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FRIDAYJUNE 28, 2019

CHANDIGARHVOL. XXIII, NO. 140

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IAF Jaguarsuffers bird hitAMBALA: An Indian Air ForceJaguar fighter aircraft suffered abird hit, shortly after take-off, hereon Thursday.Jettisoning it's fuel tanks, the air-craft made a safe crash landingat the Ambala Air Base.Details are awaited.

3 TDP, 2 Congressleaders join BJPNEW DELHI: In a major setbackto the Opposition, three TeluguDesam Party (TDP) and twoCongress leaders on Thursdayjoined Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) at party headquarters here.TDP leaders E Peddi Reddy,Bode Janardhan and SureshReddy and Congress leadersShashidhar Reddy and SheikRahmatullah joined the BJP ofTelangana unit in the presence ofparty's GVL Narasimha Rao.This big blow to the oppositioncomes a day after N Chan-drababu Naidu-led TDP'sspokesperson Lanka Dinakarjoined the BJP in the presence ofits working president JP Nadda atparty headquarters in Delhi.

Three die in car mishap inKullu districtSHIMLA: Three persons werekilled when a car in which theywere traveling fell down in a deepgorge at Bhaikli road, senior po-lice officer confirmed on Thurs-day.Kullu district police chief MsShalini Agnihotri confirmed the in-cident and said that all the threeyouths died on the spot.The bodies of the deceased werehanded over to their family mem-bers after the postmortem.

Haryana increasesguest lecturers'monthly remunerationto Rs 57,700CHANDIGARH : Haryana gov-ernment led by Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar has extend-ed the benefit of 'Equal Pay forEqual Work' to the contractualguest/extension lecturers workingin various government colleges ofthe state.While stating this here on Thurs-day, Education Minister Ram Bi-las Sharma said that all eligiblecontractual and extension lectur-ers will be paid remuneration ofRs 57,700 per month whereverthe complete workload and otherduties are being met by such in-cumbents. "By extending thisbenefit to such incumbents, anadditional exchequer of about Rs81.27 crore annually will be borneby the State government," saidSharma. The minister added thatthe Higher Education Departmenthas issued detailed guidelines inthis regard.

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AGENCYCHANDIGARH, JUNE 27:

The Punjab State Cooperative Banktoday commenced e-Stamp paper, e-Registration and e-Court fees servic-es to its customers. Under an agree-ment inked by the bank with theStock Holding Corporation of Indiaas a result of which the services werestarted today.The formal inaugura-tion was done today at the head of-fice of the bank at Sector-34 by theCooperation Minister S. SukhjinderSingh Randhawa and the RevenueMinister Mr. Gurpreet Singh Kangar.

In his address on the occasion, S.Randhawa said that this novel initia-tive of e-Stamping has been startedtoday at the 32 tehsils through the 27branches situated in different parts ofthe state. He also said that this would

be prove to be of great help to thecustomers of the bank especially thefarming sector. Describing coopera-tive banks as the backbone of thefarming sector, the minister said that

the department has taken a decisionto upgrade the branches of the Cen-tral Cooperative Banks and makethem customer friendly. Apart fromthis, all out efforts would also be

made to improve the financial lot ofAgricultural Cooperative Societies.

The Cooperation Minister furthersaid that this initiative would lead tothe saving of precious time of thepeople and would save them the ha-rassment. The farmers would bespared the burden of cash carryingand the financial position of thebanks would be strengthened be-cause the daily sale of the e-Stampsworth Rs. 8 crore-Rs. 10 crores is ex-pected. Besides, the belief of the peo-ple about getting fair deal while deal-ing with the cooperative banks wouldbe cemented. Addressing on the oc-casion, Revenue Minister Mr. Gur-preet Singh Kangar said that theunique initiative of the CooperationDepartment would directly benefitthe farming community at the groundlevel.

AGENCYFARIDABAD, JUNE 27

A man allegedly stabbed amedical student on June 25after she resisted a molesta-tion attempt by him, onMathura Road in Faridabad,said an official.

Locals admitted the vic-tim to a nearby governmenthospital where she is beingtreated. The incident wascaught on the CCTV camerasinstalled in the area.

The victim is a 1st-yearstudent of Bachelors ofAyurvedic Medicine andSurgery (B.A.M.S) and ispractising in a private hospi-tal in Faridabad.

"I was returning to my

house from the hospital whenhe came and molested me. Iresisted and hurled abuses athim after which he left. I keptmoving forward when he re-turned from behind andgroped me and stabbed mewith a knife" said the victim.

The girl said that the manwas unknown to him.

"The girl is being treatedin a government hospital. Wehave filed a complaint underdifferent sections of IndianPenal Code (IPC) against theaccused. We are trying toidentify the accused throughthe CCTV footage and wewill arrest him soon", saidBalbir Singh, Investigatingofficer.

Man stabs woman aftershe resists molestationCooperative banks to provide e-Stamp papers in Pb

AGENCYSRINAGAR, JUN 27

Asserting that there should be zero toler-ance towards militancy and militants inJammu and Kashmir, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah on Thursday asked securityforce agencies to continue strict action tocurb terror funding.

Mr Shah, while chairing a high-levelmeeting on security, said the rule of the lawshould be enforced at any cost.

''During his first visit to the state ofJammu and Kashmir, the Union Home Min-ister held a number of meetings with offi-cials to assess the security scenario in thestate, reviewing preparations for the Amar-nath Yatra and provide good governance inthe state,'' J&K, Chief Secretary B V R Sub-rahmanyam and Ganiash Kumar, Addition-al secretary, J&K, in Ministry of Home Af-fairs (MHA) told reporters during a pressconference here on Thursday.

''The meetings in Srinagar were attend-ed by Governor Satya Pal Malik, the UnionHome Secretary, all four Advisors, theChief Secretary and senior officials of thestate and Central Governments, of SecurityAgencies and the Armed Forces,'' they said.

After a detailed briefing on the prevail-ing security scenario in the state, the UnionHome Minister, while appreciating the sig-nificant improvement in all the parametersrelating to the security situation, said thereshould be zero tolerance towards militancyand militants.

The Union Home Minister praised theJ&K police for countering militancy and di-rected that the state Government shouldcommemorate the martyrdom of its police-men in their hometowns/ villages in an ap-propriate manner each year. Prominent pub-lic places should also be named after mar-tyred policemen. Mr Shah further addedthat he would periodically review the per-formance of the state on multiple fronts.Meanwhile, asking security force agenciesto strictly enforce Standard Operating Pro-cedures (SOPs) during annual pilgrimage toholy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kash-mir Himalayas, Mr Shah, while chairing areview meeting on Wednesday, reiterated

the need to cover all sensitive and vulnera-ble places, including possible points of in-filtration, in order to obviate any type ofrisk to the yatra. Mr Shah, during the meet-ing, directed all security agencies to be ful-ly alert and take preventive steps to ensureviolence free yatra. “There should be no

laxity. Strict enforcement of SOPs shouldbe followed,” he said. The Union HomeMinister said that forces should ensure op-timum use of latest technology and gadgetsnot only for the security of the yatra, butalso to facilitate the movement of the devo-tees and the tourists.

Ensure zero toleranceagainst militancy: Shah

Directs forces to curb terror funding in J&K

‘Name prominentplaces after martyrs’SRINAGAR: Asking Governor Administra-tion to commemorate martyrdom of Jammuand Kashmir policemen in their hometownsin an appropriate manner each year, UnionHome Minister Amit Shah on Thursday saidthat prominent places in the state should benamed after the martyred jawans.Mr Shah, who will on Thursday concludehis two-day maiden visit to Kashmir valleyafter becoming the Union Home Minister,visited the family of martyr Station HouseOfficer (SHO) Arshad Ahmad Khan, whowas killed in a militant attack at KP road insouth Kashmir district of Anantnag on June12. Five CRPF jawans and a militant werealso killed in the incident.

Development ofJ&K discussedSRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir GovernorSatya Pal Malik and Union Home MinisterAmit Shah on Thursday discussed about thedevelopment of the state, an officialspokesman said here.Mr Shah on his maiden two-day visit toKashmir valley after assuming the office ofUnion Home Minister arrived here onWednesday and held a number of meetingsto review overall security situation, particu-larly measures made for the annual pilgrim-age to holy Amarnath cave shrine in southKashmir Himalayas, commencing from July1.

AGENCYLUDHIANA, JUN 27

An inmate of the Ludhiana Central Jailwas killed and 35 injured when a clashbroke between two groups of gangstersThursday, prompting police to open fireto bring the situation under control.

A senior police officer was amongthose injured in the mayhem. The trou-ble started soon after a jail inmate, un-dergoing a trial in a drug case, died at aPatiala hospital Thursday.

DCP Ashwani Kapoor said SunnySood was referred to a Patiala hospitaldue to illness Wednesday, where hedied. As the news reached here, his fel-low gangsters started instigating otherprisoners, the DCP said.

They also accused police of "mur-dering" Sood, he said. Kapoor said thejail staff had to open fire to control thesituation, which had turned serious.

"The jail police had to open firewhen two group of gangsters started

pelting each other with stones at the cen-tral jail here. One jail inmate was killedand 35 others, including a assistant com-missioner of police (ACP), received in-juries," DCP Ashwani Kapoor said.

The jail authorities said the ACP ofthe city police and some members of thejail staff received injuries due to fiercebrick batting by the inmates.

Two groups clash inLudhiana jail, Onekilled, dozen hurt

Amarinder orders inquiryCHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh has ordered amagisterial inquiry, to be conducted by DCLudhiana, into Thursday’s outbreak of vio-lence in the Central Jail.Taking serious note of the incident, inwhich one inmate was killed while fiveprisoners and around half a dozen policepersonnel were injured, the Chief Ministerhas asked for a detailed probe to identifythe instigators of the violence. He hasmade it clear that strict action will be takenagainst the culprits.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JUNE 27

Swiss authorities have issued ordersto freeze four bank accounts linked tobillionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, amove that adds to the celebrity de-signer’s troubles who is already in aLondon jail pending a decision on In-dia’s extradition request.

“His four Swiss bank accountswith deposit worth Rs 286 crore havebeen frozen,” a source familiar withthe development in Enforcement Di-rectorate said. The ED has alreadyseized Nirav Modi’s assets wortharound Rs 2,000 crore in India andabroad. The ED is among the central

agencies that started investigating Ni-rav Modi after state-run Punjab Na-tional Bank first accused companiesowned by the fugitive businessman and his uncle MehulChoksi of a $ 2 billion loan fraud inJanuary last year.

HPCC spokesperson VikasChaudhary shot deadFARIDABAD: HaryanaCongress SpokespersonVikas Chaudhary was shotdead by unidentified as-sailants outside a gym inSector 9 here on Thursday,police said.According to police, theyfired more than 10 bulletsfrom close range when the42-year-old Congress leadercame out of the gym ataround 0915 hrs.The assailants fled from the spot after committing the crime. Mr Chaudhary was rushed to a hospital in Sector 8 where thedoctors declared him brought dead. The body has been sent for postmortem, police further said.The CCTV footage of the place has been collected and a man-hunt launched to nab the accused, police added.

AGENCYOSAKA (JAPAN), JUN 27

Prime Minister Narendra Modi onThursday lauded the Japanesespirit of commitment to nation-hood and how best the human tal-ent and technology could beutilised for the betterment of all.

"It is my fourth visit toJapan....and in Japan I have seenthe living experience of one'scommitment to civilisational values and howbest the talent and technology could be used,"the Prime Minister said in his address to theIndian community here.

Mr Modi arrived here on athree-day visit for the G20 Sum-mit wherein he would have a se-ries of bilateral meetings includ-ing with US President DonaldTrump.

"In every journey of mine toJapan, I have experienced a senseof brotherhood between the peo-ple of two countries," he said.

Emphasising that over thedecades how things have moved

faster, Mr Modi said there was a time whentwo countries cooperated for making cars andtoday India and Japan are cooperating formaking of bullet trains.

Nirav Modi’s 4 SwissBank accounts frozen

SRINAGAR, JUL 27

Eleven people, including ninegirls, were killed when a ve-hicle fell into a deep gorge onhistoric Mughal road onThursday. Seven people wereinjured in the incident.

Official sources said apassenger tempo on way toShopian from Poonch skid-ded off the road and plungedinto a deep gorge at Lal Ghu-lam area in Pir-ki-Gali.

A rescue operation wasimmediately launched, they

said, adding that while twopersons died on the spot, 16others were injured. ''The in-jured were immediately takento a hospital, where nine oth-ers succumbed, taking thedeath toll in the accident to11,'' they added.

Nine girls among 11 killed inroad accident near Poonch

Japan has shown how civilisational valuesand tech can go together: Modi

Indian pacer Mohd Shami celebrates the wicket of ChrisGayle. West Indies were 107for 7 in 26 overs while chasing269 runs, when the news lastcame in.

I, Monika W/o Naresh I, Hitherto Known As I Sukhraj Singh Maan S/o I, Parminder Kour Spouse I, Navdeep Kaur W/o Kumar R/o Ward No. 7, Sukhwinder Kaur W/o Ranjit Singh R/o Vpo Of Jaswinder S ingh Major Singh Sandhu Goniana Mandi Distt. Jatinder Singh Residing K h i a l i w a l a D i s t t Resident Of Mohalla R/o Malwal Jadid Po. Bathinda, Punjab Declare At Vill. Beharwal, Po Bathinda Have Changed Harnampura Kotkapura S a i d a n w a l a That Before Marriage My Assarapur Tehsil Ajnala My Name To Sukhraj Teh-kotkapura District ( ferozepur) Changed Name Was Monika Goyal Distt Amritsar-143108 Singh. Faridkot Have Changed My Name To Navpreet . Now My Name Is Punjab Have Changed My 63372 M y N a m e F r o m Kaur.Monika. Both Names Are N a m e A n d S h a l l I, Ranjana Saddi W/o P a r m i n d e r K o u r To 63372Of Me And Known Me As Hereafter Be Known As P u n e e t K u m a r R / o Parminder Kaur Vide I , Bu t t a S ingh S /o These Both Names. Sukhjinder Kaur. 11/115 New Gandhi Affidavit Dated 24-06- Gurtej Singh R/o Vpo.

98729 72737 Nagar, Banga, District 2019 Before Executive B h u c h o K a l a n I, Naresh Kumar S/o I, Geeta Bhandari W/o S b s N a g a r H a v e Magistrate, Kotkapura. ( b a t h i n d a ) C h a n g e d Kartar Singh R/o Ward Amit Anand R/o H.no. Changed My Name To 63372 My Name To Butta No.7 Goniana Mandi 1 7 8 K a l i a C o l o n y, Ranjana. I, Lal Singh S/o Najar Singh Sidhu.Distt. Bathinda , Punjab Jalandhar-144008, Have 63372 Singh R/o Daroli Bhai 63372Declare That Both Names Changed My Name To I, Kulwinder Kaur W/o (moga) Changed Name I , Gagandeep Singh N a r e s h K u m a r A n d G e e t a A n a n d A f t e r Raj Kumar R/o Vill: Lal Singh Alias Gurdial S/o Gurtej Singh R/o Naresh Kumar Garg Are Marriage. Chuharpur Po. Kulam Singh. Vpo. Bhucho Kalan Mine I.e. One And Same 72778 ( s b s N a g a r ) H a v e 63372 ( b a t h i n d a ) C h a n g e d Person. Pleaes Note. I, Hitherto Known As Known By Both Names I, Chamkaur Singh Gill M y N a m e T o

98729 Surinder Kaur Arora W/o Kulwinder Kaur Alias R / o C h a r i k ( m o g a ) G a g a n d e e p S i n g h I, Sulakhan Singh Kang Harjit Singh Arora, R/o Sukhwinder Kaur. Changed My Minor Son's Sidhu.S/o Gurmail Singh R/o H.no. 376, Gali No. 11, 63372 Name Jai Inder Singh To 63372Vill Hardasa Tehsil Zira Green Avenue, Basti I , G u r s h a r a n S / o Jai Inder Singh Gill. I , Vikram S/o Parma Distt Ferozepur Have G o b i n d g a r h , M o g a - Sikander Lal R/o Vpo. 63372 N a n d R / o N e a r Changed My Name 142001, Punjab, India, Mall Pur (sbs Nagar) I, Rano W/o Lakhvir Krishna Mandir W.no. Sulkakhan Singh Kang To Have Changed My Name Changed My Name To Singh Gill R/o Vpo 6 M a k h u Te h - z i r a Sulkahan Singh. Please And Shall Hereafter Be Gursharan Mahey. N a u r a T e h s i l ( f e r o z e p u r ) P b , Note It Known As Surinder Kaur. Nawanshahr District Sbs Changed My Name To 63372

72737 72778 Nagar (pb) Lndia Have Vikram Kapoor.I, Gurmail Singh S/o I, Avleen Kaur Saroya D/o I, Hitherto Known As Hardayal Singh R/o Changed My Name To 63372Harjinder Singh Saroya Parvinder Kaur W/o V p o . B h a r i T e h - Ranjit Kaur. I , Prabhjot Kaur W/o And W/o Amritpal Singh Jaspal Singh Ghotra, R/o khamanon (fatehgarh 63372 Husan Lal R/o Vill: Aujla R/o. H.no.503-b Ajit H.no. 49-b, National Park, Sahib) Changed My I Karamjeet Kaur W/o Natt Po. Sidhwan R.s Nagar Near Dhingra Maqsudan, Jalandhar- Name To Gurmel Singh. J a s w a n t S i n g h R / o T e h s i l P h i l l a u r Hospital Amritsar Have 144008, Punjab, India, H a k a m S i n g h Wa l a ( j a l a n d h a r ) P b , 63372Changed My Name Avleen Have Changed My Name (bathinda) My Name C h a n g e d M y N a m e I, No.4471813m Ex Hav Kaur Saroya To Avleen And Shall Hereafter Be K a r a m j e e t K a u r & From Paramjit Kaur (cqmh) Hira Singh Son Kaur Aujla. Please Note It Known As Parwinder Karmjeet Kaur Is One To Prabhjot Kaur.Of Gurmit Singh Vpo.

72737 Kaur Ghotra. And The Same Person. 63372Bath Tehsil & Distt. I, Richa Vig W/o Rohit 72778 Tarn Taran (pb) Declare 63372 I, Muskan Kaur W/o Nischal R/o. H.no.687 I, Hitherto Known As That I Have Changed I, Raj Kumar Bansal S/o G u r j i t S i n g h R / o Gali No.2, Rani Bazar Bhagwant S/o Chanan, The Name Of My Minor Ved Parkash R/o # 1687 H.no. 414 W.no. 31 Sharifpura Amritsar Have R/o Vpo Mehtan, Tehsil S o n F r o m M a n d i p S t . n o . 4 N a i B a s t i P a t t i M u h b a t K i Changed My Name To P h a g w a r a , D i s t t . S i n g h To M a n d e e p (bathinda) Changed My ( m o g a ) P b , I n d i a , Richa Vig Nischal. Please K a p u r t h a l a - 1 4 4 4 0 2 , Singh. Name To Raj Kumar. C h a n g e d M y N a m e Note It Punjab, India , Have From Muskan Kaur To 63372 63372

72737 Changed My Name And Ranu Bala.I, Swarnjeet Kaur W/o I, Rubby Bansal W/o Raj I, Ravinder Kumar S/o S h a l l H e r e a f t e r B e Naib Singh R/o Vpo. Kumar R/o # 1687 St.no. 63372Harbans Singh R/o.7-485 Known As Bhagwant S e h a u r a Te h - p a y a l 4 Nai Basti (bathinda) I Jatinder Singh S/o Kashmir Avenue Amritsar Singh. (ludhiana) Changed My Changed My Name To S u k h m a n d e r S i n g h Have Changed My Name 72778 N a m e To S w a r a n j i t Ruby Bansal. Resident Of Vill .nihal Ravinder Kumar To I, Nirmal Singh S/o Kaur. S i n g h Wa l a D i s t t 63372Ravinder All Note It. Sukhdev Singh R/o Kothe Moga Have Changed 63372 I, Charanjit S/o Jagat Please Note It Chak Kesar Singh Wale M y N a m e J a t i n d e r I, Bhupinder Sharma S i n g h R / o V p o .

72737 (vpo Kotli Ablu) (district Singh Kalyan.S/o Dharminder Kumar B h a w a n i p u r T e h -I, Ravinder S/o Harbans Sri Muktsar Sahib) Have R/o Vill: Mehlan Teh- garhshankar (hoshiarpur) 63372Singh R/o.7-485 Kashmir Changed My Name To s u n a m ( s a n g r u r ) Changed My Name To I, Harpreet Kaur W/o Avenue Amritsar Have Nirmal Singh Mann C h a n g e d M y N a m e Charanjit Singh. Gurlal Singh Sangar Changed My Minor 98723 F r o m B h u p i n d e r R / o V p o . G h o l i a 63372Daughter Name Sahira I Charanjeet Kaur Wife Of S h a r m a C h a h a l To K h u r d ( m o g a ) I, Rohit S/o Somnath R/o But Is Correct Name Is Tejpal Singh, Village Bhupinder Sharma. Changed My Name To House No. 866, Masanda Sahira Singh All Note It Chhapar, Distt.jind Declare Harpreet Kaur Sangar.63372 Patti , Ward No.1 Banga,

72737 That In My Husband's 63372I P r iya J inda l W/o District Sbs Nagar Have Service Record, My Name G a u r a v S i n g l a R / o Changed My Name To I, Narinder Syal R/o And Date Of Birth Has Rampura Phul Distt. Rohit Salhan. Geeta Colony St.no.4 Wrongly Been Entered As Bathinda Have Changed 63372 M o g a C h a n g e d M y Charanjit Kaur And My Name To Pr iya I Deepak Kumar S/o M i n o r S o n ' s N a m e 05.06.1981 Whereas My Singla. Budhram R/o Surgapuri, K a p i s h To K a p i s h Real Name And Date Of 63372 Kotkapura (far idkot) Syal.Birth Is Charanjeet Kaur I, Lovepreet Kaur D/o Have Changed My Minor 63372And 05.09.1978. Baldev Singh And W/o Daughter Name Janvi To I Manj i t Kaur W/o

98732 Sandeep Singh Bhathal Janvi Bansal. Harbhajan Singh Vpo I, Kamaljeet Singh Gill R/o Vill: Bhathal Teh- 63372 G h a n i a ( f r i d k o t ) S/o Darshan Singh R/o p a y a l ( l u d h i a n a ) I, Charanjeet Kaur W/o C h a n g e M y N a m e Vpo. Jandiali (ludhiana) Changed My Name To Gurcharan Singh R/o Balji t Kaur.Changed My Name To L o v e p r e e t K a u r Vpo. Jiwan Wala Teh- 63372Kamaljit Singh Gill. Bhathal. ko tkapura ( fa r idkot )

63372 63372 Changed My Name To I, Sukhjeet Kaur Gill I Paramjit Kaur W/o Charanjit Kaur.W/o Kamaljit Singh Gill Jagtar Singh R/o Bhai 63372R / o V p o . J a n d i a l i Rupa Distt Bathinda I, Paramjit Kaur W/o (ludhiana) Changed My H a v e C h a n g e d M y G a m d u r S i n g h R / o Name To Sukhjit Kaur N a m e To P a r m j e e t Gaj jan Wala (moga) Gill. Kaur. Known By Both The

63372 63372 Names As Paramjit Kaur & P a r a m j e e t K a u r Dhillon.

63372I R e k h a R a n i D / o Amarjeet Singh R/o # M c b - z - 0 5 7 2 7 , s t r e e t No.9 Near Charch,hans Nagar Bathinda Have Changed My Name To Rekha Kaur.

63372I R e e n a K a u r D / o Jaswinder Singh R/o B e h m a n D e w a n a ( b a t h i n d a ) H a v e Changed My Name To Gurkirat Kaur.

63372I, Kamaljeet Singh S/o Charanjit Singh Sandhu R/o Vill: Manwala Po. Kot Bakhtu (bathinda) Changed My Name To K a m a l j e e t S i n g h Sandhu.

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I S/o Mahinder Verma, I, Labh Kaur W/o Surat Holder Of Indian Passport Singh R/o Vill. Kharindwa, No P5725292, Issued At Distt. Kurukshetra Have C h a n d i g a r h , O n 2 Changed My Name Nayab December 2016, R/o Vpo Kaur To Labh Kaur. Nigdhu,karnal, 132157, 52724Haryana ( India ), And I Lovepreet Singh S/o Presently Residing At 1309 Bhajan Singh Dhaliwal R/o Vancouver Street, Nelson, # 561 Bathinda Road Street V1l 1e2, Bc, (canada) Do Number 8 ,gu ru Teg Hereby Change My Name Bahadur Nagar , Muktsar From Manoj Kumar To Have Changed My Name A k s h a y Ve r m a Wi t h To L o v e p r e e t S i n g h Immediate Effect. Dhaliwal.

100070 100067I Jc-302946k Rank Sub I, Juginder Singh S/o Prabhakar Mishra 513 Ad Ruleia Singh R/o Village Msl Regt.(sp) C/o 56 Benra , Tehsil Dhuri, Distt Apo.have Changed My Sangrur Have Changed My Daughter Name From Name To Joginder Singh Sohani Mishra To Suhani Concerned Note.Mishra.. 98726

100042 I Jagmeet S ingh S /o I Jc-302946k Rank Sub Lacchman Singh Vill . Prabhakar Mishra 513 Ad Chathewala,teh. Talwandi Msl Regt.(sp) C/o 56 Sabo,dist. Bathinda Have Apo.have Changed My Son Changed My Name As Name From Horsh Kumar J a g m e e t S i n g h Mishra To Harsh Kumar Sidhu.please Note.Mishra.. 100051

100042 I Gurpreet Singh S/o I Jc-302946k Rank Sub Resham S ingh V.p .o . Prabhakar Mishra 513 Ad Chathewala,teh. Talwandi Msl Regt.(sp) C/o 56 Sabo, Dist.bathinda Have Apo.have Changed My Changed My Name As Wife Name From Punam G u r p r e e t S i n g h M i s h r a T o P o o n a m Sidhu.please Note.Mishra.. 100051

100042 I Harpreet Singh S/o I No. 15772234y Rank Kulwant Singh V.p.o. H a v , k e s h a w K u m a r Chathewala, Teh.talwandi Singh S/o Sh. Late Ram Sabo,dist. Bathinda Have Tap Singh Unit 131 Ad Changed My Name As Regt C/o 56 Apo.have H a r p r e e t S i n g h Changed My Daughter Sidhu.please Note.Name From Janawi To 100051Janvi Singh & Changed I Leelavati Gupta Wife Of M y Son Name From Late Major Sham Narain Shuvya Singh To Subhya Gupta, R/o H.no 487 Sector Singh... 3 , U r b a n E s t a t e ,

100042 Kurukshetra Have Declared I No. 14832171x Rank Sep. That In Some Documents Unit Shashi Kant S/o Late My Name Is Lilavati Gupta. Kamlesh Singh Unit 664 Lilavati Gupta & Leelavati Coy Asc (tk Tptr) Type 'c' Gupta Is The Name Of C/o 56 Apo.have Changed Same Lady. Please Note All My Mother Name From Concern.Vi d a y w a t i D e v i To 100074Bidaywati Devi & Changed I, Herminder Singh Sarao Dob From 01.07.1961 To S/o Ajaib Singh, Resident 18.10.1965.. Of House No 1624, Sector

100042 51b, Chandigarh Have I Parminder Jit W/o Baljit Changed My Name To Singh R/o H.no. 299, Sohal Herminder SinghThathi, Tarn Taran, Punjab- 98724143302 Have Changed My I, Harinder Kaur Sarao W/o Name To Parminderjit Herminder Singh D/o Tek Kaur. Please Note. Singh Khangura, Resident

98728 Of House No 1624, Sector I, Swati Garg W/o Raman 51b, Chandigarh Have Bansal R/o # 1782/6, Jyoti Changed My Name To Nagar, Kurukshetra Have Harinder KaurChanged My Name Swati 98724Garg To Swati Bansal. I, Nasim W/o Nizam Deen

52724 R / o M o h a l l a L a n g r i , I , Rumalo Devi W/o Bhumsi Malerkotla Distt Randhir R/o Vill. Kharkali, Sangrur Have Dismissed Te h s i l , L a d w a , D i s t t My Son Shahid From My Kurukshetra Have Changed Property. Concerned Note My Name Rumalo Devi To It.Urmila. 100072

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Property CLASSIFIEDYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

PUBLIC NOTICESI Niyamat ali S/O Bashir M o h a m m e d V . P . O Moddowal distt kapurthala declare that my daughter Jasmeen is out of my control ,so I disown with her from my moveable/immoveable property . If anybody dealing with her at his/her own risk.

98748I, Army No. 4473547X Ex-Hav, Baljit Singh of Sikh LI, resident of Vill & Po. Khemuana Teh & Distt. Bathinda, inform one and all that Arman Singh is my real son, his DOB is 01-11-2006 and Adhar Card No. 5143 6115 3254.

63372I, Smt. Kulwant Kaur Wd/o No. 4449181, Sep, Late: Harbans Singh, Sikh LI, resident of Vill: Bhagu Po. Jassi Pau Wali Teh & Distt. Bathinda, inform all that I am known with dual names, Kulwant Kaur & Banlwant Kaur, my Adhar Card No. is 4127 3060 8025, DOB is 01-01-1957.

63372I, Smt. Kuldeep Kaur Widow of Army No. 1 2 9 3 7 1 2 - M E x - H a v, Sukhdev Singh, resident of H.No. 22871 Street No. 15/4 Dhobiana, Bathinda, Punjab inform all that Harshdeep Singh is my real son, his DOB is 11-07-1999, Adhar Card No. 2286 6161 5381.

63372I, Army No. 14937741-F L/NK, Paramvir Singh of 20 Mech. Inf. C/o 56 APO, resident of Vill & Po. Ghamroj Teh-Sohna Distt. Gurgaon, Haryana, Pin-122102, inform all that my wife Nitu Devi has changed her name to Neetu, vide affidavit of Dated 26-06-2019 (court of exectutive Magistrate, Bathinda).

63372I, hitherto known as Lakhbir Singh alias Lakha son of Gurbax Singh resident of Mohalla Rautan Rahon Teh-N a w a n s h a h r D i s t r i c t Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar-144517 Punjab, India, have changed my name and shall hereinafter be known as Singh is my surname and given name is Lakhbir. It is certified that I have completed with other legal requirements in this connection.

63372I Alka Singh Existing Name Of Spouse As Per Change Of Next Of Kin Pori S e r v i c e D o c u m e n t s Spouse Of Manoj Kumar Yadav Name Of The Husband Resident Of K.1/43 Gai Ghat Varanasi Pin No.221001 Address Have Change My Name A l k a S i n g h YA D AV Existing Name Of Spouse As Per Change Of Next Of K i n P o r i S e r v i c e Documents To Alka Singh Yadav Proposes Adapted New Name Vide Affidavit Da ted 28 June 2019 Bathinda.

63372I 14938273Y Nk MD Amirul Hoque son of Allarakha SK r/o Village Solepara, Tehsil K a n d i , D i s t r i c t Murshidabad, West Bengal currently posted at 22 MECH INF c/o 56 APO , New Cantt. Kapurthala declare that name and date of birth of my brother has been wrongly mentioned as “ O A Z N A B I P K ” & 21.03.2000 respectively in my army service record while his correct name is “WASNABI” and correct date of birth is 25.06.1999, The same may be corrected accordingly in my army service record

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LOST & FOUNDIt is notified that the original Registery of old house Vasika No.3715, (21.1.1990) that the name of Surinder Kumar S/o Gurcharan Singh and Registery Vasika No.4061 Date 3.8.2005 that the name of Anita Rani W/o Chander Kishor has been lost in Rajpura Town 14.5.2019. I Suresh Kumar S/o Vishan Dass R/o #882, Rajpura Town (Patiala)

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PUBLIC NOTICEIt is brought to Notice of General Public that Mr. Asha Rani W/o Surinder Kumar R/o and owner of the house measuring 127.77 Sq. Yards, bearing property Unit No. H.No. 158 Dewan Chand Street, W.No. 18 Gaushalla Road Mansa Teh and Distt. Mansa & as per title deed, the property is bound as under having boundaries as per title deed:- East: 50’ Satpal West: 50’ Kashmiri Lal North: 23’ Dharampal South: 23’ Street, is availing Loan against this property. Anybody having objection regarding mortgage of property with Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Co. Ltd., may respond or raise objection within 7 days, to R.P. Singh advocate, 75080-11581.

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3HARYANATwo trucks with 1800 boxes of liquor seizedRAMAN WADHWABARARA: On the basis of secret information, the Mullana police registered a case againsttwo truck drivers in different trucks liquor near Kalpi on Tuesday. Narayangarh CIA team gotthe secret information that two trucks from Badoli are taking liquor. On the basis of this infor-mation, the CIA Narayangarh and Mullana police blockade near Kalpi with Barricades. At thattime, the police found two trucks during the blockade, which was loaded with liquor. Whenthe CIA team sought papers relating to this liquor, the truck driver could not show the papers.When liquor was counted by police, then both the trucks it was 1800 boxes of orange lushcountry liquor. The Mullana Police has registered a case against both of them under the con-trol of Palaram village Khanonda district Kurukshetra and Naib Singh village Kanthal Khurddistrict Kurukshetra and initiated further action.YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

3 IAS, 1 HCS officerstransferred CHANDIGARH: Haryana governmenthas issued transfer and posting orders ofthree IAS officers and one HCS officer,with immediate effect.Sanjeev Verma, Director and SpecialSecretary, Welfare of Scheduled Castesand Backward Classes Department hasbeen posted as Special Secretary andDirector, Archives Department.Geeta Bharti, Special Secretary, PublicWorks (Building and Roads) Departmenthas been posted as Director and SpecialSecretary, Welfare of Scheduled Castesand Backward Classes Department.Ritu, Controller and Additional Secretary,Printing and Stationery Department hasbeen posted as Director and AdditionalSecretary, Social Justice and Empower-ment Department.HCS officer Jitender Kumar-III, Sub Divi-sional Officer (Civil), Punhana, ManagingDirector, Co-operative Sugar Mills, Palw-al and Sub Divisional Officer (Civil),Tosham has been posted as Sub Divi-sional Officer (Civil), Punhana and Man-aging Director, Cooperative Sugar Mills,Palwal.

Edelweiss celebratesInt’l MSME Day

PARVEEN KUMARHISAR: ECL Finance Limited, part ofEdelweiss Group, one of India’s largestdiversified financial services, today cele-brated International Micro, Small andMedium-sized Enterprises (MSME) dayat its branch in Rohtak.As part of the cel-ebrations, key members of the SMEcommunity were felicitated along withseveral other initiatives for clients and in-dustry. The United Nations General As-sembly designated June 27 as Interna-tional MSME day to raise public aware-ness of MSMEs’ contribution to sustain-able development.The day is celebratedto salute the spirit of small entrepreneursfor their immense contribution in drivingIndia’s growth story. The celebrationswere graced by Mr. Gulshan Dang, Pres-ident of HaryanaPardeshVeopar Man-dal,along with Edelweiss’ MSME cus-tomers and senior company personnel.Gulshan Dungsaid “MSMEs are cata-lysts to India’s growth story. It gives meimmense pleasure in congratulatingthem for their tremendous contribution toour city, community and the country’seconomy. Edelweiss’ effort in encourag-ing this spirit of entrepreneurship by sup-porting these small enterprises with time-ly credit, is indeed commendable.”Mehernosh Tata, Head SME Lending,Edelweisssaid, “The contribution madeby MSMEs to the Indian economy is trulyof significance and commendable.

Free health check-upcamp in Lohgarh on June 29AMBALA: Free health check-up campwill be organized by an NGO Jan Chet-na Foundation on June 29 at Lohgarhvillage of Ambala. Aim of this free healthcamp is to help and protect needy andpoor people from diseases. Special doc-tors in this camp will give their servicesto the people. The camp will be started inLohgarh village of Ambala city at 9 am inwhich the people of the surrounding vil-lages can also avail of this facility.

Kashyap Communitycelebrates Rajkumar’sjoining in BJPMAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI: Members of the Kashyap Com-munity today celebrated for lone RajyaSabha MP Rajkumar Kashyap quittingINLD and joining BJP. They distributedladoos among people present on the oc-casion. They said that they will get a rep-resentation in national party of BJP. Ra-jkumar made Rajya Sabha MP on April10, 2014 as INLD candidate.

19 agenda relatingto developmentspassedINDRI: As many as 19 agendas relatingto the development works were passedwith voice vote in a House meeting ofNagarpalika held in tis office under thechairpersonship of Shivani Goel here to-day. This meeting was attended byHaryana Food and Supply MinisterKaran Dev Kamboj who was also wel-comed by the councilors after reaching inthe meeting. Minister also flagged off firetender of Fire Brigade at a cost of Rs 28lakhs. Vice Chairmen Gurikebal Singh,Amit Goyal, Corporators Shashikanta,Neelam Kumari, Seema Rani, Dipti Nag-pal, Gurmeet Singh, Rina Rani, SarabjitKaur, Sania, Rinku Kumar, Kamlesh, Mu-nicipal Secretary Shailendra Sharma, allother officials including Navin were pres-ent.

Fire safety app to bedeveloped to avoiddamage: Kavita JainCHANDIGARH: Haryana Urban LocalBodies Minister, Mrs. Kavita Jain saidthat in order to strengthen fire safetymeasures in the state, a fire safety appwill soon be developed, under which theDeputy Commissioners, Superintendentsof Police and CMO will be connectedwith fire stations of all 22 districts. If therewill be a fire incident anywhere in thestate, it will alert all at once and assis-tance will be provided immediately.

SHIV SHARMACHANDIGARH, JUNE 27-

Haryana Chief Minister Mr ManoharLal today directed the officers tospeed the work on all the incompletedevelopmental works to ensure theirtimely completion for the conven-ience of the people of the state.

The Chief Minister was review-ing the ongoing developmental worksin Karnal today and gave necessarydirections to the officers concerned.

He said that development is themain aim and objective of the presentGovernment both at Centre and State.He urged the legislators present in thismeeting that they should maintain di-rect dialogue with the people to hearand redress their grievances at the ear-liest to fulfil the hopes and aspirationof the people. There is no dearth offunds in the government treasury andthe funds has already been releasedfor ongoing development works, heassured.

Later, while interacting with themediapersons, Mr Manohar Lal said

emergency victim term has now beenremoved from the identity cards ofSatyagrahis who have struggled dur-ing the Emergency and now they havebeen given the name of LoktantraSenanis.

He said that the State Governmenthas decided to bear the expenses ofmedical assistance upto Rs five lakhannually to the Loktantra Senani ortheir spouse for treatment in govern-ment or private hospitals.

BUREAUCHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

Haryana Government has is-sued transfer and posting or-ders of eight IPS officers andone HPS officer with imme-diate effect. NaazneenBhasin, Superintendent ofPolice, Special Task Force,Gurugram has been posted asSuperintendent of Police,Rewari. Rahul Sharma, Su-perintendent of Police, Re-wari has been posted as Su-perintendent of Police, Ro-htak. Abhishek Jorwal, Su-

perintendent of Police, ChiefMinister’s Flying Squad(CID), Panchkula has beenposted as Superintendent ofPolice, Ambala.

Jashandeep Singh Rand-hawa, Superintendent of Po-lice, Rohtak has been postedas Superintendent of Police,Special Task Force, Guru-gram. Waseem Akram, Su-perintendent of Police,Kaithal has been posted asCommandant, 3rd Indian Re-serve Battalion, Sunaria.Mohit Handa, Superinten-dent of Police, Ambala has

been posted as Superinten-dent of Police, Dadri. Viren-der Kumar, Superintendentof Police, Hansi has beenposted as Superintendent ofPolice, Kaithal. SmitiChaudhary, Superintendentof Police, Dadri has beenposted as Superintendent ofPolice, Chief Minister’s Fly-ing Squad (CID), Panchkula.Among HPS officer, Viren-der Singh Sanwan, Addition-al Superintendent of Police,Crime has been posted as Su-perintendent of Police, Han-si.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, JUN 27

The Swaraj India will fight the up-coming Haryana Assembly polls,projecting the outfit as a viable al-ternative to the ruling BJP, partyleader Yogendra Yadav said Thurs-day.

"We have decided to contest theupcoming Haryana assemblypolls," Yadav, who was accompa-nied by party's state unit presidentRajeev Godara, told a news confer-ence here Thursday.

He said the newly floated partyhad decided not to contest the LokSabha elections throughout thecountry as they wanted to focus onthe issues of farmers and unem-ployed youth.

"We have decided to give one-third seats to women and one-thirdto the youth. We are going to focus

on five issues--agrarian distress, re-munerative prices to the farmers,unemployment relief for educatedunemployed youth and we want alaw which would ensure no liquorvend can be opened unless womenof that Gram Sabha approve of it,"he said. For the unorganised sectorworkers, better wages and more se-

cure better quality environment willbe on top of our agenda, Yadav said.He said Haryana has seen atrocitiesagainst Dalits, oppression ofwomen and all kinds of law and or-der issues and the party wants everycitizen to be treated equally.

On contesting the Haryanapolls, which are due in October, he

said, "We had contested municipalelection and put up one or two can-didates in Rajasthan, but this is ourfull state assembly election". TheSwaraj India will not project anyface for the polls, the academician-turned-politician said. "In this state,the entire politics is centred aroundcaste, Jats versus non-Jats. We standin resolute opposition of this, we aresaying we want to bring all the 36communities together," he said.Asked that his party will be enteringthe fray at a time when the BJP re-cently swept all 10 Lok Sabha seatsin Haryana and has been makingclaims that it will win 75 plus as-sembly seats, Yadav replied,"Everyone is saying this is the worsttime to get into elections. But wethink this is the best time becausethis is when people are looking foran alternative, a viable alternativewhich we will provide".

CM asks officials for speedycompletion of projects

Eight IPS , one HPS shifted

Condoles demise ofJanak RaniCHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal today expressed deep sor-row and grief over the sad demise ofMrs. Janak Rani, the mother of well-known industrialist and Karnal DistrictBJP President, Mr Jagmohan Anand,and expressed deep condolences tothe family members for their loss.The Chief Minister today visited the res-idence of Mr Jagmohan Anand at Kar-nal to express condolences to the be-reaved family members. The Chief Min-ister said that human life is the bestcreation of God but it is short lived andall of us have to depart this world oneday or the other. He said that MrsJanak Rani was a woman of highmoral values and he prayed to God togive her eternal rest and the familymembers the strength to bear the greatpain. Janak Rani expired on June 24,2019 and the “Rasam Kriya” to pay trib-utes to the departed soul will be held onJuly 6 from 2 pm to 3.30 pm in AnmolGardens at Karnal.

Swaraj India to fight upcoming Haryana Assembly polls

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, JUNE 27

The Anti-Corruption Founda-tion of India today honouredDr Surendra Kashyap for hisdedicated and sincere work.The Foundation has beenawarding such people fromthe past. Dr SurenderKashyap is the ounder mem-ber of the Kalpana ChawlaMedical College and Hospi-tal. For the last 9 years DrKashyap has been giving hissincere service to the KalpanaChawla hospital.

President of the Anti-Cor-ruption Foundation of India

Narendra Arora and generalsecretary Pawan Sharma hon-

oured DR Kashyap with theSincere worker award. Hewas offered a shawl and me-mento. Speaking on the occa-sion DR Kashyap thanked theAnti-Corruptin Foundation ofIndia is doing a fine job, IPSJashandeeo Singh Randhawa,IAS Nishant Yadav, OSD toCM Amaridner Singh, Direc-tor of IGNOU Dr DharampalSirohi, Mohan Lal, JogendraSingh Deshwal, Satpal Singhand Jaswinder Tuli were alsoawarded. Vikas Dhingra andVijay Kamboj were alsospresent on the occasion.

Dr Kashyap awarded for sincere work

PINJORE, JUNE 27

The 10th edition of its She-mEmpower Annual Resi-dential Teachers' TrainingProgramme concluded hereat the campus of SHEM-FORD Futuristic School onThursday. This programmewas held to enhance theskills of teachers and pre-pare them for challengesthat they may face as educa-tors. The 4-day TrainingProgramme, was attendedby more than 200 SchoolHeads & Teachers from allacross the country.

The comprehensive &

insightful Residential Train-ing Programme was de-signed by a team of expert &experienced educationistsunder the ace supervision ofMrs Meenal Arora, FounderDirector - SHEMFORDGroup of Futuristic Schools.

She is one of India's leadingeducationists and a distin-guished parenting expert.She is the recipient of the re-puted '#100 Women Achiev-ers Award' by the Ministryof Women & Child Devel-opment, Government of In-

dia. The training programmecomprises of innovative andeffective modules such asFrom Vision to Action, TheBrain and Beyond, Measur-ing what Matters, TheKinesthetic Classroom, andmany others. Apart fromsessions of informativemodules and enriching pre-sentations, this 4-day eventwill help the School Headsand Teachers to refresh andrejuvenate their mind, body& soul with several exciting& fun-filled activities likeExcursions, Yoga, Aerobics,Trekking, Gym, Gala Party,etc.

Residential Teachers' Training Programme concludes

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, JUNE 27

A camp was organised by District Legal Ser-vices Authority for the mentally challengedand retarded people in Karnal jail today. Psy-chiatrist Dr Ashish Agrawal, Dr Sujata, Direc-tor Tapan Rehabilitation Centre and Panel ad-vocate Vikram Talk and paralegal volunteerIgya Pal participated in the camp.

From the side of the jail administratinAshok Kamboj and Jaswant Singh were pres-ent. More than 50 mentally challenged and re-tarded prisoners were present at the camp to-

day. It was checked if the prisoners are gettingmedicines on time or not. The prisoners re-quested the authorities to hold these camps ona regular basis.

Camp held for mentally challenged persons

Kalyan inspectsdevelopment works

MAHINDER SINGHGHARAUNDA, JUNE 27

Acting on a complaint pertaining to slow pace ofwork made in the grievance redressal meeting, localMLA HarvinderKalyan got annoyedand inspected workson the spot along withresidents of Ashokcolony. He directedofficials concerned tospeed up all develop-ment works undertak-en. Accompanied byKarnal Mayor Renu Gupta on Wednesday at Kam-bopur village, he inspected the work relating to con-struction Community Centre at Rs 1.25 crore. He di-rected officers present to speed up construction workand development of park along with green areas byplanting more trees.

ROHIT LAMSARTARAORO, JUNE 27

The Garments Assosciation of Taraori hasopenly criticised the wasteage of water.Now onwards if the members of the Gar-ments Association members see anywastage of water they will immediatelymake an effort to check that. The mem-bers will tell people about the importanceof saving water. Yashpal Gulati said wateris necessary for survival of life on earthand it should be allowed to waste at anycost.

The members of the Garments Asso-ciation, Taraori held a meeting today onthe `Jal Bachao Abhiyan’ at Gulati Fash-ion Hut in Taraori. The meeting was

presided over by Yashpal Gulati, owner ofthe Hut. All the officials participated inthe meeting to make suggestions to stopwastage of water.

Wasting water bad for future: Gulati

Truck safetyprogramme held

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, JUNE 27

A traffic safety awareness programme was organised by thetraffic police under the guidance of SP Surendra Bhoria. Seniortraffic policeman Narendra Kumar made the truck driversaware of traffic safety rules and regulations.The traffic aware-ness camp was held at the Sector 4 truck union. Narendra Ku-mar told the truck drivers that in case of any accident they caninform on accident helpline number 1073.

The truck drivers can save the lives of human beings incase of accidents. The traffic police advised the drivedr not todrink and drive as it may cause accidents and people can getkilled. This can endanger lives of people on the roads. The driv-ers were also advised not to drive for long hours and especial-ly if they are feeling sleepy. They should rest by the roadside ifthey are feeling tired and sleepy. ASI Ashok Kumar was alsopresent.

GURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL, JUNE 27

Karnal ADC Anish Yadav said today that un-der the D Plan scheme’s first instalment, Rs15.80 crore has been allotted for developmentworks in the region.This money has been al-lotted for the financial eyar 2019-20.

ADC Anish Yadav addressed a meeting to-day at the Mini Secretariat and said that forthe SC category Rs 6.11 crore money will beallotted. He said Rs 41 crore had been sanc-

tioned for these works this year for the D PlanScheme. He instructed all the officials to com-plete the remaining unfinished works at theearliest. The final list of works will be pre-pared and sent within two days to all members.He said the entire allotted money should beused for the development works. ZP chairper-son Usha Devi Mehla. SDM Sumit Sihag,Gagandip Singh, Sanjay Mehla, Ramphal,Sangeeta Mehta, Narendra Gorsi an other BJPworkers were present at the meeting.

Development works worthRs 15 cr sanctioned: ADC

Grow crops that needless water: Madanlal

GURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL, JUNE 27

District Horticulture offier Madan Lal saidthat Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattarrecently launched the `Jal Jivan Yogaja’.Under this plan famrs hae been advised togrow crops which need less water. Thecrops should also be such which fetch bet-ter price to the farmers so that they do notsuffer losses at the end.

Madan Lal said while on one hand suchcrops will use less water and on the otherhand the farmers will also be able to in-crease their income.

Madan Lal was addressing the villagersat the Gondar village, Around 80 farmersparticipated in the programme. He said thefarmers must show whet and rice directly tosave water. Sukhdev Singh, Rm Narayan,Rajkumar and supervisor, farmers and offi-cials were also present at the programmetoday.

Road safety is notjust a slogan butway of life: Nehra

SHIV SHARMAKARNAL, JUNE 27

On the initiative of the Karnal district policeand under the aegis of the district adminis-tration, a special campaign will be held forthe students-public dialogue. Giving this in-formation SP Surendra Bhoria said the pro-gramme will be held under the direction ofthe Director General of Police Manoj Yada-va and Yogendra Nehra. DC Vinay PratapSingh will also take initiative in organisingthe programme. The objecive will be to cre-ate a safe Karnal, said Yogendra Nehrawhild addressing a meeting in the Mini Sec-retariat. He said drug menace is increasingin Haryana especially among the youngergeneratin and this has to be stopped at allcost.

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALAGURU, JUNE 27

Millions of litres of waterare wasted by leaving opentaps, Soon the Water SupplyDepartment will take action: S.D.O. Jandiala GuruKuljit Singh Water SupplyDepartment will shortlylaunch a drive against thosefound wasting potable watersuch as running waterthrough open taps, using itfor agriculture purspose andfor irrigation lawns andwashing courtyards thoughwich a lot of water goingwaste..

In villages and towns, it isoften seen that the piped tapsof the water supply goingwaster by running it unabat-

ed. SDO of Water SupplyDepartment Gurpal Singhsaid that he was also seriousabout the matter and willsoon issue water savingguidelines to the employeesof his department.

On the question of opentaps, he said, he will keep apenalty for whoever keepsopen taps. He will also con-duct a meeting in villagesand towns to check leakagesand open water taps.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

NGO urges Punjab Govt. to expedite fixing of high-security number platesCHANDIGARH: With the Punjab government resuming the drive to install high security reg-istration plates (HSRP) on vehicles after four years, Raahat- The Safe Community Founda-tion, a non-governmental organization, has urged the government to expedite the process.

The HSRP project had begun operations in the state in 2012 but came to a halt in 2015post a litigation between the vendor company Agros Impex (I) Pvt. Ltd. and Punjab state trans-port department. Speaking on the occasion Kamaljit Soi, Chairman of the foundation urgedthe government to instruct the vendor concerned to also commence the process on a prioritybasis. Implementation of HSRPs in the state is important as it shares its border with the neigh-boring country and has witnessed several terrorist activities in the past.

Integrate allunbundled powerutilities: AIPEFCHANDIGARH: The All India PowerEngineers Federation (AIPEF) hasdemanded restructuring andintegration of all un-bundled powerutilities in the larger interest of statesfor better coordination and betterconsumer service. The AIPEF wrote toUnion Power Minister R K Singh onThursday urging the Centre tointroduce a separate section inNational electricity policy to integratethe state power sector. ''Even todaythe states can integrate generationtransmission and distribution in to onecompany as electricity is a concurrentsubject,'' the letter read.After the enactment of Electricity Act2003, different states re-structured thestate electricity boards unilaterally asper their wishes. There is no uniformityand wide diversity in structure of statepower utilities across the country.While in some states there weremultiple distribution companies like inKarnataka (5 Discoms), UP (5Discoms), MP (3 Discoms), Haryana (2Discoms) while many states retainedthe entire state under 1 Discom.In case of Punjab and Tamil Nadugeneration and distribution wereretained as one company whiletransmission was separated out. Incase of Kerala and Himachal Pradesh,the integrated structure of generation,transmission and distribution wasretained in one company . In severalstates a separate coordination bodyhas been created which is thecontrolling body of multiple Discoms.

CITY BUREAUCHANDIGARH, JUN 27

Punjab Governor andChandigarh AdministratorV P Singh Badnore omThursday visited the ailing

Hockey Olympian BalbirSingh Senior who is under-going treatment in thePGIMER here. Badnorehas a special regard for thenonagenarian hockey play-ers who has won many lau-

rels for the nation and oftenbeen invited as a specialguest during the functionsat Raj Bhawan. Accordingto the doctors, the tripleOlympic Gold Medalistand former Captain Indian

Hockey team is on the pathof recovery. However, thisdecision did not go wellwith the Twitter universeand many fans took to theplatform to voice their dis-sent.

Punjab Guv visits ailing HockeyOlympian Balbir Singh at PGIMER

LONDON/CHANDI-GARH, JUNE 27

The Sports and Youth Af-fairs Minister, Punjab,Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhicalled upon 2 timeOlympic Gold winner ath-lete and renowned SportsAdministrator Lord Sebas-tian Coe at the House ofLords in London.

The meeting saw de-tailed discussions takingplace regarding various ad-ministrative issues andtechnicalities related to theproposed Sports Universityat Patiala. Lord Coe on hispart assured the minister ofevery possible assistancefrom his end for establish-ing as well as efficient run-ning of the university. Dur-ing the meeting with LordCoe who is the Chancellorof Loughborough Univer-

sity a prominent institutionin the sports field, the min-ister discussed the infra-structural matters andsports science subjects in acomprehensive manner.The matters which came upfor discussion included Ap-pointment of Coaches hav-ing expertise in Sports Sci-ence subjects, Trainingplayers with regard to re-frain and recovery from in-juries during the course oftheir careers, Maintaining

fitness levels of playersthrough innovative coach-ing techniques and prepar-ing coaches and the playersfrom psychological pointof view for world levelcompetitions. Rana Sodhifurther disclosed that theChief Minister, Punjab,Captain Amarinder Singhhas decided to set up aSports University in Patialain order to make the Stateregain its numero uno spotin sporting arena.

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

To commemorate the suc-cess of students, CareerLauncher organised a grandfelicitation ceremony, to ho-nour the meritorious stu-dents of the Institute at TheAltius Hotel, IndustrialPhase 2, Chandigarh. Over70+ students qualified forNational Law UniversitiesNationwide, Symbiosis,IPM-IIM Indore, and IHMs(Hotel management Col-leges).

On this occasion, BharatJain, Director of Chandigarh& Patiala Region, CareerLauncher rewarded the mer-itorious students with a tro-phy & certificate on their ac-ademic achievements. It ispertinent to mention herethat apart from Patiala twocentres of Career Launcher

are running in Chandigarh -- one in Sec 35 and the oth-er in Sec 8. While address-ing the gathering, BharatJain congratulated the stu-dents for their success andalso expressed gratitude to-wards the efforts of theteachers & faculty mem-bers, whose sheer determi-

nation and hard work led tothis moment. “Goongi” Pre-sented to Former PresidentPranab Mukherjee Chandi-garh.

City based writer, Se-nior Journalist and SocialWorker Mayank Mishrapresented his new book'Goongi' to former President

of India Pranab Mukherjeein New Delhi at his resi-dence. Mukherjee compli-mented Mayank for thisbook. This is the eighthbook of Mayank. Lastmonth, Mayank met VicePresident of India M.Venkaiah Naidu at his resi-dence in New Delhi and pre-sented book to him. Naiduappreciated this book andgave Mayank his best wish-es. Mayank had also pre-sented the book to Governorof Punjab and UT adminis-trator Mr. VP Singh Bad-nore and Justice Rajiv Shar-ma of Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court. There are a totalof 15 short stories in thisbook which is collection ofshort stories. This book wasselected by ChandigarhSahitya Akademi for itsgrant in aid scheme.

LUDHIANA, JULY 27

In view of the cleaning of Bud-ha Nullah, Ludhiana MPRavneet Singh Bittu along withPunjab Food, Civil Supplies andConsumer Affairs MinisterBharat Bhushan Ashu todayheld a meeting with Union Min-ister of Jal Shakti GajendraSingh Shekhawat in his office inDelhi today. Both the leaderssought the cooperation of thegovernment of India for thisproject.

After the meeting, RavneetSingh Bittu informed that thecleaning of Budha Nullah is oneof his dream projects and he hasalso made this promise with thepeople of Ludhiana. He said thatthe Budha Nullah (earlier

known as Budha Dariya) is anold tributary of river Satluj andonce had more than 50 speciesof Fish but unfortunately it start-ed loosing its glory with the pas-sage of time. Bharat BhushanAshu stated that the problem ofBudha Nullah has become acomplex issue and further ef-

fecting Rajasthan. People ofGanganagar, Hanumangarh,Bikaner, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer andBarmer districts are affected asthe water of this Nullah falls intoSutlej river and later the samewater is supplied to the residentsof above mentioned areasthrough canals.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JUNE 27

Union Minister of ConsumerAffairs, Food and Public Dis-tribution Ram Vilas Paswanon Thursday acceded to the re-quest of Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh tohold a joint meeting with theUnion Finance Minister to re-solve the Rs 31000 crore foodaccount loan legacy issue.

Paswan agreed to organisethe meeting after the UnionBudget session, an officialspokesperson said after Cap-tain Amarinder Singh calledon the Minister here this after-noon. The Union Minister hasalso agreed to allow Punjab tocreate additional storage spaceto enable the state to addressthe problem of acute shortageof storage space in this Rabiseason. Modalities for thesame will soon be worked out,

said the spokesperson. CaptainAmarinder also succeeded insecuring relaxation in lustreloss in wheat, resulting fromthe unseasonal heavy rains thatlashed the state during the sea-son. During his meeting, theChief Minister pointed out theRs 31000 crore food loan lega-cy issue, inherited from theprevious government, had al-ready been referred to a spe-

cial committee headed byMember NITI Aayog RameshChand, who is also the Mem-ber of 15th Finance Commis-sion. The Committee had beenmandated to look into all as-pects of the Legacy Debt ofPunjab government arising outof accumulated CCL (FoodCredit Gap) with reference toFood Corporation of India/De-partment of Food and Public

Distribution. The Chief Minis-ter sought Paswan’s personalintervention to expedite thematter.

With regard to lustre loss,Captain Amarinder informedthe Union Food Minister thatGovernment of India had onlyallowed relaxation in for ninedistricts with effect from 8thMay 2019, by when bulk ofthe purchase had been com-pleted in the state. The statehad sought relaxation, througha letter to GoI on April 26,2019, for the entire quantity ofwheat purchased during theseason across the state, andshould be given relaxationw.e.f April 26, when it firstsought FCI inspection. Ex-pressing concern over slowmovement of stocks, the ChiefMinister told Paswan that thestate government was grap-pling with acute shortage ofstorage space for foodgrain.

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

A meeting of the Finance andContract Committee of Munic-ipal Corporation Chandigarhwas held today under theChairmanship of Rajesh Ku-mar, Mayor of Chandigarh andattended by K. K. Yadav, IAS,Commissioner and members ofthe committee namely BharatKumar, Mahesh Inder Singh,Ravi Kant Sharma, ShaktiPrakash Devshali, Sheela Deviand officers of MCC, SanjayKumar Jha, IAS, Special Com-missioner, S.K. Jain and Sh.Anil Kumar Garg, AdditionalCommissioners, ManojBansal, Chief Engineer andother senior officers of MCC.

The committee membersdiscussed the agenda item re-garding transfer of sanitationand enforcement services ofSector 26 vegetable market tothe MCC.

The members decided thatrequired staff of sanitationwing will be deployed in themandi area to keep it clean andenforcement of inner part ofmandi will be looked after bythe MCC from now onwards.The committee further dis-cussed and accorded approvalfor the following important is-sues and agenda items: TheF&CC appointed additionalcommissioner-I, area councilorand Shakti Parkash Devshali,

member of F&CC to inspectthe Night Shelter/Raen Baserabuilding situated at pocket no.2 & 3, Manimajra, Chandigarhand examine the case to leaseout it to the Sadhna Society forMentally Retarded Childrenfor the purpose of runningschool of Mentally RetardedChildren and put up its reportwithin one week. The commit-tee further decided to give bigparks/ gardens under the con-trol of MC, Chandigarh toNGOs/individual societiesthrough calling Expression ofInterest for maintenance pur-

poses. The committee also ac-corded approval for installationof Mini Hot Mix MovablePlant for Bitumen Mix by us-age of Plastic waste at Ind.Area, Ph-1, Chandigarh. TheCommittee accorded approvalto fix the reserve price @337.25 per Sqft as monthly rentfor different sizes of booths atunder pass on V-3 road, Sector17 & 22, Chandigarh. In addi-tion to that agenda for disposalof Eating Joint, Shanti Kunj,Sector 16, Chandigarh hasbeen considered and Rs.30,000 has been fixed as re-serve price for it.

The F&CC approved theagenda regarding inviting Ex-pression of interest for runningand operation CremationGround Situated at IndustrialArea, Phase -1, Chandigarh. Inaddition to that agenda aboutproviding shed cover in the pas-sages inside the cremationground, sector 25 has been ap-proved.

F&CC resolves to take sanitationservices of Sec 26 veg market

CITY PIC

ISHA UPADHYAYCHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

An 8-day intensive workshopon French concluded at MehrChand Mahajan DAV Col-lege for Women here today.Organised under the aegis ofSkill Development Commit-tee of the college, the work-shop aimed to make the par-ticipants conversant with oneof the major languages of theworld- French.

The workshop comprisedof communicative sessions tohelp the participants to con-verse in French languagewith ease in various situa-tions. Besides teaching pro-nounciation through listeningto audios, the participantswere also introduced toFrench grammar and vocabu-

lary. The workshop providedthe participants with the en-vironment to become fluentcommunicators in French byinvolving them in the ac-tivites like “jeu de role” i.e.role play. On the concludingday, viva voce was conductedto ponder upon the improve-ments the participantsachieved from the workshopand were awarded certifi-cates. Principal Dr.NishaBhargava reiterated that ac-quiring communication skillsin different languages is theneed of the hour because ofglobalisation. She added thatbeing adept in French canhelp people build a soundprospect future as it brings alot of benefits in the areas ofeconomic and cultural gate-ways.

Action to be taken against peoplewasting potable water: SDO

Committees constitutedto grant approval of FiscalIncentive cases enhanced:

Sunder Sham AroraCHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

In line with its objective ofease of doing business, theIndustries & Commerce Min-ister, Punjab, Sunder ShamArora today announced theenhancing of the jurisdictionof District Level Committeesconstituted to grant approvalof Fiscal Incentive cases andmonitoring of RegulatoryClearances of MSMEs.

The applications for Regu-latory Clearances/Fiscal In-centives for MSMEs as de-fined by Union Ministry ofMSME, irrespective of FixedCapital Investment (FCI)could be now made to theDistrict Level Committeeheaded by Deputy Commis-sioner.

India has about 1.5 million to2 million new stroke casesevery year : Gupta

SUDHIR PAHUJAPATIALA: To Create awareness onBrain Stroke & Lifestyle modification ateam of Doctors from Paras Superspecialty Hospital Panchkula,addressed the media person today.Present on the occasion were Dr ProfVivek Gupta, Senior ConsultantInterventional Neuroradiology & DrDeepak Gupta, Associate Director,Neurology from Paras SpecialtyHospital, Panchkula.Addressing the media person Dr VivekGupta said “Stroke is emerging as thenew epidemic in India with 1.5 to 2.0million new stroke cases beingreported across the country everyyear. The actual numbers are bound tobe higher as many of these patientsnever reach health care facilities.Everyday around 3000-4000 strokehappen in India and not more than 2-3% are treated. Worldwide incidencerate of stroke in 60-100 cases per100,000 population per year whereasin India it is close to 145-145 casesper 100,000/year. The reason forincreased incidence in India is lack ofawareness about the disease per seand the methods of prevention.

PSPCL touches newhigh in power supplyCHANDIGARH: A spokesman ofPSPCL informed in a press note thatPunjab State Power Corporationlimited has successfully catered tohistorical maximum demand of 12,842MW on 27th June, 2019 againstprevious historical maximum demandof 12,677 MW met on 26th June,2019. Last year, the highest evermaximum demand was 12,638 MWmet on 10th July, 2018. Maximumdemand on 27th June, 2019 i.e.12,842 MW is about 165 MW higheras compared to 12,677 MW met on26th June, 2019 and 204 MW higheras compared to 12,638 MW met on10th July, 2018. Last year maximumdemand on 27th June was 10674.7MW. PSPCL supplied 2,742 LakhUnits (LUs) of electricity on 26th June,2019 to all the power consumerswithin Punjab without imposing anypower cut on Domestic, commercialand industrial consumers and 8 hrs toAP consumer which is highest duringthe ongoing paddy/summer seasonthus far which is 77 Lakh Units (LUs)more than last year (2,665 Lus) on thesame day. Last year, PSPCLsurpassed its own record of highestever energy supplied during a day withsupply of as high as 2,749 LUs ofenergy within state on 04th August,2018. PSPCL stated that 4 units ofGGSSTP Rupnagar, 3 units of GHTPLehra Mohabbat , 31 units of Hydelincluding 3 units of RSD were runningin addition to all the five units of IPPsin the state. PSPCL is providing daily 8hour power supply to its agricultureconsumers in Punjab from 13th June,2019 i.e. start of paddy season alongwith 24 hour power supply to all othercategory of consumers.

Convocation ceremonyof NCC cadets held

MOHALI, JUNE 27

A convocation ceremony for NCC cadets,who have successfully completed threeyears of rigorous training and have qualifiedfor the ‘C’certificate, was held at NCC Acad-emy, Ropar. Convocation ceremony of NCCC certificate passes outs for the batch 2016-19 of 3 PB INDP. In this ceremony 4 NCCcadets of Gian Jyoti Institute of Managementand Technology NCC Unit was awardedCEE certificate with 'A' GRADE. Col. B.P.S.Thakur Commanding officer 23 PUNJABNCC Coy Ropar, along with Lt. Col. Manish,3 PB (Indp.) Coy NCC ROPAR presidedover the function. J.S.Bedi, Chairman,GJIMT congratulated all the cadets and in-formed that Senior Under Officer SandeepKumar of BCA, Under Officer Amit Kumarof BCA, Cadet Jaskaran of BCA and CadetIshant of BCA was awarded CEE certificatewith 'A' GRADE. Outstanding associateNCC officers and NCC instructors were alsogiven prizes on the occasion.

Bittu, Ashu seek cooperationto clean Budha Nallah

The members decidedthat required staff ofsanitation wing will bedeployed in the mandiarea to keep it clean andenforcement of inner partof mandi will be lookedafter by the MCC fromnow onwards

Career launcher felicitates students on their success

Paswan accepts Amarinder's suggestion for jointmeeting with FM to resolve Rs. 31000 cr loan issue

Workshop on Frenchconcludes at MCM

Rana Sodhi calls on ChancellorLoughborough University

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

DM bans sale of rotten fruits and locallyprepared eatables in HamirpurHAMIRPUR: District Magistrate Harikesh Meena has imposed a complete ban onsale and storage of rotten and overripe fruits and vegetables in the district. DMMeena has imposed this ban in wake of fast spreading diseases of Gastro,Diahorea, Cholera and other water related diseases in the area. Besides, no onewould be able to sell ice candies, ice creams and mineral water prepared locallyfor human consumption. In an order issued here, the District magistrate hadauthorized various officers including those of the district administration, police andhealth department to enter into such premises where such items were stored forinspection and if found unfit to destroy them. As per the order issued, it wouldremain enforce till the end of year 2019.

Mild intensity quakejolts part of HimachalSHIMLA: A mild intensity earthquakejolted parts of Mandi district ofHimachal Pradesh last night, the MetOffice confirmed. Shimla Met OfficeIncharge Manmohan Singh said thatearthquake of magnitude 2.6 on theRichter scale hit part of Mandi districtat 2147 hrs last night. He said thatMandi fall in high seismic zonehowever the intensity of tremor wasmild. No report of loss of live andproperty was reported from any whereso far, he added.

Two boys crushed todeath in UdhampurUDHAMPUR: Two minor boys werecrushed to death by a dumper on theJammu-Srinagar national highwayhere Thursday, police said. RajKumar (8) and his relative Pankaj(13) were crossing the highway whenthey were run over by the GeneralReserve Engineer Force (GREF)dumper at Champari near Chenani, apolice officer said. The driver of thevehicle was arrested and a caseunder relevant sections of the lawwas registered against him, theofficer said.

One killed, twoinjured in mysteriousblastSRINAGAR: One person was killedand two others were injured in amysterious blast on Thursday insouth Kashmir district of Kulgam,official sources said here. The blasttook place at Chadder Ban,Khudwani in Kulgam district resultingin injuries to three persons. Theinjured were rushed to Qaimohhospital where one of them identifiedas Nazir Ahmad was declaredbrought dead. One of the injuredAbbas was later referred to DistrictHospital, Anantnag in a criticalcondition. Police have registered acase and started investigation. Policeand experts teams have been rushedthere to investigate the cause ofblast, the sources added.

Body of militantrecovered, anothernabbedSRINAGAR: Body of a militant wasrecovered while another wascaptured in an injured condition insouth Kashmir district of Anantnag onThursday, official sources said. Asearch operation was launched atShaligoli Marhama Waghama,Bijbehara in Anantnag district thismorning after some firing shots wereheard late Wednesday night. Duringsearches, bullet-riddled body of amilitant, identified as Adil Ahmadreportedly belonging to AnsarGhazwatul Hind (AGH), wasrecovered from the orchards. Anotherultra-- Arif Hussain Bhat-- wasarrested in an injured condition. Itwas not immediately clear how themilitant was killed or injured, theysaid, adding that police haveregistered a case and startedinvestigation.

IT team raidspoliticians,businessmen JAMMU: A day after Union HomeMinister Amit Shah in a meeting atSrinagar directed strict actionagainst rampant cases of corruption,sleuths of Income Tax Departmenton Thursday raided someresidences of politicians andbusinessmen in this winter capital ofthe state. Official sources here saidthat the IT teams on Thursdaymorning raided the residence of aveteran Congress leader in GandhiNagar locality and senior NC leaderand former minister in FriendsColony. They added that the ITteams also conducted simultaneousraids in Lakhdatta Bazar area,famous in dealing with gold/diamondornaments and other items. TheLakhdatta Bazar was shut for aweek by the jewelers in view ofsummer vacations, but the IT teamswere camping there. Sources addedthat the raiding teams seized someimportant documents and records oftheir movable/immovable property.

Evening law classesbegin in IECUniversity

ANWAR HUSAINBADDI: IEC University located inBarotiwala of Baddi has decided tostart evening law classes for thoseworking in officers and factories ofBaddi, Barotiwala and Nalagarh. Thisclass will begin from 4 pm to 7 pm andwhole day on Saturdays. Thisinformation was shared by VarsityVice-Chancellor Dr H P Singh whosaid that this will also facilitate to thosewho have been working in shifts. Busfacilities with free of cost will beprovided to those leaving in five kmradius of University.

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, JUN 27

The Dr YS Parmar University of Horti-culture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni hasdeclared the result of its Under GraduateEntrance Examination (UGEE-2019)held on June 16. Over 4279 studentsfrom all over Himachal Pradesh had ap-peared in the entrance test for seekingadmission to B Sc (Hons) Forestry, B Sc(Hons) Horticulture, and B TechBiotechnology programmes run by theUniversity. The result has been uploadedon the university website (www.yspuni-versity.ac.in) and is available on the fol-lowing linkhttp://www.yspuniversity.ac.in/down-load/Result-UGEE-2019.pdf ?

The university has also declared thecutoff mark for the first counselling,which is to be held on July 4 at the LSNegi Auditorium at the university cam-pus. The candidates who have secured50 marks or above in the entrance testwill be eligible to appear in the coun-selling. The candidates must bring their

class 10th and 12th marks certificates,character certificate from the previousinstitution and HP bonafide/ domicilecertificate (in original) along with self-attested photocopies and passport sizephotograph with other category certifi-cates (wherever applicable) at the timeof counselling.

In addition, those students who wishto apply for the self-financed seats inthese disciplines can do so by July 1(without late fee) and July 6 (with latefee) on the university website. The self-financed seats are open to students fromall over India.

AGENCYSRINAGAR, JUN 27

Union Home Minister AmitShah on Thursday offeredcondolences to the bereavedfamily of martyr StationHouse Officer (SHO) ArshadAhmad Khan and said theentire nation is proud of hisvalour and courage.

Mr Shah, who arrivedhere on a two-day visit toKashmir, on Wednesdayreviewed the overall securitysituation, includingarrangements made for theensuing pilgrimage to holyAmarnath cave shrine insouth Kashmir Himalayas,and visited the residence ofKhan at Balgarden KaranNagar this morning amidunprecedented securityarrangements.

After visiting Khan's

residence, Mr Shah tweeted,'Visited the home ofinspector Arshad Khan, SHOAnantnag in Srinagar, whowas martyred in a terrorattack & offered mycondolences to the bereavedfamily. His sacrifice for thesecurity of our nation hassaved many lives. Entire

nation is proud of ArshadKhan‘s valour & courage”.

All roads leading to thehouse of the SHO weresealed since early thismorning. Security forces andstate police personnel hadbeen deployed on both sidesof the road to foil anymilitant attack during the

visit. Khan was criticallywounded in a fidayeen attackat K P Road Anantnag onJune 12 in which five CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF)were killed and four otherswere wounded. A womanwas also injured in the attack.The lone militant was alsokilled by the security forcesin the retaliatory firing.However, he was notidentified but a local militantoutfit Al-Umar claimedresponsibility for the attack.Khan was admitted to AllIndia Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS), NewDelhi where he succumbedon June 16. Two AssistantSub Inspectors RameshKumar, Neeru Sharma,constable Satinder Kumar, MK Kushwa and MaheshKumar were also martyred inthe attack.

Mahindra, Godrej Groups showinterest to invest in HimachalDelegation holds meetings with both Groups at Mumbai

AGENCYSHIMLA, JUN 27

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakuralong-with a high powereddelegation had a meeting withChairman, Mahindra GroupAnand Mahindra at Mumbaitoday for exploringcollaboration opportunities forinvestment in various sectors inHimachal Pradesh. The ChiefMinister urged Mahindra toconsider investing in the areasof tourism, automobiles andinformation technology.

Mahindra expressed keeninterest to invest particularly inthe areas of tourism and realestate. He also expressed topartner with Chief Minister'sinitiative of Nayee Rahein,Nayee Manzilein. He sharedthat with expansion atKandahar and green fieldproject at Theog, the group is

going to invest Rs. 200 crorewhich would also provideemployment to more than 200persons. Industries MinisterBikram Singh appreciated theidea of waste to energy projectof the group and requestedMahindra Group to considerthis as a pilot project at Shimla,Dharamshala, etc. MahindraGroup also informed that thegroup was exploring HP as the

next destination for electricvehicles as well as in the areasof intelligent trafficmanagement for smart cities.The group is also keen inimplementing enterprisesolutions for governmentbodies.

During the discussions,Mahindra Group also showedinterest in waste to energy andintended to invest in Himachalas there was a vast potential toconvert pine cones and needlesinto energy.

Later, the Chief Ministerand other members of thedelegation met Chairman,Godrej Group Adi Godrej andrequested to increase group'spresence in the state in fastmoving consumer goods(FMCG) and real estate sectors.He apprised that the stategovernment has created a veryencouraging and promising

environment for growth ofindustry. He urged to considersetting up a tool room in thestate as his company has greatexpertise in the same. He alsoextended invitation forparticipating in global InvestorsMeet being organized by thestate government atDharamshala in November thisyear. Adi Godrej informed thedelegation that he will send asuitable note to all hisbusinesses and explorebusiness opportunities in theState. Additional ChiefSecretaries Dr. Shrikant Baldi,Ram Subhag Singh and ManojKumar, Principal SecretaryPrabodh Saxena, DirectorIndustries Hans Raj Sharma,Special Secretary Abid HussainSadiq, Principal PrivateSecretary to the Chief MinisterVinay Singh were present onthe occasion among others.

CS urges ADB Mission team for earlycompletion of HP SHIVA project

AGENCYSHIMLA, JUN 27

ADB Mission team headed byproject officer Sunae Kim underHP sub-tropical horticulture,irrigation and value additionproject (HP SHIVA) met ChiefSecretary B. K. Agarwal, heretoday. Sunae Kim apprised that thisproject will focus on increasingfarmer's income in the sub-tropicalareas of the state by covering20,000 hectare area under highdensity plantation of sub-tropicalfruit crops like guava,pomegranate, litchi and citrus fruitsetc. The project officer briefed thatthey are initially supporting 15pilot sub-projects for different cropmodels in Bilaspur, Hamirpur,Mandi and Kangra districts of thestate besides five sub-projects ofirrigation and public healthdepartment.

She requested the ChiefSecretary to ensure filling up of allvacant posts in the blocks selectedunder HP SHIVA for smoothfunctioning of the project onpriority basis and also forming of apolicy for efficient working ofwater user association in the state.

The Chief Secretary assuredthe project officer to fulfil thesedemands. He asked the officers ofthe state government to worksincerely to achieve the goal ofdoubling farmers' income by 2022.

He requested the ADB Missionteam to expedite finalization ofproject concept paper and projectreadiness financing as the state isvery keen to implement this projectto fulfil the dream of PrimeMinister Narendra Modi and ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur.

ADB Mission AssociateProject Officer Krishan Rautela,HP SHIVA Project Director Dr.M.M. Sharma, Deputy DirectorDevinder Thakur and other seniorofficials were also present on theoccasion.

Hope Centre has better understanding ofground realities after Shah's visit: Omar

SRINAGAR, JUN 27

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministerOmar Abdullah on Thursday hoped that theCentre has better understanding of the groundrealities of the situation in the state and theneed to change the approach after UnionHome Minister Amit Shah’s two-day visit thevalley.

Mr Shah on Thursday evening concludedhis two-day maiden visit to the valley afterbecoming the Union Home Minister. The visitholds significance as it comes at a time whenHurriyat Conference has shown willingnessto engage in talks with the Centre to resolve

Kashmir issue.''After the two-day visit of the Union

Home Minister to J&K, I hope there is abetter understanding of the ground realities ofthe situation and the need to change theapproach to the state,'' Mr Abdullah, who isthe Vice-President of National Conference(NC), wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.

The Home Minister arrived here onWednesday and held a number of meetingswith officials to assess the security scenario inthe state and reviewed preparations for theAmarnath Yatra.

The Home Minister also reviewed variousdevelopment schemes and projects in theState during a high-level meeting.

Last week, Governor Satya Pal Malik,while addressing a function in Srinagar, it wasencouraging that the Hurriyat Conference wasready to talk. ''Since I assumed governance inthe state, the temperature has come down andthe situation has improved. Hurriyat leaders,who once shut doors to Ram Vilas Paswanwhen he tried to reach out to them fordialogue, are now ready for talks. This is anencouraging sign,'' Mr Malik had said.

Responding to the Governor’s comments,moderate Hurriyat Conference chairmanMirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq said that if‘meaningful’ talks were initiated, there will bea positive response.

Over 25 IAS officersreshuffled in U'khandDEHRADUN, JUN 27

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle in Uttarakhand,more than two dozen IAS officers were giveneither new or additional responsibilities onThursday.

The IAS officers who got additionalresponsibilities included additional chief secretaryRadha Raturi, secretary animal husbandryMinakshi Sundaram and chief electoral officerSaujanya. Raturi was made additional principalsecretary secretariat administration, MinakshiSundaram secretary agriculture and panchayatiRaj and Saujanya was given secretary womenempowerment and child development in additionto their current responsibilities.

Manisha Panwar was removed as secretarywater resources. She was replaced by BhupinderKaur Aulakh.

Harbans Chugh was appointed secretarysugarcane and sugar. Brijesh Sant was appointedsecretary sports and youth welfare. V Shanmugamwas made District Magistrate of Tehri, DipendraChowdhary of Haridwar and C Ravishankar ofDehradun and Savin Bansal of Nainital.

Ranbir Singh Chauhan was made excisecommissioner and Haridwar DM Dipak Rawatwas appointed mela officer for Haridwar.

D Senthil Pandiyan was removed as secretaryagricultural education and marketing. Apart fromthe 25 IAS officers, nine provincial civil serviceofficers have also been reshuffled.

SJVN signs MoU with NEEPCO for exploringpower projects in India, Abroad

SHIMLA, JUNE 27

In CPSE Conclave 2018,Narendra Modi PrimeMinister of India has outlinedVision of New India 2022. Forachievement of this vision heemphasized on maximizingGeo- Strategic reach as animportant parameter. In linewith the same, SJVN Limitedhas entered into a MoU withNEEPCO. The MoU wassigned by Nand Lal Sharma,Chairman & ManagingDirector, SJVN Limited andA.G.West Kharkongor,Chairman & ManagingDirector, NEEPCO at NewDelhi. The MoU provides aflexible framework underwhich both parties willcollaborate and co-operate fordevelopment of Power

Projects in India and abroadwith an immediate focus ofNortheast and Eastern Statesof India. The both parties alsoagreed to work in alliance inthe forms of Joint Ventures(JVs), Special PurposeVehicles (SPVs) andconsortiums. In these entitieseach party shall hold aminimum 26% of ownership.This MoU has come into effectfrom today and is valid for aminimum period of five years,which can be further extendedon mutual consent. The MoUsigning was attended by A.S.Bindra, Director (Finance),R.K. Bansal, Director(Electrical), Smt. GeetaKapur, Director (Personnel)and S.P. Bansal Director(Civil), along with othersenior officers from SJVN.

Shah visits residence of martyrSHO, says nation proud of Khan

Nauni varsity’s UG entrancetest result declared

Reviews roadsafety scenarioChief secretary B.K Agarwalreviewed the road safety scenarioin the state with transport, policeand HRTC authorities here today.He reviewed the status of checkingof vehicles by transport and policedepartment and directed that bothpolice and transport departments tointensify challaning. He said thefocus should be laid on offencesrelating to overloading, drunkendriving, over speeding, dangerousdriving, use of mobiles, not puttingon seat belts and operating musicsystems while driving. He furtherdirected to increase vigilance inrural areas as well. B.K Agarwaldirected that since road safetycampaign is focussing onoverloading, the HRTC should beprepared to provide alternatetransportation to stranded peopleand it must be ensured thatgeneral public does not face anyinconvenience. He asked theHRTC to operationalise all 99JNNURM buses which are non-operational right now and asked fordaily report in this regard. Hedirected the transport departmentto identify new bus/taxi/maxi routesto provide efficient public transportto people and also handle thesituation of overloading.

Kanwar warns action againstPradhan's failing to utilise fundsSHIMLA, JUN 27

Rural Development andPanchayati Raj MinisterVirender Kanwar hasexpressed concern that GramPanchayats are failing tospend the funds providedunder 14th FinanceCommission in a stipulatedtime period. He said that Rs.1420 crores have beenreleased under the 14thFinance Commission to theGram Panchayats of the statesince year 2015-16, but theyhave been able to spent onlyRs. 800 crores out of it, whichis a matter of concern. TheMinister has urged the GramPanchayats for taking

effective steps for utilising theunspent funds otherwise sternaction would be initiated asper the rules against thePanchayat Pradhan's failing tospend the allotted funds.Moreover, they will have toreturn the unspent amount tothe Panchayati Rajdepartment. Virender Kanwarsaid that funds are directlybeing transferred to all the3226 Panchayats of the state,which they can utililse forvarious developmental worksespecially cleanliness,drinking water, street lighting,construction and repair ofroads, public toilets, installinghand pumps and constructingother public properties.

Admin's permission mandatoryfor Kinner Kailash trek: DC

KINNAUR, JUN 27

Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner Gopal Chand said that no trekkers andpilgrims will be allowed to move on Kinner Kailash trek withoutpermission of the district administration. He said that the touroperators organising treks in the district should be registered with thetourism department and submit the list of trekkers at nearest policestation before commencing the trek/activity. He said that touroperators should also submit the list of trekkers at police station afterfinishing the trek. The DC expressed concern over trekking by fivetrekkers towards Kinner Kailash without informing districtadministration out of which two trekkers died. The three trekkers wererescued by the police and Home Guard Quick response team. Whilepresiding over a meeting regarding illegal adventure and trekkingactivities in district Kinnaur, he said that the as per the HimachalPradesh Miscellaneous Adventure Activities Rules, 2017 any trekkingactivity in the district has to be carried out with prior permission of thetourism officer and camping permission of the trek is to be obtainedfrom the forest department. The Deputy Commissioner also urged thelocal people to support the district administration and not advice peopleto trek towards Kinner Kailash.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

New bus stand boosts updevelopment of FatehgarhSahib: Nagra

FATEHGARH SAHIB: 'State Govt. iscommitted for the multidimensionaldevelopment of the state and manydevelopment projects are underway inFatehgarh Sahib Constituency. As apart of these projects, construction ofthe new bus stand in 1.11 acres neargrain market, is underway and the costof the project is 3.20 crore. Thisproject will be completed soon. With itscompletion the people will avail a bigfacility and it will boost up thedevelopment of the Fatehgarh Sahib.'This was stated by Kuljit Singh Nagra,MLA Fatehgarh Sahib while disclosingthe details about the ongoing projects.He disclosed that after many decadesFatehgarh Sahib-Sirhind got a newbus stand. He said that construction of08 counters and 07 shops wasunderway and a bus lay bye would bealso constructed that would help tosolve the problem of traffic jam usuallywitnessed at National Highway. ThisBus Stand would be equipped withspecial announcement system.Moreover special toilets would bethere for the Differently abled peoplealong with other toilets. Specialfacilities regarding drinking water andfans would be also provided.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JUNE 27

Punjab Chief Minister Cap-tain Amarinder Singh hassought early clearance ofring roads around thestate’s major cities, whileurging the Union Ministerfor Road Transport &Highways and Micro,Small and Medium Enter-prises, Nitin Gadkari, toimmediately release thethird installment of GoIgrant of Rs.3.72 crore forMohali Hitech Metal Clus-ter and implementation ofSFURTI in Wood InlayCluster, Hoshiarpur.

The Chief Ministercalled upon Gadkari hereon Thursday afternoon topress for his intervention toclear the state’s pendingprojects/approvals underhis department. He invitedthe Union Minister to visitPunjab to help revive theMSMEs in the state.

Gadkari assured Cap-tain Amarinder that all Pun-jab related issues pendingwith his ministries wouldbe looked into and ad-dressed at the earliest. Healso assured of full supportand cooperation to the state

government in pursuanceof their road infrastructuredevelopment projects, be-sides various initiatives inthe field of MSMEs.

According to an offi-cial spokesperson, CaptainAmarinder informed theUnion Minister that stategovernment had alreadyconveyed its consent tobear 50% cost of land ac-quisition for constructionof Ring Roads around ma-jor cities of

Mohali/Chandigarh, Lud-hiana, Jalandhar, Patiala,Sangrur and Bathinda, inline with the MORT&Hguidelines of Bharatmala“build including Ring Roador Bypass, which was not apart of the Bharatmala shelfof Projects. Such a newproject would be taken upfor consideration by theMinistry only if theState/Agency is ready tobear at least 50% cost ofland acquisition. The Chief

Minister said the Ministryhad already approved thering road around Bathinda.

The Chief Minister alsosought the Union Min-istry’s immediate approvalof funds to the tune of Rs.636.45 lakh for appoint-ment of technical consult-ant for the ring roads proj-ect to work out the align-ments needed for the roads.

Captain Amarinderalso urged Gadkari to facil-itate expeditious clearance

of the Delhi-Amritsar-Ka-tra Expressway project, forwhich Government of Indiahas already approved a planfor constructing 800 Km ofExpressways under Bharat-mala Scheme Phase-I. Thestate government had re-quested the Ministry timeand again for early start ofthis project but so far eventhe alignment has not beenfrozen upon, he lamented.

The Chief Minister alsoimpressed upon the UnionMinister the need for im-mediate declaration of Na-tional Highway and ap-proval to four laning of Pa-tiala-Sirhind-Morinda road,which the Union Ministrywas pressing for develop-ment as a Greenfield proj-ect while the state wanted itto be a brownfield project.

Captain Amarinder re-quested the Minister to de-clare Banga-Garhshankar-Anandpur Sahib-NainaDevi Road as a NationalHighways project in thecurrent fiscal. He pointedout that this demand hasalso been raised by theJathedar of Takhat SriKeshgarh Sahib as the roadin question was in extreme-ly bad shape.

Amarinder seeks early clearanceof ring roads around major cities

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Give people revenue ownership rights of theirproperties under Lal Dora areas: Aman AroraCHANDIGARH: AAP legislator Aman Arora has urged Punjab Chief Minister Capt Am-rinder Singh to give revenue ownership rights of their properties to people living under LalDora areas in urban and rural areas of the state.

Explaining the rationale behind his contention, the AAP leader, in a letter, said lakhs ofowners of such Lal Dora properties are devoid of their legal ownership rights as they donot hold any entitlement in revenue records and their ownership is determined only on thebasis of occupation, power, water or sewerage bills which hold no relevance if one ap-proaches any bank for availing loan facilities for any purpose, thus making him handicapin fulfilling any of his domestic needs.

LPU signs MoU withFrench Institute HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: LPU has signedMemorandum of Understanding (MoU)with the French Institute in India,Institut Français en Inde (IFI). This

cooperation isimplementedthroughFrance’snetworkcomprising ofthe FrenchInstitute inIndia, 14

Alliances Françaises, 2 researchcentres and 4 French schools. IFI andLPU have agreed to the areas ofcollaboration on academic,promotional and research relatedactivities. Under this agreement, LPUand IFI are also setting up India’s first‘Espace France’ within the premises ofLPU in September.

Democratic press clubholds Eid milan program

MAMOON RASHIDMALERKOTLA: democratic pressclub Malerkotla and National welfaremovement jointly held Eid Milanprogram, people and scholars ofdifferent communities attended thefunction, S.P Malerkotla S.ManjitSingh while speaking to the mediaappreciated the organizers of theprogram for giving a common platformto different communities to expresstheir views and to celebrate eidtogether, he appealed the people tolive peaceful life, he considered theprogram very much useful formaintaining communal harmony in the city. Imtiaz Ali managing director ofABC nstitute said that it isresponsibility of each of us to conveypositive message to the people to fillthe gap between them, MolanaWahab ud Din Qasmi whileaddressing the gathering appreciatedthe effort done by said organizers,representatives from Sikh and Hinducommunities also addressed thegathering and congratulated the pressclub and National welfare movement.

Urges Union Min Gadkari for immediate release of funds

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

The Punjab Government iscontinuing preparations atfast pace with regard to the550th Parkash Purb cele-brations of Sri Guru NanakDev Ji and the JallianwalaBagh Centenary functions.The functions would beheld at grand level in vari-ous big cities as well as theDistricts.

These views were ex-pressed by the Tourism andCultural Affairs Minister,Punjab, Charanjit SinghChanni in the review meet-ing of the functioning/ac-tivities of the Punjab KalaParishad, Punjab SangeetNatak Akademi, PunjabLalit Kala Akademi andPunjab Sahit Akademi.

Channi further whilebriefing about the functionsto be held by the PunjabKala Parishad regarding the550th Parkash Purb cele-brations of Sri Guru NanakDev Ji said that the mainpurpose of these functionsis to guide the masses about

Sikh history and philoso-phy.

During these celebra-tions various functionssuch as Poetry Recitals,Rabab Utsav, Dhadhi Dar-bar, ‘Balihari KudratVaseya’- Shabad Gayanand seminar, Plays- ‘Jithe

Jithe Baba Pair Dhare’ and‘Jag Chanan Hoa’, Discus-sion on the topic ‘Sri GuruNanak Dev Ji Da Sandesh’,Paintings of Sri GuruNanak Dev Ji-Exhibitionand Discussion, MalwaiFolk Dance-Teachings ofSri Guru Nanak Dev Ji andFolk Boliyan, Kirtan Dar-bar in accordance with theRagas, Wall Paintingsabout Sri Guru Nanak DevJi-Photo Exhibition andvarious seminars, would beorganized.

The minister also saidthat during the centenaryfunctions of JallianwalaBagh the people would besensitized about the sacri-fices made by the martyrsof Punjab apart from theirhistory.

Govt relaxes eligibilitycriteria for PCMS doctors

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

Considering the long pending demand of PCMS doctors, thePunjab Government has relaxed the eligibility conditions forPCMS doctors for admissions in PG Courses. It was dis-closed in press communiqué here today by Health & Fami-ly Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu.

Giving details here today, Balbir Singh Sidhu said thatthis relaxation for admissions in PG Courses was providedon the Directive of Chief Minister Punjab CaptainAmarinder Singh. He said that earlier the PCMS doctorswho had completed 4 years of service in difficult rural areasand 6 years service in other rural areas were given 30% in-centive marks and allowed to pursue PG Courses. Now therequirement of rural service has been reduced from 4/6years to 2/3 years. The Health Minister said that the doctorswould get 20% and 30% incentive marks on completion of2/3 and 3/4.5 years of Rural Service. The doctors who getadmission under incentive category would get full pay dur-ing their PG Course.

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

The State Education Depart-ment has given jobs to 65candidates on compassion-ate grounds as one of theirfamily members had diedwhile in service of the de-partment.

Handing over the ap-pointment letters in his officeat Punjab Civil Secretariat onWednesday evening, VijayInder Singla, Education Min-ister Punjab said that the de-partment is committed to thewelfare of its employees. Hesaid giving jobs to dependent

family members of deceasedemployees should not just betreated as a departmental ac-tivity but should be taken upas a moral responsibility. So,he has directed for an earlydisposal of all such cases.While handing over the ap-pointment letters to the newrecruits, he exhorted them towork with sincerity and ded-ication.

The Education Depart-ment has provided jobs to 01Punjabi and 01 Science Mis-tress, 23 clerks, 22 libraryrestorers, 4 peons, 7 chowki-dars and 7 sweepers.

PRITPAL SINGH JALANDHAR, JUNE 27

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Ku-mar Sharma today directed the rev-enue officers to speed up the recov-ery from the wilful defaulters andany type of laxity will not be tolerat-ed at any cost.

Presiding over a meeting to re-view the collection of recovery hereat District Administrative Complextoday, Mr Sharma said that the offi-cers must accord top most priority tothe collection of these recoveries forenhancing the revenue of the stategovernment. The Deputy Commis-

sioner also asked the Sub DivisionalMagistrates to personally monitorthe cases pertaining to recovery sothat the process could be expedited.

He said that this process must becompleted at the earliest without anydelay. Sharma said that any wilful

defaulters must not be spared andstern action must be taken againstthem. The Deputy Commissionersaid that the recovery of pending ar-rears from the wilful defaulters needsto be ensured at early. He said thatwilful defaulter should not be al-lowed to take the law for granted andevery effort must be made to recoverthe pending arrears from them at theearliest. Prominent amongst presenton the occasion included AdditionalDeputy Commissioner Jasbir Singh,Sub Divisional Magistrates Amit Ku-mar Panchal, Rajesh Sharma,Charumita, Dr Anupreet Kaur, Sha-yari Malhotra and others.

SUMER GARGCHANDIGARH, JUNE 27

As part of the ongoingstatewide raids being con-ducted on the directions ofthe Directorate of Environ-ment and Climate Change,Punjab, 2600 kgs of bannedplastic carry bags wereseized on Wednesdayevening from those storing,transporting and sellingthem. The highest seizurewas made in Batala wherein1350 kg plastic bags wereconfiscated.

In the intensive raids byjoint teams of the MunicipalCorporation and the PunjabPollution Control Board at282 establishments,153 vio-lations were observed, in-formed KS Pannu, Directorof Environment and ClimateChange. “We have issuedchallans to 144 violators andslapped a penalty ofRs.12000, on the spot whilein rest of the cases fine willbe imposed after hearing byMunicipal Corporation /Committee,” said he.

To ensure the maximumcompliance of the rule, Pan-nu appealed to the peopleand business community toextend their cooperation tocombat plastic menace in thecity. Director of Environ-ment and Climate Changesaid that people can’t turn a

blind eye towards this issue.They need to chip- in andsupport government. Many atimes small vendors are notable to afford alternatives toplastic carry bags and pulledby consumer demand theyresort to supplying articlesin the banned plastic carrybags. We are sensitizingpeople and making themaware through media plat-forms to abstain from the us-age of plastic carry bags asthey are hazardous to the en-vironment. People need tochange their shopping habitsand at least use/carry a clothor jute bag while makingpurchases. It is pertinent tomention that the state gov-ernment has completely pro-hibited manufacturing,stocking, distribution, recy-cling, sale and use of plasticcarry bags within the juris-diction of all municipal cor-porations, councils, nagarpanchayats and gram pan-chayats in 2016.

2600 kgs ofbanned plastic

carry bags seizedIn the intensive raids byjoint teams of theMunicipal Corporationand the Punjab PollutionControl Board at 282establishments,153violations were observed,informed KS Pannu,Director of Environmentand Climate Change.

KULJIT SINGH JANDIALA GURU,JUNE 27

Following instructionsPunjab government,Training workshop forpre-primary classes start-ed by the education de-partment from today.State Education Researchand Training Council,Punjab has been organiz-ing orientation programsand pilot programs by theteachers and resource per-sons for preparing stu-dents of 3 to 6 years fortheir overall develop-ment. Director of Educa-tion Research and Train-ing Council Inderjit Singhsaid that this workshopwill help in improvingquality education fromprimary classes. As manyas 19 District EducationOfficers (Elementary Ed-

ucation), 20 Deputy Dis-trict Education Officers(Elementary Education),14 Principals and 148Block Primary EducationOfficers of Regional Co-operative ManagementInstitute, Sector 32,Chandigarh will addressat the concluding work-shop on June 29.

All concerned offi-cials have been instructedto pay attention to thepre-primary classes inGovernment schools with

utmost sincerity andasked about the educationbeing provided by the de-partment in this regard.Singh said that all the of-ficers have brought theirpre-primary kit whichthey have already beenprovided during theworkshop. Activities re-lated to learning andteaching activities con-ducted for the students inpre-primary classes werediscussed by State Re-source Group.

Training workshop for pre-primary classes begins

Education deptt gives jobs to65 on compassionate grounds

Channi reviews functioning of PbKala Parishad, other Akademies

DC directs revenue officers to speedup recovery from wilful defaulters

ADC asks officials tokeep vigil over workingof sewa kendrasJALANDHAR:The Additional DeputyCommissioner (General) Mr JasbirSingh on Thursday asked the Subdivisional Magistrates (SDMs) to keepa close vigil on the functioning of theSewa Kendras. Presiding over ameeting at District AdministrativeComplex today, Mr Singh told thatSewa Kendras have been opened bythe state government to facilitate thepeople and any sort of laxity on theirparts would not be tolerated at anycost. He told that officials to carry outinspections of their working and the applications receiving in theKendras must be settled in a time-bound manner without anyinconvenience to the people.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

Disability pension of all ranks of armedforces to be exempt from Income TaxNEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday clarified that disability pension of allarmed forces irrespective of rank shall continue to be exempt from income tax.The tax exemption will be only for personnel who have been invalided fromnaval, military or air force service on account of bodily disability attributable to oraggravated by such service and not to the personnel who have been retired onsuperannuation or otherwise, a circular issued by the Central Board of DirectTaxes on June 24 clarified. Moreover, the disability pension exempt under TheIncome-tax Act, 1961, will be the entire disability pension including serviceelement and disability element.

Teenager raped bylover and his friendBANDA (UP): A 17-year-old girl wasallegedly raped by her lover and hisfriend in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakootdistrict, police said Thursday. Theincident took place on Tuesdayevening while the girl was headinghome and the two men abducted andraped her, Assistant Superintendent ofPolice (ASP) Balwant Chaudhary said.The girl was let off on Wednesdaymorning on the condition that shewould not tell anyone about theincident, the ASP said. Later, an FIRwas registered by the girl's father andshe was sent for medical examinationwhich confirmed rape, he said. Thegirl had an affair with one of the culpritnamed in the FIR, in-charge ManikpurPolice Station K C Dubey said. Effortsare on to nab the accused, he added.

Ballia jail inmate diesin hospitalBALLIA (UP): A 30-year-old inmate ofthe district jail here died in hospitalafter allegedly consuming a poisonoussubstance, police said on Thursday.Rakesh Tewari, who was arrested forallegedly murdering his wife, took illWednesday afternoon and was takento the district hospital where he diedlater in the evening, AdditionalSuperintendent of Police Vijay PalSingh said. The postmortem reportstated consumption of a poisonoussubstance as the cause of death.Tewari belonged to Dalai Tewaripurvillage in Ballia district.

Two youths drown inGanges in UPBALLIA: Two youths drowned whilebathing in the Ganga river in the SadarKotwali area of this district in UttarPradesh, police said on Thursday.According to police, Saral (17) andShahbaz (16), residents of Baherivillage had gone to the MaldepurSangam bank of the Ganges to take abath on Wednesday. Meanwhile, theyventured into the deep end of the riverand drowned. Upon receivinginformation, police reached the spotand is trying to search for the drownedyouths.

CBI takes over probeinto death ofbizman's wifeNEW DELHI: The CBI has taken overinvestigation into the nearly two-year-old mysterious death of a Raniganj-based businessman's wife on theorders of Calcutta High Court, officialssaid on Thursday. Pushpa Bhalotia(39) was admitted with burn injuries ina hospital in Durgapur, West Bengalwhere she had succumbed to herinjuries on October 5, 2017. As thepost mortem report showed a bulletinjury in her head, her husband ManojBhalotia was arrested. The CBI wasroped in by the High Court after apetition was filed by Pushpa's brotherGopal Kumar Agarwal claiming thatthere were differences betweenfindings of autopsy report and chargesheet filed by the police. While Manoj'sfamily claimed that Pushpa committedsuicide by setting herself on fire,Agarwal told the court that the postmortem report had said that the burninjuries were prior to the gun shotinjury while the charge sheet claimedthat the victim died of gun shot andthe burn injuries were subsequent. Hesaid that there were several CCTVrecords available with police whichwere not considered by theinvestigators before filing their finalreport in the matter. Seeking the CBIinvestigation into the death of hissister, he dismissed the claims of thecharge sheet that Pushpa had shotherself. The High Court found thearguments convincing and handedover the probe to the Central Bureauof Investigation on February 7, 2019.Pointing loopholes in the theory ofpolice, the court noted that withoutconsidering the CCTV footage whichwas available with the investigatingagency, it should not have inferred thatthe death was suicidal in nature andnot a homicide. "The charge sheet asit stands today raises more questionsthan answers. The charge sheetexplains the death as a suicide. Ittakes a view that, the gun shot wasprior in point of time than burn injuries.The burn injuries were sustained bythe victim due to ignition of thecooking gas from the spark of the gunshot," it said.

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Dentists Bill, Indian MedicalCouncil Bill introduced in LSAGENCYNEW DELHI, JUN 27

A Bill which will amend theDentists Act, 1948 and help torestructure the Dental Councilswas introduced in the LokSabha on Thursday . The Billprovides certain modificationsto the provisions of the DentistsAct with regard to themembership of the DentalCouncil of India andmembership of state and jointstate dental councils. Ministerof State for Health and Familywelfare Ashwini Choubeyintroduced the The Dentists(Amendment) Bill, 2019. Theamendment will helprestructure the Dental Councilsand the representation of thecentral government membersand elected members would nolonger be made mandatory inthe dental councils. Theminister also introduced TheIndian Medical Council(Amendment) Bill, 2019,which is aimed at bringing intransparency, accountabilityand quality in the governanceof medical education in thecountry and would provide forsupersession of the MedicalCouncil of India (MCI) for aperiod of two years or until thesaid council is reconstituted,whichever is earlier. During

this period, the Board ofGovernors will exercise thepowers and functions of theMCI as assigned under the IMCAct, 1956. The number ofmembers in the Board ofGovernors will be increased to

12 from existing 7. Further, itallows for persons with provenadministrative capacity anexperience to be selected in theBoard. The Bill provides forBoard of Directors to beassisted by a Secretary General

appointed by the centralgovernment and will be head ofthe secretariat in the council.The Bill seeks to replace theIndian Medical Council(Amendment) SecondOrdinance, 2019.

NEW DELHI, JUN 27

The government on Thursdaymaintained that Delhi-MumbaiExpressway project and other roadprojects are going on at the desiredpace and wherever there are halts tothe works or delay, essentially it isdue to the land acquisition issue.

Minister of Road Transport andHighways Nitin Gadkari informedLok Sabha during Question Hourthat in several states, the road

works are impactedand delayed due toland acquisitionissue and in thiscontext, he suggestedthat the electedlawmakers can alsotry to influence the

decision making process at the statelevel. "You also try to find out atyour level what is the cause of thedelay," Mr Gadkari told partycolleague Tapan Gogoi fromAssam. He said at times there aredelays due to forest clearance andsuch impediments at the state level.

In this matter, he has alreadyheld meeting with Assam ChiefMinister Sarbananda Sonowal andmaintained that all elected MPsshould also try to help in resolvingthe stalemates at the state levels.

Answering to supplementaryqueries, the Minister also informedthe House that Mumbai-Goa roadproject will be completed byDecember end.

VK Shukla's short story collection now in EnglishAGENCYNEW DELHI, JUN 27

A collection of short storiesby noted Hindi writer VinodKumar Shukla which dealwith people in small-townIndia, their lives andexperiences is now availablein English.

"Blue Is Like Blue" isbilled by publishersHarperCollins India as thefirst-ever translation ofShukla's short stories intoEnglish.

Translators ArvindKrishna Mehrotra and SaraRai bring out the genius ofShukla, who is regarded thefinest living writer in Hindiand one of the few trulyoriginal imaginations inworld literature. Shukla hasbeen quietly forging his ownidiosyncratic path away

from the public gaze inRaipur in Chhattisgarh. Thecharacters in these storieslive in rentedaccommodation, often insingle rooms, where oneelectric bulb does for light.When the light dims becauseof low voltage, it is like airescaping from a puncturedbicycle tube. There's a nailto hang clothes from and awall-to-wall string for thewashing.

When the clothes aredry, the character places thecarefully folded shirt under apillow and lies down tosleep. Money is a concern,but the bazaar is the place togo and spend time in,especially if the characterhas nothing to buy.

The fear that you may beovercharged accompaniesevery transaction, but joy is

not entirely absent."Blue Is Like Blue" also

includes Shukla's memoir"Old Veranda", which shedslight on the childhood andinfluences of this famouslyreclusive writer and has thisunforgettable scene - a busbound for Rajnandgaon, thecity of his birth, travelling

'through the air at greatspeed'. According to thetranslators, Shukla is afrugal storyteller; he canmake, and make do, withvery little.

"They also say that it isnot only thoughts hiddenbehind other thoughts thatShukla reveals. Hischaracters have hidden sidesto them. They act inunpredictable ways and dothe opposite of what weexpect them to do. It takesthe reader by surprise asmuch as it does thecharacters themselves," theysay. They also say thatstrange things happen inShukla's fiction.

"The utterly mundaneand the humdrum areconstantly beingtransformed into theunexpected and the

marvellous. In the mundanelies also the possibility ofhappiness," they say.

To read him is to readnot a fictionalised version ofwhat is already stencilled onthe wall, but wwhat isconstantly being inscribed inan erased from the marginsof our consciousness, theysay.

Shukla's first collectionof poems, the 20-page"Lagbhag Jai Hind", waspublished in 1971, followedby "Vah Aadmi Chala GayaNaya Garam Coat PehankarVichar Ki Tarah" in 1981.

His first novel, "NaukarKi Kameez", was publishedin 1979 and made into a filmby Mani Kaul. In 1999,Shukla received the SahityaAkademi Award for hisnovel "Deewar Mein EkKhidki Rehti Thi".

HYDERABAD, JUNE 27

Veteran Telugu actress anddirector G Vijaya Nirmaladied at a private hospital herefollowing brief illness,hospital authorities saidThursday. She breathed herlast at Continental Hospitalin Gachibowli where she wasundergoing treatment onWednesday night, they said.She was 73. Wife of veteranactor Krishna and step-mother of current Telugu starMahesh Babu, VijayaNirmala entered theGuinness Book of WorldRecords as the femaledirector with most number ofmovies to her credit(44).Born on February 20,

1946 in Tamil Nadu, sheentered the film industry atthe age of seven and acted inover 200 movies in Telugu,Tamil and Malayalam. Shedirected movies in Teluguand other languages also.Telangana Chief Minister KChandrashekhar Raocondoled the death of VijayaNirmala. "The Chief Minister

conveyed his condolences tothe members of the bereavedfamily. He remembered herservices in the Telugu cinefield," an official releasesaid. Telangana BJP chief KLaxman tweeted: "We aredeeply saddened by thesudden demise of veteranactress and director VijayaNirmala garu. A huge loss toTelugu film industry.Condolences to her family &friends... Om Shanti." ActorJunior NTR in hiscondolence message said shewas a pioneering filmmaker."Vijaya Nirmala Garu was apioneering filmmaker whoselife is an inspiration formany. Extremely saddened tohear the news.

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway,other road projects going on

at desired pace: GadkariIssue of steep air

fares raisedMembers of the oppositionin the Lok Sabha Thursdayflagged the issue of steep airfares especially duringnatural calamities likecyclones and riots. Raisingthe issue during theQuestion Hour, BJD MPPinaki Misra said during theJat riots in Haryana in 2016,the Delhi-Chandigarh fareshot up to Rs 90,000. Thesame was the case whenCyclone Fani hit Odisha lastmonth. Civil AviationMinister Hardeep SinghPuri said airlines set theirfares in different segments.Opposition members,including those from theCongress, TMC and DMKprotested over the reply ofthe minister. "Are you tryingto justifying predatorypricing?" members saidcontinuing their protest.

Goel demands ban onlottery in country

Senior BJP leader VijayGoel Thursday demanded

a ban on lottery in thecountry, saying it is a socialevil and hurts the poor the

m o s t .Raising them a t t e rduring theZero Hour inthe RajyaSabha, Goelsaid singledigit lotteryhas been

banned and now even multi-digit number lotteries tooshould be banned. He saidlottery is a social evil andpoor people suffer. Goel saidall parties should support hisdemand. Several membersacross the House associatedthemselves with the

suggestion. In his Zero Hourmention, BJP member AshokBajpai suggested a national-level policy to preserveSanskrit. He rued the richa n c i e n tl a n g u a g ew a sdisappearingfrom thecountry andone of thereasons wasshortage of Sanskritteachers. Raising the issue ofdeath of children due toAcute EncephalitisSyndrome (AES) in Bihar, KT S Tulsi (nominated)highlighted huge shortage ofdoctors in the country. Healso said that a large numberof quacks were active inrural parts of the country.

BUDGETSESSION

Central EducationBill in LS

A bill which seeks to allow filling upof more than 7,000 existingvacancies by direct recruitment inaccordance with a new quotasystem in institutions of highereducation was introduced in theLok Sabha Thursday. A similar billwas introduced in Parliament duringthe tenure of the previous LokSabha and it had lapsed. Thegovernment had then brought anordinance. The fresh CentralEducation Institutions (Reservationin Teachers'Cadre) Bill, 2019 seeksto replace the ordinance issued bythe previous government. It wasintroduced by Minister of State forHRD Sanjay Dhotre. The bill willconsider the university/college asone unit restoring earlierreservation system based on a 200-point roster. The unit for reservationof posts in direct recruitment inteachers' cadre will be theuniversity/educational institutions,and not the department.

Veteran actress VijayaNirmala dead

Adhir Ranjan questions Mamata'sseriousness in fight against BJP

NEW DELHI, JUN 27

Congress leader AdhirRanjan Chowdhury onThursday put a questionmark on West Bengal CMMamata Banerjee's"seriousness" in the fightagainst the ruling BJP.

"People say somethingand then go back on theirwords, it's her nature. If sheis serious (about fightingagainst BJP) she'll have totalk to our senior leadership.The way BJP is growing inBengal, it is due to Mamataji's failures," Chowdhary toldANI. On Wednesday, theTrinamool Congress (TMC)

chief said the BJP is trying torun a parallel government inthe state and parties like theCongress and the CPI(M)should join hands with theTMC to fight against it.

Speaking in state

Assembly recently, Banerjeehad said: "Just see what ishappening today in Bhatparaafter giving them vote... We(opposition parties) have tocontinue our fight for thegreater interest of the

people.""I feel all of us (TMC,

Congress and CPI-M) shouldcome together in the fightagainst the BJP. It doesn'tmean we have to join handspolitically. We can cometogether on common issues atthe state and the nationallevels," she had stated.

Chowdhary was recentlyappointed the leader of theCongress in Lok Sabha.

Bharatiya Janta Party hasmade deep inroads in WestBengal in the recent LokSabha elections, winning 18out of 42 seats. TMC's seattally fell to 22 seats, 11 downfrom its earlier number.

NITI Aayog's Healthy States ranking:Mayawati slams Centre, UP governmentLUCKNOW, JUN 27

Hitting out at the BJP over rise incasteist and religious attacks in thecountry, Bahujan Samaj Party presidentMayawati on Thursday said suchincidents not only defame the countrybut also embarrasses the PrimeMinister. Taking to Twitter, MsMayawati said, "Why do the BJP-ruledstate governments allow such crimeswhen it lets down the entire country andthe PM too feels ashamed. In anothertweet, she criticised the Uttar Pradeshgovernment over the state's poorperformance in a nationwide healthindex report released by the NITI Aayog

"The NITI Aayog report is to shamethe government that UP is the mostbackward state in the case of publichealth. It has turned to be on the lastspot in providing health facilities to the

people. What is the benefit of the doubleengine of Central and state governmentof one party. No point in spendingcrores of rupees if people have to live ina hell," the BSP president tweeted.

UP government, on Wednesday, hadblamed the previous SP-BSPgovernment for the bad condition of thehealth sector in the state by claimingthat the survey was done in 2017 whenthe BJP government came to power.

Jharkhand lynching: Hindu womenthreatened with rape; file FIR

RANCHI, JUNE 27

A group of Hindu women inJharkhand's Seraikeladistrict have lodged an FIRclaiming that some peoplesympathising with TabrezAnsari, the victim of arecent mob lynchingincident in the state, havethreatened to rape them,police said on Thursday.

"A group of womenhave lodged an FIR at theSeraikela police station.They said they have beenthreatened with rape andother consequences. We areinvestigating the matter,"Kartik S., Superintendent ofPolice (SP) told IANS over

the phone.As per local media

reports, over 20 peoplecarrying All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) flags entered theDhatkidih village, where thelynching incident tookplace, and threatened thewomen. They also removedreligious flags from atemple and shouted slogansin favour of AIMIM chiefAsaduddin Owaisi.

Police has notconfirmed the role ofAIMIM but saidinvestigations wereunderway.

Ansari, 22, died in ahospital on June 23, days

after he was brutallythrashed by a mob inDhatkidih village onsuspicion of stealing a bike.According to the police, astolen motorcycle and someother things were alsorecovered from him.

The incident came tolight after a video went viralin which main accusedPankaj Mandal was seenbeating Ansari, who wastied to a tree.

The mob lynching casehas been handed over to aSpecial Investigation Team.So far, five accused havebeen arrested and twopolicemen have beensuspended.

UP govt asks all officials to reachoffice by 0900 hrs or face action

LUCKNOW, JUN 27

Uttar Pradesh government onThursday issued a freshdirective to all the stateofficials, including DistrictMagistrates (DMs) andSuperintendent of Police(SPs), to reach their officespromptly by 0900 hrs or facesevere action. "The stateofficers, including DMs andSPs, should reach their officesat any cost by 0900 hrs. Theofficers should follow theorders with immediate effectand any violation will attractsevere punishment," UP CMoffice tweeted on Thursday.However, sources said thatthe Chief Minister YogiAdityanath has become very

strict on the officers who donot reaching their offices ontime. There is a proposal todeduct wages along withadverse entry in their recordfor the violation. After theLok Sabha polls, someofficers, including a policeofficer in Etah, had protestedthe orders. The police officerhad said that how could apolice officer reach his officeby 0900 hours when he had todo his duty till 0400 hrs in themorning. Adityanath, who isshowing a zero tolerancepolicy over corruption anddiscipline in the governmentoffices, had announcedvoluntary retirement andsacking of the corrupt andinefficient officers.

28-year-old Bihar bank officerkilled while travelling in train

PATNA, JUNE 27

Miscreants killed a 28-year-old bank officer on arunning train in Bihar, police said on Thursday.Milind Kumar, who worked in the Canara Bank inJamui district, was stabbed and his throat slit whenhe was travelling in the Gaya-Jamalpur Fast Pas-senger train on Wednesday. “After attending ameeting at the bank, Milind boarded the train forKiul Railway Station but was attacked with a sharpweapon between Sarari and Lakhisarai railway sta-tions,” police said. Even after being gravely in-jured, Milind himself went to a hospital nearLakhisarai Railway Station but succumbed to hisinjuries due to excessive bleeding, officials said.

Angry over the incident, residents, bank offi-cials and family members of the victim staged aprotest, blocked the road and demanded action.Lakhisarai district police officer Manish Kumar as-sured the family that the matter would be taken tohigher authorities and strict action taken againstrailway police personnel who were on the train dur-ing the incident.

SANT RAJINDER SINGHJI

Whenever we swim orsail in the ocean, thebeautiful blue waters

of the sea surround us on allsides. Just as while swimmingwe are surrounded by theocean, every second of ourlives we are also surroundedby the ocean of divine love.The ocean of God’s love sur-rounds us. It is not only aroundus, but within. It is to the right

of us, the leftof us, aboveus, below usand in us. Ifwe couldonly havethe eyes tosee, wewould find

we are perpetually swimmingin the ocean of God’s love.

What does life look likewhen we experience God’slove all around us?

First, our attention is ab-sorbed in a state of love whenwe are in satsang. Satsang nolonger becomes a place towhich we go and sit for anhour and think about otherproblems or spend time criti-cising others. It is a placewhere we can rest our wearyself and bask in a state of love.It is like taking a vacation to sitby the seaside and enjoy theocean, free from the cares ofthe world. Satsang should beour vacation from the prob-lems of life. During that time

we should relax and bask inthe spiritual waves of love lap-ping against our soul, like thegentle ocean waves at thebeach. The love of God ispouring out to us through theeyes of the Master. If we couldopen up, without any thoughtsto distract us, we would feelthat love flows to us. Anythoughts will block out thelove flowing to us from God.That hour of satsang wouldrecharge us with love to helpus stay focused on Godthrough the rest of the day orweek.

Second, our attentionshould be absorbed in a stateof love when we meditate.Meditation is not a dry chorein which we go through cer-tain steps mechanically. It is aprocess of sitting in silence tobask in the love within. The si-lence helps us receive the lovethat is innate in our soul. We

can then witness the light andsound of God within, which isalso love.

The current of light andsound is God’s love flowingout from God. When we seeand hear the light and soundcurrent, we are connecting oursoul with a river of love thatleads us back to the ocean ofall love. Meditation should bea time in which we are con-nected with love. We shouldstay open to that love, withoutany distracting thoughts.Then, when we come out ofmeditation to do our worldlychores and responsibilities,that love stays with us. Wethen radiate our own love toothers. Third, our attentionshould be absorbed in a stateof love when we do selflessservice. Selfless serviceshould be a time of sweetnessin which we are serving theLord in love.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

Ayoung Muslim man, accused of stealing a motorcyclein the Saraikela-Kharsawan area in Jharkhand, was fa-tally beaten by a mob recently. But it became clear that

Tabriz Ansari was beaten senseless not for being a thief, al-legedly, but for what his religion was. The mob repeatedlyasked his name. He gave his nickname, which was religion-neutral. The mob demanded his formal name, and when that is-sued from his lips the beating got worse. Then he was forced toraise Hindu religious chants as he fainted.

Interestingly, all of this was shot on video by the perpetra-tors and made public. Evidently, there was no fear of the law.The police registered an FIR and took the victim into judicialcustody. Apparently, they recorded a confession that he hadstolen a motorcycle, but the FIR failed to mention his seven-hour-long violent beating. What does this point to - that the po-lice was innocent of the facts?

After a hue and cry followed Ansari's death in custody, thepolice arrested 11 persons and suspended two policemen. Itwill be interesting to see how the case ends up. Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday,expressed his sorrow about the episode but attacked the Oppo-sition for blaming a whole state, though it is not quite clear whohas blamed Jharkhand or its people.

Mr Modi's words of sorrow may have carried a clear mes-sage of intent if he asked the BJP-run state government to crackdown hard on the criminals and ensure communal violence ischecked forthwith. He could have reminded Parliament that hewas sincere about his new slogan of winning “sab ka vishwas”.

In cases of this kind some have pointed a finger at the BJP,which runs the Jharkhand government. Murders of Muslimshave been committed by cow vigilantes in the state and a Unionminister feted the criminals at this home once.

But it is not just Jharkhand. Just after the Narendra Modigovernment was elected to its second term in unambiguousfashion, two episodes of anti-Muslim violence caught attentionin BJP-run states — Assam and Haryana. At Barpeta in Assam,a group of Muslims was belaboured and forced to chant “JaiShri Ram” along with “Pakistan Murdabad”. At Gurgaon inHaryana, a young Muslim man had his skullcap removed andbeard pulled as he too was forced to chant the same slogan.Former Test cricketer Gautam Gambhir, a newly-elected BJPMP, was trolled by Hindutva types when he denounced theGurgaon incident, and asked to choose his causes with care.

There is a long history of communal violence in the coun-try, but in recent years this has occurred with regularity in BJP-run states. Typically, the perpetrators act in groups, and the ac-cused get away lightly as leaders continue to make pious nois-es about the Constitution.

EditorialWill PM’s sab ka vishwas help?

The urgency with whichthe discussion on hold-ing simultaneous polls

for the Lok Sabha and stateLegislative Assemblies wasinitiated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi gives a clearsignal that this is one of thetop priorities of the Modi 2.0government.

The widespread discussionwhich the country witnessedover the issue of holding si-multaneous elections showedthere are visible advantages,but at the same time manyconcerns over holding simul-taneous elections. The argu-ment put forward in supportof holding simultaneouselections are: a cut in gov-ernmental expenses on hold-ing elections and enablingthe government to pay moreattention to developmentwork.

But there are concernsabout holding simultaneouselections affecting the feder-al structure of the country,affecting the autonomy ofstates and the possible con-centration of powers in thehands of a few big politicalparties, as smaller regionalparties may get marginalisedin the electoral contest.There are also issues aboutfeasibility — whether this ispractical, and can be imple-mented. If elections are to beheld simultaneously for allstates along with the LokSabha elections, what wouldhappen if there there is anuntimely dissolution of the

state Assembly in one ormore states? At the moment,it is neither possible to esti-mate how much money couldbe saved if the elections areheld simultaneously and howmuch faster could be thepace of development, nor isit possible to assess the ex-tent of the impact this mighthave on the electoralprospects of regional partiesand the federal structure ofIndia if elections are held si-multaneously.

As there are no clear esti-mates about the extent of fi-nancial gains the countrymay enjoy and speculationabout what may be the loss-es, convening an all-partymeeting in an effort to builda consensus to bring aboutthis big electoral changeshould be seen as a welcomestep.

It is heartening to note thatthe even Congress leaderMilind Deora welcomed thisdiscussion and went on tostate that “our democracy isneither fragile nor immatureand debate on ‘one nation,one poll’ calls for an openmind on either side of thespectrum.” I am sure a dis-cussion with an open mindwould help in having betterunderstanding on this issue,but some hard facts are al-ways helpful for beginning adiscussion.

Let’s look at some hardfacts about simultaneouselections. Since the 1989Lok Sabha polls, there havebeen 35 instances of simulta-neous elections for the As-semblies in different statesalong with the Lok Sabhaelections held in this period.These are Andhra Pradesh

(1989, 1999, 2004, 2009,2014 and 2019), Odisha(2004, 2009, 2014 and2019), Sikkim (2009, 2014ad 2019), Arunachal Pradesh(2009, 2014 and 2019) Kar-nataka (1989, 1999 ad 2004),Tamil Nadu (1989, 1991 and1996), Maharashtra (1999),Assam (1991 and 1996),Haryana (1991 and 1996),Kerala (1989, 1991 and1996), Uttar Pradesh (1989and 1991), West Bengal(1991 and 1996) and Telan-gana (2014).

When simultaneous elec-tions were held in thesestates in 27 elections, the ma-jor political party of the statepolled a similar percentageof votes both for the LokSabha as well as for the As-sembly elections. There wereonly eight instances of peo-ple expressing different po-litical choices even whenthey were voting to choosetheir local MLA and theirMember of Parliament at thesame time.

There are exceptionswhen people have voted dif-ferently for the Lok Sabhaand Assemblies, but such in-stances are fewer than in-stances of people voting sim-ilarly both for the Assemblyand the Lok Sabha election.In the most recent 2019 LokSabha elections, Odisha wasthe only exception while vot-ers in Andhra Pradesh,Sikkim and ArunachalPradesh voted in a more orless similar manner both for

the state Assembly and theLok Sabha. Going by thesefigures, it seems that the fearof national parties dominat-ing both the national and thestate elections resulting insmaller regional parties get-ting marginalised in the longrun in not totally uncalledfor. Concerns over a largenumber of fake or dummypolitical parties are justified,but a diverse country like In-dia, with 29 states, a largernumber of political partiesdoes not seem undesirable.Unfortunately, there is noformula to suggest howmany political parties Indiashould have.

Regional parties do playan important role in Indiandemocracy as they representthe aspirations of the margin-alised sections of society anddifferent regions of India.Holding simultaneous elec-tions does pose some chal-lenge for the survival ofthese regional parties in var-ious states, especially instates where the national par-ties have a sizeable presence.

One can hardly disagreethat holding simultaneouselections would help reducegovernment expenditure onholding polls, reduce the bur-den on the administrativesetup and security and mayallow the government to de-vote more time on develop-ment activities, but to build astronger argument and alarge consensus in favour of“one nation, one election”, it

may be appropriate to comeup with some roadmap re-garding this. It is true that thegovernment spends a hugeamount for conducting freeand fair elections. As per es-timates, over Rs 6,500 croreswere spent on holding the2019 general election, whichwas more than double theamount spent on the 2014Lok Sabha elections. But it isalso true that besides this ex-penditure, political partiesand candidates also spend ahuge amount to contest elec-tions, and efforts should bemade to put a check on thatexpenditure as well. Holdingsimultaneous polls should re-duce government expendi-ture on holding elections, butit is still not clear to what ex-tent and how one would en-sure that money could besaved and this money wouldbe used for developmentalwork.

Building a consensus on“one nation, one election”should be welcome. Whatmay be worrisome is that thismay be implemented withoutcareful consideration. Oneshould keep in mind that In-dia is not just one nation, it isa nation with 29 states. Wedo have one election to electthe national government, andwe have elections to electstate governments as well.Any effort making it manda-tory for elections to be heldsimultaneously will have tobe very carefully thoughtthrough.

Joint polls have appeal, but hard to implement

The ocean of God’s love surrounds usThe love of God is pouring out to us

through the eyes of the Master D.A.V College has beenconsidered one of themost important educa-

tional institutions in the countrysince its foundation, this collegehas maintained strong commit-ment for excellence in the fieldof research and teaching. D.A.VCollege has managed to becomea major role model of the coun-try. D.A.V College is a unique

match of sim-plicity andmodernity andgoes with thesame holisticapproach andfull personality

development as its main goal. "Principal Pandit Mehr

Chand, Pandit Lakhpat Rai andLala Radha Ram laid the foun-dation of the college to fulfill thememory of MaharishiDayanand Saraswati and com-plete the fundamental idea of hiseducation. Since then, theD.A.V College has been suc-cessful in providing responsiblecitizens to Jalandhar society aswell as to the country. Not onlyeducation is taught here, but alsoethical values are imbibed inchildren. Growing up this tradi-tion and pure academic ideolo-gy, the college presented aunique example of its education-al performance in the year 2018-19; In the city, the college has be-come the distinction of being thelargest college after getting thehighest university position in itssubjects category. The mainthing is that in the session 2018-19, college bagged the numer-ous positions in courses likeM.A. English, M.A. Sanskrit,M.A. History, M.A. Political

Sciences, M.Sc Mathematics,M.Sc. Chemistry, M.Sc.Physics, M.Sc. Zoology,M.Com, B.Com, B.F.T,B.J.M.C, B.Sc Economics,B.C.A, B.Sc Biotech, B.ScComputer Sciences, B.ScBotony, B.Sc Non-Medical andB.Sc IT and marked a milestonein its journey of excellence.

Gold Medalist:Sukhman Kaur (M.A. Eng-

lish), Vaishali Rishi (M.A. Eco-nomics), Suresh Kumar (M.A.Sanskrit), Anukriti (M.Sc. Zool-ogy), Naina (M.Com), Bhawna(B.Ed St.), Hina (BJMC)

First university status:Kirandeep Kaur (M.A. Eco-

nomics), Nidhi Bansal (M.A.Sanskrit), Kanika Chadha(M.Com), Sheetal Bhagat (M.ScZoology), Kanika Sharma(M.Sc Chemistry), Jitu(B.Com), Swati Gupta (B.Com),Diksha Rana (B.F.S.T), Man-preet Kaur (B.F.S.T), RohitKaliyan (B.F.S.T), Umika Mon-gia (BSc Economics), AvneetKaur (M.Sc Chemistry),Muskaan Gupta (B.Sc Comput-er Science), Akanksha Kohli(B.C.A), Amandeep Kaur (M.ScMathematics), Mansi Anand(M.A. Economics), KirandeepKaur (M.A. Economics),Van-

shika Garg (B.C.A), Neha Shar-da (B.Sc), Sakshi Thakur(B.F.S.T), Manpreet Kaur(B.F.S.T), Manpreet Kaur(B.F.S.T), Manpreet Kaur (M.A.Sanskrit) , Nidhi Bansal (M.A.Sanskrit), Gurcharan Kaur(M.Sc. Zoology), Sheetal Bha-gat (M.Sc. Zoology)

Second university status:Nitish Tandon (B.F.S.T),

Charneet Kaur (B.F.S.T),Supriya (B.F.S.T), VikramChauhan (B.F.S.T) , Palak Passi(B.F.S.T), Paraminder Kaur(B.F.S.T), Sonam Saini(B.F.S.T), Manisha Arora (M.A.Sanskrit), Diksha (M.A. San-skrit), Rupanshi Puri (M.Sc.Chemistry), Gagandeep (M.A.History), Priyanka (M.A. PolScience), Damini (M.A. Eco-nomics), Damini (M.A. Eco-nomics), Shalu Sethi (M.Sc. Zo-ology), Komal Rana (M.Sc. Zo-ology)

Third university status:Surbhi Taneja (M.Com),

Varsha (M.A. Economics),Avinash Kaur (M.Sc Maths),Ravinder Kaur (M.Sc Maths),Kamna (B.F.S.T), Priya (B.F.S.T., Harsimar Singh (B.F.S.T),Nimrat (M.A. Sanskrit), Komal(M.Sc Chemistry), ManpreetKaur (M.Sc Chemistry), Ra-

manpreet (M.Sc. Maths), Har-simran (M.Sc Zoology), Rachi-ka Sood (M.Sc Zoology), Shub-ham (M.A. Sanskrit), KishoreChandra (M.A. Sanskrit), Man-preet Kaur (M.Sc Chemistry),Pavandeep (M.Sc Maths), Ekta(B.Sc IT), Deepali (B.Sc BT),Navita Pathania (M.A. San-skrit), Satinder Kaur (M.A. Eco-nomics), Priya Sharma (B.ScIT), Meenakshi Kohli (B.ScBT), Preeti (M.Sc Chemistry) ,Pranjal Rautela (B.Sc IT), Varti-ka (M.Sc Chemistry), Arihant(M.Sc Chemistry), ParamjitKaur (M.Sc Chemistry), Lena(M.Sc Chemistry)

The vision of the college isto provide the best citizen to thenation who will be able to im-prove the country by using edu-cation as weapons and who willbe engaged in the service of thecountry also the man who willbe rich in moral values.

Mission of the college tobring progress in research, edu-cation and other important areasso that the quality of education inevery sector of the country is im-proved so that the country canpursue the path of progress, andthe development of a progres-sive society is the main objectiveof D.A.V College, Jalandhar ","D.A.V College is a uniquematch of simplicity and moder-nity where students are givenvalue based education with thehelp of modern methods, holis-tic approach and complete per-sonality development and thishas been the main goal of ourcollege. Our college has doneexcellent work on overall devel-opment and there is a wholeclass room culture here. D.A.V

College has excellent facultyand teachers who are alwayspresent in the service of the col-lege, who not only provideknowledge but also help stu-dents to learn the values of theirlife. I am very proud of being theprincipal of this college, my onlywish is that my college shouldalways remain immortal.

The college has honouredthe country with precious jew-els, former Chief Justice of thecountry, many ministers of thestate, officers and students of thescientific college, like Mr. M.N.Panchhi (Chief Justice of India),Mr. Talwar (Former Director ofPGI), Mr. Sharat Sabarwal (for-mer Indian Ambassador to Pak-istan), Prof. A. S. Brar (presentVice Chancellor of Guru NanakDev University) Punjab Univer-sity Prof. Arun Kumar Grover,martyr Major Raman Dada,Shaheed Daljit Minhas and Prin-ciples of neighbouring institu-tions of Punjab is alumini ofD.A.V College. And the D.A.VCollege presented 22Olympians, 8 Arjuna awards, 3Dhyan Chand Awards, and 3Dronacharya Awards to thecountry.

Not only academic achieve-ments but also a long list of ad-ditional cultural activities inwhich the world's famous ghaz-al singer Mr. Jagjit Singh, fa-mous Bollywood singerSukhwinder Singh, famous Sufisinger Hans Raj Hans and thelatest entry in the film industry,College proudly dignifies Deep-anshu Pandit.

Principal Dr. S. K.Arora,D.A.V College

Jalandhar

8LIFE OUGHT TO BE A STRUGGLE OF

DESIRE TOWARD ADVENTURESWHOSE NOBILITY WILL FERTILIZE

THE SOUL.

REBECCAWEST

AN ARTIST NEVER REALLY FINISHES HIS WORK,HE MERELY ABANDONS IT.

PAUL VALERY

SPIRITUALISM

STARS TALKSSeemaa Singh, As-

trologer and Vastu Ex-pert known for her ac-

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DAV College has become largest in achievinghighest university positions in all subjects

TRUMP STARTS NEW MIDEAST WARGAME TO TARGET TEHRAN

The world was apparent-ly 10 minutes awayfrom witnessing a war

launched on Iran when Presi-dent Donald Trump reported-ly decided to heed the adviceof his favourite Fox News tel-evision host among others tostop the strike.

There may have beensome other reasons too for themaverick leader to pull back,though it was certainly not outof a humanitarian concern forthe potential loss of lives as heclaims. Trump’s threat ofobliterating Iran may be exag-gerated but the danger of ten-sions spiralling out of controlcannot be minimised. A warcloud still hangs over theGulf. Trump’s war cry has

thrown geopolitics into atizzy. A new American war inthe Middle East would bemuch more disastrous thaneven the Iraq invasion. Itwould certainly pull other ma-jor powers into the fray. And itwould be a huge, costly gam-ble for the Trump administra-tion. Trump may have pulledback from attacking Iran atthe last moment. But no oneknows what happens next giv-ing his unpredictable behav-iour. There has not been anysoftening of tone. Any mili-tary adventure against Iranwould further alienate Wash-ington from its Western allieswho are already upset with theTrump administration over itsposition on the Iranian nuclear

agreement. The Europeansblame Trump for pushing Irantowards jettisoning an agree-ment that was working, as doChina and Russia. The con-flict will also cause the ongo-ing proxy war to intensify be-tween Saudi Arabia and Iran.That may lead to a new civilwar in the Middle East. WithSaudi Arabia and other Gulfcountries aligning themselveswith the United States againstIran, the situation has becomeextremely intricate. The Saudipush in Trump’s anti-Irancampaign is all too obvious.Saudi officials never mincetheir words where it comes toIran, labelling the country as“the most dangerous adver-sary”.

One should keep in mind that India is not just onenation, it is a nation with 29 states

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JALANDHAR: Global tyre major, Apollo Tyres inaugurated northern India's 1st full-service farm/agriculture tyre outlet, only 2nd in the country, in Kapurthala, Punjab. While similar service outlets does exist for passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle tyres, farm tyres have not received adequate attention in terms of state-of-the-art service centres, trained personnel and a pleasing service environment. The Apollo Farm Zone will be equipped with an automatic tyre changer, a proper tyre display, and an Agronomist to guide the farmers in the tyre selection process, they can sit and relax, while their tyres get changed/ serviced. The Farm Zone will be equipped with an automatic tyre inflator to measure the right amount of inflation pressure. Also available would be the professional repair kits for best repair of the punctures or any other damages.

SHORT TALKS

Apollo Tyres inaugurated Northern India's 1st Farm Zone in Kapurthala

CHANDIGARH: Groupe SEB India's flagship, Maharaja Whiteline has launched a new range of Air Coolers, Hybridcool Series. Equipped with unique and innovative concept of having both wood wool and Honeycomb pads, makes the air coolers highly efficient and durable, and ideal for every home in summers.The new air coolers will be available in variety of sizes with trendy looks and color combinations along with manual and remotely controlled options at all 750 distributors and 40,000 dealers of Groupe SEB India across Indiaand various e-commerce platforms between the price ranges of Rs 15,199 to 17,199.The Hybridcool Series has been manufactured keeping in mind Indian consumers who want efficient and high cooling air coolers clubbed with durable and high air throw. Maharaja Whiteline's new range provides all these comforts since the cooler is fitted with both, wood wool and Honey comb pads. Over last two decades, usage of cooling method (which facilitates cooling of the outside air) has evolved from Woodwool to Honeycomb pads - with each having own set of positive aspects. By launching a product range with both the pads, Maharaja Whiteline has considered.

Maharaja whiteline launches hybridcool series air coolers

GoAir inducts 50th aircraft in their fleet

HEALTH/TECH

hinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has Cscaled up the production

capacity of its recently-launched smartphone Reno 10x Zoom which has been sold out, to better meet the growing demand, the company said on Wednesday. Oppo is also extending offers for all the customers wherein they can get cashback of Rs. 2,500 at offline channels from July 8-July 20. The smartphone would soon be available across online and offline stores. The Reno 10x Zoom comes with a 6.6-inch panoramic AMOLED display and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 855 chip. The device is equipped with the new camera technology and design. The rear optics include 48-megapixel, 13-megapixel, and 8-megapixel shooter, while the front has been equipped with soft light along with a 16-megapixel camera.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

Journey from hiring rickshaws to one touch booking of e-rickshaws and cabs

handigarh : Remember the good old days when you made plans to meet up your “gang C“at your favorite hangout coffee shop. If you

did not have your own vehicle, chances are you used to go out on the road and hire a rickshaw after a haggling for ten minutes. Cut to today, where you simply tap a button to book a cab to the nearest mall, we have come a long way!From a time when every neighborhood had a single landline phone to connect with relatives to smartphones in the hands children, young and the old, technology has changed the way we interact with our environment. From groceries to furniture to even cars, everything can be brought online without stepping a foot out of the comfort of your cozy homes. While internet came to India in 1995 and the first smartphone in 2008, it took a while for cab booking apps to make their way in India. Two major players, one Indian and one American began operations in 2013 and revolutionized the market. It is hard to find a smartphone that does not have a cab booking app now. But it is high time for an alternative to arrive in the country to break the monopoly and provide consumers with better options.

Huawei sub-brand Honor has confirmed that it will release a 5G smartphone before the end of 2019. This was confirmed by none other than company president George Zhai during a talk at the Shanghai Mobile World Congress. The 5G phone will be a flagship-grade phone so we can expect it to be equipped with top-of-the-line specifications as well. Zhao also suggested that 5G phones will gain momentum next year, and he expects them to hit the 100 million mark by 2020. Zhao confirmed that Honor will unveil its first 5G phone in the fourth quarter of this year. He did not reveal the price of the phone, or any other detail for that matter, but did suggest that the phone will be positioned in the flagship segment.

Honor to launch first 5g flagship phone in q4 2019

ith more and more help if need be the first time and long-term health problems. 4) Water every day to keep the soil people hopping onto around. Do your research on Also, the nutrition content of moist, and make sure the plant gets Wthe organic foods fertilisers as well and opt solely home-grown veggies tends to be enough sunlight.

bandwagon, it is no wonder that for organic variants – higher, since they are literally 5) Radish should harvest in about home or farm-grown veggies are vermicompost, manure and harvested and brought to your table 2-3 weeks, so make sure you keep much in demand. But how do you kitchen waste compost. within hours! You get to eat fresh putting seeds in every two weeks know if your store-bought organic Care for your kitchen garden seasonal vegetables and have to ensure a continuous supply. You veggies are truly what they say A home garden needs as much control over how much you want just need to gently pull it out once they are? Growing your own care as a farm! So looking after it to grow. In the long-run, it is also it is ready.veggies gives you a certain amount every day is mandatory. Check economical, as you save quite a bit Corianderof certainty, is also fairly simple sunlight conditions, and be sure to on purchasing vegetables! Also, Organic vegetables 7and comes with a multitude of water your plants without fail. there are some indirect benefits to 1) Choose a wide, spacious benefits. Here’s how and why you Check every morning for pests – gardening. It is great exercise, and container (trays or tubs are ideal) should be doing it. their presence can be identified by you breathe in fresh air from the to grow coriander, with drainage Do your homework tell-tale beginnings of holes or plants. It is also therapeutic. holes so that water does not First, be practical about the kind of cuts in the plants. Don’t use HOW TO GROW: Radish stagnate and rot the roots. Fill it veggies you want to grow, based chemicals as far as possible to get 1) You don’t need a very large with potting mix.on climate and topography. You rid of them. Instead, use neem container to grow radish, but since 2) Place the coriander seeds in neat have to factor in the time taken for juice, or neem oil that has been it is a root vegetable, it needs to be rows, making sure you leave 5cm harvesting and the space you have. mixed with organic liquid soap. of a certain depth – say 40 inches space between each seed so that Make sure your garden or terrace You can also use a salt water spray or more. So depending on how the plant can grow without or balcony, wherever you’re made with Himalayan crystal salt, many you need at a time, choose. obstruction.planning to grow your veggies, or sprinkle a few drops of You can even use recycled bottles 3) Once this is done, cover the gets enough sunlight, as this is one eucalyptus oil. or old buckets. entire surface well with half an

the size and shape of the container potatoes, radish, lettuce and of the key factors to growing Value the benefits of eating your 2) In the container, put the potting inch of cocoa peat or soil. Keep are ideal for the vegetables you’re carrots. You can also grow herbs vegetables. Also, you need an own vegetables mix (you will get this at any store, watering, and you should see them growing. Lastly, budget out your like fenugreek, coriander and mint. adequate water supply to nourish There is a multitude of benefits to or can make it with a mix of germinate within a week. Again, expenses, and make sure you’re When buying seedlings, it is best your crops every day. If you’re consuming your home-grown garden soil, vermicompost, coco make sure there is adequate getting the most out of your to opt for organic, open-pollinated growing vegetables in your garden, veggies. The first and most peat, manure, neem cakes and if exposure to sunlight. garden! seeds, since the plants that grow assess the soil, with the help of a obvious is that you are aware of you have the stomach for it, 4) When the plant is six inches tall, Choose your seedlings and then give you seeds for the next professional. Make sure it is the source, the quality of seeds, earthworms!). Leave it out in the you can harvest it by cutting off the fertilisers crop. If you opt for hybrid seeds, conducive to growing veggies. If it fertilisers and pesticides that go sun from morning to evening. leaves and stems. You can use the Vegetables that you can opt to you may not have this option isn’t, see what you can alter or into making the veggies truly 3) Scoop out one inch of soil, same plant twice or thrice, and grow in Indian tropical climes are because the traits of the plant will change. If you’re growing the organic. You won’t be ingesting wherever you want to plant the once the coriander plant starts tomatoes, brinjal, bell peppers, vary. When planting the seeds, get vegetables in containers, choose any harmful chemicals that could radish seeds. Place 3-4 seeds in flowering, use the seeds for the cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, the depth right – use professional the soil wisely, and also make sure cause you and your family short each hole and cover loosely. next cycle of sowing.

handigarh, GoAir has achieved a new milestone with the induction of 50th aircraft into the fleet. GoAir has Cdoubled its fleet in less than two years, earning itself the

coveted title of India’s fastest growing airline that operates 270 daily flights connecting 24 domestic and 4 international

destinations. GoAir has flown over 72 million passengers since its inception and in the next two years the airline will touch the magical 100 million p a s s e n g e r s m a r k . GoAir, an aviation foray of the Wadia Group, operates as a

low-cost carrier model that demands cost leadership, operational efficiency and reliability. Commenting on this milestone, Jeh Wadia, Managing Director, GoAir, said: “We will be adding at least one aircraft every month and that translates into more flights, more destinations and more smart options for the consumers. Soon we will be adding four new international destinations to our network.”

mritsar-: The first organ transplant in India was Aconducted in the 1970s

and it was a kidney transplant. Over four decades later, more than 5,00,000 people across the country die each year due to non-availability of organs. The challenges pertaining to organ donation include an interplay of sociocultural factors, beliefs and superstitions, lack of communication and organizational support. To make people aware about the importance and benefits of organ donation, Apollo Hospitals today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Woman Doctors Wing of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to drive Organ Donation across the country. Under the terms of the MoU, Apollo Hospitals would work with the IMA Woman Doctors Wing to promote organ donation among the general public and put across the message of the importance of organ donation in saving lives using various platforms. The demand for organs outstrips supply in almost every country of the world, and for patients with organ failure, the wait for an organ can be measured in years. India’s organ donation rate is one of the lowest in the World with only 0.8 per Ten lakh (10,00,000) people opting to donate their organs. “There is a wide gap in the requirement and availability of organs in the country. Over one lakh (1,00,000) people die of liver diseases in the country with only one thousand (1,000) people getting a liver transplant. Over two lakh twenty thousand (2,20,000) people are awaiting kidney transplants with only 15,000 people able to get a kidney transplant,” said.

Apollo Hospitals Group signs MoU with IMA-Woman Doctors Wing to drive Organ Donation across the country

Talented make up artist Sahil Preet

amsung Galaxy Fold is yet to hit the market after its initial delay in launch due to display issues. These issues Swere spotted in pre-release units by early reviewers, and

eventually Samsung refunded pre-order money and stalled the launch for later. The phone is now said to be ‘ready to hit the market' but a relaunch date hasn't been announced yet. However, the company has already started to race in another gear as a new report claims that Samsung is working on another foldable phone. It looks to launch an out-folding smartphone in the future, something similar to what Huawei did with the Mate X. A report out of Korea suggests that Samsung has already started mass producing major parts of this new out-folding smartphone, and possibly even the phone itself. It looks to launch this Mate X-like phone earlier than the launch of Mate X itself. Huawei has delayed the launch of the Mate X from June to September, following Samsung's woes and its own troubles in licensing the full version of Android. Now, Samsung looks to trump Huawei, and launch its second foldable phone before the Mate X. “The launch date has yet to be unveiled, but it's likely to be earlier than the date set for Huawei. Suppliers have already begun mass-producing major parts, and possibly even the phone itself,” sources told Korea Heral . Samsung was recently also reported to be working on another foldable phone apart from this out-folding one. A phone with a clamshell design that opens and closes vertically is expected to launch sometime next year.

Samsung mass producing out-folding phone, may launch before huawei mate x: Report

Sahil Preet Singh an upcoming make up artist and stylist, who has carved a niche for himself in a short period in make up and beauty field. A resident of village Jahangir Kalan in Distt Amritsar, Punjab. This young

make up artist Sahil Preet Singh working in this field for last 3 years. In interaction with this writer, Sahil Preet Singh revealed that he was fond of fashion and make up from his childhood and invariably took part in

various make up competitions. Sahil Preet Singh born in December 1997, completed plus two from local senior secondary school and later he tried his luck in make up hair style field. His parents always encouraged and blessed him. He says that make up is an integral part of fashion world.Sahil Preet has worked with popular Punjabi singers like Jassi Sohal, Sandy Sandhu, Feroz Khan, Poonam Sood and Jaggi Jassal as a make up artist and stylist. He also worked with top video models Sanvi Arora, Prabh Gill, Poonam, Mehak, Simran and Priya as a make up stylist.

HANDIGARH: The Adani Group announced its long-term initiative to Cdiscover and nurture world-class

athletes for India. Garv Hai, named after the group’s pilot project built around the Rio Olympics 2016, is a nationwide programme that aims to reach out and empower stakeholders in the sports fraternity.Starting May 15th, Garv Hai has started receiving applications from athletes, coaches, sports academies, etc. across multiple sports. The massive exercise spanning across 29 states, 100 cities and catering to up to 5000 entries aims to handpick 15+ potential athletes with the passion to make it big. Till date, this initiative has received more than 3000 entries. “India is witnessing an unprecedented upsurge in sports sentiments. While the government has rolled out several new opportunities for potential sportspersons, as a responsible corporate we feel it is our national duty to extend our arms and bolster the changing narrative. With Garv Hai, we want to stand by budding sport stars, become a part of their journey and celebrate their glory. Aligned with the Adani Group’s core philosophy of nation building and Growth with Goodness.

Google, University of Chicago sued over data sharing

S chipmaker Qualcomm has won certification from Germany's cyber watchdog for a next generation chip that Uboosts the security of smartphones, as applications such as

mobile payments become increasingly prevalent. The company said its Snapdragon 855 mobile system on a chip (SoC) had gained a seal of approval from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), whose certification was "known to be very rigorous and globally recognised". The first approval of its kind means

smartphones packing the Qualcomm SoC are deemed to be as secure as smart cards. Almost half of the world's smartphones run on the company's chipsets. The certification means applications that previously required

separate security chips will now be possible using just Qualcomm's SoC system, potentially bolstering the US company's market position. "Smartphones and tablets are today used for many applications that have high-security demands, for example for payments, saving passwords, keys, sensitive information such as health data or two-factor authentication," said BSI president Arne Schoenbohm. "In securing these devices, the trend is to an ever-increasing integration of elements."

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 becomes first mobile chip to receive BSI certification

Record registration at Castrol Super Mechanic Contest 2019CHANDIGARH: India’s largest mechanic testing and skilling initiative, Castrol Super Mechanic contest saw a record breaking participation of over 1.25 lakhs mechanics this year in the third edition of this popular annual contest. This was an increase of 15% over registrations last year. Commenting on the overwhelming response towards the Castrol Super Mechanic platform, Omer Dormen, Managing Director, Castrol India Limited, said: “We are committed to contributing to the development of the mechanic community who play a critical role in keeping India moving. We take pride in creating a platform like Castrol Super Mechanic Contest, which supports their learning and also recognizes the importance of this community. Therefore, we are really excited to receive increasingly positive and encouraging response from the mechanic community towards Castrol Super Mechanic contest. It is extremely satisfying to see them instill their trust in the platform.”

Oppo Reno 10x Zoom Sold Out in India, Company Scales Up Production

patient has sued Google and the University of Chicago, accusing them of sharing hundreds of Athousands of records without removing date

stamps and doctor's notes. According to a report in CNET on Wednesday, the lawsuit filed in the US District Court for Northern Illinois alleged that the partnership between the University's Medical Centre and Google shared too much personal information.The partnership uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict medical events, such as how long a patient might be hospitalized and whether their health is deteriorating."The personal medical information obtained by Google is the most sensitive and intimate information in an individual's life, and its unauthorized disclosure is far more damaging to an individual's privacy than compromised credit card numbers," said the lawsuit.The suit was filed on behalf of a patient named Matt Dinerstein, who was admitted to the university's hospital in 2015, reports statnews.com.

handigarh : Amazon.in today announced that Air Conditioner (AC) sales in Chandigarh have Cgrown by over 150% over the last quarter.

Customers in Sector 44, Sector 36, Sector 40, Sector 21 and Daria have purchased the most number of ACs on Amazon.in from Chandigarh in the last quarter. Voltas, LG, Sanyo, Whirlpool and AmazonBasics are the most popular brands in the city. Overall, large appliances sales in Chandigarh have grown close to twice y-o-y. Commenting on this trend, Suchit Subhas, Director – Large Appliances & Furniture, Amazon India said, “Summer months typically see an increase in the sale of air conditioners. Customers in Chandigarh are using our finance schemes such as no-cost EMI, choosing from our vast selection of hundreds of ACs across price points and benefiting from fast doorstep delivery. Interestingly, inverter ACs which are slightly expensive but save power, are more popular in Chandigarh than regular window ACs.”Amazon.in supports customers.

Amazon.in sees over 150% increase in AC sales in

Chandigarh

edmi Note 7 Pro 6GB+128GB variant is now on open sale for the next three days. Xiaomi India on RThursday announced that the top variant of the

Redmi Note 7 Pro will be available to buy at anytime until the end of the month, June 30, on Flipkart and Mi.com. To recall, the smartphone was first launched in India in February

alongside the India variant of the Redmi Note 7, and has since been made available in flash sales. The biggest highlight of the Redmi Note 7 Pro is its dual rear camera setup which features a 48-megapixel Sony IMX586 sensor, as sell as the presence of an octa-core Snapdragon 675 SoC at the sub-Rs. 15,000 price point. Redmi India made the announcement via its Twitter handle on Thursday,

saying the Redmi Note 7 Pro 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant is now available via Flipkart and Mi.com at "anytime" till June 30. As we mentioned, the smartphone was launched in India back in February, alongside the Redmi Note 7's India variant.

Redmi note 7 pro 6gb ram variant goes on open sale in India until June 30

How to grow your own veggies, and why they are good for you

Toyota Kirloskar Motor celebrates 20 years of its journey in India CHANDIGARH: Toyota Kirloskar Motor, a subsidiary of the leading automobile manufacturer globally, is celebrating 20 years of offering ever better cars to its customers in India. Toyota’s focus in India has been steady towards sustainable growth and to remain competitive with best of safety, comfort, luxury, quality and after sales services, through globally acclaimed models, to further enrich customer trust & confidence. Mr. Masakazu Yoshimura, Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “At Toyota, we believe that for businesses to succeed in this competitive and dynamic environment, we need to have a robust ecosystem of suppliers, vendors and partners. The objective is for the suppliers to develop strategies from mid to long term perspective and become globally competitive to expand business operations both in India & overseas.

CHANDIGARH : SpotlampE.com the platform for independent singers by 9X Media Network, announces the launch of Na Na Na, by Indian singer, Rapper, composer and songwriter Viruss. Launching first on SpotlampE.com on 26th June 2019, Na Na Na will be telecasted across 9XM, 9X Tashan and 9X Jalwa starting 1st July 2019 Born in Faridabad, Viruss made his debut with the song “Bam Bhole”. This track crossed over 175 Million+ views on Youtube. He later created popular song Radio with Brown gal and King Kaazi. His other hit songs are Bam Bhole 2, Bam Bhole 3, I’m Rising and many more.Commenting on his new single Viruss said that I am happy to be associated with SpotlampE.com to launch my latest track “Na Na Na”. This peppy romantic song captures the feeling of being in love and I am eager to watch the viewer’s response on the song.

SpotlampE launches Na Na Nasong by the popular young rapper Viruss

Adani Group announces training aid for India’s hidden sports heroes

anzart, India’s first luxury Fan Brand, adds another Modern-Day version to compact Frooms, with the smallest Ceiling Fan

‘Pappu’ that has it all - 26? sweep with LED light controls, all operated on a remote-controlled set. Best suited for more compact spaces such as walk-in closets, hallways, Pooja rooms, Bathrooms etc, the Fan maximizes the efficacy of every space. The pocket-sized powerhouse rotates at a swift 340 RPM speed with its deep pitched blades, ensuring the gust of refreshing breeze. The fan comes with an integrated 12W LED which 3 Light settings – Warm, Day and White output, adding functionality for both illumination of room as well as reading purpose. The Fan is engineered for smaller spaces, enabling seamless operation with Whisper Quiet Technology. Ditching the traditional fan, for smaller space, the White Beauty packs a lot of style. This perfect small space fan performs, strong enough to compete with any full range Fans.

Fanzart maximizes the utility of smaller spaces with Mini Ceiling Fan ‘Pappu’

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GLAMOURGLAMOURKartik, Janhvi

to headline 'Dostana' sequel

Sanjay Dutt shares a video for #DrugFreeIndia

anjay Dutt's struggle with drug addiction is not a hidden reality. From fighting the addiction to emerging victorious, the actor has been open about it all. On SWorld Drug Day, Sanjay shared a video for his social media followers, asking

people to not to listen to people who offer them any kind of drugs. "Having been a victim of drug abuse myself, I feel responsible to do my bit in spreading awareness about this menace. It was a moving experience to initiate the Drug Free India campaign earlier this year with guruji Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Today on World Drug Day, let us continue our mission," he wrote in the caption. In the video, the actor shares his own experience with addiction and urged people to say no to drugs. "My parents would tell me something I would do the opposite. I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I did not even listen to my own heart. After learning various lessons from life - good and bad - I would still suggest the same, don't listen to anybody," the actor said. Suggesting his followers to stay away from bad influence that can lead them to drug addiction, the 'Agneepath' actor said, "when your friends tell you that a single puff can do no harm, don't listen to them. When friend say that everybody takes drugs you should too, don't listen to them. This drug is better than others, don't listen. If they tell you that it's okay to take drugs when you are at a party. Taking drugs once does not make you an addict, don't listen to them." "I know the truth, and that's why I am telling you, don't listen to them. Today, let's take a pledge that we will not consume drugs and will stop others from doing the same," he suggested. Sanjay's struggles with drug and alcohol addiction during the initial years of his Bollywood career were portrayed in his biopic 'Sanju' starring Ranbir Kapoor.

Sonakshi Sinha shares still from setshile fans are eagerly waiting to see Sonakshi Sinha as Rajjo in 'Dabangg 3', the actor has managed to keep Waudiences on their toes by sharing stills and behind-the-

scenes pictures from the film's sets. Sonakshi took to Instagram to share a mirror selfie on her Story from the sets of the upcoming movie. In the still, the 'Kalank' actor can be seen dressed up in a black outfit. But it's her hair and makeup that is sure to leave fans excited.With a messy, loose plait, a red bindi on her forehead and sindoor in her hair, Sonakshi is sure to steal hearts in the third installment of the 'Dabanng' series. "Ready to Rajjo! #Dabangg3," read the caption. Sonakshi, who made her Bollywood debut with the 2010 movie 'Dabangg', plays Chulbul Pandey's (Salman Khan) wife Rajjo in the film. The actor had earlier shared the look of her character on Instagram when she started shooting for the film. While in Maheshwar for the first schedule of the film, Salman also filmed Dabangg's popular track 'Hud Hud Dabangg' and announced the same on Twitter. The actor kicked off the shoot for the film on April 1 when he jetted off to Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh to shoot with Arbaaz Khan and Prabhu Deva. 'Dabangg 3' is being helmed by Prabhu Deva. The film marks the second collaboration of Salman and the director. The two have previously worked together in 'Wanted'. As per media reports, Arbaaz will once again be seen playing Makkhi in the film. The movie is being produced under the banner of Salman Khan Films and Arbaaz Khan Production. It is scheduled to release on December 20, this year.

Dabanng 3: 'Rajjo' Phars Film acquires overseas theatricaldistribution rights for 'Saaho'

Bollywood, Arabic and South Indian motion pictures. Phars Film has collaborated with Yash Raj Films (YRF) for the film’s release in the international territories excluding the Middle East which will be handled by its own office. For over two decades now, YRF has been the top production and distribution studio by delivering some of the biggest blockbusters that Indian cinema has ever seen. RF has also established its dominance as the premier distribution company for titles not produced by its production arm in emerging and established markets across the globe and distributed some of the biggest dding to its strong and vast much-awaited movie is being entertainers in the overseas territories. distribution network, Phars released in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and 'Saaho' adds to its ever-growing list of Film has acquired the Malayalam.Atitles. Speaking on this, Ahmad international theatrical distribution Phars Film has been the pioneer in Golchin, Founder & CEO - Phars rights to the forthcoming Indian action developing the film and cinema Film shared,'Saaho is this year’s most thriller 'Saaho', starring Prabhas along industry in the Middle East region as awaited film made on a huge budget. It with Shraddha Kapoor. early as 1964 making it one of the is perhaps the most expensive film of Written and directed by Sujeeth, and leading distribution companies in the the year! produced by UV Creations, this Middle East for Hollywood,

Arjun Kapoor turns 34ose to fame from Habib Faisal's romantic thriller 'Ishaqzaade', Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor turned 34. Bollywood fraternity took to social networking site Twitter, and wished Arjun on his birthday. RArjun's sister Anshula Kapoor posted a childhood picture of him and captioned it,'Happy birthday

bhai @arjunkapoor I love you the mostest. You will always be the most important person in my life. You’ve got the biggest heart I’ve ever known & I’m so grateful that I have you, that I’ve always had

you watching over me. Thank you for your unquestioning love & for always just being present for me, in every way that counts - as a brother, as a friend, as a parent, as a goofball, as my backbone, as my shoulder to lean on, as the hand on my head.. Thank you for pushing me to come into my own, to march to my own beat without any questions asked, for making sure I never fall too far in that journey, and for showing me through example that even when I fall down, I must get up and keep going, with unwavering faith in myself and my beliefs. You are my home, and that will never change. Love you to inf ini ty #MyMostFavouri te #MyNumeroUno #WhenHomeHasAHeartbeat #HappyBirthdayBhai'. Arjun's uncle and veteran actor Anil Kapoor shared a picture and said,'Happy Birthday, Chachu!!! @arjunk26 You make us so happy everyday! Always giving your 100% to everything! You're all heart! I hope you keep rising higher

& overcome every obstacle and reach the success you deserve! Love you!' Janhvi Kapoor said,'Happy Birthday Arjun bhaiya love you so much, always. For the love that you give, the man

that you are and tbh also for the epic jokes that u crack. Even if sometimes it’s on me...' Sonam Kapoor said,'Happy Birthday Arjun! Whether we're flash dancing in the streets or chasing slopes, it's never a dull moment. You bring so much laughter and weirdness to my life, and

all those around you that we really wouldn't have it any other way. I wish you the best birthday, and all my love'. Farah Khan shared an adorable

selfie with the actor and wrote, "Happiest birthday @arjunkapoor my gyaani baba, foodie in

crime n always there for me whenever i ask him to make free appearances

on my shows.. lov u". Ayushmann Khurrana said,'Happy bday fellow AK @arjunk26! H a v e a g o o d holiday.'Rajkummar Rao said,'Wish you a very h a p p y b i r thday brother.

Vicky to portray Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in nextMeghna Gulzar’s

irector Meghna Gulzar on Thursday announced that she is all set to team up with actor Vicky DKaushal for her next film titled ‘Sam’.

Based on Field Marshal of India Sam Manekshaw, ‘Sam’ will be produced by Ronnie Screwvala. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Vicky shared a picture and said, 'The swashbuckling general & the first Field Marshal of India- SAM MANEKSHAW. I feel honoured & proud of getting a chance t o u n f o l d h i s j o u r n e y o n - s c r e e n . Remembering him on his death anniversary & embracing the new beginnings with @meghnagulzar and @RonnieScrewvala. @RSVPMovies”. Meghna Gulzar said, 'A Soldier ’s Soldier. A Gentleman’s Gentleman. In remembrance, on the death anniversary of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. It is my honour to tell the story of one of India's greatest war heroes, with @vickykaushal09 essaying the historic man! @RonnieScrewvala @RSVPMovies”. Ronnie Screwvala said, 'On the death anniversary of one of India's greatest war heroes, we take immense pride and honor in announcing our next movie, starring @vickykaushal09 as F i e l d M a r s h a l S a m Manekshaw.Directed by @ m e g h n a g u l z a r @RSVPMovies”. Vicky Kaushal will reunite with Meghna Gulzar after Raazi.The film is set to go on the floors next year.

'Article 15' gets five modifications from CBFC

ilmmaker Anubhav Sinha's "Art ic le 15" , which Frevolves around the caste

divide in the country, has been granted a 'UA' certificate after five modifications by the Central Board of Film Certification. The investigative thriller features Ayushmannn Khurrana as a cop, with Sayani Gupta, Kumud Mishra and Manoj Pahwa. According to the official website

of CBFC, the film was c a t e g o r i e d ' U A ' -

unrestricted public exhibition but with

parental guidance after the makers

submi t ted a compl iance

cer t i f ica te f r o m t h e A n i m a l W e l f a r e Board of I n d i a (AWBI) a n d added a v o i c e -over in Hindi.

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Adani Ports plans to raise USD 750 millionNEW DELHI: Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ)Thursday announced plans to raise USD 750 million (approx Rs 5,195 crore) tofund its capital expenditure requirement and also to retire some of its debt. "Thefinance committee of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd has approvedthe issuance of fixed rate senior unsecured notes aggregating to USD 750million and has approved the pricing, tenure and other terms of the notes,"APSEZ said in a regulatory filing. The company said it intends to use theproceeds primarily for capital expenditure, including on-lending to subsidiariesfor purposes, and the remainder for repaying existing indebtedness aspermitted under the applicable laws including the external commercialborrowing guidelines and/or if required, approvals of the Reserve Bank of India.The notes are expected be listed on the Singapore Exchange SecuritiesTrading Ltd, the company added.

AGENCYLONDON, JUN 27

A heatwave affecting muchof Europe is expected tointensify further afterGermany, Poland and theCzech Republic recordedtheir highest-ever Junetemperature on Wednesday.

Some countries,including France andSwitzerland, expecttemperatures above 40C(104F) on Thursday, said aBBC News report.

Meteorologists sayexceptionally hot air drawnin from northern Africa is toblame for the Europeanheatwave.

French officials haveissued stark warnings aboutthe risk to life.

The heat is expected to

rise further in many placesover the next three days,meteorologists say.

In parts of north-easternSpain, temperatures mayreach 45C on Friday.Spanish officials have alsowarned of a "significant

risk" of forest fires in someareas. France wastraumatised by a heatwave in2003 that was blamed for15,000 extra deaths.

Nearly all of country isnow on orange alert - thesecond-highest warning

level - with local authoritiesissuing advice on how tokeep cool.

Several cities, includingParis and Lyon, haverestricted traffic to try andreduce the effects ofpollution. In Paris fountainsconnected to hydrants havebeen set up. In Toulouse,where temperatures areexpected to reach 41C onThursday, charities havebeen handing out water tohomeless people.

Because of the unusuallywarm weather, some Frenchschools have delayedimportant exams and evenclosed to pupils altogether.

The heat is also affectingFrance's 72,000-strongprison population. FrançoisBes, a prison monitor, toldBFMTV that many detainees

describe their cells as"ovens".

"It's impossible to createa draft because by definitionprisoners can't open thedoors," he is quoted assaying. One major prisonnear Paris, Fresne, hasdecided to hose down theyard to cool it, BFMTVreports. Temperatures havebeen climbing in recent days- but are expected to geteven hotter in some placestowards the end of the week.

On Wednesday, Coschenin Brandenburg peaked at38.6C - a new Germanrecord for June.

Radzyn in Poland andDoksany in the CzechRepublic also recorded newnational highs, withtemperatures hitting 38.2Cand 38.9C respectively.

WIN signs MoU withKorea based Hanwha forCobot business in IndiaBANGALORE: Wipro InfrastructureEngineering (WIN) AutomationBusiness and Korea-based HanwhaRobotics have signed a Memorandumof Understanding (MoU) to developthe Cobots Businessin India. The MoUis also intends to explore synergies inResearch and Development andmarket intelligence to further improveCobot Technology, according to aWipro press release here on Thursday.Commenting on the MoU, PratikKumar, CEO, Wipro InfrastructureEngineering, said, "Robust andaffordable Cobots like Hanwha helpcompanies to automate the unsafe,mundane and routine process. Cobotsare becoming the preferred platformfor automation. Hanwha with its trackrecord in high precision machinery,motion control, and softwaretechnology is an ideal partner inCobots.” G Sundararaman, SeniorVice President & Head WINAutomation said, “Cobots are a keypillar of automation and Hanwha is aleading player globally. Thispartnership will further strengthen ourindustrial automation proposition to ourcustomers in India” "India is one of themost accelerating manufacturingmarkets in the world," said MrChongsung Ra, Head of HanwhaRobotics, Wipro InfrastructureEngineering is a diversified businesswith expertise spanning over 4decades of engineering andmanufacturing excellence in the fieldsof Hydraulics, Industrial Automation,Aerospace, Water treatment andAdditive manufacturing.

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Rahat Fateh Ali Khanawarded honourary degreeby Oxford UniversityLONDON: Iconic Pakistani playbackand Qawwali singer Rahat Fateh AliKhan was on Wednesday awardedwith an honourary degree at theprestigious Oxford University. ThePakistani singer was presented withthe degree of Doctor of Music at aceremony here at the varsity in theafternoon, News Internationalreported. "I am honoured to beaccepting this degree from OxfordUniversity, a world famous educationalinstitution. This is a very special dayfor my family and I, but also for myfans, who have shared this journeywith me. To be presented with thishonour is a massive achievement andI am happy that my music has allowedme to reach such incredible heights,"Khan said in a video posted on hisofficial Twitter page. On receiving hishonorary doctorate, Khan is expectedto perform at Oxford Town Hall onThursday. Khan was among the eightpeople who were conferred with thedegree this year. Earlier, whileannouncing that Khan would beawarded an honorary degree, theOxford University had described himas a "Pakistani singer, primarily ofQawwali, a devotional music of theMuslim Sufis".

European heatwave sets newJune temperature records

NEW DELHI, JUN 27

The Government onWednesday decided to includea mechanism for system-basedcross verification of thefinancial transactions andsharing of data betweenfinancial agencies. TheFinance Ministry said theGovernment has decided tobroaden the terms of referencefor the task force which it hadconstituted on November 22,2017 to draft a new direct taxlaw to meet the economicneeds of the country.According to an order by theCentral Board of Direct Taxes,new direct tax law would havea system of sharinginformation between GST,Customs, CBDT and FinancialIntelligent Unit (FIU). “Inview of the expanded TORwhich includes sharing of databetween agencies, it has beendecided to nominate Ritvik

Pandey, Joint Secretary(Revenue) as member of theTask Force as well,” the ordersaid. Earlier, the Task Forcehas to submit its report by July31 but was given the extensionof two months by theGovernment. The order saidsince KrishnamurthySubramanian has taken over asthe Chief Economic Adviser, ithas also been decided tonominate him as a member ofthe Task Force replacingformer CEA ArvindSubramanian. Besides the newTOR included faceless andanonymised verification,scrutiny or assessment; a new

mechanism for system-basedcross verification of thefinancial transactions;reduction in litigation andexpeditious disposal of appealsbefore the Commissioner ofIncome Tax (Appeals), IncomeTax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT),High Courts and SupremeCourt; and Reduction ofcompliance burden bysimplification of procedures.The Finance Ministry inNovember last year hadappointed Akhilesh Ranjan,member (legislation) ofCBDT, as convenor of the taskforce after the retirement ofArbind Modi. Other membersof the task force include GirishAhuja (chartered accountant),Rajiv Memani (chairman andregional managing partner ofEY), Mukesh Patel (practicingtax advocate), Mansi Kedia(consultant, ICRIER) and G CSrivastava (retired IRS andadvocate).

Nirav Modi to appear via videolinkfrom prison for UK hearing

India holds road shows inUS to attract tourists

AGENCYWASHINGTON, JUN 27

Aimed at attracting more Americansto explore the various facets of'Incredible India', road shows arebeing held in different US cities toshowcase the country's various facetsranging from rich cultural andhistorical heritage to adventure andmedical tourism. The four-day roadshow, organised by the governmentof India in association with industrystakeholders, received enthusiasticresponse from the US tour operators,officials said here. "The road showhas reflected that there is a lot ofinterest among Americans to visitIndia and explore its various facetsranging from rich cultural andhistorical heritage to adventure andmedical tourism," MeenakshiSharma, Director General (Tourism),told PTI. Sharma is leading a high-powered Indian tourism delegation toWashington DC, Boston, Seattle andSan Francisco in the US andVancouver in Canada. On an average1.2 million American tourists visitIndia every year. The Department ofTourism has set the goal of increasingit by 10 per cent every year, whichshe said is doable. For this, Sharmaunderscored the need of creating theright kind of partnership. And now

that the connectivity has increaseddue to more direct flights between thetwo countries, she hoped that moreand more American tourists will optIndia as their destination. A similarroad show was held in New York lastyear and this year they are having innew cities. In her presentation beforethe key American stakeholders andtourism partners, Sharma talkedabout the various experiences thatAmerican tourists can have in India,starting from heritage to fair andfestivals, cuisine and shopping. Thefocus, this time, she said, is more onthemes rather than on destination.

Because, we understand thatnowadays people would like toexperience and not so much ticking abox, she said.

Noting that India is just gettingstarted to explore its tourismpotential, she said World Travel andTourism Council (WTTC) lists Indiaat third position in Travel andTourism Power and PerformanceReport 2018.

His bail plea already rejected by UK High CourtAGENCYLONDON, JUN 27

Fugitve diamantaire NiravModi is set to appear viavideolink from prison for aroutine remand hearing beforeWestminster Magistrates'Court in London on Thursday.

The 48-year-old, who hasbeen lodged at Wandsworthprison in south-west Londonsince his arrest in March inconnection with the nearlyUSD 2 billion Punjab NationalBank (PNB) fraud and moneylaundering case, will beappearing for the first timesince his bail appeal wasrejected by the UK High Courtearlier this month, his fourthattempt at bail.

In her judgment handeddown at the Royal Courts ofJustice in London, JusticeIngrid Simler concluded therewere substantial grounds tobelieve that Modi would fail tosurrender as he does possess

the means to abscond . Reiterating similar

concerns as those previouslyraised by WestminsterMagistrates' Court duringearlier bail attempts, JudgeSimler ruled that afterconsidering all the materialcarefully , she had foundstrong evidence to suggestthere had been interferencewith witnesses and destructionof evidence in the case andconcluded it can still occur.

"The applicant has accessto considerable financialresources, supported by anincreased (bail bond security)offer of 2 million pounds, the

judge noted. The High Courtjudge stressed that while it wasnot for her to take a "definitiveview" on the evidence, she hadproceeded on the basis that thegovernment of India has actedin good faith in what isundoubtedly a serious case anda sophisticated internationalconspiracy to defraud,together with moneylaundering.

Modi, who has remainedin judicial custody since hisarrest in March, had theautomatic right to file anapplication in the higher courtand did not require permissionto appeal.

Meanwhile, the first casemanagement hearing in hisextradition case took place atWestminster Magistrates'Court on May 30, when JudgeEmma Arbuthnot directed theIndian government to confirmwhich prison Modi is to beheld in if he were to beextradited to India, setting a

14-day deadline for aconfirmation of the prisonplans in India.

The UK's CrownProsecution Service (CPS),representing the Indiangovernment, has until July 11to present an opening positionstatement laying out the primafacie case against Modi, withthe next case managementhearing set for July 29 when atimeline for extradition trial isexpected to be laid out.

Modi was arrested byuniformed Scotland Yardofficers on an extraditionwarrant on March 19 and hasbeen in prison since. Duringsubsequent hearings,Westminster Magistrates'Court was told that Modi wasthe "principal beneficiary" ofthe fraudulent issuance ofletters of undertaking (LoUs)as part of a conspiracy todefraud PNB and thenlaundering the proceeds ofcrime.

Govt decides to include sharing of dataamong agencies under new tax law

AGENCYUNITED NATIONS, JUN 27

Opioids, which include both heroinand legal pain relievers, wereresponsible for around two-thirds ofdrug-related deaths in 2017, a new UNreport, released on Wednesday, hasrevealed.

The number for global opioid userscontained within the World DrugReport, some 585,000 people, is morethan double the previous estimate.

The study from the UN Office onDrugs and Crime (UNODC), also showsthat the negative health consequencesassociated with drugs are more severeand widespread than previously thought,

with around 35 million people sufferingfrom drug use disorders and requiringtreatment services.

Some 11 million people injecteddrugs in 2017, 1.4 million of whom areliving with HIV, and 5.6 million withhepatitis C. UNODC explains thesignificantly higher figures are due inpart to improved research and moreprecise data, including moreknowledge of the extent of drug usefrom new surveys conducted in Indiaand Nigeria, two of the most populouscountries in the world.

"The findings of this year's WorldDrug Report fill in and furthercomplicate the global picture of drugchallenges, underscoring the need for

broader international cooperation toadvance balanced and integratedhealth and criminal justice responsesto supply and demand", said YuryFedotov, UNODC Executive Director,in a statement.

Whilst the overall figure for druguse in 2017, an estimated 271 million

people, was similar to the previousyear, the trend is rising, and thenumber of people using drugs is nowsome 30 per cent higher than it was tenyears ago. This is partly attributed to a10 per cent increase in the globalpopulation aged 15-64, but alsoincreased opioid use in Africa, Asia,Europe and North America, as well ashigher cannabis consumption in Northand South America, and Asia. Opiodsare the class of illegal drugs derivedfrom heroin – opium poppies –including synthetics such as fentanyl,and other prescription medicationssuch as Oxycontin and Vicodin. Themanufacture of cocaine – chiefly fromSouth America - reached an all-time

high in 2017, with an estimatedproduction of 2,000 tons in 2017, upby a quarter on the previous year. Atthe same time, seizures of cocaine rose13 per cent to 1,275 tons, anotherrecord figure.

Synthetic opioid misuse, centredaround Fentanyl and similar drugs, isan ongoing crisis in the US andCanada, with over 51,000 overdosesreported in 2017. Countries in West,Central and North Africa areexperiencing an opioid crisissurrounding another drug, Tramadol,which has flooded the market in recentyears: seizures of Tramadol jumpedfrom less than 10 kilograms in 2010 toaround 125 tons in 2017.

Two-thirds of global drug deaths now from opioids

MG Motor launches HECTORat Rs 12.18 lakhs onwards

MUMBAI, JUN 27

MG (Morris Garages) Motor India on Thursdaylaunched the much-awaited HECTOR at a veryspecial introductory price of Rs 12.18 Lakhs toRs 16.88 Lakhs (ex-showroom, New Delhi).The MG HECTOR, India’s first internet car, hasbeen launched with India’s best vehicleownership package - the 'MG Shield'. Itprovides private owners free-of-charge 5-yearcomprehensive manufacturer warranty forunlimited kilometers- the best factory warrantyfor any vehicle sold in India. It also includesround-the-clock roadside assistance (RSA) for aperiod of 5 years and no labour charges for thefirst 5 scheduled vehicle services. TheHECTOR further offers prepaid maintenanceplans starting as low as Rs 8,000 for the firstthree years. Its total cost of ownership (TCO) isthe lowest in the segment starting at Rs 45 paiseper kilometer for the petrol and at Rs 49 paiseper kilometer for the diesel. In addition, MGassures customers of the resale value of theHECTOR at a compelling value propositionunder the ''3-60'' plan. Under this plan, MG hastied up with automotive portal CarDekho andthe latter will buyback the MG HECTOR at aresidual value of 60 pc upon completion of threeyears of ownership. All these elements under

''MG Shield'' are aimed at enhancing thecustomer experience and providing completepeace of mind. Commenting on the launch ofMG HECTOR, Rajeev Chaba, President andManaging Director, MG Motor India, said, ''AsMG’s first product for the Indian market, theHECTOR comes with ‘MG Shield’, a first-of-its-kind package in the Indian auto industrywhich provides complete assurance to ourcustomers, as we continue to remain focused ondisruption & differentiation. With the verydistinctive design that also packs in safety, best-in-class features and competitive pricing, theMG HECTOR will make an impact with buyerswho are looking for something very differentfrom the normal array of cars.''

Sensex, Nifty end marginallylower on F&O expiry

MUMBAI, JUN 27

Domestic equity benchmarks ended marginally lowerThursday after a highly volatile session as Junederivatives contracts expired. After swinging over 300points, the 30-share BSE Sensex settled 5.67 points, or0.01 per cent, lower at 39,586.41. The index hit an intra-day high of 39,817.22 and a low of 39,510.44.

The broader NSE Nifty slipped 6 points, or 0.05 percent, to end at 11,841.55. During the day, the indextouched a high of 11,911.15 and a low of 11,821.05.

Top losers in the Sensex pack included TechMahindra, HCL Tech, RIL, ITC, Infosys, PowerGrid,Kotak Bank, Yes Bank and Vedanta, shedding up to 2.26per cent. On the other hand, Tata Motors, M&M, ONGC,Axis Bank, HDFC, SBI, IndusInd Bank, Bharti Airtel,Sun Pharma and HUL rose up to 2.95 per cent.

According to traders, market witnessed heavyvolatility as June futures and options (F&O) contractsexpired. The domestic market opened on a positive noteand continued to trade with strong gains till noon amidpositive cues from global markets ahead of the G-20summit. "However, post noon, market lost gains amidreports of heightening uncertainty over US-Iran standoffafter latter issued warning message to the US, adding to

the volatility in later part of trade," said NarendraSolanki, Head Fundamental Research (InvestmentServices) - AVP Equity Research, Anand Rathi Sharesand Stock Brokers. On the currency front, the Indianrupee appreciated 3 paise to 69.11 against the US dollarintra-day. Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark,fell 0.93 per cent to USD 65.08 per barrel.

Globally, bourses in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyoand Seoul ended on a positive note. Equity markets inEurope were also trading in the green in early deals.

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TALKSFormer Bengalcaptain ShyamSundar Mitrapasses awayKOLKATA: Former Bengal captainShyam Sundar Mitra Thursday diedfollowing prolonged illness.Mitra, 82, was being treated for aheart ailment."He was suffering from heart ail-ments and was being treated at aprivate hospital in Salt Lake andbreathed his last this morning,"Cricket Association of Bengalsources said.Popularly known as SS, the top-or-der Bengal batsman played 59 first-class matches and averaged 50.13with a career-best score of 155, butdespite having played some heroicknocks in the 1960s, Mitra was nev-er selected to play for India.CAB had conferred Mitra with theLifetime Achievement Award in 2009and in 2017 football club MohunBagan, too, bestowed him with thesame honour."It's a really very sad and disheart-ening to hear his demise. He was aleader on and off the field and a per-fect gentleman. He was a greatstatesman one of the leading crick-eters Bengal has produced," CABjoint-secretary Avishek Dalmiyasaid. "My heartfelt condolences tothe bereaved. May his soul rest inpeace," he added.Raju Mukherjee, in his book 'EdenGardens: Legend & Romance', haswritten that Mitra was victim of poli-tics and was "distinctly unlucky notto have played for India in the 1960swhen his performances against alloppositions, especially against In-dia's premier team, Mumbai,yearned for higher honours".

Hockey Indiacongratulates Dr Batraon being elected as IOCmemberNEW DELHI: Hockey India onThursday congratulated Dr NarinderDhruv Batra, president, IndianOlympic Association and president,International Hockey Federation andformer President, Hockey India onbeing elected as a Member of theprestigious International OlympicCommittee (IOC). Dr Batra's popularity as a deeply-passionate sports administrator sawhim win an overwhelming 58 votesout of the 62 people who cast theirvote at the 134th IOC session inLausanne on Wednesday. He wasamong the ten members who hadbeen proposed to be elected by theIOC as it's Member by the Execu-tive Board of the IOC.Congratulating Dr Batra on this rarehonour, Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad,President, Hockey India said, "Thisis indeed a very proud moment forIndia as we have a very able repre-sentative from our country as theMember of the IOC. It is a presti-gious post and none more deserv-ing than Dr Narinder Dhruv Batrawho has dedicated his life for pro-fessionalizing sports administrationin India and also bringing sharp fo-cus on Olympic Sports in our coun-try'. 'Indian Hockey benefited themost under his leadership as Hock-ey India President as he paved anew path for the sport with his popu-lar initiatives that helped revive thesport. I wish him success and thevery best in his new position as aMember of the IOC. We at HockeyIndia believe his passion and com-mitment to develop sports will con-tinue to reap benefits globally', headded.

Marcus announceshis retirement fromprofessional cricketTAUNTON : Marcus Trescothick willretire from professional cricket afterthe current county season ends, an-nounced the former England open-ing batsman. "It's been an incredible 27 years andI've loved every minute of it. Howev-er, everything has to come to anend eventually. I've been discussingmy future with the club and my fami-ly for a while and we felt that nowwas the appropriate time to makethis announcement in order for boththe club and me to put plans inplace," Trescothick said in an officialstatement released by county Som-erset.The current county season isTrescothick's 27th season. Duringhis stint at Somerset, Trescothickhas 52 first-class centuries to hiscredit. He even has the highest List-A runs (7374) than any other playerfrom Somerset."There's still a lot of the season left,and I'll be doing everything I can toput in performances for the SecondXI in order to force my way backinto contention for the first team.This club, the members and thesupporters mean so much to me.

World Cup hero Babar Azam says belief is key for PakistanAGENCYBIRMINGHAM, JUN 27

Babar Azam says Pakistan havethe belief they can win their re-maining games to complete adramatic turnaround and reachthe World Cup semi-finals fol-lowing victory against a strongNew Zealand side on Wednes-day.

The 24-year-old hit a match-winning unbeaten 101 to anchorPakistan's reply to NewZealand's score of 237 for six atEdgbaston.

Captain Sarfaraz Ahmed hitthe winning runs in the finalover as they finished on 241-4 towin by six wickets.

Pakistan had a disastrousstart to their World Cup cam-

paign, losing three of their firstfive matches with a single victo-ry, against England, and a no-re-sult.

But Sunday's win over SouthAfrica at Lord's and Wednes-day's victory in Birminghamhave revived their hopes ofpulling off a sensational come-back.

Their next game is on Satur-day against Afghanistan, whohave lost all seven of theirmatches at the tournament inEngland and Wales and they fin-ish their group fixtures againstBangladesh, who are level withPakistan on seven points.

Sri Lanka are also in thehunt, one point behind but witha game in hand, meaning 1992winners Pakistan must still rely

on other results going in theirfavour to qualify from the 10-team group phase.

"Belief has been the key,"said Babar, who reached his 10thone-day international hundredoff 124 balls with 11 fours.

"We have the belief that wewill win our next two games andthen look ahead." Babar, 24, saideven when the team were strug-gling earlier in the tournament,they were confident they couldturn their fortunes around.

"We were not winningmatches but we talked to eachother and had the belief that wecould do it and now our focus ison the next game," he said.

Defending champions Aus-tralia are the only team to havequalified for the semi-finals so

far while New Zealand, Indiaand England currently occupythe other top-four slots.

Babar said his role had beento bat until the end of the in-nings.

"I was given a role to bat un-til the end and others bat aroundme and that worked well as (Mo-hammad) Hafeez and then Haris(Sohail) batted well to establishpartnerships," said Babar.

He said his target is to be-come the best batsman in theworld.

"I can say that this is one ofmy best knocks because the aimis to be the best batsman in theworld," said Babar, who is al-ready the top-rated batsman inthe world in Twenty20 cricket.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019

SPORTSKohli, Dhoni guide

India to 268/7against Indies

AGENCYMANCHESTER, JUNE 27

Skipper Virat Kohli and MSDhoni played knocks of 72 and56 runs respectively to guide In-dia to a score of 268 runs for theloss of seven wickets againstWest Indies in Manchester in theongoing ICC Men's CricketWorld Cup.

After opting to bat first, Indialost its opener Rohit Sharma (18)pretty early in the innings. Hewas dismissed by Kemar Roachin the sixth over.

The right-hander looked tohave missed the ball but wicket-keeper Shai Hope appealed forcaught-behind, on-field umpireadjudged it not out but West In-dies decided to review it. Therewas confusion whether the ballhit the pad or the bat. The snick-o-meter indicated there was aclear spike, so the third umpiredecided to overturn the decisionand rule him out.

Skipper Virat Kohli came outto bat next, and along with KLRahul steadied the innings forMen in Blue as the duo stitchedtogether a partnership of 69 runs,but as soon as India started togain an upper hand in the match,Rahul (48) was sent back to the

pavilion by Jason Holder in the21st over, reducing India to 98/2.

Vijay Shankar (14) andKedar Jadhav (7) failed to im-press with the bat as both thebatsmen were dismissed prettyearly in their innings. Their dis-missals left India in a spot ofbother. MS Dhoni joined Kohliin the middle and the duo playedcautiously to move the score-board along. Kohli brought uphis half-century, recording hisfourth consecutive fifty-plusscore in the ongoing World Cup.

Kohli and Dhoni put up a 40-run stand but India were given abig blow in the 39th over asKohli (72) was finally dismissedby Holder, reducing India to180/5. Hardik Pandya joinedDhoni in the middle and theylooked to play with some re-straint initially but after the 42ndover, Pandya decided to changegears and play some attackingshots.

In the final five overs, bothPandya and Dhoni went after theWindies bowlers and the duostitched together a partnership of70 runs. Pandya (46) was sentback to the pavilion by SheldonCottrell in the penultimate over.But Dhoni ensured the team goespast the 260-run mark.

Team India secure topspot in ODI rankingsDUBAI; As India are having a brilliant run in the ongoingCricket World Cup, they have managed to topple Eng-land on the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings to claim thetop spot. India have won all their four matches in the pre-mier tournament so far while England faced defeats intheir three matches and won four games.India currently have 123 points and are just one pointahead of the English side, who have 122 points.

NEW DELHI: In the ongoing match betweenIndia and West Indies in Manchester in theICC Men's Cricket World Cup, opening bats-man Rohit Sharma was controversially dis-missed and his dismissal sparked debate onTwitter.

Sharma was sent back to the pavilion inthe sixth over of India's innings. The right-han-der looked to have missed the ball but wicket-keeper Shai Hope appealed for caught-behind,

on-field umpire adjudged it not out but WestIndies decided to review it. The ball pitched ona good length and jagged back sharply. Rohitleft a gap between bat and pad, and the ballsneaked through that.

There was confusion whether the ball hitthe pad or the bat. The snick-o-meter indicat-ed there was a clear spike, so the third umpiredecided to overturn the decision and rule himout.

Rohit's dismissal sparks debate on Twitter Kohli becomes fastest batsman toscore 20,000 international runs

NEW DELHI: Indian captainVirat Kohli on Thursday becamethe quickest batsman to com-plete 20,000 international runsas he touched the milestone inhis 417th inning. Former Indiabatsman Sachin Tendulkar andWest Indies batsman Brian Lara

jointly held the record previous-ly as they completed the feat intheir 453rd inning. Kolhi neededjust 37 runs to complete his20,000 international runs whenhe came out to bat against WestIndies in the ongoing ICC Men'sCricket World Cup. Kohli

smashed a brilliant half-centuryand consequently became thefastest batsman to score 20,000runs. Moreover, he is the onlythird Indian batsmen to scoremore than 20,000 runs across allformats after Tendulkar (34,357)and Rahul Dravid (24,208).

LONDON: Ahead of the clash against New Zealand,Australia pacer Mitchell Starc has praised the teamside for their 'fantastic' display of cricket in the ongo-ing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup. "They are playingsome fantastic cricket, they have really gone underthe radar. No-one has spoken too much about themand they keep winning games," Cricket.com.auquoted Starc as saying. New Zealand were on a

winning streak untilWednesday, when theyfaced their first defeat ofthe tournament at thehands of Pakistan. More-over, New Zealand sits onthe second position on thepoints table with 11 points,one point behind the top-positioned team, Australia.Starc feels New Zealandhave been doing well withboth bat and ball in thetournament. "They've got

a strong side batting and bowling, Kane Williamsonis their linchpin in the middle there and they've gotbowlers who swing the ball," he said. Australia arenow going to compete against New Zealand and thelatter have a good chance to atop the points table.However, Starc said they are focused to play goodcricket and finish as high as they can. "It's anotherbig game for us, obviously we have cemented outspot in the semis - now we want to try and finish ashigh as we can and play some really good cricketheaded towards the finals series," Starc said.

AGENCYLONDON, JUNE 27

Australia batsman David Warner has finallyopened up over crowd jeering him in the sta-diums during World Cup matches saying thatfans pay their 'dollars' and have every right toboo them. "People have the right to come inhere, they pay their dollars and if they want toboo us, they can. I thrive on that stuff, I loveit," Cricket.com.au quoted Warner as saying.

Warner has successfully tackled the jeer-ing as he is the highest run-getter of the tour-nament with 500 runs under his belt. More-

over, in their recent match against England,Warner smashed 53 runs and helped his sidesecure a 64-run victory against the hosts of thetournament at Lord's.

Warner also said that he is grateful that thefans come there in the stadiums to watch themplay.

"I went out to the corner (of the ground,while fielding) there today (Tuesday) andcopped it. At the end of the day you have tosmile - they pay their money to come andwatch us and we are grateful for them to comeand sit down and watch us. We try and put ona good show for everyone," he said.

AGENCYLEEDS, JUNE 27

Spanish football club Barcelona FC'svice president Jordi Cordoner onThursday confirmed that Brazilianforward Neymar Jr indeed wants tojoin the club.

Neymar is currently associatedwith Paris Saint-Germain but therehave been media speculations that theplayer would be making a return to hisformer club -- Barcelona.

"The correct thing is to say thatNeymar wants to return to Barcelona,

but I do not agree that Barcelona wor-ries about signing Neymar. This is noton the table. There are many thingsabout his departure that I did not like,many things," Goal.com quoted Car-doner, as saying.

He, however, denied media re-ports that the club has already signedNeymar. He even went on to say thatthe team's management has not beenin touch with him.

"There are claims that we havesigned Neymar. We have not signedanyone. We have not kept in touchwith him. He and many more want to

play for Barcelona," Cardoner said."It does not surprise me that Ney-

mar wants to come back. It has al-ready happened before with othersand sometimes they have returned -Cesc Fabregas, Gerard Pique," headded.

Cardoner praised Neymar sayingthat he is a great player but he saideverything needs to be assessed beforesigning a footballer.

"Neymar is a great player, but thecircumstances of how he left also haveto be evaluated to see if this can be-come a reality," Cardoner said.

AGENCYBIRMINGHAM, JUN 27

All-rounder Jimmy Neeshamis confident that NewZealand's defeat against Pak-istan in Birmingham onWednesday will not derailtheir World Cup bid. The 2015runners-up lost by six wicketsto a resurgent Pakistan, on theback of a brilliant unbeaten101 by Babar Azam and threewickets from teenage pace-

man Shaheen Shah Afridi.Neesham led New Zealand'sfightback with a career-bestundefeated 97 to lift themfrom a precarious 83-5 to 237-6 in their 50 overs at Edgbas-ton but they went down totheir first defeat of the tourna-ment. Victory would haveseen Kane Williamson's teambecome the second team toqualify for the World Cupsemi-finals after defendingchampions Australia.

New Zealand playingfantastic cricket:Starc ahead of clash

Fans can boo if they want: Warner New Zealand can shrug off PakWC defeat, says Neesham

Neymar wants to return to Barcelona: Jordi Cardoner