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Aamir Khanquits socialmediaMUMBAI: Bollywood su-perstar-producer AamirKhan on Monday an-nounced that he has de-cided to leave social me-

dia, addingthat up-datesabout hisfuture proj-ects will beavailableon his pro-

duction banner's officialaccount. Khan, whoturned 56 yesterday, alsothanked his well-wishersfor their love and warmthon his birthday. "Thankyou so much for all thelove and warmth on mybirthday. My heart is full,"the actor said in a state-ment shared on his so-cial media pages.

One moresuccumbs toCOVID in KangraDHARAMSHALA: Thedeath toll mounted to213 in Kangra district ofHimachal Pradesh afterone more person suc-cumbed to pandemicnovel coronavirus hereon Monday.During the day, 16 morecases emerged, takingthe district count to 8760.Chief Medical OfficerKangra Dr GurdharshanGupta told UNI that therewere 13 recoveries in thedistrict today taking thetotal to 8410.The district is currentlyhaving 135 active cases,CMO added.

Woman ASI heldred handedCHANDIGARH:Haryana State VigilanceBureau (SVB) hascaught woman AssistantSub Inspector (ASI)Suman posted atWomen Police Station,Faridabad red handedwhile accepting bribe ofRs 10,000. Sharing moredetails in this regard, aspokesperson of the Bu-reau said that Sh.Rakesh Kumar residentof Gopalgarh, DistrictPalwal had made a com-plaint at State VigilanceBureau, Faridabad that acriminal case under sec-tion 376, 506 IPC wasregistered against hisnephew. The said Assis-tant Sub Inspector haddemanded Rs 1,80,000in lieu of cancellation ofthe said FIR.

Mumbai copSachin WazesuspendedMUMBAI: Mumbai Po-lice Officer Sachin Waze,arrested in connectionwith the investigation intothe recovery of explo-sives from a car parkednear Mukesh Ambani'shouse in Mumbai, wassuspended by an orderof Additional Commis-sioner of Police (CP)Special Branch."Police officer SachinWaze placed under sus-pension by an order ofAddl CP SpecialBranch," said S Chai-tanya, Mumbai PolicePRO.

Ronaldo respondsto critics with fasthat trick forJuventus

Rs 4,300-crorepush forrural developmentin state; CSreviews progress

CIA Kharar bustsgang involvingin snatching, thefts;five held

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, MAR 15

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar LalKhattar brought a Motionduring the ongoing budg-et session of State VidhanSabha, stating that if anysection of the society ororganization announcesboycott of any politician,then the House wouldcondemn such decisions.

Mr Khattar also pro-posed that if necessarythen voting should bedone on the Motion. Later, the pro-posed Motion was passed in the

House by voice votes. BJP and Inde-pendent MLA's while thumping theirtables supported the Motion.

The Chief Minister said for theprotection of democracy,both the ruling party and theopposition party share a col-lective responsibility.

However, the Congresslegislators staged a walkoutduring the voting.

Meanwhile, Leader ofOpposition Bhupinder SinghHooda clarified that no Con-gress MLA is inciting or urg-ing any organization or sec-

tion of the society to boycott politi-cians.

AGENCYLUCKNOW, MAR 15

Defence Minister RajnathSingh on Monday urged dia-logue between the protestingfarmers and the Centre whileaddressing a meeting of BJPoffice bearers, during whichhe also invoked the borderclashes with China and theconstruction of the Ram tem-ple.

Making an appeal tofarmers upset over the newagri-marketing laws, the sen-ior BJP leader said any prob-lem can be resolved throughtalks.

"The BJP resolve is todouble the farmers' income,and in no case the MSP willend," he said, referring to theapprehension among farmerscamping at Delhi's bordersfor months now.

"We are all from farmers'families and we are ready foramendments and solutions,whatever is needed in the in-terest of agriculture," Singhsaid at the inaugural meetingof the Uttar Pradesh BJP ex-ecutive committee.

He highlighted the roleof grassroots workers in theBharatiya Janata Party andsaid this was the only partywhich has not seen a split so

far."This is not a crowd of

workers aiming to gain pow-er but a lively party whichhas a political vision," hesaid.

He referred to the recent-ly begun construction of aRam temple in Ayodhya, af-ter the historic verdict in theRam Janmabhoomi-BabriMasjid land dispute.

"People used to say thatwhenever elections come,BJP leaders speak about con-struction of the Ram temple,"he said, referring to the foun-dation laying ceremony lastyear. "It is a coincidence thatwhen the structure fell in Ay-odhya, there was a BJP gov-ernment in UP, and KalyanSingh was the chief minister,Singh said, alluding to thedemolition of the Babrimosque.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

Banking operations including chequeclearance across the country got affectedon Monday as bankers under the aegis ofthe United Forum of Bank Unions(UFBU) have gone on a nationwidestrike to protest against the proposed pri-vatisation of two state-owned lenders

UFBU, an umbrella body of nineunions, had given a strike call for March15 and 16, and claimed that about 10lakh bank employees and officers of the

banks will participate in the strikeHowever, branches of private sector

lenders like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bankand Axis Bank are open as they are notpart of the strike In the Union Budgetpresented last month, Finance MinisterNirmala Sitharaman had announced theprivatisation of two public sector banks(PSBs) as part of the government's disin-vestment plan The government has al-ready privatised IDBI Bank by selling itsmajority stake in the lender to LIC in2019, and has merged 14 public sectorbanks in the last four years

Nationwide strike impactsbanking services

Hry assy passes motion to condemn boycott of politicians

BJP meet: Rajnathurges dialogue

between farmers, govt

‘Govt committed forupliftment of farmers’

SHIMLA, MAR 15

Welfare and economic upliftment of farmerswas the main concern of the State Govern-ment for which several schemes have beenlaunched to double their income by the nextfew years. This was stated by the Chief Min-ister Jai Ram Thakur while addressing thedelegation of BJP Kisan Morcha here today.Chief Minister said the State Governmenthas recently laid foundation stones of APMC Market Yards andMandis worth Rs 197 crore in different parts of the State. He saidthis would help the farmers in getting better price of their pro-duce nearer to their homes. He said that the new Farm lawsbrought out by the Union Government were aimed at the welfareof farming community and to save the farmers from being ex-ploited in the hands of middlemen.

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 15

The Punjab School Education Board hasdecided to postpone the examinations ofclass 12th and 10th due to surge in Covidcases in state here.

The Board has taken this major de-cision after closing all schools and An-ganwadi centers in the state. The PunjabSchool Education Board (PSEB) onMonday postponed the board exams of

10th and 12th for a month. Now the ex-aminations will start after one month.According to the new datesheet, the 12thexams will start from April 10. Whereas,10th class examinations will be heldfrom May 4.

Board Controller of ExaminationsJanak Raj Mahroke said that this deci-sion has been taken because of Corona.More information related to the exami-nation can be found on the Board's web-site http://www.pseb.ac.in.

A high level meeting of board offi-cials was held on Monday and it wasthen announced to postpone the boardexaminations. The examination was to

be held from March 22 to the 12th. Nowthis exam will start from April 20 andwill run till May 24. At the same time,the 10th examination was to start fromApril 9. But now this examination willbe held between May 4 to May 24. Letus know that every year about sevenlakh students take part in the PunjabSchool Education Board's 10th and 12thannual examinations.

According to the information re-ceived from the Punjab School Educa-tion Board, the 10th class examinationswill be held from 10 am to 1.15 pm. Atthe same time, the time of 12th class ex-

aminations will be between 2 pm and 5pm. The examination will be conductedin centers established by the PunjabSchool Education Board. Which will beannounced at the time of issue of rollnumber. More information on thedatesheet can be obtained from the Pun-jab School Education Board website.Apart from this, you can also get infor-mation about the exam on the phone.You can get information about class 12examination on phone number 01725227151 and information of class 10 ex-amination on phone number 01725227324.

Class 12th, 10th exams postponed in PunjabCORONA ON RISE IN STATE

India to take up racism issues withUK when required: S Jaishankar

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

India will discuss with the UnitedKingdom the alleged instances ofracism in Britain when required,External Affairs Minister S Jais-hankar told the Rajya Sabha onMonday. He added that India isthe land of Mahatma Gandhi andcan never turn its eyes away fromracism.

While responding to con-cerns raised by a BJP MP in theupper house over incidents ofbullying and racism that forcedIndian-origin Rashmi Samantinto resigning as president of theOxford University StudentsUnion, Jaishankar said New Del-hi has strong ties with the UK andwill take up such matters withgreat candour when required.

"I note the sentiments of theHouse," he said. "I do want to saythat as a land of Mahatma Gand-hi, we can never ever turn oureyes away from racism whereverit is. Particularly so when it is ina country where we have such alarge diaspora," he said.

Samant, the first Indianwoman to be elected as presidentof the Oxford University Stu-

dents Union, was forced to resignwithin five days of her appoint-ment over several of her socialmedia posts that were labelledanti-Semitic and racist.

BJP's Ashwini Vaishnav saidshe was cyberbullied and her par-ent's Hindu religious beliefs werepublicly attacked by a facultymember.

"As a friend of the UK, wealso have concerns about its rep-utational impact," Jaishankarsaid. "What I do want to say isthat we have strong ties with theUK (and) we will take up suchmatters with great candour whenrequired."

"We will monitor these de-velopments very, very closely.We will raise it when requiredand we will always champion thefight against racism and otherforms of intolerance," he added.

Raising the issue through azero hour mention, Vaishnav saidthere appears to a continuation ofattitudes and prejudices from thecolonial era in the United King-dom.

Samant, a bright student fromUdupi, Karnataka, overcame allchallenges to become the first In-dian women president of theunion, he said.

But "what was the treatmentmeted out to her?" he asked."Shouldn't this diversity been cel-ebrated?"

"Instead of that, she was cy-berbullied to the point that shehad to resign. Even the Hindu re-ligious belief of her parents waspublicly attacked by a facultymember, which went unpunished.If this happens at an institute likeOxford what is the message thatgoes out to the world," he said.

While she did issue a publicapology for 'unintentionally' hurt-ing anyone's emotions, Samantbelieves she was unfairly targeted

as a 'conscious attempt'.Vaishnav also brought up

Prince Harry's wife MeghanMarkle's accusations of racism byUK royals.

"A behaviour of a society isactually a reflection of its beliefsand value system. If such prac-tices of racial discrimination arefollowed at the highest level insociety what would be the fol-lowing at the lower levels," heasked.

Stating that the two instanceswere not isolated, he said thetreatment of migrants and theirsegregation in the UK on a racialbasis is very well known all overthe world.

A recent report stated that thedeath rate among people of Asianorigin because of COVID-19 ishigher than the death rate in oth-er communities in the UK, hesaid. "Doesn't it raise a majorquestion about equitable accessto health and indeed the entire ba-sic human rights issue?" He wenton to state that India is a countrywith a large diaspora in the UK."There is a natural concern for allof us. The era of colonialism isover but the mindset seems to bestill persistent.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

Indian Mujahideen terrorist ArizKhan, convicted in the killing of apolice officer in the 2008 BatlaHouse encounter in Delhi, was sen-tenced to death on Monday. The en-counter between the Delhi police anda bunch of terrorists holed up in theSouth Delhi neighbourhood had ledto the death of Inspector MohanChand Sharma while two others sus-tained injuries.

A native of Azamgarh in UttarPradesh, Khan was arrested by theDelhi police's Special Cell in Febru-ary 2018 after fleeing the spot in2008. He was convicted in the caselast week. Khan is also the allegedmastermind of the 2008 serial blastsacross Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, andUttar Pradesh.

The police sought the deathpenalty for Khan saying it was notjust any killing but a murder of a lawenforcement officer who was a de-fender of justice. Additional PublicProsecutor AT Ansari, appearing forthe police, said the case attracts ex-emplary punishment, which is capi-tal punishment.

Advocate MS Khan, appearingfor Ariz Khan, opposed the deathpenalty and said the incident was not

premeditated.The court had said on March 8

that it was "duly proved that ArizKhan and his associates caused themurder of police official and firedgunshot on the police official".

Calling it one of the "rarest of therare cases" that merit the deathpenalty, Additional Sessions JudgeSandeep Yadav on Monday also im-posed a total fine of ? 11 lakh againstKhan. The court said 10 lakh shouldbe immediately released to the fami-ly members of Inspector MohanChand Sharma.

In 2013, one Shahzad Ahmed,who, too, had escaped the BatlaHouse shootout with Khan, was con-victed and sentenced.

‘Bhiwani medical college to benamed after Pt Neki Ram’CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal today announcedto upgrade civil hospital, Bhiwani to a medical college. The college wouldbe named after renowned freedom fighter Pandit Neki Ram Sharma an-nounced the Chief Minister. He said the upgradation of this civil hospitalwould be done under a centrally sponsored project.The Chief Minister, who is also the Leader of the House made this an-nouncement while replying to a question asked in the Question Hour ofthe ongoing budget session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha. He also informedthat in point 112 of the budget speech, a statement was made to upgradethe civil hospital Bhiwani in the name of Dr. Mangal Sen was made, butnow this error has been rectified. He said that on January 26, 2019, hehimself had announced to upgrade the hospital and it had been decidedto name this hospital after the name of Pandit Neki Ram Sharma.

Batla house encounterconvict Ariz Khansentenced to death

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98702 Jindra Kalan Distt. Rohtak W/O SACHIN AHUJA Sukhchain Singh R/o Vill: Bhadhar Singh are the I R a j u s o n o f N o . S t a t e H a r y a n a P i n - R / o H . N O . 4 0 / 3 Maherna Kalan (Ludhiana) name of one and same 1 5 4 7 7 1 3 2 N D F R 124113. That my army PA R K A S H N A G A R changed my name to person but my correct Sha ravan La l Sunda records in my daughter’s MATA RANI CHOWK Harinder Kaur. name is Bahadur Singh.presently residing a Village name Retika Kumari & my NEAR SUNDER PARK 63372 63372Deepura, PO: Annthpur, son's name Rajit Rati is ,PO. MODEL TOWN, I J a swinde rpa l Kaur I, Anchal Gupta D/O Tehsil: Samber, District wrong. Now I want to JALANDHAR 144003 Sangha W/O Gurcharan S a n j e e v K u m a r R / O Jaipur(Raj) have changed Change in my a rmy PUNJAB, INDIA. Have Singh Sangha R/O Basti Shop No. 63 Jawahar my name from Raju to Raju records my daughter’s changed my name and Jawala Singh Wali Village Market Tehsil Shahkot Choudhary Vide affidavit name from Retika Kumari shall hereafter be known Kili Bodla Tehsil Zira Dist Distt. Jalandhar Have noAM 198035 da ted to Ritika & Son name from as TANIA AHUJA Ferozpur I Changed My C h a n g e d M y N a m e 13.3.2021 before Notary Rajit Rati to Rithik. 72778 Name Jaswinderpal Kaur A a n c h a l G u p t a T o Public , Kapurthala 100078 I, Geetika D/o Garish Sangha To Jaswinder Kaur Anchal Gupta.

98706 I Angrej Singh S/o Gurdial Mehta R/o St .no. 5 , Alias Jaswinderpal Kaur 63372Singh R/o Vill.Bhano Partap Nagar, Naloian Sangha. I, Neetu W/O Amrik Langa, Distt. Kapurthala, C h o w k , H o s h i a r p u r , 63372 S i n g h R / O B h u c h o Punjab, Pin-144620. That Punjab Have Changed I Harvinder Singh S/O Mandi (Bathinda) Have my army records in my My Name Geetika To Harpal Singh Vill. Sandaur Changed My Name To father’s name Gurdail Geetika Mehta Tehsil. Malerkotla Dist. Neetu Bhatia.Singh is wrong. Now I 72778 Sangrur Have Changed My 63372want to Change in my army I Jaspreet Kaur Nagra Name Harwinder Singh. I Sawaran Kaur And records my father’s name W/O Singh Charanjit 63372 K u l w a n t K a u r W / O from Gurdail Singh to R/O village Raipur PO I Gurpreet Kaur D/o Arjun Singh R/O Bagha Gurdial Singh Garhi Kanugoan Tehsil Ninder Singh W/o Harbeer P u r a n a ( M o g a ) M y

100078 Balachaur Dis t t SBS Singh Brar R/o Vill-Kauni Name Sawaran Kaur I, Aman Kumar S/o Nagar have changed my Te h - G i d d e r b a h a ( S r i And Kulwant Kaur One Anurag Kumar R/o. name to Kaur Jaspreet . Muktsar Sahib) have And The Same Person.H.No.B-3,V .S. Place 72778 changed my name to 63372Sector-4, Bodla Agra- I, Sukhjeet Kaur W/o Gurpreet Kaur Brar After 282010 Uttar Pradesh India Varinder Singh Romana Marriage.have have Changed my R/o Ja i tu (Fa r idko t ) 63372name to Amanpreet Singh have changed my name I , Gur te j S ingh S /O

72737 t o S u k h j e e t K a u r M a k h a n S i n g h R / O I, Swarn Singh S/o Romana after marriage. Langiana Nawan (Moga) Karam Singh R/o.Vill. 98723 Have Changed My Name Daburji Tehsil and Distt I , Jarnai l S ingh S/o To Gurtej Singh Brar.TarnTaran Have Changed Iqbal Singh R/o Jaitu 63372my name to Swaran Singh (Faridkot) declare that I Sunita Devi W/O Vikas note it in my police record my Jain R/O Mahindru Street,

72737 n a m e m e n t i o n e d a s N e a r C l u b C h o w k , I, Rajesh Kumar S/o Jarnail Singh, but in my Malerkotla (Sangrur) Have Jagdish Raj Gupta children school record Changed My Name To R/o.3503D Gali No.3, my name mentioned as Sunaina Jain.Azad Nagar Putlighar Nehru Singh, I Jarnail 63372Amri tsar Changedmy Singh alias Nehru Singh I Anisha Bansal Alies Jipsy name Rajesh Kumar to is the one same person W/O Kapil Singla R/O Rajesh Kumar Gupta S/o and bo th names a re Mohalla Green Avenue Jagdish Raj Gupta . related to me. S t r e e t , M a l e r k o t l a

72737 98723 (Sangrur) Have Changed I, hitherto Known as I, Asha Garg W/o Jiwan My Name To Punishika KASHMIR S/o SAI DAS P a r k a s h G a r g R / o Singla.R/o.Vill Malakpur PO Sunam Udham Singh 63372Thoba Tehsil Ajnala Distt W a l a T e h - S u n a m I, Meenakashi Verma W/o Amritsar Punjab. have U d h a m S i n g h Wa l a Sohan Lal Verma R/o changed my name and Shall (Sangrur) changed my Ahamedgarh (Sangrur) h e r e a f t e r b e k n o w n n a m e t o A s h a R a n i changed my name to KASHMIR MASIH Garg. Meenakshi Verma.

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PUBLIC NOTICESI, Hardeep Singh Bedi and my wife Smt. Puneet Bedi, R/o H.No. 224/2 Panchkula, declare that we disown our son, Siddharth Bedi and and his wife Smt. Amarpreet Kaur and his kids as they have gone astray and are not in our say. If anyone deals with them, will be doing so, on their own risk as we are not responsible for any act of my son, his wife and his kids

98712I, Paramjit Singh S/o Avtar Singh R/o Mohi (Ludhiana) declare that my daughter Ravneet Kaur Thind is out of my control. So i disown with h e r f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with her at his/her own risk.

63372I, Lal Din S/o Abdullah R/o De lh i Ga te Male rko t l a (Sangrur) declare that my son Dilshad Ahmed is out of my control. So i disown with him f r o m m y m o v e a b a l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with him at his/her own risk.

63372I, Satpal S/o Joginder Pal R/o Vpo. Rakkran Bet Teh-Balachaur (SBS Nagar) Pb, d e c l a r e t h a t m y s o n Sukhjinder Singh is out of my control. So i disown with him f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with him at his/her own risk.

63372I Har j inder Kaur W/O Mehnga Singh R/O Ward No. 1, Ajaib Colony, Sangrur Road, Patran, Tehsil Patran, Distt. Patiala, Disown My Son Prabhdeep Singh And Daughter-In-Law Gaganpreet Kaur Who Are Beyond My Control, From My Movable And Immovable Property. T h e C r e d i t o r Wi l l B e Responsible Himself.

63372I H i t h e r t o K n o w n A s Gurpree t Gi l l Son/ Of Mukhtiar Gill R/O VPO Dhudike, Patti Jhanda, Teh. & Distt. Moga (Pb) India -142053 Have Changed My Name And Shall Hereafter Be Known As Gurpreet Singh. It Is Certified That I Have Complied With Other Legal R e q u i r e m e n t s I n T h i s Connection.

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LOST & FOUNDI, Armaanjot Kaur Sandhu D / o B h u p i n d e r S i n g h Sandhu R/o H.No.154-A, Green Field, Near Laxmi Narayan Aashram, Majitha Road, Amritsar have declare that I have lost my bag in Bus Stand in which my Original Matric Certifcate of year 2017-18 of Guru Harkrishan Public School issued by CBSC has been lost. If a n y b o d y f o u n d p l e a s e contact me above address or Mobile No. 8791000094.

900020I, Surinder Kumar Narwal S/o Ranjeet Singh Narwal R/o House No. 1714/1 Kaithal Road Shiv Colony Karnal Haryana. That The Registration of My 2nd House Number 700/1 Taraori Prem Calony Has been Lost on 18 January 2021 in Shiv Colony Karna l . Whose information has been lodged in the concerned Police Station Area.

100065I, Sudesh W/o Gurdev Singh, R/o Sikhon wali Gali, Near Dogran Ga te , Ka i tha l , declare that I have lost Registered sale deed No. 1079/1, dated 02-06-2006 & Sale deed No. 2794/1, dated 21-08-2009, Plot No.123, C h i r a n j e e v C o l o n y , R.K.Puram, Ambala Road, Kaithal. If anybody is found then please contact Dinesh K w a t r a A d v o c a t e , M.9896368671, Chamber No. 69, Distr ic t Court Kaithal.

100039I, Kamlesh Devi W/o Ishwer Lal Verma R/o Cheeka Distt Kaithal Declares That My C o n v e y a n c e D e e d N o . 1662/1 , Dated 02-08-2005 Of My Property Has Been Lost At Cheeka On Dated 14-0 3 - 2 0 2 1 . A D d r N o . 132280072100261 Has Been Registered In Police Station , Cheeka. If Any Body Found Please Send At Above Address.

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PUBLIC NOTICESI, Prince S/O Mukesh Kumar R/O Village Alaur, Tehsil Khanna, Distt. Ludhiana, Punjab, Declare That I Belongs To Mazhabi Sikh Caste, My Religion Is Sikh But Mine And My Father's Name Doesn't Contains Sikha.

63372I, Tawinder Kaur Saini W/o Rajinder Singh Saini R/o H.No. 157/3/99E St.No. 3 Daba Giaspura Road Guru Amardass Colony Millerganj Distt. Ludhiana Punjab, India, confirm that Tawinder Kaur Saini & Tawinder Kaur & Tavinder Kaur is one and the same person. My correct name is Tawinder Kaur Saini & DOB is 9 Feb 1975.

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LOST & FOUNDI t i s n o t i f i e d f o r t h e information that my original M a r k s S t a t e m e n t c u m certificate of main secondary examination of year 2019 and Roll No. 2274672 issued by CBSE has been actually destroyed. Name of the candidate- Kiranjot Singh Kular. Full Address- C/o Kular Hospitals, G.T. Road, Bija, Khanna, Pb, 141412, Ph: 9613710001

63372I, Sanjeev Kumar S/o Dial Chand R/o Ibrahimwal Tarat Arshad Khan Bholath PSOC Bholath (Kapurthala) declare that my original title deed No. 2310 dated 12-03-2009 & Title Deed No. 163 Dated 02-05-1994 has been los t in Kapurthala dated 15-03-2021 during renovating of house. If anybody found then contact at my above address Mobile No. 9814877709.

63372I t i s n o t i f i e d f o r t h e i n f o r m a t i o n t h a t m y original/Duplicate qualifying examination certificate of M a i n / C o m p a r t m e n t , secondary, senior secondary examination of year 2017 and Roll No. 2303165 issued y CBSE has been actually lost/destroyed/mutilated. Name of candidate: Shagun Jamwal Full Address/Tel: D/o Ravi Kumar H.No. 341 Govind Colony Kharar (Pb) 9418463443

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PUBLIC NOTICEBEFORE SH. MANISH KUMAR LOHAN, HCS, ASSISTANT ESTATE OFFICER, EXERCISING THE POWERS OF THE ESTATE OFFICER. U.T., CHANDIGARHSubject:- Regarding Transfer of ownership to the extent of 50% share of Booth No. 20, Sector 27-C, Chandigarh, from the name of Late Sh. Jasvir Singh in the name of Sh. Raghbir Singh on the basis of Un-Regd. Will dated 10.5.2016 of Sh. Jasvir Singh.It is notified for the information of general public and all concerned that as per record of this office property known as extent of 50% share of Booth No. 20, Sector 27-C, Chandigarh stands in the name of Sh. Jasvir Singh. It has been reported by Sh. Raghbir Singh that Sh. Jasvir Singh is owner of the said property to the extent of 50% share and he expired on 9.6.2016 leaving behind following legal heirs :- (1) Smt. Sukhninder Kaur (Wife) (2) Sh. Jagtar Singh (Son) (3) Ms. Arshdeep Kaur (Daughter). Now, Sh. Raghbir Singh has applied for the transfer of property to the extent of 50% share of Booth No. 20, Sector 27-C, Chandigarh in his favour on the basis of Un-Regd. Will. Dated 10.5.2016 of Late Sh. Jasvir Singh. If anybody has any information about any other legal heirs of the deceased other than mentioned above, the same may be intimated to the Estate Officer, U.T., Chandigarh immediately. If anybody has any objection upon the mutation of the said property in favour of above named applicants they may furnish in writing in the office of the undersigned within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice in the shape of an affidavit duly attested by the Executive Magistrate/Notary Public, undertaking the genuineness of their objection being so raised to the Estate Office, Sector 17, Chandigarh, failing which 50% share of above said property will be mutated accordingly and no further claim whatsoever shall be entertained at any later stage.Sh. Manish Kumar Lohan, HCS, Assistant Estate Officer, Exercising the powers of the Estate Officer, U.T., Chandigarh

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2021

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 15

In a major push for rural develop-ment in the state, the Punjab Gov-ernment has earmarked Rs 4,300-crore for the holistic developmentof the villages.

"The idea is to develop each andevery village and ensure that everyvillager gets basic amenities at parwith the cities to end the rural-urbandivide in the state," said the ChiefSecretary, Ms. Vini Mahajan, whilereviewing the ongoing developmentprojects under the Rural Develop-ment and Panchayats department,here today.

Chairing a high-level meeting,the Chief Secretary complementedthe village panchayats for ensuringqualitative work progress at thegrassroots level despite the COVIDscare. She asked the department of-ficials to speed up the ongoing de-velopment works and completethem within the stipulated time

frame while ensuring quality con-trol. Under the rural developmentcorpus, the Punjab Government hadalready released Rs 3,600 crore, ofwhich Rs 2,400 crore had beenspent, while another instalment ofRs 700 crore will be released byApril. "The panchayats deserve spe-

cial applause for managing the de-velopment works and ensuring util-isation of Rs 2,400-crore fund de-spite the fact that the last one yearremained under the shadow ofCOVID," the CS commented.

Reiterating the commitment ofthe Captain Amarinder Singh-led

Punjab Government for the inclu-sive rural development in the state,Ms Mahajan said there was nodearth of funds and if needed, morefunds will also be made availablefor uplifting the basic infrastructurein the villages. Taking stock of theimplementation of the MGNREGAin the state, she directed the depart-ment to ensure optimal utilisation ofthe funds so that the developmentalwork cycle was not affected and liq-uidity was infused to the rural folks.She also asserted that adequategrants should be provided to the vil-lage gram panchayats to continuethe development works in a seam-less manner. Additional Chief Sec-retary, Rural Development and Pan-chayats, Ms. Seema Jain, apprisedthe Chief Secretary that all the on-going development works were be-ing monitored by the officials at theheadquarters. She assured that thedevelopment funds will reach thegrassroots level to improve thequality of life in the rural areas.

Rs 4,300-crore push forrural development in statePolice unearth Illegal weapon

supplier gang, arrests three JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: Patiala Police, in a majoroperation, has exposed a gangoperating in supply of illegalweapons from other states toPunjab. Three suspects have beenarrested with two 9 MM Pistols, OneRevolver and three magazines of 9MM pistol. While providing completedetails about the same here onMonday the Senior Superintendentof Police (SSP) ,Vikram JeetDuggal, IPS, said that following a tipoff, a police party of Rajpura SadarPolice Station that was on patrollingon GT Road Rajpura near JashanHotel, intercepted two suspectedpersons sitting near Naugaja Peer,on GT Road. Both were identifiedas Sorav Kumar son of KirshanChand,a resident of House No. 94,B R Ambedkar Colony, GilwaniGate, Amritsar and Mithun Kumarson of Mohinder Shah, resident ofArsar, Jamuri Police Station, DistrictJamui, Bihar, currently residing atPakha High School, Majitha Road,Amritsar, near 88 Foot Road. During the search of Sorav Kumar,a magazine with a 9mm pistol wasrecovered and 02 magazines with a9mm pistol were recovered fromMithun Kumar.

Patran police nab accusedalong with counterfeitcurrencyJAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: A police patrolling ofPatran police Station in this districtclaimed to have nabbed oneaccused and recovered from hispossession counterfeit currencyworth Rs. 1,12,000 besides hismotorcycle was also impounded.The catch was made following aconcrete tip-off on whose base aspecial Nakabandi was made nearto Narwana road at Patran.After registering a case in thisconnection police claimed to haveinitiated a further investigation intothe case as police is trying toascertain the source of thecounterfeit currency and hope to getan early break through in it.While providing a complete detailsabout the catch highly placedsources in the district police here onMonday told this correspondent thata police patrolling party of Patranpolice station in this district led bythe Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) ,Karnail Singh during a routinepatrolling in the respective area laterstationed itself near to Bhagat SinghChowk in Patran.

To stem covid spread, DC expands ambit of covid-19 vaccinationLUDHIANA (ANKUSH SHARMA): Further expanding the Covid vaccination ambit,Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Monday took a major decision in the larg-er public interest to ensure the safety of the wider population from the Covid pandemic by al-lowing vaccination for the journalists, employees of all government/private banks, govern-ment/private schools, staff of food grain agencies, judicial officers/court staff/advocates, mem-bers of the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) who have worked to check spread ofCovid19 pandemic by registering them as frontline workers. The move comes after DeputyCommissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma presided over a meeting of the District Task Force tostem steep rise by accelerating the vaccination drive to face the pandemic in full blast.

R.SINGH PATHANKOT, MAR 15

Covid-19 vaccine has beenstarted at Raj Hospital Sym-bol chowk in Pathankot.This information was givenby Dr. Anil Garg, the chiefmanager of the hospital,brain and spinal expert.

He said that for the con-venience of the people, thefacility of covid-19 vaccinehas been provided by thehospital. This vaccine is tobe applied to senior citizens,

health workers and peopleworking at the ground lev-el.To apply this vaccine, sen-ior citizens will have to bringtheir Aadhaar card andhealth workers and workersworking on the front linewill have to bring any oftheir identity cards.

The time to get this vac-cine in Raj Hospital SymbolChowk Pathankot will befrom 9 am to 3 pm.To applythis vaccine, every personwill have to register in RajHospital a day in advance.

Vaccination facility of Covid-19 started at Raj HospitalPathankot : Dr. Anil Garg

Examinations of govtschools started followinginstructions of covid-19

KULJIT SINGH JANDIALA GURU: Due to theCorona period, the annual homeexaminations of non board studentsin the government schools of thedistrict started following theinstructions of the PunjabGovernment and Health Departmentregarding Corona. Due to the solidarrangements made by thedepartment on the first day of theexamination, the students arrivedwearing masks. Disclosing thishere today Mr. Satinder Bir SinghDistrict Education Officer (Sec.)Amritsar and Mr. Rajesh Sharma,Mr. Harbhagwant Singh DeputyDistrict Education Officer Amritsarsaid that with the resurgence ofCorona cases in the state, thegovernment has decided to providehealth care to the school children inthe schools.

Bike rider die in roadmishap GURDITT SINGHSUJANPUR: Returning home fromduty, the home guard jawan wascrushed by the truck.Due to whichhe died on the spot. At the sametime, the driver left the truck andfled.The police have startedsearching for the driver with thetruck in possession.The deceasedhas been identified as Khushi Ram,49, a resident of Basarupvillage.Sujanpur police station in-charge Avtar Singh said that KhushiRam was stationed at Nangal Bhurpolice station and was coming to thepolice station Sujanpur forpaperwork that the truck comingfrom Malikpur near Sujanpur was hitby a truck,due to which he died onthe spot.The in-charge of the policestation said that the accused truckdriver absconded from there.But,the key remained in the truck.Reported that an attempt is beingmade to control the accused truckdriver.A case has been registeredagainst unidentified truck driver onthe statement of Vikas, son ofKhushi Ram.

CS reviews progress, compliments Panchayats & Rural Dev Dept

Gurmat Samagam dedicatedto enlightenment of Ravidas

NAWANSHAHAR: (CHET RAM RATTAN):Shiromani Bhagat Ravidas ji's birth anniversary wascelebrated with great reverence at Guru Nanak Mis-

sion Medicaland Educa-tional Trust,Guru NanakM i s s i o nH o s p i t a l ,D h a h a nKlan. On thisoccasion, agreat GurmatSamagam or-ganized was

dedicated to the enlightenment of Bhagat Ravidas ji.On this occasion, Sri Sukhmani Sahib ji was recitedas a song and after that Kirtan Jathe of Bhai JogaSingh Hazuri Ragi Guru Nanak Mission HospitalDhawan Klaran and students of Guru Nanak Nurs-ing Dhawan Klaran entertained accompanimentswith Gurbani Kirtan. On this occasion Hardev SinghKahama President Guru Nanak Mission Medical andEducational Trust Dhahan Klaran congratulated theSangat on the birth anniversary of Shiromani BhagatGuru Ravidas Ji and informed the Sangh about thelife history of Ravidas Ji. He said that all of usshould follow Ravidas ji's blessings and make ourlives successful.

CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAR 15

A two-day sports trial for thesports academy being set upby the Shiromani GurdwaraParbandhak Committee forgirls started today at PAPGround Jalandhar, which wasinaugurated by the Presidentof the Shiromani CommitteeBibi Jagir Kaur. It may be re-called that the ShiromaniAkali Dal President Bibi JagirKaur had recently announcedto set up a separate sports di-rectorate for girls and run asports academy. Under this, alarge number of girls partici-

pated in today's trials. Therewas a lot of excitement amongthe girls, who came for trialsfor hockey, basketball and ath-letics. On this occasion, BibiJagir Kaur said that today allover the world girls are mak-ing great strides in variousfields due to their talent. Shesaid that Guru Sahibs had giv-en great status to women.While the Shiromani Commit-tee conducts Khalsa Gamesfor schools and colleges everyyear, a separate Directorate ofSports and an academy forgirls is now being set up, sothat the talented girls can excelin the field of sports.

We will provide better facilitiesto girls : Bibi Jagir Kaur

SUSHIL GOYALSANGRUR, MAR 15

Water Supply and Sanita-tion (M) Employees Uniontoday announced to gheraoresidence of Punjab WaterSupply and Sanitation Min-ister Razia Sultana on April7 at Malerkotla if state gov-ernment remains failed toaccept the demands of theunion till then. The de-mands include grant oftime scale or promotion tothe employees as many em-ployees retire without get-ting even single promotion.

Rakesh Parocha, presi-dent of Sangrur branch ofthe union, said that first ofall they would submit amemorandum, enlisting de-mands, on March 25 to Su-perintending Engineer (SE)of the Sangrur Circle to for-ward the same to the minis-ter Razia Sultana. He said

in case the union did not gettime for a meeting with theminister they would becompelled to intensify theiragitation.

Parocha said that theunion had been strugglingfor a long period to gettheir demands accepted butto no avail so far as stategovernment had beenadopting dilly-dallying tac-tics in accepting their de-mands. He said on April 7the union would also hold aprotest march in Malerkot-la before gheraoing the res-idence of the ministerthere.

He also claimed that theminister had already admit-ted that their demands weregenuine and the samewould be resolved by hold-ing consultations with thehigh level officers of theDepartment of Water Sup-ply and Sanitation, Punjab.

Employees to gherao RaziaSultana's residence on April 7

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, MAR 15

A meeting of CITU TehsilCommittee was held at localGurila Nagar under the chair-manship of Harnek SinghAulakh and SukhchainSingh Rajoana FarmerLeader and Karamjit SinghSunny Labor Leader. On thisoccasion Comrade Gora saidthat the Modi government atthe Center has earlier pushedthe working class towardsslavery by converting therights obtained by the work-ing class through bloodystruggle into four codes. Byprivatization, the public sec-tor has been sold to the cor-porate houses for pennies,leaving millions of workersand employees jobless. Thenew pension scheme hasbeen implemented by abol-

ishing permanent recruit-ment. The food security hasbeen put under threat by en-acting three black lawsagainst farmers, the back-bone of the country.

He said that a joint con-vention of farmers and labor-ers will be held on March 24at Raikot to repeal the threeblack laws and bring a lawguaranteeing all crops and todemand withdrawal of falsecases filed on January 26 andrepeal the four anti-laborcodes. The convention willbe addressed by the state andcentral leadership and intel-lectuals. On the occasion,

Comrade Gora said that alarge number of workers andfarmers would be marchingtowards Delhi in the comingdays.

On this occasion com-rades Prakash Burmi, Raj-jaswant Singh Joga, PritpalSingh Bitta, Karnail SinghDhadhahur, ChamkaurSingh Nurpura, GurnamSingh, Bhupinder SinghGobindgarh, Gappu Garg,Jagdish Singh Burj Naklian,Rulda Singh Gobindgarh,Jarnail Singh Halwara, GoluSingh Sivian, Burj Hakiman,Mandeep Singh Johalan,Dharmapal etc. were present.

Preparations in full swing to makeMarch 24 huge success

Farmers send memorandumto PM againstrising prices

GAGAN BAWAGURDASPUR, MAR 15

The Kisan Mazdoor Sang-harsh Committee PunjabGurdaspur unit sent a memo-randum in the name of thePrime Minister. Due to notmeeting DC Gurdaspur, thedeputation gave the demandletter to the administrative of-ficer Amandeep Kaur Ghum-man.

Senior farmer leader Bak-shish Singh Sultani said thatfury demonstrations havebeen held against the risingprices of petrol / diesel andLPG at the call of the UnitedFarmers Front. Under this, amemorandum has been sentto the PM led by the commit-tee's zoan Baba Mastu, TejaSingh Swatantra.

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, MAR 15

District Ludhiana rural policehas claimed to have arrestedbad elements accused in differ-ent cases in order to maintainlaw and order in the city.

Giving detailed informa-tion regarding this, SSP Cha-ranjeet Singh Sohal said thatJagdeep Singh Jaggu son of Ut-tam Singh with his accomplicesSukhdeep Singh Mogli, Har-manjot Singh, Kamal Singhand Rajwinder Singh heldGurtej Singh son of NachatarSingh resident of Akhara cap-tive near sports ground, Dholanwith an intension to kill him.

SSP Sohal further added thatthe accused fired rounds in air,damaged victim's motorcycleand attempted to kill him so,police filed FIR no. 6 under sec-tion 307, 325, 323, 14,149 ofIPC at police station Sadar. SSPadded that police arrested theaccused and recovered a coun-try made pistol and another toygun resembling original pistol.

He also mentioned that allthe accused are history-sheeters and it is worth men-tioning that 8 FIRs are alreadyfiled against accused JagdeepSingh Jaggu, 2 against Har-manjot Singh, 4 against Ra-jwinder Singh and 3 againstSukhdeep Singh Mogli.

Police arrests history-sheeters,weapons recovered

DHARAM PAL PUNNIJAITU, MAR 15

At the call of SanyukatKisan Morcha, Kirti KisanUnion, Punjab StudentsUnion and NaujwanBharat Sabha took out amotorcycle march invarious villages chantingslogans against the Modigovernment at the Cen-ter for repeal of anti-peo-ple black laws . On theoccasion of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh'smartyrdom day onMarch 23, a message gaveto a large number of youth toreach the Delhi borders.

Sarabjit Singh Ajit Gill,District President, KirtiKisan Union and Iqbal SinghBishnandi, Vice President,Kirti Kisan Union said thatthe Union Government, BJPand its IT cell were constant-

ly spreading the lie that thenumber of agitators againstagricultural laws had de-creased.And the youth haveseparated from the front

While the farmers' front is infull swing and farmers, la-borers, youth and various or-ganizations are participatingin it. The youth involved inthe motorcycle marchproved that the youth arewith the front and the enthu-siasm of the people has notdiminished in any way.

Kisan organisations take motorcyclemarch against Modi govt

Mental fitness is just asimportant as physical

fitness: Dr. SeemaKAPURTHALA (PAWAN KALIA): It is need ofthe hour to be mentally fit as mental fitness is just asimportant as physical fitness , these words was ex-pessed by Civil Surgeon Dr. Seema while addressinga district level training program on the topic of Men-tal Health . Hundreds of A.N.M’s and Asha workersparticipated in this training program and they wereguided to aware on the importance of the mentalhealth while working in the field. Civil Surgeon saidthat in present , stressful atmosphere and and peo-

ple’s life stylegreatly affect-ed the mentalhealth of thepeoples whichu l t i m a t e l yalso affectedtheir family

lives & peoples often hesitate to discuss their prob-lems which is not good sign for them added Dr.Seema. Nodal Officer, Mental Health and De-ad-duction Dr. Sandeep Bhola said that a person grippedwith mental health problem many times feels help-less and hesitate to share his problem with others andhis such behavior internally weeken the patient.

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 15

At the call of United Forumof Bank Unions, led by tentrade unions, bank workerstoday went on a two-day gen-eral strike in which a largenumber of workers participat-ed and made serious allega-tions against the Modi gov-ernment to privatize thebanks and demanded an endto unnecessary interference ingovernment institutions.

Bank employees allegedthat the Modi governmentwas acting as a puppet of ahandful of families andwrong decisions are beingmade to lay off one millionemployees and officers. Ad-dressing the gathering, Com-rade Pawan Jindal said thatthere was a huge outcryagainst the dictatorial Modi

government of the country to-day by handing over the pub-lic sector institutions to pri-vate hands and the direct eyeof the government is now onthe state-owned banks whichthe Modi government is try-ing to hand over to Jundi'scronies but the government'splans will never be allowed tosucceed. Comrade Satpal Jin-dal, Comrade Lajpat RaiGoyal also slammed the gov-ernment and said that big cap-italists were fleeing abroad byhiding the debts of state banks

at the behest of the govern-ment. But the Modi govern-ment is becoming a puppet ofdefaulters instead of helpingthe state-owned banks. Eventhe ATMs became empty latein the evening which broughtthe business to a standstill andpeople had to face troubles.On this occasion ManmeetSingh and Charanjit Sharmaappealed that all the tradeunions and workers of vari-ous institutions have to mobi-lize for a fierce struggle underone flag.

Bank strike disrupts life KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDADBAHA, MAR 15

SMO Dr. Parvjit Singh Gu-lati flagged off an aware-ness van by the HealthDepartment to motivatepeople to make a card re-lated to 'AyushmanBharat Sarbat SehatBima Yojna'. Giving in-formation to journalistson this occasion, Dr. Gu-lati said that many peo-ple of the city could not gettheir Health InsuranceScheme cards made andhence, an awareness van car-rying Asha workers andANM's was sent off today tomake people aware of thisscheme.

The van has been sent todifferent neighborhoods ofthe city. He informed thatunder this scheme, the card

holders are being providedfree treatment up to five lakhrupees and the facility willbe available in all govern-

ment hospitals and govern-ment approved private hos-pitals. He appealed to thepeople under this scheme toget their health insurancecards made as soon as possi-ble. Dr. Deepak Rai, Phar-macist Ajay Goyal, GaneshTanwar, Jaswinder Jassi, Up-vaidya Dhalwinder Singhand Manjit Singh etc. werealso present on the occasion.

Awareness van flagged off formaking health insurance cards

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Eight new positive cases detected in HamirpurHAMIRPUR: COVID-19 is on rise in the district and eight new cases have beendetected till Sunday night, according to CMO, Hamirpur, Dr. Archana Soni. Shesaid that the reports of two 50 and 46-year-old women working in village Raiilschool and a 16-year-old girl studying in the same school have been foundpositive. Similarly, a 39-year-old woman and 13-year-old girl from village Nahalvi, a72-year-old woman from village Samoh and a 30-year-old man from village Panjvihave also been found positive as per RT-PCR tests. The Chief Medical Officer saidthat on Sunday, a total of 15 samples were taken for a rapid antigen test in thedistrict, in which a Medical Officer working in the Local Medical College hospitalhas also been found positive. With this, the total number of active cases in thedistrict has risen to 53 and that of the total positive cases to 3,112. Forty ninehaving lost their lives to the dreaded CORONAVIRUS and the number of the curedcases stood at 3,009.

HIMACHAL/JKWoman's amputatedhead found in Baddi

ANWAR HUSSAINBADDI: The woman's severed headhas been found in Bilawali villagenear Baddi. Police was informed afterthe head was seen by people comingnear the pile of garbage in Surya Galifrom Bilawali towards DaburCompany.According to theinformation received, DSP NavdeepSingh told that the area has beensealed and the police is engaged inits investigation. He told that theforensic team will also come andinvestigate it.

Normal life paralyzeddue to bankers strike inHamirpurHAMIRPUR: Normal banking businessin all parts of the district was paralysedfollowing a two-day strike that startedon Monday under the banner of unitedForum of bank unions. However, theATM’s continued to function as enoughmoney was with them, according to aspokesman of the banks. The strikingofficers and employees held a dharnaand raised anti central governmentslogans outside the Regional office ofthe Punjab National bank here andalleged that the decision of the centralgovernment to privatize two moregovernment banks was anti people andagainst the wishes of the employees.Pradeep Kaundel, the spokesman ofthe strikers said that the decision of theprivatization and handing over the profitmaking banks to the private sectorwould not be tolerated. He asked thecentral government to take back thisdecision failing which they would becompelled to go on indefinite strike andfor that the entire responsibility wouldbe of the government. Kaundel saidthat the banks were running inoperational profits and it was notunderstood why they were being givenin hands of the private parties.

Swarnim Himachal celebrations to becelebrated in a befitting manner: CM

AGENCYSHIMLA, MAR 15

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur,while presiding over the High PowerCommittee review meetingregarding preparation for theSwarnim Himachal Celebrationsand Swarnim Himachal Rath Yatraheld here today, said that theSwarnim Himachal celebrationswould be celebrated throughout theyear in a befitting manner toshowcase the gloriousdevelopmental journey of the Stateduring the last fifty years. Jai RamThakur said that the whole event hasbeen divided into two parts, theSwarnim Himachal Yath Yatrawhich would start from 15th April,this year for 51 days and secondevent would be the SwarnimHimachal Celebration, which wouldbe held throughout the year in which51 events would be organized bydifferent departments in variousparts of the State. He said thatspecial focus must be laid oneducating the younger generationregarding the glorious history of theState. He said that events such asdeclamation, quiz, essay writing,painting competitions, one act playsetc. would be held at school andcollege level to ensure activeinvolvement of the youth in thecelebrations. He said that EducationDepartment must take a lead in thisdirection so that the youngergeneration could be proud of its richhistory and past of the State. Chief

Minister said that properdocumentation of the whole eventmust be ensured so that it becomesmost important document for thegenerations to come. He said thatinvolvement of local artists must beensured to drive the message of theState Government to the masses. Hesaid that effective use of media mustalso be ensured by involving NGOs,Mahila Mandals, Yuvak Mandal,elected representatives ofPanchayati Raj Institutions etc. JaiRam Thakur said that the SwarnimHimachal Rath Yatra must be amassive medium to establish contactwith the every Himachali. He saidthat message must be clear thatevery person of the State has madetheir contribution in developmentand progress of the State. He saidthat every farmer, engineer, soldier,teacher, doctor and common manhas made his contribution in thisdevelopmental journey of the State.He said that the event should not bea ceremonial one but should create asense of contact with each and every

person of the State. He said that aspecial event must be held to honourthe people of the State who havecreated a special place forthemselves in different fields.

Chief Minister said that onebooklet must be prepared on theState level achievements andprogress and another highlightingthe district level statistics. He saidthat the hoardings must be installedat the strategic points and shouldhighlight achievements of the Stateduring the last fifty years. He saidthat the adequate publicity materialmust be prepared and provided tothe people of the State. SecretaryGAD Devesh Kumar whilewelcoming the Chief Minister andother dignitaries detailed the eventsto be held round the year duringGolden Jubilee Year of theStatehood. He said that StateGovernment had received requestsby various departments to organize67 events during year long SwarnimHimachal Celebration. DirectorRural Development Convener

Swarnim Rath Yatra ArindhamChaudhary said that target has beenfixed to reach out to as many as 25lakh people through this Rath Yatra.Director Tourism Yunus said that theRath would be ready by end of thismonth. He said that the Rath wouldalso carry all the required publicitymaterial such as folder, pamphletsetc. which would be distributed tothe people of the State. DirectorTransport Anupam Kashyap saidthat the Procurement Executive SubCommittee for procurement ofRaths has held four meetings. Hesaid that all the Raths would alsohave LED Screens and one anchoras well as one supporting staff.Director Information and PublicRelations Harbans Singh Brasconsaid that live streaming would bedone of the Rath Yatra throughsocial media, besides propercontents would be prepared anddisseminated through social media.All the members of the Committeegave their valuable suggestions onthe occasion to make the event agrand success. They suggestedconstruction of memorials inmemory of various freedomfighters and Praja Mandal andPajotha Andolan activists. SpeakerVidhan Sabha Vipin Parmar, JalShakti Minister Mahender SinghThakur, Urban DevelopmentMinister Suresh Bhardwaj, SocialJustice and Empowerment MinisterSarveen Chaudhary, RuralDevelopment and Panchayati RajMinister Virender Kanwar.

Government presentslegislation to increase

borrowing limit of stateAGENCYSHIMLA, MAR 15

Amid strong opposition by theCongress members in the stateassembly Jai RamGovernment presented theHimachal Pradesh FiscalResponsibility and BudgetManagement amendment bill2021 to increase theborrowing limit ofgovernment, enhancing itsearlier limit. Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur who also hold theportfolio of Financespresented this amendment billsaying state Governmentwould not be under whoppingdebt burden if CongressGovernments had not left thedebt burden to the tunes of Rs50,000 Cr on the state.''HPFR&BM Act enacted inthe year 2005 was beingamended as actual receipts ofCentral taxes declined during2019-20 due to which share ofStates also got affected.'' '' TheGovernment of India hasallowed one time specialdispensation for additionalborrowing to compensateStates for lower devolution ofCentral taxes on 26thFebruary, 2020 subject toamendment in the FiscalResponsibility and BudgetManagement Laws.'' Thakursaid,"the state received onetime receipts from the UnionGovernment on account of itsshare of CompensatoryAfforestation Fund

Management and PlanningAuthority (CAMPA) Fundcredited in the Public Account,which is included in the publicdebt of the State.'' '' To enablethe State Government to availadditional borrowing in publicinterest and to maintain thepace of development, thefiscal deficit could not bemaintained at the level of 3 percent of the estimated GrossState Domestic Product in thefinancial year 2019-20. '' ChiefMinister stated in the bill thatit has become necessary toamend the Himachal PradeshFiscal Responsibility andBudget Management Act,2005 suitably from lst January,2020 . Thakur said provisionsof the Bill, when enacted,should be enforced throughthe existing Governmentmachinery. State Governmenthas been able to borrow uptotwo per cent more than thepresent limit of fiscal deficit ofthree per cent of Gross StateDomestic Product for the year2019-20 which compensatedit for loss of revenue of theState and helped to maintainthe pace of development.

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, MAR 15

SJVN successfully organized26th Inter CPSU Chess &Bridge Tournament at Shimlaunder the aegis of PowerSports Control Board from13.03.21 to 15.03.2021. ShriD.P. Kaushal, Chief GeneralManager (HR)graced theClosing Ceremony andawarded trophy, medals &certificates to the winningteam members today. D.P.Kaushal congratulated thewinners and appreciated theplayers for exhibiting teamspirit and sportsmanshipduring the tournament.

Eighteen Teams, 10Men’s & 03 Women’s Teamfor Chess, & 8 Men’s Teamfor Bridge from various PSUsincluding Ministry of Power,CEA, REC, Powergrid,

NHPC, THDC, DVC, BBMBPFC and SJVN participated inthe tournament SJVNorganised the Chess & bridgeTournament in associationwith Chess Association &Bridge Association, HimachalPradesh. The rules of BridgeFederation of India and FIDELaws of Chess respectivelywere followed during thetournament.

In Chess Tournament,BBMB Team in the Men’scategory and Powergrid(PGCIL) Team in Women’s

category emerged as thewinners in the TeamChampionships. BiswajyotiDass, PGCIL, and KamleshBhoorani, PGCIL won theIndividual Championships inthe Men’s singles andWomen’s singles categoriesrespectively.

In Bridge Tournament,DVC Team was the winner inthe Team Championship andA Bannerjee & PapanBhandari, DVC won thePaired Championship in theMen’s singles category.

26th Inter CPSU Chess & BridgeTournament concludes at SJVN

Social, economic, educationgroup heads appointed

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 15

District level meeting to decide the action planfor the new academic session in the ongoingSaraswati Vidya Mandir in Una district washeld at Pragpur Saraswati Vidya Mandir in theprovince executive under the chairmanship ofDr. Khemraj Sharma, vice president, in whichseveral plans for the new education sessionwere considered. was done. A special plan hasbeen made for how to introduce new childrento the infant classroom. Officials also gavetheir suggestions regarding fixing the monthlyfee to be charged from the children in the neweducation session. There were alsosuggestions to make some changes at thedistrict level keeping in mind the economicvision of the parents at the local level by takingthe monthly fee fixed at the province level. Onthe suggestion of the members, DistrictPresident of Himachal Education CommitteeUna District Yashpal Singh Kanwar said thatthe above decisions will be implemented onlyafter looking at the economic and socialconditions at the local level. The situation ofLohara and Saraswati Vidya Mandir RaipurSahodan Schools was also discussed in the

meeting. The names of academic heads,computer heads, training and honorary headshave been decided in the meeting. AcharyaRajkumari of Chintpurni, co-head withDistrict Academic Head Dr. Ravi Baidya, wasmade. The name of Acharya Reema Dhimanof Paragpur has been fixed with DistrictComputer Head Shruti Sharma. Theresponsibility of head of training has beenassigned to Sunidhi Sharma from Una. Alongwith this, the names of social and economicgroups were also decided. Provincial VicePresident Dr. Khemraj Sharma said that allschools should make their annual budget andget the audit done before 30 June. At themeeting, Chief Conservator JagannathSharma, Master Prem Swaroop Sharma.

Factories in Una violatingnorms, officers unaware

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 15

Himachal Pradesh invites managers from outside states toset up industries in Himachal Pradesh for which theHimachal Pradesh government also provides subsidy tothose industries. The government is only tempted that theyouth of Himachal Pradesh can get a job in HimachalPradesh but vice versa. Factory labour is done from outsidebut due to subsidy, the factory is set up in Himachal, onesuch case has come up in village Vasal, about 8 km fromthe district headquarters, here the poisonous substance andashes constantly arise from the factory. It is seen, but noemployee works in Himachal, it means that the industryoperators want to establish industries here but they do notwant to give jobs to Himachali youth. People who came,when our correspondent visited Datta da Udyog, found thatthere is constant smoke coming out of the factory, which isnot spreading in the chimney and spreading in the localarea, breathing here has become difficult.At present, wecould not find any manager in this factory, onlyemployees seen doing work. When we spoke to thefactory foreman, he said that we have certified the factorywith the Pollution Department when they were asked whythere was so much smoke. SK Dhiman of PollutionControl Board said that we have also received a complaintletter on CM Helpline regarding this industry. We sent JEof our department to investigate this industry from here,samples of smoke have been collected which have beensent to Dharamshala for checking.

9.20 lakh robbed at gun pointPANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 15

The robbery was carried out at8:20 am this morning near thevegetable market of UnaHeadquarters at gun point.Accused escaped aftercommitting the loot . Fourrounds of firing were alsocarried out by the dacoits toexecute their plan. Police hasalso recovered 3 bullet shells from the spot. According to theeyewitnesses, at 8:20 am, four people were riding in a blue carafter committing the crime at the office of the wine trader nearthe vegetable market of Una. The employee on the site saidthat according to the CCTV footage outside the office, the carwas blue and four people were seen coming out of it, out ofwhich 2 people came in and two people went out. SPArjit Sensaid that we have received information about the robbery andwe are doing all the investigation, we are also receiving somespecific photos and with high alert on all the border. All fourdacoits will soon be arrested by the police, he added.

Bikram Thakur inauguratesshopping complex

Divyang selection and artificial limbmeasurement camp on Mar 21 at Jwalaji

KISHORI LAL BAINSAMB, MAR 15

State level polio afflicted Divyangselection and artificial limbmeasurement camp is beingorganized by the InternationalNarayan Seva Sansthan Udaipur(Rajasthan) on March 21 at 9:00 amin Agrawal Dharamshala. Whilegiving information, Narayan SevaSansthan branch Hamirpur presidentRasil Singh Mankotia said that thecamp will be inaugurated by formerminister and local MLA RameshDhawala. The same programme willbe presided over by former ministerRavindra Ravi. There is specialenthusiasm among the local people

towards this programme as it ishappening for the first time in districtKangra. In order to make this camp asuccess, more people with disabilitiescan benefit the local people havestarted working as teamwork.

Local charities have startedarranging rooms and halls for thedifferently-abled to stay in AgarwalDharamshala. Narayan SevaSansthan Hamirpur, which looksafter the work of the entire state, hasstarted the work of publicity at itslevel. For this, electronic media, printmedia and posters etc. are beingresorted to. The camp has startedcoming from Udaipur, and the teamof doctors is coming to Jwalaji on 20March.

ASHOK KUMARTAHLIWAL, MAR 15

Industry, Transport, Labour andEmployment Minister Bikram SinghThakur inaugurated the shoppingcomplex in Tahliwal today. He saidthat 6 shops have been completed at a

cost of Rs 30.32 lakhs, while 4 moreshops will be built. Instructions havebeen given to departmental officersfor this. Apart from this, the IndustriesMinister also inaugurated thefacilitation center building of therepaired industries department atTahliwal at a cost of Rs 37.65 lakh.

CM inaugurates 5 miningcheck posts virtually

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 15

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurinaugurated 5 mining check posts set up indistrict Una virtually from Shimla today.On this occasion, Industries MinisterVikram Thakur was specially present,giving information in this regard, HPSIDCVice President Prof. Ram Kumar said thatthe program was held today at 12 noon inBathi in Haroli Assembly constituency,where Union Minister of State for Financeand Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakurjoined from Delhi through videoconferencing and Industries, Transport,Labor and Employment Minister BikramSingh Thakur was present at Bathdi. SatpalSingh Satti, President of the sixth State

Finance Commission, was also present inShimla along with Chief Minister Jai RamThakur. Industries Minister Vikram Thakursaid that to check the problem of illegalmining and overloading in district Una,mining check posts have been made inGagret, Bathi, Mahatpur, Pandoga andPolian and Dharmakantas have also beenestablished here.

Lokpal Punjab addresses Law students on WorldConsumer Rights DayCHANDIGARH/MOHALI: Justice Vinod Kumar Sharma, Lokpal, Punjab addressed stu-dents in a webinar on “World Consumer Rights Day” organized by Aryans College of Law, Ra-jpura, Near Chandigarh. Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group presided over the webi-nar. Around 500 students of LL.B. & B.A.LL.B. attended the program through zoom, facebook& Youtube.

Justice Sharma while discussing the importance of this day said that this day signifies cele-bration and solidarity in the international consumer movement, demanding that, consumerrights are to be respected and protected. Consumer Rights broadly means that each consumerhas the right to have information about the quality, potency, quantity, purity, price and standardof goods or services, he explained.

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SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR/MOHALI, MAR 15

Under the guidance of GurcharanSingh, DSP (D) and Gurmel SinghIncharge CIA Kharar, the CIA hassuccessfully arrested 5 members ofa gang viz Rakesh Giri, SaharukhKhan, Chandu, Nanu and Sohail.Police had recovered three Pulsarmotorcycles, one pistol .315 borealong with two rounds and otherdeadly weapons from accused.

Disclosing this here today SSPMohali Satinder Singh said that on14-3-2020, the police party of CIAstaff got information that RakeshGiri Sahrukh Khan, Chandan, Nanuand Sohail are involved in manysnatching and thefts cases. All theaccused are aged between 20-24years. This gang is highly active inKharar and Mohali. They are hav-ing many snatched motorbikes, ille-gal and deadly weapons. This gangtarget newly developed colonies inMohali mostly at intervein and ear-ly mornings. On their snatched mo-torbikes they generally target locallaborers and commutators forsnatching money and mobilephones by using their illegal anddeadly weapons, due to these inci-dents local people were in fear. Thisgang has done many snatching andtheft related crimes near surround-

ing area of Sunny Enclave, Khararby using their illegal and deadlyweapons and they all were sittingand doing planning to execute ma-jor dacoity and snatching in localarea. A team of SI Harjinder Singh,CIA Staff raided and arrested thegang while planning this incident.

During interrogation it hascome to notice that this gang hascommitted 70/80 crimes near Sun-

ny Enclave, Kharar and 80/90 nearZirakpur. Modus operandi of thisgang were come together in groupsat intervening time, beat up local la-borers and commutators snatchmoney or valuable items and ranaway after committing the crime.This gang was active from last 2/3year in Mohali area. Recovery ofsnatched items are underway. Manythefts and snatching related FIR’s

were already registered in differentPolice Stations against member ofthis gang.

A case FIR no. 65 Dated14/03/2021 u/s 399, 402, 379, 379BIPC & 25-54-59 Arms Act PSKharar has registered and Police re-mand of accused Rakesh Giri,Shahrukh Khan, Chandan, Nanuand Sohal was taken from Hon’blecourt. Case is under investigation.

CIA Kharar busts gang involvingin snatching, thefts; five held

Kharar doctors protestagainst Amritsar

hospital firing

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR/MOHALI,MAR 15

Doctors of Sub Divisionalhospital here today went ontwo hours strike in responseto the call given by the gov-ernment doctors body, Pun-jab Civil medical services(PCMS) association. Wholestaff of the hospital support-ed and participated in theprotest rally held in front ofthe OPD complex.

A doctor was injured inthe crossfire between two ri-val groups in the Districthospital, Amritsar yesterday.Addressing the protestingstaff Dr Manohar Singh,General Secretary of PCMSassociation said that the as-sociation since long has been

demanding adequate securi-ty arrangements in state hos-pitals especially in emer-gency wards. It has becomevery common that many op-posite groups after admis-sion in emergency fight eachother because of lack of po-lice or security presence.

The protesting staff alsoraised slogans against Pun-jab government for failing toprovide security in the hospi-tals.

Dr Manohar Singh toldthat soon a meeting will bearranged with the healthminister and security issuewill be taken up with him.He demanded that policepockets be set up in the subdivisional and district hospi-tals to prevent such unto-ward incidents.

4 gms, 38 mg heroin seizedfrom two youngstersSHIVSHAHPUR KANDI: The police partyled by ASI Suram Singh, deployedin anti-narcotic cell, had a blockadenear the bus stand. Two youngsterson a bike came from the tank chowkside towards the bus stand. Policehinted at stopping the bike-riddenBoys .But they got nervous and theyoung man sitting behind threw thepolybag in his hand.Police seized 4grams and 38 mg of heroin ontaking a search.In Police StationDivision No.1, a case has beenregistered against Saajan residentof Brahma Cell Gravel and RahulGill resident of Amritsar.

Unemployed LinemanUnion to protest inPatiala on March 17ISHWAR GARGTALWANDI SABO: UnemployedLineman Union (Mann) Punjab hasannounced a dharna on March 17in front of Patiala head office. The posts of 3500 Auxiliary Linemenwere advertised, out of which all theunemployed Linemen have beencounseled, about 2393 of themwere given appointment letters bythe Punjab Government andPowercom management on March18, 2020 and the rest thereafter.The remaining unemployedLinemen comrades have beenforced to stumble from door to door.These comrades are financially andmentally distressed due to non-receipt of appointment letters andare awaiting appointment letters.They have demanded from themanagement of Powercom thatUnemployed Lineman comradesand those 42 plus comrades, whohave undergone counseling as perthe orders of the Punjab andHaryana High Court should also beissued appointment letters onpriority basis and the recruitmentprocess should be completed.Unemployed Lyman Union (Mann)

Punjab will go on a dharna andhunger strike on March 17 in front ofPowercom's headquarters inPatiala. On this occasion, GurpreetSingh Mirjeana, Gurwinder SinghManwala, Gurmeet Singh, HarjitSingh Laleana, Avtar Singh Ramaetc. were present.

Medical checkupcamp from March 16to 20 at Prabh AasraSHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR/MOHALI: A medicalcheckup camp is being organized atPrabh Asra Charitable MedicalService Center Chanalon, (Kurali)from March 16 to 20 . As perinformation received from PrabhAasra Dr. Amrit Singh MDCardiology is coming exclusivelyfrom California (USA) to checkupthe patients. To take advantage ofDr. Sahib's great experience, thegeneral public is informed that fromtomorrow, heart patients can visitPrabh Asra Charitable Hospital toavail their checkups and treatment.

Modern SandeepniSchool celebratescolorful graduation day

R.SINGHPATHANKOT: The graduationceremony was held under thechairmanship of Principal NeerajMohan Puri to commemorate theadmission ceremony for the formaleducation of the students ofKindergarten at Modern SandeepniSchool Pathankot.Chieffunctionaries Pawan Mahajan,Director Pinky Mahajan and NavjotMahajan were specially present atthe ceremony. During theceremony, Principal Neeraj MohanPuri congratulated the guests andstudents for entering formaleducation from pre-primary level toprimary level.Later, ChairmanPawan Mahajan, Director PinkyMahajan and Navjot Mahajanstarted the program by lighting thelamp.Nursery and L.K.G.studentsgave colorful performances.Chairman Pawan Mahajan said thatthe main objective of this ceremonyis that when children enter theprimary level, new, great andcreative ideas are born in them,which teachers have an importantrole to give proper education.On thisoccasion, students of UKG weregiven certificates in the form ofdegrees.Principal Neeraj MohanPuri thanked the parentspresent.The school staff was alsopresent on the occasion.

OUR CORRESPONDENTCHANDIGARH, MAR 15

Keeping in view of surgingcases of COVID-19 and high-er Case Fertility Ratio (CFR)in Punjab, the Health MinisterMr. Balbir Singh Sidhu todayinstructed all the Civil Sur-geons to motivate the severeCOVID-19 patients for earlytreatment at Governmenthealth facilities.

Expressing concern overthe symptomatic people typi-cally fails to report at health-care facilities, Mr Sidhu saidthat as per the death reviewteam of the Health Depart-ment, 77.90 percent of casesof COVID-19 came for treat-ment in hospitals with severesymptoms at a late stagewhich is a major cause of

higher CFR of State. He saidthat it is the moral responsibil-ity of all citizens that if anyonefeels symptoms of COVID-19, he/she should not delayseeking treatment and imme-diately visit the Govt. healthfacilities to get tested so as thepositive patients can be treatedtimely. .

Health Minister pointedout that the true level ofCOVID-19 transmission is

frequently underestimated byhigh-risk populations. Be-cause of it, people with severesymptoms remain undetectedand thus fail to get treatment athealthcare facilities. Sharingthe details of positive cases ofCOVID-19 and deaths report-ed urban/Rural populations, hefurther said that 71.40 percentcases have been confirmedfrom the urban population andonly 28.60 percent cases havebeen reported from the ruralpopulation, during January toFebruary 2021, but the deathsreported in urban is 45.50 per-cent which is much lower thanrural where it is 54.50 percent.It clarified that people with co-morbidity came for treatmentwith severe and advancedstage of COVID-19 at hospi-tals in rural areas and he urged

the COVID-19 patients to im-mediately contact the hospitalin case of any health issue.

Divulging about the age-wise distribution of COVID-19 deaths, Health Ministersaid that it is also a matter ofconcern that more than 80 per-cent of deaths have been re-ported in people with elderlyage.

He said that 31.70 percentof deaths were reported in pa-tients aged between 61-70years, 31.50 percent above 70years and 20.30 percent deathsreported in patients who wereaged between 51-60 years.Sidhu also appealed to thepeople to take maximum ben-efit of free of cost vaccinationdrive and all eligible benefici-aries must get themselves vac-cinated at the earliest.

Balbir Sidhu instructs civil surgeons to motivate severeCovid-19 patients to get treatment at hospitals

Persons stealing gas from LPGCylinders caught red handed

KHARAR/MOHALI (OUR CORRESPON-DENT): Some residents of Guru Nanak Colony nearDream Homes today caught red handed some em-ployees of a gas agency who were stealing gas. Someofficer bearers of the Society of area were shocked

when they noticed bad smellcoming from a vehicle carrying agas cylinder. When they reachedon the spot they saw that someemployees of a gas agency wereextracting gas from the cylinderwith a device. Meanwhile, alarge number of people gatheredthere and saw that the name plate

on the front of the vehicle was damaged and no num-ber was written on any other side of the vehicle and noowner's name was written on the vehicle. The residentsof the colony made a video of it and it went viral. Anofficial of the colony said that at their houses gas cylin-ders did not work for a month and people often com-plaint about less weighed cylinders. They said that anyagency which has this function should be canceled af-ter investigation. Meanwhile, when the matter wasbrought to the notice of Kharar SDM Himanshu Jain,he immediately asked the Kharar DSP to investigatethe matter and take action against the accused.

CHET RAM RATTAN NAWANSHAHAR,MAR 15

Deputy CommissionerSheena Aggarwal todaydistributed wheelchairs todifferently-abled peoplein administrative com-plex. Wheelchairs weredistributed to 32 different-ly abled persons from fiveblocks of the district. Thecamp was organized bythe district administrationin collaboration with theSocial Security Depart-ment, District Red CrossSociety and Central Phar-maceutical India PrivateLimited Tonsa. While ad-

dressing the differentlyabled people on this occa-sion, Deputy Commis-sioner Dr. Sheena Aggar-wal said that the districtadministration was alwaysready for the welfare ofthe differently abled andevery effort was beingmade in this regard. Shesaid that they are an im-

portant part of our society,so it is the common re-sponsibility of all of us towork for the betterment ofthem. On this occasionVijaya Kumar, director ofShatabdi PharmaceuticalIndia Pvt Ltd, said thatthey provide all kinds ofgoods to the needy as perthe requirement.

Distt admn is always readyfor welfare of disabled: DC

27-year-old married woman diesunder mysterious circumstances

ZIRAKPUR (AMIT KALIA): A 27-year-old mar-ried woman ended her life by hanging herself in amysterious situation at Dayalpura village near Zi-rakpur today. Alleging this, the girl's family mem-bers said that their daughter Ravinder Kaur alias

Ruby was married in 2012 toJaswinder Singh, a residentof village Dayalpura. Thismorning he got a call fromvillage Dayalpura that hisdaughter had died of heartattack but when he reachedDayalpura for cremation ofhis daughter he saw thatthere were scars on the girl'sneck and on suspicion hewent to Zirakpur. Informedthe police. The girl's familymembers also alleged thatthe girl's husband was de-

manding Rs 5 lakh and now they also alleged that thegirl's husband Jaswinder Singh was addicted todrugs. Zirakpur police station chief Omkar Singh,who arrived with thier police team on the spot, saidthat the girl's father Jaswinder Singh had complainedthat his daughter had been killed by her in-laws. Hesaid that the body of the deceased has been taken inpossession and sent for postmortem.

CHARANJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAR 15

Harbhajan Singh of Worldrenowned book publishingfirm Bhai Chatar SinghJeevan Singh unani-mously elected Presi-dent of Amritsar OffsetPrinters Association(Regd.) Mr. HarbhajanSingh has been servingas the Patron of Amrit-sar Offset Printers As-sociation for manyyears. A meeting of thecore Committee of Am-ritsar Offset PrintersAssociation today discussedthe difficulties faced by theprinting firms.

Maninder Singh, FormerPresident, Amritsar Offset

Printers Association has beenmade the Chief Patron of theAssociation. Secretary SanjayMahajan, Secretary RamanRatan, Joint Secretary

Sandeep Ga-lotra, FinanceS e c r e t a r ySachin Mehraand HardeepSingh havebeen appoint-ed PROs. Onthis occasionall the mem-bers of Amrit-sar OffsetPrinters Asso-

ciation demanded that theprices of printing should beincreased by up to 25 per centdue to the sharp rise in pricesof raw materials and inks.

Harbhajan Singh elected President ofAmritsar offset printers association

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 15

A police team led by CIA in-charge Rajinder Kumar ex-posed the gang who robbedpassers-by at gunpointduring the blockade. ManiSingh, Harpreet Singh,Lovedeep Singh aliasNavdeep Singh residentLehra Dhoorkot, Happyresident of Rampura Man-di, Jaswant Singh residents ofRampura Gursewak Singhalias Madi and Raj PreetSingh alias Raju were foundwith pistols, live ammunition,air pistols, sharp weapons and15 phone, loot cash, twostolen motorcycles, threewheelers and other belong-ings have been arrested. Dis-

closing this here today, Bal-winder Singh, SPD and In-spector Rajinder Kumar saidthat the gang was armed withsharp weapons and Fivemembers of the gang have

been arrested for robbingpassersby with ammunitionagainst whom several caseshave been registered. Whilethe rest of the comradesGursewak Singh Madi andRajpreet Singh are being raid-ed for arrest, they are likely tobe remanded in custody forfurther revelations.

Burglary gang busted, accused arrestedwith weapons, cash and goods

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDADBAHA, MAR 15

A letter of appreciation wasgiven to the President of In-ner Wheel Club, Varuna Gargand members of the organiza-tion, which is supporting theother social service organiza-tions for organizing 'Langars'during the problems causedby the last year Corona virus.They were honored by offer-ing a mark of honor by theSDM Om Prakash.

It is worth mentioningthat apart from providing fi-

nancial assistance to the or-ganizations engaged in theLangar sewa by the InnerWheel Club, the migrant la-borers were provided withfood items and medicines forthe way, while going to theirhomes.

Today, the organizationhas been honored by SDMOm Prakash by presenting aletter of appreciation and amark of respect for the wel-fare activities of the society.Geeta Bansal and ReenaSingla etc. were also presenton this occasion.

Inner Wheel Club honored

R.SINGH PATHANKOT, MAR 15

The PCMS (Punjab CivilMedical Services) Associationheld a 2-hour strike after thedoctor was shot in the emer-gency of the Civil HospitalAmritsar.From 10am to 12 inthe morning, the doctors atPathankot Civil Hospital halt-ed the functioning of the OPDand operations were not per-formed even in the operationtheater. However, the treat-ment of patients in emergencycontinued during this peri-od.However, patients comingfrom remote villages for

checkup had to wait for thestrike to end for 2 hours.Peoplesaid that if the doctors are toexpress their displeasure, thenthe doctors will not gain any-thing by harassing the com-mon people who have ex-pressed their concern to thegovernment. At the same time,under the leadership of DistrictPresident Dr. Sunil Chand atthe Civil Hospital, the doctorsexpressed displeasure over theAmritsar shot case.Dr. Sunilsaid that the State Committeehas decided that after 8 o'clockin the night, the people whocome to get a medico legal re-buke will not be cut.

Doctors keep OPD closedfor 2 hours in civil hospital,

people get upset

Sanyukat Kisan Morchaand other organization

leaders submit memorandum

MK SHARMASULTANPUR LODHI,MAR15 Sanyukat Kisan Morcha andother organization leadersreached the SDM office andhanded over a memorandumon the name of Prime Minis-ter to Satano Jagdish Lal. Inthis memorandum, with therepeal of the Agricultural Act,petrol-diesel, domestic gascylinders and other fooditems were put at unbridledprices and sought to bringthem under the purview ofthe poor and middle classpeople. On this occasion, BarAssociation President Advo-cate Satnam Singh Momi,former president Senior Ad.Rajinder Singh Rana, KeharSingh and Ad.

DC announcesanother grant of

Rs. 12 lakh forNikku Park

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, MAR 15

Reiterating his firm commit-ment to restore pristine gloryof Nikku Park, Deputy Com-missioner Ghanshyam Thoritoday announced anothergrant of Rs. 12 lakh to ensurecomplete facelift of thisprominent children park inthe city. Deputy Commis-sioner accompanied by com-mittee member and GOG'shead Major General (Retd.)Balwinder Singh while visit-ing the park directed the com-mittee members to completeall pending developmentworks in Nikku Park withinone month so that it could allset to welcome visitors thissummer season with renewedfacilities.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2021

Woman, 2 others held with illicit liquorSHARANJEETPATHANKOT: The district police has arrested 2 people, including a woman, with38,250 mL illegal liquor. In the first case, ASI Rajkumar, posted in Police Station 2,caught the woman with 15 thousand mL liquor from the Military Hospital.Thewoman was carrying alcohol on foot.she hid the bottles in the bag. The accusedwoman has been identified as Pushpa, a resident of Paniar village in Gurdaspur.Atthe same time, in the second case, ASI Pawan Kumar of Sujanpur police stationraided a house of Mohalla Ghumiaran of Sujanpur under the guise of ExciseInspector Lakhwinder Singh and from there, arrested the accused Harish Kumarwith 23,250 ml illegal liquor.

7HMV students get variouspositions in Sr StateAthletic Championship

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Athletic Team of HansRaj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandharparticipated in Senior State AthleticChampionship held at Patiala. In thischampionship Rashdeep Kaur wonSecond Position in 100 meter race,Sarabjit Kaur won second position inJavelin Throw Event, Mansi Morwalwon second position in High Jumpevent. Principal Prof. Dr. Ajay Sareencongratulates the team and team coachSarbjit Singh Happy and gives bestwishes to the team for the SeniorNational Athletics Championship. Onthis occasion faculty membersRamandeep Kaur & Harpreet Kaurwere also present.

Jat Sikh Scholarshipfor LKC students

JALANDHAR: Ten students ofLyallpur Khalsa College were awardedscholarship of Rs. 50000/- by the JatSikh Council today in brief functionheld in the college office. Principal ofthe College Dr. GS Samra said thatLyallpur Khalsa College wascommitted to promote highereducation in the region, adding that allpossible efforts would be made tosupport meritorious and deservingstudents. The occasion was graced bythe presence of S. Jagdeep SinghShergill Governing Secretary , JatSikh Council, S. Parminder SinghHayer Finance Secretary, S. SarbjotSingh Lali, Office Secretary, S.Jatinder Singh Executive Member,and Col. AS Virk, Life Member of theCouncil and the senior teachers of thecollege.

MC asks for sub-division status toNilokheriSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Sanmeet Kaur Ahuja,chairman of Municipal CorporationNilokheri raised the demand for sub-

division statusto Nilokherifrom the ChiefMinister of thestate, ManoharLal as well asthe Chairmanof ForestDevelopmentCorporationand MLADharmapalGondar. He

said that this demand was also raisedmany times before the stategovernment and the chairman of ForestDevelopment Corporation and MLA ofNeelokheri Dharampal Gondar whoalso assured that Nilokheri will soon getsub-division status.But this has nothappened till date.

WB will get Rs 1 lakh cr road projects with'double engine' govt, says Gadkari

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)will launch road projects worthRs 1 lakh crore in West Bengal ifvoted to power, said UnionMinister Nitin Gadkari ahead ofthe upcoming Assemblyelections on Monday, adding thatit could be done now itself butobstacles are being faced.

"We will launch Rs 1 lakhcrore road project in WestBengal. Had we got landacquisition and forestenvironment clearance, we couldhave done it today too. We areready but unfortunately, we faceobstacles. If there is the sameparty at both levels, we willchange the face of Bengal," theMinister for Road Transport andHighways said. He further saidthat the 'double engine'government at the Centre and

state will bring about tremendousdevelopment in West Bengal.

"The people of Bengal wantchange. They expect the samedevelopment in Bengal as thework done by the BJPgovernment under the leadershipof Prime Minister NarendraModi. When there is a BJPgovernment at the centre as wellas the state, the 'double engine'government will bringtremendous development inBengal," he added. He furtherexpressed confidence that theBJP will definitely get a largemajority in the polls. Gadkarialso addressed allegations by theTrinamool Congress that Centralagencies were being used tocreate pressure by changingofficers. "These allegations arefalse. The BJP government doesnot do such things. This is truethat during elections, theelections commission orders

transfer of officials. Thesedecisions are in their hands andthe election commission isindependent, impartial and fair,"he said. While speaking aboutthe alleged 'attack' on ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjee, theminister said, "What happenedwith Mamata Banerjee was anaccident, everyone says it. Thisshould not be politicised."

West Bengal is likely towitness a triangular contest thistime with TMC, Congress-Leftalliance and the BJP in the fray.

Elections to 294-memberWest Bengal Assembly will beheld in eight phases starting fromMarch 27 with the final round ofvoting taking place on April 29.The counting of votes will takeplace on May 2.

NEW DELHI: The incident inwhich West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeesuffered injury was an"accident" and it should not bepoliticised, said Union MinisterNitin Gadkari on Monday,adding that such controversiesruin the atmosphere of theelections. Gadkari also termedthe accident "unfortunate" andsaid we should not tarnishpolls. "Polls further dignify ourdemocratic traditions. Weshouldn't tarnish polls. Whathappened with MamataBanerjee was an accident,everyone says it. This shouldnot be politicised. She and weare going to the people's court.One should go ahead byaccepting the decision,"Gadkari told news agency. "TheBJP is appealing to the people,they (Trinamool Congress)

should also do the same.Whatever the public decidesshould be accepted and theyshould move forward. Creatingsuch controversies and ruiningthe atmosphere of the electionsis not right. The accident wasunfortunate but I urge her not topoliticise it," he added. Earlieron March 10, Banerjee hadalleged that she was pushed bya few unidentified peopleduring her electioncampaigning. Later, she wasbrought to Kolkata's SSKMHospital by road fromNandigram. Banerjee sustained"severe bone injuries" on herleft foot and ankle as well asbruises and injuries on hershoulder, forearm and neck,according to the report of herinitial medical examination.She was discharged from thehospital on March 12.

What happened to Mamatawas accident: Nitin

PYDB Chairperson reviews implementationof youth oriented schemes

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, MAR 15

To review the progress ofvarious schemes of differentdepartments pertaining toyouths, a board meeting ofPunjab Youth DevelopmentBoard (PYDB) was held atMohali, which was presidedover by ChairpersonSukhwinder Singh Bindra today.Recapitulating commitment ofPunjab Government aboutwelfare of youth, Bindra saidthat India especially Punjab is ata critical juncture ofdevelopment, with a burgeoningyouth population in need of

productive employment. PunjabGovernment realized the realityand the Budget for skilldevelopment of youth has beenincreased by five times by thestate government and decided tocreate maximum jobopportunities in public sector aswell as in private sector. Tochannelize the youth potential ina constructive way, the stategovernment led by ChiefMinister Captain AmarinderSingh also initiated a flagshipprogram to construct stadiumsin rural areas so that youth canbe able to take part in sportingactivities instead of attractingtowards drugs.

JYOTI SYALHAROLI, MAR 15

Industry, Transport, Labor andEmployment Minister Bikram SinghThakur said that the Himachal PradeshGovernment is continuously takingaction against illegal mining. ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur has made thelaw strict from time to time with a viewto taking strong action against the mafia.He said that setting up of 5 mining checkposts in district Una will help in curbingillegal activities. He said that the presentgovernment in district Una caught 1761cases of illegal mining and overloadingand recovered a fine of Rs 1.46 crore.Apart from this, the court has alsoimposed a fine of Rs 45 lakh for violationof mining rules. In addition, thedepartment has also recovered a fine ofRs 17.33 lakh for digging throughmachines. He said that the government istaking strict action against the illegalminers. He said that the government isworking with complete transparency.The Industries Minister appealed to the

newly elected panchayat representativesto ensure 90 days daily wages to theeligible persons under the MNREGA sothat they can get the benefit of variousschemes of the state government. He saidthat after earning 90 working days, theWorkers' Welfare Board registers thebuilding construction and constructionwork and the registered workers getfinancial assistance from children'seducation to treatment. He said that onelakh is provided for outdoor treatment tolabourers, two lakh for indoor treatmentand up to Rs 5 lakh for treatment insevere cases. He informed that financialaid is also provided to the meritoriousstudents of the workers. Apart from this,materials like bicycles, induction stovesare given to the workers.

Strict action being taken against illegalmining in state: Bikram Thakur

CKD mega plantationdrive launched

CHARNJIT SINGH ARORAAMRITSAR, MAR 15

Chief Khalsa Diwan (CKD) mega plantation drive to mark400th Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib ji hasbeen launched by planting the first sapling in the name of GuruSahib with Ardas in Sri Guru Harkrishan International School,Ranjit Avenue. While planting first sapling of the drive, CKDPresident S. Nirmal Singh said that under this plantation drive,400 saplings of trees Gulmohar, Silver Rock, Arjun, Amla,Neem, Sukhchain, Teak, Suhajanna, Estonia etc. areenumerated to be planted in CKD schools in the name of SriGuru Teg Bahadur Sahib ji.In the continuation of thiscampaign, these dense shaded trees saplings would also beplanted at Sri Guru Harkrishan Sen. Secondary School, MajithaRoad Bypass tomorrow and this campaign will further becarried out and completed soon in every CKD school with theco ordination of CKD member S. Avtar Singh Ghulla.

Doctors on strike, emergencyservices halted

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 15

Doctors of Government Hospital were injured in a shootoutbetween two groups at Government Hospital at Sri AmritsarSahib yesterday. The case was registered by the police but theculprits were not arrested. Taking serious note of the incident,doctors of all government hospitals in Punjab went on strikefor several hours today. Emergency services were alsosuspended in Bathinda. Doctors and nursing staff went onstrike in protest against the Punjab government. Addressingon the occasion Dr. Gurmel Singh and President of NursingAssociation Swaranjit Kaur said that Punjab Governmentshould ensure the safety of doctors in government hospitalsand focus on creating a conducive environment and ensurethat doctors can work in hospitals without any fear or theywill be forced into a fierce struggle as atmosphere in thehospital remains tense due to the injuries of mischievouselements including gangsters, there have been bloody clashesat times and the lives of the doctors have been in danger.

Duties related to free disability welfarecamp assigned for March 20

VERMAQADIAN, MAR 15

An important meetingregarding the Free DisabilityWelfare Camp to be organizedby the Bharat Vikas Parishadon 20 March was held at thelocal Thakurdwara temple.Giving information in thisregard, the project directors ofthis camp Mukesh Verma andPawan Kumar informed thatwheelchairs, ear machinecallipers and certificates ofdisability will be issued toneedy people on March 20 as

directed by State PresidentNorth Punjab Shiv Gautamand State General SecretaryRamanpuri. He said that inthis program, special care willbe taken for mask sanitizerand social distance forprotection from Kovid, forwhich volunteers have beeninstalled so that no one has toface any kind of trouble. Hetold that special arrangementswill be made for theconsumption of all thebeneficiaries who reach thecamp and 1 special team willbe sent by the health

department on behalf of thedistrict administration, whowill complete the process forthe disability relatedcertificates on the spot andwill make the onlinecertificate. Givinginformation on the occasion,Chief Conservator KashmirSingh Rajput and Jasbir SinghSamra said that the BharatVikas Parishad has beeninvolved in social servicesince 1963 and camps areorganized here in differentblocks every year. He saidthat planting trees to protectthe environment, to highlightthe skill and skill of thechildren, to organize acompetition called BharatJano and to conduct seminarsto remove social evils and tomake people aware of theirevils etc.

KBHB inaugurates freeambulance service

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON, MAR 15

Social welfareorganization ofjagraon "Kar Bhala hoBhala" (KBHB) hasinitiated a free ambulance service in order to help commonpeople which has been inaugurated by DSP Jatinderjeet Singh.In the program conducted at the premises of SBBS LahoraKhalsa senior secondary school jagraon the organizationdedicated the ambulance to common people. DSP JatinderjeetSingh, chemist association jagraon president PankajAggarwal, social activist Rajinder Jain and lok seva societychairman Gulshan Arora appreciated Kar Bhala Ho Bhala forits social welfare activities and said that they will provideevery possible help to the association in their mission to helpneedy people. Organization chairman Amit Arora, vicechairman Kapil Narula, president Rajan Khurana, secretaryDinesh, vice president Nanesh Gandhi, advisor JagdeeshRana, Mahesh Tandon other members thanked the donors andsaid that the organization shall keep making efforts to helpneedy people. They also mentioned that the ambulance will beready for service 24 hours and common people can seek helpanytime during emergency.

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, MAR 15

An exhibition of ancient coins, rarehandwritten texts and ancient weaponscollected by Bhai Rajinder SinghRampur Sainia, Bhai Dalbir Singh andBhai Raghubir Singh through theirpersonal efforts was set up at GurdwaraShahidan Ladhewal. The exhibition wasformally inaugurated by Bibi RanjitKaur Member Shiromani Committee,Prof. Apinder Singh and Bhai RanjitSingh Khalsa from Damdami Taksal.Speaking on the occasion Bibi RanjitKaur Mahilpuri said that the collectionof these rare and sacred items is a realservice to the nation to further restore

the glory of its history and heritage. Theexhibition includes hundreds of coinsfrom 600 BC to the Sikh reign, as wellas a large number of hand writtenmanuscripts like Yoga Sadhana, handwritten Janam sakhi Sanatni Granth,Taad Patra, hand writtenGurbaniSaroops and various types of antiqueweapons. Were The youngsters who

collected this rare book and other itemssaid that without the help of anyorganization or government agency theyhave been collecting this heritage fornearly five years so that more and moreinformation about their lost heritage canbe passed on to the next generation. .Present on the occasion were RaghuvirSingh Sarpanch Rampur, ManagerJaswinder Singh, Giani BhupinderSingh Ankhi, Jaswinder Singh Jas,Ranjit Singh Damdami Taksal,Parvinder Singh Sangrur, NoblejitSingh Bulowal, Krishanjit Singh Rao,Kamaljit Singh Ghodewaha, HarjinderSingh, Jujhar Singh, Vicky Rampur. ,Virinder Singh, Amrik Singh werepresent.

Punjab govt committed fordevelopment: Arora

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, MAR 15

Industry and Commerce Minister SundarSham Arora handed over a check of Rs. 2 lakhgiven to Blind and HandicappedDevelopment Society Bahowal and assuringall possible help to the society in the futurealso, the Industries Minister Sundar ShamArora said that the Punjab Government underthe leadership of Chief Minister Capt.Amarinder Singh was making many effortsfor the welfare of the disabled persons. Hesaid that there were about 6.5 lakhDiwangjans in the state for whom the PunjabDiwangjan Shaktikaran Yojana has beenannounced by the government. He said thatthis scheme would cover two parts in the firstpart of which all eligible disabled personswould be ensured the benefit of existinggovernment schemes / facilities. Similarly, thesecond part will include new initiatives /programs to be taken by the government to

address those aspects and requirements whichare not yet covered in any of the existingCentral / State Sponsored Schemes. He saidthat under this scheme a provision of Rs. 5crore has been made by the Punjabgovernment in the budget of 2021-22 so thatall the disabled persons could avail thebenefits of various schemes. The IndustriesMinister said that the Punjab Government wastaking unprecedented steps for the welfare ofall sections of the society besides ensuringuniform all round development in the state.

AJAY ARORAKHAMANON, MAR 15

Members of joint Kisan morchahave staged a dharna in front ofSDM office Khamanon today,for 2 hours. They raised theslogans against unionGovernment over continues hikeof diesel, patrol and Gas prices.On this occasion many farmerleaders have delivered theirSpeeches against uniongovernment and demended rollback of their prices immediately.They had sumitted amemorandum to SDM

Khamanon Arvind Kumar inwhich they condemnGovernment polices towards thepublic. Kisan unions leaderBalamjit singh princy,DarshanSingh Ranwan, Jagtar Singh,Bachittar Singh,Nirpal Singh,Mohinder Singh,SimranjitSingh,Sukhdev Singh werepresent on occasion.

Members of joint Kisan morcha stagedharna in front of SDM office

Pakistani drone infiltration foiledRAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 15

The Pakistani drone tried to infiltratethe Tinda Post in the Bamiyal sector onthe Indo-Pak border.However, soonafter the firing, the drone returned toPakistan. The incident took place at 6am on Sunday morning.BSF apprisedthe local police in this regard.Afterwhich teams of police, lethalcommandos, BSF and SWATcommandos conducted the searchoperation around Tinda Post under theleadership of SP Operation HempushpSharma and DSP Operation SukhjinderSingh. No suspicious item was seen in

the 8-hour search operation.More than100 jawans were involved in the searchoperation, police station Narot Jamal in-charge Pushpinder Singh, outpostBamiyal incharge Tarsem Singh,Inspector (Operation) Rajesh Kumar.During this period, security teamssearched the edges of the river, fields,

deserted areas and old bunkers along theTinda Post along Indo-Pak border. Thisis the second case in last one monthwhen a drone has been seen on theborder. Even before when the dronewas sighted, it had also gone back afterbeing fired by BSF. SP OperationHempushp Sharma said that this area isbeing closely investigated by the policeand the army, but nothing has beenfound so far. During the searchoperation, the Taranah nallah andsurrounding area have been checked.No suspects were found at themoment.He said that the drone sightingincident has been taken seriously andthe search operation is still going on.

Exhibition of ancient coins, weapons held

PAGE8 OPINION

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2021

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

EDITORIAL IPO week to increase volatility in markets

arkets continued their volatile way in the four-day trading week gone by. We saw markets opening with Ma gap on Monday as expected but profit taking

followed. The gains continued on Tuesday and Wednesday before the holiday on Thursday. Friday saw markets opening strong but were rattled by savage profit taking which saw more than half the weekly gains being erased. BSESENSEX ended the week with gains of 386.76 points or 0.77 per cent to close at 50,792.08 points, while NIFTY gained 92.85 points or 0.62 per cent to close at 15,030.95 points. The broader markets saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 gain 0.43 per cent, 0.41 per cent and 0.49 per cent respectively. The Indian Rupee gained 5 paisa or 0.07% to close at Rs 72.78. Dow Jones had a stellar week and hit a new lifetime high on Friday. Dow gained 1,282.34 points or 4.07% to close at 32,778.64 points. The close was just 15 points shy of the lifetime high.Last week I had talked about the Monday phenomenon and how since the 1st of February each Monday has seen markets opening strong and gain ground. This week I am going to talk about the Friday phenomenon where over the last four weeks markets have lost ground each time on a Friday. NIFTY lost 140 points on Friday the 19th February, 570 points on Friday the 26th of February, 140 points on Friday the 5th of March and 145 points on Friday the 12th of March. Will Monday and Friday continue to perform the same way in the coming week as well?The week ahead is full of IPO's and one gets a feeling that promoters and merchant bankers believe it's now or never.Anupam Rasayan Limited is tapping the capital markets with its fresh issue for Rs 760 crs in a price band of Rs 553 to 555. The issue has opened on Friday the 12th of March and would close on Tuesday the 16th of March. The company is in the business of custom synthesis and manufacturing of speciality chemicals in India. The company had reported revenues of Rs 539.38 crs for the year ended March 2020 which improved to Rs 563.16 crs for the nine months ended December 2020. When compared with the year ago period, this turnover was Rs 374.5 crs. In terms of profit for the period the same was Rs 52.97 crs for March 2020, Rs 48.09 crs for nine months December 20 and Rs 42.80 crs for the nine months December 2019. The EPS on a fully diluted and restated basis is Rs 6.94 for the year ended March 2020. This translates into a PE band of 79.68-79.97. Certainly, expensive when compared to the peers as listed in the offer document. Considering the fact that the company has already completed its capex and would be utilising the issue proceeds for repaying its debts, it could be presumed that there would be a saving of Rs 55-60 crs on interest repayment itself going forward.

POEMSLiterature & Health

The research has been funded by the UK. In a new study published The study unveiled novel well as other conditions and are team of scientists at The charities Parkinson's the UK and today in Nature Communications, diagnostic sebum-based actively seeking investors University of Manchester A the Michael J. Fox Foundation as high-resolution mass spectrometry biomarkers for Parkinson's interested in supporting the drive to discovered in recent well as The University of was used to profile the complex provides insight into the bring this technology to market.research that it is possible to Manchester Innovation Factory. chemical signature in the sebum of understanding of how the condition identify Parkinson's based on Professor Perdita Barran, The work was originally funded people with Parkinson's and show develops and links lipid compounds found on the surface of Professor of Mass Spectrometry following observation by Joy Milne, subtle but fundamental changes as dysregulation to altered the skin. at The University of Manchester, whose husband was diagnosed the condition progresses. Detailed mitochondrial function. said: "We believe that our results The findings offer hope that a with Parkinson's at the age of 45. analysis showed changes in These promising results published are an extremely encouraging pioneering new test could be Working with Dr Tilo Kunath at the people with Parkinson's in lipid (fat) today could lead to a definitive test step towards tests that could be developed to diagnose the University of Edinburgh, Joy processing and mitochondria. to diagnose Parkinson's accurately, used to help diagnose and degenerative condition through a demonstrated an incredible ability Problems with mitochondria - the speedily and cost-effectively. The monitor Parkinson's.simple and painless skin swab.to distinguish a distinctive tiny energy-producing batteries that team is now seeking funding to "Not only is the test quick, simple Scientists at The University of Parkinson's odour in individuals power cells - are one of the further develop the test and explore and painless but it should also be Manchester have developed a using her sense of smell, even hallmarks of Parkinson's. the potential for using the test to extremely cost-effective because technique that works by analysing before symptoms emerge in those This means this 'world first' testing 'stratify' patients. it uses existing technology that is compounds found in sebum - the affected. strategy is not only useful in Working with the University of already widely available.oily substance that coats and The team, led by Professor Perdita diagnosing Parkinson's but also in Manchester Innovation Factory, the protects the skin - and identifying "We are now looking to take our Barran, The University of monitoring the development of the team has patents filed for their changes in people with Parkinson's mass spectrometry methods, 10 The team confirmed their earlier findings forwards to refine the test Manchester, and the clinical lead condition. The skin swab could diagnostic techniques and are Disease. Sebum is rich in lipid-like chemical compounds in sebum findings published in ACS Central to improve accuracy even further Professor Monty Silverdale at provide an incredibly important new planning to create a spin-out molecules and is one of the lesser- were identified which are elevated Science that the volatile and to take steps towards making Salford Royal Foundation Trust, tool in clinical trials helping company to commercialise the new studied biological fluids in the or reduced in people with compounds on the skin can be this a test that can be used in the recruited 500 people with and researchers measure whether new, tests. They are also working to use diagnosis of the condition. People Parkinson's. This allows scientists used to diagnose the condition, NHS and to develop more precise without Parkinson's. Samples of experimental treatments are able to this approach to develop tests for with Parkinson's may produce to distinguish people with increasing the number of people diagnostics and better treatment sebum were taken from their upper slow, stop or reverse the COVID-19 as shown in research more sebum than normal - a Parkinson's with 85 per cent sampled and including participants for this debilitating condition."backs for analysis. Using different progression of Parkinson's. last week in EClinical Medicine as condition known as seborrhoea. accuracy. from the Netherlands, as well as Parkinson's tends to develop

The protests, which also took ustralians rallied in place in Sydney, Melbourne, the capital and other A Brisbane and Hobart, coincide c i t i e s M o n d a y wi th the f i r s t s i t t i ng o f demanding justice for women Parliament since the allegation and calling out misogyny and against Porter became public in dangerous workplace cultures as early March.the government reels from two

R e y n o l d s h a s s i n c e rape allegations.apologized for describing Outside Parliament House in Higgins to her staff as a lying Canberra, the crowd of hundreds cow and said she was referring to was mostly female and most Higgins' allegation of inadequate wore black. They carried support, not the rape allegation. placards including Justice for The minister also agreed to pay Women and Men, Own Your Higgins an undisclosed sum as Guilt.compensation.P r i m e M i n s t e r S c o t t

Porter's lawyers announced Morrison refused organizers' on Monday that he is suing demand that he address the Australian Broadcasting Corp. crowd. He agreed to meet a for defamation over a news delegation of protesters in his article that he said made false office, but a meeting didn't take allegations against him.place.

Although he was not named, We have already come to the the article made allegations front door, now it's up to the against a senior Cabinet minister government to c ross the and the attorney-general was threshold and come to us, easily identifiable to many of organizer Janine Hendry said.Australians as the subject of the We will not be meeting allegations, the lawyers said in a behind closed doors, she added. c r i t i c i z e d f o r f a i l i n g t o and reported her allegation to were my social network, my statement.Morrison is standing by his adequately support a young police. colleagues, and my family. And

Porters has been on mental Attorney-General Christian staffer who alleged she was suddenly they treated me I was raped inside Parliament health leave since March 3 when Porter over an allegation that he raped by a more senior colleague differently. I wasn't a person who House by a colleague, and for so he held a news conference raped a 16-year-old girl when he in the minister's office in had gone through a l ife-long it felt like the people around denying that he had raped the was aged 17 in 1988. Porter Parliament House in 2019. changing, traumatic event. I was me only cared because of where girl, who has not been named.denied the allegation. His a political problem, she added.Brittany Higgins said she felt it happened or what it might

Reynolds has also been on accuser took her own life last she had to make a choice mean for them, a tearful Higgins The Associated Press does sick leave with a heart condition year af ter wi thdrawing a between between reporting her told the Canberra crowd. not usually identify alleged s i n c e H i g g i n s m a d e h e r complaint to police. a l l e g a t i o n s t o p o l i c e o r victims of sexual assault, but It was so confusing because allegations.Separately, Defense Minister continuing her career. She quit Higgins has chosen to identify these people were my idols. I had

Linda Reynolds has been her government job in January herself in the media.dedicated my life to them. They

Higher rate of suicide in stroke survivors, suggests study

troke survivors may be more hopefully reduce these risks," said likely to attempt or die by study author Manav V. Vyas, Ssuicide than people who have M.B.B.S., M.Sc., clinical associate in

not had a stroke, suggest the findings neurology at the University of Toronto of a new study. in Canada.The findings of the research will be Vyas added, "It is important we presented at the American Stroke investigate this issue because nearly Association's International Stroke 15 million people worldwide have a Conference 2021. The virtual stroke each year, of which meeting will be held between March approximately 10 million survive. 17-19. This study will be Stroke survivors have physical and simultaneously published in the mental health consequences and American Heart Association's journal may be more likely to attempt suicide Stroke. Rates of depression among or die by suicide."stroke survivors range from 28 per Researchers searched multiple cent to 35 per cent, and stroke is international medical databases considered an independent risk including MEDLINE, Embase, factor for depression. Since PsycINFO, and Google Scholar from depression after a stroke has been the inception of each database to associated with increased suicidal September 15, 2020, using thoughts, researchers sought to keywords and database-specific quantify and understand the risk of subject headings for stroke and suicide after stroke. suicide."Recognising that stroke may They analysed 23 published increase the risk of suicidal thoughts studies that included more than or suicide attempts will help stroke two million stroke survivors to survivors, their families, and health examine the association between care professionals to identify and stroke and suicide.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Australians rally at Parliament to demand justice for women

Developing 'game-changing' test to diagnose Parkinson's

draconian national security law imposed by Beijing, which some say will curb the rights and freedoms of residents.The survey, "Tackling Hong Kong's Brain Drain", found that 24.2 per cent of respondents said they had plans to get a job outside Hong Kong in the next five years, with top destinations being Britain, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and the US. Major reasons for choosing to work elsewhere included 'work-life balance', 'emigration plan' and 'social and political stability. Of those polled, 15.8 per cent said they had no plans to return to Hong Kong, while another 12.6 per cent said they might consider returning after getting ong Kong could witness a organisations, also showed that permanent residency overseas or brain drain in the next five some 16 per cent of those who securing a foreign nationality.years after a new survey wanted to leave the city for work HAsked what would make them revealed that a quarter of said they had no intention of ever consider returning or staying to work university-educated people under coming back, while another 12.6 per here, the top three factors cited were the age of 35 were planning to leave cent said they would only consider 'attractive pay', 'better protection of the city to work elsewhere, amid returning after getting a foreign personal freedoms' and 'satisfactory easing of immigration schemes by nationality, reported SCMP.development opportunities'.foreign countries in response to the This comes at a time when some

imposition of the national security Meanwhile, Amy Yuen Siu-man, the foreign countries, including Canada law here. federation's researcher, urged the and the UK, are easing their

government to act to stop a potential The study conducted by Youth immigration schemes for brain drain.Ideas, one of the city's biggest youth Hongkongers in response to the

Hong Kong faces brain drain as educated people plan to move abroad

A Red, Red Rose my Luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;OO my Luve is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou,

my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve

am I;

And I will luve

thee still, my

dear,

Till a’ the seas

gang dry.

Till a’ the seas

gang dry, my

dear,

And the rocks

melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!

And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,

Though it were ten thousand mile.

BY :-ROBERT BURNS

handigarh: Samsung will launch a new range of exciting Galaxy A CSeries smartphones at its global

event called 'Galaxy Awesome Unpacked' on March 17. The online event will be streamed live on Samsung India’s YouTube Channel and Samsung Newsroom India, starting at 7:30 PM IST.Galaxy A Series smartphones are known for great display, awesome camera and long-lasting battery life.Galaxy A is one of Samsung's most popular smartphone series in India. Globally too, Galaxy A Series has been hugely successful. Last year, Galaxy A51 became the world’s most popular smartphone, according to some analysts. Samsung sold 63369 Galaxy A51 smartphone every day, which amounts to an average of 2640 smartphones per hour.

arnaul: Four students of Aakash Institute from Narnaul have made the city and the institute proud by scoring an Nimpressive 99 percentile and above in the February session

of JEE Mains 2021 Examination. Notable students among them are Sahil securing 99.81 percentile, Yash Kumar securing 99.60 percentile, Umesh securing 99.44 percentile and Uditanshu securing 99 percentile respectively. The results were announced by the National Testing on February 08, 2021. This was the first out of four Joint entrance exam for E n g i n e e r i n g scheduled to be held t h i s y e a r . Congratulating the students on the impressive feat, Mr. Aakash Chaudhry, Managing Director, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) said, “It is a matter of great pride for us that our students Sahil, Yash, Umesh and Uditanshu have excelled in the first session of JEE Mains 2021 entrance exam. The credit goes to the hard work of our students, the support of their parents and instructors who have guided the students throughout their journey. Our quality test preparation is renowned in the industry for preparing students to excel in medical and engineering entrance exams. I wish them the best for future endeavours.”

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Chandigarh, It has been more laurels for PGIMER as Ms. Saryu D. Madra placed as Consultant (IEC/Media) with ROTTO PGIMER has been selected for the distinct honour of prestigious PRCI AMEYAA Award 2021 by Public Relations Council of India (PRCI). The award has been announced by PRCI Governing Council for Women Achievers on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2021 and Ms. Saryu D. Madra has been selected for the esteemed PRCI AMEYAA Award 2021 for her precious contribution to domains of Public Relations, Communication and also for the outstanding contribution towards PRCI & YCC Movement.

Saryu D. Madra from PGIMER selected for prestigious PRCI AMEYAA Award 2021

ehradun –Microsoft and Intel today announced the availability of a range of Windows 10 Pro devices Dpowered by the Intel vPro® platform for small and

medium businesses (SMBs) in India. Whether in remote or hybrid working models, modern devices can help employees stay connected and productive, safeguard against security threats and manage remote deployments in a fast and flexible manner. Understanding the significant challenges that SMBs face with 4+ years or older PCs in terms of performance, productivity, security and manageability, this new range of modern devices provides them the agility for adapting to a constantly changing world. Farhana Haque, Group Director - Devices, Microsoft India, said, “As small and medium businesses in the country embrace hybrid models of working, investments in modern technology are accelerating. Businesses today need systems that are robust yet flexible to handle the evolution of the new normal. The new line of modern Windows 10 Pro devices powered by the Intel vPro® platform will give employees the tools to work confidently and securely and help them rise to any challenge.Improving workforce productivity, enhancing security and reducing overall costs are top of mind for SMBs and refreshing older devices periodically can truly help them do more.” Roshni Das, Director - Marketing, Intel India, said,“Hybrid working models are here to stay and Intel remains committed to delivering PC innovation that enablessmall and medium businesses enhance productivity and security.

Microsoft and Intel Introduces New Range of Windows 10 Pro devices

olkata/ Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister, KPema Khandu, on Saturday

inaugurated a sports stadium at the Don Bosco College at Jollang near Itanagar. The stadium, built at a cost of Rs 1.80 crores, is named in memory of chief minister’s late father and former chief minister, Dorjee Khandu, and would be used for hosting various state-level events and sports.Chief Minister Pema Khandu lauded the efforts of Fr C C Jose, Director, of Don Bosco Colleges and other authorities of the institute for the successful completion of the stadium despite fund constraints. He said it is an example for others to follow across the state and urged the students to learn and adopt their indigenous culture and speak one’s mother language as much as possible.“We are very thankful to Chief Minister Pema Khandu’s support in constructing the stadium. He had visited Don Bosco College in 2017 and had felt the need for a stadium in the college premises for the overall and harmonious growth of students.

handigarh :With over 3 decades in the industry, he has aced every character when he is on screen. From Cplaying a brat in DDLJ to play an officer in Special

OPS, directing movies like Badmash Company starring Shahid Kapoor, writing shows like Sumit Sambhal Lega, Pameet Sethi has proved his mettle in all.Broadening the horizon of his canvas, Parmeet Sethi is all set to enter Punjabi TV screens with his upcoming show ‘Akhian Udeek Diyan’ on Zee Punjabi. However, this is not the first time when Parmeet entered the Punjabi market, earlier he has worked in Punjabi movies like Desh Hoya Pardes starring Gurdas Maan and Juhi Chawla.As far as his new show ‘Akhian Udeek Diyan’ is concerned, the premises of the show revolve around the story of a happily married couple with a huge age gap. The promos of the show have already been released and getting a huge response from the audience. When it comes to the channel, Parmeet Sethi is the third big name after Karan Mehra and Angad Hasija who is entering Punjabi industry with Zee Punjabi.

Microsoft and Intel help SMBs achieve more with modern devices

Diagnostic Start-up DIVOC Health Launches its Lab in Ghaziabad

EW DELHI : DIVOC Health, that brings to market solutions that Naddress the fundamental needs of

the healthcare system, has launched its private molecular and diagnostic lab in Ghaziabad.DIVOC Health, which began operations during the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak, launched its first diagnostic centre in august 2020. The company has a line-up of launches during this year and aim to expand rapidly with multiple laboratories.DIVOC Health's business model centres around taking up standalone pathology labs.They plan to take up 100 labs under management in the next few years. As of now, the startup collects around 600 tests every day and has helped more than 25000 happy customers. DIVOC has witnessed growth in the past year, and now is ready to expand across India.Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Kanav Kahol, CEO, DIVOC Health, said, “Ghaziabad and its neighbouring cities deserve an innovation centered diagnostic lab to serve its community. Through this lab

Arunachal CM inauguratesDon Bosco College stadium

n an endeavour to promote entrepreneurial aptitude among students and apprise them of the entrepreneurial opportunities in beekeeping, the IZoology Department of Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for

Women, under the aegis of college's Institution Innovation Council (IIC), organised a virtual workshop titled 'Entrepreneurship Development in

Beekeeping'. This educative workshop was conducted by Prof. Vinod K Mattu, Emeritus Fellow ( U G C ) , G r o u p Leader: Sociobiology and Behavioural Ecology and Dr.

Neelam Mattu, Department of Biosciences, Himachal Pradesh University, a Researcher of Himalayan Honeybees and Recipient of Senior Scientist Award. The resource persons emphasized upon the importance of honey bees as pollinators and discussed about the value added products obtained from beekeeping. This interactive workshop was well attended by students who felt motivated to channelize their energy towards generation of new ideas and creating start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures resulting.

Five Students from AakashInstitute in Kaithal secured 99 percentile

aithal : Five students of Aakash Institute from Kaithal have made the Kcity and the institute proud by scoring

an impressive 99 percentile and above in the February session of JEE Mains 2021 Examination. Notable students among them are Aaryan securing 99.68 percentile, Vaibhav Mittal securing 99.65 percentile, Naman Garg and Harshit Dhiman securing 99.58 percentile and Abhishek Bidhan securing 99.26 percentile respectively. The results were announced by the National Testing on February 08, 2021. This was the first out of four Joint entrance exam for Engineering scheduled to be held this year. Congratulating the students on the impressive feat, Mr. Aakash Chaudhry, Managing Director, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) said, “It is a matter of great pride for us that our students Aaryan, Vaibhav, Naman, Harshit and Abhishek have excelled in the first session of JEE Mains 2021 entrance exam.

Samsung to Launch Galaxy A52, A72 at Awesome Unpacked Event on March 17

MCM holds workshop on entrepreneurship in beekeeping

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handigarh, : As part of the CSR realize their potential and explore new initiative of Bharat Petroleum opportunities for employment and income C(BPCL), Bisnouli Sarvodaya generation. B V Gokhale, Chief Manager-HR

Gramodyog Sewa Sansthan (BSGSS), an and Rajesh Kashyap, Executive (Ben-Admn) NGO mentored by former civil servants, NR of BPCL, interacted with 30 beneficiaries Nandita Bakshi, and from the previous Vijay Kumar Jha, batches to evaluate the launched a new efficacy of the project training session at its be ing run a t a t Skill Development Dorangla in Gurdapsur Training Centre for district. Over 90% of Women. The NGO t h e f i r s t b a t c h has been functional beneficiaries have got in Punjab, Haryana, employment.Delhi and UP for the Anup Kumar, Director past two decades. Operations of BSGSS, The training centre said that being the first c o n d u c t s initiative of its kind in programmes for the region, the training women in four disciplines, namely Cutting- centre received an overwhelming response. The Tailoring, Beauty Culture, Computer District Administration, CDPO, local BSF unit Operation and English Speaking. The and village Sarpanch appreciated the efforts. The programmes have enabled the beneficiaries to training also helped enhance knowledge and learn new skills and boost their confidence to awareness of the trainees.

handigarh - Microsoft and Intel announced the availability of a range of Windows 10 Pro devices Cpowered by the Intel vPro platform for small and

medium businesses (SMBs) in India. Whether in remote or hybrid working models, modern devices can help employees stay connected and productive, safeguard against security threats and manage remote deployments in a fast and flexible manner. Understanding the significant challenges that SMBs face with 4+ years or older PCs in terms of performance, productivity, security and manageability, this new range of modern devices provides them the agility for adapting to a constantly changing world. Farhana Haque, Group Director - Devices, Microsoft India, said that as small and medium businesses in the country embrace hybrid models of working, investments in modern technology are accelerating. Businesses today need systems that are robust yet flexible to handle the evolution of the new normal. The new line of modern Windows 10 Pro devices powered by the Intel vPro® platform will give employees the tools to work confidently and securely and help them rise to any challenge. Improving workforce productivity, enhancing security and reducing overall costs are top of mind for SMBs.

Bharat Petroleum supports skill development project of Bisnauli Sarvodaya NGO

Four Students from Aakash Institute in Narnaul secured 99 percentile

Parmeet Sethi is all set to star in Zee Punjabi’s ‘Akhian Udeek Diyan’

mritsar, --: In a significant milestone as the nation embarks on the massive task of vaccinating the people Aof India, the Apollo Hospitals group is proud to be one

of the first medical institutions to complete vaccinating over 100,000 people against COVID-19 since the time vaccination campaign was started by GOI. In the current phase the COVID vaccines are being administered at more than sixty Apollo vaccination centres across the country as per the Government guidelines to those eligible over the age of 60, those over 45 years of age with co-morbidities. All the centres reported an enthusiastic response from the senior citizens who appreciated the positive helpful attitude of the staff and the well-planned arrangements that contributed to a smooth process of vaccination. Ms. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “The COVID vaccination program is critical for bringing the COVID pandemic to an end. We are proud to have achieved an important milestone today of administering the COVID vaccine to over 100,000 people that include our vulnerable senior citizens. A robust vaccination program is the need of the hour, and we are glad for this opportunity to support and boost the Government’s efforts in ensuring that no eligible person is left out of the COVID vaccine program. The vaccination program for those most vulnerable amongst us comes at a crucial time when many states are reporting a rise in cases after a period of lull.

Apollo Hospitals leads the fight against Covid 19 with over 100,000 vaccinated

Sony Entertainment Television presents – ‘Ishk Par Zor Nahi’

8 reasons why lemongrass tea is great for your health

14-year-old Tabla player TruptrajPandya inspires SonuSood!

handigarh: TruptrajPandya, a 14-year-old Tabla player from Mumbai, is making CIndia proud with his achievements. He

started playing Tabla at the age of 2 and at the age of 6, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest Tabla player. He has also received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for Arts & Culture in 2019-20 as well as the Global Prodigy Award 2020. Recently, Indian film actor SonuSood met him on the set of Young Genius, a show that celebrates Child Prodigies, and was awestruck by this young talent.Currently training in Tabla under Pt. NayanGhosh, he is an adept vocalist and enjoys sports as much as the boy next door. He is also well versed in the nuances of harmonium, dholak and Congo drums. Astounded by the fact that Truptraj has achieved so much in his life at such a young age, SonuSood said, “Truptraj is so disciplined at such a young age. It makes me think that we should go back to our childhood and try and do what Truptaraj is doing.”

Rajasthani Folk Ensemble 'Beliya' Unfolds Myriad of 'Women Emotions'

handigarh,: A city based theatre group ‘The Narrators Performing Arts Society’ organised a unique Rajasthani folk ensemble ‘Beliya’ in the tricity recently. Ushering in the beauty of Cspring, The Narrators presented 6 'Manganiar' folk artists from Western Rajasthan (Thar

Desert area) who enlivened the evening with their spellbinding Rajasthani folk songs and instrumental Jugalbandi, as a backdrop in a dance, musical & poetic rendition showcasing the journey of a woman. Nisha Luthra, Founder of The Narrators had curated and directed the act ‘Beliya’ , while the dance was staged by Puneet Jewandah who presented a fusion of kathak and New York style dancing. Dr. Sumitra Mishra, Senior Advisor, Economic Council to Prime Minister of India was the Chief Guest while Dolly Guleria a renowned Punjabi Folk Artist and Lord Daljit Singh Rana(OBE) were the Guests' of Honor. Sharing the details of the event, Nisha Luthra, the Founder & President of ‘The Narrator’s Performing Arts Society’ said, “‘Beliya’ is inspired by the rich heritage of the cultural capital of India - Rajasthan. In this show, we tried to depict different stages of a woman falling in love. ‘Shringaar Rasa’ was portrayed and this rasa unfolded a myriad of her emotions including jealousy, fear, anger, abhilasha ( longing), compassion, passion and the expression of physical intimacy.”

ohali, The Mohali Industry Association (MIA) is keen to explore the immense possibilities of trade Munder the aegis of Indo-Vietnam bilateral trade for

benefiting its nearly 2500 MSME units. To strengthen the trading relations with its counterpart, the MIA delegation will soon hold a virtual meeting with the Trade Department of the Embassy of Socialist Republic of Vietnam to provide a new dimension to the region's MSME sector. This was stated by MIA President Yogesh Sagar during the honor ceremony of Vietnam Ambassador to India Pham San Chau and other diplomats of the Embassy at the MIA campus, Campus. Envoy and diplomats were welcomed by industrialists from Mohali at the conclusion of a three-day visit of the Vietnamese Ambassador hosted by ‘Vietnam’s Honorary Consulate General at Chandigarh’ Davinder Singh Thapar. During the occasion, Ambassador Chau also invited industry leaders to invest in Vietnam. Chau in his deliverable, said that Vietnam is emerging as an ideal investment destination by encroaching China after Covid 19 scenario. The government of Vietnam is offering investors a wide range of incentives including attractive investment policies, several FTA concessions, a possible direct flight from Chandigarh, cheap labor and a favorable business environment. “We aspire to forge a positive relationship between India and Vietnam across a wide number of sectors. From developing Indian business interests in Vietnam to working closely with travel agencies in North India to boost tourism, we work to create a favorable image of Vietnam by developing economic and touristic activities in the region.”

Mohali Industry Association keen to strengthen MSMEs by

inking deals with Vietnamhandigarh, : Nissan India today announces 100 winners in the Cfirst round of its special

Valentines program, which was introduced to thank the customers who are eagerly waiting for their Big, Bold, Beautiful and ‘Carismatic’ SUV – the all-new Nissan Magnite.Sourabh Bhattacharya from Ghaziabad, YouWe Nissan dealership has won 100% cash back on his all-new Nissan Magnite, and 8 customers including Prem Singh Harivanshi from Ashta (MP), Raman Singh from Bareilly, Ganesh Doiphode from Aurangabad, Basant Kumar Bansal from Mohali, Gokulanath Jayakumar from Bangalore, Mohsin Shareef from Rangareddy (Telengana), After Ahmed Shaik from Hyderabad and Manda Brahmananda Rao from West Godavari, have won a complimentary upgrade by one variant. The rest of the winners are listed on the Nissan India website, www.nissan.in/valentines-program. Every month, for the next few months, 100 waiting customers of the all-new Nissan Magnite will also win prizes .“The all-new Nissan Magnite has received an overwhelming response and customers are eagerly waiting to drive Nissan Magnite SUV,” said Rakesh Srivastava, Managing Director, Nissan Motor India.

100 winners of Nissan Magnite bookings pool announced

handigarh: If the 3 Laws of Robotics prevent any AI from Charming a human being, then

what made a self-driving car run over a man in the quaint streets of North Goa? Well, bhavishya mein aapka swagat hai! Disney+ Hotstar VIP welcomes you to the year 2031 with Hotstar Specials OK Computer - India’s first sci-fi comedy. A series that gives you a sneak peek into the near future, a future that has arrived faster than anyone could imagine, and a future in which there are no legal or moral precedents for crimes committed by A.I for justice systems to follow, and the question of who to blame persists! As the case progresses, and cybercrime detective, SaajanKundu - one who has an unflappable prejudice against robots clashes with the feisty Laxmia tech-positive, empathetic, resourceful representative of 'People for the Ethical Treatment of Every Robot (PETER)' to solve this murder mystery, one can only expect the unimaginable to happen. With social commentary hidden between layers of comedy, a mockumentary style of narration, and visually striking imagery, OK Computer is nothing like any series you have seen before.

Disney+ Hotstar VIP brings you India’s first sci-fi comedy - OK Computer

handigarh: Sony Entertainment Television presents Ishk Par Zor Nahi, a Cnew-age, young love story of Ahaan and

Ishqi – two people who are not just different in personality, but also share polarising viewpoints about marriage. Starring Akshita Mudgal as Ishqi and Param Singh as Ahaan Malhotra, the show is produced by Four Lions Films Private Limited. Ishk Par Zor Nahi premieres tonight and will air every Monday to Friday at 9:30pm only on Sony Entertainment Television.Ahaan Malhotra is a force to reckon with in the world of business. While the outside world has barely seen him smile, Ahaan does smile… only when he is with his family and siblings. He shares a great bond with his sister Sonu (Shagun Sharma) and cousin Kartik (Rajat Verma) and can’t do without them. Both Kartik and Sonu lovingly tease Ahaan owing to his outdated ‘soch’ on marriage.Ishqi on the other hand believes in living life to the fullest. For her, love is something that she feels can overcome everything in life.

‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ between Best of Punjab & Rest of Punjab begins

handigarh :Triangular cricket tournament ‘TRIDENT PCA CUP’ Cbetween best of Punjab and Rest of

Punjab got underway from today 15th March 2021. The tournament sponsored by Trident Group of Companies carries a cash prize of Rs 2 lacs for the Winner team and Rs 1 lacs /- for the Runners up team. The finals of the tournament are be played at PCA stadium, Mohali from 24th March to 26th March, 2021. The tournament aims to make the best players, chosen by PCA from Punjab on the basis of their performance, to play against each other, perform and improve in the company of better players and to make this tourney a regular feature in the Cricket calendar of PCA. The opening Match of the tournament was played between Punjab XI and Rest of Punjab-RED at Gandhi ground Amritsar today. Punjab XI made a glorious start by defeating Rest of Punjab- by 6 wickets. The mainstay of the batting was the opener Abhijeet who scored 112 runs in only 96 balls hitting 14 fours and 4 sixes. He was also adjudged the man of the match.

Bureaucrat coupleenthralls audiencewith ghazalsSD SHARMACHANDIGARH: The entertainmentstarved inquisitive art lovers of Trictitywere treated to a well organized ‘Sham-e- ghazal’ by well known vocalistcouple of Ranju Parsad and Dr S SParsad at the Tagore theatre here onSunday evening. The largely attendedmusical bonanza was presented underthe aegis of Basant Girija Shree Soci-ety, a philanthropic society dedicated tothe cause of physically, socially , eco-nomically weaker segments of societyespecially the girl child. The HaryanaUrdu Akademi (HAU) and ChandigarhSangeet Natak akademi (CSNA) sup-ported the event among others.The decorative abundance on the stagegave the magnificence of a super megaevent while both Ghazal Nawaz RanjuParsad and Dr SS Parsad doled outover a dozen ghazals with an array ofmusicians led by Dr Arun Kant. Theirrepertoire included some classicalghazals immortalized by legendarymaestros, some filmy and non filmyghazals but all popular numbers andthe audience relished it. Starting with ‘Phir chhidi baat phoolon ki, Ranjish hisahi, Aap ko dekh kerr dekhta rehgya,Agar ham kahein,Salona sa sajanhai, Aye qatib e taqdeer, Ham tere she-har mein, Kisi nazar ko tera, Abhi tohmein jawan hoon and ‘ Aaj jaane ki zidna karo’.

Youth dies inaccidentMANMOHAN SHARMAHANSI: A youth died in a collision of avehicle and bike on Jind and BhiwaniMarg this morning. The Police took thebody and brought it to the Nagarik Hos-pital in Hansi for post-mortem. Accord-ing to the information received, 18-year-old Amit, a resident of village Muahnanear Gauhana, came to the village Basin the wedding of his maternal uncle'sson and daughter. This morning atabout 6 o'clock, He was going to takemilk by his bike. A vehicle coming fromJind at a high speed hit the bike. Hewas brought to the hospital in an injuredstate. But the doctors declared himdead. As soon as this news came to thevillage people were shocked and theycondoled the death of the young boy.

Police arrests wanted criminalRANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL: Under the order of SP Lok-endra Singh, the police arrested the de-clared criminal on Monday. Nearly fourand a half years ago, the members ofthe Gauraksha Dal were attacked withillegal pistols by guns by the accusedand his associates near Solumajra, inwhich the remaining 3 accused havebeen arrested, but the said accusedhas not yet come under police arrest.Was declared criminal by the Hon'bleCourt. The accused will be produced incourt on Tuesday.Superintendent of Police LokendraSingh said that the staff in-charge as-sistant sub-inspector Satish Kumar andhis team arrested the criminal Hansoalias Harun. During the police investiga-tion, the said accused was found to bewanted on 16 November 2016 in thecase of smuggling of illicit pistols andattack on members of Gau Raksha Dalwhile smuggling cows in Solumajraarea. He was declared a criminal bythe court on 30 January 2018.

Blood donationcamp organisedSANGEETA RANIKURUKSHETRA: A voluntary blooddonation camp was organised withBhandara at Jyotisar under the aus-pices of Siddh Shri Balaknath Templeand Dharamshala Sabha on the birthanniversary of Shri Baba Balaknath Ji.Naresh Rathore was the chief guest atthe programme while blood donor Man-ish Dhiman presided over. Encouragingall the blood donors, National BloodMedalist Diamond blood donor and en-vironmental guard Dr. Ashok KumarVerma, who was awarded the Presi-dential Police Medal, Camp Convenor,said that today is a very special day onthe birth anniversary of Siddha BabaBalaknath ji. Youngsters also donatedblood. He encouraged the donors thatblood donation does not cause anyweakness in the body, but the person isnot at risk of heart attack in the coming6 months. The camp includes Balkar,Suraj Kumar, Girish Chawla,Karamveer, Sandeep Kumar, ShripalSingh, Rahul, Virender Kumar, Jasbir,Gulshan, Sanjeev Kumar, Pawan Ku-mar, Om Prakash, Rajesh, Kavita Rani,Jasbir, Rajender, Chandar Kant, Ab-hishek, Sachin Kumar, Rajpal, RamPrakash, Madan Lal, Vishal Kumar, Ra-jiv Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Kapil Dev,Hemant Kaur, Deepak Kumar, Rani,Zafar Ali, Abhishek, Suresh Kumar,Sonu Kumar, Rishi Pal, ShrambirSingh, Narendra Sharma 49 donor con-tributed to the operation of the camp.

BJP workers visithealth centreNIRMAL SAINIBABAIN: BJP workers visited the Com-munity Health Centre, Radaur to ob-serve the ongoing vaccination workthere. During this, they told the peoplepresent there the benefits of the coronavaccine and said that getting the vac-cine is very important. BJP divisionpresident Happy Kheri, general ministerDhanpat Saini, former president VinodSingla and media in-charge RajkumarSharma were present during this peri-od. On this occasion, Happy Khedi andDhanpat Saini said that it is a matter ofpride for us that India has become animportant link to come out of this crisis.After the manufacture of vaccines, nowmany countries of the world are beingsupplied vaccines manufactured in ourcountry. But some people in our countryare spreading misconceptions aboutthis.

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KU and Mahatma Gandhi Institute Moka signMoU to establish KUK Chair of Bhagwad GitaKURUKSHETRA: Kurukshetra University's Srimad Bhagwad Gita Study Center andthe Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Moka, Mauritius have signed an MoU to establish theSustainable Peace and Bhagwad Gita KUK Chair at Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauri-tius. The aim of this MoU is to promote and propagate the teachings of the BhagavadGita. The MoU was given final nod in the Academic Council meeting in the chairman-ship of KU VC Prof Som Nath Sachdeva held on 3 March, 2021. Prof Som Nath saidthat the MoU is aimed at sharing extensive research on Srimad Bhagwad Gita. He fur-ther informed that it will play an important role in promoting teaching, research and de-velopment in the field of Indian thoughts and philosophy.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, MARCH 15:

Haryana Health Minister, SAnil Vijsaid that six new government nursingcolleges will be opened by the StateGovernment during the present tenure.

While responding to a questionduring the HaryanaVidhan Sabha ses-sion today, Sh. Vijsaid that during thefirst term of theState Government,six GovernmentNursing Collegeshad been openedacross the state. Hesaid that he personally wants that suchnursing colleges should be opened inevery district of Haryana.

The Health Minister said that ascompared to the first term of the StateGovernment in 2014, MBBS seatshave more than doubled to 1685 andBDS seats have been increased to 850seats while MDS seats to 258. Similar-ly, there are now 610 seats of BMS, 50seats of Homeopathic, 1850 seats ofBSC Nursing, and 1620 seats ofMPHW. Apart from these, seats in oth-er courses including MSc Nursing have

been increased as well.Sh. Vij said that efforts are being

made to fill the posts in BPS Women'sMedical College, Khanpur Kalan asper the norms of National MedicalCommission. Some posts are lying va-cant due to the cases going on in thecourts, and once the issues are resolvedthe vacancies will be filled. He saidthat 171 posts for medical stream have

been approved in the said college, outof which 93 are filled and there are 267sanctioned posts of paramedics, out ofwhich 82 are filled.

The Health Minister said that theState Government has approved the in-clusion of families under Ayushmanscheme, whose annual income is lessthan Rs. 1.80 lakhs or who have arableland less than 5 acres.

Govt to open six new nursingcolleges in state, says Anil Vij

We are committed to open collegesin radius of 20 km : Kanwar PalCHANDIGARH: Haryana Education Minister, Kanwar Pal has said that the StateGovernment is committed to open colleges within a radius of every 20-km in thestate. He said this while responding to the questions asked by the MLAs during theQuestion Hour in the Budget Session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha.In response to question, the Education Minister said that a Girls College has beenopened in Badhra in Charkhi Dadri district. He further said that the State Governmenthas also decided to open a College in Charkhi Dadri district headquarters and itssession will start from 2021-22.In response to another question, he said that there is a college located 13-km awayfrom Rewari headquarters in Pali, where 440 girls are studying presently. He saidthat the girls have been given fee exemption even in government-aided private col-leges. In response to another question, he said that Samalkha already has two gov-ernment aided colleges. One of these Colleges is for girls. Elaborating on it further,he said that 644 students are studying in Gandhi Adarsh College in Samalkha and727 girls in Vaish Girls College. Besides this, 559 students are already studying atBapauli College.

RAVI KUMARBABAIN, MARCH 15

Reacting to the budget, JDP'sLadwa constituency chief Jo-gadhyan Ladwa said that thebudget of Haryana govern-ment is beneficial for everysection and the pension of theelderly has been increased toRs. 2500 per month and it isa historic decision. The JJPgovernment has given a biggift to the elderly, now fromApril 1, a pension of Rs 2500will be received. He was talk-ing to journalists at the farm-ers' house in Babain. He saidthat the BJP-JJP governmentannounced the launch of An-tyodaya Utthan Abhiyan. Un-der this, steps will be taken toidentify one lakh poorestfamilies and reach their min-imum economic limit of Rs

1.80 lakh.He said that Antyodaya

Utthan Abhiyan will be runtill 2025. He said that thisbudget has been prepared onthe basis of suggestions ofMPs, MLAs and various peo-ple of the state. The main ob-jective of this budget is tomove the state in the direc-tion of development. Thebudget for this time is Rs1,55,645 crore. The budgetalso announced the creationof the posts of 350 medical

officers and 60 dentists. 200beds will be provided inevery civil hospital. Thegovernment has also takendecisions to promote educa-tion. Under the new educa-tion policy, primary educa-tion will be given in 21,962Anganwadis. The 1135 playschools will begin in March2021. In the second phase,2865 Anganwadi centreswill be upgraded to playschools.

Budget beneficial forevery section: Jogadhyan

Keep information about cybercafe uses: DCSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 15: DC Nishant Kumar Yadav has issued an order today for keepingwatch on the activities of anti-social elements under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Pro-cedure to maintain peace and order in the district. The owner and manager of Cyber Cafe willnot allow any unknown person or person who cannot be identified to use Cyber Cafe. Identifi-cation of persons visiting or using the cyber café will have to be maintained. Identification ofthe person using Cyber Cafe, his photo, identity card, voter card or driving license or pass-portor photo credit card will be treated as valid and the person will be identified by the photo.

ROHIT LAMSERTARAORI, MAR 15:

Under the Pandit Deen Dayal Jan AwasYojana released by the state govern-ment, draws were taken out in MansaGreen City opposite Sector-1 Police Sta-tion in Tarawari, in which plot pur-chasers reached in huge numbers. A bignumber of people took part in this drawand booked their plots in Mansa GreenCity to take advantage of the housingscheme in Sector-1. The owner Gurjit ofSector-1 Mansa Green City present theresaid that plots with 80 feet wide roadsare being made available in Sector-1Mansa Green City near National High-way Tarawari at cheap rates. He in-formed that the path of Sector-1 MansaGreen is 5 minutes from Karna LakeKarnal. There is a police station at a dis-tance of only 50 meters and a railwaystation at a distance of 500 meters. Notonly this, there is also a government col-lege and the ITI near Mansa Green City.The special thing is that Mansa GreenCity is only one kilometer away from

the bus stand on Taravari National High-way. There will be safe and better envi-ronment here. Gurjeet told that if youwant to build your dream home, wherethe atmosphere is safe as well as pureand happy environment, then MansaGreen Sector-1 is going to make yourdreams come true. Here, not only willthe plots be made available at affordableprices, but up to 80 percent loan facilityis also available on these plots. Here,

plots will be found under the housingscheme of the Haryana government,whose size will be from 130 yards to150 yards. He informed that after takingthe plot, registry and immediate positionwill also be available immediately.Many facilities including good society,wide streets, sewerage, street lights, gar-dens, community center and instant reg-istry are available for the customershere.

Affordable Plots will be available under PanditDeen Dayal Jan Awas Yojana in Taraori: Gurjeet

BJP-JJP MLAs exposed inVidhan Sabha: Chapra

RAVI KUMAR,BABAIN, MARCH 15

The reality of the BJP-JJP party MLAstalking about the interests of farmers hascome to the fore in the assembly session.What good will the ruling legislators doto deceive the farmers in the longing forpower and the chair, said young Con-gress leader Saurabh Chhapra whiletalking to journalists in Babain. He saidthat Congress MLAs raised the issue of lathi charge on farm-ers, firing tear gas shells, running water canons and false cas-es against farmers in the Haryana Assembly. On the otherhand, the ruling MLAs voted in favour of the cruel and dog-matic government policies. Even though the coalition govern-ment did not fall, the BJP-JJP coalition government has fallenfrom the public eye.

The present government has shown its true face by beat-ing farmers. He said that some of the MLAs of JJP and BJPused to give proof of being farmer friendly but their realitycame out after the objection brought by the Congress and nowthe JJP and BJP MLAs will have to face the ire of the farmersin all future elections.

Verma donates plateletsto cancer patient

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 15

Today, once again by givingplatelets to a person sufferingfrom cancer, Sub-Inspector ofPolice, Dr. Ashok KumarVerma has proved that he hasa large heart. Today, Dr.Ashok Kumar Verma hasdone a commendable job bygiving platelets to a canceraffected person. Dr. Verma has been appointed as the DeputyInspector in the Haryana State Narcotics Control Bureau andhis contribution in many social works along with his stateservice is commendable. He has been donating blood for thelast 31 years. He has donated blood 137 times so far and hasserved the needy by giving platelets 61 times. Not only this,he himself has provided blood for more than 42,000 people byorganising 326 voluntary blood donation camps. He has alsobeen awarded the Police Medal, the highest honor for policeservices. Dr. Verma said that he will continue donating bloodtill the age of 65 by the grace of God. Now his entire family isalso donating blood.

Foundations ofRavidas temple laid

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, MARCH 15

The foundation of the construction of the Ravidas temple waslaid by Mahant Dhuni Das Ji Maharaj of Saheb Prem DasAshram Munak Karnal. Mahant Dhuni Das Ji Maharaj saidthat Guru does not be-long to any particularperson or any one so-ciety, but he is theguide of the whole so-ciety. Saint GuruRavidas guided theentire society throughhis poetry and verses.With the light of hisknowledge, he gave a message to all the society to follow thepath of goodwill. He said that we should abandon jealousy andincrease mutual brotherhood and love. Sant Shiromani GuruRavidas has given a message of love to the society. We shouldfollow the path shown by him today. After laying the founda-tion of the temple construction, there was an atmosphere ofhappiness among the people. A huge bhandara was organisedin which the people of the surrounding villages besides the vil-lagers also attended the event. Sarpanch Sardar KulwinderSingh Numberdar, Ramphal Panchayat members and peopleof the entire society were present on the occasion.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAJIND, MARCH 15

The winning players were re-warded by Assistant EducationOfficer Anil Kumar Hooda atthe conclusion of the ongoingtwo-day 20th state level kick-boxing championship at SriRam Auditorium at Purana BusStand. Suraj Rohilla of Fatehgarh villagewon the silver medal in the championship.Suraj Rohilla said that he had to be contentwith the silver medal after defeating hisFatehabad rival in the 47 kg weight catego-ry. Suraj also played the role of referee andscorer in the championship. Now Suraj willshow his enthusiasm at the national levelgames to be held in the first week ofJuly.Karate coach Ajay Kumar, Jeet KuneDo coach Vicky, Vivek and Vishal played

an important role in the championship.Players from different districts performedwith full and enthusiasm.

Rakesh Saini, general secretary of theHaryana Sports Kick Boxing Association,said that in this competition, Rohtak's teamwas in first place, Fatehabad stood in sec-ond place and Jind district got third place.Pramod Kaushik, associate secretary ofHaryana Sports Coke Boxing Association,told various coaches about kickboxing.

Suraj Rohilla wins silvermedal in kickboxing

Imams demandpending salary

R K KASHYAPCHHACHHRAULI, MARCH 15

On Monday, a meeting of the Imams of the Haryana Waqf Board was held at JamaMasjid Khizrabad. The meeting was chaired by Hafiz Abdul Qadir. In the meet-ing, discussions were held about not getting the salary of Imams for the last 4months. The government was demanded to pay the salary immediately. TheHaryana Waqf Board Imam Association will soon meet the Chief Minister andDeputy Chief Minister to collect the stalled salary and increase in salary.

Maulana Asaruddin, president of the Tanjim Aima Auqaf Haryana, an organ-isation formed by the Imams of the Haryana Waqf Board, said that about 500Imams in the Waqf Board are offering Imams in the mosques. Not all Imam'ssalary has been received for the last 4 months because of which the Imams arefacing a lot of trouble. He said that the salaries of Imams who are doing Imamsin mosques are already very low, which is between Rs 7 to 10 thousand. It is verydifficult to maintain a family at such a low salary. And then also the salary has notbeen paid for the last 4 months. So the Imam gathered in Khizrabad today anddiscussed the issue. He said that another meeting will be held to discuss the issuein Panipat on 16 March and also in Nuh of Mewat on 17 March. In the meeting,everyone said that a committee will be constituted to restore the stagnated salaryand meet the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister to make them aware ofthe problem.

Vaccination must toprevent corona

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI: As many as n1673 personswere vaccinated by Indri's Health De-partment in connection with the coronaepidemic at all PHCs and sub-centers.The vaccination started with Indri BDPOAngrez Singh Mor and Municipal Ac-countant Praveen Sharma. Mor saidthat vaccination is very important for allpersons between the ages of 45 and 60years, this not only protects our health,but also protects the health of others.SMO Sandeep Abrol and Dr. Pankajsaid that a total of 1673 persons werevaccinated with corona vaccine at 7PHCs and 7 sub-centers studying in-side the Indri Health Department.59 people were vaccinated at IndriPHC, 137 men were vaccinated at Ghir

PHC. The Health Department is work-ing with utmost care about the coronaepidemic so that the epidemic can becontrolled. Dr. Sandeep Abrol said thatthere is no need to panic from the coro-na epidemic, only need to follow theguidelines given by the Health Depart-ment.Avoid crowds, use masks andsanitisers, avoid corona and save oth-ers. All the employees of the Health De-partment were also present on the oc-casion.

Free eye check-upcamp heldDARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI: Today, in collaborationwith Human Rights Welfare Organisa-tion Dr. Rishi Raj Rishi Institute, a freeeye camp was organised at MSD PublicSchool, Shamgarh in which about 100patients got their check-ups done in thecamp and the eye medication wasarranged by Ravi Jot Singh Dhillo. Thenational president of the organisation,Raj Nagpal and social worker PremGandhi, who was in charge of thecamp, Jai Prakash Sharma, in-charge,presided over the programme and saidthat the main purpose of the organisa-tion is to serve the society.Raj Nagpal said that from time to time

different kinds of camps are organisedand in future, similar camps will be heldin the interest of society, Dr. Rishi Rajsaid that for people who have Ayush-man cards, operation and treatmentwas done free on this occasion. Princi-pal of the school Devi Charan Sharma,Manohar Lal, Pankaj Chaudhary, VicePresident Virendra, Bablu, and Man-preet Singh and Pawan Verma were in-charge of the media.

Make sure to takevaccine: Dr.Navinder PalNIRMAL SAINI

RADAUR: In the CHC Alahar and PHCNaharpur, the work of giving vaccine topeople above the age of 60 years wasdone on Monday. In CHC Alahar, 8 peo-ple were vaccinated, while in PHC Na-harpur, 112 people were vaccinated. Dr.Navinder Pal of PHC Naharpur said

that it is a matter of pride for us that In-dia has become an important link to getout of this crisis. After the manufactureof vaccines, how many countries of theworld are being supplied vaccines man-ufactured in our country. But some peo-ple in our country are spreading mis-conceptions about this. The country-made vaccine is completely safe. Thatis why we must get a vaccine when it isour turn.

Police challan peoplefor not wearing maskSKBILASPUR: Due to increasing coronainfection, on the instructions ofKamaldeep Goyal, the Bilaspur policecarried out a special campaign andchallaned people for not wearingmasks. Drivers were also challaned.HC Manish Kumar said that along withChallan, people are also being tried forrescue from Corona. He said that toavoid challan, you must wear a mask toprotect the life of yourself and that ofothers. To avoid corona, the only pre-caution is to keep a reasonable dis-tance by applying a mask and use sani-tiser. Manish Kumar said that this policecampaign will continue so that peopledo not come out on the streets withoutmasks.

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Flights cancelledduring China''s worstsandstorm in decades

BEIJING: China's capital and a wideswath of the country's north wereenveloped Monday in the worstsandstorm in a decade, leading to thecancelation of hundreds of flights.Skyscrapers in the center of Beijingappeared to drop from sight amid thedust and sand. Traffic was snarled andmore than 400 flights out of thecapital's two main airports werecanceled before noon. Such stormsused to occur regularly in thespringtime as sand from westerndeserts blew eastwards, affectingareas as far as northern Japan.Massive planting of trees and bushesin fragile areas has reduced thestorms' intensity, but the expansion ofcities and industries has put constantpressure on the environmentthroughout China. The NationalMeteorological Center forecasted thesand and dust would affect 12provinces and regions from Xinjiang inthe far northwest to Heilongjiang in thenortheast and the eastern coastal portcity of Tianjin. This is the most intensesandstorm weather our country hasseen in 10 years, as well as it coveringthe broadest area," the center said in apost on its website.

Over 80 peoplemissing, six killed indust storm inMongoliaULAANBAATAR: A heavy dust stormhits Mongolia over the weekend,leaving six people killed, includingone child, and over 80 peoplemissing, media reported on Monday.According to the CGTN newsbroadcaster, Mongolia's emergencydepartment received reports of 548missing people in total during theweekend, 467 of whom were found.Five herdsmen and one child werekilled by the storm, the broadcastersaid. The rescue operation is stillongoing for the remaining 81 people.Earlier on Monday, a Sputnikcorrespondent reported that a yellowalert has been issued in Beijing asthe dust storm originating in Mongoliahit China's capital. It resulted in majortraffic disruptions in the city withvisibility limited to less than 1,000meters (0.6 miles). The authoritiesrecommended that all outdooractivities be cancelled. Due to lowvisibility, over 400 flights have beencancelled in Beijing, the Global Timesreported.

France records 26,343coronavirus infectionsin past 24 hoursPARIS: France registered 26,343 newCOVID-19 cases in the last 24 hourswhile coronavirus-linkedhospitalizations went up again,according to data released by thehealth authorities on Sunday. Thecountry now recorded anaccumulative total of 4,071,662COVID-19 cases. Some 90,429patients have succumbed to therespiratory illness. After fourthsuccessive daily fall, the number ofCOVID-19 patients who arehospitalized went up again. Some 318more people were admitted tohospitals in one day, bringing the totalto 24,989. That included 4,127 casesin intensive care, up by 57. The datashowed that some 5,072,244 peoplein France have received the first doseof a COVID-19 vaccine. As the worldis struggling to contain the pandemic,vaccination is underway in anincreasing number of countries withthe already-authorized coronavirusvaccines. Meanwhile, 263 candidatevaccines are still being developedworldwide -- 81 of them in clinicaltrials -- in countries includingGermany, China, Russia, Britain, andthe United States, according toinformation released by the WorldHealth Organization on Friday.

Two separate blasts kill 3 civilians in KabulKABUL: Two separate explosions in the Afghan's capital, Kabul killed threepeople and injured 12 others, the Tolo News broadcaster reported, citingpolice. The blasts occurred consequently within an hour in different parts ofthe city late on Sunday. They targeted passenger buses. The first incidenttook place in District 3, killing one person and wounding five others, and thesecond explosion hit the vehicle in District 6, resulting in two fatalities andseven injuries. Similar incidents have become frequent in some Afghanprovinces over the past fortnight, the media outlet said.

Sensex tanks 397 pts; Nifty slips below 15K

AGENCYMUMBAI, MAR 15

Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled397 points on Monday, trackinglosses in index heavyweightsReliance Industries, HDFC twinsand ICICI Bank amid weakmacroeconomic cues.

After gyrating 1,035.71 pointsduring the day, the 30-share BSEindex ended 397 points or 0.78 percent lower at 50,395.08. Thebroader NSE Nifty finished 101.45points or 0.67 per cent down at14,929.50.

Bajaj Finserv was the top loserin the Sensex pack, sheddingaround 3 per cent, followed by

Bajaj Auto, Bajaj Finance, L&T,Asian Paints, Dr Reddy's, ICICIBank, HDFC Bank and RelianceIndustries.

On the other hand, TechMahindra, PowerGrid, IndusIndBank, HCL Tech and NTPC wereamong the gainers.

According to Binod Modi,Head-Strategy at RelianceSecurities, domestic equitieswitnessed sharp sell-off for thesecond consecutive trading day asmounting concerns aboutresurgence of COVID-19 cases invarious parts of the country andrising bond yields made investorsjittery.

"Further, unexpected

contraction in IIP data for January2021 and sharp spike in CPI printalso weighed on sentiments," hesaid.

Industrial production growthre-entered the negative territory bycontracting by 1.6 per cent inJanuary, while retail inflationsoared to a three-month high of5.03 per cent in February oncostlier food items, as per datareleased post market hours onFriday.

Further, the wholesale price-

based inflation rose for the secondconsecutive month in February to4.17 per cent, as food, fuel andpower prices spiked.

Elsewhere in Asia, bourses inShanghai and Seoul were in thered, while Hong Kong and Tokyoended on a positive note. Stockexchanges in Europe were alsotrading with gains in mid-sessiondeals. Meanwhile, the global oilbenchmark Brent crude wastrading 0.01 per cent lower at USD69.21 per barrel.

NEW DELHI: Gold in the national capital rose by Rs 61 to Rs44,364 per 10 grams on Monday, according to HDFC Securities. Inthe previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 44,303 per 10grams. Silver also gained Rs 162 to Rs 66,338 per kilogram from Rs66,176 in the previous trade. "Spot gold prices for 24 carat in Delhiwere Rs 61 higher despite of rupee appreciation," according to HDFCSecurities, Senior Analyst (Commodities), Tapan Patel. The Indianrupee soared 33 paise to 72.46 against the US dollar on Monday,tracking weakness of the American currency in the overseas market.In the international market, gold was trading marginally lower atUSD 1,726 per ounce and silver was flat at USD 25.95 per ounce.

Gold rises by Rs 61;silver gains Rs 162

WPI inflation comesat 4.17 pc in Feb

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

The annual rate of inflationbased on the monthlywholesale price index (WPI)was 4.17 per cent in Februaryas compared to 2.03 per centin the previous month, datareleased by the governmenton Monday showed. It was2.26 per cent in February2020. The index for primaryarticles with a weightage of22.62 per cent increased by1.04 per cent to 145.4 inFebruary from in January,according to an officialstatement released by theMinistry of Commerce andIndustry. Prices of mineralsincreased by 9.4 per cent,crude petroleum and naturalgas by 6.5 per cent and foodarticles by 0.51 per centmonth-on-month. However,prices of non-food articlesdeclined by 0.51 per cent. Theindex for fuel and power witha weightage of 13.15 per centincreased by 4.51 per cent to104.2 in February from 99.7in January. Prices of mineral

oils rose by 8.88 per cent butprices of electricity fell by0.43 per cent. Coal pricesremain unchanged. Theindex for manufacturedproducts with a weightage of64.23 per cent increased by0.64 per cent to 125.7 inFebruary from 124.9 inJanuary. A total of 17 groupswhich witnessed increase inprices are manufacture ofother manufacturing;furniture; other transportequipment; motor vehicles,trailers and semi-trailers;machinery and equipment;computer, electronic andoptical products; fabricatedmetal products, exceptmachinery and equipment;other non-metallic mineralproducts; rubber and plasticsproducts; chemicals andchemical products.

Gamers in India spend 8.5hours a week playing: Report

NEW DELHI, MAR 15

Indian gamers spend more than eight hours and 36minutes each week playing, according to a report byLimelight Networks Inc. Binge gaming has emergedas a phenomenon with over 60 per cent of Indiangamers have spent more than three hoursconsecutively playing games, said findings of thereport released on Monday. From 2020 to 2021, theaverage for binge gaming in India increased from 4.1hours to 5.5 hours -- largely due to the Covid-19pandemic as people are forced to stay at home forlong hours due to subsequent lockdowns. Threequarters (74 per cent) of gamers are interested inpurchasing a new console due to updated technology(32 per cent) and faster gameplay (31 per cent).

LAHORE, MAR 15

As the unavailability of cotton yarn in Pakistancontinues to rise, the country's textile exportersassociation has urged the Imran Khangovernment to import cotton yarn from India toensure continuity in export growth. "In order toovercome the scarcity of basic raw material, thegovernment should allow the cross-borderimport of cotton yarn from India to ensure

continuity in export growth," said MuhammadAhmad, Chairman Pakistan Textile ExportersAssociation (PTEA) in a statement as quoted byThe News International. Khurram Mukhtar,Patron-in-Chief PTEA, in his statement,expressed concern over undue delay indisbursement of exporters' Duty Drawback ofTaxes and Income Tax refunds (over Rs50million) as exporters' liquidity had already takena strong negative hit from COVID-19.

Financial help given in marriageof daughter of a needy family

GOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD, MAR 15

The Nar-Narayan SevaSamiti, a pioneer in publicservice, has providedfinancial assistance in themarriage of a girl of a needyfamily. Giving thisinformation, founder of thecommittee Manish Bhatiasaid that the family membersapproached the committee.On which the team of thecommittee reached the girl'shouse and provided thenecessary items, mixer,dinner sets, clothes and otherfinancial support. Bhatia toldthat the head of the familywas earning his living byhawking. Due to which the

committee has supported thefamily. It is worth mentioningthat this week, a poor familywas given a counter, that wasset up with a small scalebusiness for the upbringing ofthe family, so that the family

can make a living by usingsmall means. RakeshMultani, Bittu Battara,Karnail Singh, Natha Singh,Pandit Ashok, CharanjitSingh, Amandeep Singh werepresent on the occasion.

Cong's no-confidence motion has revealedtruth of leaders of double character: Rana

SUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, MAR 15

The farmers of Yamunanagar honoredBishan Lal Saini, the MLA fromRadaur, after the Congress moved a no-confidence motion in the Assembly.Farmer leaders said that the MLA fromRadaur has played an important role inexposing the anti-people policies of thepresent BJP government by theCongress Party's submission of no-confidence motion in the Assembly onthe farmers' movement and otherburning issues. On the occasion, RanaAas Mohammed, District Chairman ofCongress Minority Cell, whileaddressing the farmers said thatLegislator Bishan Lal Saini, whorepresents the farmers in the LegislativeAssembly, deserves praise. Rana saidthat the BJP government has forgottenthe difference between fair and unfairdue to the overwhelming majority and isexploiting the people with its Hitlerroyal attitude. Rana said that every

worker and leader of the Congress Partyhas stood in the farmers movementsince the first day of the agitation andtill this black laws are withdrawn, theCongress party will continue to opposethe BJP government from the road to theAssembly and Lok Sabha. He said thatthe JJP and BJP coalition government isplaying with the feelings of the peoplein Haryana for their selfishness, whichthe public will no longer tolerate. Thereal face of other MLAs of doublecharacter is presented to the public bythe congress, who played an importantrole in exposing them.

Tech Mahindra to buy 70% stakein Perigord Asset Holdings

NEW DELHI, MAR 15

Tech Mahindra on Monday said it will acquire a 70 per centstake in BPO services firm Perigord Asset Holdings Ltd toaugment its expertise in the global pharmaceutical, healthcareand life science sectors. Tech Mahindra will also leveragePerigord's expertise and offerings to extend capabilitiestowards delivering efficiency and automation levers acrosssectors, including consumer-packaged goods, medical devicesand over the counter products, to enable growth and scalabilityin the future, the company said in a statement. "Healthcare andLifesciences (HLS) is a key vertical for Tech Mahindra and thisacquisition will expand our footprint globally in these domains."Perigord's proprietary platform and expertise in the artworkspace and life sciences industry will add significant value to ourofferings and capabilities. We welcome Perigord employeesinto the Tech Mahindra family," Vivek Agarwal, President --BFSI, HLS and Corporate Development -- at Tech Mahindra,said. The acquisition is a part of Tech Mahindra's long-termgrowth plan to build presence across key markets in Ireland,Germany, USA, and India with enhanced global delivery. "Bothcompanies' future ambitions and desires to digitally transformthe world of pharmaceutical packaging services will deliverlong term innovative solutions to our clients that will futureproof their needs over the next ten years," Alan Leamy, ChiefExecutive Officer of Perigord Asset Holdings Ltd said.

Gamers in India are among those who are most likely to considerupgrading their console (88.4 per cent), said the report. More than94 per cent of Indian gamers say the process of downloadinggames is frustrating and that it needs to be improved. Moreover,gamers who spend anywhere between five to 15 hours in bingegaming account for a whopping 54 per cent of gamers.

Pak textile exporters urge Imran Khangovt to import cotton from India

Bank strike paralyseslife in Baddi

SHANTI GAUTAMBADDI, MAR 15

The impact of UFBU strike called by organization of bankemployees and officials was seen in Baddi, Sikka Chowk,

B a r o t i w a l a ,Ramshahar ofBBN. Here thebranches of UCOBank, PNB andother NationalizedBank remainedclosed, due towhich people werenot able to conducttheir transactions.Businessmen ofBaddi andRamshahar Ajay

Gupta, Somnath Bassi, Ravindra Gupta, Amar Singh, Kavita,Sumit, etc. told that already the banks were closed due to bankholidays for the second Saturday and Sunday, and now theywill be closed for another two days due to the strike. Publicfaced a lot of inconvenience due to the closed banks.

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India pacer JaspritBumrah ties knotwith Sanjana

NEW DELHI: India pace spear-head Jasprit Bumrah tied the knotwith sports presenter and anchorSanjana Ganesan on Monday.Bumrah shared adorable picturesfrom the wedding ceremony andthe cricketer termed the date(March 15) as one the happiestdays of their lives. "'Love, if it findsyou worthy, directs your course.'Steered by love, we have begun anew journey together. Today isone of the happiest days of ourlives and we feel blessed to beable to share the news of our wed-ding and our joy with you. Jasprit& Sanjana," Bumrah captioned thepost on Instagram.His Indian Premier League (IPL)franchise Mumbai Indians wishedthe duo a happy married life."Bumrah bowled over by Sanjana.Here's wishing love, laughter, anda happily ever after for @Jasprit-bumrah93 and @SanjanaGane-san," Mumbai Indians tweeted.Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) alsocongratulated the couple on get-ting hitched.Earlier this month, a news agencyhad reported that Bumrah hadasked for some days off as he wasgetting married. "He informed theBCCI that he is getting marriedand has taken the leave to help inpreparations for the big day," thesource had told. The 27-year-oldBumrah played two Tests in thefour-match series against Englandand he returned with four wickets.Bumrah was rested for the secondTest against England in Chennaiand he returned wicketless in thethird Test as spinners did a majori-ty of the work. India won the Testseries 3-1. Meanwhile, in theshortest format, Team India madea brilliant comeback in the T20Iseries as the team registered acomprehensive 8-wicket victory inthe second T20I on Sunday afterlosing the first game. The thirdgame of the series will be playedon Tuesday.

Big IPL money doesn'tmake wicket greener orboundaries bigger, saysCumminsKOLKATA: Australia and KolkataKnight Riders (KKR) pacer PatCummins has said that playing thegame professionally brings a lot ofpressure with it.Cummins was bought by KKR lastyear for a whopping Rs 15.5 croreand he had become the most ex-pensive foreign player in the histo-ry of the tournament. However,this record has been broken byChris Morris as he was purchasedby Rajasthan Royals for Rs 16.25crore this season."Whenever you play professionalcricket anywhere, there will be lotsof pressure. If you are coming off agood game, there is pressure todo it again, if you are coming off abad game, there is pressure toperform," Cummins told KKR's of-ficial website.

Clijsters withdraws fromMiami and CharlestontournamentsMIAMI: Four-time Grand Slamchampion Kim Clijsters withdrewfrom upcoming tournaments in Mi-ami and Charleston, a setback inher comeback following right kneesurgery and a bout with COVID-19.Clijsters' return to the WTA Tour in2020 after a seven-year hiatuswas interrupted by the pandemic.She underwent knee surgery inOctober and came down with amild case of the virus in January.I've had an intensive few weeks oftraining, Clijsters, 37, said on Twit-ter.Unfortunately I am not where Ineed to be, especially if I want tocompete with the best. I'm notready to quit. I'm going to keeppushing and see what's possible.Clijsters said she plans to undergothree to six weeks of pain man-agement treatment and then makedecisions regarding her schedule.The Miami Open begins March 23,and the Charleston tournamentstarts on April 5.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2021

AGENCYNEW DELH, MAR 15

Fencer Bhavani Devi, who scripted his-tory on Sunday by becoming the firstfencer from India to qualify for theTokyo Olympics, said this was the mo-ment for which she went through all thesacrifice, challenges and stress but at theend, it was "worth it".

"I have officially qualified forTokyo Olympic games 2021 by securinga slot through the Asia/Oceania Zone ofthe Adjusted Official ranking. A mo-ment to remember forever. A momentfor which all the sacrifice, hard work,pain, obstacle, challenges, stress, upsand downs, joy, and sorrow I wentthrough was worth it. A journey thatstarted alone but was fulfilled with thesupport of many. And the journey con-

tinues," she said in a lengthy post onTwitter.

Soon after her qualification for theTokyo Olympics, Union Sports MinisterKiren Rijiju had taken to Twitter andcongratulated Devi on her achievement."Congratulations to Indian fencer Bha-vani Devi who has qualified for TokyoOlympics! She has become the 1st everIndian fencer to achieve the feat. Mybest wished to @IamBhavaniDevi," Ri-jiju had tweeted.

Devi then thanked her parents fortheir "unending faith" and dedicated theachievement to her family.

"Firstly I would like to thank myparents who have had unending faith inme and let me follow my passion from avery young age. My parents and siblingswere a wall of support even when manytaunted us to quit the sport. I love you all

forever and Thanking is certainly notenough. This victory is yours. Speciallydedicated to our father!" Devi wrote.

She also thanked her coach NicolaZanotti, saying that he not only taughther fencing but also life lessons.

"My coach, Nicola Zanotti withwhom I started this Olympic journey. Atfirst, he was surprised that an Indian isdreaming about Olympic representationin fencing but he was confident that ifwe work hard with the right determina-tion, discipline, and hard work we canachieve it. We worked hard with thesame determination and passion for thelast 5 years and we are here to representIndia at Tokyo. You have not only taughtme Fencing lessons but life lessons too.I thank you Nico and we will continueour work!" she said.

AGENCYMILAN, MAR 15

A fast hat trick for Cristiano Ronaldostill wasn't enough for third-place Ju-ventus to close in on Inter Milan, whichmanaged to extend its lead at the top ofSerie A.

Inter snatched a 2-1 win at relega-tion-threatened Torino and moved ninepoints clear of second-place AC Milanafter the Rossoneri lost 1-0 at home toNapoli.

Nine-time defending champion Ju-ventus beat Cagliari 3-1 but remained10 points behind Inter, although it hasplayed a match less.

Ronaldo's first-half hat trick set iton the way at Cagliari. It was the per-fect response to criticism the Juventusforward and his teammates had come in for after the Bianconeri wereknocked out of the Champions Leagueby Porto in the round of 16 earlier in theweek.

The criticism didn't bother me whatbothered me was being knocked out ofthe Champions League, having notplayed well, Juventus goalkeeper Woj-ciech Szczesny said.

Then, you have to respond on thefield. Cristiano did exactly that, with aperfect hat trick.

However, Ronaldo was somewhat

fortunate not to get sent off a few min-utes after heading in a corner for hisfirst goal in the ninth minute.

The Juventus forward went in highto meet Federico Chiesa's cross andcaught Alessio Cragno in the face, leav-ing the Cagliari goalkeeper with a cut tothe chin. But Ronaldo was shown just ayellow card.

The two clashed again in the 25thminute when Cragno tripped Ronaldo,who doubled his tally with a powerfulpenalty.

And Ronaldo completed his hattrick seven minutes later, controllingChiesa's cross and doing a little shim-my before curling into the far side ofthe net.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

Legendary India cricketerKapil Dev was on Monday in-ducted into the ProfessionalGolf Tour of India (PGTI) as aboard member.

"As a sportsman, it's myduty if I can help them in try-ing to promote the game. I feelsometimes they don't get theirdues. All the young boys whoare starting, if we can bringmore money into the game andlet everybody come out thereand make the life out of it that'swhat I look for," the World

Cup-winning captain told re-porters. Talking about the gov-ernment's support, Kapil said:"Government is there to makesure you can carry on with

your job. Not too much in-volvement in sports and I thinkit's a responsibility of everycommon person. You look atcricket, the government's in-

volvement is not there. All thesports should be like that. Wehelping the sports, that's moreimportant."

Kapil played 131 Testsand 225 ODIs for the Indiancricket team. In the longestformat of the game, the all-rounder amassed 5,248 runsand picked 434 wickets. Un-der his leadership, India liftedthe 1983 World Cup after de-feating West Indies in the final.He also said he just wants thedevelopment of the sport,stressing that he does not haveany desire of becoming thepresident of the body.

Kapil Dev inducted into PGTI as board member

Ronaldo responds tocritics with fast hattrick for Juventus

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 15

The TATA Steel Professional Golf Tourof India (PGTI) and Prometheus School,Noida, will be jointly staging the Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship 2021.

The tournament is scheduled to beplayed at the scenic Golden Greens GolfClub in Gurugram from March 16-19.The Pro-Am event will be staged onMarch 20. The tournament, the 10thevent of the 2020-21 PGTI season, car-ries a prize purse of Rs 30 lakh.

The third edition of the Delhi-NCROpen Golf Championship is supported

by Prometheus School, Noida, which isthe presenting partner, and GujaratTourism which is the associate partnerfor the event. The tournament is set tofeature some of the top Indian profes-sionals such as international winners

Rashid Khan, Rahil Gangjee, AjeeteshSandhu, Chikkarangappa, Viraj Madap-pa, and Khalin Joshi along with 10-timePGTI winner Udayan Mane and PGTIOrder of Merit leader KarandeepKochhar. The race for qualification tothis year's Tokyo Olympics has enteredan exciting phase with just over threemonths remaining in the cut-off date fora qualification which is June 21. Thefour highest-ranked Indians in the world-- Rashid Khan (306), Udayan Mane(317), Karandeep Kochhar (348), andChikkarangappa (349) -- are all compet-ing at the Delhi-NCR Open Golf Cham-pionship 2021.

Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championshipto start from March 16

India aim to extend winningmomentum in 3rd T20I

AGENCYAHMEDABAD, MAR 15

Down 1-0, Team India made a brilliant come-back in the T20I series against England as theteam registered a comprehensive 8-wicketvictory in the second T20I on Sunday. Andwith the series level 1-1, it will be all aboutmaintaining the winning momentum whenVirat Kohli and boys take the field in the thirdgame on Tuesday.

Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadavmade their debut on Sunday and the pocket-sized Ishan put in a commendable show tolead India's chase. While he was dismissedafter making a cracking 56 off 32 balls, theIndian side ticked most boxes.

For the hosts, nothing really went wrongbarring KL Rahul's dismissal. After manag-ing just 1 in the opener, he came back with aduck in the second game and the hosts mightsee Rohit Sharma replacing him after takinga short 2-game break.

The bowing wore a disciplined look asBhuvneshwar Kumar's slower ones andShardul Thakur's off-cutters ensured Englandscored just two boundaries in the last fiveovers on Sunday. But Morgan was happy thathis side played on a slower wicket as he feelsthe upcoming games are going to be on sim-ilar lines.

"We want to learn as much as possiblefrom tonight, I'm glad we played on this kindof wicket tonight, but disappointed with theway we played," said Morgan. "We were pre-pared coming into the series. The next gameis on a red-soil pitch, so probably going toturn, but we welcome these challenges," headded.

Ishan, on debut, excelled with the bat andsmashed a sensational fifty. While he ensuredthat the hosts didn't come across the thoughtof not having regular openers, the Englandskipper certainly felt the void created byMark Wood's injury.

"You're always going to miss MarkWood, he feels better today so hopefully he'llbe fit for the next game. If not, the fourthgame," said Morgan.

Have never experienced energy thatKohli shows on field before: Ishan AHMEDABAD: India batsman Ishan Kishan, who made a memorable debut on Sundayagainst England, said he learned a lot while batting with skipper Virat Kohli and added thatthe energy the latter shows on the field is something he had never experienced before.Captain Kohli led from the front while Kishan scored a magnificent half-century on debut ashosts registered a seven-wicket win over England in the second T20I here at the NarendraModi Stadium on Sunday. With this win, the hosts have levelled the five-match series 1-1.Kohli played an unbeaten knock of 73 runs while Kishan scored 56 runs, helping the teamchase down a target of 165 runs.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared a video in which Yuzvendra Chahalinterviewed Kishan after the match.Kishan started off by saying: "It is a proud moment for any youngster to come and representhis country. I was very happy that I got this chance."He also said: "The conversation I had before the match, with Virat bhai, Hardik bhai, every-one told me to just enjoy and before going out to bat you (Chahal) gave me tips about howto go about it and said 'take time if you want to and just play freely like you played in theIPL'.""When you reached your fifty, you did not raise your bat for a few seconds. Were you notaware that you have completed your half-century or you got nervous?" Chahal asked Kis-han. To this, Kishan said he does not generally raise bat that much after scoring a half-cen-tury but Kohli encouraged him to do so.

AGENCYNORTH POINT (ANTIGUA),MAR 15

Darren Bravo's fourth one-dayinternational century steered theWest Indies to a five-wicket winover Sri Lanka and a sweep ofthe three-match ODI series.

Bravo was out for 102 in the47th over when the West Indiesneeded only 26 runs to overhaulSri Lanka's total of 274-6. Heshared an 80-run partnershipwith captain Kieron Pollard,who finished 53 not out as thehome side won with nine balls tospare. Bravo earlier joined withShai Hope in a 109-run partner-ship for the third wicket whichput the West Indies on target tovictory after the hosts had been39-2 in the 10th over. Captain Ja-son Holder ended the run chasewith a six from the third ball ofthe 49th over as West Indies end-ed on 276-5. Bravo's centurywas his first in an ODI sinceJune, 2016 when he scored 102against South Africa atBridgetown, Barbados. I thinktoday was an important day forme, Bravo said. Yesterday my

sister celebrated her 30th birth-day. I wasn't there for her cele-bration so I knew I had to dosomething special for her. I justwant dedicate this one-day hun-dred to her.

Bravo had been hinting atthe onset of his best form withscores of 58, 19 and 47 in thethree-match Twenty20 series,which the West Indies won 2-1.He also scored 37 not out and 10in the first two matches of theODI series. He emulated the per-formances of Hope, who made110 to help West Indies win thefirst match of the series by eightwickets, and Evin Lewis, whoscored 103 to help the hometeam win the second match byfive wickets. Bravo said he tookinspiration from the innings byHope and Lewis which have leda strong West Indies batting per-formance in the series, saying itgave us the motivation to go outand do well. Once again, SriLanka lost the toss and wasasked to bat first. Danushka Gu-nathilaka (36) and captainDimush Karunaratne (31) got thetourists off to a solid start with a68-run opening stand.

West Indies beat SriLanka by 5 wickets,win ODI series 3-0

Everything I went through was worth it:Bhavani Devi after qualifying for Oly