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CBSE will announceexam schedule forclass 10, 12 on Feb 2NEW DELHI: The CentralBoard of Secondary Edu-cation (CBSE) is set toannounce the schedulefor the upcoming class10th and 12th board ex-ams on February 2, Edu-cation Minister RameshPokhriyal 'Nishank' saidon Thursday.He also said that CBSEwill digitize records of itsstudents dating back tothe year 1975."CBSE will announceexam schedule for class10th and 12th on Febru-ary 2. Records CBSE stu-dents dating back to 45years ago will now be dig-itized. Students who havestudied under CBSEBoard since 1975 willhave all records digitised.This will help all thosestudents studying inCBSE to get their certifi-cates easily," the UnionEducation Minister told anews agency.

Pb, Hry CMspay tribute toLala Lajpat RaiCHANDIGARH: PunjabChief Minister AmarinderSingh and his Haryanacounterpart Manohar LalKhattar on Thursday paidtributes to freedom fighterLala Lajpat Rai on hisbirth anniversary.Amarinder Singh saidRai's vision fired up theimagination of the nationduring the country's Inde-pendence struggle whileKhattar said that the na-tion will always be gratefulto the freedom fighter forhis contribution in theservice of motherland."Tributes to Punjab KesariLala Lajpat Rai Ji on hisBirth Anniversary today.He was a great freedomfighter whose vision firedup the imagination of thewhole nation during ourIndependence struggle,especially his sacrificeduring the protestsagainst the Simon Com-mission, Amarinder Singhsaid in a tweet.

Angioplastyperformed onSourav GangulyKOLKATA: Doctors onThursday performed anangioplasty on BCCIPresident Sourav Gangu-ly, said an official of a pri-vate hospital where he isadmitted.Two stents are likely to beimplanted to clear blocksin a coronary artery of the48-year-old former Indiancricket captain, he said.The decision to conductan angioplasty was takenafter noted cardiologistDevi Shetty went throughreports of tests conductedon Ganguly and consult-ed doctors treating him atthe hospital.

Two killed inHamirpur roadaccidentHAMIRPUR: Two young-sters of this town werekilled in a head-on roadaccident on Hamirpur-Dharamshala road nearRangas kaswa here onThursday. The incidentoccurred about fourteenkilometers from herewhen their bike was hit bya truck coming from theopposite direction.

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Evacuation begins from protest sites Cracks widen in farmers’ agitation

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

The two months long farmers agitationfaced another jolt as The BharatiyaKisan Union (Lok Shakti) and BKU(Ekta) here on Thursday announced towithdraw agitation here. The situation atDelhi borders was reportedly tense asheavy police deployment was made todeal with protesters if any unpleasing in-cident is reported. Several farmersgroup have already started evacuationfrom the protesting sites. BKU (LokShakti) chief Sheoraj Singh made theannouncement during a press confer-ence here, a day after two other farmers'union ended their stir. "The protest hasbeen called off," BKU (Lok Shakti)spokesperson Shailesh Kumar Giri tolda news agency. The farmers' union hadbeen camping at the Dalit Prerna Sthalsince December 2, demanding with-drawal of the three new farm laws, le-galisation of minimum support price(MSP) for crops and implementation ofthe recommendation of SwaminathanCommittee's report. GHAZIABAD: The Ghaziabad Dis-

trict Administration has ordered anti-farm laws protestors at Ghazipur(Delhi-Ghaziabad border) to vacatethe area by late Thursday evening, of-ficial sources said.

The administration said if protes-tors do not act as per order then theywill be forcefully evacuated by night,they added. The police have been de-ployed at the protest site.

Delhi Traffic Police informed thatthe Ghazipur border is closed on both

sides."Traffic is diverted from Road no

56, Akshardham and NizammudinKhatta. Please avoid NH 9 and NH 24and take an alternate route via Chilla,DND, Apsara, Bhopra and Loni bor-ders," police said in a tweet. Earlier inthe day, Uttar Pradesh Police person-nel conducted a flag march at theGhazipur border. Ghazipur is one ofthe sites where protests against thecentral farm laws are going on fornearly two months. This comes after

violence broke out in the national cap-ital on January 26 during the farmers'tractor rally. Several public and pri-vate properties were damaged in actsof vandalism by the protestors. A totalof 394 police personnel sustained in-juries in the violence and several ofthem are still admitted to hospitals.Nineteen people have been arrested sofar and over 25 criminal cases regis-tered by Delhi Police in connectionwith the violence that broke out dur-ing the farmers' tractor march.

Ghaziabad admin orders to vacateagitation site at Ghazipur

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

The Budget session of Parlia-ment beginning Friday ispoised to be stormy with theOpposition set to attack thegovernment over the threenew farm legislations, amidan ongoing agitation by farm-ers.

The session will beginwith the address of the Presi-dent to the joint sitting of thetwo Houses on Friday morn-ing followed by the presenta-tion of the Union Budget onFebruary 1.

A total of 16 Oppositionparties have announced aboycott of the President's ad-dress in solidarity with thefarmers protesting the newfarm laws, senior Congressleader Ghulam Nabi Azadsaid on Thursday.

The 16 Opposition partieshave also demanded a probeinto the violence on RepublicDay in Delhi.

Opposition parties in-clude the Congress, the NCP,Shiv Sena, DMK, TrinamoolCongress, CPI, CPI-M andRJD. With a view to have apaperless Budget, all the doc-uments and the EconomicSurvey would be made avail-

able online soon after the au-thenticated copies are laid onthe Table of the House, theLok Sabha Secretariat hassaid. Like the last time, in thissession too COVID-19 proto-cols will be in place and Ra-jya Sabha and Lok Sabha willmeet in shifts of five hourseach -- with the upper housemeeting in the morning andthe lower house in theevening. Due to the pandem-ic, the Winter session was notheld. The Question Hour alsomakes a comeback in this ses-sion. Due to paucity of time,there was no Question Hour inthe previous session. TheMonsoon session also saw thetwo Houses working on Satur-days and Sundays. But thistime, Parliament will not sit onweekends. Private Members'business which usually takesplace on Friday afternoons hasalso made a comeback in theBudget session, according toLok Sabha secretariat.

OUR CORRESPONDENTCHANDIGARH, JAN 28:

Punjab State Dear New YearLohri Bumper-2021 hasbrought a new hope for amiddle-class family of WestBengal. Sangita Choubey, ahousewife, who teaches claymodelling and drawing tokids in part time, won the firstprize of Rs.2.50 crore.

Feeling extremely happySangita (48) resident of Asan-sol (WB) said that she hadnever even dreamed of win-ning such hefty prize moneyin life but Punjab State NewYear Lohri Bumper has madeit possible. Her father-in-lawhad been buying lottery tick-ets but he never won such abig prize. He insisted that sheshould also try her luck andshe bought a lottery ticket forthe first time. Lady lucksmiled at last on our family,she added.

After submitting the tick-et and required documents tothe State Lotteries Depart-ment today at Chandigarh for

encashment of the prize, shesaid that her husband is work-ing in the private sector andthey have a daughter and twosons. The big prize moneywould be a great help forthem to get their children set-tled in life and they wouldalso be able to tide over fi-nancial problems after gettingthe prize money.

An official spokespersonof the Punjab State LotteriesDepartment said that this timethe first prize of New YearLohri Bumper of Rs.5 crorewas to be given to the twowinners Rs2.50 crore each.The results of the bumperwere announced in a draw onJanuary 15, 2021.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

The Supreme Court onThursday pulled up the Cen-tral government for doingnothing to curb TV programswhich instigate or impact acommunity.

A Bench headed by ChiefJustice of India SA Bobdesaid, "There are programmeswhich instigate or impact acommunity. But as a govern-

ment, you do nothing."The apex court observed

that control over TV pro-grams that are instigating innature is as important assome preventive measures,and emphasised on fair andtruthful reporting.

"Yesterday, you shutdown the internet and mobilebecause of the farmers' visitto Delhi. I am using the non-controversial term (visit).You have shut down internet

mobile. These are problemsthat can arise anywhere. Idon't know what happened inthe TV yesterday," the Bench

observed while referring tothe internet shut down afterthe tractor rally by farmersturned violent on RepublicDay.

The top court added,"Fair and truthful reporting isnormally not a problem.Problem is when it is used toagitate others. It is as impor-tant as providing lathis to po-licemen. It is an importantpreventive part of the law andorder situation."

CJI Bobde told SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta, whowas appearing for the Centre,that the government's powerto control some news is veryimportant.

"Control over some newsis as important as some pre-ventive measure and checklaw and order situation. Idon't know why you are blindto this. I don't mean anythingoffensive but you are doingnothing about it," CJI told.

AGENCYKOLKATA, JAN 28

The West Bengal Assembly on Thursdaypassed a resolution against the three agricul-tural laws enacted by the Central Government.

Speaking in the Assembly, Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee said the three 'contentious'laws are against the farmers and the CentralGovernment must withdraw them or stepdown from power.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Partylegislators opposed the resolution and stagedwalkout chanting "Jai Shri Ram". The resolu-

tion was tabled by the Trinamool Congress-ledstate government under Rule 169, state Parlia-mentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjeesaid. The two-day Assembly session began onWednesday. West Bengal has become the sixthstate after Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan,Kerala, Puducherry and Delhi to pass a reso-lution against the new farm laws. On Tuesdaythe Republic Day 'Tractor Rally' organised byfamers against the Centre's three new farmlaws turned violent with farmers breaking bar-ricades to enter Delhi and clashing with policeand resorting to vandalism in different parts ofthe city, including inside the Red Fort.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

Prime Minister NarendraModi said on Thursday thatIndia showed last year that itis capable of taking all stepsto meet challenges, be it fromcoronavirus or at its borders.

Addressing a rally of theNational Cadet Corps (NCC)here, Modi said India hasshown its capabilities on allfronts as he referred to pro-duction of Made in India vac-cines against the virus.

"Whether it is developingprotective shield of the vac-cine or destroying with mod-ern missiles intentions ofthose challenging India, thecountry is capable on allfronts," he said.

India is engaged in a bor-der standoff with China.

If India is 'aatmanirbhar'in vaccine, it is also tryingwith equal vigour to mod-ernise its armed forces, Modisaid.

The prime minister as-serted that all steps are beingtaken to ensure that everywing of India's armed forcesis the best, adding that thecountry now has excellent"war machines".

Referring to the mid-airrefuelling of Rafale fighteraircraft while they were onway to India, Modi said it wasdone in UAE and Saudi Ara-bia and Greece also helped.This highlights our growingties with Gulf countries, hesaid.

Speaking of his govern-ment's efforts to boost domes-tic defence manufacturing, hesaid, "India will soon beknown as a big producer ofdefence equipment instead ofa big market as it is today.

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, JAN 28 : Noted Industri-alist having roots in Kharar, Suraj Ku-mar Bansal will be honoured withprestigious award for Industrial Entre-preneurship by the government ofJammu and Kashmir. The awardswere announced by a notification is-sued by the Additional Chief Secre-tary Industries to the Government ofJammu and Kashmir . Born in villageChakwal (now in Pakistan ) SurajBansal is the son of famous Zamindarof the area late Lala Karam ChandBansal and Late Jamuna Devi. Thefamily had migrated from Pakistan tovillage Khanpur near here during par-

tition. The eldestamongst brothers andsister, Bansal with thedint of his hard workrose from being a traderto an industrialist withthe establishment ofPunjab pesticides Ltd invillage Khanpur himself.After doing his B.Sc.Agricultural from Pun-jab Agricultural Univer-sity Ludhiana he startedFertilizers and Pesticides Business inKharar.

He remained whole sale distribu-tor of National Fertilizers Ltd at

Kharar and did his busi-ness with honesty anddedication.

The company grew insize and became one ofthe largest manufacturersof Agro chemicals in thearea . Due to encouragingpolicies of the govern-ment of Jammu and Kash-mir, Suraj Kumar Bansalthen set up a huge facilityin the initial years of the

Badi Brahmana industrial area of theJammu in the name of Saraswatigroup. The group now has a big pres-ence in north India with manufacturing

facilities in Derra Bassi, Jammu,Khanpur and has diversified into Plas-tics, media, corrugation

He is known in the entire area forhis leadership in corporate world andhas occupied key positions in variousindustrial associations Following hisfootsteps, Bansal’s son Lalit Bansal isa successful entrepreneur in the areaand now the third generation of Bansalfamily has also joined the Saraswatigroup The Yugmarg Publication isproud to have Suraj Kumar Bansal asa mentor for the publication and his vi-sion will always guide the future en-deavors of the newspaper , which is aleading English daily of north India .

Pb based Industrialist to get prestigious J&K award

Punjab Lohri bumpertransforms destiny ofWest Bengal family

SC slams Centre for not curbing TV programsthat instigate or impact a community

WB Assembly passes resolutionagainst farm laws, BJP MLAs walk out

India capable of meetingall challenges: Modi

Budget sessionset to be stormy

16 opposition parties toboycott President’s address

Rakesh Tikait goeson hunger strikeNEW DELHI: National spokesper-son of the Bhartiya Kisan Union(BKU) Rakesh Tikait on Thursdayrefused to surrender before the po-lice and said a Supreme Court-ap-pointed committee should probe theviolence that broke out on RepublicDay in Delhi during the tractormarch. He also started fast at theprotest site and said he would drinkonly water from his village. His state-ment came even as the YogiAdityanath-led Uttar Pradesh gov-ernment issued an ultimatum to theprotesting farmers to vacate.

UAPA, Sedition charges inFIR lodged by Delhi PoliceNew delhi: Delhi Police Special Cellhas lodged an FIR under sectionsof Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) and sections of IPC dealingwith sedition to investigate the vio-lence at Red Fort in Delhi on Janu-ary 26.

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98702 Kapurthala, Punjab declare 900020 District Amritsar have on28 Jan 2021 Changed His Name As I, Mandeep Kaur W/O Kumar.I, Kulwant Kaur W/o Naib that I am also known with I Gurinder Singh S/o changed my name to 72737 Ruhan Verma. Gurjant Singh Gill R/O 63372S i n g h R / o Vi l l a g e - another name of Jaswinder, Sukhwant Singh R/o Rajwinder Kaur. I, Bhutekar Prabhakar 72778. M e h a r S i n g h Wa l a I, Swaranjeet Kaur W/O Sukhdarshanpur, Tehsil & so Salwinder Kaur and Vill. Bur Chand, Tehsil 900020 Suresh presently residing I, Hitherto known as (Ferozepur) Changed Harwinder Singh Sekhon D i s t t . P a n c h k u l a Jaswinder are two names of Patti Distt. Tarn Taran I Manjoth kaur D/o Chanan a t I s r u l B u l d h a n a Ja t inder Kumar S /o Name Mandeep Kaur Gill. R/O Patti Hammu VPO. (Haryana) declare that one and the same person. All Have Changed My Name singh village Simbal Majra Maharashtra pradesh- Khushi Masih Kuser R/o 63372 Dakha (Ludhiana) Have Kulwant Kaur & Balbant Concerned please note. To Gurwinder Singh. PO Nurpurbedi dist t 443201 India declare that H.No. 18 , Dhal iwal I, Kuljeet Kaur W/O Changed My Name To Kaur both are my name. 98706 900020 Rupnagar (Punjab) have in my army record my son Enclave, P.O. Ladhewali, Tarsem Singh Brar R/O Swarnjit Kaur Sekhon.

98702 I, Harvinder Kaur Alias I, hitherto Known as changed my name Manjoth name is mentioned as Distt. Jalandhar-144007, Dagru Pat t i Kamaal 63372I Kumbh Karan Kaushik Shahina Kanda W/o RENU BALA BAJAJ kaur to Manjot kaur. Sourabh but his correct Punjab , Ind ia , have (Moga) Changed Name I Ramandeep Kaur W/O S/o Sh. Dharam Dutt Harjinder Singh Kanda R/o ALIAS RAMAN BALA 50008 n a m e i s S o u r a b h changed my name and Kuljeet Kaur Brar. Kuljit Singh Sidhu H.N K a u s h i k R / o Gali Bohar Wali, VPO A R O R A W i f e o f I, Kamaljit Kaur w/o Ranjit Prabhakar Bhutekar . Vide shall hereafter be known 63372 222 Pal Master Wali Gali H.No.2187/12 gali no.5 Majitha District Amritsar SURINDER KUMAR Singh r/o VPO Niwarsi, affidavit No.AN 413533 as Jatinder Kuser. I, Vikramjit S/o Gurdial Jamal Wala Baghapurana Shant i nagar Tehs i l have changed my name to BAJAJ residing at H.No. Tehsil Ladwa (Kurukshetra) dated on28 Jan 2021 72778. Singh R/o Vill: Kaleran (Moga) Have Changed Thanesar Kurukshetra Harvinder Kaur Kanda. 1 2 9 , Wa r d N o . 1 4 , have changed my name 72737 I, Krishan Lal S/o Prem Teh-Banga (SBS Nagar) My Name To Ramandeep have changed my father 900020 G a n d h i N a g a r , Kamaljit Kaur to Kamaljeet I, hitherto Known as Chand Vill Harigarh Pb, India, changed my Kaur Sidhu.name Dharam Chand I, Masa Singh S/o Bachan Ferozepur Punjab have Kaur. Satpal Singh s/o Kundan B h o r a k h , P e h o w a , name to Vikramjit Banga. 63372Kaushik to Dharam Dutt Singh R/o Baba Bakala changed my name and 52724 Singh R/o. Vill. Megha PO Kurukshetra Changed 63372 I Hitherto Known As Kaushik. In future my District Amritsar have Shall hereafter be known I, Renu W/o Om Parkash Dharamkot Randhawa Name Kishan Lal. I, Pushpa Rani W/O Aseev Bayan Kaur W/O Gurmit father should be known as changed my name to Massa as RENU BAJAJ. R/o.35-A, B.K Dutt Gate Tehsil Dera Baba Nanak 84661 Nagpal R/O Gidderbaha Ram, R/O VPO Moron, Dharam Dutt Kaushik. Singh. 900020 Opp Arun Arjun Rashmi Gurdaspur in state of I, Monika Bindal D/o Teh. Gidderbaha Dist. Sri Teh. Phil laur, Dist t .

98702 900020 I, hitherto Known as Sanik School Amritsar have Punjab.have changed the Jeewan Kumar R/o Maur Muktsar Sahib Have Jalandhar, Punjab (India) I , B a s u n d h r a D / o I Navdeep Singh S/o Late S. RAVINDER KUMAR Changed my name to Renu name of my minor Son Mandi (Bathinda) changed Changed My Name After Pin Code 144029 Have Devendra Kumar Mishra Rachhpal Singh Resident of Son of MADAN LAL Arora. TALWINDERJIT SINGH my name to Monika Goyal. Marriage From Pushpa Changed My Name And R/o #64B, Block B-1, New H NO. 177, Hussainpura, residing at H.No.15, 72737 AGE 16 YEARS and he 63372 Rani To Seema Rani. Shall Hereafter Be Known Model Town, Pinjore, Near Kamal Tent House, Sultanwind G.T.Road, I, Kishor Kumar S/o Shall hereafter be known I, Rampy Sidhu Brar W/o 63372 As Bhajan Kaur.Panchkula (Haryana) Amritsar. That Mohna and Tara Wala Phull, Gart Bhagwan Dass R/o.498 Gali as TALWINDER SINGH. Bittu Singh Gill R/o Vpo. I, Swarnjeet Singh S/O 63372declare that Basundhra & Manmohan Kaur is one and Avenue, Near Gull Marag Tehniya Wali Katra Safaid 72737 S a i l b r a h ( B a t h i n d a ) Jangir Singh R/O Kothe I Gurjot Singh S/O Basundhra Mishra both the same person. All Avenue, Amritsar, Punjab Amritsar Have Changed my I, hitherto Known as changed my name to Barde Wale, Kotli Ablu Parminder Singh R/O are my name concerned please note. have changed my name name to Kishore Kumar. Harjot Singh s/o Kulwant Rampy Gill. Tehsil Gidderbaha Distt. Amargarh (Bathinda)

98702 900020 and Shall hereafter be Please note it Singh R/o. Vill. Shampura 63372 Sri Muktsar Sahib Have Have Changed His Name I, hitherto Known as known as RAVINDER 72737 PO Singh Pura Tehsil Dera I, Vijay Kumar S/o Diwan C h a n g e d M y N a m e Gurjot Singh To Gurjot CHANCHAL SINGH Son VIG. I, Jatinder Kaur Alias Baba Nanak Gurdaspur in Chand Bansal, R/o Daula Swarnjeet Singh To Raja Singh Brar.of KARNAIL SINGH R/o 900020 Sukhjinder Kaur Virk D/o state of Punjab.have Gate, Gidderbaha, Distt Sri Singh. 63372VPO Khara Tehsil and I, hitherto Known as Gurdip Singh W/o Tarlochan changed the name of my Muktsar Sahib (Punjab), 63372 I Kulwant Singh Muhar District Tarn Taran Punjab E K TA A R O R A D / o Singh R/o.VPO Mudhal m i n o r d a u g h t e r ’ s have changed my name to I Manjit Kaur Duley W/O S/O Mejor Singh R/O have changed my name ASHOK KUMAR W/o Block Verka Amritsar M E H R E E N K A U R Vijay Kumar Bansal. J a g d e e p S i n g h R / O V P O B a j a k h a n a and Shall hereafter be AJAY VOHRA R/o VPO Punjab, have Changed my RANDHAWA AGE 16 63372 Vi l lage Boundal Po (Faridkot) Have Changed known as CHANCHAL Chogawan, Tehsil Ajnala, name to Jatinder Kaur Virk. YEARS and She Shall I, Santosh Kumari W/o Ghungrali Sikhan Tehsil His Name Kulwant Singh SINGH SANDHU. District Amritsar Punjab 72737 hereafter be known as Vijay Kumar Bansal R/o Samrala Distt Ludhiana Muhar S/O Mejor Singh

900020 have changed my name I, Jyoti Bala D/o Narinder MEHREEN KAUR. Daula Gate, Gidderbaha, Have Changed My Name To Kulwant Singh S/O and Shall hereafter be Singh W/o Angrej Singh 72737 Distt Sri Muktsar Sahib To Me Manjit Kaur. Major Singh.known as EKTA RANI. R/o.VPO Mehar Singh I, hitherto Known as ANJU (Punjab), have changed my 63372 63372

900020 Wala Tehsil Zira Distt W/o KISHOR KUMAR name to Santosh Bansal. I Gurjant Singh Deol S/o I Kiranjit Kaur Muhar Ferozepur (Pb) Have R/o,Ward No.148/8, Gobind 63372 Jagjiwan Singh R/o VPO W/O Kulwant Singh R/O Changed my name to Nagar Batala Road VPO I, Sukhwinder Singh S/o Sunet Bhai Randhir Singh V P O B a j a k h a n a Amanpreet Kaur. Gurdaspur Distt Gurdaspur Buta Singh R/o Vill: Nagar Distt. Ludhiana (Faridkot) Have Changed

72737 Punjab. have changed my Sadarpur Po. Baja Chak have a change name to His Name Kiranjit Kaur I, Neelam Rani W/o Janak name and Shall hereafter be Teh-Dasuya (Hoshiarpur) Gurjant Singh. Muhar W/O Kulwant Singh R/o Vill. Udhipur PO. known as ANJU BALA changed my name to 63372 Singh Muhar To Kiranjit Dodwan Tehsil and Distt 72737 Sukhwinder Pal Singh. I, Poonam @ Poonam Kaur W/O Kulwant Singh.Gurdaspur Have Changed I, Hitherto Known As Rawel 63372 Bala @ Poonam Rani W/o 63372my name to Neelam Singh S/O Joginder Singh I Manveer Kaur Sallan Jagsir Singh R/o Vpo. Hari I Kulwant Singh S/O

72737 R/O Village Akbarpur, Po W/O Bahadar Singh VPO Nau (Fa r idko t ) h a s Major Singh R/O VPO I, Chandraprabha M/o Begowal, Distt. Kapurthala - Sandaur, Teh. Malerkotla known by above three Bajakhana (Faridkot) Khupspare Vijay Dilip 144621, Punjab, India Have (Sangrur) have changed names. Have Changed His Minor presently residing at Changed My Name And Shall my name to Manveer 63372 B o y C h i l d N a m e ward No.1, Gondkhairi. Hereafter Be Known As Kaur. I, Manmohan Singh S/o Navkamal Singh Muhar Nagpur. Maharashtra- Kewal Singh. 63372 Mohinder Singh R/o S/O Kulwant Singh Muhar 440023 India declare that 72778. I, Ruby W/o Parmjeet Ishwar Nagar Jagraon To Navkamal Singh S/O I have Changed my name I, Hitherto Known As Manju Singh R/o Vill: Chak have changed my name Kulwant Singh.from Chandraprabha to Dixit W/O Ashok Dewan R/o Vendal Teh-Nakodar to Manmohan Singh 63372Chandraprabha Dilip A-3 Silver Residency, Near (Jalandhar) changed my Dhanjal. I Pirthi Singh Ailas Prithi Khuspare vide affidavit Tv Tower, Nakodar Road, name from Ruby to 63372 Singh S/O Jugraj Singh no.AN 413543 dated on Distt. Jalandhar - 144001, Harjinder Kaur. I, Navkaran Singh S/o R/O Near Gurudawara 28 Jan2021 Pun jab , Ind ia Have 63372 M a n m o h a n S i n g h S a h i b , M a u r , Te h .

72737 Changed My Name And I, Sukhmander Singh S/o Dhanja l R/o Ishwar Kotkapura (Faridkot) Am Shall Hereafter Be Harbans Singh R/o Vpo. Nagar Jagraon have Known By Two Names As Known As Ritu Dewan. Panjgrin Khurd (Moga) changed my name to Above.

72778. changed my name to N a v k a r a n S i n g h 63372I Bikramjit S/O Jog Raj S u k h m a n d e r S i n g h Dhanjal. I, Gaurav Kumar S/O R/O V.p.o Kittna Tehsil Purba. 63372 Krishan Lal R/O Ward No. G a r h s h a n k a r 63372 I , Manmohan Singh 3, Mudki Tehsil And (Hosh i a rpu r ) Have I, Gurwinder Singh alias Dhanjal S/o Mohinder Distt. Ferozepur Have Changed My Name To Inder jee t S ingh S/o Singh R/o Ishwar Nagar Changed My Name As Bikramjit Rattu Shingara Singh alias Jagraon my minor son Gaurv Kumar.

72778. Balwinder Singh R/o I s m e e t S i n g h h a v e 63372I Jagiri Lal, Hereby Declare B a l k h e n d i T e h - changed name to Ismeet (With Consent Of My Son Dharamkot (Moga) have Singh Dhanjal.Pardeep Kumar),That My known by both names 63372 Son, Mr. Pardeep Kumar, Is Gurwinder Singh alias I, Manjit Kaur W/o Pr In Canada R/o 26580-30a Inderjeet Singh. M a n m o h a n S i n g h Ave, Aldergrove. Bc V4w 63372 Dhanja l R/o Ishwar 3c8 Canada Has Changed I, Mohinder Lal S/O Nagar Jagraon have His Name As Pardeep Chirngi Lal R/O Shanti changed my name to Kumar Verma. Nagar, Ward No. 19 Manjit Kaur Dhanjal.

72778. K o t k a p u r a , Te h s i l 63372I Jagiri Lal Hereby K o t k a p u r a , D i s t r i c t I, Jaskaran S/o Rajinder Declare (With Consent Faridkot Have Change My Singh R/o Vill: Sakta Of My Daughter-in-law Minor Daughter’s Name K h e r a d i s t t . S i r s a Mrs. Rajni) That My Bimla Devi To Simarn. (Haryana) changed my Daughter-in-law Mrs 63372 name to Jaskaran Singh.Rajni W/O Pardeep I, Bahadur Singh Aulakh 63372Kumar Is Pr In Canada S/o Naranjan Singh R/o I Chanpreet Singh S/O Residing At 26580-30a Ward No. 2, Garcha Bharpoor Singh R/O Ave, Aldergrove. Bc C o l o n y K h a m a n o n Kothe Lal Singh, Ablu, V4w 3c8 Canada Has (Fatehgarh Sahib) have Distt. Bathinda Have Name Changed Her changed my name to Changed My Name To Name A Rajni Verma. Bahadur Singh. Chanpreet Singh Brar.

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I, Charan Singh S/o Havela Singh R/o Vill: Malla Teh-Shahkot (Jalandhar) Pb, India, declare that my son Surinder Singh Chahal and his wife Paramjit Kaur are out of my control. So I disown with them from my m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with them at his/her own risk.

63372I, Ranjit Singh S/O Surjan S i n g h , R e s i d e n t O f Mansoorwal, Tehsil Zira, District Ferozepur, That My Name Is On The Certificates Of My Daughter Jasmeen Kaur With Ranjit Singh And Ranjeet Singh, Both Of Which Are Mine. To Make Related Notes.

63372I, Smt. Manjit Kaur widow of Army No. JC500443K Ex-sub Gurmail Singh, Resident o f Vi l l : K o t b h a r a P o . Kotfatta Teh-Maur Distt. Bathinda, Punjab, Inform all that my date of birth in records of my husband given wrongly as 02-12-1974. My date of birth correctly as 25-12-1972 my Aadhar No. 8617-6407-2346, also name of my son wrongly given in records of my husband, as Harjashampre Kaur. But his a c t u a l n a m e i s Harjashampreet Singh his DOB of Birth is 10-01-1999. His Aadhar No. is 2454-0009-2330.

63372I, No. 4468693N Ex-Nk Rajinder Singh S/o Amarjit Singh R/o Vill: Kakrali Po. M o r i n d a Te h - M o r i n d a (Ropar) Pb, declare that in my army service record my m o t h e r n a m e e n t e r e d wrongly Surjit Kaur. But my mother correct name is M o h i n d e r K a u r . S o amended my mother name f r o m S u r j i t K a u r t o Mohinder Kaur in my army service record.

63372I Mohinderpal Khanna Son Of Chanan Lal Khanna R/O House No.7, Model House, Model Town, Ludhiana Declares That My Nephew Dinesh Khanna Who Is Married And Now Is In Bad Company, I And My Family H a s N o C o n c e r n O r Relation With Him. If Any Body Deals With Him In Any Manner, I Shall Not Be Responsible For Any Act Of Deal Of Above Dinesh Khanna With Anyone.

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LOST & FOUNDI, Ranjit Singh S/o Baldeev S i n g h R / o P h a g w a r a (Kapurthala) declare that my registry deed No. 1046 on the name of Rakesh Kumar date 06-06-2012 has been lost Phagwara dated 22-01-2021. If anybody found then contact at my above address.

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Online politicallecture held

RAMKISHAN KASHYAPCHACHRAULI: A special online lecturewas organised by the Higher EducationDepartment, Panchkula, in GovernmentCollege, Chhachhrauli, to impart knowl-edge about nutrition, health and bal-anced diet to the girl students. Under thedirection of Vikesh Vala, the Nodal Offi-cer of the Women's Cell of the college, alarge number of students registered theirpresence in this lecture. Nutritionist gavedetailed information about nutrition,health and balanced diet to the studentsso that the students can take special careof their health and nutrition.All the members of the Women’s Cellalso encouraged the girl students to takecare of their health and take a balanceddiet. At the end of the programme feed-back was taken from all the participants.

Dr Pal, 4 nurseshonoured

SKBILASPUR: The Medical Officer of CHCPratap Nagar, Dr. Parminder Pal and fourother staff nurses have been honouredby presenting letters of appreciation forthe remarkable services during the Coro-na epidemic. On the occasion of Repub-lic Day, SDM Bilaspur Virender Dhul hasawarded MO Dr Dr Parminder Pal, ANMNeha Garg, Staff Nurse Neelam, Ja-gawati, Lab Technician Renu, CSC Prat-ap Nagar, at a program organized inSubdivision Bilaspur.Dr. Jitendra Kumar of CHC Pratap Nagarsaid that it is a matter of pride to be hon-ored with a Medical Officer and StaffNurse etc. This will motivate you to domore work.

HARERA imposes Rs2.25 cr penalty onerring buildersCHANDIGARH: Taking action againstthe erring builders, Haryana Real EstateRegulatory Authority, Gurugram has im-posed a penalty of Rs 2.25 crore on M/sSPS Homes Builders and DevelopersPvt Ltd, M/s Vistaar Group Pvt Ltd andM/s Royal Infra Buildtech Pvt Ltd for vio-lation of Section 3 (1) of the Real Estate(Regulation and Development) Act, 2016and has directed demolition of unautho-rized construction by Municipal Corpora-tion, Gurugram (MCG).The bench presided over by HARERA(Gurugram) Chairman Dr K K Khandelw-al took a stern view that penalty needs tobe imposed on the builders and decidedto impose a penalty of Rs 1 crore, Rs 75lakh and Rs 50 lakh respectively on theerrant builders. Further, an intimation hasbeen sent to the Commissioner of MCGfor demolishing the unauthorized con-struction in the projects.Sharing details in this regard, an officialspokesperson said no promoter will ad-vertise, market, book, sell or offer forsale, or invite persons to purchase in anymanner any plot, apartment or building,as the case may be, in any real estateproject or part of it, in any planning area,without registering the real estate projectwith the Real Estate Regulatory Authorityestablished under this Act.The Real Estate (Regulation and Devel-opment) Act, 2016 came into force onMay 1, 2017 in its entirety and the pro-moters were required to register the proj-ect before advertisement/marketing/sell-ing of any plot, apartment or building, asthe case may be, in any real estate proj-ect.

Haryana extendstelecom servicessuspension in 3districts till Jan 29CHANDIGARH : Haryana Governmenthas extended the suspension of mobileinternet services(2G/3G/4G/CDMA/GPRS), all SMS serv-ices (excluding banking and mobilerecharge) and all dongle services etc.provided on mobile networks exceptvoice calls in the territorial jurisdiction ofdistricts of Sonipat, Palwal and Jhajjar fornext 24 hours till 5 pm on January 29,2021. This order was issued to preventany disturbance of peace and public or-der in the jurisdiction of these three dis-tricts of Haryana and will be in force withimmediate effect. All telecom serviceproviders of Haryana including the headof BSNL (Haryana jurisdiction) havebeen directed to ensure the complianceof this order. The spokesman said thatthe state government has decided to ex-tend the suspension of internet servicesin order to stop the spread of disinforma-tion and rumours through various socialmedia platforms, such as WhatsApp,Facebook, Twitter, etc on mobile phonesand SMS, for facilitation and mobilisationof mobs of agitators .

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NSS volunteers visit villageKARNAL: The NSS volunteers of Guru Nanak Khalsa College Karnal tookout a public awareness rally in village Shamgarh to awaken the villagers. Dis-trict council deputy chairman Narendra Gorsi flagged off the rally in the vil-lage. Volunteers toured the entire village by organising rallies on topics suchas Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, water conservation, planting trees, saving envi-ronment, communal harmony, not burning stubble in the fields, open defeca-tion free, plastic eradication campaign, HIV AIDS and sanitation etc. A mes-sage was given by the programme Officer Dr. Bir Singh. Dr. Deepak directedall. Zilla Parishad candidate and philanthropist Ravindra Dangi also ex-pressed his views and fed laddus to the volunteers.

Number of road accidents declinesby near 14 per cent in state

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, JAN 28

The number of road accidents inHaryana during 2020 was 9,431which is 13.82 per cent less than thenumber of mishaps reported in thecorresponding period in year 2019.Around 30 cases of mishaps were re-ported everyday in 2019, which havefallen to 26 last year.

Similarly, the number of peoplewho died also dropped by 10.87 percent while injuries to persons also sawa dip of 18.19 per cent.

Giving this information here to-day, Director General of Police(DGP), Haryana, Mr. Manoj Yadavainformed that reduction in roadmishaps and casualties is a result ofbetter traffic management, enhancedsafety measures, improved enforce-ment of traffic regulations togetherwith continuous awareness driveabout road and traffic safety. Howev-er, the lockdown enforced to containthe spread of COVID-19 also con-tributed to a significant dip in acci-dents.

Sharing the official data, he saidthat the number of road mishaps in2020 came down to 9,431 from10,944 in 2019, showing a fall of1,513 cases. In terms of fatalities in

road accidents, 4,507 people died lastyear compared to 5,057 in the sameperiod in 2019, a drop of 550 cases.

Similarly, incidents of injuries topeople also saw a decline of 1,703cases. In total, 7,659 cases of injuriesto persons were reported in 2020 ascompared to 9,362 in 2019.

Giving highest priority to savingthe lives of people, he said that policehave provided 84 ambulances, 40 bigcranes and 22 small/medium cranes inall districts for immediate first-aid tothe accident victims and removal ofsuch vehicles. In addition, 45 TrafficAssistance Booths have also been setup every 10-km along National High-

ways to provide help to the accidentvictims.

“We are also working on a seriesof remedial measures like identifyingblack spots and getting them rectifiedon priority, improving the conditionsof roads and putting up signages. Weare also keeping a close eye ondrunken driving and overspeeding,one of the major causes of accidents.At the same time, commuters are alsobeing made aware about road andtraffic safety through social mediaplatforms. As a result of our initia-tives, I am hopeful that accidents anddeaths would reduce further”, headded.

ISHIKA THAKUR / SANGEETAKURUKSHETRA, JAN 28

On the eve of Republic Day 2021, the Presi-dent of India has conferred high civilian hon-our of Padma Shri on Dr. Jai Bhagwan Goyal,Former Professor of Hindi Department andDean Faculty of Arts & Languages, Kuruk-shetra University. KU VC Prof Som NathSachdeva congratulated Prof. Goyal for thisnational recognition and honour. PadmaAwards are awarded to citizens of India inrecognition of their distinguished contributionin various spheres of activity including thearts, science, literature, medicine, social serv-ices and sports.

Prof Goyal an eminent Scholar of Hindiand Punjabi literature who has done pathbreaking research in bringing to light treasuresof Medieval literature in Gurumukhi script,unknown to the modern literary world, in-formed Prof Brajesh Sawhney, Director Pub-lic Relations KU.

During the past five decades Dr. Goyal haspublished 32 books and over 150 research pa-pers covering a vast range of manuscripts andold publications. Dr. Goyal rediscovered forthe Hindi and Punjabi literary world, a 19thcentury poet of Haryana, Bhai Santokh Singhand his epic poems, consisting of about sixtythousand verses, based on the life and teach-ings of the ten Sikh Gurus. The poetry discov-ered by Dr Goyal present vividly the cultural,political and social history of the age and areimbibed with the spirit of spiritualism andheroism.

Dr Goyal did extensive research on writ-ings of Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Arjun Dev and

Guru Teg Bahadur. His research and books onthe writings of Guru Gobind Singh and the lit-erature produced under his patronage atAnandpur Sahib has been recognized as workof great scholarship. According to Dr. Goyalthis Sikh literary tradition is glorious, rich andvaluable part of Indian culture. It is imbibedwith a high spirit of spiritualism, heroism, na-tionalism, humanism and a sense of socialequality & social justice. It is enshrined withsublime ethical and human values, such astruth, self-control, contentment, compassionand duty of service.

Dr Goyal said that the Padma Shri awardwill foster renewed interest in the history andliterature of this era and foster cultural andemotional amity of various communities andstrengthen National Integration of unity in di-versity of India. I am grateful to KU where Iworked for more than 22 years in various ca-pacities, said Goyal.

Padam Shri to FormerKU Professor Dr Goyal

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JANUARY 28

Gharaunda MLA Harvinder Kalyan hassaid that the deplorable developments inDelhi on Republic Day have hurt the dig-nity and pride of India and its democra-cy. The tricolor was insulted in the nameof farmers, which caused disturbance anddisorder and the country and the societywill never forgive these miscreants.

MLA Kalyan strongly condemnedthe uproar and violence that took placeon the occasion of the tractor march thattook place on the auspicious occasion ofthe Republic Day celebrations in Delhi.Visions of the nation's capital on the fes-tival of recognition of the Constitutionare going to hurt the dignity of democra-cy.

Violence is like a termite in the rootsof democracy and those who are goingout of decorum are ending the legitimacyand struggle of their movement and theirdemand. He said that the leaders of thefarmers organisations taking responsibil-

ity for the tractor march have disap-peared, they should come forward andtell who are those who are committingviolence in the name of farmers and whois responsible for such an atmosphere onthe auspicious day of Republic Day?

MLA Harvinder Kalyan said that to-day the whole society wants to knowwho is disturbing the country's capital on

the Republic Day, even after the decisionto amend the laws and a stay on the threeagricultural laws for one and a half years.He said that the Red Fort of the countryis a symbol of India's honour and on thisthe Constitution has given the PrimeMinister of the country the authority tohoist the national flag. Today, the inci-dent of hoisting the flag other than the tri-color is a shame to every citizen of thecountry.

Kalyan said that the police had al-lowed the farmers to take out the tractorparade with conditions and the farmerleaders had also set some rules them-selves, but the protestors laid down allthe rules during the tractor march. Manyprotesters broke the barricades at manyplaces and forcibly entered Delhi andvandalised the city.

Farmer leaders have also not takenany responsibility for the protesters'ruckus and the stoning. The society isalso questioning who is provoking thefarmers time and again who had beenrunning a peaceful agitation?

R-Day violence hurt national pride: KalyanSocial worker Fulli Devi is no more

Shiv Kumar SharmaKALANAUR/NIGANA: Fulli Devi, great social worker and national chairperson of the Mantari DeviCharitable Trust breathed her last at the age of 92. She was a great Social worker of rural and slumareas. Fulli Devi, wife of Raghuveer Singh Nigana served the society throughout her life, said nationalPresident of Unnat Bharat Organisation Trust Bharat Prem while paying tribute to her.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JANUARY 28

The Municipal Corporation isgoing to strengthen the exist-ing system to increase surveil-lance on vehicles engaged ingarbage lifting. CorporationCommissioner Vikram held ameeting on Thursday with therepresentative of Vinera Soft-ware Private Limited, a Cal-cutta base company makingGPS software at the Corpora-tion office, to add some newfeatures to the existing soft-ware. The meeting was attend-

ed by Joint CommissionerGagandeep Singh, ExecutiveOfficer Isha Sharma, A.E.Electrical Manish Singla andSSI Surendra Chopra attended.On behalf of the MunicipalCorporation, GPS is beingmonitored on the vehicles en-gaged in the work of cleaningor picking up garbage. As of

now, 104 vehicles have beenequipped with GPS. These in-clude 88 tippers, 4 JCBs, 1tractor-trolley and 5 dumperplacer, besides 6 buses en-gaged in city service. Monitor-ing of such vehicles will bepossible only with GPS. Thenumber of movements that aGPS-enabled vehicle madeduring work in a day can alsobe ascertained. Now tostrengthen the monitoringmechanism of such vehicles,the municipal commissioner isgoing to make some additionsto it.

GPS in vehicles willstrengthen monitoring

Lala Lajpat Rai's birthanniversary celebrated

RAVI KUMARBABAIN: In the courtyard of Sanjay Gandhi Om Prakash Garg Memori-al Public School, Sujra Babain, the school's Principal Savita Sudan, staffand children laid flowers on the statue of Lala Lajpat Rai to commemo-rate his birth anniversary. The Principal said that Lala Lajpat Rai was aprominent freedom fighter of India who was born on 28 January 1865 ina Jain family in Moga district of Punjab. He was one of the three leadingleaders of the Garam Dal in the Indian National Congress, Lal Bal Pal. In1928, he participated in a demonstration against the Simon Commission,during which he was badly injured in the lathicharge.At that time, he had said that every stick on my body would work as anail in the coffin of the British Government and the same happened with-in twenty years of Lala Lajpat Rai’s sacrifice. He was a true patriot, fear-less freedom fighter and a good leader as well as a good writer, lawyerand a social reformer. He said that he had deep faith in the ideology ofArya Samaj. School head Pawan Garg greeted the children and present-ed flowers on the occasion of Lala Lajpat Rai’s birth anniversary. ThePrincipal and staff of the school were also present on the occasion.

Anti-social elements createdviolence: TarlochanSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Congress district convenor Tarlochan Singh hassaid that the anti-social elements committed violence in Delhiduring the tractor parade being taken out by the farmers. It wasa well thought out conspiracy. We condemn it. There is noplace for violence. During this period, the events at the Red

Fort were done by anti-nationals.That too smells of conspiracy. Whotried to discredit the peasants? Heshould also be exposed. The DelhiPolice are also negligently responsi-ble for the developments in Delhi.Due to the negligence of Pulijas, anti-social elements were successful incarrying out their activities. Thefarmer is the provider of the country,he cannot commit violence in thisway. Farmers have always been de-vout patriots.No matter how many differences are

there within the country, all the farmers are always unitedagainst the country and anti-national forces. Farmers areabove all from all religions, caste and community. It is wrong topoint fingers at patriotism of farmers. He never saw such ascene in his forty years of his political life. There are agitations,marches, people protest but nobody tampers with the integrityand self-respect of the country. He said that a high-level inquiryshould be conducted into the developments and disturbancesat the Red Fort in Delhi. Strict action should be taken againstthose who are guilty. No action should be taken against any in-nocents in this case. Nor should action be taken from a politicalangle. He said that they are against violence in the movement.He said that such incidents could have been avoided if the ad-ministration and police had been vigilant.

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, JANUARY 28

Project Officer of the Women andChild Development Department, Ra-jbala said that to avoid malnutrition,women and children should pay spe-cial attention to their diet and take nu-tritious diet in their daily routine. Bytaking proper nutrition, women andchildren will develop physically andmentally. A special campaign has beenlaunched by the Women and ChildDevelopment Department and Infor-mation, Public Relations and Lan-guage Department to make themaware of this in the district, to avoidmalnutrition through street plays andfolk songs in various villages. Shesaid that under the special campaign

run by the Department of Women andChild Development under the nutri-tion campaign, the campaign for nu-trition at the district level has beencarried out from village to villagethrough street plays and folk songs.She said that under a special cam-paign in 196 villages of the district,people are being made aware of mal-

nutrition. On this same episode, pro-grammes were presented by the dra-ma troupe in village Faizalpur Majraof Gharaunda block, Pir Badoli, vil-lage Sonkada of Nilokheri block,Nidana, Shergarh and Chandrao ofIndri block, Gullerpur and Sambli ofNissing block. Five sources of goodhealth are being told to the peoplelike nutritious diet, anemia, diar-rhoea, hygiene and cleanliness etc.through street plays and folk songs sothat everyone can incorporate it intheir daily routine and get themselvesfree from malnutrition. Such pro-grammes are organised by the gov-ernment from time to time under spe-cial campaigns, which bring aware-ness to the people and change theirbehavior.

Child, women must take nutritious food: Rajbala

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R. SINGHPATHANKOT, JAN 28

On Republic Day, PAJatinder Sharma of DCPathankot Sanyam Agar-wal was honored with aletter of honor by thecabinet minister on thedistrict level program. Hehas been honored byCabinet Minister SundarShyam Arora in for ren-dering services withoutleave during Corona peri-od.Apart from this, SDMPathankot GursimranSingh Dhillon, ADCGeneral and MunicipalCorporation AdditionalCommissioner SurinderPal also encouragedJatinder Sharma for hisexcellent services. It isworth mentioning thatJatinder Sharma himself

became positive duringthe Corona period but assoon as he recoveredfrom the ailment, hejoined his job.Other em-ployees, including PA-to-DC Jatinder Sharma, didnot take even leave ofSaturday and Sunday

leave for about 6 months. After which,many or-

ganizations came for-ward to honor him forbest services.After re-ceiving the honor, Jatin-der Sharma thanked Cab-inet Minister SundarShyam Arora, DC

Pathankot Sanyam Ag-garwal, ADC SurinderPal and SDM GursimranSingh Dhillon. He saidthat with the inspirationof all the officers, he andall the staff could providebetter services even inthis bad time.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, JAN 28

Punjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh on Thursday hitout at Union Minister PrakashJavadekar over his disgraceful anddesperate attempt to shift blame forthe shocking Red Fort violence,which had evidently been instigatedby supporters and members of hisown Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) incollusion with the Aam Aadmi Par-ty (AAP), with the Congressnowhere in the picture.

“Workers and supporters of BJPand AAP, and not the Congress,have been caught on camera wavingthe Nishan sahib at the Red Fort,”pointed out the Chief Minister in astrong retaliation to Javadekar’s un-founded allegations against theCongress, and his own governmentin Punjab. Captain Amarinder’scomments came even as Delhi Po-lice named Deep Sidhu, a key aideof BJP MP Sunny Deol, as one ofthe main instigators of the violence,and Amrik Micky, an AAP member,was also spotted at the violence site.

Not a single Congress leader ormember was seen at the Red Fort in-dulging in any kind of lawlessness,Captain Amarinder pointed out,adding that even farmers were notresponsible for the 26th January

trouble, which was in fact the doingof anti-social elements who had in-filtrated the Tractor Rally.

The Centre should also get afree and fair probe conducted intothe possible role of any politicalparty, or even a third country as isbeing alleged by BJP’s own leaders,to ensure that the guilty are pun-ished and the genuine farmers arenot unnecessarily maligned or ha-rassed, he added. The Chief Minis-ter also lashed out at the Union Min-ister for accusing Rahul Gandhi ofinciting the violence, asking “Didthe Congress leader ask anyone toclimb Red Fort? He did not. It wasBJP and AAP men who did that,” hesaid, adding that Rahul had, in fact,

promptly condemned the violence,and made it clear that violence wasno solution to the crisis.

“These allegations are nothingbut a cover-up attempt by the BJPleader for his own party’s role in theviolence, and in fact for their utterfailure to manage the situation,which they had created in the firstplace with the unilateral implemen-tation of the black Farm Laws,” saidCaptain Amarinder, trashingJavadekar’s charges. “How could Istop peaceful farmers from going totheir own national capital to exer-cise their democratic right ofprotest,” the Chief Minister furthersaid, reacting to the Union Minis-ter’s statement that the Punjab gov-

ernment failed to stop farmers fromjoining the Tractor Rally.

Javadekar trying to shift Delhiviolence blame on Congress: Capt

Jatinder Sharma honoured by Cabinet Minister

LED lights stolen fromDargah of civil hospitalPATHANKOT: The LED lights insidethe dargah of the civil hospital havebeen stolen by thieves last night.Theservicemen who served in the dargahcame to know when they came toclean the dargah next morning, theysaw that the LED lights inside thedarbar were stolen .While giving theinformation,Sevadar Baba Mast Shahtold that on his behalf 4 months ago,LED lights were installed everywhereat the time of religious feast so thatpeople do not have any trouble andon Monday evening he switched onthe lights and went on .But ontuesday when he came and saw thatthe LED light had been stolen.He hasdemanded from the hospitalmanagement and policeadministration that PCR and policecheck-in-charge should be increasedin the area at night.

RK school celebratesbirth anniversary ofLala Lajpat Rai

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON:RK school jagraoncelebrated 156thbirth anniversary ofLala Lajpat Rai by holding a functionin school premises. SSP jagraonCharanjeet Singh Sohal participated inthe program was chief guest and APrefinery owner Ravi Goel alsoparticipated in the function as guest ofhonor. At this occasion, collegepresident adv Naveen Guptawelcomed the guests and schoolprincipal captain Naresh Vermaconducted the stage very well. Chiefguest SSP Sohal talked about the lifeof Lala lajpat Rai and elaborated onhis teachings and asked students tofollow his teachings and make thenation proud. SSP sohal also said thathe feels proud to have got a chanceto serve at thehis birthplace. Thefunction was participated by variousdignitaries from the city including RajKumar Bhalla, DSP Rajesh Sharma,Kanta Rani Singla, Satpal Dedhka,Rajinder Jain, Gurinder Sidhu andothers were present.

I will always stay with Congress : Teerth RamHOSHIARPUR: Former councilor of ward number 48, Teerth Ram, reiterating his resolve tosupport the Congress in the municipal elections, has said that he is a true soldier of his mother par-ty Congress and will always remain in it. He made it clear that he will not contest from BJP tick-et and will fully support the candidate who has been fielded by the Congress party. Teertha Ramsaid this during the meeting with Aurora, the cabinet minister, Punjab Sundar Sham. On this oc-casion, Cabinet Minister Sundar Sham Arora said that Teerth Ram is a very senior and honest andhardworking worker and leader of our party and we should always support such leaders. He saidthat due to some reasons, Tirtha Ram was a bit annoyed and his displeasure has been overcome bythe party. He said that under the guidance of such senior leaders, the Congress will complete Mis-sion 50 and their respect will be maintained in the party. Mr. Arora said that he is confident thatthe candidate of the party, who has been standing from Tirtha Ram ward, will support Nawab Hus-sain and after winning a big victory from here, he will put this seat in the party's seat.

BUREAUCHANDIGARH, JAN 28

The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) has strongly con-demned the false police cas-es registered against thefarmers over the actions tak-en by RSS and BJP agents todiscredit the farmers' move-ment at the Red Fort on Jan-uary 26. In a statement is-sued from the party head-quarters, senior leader of theparty and Leader of Opposi-tion (LoP) in the Punjab As-sembly, Harpal SinghCheema said that PrimeMinister Narendra Modigovernment's nefariousmoves in collaboration withRSS, BJP and central agen-cies, to put an end to thefarmers' movement had em-barrassed the country world-wide today. He said that the farmers whohad been peacefully agitat-ing in a democratic mannerfor the last several monthshad raised the head of ourdemocratic country, but thepoor thinking of the BJP haddone great damage to thedemocracy of the countrythrough its men.

Cheema said that by reg-istering false cases againstthose farmer leaders, whowere not involved in this in-cident, police had provedthat it all happened only un-der one politics. He said thatthe Delhi Police should have

immediately arrested andprosecuted BJP agent DeepSidhu, but became active indefaming the peaceful agita-tors. "The farmer leadershave been saying for a longtime that Deep Sidhu is anagent of BJP and wanted togive a wrong colour to themovement. In connectionwith the incident at Red Fort,Deep Sidhu himself wentlive on social media givingall evidence, but the Modigovernment at the Centre haslet go of its favourite, whichcasts doubt on the intentionsof the Delhi Police," headded.

The AAP leader furthersaid that different kinds offalse rumours were beingspread to discredit the farm-ers' movement and appealedto the people of Punjab andthe country's citizens not topay attention to such ru-mours. He appealed to all thepeople of Punjab to maintainpeace.

SDM, DSP Sunam urgeresidents to obey

traffic rules

SUNAM (SUMER GARG): Under the NationalRoad Safety Mission (which is being observed from18th January to 17th February every year) the localSDM Manjeet Kaur along with DSP Sunam, Baljin-der Singh Pannu; Naib Tehsildar, Manmohan Singhand other staff conducted a surprise vehicles check-ing drive in the ITI chowk here today. SDM told thereporter that the documents of the vehicles werechecked and their drivers were instructed to followthe traffic rules.

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, JAN 28

Republic day was cele-brated at jagraon withgreat enthusiasm underthe guidance of SDMNarinder Singh Dhaliwal.The flag hoisting ceremo-ny was performed byADC Neeru Katyal.

ADC Katyal and SDMDhaliwal inspected thepolice parade in a gypsycar. The administrative of-ficers wished everybodyon the occasion of repub-lic day and paid homageto all the freedom fighterswho laid down their livesfor the sake of nation.They said that the consti-tution protects our humanrights and provides us

with some essential dutieswhich are to be followedas responsible citizens.Atthis occasion, civil admin-istration also honored var-ious influential personali-ties of the city for havingmade tremendousachievements in their re-spective fields. Socialworker Gurinder SinghSidhu, chairman Geja

Ram and Purshotam LalKhalifa also congratulatedpeople on republic dayand asked everybody torespect and help familiesof freedom fighters asthey have made huge sac-rifices for the nation. Thistime, the event was held inthe absence of school stu-dent's cultural programdue to COVID-19.

Republic day celebrated at Jagraon

Chaudhary Nareshbecomes Inspector

NAWANSHAHAR (CHET RAM RATTAN): Dis-trict Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar CID Punjab Po-lice, ASI and Sub Inspector Chaudhary Naresh

Kumar was pro-moted from PunjabPolice Department(CID) for their out-standing servicesin the departmentat the constablelevel. BalwantSingh DSP, PPS,In-charge BBMB,Nangal DistrictRopar thanked thetop officials ofPunjab for theprogress made by

the Department keeping in view the excellent serv-ices rendered by Chaudhary Naresh Kumar. Chaud-hary Naresh Kumar thanked Punjab Police Depart-ment and DSP Balwant Singh and others for theirsupport and assured to work for better services in fu-ture.www.yugmargnewspaper.blogspot.com

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDARBAHA, JAN 28

Campaign for admission tonew sessions in the schoolswas started from GovernmentPrimary School Dhani ShamSingh Block, Giddarbaha-1.On this occasion Ajay Kumar,Block Education Officer re-leased the pamphlet regardingthe admission of GovernmentPrimary School Dhani ShamSingh. The school's headteacher Manjit Singh said that

in this pamphlet, the charac-teristics of the school havebeen shown and informationrelated to the governmentschemes, which are applica-ble in the government school.

He told that admission forseven classes has started inthe school. The school willhave pre-primary 1 and pre-primary 2 (LKG / UKG) ad-missions, in which studentswill be taught to developphysically, mentally, intellec-tually and socially.

Pamphlet released for admissionin government school

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, JAN 28

The Disabled Persons WelfareSociety (Regd.) Hoshiarpurhas opened an office at villageHarwan for the welfare of thedisabled people of the back-ward Beet area. Speaking onthe occasion, PresidentSandeep Sharma said that Di-vyangajans are an importantpart of the society.

It is our moral responsibilityto establish Divyangs in the so-ciety. Addressing this impres-sive function, General Secre-tary Jaswinder Singh Sahotasaid that in view of the prob-lems of the Diwangjans, an of-fice has been opened in thearea of Beet, which has alsobeen arranged by the Divyang-jans. He said that this office

would be used for making Dis-ability Certificate, Unique Dis-ability Identity Document(UDID) Card, Disability Pen-sion, Prosthetics, Tricycle,Wheelchair, Motorized Vehi-cle, Hearing Machines,Calipers, Stickers. And provideappropriate guidance in addi-tion to assisting the disabled toobtain other facilities. Motor-ized vehicles, tricycles, wheel-chairs and UDI cards were dis-

tributed to the needy personson the occasion. On this occa-sion Block President SatnamSingh thanked the guests. TheDivyangajans present on theoccasion lauded the work be-ing done by the society. Alargenumber of Divyangajans in-cluding Gurnam Singh, Bal-ram Singh, Baljit Singh, Dil-bag Singh, Kiran Devi, BalvirKaur, Manjit Kaur, Kiran Devietc.

It is our moral responsibility to establishDivyangajans in society: Sandeep Sharma

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JAN 28

Under the direction of PunjabChief Minister Capt.Amarinder Singh and theinitiative of Finance Minis-ter Manpreet Singh Badal,the city has witnessed allround development of sew-erage system, clean drink-ing water, storm waterdrainage, proper sanitation,street lights and In the name ofdevelopment, Congress candi-dates are demanding votes inthe municipal elections in thename of development. Thiswas stated by Congress candi-date from Ward No. 33 NehaJindal (daughter-in-law) sen-ior Congress leader Manoj

Jindal while going door todoor in different areas and saidthat her main objective is theprogress and public service of

every society and family. Forwhich he would work day andnight. Corner meetings werealso held by senior Congressleaders of the ward in favor ofNeha Jindal and Finance Min-ister Manpreet Singh Badalled by senior Congress leaderJajit Singh Johal.

Al-round dev of city underleadership of FM: Neha Jindal

Riders leave bikeafter seeing

police, one heldGAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR, JAN 28 Police station Sadar registered a caseagainst two vehicle thieves. During theblockade, one of the accused arrested onthe spot while his accomplice managedto escape.

The police party, including ASIHarpal Singh, had blocked Rajpura Pulifor checking vehicles. Meanwhile, abike Marka Splendor from Rajpura sidewas seen without number. When indoubt, the police hinted at stopping theaccused. But both the accused tried torun away after leaving the bike.

The police party nabbed accused Har-jot Singh alias Jotha resident BoharWadala on the spot. While the second ac-cused Jaswinder Singh alias Bholu resi-dent jauda Chattaran managed to escape. During interrogation, accusedHarjot Singh told that he had stolen thebike 2-3 months ago from the Dhariwalfarmer dharna. The accused wrote thefake number PB-06-Q-6842 on the backof the bike.

VERMAGURDASPUR, JAN 28

Parminder Singh Saini was fe-licitated by the Cabinet Minis-ter Sukhjinder Singh Rand-hawa for his outstand-ing services in the fieldof education and socialservice during the dis-trict level Republic Daycelebrations.

MLA BrindermeetSingh Pahra, MLAFateh Jang Singh Ba-jwa, Deputy Commis-sioner Mohammad Is-faq, SSP Dr. Rajinder SinghSohal and Additional DeputyCommissioner TejinderpalSingh Sandhu were also pres-ent to honour him. ParminderSingh Saini, Secretary,samarpan Society and Adviser,

Pahra Trust has been servingthe society for a long time.Par-minder singh saini thankedCabinet Minister SukhjinderSingh Randhawa, MLABrindarmeet Singh Pahra,

Deputy Commissioner Mr.Mohammad Isfaq and all hiscolleagues for their dedicationand devotion and said that theywould continue to work dedi-catedly for the welfare of thechildren and social service.

Saini honoured for excellent servicesduring district level R-Day celebrations

Deep Sidhu should be arrestedimmediately: Cheema

Amarinder writes to PMfor Punjabi's inclusion

in J&K officiallanguages list

CHANDIGARH: Citing Pun-jab’s historical links with Jam-mu & Kashmir since MaharajaRanjit Singh’s time, Chief Min-ister Captain Amarinder Singhon Wednesday sought PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s inter-vention for the inclusion ofPunjabi in the official list of lan-guages of the UT. In a letter tothe Prime Minister, CaptainAmarinder urged him to advisethe Union Ministry of HomeAffairs to reconsider and reviewthe official list and include Pun-jabi also as one of the officiallanguages in the UT of Jammu& Kashmir. Voicing the resent-ment of the Punjabi communityover the exclusion of Punjabifrom the list of official lan-guages, Captain AmarinderSingh pointed out that Jammu& Kashmir was a part of Punjabduring the era of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Rashtriya KalyankariParishad seeks reduction oftaxes on petrol, diesel

R.SINGHPATHANKOT: A meeting of RashtriyeKalyankari Parishad was held atDhaki Road Pathankot under theleadership of Rakesh Sharma.Addressing the meeting, PresidentRakesh Sharma said that in a shorttime, the prices of diesel and petrolhave started touching the sky and inthe coming time, inflation is expectedto increase with this.He has demanded from the CentralGovernment and the PunjabGovernment that the tax imposed onthe prices of petrol and diesel shouldbe reduced and the prices of petroland diesel be controlled.On thisoccasion, Mahinder Rai SainiSecretary, Joint Secretary Dr. Shashi,Chief Advisor Yashpal Mahajan,Balram, Hardeep Singh etc. werepresent.

PGI, Aryans organise Blooddonation camp at Aryans

JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: Aryans Group of Colleges,Rajpurain this district and Departmentof Blood Transfusion, PGIMER (PostGraduate Institute of MedicalEducation & Research), Chandigarhon Thursday organized a “BloodDonation Camp” at Aryans Campus inassociation with NGO, Laally TeHaryali. Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman,Aryans Group inaugurated the event.The PGI team including Doctors,Nurses and Technicians under theleadership & guidance of Dr AnitaPramod, Assistant Blood TransfusionOfficer (ABTO), PGI conductedthorough medical checkup of voluntarydonors and selected the eligibledonors to donate blood. Medicalguidance & prescription was given tothe students, parents, faculty members& local residents of villages etc.

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Tehsildar Vijay Rai records Inteqaal ofseven villages in Kotla KalanKISHORI LAL BAINSAMB: Tehsildar Una, Vijay Rai recorded Inteqaal of seven villages in theoffice of Patwar Circle Kotla Kalan. Tasildar Vijay Rai while talking toYUGMARG said that around 25 people of seven villages have beenrecorded today. He further said that today Inteqaal of Kotla Khurd, KotlaKalan Uppar and Lower, Araniala Uppar and Lower, Ajnouli Uppar andLower villages were recorded. It is also worth mentioning that who hassold land or bought them, Inteqaal is recorded after their registry.

HIMACHAL/JKPreeti Mukulbecomes president ofMahila wing of NUJSHIMLA: The presidency of the women'swing of the NUJI Himachal unit has beenhanded over to senior journalist Preeti

Mukul.Thisappointment hasbeen made by StatePresident RaneshRana. This seat wasvacant afterresignation ofSeema Mohan.Afterwhich during theprogram organized

on the occasion of the foundation day ofNUJI, Preeti Mukul has been given thisassignment with all the consent.

Indian Helping Handsorganizes langar atRegional Hospital Una

JYOTI SYALUNA: Prince Thakur, chairman of theIndian Helping Hands, along with GuruKa Langar Seva Samiti Trust organizedLangar sewa at the regional hospital Unaon the occasion of his birthday. Andappreciated the effort of Guru Ka LangarSeva Samiti to provide free food forpeople coming from far and wide. PrinceThakur said that the entire credit for thisLangar Seva Samiti Trust goes to theworkers and servicemen of the LangarCommittee, who never let the Langarstop all 365 days of the year, and addedthat similar langars should be organizedoutside every emergency institutions inthe state, where financial support couldbe provided by the langar committee tothe needy patients and their attendantsfrom far away places. He appealed to thepeople to always contribute in the GuruKa langar seva samithi on any occasionof their happiness and share it withothers, for true service of humanity.

Guru Ka Langarcomes forward fordestitutesPANKAJ KATNACHINTPURNI: 40-year-old Sunita, whowas spending her day in the scorchingcold rain of the Chintpurni templecomplex, was begging, Prince Thakur,chairman of Indian Helping Hands, onMonday night came to know aboutSunita's reference from the regionalhospital, the chilling cold and Sunita'scondition deteriorated severely due tobeing in the open due to which she wastaken to the regional hospital Una, butthere was no one to see Sunita, so theGuru's Langar Seva Samiti Trust, whicharranges for the anchor in the regionalhospital Una. In the context of Sunita'splea, trust head Ashwani Jaitik and deputyhead Dinesh Gupta came forward andmade all necessary arrangements forSunita's treatment, Sunita was referred toTanda Medical College, which ledAshwani Jaitik to arrange an ambulanceto take Sunita to Tanda as well as theGeneral Secretary of Guru Ka LangarTrust spoke to Kangra administration DCRakesh Prajapati in this context andappealed to an assistant for Sunita andgot complete treatment. Guru's LangarSeva Samiti Trust is becoming a supportfor many such destitute people, and everyday many Dani gentlemen are joining thistrust and becoming a partner of virtue.

Six die in separate roadaccidents at ShimlaSHIMLA: Six people lost their lives, while12 were injured in two different roadaccidents that took place at this statecapital on Wednesday, a top Police Officerconfirmed. According to Superintendent ofPolice, Shimla Mohit Chawla, a Multi UtilityVehicle (MUV) fell down a 500-meter deepgorge at Parmeshwari Dhank under JatralPolice Post in Nankhari tehsil of thedistrict, leading to death of four people andinjuries to nine others. Chawla said thetempo trax, bearing Haryana number, wasgoing towards Narkanda from Bagi, whenit met with the accident. Police andRevenue team rushed to the spot andshifted nine injured persons to MahatmaGandhi Hospital at Khaneri. Two of thesurvivors were employees of Healthdepartment, including a staff nurse postedin Mashobra Block. Both lost their spousesin the accident, added the SP. He said inanother accident, two persons died on-the-spot, while three others were injured,when a car met with an accident nearMashobra under police station Dhalli in theoutskirts of this capital town.

Efforts will be made to constructJan Sanwad Sadan at all district: CM

Inaugurates Jan Sanwad Kaksh at MandiDINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, JAN 28

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurwhile inaugurating the JanSanwad Kaksh at Mandi todaysaid that this would go a longway in providing a better,comfortable and appropriateplace for the people coming forredressal of their grievances.This pre-fabricated structurehas been constructed byspending an amount of Rs. 117lakh. Jai Ram said he hadobserved that the people used toface a lot of difficulty whilethey visit the official residenceof the Chief Minister and hisoffice at Shimla as there wasnot proper place for the visitorscoming for redressal of theirgrievances. The people used tostand along the corridors andespecially women, physicallychallenged people and oldpersons had to face greatdifficulty. The present stategovernment soon after holding

the reins constructed JanSanwad Sadan at both theseplaces to solve this problem.Both these places had amplesitting arrangements and peoplenow no longer had to stand inqueue for redressal of theirgrievances. He said that theseJan Sanwad Sadan have all the

basic facilities for sittingbesides television, drinkingwater, toilet and heating etc.

Jai Ram Thakur said thatsimilar facility was also createdat Dharamshala in Kangradistrict. This Jan Sanvad Sadanalso has all these basic facilitieswhere people could sit

comfortably and meet the ChiefMinister and Ministers toredress their grievances. Hesaid that prior to this, peoplehad to face great difficulty inmeeting the Chief Minister. Hesaid that efforts would be madeto construct similar Sadans atall the remaining districtheadquarters. While referringto development made by thePublic Works Department inMandi district, he said that 582kilometre new roads wereconstructed during last threeyears besides metalling 1019kilometre new roads andretarring and metalling of 980kilometres of roads. He saidthat 63 villages had beenconnected with road facility and22 bridges and 75 newbuildings had been constructedin Mandi district during theperiod. District BJP PresidentRanvir, Chairman Waqf BoardRajbali and other senior officerswere also present on theoccasion.

Violation of Corona relatedorders in Hamirpur

AGENCYHAMIRPUR, JAN 28

Though the number of newCoronavirus cases has come downand the work for the anti Coronavaccine is continuing, yet theviolation of the orders related to itis going on with impunity.

Buses, cars, jeeps and eventrolley meant for carrying labor forthe construction work are loadedbeyond capacity virtually sayinggoodbye to the social distancingorders.

Not to speak of the privatebuses, the HRTC buses are alsoseen jam packed in the morningand evening hours when peoplecome to their offices and thereafterleave for their homes.

Same is the situation in varioustowns of the district where no onebothers to stand on his turn tomake purchases of different typesof items. Buyers can be seenbreaking the lines to makepurchases and seen in a hurry toreturn to their native places.

Shops of sweets, vegetables,hotels and other eatables are themain trading centers where theviolation of the CORONA relatedorders is going on unabated.

This is surprising that all this is

going on despite the strictinstructions issued by the districtauthorities to their staff and thepeople to abide by the CORONArelated orders and thereby savethem and their families from itswrath. Gone are the days whenpeople used to completely abideby the orders of the administrationand that time it was presumed thatsuch orders will be remembered tothe people in coming days but withthe passage of the time, the ordershave become merely a ritual aseven the officialdom is also seeninvolved in ignoring the orders ofthe District Magistrate and theDistrict Police chief in this behalf.

Will the people think over thepast and restart observing thesocial distancing norms andwearing face masks for their ownwelfare and wellbeing, is a milliondollars question being debated inthe people these days.

Oath ceremony heldfor new BDC members

KASHISH SHARMAGAGRET, JAN 28

An oath ceremony was held on Thursday for thenewly elected public representatives of Gagretdevelopment block of district Una. The ceremonyheld under the chairmanship of SDM Vinay Modiwas attended by MLA Rajesh Thakur as the chiefguest. BDO Sudarshan Thakur administered theoath to all the BDC members at the ceremony. MLARajesh Thakur after congratulating all the members,said that they have been given the responsibility toensure the proper working of our democracy. Headded that the Panchayati Raj system has the powerto strengthen every Panchayat and the newly electedmembers must use this power only for the betterdevelopment of the country.

Young Brigade will not sit silentabout election rigging: Bablu

PRADEEP CHAMBAYALAMB, JAN 28

The state president of the Congress Seva DalYoung Brigade Sudarshan Singh Bablu hasaccused of rigging by political interference inthe recently held panchayat elections. Bablualleged in a press conference held in Amb onThursday that the ruling party of the state hadconspired to rig. He said that what is the reason that BJPcandidates losing elections from Congress supported candidateswere declared victories after recounting. He said that all this hasbeen done not with a Congress candidate but at places in thedistrict due to political pressure. He questioned how the ZillaParishad's Congress-backed candidate Seema Dhillon wasdeclared a loser after Diyada ward. His ward was counted in Una,Amb and Bangana. In the counting of votes, he was given a leadof about 1100 votes in which Seema Dhillon was winning by 200votes. After this, the votes were counted, then they were declareddefeated.Bablu said that she was leading by 600 votes in Amb and700 votes in Bangana. Which again reduced to 140 afterrecounting, which is never possible. How NOTA votes increasedafter the recounting. It should also be investigated, he said that theBJP is adopting various tactics for its victory. In order to defeat theCongress-backed candidates, the raid is being done whichCongress will never tolerate. He said that Congress Sevadal Youngwill not sit silent if these facts are not investigated in a fair manner.

Govt's decision to open schoolfrom Feb 1 hailed by Asso

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, JAN 28

A joint meeting of CBSE Private SchoolAssociation and HP Board Private SchoolAssociation was held at Rest House Unna inwhich the decision to open the school fromFebruary 1 was welcomed by the Association.It was decided in the meeting that all private

schools will open classes only from class IX toXII. According to the instruction given by thegovernment, all schools will organize onlineand offline classes, which is very difficult torun by the schools. Therefore, the associationhas urged that all parents send their children toschool so that children's education can go onsmoothly. In addition to discussing the openingof the school in the meeting, it was alsodiscussed to run transport in this session, inwhich it was decided that due to economicreasons, no school will be able to run theschool transport in this session. It was decidedthat 70% annual charges, which were earlierdecided, will be taken to run the schoolssmoothly. Representatives of CBSE PrivateSchool Association and HP Board PrivateSchool Association were present in thismeeting. Ajit Vats of HP Board SchoolAssociation, Mahesh Rana and SomeshSharma of CBSE Private School AssociationUnna, Anuj Vishish, Pramod Sharma, SunilChaudhary, Sumit Anand, Nirmal SinghThakur, Narendra Sharma, Krishna Kalia, AtulMahajan, Namit Sharma were present.

Four in race of BDC PresidentJOGINDER DEV ARYABANGANA, JAN 28

As soon as the noise of the Panchayati Raj elections came to an end, now thePanchayat Samiti in the development block of Bangana has waged waramong the probables for the post of the Chairman and Vice President.InBlock Committee Bangana, BJP supporters will take over the chair of BDCPresident and Vice Chairman.But who will be faces, the picture is not clearyet. According to information from BJP sources, senior BJP officials are intouch with Minister Virendra Kanwar to place his favorite people on the chairof the President and Vice-Chairman. Currently Rajendra, block president ofKisan Morcha from Hatli ward, retired SDO Jamit Singh from Raipur ward, Rajendra Thakur,former head of Kharielata ward, senior journalist Jogindra Dev Arya from Lathiani ward are in therace for the post of president.

Kanwar inspects CM's visit siteJYOTI SYALUNA, JAN 28

Panchayati Raj MinisterVirendra Kanwar todayinspected the landing siteand all the foundation stonesand inspected thepreparations and gavenecessary directions to theofficers in view of ChiefMinister Jairam Thakur'sstay in the district onFebruary 4. During this,Goseva CommissionDeputy Chairman AshokSharma and MemberKrishnapal Sharma, DeputyCommissioner Una RaghavSharma and Superintendentof Police Arit Sen, ASPVinod Kumar Dhiman,Deputy Director AnimalHusbandry Dr. Jai SinghSen, SDM Bangana VishalSharma and other officialsalso accompanied. On this

occasion, Virendra Kanwartold that on the occasion ofSwarna Jayanti PanchayatiRaj Conference, ChiefMinister Jairam Thakur willlay the foundation stone ofAtal Adarsh Vidyalaya to bebuilt in Kothi Gahara firstafter landing at Thanakalanin Bangana subdivision onFebruary 4 and Murrahbreeding in Barnoh village.Center and animal

husbandry department willlay the foundation stone forthe zonal veterinaryhospital. He informed thatafter attending a religiousfunction at Baba BaljiMaharaj Mandir in KotlaKalan, the Chief Ministerwill attend the GoldenJubilee Panchayati RajConference held at JhaleraPusil Ground as its maindate.

Panchayat representativestake oath of office

JOGINDER DEV ARYAUNA, JAN 28

SDM Bangana Vishal Sharma administered the oath to newlyelected heads of Panchayats, Vice-heads and members ofPanchayat Samiti in the premises of Government SeniorSecondary School Police Station Kalan today. Under thedevelopment block, 19 Panchayat Samiti members, heads anddeputy heads took the oath of office and secrecy. Afterswearing in, SDM Vishal Sharma extended best wishes to allthe elected representatives and said that the Panchayati Raj Acthad delegated financial, administrative and judicial powers.Soon, training camps will also be organized for all. He said thatthe first meeting of Panchayats of Development BlockBangana will be held on February 1, in which the head wardwill administer the oath to the panches.

Newly elected representatives should takepledge for corruption-free development: SattiPANKAJ KATNAUNA, JAN 28

Self-sufficient villages are the basisof self-sufficient India. This wasstated by Rural Development,Panchayati Raj, Agriculture,Fisheries and Animal HusbandryMinister Virendra Kanwar at theswearing in ceremony of newlyelected panchayat representatives inUna today. On this occasion SatpalSingh Satti, President of Sixth StateFinance Commission was alsospecially present. Kanwar said thatPrime Minister Narendra Modi haspledged to create a self-reliant India,which can be fulfilled only when thevillages become self-sufficient. Forthis, the Panchayat representativeswill have to work hard. The aim is todo at least 5 major works per year inyour panchayat, which will changethe picture of the village. Panchayats

should prioritize their work andcomplete it within the stipulatedtime so that the people of the villagebenefit from it. Rural Developmentand Panchayati Raj Minister saidthat today there is no shortage offunds for development ofPanchayats. The central governmentis sending money directly to thepanchayats. Panchayatrepresentatives which have to decidetheir priorities and choose eligiblebeneficiaries of various projects.Panchayats always have the hope ofjustice for the poor andmarginalized, so they will have to

work towards benefiting theschemes to the person standing inthe last row. The responsibility forthe selection of BPL families hasbeen given to the Gram Sabha andtransparency should be exercised inthe selection and only the eligibleshould get the benefit. VirendraKanwar said that throughMNREGA, big works are beingdone in rural areas today. Works likeroads, toilets, rainwater collectiontanks, plantation are being done inthe village. There is no shortageof funds to complete these tasks.The state government is providingthe entire amount for thedevelopment of the village. SatpalSingh Satti, who was speciallypresent at the swearing-inceremony, said that panchayatsare the foundation of democracy,if the foundation is strong then thehouse will also be strong.

One kg of opium recovered ; One nabbedPATIALA: An alert police patrolling party of Rajpura Sadar police Station in this district claimedto have recovered one Kg of opium and nabbed the accused. After registering a case in this connec-tion police has also initiated a further investigation into the matter with an intention to block the smug-gling of opium in the area. While providing details about the catch here on Thursday highly placedsources in the district police told that the recovery was made when a police patrolling party of Ra-jpura Sadar police Station headed by the Sub--Inspector (SI) , Gurmail Singh during its routine pa-trolling exercise in the respective area later stationed itself near to Jashan Hotel near to Rajpura andputting up a Naka started checking of passing vehicles & persons. These sources said that after sometime a bus stopped near to the hotel and one person came down and seeing the police tried to runaway in suspicious circumstances but alert Naka party swooped on him and caught him. When laterhis checking was conducted then from his possession one Kg of Opium was recovered. After the re-covery he was formally taken into police custody with registration of a case against him .

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021

Ruckus at AAP partyoffice over allotmentof tickets

R.SINGHPATHANKOT: Opponents of the AamAadmi Party have started raisingconcerns about the allocation oftickets in the upcoming corporationelections.Today, the Aam Aadmi Partyoffice located near Saili Road,created a big furore over theallotment of tickets and on seeing thatthe woman worker's husband,whowas protesting for not getting theticket,was beaten.Serious allegationswere made against the local partyleaders by the injured man and hiswife.Campaigning for Aam AadmiParty from Ward No-27 (backsidearea of Sundernagar) candidateNanaki alleged that she waspromised to give a ticket from WardNo-27 but leader himself leftCongress and joined AAP party andgave a ticket to the candidate whohas left the congress and joined AAPparty just a few days ago and whenshe came to the party office andexpressed her anger in front of theseleaders, her husband's head wasinjured. Seeing the woman's husbandbeing injured, the atmospherebecame quite hot, more people fromher area came to the party office andstarted shouting slogans against him.Interested candidate woman Nanakisaid that she joined AAP after beinginfluenced by Kejriwal's policies andwas campaigning door-to-door in herward for the past several days, butleaders in the party left the Congressand also tarnished the AAP's imageand instead of giving tickets to oldworkers, they are giving tickets totheir favorites. This uproar waspacified after much struggle by theleaders present in the party office andthe woman and her husband wereassured of justice.

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, JAN 28

To further boost up wood industry,Punjab Government would be set-ting up dedicated Plywood Parkbetween village Bassi Kasson andBassi Maroof in districtHoshiarpur, which would bringabout 100 crores of investmentwhich would not only provide em-ployment to the local youth butwill also increase their productivi-ty as well.

Disclosing this, the IndustriesMinister Sunder Sham Arora saidthat this project of Plywood Parkwould be Special Purpose Vehicle(SPV) driven and 30 members ofthe All India Plywood Manufac-turers Association who have regis-tered a Company in the name &style of Hoshiarpur Wood ParkPvt. Ltd., Hoshiarpur under Com-panies Act, 2013 on 18.10.2018 forimplementation of the project.The SPV has purchased 58.85

acres of land between village BassiKasson and Bassi Maroof in dis-trict Hoshiarpur on its own for itsproposed Plywood Park which willhouse wood based industry and islikely to attract investment ofabout Rs.100 crores, he added. Theproposed park will have units

comprising ply board fac-tories, saw mills and chip-pers etc. The proposedpark would not only help infuture expansion of the In-dustry but also help farm-ers in getting better realiza-tion of their produce as theState timber will be utilizedwithin the State.

The State Govt. hasidentified this project ofPlywood Park as a projectof Key Concern and is ac-cording highest priority toit. The department of In-dustries & Commerce,Punjab is facilitating theSPV in getting all regulato-

ry clearances and removing hur-dles in the way of their proposedproject.

The SPV has filed CommonApplication Form (CAF) for avail-ing incentives / benefits under In-dustrial Policy of the State Govt.on 30.11.2018 and recently, on the

request of the SPV, the concerneddepartments (PWD(B&R) andPunjab Mandi Board) of the StateGovt. have also agreed in-princi-ple for widening & strengtheningof the existing approach road fromHoshiarpur Dasuya Road to BassiKasso up to Bagpur Kantian at anestimated cost of about Rs.2.25 cr.On receipt of 3 acres of land fromthe SPV, the Punjab Mandi Boardwill also establish a Lakkar Mandiin the proposed Plywood Park, thespokesperson said.

It is also envisaged to establisha Common Facility Centre (CFC)with GOI assistance up toRs.20.00 cr. which will providecommon facilities to all plywoodunits located in the proposed Ply-wood Park.

The Directorate of Town andCountry Planning, Punjab has alsoissued the Change of Land Use(CLU) to the SPV on 17.12.2020for setting up of the their project ofPlywood Park.

Govt to set up Plywood Park at Hoshiarpurto supoort industry: Sunder Sham Arora SHASHI PAL JAIN

MOHALI/KHARAR,JAN 28

Praveen Kumar Kharar,National President of theBhartiya Inclab Dal, hasstrongly condemned theshameful act carried out bysome Khalistan supportersin Delhi on 26 January todefame the peacefullystruggling farmers andurged the Union Govern-ment and the Punjab Gov-ernment to take strict actionagainst such elements sothat no one can disturb thepeace and tranquility of thecountry.

Talking to this corre-spondent here today, hesaid that while the farmershave been sitting peaceful-ly for a long time in spite ofsuch coldness regardingtheir demands, on the otherhand some anti-nationalforces were carrying outanti-national activities totarnish their struggle. Hesaid that farmer has always

been a patriot. He can nev-er think of going against thecountry. He also appealedto the farmers not to allowsuch elements to come nearthem and to carry out theirstruggle in a peaceful man-ner.

He said that the Uniongovernment should crackdown on those elementswho are trying to disturb thepeace of the country.

Govt should take strict actionagainst khalistani elements :

Bhartiya Inqlab Dal

Establishment of agrobased units will increaseincome of farmers : DC

GAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR: A meeting was heldunder the chairmanship of DeputyCommissioner Mr. Mohammad Ishfaqwith the officers of variousdepartments and progressive farmersin the district to promote alliedoccupations and establish self-employment. The DeputyCommissioner said that with a view toincrease the income of the farmers,three agro based units would be setup in the district to promote alliedoccupations for which a project reportwas being prepared. Soon after thisthe General Manager IndustryDepartment will provide assistancefor their establishment. 35 per centsubsidy is provided on setting up ofagro based units. In addition, farmerproducer organizations are beingformed for goat rearing, jaggery andorganic farming to promote alliedoccupations. He directed the officersof the concerned department tocreate maximum awareness amongthe people for setting up self-employment. He said that the farmersshould come forward to take up alliedoccupations like animal husbandry,goat rearing and turmeric etc. in thedistrict. He said that efforts were alsobeing made by the District Bureau ofEmployment and Trade to establishself-employment.

Bhola Sharma elected president of'Sheikh Farid Press Club Jaitu'

JAITU (DHARAM PAL PUNNI): 'Sheikh FaridPress Club Jaitu' hold a meeting at Lions Club Jaituhere today . Member's of Press club participated inthis meeting and discussed many issues that mediapersons have to face every day.

During this meeting yearly election of club wasalso completed. Pritpal Sharma alias Bhola Sharmaelected president of 'Sheikh Farid Press Club Jaitu'unamously. Senior Journalist Raghunandan Prasharwas chosen as guardian and Advocate Satish KumarBhiri as a chairman of Sheikh Farid Press ClubJaitu.Kuldeep Singh was elected as vice president ,Satvinder Pal Singh Satty as a senior vice presidentand Dharam Pal Punni elected as secretary during themeeting. Gurtej Singh Sidhu and Kuldeep SinghKhalsa chosen as chief adviser's of the club. Manin-derjeet Singh Sidhu was selected Treasurer , SudhirGarg Bargari and Harinder Pal Sharma added as amembers of the press club.Newly elected presidentBhola Sharma thanked to club member' for this honour .

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, JAN 28

Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Ap-neet Riyat held a meetingwith Returning Officers, As-sistant Returning Officersand Election Officers relatedto the Municipal Corpora-tion, Municipal Council andNagar Panchayat elections inthe district. During this, hedirected to follow the elec-tion schedule and instruc-tions issued by the PunjabElection Commission. Hewas also accompanied byAdditional Deputy Commis-sioner (Development) HarbirSingh.

On behalf of the DistrictElection Officer, all Return-ing Officers, Assistant Re-turning Officers were trainedin detail regarding electionnomination, investigationand other procedures andwere instructed to checktheir Strong Rungs in ad-vance so that the deficiencies

To be overcome. He encour-aged the election officials,saying that they should feelproud that they are becomingpart of the election process.He instructed the group offi-cials to coordinate and carryout duties in a planned man-ner. He said that on behalf ofPunjab Election Commis-sion, permission has beengiven to nominate in theelections of Municipal Cor-poration, Municipal Counciland Nagar Panchayat with-out a No Due Certificate.Therefore, no candidate is re-quired to present a No Due

Certificate during nomina-tion in these elections. Dis-trict Election Officer toldthat the Municipal Corpora-tion will be voting from 8 amto 4 pm on February 14,2021 for elections inHoshiarpur, MunicipalCouncil Mukerian, Dasuha,Gadhidiwala, Hariana, ShamChaurasi, Tanda, Gad-shankar and Nagar Panchay-at Mahilpur and Talwara .For which the process of fil-ing nomination papers willstart from January 30 andFebruary 3 will be the lastdate for filing nominations.

DC holds meet to review election preparations

BUREAUCHANDIGARH, JAN 28

Australia's popular app-based taxi service and Ambu-lance launched by HealthMinister of Punjab BalbirSidhu to offer Ambulance atyour door step on demandand more options with safe-ty and hygiene paramount forLudhiana , Jalandhar , Mo-hali and Patiala in a phasedmanner.

Minister Balbir Sidhuwhile launching first mobileapp based Ambulance andtaxi service said that it willprove a boon for patients andwill add to Health infrastruc-ture of Punjab and generatemuch needed employmentfor youth. Harminder Malhi,who is RideBoom’s founderCEO, brings three decades’transport industry experienceto the role and has started a

start up at Mohali forstrengthening Ambulanceand taxi services in state andgenerate employment for cityYouth, he added that “Ride-Boom is not out to create aturf war, and the call is outthere for a consistent, qualityservice at a reasonable priceand that is what we will de-liver.” RideBoom promisesto provide safe and clean ve-

hicles and ambulance –small, medium, and large –and will only employ profes-sional drivers.

RideBoom got manysafety features in there Ride-Boom App compared to anyother ride share app in theglobe like share trip info withloved ones, gender bookingoption, preferred driver op-tion.

Ambulance at your door in Punjab via rideboom mobile app launched: Balbir Sidhu

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, JAN 28

To hasten the implemen-tation and completion ofthe developmental proj-ects, Deputy Commis-sioner Ghanshyam Thorion Thursday directed theofficials to pull up socksand ensure all the ongo-ing works get completewithin stipulated time-lines so that the people ofthe district are benefited.

In a meeting with theofficers of various depart-ments in his office, theDeputy Commissionerwarned that any kind ofcallousness in the com-pletion of these works isunwarranted and undesir-able. He told them to en-sure all the commitmentsget fulfilled at the earliestwhich would give mas-sive development facelift

and would provide ultra-modern civic facilities toits residents. A video-conference was held byChief Principal Secretaryto CM Suresh Kumarwith the deputy commis-sioner to review theprogress of various proj-ects.

The Deputy Commis-sioner told that districtadministration had pro-posed the construction ofRailway under Bridge(RUB) to Northern Rail-way at Tanda RailwayCrossing which falls onbusiest Amritsar-Delhi

route and now the railwayhas also given its sanc-tion. He sought immedi-ate release of funds as thestate’s share for the proj-ect and clarity over theexecutive agency of theRUB project followingwhich it has been decidedthat PWD would be thenodal department forkick-starting and com-pleting the project. Fur-ther, Ghanshyam Thorialso took up the issue ofDakoha railway crossingand told that PWD pro-posed construction of ve-hicular Underpass.

Pull up socks, complete ongoingprojects within time: DC to officials

Robbers attackshopkeeper, one

arrested SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, JAN 28

Robbery and theft cases haveseen a great surge in the cityin a while. Adding to the rob-bery incidents, at nearly7:30pm 4 youths entered ashoe shop and fled away afterrobbing goods. According tovictim Deepak Jain, he has ashoe shop at Disposal roadand at nearly 7:30 pm, 4youths entered the shop on 2motorcycles and attacked himand his friend Gurpreet Singhwho was present with him inhis shop. The robbers robbedthem off an iphone and a sil-ver 'kara', a mobile phone and2 thousand rupees from hisfriend Gurpreet Singh.Whenthe robbers tried to run awayone of them slipped and felldown who was caught withthe help of other people. Hewas later surrendered to police.

VERMABATALA, JAN 28

Rajbir Kaur Block MentorShri Hargobindpur was felic-itated by SDM Batala on72nd Republic Day for herexcellent services duringcovid-19at RepublicDay Tehsil level func-tion. It is noteworthythat Rajbir Kaur is notonly working as a Pun-jabi teacher but she isalso trying to makePunjabi language thefame all over the worldthrough her articles indifferent punjabi newspapers.

During the covid 19 epi-demic she prepared onlinelectures to educate the stu-dents and sent them to the de-partment.Till date, around 86lectures have been cast onDD Punjabi. Apart from this,she is also offering her serv-ices as a District ResourcePerson. Last day, she was alsohonored by SDM Batala and

Civil Judge Rana Kan-wardeep Kaur for showinginterest in social work. Dedi-cated to the 500th birth an-niversary of Sri Guru NanakDev Ji and also distributedplacards for the promotion ofPunjabi language in the entire

district. In view of her aboveservices, she has been hon-ored on Republic Day bySDM Batala BalwinderSingh on the recommence-ment of District EducationOfficer Hardeep Singh . Shewas congratulated on herachievement by the DistrictResource Persons and BlockResource Person of Punjabilanguage.

Block mentor Rajbir Kaurhonoured on R-Day

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, JAN 28

Divisional CommissionerJalandhar Gurpreet Sapratoday launched the Calen-dar and Documentary basedon theme “Spiritual Journeyof Sri Guru Teg BahadurSahib Ji”, dedicated to400th year of advent of SriGuru Teg Bahadur Sahib,prepared by High CourtLawyer and Nature Photog-rapher, Harpreet Sandhu.

The Calendar and Docu-mentary are combination ofhigh quality colourful pic-tures of the holy Gurud-waras i.e. Guru ka Mahal(Amritsar), Vayah Asthan(Kartarpur, District Jaland-har), Bhora Sahib (BabaBakala), Thara Sahib (Am-ritsar), Guru Ke Mahal(Bhora Sahib, Sri Anandpur

Sahib), Thara Sahib (SriAnandpur Sahib), Sis GanjSahib (Chandni Chowk,Delhi), Gurudwara RakabGanj Sahib (Delhi), Biban-garh Sahib (Ropar), SisGanj Sahib (Sri AnandpurSahib), Gurudwara AkalBunga Sahib (Sri AnandpurSahib), depicting the PiousJourney of Guru Sahib,from his Birth till Martyr-

dom. Divisional Commis-sioner while launching theCalendar and Documentaryappreciated the uniquethought of AdvocateHarpreet Sandhu for com-ing up with this pious workand said that this initiativewill definitely help tospread preachings of GuruTeg Bahadur Sahib, andmessage of peace and uni-

versal brotherhood withinhumanity. Jalandhar Divi-sional Commissioner fur-ther applauded the PictorialVisuals promoting the his-torical Gurudwaras, relatedto Sri Guru Teg BahadurSahib Ji and their impor-tance within the Sikh San-gat in form of the Calendardedicated to the commemo-rating 400th Prakash Purabof Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib Ji.

Earlier, the Hon’ble Gov-ernor Punjab His Excellen-cy V.P Singh Badnore hasacknowledged the piouswork on 12th January 2021at Punjab Raj Bhavan,Chandigarh and theHon’ble Speaker PunjabVidhan Sabha Sh. Rana K.PSingh released the OnlineDocumentary on 19th Jan 2021.

Divisional Commissioner launches documentary, Calendardepicting spiritual journey of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib

KULJIT SINGHJANDI-ALA GURU, JAN 28

Nominations have beensought for the Ulike Nation-al Award (Nari ShaktiPuraskar-2020) inrecognition of the out-standing work donefor the empowermentof women.

Disclosing thishere today DeputyCommissioner Mr.Gurpreet Singh Khairasaid that the Ministryof Women and Child Devel-opment has invited nomina-tions for the 'Nari SaktiPuraskar-2020', the highestcivilian honor for women inIndia. He said that thisaward was given to thosepersons who were constantlyworking towards the em-

powerment of women andmaking special contributionfor the upliftment and devel-opment of women in the so-ciety. The Deputy Commis-

sioner said that onthe occasion of In-t e r n a t i o n a lWomen's Day onMarch 8, 2021,about 15 personal-ities would be hon-ored with NariShakti Award.Elaborating on theeligibility criteria,

Mr. Khaira said that individ-uals, groups and organiza-tions who have done a greatjob towards the empower-ment of women can applyfor the award. He said thatfor individual category theage of the applicant shouldbe at least 25 years.

Nominations,applications can be

submitted till Jan 31

SBI opens newbranch in MohaliCHANDIGARH, JAN 28

State Bank of India, the lead-ing public sector bank of thecountry, inaugurated its newbranch at the hands of SmtSaloni Narayan, DeputyManaging Director (RetailBusiness) and Sh AnukoolBhatnagar (Chief GeneralManager), Chandigarh Circleat Sector 82, Airport Road,Mohali. The occasion wasalso graced by Sh M.V.R.Ravi Kumar (General Man-ager), Sh Sukhbir Singh Bir-di (Deputy General Manager,Administrative Office, Mo-hali), Sh Rajinder Kaushal(Regional Manager, Mohali)and other officials. Thebranch is situated at a primedeveloping location offeringa great ease of access to bothits retail and corporate cus-tomers. Equipped with full-service banking center, runby a team of skilled bankersand eminent ambience.

All licensed firearms holdersshould submit their weapons tonearest police station : ADCGURDASPUR: Tejinderpal SinghSandhu, Additional DistrictMagistrate, Gurdaspur, issued anorder under section 144 of the Codeof Criminal Procedure, 1973, directingall persons possessing licensedfirearms to deposit their firearms atthe nearest police station or at anauthorized firearms dealer. Theorders further said that the process ofelection of Municipal Corporation andMunicipal Council falling in DistrictGurdaspur has already started andthe election of Municipal Corporationand Municipal Council is taking placeon 14th February 2021. In order tomaintain law and order during theelection, all licensed firearms ownersare instructed to deposit their firearms(weapons) at the nearest policestation or at an authorized firearmsdealer.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021

Rahul Gandhi slams Centre for 'ruining'country's economyWAYANAD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday targeted Prime Minister NarendraModi-led government for allegedly "ruining" the country's economy. In a tweet, theCongress MP said: "Mr Modi's governance is a lesson in how to ruin one of the world'sfastest-growing economies." He has been actively criticising the ruling government over theissues of economy and employment in the country. During the COVID-19 lockdown,Gandhi had shared a report by Oxfam on the alleged increase in wealth of Indianbillionaires saying, "This is what happens when the Prime Minister runs a country in thesole interest of 3-4 crony capitalists." The Congress leader arrived in Kerala on Wednesdayfor the two-day visit ahead of the Assembly elections in the state scheduled for April-May.Earlier, he was on a three-day visit to the western belt in Tamil Nadu where he interactedwith farmers, business people, weavers and the general public.

7KMV Newsline SpecialEdition:2020 released

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Kanya Maha Vidyalaya-released KMV Newsline SpecialEdition:2020 Transforming Challengesinto Strengths dedicated to CoronaWarriors and all Humanitarians whostood to contribute during the COVID-19pandemic. The Newsline was releasedby Principal Prof. Dr. Atima SharmaDwivedi along with the editorial team ofNewsline. This KMV Newslineencompasses all the activities that wereorganised by KMV during the lockdownperiod. Activities ranging from academicengagement of the students to massawareness campaign through webinarservices has been reported in theNewsline in a detailed manner. Prof. Dr.Atima Sharma Dwivedi lauded the effortsof members of editorial board of KMVNewsline Dr Madhumeet, Vanilla andSehajpal Singh for this initiative.

DAV College organisesR-Day function

JALANDHAR: Commerce forum DAVCollege Jalandhar organised RepublicDay function in the college premises.Function was presided over by principalsir along with the Vice Principal andHead of department,Commerce ProfRajiv Sharma, President CommerceForum Prof Hina Arora and EX PresidentCommerce Forum Prof Komal Soni. ProfHina Arora and Prof Komal Soni briefedstudents about the right way to celebrateRepublic Day, the codes and conducts ofhosting national flags and recitingnational anthem. Apart from it thedecorations by the students and thearrangements were also visited andappreciated by Prof Ashok Kapoor.

Cosmetology studentsof HMV bring laurels

JALANDHAR: The PG DiplomaCosmetology students of HMV CollegeManpreet Kataria got first position with618/650 marks. Harnoor Kaur got 2ndposition with 608/650 marks, SavneetKaur got 4th position with 581/650marks and Jaskeerat Kaur got 9thposition with 563/650 marks. PrincipalProf. Dr. Ajay Sareen congratulated thestudents, head of department MuktiArora & Asstt. Prof. Bindu Kohli.

R-Day violence: AmitShah meets injuredpolice personnel atDelhi hospitalsNEW DELHI: Union Home Minister AmitShah on Thursday met police personnelwho were injured in the violence duringfarmers' tractor rally on January 26 innorth Delhi hospitals. He met the injuredpolice personnel at the Sushruta TraumaCentre and Tirath Ram Shah Hospital,Civil Lines. "Meeting the injured DelhiPolice personnel. We are proud of theircourage and bravery," Shah wrote on hisofficial Twitter account. Protestors brokebarricades to enter Delhi and indulged invandalism across several parts of thenational capital during their tractor rallyorganised to protest against the Centre'sthree new farm laws on Tuesday.Several public and private propertieswere damaged in acts of vandalism bythe protestors, leaving many policepersonnel injured. Delhi PoliceCommissioner SN Shrivastava onWednesday said that 394 policepersonnel sustained injuries in theviolence during farmers' tractor rally onRepublic Day in Delhi. Nineteen peoplehave been arrested so far and over 25criminal cases registered by Delhi Policein connection with the violence. Some ofthe police personnel are admitted to ICUwards due to their critical condition.

SC clubs Kerala MP'spetition with pleaschallenging farm lawsNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court onThursday clubbed a writ petition filed byCongress Lok Sabha MP from KeralaTN Prathapan, with the rest of thepetitions pending before it challengingthe farm laws and issued notice to theUnion of India (UOI) in the matter.A three-judge bench of the Apex Court,headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI)Sharad Arvind Bobde, issued notice tothe UOI and clubbed the writ petitionfiled by Thrissur MP, Prathapan, withother petitions pending before it.During the course of the hearing, the CJIasked, the petitioner, "are you a farmer?"To it, Prathapan's lawyer, replied, "Yes, Iam an MP and a farmer too." The CJIasked him, "you want the existingsystem to continue?" The lawyer forPrathapan, said, "we want MSP(Minimum Supply Price) to continue inthe matter." The CJI said, "please showus the provision and statute, whichwithdraws the MSP."

Budget session: Farmers' agitationcore issue in Congress agenda

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

The Congress party has decidedto go strong against the centralgovernment in the BudgetSession commencing fromFriday. Farmers' agitation againstthe farm laws, hike in fuel pricesand Chinese incursion will be onthe agenda of the party this time.At the same time, the party islikely to boycott the President'saddress to the house as well. Thestrategy has been finalised in themeeting of the 'ParliamentStrategy Group' held onWednesday. It was chaired byCongress interim president SoniaGandhi via video conferencingand attended by senior partyleaders. According to the sources,the party will go strong on thefloor against the government onfarmers agitation against the farmlaws and will try to compel thegovernment to repeal the laws asit is going to affect the agriculturesector badly and farmers areagitating for more than twomonths. Party has also decided toreach out to the like-mindedOpposition parties to Chalk out ajoint strategy on the issues, UPAChairperson Sonia Gandhi is intouch with the OppositionLeaders for this and will be doinga Virtual Meeting for this,sources said. The virtual meetingof 'Parliament Strategy Group',which was attended by FormerPrime Minister ManmohanSingh, Leader of Opposition in

Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad,Deputy LoP Anand Sharma andother party leaders like PChidambaram, Manish Tiwari,Gaurav Gogoi, ManickamTagore and K Suresh, has alsodecided to reach out toopposition parties for the boycottof President's address. "GhulamNabi Azad has been tasked toinitiate talks with the party'sstakeholders. Party's strategy isclear that government mustrepeal the farm laws and shouldput up the stand on the currenteconomic condition in thecountry including Chineseincursion at the northern bordersand compromise with thenational security in theWhatsApp chat leak case," aleader present in the meetingtold. The Congress party hascalled for a convention on thefarm laws from Block to Statelevel across the country. In therecent Congress WorkingCommittee (CWC) meeting,three resolutions were passedincluding demand for Joint

Parliamentary Committee (JPC)into "shocking revelationendangering national securityon WhatsApp chat leak" anddemand to Central governmentfor repealing of farm laws. TheBudget session of Parliamentwill begin on January 29 withan address by President RamNath Kovind. The UnionBudget will be presented onFebruary 1. The first part of the

session will continue tillFebruary 15. The second part ofthe session will be held fromMarch 8 to April 8. Rajya Sabhawill function from 9 am to 2 pmand Lok Sabha from 4 pm to 9pm with Zero Hour andQuestion Hour. Members ofParliament have been requestedto undergo an RT-PCR testagainst COVID-19 before thestart of the Budget session.

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AAP will contest electionsin six states: Kejriwal

NEW DELHI: Delhi ChiefMinister and AAP nationalconvenor Arvind Kejriwal onThursday said the party willcontest elections in six states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,Goa, Punjab, HimachalPradesh and Gujarat. He madethe announcement at the ninthNational Council meeting ofthe Aam Aadmi Party. "Otherparties have no vision and thatis why they are talking aboutthe past. AAP is the only partytalking about the future andhas the vision of 21st and22nd century," Kejriwal said."In next two years, AAP willbe contesting elections in sixstates - UP, Uttarakhand, Goa,Punjab, Himachal Pradeshand Gujarat," the AAPnational convenor said.

Kejriwal urged AAP membersto strengthen the party atgrassroots level. "I urge partymembers to strengthengrassroots-level hold of theparty across the country. Theorganisation has to bestrengthened on a very largescale. The country is importantfor us and AAP is the vehicleand we need to work towardsthe development of the party,"he added.

147 districts record nonew corona infections

in last seven days

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

At least 147 districts in thecountry have not reported a caseof COVID-19 in the last sevendays, informed Dr HarshVardhan, Union Minister ofHealth and Family Welfare onThursday. During the 23rdmeeting of the High-level Groupof Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19, the Union Minister said: "InIndia, 147 districts have not seena COVID-19 case in the lastseven days, 18 districts in thelast 14 days, six in the last 21days, and 21 districts have notregistered a case in the last 28days." During the meeting, theHealth Minister also expressedsatisfaction at the country'sperformance to combat COVID-19, stating that "Our fatality ratecontinues to be the lowest in theworld at almost 1.44 per centand 1,03,73,606 people haverecovered from the virus, takingthe recovery rate to nearly 97per cent." He further informedthat the country has 15,473dedicated hospitals, health care

facilities, and COVID-19 carecenters with 19,00,714 beds and12,673 quarantine centres.

On the ongoing coronavirusvaccination programme, he said,"We have completed 42,674sessions of vaccinations all overthe country. As many as23,55,979 people have beenadministered the COVID-19vaccines so far and 3,26,499health workers have receivedthe vaccines in the last 24hours." "The total number ofcases in the country stands at1,07,01,193 and in the last 24hours, the country recorded11,660 cases. Currently, 70 percent of the current cases arefrom Maharashtra and Kerala.Karnataka and Tamil Nadu haveslightly more than 500 cases andthe rest of the places have lessthan 500 cases," he added.

Updating the GoM on theUnited Kingdom (UK) variantfound in India, he mentionedthat 153 cases have beendiagnosed in the country and allthe protocols to keep these casesunder surveillance and inisolation are being followed.

Lala Lajpat Rai's birthdaycelebrated in Inquilab Temple

NIRMALRADAUR, JAN 28

Birth anniversary of the great revolutionary Lala Lajpat Raiwas celebrated in the Inquilab temple at Gumthala Rao. CASudhir Kumar, who arrived as the chief guest in the program,paid floral tributes to the Lalalajpat Rai's statue along with thetemple team members. The program was chaired by AdvocateVaryam Singh and Master Ratan Singh. Sudhir Kumar saidthat on January 28, 1865, born in Moga district of Punjab, Lalaji played the role of a prominent freedom fighter of India. Hepracticed as a lawyer in Rohtak and Hisar cities of Haryanastate for some time. This trinity along with Bal Ganga DharTilak and Vipin Chandra Pal was known as Lal-Bal-Pal. Thesegreat revolutionaries had first demanded completeindependence in India. Later, the entire country joined them.He along with Swami Dayanand Saraswati popularized theArya Samaj in Punjab. Dayanand with Lala Hansraj alsopromoted Anglo Vedic schools. Lala ji served the people byorganizing camps in many places during the famine.

NSS camp comes to an endwith closing ceremony

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI, JAN 28

The NSS camp being run by thestudents of Guru Nanak Khalsa CollegeKarnal in Shamgarh village came to anend with the organization of the closingceremony. The chief guest, ViceChairman Jila Parishad MastarNarendraGorsi, expressed his appreciationtowards the camp by saying that suchevents help inspire the public to worktowards the betterment of the society.He added that the experience and

knowledgegained here by the studentsin 7 days must also be applied to ourevery day life to win the fight againstmalicious practices. The Vice Chairmansaid that such camps help lay emphasison the importance of discipline and thecapability of a citizen to empower andunify the nation. The closing ceremonywas made even more memorable by thestudents' rally in which each membercarried a placard expressing ideals suchas 'BetiBachaoBetiPadhao', 'Save TheEnviornment', 'Shun Away Drugs andDrug Abuse', etc.

Batch of Devotees returns after visiting religious placesROHIT LAMSERTARAORI, JAN 28

The group of devotees returned toTarawari after visiting severalreligious places. All these devoteeswent to attend the Darbar of ShriKhatu Shyam located in Rajasthan onbehalf of Shri Khatu ShyamLakhdatar family Tarawari. All thedevotees in the batch took part in thisreligious journey and sang hymns andwomen were also seen mesmerizingon the religious hymns. All thedevotees went on a pilgrimage,singing many religious hymns andchanting the bhajans, including'Haare Ka Sahara, Baba ShyamHamara', and Dinanath Mero Nath.All these devotees in the 30-member

batch attended the Darbar of ShriKhatu Shyam, after which they alsovisited Saalsar besides visiting manyreligious places. Here also, thedevotees offered Ardas for thehappiness and peace of their city.Arrangements were made on behalfof Shri Khatu Shyam Lakhdatarfamily Tarawari for all devotees, who

visited the religious places, setting anexample of brotherhood and unity. Inthis batch, devotees including socialactivists Ashok Bansal, NiteshMangal, Ankur Garg, Vinay Garg,Vipul Garg, Ranjit Bhardwaj, AmanGarg, Pankaj Singla, Sandeep Garg,Pooja Garg, Chhaya Sharma, IshuGarg were included.

Businessmen express discontentregarding trade license

SUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, JAN 28

A meeting of all the business representativeswas held in the Industrial Area under thechairmanship of the state in-charge of HaryanaPradesh Vyapar Mandal Youth Unit, RahulGarg. Rahul Garg while addressing thebusiness representatives said that thegovernment is being unfair to the traders andindustrialists of the state by imposing the newtrade license. He added that this trade license isgoing to affect each and every businessman,industrialist and trader. He said that under theguise of the trade license, government officialswill end up harassing traders illegally. Thetrade license is a den of corruption which willnot be tolerated at any cost. The Board of Tradehas demanded from Haryana Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar that this trade license lawbe withdrawn immediately. Rahul Garg alsosaid that traders are still recovering from

demonetization, GST and the very recentpandemic. District head of the trade board,Anil Bhatia and business representativesinformed the state in-charge Rahul Garg aboutthe notice being issued to merchants regardingthe rent and interests of the shops by municipalcorporation. Rahul Garg then told the businessrepresentatives that they will soon talk to thePresident of the Board of Trade, Bajrang Gargalong with the Chief Minister of Haryana inthis regard.

One lakh trained NCC cadets willserve in coastal, border areas: PMNEW DELHI, JAN 28

One lakh National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets, which arebeing trained by the Army, Navy and Air Force, will servein coastal and border areas, said Prime Minister NarendraModi while addressing the NCC Rally at Cariappa Groundin Delhi on Thursday.

"On August 15, last year, it was announced that NCCwill be given new responsibilities in around 175 districts inthe coastal and border areas. For this, around 1 lakh NCCcadets are being trained by Army, Navy and Air Force. Outof these, one third are girl cadets," said Prime MinisterModi. Hailing NCC cadets for helping the governmentamid the COVID-19 pandemic, he said: "Be it the floods orany other calamity, NCC cadets helped the people of thiscountry last year. During the Corona pandemic, lakhs ofcadets worked with the administration and society acrossthe country. Their work is commendable."

Bombs hurled near Bengalminister's residence, six held

KOLKATA, JAN 28

A few motorcycle-borne miscreants have hurledcountry-made bombs near the residence of a WestBengal minister in the city, and six people werearrested in this connection, police said onThursday. No one was injured when the criminalsthrew the bombs near the house of Indranil Sen,minister of state for information and culture, inKasba area on Wednesday night, they said. Thesinger-turned-politician was not at his home whenthe incident happened. Six people wereapprehended for their alleged involvement in thecase and three two-wheelers and a cache ofcountry-made bombs seized from their possession,a Kolkata Police officer said. "We have identifiedthese persons after scrutinising the CCTV footageof the area. We are interrogating them," he added.

Gold, cash stolen in TaraoriROHIT LAMSERTARAORI, JAN 28

Unknown thieves broke into a house and committed a theft inWard No-2 of Tarawari town. The thieves escaped with cashof about 27 thousand rupees, including three to four tolas ofgold. The theft incident was also captured in the CCTVCamera outside the house, in which unknown thieves are seencoming and going in the street. In a complaint to the police,

complainant Isham Munjaltold that he had gone outwith his family for somework, and when he cameback, he noticed that thelock of the house wasbroken and the things insidethe house were scattered.When he checked, he foundthat the cash of about 27thousand rupees kept in thecupboard was missing andother items including goldjewelry, chain, ring were

also missing. He told that the thieves broke the lock of theirhouse and took away three to four tolas of gold and cash. Thisinformation was given to the police immediately. Policepersonnel led by Tarawari police station in-charge Sachinarrived at the house to investigate. FSL team also gatheredevidence from the spot. The police have registered a caseagainst unknown thieves on the complaint of family members.Police has also seen the CCTV footage and is trying to findclues of the thieves. The police station in-charge appealed tobe vigilant - In-charge of the police station, Sachin said thatwhile going out of the house, leave a member at home.

8THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE

WORLD CANNOT BE SEEN OR EVEN TOUCHED -THEY MUST BE FELT WITH THE HEART.

HELEN KELLER

START BY DOING WHAT'S NECESSARY; THEN DOWHAT'S POSSIBLE; AND SUDDENLY YOU ARE DO-

ING THE IMPOSSIBLE.

FRANCIS OF ASSISI

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021

Free Love

By all means they try to hold me se-cure who love me in this world.But it is otherwise with thy lovewhich is greater than theirs,and thou keepest me free.

Lest I forget them they never ven-ture to leave me alone.But day passes by after day andthou art not seen.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if Ikeep not thee in my heart,thy love for me still waits for mylove.

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

Why is ISIS ignoring Chinese atrocitieson Uyghurs, while US terms it genocide?

The Islamic State(ISIS) has adopted a'systematic silence'

on the Xinjiang Uyghur is-sue and Chinese atrocitieson the community, said arecent commentary in theforeign policy journal Waron the Rocks.

Despite the US la-belling Chinese atrocitieson Uyghur as "genocide",terrorism experts are splitover Islamic State (ISIS) si-lence on the issue, reportedSouth China Morning Post(SCMP). Some suggest it isa strategic move, as ISISprioritises ending the USmilitary presence in theMiddle East and SouthAsia.

Maria Siow in heropinion piece in SCMPwrote that China had beencontinuously repressingUyghurs by banning longbeards and veils and settingup "concentration camps"(termed by Beijing as "re-education camps", aimed atimparting vocational skillsand rooting out extremistthoughts).

Some terrorism expertssuggest that it is a strategicmove of ISIS, which is fo-cussing on ending theAmerican military presencein the Middle East andSouth Asia, while otherssuggest that Beijing's re-pressive state apparatus andsurveillance methods in theXinjiang region have madeit too difficult for ISIS torecruit from China, report-ed SCMP.

Yet others warn the'systematic silence' as a

temporary thaw, causedperhaps by the collapse ofthe terror group's self-de-clared Caliphate defeatedby a US-led coalition atBaghuz in March 2019, re-ported SCMP.

The experts warn thatthough ISIS has weakened,it remains a potent force incommand of an estimated10,000 fighters and insur-gent cells and affiliatedgroups throughout the re-gion. In other words, itmight just be reorganising,rebuilding and biding itstime. A Middle East analystElliot Stewart noted the ter-ror group's silence in hispiece published in War onthe Rocks and he observed

that terror group had "al-most entirely ignored theplight of the Uyghurs" wasdifficult to square with its"self-appointed role as vio-lent defender of Muslimseverywhere". Stewartpointed out back in 2017that ISIS had takenprovocative steps againstChina, including producinga video featuring Uyghurforeign fighters training inIraq and pledging to shed"Chinese blood like riversto avenge the oppressed",and executing two Chineseteachers abducted in Pak-istan's southwesternBalochistan province. Butsince then the terror grouphad been silent on the Chi-

nese atrocities against theUyghurs. Stewart conclud-ed that ISIS appeared tohave abandoned the issueto prioritise its fight againstthe US. "Islamic Stateseems to have determinedthat a less provocative ap-proach to China is more ad-vantageous," he wrote.

"Specifically, the groupbelieves an unprovokedChina can play a construc-tive role in achieving anoverriding objective: end-ing the US military pres-ence in the Middle East andSouth Asia." Stewartadded: "The overriding re-ality for the Islamic State isthat the US today maintains60,000 troops in the Middle

East while China does not."The estimated 2,000

Chinese troops in Djibouti -Beijing's first overseas mil-itary base - had done littleto "alter this fundamentalimbalance", he said. "TheIslamic State further under-stands that an unprovokedChina is deeply uninterest-ed in taking on the respon-sibilities of regional securi-ty provision, even in a post-US regional order." Mean-while, Raffaello Pantucci, asenior associate fellow atthe London-based RoyalUnited Services Institute,agreed that ISIS was morefocused on getting the USout of the region but thisdid not mean that ISIS was

"strategically choosing tonot target China".

Pantucci said it waswrong to infer from the rel-ative silence that ISIS didnot support the Uyghurs.

Another possibility,said Nodirbek Soliev, asenior analyst at the Inter-national Centre for PoliticalViolence and Terrorism Re-search in Singapore's S Ra-jaratnam School of Interna-tional Studies, was thatISIS saw China as lessthreatening because it hadnot been involved in mili-tary operations against it inIraq, Syria or Afghanistan.

Soliev also pointed outthe "river of blood" video,in which ISIS leader AbuBakr al-Baghdadi in 2014singled out China as a bat-tlefield to "wage jihad forthe oppression" of theUyghurs in Xinjiang. Pro-paganda videos featuringUyghur fighters aimed atrecruiting more Uyghurspromptly followed.

But Soliev said thateven at its peak in 2014 and2015, ISIS had only a smallgroup of Uyghur fightersunder its command in Syr-ia, and since 2017, ISIS-linked Uyghur militantshad nearly disappearedfrom the online domain."Since then, there havebeen no propaganda mate-rials in the Uyghur lan-guage and Uyghur fightershave not appeared in anyother propaganda videosand photos," Soliev said,suggesting this was becausemost of them had died inbattle.

Literature & HealthChildren of depressed mothers mayexperience suicidal thoughts: Study

Study links use of social media apps to feelings of isolation during COVID-19

Study on how fat loss accelerates facial ageing

According to a recent study,children of mothers experi-encing depressive symptoms

are more at risk, as adolescents, ofexperiencing suicidal thoughts andattempting suicide. The findings ofthe study were published in the jour-nal 'Development and Psychopathol-ogy'. The research suggested that thislink may be explained by loneliness,potentially opening new ways foryouth suicide prevention. The study,by the universities of Exeter, Montre-al, Laval, and McGill, used datafrom more than 1,600 families fromthe Quebec Longitudinal Study ofChild Development, a representativesample of new-borns in Quebec fol-lowed from birth to 20 years of age.

Mothers were asked about depres-sive symptoms, such as sadness andlosing interest in formerly pleasura-ble activities at regular intervalswhile their children were aged fivemonths to seven years. The resultinginformation gave a measure of de-pressive symptoms - not a clinical di-agnosis of depression. Adolescentscompleted self-reports about suicidalthoughts and attempts at age 13-20years. Children of mothers withhigher levels of depressive symp-toms were approximately 15 per centmore likely to have suicidal thoughtsand/or attempt suicide as adolescentscompared to children of motherswith lower levels of depressivesymptoms.

In a recent study, re-searchers try to understandhow plastic surgeons treat

the signs of facial ageing. Thetraditional theory is sagging:the facial soft tissues simplyyield to the effects of gravityover time. And while the ideathat weakening ligaments inthe midface could result insoft tissue descent still hasmerit, more recent studiespoint in another direction.Perhaps the real culprit be-hind facial ageing is the lossof fat - both near the surfaceof the skin and in deeper ar-eas.

In a new study featured inthe February issue of Plasticand Reconstructive Surgery,the official medical journal ofthe American Society of Plas-tic Surgeons (ASPS), AaronMorgan, MD, of the MedicalCollege of Wisconsin and hiscolleagues studied 19 patientswho underwent computed to-mography (CT) scans of thehead on two occasions at leasta decade apart.

Although the patientsweren't undergoing faceliftsurgery or any other cosmeticprocedure, scans proved use-ful for measuring changes in

fat deposits in the midface -the area between the eyes andmouth - over time. The pa-tients averaged about 46years at the time of their ini-tial scan and 57 years at fol-low-up.

While the findings variedamong patients, the resultsshowed a "definite and meas-urable loss of midface fat vol-ume." The total volume of fa-cial fat decreased from about46.50 cc (cubic centimeters)at the initial scan to 40.8 cc atthe follow-up scan: a reduc-tion of about 12.2 per cent.

However, the amount ofreduction wasn't the same atall levels. Fat volume in thesuperficial compartment, justunder the skin, decreased byan average of 11.3 per cent.That compared to an average

18.4 per cent reduction in thedeep facial fat compartment.

The findings provide di-rect evidence to support the'volume loss' theory of facialageing - and may help in un-derstanding some of the spe-cific issues that lead patientsto seek facial rejuvenation."In particular, we think thatdeep facial fat loss removessupport from the overlyingfat," Dr Morgan explains.

"That causes deepeningof the nasolabial fold, whichruns from the nose to themouth. Meanwhile, fat losscloser to the surface makesthe cheeks appear deflated."

Variations in fat volumeloss can also explain ageing-related hollowing around theeyes and heaviness of thejowls.

The ongoing coronaviruspandemic has meant moretime at home for every-

one. While people have turnedto cooking, reading, among oth-er activities to deal with thehealth crisis, which brings afresh supply of stress every day,the use of social media apps hasalso spiked.

According to a recent study,the use of online messaging andsocial media apps among Singa-pore residents has spiked duringthe COVID-19 pandemic. Thestudy was led by NanyangTechnological University, Sin-gapore (NTU Singapore).

Three in four respondents(75 per cent) said that their useof WhatsApp during the pan-demic increased. This was fol-lowed by Telegram (60.3 per

cent), Facebook (60.2 per cent)and Instagram (59.7 per cent).

Accompanying this spike isvideoconferencing fatigue,found the NTU Singapore study,which surveyed 1,606 Singa-pore residents from December17 to 31 last year. Nearly one intwo Singapore residents (44 percent) said they felt drained fromvideoconferencing activities,which became more frequentduring the COVID-19 outbreak.

Some 86 per cent of the re-spondents reported that their useof videoconferencing tools in-creased during the pandemic.

The increased use of onlinecommunication tools could inpart be driven byisolation">feelings of isolation,said the researchers. Whenasked how often they felt they

lacked companionship, 35 percent of the respondents indicat-ed they have felt this way some-times, while 19 per cent felt thisway often or very often. Some32 per cent also reported feelingleft out sometimes, while 18 percent said they felt left out oftenor very often.

The nationwide online studylooking at the new normal fol-lowing the COVID-19 outbreakis commissioned by the Centrefor Information Integrity andthe Internet (IN-cube), a new re-search centre at NTU's WeeKim Wee School of Communi-cation and Information (WK-WSCI) and conducted by a lo-cal polling company.

Associate Professor EdsonC Tandoc Jr, the Director at IN-cube said, "The significant cor-

relation between the use of on-line communication tools andisolation">feelings of isolationfrom the survey results mayhelp explain why most of ourrespondents reported an in-crease in their use of onlinecommunication tools in the pastfew months, as they turn tothese tools to feel connected toothers even when physical inter-actions have to be limited.

"Social interaction throughthese online communicationtools definitely brings aboutnew challenges. Some may feelas if they are always on call atwork or among their friends.Others may be uncomfortablewith turning their cameras onduring a video call or may nothave a stable internet connec-tion.

EDITORIALReady bias: mediatrials in India

The freedom of the media cannot mean unduelicence. This message was conveyed stronglythis month by two high courts. The Delhi High

Court reportedly said that the presumption of inno-cence, a basic tenet of Indian jurisprudence, must beprotected to maintain the dignity of the courts andnot be jeopardized by the media. This came in re-sponse to a plea from Umar Khalid, detained underthe Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, whichclaimed that media reports of his alleged confessionof involvement in the Delhi riots would prejudice afair trial. He had refused to sign the supposed disclo-sure statement. The court said that the media had thepower to mobilize the thinking of numerous people;unless they discharged their duty with care and cau-tion, their biased representations could result in me-dia trials. It rebuked the media for not clarifying thatconfessions to the police are not admissible as evi-dence. Reporters should know this, and the media’sduty would be to educate people unaware of the law.It also condemned assumptions in phrases such as‘anti-Hindu riots’, since all communities had beenaffected by the violence. Media trials can be pre-vented by the media’s self-regulation, according tothe Delhi High Court. These not only go against acardinal principle of the law in a democracy, but alsohurt the dignity of the accused, thus violating theirguaranteed constitutional rights. A variant form ofthis concern, with regard to an innocent personwhose reputation can be destroyed, was stated by theBombay High Court in its scathing criticism of me-dia trials in response to public interest litigationsagainst prejudicial reporting after the death ofSushant Singh Rajput. Satiating a thirst or compet-ing against rivals cannot excuse unregulated mediatrials, the judges said in effect, and provided an ‘in-dicative but not exhaustive’ list of what reports mustnot do during an ongoing investigation. The list,ending with a warning that violating provisions ofthe programme code and other media regulationswould lead to contempt of court, is most valuablewhen much of the media seem to have surrenderedfair and meticulous reporting in favour of sensation-alism and, possibly, of pleasing certain political ele-ments. In their condemnation of medial trials, thetwo high courts have provided a stern corrective ur-gently necessary in these times.

POEMS

s India celebrated its 72nd Republic Day, Harpic Mission Paani hosted its first Waterthon celebrating the Acountry’s water heroes. The 8-Hour long Waterthon

brought together leading policy makers, celebrities from all walks of life, the Armed Forces and corporates to address the criticality of water for hygiene and conservation.India’s largest Waterthon witnessed a series of thought-provoking sessions deliberating on efficient solutionsand the need to prioritize efforts towards water conservation. Mission Paani has partnered with WWF-India and Swarovski Water school to mobilise their Water school curriculum for encouraging early water conservation habits in children.Laxman Narasimhan, Global CEO, Reckitt Benckiser Group commented, “Hosting India’s largest Waterthon on Republic Day is highly symbolic and a matter of pride for us at RB. People from all walks of life have come together today on the Harpic Mission Paaniplatform, united towards a common goal of saving water. This day has celebrated India’s water heroes who have selflessly led and addressed the criticality of water for hygiene. We are hopeful that Harpic with its key initiatives will successfully drive behavior change towards water conservation and hygiene with Mission Paani.” Speaking on building purpose-led brands, Harold vanden Broek, President, RB Hygiene said “At RB, we are pioneers of Health, Hygiene and Nutrition and we deliver our purpose- to protect heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world.

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CHANDIGARH: As part of the INDIA 2.0 project headed by Skoda Auto, the all-new Skoda KUSHAQ is the first of a new generation of vehicles developed on the MQB-A0-IN architecture, built around the challenging demands of the Indian customer. Boasting traditional Skoda Auto attributes of design, quality, interior roominess, equipment, dynamics, efficiency, safety and comfort, the all-new Skoda Kushaq is made in India, made for the world. With a wheelbase of 2,651 mm, the mid-size SUV offers a generous amount of interior space for passengers and luggage, while performance is assured via a choice of two powerful yet efficient TSI engines. The all-new Skoda KUSHAQ will celebrate its World Premiere in March 2021. On the historic introduction of the new model, Thomas Schäfer, CEO, Skoda Auto, said: “With our new ŠKODA KUSHAQ begins a new era for ŠKODA AUTO on the Indian subcontinent. It’s the region where we oversee all Volkswagen Group activities within the scope of the INDIA 2.0 project.

World premiere of the all-new Skoda KUSHAQ schedules for March 2021

handigarh : Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL), leading manufacturer of premium cars in India, today announced Cthat it will export its recently launched 5th Generation

Honda City to Left Hand Drive countries. In a first for the company, this marks the beginning of production of Left Hand Drive models in India for exports and reaffirms its commitment to the Government of India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative. The company has begun the export of 5th Gen Honda City with the dispatch of initial batch to Middle East countries from the Pipavav port in Gujarat and Ennore port in Chennai. HCIL has been exporting the Right Hand Drive models of the All New City to South Africa since August 2020 and neighboring countries of Nepal and Bhutan from Oct 2020. Speaking on the announcement, Mr. Gaku Nakanishi, President & CEO, Honda Cars India Ltd said, “Honda City has been the benchmark of sedans in India and addition of exports of its Left Hand Drive model to completely new destinations.

Honda Cars India expands ‘Make in India’ commitment with its first ever

handigarh, : ‘Watcho’, the new and fast-growing OTT platform from Dish TV India Limited (India’s leading DTH CCompany), has premiered a new original web series

‘Sarhad’. In keeping with its vision of delivering quality content to its viewers and presenting a unique perspective on issues concerning the youth and the nation, Watcho aired the new web series on 26th January 2021. Packed with lots of action and thrill, the series tells a tale of treachery, strained relationships, espionage, and has a unique take on militancy. ‘Sarhad’ focuses on the life of a militant who infiltrated India and later surrendered himself to the Indian Armed Forces under mysterious circumstances. Further, into the episodes, the story sheds light on how Mahesh Singh, an Indian secret services officer, interrogates the captured militant to bring out the truth and seek justice for the nation. Set in the valley of Kashmir, the new web series stars Imran Farooq Ganaie, Dharmendra Singh, Adil Pala, Ravindra Arora, Komal Rajput, Joizya Mir, Shabeer Hakak, Taufiq, Shahid Malik, Tariq Jameel, and Anjum Mir. Commenting on the launch of the new series, Mr. Sukhpreet Singh, Corporate Head – Marketing, DishTV & Watcho, Dish TV India Ltd, said, “At Watcho, we have started the year on a high note by augmenting our content portfolio with yet another quality web series. Our portfolio of original content on Watcho now extends across genres and is a result of extensive research.

handigarh, : In a major landmark, Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s premier communications solutions provider, Cannounced that it has become the country’s first telco to

successfully demonstrate & orchestrateLIVE 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city.Airtel did this over its existing liberalised spectrum in the 1800 MHz band through the NSA (Non Stand Alone) network technology. Using a first of its kind, dynamic spectrum sharing, Airtel seamlessly operated 5G and 4G concurrently within the same spectrum block. This demonstration has emphatically validated the 5G readiness of Airtel’s network across all domains - Radio, Core and Transport. Airtel 5G is capable of delivering 10x speeds, 10x latency and 100x concurrency when compared to existing technologies. Specifically, in Hyderabad, users were able to downloada full length movie in a matter of seconds on a 5G phone. This demonstration has underlined the company’s technology capabilities. The full impact of the 5G experience, however,will be available to our customers, when adequate spectrum is available and government approvals received. Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel said: “I am very proud of our engineers who have worked tirelessly to showcase this incredible capability in Tech City, Hyderabad today. Every one of our investments is future proofed as this game changing test in Hyderabad proves. With Airtel being the first operator to demonstrate this capability, we have shown again that we have always been the first in India to pioneer new technologies in our quest for empowering Indians everywhere.”

HANDIGARH: Tata Motors today announced the first Canniversary celebrations of

its popular electric SUV, the Tata Nexon EV. Since its launch a year ago, the Nexon EV has consistently grown in popularity to become India’s highest-selling electric vehicle, commanding a market share of 64% (YTD FY21). Much admired for its design, zero emission technology, accessibility, performance, connected features and above all, really low operating costs, close to 3000 families are currently enjoying the pleasure of owning and driving the Nexon EV and proud of reducing CO2 emissions equivalent to planting 100,000 trees each year. Speaking about the one-year milestone, Shailesh Chandra – President, Passenger Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, “It has been a remarkable year for the Nexon EV in India.

Tata Nexon EV celebrates 1st anniversary

Vi inks a strategic partnership with Voot Select

Pine Labs Introduces All Tap App to Empower Small Merchants

handigarh : Pine Labs, a leading merchant commerce platform in Asia, Ctoday launched AllTap, a feature-rich

app that can significantly accelerate digital payments adoption in India. Pine Labs AllTap is a revolutionary new app for small merchants to immediately start accepting digital payments on their NFC-enabled smartphone without the need of any additional hardware. The ‘tap and pay’ feature within the app is secure and is certified by PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), RuPay, Visa, Mastercard and Amex. While the ongoing pandemic propelled the adoption of digital payments in India, a large and critical segment of small entrepreneurs are still untouched by digitization. Pine Labs AllTap addresses this key segment especially small merchants, home entrepreneurs, street vendors, hawkers, cab drivers, and others who are not ready to invest in a traditional point-of-sale (PoS) terminal to accept digital payments.Commenting on the launch, B. Amrish Rau, CEO, Pine Labs said.

Dish TV India’s OTT App WATCHO, ready to engross its viewers ahadurgarh, A 31-year-old man from Bahadurgarh,

diagnosed with Coronary Artery Disease/ triple Bvessel disease of heart, was saved by expert doctors at Aakash Healthcare, Dwarka, New Delhi through angioplasty (multivessel stent implantation) and avoiding a major open-

heart surgery. Triple vessel disease (3VD) is a severe form of coronary artery disease (CAD) where all the major vessels of the heart have blockage. The young man came to the hospital on 2 January after developing chest pain where it was found that his heart’s pumping action decreased and his Ejection Fraction was found to be 25% (LVEF). Which is less than half of normal heart function. This was due to blockage in three major arteries:

the right coronary artery (RCA), left circumflex artery (LCX), and left anterior descending artery (LAD). “On angiography it was found that he had triple vessel disease, which is the most severe form of coronary arteries diseases (narrowing of arteries that hinders blood flow).

Purplle.com signs Bollywood star Sara Ali Khan as its first brand ambassador

handigarh : Purplle.com, India’s leading online beauty destination, Chas signedBollywood GenNext star

Sara Ali Khan as its brand ambassador.Purplle denotes Royalty in Beauty, with products made from imported ingredients, yet affordable and accessible to every woman.With a mission to democratize beauty, Purplle and Sara have come together to empower women to look inside out beautiful.The 360-degree campaign has been conceptualized and executed by Spring Marketing Capital.With a robust communication plan, Purplle will reach the heartlands of India to take its vision forward. The brand’s newly launched campaign #GoPurplle featuring Sara Ali Khanis based on the same core tenet of ‘Beauty for All’. With her signature sass and radiant glow, she showcases the gorgeous natural world of Purplle.

Hungama Play launches ‘Ratrike Yatri’ungama Play, a leading video on demand platform owned by Hungama Digital HMedia, today launched ‘RatrikeYatri’, a

Hungama Original in Bhojpuri. An anthology that features 5 unique and thought-provoking stories set in redlight areas, the showis headlined by an ensemble cast comprising some of the biggest actors from the television industry. This includes SudhirPande, Anju Mahendru, Iqbal Khan, BarkhaSengupta, Parag Tyagi, Avinash Mukherjee, Shiny Doshi, Renee Dhyani, Mansi Srivastava, ReyhnaPanditand Akashdeep Arora. It also stars popular television actors like Pyomri Mehta, Supriya Shukla and Indresh Malik in key roles.Produced by Anil V Kumar Productionsin association withHungama Digital Media, all episodes of the show have been directed by Anil V Kumar.The show is now available to stream on Hungama Play. The platform also offers over 120 Bhojpuri movies and more than 8200 short-format videos in Bhojpuri across categories like music, entertainment, movies etc. Each story in RatrikeYatrifollows a character leading an incomplete life and seeking something – love, physical pleasures, refuge or just closure – a man who is ashamed of being a prostitute’s son and has an awakening in a place he detests the most; a 69 year old who is unapologetic about his physical needs and refuses to be shamed by the society; a jilted lover who comes to terms.

Aakash Healthcare Doctors Save 31-year Diabetic Man with Serious Heart Disease from Bahadurgarh

obility is life and it stands hate it, exercise is something that is having a deeper focus on true with respect to all age going to strengthen your immune increasing the range of joint Mgroups, gender or any class. system and improve your mental health, motion. Tai chi loosens muscles

Working from home laying in your bed which will not only keep you calm and stretches the whole body. It or sofa or simply spending time during this frightening time, but can is especially useful for people thinking about the endless eternity, lack also protect you from any kind of with limited mobility, of physical exercises can do you more infections and viruses. Symptoms to recovering from injury or harm than you think. Lack of watch for in this pandemic include balance problems as it can be appropriate ergonomic setup or postural fever, cough, tiredness and difficulty adapted to suit a range of discipline can affect your abilities. Here are few simple back, neck and knees and stretching exercises that can even cause headache due to be practiced without special disturbed eyesight. equipment from the comfort The work from home of basic and humble living routine has made people to space:remain confined to limited Stretch the sides of the neck space of their homes. Gym for instant relief. You can also enthusiasts or love to stay try the back neck stretch active might feel like this where you reach both your shut-down period is going hands behind your back and to sabotage their fitness hold on to the right wrist with progress. Most of us fail to your left hand. Straighten respect the appropriate your arms and pull away routine activities in slightly. Hold the stretch for correlation to our natural about 30 seconds, release and

breathing and with weak immunity, you circadian rhythm. Late night binge- switch sides.might not be able to deal with it. Here watching our favourite web series, Shoulder rolls and rotations are are some easy ways to improve your irregular sleep and diet habits are the best to give relief for tight flexibility and reduce stiffness.imposing an additional toll on an shoulders. Another exercise that Yoga, Pilates, tai chi and stretching are already disturbed exercise regime does wonders is the cow-face all recommended for improving causing body aches and malaise. But pose. Straighten your right arm flexibility. While Pilates and yoga don’t worry there are ways. and then bend it behind your concentrate on building strength and Whether you love doing exercise or head.flexibility, yoga is generally regarded as

Amrik singh, NCC officer Lieutenant Aman Jyoti , ATHANKOT, JAN - 28 ( ): India is Sanjeev Tiwari Forest Division Officer , Davinder Singh the largest democracy in the world.The P Darshi, Rakesh Babli, Kartik Wadhera, Rohit Sarna, constitution has given equal rights to all party workers and other officials were present. Paying citizens of the country, uniting people divided into tribute to the martyrs and freedom fighters who religions, castes and cultures.We need to have sacrificed their lives for the independence of the sincere allegiance to our rights as well as to our country, Chief Guest Mr. Sundar Sham Arora, Minister dyties.This was stated by Sundar Sham Arora,

of Industry and Commerce, Cabinet Minister of Government of Punjab said that I n d u s t r i e s a n d this day is a day to realize the Commerce, Government dreams of our martyrs. He said that of Punjab while addressing Punjabis have excelled in every the people of the district f ield and Punjabis have after hoisting the national contributed 80 percent to the flag on the occasion of freedom struggle of the country District Level Republic Day and these great martyrs. This is at Multi-purpose Sports why we are living in an S t a d i u m L a m i n i independent environment. He said (Pathankot). Sanyam that Punjabi farmers are at the A g g a r w a l D e p u t y forefront for filling the country with Commissioner , Gulneet

their hard work. After unfurling the national flag, Chief Singh Khurana S.S.P. , Kanwaljit Singh Bajwa District Guest Mr. Sundar Sham Arora, Minister of Industry and and Sessions Judge Pathankot, Amit Vij MLA Commerce, Government of Punjab inspected the Pathankot, Anil Dara Chairman District Planning Board, magnificent parade. On the occasion, tableaux of Sanjeev Bains District President Congress Committee various departments representing the development of Pathankot, Raman Bhalla Former Minister, Avtar the district such as Forest Department, Agriculture Singh Kaler President of Development Agriculture Department, Education Department and Health Bank, Surinder Singh Additional Deputy Department were presented and army bands also Commissioner (G), Gursimran Singh Dhillon S.D.M. , participated in the parade. Meanwhile, the district Ashish Vij, Ram Lubhaya District Public Relations administration honored the Corona Warriors with a Officer, Varinder Parashar District Education Officer, letter of appreciation. The district administration also Baldev Raj District Education Officer,DSP honored the chief guest with a memento.Rameshwer singh,Dr. Hartaranpal singh saini, Dr .

R. SINGH

ISAR : With an aim to provide enriched entertainment to its customers in India, Vodafone HIdea Limited (VIL), India’s leading telecom

operator has announced a strategic partnership with Viacom18’s premium subscription led video on demand streaming service, VOOT Select, to offer premium content on its digital platform- Vi Movies and TV app. Under this partnership, aimed at bolstering the growth of digital ecosystem in India, customers of Vodafone Idea can now enjoy the curated content offering of VOOT Select, with a seamless viewing experience on their Smart phones. To strengthen current content offering on Digital platform - Vi Movies & TV app, the partnership will give customers access to hours of exclusive content pieces from Voot Select which includes the very successful original mini-series The Gone Game, high octane espionage series Crackdown and other critically acclaimed series such as Asur, Illegal & The Raikar Case, to name a few. Vi customers will now have full access to watch premium Hindi Shows of Colors & MTV like BIGG BOSS season14, Roadies Season 18, Splitsvilla & Khatron Ke Khiladi. Vi users can also enjoy a host of International shows like Shark Tank, Top Gear, The Office, Tin Star, Nancy Drew, Pink Collar Crimes to name a few.

Republic Day celebrations held in Sports Stadium Pathankot

Harpic Mission Paani hosts India’s largest Waterthon on Republic Day

Skill development rewarding workforce HANDIGARH: Businesses in India have identified workforce alignment through Cskilling and rewarding and support from

government as winning strategies for strengthening innovation and business resilience, said a Microsoft-IDC study. According to the recent report, ‘Culture of Innovation: Foundation for business resilience and economic recovery in Asia Pacific’, 29% of Indian businesses are investing in intensifying enterprise-wide capabilities and skilling initiatives. Per the survey, 28% of organizations in India prioritize and formalize innovation rewards over traditional performance. Significantly, among the workers surveyed for the report, 55% acknowledged that businesses should formalize innovation-based rewards. The findings also highlighted that 25% of Indian enterprises expect support from government to advance digital and tech skills in the workforce. “It is encouraging to see business leaders recognize the importance of skilling & re-skilling to build enterprise-wide capabilities and incentivizing breakthrough ideas.

Airtel Announces 5G Ready Network

mritsar : Purplle.com, India’s leading online beauty destination, has signedBollywood GenNext star Sara Ali AKhan as its brand ambassador.Purplle denotes Royalty

in Beauty, with products made from imported ingredients, yet affordable and accessible to every woman.With a mission to

democratize beauty, Purplle and Sara have come together to empower women to look inside out beautiful.The 360-degree c a m p a i g n h a s b e e n conceptualized and executed by Spring Marketing Capital.With a robust communication plan, Purplle will reach the heartlands of India to take its vision forward. The brand’s newly launched campaign #GoPurplle featuring Sara Ali Khanis based on the same core tenet of ‘Beauty for All’. With her signature sass and radiant glow, she showcases

the gorgeous natural world of Purplle.It highlights its authentic product ranges from 6000 make up products to its 5000 natural product offerings with exotic ingredients; all under Rs. 400.

Purplle.com signs Sara Ali Khan as its brand ambassadorLexus India announced winners of

India's prestigious design awards handigarh: Lexus India announced the winners of the 4th edition of India's Cprestigious design awards - Lexus

Design Award India (LDAI), selected from among over a thousand high quality entries basis Lexus' three key design principles: Anticipate, Innovate and Captivate in the quest to craft a better tomorrow. Considering this year's unique circumstances, Lexus innovated to create its first ever virtual edition of the awards with the support of Association of Designers of India (ADI) as part of the process that nurtures the next generation of creative talent. Speaking on the occasion P.B. Venugopal, President, Lexus India, said, "This years' edition of LDAI presented us with a new challenge of bringing together designers on a virtual platform to celebrate the power of design. At LDAI, we work with a strong belief that through design we can find solutions to the problems faced in India. This year, we are so proud to have received over a 1000 entries that are all potential solutions for the Indian society."David Nordstrom, Vice President of Lexus Asia Pacific Division and a member of this year's jury, further added, "The Lexus Design Award India is a celebration of Lexus' shared passion for design creations that make a positive.

Sitting all day? Tips to avoid back and neck pain

HANDIGARH: HDFC Bank and CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd—a Special CPurpose Vehicle (CSC SPV) under the

Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) – today jointly announced the EMI Collection Services for CSC-HDFC Bank’s Business Correspondents across the country. This will make payments convenient for customers, who can now visit their nearest CSC, to deposit overdues. The CSC-HDFC Bank Correspondent or Village Level Entrepreneur (VLE) will match the loan account with the customers’ registered phone number to cross check the amount payable on the system. The VLE will then provide a receipt for the amount collected and deposit the amount in the prescribed form to bank. Speaking on this partnership, Mr. Dinesh Luthra, National Head, CSC Channel HDFC Bank said “We are proud to partner with CSC for this initiative. It ties with our ongoing social programmes which straddles with promoting financial literacy, financial inclusion and income-generating skills at the bottom of the pyramid. Under the initiative, CSC and HDFC Bank will work towards utilizing the services provided by the Business Correspondents for collecting regular EMIs / overdue amount on loans taken by customers.

HANDIGARH: Jaguar Classic is celebrating the 70th anniversary Cof the legendary C-type sports

racer by creating a strictly limited production run of new C-type Continuation cars, which will be hand built at Jaguar’s world-class Classic Works facility in Coventry. The C-type Continuation programme will allow historic motor racing enthusiasts to purchase a new factory-built example of the ultimate 1953 disc-braked ‘works’ C-type direct from Jaguar for the first time. The C-type, which was originally made between 1951-53, was famed for its exceptionally fluid shape by Jaguar Cars designer, aerodynamicist and artist Malcolm Sayer. The C-type won the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours on its debut in 1951, scoring the first of Jaguar’s seven outright wins at the French endurance race. Dan Pink, Director, Jaguar Classic, said: “Driven by some of the most-admired racing drivers in history, the C-type laid the foundations for Jaguar’s success in endurance racing and is synonymous with design and engineering innovation. Seventy years on, Jaguar Classic is proud to be able to utilise the latest innovations in manufacturing technology – alongside traditional skills and unrivalled expertise – to reintroduce this legendary car for a new generation of enthusiasts to enjoy.”

HDFC Bank partners with CSC to launch EMI Collection service

Jaguar C-TYPE Joins ClassicContinuation Family

Rajinder Gupta’s tenure extended handigarh: The Punjab Government today has extended the tenure of CTrident Group Chairman Sh Rajinder

Gupta as Vice Chariman of the Punjab State Planning Board, in the rank of Cabinet Minister from 28.03.2021 for the next five years ie upto 27/03/2026.This issues with the orders of Hon'ble Chief Minister Punjab No. LC3/CM/2021 dated 27 Jan 2021. Rajinder Gupta as the vice-

chairman has played an instrumental role in strengthening the planning process in the state, besides initiating schemes and projects for overall development of the state and welfare of the people.

World First: The Sporty, Smart, Stunning Renault Kiger Makes Its Debut In India

fter the initial exhilaration created by the reveal of its show car, Groupe Renault globally premiered the eagerly awaited Renault KIGER in India today. A brand-new compact SUV Adesigned and developed for India before making its international debut, Renault KIGER is the

latest in the line of revolutionary products to be launched by Renault in India. Just like DUSTER, KWID AND TRIBER, Renault KIGER will also change the dynamics in its segment and promises to be another gamechanger from Renault. Renault KIGER has already made a striking presence thanks to its Stunning design, which depicts a very strong personality. Renault KIGER has been designed with a host of sporty and muscular elements and stands out as a true SUV. On the inside, Renault KIGER’s Smart cabin combines technology, functionality and roominess. Renault KIGER will be powered by a new turbocharged 1.0L petrol engine for more performance and driving pleasure. The engine has been tested for reliability and durability, and offers the latest technological innovations already featured on Renault’s global range. This high performance, modern and efficient engine will ensure a Sporty drive and will be complemented by multi sense drive modes which offer the flexibility to best suit the customers driving preferences. “After Duster, Kwid and Triber, we are now preparing for the launch of Renault KIGER, a modern SUV that is a perfect fit for the Indian market. KIGER combines the best Renault has to offer: our expertise in innovative cars with the creativity and in-depth knowledge of customer needs. A strong proof that Renault really is a game-changer,” shared Fabrice Cambolive, SVP, Renault Brand, Sales & Operations. “True to the promise of the show-car, Renault KIGER is a robust, dynamic and generous SUV. Armed for travel in the urban jungle, we also designed it for the outdoors and to easily navigate any type of road conditions. KIGER has a distinctive SUV look and its long wheelbase enables great space and volume on board. Its ‘smart cabin’ has been specially designed to encourage sharing and convenience,” added Laurens van den Acker, EVP, Head of Design, Groupe Renault. Renault KIGER will demonstrate the competence of India’s design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities and highlights Renault’s strong commitment to the ‘Make in India’ mission. In India, Groupe Renault has always focused to be disruptive and innovative which is amply proven with its product range. Renault will further build on this with the launch of the all-new Renault KIGER.

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Taapsee starts training for Mithali Raj's biopicShabaash Mithu

ollywood actor Taapsee Pannu, who will soon treat movie buffs with 'Shabaash Mithu', a biopic based on the life of Indian cricketer Mithali Raj, Bhas started training for the film.

The actor posted a picture featuring herself from the preparatory session of her upcoming film. Sharing the picture of herself holding a bat, with an intense look

on her face, Taapsee wrote on Twitter, "And romance with the bat n the ball has begun.... long way to go but a good start is half job done."

"This is going to be another milestone of sorts.... For our captain cool @M_Raj03 and all her #WomenInBlue #ShabaashMithu @rahuldholakia @AndhareAjit @Viacom18Studios," she added.For her forthcoming movie, Taapsee is training under coach Nooshin Al

Khadeer. Speaking about her role, Taapsee said that it is a 'huge challenge' for her as she has never played cricket but only

watched the sport. Taapsee said, "I've never played the game before, have just been a spectator and a hyperventilating fan

of the game. Being on the other side is going to be a huge challenge I've thrown at myself. But I feel pressure brings out the best in me. This is probably that one common trait I can identify between me and Mithali." Directed by Rahul Dholakia and written by Priya Aven, 'Shabaash Mithu' revolves around the life of Mithali Raj, the captain of the Indian women's cricket team. The film is being produced by Viacom18 Studios.Apart from 'Shabaash Mithu', Taapsee is currently shooting for 'Looop Lapeta', a remake of the German hit 'Run Lola

Run'. On Wednesday, the actor had shared pictures of herself at the airport and on the flight, writing, "Now ready to

looop it up in Goa! Last schedule of #loooplapeta."Apart from 'Looop Lapeta' and 'Shabaash Mithu', Taapsee's

impressive line-up of films also includes 'Haseen Dillruba', 'Rashmi Rocket' and a sci-fi thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap.

I've never played the game before, have just been

a spectator and a hyperventilating fan of the game. Being on the

other side is going to be a huge challenge I've thrown at myself. But I feel pressure brings out the best in me. This is probably that one common trait I can identify

between me and Mithali."

Yami Gautam wraps shoot of 'Bhoot Police'

ctor Yami Gautam on Wednesday said she has wrapped up shooting for her upcoming Afilm "Bhoot Police". Also starring Saif Ali Khan,

Arjun Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez, the horror-comedy is directed by Pavan Kirpalani of "Phobia" and "Ragini MMS" fame. Gautam, 32, took to Instagram to share the update. "And it's a wrap #TeamBhootPolice #wehaveacookforeveryoccassion @jacquelinef143 @arjunkapoor #saifalikhan #PawanKriplani @akshaipuri @jaya.taurani @sachinjigar @tips," she captioned the picture.

Owner of ancestral home in Pak refuses to sell building at govt rate

Raj Kapoor's

he owner of Indian film legend Raj Kapoor's marla property for Rs 1.5 crore?" he said.ancestral home in Peshawar has refused to Marla, a traditional unit of area used in India, Tsell the building at the rate fixed by the Pakistan and Bangladesh, is considered as

provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, equal to 272.25 square feet or 25.2929 square saying the prime-location property has been metres.severely undervalued. Sabir said the right valuation of the property is Earlier in the month, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rs 200 crore.government had approved the release of Rs 1.5 Raj Kapoor's ancestral home, known as crore for Kapoor's ancestral home, with the aim Kapoor Haveli, is situated in the fabled Qissa to turn it into a museum in honour of the movie Khwani Bazar. It was built between 1918 and star. 1922 by the legendary actor's grandfather Haji Ali Sabir, the present owner of the haveli, in a Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor.chat with a private news channel on Wednesday, Raj Kapoor and his uncle Trilok Kapoor were flatly refused to sell the property at Rs 1.5 crore. born here. The building has been declared "Even half a Marla land in the area is not national heritage by the provincial available for Rs 1.5 crore. How can I sell the six- government.

OTT platforms have opened up new avenues for actors: Tahir

head of the announcement of his upcoming OTT project, Bollywood Astar Tahir Raj Bhasin on Thursday

said that he feels that this is a great time for actors to express themselves because of the availability of multiple mediums through which one can get the deserved spotlight."I look forward to Looop Lapeta and 83's release and a very special OTT project that's brewing. It's an incredible time to be acting because of the number of mediums a film star can work in," he said.Last year, which marked a major change in the entertainment industry due to the coronavirus pandemic-induced lockdown, many actors made their digital debut on various streaming platforms. Tahir feels that the year has "ushered in a convergence of storytelling in digital and theatrical work." He said, "The year has ushered in a convergence of storytelling in digital and theatrical work coupled with an increased acceptance of the audience to watch their favourite stars who they've seen on the big screen, to also work in OTT. This has opened up new avenues for actors to express themselves and reach out to the audience." Taking part in the ongoing OTT vs Theatrical debate, Tahir said that both mediums can serve extremely different purposes while entertaining audiences to the fullest "OTT's lend themselves to chapter wise, episodic stories while theatres are more about the 120-minute cinematic community experience.

Halsey reveals she's pregnant,shows off her baby bump

merican singer-songwriter Halsey is Halsey, who suffered a miscarriage while on ringing in the new year with some big tour in 2015, continued, "When I started Anews to share! The star recently touring and playing concerts and traveling, the

revealed that she's expecting her first child stress and strain on my body really started to with screenwriter Alev Aydin. enhance the symptoms and make the The singer took to Instagram to announce the experience a little bit worse."news. In a series of pictures posted by her on She also reflected on her endometriosis the photo-sharing application, the 26-year-old diagnosis. "It was the relief of knowing that I singer can be seen cradling her baby bump. wasn't making it all up and I wasn't being "Surprise!" she captioned the photo, along sensitive and it wasn't all in my head. It with a milk bottle, rainbow, and angel emoji. also kind of sucked to know that I was She tagged her beau Alev over her belly in going to be living with this forever," Halsey the first picture. said.In the comments section, Alev wrote, "Heart However, a few months after her diagnosis, so full, I love you, sweetness." After seeing Halsey discovered that she was pregnant. the cute comment, the 'Without Me' singer She shared on 'The Doctors', "Before I responded, "I love you!!!!!! And I love this mini could even really figure out what that human already." meant to me and what that meant for my Alev re-shared the announcement on his future, for my career, for my life, for my Instagram Story, adding a pair of red heart relationship...The next thing I know I was emojis. According to E! News, the duo first onstage miscarrying in the middle of my sparked romance rumours in early January concert."when Halsey posted a photo of him on her "The sensation of looking a couple of Instagram account. For the unversed, Halsey hundred teenagers in the face while you're revealed in 2018 that she's freezing her eggs bleeding through your clothes and still due to endometriosis, an often painful having to do the show. Realizing in that disorder that can lead to infertility, in which moment I never want to make that choice tissue that normally lines the inside of the ever again of doing what I love or not being uterus, is present or grows outside the uterus. able to because of this disease. So I put my While appearing on an episode of 'The foot down and I got really aggressive about Doctors', Halsey, who was just 23 at the time, seeking treatment." Halsey recalled.shared, "Doing an ovarian reserve is Halsey added that she underwent surgery important to me because I'm fortunate and, at the time of the interview, felt "a lot enough to have that as an option, but I need better." Halsey has been previously linked to to be aggressive about protecting my fertility, rapper G-Eazy, Yungblud, and actor Evan about protecting myself." Peters.

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9 detained in Russia'sVladivostok overpolice disobedienceVLADIVOSTOK: At least nine peoplewere detained in the Russian Far Easterncity of Vladivostok on charges of policedisobedience during last weekend'sprotests, their lawyer, Polina Sidelnikova,told Sputnik on Thursday. "Nine peoplewere detained, with whom I met [at thedetention facility]. Protocols cite Article19.3 of the Russian Administrative Code'Disobedience to the lawful signal of apolice officer," Sidelnikova said. Accordingto the lawyer, the detainees are beinginterrogated over their participation in anunauthorized demonstration on January23, which was called for by AlexeyNavalny and his supporters. Sidelnikovasaid the court was likely to review theircases later in the day. Local police havenot yet commented on the matter.According to the authorities of PrimorskyTerritory, of which Vladivostok is a part,the unauthorized demonstration wasattended by around 300 people and thefollowing rally by 500 people. Clasheswith the police occurred. PrimorskyTerritory Ombudswoman Olga Romanovatold Sputnik that 12 teenagers were brieflydetained in the aftermath. Two caseswere launched over the obstruction ofroads and assault of law enforcementofficers following the demonstration.

Thailand confirmsanother 756 COVID-19 infectionsBANGKOK: Thailand confirmed 756cases of COVID-19 infection, mostly viaactive testing, the country's Center for theCOVID-19 Situation Administration(CCSA) said Thursday. The latestcaseload included 746 domesticinfections, with 724 detected in SamutSakhon following mass proactive casefinding in the province since Monday,CCSA spokeswoman ApisamaiSrirangsan said at a daily briefing. Theweek-long mass testing has led to a surgein caseload for three consecutive days,aimed at curbing the rising infection ratein the province, according to thespokeswoman. Of the new cases, 10referred to those who had returned fromabroad and tested positive in Thailand,Apisamai said. The country has so farconfirmed 16,221 cases, 13,804 of whichwere local infections while 2,417 otherswere imported cases, she said. Of thattotal, 11,287 patients have fully recoveredand been released from hospitals while4,858 others are currently hospitalizedwith 76 fatalities, Apisamai said.

Indian envoy in SriLanka celebratesPoya DayCOLOMBO: On the occasion of PoyaDay in Sri Lanka, the Indian HighCommissioner Gopal Baglay on Thursdayoffered prayers at the GangaramayaTemple, for the health and well-being ofthe people. Taking to Twitter, the IndianHigh Commission in Sri Lanka informedthat the auspicious day also witnessed thearrival of Covishield vaccines from Indiaunder the Vaccine Maitri initiative. "Arrivalof 500,000 doses of COVISHIELDvaccines happens on blessed Poya Day,which marks the 1st visit of The Buddhato Sri Lanka. High Commissioner offeredprayers at the sacred GangaramayaTemple for the health and well being ofthe people of Sri Lanka on auspiciousDuruthu Poya Day," tweeted India in SriLanka.

Russia registers 19,138 COVID-19 cases inpast 24 hoursMOSCOW: Russia registered 19,138 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, upfrom 17,741 the day before, taking the tally to 3,793,810, the coronavirus responsecenter said on Thursday. "Over the past day, 19,138 coronavirus cases wereconfirmed across 85 regions, including 2,208 cases (11.5 percent) that weredetected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the center said,adding that the cumulative case count has now reached 3,793,810, with the rate ofincrease at 0.51 percent. Moscow confirmed 2,897 new coronavirus cases over thegiven period, up from 1,837 the day before. The Russian capital was followed by St.Petersburg with 2,128 cases, up from 1,813 the day before, and the MoscowRegion with 939 new cases, down from 928 on Wednesday. The response centerreported 575 coronavirus fatalities, down from 594 the day before, raising thecountry's death toll to 71,651.

India-China ties 'profoundly disturbed' post Ladakh standoff: JaishankarAGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 28

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankaron Thursday said the standoff betweenthe Indian Army and the People'sLiberation Army in Ladakh last year atthe Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakhalong the Line of Actual Control (LAC)has 'profoundly' disturbed India-Chinarelations. "For all the differences anddisagreements we may have had on theboundary, the central fact was thatborder areas still remainedfundamentally peaceful. The last loss oflife before 2020 was as far back in 1971that is why the events in eastern Ladakhlast year, have so profoundly disturbedthe relationship," he said whilespeaking at the 13th All IndiaConference of China Studies. "Theynot only signalled a disregard forcommitment about minimising trooplevels but also showed a willingness tobreach peace and tranquillity... We are

yet to receive a credible explanation forthe change in China's stance or reasonfor the massing of troops," he added.

Jaishankar said that after the 1962conflict, Beijing and New Delhiexchanged ambassadors only in 1976.The first Prime Ministerial visit toChina after 1954 actually happenedonly in 1988. "Rebuilding of our tieswas actually painstaking and arduous,"he said.

"For the last three decades,interactions and exchanges grewsteadily in some areas. China becameone of our largest trading partners, asignificant source of investment, aparticipant in projects andinfrastructure building and a verysubstantial destination for tourism andeducation," the External AffairsMinister pointed out.

He stated that in the years thatpassed, the Indian side obviously didnot see significant progress on arrivingat a common understanding of the

alignment of LAC in India-Chinaborder areas.

With regard to where relationsbetween New Delhi and Beijing stand,the External Affairs Minister said thathe does not have a definite answer tooffer at "this moment".

"Whether it is our immediateconcern or more distant prospects, thefact is that the development of our tiescan only be based on mutuality. The

three mutuals -- mutual respect, mutualsensitivity and mutual interests -- are itsdetermining factors," Jaishankar saidfurther. He pointed out that anyexpectation that they (the threemutuals) can be brushed aside and "lifecan carry on undisturbed" despite thesituation at the LAC border is simplyunrealistic.

While discussions regardingdisengagement LAC are underway, forties to "steady and progress", "policiesmust take into account the learnings ofthe last three decades."

"Experiences of the past havetaught us the importance of stabilisingour relationship (with China) evenwhile adjusting to changes. From that,we can seek proper guidance that willbe to the benefit of both nations," theexternal affairs minister stated.

India and China agreed to push foran early disengagement of the frontlinetroops in eastern Ladakh during theninth round of the China-India Corps

Commander Level Meeting held on theChinese side of the Moldo-Chushulborder meeting point on Sunday.

The joint press release issued byDefence Ministry on Monday said thatthe two sides had a candid and in-depthexchange of views on disengagementalong the Line of Actual Control in theWestern Sector of China-India borderareas. The ninth round of CorpsCommander Level talks between Indiaand China ended at 2:30 am onMonday.

The meeting lasted for more than15 hours after starting at 11 am onSunday at Moldo opposite Chushul inthe Eastern Ladakh sector to addressthe ongoing military standoff.

The two countries have beenengaged in a stand-off along the Line ofActual Control (LAC) since April-Maylast year. While China began amassingmassive military strength along theLAC, India responded with a befittingbuild-up.

Equity market tumbles, Marutiskids by 3.5 per cent

AGENCYMUMBAI, JAN 28

Bears strengthened their grip onequity market with benchmarkindices cracking over one percent on Thursday amid weakglobal cues and as caution set inahead of the Union Budget.

The BSE S&P Sensexclosed 536 points or 1.13 percent at 46,874 while the Nifty 50lowered by 150 points or 1.07per cent to 13,818.

Most sectoral indices at the

National Stock Exchange werein the negative zone with NiftyIT and realty dipping by 2.2 percent each, FMCG by 1.9 percent, PSU bank by 1.7 per centand auto by 1 per cent.

Among stocks, HindustanUnilever was down by 3.6 percent to Rs 2,304 per share.

Automaker Maruti Suzukilost by 3.4 per cent to Rs 7,600per share while private lendersHDFC Bank and KotakMahindra Bank slipped by 2.6per cent and 2.1 per cent

respectively.The other prominent losers

were Wipro, HCL Technologies,Bajaj Finserv and UPL.However, Axis Bank was up by5.5 per cent, ICICI Bank by 1.1per cent and State Bank of Indiaby 2.6 per cent.

Meanwhile, Asian sharesslid as delays with coronavirusvaccines shook investor

optimism about an earlyrecovery for the globaleconomy. Japan's Nikkei fell by1.53 per cent, its sharpest dropsince October, and South Koreaeased by 1.71 per cent led bylosses in Samsung after itreported earnings. Hong Kong'sHang Seng index cracked by2.55 per cent and Shanghaicomposite by 1.91 per cent.

Rupee settles 13 paise lower at 73.05MUMBAI: The rupee depreciated by 13 paise to settle at 73.05(provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, tracking muteddomestic equities and a strengthening American currency. At theinterbank forex market, the rupee opened at 73.13 against thegreenback and hit an intra-day high of 73.04 and a low of 73.15.It finally finished at 73.05, lower by 13 paise over its last close.On Wednesday, the rupee had ended at 72.92. Meanwhile, thedollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against abasket of six currencies, advanced 0.08 per cent to 90.71. On thedomestic equity market front, the BSE Sensex ended 535.57points or 1.13 per cent lower at 46,874.36, while the broader NSENifty declined 149.95 points or 1.07 per cent to 13,817.55.Foreign institutional investors were net sellers in the capitalmarket as they offloaded shares worth Rs 1,688.22 crore onWednesday, according to exchange data. Brent crude futures, theglobal oil benchmark, fell 0.22 per cent to USD 55.69 per barrel.

India's goldjewellery demand

down 42 pc in 2020AGENCYMUMBAI, JAN 28

The Covid-19 pandemic led toconsumer demand weakness withtotal jewellery demand in Indiafor 2020 dipping by 42 per centat 315.9 tonnes as compared to544.6 tonnes in 2019, the WorldGold Council (WGC) said onThursday.

The value of jewellerydemand was Rs 133,260 crore,down by 22 per cent from Rs171,790 crore in 2019. The golddemand for full-year 2020 was446.4 tonnes compared to 690.4tonnes in the previous year.

Total investment demand for2020 was down by 11 per cent at130.4 tonnes in comparison to145.8 tonnes in 2019, accordingto WGC's latest Gold DemandTrends report.

In value terms, goldinvestment demand was Rs55,020 crore, up by 20 per centfrom Rs 45,980 crore in 2019.Total gold recycled in Indiaduring 2020 was 95.5 tonnes ascompared to 119.5 tonnes in2019. "India's gold demand

dropped by over a third in 2020,settling at 446.4 tonnes on theback of Covid-inducedlockdowns and lifetime highprices," said P R Somasundaram,Managing Director for India atWGC. "However, the drop wassignificantly lower when viewedin value terms, 14 per cent lowerthan 2019 as prices were up 34per cent hovering around Rs50,000 per 10 grammes for mostpast of the year," he said.

In Q4 2020, the festiveperiod and the ensuing weddingseason revived hopes and drew injewellery demand worth 137.3tonnes -- the strongest quarter inthe year. Investment demand alsoshowed significant resilience,growing 8 per cent to 48.9tonnes.

87 pc of global consumers preferto use a personal vehicle

MUMBAI, JAN 28

Without a clear end to Covid-19 pandemic in sight, 87 percent of global consumerssurveyed by consulting majorCapgemini have said theirsafety and physical well-being alongside that of theirfamilies is best servedthrough a personal vehicle.Nearly 81 per cent ofconsumers said they willavoid using car-pool servicesdue to health and safetyconcerns compared with just42 per cent in April 2020.Meanwhile, 78 per cent ofconsumers will opt for usingtheir personal vehicles overtaking public transport. Thisshift is likely to translate intovehicle sales with almost 72

per cent of consumers statingthat they value constantaccess to a private vehiclemore than before thepandemic, according to'Shifting gears: Covid-19 and

the fast-changing automotiveconsumer' which assessed11,000 consumer attitudes tobuying a car across 11countries in October andNovember 2020. Almost half

of global consumers (46 percent) are consideringpurchasing a car in the next12 months, an increase from35 per cent in April 2020."This reflects a continuousshift in consumer preferencetowards personal mobility,fueled by the Covid-19pandemic as car ownershiptoday is seen as a safeguardagainst the risk and spread ofinfection." Purchase intenthas grown globally in almostall markets and is beingdriven by a combination oflow-cost auto loans,government incentiveprogrammes for electricvehicles and a pent-updemand for cars following aneconomic recovery overlaidby the desire to avoid public

and shared transport. Youngerconsumers (aged 18 to 35years) are leading the trendwith 59 per cent consideringpurchasing a car in the next12 months compared with 46per cent across all agegroups. However, just overhalf (56 per cent) of thoseconsidering buying a carhave downgraded theirdesires from last year with apreference for utility andfunctionality over theaspirational value of the car.As a result, competition islikely to heat up in thesmaller and entry-levelvehicle segments asautomakers push forrefreshed variants ofexisting lines to cater toconsumer interest.

India's FDI inflows grew by 81 pc in Nov 2020NEW DELHI, JAN 28

India's Foreign DirectInvestment (FDI) saw asignificant jump inNovember 2020. FDI datareleased by the CommerceMinistry shows that total FDIin the month of November2020 grew by a whopping 81per cent to USD 10.15 billionagainst USD 5.6 billion inNovember 2019. FDI equityhas also jumped to USD 8.5billion as against USD 2.8billion in November 2019,registering a growth of 70 percent. India has attracted totalFDI inflow of USD 58.37billion during April toNovember 2020. It is thehighest ever for the first eightmonths of a financial year(F.Y.) and 22 per cent higheras compared to the first eight

months of 2019-20 (USD47.67 billion). FDI equityinflow received during F.Y.2020-21 (April to November2020) is USD 43.85 billion.It is also the highest ever forthe first eight months of afinancial year and 37% morecompared to the first eightmonths of 2019-20 (USD32.11 billion), the data

revealed. FDI is a majordriver of economic growthand an important source ofnon-debt finance for theeconomic development ofIndia. It has been theendeavour of the governmentto put in place an enablingand investor-friendly FDIpolicy, the CommerceMinistry said. The intent all

this while has been to makethe FDI policy more investor-friendly and remove thepolicy bottlenecks that havebeen hindering theinvestment inflows into thecountry. The steps taken inthis direction have bornefruit, as is evident from theever-increasing volumes ofFDI inflows being receivedinto the country, it said.Measures taken by theGovernment on the FDIpolicy reforms, investmentfacilitation and ease of doingbusiness have resulted inincreased FDI inflows intothe country. The followingtrends in India's ForeignDirect Investment are anendorsement of its status as apreferred investmentdestination amongst globalinvestors.

Aditya Birla Fashion acquires 51 pcstake in designer brand SabyasachiMUMBAI, JAN 28

Aditya Birla Fashion andRetail Ltd (ABFRL) hasannounced a strategicpartnership with India'slargest designer brandSabyasachi by signing adefinitive agreement foracquiring 51 per cent stake inSabyasachi brand.Sabyasachi is India's largestand most influential luxurydesigner brand with strongIndian roots and globalappeal. The brand straddlescategories like apparel,accessories and jewellery andhas a strong franchise inIndia, the United States, theUnited Kingdom and theMiddle East. "The ABFRLplatform will complementbrand Sabyasachi on itsjourney to becoming a globalluxury house out of India,"

the company said in astatement. This partnershipwill add significant weight toABFRL's growing ethnic wearportfolio. "This will acceleratethe company's strategy tocapture a large share of ethnicwear market through acomprehensive and attractiveportfolio of brands, across keyconsumer segments, usageoccasions and geographies."The company expects to build

a large ethnic wear businessover next few years tocomplement its strong anddiverse portfolio in westernwear segment of the Indianapparel market. ABFRLManaging Director AshishDikshit said ethnic wear isgoing to be an increasinglyimportant category as youngand confident Indiansrediscover their culture andheritage.

Airtel announces 5G readynetwork in Hyderabad

NEW DELHI, JAN 28

Bharti Airtel said on Thursday it has become the country's firsttelecom operator to successfully demonstrate and orchestratelive fifth-generation (5G) service over a commercial networkin Hyderabad city.

Airtel did this over its existing liberalised spectrum in the1,800 MHz band through the NSA (non-standalone) networktechnology. Using dynamic spectrum sharing, Airtelseamlessly operated 5G and 4G concurrently within the samespectrum block.

This demonstration has emphatically validated the 5Greadiness of Airtel's network across all domains -- radio, coreand transport.

Airtel 5G is capable of delivering 10x speeds, 10x latencyand 100x concurrency when compared to existingtechnologies. Specifically, in Hyderabad, users were able todownload a full-length movie in a matter of seconds on a 5Gphone.

Airtel said this demonstration has underlined thecompany's technology capabilities. The full impact of the 5Gexperience, however, will be available to customers whenadequate spectrum is available and government approvalsreceived.

Nepali citizens express anger overdesecration of Hindu shrines in PakKATHMANDU, JAN 28

Nepali citizens on Wednesday held a protest outside thePakistan embassy in Kathmandu against the desecration ofHindu shrines in Pakistan and the persecution of minorities.Around 40 people gathered near the embassy for the protestand chanted slogans against the repressive regime of Pakistan.They chanted slogans like, "Beware Pakistan", "Stop thepersecution of Hindu minorities in Pakistan". Due to thedeployment of police at other locations for various politicalprotests in town, they did not face any restrictions andmanaged to hold protests for over an hour near the Pakistaniembassy. Earlier, in December, a mob of over a hundredpeople led by local Muslim clerics had destroyed and set onfire the temple in the Karak district of Pakistan's KhyberPakhtunkhwa province.

The video clip of the desecration of the temple had goneviral on social media that showed a violent mob destroying thewalls and roof of the temple. The act was widely condemnedby human rights activists based in Pakistan as well as otherparts of the world. Moreover, Pakistan is a well-knownperpetrator of human rights violations. On several occasions,it has promised to safeguard the interest of minoritycommunities in the nation.

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