99.58 percentile, Aryan Mrigwani securing 99.56 percentile, Dhruv Kamra securing 99.54 percentile, Parth securing 99.53

percentile, Rupesh Kumar Singh securing 99.50 percentile, Priyanshu Nanda securing 99.38 percentile, Yash Kumar securing 99.19 percentile, and Ishani Sharma securing 99.02 percentile and 9 students of Bathinda are Devansh Jain securing 99.97 percentile, Ishav Singla securing 99.95 percentile, Harmanjot Singh securing 99.92 percentile , Raman Bansal securing 99.77 percentile, Vaibhav Singla securing 99.72 percentile , Harshit Aggarwal securing 99.60 percentile, Vatsal Chaudhary securing 99.55 percentile, Sanat Goel securing 99.54 percentile, and Vishesh Garg securing 99.44 percentile Congratulating the students on the impressive feat.

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SHORT TALKS HEALTH/NEWS

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021

AMBALA: Mysore Deep Perfumery House (MDPH) has welcomed Superstar Hrithik Roshan to their family consisting of a range of household perfumery products. Roshan joins MS Dhoni, who has been associated with the brand as the ambassador for Zed Black 3-in-1 Agarbattis. Taking into account the pan India influence and popularity of Hrithik Roshan, MDPH hopes to reach out to consumers across the country with their premium Manthan Dhoop, a widely used product serving religious and celebratory culture of Indian homes. This partnership will promote the brand's campaign "Manthan Zaroori Hai'. The announcement comes ahead of the brand’s multi- city expansion plans.

Hrithik Roshan joins hands with Zed Black to endorse their brand ‘Manthan’

angra, 10, February, 2021, JD Institute of Fashion Technology has commenced registration for the Kacademic year 2021-22 for its Undergraduate, Post

graduate and Diploma programs. Students can get complete information on the various programmes in Masters, Bachelors, Advanced Diploma, Post-Graduate Diploma and Diploma programs in Art, Design, Management, Technology, Fashion Communication, Fashion Photography, Makeup and Hairstyle Artistry at https://www.jdinstitute.edu.in/courses/. Nealesh Dalal, Managing Trustee – JD Educational Trust, shares "At JD Institute, we go above and beyond the purview of conformed forms of education. Our aim is not to just impart education but also acquaint our students with industry perspective through industrial visits, workshops, seminars and collaborations. With cutting edge technology, softwares and the addition of new-age courses we want students to also explore streams that are gaining momentum.” JD Institute of Fashion Technology is the pioneer in design education in India and is the best choice for students from India and abroad. Recognized as the Great Place to Study (awarded at the House of Commons, London), it is also associated with well-known universities in India – BengaluruCity University and Goa University and has recently collaborated with Singhania University. It has recently introduced new age degree courses like Graphic Design, Product Design, Textile Design, UI/UX and Event Management.

JD Institute of Fashion Technology Opens Admissions for 2021-2022

handigarh :itel, the most trusted brand announced its strategic partnership with CBajaj Finserv to facilitate best available

affordability options on its Smartphones. Under the scheme, itel will offer its flagship smartphones A48, A25 Pro, Vision 1(3GB), and Vision 1 PRO that comes equipped with 4G LTE and trendy

features on no-cost EMI and Zero Down payment. All these Smartphones can be purchased at INR 299

followed by four easy EMIs making them ultra-affordable for the Smartphone users who are looking to upgrade to the latest Smartphones with trendy features and also who are vying to upgrade from Feature phones to Smartphones. The scheme is live across 1200+ cities in 26 states with the Bajaj Dealers and applicable for existing customers of the Bajaj Finserv EMI Network Card.

handigarh,: High definition, high hydration and high glam. What more could you ask for? It’s time to meet Cthe foundation match for your skin tone with Kay

Beauty’s latest launch, the Kay Beauty Hydrating Foundation. A deeply hydrating formulation that takes you from day to evening, the foundation launches with 20 shades curated especially for all Indian skin tones and undertones, ranging

from deep, tan, m e d i u m a n d l i g h t . T h e #MakeupThatKares commitment e n s u r e s a s m o o t h , luxurious texture and untraceable finish, courtesy

ingredients like Mango Butter, Avocado Oil and Hyaluronic Acid. The Kay Beauty Hydrating Foundation is true to its promise of a natural, dewy finish, with an ultra-creamy luxurious butter infused texture, that instantly gets absorbed by the skin. Once applied, it releases a light and impalpable film that leaves the skin looking refreshed all day long. Enriched with moisturizing agents, this foundation works overtime to ensure hydration for a more healthy-looking complexion.

6 students from Aakash Institute score an impressive 99%

Ford Introduces New EcoSport SE Featuring Global Design Cues at 10.49 Lakh

alandhar: Expanding choices & delivering what consumers want and value, Ford JIndia today introduced a brand-new variant

to the EcoSport lineup, priced at INR 10.49 Lakh for petrol and INR 10.99 lakh diesel variants.Christened Ford EcoSport SE, the new variant features design cues borrowed from its American & European peers, where it is sold without a rear-mounted spare wheel. Vinay Raina, executive director, Marketing, Sales & Service at Ford India. “The SE carries forward EcoSport’s fun to drive credentials as well as its rich legacy of outstanding safety and best-in-segment technologies like SYNC 3.” Apart from an elegantly designed tailgate and a new, dual-tone rear bumper sporting a silver applique, the SE variant retains EcoSport’s butch, robust appeal with a bold grille, 16-inch alloys and high ground clearance that enhance its SUV credentials. The EcoSport SE carries forward the legacy of superior technology and connectivity with Ford’s renowned SYNC 3 infotainment system that is Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatible, as well as Ford PassTM integration.

itel announced its strategic partnership with Bajaj Finserv

irakpur: Ashish Mittal Foundation (AMF) in association with Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) organised financial Zliteracy and empowerment seminar to celebrate International

Women's Day. Ashish Mittal, Founder, AMF said, “The programme was attended by more than 250 women from Punjab, Jharkhand, Chandigarh,

Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The seminar was funded by AMFI.” Prof E m a m a n u e l N a h a r , Chairperson of Minority Commission, Punjab was the chief guest, while Surya Kant Sharma, Senior Consultant in AMFI was present as the keynote speaker. Other guests

of honour and speakers included Mohinder Singh, Manager at NSDL E-governance Limited, Mrs Pragati Jagga, AGM of The Punjab State Cooperative Bank, Chandigarh, Dr. Rajni Lamba CEO, The REEDs, Ms Anmol Sarah Sandhu, Lecturer and Writing Coach, BC Canada and Mrs Aradhna Sandhu, Global Educationist. Prachi Singla, secretary, AMF, shared the goals of AMF, the charitable trust run by youths.

103 year old lady proves age is no bar in battle against COVID-19

mritsar, 10th March, 2021: 103-years-old Smt. J. Kameshwari received her first Adose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Apollo

Hospitals, Bannerghatta road, Bangalore. So far She is the oldest woman in India to have received the COVID19 vaccine as per available data. She was accompanied by her 77 year old son Prasad Rao and other eligible family members to Apollo Hospitals for vaccination. Smt. Kameshwari co-operated well with the staff while getting vaccinated, and neither she, nor her family members reported any side-effects in the 30-minute post-vaccination observation. Official spokesperson at Apollo Hospitals Bannerghatta Road commented, “We appreciate the courage and grit shown by Smt. J. Kameshwari & her family, especially at this age to fight against the pandemic by getting vaccinated. They deserves to be praised for setting an example for other senior citizens and helping to alleviate any fear and doubts in their minds regarding vaccination.

There is behavioral change in me off-screen as well – Chhavi Pandey

handigarh: Actors generally tend to challenge themselves by taking up Ccharacters completely opposite to

their real selves. But sometimes they like to be in a comfort zone and enjoy every bit of a character very similar to their personality. Chhavi Pandey, who is currently seen in Dangal TV’s Prem Bandhan as Janaki is completely in love with her character because they are very similar in terms of personality. When asked how much the character has impacted her, Chhavi says, “Janaki is a character that I have never played before and something I always wanted to do. She is very similar to me and very real to the point that it doesn’t look like I am pretending or even acting to be someone else. She is very compromising, loving, caring for her family, has a very strong self-respect and is a self-made person. And these are things I find in myself also. I have gotten a chance to perform very naturally and convey the message with ease through this character.

AMF in association with AMFI organised seminar to celebrate International Women's Day

he immune system is our in-built feeding it. While a once in a blue moon has to be kept in mind that it's not army of cells and proteins that cheat day won't hurt, unmindful eating only 8 hours of sleep, but the Tdetects, registers and protects the habits are the core reason for stunting the timely hours of sleep that matter

body against any foreign bodies that may growth of your immune system. Nourish too.have invaded or entered it. It is responsible your body with vitamin-rich foods and give Often, we stress ourselves by for keeping us healthy and illness free. The it sufficient amounts of fibre. Remember staying up till 3 am thereby strength of the immune system determines your immune system has nothing to do with disrupting the normal functioning the capacity of a person to tackle various the way your body looks. of our body that leads to obesity, physical, emotional, and environmental For a healthy liver, cruciferous vegetables stress, emotional imbalance and challenges. other illnesses.With the COVID-19 pandemic 3. Work Outspreading rampantly across the Working out regularly has world, we need to focus on been scientifically proven to building up our immunity and boost the immune system. actively seek a mindful lifestyle. Regular exercise mobilises the However, it is not as easy as it T cells, a type of white blood sounds. The immune system is a cell which guards the body complex mesh of several kinds of against infection.cells, each playing their role in However, continuous rigorous defending the body against harmful workout weakens the microbes. immune system, leaving you Ayurveda presents various prone to flu and viral components of a healthy lifestyle. infections. Low level of Yoga and meditation have proven Vitamin D in the body has to boost immunity as well as been termed as one of the like Kale, Broccoli and Cabbage should be maintain the balance of hormones. Yoga significant reasons for included in daily diet. A healthy liver practices have various asanas and series of respiratory problems. A brisk ensures the body's natural detoxification poses that target different muscle groups walk in the sunlight for 10–15 process.and organs, leaving no part of the body minutes will ensure that enough Sleep Welluntouched. Vitamin D is produced in the Getting your sleep cycle in sync is one of Eat Clean body. These are simple but the biggest gifts you can give your body. The cliché is true; your body is a temple, highly effective tweaks in your The body requires about 8 hours of sound and you have to be careful of what you're daily routine. sleep to rejuvenate and reboot its systems. It

handigarh : TCL Electronics, U.S. No. its social media handles on Facebook, 2 TV brand, and one of the leading YouTube, and Twitter.Leaving no stone Cplayers in the global TV industry today unturned, the brand is ready to give the Indian

launches its first 2021 TV model P725, India’s audience a first of its kind latestAndroid 11 TV first Android 11 TV with an external camera for and video calling on bigger screen experience video calling and 2021 Healthy Smart AC at early onset of this year. Mike Chen,

General Manager, TCL India said, “The launch of our latest products underlines TCL’s commitment to bring new technologies to the market, and serve customers with more seamlessly connected living by meeting their evolving demands during this new normal. P725 is the first 4KHDRTV that runs on Android 11 with video call camera, along with advanced Ocarina which comes withB.I.G Care & UVC

features like MEMC, Dolby Vision & Atmos, Sterilization Pro that can remove more than hands-free voice control 2.0, etc. While these 98.66% bacteria.features provide users with the best Continuing to follow the recent norm of entertainment experiences, the AC, on the maintaining social distancing measures, the other hand, ensures that they operate.brand hosted a live streaming of its launch on

mbala : Six meritorious students from Aakash Institute, Ambala have made the institute and the city Aproud by scoring an impressive 99 percentile and

above in the JEE Mains 2021 Examination, resu l t s for which were announced late last night. This was the first out of four Joint entrance exam for Engineering scheduled to be held this year. Vasu Aggarwal has scored 99.87, Aryan Bakshi 99.86, Kashvi Jain

99.72, Anuj Arora 99.65, Diya Arora 99.48 and Simran Kaur 99.12 percentiles in the first session of JEE Mains 2021. Congratulating the students, Mr. Aakash Chaudhry, Managing Director, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) said, “It is a matter of great pride for us that our students have excelled in the first session of JEE Mains 2020 entrance exam. The credit goes to their hard work, the support of their parents and instructors who have guided them throughout their journey. Our quality test preparation is renowned in the industry for preparing students to excel in medical and engineering entrance exams. I wish the students all the best for future endeavours.”

TCL Launches India’s first android 11 tv with video call camera p725 high-end healthy smart ac ocarina series

12 Students in Chandigarh and 9 students in Bathinda from Aakash Institute secured 99 percentile

Katrina Kaif celebrates #Shades Of Beautiful with a new launch

handigarh,: Haier, the global leader in Home Appliances & Consumer Electronics and World’s CNumber 1 brand in Major Appliances for 12

Consecutive Years*, expands its customer-inspired innovative product portfolio by introducing the revolutionary CleanCool all season hot & cold Air Conditioner with Self Clean technology that will take customer convenience to a new level. The newly launched hot and cold 3-star AC is available in 1.5-ton cooling capacity and comes with Triple Inverter Plus technology that self-adjusts temperature and promises upto 65% energy savings. Compared with conventional inverter technology, Haier Triple Inverter Plus reaches desired temperature a lot quicker and adjusts DC voltage to achieve stable operation between 140V to 264V with ideal voltage control. In remote areas, users can enjoy cool air despite power fluctuations.

Haier India introduces new energy-efficient CleanCool AC

Bio oil encouraged the mothers of Chandigarh on an #Unstretched journey, this Women's day

3 lifestyle tweaks that can help boost your immunity

Tata Motors launches ‘Wheels of Love’,

HANDIGARH: Tata Motors today announced the launch of ‘Wheels of CLove’, a holistic programme that

supports new parents in their exciting journey both as a parent and also as a valued employee while promoting a progressive culture of care, inclusion and sensitization within the organization across levels. Also presented in the form of a specially curated book, ‘Wheels of Love’ puts forth various tenets to enable new and expectant parents successfully manage the need to focus on their growing family while also fulfilling their career goals. In addition to guiding parents, the books also provides valuable insights for managers to support their team members as they progress through the various stages of parenthood. Announcing the launch of ‘Wheels of Love’, Mr. Ravindra Kumar G.P., Chief Human Resources Officer, Tata Motors, said.

“DLF iron lady – empowered” goes to Renu Goelhandigarh - Renu Goel the merciful lady and the Co-Founder of NGO Nanhe Kadam was awarded as the “DLF IRON LADY – EMPOWERED”, on CInternational Women's Day, the IRON LADY awards were presented in a

glittering function held at DLF City centre Mall in IT Park, Chandigarh. The awards mark a salute to the women who have carved out a niche for themselves in various walks of life thereby exhibiting the growing role of women in every sphere of life. The honorific was a perfect choice as Renu Goel is running the NGO called Nanhe Kadam since 2010 to support the education of underprivileged kids and creating awareness across various important issues such as dental care, personal hygiene moreover she is the Member of Women Harassment Committee (commando 3&4 at commando complex Mohali). For the little ones, she is doing charity since the last 20 years to support blind kids and orphaned kids. Working on girl’s education and awareness of women-related issues. Nanhe Kadam provides certificates to volunteers who help underprivileged kids education.Enunciating on the award, Renu Goel, Co-Founder of NGO Nanhe Kadam, said, “I am very glad to receive the award as the title was a dream come true. I set my sight on empowering individuals and got honored for the same. Special thanks go to DLF for organizing the International Women's Day, the IRON LADY awards.”

handigarh : This summer, consumers will be in for a treat as Pepsi promises to quench their thirst and Coffer a more refreshing experience. This claim is

substantiated by an independent research conducted by Nielsen which establishes that Pepsi is now even "More Refreshing." In line with this finding, the youth centric brand has launched a new summer campaign featuring its brand ambassador, Salman Khan. An extension of Pepsi's Har Ghoont Mein Swag campaign, the new film shows Salman Khan bonding with friends over a game of carrom on a hot summer day. At the same time, another friend is hooked on the phone talking to his girlfriend. Seeing this budding romance, Salman's friend exclaims 'Whattay ashiq'. Participating in the cheeky banter, Salman Khan says "Whattay Garmi" and pulls out a chilled bottle of Pepsi, takes a swig and proclaims 'Whattay refreshing!" with Swag. Commenting on the campaign launch, PepsiCo India spokesperson said that Pepsi has always been the choice of the Swag generation and with summers approaching, the brand is offering an even more refreshing proposition to consumers.

Pepsi unveils refreshing new TVC with Salman Khan

OHTAK: Taiwanese tech giant, ASUS India, announced the Rexpansion of its TUF laptop portfolio

in India with the launch of new TUF Dash F15, a super slim 15-inch device that represents portability and thin & light design. Engineered to empower users with the ability to game, work, and stay productive anywhere, the new Asus laptopcomes with the latest11th Gen Intel® Core™i7-11370H processorand GeForce RTX™ 3070/ 3060 GPU, for an unbeatable performance. The laptop was unveiled globally during a virtual conference at CES 2021 and is finally set to make a mark in India.Its powerful core experience is equipped with high-end features not typically seen at accessible price points, such as a tournament-level gaming panel with up to a 240Hz refresh rate, a versatile Thunderbolt™ 4 port, and Two-Way AI Noise Cancelation technology. With an expansive battery that nets up to 16.6 hours of video playback and Type-C charging that extends battery life from a variety of adapters and power packs, gamers can be productive longer on the go. The TUF Dash F15fits all these features in a chassis that is stylish, easy to carry and boosts productive without sacrificing the TUF Gaming series’ signature military-grade durability.

ASUS strengthens its TUF series with launch of TUF Dash F15

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handigarh, March 10: The Ministry of Mines has recently issued the CNational Non-Ferrous Metal Scrap

Recycling Framework, 2020 covering key non-ferrous metals like Aluminium, Copper, Zinc and Lead. The framework has been released with an objective to promote a formal and well-organized recycling ecosystem in the country which is currently highly unorganized with heavy dependence on imported scrap. Also, it aims to produce high quality scrap for quality secondary production thus minimizing the dependence on imports and encouraging economic wealth creation, job creation and increased contribution to GDP through metal recycling. This framework is also seen to be prepared in the backdrop of the upcoming Vehicle Scrappage Policy for automobiles, which will ensure sufficient availability of domestic scrap in the country. Some of the key recommendations are setting up of a central authority for recycling of metals as Metal Recycling Authority (MRA). It strongly recommends establishing BIS standards for Quality of scrap used for recycling and recycled products, and standard procedures.

Govt mulls making scrap recycling an organized sector

handigarh: Motherhood is one of the most special and beautiful journeys in a Cwoman’s life. In line with Bio-Oil’s quest to

make this journey smooth and an unstretched one, the brand decided to reach out to women in Chandigarh to bring out the importance of taking care of themselves as they instinctively start focusing more on their child. This International Women’s Day, Bio-Oil partnered with multiple hospitals and clinics in Chandigarh and set up product distribution and information dissemination sessions with local gynaecologists. This activity was focused on inspiring mothers to take small steps towards self-care and self-love in their journey to motherhood that sometimes can be overwhelming and filled with questions and doubts. Some of the clinics/hospitals that were part of this initiative were- Chakravarty Nursing Home, Faith Clinic, Abhilasha hospital, Holistic health care, Gupta clinic. Commenting on the activity, Dr. Rupneet Kaur from Chakravarty Nursing Home said.

Orient Coolers promote Healthy fresh air during Covid

handigarh : Orient Electric Limited, part of the diversified USD 2.4 billion CCK Birla Group, has expanded its air

coolers range with new models with the objective of providing - Fresh healthy air everywhere. Featuring premium designs and finishes, these new models come withunique AeroFan technology that provideshigh air thrust and 20% longer air throw ensuring wide and uniform circulation of healthy fresh air, and its unique DenseNest technologyprovides 25% extra cooling. These coolers also come witheasy IoT and Voice control, and advanced 100% copper motorfor durability and performance.Other differentiating benefits include Autofill function for easy filling of water, Anti-bacterial filter for protection from air-borne bacteria, Anti mosquito breeding feature for protection from mosquito, ice chamber for instant ice-induced cooling, and fully collapsible louvres to prevent entry of dust and insects, among others. Air coolers being a healthier cooling solution in comparison to other options and given theimportanceof living in fresh and clean air during the pandemic, Orient Electric is promoting theconcept of ‘Fresh healthy air everywhere.

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Farhan -starrer Toofan will release on May 21

ollywood actor Farhan Akhtar, who the perfect protagonist for Toofaan. The inspirational sports drama that presents was last seen in the 2019 hit 'The best thing about him is that he does not the story of a goon from the streets of BSky Is Pink', is soon going to treat act the part, but lives it completely." Dongri set against the backdrop of boxing,

movie buffs with his upcoming outing He added, "Toofaan is a story that his fall and triumphant comeback against 'Toofan', the release date of which has will motivate and inspire all of us to all odds in life." The producer added, been revealed. The forthcoming film will get out of comfort zones and fight "Excel Entertainment in association with stream on Amazon Prime Video starting towards achieving our dreams. We ROMP Pictures is very thrilled to May 21, 2021. Produced by Ritesh cannot wait to present our film to announce this special film. Our long-Sidhwani (Excel Entertainment), Rakeysh viewers across the globe." Sharing standing partnership with Amazon Prime Omprakash Mehra (ROMP Pictures), and the excitement for the upcoming Video has been brilliant and Toofaan is yet Farhan, the highly-anticipated sports project, Ritesh said, "At Excel another exciting chapter and association drama is helmed by Rakeysh. Entertainment, we always try to tell for us at a global level." The movie was Speaking about collaborating with Farhan stories that touch the heart and soul of originally scheduled to release in October after the success of 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' the audience. We consistently strive to 2020 but was delayed due to the ongoing which released 7 years ago, Rakeysh develop new concepts which can coronavirus pandemic. In the film, said, "After working with Farhan in Bhaag entertain and enlighten the viewers. With Farhan will be seen as a national-level Milkha Bhaag, I was certain he would be Toofaan, we are presenting an boxing player.

Demi Lovato opens up about why she turned to drugs

merican singer and songwriter, Demi Lovato wouldn't be here to tell my story." The 28-year-old recently during an upcoming episode of the star then said after seeking treatment she's come Apodcast 'Yeah No, I'm Not Okay', opened up to believe that, "I turned to those coping

about why she turned to drugs when she was mechanisms because I genuinely was in so much struggling with her mental health. pain that I didn't want to die and I didn't know what According to E! News, in the upcoming episode of else to do." She added, "I did the best that I could Diane Guerrero's podcast, the first thing she talked at times, and now that I have other tools and other about was regarding the misinformed idea that "if resources, I know how else to deal and how else to people are using drugs or if they are dealing with cope so I don't have to resort to those behaviours an eating disorder or self-harm that they want to again." Demi has always been open about her past die." Explaining how her addictions stopped her experiences for a multitude of reasons, but her from dying, she said, "In the same way it almost primary motivation is to let others know "we all killed me, it saved my life at times because there struggle." During her teens, she didn't understand were times that I dealt with suicidal ideations. And how common mental health issues were until she had I gone forward with that in that moment, was older and a celebrity.instead of another destructive coping mechanism, I

Vicky Kaushal shares workout motivation for fans with latest post

Anupam Kher receives COVID-19 vaccine shot

eteran Bollywood actor and author Anupam Kher on Tuesday became Vthe latest Indian celebrity to take a jab

of the COVID-19 vaccine.The 66-year-old star took to his Twitter handle and shared a video of him taking the vaccination at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. Along with the video, he tweeted, "Got my #COVID19 first dose vaccination!! Thank you all the doctors, medical staff, scientist and Govt. Of India for making it possible. India Rocks. Jai Ho!@PMOIndia @drharshvardhan" In the clip, the former Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India can be seen chanting 'Om Namah Shivay' before receiving the vaccine shot from a medical worker.

The 'Saaransh' actor became the latest addition to the list of celebrities who

have taken the vaccination. Earlier

stars like Hema Malini, Johnny Lever, Saif Ali Khan, Kamal Haasan and Satish Shah had also received the vaccination shots.On a related note, several leading Bollywood stars had contracted the

deadly disease earlier.

ollywood actor Vicky Kaushal, who Bcurrently has

several films in the pipeline, shared some workout motivation with his fans on Wednesday.The 'Manmarziyaan' actor took to his Instagram handle and posted a monochromatic picture of him looking completely focused and determined, along with a motivational caption that read, "One rep at a time. One stride at a time. One swing at a time. Eyes on the (flag emoji)." In the picture, Vicky seems to be posing at his gym or a training place, while sporting a loose t-shirt along with a cap. The post from the star received more than two lakh likes within a span of two hours.Meanwhile, on the professional front, Vicky has several projects in his kitty, like 'Sardar Udham Singh', 'The Immortal Ashwatthama', 'Takht', and the biopic on Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.

Miley Cyrus urges everyone to get vaccinated for COVID-19

inger-songwriter Miley Cyrus is using COVID-19 as a source of inspiration, channeling her energy into making some fresh music. Miley recently dropped the Smusic video of her track 'Angels Like You' and it features the singer urging

everyone to get vaccinated amid the health crisis.On Monday, the 28-year-old pop star released the official music video of the song. The

footage for the song was recorded on Super Bowl Sunday back in February when Cyrus headlined the NFL TikTok Tailgate event in front of a limited audience of 7,5000 vaccinated, Florida-based healthcare workers.Miley also shared the music video on her Instagram handle writing a lengthy caption along with it. She wrote, "Angels Like You video OuT NoW! Shot on 2/7/21 at

#TikTokTailgate, the first outdoor covid compliant concert of its size since the pandemic changed our lives forever." In the caption, she added, "I never would have thought when I wrote "Angels" that the first time I would be performing this song or shooting a music video would be in a time like this.""It's been almost a year without live music. I desperately miss the connection it brings. I miss hearing your voices ring out in harmony with my own. I miss YOU.

With vaccines becoming more available the dream of us all being reunited is getting closer to becoming a reality. We just have to do our part. I hope you love

what I have made for you and that you feel for just these few minutes that you were here in the crowd at the show with us. Soon," Miley concluded.The clip, which the singer co-directed alongside Alana O'Herlihy, has Cyrus dressed in her Super Bowl pre-game concert look, with the glittery No. 25

black and pink jersey and shoulder pads she rocked during her TikTok Tailgate show in Florida for this year's big game.

Gourav reacts to BAFTA nod, thanks Ramin Bahrani for 'trusting' him

ctor Adarsh Gourav, the breakout star of 2021, recently thanked director Ramin Bahrani for "trusting" him with the Acharacter of Balram in the Netflix film 'The White Tiger'

after earning a nomination in the lead actor category at 2021 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards. Gourav starred as the lead character in Bahrani's adaptation of Aravind Adiga's 2008 award-winning novel 'The White Tiger'. Apart from Gourav, the film bagged a nomination for Bahrani in the adapted screenplay category. An elated Gourav took to Instagram to share his happiness over the announcement. He wrote, "Holy shit it's really happening! Thank you Ramin for trusting me to play the character that has given me more than anything I've ever experienced. Congratulations to the team for two BAFTA nominations!! Best adapted screenplay and Leading actor. Congratulations to all the other nominees too."

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Hitachi ABB PowerGrids bags Rs 160 croreorder from RailwaysBENGALURU: Hitachi ABB Power Gridshas won orders worth Rs 160 crore fromChittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW)and Central Organisation for RailElectrification (CORE) to power electricfreight locomotives for the IndianRailways. For CLW, Hitachi ABB PowerGrids will deliver traction transformersfor one of Railways' successful class oflocomotives -- the WAG 9 -- which wasdeveloped in response to strong growthin the rail freight transportation sector.For CORE, it will supply tracksidetransformers. The Railways managesfourth-largest rail network in the world bysize. It is aiming to create a future-readyrailway system, bringing down logisticscosts for industry and supporting theMake-in-India initiative. The plan alignswith the government's goal of achieving100 per cent rail electrification byDecember 2023 and making IndianRailways a net-zero carbon emitter by2030. "These orders advance our visionof playing a pivotal role in railelectrification in India and enablingimprovements in rail safety, capacity andspeed," said N Venu, CEO andManaging Director of Hitachi ABB PowerGrids in India. "Such partnerships willhelp lower our dependence on importedfossil fuel and reduce both fuel costsand carbon emissions for the IndianRailways," he added. Hitachi ABB PowerGrids will deliver trackside transformersrated 132 kilovolt (kV) to CORE andtraction transformers rated 25 kV toCLW. The trackside transformers reducepower voltage from the utility powernetwork to a suitable level beforefeeding it to the railway catenaryconductors. Traction transformers routepower from the catenary for essentialtrain functions such as traction, lighting,ventilation, braking, signaling andcommunication.

Credit outlooknegative for aviationindustry: ICRANEW DELHI: Rating agency ICRA hasa negative credit outlook on Indianaviation industry, reflecting a view thatfinancial performance of airlines is likelyto remain weak in near-to-medium termamid weak air traffic. However, therehas been sequential improvementdespite continuation of restriction oninternational traffic and subdueddemand from the corporate travellersegment. Notwithstanding the improvingpace of vaccination, the sharp rise ininfections in select states and measurestaken to curb them continue to weigh onthe recovery prospects, said ICRA.Besides, the credit profile of mostairlines continues to be characterised byweak liquidity position. ICRA said itexpects earnings of the industry to beadversely impacted in FY2021 due tolower revenues and high fixed costs. Itestimates the aviation industry to reporta significant net loss of Rs 21,000 crorein FY21 against a net loss of Rs 12,700crore in FY20. With an improvement inpassenger traffic in FY22, ICRA expectsthe industry's losses to reduce to Rs14,600 crore in FY22. Consequently,debt levels will remain high for theindustry and are estimated to be rangebound at around Rs 50,000 crore(excluding lease liabilities) in FY21 andFY22 with the industry requiring anadditional funding support of Rs 35,000crore to 37,000 crore over FY21 toFY23. While some airlines havesufficient liquidity and financial supportfrom a strong parent which is likely tohelp them sustain over the near term,there are others which are in financialdistress and are now facing severalissues, including stretched liquidity.Even for the former, said ICRA, creditmetrics and liquidity profile havedeteriorated. Many have alreadyundertaken several cost rationalisationmeasures including salary cuts for theiremployees, leave-without-pay optionsand laying off pilots and crew membersto cut costs. Some airlines have soughtdeferment in their lease rentalpayments. Some of the airlines havealso entered into sale and lease backtransactions to shore up liquidity in thenear-term. But until the cash inflowsimprove, the airlines will require fundingsupport to meet their expenses. Thecredit profile of domestic airlines willthus weaken materially over the nearterm, said ICRA. In the near term, thecredit profile of carriers will remainstressed until the carriers are able toreduce their debt burden through acombination of improvement inoperating performance and by way ofequity infusion.

Russia records 9,079 COVID-19 cases in past24 hoursMoscow: Russia registered 9,079 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, downfrom 9,445 the day before, taking the overall tally to 4,351,553, the coronavirusresponse center said on Wednesday. "Over the past day, 9,079 coronavirus caseswere confirmed across 83 Russian regions, including 973 cases (10.7 percent) withoutclinical symptoms," the center said, adding that the cumulative case count has nowreached 4,351,553, with the rate of increase at 0.21 percent. Moscow confirmed 1,116new coronavirus cases over the given period, up from 1,066 the day before. TheRussian capital was followed by St. Petersburg with 959 new cases, up from 941 theday before, and the Nizhny Novgorod Region with 378 new cases, up from 373 onTuesday. No new cases were recorded in the Chukotka Autonomous Region and theNenets Autonomous Region. The response center reported 466 COVID-19 fatalities,up from 336 the day before, raising the country's death toll to 90,275.

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The Organisation for EconomicCooperation and Development(OECD) sees global GDPgrowth at 5.6 per cent this year,an upward revision of more thanone percentage point since itsprojection in December 2020,and 4 per cent in 2022.

World output is expected toreach pre-pandemic levels bymid-2021 but the pace andduration of the recovery willdepend on the race betweenvaccines and emerging variantsof the virus, according to theOECD's latest interim economicoutlook. It said a globaleconomic recovery is in sightbut a faster and more effective

vaccination rollout across theworld is critical whilerespecting necessary health andsocial distancing measures.Activity in many sectors haspicked up and adapted topandemic restrictions overrecent months. Vaccinedeployment although uneven isfinally gaining momentum andgovernment fiscal stimulus --particularly in the United States-- is likely to provide a majorboost to economic activity. Butthe pandemic is widening gapsin economic performancebetween countries and betweensectors, increasing socialinequalities, particularlyaffecting vulnerable groups, andrisking long-term damage to jobprospects and living standards

for many people. "Speed is ofthe essence. There is no roomfor complacency. Vaccines mustbe deployed faster and globally.This will require betterinternational co-operation and

co-ordination than we have seenup to now," said OECDSecretary General Angel Gurria."It is only by doing so that wecan focus our attention onbuilding forward better and

laying the foundations for aprosperous and lasting recoveryfor all," he said. In the OECD'scentral scenario, US growth isprojected to be 6.5 per cent in2021, an upward revision ofmore than 3 percentage pointssince December, partlyreflecting the large-scale fiscalstimulus now planned with asustained pace of vaccination.This also helps to lift outputaround the world.

In the euro area, where thelevel of fiscal stimulus is lowerand vaccine rollout slower,OECD sees GDP rising 3.9 percent, a 0.3 percentage pointupward revision. Prospects arebrighter in the Asian Pacificregion where several countrieshave effectively contained the

virus and where industrialactivity has regained dynamism.In China, GDP growth isprojected to be 7.8 per cent thisyear, in Japan 2.7 per cent, inSouth Korea 3.3 per cent and inAustralia 4.5 per cent. Therecovery is likely to be moremoderate in the emergingmarket economies of LatinAmerica and Africa amid aresurgence of the virus, slowvaccine deployment and limitedscope for additional policysupport. The improvedprospects of a global recoveryhave led to financial marketexpectations of higher inflationalthough the OECD's outlooksaid underlying price pressuresgenerally remain mild inadvanced economies.

Global GDP to surpass pre-pandemic level by mid-2021: OECD

Sensex jumps 254 pts; pharma,IT stocks drive gains

AGENCYMUMBAI, MAR 10

Extending its gains for the thirdstraight session, equity benchmarkSensex jumped over 254 points onWednesday tracking gains inpharma, IT and auto shares amidlargely positive cues. The 30-shareBSE index ended 254.03 points or0.50 per cent higher at 51,279.51,and the broader NSE Nifty rose76.40 points or 0.51 per cent to15,174.80. Bajaj Finance was thetop gainer in the Sensex pack,rising around 2 per cent, followedby Sun Pharma, Tech Mahindra,Axis Bank, Bajaj Auto and Infosys.On the other hand, ONGC, KotakBank, ITC, HDFC Bank andPowerGrid were among thelaggards. According to Binod Modi,Head - Strategy at RelianceSecurities, domestic equitiesextended gains for the thirdconsecutive day mainly aided byfavourable global cues. IT, metalsand pharma recorded sharp reboundover 1 per cent, while a strongbuying was seen in automobile

stocks also. Barring, PSU banks,most of the key sectoral indicesended in green. Unlike Tuesday,midcap and small cap stocksattracted investor interest onWednesday again. Elsewhere inAsia, bourses in Shanghai andSeoul ended with losses, whileHong Kong and Tokyo settled on apositive note. Stock exchanges inEurope were largely trading withgains in mid-session deals.Meanwhile, the global oilbenchmark Brent crude was trading0.59 per cent lower at USD 67.12per barrel.

PSPCL launches pilot project at Seva KendraBatala for resolving consumer grievances

AMRITSAR, MAR 10

Think out of the box, walkextra mile: In line with theabove directives of A.Venu Prasad CMDPSPCL and motivation ofdirector distribution Er.Daljit Inderpal SinghGrewal.Er. PradeepKumar Saini, Er-In-Chief/DS, border Zoneamritsar yesterdaylaunched the project ofresolving consumergrievances in paperless,faceless and contactlessmanner at Seva KendraBatala. This will ensurefar better services to theelectricity consumers.This project has beenstarted from Batala city asa pilot project which willbe gradually implementedin the entire Border zoneand later in the whole ofPunjab.

Now power

consumers of Batala citycan lodge complaintsrelated to electricity bill inany way, such as droppingtheir mobile number in thecomplaint box, makingmissed calls to9646120579, 9646120579on WhatsApp and Hello.Hi "send, ae-ds-east-batala@pspcl.in e-mail,scan the QR code andregister on 1912 withoutvisiting any office fromthe comfort of theirhomes. In case of anyurgency to go to the

office, the employeesitting in the servicecenter will allocatetheavailable timeslot toconsumer in advance. Theentire system wasinspected by Er. PradeepKumar Saini Engineer-in-Chief and instructionswere issued to thestaff/officers present toco-ordinate and co-operate for the success ofthe project.

Theproject in-charge Er.Parupkar Singh Addl.

SE/Protection apprisedallaboutvarious aspects ofthis unique initiative andon this occasion Er.Ramesh Sarangal DeputyChief Engineer/DS,PSPCL, circle Gurdaspur,Er. Jagjot Singh BajwaAddl. SE/DS, city divnBatala, Er. Mohtam SinghAddl. SE/DS, suburbandivn. BatalaEr. HarjitSingh, Er. Jagdish Singh,Er. Tirath Raj, Er.Davinder Singh, Er.Sukhjinder Singh, HarishKumar RevenueAccountant and other staffwere present. Er. RameshSarangal Dy. ChiefEngineer/DS, circleGurdaspur appealed to allthe valuable consumers toavail this facility to themaximum by registeringany complaint related toelectricity or electricitybills in any of the abovemanner from home.

Gold gains Rs 112;silver jumps Rs 126

NEW DELHI: Gold prices roseby Rs 112 to Rs 44,286 per 10gram in the national capital onWednesday amid rupeedepreciation, according toHDFC Securities. In theprevious trade, the preciousmetal had closed at Rs 44,174per 10 gram. Silver also gainedRs 126 to Rs 66,236 per kg, fromRs 66,110 per kg in the previoustrade. In the internationalmarket, gold was tradingmarginally lower at USD 1,711per ounce and silver was flat atUSD 25.78 per ounce. HDFCSecurities Senior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patel said,"Gold prices traded marginallydown at COMEX (New York-based commodities exchange).The rally in equity indices andfirm dollar may limit upside inprecious metals for the day.

The push to legalize and regulateonline gambling in India

AGENCYMUMBAI, MAR 10

With an unregulated market,India is said to be foregoinghuge amounts of taxrevenues every year. Indiahas a gargantuan gamblingmarket, that many see itsslow action on the calls forlegalization and regulationas a critical missedopportunity.

Calls for broadlegalization: According toIndia Casino Info, India'sgovernment has beenwelcoming Indian gamblingplayers. Unfortunately, thisattitude has not translated tounambiguous legislation thatsupports the gamblingindustry in the wholecountry. When it comes toonline gambling, in

particular, no resolution hasbeen passed by the Federalgovernment yet. Regulationis left to the discretion of thestate governments.

The lack of a solidcentral law on gambling inIndia is said to bring aboutmore disadvantages thanadvantages. While somemay say that they are able to

operate online casinos in thecountry without interventionbecause of the lack of clearlaws on online casinos,others argue that the countryis losing big on potentialrevenues. There are strongcalls to bring to the surfacethe underground gamblingindustry of India, which issaid to be around half of the

country’s total gamblingmarket The massive Indiangambling market: India’sgambling market isestimated to be worth 67.2trillion rupees, according toa 2020 report by MapleCapital Advisors. Themarket is expected to growby 41% as the country

recovers from the pandemic.Between 2014 and 2020, themarket’s CAGR wasdetermined to be around22%. These are impressivenumbers that would havetranslated to more money forIndia as it addresses thepandemic and rebuilds itseconomy.

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