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Uttarakhand CMRawat tests positivefor coronaDEHRADUN: UttarakhandChief Minister Trivendra SinghRawat has tested positive forcoronavirus on Friday.In a tweet, Rawat said he wentinto home isolation after he test-ed positive for COVID-19. Hehas also urged people whomight have come in contact withhim to isolate themselves andget tested for virus."Today I had my corona testdone and the report came backpositive. My health is fine and Ido not have any symptoms.Therefore, on the advice of doc-tors, I will be in home isolation. Irequest everyone, whoever hascome in contact with me in thelast few days, please isolateyourself and get yourselfchecked," Rawat said in a tweet(translated from Hindi).

Four held aftermiscreants put upPM's Varanasi officefor sale on OLXVARANASI: The Uttar PradeshPolice on Friday arrested fourpeople in Varanasi's JawaharNagar colony a day after an ad-vertisement for Prime MinisterNarendra Modi's office inVaranasi was put up for sale onclassifieds website OLX for Rs7.5 crore."It came to our notice yesterdaythat the PM's office was put onOLX for sale. An FIR has beenregistered under ThanaBhelupur," said Senior Superin-tendent of Police Amit Pathak.

No narcoticsconsumed in myparty: KaranJohar tells NCBMUMBAI: Bollywood filmmakerKaran Johar has submitted be-fore the narcotics-control-bu-reau">Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) that no narcotics sub-stances were consumed at hisparty, purported videos of whichhave made rounds on socialmedia, sources said on Friday.Johar, through his lawyer, sub-mitted his statement and detailssought by the NCB.The NCB had on Thursday is-sued a notice to Karan Joharseeking details regarding avideo of a party he organised inthe past. Sources in the agencyinformed that a few video clipsof this party were also submittedin a pen drive.

Three robbersinvolved in bankloot held from JindCHANDIGARH: Haryana Policehas arrested three miscreants inconnection with Rs 1.03 lakhloot from a bank employee inSafidon, Jind. Police has alsorecovered one illegal pistol and4 cartridges from their posses-sion.While stating this here today, aHaryana Police spokespersoninformed that arrested accusedwere identified as Happy, Rahuland Sunil alias Shilu. Primaryprobe reveals that the trio wereinvolved in a number of heinouscrimes. They were arrested by ateam of CIA following a tip ofwhen they were roaming nearcanal bridge with an intention tocommit a crime.Arrested three accused, whoopened fire on a bank employeein Safidon on 25.06.2020 andmanaged to flee with Rs 1.03lakh cash. They also shot a shopkeeper on10.09.2020 when he refused togive money.

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AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 18

India's COVID-19 caseload rose to99.79 lakh with 22,890 new infectionsbeing reported in a day, while total re-coveries crossed the 95 lakh-mark, ac-cording to the Union Health Ministry'sdata updated on Friday.

With 338 more fatalities, the deathtoll reached 1,44,789, while the totalCOVID-19 cases mounted to99,79,447, the data updated at 8 amshowed. The number of people whohave recuperated from the diseasesurged to 95,20,827, pushing the na-

tional recovery rate to 95.40 per cent.The COVID-19 case fatality rate standsat 1.45 per cent.

The COVID-19 active caseload re-mained below four lakh for the 12thconsecutive day. There are 3,13,831 ac-tive cases in the country which com-prise 3.14 per ce t of the total caseload,the data stated. India's COVID-19 tallyhad crossed the 20 lakh-mark on August7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh onSeptember 5. It went past 50 lakh onSeptember 16, 60 lakh on September28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80lakh on October 29, and surpassed 90lakh on November 20.

Covid tally reaches one crore mark in India Vaccination will be voluntaryNEW DELHI: With the COVID-19 vaccination just around the corner, the Union Health Min-istry on Thursday said that vaccination for COVID-19 will be voluntary.The Health Ministry said that it is advisable to receive the complete schedule of COVID-19vaccine for protecting oneself against this disease and also to limit the spread of this dis-ease to close contacts including family members, friends, relatives and co-workers.The Ministry further informed that two doses of vaccine, 28 days apart, need to be taken byan individual to complete the vaccination schedule.For the mass vaccination as per the potential availability of vaccines, the Centre has se-lected the priority groups who will be vaccinated on priority as they are at higher risk."The first group includes healthcare and frontline workers. The second group to receiveCOVID 19 vaccine will be persons over 50 years of age and persons under 50 years withcomorbid conditions," stated a health ministry document on FAQ related to the COVID-19vaccine.

Farm laws not introduced overnight: ModiSays, govt open to discuss any doubt with farmers

AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 18

Farm laws have not been intro-duced overnight, said PrimeMinister Narendra Modi on Fri-day while adding that over thelast 20 to 30 years, Centre andState Governments had detaileddiscussions on these reforms.

"Farm Laws have not beenintroduced overnight. Over thelast 20-30 years, central govern-ment and state governments haddetailed discussions on these re-forms. Agriculture experts, econ-omists and progressive farmershave been demanding reforms,"said PM Modi while addressingfarmers at the 'Kisan Kalyan'event in Raisen through videoconferencing.

"I request all political partieswith folded hands, please keepall the credit. I am giving creditto all your old election mani-festos. I just want ease in the lifeof farmers, I want their progressand want modernity in agricul-ture," he added.

Today Rs 16 thousand croresare being transferred into thebank accounts of 35 lakh farmersof Madhya Pradesh, PM Modistated.

The Prime Minister furthersaid the modern system that India

has created in the last five to sixyears is being discussed and ap-preciated all over the world to-day.

"The modern facility avail-able to the farmers in the bigcountries of the world should beprovided to the farmers of Indiaalso, it cannot be delayed anylonger," said PM Modi.

"In a rapidly changing globalscenario, the farmer situationcannot be accepted as becominghelpless due to lack of facilitiesand modern methods. It is al-ready too late. The things that

should have been done 25-30years ago are happening now," headded.

In the last six years, the Cen-tre has worked keeping in mindthe needs of farmers, the PrimeMinister stated.

"There is a lot of discussionabout the new laws made forfarmers in the country for thepast several days. These agricul-tural reform laws did not comeovernight. Every government hasdiscussed it extensively for thelast 20-22 years.

With folded hands,PM urges Oppn notto mislead farmersNEW DELHI: Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Friday re-quested political parties with"folded hands" to keep all thecredit for their "old election mani-festos" which had reportedlypromised agriculture sector re-forms and urged them to stopmisguiding the farmers over thenew farm laws. "I request all polit-ical parties with folded hands,please keep all the credit. I amgiving credit to all your old elec-tion manifestos. I just want easein the life of farmers, I want theirprogress and want modernity inagriculture," said PM Modi whileaddressing farmers at the 'KisanKalyan' event in Raisen throughvideo conferencing. "Political par-ties should stop misguiding farm-ers. It's been six to seven monthssince farm laws were implement-ed. But now suddenly, games arebeing played to plough one's ownpolitical land through a web oflies," he added. The Prime Minis-ter further said, those who havestarted this movement in thename of farmers, when they hada chance to run the governmentor become part of the govern-ment, what they did back then.

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, DECEMBER 18:

To facilitate seamless e-learning ingovernment schools amid Covid-19pandemic, Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh on Fridayvirtually launched the second phaseof the ‘Punjab Smart ConnectScheme’, marked bydistribution of smartphones to another80,000 class 12 stu-dents of GovernmentSchools.

The event wit-nessed simultaneousdistribution of phonesat 845 schools today byvarious Ministers,MLAs and other digni-taries across the state.

Kick-starting the second phaseat the Government Senior Sec-ondary School here, the Chief Min-ister announced that the remaining45443 smart phones of the targeted1,75,443 would be provided to stu-dents by the end of this month, tofulfill his government’s commit-ment to further strengthen digital in-frastructure in schools. While hisgovernment had tried to distribute

these phones urgently to meet theonline education challenges amidCovid, closure of the industry hadsomewhat delayed the process, headded.

In the 1st phase, 50000 studentshad received smart phones. Underthe scheme, the state government isspending Rs 87.84 crore for the dig-

ital empowerment of88059 boys and 87284girls. The Chief Ministersaid that 877 tablets werealso being provided to-day in 22 senior second-ary schools at the cost ofRs. one crore. Earlier,2625 tablets were pro-vided to 372 primaryschools at the cost of Rs.2.99 crore. Addressingthe students, Capt.

Amarinder said when the PunjabCongress promised smart phones inits manifesto, nobody knew thesephones would become so vital forstudents due to the Covid pandemic.He said he wanted Punjab’s young-sters to be abreast with the latesttechnological advancements for ef-fective promotion of digital educa-tion, which leverages technology ina big way in the present scenario.

Amarinder launches2nd phase of Punjab

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AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 18

The Central Bureau of In-vestigation on Friday filedits chargesheet in the al-leged gangrape and murdercase of a Dalit woman at aspecial SC/ST court. Fourupper caste men Sandeep,Luvkush, Ravi and Ramu,who are in judicial custodynow, have been chargedwith gang-rape and mur-der. The court has takencognisance of thechargesheet, Munna SinghPundir, lawyer for the ac-cused, told news agencies.

The chargesheet hasbeen filed under Sections354, 376 A, 376 D and 302of IPC and SC/ST Act.

The Dalit woman wasallegedly raped by four up-per-caste men in Hathrason September 14. She diedon September 29 at Delhi’sSafdarjung Hospital duringtreatment, and was cremat-ed in the dead of night nearher home on September30. Her family alleged theywere forced by the local

police to hurriedly conducther last rites. Local policeofficers, however, said thecremation was carried out“as per the wishes of thefamily”.

The incident, and thesubsequent action of localpolice in alleged attempt tohush the case, sparkedprotests and outrage acrossthe country. Facing flakover the handling of thecase, the Uttar Pradeshgovernment recommendedCBI probe into the case.The central agency initiat-ed the probe in October.

The CBI looked intothe role of the four menwho were also put throughdifferent forensic tests atthe Forensic Science Labo-ratory in Gandhinagar.

AGENCYAMBALA, DEC 18

Six people were killed in ahead-on collision between athree-wheeler and a truckhere on Friday, police said.

The injured person,whose condition was critical,was taken to PGIMER,Chandigarh, police said.

The deceased were identi-fied as Sunil Kumar (23),driver of the three-wheeler,Mehar Singh (81), SalamtiDevi (60), Gafoor Deen (65)

and an unidentified woman(aged around 40), they said.

All the deceased belongedto nearby villages of Narain-garh.

A case has been registeredagainst the driver of the truckon the complaint of VedPrakash, the Sarpanch ofKanjala village, who was aneye witness to the incident,police said.

The truck driver fledfrom the accident site leavinghis vehicle behind, policeadded.

CHANDIGARH, DEC 18:Haryana Chief Minister, Mr.Manohar Lal said that the StateGovernment is determined to-wards the upliftment and overalldevelopment of all the sections ofsociety. He directed the con-cerned officers to expedite theprocess of providing homes to el-igible beneficiaries of VimuktGhumantu Jati under Housing for All De-partment.

The Chief Minister said this while pre-siding over a review meeting of the VimuktGhumantu Jati Vikas Board here today.During the meeting, Welfare of Scheduled

Castes & Backward Classes Min-ister, Dr. Banwari Lal was pres-ent. He directed the officers to setup a Dedicated Grievances Com-mittee for Vimukt Ghumantu Jatiin every district of the state as perthe directions of the Centre Gov-ernment. For the skill develop-ment of the students belonging toVimukt Ghumantu Jati and make

them employable, the Chief Minister di-rected the officers to make provisions toprovide them skill education so that suchstudents can also become entrepreneurs andthe vision of Atma Nirbhar Bharat can berealized in true sense.

AGENCYSHIMLA, DEC 18

The district headquarters ofLahaul Spiti, Keylong frozeat minus ten degrees, thecoldest of this winter season.

Himachal is state facingdry and extreme cold waveconditions with the mercuryreeling in sub zero or in mi-nus in most part of town.Kaza and higher reaches ofLahaul Spiti recorded minus18 to 20 degrees, the Met of-fice said.

Minimum temperatureduring the last 24 hours was

three to four degrees belownormal while maximum tem-perature was two to three de-grees below normal.

Minimum temperature of

Keylong was lowest of thiswinter season as the mercurydipped by three degrees be-low normal and two degreesdown recording minus 10 de-

grees. Kaza another town ofLahaul Spiti was as low asminus 15 degree Celsius.

The Mercury continuedto reel under subzero or inminus in many places duringthe night as Kalpa in Kinnuarwas minus 4.4 degrees andthree degrees below normal,Sundernagar in Mandi wasminus 2.2 degrees, Bhuntarminus 1.4 degrees, Solan mi-nus 1.2 degrees, tourist resortManali minus one degreesand Kangra minus 0.1 de-grees, Chamba 0.4 degreesand Mandi one degree.

Palampur was minus 0.1

degrees in Kangra and six de-gree below normal. This cap-ital town as 4.6 degrees andone degree below normal.Una was at zero degrees,Dharmshala 2.4 degrees,Hamirpur 2.2 degrees, Bi-laspur 2.5 degrees, Dalhousie3.4 degrees, Kufri 4.4 de-grees, Shimla 4.6 degrees andNahan 6.7 degrees.

People had to face thehardship this morning as theyfound their water supplyblocked after freezing of wa-ter pipe lines in many placesof Shimla and high land areaof the district.

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Govt committed for housingfor all: Haryana CM

Keylong freezes at minus ten degrees

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I, Baljit Kaur W/o Gurvinder I , Sharanjit Singh S/o I , J o b a n j i t S ingh S/o I Arshpreet Kaur D/o Mrs. I, Tarun Kumar S/o Braham I , Sharda spouse Of I Jagsir Singh S/o Shinda I, Jugraj Singh S/o Inder Singh Vill Santokhpura Santokh S in gh R /o 1 6 6 , Bhagwant Singh R/o VPO. Maninder Kaur and Gurbinder Dutt Ratti, R/o Vpo.bassi No.15496586W rank ALD Singh R/o Vill. Sanher S i n g h R / o K o t k a p u r a ,lukhi, Kurukshetra Changed M e h t a R o a d , N e a r Bhakna Kalan P.S. Gharinda Singh r/o H.no- L-7, New Kalan,distt.hoshiarpur,have Rathod Ravindra bansi Teh.Zira (Ferozepur) have (Faridkot) declare Jugraj Name Baljeet Kaur . R a i l w a y C r o s s i n g , Tehsil and Distt. Amritsar have Kailash Nagar, Model Town, Changed My Name From residing at Ghatbori buldhana changed my name Jagsir Singh and Jagraj Singh

84661 F oca l P o in t , A mr i t s a r changed my name to Jobanjeet Ambala City, Distt Ambala Tarun Kumar To Tarun maharashtra 4433001 india I Singh to Jagseer Singh. are one and the same I, Balvir Kaur W/o Mohinder hav e chan ged my name Singh. All concerned please note. declare that I also known as Ratti. Have Changed my name from 63372 person.Singh Vpo Bodhni ,pehowa , f r om S a r an j i t S ingh t o 900020 Manan. I affirm that Arshpreet 72778 Sharda To Sharda Ravindra I Gursahib Singh S/o Karaj 63372Kurukshetra Changed Name S ha r an j i t S in gh . I h i t h e r t o k n o w n a s Kaur and Manan are one and I Sodhi Ram and Sodhi Rathod. Vide aff idavit Singh R/o Bagge (Moga) I , Pushpinderpal Kaur Baljeet Kaur. 9 000 20 HARJINDER KAUR Alias same person. Lal (Aadhaar no.6705 No.AN 525709 dated on 18- have changed my name to W/o Jagsir Singh R/o

84661 I , S i r m a n j e e t K a u r BALJINDER KAUR GILL 78645 8499 6265) S/o late Sh. 12-20 Gursahib Singh Sandhu. Nea r Dera Ba jakhana I Satya Devi W/o Late Sh. W/o S a tn am S in gh R /o W/O SUKHPAL SINGH GILL I, Manjeet Singh S/o Pritam D a r s h a n R a m R / O 72737 63372 Romana Ajit Singh Jaiton Amar Nath R/o H.no.831/7, 73 - B , I n de r j i t Co lony, (D/O Shamsher Singh) residing at Singh Village Salempur tahsil Village- Sarmastpur, Post I, Army No.15496586W rank I, Kuldeep Singh S/o Sewa (Faridkot) declare that Gali Devi Wali Jaura Pipal, 1 0 0 F e e t R o a d , VPO KOKRI KALAN TEHSIL Dhuri dis t r ic t Sangrur Off i ce - Ba l , Dis t r i c t - ALD Rathod Ravindra bansi Singh R/o Vill: Ubbowal Pushpinderpal Kaur and Amritsar Declare That Satya A mr i t s a r have changed & DIST. MOGA PUNJAB (Punjab). I have changed my J a l a n d h a r ( P u n j a b ) S/o Bansi Ravji Rathod R/o.11 (Sangrur) changed my name Sukhpal Kaur are one and Devi And Satya Rani Is The my n ame f rom M an j i t 142054 have changed my name name to Manjit singh. certified that above both Armd Regt C/o 56 APO india to Kuldeep Singh Bhour S/o the same person.Same And One Person. K a u r t o S i r m a n j e e t and shall hereafter be known as 98726 name's are mine one and declare that in my army record Sewa Singh Bhour. 63372

98728 K aur. HARJINDER KAUR GILL. It I Gagandeep S/o Sohan Lal same person my daugh te r name i s 63372 I, Navneet Kaur Soor D/O 9 000 20 was certified that I have complied R/o Mohalla Uchian Havelian 72778 mentioned as Rathod Pallavi I, Jyoti Bala W/o Mohit R a n j i t S i n g h R / O

with other legal requirements Vpo.talwan Teh. Phillaur, I Baljit Singh s/o Lohara but her correct name is Pallavi Gautam R/o H.No. 7605/12 Rajiana, Narang Ki Patti in this connection. Jalandhar. Have Changed My r / o V. F a t e h p u r P. O . Ravindra Rathod. Vide St.No. 1 New Amar Nagar (Moga) Changed Name

90002 Name Singh As Surname And Fa tehpur Koth i t ehs i l affidavit No.AN 525710 dated 141003 (Ludhiana) changed Navneet Kaur.Gagandeep As Given. G a r h s h a n k a r ( on 18-12-20 my name to Jyoti Gautam. 63372

72778 H o s h i a r p u r ) h a v e 72737 63372 I, Ranjit Singh Soor S/O changed my name to I, Army No.15520930X rank I Priyanka Sharma W/O Atma Singh R/O Rajiana, Daljit Singh S W R S h a i k h M u j m i l Ankit Kumar Bansal R/O Narang Ki Patti (Moga)

72778 Sardarsab S/o Late Sardarsab P a t t i S o u l . M e h r a j Changed Name Ranj i t I, Harpal Kaur w/o Amrik R/o.11 Armd Regt C/o.56 (Bathinda) Have Changed Singh.Singh R/O Village Nagra, APO India declare that in my My Name To Priyanka 63372PO Dosanjh Khurd, Tehsil army record my mother name Bansal. I, Manpreet Kaur Soor Nawanshahr Dis t r i c t is mentioned as Kusumbi but 63372 W/O Ranjit Singh R/O Shahid Bhagat Singh her correct name is Kulsunbi I Amarjeet Kaur W/O Rajiana, Narang Ki Patti N a g a r, P i n 1 4 4 5 11 , Sardarsab Shaik. Vide Parwinder Pal Singh Vpo (Moga) Changed Name P u n j a b , I n d i a h a v e affidavit AN.525697 dated on Dyalpura Bhaika Distt Manpreet Kaur.changed the name of my 18-12-2020 Bathinda Changed My 63372minor son Gursewak 72737 Name Amarjit Kaur After I, Baljinder Kaur Alias (aged about 15 years) I, No.14936584N NK Rakesh Marriage. Manjit Kaur W/O Baljit and he shall hereafter Kumar S/o Tulsi Ram 63372 Singh R/O Dala (Moga), be known as Gursewak R/o.Village Bhangla PO I Kaleecharan Kushwah S/o B a l j i n d e r K a u r A l i a s Singh. Dabhota Bhanglan (72) Solan, Madhosingh R/o Kurroli Manjit Kaur Bothnames

72778 Nalagarh (HP)-174104 now at Morena Madhya Pradesh- A r e m i n e A n d s a m e 8 Mech Inf C/o.56 APO 476224 have changed my Person.declare that I have name to Charan Kushwah. 63372Changed my daughter 63372 I, Pritika Luthra W/O n a m e f r o m A n a y a I Swaranjit Kaur Ahluwalia Deepak Verma R/O Plot Chaudhary To Aanya D/O Darshan Singh R/O H No .113 Punee t Naga r Choudhary. Vide affidavit No 489 , Ward No 4 , Basti Jodhewal Ludhiana No.AN 692364 dated on Dashmesh Nagar, I Changed C h a n g e d N a m e J y o t i 18-12-20 before notary My Name Swaranjit Kaur Verma.public amritsar Ahluwalia To Swaranjit 63372

72737 Kaur. I Talwinder Kaur Grewal I, Dimple D/o Paramjit 63372 W/O Jaspreet Singh Sran R/o H.No.143/2, Ekta I Hi the r to Known As R/O Vpo Talwandi Khurd Nagar Rama Mandi, Mohinder Pal S/O Kartara D i s t t L u d h i a n a H a v e Jalandhar have Changed Ram Resident Of, Hno-340, Changed My Name To my name to Dimple G a l i N o - 1 a , G u r u Talwinder Kaur Sran.Kumari sheemar. H a r k r i s h a n N a g a r , 63372

72737 Phagwara , Kapur thala , I, Nikita Sachdeva W/O I, Karamjit Kaur W/o Punjab Pin-144401, Have A n k u s h S y a l R / O Gurmeet Singh R/o Kalia Changed My Name And S t . N o . 8 , G u l m o h a r Khem Karan Tehsil Patti Shall Hereafter Be Known N a g a r , A m l o h R o a d , Distt Tarn Taran Have As Mohinder Ram. Khanna (Ludhiana) Have Changed my name to 63372 Changed My Name To Sukhbir Kaur. I Hi the r to Known As Nikita Syal.

72737 Santosh Rani W/O Surinder 63372I, Raj Kumar Arora S/o Kumar Resident Of, Ward I Parampreet Kaur Aulakh Tikkan Lal R/o.H.No-123 No 11, Lohian Khas, Tehsil W/O Birinder Pal Singh Shiv Nagar Colony Near Shahkot, Distt. Jalandhar, R/O H. No 450a, Street. Nawala Floor Mills Punjab Pin-144629, Have No 9 L, Dogar Basti, I s lamabad Amri t sa r Changed My Name And Faridkot Have Changed declare that Raj Kumar Shall Hereafter Be Known My Name To Parampreet and Raj Kumar Arora one As Santosh Gupta. Kaur After Marriage.and same person. Concern 63372 63372note. I, Panjab Singh S/o Avtar

72737 Singh R/o Vpo. Badhni I, Sajandeep Singh S/o Kalan Teh-Nihal Singh Wala Pargat Singh R/o Vill. (Moga) changed my minor Adowali, PO Rangar son name from Harmandeep Nangal, Teh. Batala Distt. Singh to Harmandeep Singh Gurdaspur declare that in Sandhu.my Passport my mother's 63372name wrongly written as I, Baljeet Kaur W/o Yashpal Sarbjeet Kaur but correct Loaee R/o Vill: Salavpur Po. name is Sarabjit Kaur. Raipur Pharala (Jalandhar) Concerned note. now living at 6017 Tivoli

10005 Trail Mt Juliet, TNC 37/22 I A m a n p r e e t K a u r USA have changed my name Dhaliwal W/o Ranjeet to Baljeet Loaee.Singh R/o Dal Singh Wala 63372(Faridkot) have changed I Priya D/O Resham Singh my name to Amanpreet R/O Navi Kothi Sarai Khas Kaur after marriage. D i s t t J a l a n d h a r H a v e

98723 Changed My Name To Priya I, Gurpreet Singh S/O Gill.Gurmail Singh R/O Seh 63372(Ludhiana) Changed My I Baljinder Kaur Virdi W/o M i n o r S o n N a m e Jaspal Singh R/o Vill-Giddar Jashanpreet Singh To Nathana (Bathinda) have Jashanpreet Singh Billing. c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o

63372 Baljinder Kaur.I, Aruna Kumari Sunil 63372Joshi alias Aruna Sunil I Inderjeet Singh S/O Avtar Joshi R/o Rai Colony Singh Vill. Mithewal Tehsil C h a n d i g a r h R o a d Ahmadgarh Dist. Sangrur Nawanshahr (SBS Nagar) Have Changed My Name have changed my name to Inderjeet Singh To Inderjeet Arun Kumari Joshi. Singh Dhaliwal.

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72778We, Dalbir Singh S/o Sohan Singh & Joginder Kaur W/o Dalbir Singh R/o H.No- 1368/2, Phase 11 Mohali declare that our son Mandeep Singh & his wife Baljeet Kaur are out of our control. So, we disown them from our all movab le & immovab le property. If anybody deal with t h e m i n f u t u r e he/she/they/them himself responsible for the same

100048I Birj Mohan S/O Amar Nath R/O Bantabaad, W.No. 11, G i d d e r b a h a T e h s i l Gidderbaha (Sri Muktsar Sahib) Do Hereby Solemnly Affirm And Declare That My Son Surinder Kumar Was Fallen In Bad Company And Out Of My Control. So I Evicted My Son Surinder K u a m r F r o m A l l M y Moveable And Immoveable Property. If Any Person Will Deals With Above Said Surinder Kumar , He Will Be Himself Responsible, I Will N o t H a v e A n y Concern/Relation With That.

63372I, Sukhjinder Singh S/O Ranji t Singh R/O Vil l . Bhangchari, Sri Muktsar Sahib Declares That My Son Arshdeep Singh Is Out Of My Cont ro l . He Done His M a r r i a g e Wi t h o u t M y Concent, So, I Disown Him F r o m M y M o v e a b l e / Immoveable Properties. I And My Family Will Not Be Responsible For His Act And Conduct, If Any Body Deal With Him.

63372 I, Sita Rani W/O Kamal Dev R/O HL-20, Phase-7, Sector-61, Mohali, Declare That I Had Disinherited My Son Harsh Dhiman, His Wife Rekha Dhiman And Grandson Advitya Dhiman From My M o v e a b l e / I m m o v e a b l e Property Through Notice In Yugmarg. Now Due To Their Good Behavior I Take The Notice Back. They Have Full Rights In My Property Now.

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I, Rajpal S/O Parkash Chand R/O Baba Ram Dev Nagar, Kotli Road Now At Gali No.12, Guru Angad Dev Nagar, Kotkapura Road, Sri Muktsar Sahib Declares That My Daughter Shabnam Is Out Of My Control. She Go Away From My Home Without My Concent, So, I Disown Her F r o m M y M o v e a b l e / Immoveable Properties. I And My Family Will Not Be Responsible For Her Act And Conduct, If Any Body Deal With Her.

63372I, Jaibhagwan S/o Sh. Anup Chand R/o Kamalpur Roran Tehsil Indri Distt. Karnal Haryana Declare That I Had Disinherited My Son Parvesh K u m a 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 Through Notice In NEWSPAPER. Now Due To Their Good Behavior I Take The Notice Back. They Have Full Rights In My Property Now.

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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 Qual i fying Examinat ion Certificate of Main Secondary Examination of year 2017 , Roll no.2166140 issued by CBSE has been actually lost . Manjinder Singh Vill Killa farm Usmanpur,Teh.Pehowa, Kurukshetra.

84661I t i s n o t i f i e d f o r t h e information that my original qua l i fy ing examina t ion certificate of Main Senior Secondary examination of year 2016 and Roll no. 2673426 issued by CBSE has been actually lost. Name Of The Candidate :- Bhawna Full Address :- Bhawna D/o J i t e n d e r K u m a r R / o Jambeshwar nagar, street no. 5, Mandi Dabwali, Sirsa 125104. Mob no. - 9896145376

84451I. Gurpreet Singh S/o Sit Amarjit Singh R/o H. No. 175, Nanda Colony, Farakpur, Jagadhri Workshop, Yamuna Nagar, Tehsil Jagadhri, Distt. Yamuna Nagar, Haryana declare an oath that my Qualifying certificate of having passed the Secondary School examination in the year May 2016 from Spring Field Public School, Ratouli Road, Yamuna Nagar, (Haryana) institution/privately has been a c t u a l l y lost/destroyed/mutilated and that it is my true statement.

100060It’s notified for the information that my original marks sheet of main matric examination of year 2012 and Roll No. 2187536 issued by CBSE has been actually lost. Deepak Kumar S/o Ram Chander R/o Jaitu District Faridkot, Punjab, Mobile: 79732-62803

63372I, Arjun Suri S/o Pawan Kumar R/o ND 198 Mohalla Fatehpuri Tanda Road (Jalandhar) do hereby inform that original Regd Sale Deed Dt. 16-12-1994, document No. 7908 was lost/misplaced by me on 10-12-2020 and at present. I am owner of the said property. In case this Regd Sale Deed is found, I may be contacted.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

NEWSPAGE2

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the

will to prepare.

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CHANDIGARH: One of the most awaited and magical times of the year is finally here, when that constant feeling of warmth, and cheer fills the air around us, and all we want to do is embrace it with full hearts. With Christmas just round the corner, festivities and celebrations are abuzz. As families across the country begin to prepare for the festivities, including decorating the house, ordering gifts, organizing virtual family sessions and preparing scrumptious feasts and sweets, the cheer is unparalleled even when social distancing.This holiday season,revisit your Christmas celebrations while focusing on your family and your health and wellness with these suggestions - Bond with your family over a Christmas movie marathon, and a side of healthy snacks! Binge-watching holiday movies can be a perfect way to spend the time with the family in between prepping for the festivities, wrapping presents or just as a way to unwind after a long week. But when it comes to binge-watching, most of us often end up consuming unhealthy snacksthat can be unhealthy for a variety of reasons. The best way to avoid this, is by replacing typical unhealthy snacks with healthier alternatives like almonds which can be a tasty and nutritious treat to accompany the movie binge.

Celebrate a homebound Christmas with Almonds, this year!

CHANDIGARH , DECEMBER 18: Office bearers issues taken up in the meeting. The main issues that be implemented in totality and safeguarding of jobs of of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh(BMS), Contract & were discussed included the issue of workers' fired ex defence personnel in the forest department were Outsourced Workers , Chandigarh held an important under the Gem portal system, implementation of also taken up. Apart from these issues, GMCH bonus meeting here. The meeting was addressed by Punjab's regularisation policy of 2011 in Chandigarh, , teachers' issues, data entry operators' issue, higher BMS(Chandigarh & Haryana) in-charge (Prabhari) and inclusion of contract workers in Chandigarh education department's issues and issues related to Tarandeep Singh Grewal. The general secretary of the Administration's March 2015 regularisation policy. employees working in sanctioned posts in the state sangh Prabhunath Shahi gave information about the Alongside this the issues of equal work- equal pay to library also were discussed.

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh holds meeting, pressing issues of workers' discussed ‘Winter Shopping Carnival Christmas Special’ from dec 20PANCHKULA , DEC 18, : A Sector 5, Panchkula. The the upcoming Christmas and new two-day Fashion & Lifestyle exhibition will be open for all visitors year festivities. It would be full of Exhibition - “Winter Shopping between 11 Am to 8 Pm on both fun and frolic. It would be a great Carnival Christmas Special” will days. Rattandeep Walia, occasion to find all sorts of apparels, be organized by Royal Day Events Director, Global Events said, be it winter wear or fashion wear, & Global Events on 20-21 “The Winter Shopping Carnival jewellery, accessories, footwear, December at Hotel Bella Vista, has been planned keeping in mind electronic items.

35 withdrawnominations fromPkl MC Election SD SHARMAPANCHKULA: The Returning officerMohd Imran Raza IAS, Additional DeputyCommissioner Panchkula disclosed thatin all 35 candidates including four forthe position of Mayor and 31 for wardcouncilors had withdrawn their nomina-tions papers from Municipal CorporationPanchkula election-2020 here today. Heshared that four candidates who with-drew nominations from the mayoral seatcontest include Dhawal Partap SinghAhluwalia, Anju Goyal, Krishan Aggarwaland Pushpender Rana besides 31 can-didates for Councilors position and pa-pers of 17 candidates were found invalidafter scrutiny. These include Amrik Singh,Rattan Chand, Ruchi, Vijay, Ravinder Ku-mar Rawal, Seema, Sunny Kumar, KantaDevi, Deeksha, Neelam Malik, MamtaSwami, Sushila Shukla,Sukhjit Kaur,Avinash Malik, Jitender Parshad, AjaypalSingh and Harpreet Kaur. Now finally sixcandidates for Mayor and 83 for coun-cilor’s position are in the fray, disclosedMohd. Imran Raza, the Returning officer.

Move on to shiftrehris in cityKUSUM KAUSHIKGHARAUNDA: Rapid work is beingdone in the direction of shifting the farisand rehris in the city. Six vending zoneshave been earmarked for these streetvendors whose chairman was appointedby SDM. This decision has been taken inthe interest of street operators. The pur-pose of this is to make the square inter-sections of the city free from encroach-ment and provide a certain place to thestreet operators.Street vendors (Rehri operators) of thecity have occupied Delhi Chungi, MainBazaar, Service Road, Bus Stand,Araipura Road, Pillow Market, MandiManiram, Railway Road, SD MandirChowka, Railway Underbridge to foot-paths because of which encroachment isbeing encouraged.The District Deputy Commissioner hasconstituted the Municipal Sales Commit-tee (TVC). The Sub-Divisional Officer hasbeen made the chairman of this commit-tee. In this committee, the SP, SMO, As-sistant District Municipal Planner, Munici-pal Secretary, Municipal Engineer, Gha-raunda Police Station Incharge, DeputyFire Station Officer, Traffic Manager, OBCBank Branch Manager, Head of Veg-etable Market, President of Trade Divi-sion and Street vendor Is included. Eightrepresentatives of street vendors will beincluded in this committee, for which theelection process will take place. Streetvendors will participate in the processand elect eight of their representatives.After which the committee will have 19members. The committee will take deci-sions regarding street vendors and workto make the system in order. Over thelast few months, the municipality has pro-duced identity cards of street vendingworkers in the city. The municipality hasissued identity cards to a total of 341street vendors. Six places have beenidentified for all these street vendors, ac-cording to Raviprakash Sharma, Secre-tary Municipal Gharaunda.

Block committeemeeting held inBDPO officeMAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: In the auditorium of Indri BDPOoffice, a block a committee meeting washeld under the chairmanship of IASNeeraj Kadayan, BDPO EnglishmanSingh More, SDO Gaurav Bhardwaj inwhich almost all the members participat-ed. Many administrative officers werealso present. Giving this information,Block Committee Chairperson KusumKamboj said that in the presence of theofficials, the block committee presentedthe accounts of the work done by theBlock Committee during its tenure. Sug-gestions were also made on many fur-ther development works.He informed that during the last 5 years,the Block Committee has been strivingfor the development of the area. Duringthis period, the wheel of developmentkept spinning rapidly. A lot of develop-ment work has been done in the areawith the support of the government andthere has been a lot of support from thegeneral public also. At the end of themeeting, the Farewell Party was organ-ised in which everyone enjoyed theFarewell Party by sitting together with theofficials. He said that this was the lastmeeting of the block committee as thegeneral elections have come close. Onthis occasion, Block Committee Chairper-son Kusum Kamboj, Rajni Devi, MamtaUmarpur, Baljore Nagla, Sushil Number-dar, Sanjay Chande were also present.

Significance ofKurukshetra shownby LED vansISHIKA THAKURKURUKSHETRA: Deputy CommissionerSharandeep Kaur Brar said that specialLED vans have been sent by the admin-istration on 134 pilgrimages of 48 Kos tohighlight the information of the Interna-tional Geeta Festival and the importanceof Kurukshetra. Apart from this, for thefirst time, small videos of IT are being up-loaded on the site by the IT team tomake the information about the impor-tance and history of the pilgrimages of 48Kos. Through these videos, the general publicwill get to know that Kurukshetra has his-torical significance and has a differentcultural heritage.Deputy Commissioner Sharandeep KaurBrar, said that as per the schedule ofLED van ka at 134 pilgrimages of 48Kos, this van is passing through the pil-grimages of Jind via Kaithal from Kuruk-shetra and Jind via Karnal from Kuruk-shetra. On Friday also, these LED vansinformed the common man about themythological and spiritual history of Ku-rukshetra through video clips at places atvarious pilgrimages.

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3HARYANASeminar held for farmers in IndriMAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: Addressing a farmers’ seminar in the office of Agriculture Department, Indri, BlockAgricultural Development Officer Dr Ashwani Kumar said that to get good yield in wheat crop,irrigation is necessary after 21 days from sowing. This causes more wheat to grow. Farmerswere advised to use weed pesticides between 30 to 35 days after sowing. He said that thereare two types of weeds in wheat, broad leafed and narrow leafed broad leaf, wild spinach,Bathua, Kasani, Hirankhuri, etc. to control which should be done with Algrip flat pan nozzle.Use this medicine by mixing 8 grams per acre with 200 liters of water, or spraying the quanti-ty of sulfur saluran 13 grams per acre +500 ml sarpak tents in 200 liters of water 30 to 35days after sowing.YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 18:

While taking a significant decision in in-terest of sugarcane growers in the State,Haryana Government has decided to in-crease the rate of sugarcane (State Ad-vised Price) by Rs 10 per quintal to Rs350 per quintal for the crushing season2020-21 which is the highest in thecountry.

While stating this here today, an of-ficial spokesman said that Chief Minis-ter, Mr Manohar Lal has approved a pro-posal in this regard. This increase in therate of sugarcane has been made to ben-efit the farmers of Haryana.

He said that apart from this, Mr.Manohar Lal has also approved the pro-posal for providing subsidy to the sugar-cane farmers for the current crushingseason 2020-21 on the pattern of 2018-19 and 2019-20 crushing seasons. Hesaid that an amount of over Rs 81.37crore for crushing season 2018-19 andover Rs 124.14 crore for crushing season2019-20 upto May, 2020 was providedas subsidy to different sugar mills in theState.

Govt hikes sugarcane price by Rs. 10Dalal inspects site for flower

market in GurugramCHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 18: Haryana Agriculture and Farmers'Welfare Minister, Mr. JP Dalal inspected the land identified in Sector 52Aof Gurugram proposed for flower market today. At this place a flowermarket will be made on about 8 acres. The Agriculture Minister informedthat there is a plan to develop this flower market onpublic-private partnership (PPP) basis.

Subsequently, the Agriculture Minister also in-spected the Khandsa Vegetable and Fruit Market andthe Farmers Rest House in Gurugram. During this,he said that there should be a daily cleaning systemin the vegetable market and a composting plantshould be set up for waste management here. He or-dered for improvement of Khandsa Mandi as well.

Mr. Dalal also visited the Tissue Culture Centreof Sheel Biotech Private Limited at village Sa-harawan near Manesar in Gurugram district and sought information aboutthe techniques for developing new improved varieties of plants there.

While interacting with mediapersons the Minister said that the oldagricultural laws were not of benefit to the farmers. Had the old laws beenbeneficial for the farmers, the farmers would have been rich and pros-perous in the last 73 years. The Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi hasimplemented new agricultural laws, with a view to meet the target of dou-bling the income of farmers by the year 2022.

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, DECEMBER 18

Additional Police Commis-sioner Sunil Fulari of NagpurPolice of Maharashtra is beinghonoured with Corona War-rior Samman in a ceremonyorganised by the BetiyanShakti Foundation on Decem-ber 20, along with the Viran-gana Jhalkari Bai NationalAward -2020. Giving this in-formation, Shridhar Ade, thefounder of Betia Shakti Foun-dation said that the BetiyanShakti Foundation will hon-our the officers and employ-ees and all those who workedduring the Corona period. Hesaid that during the Coronaera, there was a terribletragedy in the country.

In such a situation, theBetiyan Shakti Foundation,Nagpur started undertakingthe "Chalo Apne Dwar" to

bring the students and resi-dents of Nagpur trapped in theouter cities like Pune, Mum-bai to get back home in Nag-pur. The Foundation sentmany buses. At that time, po-lice, sweepers, doctors andworkers of some social organ-izations were performing theirduties day and night on theway to keep the general pub-lic away from the grip of co-rona on the way, a grand cere-mony organized by the

Daughters Shakti Foundationon the occasion of its third an-niversary day. He will be hon-ored with the Corona Warrior.The function will be chairedby Dr. Kishore Manak, ForestConservator of Social Affore-ment Nagpur. Major Dr.Shilpa Kharpkar, ACPRekhtai Bhavare, Youth En-trepreneur ManishabhaiMehta, Pramod Hivsey, VinodManamode will be present asthe chief guest at the function.

DIG Fulari to be getCorona Warrior award

DARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI, DECEMBER 18

Nagar Kiran was taken out here. On the occa-sion of the martyrdom day of Shri Guru TeghBahadur Ji of Hind, startingfrom Shri Gurudwara Shish-ganj Taravadi and reachingNilokhedi via various rural ar-eas, the officials of the Rail-way Committee headed by Ra-jwant Singh, Chairman ofRailway Road GurdwaraSingh Sabha, led the NagarKirtan. The officials doing the work were hon-ored by offering a saropa. Addressing therevered Sangat on the occasion, Speaker of theassembly Rajwant Singh said that Guruji's sac-rifice was not only for the upholding of reli-gion but for the entire human cultural heritage.Religion was the name of cultural values andlife law for him. Therefore, his sacrifice for the

true eternal values of religion was in fact an ul-timate adventure in favor of cultural heritageand desired life legislation. The sacrifice ofGuru Tegh Bahadur against the militant ruler'santi-religious and ideological freedom sup-

pressing policies was an un-precedented historical event.This was the highest example ofGuruji's fearless conduct, reli-gious integrity and moral gen-erosity. Guruji was a revolution-ary era man who gave his greatmartyrdom for human religionand ideological freedom. He

said that Guru Tegh Bahadur, led by Kash-miri Pandit Kripa Ram, along with otherHindus, met at Guru Tegh Anandpur Sahiband prayed for liberation of the atrocities onHindus. He conveyed the message to Au-rangzeb saying that his teacher is Tegh Ba-hadur. If he becomes a Muslim, all Hinduswill become Muslims.

Nagar Kirtan held in TaraoriBP, sugar hollow body liketermites: Dr KhuranaGOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD: In the Adesh Hospi-tal, people were told about thecause and prevention of BP andsugarOn Friday, Dr. Tervinderjeet Khu-rana, in the Adesh Hospital, Mohritalked about the causes of BP andsugar and its prevention. Later,talking to journalists, Dr. Tervinderjeet Khurana said that BPand sugar act like hollow termites to make the body hollow.Therefore, these diseases should not be ignored. He said thatmost of these diseases start after the age of 40 years, so it isvery important to balance food and drink at this age. Dr. Khu-rana said that people who have BP and sugar must take regu-lar medicines as heart disease, kidney problems arise due toboth these diseases. Dr. said that due to food intake, patients ofthese two diseases are increasing in India.He said that it is a matter of grave concern that at a young age,children and young people are also suffering from diseases likesugar. He said that if the food and drink of people remains inthis way, then there will be an increase in the number of sugarpatients in the country in the coming few years. He said thatpeople should not eat too much, but should eat just enough tolive and make a habit of eating less. Dr. Khurana said that peo-ple should do regular exercises and walk a part of their life inthis painful life. He said that the diseases of BP and sugar dis-eases are being done in a strong manner in the hospital andpeople can take advantage of it.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, DECEMBER 18

Former Chief Minister andLeader of Opposition Bhupin-der Singh Hooda arrived in vil-

lage Singhra Karnal to attend the fu-neral of Sant Baba Ram Singh Ji.Earlier, he had a final darshan ofBaba Ram Singh ji and paid floraltributes on his mortal body and bidhim farewell. With the rain of flow-ers, the body of Saint Ram Singh Jiwas brought to Angitha (Samadhi)for cremation from the Nanaksar Sin-gra Gurdwara in Karnal amid theSimran of Waheguru, where his fu-neral was completed. Hooda said thatRam Singh ji was a great saint. Hehas given self-sacrifice in support offarmers for a special purpose. Gov-ernment should take lessons from thesacrifice of farmers.

The demands of the farmers arevalid. The government should accept

them as soon as possible. This will bea true tribute to the sacrifice of SantRam Singh Ji and all the martyredfarmers. He said that so far 22 farm-ers have lost their lives in the farm-ers movement that has been goingon for 23 days. He also said that thefarmers are sitting peacefully underthe open sky on the borders of Del-hi with their justified demand. Butthe government is not troubled by

this. During this, HarmohinderSingh Chatha, former ministerJayaprakash, MLA Mewa Singh,MLA Balbir Balmiki, MLA AmitSihag, former MLA Sumita Singh,former MLA Rakesh Kamboj, for-mer MLA Bhimsen Mehta, formerMLA Jileram Sharma, former MLANarendra Sangwan, Anil RanaSurendra Dignitaries including Nar-wal were present.

Learn lessons from farmers’ sacrifices: Hooda

Online Arts Festival -2020 concludes

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, DECEMBER 18

The district level four-day online state-level arts festival -2020,held at the Government Girls Model Senior Secondary Schoolon Railway Road, concluded on Friday in which student artistsfrom district Karnal performed brilliantly in various items.Muskan a student of Government Girls Senior SecondarySchool, Gharaunda, secured second in Haryanvi folk singingat the state level, Deepak, student of BJM mission School, sec-ond in solo classical musical competition, State Senior Yash-wani, a promising Divyang student of Vidyalaya Indri hashighlighted the talent of district Karnal by securing third placein the state level in Haryanvi solo folk singing mode and stu-dent Payal of Government Kanya Model School Railway RoadKarnal in music solo classical singing mode. District Elemen-tary Education Officer Rohtash Verma praised the studentartists and encouraged them to move forward in their field andspecial greetings to all the participants and the parents and artteachers accompanying them. The competition was held underthe supervision of Kauda Assistant District Project Coordina-tor for overall education. Ravindra Shilpi Fine Art, Asha, San-jeev, Rajesh, Ravidutt, Ajay Chauhan, Sanjeev, Vidyrama Mu-sic Instructors, Neelam Art Instructor, Kushal Kumar DramaInstructor and Pawan Singh Technical Assistant were special-ly supported in the competition.

Farmers will continueagitation: UdayROHIT LAMSARTARAORI: In the village Butana, protesting against the threeagricultural laws passed by the central government on agricul-ture, the farmers shouted slogans protesting against the centralgovernment. Attacking the government, farmer leaders UdaySingh Arijhedi and Naveen Chauhan said that the governmentwants to weaken the farmers movement by taking names offake organisations of farmers and the central government isthinking that by making statements from the officials of fake or-ganisations of farmers, the agitation will weaken, but the centralgovernment should not remain under this illusion and till thegovernment does not accept the demands of the farmers, thenthis peasant movement is not going to end.Farmer leaders Uday Singh and Naveen Chauhan said thathundreds of farmers from Neelokheri block are going to join thefarmers movement on the Delhi border and the government isdeliberately dragging the matter so long that the winter will in-crease and the farmer movement will weaken. Uday Singh andNaveen Chauhan appealed to the government and said thatthey demand from the government that the government shouldaccept the demands of the farmers as soon as possible. Sever-al Congress workers including senior Congress leaders LalitButana and Amarjeet Dhiman were present on the occasion.

One dies of Corona in Karnal, 23new cases foundSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: Corona spread continues in Karnal district. Therewas a death every day for three consecutive days. A corona-in-fected patient died on Friday as well. On Friday, 23 case posi-tives have been found in the district. These include 8 casesfrom antigen test and 15 cases from RTPCR have beenfound.On Friday, 57 patients recovered and went back home.According to the report of the Civil Surgeon, a total of 143631persons suspected of CoronaVirus infection have been taken inthe district so far, out of which 131509 reports have been nega-tive and 10477 cases are positive, out of which 145 patientshave died, 297 are active. Is and 10035 patients have recov-ered and back. Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadavasked the villagers to go out only for necessary work, usemasks, take care of social distancing and keep sanitising them-selves constantly.

Youth should ensure theirrole in political field like

other areas : Akhil SharmaSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR: Giving information about the role ofyouth in Indian politics, Akhil Sharma, who representsYouth Congress at the national level, said that looking at thecurrent situation, the youth will have to ensure their role inthe country's politics. The level of Indian politics is movingfrom its true nature to lowliness. It is from that point of viewthat the entire youth section willhave to ensure its participation in thepolitical arena just as in the other ar-eas. Akhil believes that today mostof the issues in India are being pre-sented on the basis of religion andcaste. By diverting attention fromthe real problems and needs, most ofour politicians are engaged in doingpolitics of religion, caste and com-munity, whose loss is directly to thegeneral public.

A politician belongs to any par-ty, he does not avoid creating a stateof contradiction in society to make his politics shine. Emerg-ing youth leader of Yamunanagar region, Akhil Sharma saidthat all the leaders from the highest representative of thecountry to the panchayat level representation are engaged inmisleading the public by citing caste or religion in their elec-tion campaigns. He said that if seen from the point of viewof education, the youth of today are well versed in everyfield, the youth of the country are shining the name of thecountry in various fields with their innovative ideology andstrong will, but the role of the youth in the political field isnegligible, which is a matter of concern.

He said that out of all sections of the society, youth is theonly medium which has the capacity to establish a strongdemocracy by being well educated and relieving the societyfrom the bad politics of caste and religion. Akhil's familymembers have held the highest positions in the Governmentof India.

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FEW MEN HAVE VIRTUE TO WITHSTAND THEHIGHEST BIDDER.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

India’s goal of correcting its gender imbalance seemsto have grown more distant. The National FamilyHealth Survey has found that a number of states that

had made progress in terms of the sex ratio at birth havenow posted discouraging figures. Out of the 22 statessurveyed thus far, eight have registered a significant de-cline in their sex ratios. These include Kerala, Megha-laya, Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh, all of whichhad posted gains in the last NFHS. Kerala had been thesecond best performer after Punjab in the NFHS-4,clocking a gain of 122 points by bolstering its sex ratioat birth from 925 in the third survey in 2005-2006 to1,047 in the fourth in 2015-2016. Meghalaya, too, hadprogressed by 102 points in the last NFHS. The latestfindings indicate a clear failure on the part of seeminglygender-forward states to maintain their momentum incorrecting skewed sex ratios. With Kerala being India’smost literate state — its literacy rate stands at 96.2 percent — it can no longer be taken for granted that an ed-ucated society will naturally oppose gender-related dis-crimination and crime.To what are such drastic declines owed? One significantreason is institutional oversight, which is augmented bythe hostile societal attitudes towards girl children in In-dia who are commonly aborted because of a markedpreference for boys. The Pre-Conception and Pre-NatalDiagnostic Techniques Act — enacted in 1994, amend-ed in 2003 and strictly implemented in 2011 — wasmeant to prevent selective abortion by banning prenatalsex determination, but it has not helped in improving thesex ratio. Several loopholes persist. The stipulations forpurchasing point-of-care ultrasound scans are under-standably stringent, but this hinders their availability inrural areas, which forces patients to go to distant urbanfacilities, resulting in delayed diagnoses and added med-ical expenses. Radiologists have also pointed out that thelaw does not clearly mention how to dispose of old ul-trasound machines, which are often reused for sex de-termination. There is a shocking gap between intent andimplementation in governmental efforts to prevent thedeaths of girl children. The goals of the Centre’s flagshipBeti Bachao, Beti Padhao scheme are noble, but last yearthe Narendra Modi-led government conceded in Parlia-ment that almost 56 per cent of the funds for the schemehad been spent on advertising, with no impact assess-ment being conducted. Filling the legislative, medicaland societal gaps is only part of the challenge.

Distant goal: correctinggender imbalance

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

Editorial

Literature & HealthHealth of fathers-to-be is linked

to risk of pregnancy loss

The findings of a new study suggestthat more than a quarter of pregnan-cies might be ectopic or end in mis-

carriage or stillbirth if the father-to-be isunhealthy and has three or more medicalconditions such as obesity, diabetes, highblood pressure or high cholesterol levels.

In a retrospective study of nearly amillion pregnancies between 2009 and2016 in the US, published today in thejournal Human Reproduction, researchersfound that if the father was diagnosed withmetabolic syndrome, which includes thesemedical conditions, there was an in-creased risk of the mother losing the preg-nancy. Compared to men who had none ofthe components of metabolic syndrome,the risk of pregnancy loss increased by10%, 15% and 19% respectively for menwith one, two or three or more compo-nents. Associate Professor Michael Eisen-berg from Stanford University School ofMedicine (California, USA), who led theresearch, said: "It's been known for sometime that the health of mothers has an im-pact on the developing foetus and eventsat the time of birth. This is the first studyto suggest that pregnancies sired by menwith increasing numbers of medical con-ditions are at higher risk of ending in mis-carriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth.

"In the group of men we studied, therisk of losing the pregnancy was 17% incouples where the father had no compo-nents of the metabolic syndrome but in-creased to 21% in couples where the fa-ther has one metabolic syndrome compo-nent, 23% where he has two, and 27%where he has three or more. "While this

study cannot prove that poor paternalhealth is a cause of pregnancy loss, itshows there is an association. The clinicalimplications of these findings are that pre-conception counselling should not forgetthe father, as his health may have an im-portant impact on the pregnancy."

The researchers analysed data fromUS insurance claims covering 958,804pregnancies. As well as metabolic syn-drome, they gathered information on oth-er medical conditions such as chronic ob-structive pulmonary disease (COPD), de-pression and heart disease. They also cal-culated the burden of chronic disease forall patients, which included age and med-ical history of problems such as heart fail-ure, heart attack, diseases of the bloodvessels, kidney and liver disease, cancer,stroke and dementia.

The world COVID-19caseload is nearing 75million cases, as per

the latest updates by JohnsHopkins University. TheCOVID-19 dashboard by theCenter for Systems Scienceand Engineering (CSSE) atJohns Hopkins University(JHU) reported that the worldtally stands at 74,952,221 and1,662,127 fatalities due to thevirus, as of 9:56 am IST.

About 42,318,910 pa-tients -- who tested positivefor COVID-19 worldwide --have recovered from the dis-ease, according to the dash-board further reporting thatIndia continues to maintainpole position when it comesto most recoveries in theworld with as many as9,520,827 recoveries report-ed in the country.

The US continues to bethe worst-affected country bythe pandemic with the tallysurging past 17 million. Thecaseload currently stands at17,206,647 and 310,699 pa-tients succumbing toCOVID-19 across the coun-try.

The tracker reported thatIndia and Brazil continue tobe the second and third mostaffected country in the worldreporting over 9.97 millionCOVID-19 cases and 7.10million cases respectively.

Brazil continues to havethe second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, ac-cording to the tracker withover 184,827 fatalities acrossthe South American country,the tracker stated further.

Russia comes fourth onthe list with regard to mostCOVID-19 cases in the world

reporting about 2,736,727cases and 48,568 deaths dueto the pathogen across thecountry. France comes fifthon the list reporting2,483,524 coronavirus casesand 59,733 fatalities.

Turkey's COVID-19 tallyis nearing 2 million cases as ithas reported 1,955,680 casesand 17,364 deaths. The UK'scaseload stands at 1,954,268cases and 66,150 deathsacross the country.

Meanwhile, advisors tothe US Food and Drug Ad-ministration (FDA) voted infavour to recommend that the

agency must give EmergencyUse Authorisation (EUA) toModerna's COVID-19 vac-cine. According to CNN, topFDA officials said that theyplanned to quickly moveahead with the EUA.

French President Em-manuel Macron tested posi-tive for COVID-19, Sputnikreported citing French Presi-dency said on Thursday.

The World Health Orga-nization (WHO) regional of-fice for the Western Pacificon Thursday called forgreater vigilance amid theroll-out of coronavirus

(COVID-19) vaccine, sayingthe vaccine is not a "silverbullet" that will end the near-ly year-long pandemic whichhas already killed over 1.6million.

Experts from India andthe United Kingdom will col-laborate via a new virtual hubto distribute vaccines forCovid-19 and other deadlyviruses, the visiting foreignsecretary of the United King-dom Dominic Raab said onWednesday.

Informing that the DrugsController General of Indiahas granted clearance for the

clinical trials of one morecandidate vaccine from India,NITI Aayog Member(Health) Dr VK Paul onTuesday said six vaccines arecurrently undergoing clinicaltrials in the country.

The WHO declaredCOVID-19 a pandemic onMarch 11.

The Department ofHealth (DOH) of the Philip-pines reported 2,122 newCOVID-19 cases on Friday,bringing the total number inthe country to 456,562.

Friday's number of dailycases is the first time to hit

the 2,000-mark again sinceNovember 29. The spike ofcases came amid the govern-ment's warning of a surgeduring the holidays.

The DOH said 778 morepatients recovered, raisingthe total number of recover-ies to 420,666. The death tollclimbed to 8,875 after 25more patients died from theviral disease, the DOHadded.

The Philippine govern-ment said on Friday that for-eign nationals with diplomat-ic and employment visas whotravelled starting December17 can now re-enter the coun-try. Meanwhile Nigerian gov-ernment said Thursday thatthere is an indication thecountry has been hit by a sec-ond wave of COVID-19 in-fections following a recentspike in the number of infec-tions.

Speaking on behalf ofBoss Mustapha, secretary tothe government of the feder-ation and chairman of thePresidential Task Force(PTF) on COVID-19, HadiSirika, the minister of avia-tion, told a daily news con-ference that the latest devel-opment in the most populousAfrican country could be "apotentially difficult phase ofthe COVID-19 resurgence."

"In Nigeria, the indica-tion is that we have enteredthe second wave of infectionsand we stand the risk of notjust losing the gains from thehard work of the last ninemonths but also losing theprecious lives of our citi-zens," said the minister repre-senting Mustapha at the newsconference.

World covid tally touches 75- million mark

Arecent study by the CityUniversity of HongKong in collaboration

with the University of Sydneyhas found that unlike other do-mesticated animals like dogs,horses, or goats; Kangaroos,which have never been domes-ticated can intentionally, com-municate with humans.

The research involvedkangaroos, marsupials thatwere never domesticated, atthree locations across Australiaand revealed that kangaroosgazed at a human when tryingto access food which had beenput in a closed box. The kanga-roos used gazes to communi-cate with the human instead ofattempting to open the boxthemselves, a behaviour that isusually expected for domesti-cated animals.

Ten out of 11 kangaroostested actively looked at theperson who had put the food ina box to get it (this type of ex-periment is known as 'the un-solvable problem task'). Nineof the 11 kangaroos additional-ly showed gaze alternationsbetween the box and the per-son present, a heightened formof communication where theylook between the box and hu-man. The research builds onprevious work in the field

which has looked at the com-munication of domesticatedanimals, such as dogs andgoats, and whether intentionalcommunication in animals is aresult of domestication. Leadauthor Dr Alan McElligott, theUniversity of Roehampton(now based at the City Univer-sity of Hong Kong), previous-ly led a study which foundgoats can understand humancues, including pointing, togather information about theirenvironment. Dr Alan McEl-ligott said: "Through the newstudy, we were able to see thatcommunication between ani-mals can be learnt and that thebehaviour of gazing at humansto access food is not related todomestication. Indeed, kanga-roos - showed a very similar

pattern of behaviour we haveseen in dogs, horses and evengoats when put to the sametest. "Our research shows thatthe potential for referential in-tentional communication to-wards humans by animals hasbeen underestimated, whichsignals an exciting develop-ment in this area. Kangaroosare the first marsupials to bestudied in this manner and thepositive results should lead tomore cognitive research be-yond the usual domesticspecies," he said. According toDr Alexandra Green, School ofLife and Environmental Sci-ences at the University of Syd-ney, Kangaroos are iconic Aus-tralian endemic fauna which isadored by many worldwide butalso considered as a pest.

Research says, Kangaroos cancommunicate with humans

The findings from the NationalEye Institute (NEI)-fundedInfant Aphakic Treatment

Study, claims that infants who haveundergone cataract surgery are at ahigher risk of glaucoma disease af-ter ten years of operation.

Michael F. Chiang, M.D., direc-tor of NEI said, "These findings un-derscore the need for long-termglaucoma surveillance among in-fant cataract surgery patients. Theyalso provide some measure of as-surance that it is not necessary toplace an intraocular lens at the timeof cataract surgery." At the time ofcataract removal, the 114 study par-ticipants (ages 1-6 months) hadbeen born with a cataract in one

eye. In the operating room, the in-fants were randomly assigned to re-ceive an artificial lens implant or gowithout a lens, a condition calledaphakia.

The trial's principal investiga-tor, Scott R. Lambert, M.D., profes-sor of ophthalmology at StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, Californiasaid, "The results challenge the no-tion that replacing the child's lenswith an implanted one protects thechild from developing glaucoma, abelief among some pediatric oph-thalmology surgeons." Annually,fewer than 2,500 children in theU.S. are born with a cataract, aclouding of the eye's lens. Surgeryis used to remove and replace the

cloudy lens. To allow the child's eyeto focus light properly following re-moval of the cataract, an intraocularlens implant may be placed at sur-gery, or the eye may be left aphakic,and a contact lens (or glasses, ifboth eyes have had a cataract re-moved) may be used to provide theneeded correction. "Implanting alens in the infant's eye is like buy-ing your child's wedding shoeswhen they're an infant. It is hard topredict what final power the in-traocular lens should have, withoutknowing how that eye will growover the years, so placing a lens atthe time of cataract removal in aninfant involves estimation, and maynot turn out to be correct. Hence the

eye may end up needing strongglasses or even replacement of theoriginal lens implant," said the leadauthor on the paper, Sharon F.Freedman, M.D., a pediatric glau-coma specialist at Duke University,Durham, North Carolina. Childrenwho undergo cataract removal havean increased risk of glaucoma, asight-threatening condition thatdamages the optic nerve which isthe connection between the eye andbrain. Scientists speculate that sur-gery to remove the cataract inter-feres with the maturation of howfluid flows out of the infant's eyeleading to increased eye pressureand optic nerve damage in some ofthese eyes.

Cataract surgery in infancy may damage optic nerve

SympathyIf I were only a little puppy, notyour baby, mother dear, wouldyou say "No" to me ifI tried to eat fromyour dish?Would you drive meoff, saying to me,"Get away, younaughtylittle puppy?"Then go, mother, go! I will nevercome to you when you callme, and never let you feed me anymore.If I were only a little green parrot,and not your baby,mother dear, would you keep mechained lest I should fly away?Would you shake your finger at meand say, "What an ungratefulwretch of a bird! It is gnawing at itschain day and night?"The go, mother, go! I will run awayinto the woods; I willnever let you take me in your armsagain.

POEMS

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

HP farmers join Singhu border protestSHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh farmers, who are supporting their Punjab andHaryana counterparts opposing the three farms law passed by the Centre, onFriday left for New Delhi to join protesters at Singhu border of National CapitalRegion (NCR). A group of number of farmers belonging to ''Fight For FarmerRight'' left from Jhajarwatasahib area of Paonta Town for Singh border todayto join their comrade sitting on dharna for last 20 days. Talking tomediapersons at Poanta Sahib, leader of farmer group Anider Singh Nati saidthey would join the protesting farmers of Shilai of Sirmaur district, Solan andShimla at Singhu border. Nati said that farmers have collected funds andother material for the protestors.

HIMACHAL/JK44,000 children willbe given polio dropson Jan 17

JYOTI SYALUNA: Pulse polio campaign will belaunched on 17 January 2021 indistrict Una. In this regard, a meetingwas held today under thechairmanship of Deputy CommissionerUna Raghav Sharma, which wasattended by officials of HealthDepartment and other departments.DC said that about 44,000 childrenunder the age of five will be givenpolio medicine in district Una. Forwhich all types of preparations shouldbe completed. In Pulse Poliocampaign, 1556 employees andofficers of Health Department,Ayurveda Department, Women andChild Development Department andEducation Department will be posted.Along with this, 144 supervisors willalso be put on job. 365 booths will beset up in District Una for dispensingmedicine, of which 342 will be in ruralareas. In addition, 14 transit pointbooths will be set up. Raghav Sharmasaid that there will also be a transitbooth at 7 entry points enteringHimachal Pradesh, where buses willbe stopped to administer drop tochildren below 5 years of age.

BJP names its fourcandidates for Zilaparishad seats of HamirpurHAMIRPUR: Though the dates for theelections to the Panchayati rajinstitutions are yet to be announced, theBadsar unit of BJP on Friday releasedthe names of its four candidates for theHamirpur Zila parishad seats fallingwithin the jurisdiction of the Badsar.There are eighteen Zila parishad wardsin the district. Rajesh Kumar has beennamed as the party nominee from Karerseat, Smt. Vijaya Kumari from Bijheri,Smt. Veena Sharma from Badsar andSanjeev Kumar Sharma (Sanju) fromDandroo zila parishad wardsrespectively. The names of thecandidates were released to the peoplethrough the facebook page of theBadsar unit of the party today. Since thedistrict party president Baldev Sharmahails from the Badsar area there was nohitch in declaring the names of theprospective candidates. Kuldip Thakurand Chatter Singh Kaushal, Presidentand General Secretary of the Badsarmandal of the party in a statement hadclarified that those contesting againstthe official candidates would face thewrath of the party.

SDM issues notice ofelection of MunicipalCouncilHAMIRPUR: SDM of Hamirpur, who isalso the returning officer for theHamirpur Nagar parishad, on Fridayissued a notification for conducting theelection to all the eleven wards of theparishad on January 10. As per thenotification, the nomination paperswould be filed on December 24, 26 and28 from 1100 hrs to 1500 hrs on allthese days. The scrutiny of thenomination papers would take place onDecember 10 and withdrawal of thepapers could be done on December 31.Symbols to the contesting candidateswould be given after the withdrawal wasover. Elections if needed would be heldon January 10th, 2021 from 0800 hrs to1600 hrs and the results would bedeclared the same day.

Militant injured inAnantnag encountersuccumbs in hospitalSRINAGAR: A Hizbul Mujahideen(HM) militant who was injured in anencounter with security forces inAnantnag died at a hospital inSrinagar on Friday morning, officialsources said. They said HM militantidentified as Zaheer Abbas Lone wasinjured during an encounter withsecurity forces at a naka at GundBaba Khaleel, in Anantnag district inthe early hours yesterday.

CM invites PM to join golden jubileefunction of statehood virtually

SHIMLA, DEC 18

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurcalled on Prime Minister of IndiaNarendra Modi at New Delhitoday. He invited the PrimeMinister to join Golden Jubileefunction of Statehood of HimachalPradesh through virtual mode. Hesaid that the State would celebrate50 years of its Statehood on 25January 2021. He requested tobless the people of the state on theoccasion.

Prime Minister Narendra Modicongratulated the Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur for successfulcompletion of three years of thepresent State Government in officebesides Golden Jubilee celebrationof Statehood on 25th January2021. He assured of joining one ofthese functions through virtualmode besides all possibleassistance and support to state infuture.

Chief Minister thanked thePrime Minister for his support tothe State Government during lastthree years especially successful

implementation of ambitiousprojects like Atal Tunnel etc.

Jai Ram Thakur also thankedthe Prime Minister for thecontinuous support of CentreGovernment due to which theState was witnessing rapid pace ofprogress in all spheres. He saidthat the State and its people wereindebted to the Prime Minister forhis special love and affection.

Chief Minister also invited thePrime Minister for inaugurating

the 111 MW Sawra Kuddu HydroPower Project in Shimla district asit has been completed at a cost ofRs. 1796 crores. He further saidthat due to policy support extendedby the Centre, 210 MW LuhriStage-I Project and 66 MW DhaulaSidh Project with a combinedinvestment of Rs. 2497 crore wereready for foundation stone laying.He requested the Prime Minister toperform the foundation stonelaying ceremony.

Jai Ram Thakur requested forspeedy approval of ADB fundedproject for developing tourisminfrastructure worth 233.32million US dollar. He also apprisedthe Prime Minister about thecurrent status of green field airportat Nagchala in Mandi district andurged for speedy clearance ofvarious required approvals. Healso pleaded the case of Statestrongly for setting up of ‘BulkDrug Pharma Park’ in the State andapprised that State Governmenthad also submitted a proposal forsetting up of Electric DevicesManufacturing Hub in the State formanufacturing indigenous goods.Chief Minister also apprised thePrime Minister about the progressof the State during last three yearsand updated the status of variousongoing development projects asthe State Government wascompleting three years in office on27 December,2020.

Dr RN Batta Principal PrivateSecretary to Chief Ministeraccompanied the Chief Minister inthe meeting.

Satti inspects playingfield in Mehatpur

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 18

Chairman of the Sixth StateFinance Commission SatpalSingh Satti today inspected themodern sports ground to bebuilt at a cost of Rs 1.77 crorein Mehatpur-Basdehra. Duringthis, Satti said that the stategovernment is strengtheningthe infrastructure for theplayers, so that the youngergeneration should stay awayfrom addiction and connectwith the playground so thatthey can brighten the name ofthe country and HimachalPradesh. Satti said that UnionMinister of State for Financeand Corporate Affairs AnuragThakur has recently laid thefoundation stone of Center for

Excellence for SkillDevelopment and Sports to beconstructed at a cost of Rs 5crore in Gram PanchayatDehlan Lower. Self-employment, entrepreneurshipand sports training will beprovided not only to the youthof district Una but also to otherdistricts. Training will also beimparted to the players throughthis center, so that the playerscan come here and stay for afew days, take training andbring medals for the countryand the state. Satti said that thestate government under theleadership of Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur has made everyeffort to crack down drugmafia. For this, a campaign isbeing launched in collaborationwith neighboring states.

Chaitanya Sharmagives gym equipmentto youth of Abhaipur

KASHISH SHARMAGAGRET, DEC 18

Chaitanya Sharma, a candidate from Zilla Parishad wardnumber 17 from Lower Bhanjal of Gagret assemblyconstituency of district Una, today, once again extended astep towards social service, gave a gift to the youth ofAbhaypur village. He gave gym equipment of Rs 1 lakh toyouth and inaugurated the gym.

Centre has given written proposal tofarmers’ demands: Rakesh Babli

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 18

BJP Kisan Morcha presidentRakesh Babli said that the centralgovernment has agreed to give awritten agreement on what wasdemanded at the start of thefarmers' movement, but now thefarmer movement has beenpoliticized. Babli said that the BJPKisan Morcha would reach out tothree and a half lakh farmers ofHimachal Pradesh and inform themabout the Kisan Bills and wouldthank the Central Government byrunning a signature campaignbecause this bill is in the interest offarmers. Babli said that the BJPKisan Morcha will go among thefarmers to clear the misconceptionsspread among the farmers aboutthe agricultural bills. Babli said

that this peasant movement wasstarted only with the MSP andMandis and the central governmenthas agreed to these demands of thefarmers. But now this movementhas been hijacked by anti-nationalforces and political organizations.Babli has also always stood theKisan Morcha for peasant interests,but those who want to pursue theirpersonal interests by putting gunson the shoulders of the farmers,

BJP Kisan Morcha will exposethem. He said that under theleadership of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, farmers can neverbe hurt. He said that the centralgovernment is negotiating with anopen mind and the farmers shouldalso accept the insistence that thedemand is being accepted. He saidthat if the movement will beaffected due to politics, then it willdepend on the agitators. He saidthat Kisan Morcha will campaignon its behalf to make farmersaware and alert. It will reach out tothe farmers and explain to them thebetter aspects of the Farmers Bill,which will benefit the farmer.Kisan Morcha vice-presidentBalram Bablu, co-media in-chargeMadan Rana, Ajay Ari, MaheshSharma and Avtar Singh and otherswere present.

Find possibilities to constructfoot over bridge: DC

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 18

Possibilities of constructing afoot over bridge near the newand old bus stand of Unashould be explored. Thisinstruction was given byDeputy Commissioner UnaRaghav Sharma whilechairing the meeting ofDistrict Road SafetyCommittee. In the meeting,DC asked the city councilUna to make the selection ofthe place soon, so that budgetcan be provisioned for itsconstruction. Trafficmanagement in district Unawas also discussed in themeeting. Raghav Sharmasaid that trains standinginside the yellow line on theroadside in Una city lead tojam. To deal with this, heinstructed the policedepartment to act vigorously,cut challans and lift vehicles

with the help of cranes. DCsaid that this problem residesin Traffic Una Chowk,Bachat Bhawan Chowk,Amb Chowk and Gagret inDistrict Una. DC said that afine of Rs 7.75 lakh wasrecovered in the year 2019for violation of traffic rules.He said that the policedepartment issued 6976challans of seat belts andfined Rs 6.32 lakh, 20,725challans for driving withouthelmets and 146 challans forusing mobile phones. In

addition, the TransportDepartment made 127challans for not wearing seatbelts and recovered a fine ofRs 1.27 lakh. DC instructedto explore the possibility ofinstalling traffic lights inTahliwal. He said that nowthe Police Department hasidentified 21 black spots inDistrict Una. Apart from this,there was also discussion onmarking about 1 hectare ofland for passing trains andtesting of licenses to theTransport Department.

Minister convoy stopped tolisten Baba's complaint,officials asked to solve

UNA (KISHORI LAL BAINS), DEC 18

Rural Development and Panchayati Raj MinisterVirendra Kanwar's convoy suddenly stopped nearKud village when an elderly Baba standing on theroad indicated the minister's car to stop, Virender

Kanwar stoppedthe car. He getsdown from thecar andcarefully knowsBaba's problem.Baba toldMinister thatc o n s t r u c t i o nwork of Harot

to Thanakalan road is going on and his house is onthe side of the road. Due to the soil being raw, theirhouse may be in danger, in this case, the departmentshould be given appropriate instructions. Heimmediately called the PWD officials and instructedto solve Baba's problem. He said that drainageshould be made on the roadside so that rainwater canbe disposed of properly. Officials assured that theproblem would be resolved at the earliest.

Madhu Bhatia appointed Block President of Ladli Foundation ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, DEC 18

State General Secretary of Ladli Foundation Bilal Shah with the consent of State President Shalu,appointed social worker Madhu Bhatia of ward 01, tehsil Nalagarh, district Solan as the blockpresident of Ladli Foundation Nalagarh. It is notable that Madhu Bhatia has always beencommitted to rooting out social evils in association with the leading social organization RainbowStar Club and Ladli Foundation for many years. She has played an active role in social work likewomen empowerment, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign, environmental protection, forestwealth protection, leprosy awareness, prevention of female feticide. Madhu Bhatia, the newlyappointed Nalagarh block president said that in the future, their aim is that there is no socialdiscrepancy anywhere. No poor starves to sleep and she will always strive to get justice for theweaker section.

KMV launches weeklycounselling sessionsfor students

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Kanya Maha Vidyalaya-the Heritage & Autonomous institution,Seat of Women Empowerment with TopNational and State Rankings by IndiaToday Survey of Best Colleges 2020(various categories) & OutlookMagazine launched a weeklycounselling program for collegiatestudents. The program was organisedbyKMV Collegiate Sr.Sec School underthe aegis of Department of StudentWelfare. The session was inauguratedbyPrincipal Prof Dr Atima SharmaDwivedi. She commenced the sessionby throwing light on need and purposeof the program for the students. Sheaverred that in present scenario, it isvery important that the issues pertainingto mind, body and soul are addressed.She also stressed on the importance ofhaving a good mentor in life which cansteer the ship of life in right direction.She implored the students to be originaland have confidence in themselves.Madam Principal also shared apresentation of best quotes with thestudents to emphasise on the need of agood mentor and self respect. She toldthe students that in this program,students will be mentored individuallyand in small groups to address anyissue they face.

Tributes paid to martyrfarmer saint Ram Singh of KarnalMANMOHAN SHARMAHANSI: Youth Congress organized acondolence meeting near NewKathmandi and paid homage to themartyr farmer Sant Ram Singh ofNanaksar Gurdwara, resident ofSinghara, Karnal. Presiding over theprogram, District President of YouthCongress Anand Jakhar said that thetrue definition of Dharma Guru comesfrom the martyrdom of Ram Singh Ji.Who gave his life only in the interest ofthe society and human interest. RamSingh used to say that committingcrime, tolerating crime and watchingcrime being committed is a sign ofweakness. He ended his life by the hurtof the atrocities on farmers. Jakhar saidthat all of us should take inspirationfrom Sant Ram Singh and devote ourlife to social service. He said that theprotest against the three agriculturallaws passed by the Modi governmentcontinues on the Delhi border. About 2dozen farmers have died in themovement.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

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Father-son attacked for speaking against occultist SUKH NAHARJAGRAON: An incident from the city has hit headlines in which an occultist allegedly attacked a fatherson duo for speaking against the superstitious beliefs. According to the information, Electrician unionpresident Hans Raj and his son Aman Kumar were attacked by an occultist. According to the victims,Kulwinder Kumar alias Keepa son of Pran Nath had been reciting some mantras in front of their shopclaiming about his powers to cause destruction. Victims alleged that seeing his tactics failing, the occultistattacked them. The victims further added that on 17 December at nearly 12:00 victims Hans raj andAman Kumar were at their shop when accused Kulwinder Keepa and his son Ashu Kumar alongwith 8-10other unidentified persons, entered their shop and allegedly attacked them with iron rods and otherobjects. Looking at all this, people started gathering around them and the accused fled away from shoplooking at the crowd leaving the victims highly injured. The victims were admitted at civil hospital by thepeople. Police has arrested the accused and filed FIR against them under sections 452, 324, 506, 148and 149 of IPC.

SC issues notice to WB govt on plea alleging'false cases' against BJP leaders

NEW DELHI, DEC 18

The Supreme Court on Fridayissued notice to the West Bengalgovernment on a petition filedby several state Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) leaders alleging thatfalse cases were being foistedagainst them.

A three-judge bench of theapex court, headed by JusticeSanjay Kishan Kaul, alsoordered that no coercive actionshould be taken in the cases tillthe next date of hearing inJanuary 2021.

The bench also called for theSpecial Incident Report by CISFand listed the matter for furtherhearing in January 2021.

The bench was hearing pleasfiled by BJP MPs KailashVijayvargiya, Arjun Singh andothers alleging the foisting offalse cases against them. Singhclaimed that since he left TMC,64 cases have been foisted onhim. During the hearing, seniorlawyer and former AttorneyGeneral Mukul Rohatgi,appearing for Arjun Singh,

pleaded to the apex court for nocoercive action against hisclient. The pleas claimed thatthe West Bengal Police havefiled dozens of "false FIRs"against BJP leaders in the run-upto the upcoming LegislativeAssembly Elections next year.The pleas also called for thetransfer of the investigationfrom the West Bengal Police toany other independentinvestigating agency.

The bench asked Rohatgi,"you say there are 64 cases filed.What's is the time period whenthey were filed?" Rohatgireplied that all cases are of 2019."Many cases have been filedafter I left TMC and joinedBJP," he submitted.

Proposal for extra attempt to civilservice aspirants under considerationNEW DELHI: The Centralgovernment on Fridaysubmitted before the SupremeCourt that a proposal to give anextra chance to civil serviceaspirants affected by theCOVID-19 is under activeconsideration by thegovernment and the UnionPublic Service Commission(UPSC). A bench headed byJustice AM Khanwilkar wasinformed by Solicitor GeneralTushar Mehta that the Centerand the UPSC are makingdecisions on a proposal to giveone more opportunity toaffected students due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. "It isunder active consideration ofthe Centre and UPSC. We arenot taking an adversarialstand," Mehta said. Later, thebench posted the matter for

further hearing on January 11,2021. The bench was hearing aplea seeking an extra attempt inthe UPSC exams for thosecandidates who had their lastattempt in the preliminary examheld in October 2020. It alsosought an extra opportunity forstudents who could not appearfor civil service exams due toCOVID-19. Senior AdvocateMukul Rohatgi, appearing forthe petitioners, submitted thatthe court has directed theCentre to consider grant of anextra chance considering thedifficulties of COVID-19. OnSeptember 30, the SupremeCourt had directed the Centralgovernment and the UPSC toconsider granting an extrachance to candidates whootherwise have their lastattempt in 2020.

District Red Crossdistributes juice, soaps,masks to slum dwellers

KULBHUSHAN GARGGIDDADBAHA, DEC 18

Under the directions of Chairman-cum-Deputy Commissioner ofdistrict Red Cross SocietyMuktsar Sahib MK AravindKumar, and led by SDM OmPrakash, CDPO Pankaj Kumarand executive officer of the citycouncil Jagsir Singh Dhaliwal,Juices, soaps and masks etc. weredistributed to the people in slumareas. On this occasion, theadministration was speciallysupported by the socialorganization Relief Foundation.CDPO Pankaj Kumar and

Executive Officer Jagseer SinghDhaliwal told that today they havejuices, soaps and masks etc. for thehealth protection and well being ofthe slum dwellers near the railwayline, Bharu Chowk, Pauri Road,Shamshanaghat in the city. The co-ordinator of social organizationsAnmol Juneja and Manish VermaMonga of Relief inspired thepeople of the slum areas to usemasks to escape the corona virus,wash hands with soap from time totime and maintain social distance.Apart from Anmol Juneja Babluand Manish Verma Monga, ShamGhai and Jagjit Singh CF etc. werealso present on the occasion.

ODISHA, DEC 18

VIT-AP University Vice-Chancellor, Dr S V KotaReddy met BiswabhusanHarichandan , Governor ofAndhra Pradesh informedthe progress of the VIT APUniversity in Amaravati andVIT AP School of Business,VIT AP School of Law, VITAP-Toonz. He also informed

that VIT- AP university ishaving students strengthabove 4721 from 29 statesand 4 foreign countries andfaculty strength of 190 from20 states and from foreigncountries. Governorappreciated the efforts andthe progress of theuniversity in a short span oftime. Dr CLV Sivakumar,Registrar were also met.

VIT-AP Vice-Chancellor meetsGovernor of Andhra Pradesh

Ravipreet Sidhu visits villages

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, DEC 19

With the Assembly elections approaching, political activismby leaders has also intensified. In Talwandi Sabo Assemblyconstituency, Ravipreet Singh Sidhu has intensified hispolitical activities. He visited various villages includingSekhu Jajjal, Phaldar, Kanakwal and had politicaldiscussions with the people. He also lamented the loss ofseveral family members. Speaking on the peasantmovement, Ravi Preet Sidhu said that Delhi has alwaysdiscriminated against Punjab and farmers are being targetedunder the same discrimination, but the Punjab farmer willreturn from Delhi with the right, for which he is a staunchsupporter of the peasant movement.

International playera victim of neglect

JOGINDRA DEV ARYABANGANA, DEC 18

Jeevan Kumar, an international special player who wontwo silver and one bronze medals for the Banganaregion in a snow boarding competition from thefootpaths of village Kadoh in village Mookhali of

Bangana development block toSouth Korea. Jeevan Kumar isphysically and mentallydisabled. Despite being a retard,Jeevan Kumar did what the fast-paced youth of the Kutlehar areacould not do till this day. Evenafter illuminating the name of hisIndia and region abroad, JeevanKumar did not get the

recognition. He belongs to an ordinary family inspiredby his uncle Ramkishan to take part in snow boarding.As a result, Jeevan Kumar reached South Korea andwon two silver and one bronze medals for his country.From the year 2013 till today, the player has notreceived any financial help.

Raju Mahajan playing importantrole in development of Pathankot

R.SINGHPATHANKOT, DEC 18

Raju Mahajan has played an importantrole in the development and public serviceof the Corporation, which cannot beoverlooked. Whether it is the cleanlinessin the ward, electricity-water or any kindof problem regarding one's personal life.Raju Mahajan does not delay to resolvethem. After the survey and facts conducted in the ward, it hasbeen concluded that the ward dwellers do not like any othername except his name. Ward people said that there areundoubtedly employees of the corporation regarding thecleaning system, but the public does not have any trouble, soRaju Mahajan has put cleaning staff on his expenses. A tankeris available round the clock for drinking water.There is noneed to wait for the corporation management if powerproblems arise.

7th Annual Kirtan Darbar Samagam by BabaShri Chand Ji Welfare Society tomorrow

R. SINGHPATHANKOT, DEC 18

On behalf of Baba Shri ChandJi Welfare Society,the 527thprakash purav of Baba ShriChand Ji, elder son of GuruNanak Dev Ji will becelebrated by oraganising the7th annual Kirtan Darbar

Samagam in Gurdwara SinghSabha Model Town Pathankoton December 20, Sunday

evening from 5:30 pm to 9:30pm. Chairman Surinder SinghKanwar Mintu, PresidentHarpreet Singh Raja, GeneralSecretary Jagmohan SinghGhuman and TreasurerSandeep Singh Shingari gavethis information and alsoappealed the devotees to reachon time.

SPS Shahkot conducts activity to sharpen reading, writing skills in studentsPRITPAL SINGHSHAHKOT, DEC 18

The world has become closer toeach other through online mediumand students are using itsuccessfully. A school of SouthKorea organized a pen pal activityto enhance the reading and writingskills of the students of StatePublic School Shahkot in which 94students from class V to VIIIparticipated. The school teachers

Sujata Bhagat, Jaspal Kaur, Deepa,Sulekha Nagpal, Ranjit Singh,Sagar and Balram Bakshi also lenttheir support in this activity. In thisactivity, South Korean studentswrote letters to the students ofState Public School Shahkot andthe students of State Public Schoolalso responded to them through

letters. Writing and retrievinghandwritten pen pal lettersdevelops reading and writingskills. Principal Kanwar NeelKamal said that the schoolmanagement committee is of theview that education shouldcontinue beyond the four walls ofthe classroom for which the schoolis making efforts. He said that thisactivity has encouraged thestudents to write meaningfully anddefinite sense of purpose.

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Campaign by MC to remove illegal occupants in marketKHARAR/MOHALI: The local city council took action to remove ille-gal occupants from the markets and also seized some items. Disclosingthis here today SDM Kharar Himanshu Jain who is also the Administra-tor of the Municipal Council said that there was a general complaint fromthe people that there was illegal occupation of roadsides and markets andstreets by the traders.

He said that today only one warning campaign was launched. He saidthat all the shopkeepers have been asked to keep their goods inside theshops. He said that now the officials of the Municipal Council would goto the bazaars and would not say anything to the shopkeeper but wouldtake a photo of the encroachments and would register a case against himunder Section 188 IPC.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, DEC 18

Union Defence Minister RajnathSingh on Friday dedicated the Mili-tary Literature Festival (MLF) 2020to all great warriors who have at-tained supreme sacrifice in serviceof our motherland. Inaugurating theFestival through a virtual ceremonythis morning, Rajnath Singh said itwas only befitting that MLF wasconceived and conceptualised inPunjab, the land of heroic martialtraditions.

If this Festival of celebration ofDefence culture and traditions couldhave come up anywhere, it had to bePunjab, Rajnath Singh remarkedlauding the organisers for sculptinga viable platform for offering a peepinto army culture to our youngstersaspiring to take up Forces as a ca-reer.

Regretting his inability to attendthe gala event last year due to ex-tended Parliament Session, the De-fence Minister congratulated the or-ganisers and expressed great satis-faction to see the platform develop-ing into a steady and meaningfulmeans of enhancing greater under-standing about matters militaryamongst our public at large. I was

keeping track of all the activities in-cluding book discussions, panel dis-cussions and daredevil feats beingperformed by our soldiers at MLFlast year, he revealed. MLF, thejoint initiative of the distinguishedmilitary historian and Punjab ChiefMinister Captain Amarinder Singhand Punjab Governor VP SinghBadnore in collaboration with West-ern Command has steadily earnedbrand presence in the region sinceinception in 2017.

Underlining the ever-evolvingnature of warfare in global scenario,the Defence Minister urged peopleespecially youngsters, to acquaintthemselves with defence way of lifeto act as a formidable shield in case

of need. Today Mobile is as potent aweapon as Missile and our young-sters must leverage and comple-ment our forces by leading researchin cyber, biological and informationdomain, he added. Lauding thewide ranging topics chosen forMLF 2020 including Jai Jawan JaiKisan, Self reliance in Defencefield, and Bollywood; DefenceMinister expressed confidence thatthe platform would keep providingstimulating conversations forgreater regional and national signif-icance. Urging the youth to imbuequalities of valour, sacrifice, and de-termination, he asked them to fol-low in footsteps of our great sol-diers who are living legends and in-stitutions in service of nation. Reit-erating his personal affinity withsoldiers, the Defence Minister saidthe current MLF essay was addi-tionally special as the nation wascelebrating Golden Jubilee of 1971War against Pakistan.

Speaking on the occasion, Pun-jab Governor V P S Badnore saidgiven the rich martial traditions ofthe region of Punjab, it comes as nosurprise that this region is a treasuretrove of military events since timesimmemorial, thus simmering in un-limited tales of military invasions,

campaigns and battles with the nat-ural abundance of battlefield hero-ics, sacrifices and events that’ssteered the course of not only the re-gion, but the country as a whole.

Terming the Fest special in itsfabric as are the people of Punjab,Badnore said exceptional eventslike MLF highlight the military his-tory, values, traditions and ethoswhich would otherwise never beknown to the public. These eventsinvite an overwhelming responsefrom the people and it is truly a peo-ple's festival which is eagerly await-ed each year by the people of the re-gion. The enthusiasm of the festivalgels perfectly with the dynamic andcheerful nature of the people in thetrue spirit of Chardikala, the Gover-nor added.

Badnore thanked the DefenceMinister Rajnath Singh, and every-one engaged with MLF 2020 formaking the Fest a continued suc-cess. Speaking on the occasion, Se-nior Advisor to CM Lt. Gen. T.S.Shergill (Retd.) lauded the Head-quarters Western Command for pro-viding immense support in organiz-ing the MLF. He regretted that thefestival could not be held in openthis time as the present year was en-gulfed by Covid-19 pandemic.

Rajnath inaugurates MLF 2020

'Kar Bhala ho bhala'installs benches

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON:Social welfareorganization installed 2 benchesmade of cement for the convenienceof people at Shri Anandpur SatsangBhawan, Shastri Nagar. Telling moreabout this Chairman Amit Arora,President Rajan Khurana, BharatKhanna and Kapil Narula said thatpeople used to face inconveniencebecause there were no sittingarrangements at this place. Themanagement of the bhawansuggested arrangement of benchesfor people. Looking at the need, theassociation installed two benchesmade of cement. The hallmanagement thanked association forthe help. At this occasion, VishalSharma, Nanesh Gandhi and PankajArora were present.

Alcohol-based fake sanitizerfactory unearthed in Rajpura

JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: In a major operation, thePunjab Excise Department, PatialaPolice, IRB and Health department inthe late last evening raided twoplaces in Rajpura in this district andunearthed a factory involved in themanufacturing of fake alcohol basedsanitizers. While providing detailsabout the outcome of the raids,Punjab Excise Commissioner , RajatAgarwal said that on the instructionsof the Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh the ExciseDepartment has strictly adhered tothe policy of 'Zero Tolerance' adoptedby the Punjab Government towardscounterfeit and illicit liquor, illicit tradebased on alcohol etc. Agarwal further said that on the basisof a tip-off, the Punjab ExciseDepartment , Local Police, IRB andHealth Department, in a jointoperation have busted a factorymanufacturing fake sanitizers basedon alcohol. He said that a nunber oflarge cans of 5-5 liters, 4,000 bottlesof sanitizer having labels of EthylAlcohal and a large quantity of emptybottles, lids, labels containing JagatjitIndustry Hamira were also recovered.Apart from that, a 35-liter quantity ofspirit-like fluid and many sanitizerpressure pumps also recovered.While making appeal to the people ofPunjab to immediately report anyillicit trade of liquor or any suchbusiness based on alcohol on thecomplaint number 98759-61126.

Martyrdom day of Shri GuruTegh Bahadur observed atGHG AcademyJAGRAON: Educational instituteGHG academy, Jagraon observedthe martyrdom day of Guru TeghBahadur. The function commenced

with 'chaupai sahib'path by schoolstudent RamanjotKaur. After that 10thclass student ParneetKaur threw light onthe life on Guru TeghBahadur and saidthat he sacrificed his

life for the sake of Hinduism givingmessage that humanity comes first.School students recited poems andreminded everybody of the teachingsof Gurus. Class 11th student JasleenKaur held the stage very well at thisoccasion. School principal PoonamSharma sharing her views said thatwe get to learn a lot from the life ofShri Guru Tegh Bahadur and weshould follow the teachings of Gurusin order to groom ourselves as goodhuman beings.

Traffic police installedvehicle reflectors due to fog

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU: The Traffic PoliceAmritsar Rural today installedreflectors behind the vehicles at TollPlaza Nijjarpura on GT Road underthe supervision of SP RuralKanwalpreet Singh Chahal andTraffic Incharge Harsandeep Singh ofAmritsar Rural. Due to dense fogduring the monsoon season, the fearof accidents on the GT Roadincreases, to prevent this a specialdrive has been launched by theTraffic Police Amritsar Rural in whichreflectors are being installed behindthe commercial vehicles to make thevehicles visible in the fog. He saidthat under this the traffic departmenthas started installing reflectorsbehind the vehicles at Toll PlazaNijjarpura today and reflectors arebeing installed behind thecommercial vehicles. SP Chahal saidthat He also said that the rules ofthe road should be strictly followedwhile driving and the vehicles shouldbe driven at low speeds in fog toavoid accidents. ASI IndermohanSingh, ASI Dennis, ASI Kartar Singh,ASI Jagtar Singh, ASI Buta Ram, ASIRajinder Kumar Highway Patrol andASI Surinder Singh were alsopresent on the occasion.

SHASHI PAL JAINMOHALI, DEC 18

Even as he ridiculed ArvindKejriwal as a big fraud,Punjab Chief Minister Cap-tain AmarinderSingh on Fridaysaid both the AamAadmi Party(AAP) and the Shi-romani Akali Dal(SAD) were abunch of hyp-ocrites whose dou-ble standards on the farmlaws had exposed their lackof commitment to the farm-ers. “AAP and SAD MLAsnever say what they mean,and vice versa,” said theChief Minister in an infor-mal interaction with media-persons here after thelaunch of second phase ofPunjab Smart ConnectScheme.

When his governmentpassed Bills in the VidhanSabha to negate the Centre’sblack farm laws, both AAPand SAD MLAs extendedsupport, but then both theparties changed their tune tosuit their political interests,said Captain Amarinder.“And now, in a bid to exploit

the farmers’ agitation, theyhave again done a U-turn onthe issue and are projectingthemselves as the messiahsof the farmers, whose inter-ests both parties had been in-

strumental in pawning off tothe Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP),” he quipped. TheChief Minister pointed outthat while SAD was party tothe introduction of the farmordinances in the first place,the AAP government in Del-hi had been quick to imple-ment one of the draconianlaws.

Taking a dig at Kejriw-al’s theatrics in the Delhi As-sembly, Captain Amarindersaid the AAP leader had giv-en approval to the blackfarm laws by notifying oneof them in the national capi-tal last month and was nowindulging in petty politicsover the matter by tearingcopies of the central laws.

Kejriwal big fraud, saysCapt Amarinder; dubs

AAP & SAD as hypocritesTerms it befitting contribution by Punjab towards defence forces

VERMABATALA, DEC 18

The Punjab Governmenttoday launched the secondphase of providing mobilephones to the students ofgovernment schools withthe objective of connectingthem with digital educationin a virtual function. Dur-ing the special functionheld in this regard, theMinister for Rural Devel-opment and Panchayatsand Higher Education Mr.Mr. Tripat Rajinder SinghBajwa distributed smartmobiles to 103 students atGovernment Senior Sec-ondary School Bhullar.

On this occasion, Cab-inet Minister Mr. Mr. Tri-pat Rajinder Singh Bajwasaid that under PunjabSmart Connect scheme thestate government wasspending Rs. 88 crore on

distribution of mobilephones. Under this schemephones would be distrib-uted to a total of 175443students of outer class. Hesaid that this target wouldbe achieved by the end ofthis month. He said thatthese smartphones wouldhelp the students in gettingup to date education.

As many as 80,000mobile phones are beingdistributed across the stateunder the second phase toensure smooth education tothe students in this phase of

Kovid epidemic out ofwhich these phones havebeen distributed to 5794students of District Gur-daspur today. He said that atotal of 12900 smartphoneswere to be distributed indistrict Gurdaspur out ofwhich 9517 have been dis-tributed till date. He saidthat these phones wouldalso be distributed to theremaining students soon.On this occasion, S. Mr.Bajwa also inauguratedsmart classrooms in thenewly constructed building

of the school. Bajwa alsoannounced to provide Rs.10 lakh to Bhullar Schooland at the same time saidthat Science and Com-merce groups would alsobe started in this school. Hesaid that a sports stadiumwould also be constructedat village Bhullar.

On this occasion healso honored the Principalof Government SchoolBhullar Ravinderpal SinghChahal and all the staff fortheir outstanding perform-ance.

On this occasion, hewas accompanied by SSP.Batala S. Rachpal Singh,SDM Batala S. Apart fromBalwinder Singh, DistrictEducation Officer (A) Mr.Surjit Pal, Sarpanch Bal-winder Singh Sohal, Man-ager Parminder Singh allthe staff of the school werepresent.

Bajwa distributes smartphones to school students DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, DEC 18

Punjab Health and FamilyWelfare Minister Balbir SinghSidhu honored the Youth Ser-vices Department,Hoshiarpur with Best Per-formance Award during afunction organized byPunjab State AIDS Con-trol Society on WorldAIDS Day in Ludhianarecently. The functionwas attended by representa-tives of all health centers asso-ciated with health servicesacross Punjab.

Deputy CommissionerApneet Riyait congratulatedPreet Kohli, Assistant Direc-tor, Department of Youth Ser-vices and all the program co-ordinators of the Red RibbonClub for the award and en-couraged them to work withthe same enthusiasm in the fu-ture as well. Mr. Kohli said

that it was due to the able lead-ership of the Deputy Commis-sioner that the district teamhas been able to improve inthis area. He said that no offi-cer can do anything alone if

his team does not support him.He said that it was due to theprogram coordinators ofHoshiarpur that the district gotthis honor and we dedicatethis honor to these programcoordinators. Preet Kohli, As-sistant Director, Departmentof Youth Services, said that thefunction honored governmentand non-government person-alities who have done a greatjob for the health services dur-ing the year 2019-20.

Youth services department Hoshiarpurreceives best performance Award

Milind Dabra achieves8 bands in IELTS

GIDDADBAHA (KULBHUSHAN GARG):MilindDabra, a student of the area's renowned IELTS Instituteof The Canadians, has scored 8 bands in IELTS. Givingthis information, Reena Gilhotra of The Canadian In-stitute told that Milind Dabra has been honored by pre-senting mementos at the Institute today. On this occa-sion, Rajiv Gilhotra, MD of the institute, told that in theinstitute, high level teachers are imparting coaching tothe students of IELTS and apart from imparting Frenchlanguage training to the students, the necessary guid-ance to go abroad is given free of cost. Apart from Ra-jiv Gilhotra, MD of the Institute, Vicky Dabra, KuldeepSidhu, Jaswant Kaur, Inderjit Kaur, Manpreet Singh,Suman Rani, Navdeep Kaur, Lakhvir Singh Chotianand Kala Singh were also present on the occasion.

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHR, DEC 18

Christmas ceremony was cel-ebrated under the supervisionof director K Ganesan at KCPublic School situated onKariam Road. With around60 students from Nursery,LKG, UKG showcasing theirtalent on stage, the school'syoung students arrived atschool along with their par-ents dressed in various de-signs adorned as Santa Claus.Students, parents and the staffalso took selfies at a selfiepoint built outside the semi-nar hall.

School Dean Jasdeep Kaurand Proctor Ashu Sharmasaid that the preparation doneby the students at home in ashort time and corona periodis also commendable. Pro-gram co-ordinator SandeepWalia said that at the begin-ning of the program, studentsTamanna Walia and KomalVerma sang 'We Wish you aMerry Chrismas & a HappyNew Year Song'. After this,the young students on thestage sang jingle Bells jingleBells.., wen tu long te mainlauchi .., eco heel de nal kati-

tiya wa mainu lahnga le deand other songs .., The stu-dents also sang songs in theglory of Jesus Christ anddanced to differnt tunes.Along with this, variousgames were also played byparents. Surjeet Kaur got firstplace, Reena second andHarinder got third place in thegame of extracting corn. TheDean said that Christmas iscelebrated to commemoratethe birthday of Lord Jesus.We should celebrate everyfestival above all religions,our festival gives the messageof ending the high and low ofsociety. Jasdeep Kaur told the

students that Lord Jesus livedhis life, doing good for everyclass of human being.Teacher (Jaskaran Kaur) andstudent (Manisha) distributedgifts as Santa Claus to everycontestant who showed talenton stage. The stage was con-ducted by teacher ParvinderKaur and student TamannaWalia. Program coordinatorsSandeep Walia, HeadmistressRajveer Kaur, Ashu Sharma,Monika Sanotra, Neeraj,Neena, Monica Rani, Neetu,Taruna Bajaj, Rajwant Kaur,Jaskaran Kaur and PROVipan Kumar etc. were pres-ent on the occasion.

Chrismas celebrated at KC Public School

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, DEC 18

Yashveer Goyal, a specially abledyouth of this city, who has won onenational award and two state awardsfor his outstanding achieve-ments in different fields, hasadded another feather to his capas he clinched Diamond Awardin Mission Fateh programmelaunched by Punjab govern-ment to combat Covid-19 pan-demic by educating people be-longing all walks of life to takepreventive measures to avoid Corona.

By clinching Diamond Award,Yashveer has managed to get hisname entered into the list of those per-sons, who have been given this pres-tigious award for scoring huge pointsin the cut throat competition,launched by the state government, un-der its Mission Fateh programme. Heis the only specially abled youth ofPunjab so far, who has managed to

get his honour.Earlier, Yashveerclinched Gold Medal in MissionFateh programme in which about 3.5lakhs people of Punjab participated.He scored about 24932points.Yashveer has been playing ac-

tive role in different activ-ities, which have been ini-tiated by center and stategovernments and privateorganisations to deal withthe situation, which hasdeveloped in the countrydue to Covid-19. Be itdistribution of free ration

to poor, distribution of pamphlets,pasting of posters, penning of poemand slogans, making of posters andparticipation in quiz programmes re-garding covid-19 for the past eightmonths or so, he has been putting hisbest relentlessly.Yashveer has wongold medals in academics, informa-tion technology, chess and badmintonsports, fancy dress competition, pho-tography and speech competition at

international, national, state and dis-trict level. He is the only youth ofPunjab till today, who has wonachievement award in global champi-onship in information technologyheld at Hanoi (Vietnam) in 2017 andhe is the only youth from Punjab tilltoday, who has won gold medal andoverall trophy in national champi-onship in the information technology,held in 2017.He has been selected asYouth Icon by Election Commissionof India for launching a campaign tomotivate the people to get them regis-tered as voters and then participate inthe electoral process.Yashveer, whohas distributed ration worth thou-sands of rupees to the needy duringlock down period from the cash prize,he got from government of Indiaalongwith national award in 2019, hasbeen making posters to educate peo-ple to avoid Corona. He says that hewill continue to work to educate peo-ple about the precautions to be takento avoid Corona.

Specially abled youth wins diamond award in Mission Fateh

CHET RAM RATTAN NAWANSHAHAR, DEC 18

Under the second phase ofthe 'Punjab Smart ConnectScheme' launched by thePunjab governmentaimed at making stu-dents technicallycompetent, smart-phones will be dis-tributed to 1762 class12th students in thedistrict tomorrow (18December). Givingthis information,Deputy Commissioner Dr.Seena Aggarwal said that thissecond phase of distributionof smartphones will belaunched by Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh ataround 2 pm.

He said that 30 schools inthe district would be connect-ed online to the event in this

regard and smartphoneswould be distributed to thestudents. He said that MLANawanshahar Angad Singhat Government Senior Sec-ondary School Hayala, MLA

Balachaur DarshanLal Mangupur atGovernment SeniorSecondary SchoolBhaddi and Chair-man District Plan-ning CommitteeSatvir Singh Palli atGovernment SeniorSecondary School

Mukandpur will distributesmartphones to the students.Similarly in other schools,smartphones will be distrib-uted to students by differentcelebrities. He said that apartfrom this, smart phones willbe distributed to the studentsduring the function at the dis-trict administrative campus.

Smartphones to 1762 students today

Modi govt shouldimmediately backanti farmer laws:

Karan DulletDHARAM PAL PUNNI JAITU, DEC 18 Modi government must re-peal anti farmer laws, thesebills are reduce peasants in-come besides will be de-stroyed the economic posi-tion of Punjab state.theseword's revealed by jaituyouth Akali leader KaranSingh Dulet while he was in-teracting with some selectedjournolist today here. Farm-ers are demanding MSP andASMP during their protestbut center government do notlistening Peasants demandsseriously.there is nothing inthis bill for the peasants.Thisis very shameful that duringagitation farmers have beenlosing their lives but it' hasbeen seeing that Modi Government not interestingkeep to solve the farmers issues.

DUBAI: Pune Devils are all set to make a debut in the fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi T10 league which is scheduled to start from January 28, 2021 in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi T10 is the only ICC-sanctioned T10 cricket tournament in the world. Owned by Alpha Sports, Pune Devils has appointed South African veteran Jonty Rhodes as its head coach and Sri Lankan limited-overs specialist Thisara Perera as an all-rounder. Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir will spearhead the pace attack for Pune Devils. On Thursday, Amir confirmed his retirement from international cricket to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The Pakistan pacer played 36 Tests, 61 ODIs, and 50 T20Is. Amir went on to take 259 wickets across three formats of the game. Speaking on his new role, Rhodes in a statement said, "I'm really excited to be chosen as the head coach of Pune Devils. Really looking forward to an exciting and entertaining season ahead." On joining Pune Devils, Perera said, "I am excited and looking forward to being a part of Pune Devils at the upcoming T10 tournament in Abu Dhabi. This is going to be extra special given that we are a new team with a lot of talent to explore." Speaking on the announcement, Krishan Kumar Chaudhary, Co-owner of Pune Devils, said, "We are thrilled to be a part of the swiftest and the most exciting cricket tournament played by some of the world's biggest names.

IOC accused of ignoring human rights for 2022 Beijing GamesWASHINGTON, A coalition representing ethnic minorities in China is again accusing the International Olympic Committee of ignoring widespread human rights abuses as the country prepares to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Rights groups speaking for Tibetans, Uighurs and others representing Hong Kong have sent an open letter to IOC President Thomas Bach and IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., who oversees preparations for the Beijing Games.Obtained by The Associated Press, the letter says the IOC has "turned a blind eye to the widespread and systematic human rights violations being committed by the Chinese authorities."Rights advocates are asking to see evidence which the IOC says it has received that China will abide by human rights commitments that it made when it was awarded the games in 2015.

Rashford leads Man United comeback after winning FIFA award

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SHEFFIELD:Hours after being honored for his impact off the field, Marcus Rashford also delivered in front of goal.The striker scored twice to lead Manchester United's recovery to beat Sheffield United 3-2 in the Premier League on Thursday.The evening began with Rashford in a pre-recorded segment at the FIFA Best awards receiving the fair play accolade from world football's governing body for his campaign to combat child poverty and pressure the British government into providing free meals."It will have a knock-on effect," Rashford said, "because things will start to happen in other countries as well."His goals at Bramall Lane lifted United to sixth in the league, five points behind leader and champion Liverpool with a game in hand."Once again we've done well to respond, going a goal behind, scoring three goals, and then of course, late on, if we don't kill the game off it's going to be tough at a place like this," Rashford said.

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NEW DELHI: All continent playing on Indian soil will be a boost Asia to come to our country to play would be than hosting the AFC Asian Cup 2027. I feel, I n d i a F o o t b a l l for the sport in the country. immense. I wish the AIFF all the very best in the last few years, our football Federation (AIFF) "There is no bigger honour and privilege and I hope we get it," added Chhetri, who is infrastructure and culture has developed a lot a n n o u n c e d i t s than playing for your country and for our currently the second-highest active and we are ready to host the AFC Asian Cup. I candidature to host the nation to host the AFC Asian Cup 2027 would international goal scorer. have no doubt that our fans will make it AFC Asian Cup 2027 be even bigger. I think it will be the best gift for Iconic national team goalkeeper Subrata memorable for everyone and make our nation

on Wednesday which the fans and for everyone in the country," he Paul, who earned the nickname of a destination for global football," Paul said. As has created an incredible said in an AIFF release. Spiderman for h is unforget table Indian football continues to move forward

buzz across the nation among various "We have already had the FIFA U-17 performance for India in the AFC Asian Cup together, 2022 will see the country host two stakeholders, including the players. Blue World Cup in 2017 in India and it was such a 2011, stated that the country is 'ready' to host major international tournaments in the form of

Tigers skipper Sunil Chhetri, who has huge success and you can see the prodigies the tournament and become a 'global football the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the represented the nation at two AFC Asian Cups from that tournament do so well. We also destination'. AFC Women's Asian Cup, and according to in 2011 and 2019, stated that hosting the mega- have the upcoming FIFA U-17 Women's "I consider myself very lucky to Blue Tigers custodian Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, event in India will be the 'best gift' for the World Cup in 2022 and I can't wait for it. To represent my country and play in big matches hosting the AFC Asian Cup in 2027 will be a supporters and having the top teams from the get the 2027 Asian Cup and get the best in in front of our fans. But, nothing is bigger 'massive' help for the sport in India.

To get hosting rights for 2027 Asian Cup will be best gift for fans, says Chhetri

Trident Cup T-20 cricket tournament Mandeep Junior stars in Jalandhar XI winLUDHIANA : Cricket action returned to Ludhiana, after a break of 28 years on December 18 as the inaugural edition of the Trident T20 Cup Kicked off at GRD Academy and Hara Cricket Club Ludhiana today. All 8 teams – Punjab Reds, Patiala Colts HRCF ,Jalandhar XI,Malwa ,Heroes,Pu njab Blues,Ludhi ana XI , Mohali Legends and Amandeep Cricket Club will play each other thrice in the league stage between December 18 and 27th ,2020. The same was attended by Bhupinder Singh Sr, former International player & member of the organising

SPORTSYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020

Ashwin, Umesh put India on top, Aus bundled out for 191AGENCY for just 4 by Pat Cummins - once (15) and Nathan Lyon (10). ADELAIDE, DEC 18 again with the ball coming in More than the runs, the 37 balls

through the gap in pad and bat - the that the two combined to play out, Australia skipper Tim Paine Indian management decided to kept giving Paine more confidence showed what it takes to battle it out send Bumrah to the middle and he to stick it out and get closer to the against an in-form bowling attack looked to be taking confidence Indian total of 244.with a gutsy unbeaten 73, but it was from his fifty in the practice game Australia finally folded for the Indian bowlers who held fort as he looked solid in defending 191 as Umesh returned to end Josh and put the visitors in the driving anything on and around the off-seat on the second day of the day- stump.night Test at the Adelaide Oval on But the day certainly belonged Friday. If Ashwin spun a web with to the duo of Ashwin and Umesh. figures of 4/55, Umesh Yadav Both have often been the ones showed why he is the unsung hero sacrificed whenever the team has Hazlewood's stay at the crease (8 of the Indian bowling attack as he found the need to cut out a spinner off 10 balls in 25 minutes). While finished with 3/40. or remove an extra fast bowler Mohammad Shami didn't pick a

Having taken a 53-run lead -- from the XI. But on Friday, they wicket, he bowled impressively something which could have been stole the show after Bumrah sent and finished with the best economy more had the last three Australian the openers back in the last half of rate of 2.41. India's fielding also left wickets not added 80 runs - India the opening session. a lot to be desired and catches went were 9/1 in the second essay when While Ashwin started by down left, right and centre.the umpires ended play on the picking the all-important wicket The two moments that stood second night. The 62-run lead with of Steve Smith (1), Umesh out in the field for India both nine wickets in the bag could prove picked the man who was looking involved Ashwin. While the to be crucial as the wicket isn't to stand tall and script a first one was when he bowled getting any better for batting. f i g h t b a c k - M a r n u s one slightly shorter and got it Mayank Agarwal (5) and Labuschagne (47). With the duo to straighten after pitching to nightwatchman Jasprit Bumrah (0) constantly picking wickets, it take Smith's edge, the second will look to start afresh after looked like India would bag a was a long hop from him that battling it out against Pat Cummins lead of over 100. But skipper all-rounder Cameron Green (11) and Mitchell Starc in the dying Tim Paine had other ideas as he hit wide off Kohli who pulled off a stages of the second day. kept battling it out with quality brilliant catch, diving to his right.

With Prithvi Shaw sent back contributions from both Starc

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All-round Kiwis beat visitors by 5 wickets

AGENCY stitch a 13-run partnership with Seifert AUCKLAND, DEC18 for the second wicket. Conway (5)

became a victim of Haris Rauf in the Debutant Jacob Duffy's four wickets fourth over.were followed up by handy knocks Glenn Phillips then joined Seifert from Tim Seifert (57) and Mark in the middle and stitched a solid 44-Chapman (34) as New Zealand run partnership off 34 balls for the third defeated Pakistan by five wickets in wicket. The duo played freely and the first T20I here at Eden Park on scored some quick runs, but Rauf Friday. Chasing a moderate target of struck to remove Phillips for 23. 154, Martin Guptill and Tim Seifert Another quick 45-run partnership opened the scoring for the Kiwis between Mark Chapman and Seifert

and pacer Shaheen then put the hosts in the driving seat and Shah Afridi almost confirmed their victory. Afridi

got the early picked Seifert in the 15th over and breakthroug reduced New Zealand to 4/110.h a s h e With 44 runs to win, James dismissed Neeshand and Chapman built a 19-Guptill (6) run stand before the latter departed

i n t h e in the 17th over. Chapman walked third over. away after scoring 34 crucial runs D e v o n off 20 balls studded with four

C o n w a y boundaries and a six. Skipper came in to bat Mitchell Santner and Neesham then

at number three put on an unbeaten 27-run stand to and could put their side over the line with

o n l y seven balls remaining. Neesham scored 15* off 10 while Santer hit an unbeaten 12.

After Amir's retirement, Akhtar reveals he too wasn't treated well by PCB

AGENCY executive that he has no desires or NEW DELHI, DEC 18 intentions of playing international cricket

and as such, he should not be considered After pacer Mohammad Amir confirmed for future international matches," PCB his retirement, former cricketer Shoaib had said in an official statement on Akhtar on Thursday revealed that he too Thursday.wasn't treated well by the Pakistan Cricket Akhtar said Amir should have dealt Board (PCB) management during the with the PCB management by performing 2011 cricket World Cup. In a video that well in cricket. The former pacer also said has now gone viral on social media, Amir he too was not treated well by the PCB had said that he does not think he can work when he was on the cusp of his retirement with the current PCB management and it in 2011. "I openly say that I was not is best for him to leave. "To be honest, I treated well during the 2011 World Cup, don't think I can play cricket under this not by Afridi but by the rest of the management, I am leaving cricket, for management. I am saying it openly. I was now, I am being mentally tortured, I harassed but I didn't care as I had already cannot handle it, I have seen it enough announced my retirement," Akhtar said from 2010-2015. I have to repeatedly hear on his YouTube channel.that PCB invested a lot in me, I am "Amir should have bowled well and

had a word with the 29-year-old pacer on thankful to Shahid Afridi as he gave me improved his performance so that no one Thursday afternoon following reports that chances when I came back after the ban," could remove him from the team. You the fast bowler had announced his said Amir in a video that has now gone have to face your fears and you must retirement from international cricket.viral on social media. c o n f r o n t m a n a g e m e n t b u t b y

"Amir confirmed to the PCB chief PCB chief executive Wasim Khan performing," he added.

Masip feels Messi can score 'at any moment in time'VALLADOLID : Terming Barcelona's when he is out on a playing field at any Lionel Messi as "one of the most moment in time he can score a goal, so I dangerous strikers", Real Valladolid's think he is one of the most dangerous Jordi Masip said that the Argentine can strikers," he added.score a goal "at any moment in time". Real Valladolid is currently placed in

"We are working very hard and there the 17th position on the LaLiga table are no easy games in LaLiga. This with 13 points, same as Getafe, who hold coming period will be very crucial for us the 16th position.and we are preparing ourselves in the Aiming to finish "as high as best possible way," Masip said in a possible", Jaime Mata of Getafe said this statement, as released by LaLiga. month's fixtures are "very crucial" for

"Well, there are many dangerous his side and they will prepare in the best strikers in this league as it is the best way possible. Getafe will play three league in the world. But for me Lionel more games this month, against Cadiz, Messi, I think because what he does Celta Vigo, and Atletico Madrid.

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