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Schools for 10th, 12thstudents to be openedfrom14th in HryCHANDIGARH: In view ofthe board exams of the stu-dents, the Haryana govern-ment has decided to openschools for students of ClassX and XII from December 14,2020. Schools will be openfor 3 hours daily from 10 amto 1 pm. Classes for studentsof IX and XI will begin on De-cember 21, 2020.As per the order issued bythe Directorate of School Ed-ucation, students will have toundergo general healthcheckup before coming toschool at primary health cen-tres, community health cen-tres or any other governmenthealth centre and submit areport, mentioning that thestudent does not have symp-toms of COVID-19 and hishealth is normal, to the schoolbefore attending school.

Drone movementnoticed over IB inJammu: BSFJAMMU: A drone was spot-ted flying over the Internation-al Border (IB) in Jammu andKashmir's R S Pura sector,BSF officials said on Thurs-day. Alert BSF troops guard-ing the IB at a border outpostfired on the drone Wednes-day night, forcing it to returnback, the officials said. Therehave been instances of Pak-istan, its army and intelli-gence agencies using dronesalong the IB and LoC to ferryweapons, ammunition, explo-sive material and narcoticsinto Jammu and Kashmir inthe past six months. On No-vember 29, alert securityforces deployed on the Inter-national Border (IB) with Pak-istan spotted a drone in Arniasector of Jammu district.

Guv launches 'PublicBike Sharing system'in ChandigarhCHANDIGARH: Governor ofPunjab and AdministratorChandigarh V P Singh Bad-nore launched first phase ofthe Public Bike Sharing Sys-tem being developed underChandigarh Smart City Limit-ed, from Docking Station lo-cated at Rock Garden,Chandigarh here Thursday inpresence of Manoj KumarParida, Adviser to the Admin-istrator and Raj Bala Malik,Mayor, Chandigarh. The Gov-ernor congratulates and en-courages the citizens of thecity to use the Public BikeSharing System in their dayto day activities and to com-mute within the city. He fur-ther emphasised to make theproject successful and reduceCO2 footprint of the city.

'Last date forsubmission of Hajforms extended tillJanuary 10'MUMBAI: The last date forsubmission of forms for Haj2021 has been extended tillJanuary 10, 2021, Union Mi-nority Affairs Minister MukhtarAbbas Naqvi announced onThursday.During a meeting with the HajCommittee in Mumbai to dis-cuss the preparations andregistrations for Haj 2021,Naqvi lauded the committeefor making the registrationprocess "100 per cent" digital,in turn making India the firstcountry to do so.

Our battingdepthwithoutWarner willbe tested:Smith

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR DEC 10

The much delayed Mohali-Kharar Flyover which hascreated a lot of problems forthe residents of this area isfinally expected to be oper-ational from December 12at last.

It may be recalled that inthe last three or four yearssince the construction of this flyover started,innumerable troubles have arisen for thepeople of Kharar. This road is frequentlyjammed and even today it is a situation thatdrivers from Desumajra to Khanpur have toface long traffic jams. The flyover is beingconstructed by L&T Company but for some

reason or the other its construction has beendelayed . Kharar SDM Himanshu Jain andother officers of the NHAI, Traffic Police

and the constructing com-pany L&T today inspect-ed the flyover and eventrail run was started onThursday. The presentSDM Kharar, Mr. Hi-mashu Jain, IAS, whenhe assumed office in Oc-tober last year, showed

keen interest in the construction of this fly-over in view of the plight of the people. Heheld several meetings with the concerned of-ficials of L&T Company, Municipal Coun-cil, Power Com, Police etc. to expedite theconstruction of this flyover and the work wasexpedited.

Mohali-Kharar flyover willstart from tomorrow

Nadda's convoy attacked in BengalVijayvargiya among several BJP leaders injured

AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 10

BJP President JP Nadda's con-voy was allegedly attacked onThursday and several BJP lead-ers including Kailash Vijay-vargiya were injured when pro-testers pelted stones at their ve-hicles at West Bengal's Dia-mond Harbour.

"Mukul Roy and KailashVijayvargiya were injured inthe attack today. It is a shameon democracy," Nadda said.

"There isn't a car in ourconvoy which was not attacked.I am safe because I was travel-ling in a bulletproof car. Thisstate of lawlessness and intoler-ance in West Bengal has toend," Nadda said while speak-ing at a public meeting at South24 Paraganas in WestBengal

BJP leader Kailash Vijay-vargiya was on his way toSouth 24 Paraganas and allegedthat Trinamool Congress(TMC) workers pelted stones athis vehicle at West Bengal's Di-amond Harbour.

The incident took place

while he was on his way toSouth 24 Paraganas. Protestorsalso attempted to block the roadfrom where BJP President JPNadda's convoy was passing.

"Bengal Police has alreadygot the information about BJPNational President JP Nadda jiprogram. But once again theBengal police failed. In front ofthe police near Siracol busstand, TMC goons hit ourworkers and pelted stones at mycar," Vijayvargiya tweeted. BJPleader Sambit Patra also al-leged that he along with someother leaders were attackedwhile they were travelling in acar.

"Our cars attacked in Ben-gal!! Window panes were bro-ken. Shri Shivprakash ji, ShriSanjay Mayukh ji and myselfwere travelling in this car. Onekaryakarta in our car is bleed-ing!! God save our lives!! Ma-mata Banerjee, is this democra-cy??" Patra tweeted. West Ben-gal Governor JagdeepDhankhar said that he is con-cerned at alarming reports ofanarchy and lawlessness.

Centre seeks report from Guvon law and order situationNEW DELHI: The Centre has sought a report from West Bengal GovernorJagdeep Dhankhar on the law and order situation in the state, the govern-ment sources informed on Friday. This comes after Union Home Secretarywrote to West Bengal Chief Secretary on the "attack" on the convoy ofBJP chief Jagat Prakash Nadda. The Home Secretary in his letter hasasked the Chief Secretary to provide adequate security to Nadda, thesources said. As part of his 120-day tour of the country, Nadda is on a two-day visit to West Bengal from Wednesday, where he is participating in vari-ous programmes aimed at "strengthening the party at the base as well asat the booth level" as West Bengal Assembly polls are scheduled to takeplace next year. Earlier in the day, Nadda's convoy was allegedly attackedand several BJP leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya were injured whenprotesters pelted stones at their vehicles at Diamond Harbour.

AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 10

The farmer leaders onThursday said that they willintensify their agitation topress for repeal of threefarm laws and railwaytracks will be blocked.

At a joint press confer-ence on the Singhu border,the farmer leaders also saidthat agriculture is a statesubject and Centre has no right tomake such laws.

"We had given an ultimatum tillDecember 10 that if the Prime Min-ister does not listen to us and doesnot repeal laws, we will block rail-way tracks. It was decided in today'smeeting that all the people of Indiawill take to the tracks. SanyuktKisan Manch will fix a date and an-nounce," Buta Singh, a farmerleader from Punjab, said.

Bhartiya Kisan Union (R)leader Balbir Singh Rajewal allegedthat the laws have been made fortraders. "If agriculture is state sub-ject, they do not have the right tomake laws regarding it," he said.

Farmers firm tointensify agitation

Tomar urgespeasants to gothrough proposalNEW DELHI: Union agriculture min-ister Narendra Singh Tomar onThursday said that the governmentis ready to hold discussions withfarmers to end the impasse overfarm laws. Addressing a press con-ference, he also reiterated that thenew laws passed by Parliament inSeptember will benefit the farmers.He also urged farmers to go throughthe proposal of amendments thatgovernment is planning to incorpo-rate in the farm laws and set a datefor discussion. “

National interestsupreme: Modi

AGENCYNEW DELHI, DEC 10

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thurs-day urged the citizens to take the pledge of"India first" and said national interestshould be supreme in our decisions.

Speaking at the foundation-laying cere-mony of new Parliament building, PMModi: "We will have to take the pledge of'India first'. Our decisions should make thenation stronger and be measured on thesame scale - that nation's wel-fare comes first. Our efforts innext 25-26 years should be to-wards how do we want to seeIndia in 2047, in our 100 yearsof Independence."

"We, the people of India,take this pledge - there will beno greater interest for us thannational interest. We, the peo-ple of India, take this pledge -The country's concern for uswill be more than our own con-cern. We, the people of India,take this pledge - nothing will be more im-portant to us than the unity and integrity ofthe country," he added.

"We, the people of India, take thispledge - for us the dignity and fulfillment ofthe Constitution of the country will be thebiggest goal of life," PM Modi added.

The Prime Minister said that democra-cy in India has always been a means of re-solving differences along with governance."Different views, different perspectives,

they empower a vibrantdemocracy. There is alwaysroom for differences butnever disconnected, ourdemocracy has movedahead with this goal," hesaid.

"There can be differ-ences over policies and pol-itics. But we are for theservice of the public, thereshould be no differences inthis ultimate goal," he

added. Earlier in the day, PM Modi laid thefoundation stone of the new Parliamentbuilding at the Parliament House Complex."The new Parliament building will be mod-ern, state-of-the-art and energy-efficient,with highly non-obtrusive security facilitiesto be built as a triangular-shaped building,adjacent to the present Parliament. LokSabha will be three times of the existingsize and Rajya Sabha will be substantiallybigger," a release said.

Lays foundation stone ofNew Parliament BuildingNEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modilaid the foundation stone of the New Parlia-ment Building in Parliament House Complexon Thursday.Tata Trusts' Chairman Ratan Tata, Union Min-ister HS Puri, Deputy Chairman of RajyaSabha Harivansh and various religious lead-ers were also present at the event.

BUREAU, PATHANKOT, DEC - 10

To create a national data base for persons with disabilities and issue unique disability identity cards to every person with disability the work is being carried out from the previous time with the objective and in the present time this work has been expedited, the purpose of which is to ensure consistency in government benefits to the

made. He said that the persons with disabilities. disabled people whose U. These words were expressed D.I.D cards have not been by Sanyam Aggarwal ,Deputy made till date, they must visit Commissioner Pathankot.the nearby health centres, Giving information, he CDPO Or civil hospital to get said that a data base of 14,885 their UDID card. He told that disabled people is being UDID card will be the only prepared in the district document to identify the Pathankot, under which so far differently-abled to avail Applications have been given benefits under different by 5,764 candidates and cards schemes across India.of 2,196 people have been

GULSHAN KUMARBARNALA DEC.10

As per the directions of the State E l e c t i o n C o m m i s s i o n , a n important meeting was held under the chairmanship of Additional District Election Officer cum Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Aditya Dechalwal in connection with the preparations for the forthcoming Municipal Elections. On this occasion Additional District Electoral Officer Mr. Aditya Dechalwal reviewed the work of publication including revision of voter list. On this occasion the Additional District Electoral Officer directed the concerned off ice rs to

Wa l i a , E x e c u t i v e O f f i c e r Municipal Council Bhadaur Mr. Bhushan, Mr. Praveen Kumar complete all the procedures Municipal Council Barnala Mr. Gurcharan S ingh , Dis t r ic t Goel, Superintendent Zil la i n c l u d i n g r e f i n e m e n t a n d Manpreet Singh Sidhu, Executive Development and Panchayat Parishad Mr. Jagdeep Singh, publication of voter lists with full Officer Municipal Council Tapa Officer Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, DPM Mohit Sharma and others transparency and seriousness. On Mr. Bal Kishan, Executive Officer Election Tehsildar Mr. Bharat were present.this occasion SDM Mr. Virjit

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

PATHANKOT, DEC - 10( ) :Representatives of farmers, laborers and political parties are are protesting against the central government for the last several days for the agricultural laws passed by the central government. All these people are agitating that the central government should withdraw the agricultural laws. But Prime Minister Modi is not listening to the people of the country, which is not right. Sheela Lamini, leader of Shiromani Akali Dal Badal, said that now the time has come that Prime Minister Modi should leave his stubborn attitude and consider the legitimate demands of the farmers. Otherwise, the anger towards BJP in the country will be deepen. He said that in addition to Punjab, farmers of many other provinces of the country are also agitating and demonstrating against the central government in Delhi. He also told that at the behest of the Modi government, the Khattar government of Haryana made a million efforts to spoil this movement, but all failed in front of the wrath of the farmers. He has strongly demanded from Prime Minister Modi that he should end the agitation of the farmers peacefully by giving a decision in favor of the farmers as soon as possible.

R.SINGH

Central Govt should listen to farmers : Sheela

SHORT TALKS

National Lok Adalats will be held on Saturday : Mahesh MK SHARMA SULTANPUR LODHI DEC10: Mr. Mahesh Kumar, Sub Division Judicial Magistrate, Sultanpur Lodhi, informed that as per the guidelines received from Punjab State Legal Services Authority, SS Nagar (Mohali), National Lok Adalats would be held on Saturday 12th December across Punjab. He said that in this regard, National Lok Adalats would also be organized in Sultanpur Lodhi, Phagwara and Bhullath as per the directions of Sh. Kishore Kumar, District and Sessions Judge cum Chairman District Legal Services Authority, Kapurthala. It includes criminal compoundable cases under section 138 N. I Act, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Family / Marital Disputes, Land Acquisition Status, Civil Cases, Rent Cases. He said that the decision taken by the National Lok Adalat is recognized as a degree of a civil court. There is no appeal against this decision and after its decision, all the court fees incurred in the case are refunded. He said that the decision of the National Court is final.

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I, No JC244342X RIS Maj I, No JC244342X RIS Maj I Hither To Known As Harprit I Prabjot Singh S/o S. Ajit I , h i t he r to Known a s I, Neelam S/o Parshotam Yashvir Singh R/o Unit 2 [i] Yashvir Singh R/o Unit 2 [i] Kaur W/o Dharminder Singh Singh R/o Vill. Awan, PO G U R P R E E T S I N G H Dass Sharma R/o Mohalla Armd SQN (CIH) C/o 56 Armd SQN (CIH) C/o 56 APO R/o Village Brindpur, Po Ramdass, Teh. Ajnala, Distt. DHILLON Son of SEWA Krishan Nagar Nurmahal APO Declare That My Son Declare That My Daughter Is S h e i k h u p u r , D i s t t . Amritsar (Punjab) have SINGH residing at Patti Teh-Phillaur (Jalandhar) Is Nikhil Rathi And Wrongly Anjali Rathi And Wrongly Kapurthala, Punjab, India changed my name from Uboke, Tehsil Patti, District have changed my name Entered In My Service Entered In My Service Record Have Changed My Name Prabjot Singh to Prabhjot Tarn Taran Punjab have N e e l a m t o N e e l a m Record Nikhil Rathi And Anjali Rathi And Anjeeli One And He Shall Hereafter Be Singh. changed my name and Shall K u m a r S h a r m a . B o t h Nikil Kumar One And The And The Smae Person. All Known As Harpreet Kaur. 98728 hereafter be known as names are one & the S m a e P e r s o n . A l l Concerned Please Noted. 72778 I Sudha W/o Ashok Kumar GURPREET SINGH. s a m e p e r s o n N e e l a m Concerned Please Noted. 100046 I Arles Sahni S/o Amandeep Babbar R/o 268, D-Block, 900020 a l i a s N e e l a m K u m a r

100046 I, Mamta Rathi Is Legally Puri R/o Vpo Kalewal Beet Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar, I, Harjit Kaur W/o Balbir Sharma.Wedded Spouse Of No Teh Garhshanakrar Distt Punjab have changed my Singh Vpo Bakhli (plot 63372JC244342X RIS Maj Yashvir Hoshiarpur (punjab) Have name from Sudha to Sudha Thandpura ) Pehowa , I, Swaranjit Kaur W/o Singh R/o Unit 2 [i] Armd Changed My Name Arles Babbar. Concerned note. Kurukshetra Changed Name Rajsukhbi r S ingh R/o SQN (CIH) C/o 56 APO Sahni To Arles Puri 98728 Harjeet Kaur Vpo. Mallu Walie Wala Declare That Mamta Devi To 72778 I Navneet Singh S/o Late S. 84661 Te h - Z i r a ( F e r o z e p u r ) Mamta Rathi Due To Wrongly I, Pal Singh S/o Piara Singh Sarwan Singh R/o VPO I, Christina D/o Bikramjit changed my name to Entered In My Husband R/o Vill. Tirpari Tehsil Bhullar, Teh. Ajnala, Distt. Singh Dhillon R/o Faridkot Swarnjit Kaur.Service Record. Mamta Devi Kharar Distt Sas Nagar Amritsar, Punjab declared have changed my name to 63372And Mamta Rathi One And Mohali Have Changed My that in my school certificate Christina Dhillon. I, Amoaljit Kaur Gill D/o The Smae Person. All Name To Harpal Singh. my father 's name was 63372 Ranjit Singh Gill R/o Concerned Please Noted. 72737 wrongly written as Swarn I, Sanjeev Kumar S/o Luxmi H.No. 729 W.No. 5 Dr.

100046 I, Army No.15477871a Singh instead the correct Narayan R/o W.No. 2 G a r c h a S t r e e t B a s t i I , Smriti Tayal D/o Anand Rank Dfr Neeraj Kumar S/o name is Sarwan Singh. Ahmedgarh (Sangrur) have G o b i n d g a r h ( M o g a ) Tayal W/o Mahesh Mittal R/o Kanti Parsad R/o.11 Armd Concerned note. changed my minor son name S t a t e t h e b o t h n a m e Hno. 157 , Sector - 20 , Huda , Regt C/o.56 Apo India 98728 from Dinkesh to Naman Amoaljit Kaur Gill and Kaithal Have Changed My Declare That In My Army I Avnish Kumar S/o Pran Mittal. Amoaljeet Kaur are & Name From Smriti Tayal To Record My Mother Name Is Nath R/o Teh. & Sub Teh. 63372 same person.Smriti Mittal After Marriage. Mentioned As Mithlesh But Majitha, Distt. Amritsar, I, Najar Singh S/o Surjit 63372Concerned Please Note. Her Cor rec t Name I s Punjab have changed my Singh R/o Vill: Laut Teh- I, Mangaljeet Singh S/o

84451 M i t h l e s h D e v i V i d e name from Avnish Kumar to Nabha (Patiala) changed my Sansar Singh R/o Vpo. I, Tanuj Garg S/o Sh. Suresh Affidavit No.an 692186 Avnish Panhotra. name to Nazar Singh. T a k h t u p u r a ( M o g a ) Kumar, R/o New Anaj Mandi, Dated On 10-12-2020 98728 63372 changed my son name Barwala Distt. Hisar Declare 72737 I Manju W/o Avnish Panhotra I, Rajnish Aggarwal S/O from Armaan Singh to That My Name Is Tanuj I, Army No.15480346p R/o Ward no. 10, Chhota Subash Chander R/O Samrala Armaanmeet Singh.Garg Instead Of Tanuj. In Rank Dfr Ramesh R S/o V Bazar, Teh. & Sub Teh. (Ludhiana) Changed My 63372Future, My Name Is Tanuj Radha Krishan Pillai R/o.11 Majitha, Distt. Amritsar, Minor Son Name Aryan To I Jain Rishabh S/o Heera Garg For All Purposes. A rmd Regt C/o.56 Apo Punjab have changed my Aryan Aggarwal. Chand Jain R/o – Vikrm

72783 India Declare That In My name from Manju to Manju 63372 V i l a P r a g y a P u b l i c A r m y R e c o r d M y Panhotra. I Sunny Chowdhary S/O S c h o o l K e P i c h h e Daughte r Name I s 98728 Tarsem Lal R/O B-14/364, B i j a i n a g a r , A j m e r , Mentioned As Addira C I, Neha Sharma W/o Parveen Dhobhi Ghaat, Hoshiarpur Rajasthan–305624 have But Her Correct Name Is Kumar R/o Village Lohar Punjab-146001 have changed changed my name to Athira C Vide Affidavit M a j r a Te h s i l P e h o v a my name to Harman Singh. Rishabh Jain.No.an 692187 Dated On (kurukshetra) Have Changed 63372 6337210-12-2020 My Given Name Neha To I, Devendra Singh S/o Atar I, Sarbhjeet Kaur W/o

72737 Neha Sharma Surname S i n g h R / o S a m r a l a Sewa Singh R/o Bakhtour I Parminder Singh Gill Sharma Deleted. (Ludhiana) changed my name Nagar Sunam Teh-Sunam resident of village Baggu 50008 to Devender Singh. (Sangrur) changed my name Wala, P.O. Rukne Wala, I, Parveen Kumar S/o Sg. 63372 f r o m S a r b j i t K a u r t o D i s t r i c t F e r o z e p u r , Sushil Kumar R/o Village I, Kulwinder Singh S/O Labh Sarbhjeet Kaur. Punjab, India,Pin-152021 Lohar Majra Tehsil Pehova Singh R/O Raman Mandi 63372have changed my name to (kurukshetra) Have Changed District Bathinda Have P a r m i n d e r S i n g h . My Given Name As Parveen Changed My Minor Daughter Al l ' concerned please And Surname As Kumar. Name Simran Kaur To note. 50008 Simran Kaur Chani.

98706 I, Shristy W/o Deepak 63372I Shindo wife of Roshan Kapoor R/o H.No.3, Shastri I, Hardeep Singh S/O Sukhvir Lal resident of mohalla Nagar, Lawrence Road, Singh R/O Raman Mandi To t a S h e i k h u p u r , Amr i t s a r-143001 have District Bathinda Have Kapurthala, Punjab have changed my name to Shristy Changed My Name To changed my name from Kapoor. Hardeep Singh Sidhu.Shindo to Kuldeep Kaur. 900020 63372All concerned please I, Kalwant Kaur W/o Tejinder I , J a s w i n d e r K a u r @ note. Singh R/o VPO Bharowal Sukhwinder Kaur W/O

98706 Tehsil Khadoor Sahib, Tarn Kewal Singh R/O Village I, Jasvir Kaur @ Balvir Taran have changed my name Ramgarh Bhunder District Kaur (D/o Gurbakhash to Kulwant Kaur. Bathinda Declare That I Singh) W/o Harbans Singh 900020 J a s w i n d e r K a u r @ R/o Vill. Burj, Tehsil I, Kawaljeet Singh S/o Sohan Sukhwinder Kaur One And Malerkot la (Sangrur) Singh R/o 1286, Chowk Same Person And Known Declare that above both Pragdass, Gali Nishanchian, Me With Both Names.names are mine. Amritsar have changed my 63372

98726 name to Kawaljit Singh. I, Neelam S/o Parshotam I Deepika Verma D/o 900020 Dass Sharma R/o Mohalla Vijay Kumar w/o Amit I Sarwan Singh Aulakh S/o Krishan Nagar Nurmahal Kumar Soni R/o House Major Singh R/o Vpo. Teh-Phillaur (Jalandhar) no. 675 Gandhi Marg Chawinda Khurd Teh. Ajnala have changed my son name J a g a d h r i d i s t r i c t D i s t t . Amr i t s a r. Have f rom Karan to Karan Yamunanagar I have Changed My Name Sarwan Sharma. My son known by changed my name from Singh Aulakh To Sarwan both names Karan alias Deepika to Deepika Verma Singh Karan Sharma.

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CLASSIFIEDPUBLIC NOTICES

I h i ther to known as GAGANDEEP KAUR W/O Karan Chawla R/O H.No. 194/1, Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar, Jalandhar, Punjab-144001 have changed my name and shall hereafter be known as GAGANDEEP CHAWLA. I Do Not Want To Change My Religion.

98748My PAN card is no IEQPS7957C where in my name is MAHINDER SINGH Father's name PRITAM SINGH, DATE OF BIRTH 19-06-1952 which is wrong whereas all my documents my name is MOHINDER SINGH The father's name is JAITHA SINGH DATE OF BIRTH 19-06-1956, which I want to get corrected.

84661I, Nirdosh Kumar S/o Ram Chand R/o Vill J h a n s a S u b t e h s i l Ishmailabad Kurukshetra Declares That My Son Bhuwan Kumar And His Wife Shaffali Is Out Of My Control. I Disown T h e m F r o m M y Moveable/ immoveable Proper t ies . i And My Family Wil l Not Be Responsible For Their Act And Conduct, If Anybody Deal With Them.

84661I, CHANDER KAWER is Legally Wedded Spouse of No. 14936083N Rank HAV name JETMAL SINGH P r e s e n t l y R e s i d i n g a t V I L L A G E & P O S T BADODA GAON TEHSIL & DISTRICT JAISALMER STATE RAJASTHAN PIN 345001, Have Changed My Name From CHANDER KAWER to CHANDRA KANWAR vide affidavit dated 10 DEC 2020 before at notary public ferozepur.

900011 We, Puran Chand S/o Tulsi Ram & Kamlesh Devi W/o Puran Chand R/o Dirba Teh-Dirba (Sangrur) declare that our son Narinder Kumar is out of our control. So we disown with him from our m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with him at his/her own risk.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

I, Krishan Chand S/o Kamta Par shad R/o Bhucho Kanchiyan (Bathinda) declare that my son Suraj Kumar’s birth certificate entered name Sarabjeet, f a ther name Kr i shan Chander and Date of Birth 27-11-2006 wrongly. While my son correct name Suraj K u m a r, f a t h e r n a m e Krishan Chand and Date of Birth 26-11-2006.

63372I, No. 14461010K, Ex-Nk, Amar Singh Resident of Vill & Po. Balahar Vinjhu Teh & Distt. Bathinda, Punjab-151201, inform all concerned that Kashmir Singh is my real son his DOB has been given in my records wrongly as 15-04-1990. But his actual DOB is 17-04-1989. His Aadhar Card No. 9511-5806-8759.

63372I, Army No. 4473655F Ex-Nk Charanjit Singh R/o Vpo. Butter Kalan Teh & Distt. Moga (Pb) Pin-142040, declare that I have changed the name of my daughter Harpreet Kaur to Harmeet Kaur. Her Aadhar No. 7144-9969-7488.

63372I, Sukhdev Singh Dhaliwal S/o Bakhsish Singh R/o Ajit Nagar Tehsil Road Jagraon Teh-Jagraon (Ludhiana) Pb, India, declare that in revenue records my father name entered wrongly Ujagar Singh. But my father correct name is Bakhsish Singh. So amended my father name from Ujagar Singh to Bakhsish Singh in revenue record.

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PUBLIC NOTICEI, Radhe Shyam S/o Dhan Raj R/o Bhagta Bhai Ka, District Bathinda justify that my sale deed number - 980 dated 9.11.2008 that is purchased by Angrej Singh Darshan Singh and Satish Kumar from Gaurav Verma and Jagroop Singh and my second sale deed number- 815 dated 05-11-2007 that is purchased by Gaurav Verma and Jagroop Singh from Rajni Bala had been lost from me I have tried many times to find this sale did but unable to find kindly do needful if anyone found this.

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I NEHA D/o MANOJ KUMAR JINDAL R/o House No- 4, Shimla Apartments, Sector-126, SAS Nagar have Lost Mark Sheets and passing Certificates of Class 10th (Roll No. 2188596), 12th (Roll No. 2702744) and CTET issued by CBSE. F inde r Ca l l - 85588-56685

100040Certified that it is brought to Notice of General Public that Original Sale Deed No. 2277 dated 15-05-2008 in the name of Kailash W/o Heera Lal Resident of Bathinda has been lost and if anybody find the original Sale Deed No. 2277 dated 15-05-2008 then contact within 7 days, to Sukhpal Kaur, Mobile No. 78887-86409, Lost information report Sr. No. 91621/2020 dated 09-12-2020.

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Flies create nuisancein NilokheriDARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI: The city of Nilokheri, situat-ed on the national highway between Kar-nal and Kurukshetra, was called hisdaughter by the country's first Prime Min-ister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Nowa-days even in the winter season, the inter-national poetess of Nilokheri, Kanta Ver-ma, says that she lives in Shanti Nagar!

She visited theentire Nilokhericity and talked topeople. Every-one says thatflies havecaused nuisancein the entire city!Day or night,flocks of flies areseen roamingeverywhere inthe streets, the

neighborhood and in the houses!Dr. Kanta Verma says that if the munici-pal Nilokheri was not alert in time and nospraying of medicines was done, thenthe city of Nilokheri would be vulnerableto other diseases like malaria, diarrhoeaalong with Corona. She urged the doc-tors of Nilokheri General Hospital, thechairperson of the municipality and theMCs of all wards, social organisationsand the entire administration to ensurethat the city should be made free fromthe terror of the flies in quick time! Clean-liness should be corrected to find outwhere the flies are coming from. Poultryfarms should be checked and strict or-ders and instructions should be givenwherever the dirt is seen so that the fa-mous for cleanliness in Corona periodNilokheri city can be saved.

45 new Corona cases foundKARNAL: Corona outbreak continues inthe district. On Thursday, a corona-infect-ed patient died. In the district, 45 positivecases were found today. These include10 cases from antigen test and 35 casesfrom RT PCR. 33 patients have recov-ered and gone back home. As per theguidelines of the government, the admin-istration has decided that those peoplewho do not have symptoms of corona in-fection are kept in the Covid Care Centreset up in Jat Dharamshala, Karnal in-stead of keeping them in the hospital.According to the report of the Civil Sur-geon, Deputy Commissioner Nishant Ku-mar Yadav said that samples of a total of133616 persons suspected of Coronavirus infection have been taken so far inthe district, out of which 122177 reportshave been negative and 10225 casespositive out of which 142 patients died,476 are active and 9607 patients haverecovered and gone home. The DeputyCommissioner asked the villagers to goout only for necessary work, use masks,take care of social distancing and keepsanitizing themselves constantly. He clar-ified that in view of growing cases ofcoronavirus, the administration is strict. Aperson who goes out without a mask willbe challaned for Rs 500.

Youth killed overlove affairKARNAL: The case of murder of a youthof Uchana village has come to light dueto love affair. The young man was foundin a critical condition on the NationalHighway in Gharaunda, who died on hisway to the hospital. The youth has beenidentified as Sandeep, a 22-year-old resi-dent of village Uchani. The relatives ofthe deceased have accused a girl's rela-tives of her murder. It is said that he hada love affair with the girl. Police have tak-en the body and kept it in the mortuaryfor post-mortem.According to the information, the de-ceased Sandeep was having a love affairwith a young woman. He was adamanton marrying the girl, but the girl's rela-tives were angry. Due to this, they hadgiven a complaint against Sandeep andhis relatives in Mahila police station sev-eral days ago, on which the police alsostarted investigating the case. Gharaun-da SHO Kanwar Singh also reached themortuary, where efforts were made toconvince the relatives and said that ac-tion would be taken to investigate thematter in depth, but the relatives areadamant on the first action.

Applications invitedfor new schemeKARNAL: Applications have been invit-ed from the resource person at the dis-trict level in PMFME scheme. interestedapplicants can submit their applicationnear ITI, Kunjpura Road in Joint DirectorDistrict Industries Centre, Karnal and de-partmental email Id can also be sent to.For more information, you can contactthe phone number 0184-2230592 and8929402238. This information was givenby Joint Director Manager District Indus-tries Center Janak Kumar. He said thatRs. 20 thousand per bank loan as pay-ment and 50 per cent payment will bemade after approval of bank loan and re-maining 50 percent will be made by unitsafter taking GST, FSSAI and industryregistration.

Police arrests abscondingcriminal in HaibatpurTractor theft caseMANMOHAN SHARMAHANSI: As per the instructions of Super-intendent of Police, in a special operationagainst the PO's, Bail Jumpers and crimi-nals, the Narnaund police has arrested acriminal in a tractor theft case, as part ofspecial campaign against the declaredcriminals. The arrested accused wasidentified as Bittu alias Kala son of Ra-jender, resident of Dayal Singh Colony.It may be recalled that the above men-tioned criminal Bittu was indicted in thecase for stealing a tractor harrow fromthe village Kapdo and Haibatpur in June2012, the court had declared him a crimi-nal on 16 September 2016, who hasbeen arrested by the Narnaund policeand produced in the court.

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3HARYANA7 students excel in NET JRF examKARNAL: The name of Karnal district was highlighted by 7 students in the NET JRF exam con-ducted by the National Testing Agency from the Commerce Department of Pandit Chiranji LalSharma Government College. In this exam, Rajat Garg topped the JRF exam. Principal of the col-lege, Dr. Rekha Sharma wished all the contestants well for their future. Shivani Sharma, Rimpi,Meenu, Sunny, Smriti Garg and Purshotam, who passed the NET exam, were given special guid-ance by Dr. Surendra Nagia to conduct research in the future as the new notification in 2021 im-proved the appointment to the post of professor in the college. Therefore, students should makeefforts to do research in universities located in Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Chandigarh. CommerceChanchal Chairperson Chanchal Rani and other professors Dr. Subhash Jaglan, Dr. KanwarjitMalik, Manisha Sachar, Sushma Rani and Sunita Chopra were present on the occasion.YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

BUREAU KURUKSHETRA, DEC 10

Kurukshetra University Teachers Association(KUTA) in RK Sadan on Thursday by Kuruk-shetra University Vice Chancellor Prof. A re-ception was organized in honor of SomnathSachdeva. Speaking at this program, ViceChancellor Prof. Somnath said that they willestablish Kurukshetra University as the Centerof Excellence. Under this, new courses andcourses will be implemented to bring about ar-tificial intelligence, skill development, self-re-liance among the youth. Kurukshetra Univer-sity will take meaningful steps to establish newdimensions in the field of research.

Pro. Somnath said that Kurukshetra Uni-versity is one of the oldest universities inHaryana. We will improve its financial condi-tion and work for its fame and gradation at thenational level for the coming financial year2021-22. For this, he called upon all teachersto contribute.

On this occasion, Dr. Sanjeev Sharma, theregistrar of Kurukshetra University said thatthe coming year is full of challenges for us, butthe teachers here will work to enhance the dig-nity of Kurukshetra University with their hardwork and dedication. He said that through thenew responsibility that I have got as the Reg-istrar, I will work for the Kurukshetra Univer-sity by placing the problems and demands ofthe teachers on priority basis before the Vice

Chancellor Dr. Somnath.Vice Chancellor and Registrar of Kuruk-

shetra University thanked the KurukshetraUniversity Teachers Association (KUTA) forthe reception.

Welcoming the Vice-Chancellor, KutaPrincipal Dr. Paramesh Kumar said that we arevery confident that the Vice Chancellor of Ku-rukshetra University, Prof. Under Somnath'sleadership, the university will progress inevery field. Kurukshetra University is one ofthe leading universities in the country. Theteachers of the universities have alwaysworked with hard work and dedication for itsinterest, due to which this is the position of theuniversity today. He said that the administra-tion's view of most demands of KurukshetraUniversity Teachers Association is positive.He thanked the Vice Chancellor for his posi-tive support to Kuta's demands.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, DEC 10

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Mr.Dushyant Chautala directed theChief Executive Officers of thestate's Development and PanchayatsDepartment to train representativesof the Panchayati Raj in modern in-formation technology to keep themupdated. He also directed to comput-erize the accounts of the panchayatsafter the general elections of thegram panchayats so that misuse ofpanchayat funds could be preventedand transparency is maintained in theworks.

The Deputy Chief Minister wasaddressing officers of Haryana De-velopment and Panchayats Depart-ment online after virtually inaugurat-ing the 'District Panchayat ResourceCentres' from Chandigarh here to-day. Principal Secretary, Develop-ment and Panchayats Department,Mr. Sudhir Rajpal, Director, RuralDevelopment Department, Mr. Hard-eep Singh and Director, HaryanaRural Development Institute, Mr.RK Mehta attended the programme

organized by Haryana Developmentand Panchayats Department underthe auspices of Haryana Rural De-velopment Institute, Neelokheri,from Chandigarh while the Chief Ex-ecutive Officers appointed in all theDistrict Councils of the state attend-ed online.

Mr. Dushyant Chautala directedthe officers of the department to or-ganize a training programme on theoccasion of Good Governance Day,on 25 December 2020, at the 'District

Panchayat Resource Centres', whichwere inaugurated today. He hopedthat these 'District Panchayat Re-source Centres' will give a new direc-tion to rural development in the state.

Mr. Dushyant Chautala also di-rected to set up one library each in allthe 'District Panchayat ResourceCentres' on the suggestion of theChief Executive Officers of the ZilaParishads, and the Haryana Rural De-velopment Institute to appoint twomaster trainers in each district.

On this occasion, Mr. Sudhir Ra-jpal gave detailed information aboutthe purpose of starting 'District Pan-chayat Resource Centres' and saidthat this will encourage the activitiesof training of elected representativesof Panchayati Raj Institutions. Atraining hall, computer-lab, 3 to 4rooms for seating of staff have beenmade in these centres, he added. Hesaid that one Principal each workingin the District Research and TrainingCentres of the Education Departmenthas been additionally appointed asthe District Training Coordinator inthe District Panchayat Resource Cen-tres.

Panchayati Raj representatives tobe trained in modern IT: Dushyant

KU will be center ofexcellence: VC

ROHIT LAMSERTARAORI, DEC 10

DC Nishant Kumar Yadav visited theancient fort located in the town ofTarawari. For the purpose of preserv-ing the present form of historical her-itage, he consulted on the spot withthe Municipal Engineer, Secretary ofthe local municipality and the headand members of the Karnal RajputMahasabha and also saw the site mapof the fort. It may be recalled that theRajput Sabha had met the Chief Min-ister in the past and demanded thatalong with repairing the historic fort,renovation of the Johar in front of it, astatue of Prithviraj Chauhan and lightand sound programs should bearranged in the fort. After this meet-ing, DC visited here today and afterlooking at the existing condition of thefort, said that the 900-year-old fortnow has its outer walls and two hugegates built in the north-south, retain-ing its archaeological significance.Whatever will be justified, will be re-

paired accordingly. On the question ofputting Park, Light and Sound and thestatue of Prithviraj Chauhan at the ex-isting Johar site in front of the fort'ssouth gate, he said that as per the or-der of the Supreme Court, no concretebody can be constructed in any waterbody or Johar. However, he assuredthat if a suitable place will be avail-able in any other part of Tarawari, thena decision can be taken to build a me-morial there.Prithviraj Chauhan, whose name hasbeen associated with this fort, was ac-tually Prithviraj III, who ruled from1178-1192, was the king of theChauhan dynasty and his capital was

in Ajmer. He along with MuhammadGhori, the ruler of the Muslim Gauridynasty, made several invasions andwon. Although Prithviraj was defeat-ed and taken captive by MohammadGauri in the Second Battle of Tarain in1192, he later died, which has manyopinions and mythological writings.The most popular of these is PrithvirajRaso, who presents him as a Rajput. Inthis famous book, Prithviraj is depict-ed as a great hero.

Current status of thefort:It may be informed that according tothe current status of the famous his-torical fort known by the name ofPrithviraj Chauhan in Tarawari, it nowcomes in ward number 1 under thecity municipality. A population ofabout 400 houses is living inside thefort's boundary. At present, the fort hasa strong boundary wall and two gates,ie only the entry gates are remaining,which identify it.

DC visits ancient fort, renovations begin

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI, DEC 10

A campaign to plant 125 saplingswas launched at Government Se-nior Secondary School Garhi Bir-bal. Senior BJP leader Ranbir Goy-al and Professor Raminder Kamboj,who arrived as chief guest at theplantation program organized at theschool, launched the plantationdrive by planting Arjuna's medici-nal plant. On this occasion, Princi-pal Bir Singh Rana told that today125 fruitful, shady and medicinalplants have been planted in theschool, including Arjun, Toon, Kadam,Neem, Guava, Peepal, Jamun, etc. mainlyat different places in the school premiseswith the help of staff and SMC members.Staff members have been engaged with thesupport of SMC members and philanthro-pists to make the school premises evengreener and cleaner. He said that throughcleanliness drives of the school, the edu-cational system and the wall paintingsdone in the school, a lot of information ispropagated. He appreciated various kinds

of informative knowledge in these ways.He said that other schools should also takeinspiration from this school and improvetheir systems, so that more students canget admission in government schools andmake their future bright. On this occasion,Shyam Lal, Shamsher, Subhash Chand,Rajesh, Brij Bhushan, Vedpal, Sukhvin-dra, Karmchand, SMC President SatishKamboj, Vinod Kumar, Anit, Baby, Mam-ta, Shaludin, Pawan, Sushil all supportedthe plantation.

125 fruit and medicinal saplingsplanted: Bir Singh Rana

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, DECEMBER 10

Additional Deputy Commis-sioner Veena Hooda said thatthe Pradhan Mantri FasalBima Yojana is a means tocompensate farmers for loss-es due to the risks associatedwith crops. This is to com-pensate the farmers for thesudden risks or losses due toadverse weather. If the farmerwants to take benefits underthe Prime Minister Crop In-surance Scheme, it is manda-tory to get his registrationdone by visiting CSC. Thelast date for application forthe Rabi season 2020-21 isDecember 31.

The ADC was talking tothe media on Thursday afterflagging off the publicity vanfor awareness of the PrimeMinister's Crop InsuranceScheme from the premises ofthe Small Secretariat. He in-formed that for the awareness

of the farmers, this van in thedistrict is located in the vil-lages of Karnal block Syed-pura, Kachhwa, Pudrak,Uchana, Darad, Ramba, San-goha, Makhumajra, Lun-doura, Rindal, Salarpur Jagir,Gheer, Bada Village, MughalMajra, Mahmadpur, Kunjpu-

ra , Naval, reached Budakhe-da and made the farmersaware. Earlier, this propagan-da van in dozens of villages inthe Indri block has also madefarmers aware. He instructedthe District Managing Direc-tor of CSC Vinod Sharma andAnkush Bagga to keep a close

watch on the registrationwork related to the PrimeMinister's Crop InsuranceScheme in all the CSCs. Ifany CSC operator is negligentin this work then legal actionshould be implementedagainst him.

ADC flags off publicity van

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, DECEMBER 10

Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadavhas instructed the officers of the district tocomplete the updation work of the familyidentity card at the earliest. For this camp atthe block level and in their offices have beenset up with a special counter. Apart from this,work of updating the family identity card(PPP) should be done in the offices on Satur-day and Sunday also.

He directed the officers to get their re-spective IDs and passwords from the NIC,and the PPP should be done by training theoperators. The Deputy Commissioner saidthat about 4 lakh families have been regis-tered in the district, out of which the data of2 lakh 28 thousand 847 families has been up-dated and the data of remaining familiesshould be updated by December 15 on thedesk board so that the benefits of the publicwelfare schemes of the government canreach the common man. This project is anambitious scheme of the Chief Minister, allthe schemes will be linked to this project, so

wear it in time, do not be negligent.He instructed the Municipal Corpora-

tion officials to expedite the work of PPP,by organising camps in each ward with thehelp of city councilors and the ResidentsWelfare Association and motivate morepeople to get cards made. He also instruct-ed all SDMs to set up special counters forPPP updation at Saral Center, Tehsil Officesand keep an eye on this work and take dai-ly progress reports. Similarly, the ExecutiveEngineer of Power Corporation, PublicHealth Department directed that theyshould also get trained computer operatorsin their offices to do PPP work and informpeople about the importance of this card.He also instructed the Controller of FoodSupplies to get PPP card updates done at allration depots. VLEs will be deployed fromNIC for this. ADC Veena Hooda, SDMSahil Gupta of Assandh, SDM Ayush Sinhaof Karnal and Indri, Dr. Pooja Bharti, SDMof Gharaunda, Estate Officer of HaryanaUrban Development Authority PradyumanSingh, Project Officer Sangeeta Mehta andother departments were present..

DC reviews family I-Card updationRamesh Chandra takescharge as DSP

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: After the transfer of Indri DSP Ramesh Ku-mar, the newly appointed DSP Ramesh Chandrahas taken over as DSP Indri. During the press con-ference after taking over charge, DSP RameshChandra said that wewill keep a special eyeon the border of theconstituency with UttarPradesh. Drugs willnot be tolerated at anycost.Drug users and drugdealers will not bespared. He said thatintoxication is diggingthe roots of our socie-ty. He said today'syouth is in the grip of drugs. Intoxication is not onlyan enemy of a human being but it is destroying thelives of families. It is very important to stop the ad-diction to take the youth in the right direction. He ap-pealed to the people of the area to stay away fromdrugs and cooperate with the police in overcomingthe drug, by informing the police about the peopledoing the business of the drug. That he should co-operate with the police in controlling crime.

Shahabad's girl wins goldmedal in singing competition

GOLDY CHUGSHAHABAD: At a veryyoung age, small girl Inaya hasmade Shahabad's name proudby registering first place in theChildren Festival. Giving thisinformation, Inaya's motherUrvashi Manocha and fatherKapil Manocha said that onlinesong singing competition wasorganized by Haryana State Child Welfare Council in Kurukshetra dis-trict. He told that after several rounds of proving her talent, Inayareached the final stage, where there were four contestants of this com-petition. Urvashi Manocha informed that in the final stage, Inaya en-chanted everyone by singing the English song 'Gods Love Is SoWonderful' and won the gold medal of this competition. Inaya'smother said that her daughter was fully prepared for this competitionand she confidently entered the competition. It is noteworthy that theresults of this competition have been announced about a few daysago. In the past, Inaya has won the online dance competition, poet-ry, drawing and singing competition organized by Manav Rachna In-ternational School Faridabad, Pelican Kids Play School New Delhi,Art Studios Chandigarh. The family is very happy with their daugh-ter's achievement, to which the parents Urvashi and Kapil said thatthe daughters are nowhere behind the sons today.

‘Quality educationneed of the hour’:MRSPTU VCBATHINDA (ANIL VERMA): NationalBoard of Accreditation (NBA) in associa-tion with Maharaja Ranjit Singh PunjabTechnical University (MRSPTU) Bathindaand Inder Kumar Gujral Punjab TechnicalUniversity (IKGPTU), Jalandhar jointlyorganised one day Awareness Webinaron "Outcome Based Education and Ac-creditation” for the affiliated colleges ofMRSPTU & IKGPTU on Wednesday.The programme was sponsored by NBA,New Delhi, where key resource personsshared their valuable inputs about latestknow-how in technical education and

NBA accreditationwith the partici-pants. While ad-dressing the webi-nar, the Chairmanof the NBA Prof.(Dr.) KK Aggarwalstated that a certifi-cation by the Na-tional Board of Ac-creditation is es-sential for everyeducational organ-

isation. It helps an institution to realise anumber of benefits such as knowing itsstrengths, weaknesses and opportuni-ties. He said that by the NBA accredita-tion, institutions turn towards innovationand become capable to adopt modernmethods. Addressing the webinar, MR-SPTU, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Buta SinghSidhu said quality of education is of para-mount importance and the goal of educa-tion should be enlightenment, empower-ment and entrepreneurship. He said thatacademic institutions are to producequality students by providing quality edu-cation to them. Prof. Sidhu pointedout that the country has made rapidstrides in higher technical education andthe number of universities in the countryincreased manifold, but the quality of ed-ucation is still an area of concern. Hestated that to assure quality in technicaleducation and transparency by accredita-tion, university aims to make it compulso-ry for all affiliated technical institutions toget accredited. IKGPTU, Vice Chancel-lor, Prof. Ajay Kumar Sharma also spokeabout various aspects of outcome basedEducation and Accreditation. Expert forthe day Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa, membersecretary, NBA referred to participantsabout the assessment methodology,guidelines, benefits, quality initiatives,Washington Accord Membership its ad-vantages and NBA’s future plan.

Injection mark onyouth’s body foundBATHINDA(ANILVERMA) :Farmers ofPunjab and Punjab friendly personalitieswill also have to launch an agitationagainst drugs as the youth of Punjab isdrowning in drugs. Hundreds of youngpeople have fallen prey to drugs. ManjitSingh a resident of Kotshmir was foundin a ditch with traces of drug injection onhis arm. Members of the Youth WelfareSociety Sonu Maheshwari took the bodyto the Civil Hospital for postmortem. Itlooks as if the young man has died dueto overdose as people also say that theyoung man was addicted to drugs. Policehave reached the spot and started inves-tigation into the matter.

Retd CID inspectorcommits suicide BATHINDA (ANIL VERMA): Retired CIDInspector Hardev Singh committed sui-cide by shooting himself with his own re-volver. Police have reached the spot andstarted investigation into the matter. Po-lice say a suicide note was recoveredfrom the scene, in which he wrote a storyof embracing his death, stating the causeof his illness and saying he felt lonely af-ter his wife's death. Hardev Singh's resi-dence is at 5th Street, Basant Vihar.Mohalla residents say that the son of thesaid inspector is a professor. The incidenttook place at night which was discoveredin the morning.

National Lok Adalatto be held onDecember 12 BATALA (VERMA): Punjab Legal Ser-vices Authority (PLSA) Acting ChairmanHon'ble Justice Dr. S. As per the instruc-tions of Mr. Murlidhar and under the guid-ance of Mrs. Ramesh Kumari, Hon'bleDistrict and Sessions Judge-cum-Chair-person District Legal Services AuthorityGurdaspur, Mrs. Rana KanwardeepKaur, Civil Judge (Senior Division) -cum-CJM. A National Lok Adalat is being or-ganized by all the Judicial Courts underSessions Division Gurdaspur on Decem-ber 12, 2020 in Sessions Division Gur-daspur under the guidance of the Secre-tary District Legal Services Authority,Gurdaspur.

IBSW partners with LPUASHOK KAURAPHAGWARA: The international educa-tional consortium headquartered in theUSA-International Business School ofWashington (IBSW) has partnered withLovely Professional University (LPU).With this prestigious collaboration, LPU isset to offer Indian students an opportunityto study in more than 5 campuses ofIBSW in USA and Europe.Additional Director Mr Aman Mittal atLPU’s Division of International Affairsconveys: “Having an initial focus on‘Fashion & Design’ before expandingto more subject matters, this associa-tion will provide Indian students of allbackgrounds with significant opportu-nities. This academic package hascarefully been curated by IBSW andLPU with the aim of maximizing stu-dents' career opportunities. Thus, atthe end of each graduating studentpromotion, it is to introduce highlytrained and skilled talent into the inter-national workforce.” In fact, the flexibilitythat allows the IBSW & LPU joint pro-gramme to adapt to students’ needs alsoprovides a variety of other available.

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4 PUNJABYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Patran police recoveres 100 Litres of Lahaan in raidJAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA : A police patrolling party of Patran police station in this district claimed to have recovered 100litres of Lahaan during a raid conducted on the house of the accused following a specific information.While providing details about the same the highly placed sources in the district police told here onThursday that the recovery was made when a police party headed by the Head Constable (HC) , RoopSingh during the routine patrolling exercise in the area later stationed near to T - point of Matouli road ofvillage Shutrana , here the police party got an specific information that in the Village Shutrana a personLabha Ram Son of Soma Ram is involved in open selling of Lahaan and now he is having huge quanti-ty of it and following the tip-off police party conducted a raid on Labha Ram's house and caught ac-cused Labha Ram along with 100 Litres of Lahaan.

Randhawa hands over appointmentletter to 11 asst managers of MilkfedGAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 10:

In the present time of COVID-19when the whole country is reeling un-der economic slowdown in the Indus-try and Service Sector, Milkfed isgrowing by leaps and bounds and ex-ecuting various projects to expand itshandling capacities. This was dis-closed here today by the CooperationMinister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawawhile handing over appointment letterto 11 fresh recruits in the field of Pro-duction, Quality Control & Procure-ment against the posts of AssistantManager. He also launched four vari-ants of Verka natural fruit ice creamson the occasion.

Divulging further, the Ministersaid that the recruitments have beenmade through Campus Interview atGADVASU Ludhiana. These officerswill be put on 2 year’s in-service train-ing and thereafter they will be ap-pointed as Assistant Manager in theirrespective streams, said S. Randhawa.

The Minister further pointed outthat development and expansion proj-ects worth Rs.254 Crores are underprogress at Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mo-hali and Patiala Dairies. Apart fromthis, Punjab Government andNABARD assisted Mega Dairy Pro-ject at Bassi Pathana with total outlayof Rs.138 Crores is likely to be com-pleted by June, 2021.

S. Randhawa further said that con-

trary to most of the ice creams offeredby the various ice cream brands usingartificial/synthetic fruit flavours, Ver-ka natural fruit ice cream has beenmanufactured from the finest naturalFruit Pulp and is delicious andhealthy. It will be available in fourvariant flavours i.e. Pink Guava,Strawberry, Litchi, and Mango at Rs.40 for 125 ml cup, added the Minister.

The Minister also revealed that re-cruitments to 125 posts have beenmade at Deputy Manager, AssistantManager and Senior Executive leveland in near future, Milkfed will initi-ate recruitment process to fill 540technical posts.

Emphasizing the quality controlaspect, the Financial Commissioner(Cooperation) K. Siva Prasad said thatthe leading institutions of the cooper-ative sector viz. Milkfed, Markfed andSugarfed have rendered yeoman’s

service in ensuring supply of essentialgoods to the people during tryingtimes of Covid-19.

In his address, the Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Vikas Garg dis-closed that it is a matter of pride thatthe SOHNA Honey of Markfed fig-ured among the 3 brands who passedthe stringent quality control measuresof the Centre for Science and Envi-ronment (CSE) which tested 13brands. Managing Director MilkfedPunjab Kamaldeep Singh Sangha in-formed that Verka had also launchedNatural Vanilla Milk last year. Forboosting the immunity of people, Ver-ka has launched the extremely popularHaldi Dudh recently, said the MDadding that for the convenience ofconsumers, the popular PIO has beenlaunched in new PP Bottle and isavailable at all major retail outlets andverka booths.

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, DECEM-BER 10

A webinar titled Skill Devel-opment in Punjab With Refer-ence To National EducationPolicy 2020 was organized byPU TIGR2ESS (Transform-ing India's Green Revolutionby Research and Empower-ment for Sustainable FoodSupplies) team. It is an inter-national research project leadby the University of Cam-bridge and funded by GlobalChallenges Research Fund.

Dr Sandeep Singh Kaura,Advisor Punjab Skill Devel-opment Mission, Governmentof Punjab was the resourceperson. Prof. Ramanjit KaurJohal, Principal InvestigatorPU TIGR2ESS, introducedproject PU TIGR2ESS andthe theme of the webinar.

Dr S S Kaura shared thejourney of Punjab Skill De-velopment Mission since itsestablishment in 2014. UnderPSDM initiatives, focus onskilling has been tremendousin urban as well as rural Pun-jab. Punjab is the first state inthe country to establish a Rur-al Skill Development Centre.For capacity building of Indi-an trainers, MoU can besigned with other countries.As a part of this; trainers fromIndia will undergo training to

impart skills required for theemployment sector of theconcerned country. Punjab isalready doing it with the UKand Alberta province of Cana-da. This will enable India toprovide a skilled workforceglobally and emerge as SkillCapital of the World. Punjabcan facilitate its aspirationalyouth to go abroad legallyand earn well and share theeconomic benefits through re-mittances back home.

Dr. Kaura elaborated thatNational Education Policy2020 will augment skill de-velopment initiatives ofPSDM by providing supplyof trainees from schools, ITIs,and higher education insti-tutes. Further, NEP 2020 canbring a much needed changein the mindset of Indian soci-ety as it integrates vocationaleducation at par with main-

stream education. It will alsohelp in bringing down thehigh dropout rate of youthfrom schools significantly.

He also apprised ofskilling of agriculture basedyouth in the State and how ru-ral youth clubs were enablingaccess to technology. Organicfarming is an upcoming fieldwhich is yet to gain populari-ty. He proposed that PSDMcan collaborate with teamTIGR2ESS to conduct re-search and promote organicfarming among Punjab’sfarming community. He en-couraged youth to volunteerfor rural skill development ef-forts.

The talk was very well re-ceived. More than 150 stu-dents attended the webinar.Dr Monika Aggarwal (Asso-ciate Prof. UIAMS) steeredthe discussion.

Govt to establish Rural SkillDevelopment Centre: Dr Kaura

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON, DEC 10

Social welfare organisation Lok Seva so-ciety held the silver jublee celebration ofthe organisation in the presence of chair-man Gulshan Arora, president LakeshTandon, secretary Charanjeet SinghBhandari and cashier Kanwal Kakkar. Inthe function conducted at SnehmohanHotel jagraon, the cake cutting ceremonywas performed by former MLA SR Kaler,Ranbeer Kaur Kaler and Rajinder Jain.The guests appreciated the organizationfor the social welfare organizations car-ried out by them in last 25 years and alsopromised every possible support to the or-ganization. In the program, the organiza-tion elaborated on the social weflare ac-tivities, blood donation camps, the servic-es provided by them during lockdown,medical camp and how they have beenhelping people for 25 years. The organi-

zation members Praveen Jain and RajivGupta conducted fun games for the mem-bers and gave away gifts to the winners.At this occasion, Sukhdev Garg, Kulb-hushan Gupta, Manoj Garg, VinodBansal, Neeraj Mittal, Manohar SinghTakkar, Madan Lal Arora, RK Goyal,Jaswant Singh, Sarjeevan Gupta, Ravin-der Jain, Amit Arora, Pravesh Garg,Praveen Mittal, Dr. Vivek Goyal and oth-er association members were present.

Lok Seva societycelebrates Silver Jublee

CHET RAM RATANNAWANSHAHAR, DEC 10

Accelerating development work in the ancientand historic city of Rahon, MLAAngad Singhinaugurated the construction of five separateroads today. These roads include Rahul PanditShop to Municipal Council Office RahonRoad, Bus Stand to Main Bazar Road, Kash-mir Singh Shop to Phillaur Road, Punjab Ma-chinery Store Machhiwara Road and Am-bexwara Temple is included. Roads to theMaghar Saini residence are included. Con-struction of these roads will cost more than Rs50 lakh. On this occasion, he said that no stone

will be left in the overall development of Ra-hon. MLA Angad Singh said that he has takeninitiative to build the city of Rahn and com-plete the necessary development works on awar footing and soon it will be made a modelcity. He said that under this, the roads here arebeing reinforced. He said that despite COVID-19, there was no stagnation in the developmentwork and all the development works would becompleted within the stipulated time. RajivSarin, Amarjeet Bitta, Mandeep Rana, SurjeetRam, Dharampal Bangar, Raman Kumar, RajuChopra, Sarabjit Shokran, Lady Sheena, Mas-ter Buta Ram, Ajay Kumar and other impor-tant personalities of the area were present.

Construction of five different roads showsall-round development: Angad Singh

AMRITPAL/DEEPAKMACHHIWARA SAHIB,DEC 10

A huge blood donation campis being organized at Sri GuruGobind Singh Stadium to-morrow (December 12) dur-ing the cricket tournamentwhich has been going onsince December 6 at Machhi-wara. Disclosing this here to-day Shiv Kumar Shivli, Pres-ident, Machhiwara Sahib So-cial Welfare Society said thatwith the support of HarinderSingh Pappi (UK) and his col-leagues, the blood donationcamp will run from 10 am to2 pm, in which a blood bankteam from Civil HospitalLudhiana is arriving to collectblood.

He said that all the prepa-rations for the camp havebeen completed in which theleaders of blood donors andsocial organizations of thearea were participating. Onthis occasion MachhiwaraYouth Welfare and SportsClub decided to give full sup-port to the camp including

Sonu Kundra, Darshan LalJain, Harinder Mohan SinghKalra, Deepak Kumar, NitinJain, Parminder Singh Gu-liani, Niranjan Sukham,Satish Kumar, Jagjit Mehra,Bhupinder Raju etc. He wasaccompanied by Gen. Secre-tary Amritpal Samrala, GaganMann, MD of Musclemenia

Gym Harpreet Singh Grewal,Pammi Pehalwan, Mr. PunjabBody Builder Vijay Sandhu,Kamal Gill, Harbans LalChanana, Lali Lubangarh,Rakesh Kumar, Bobby Grew-al, Jarnail Singh Jelly,Sukhwinder Sukh, PradeepBhoria and Sandeep SinghSonu were present.

Blood donation camp will be heldduring the cricket tournament

Rashtriya Kalyankari Parishadinstalls Corona Awareness hoardings

RAJINDER SINGHPATHANKOT, DEC- 10

Today Rashtriye Kalyankari Parishad Pathankot installedBoard Number 12 Hoarding at police Station Division NumberTwo in the presence of SHO Davinder Prakash to make peopleaware about covid-19 pandemic.By reading it, People will getrelief from the pandemic . Rakesh Sharma, Mahinder Rai Sai-ni, Dr. Vijay Jaswal, Dr. Janak Raj Sharma and Yashpal Maha-jan were present on the occasion. Parishad President RakeshSharma said that such Corona Awareness Boards are being setup all over the city. So that people can save themselves fromthis disease by reading the things written on it.

Radio Madhuban spreadsawareness on nutrition

RAJ SADOSHABOHAR, DECEMBER 10.

A special program of nutrition titled “Poshan ki Potali”has been launched by the Brahmakumaris through Ra-dio Madhuban 90.4 FM, to provide information aboutproper nutrition. The audience is apprised about the

prevention of malnutri-tion and various issuesrelated to it. The seriesis broadcast on Tues-days and Thursdays at11.30 am and 5 pm,while on Saturday andSunday the program isavailable at 3.30 pm.

Sector SupervisorKalpana Sharma, Krishna Product Head of Radio Mad-huban and Community Program Convenor held theprogram in the presence of ASHA workers and otherfield staff. As people in rural areas had been sufferingfrom malnutrition for a long time due to lack of aware-ness among the people, Radio Madhuban has startedthe program to diagnose it.

Station-head Yashwant Patil said that FM radio isrunning the program under the guidance of UNICEF ofthe United Nations Organisation and NGO Smart Mad-huban New Delhi.

DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR: Extendingthe development works in thecity under the Urban Environ-ment Improvement Program ofthe Punjab Government, theMinister for Industry and Com-merce Mr. Sundar Sham Arorainaugurated the work of inter-locking tiles in the Jain Colonyon Mata Chintpurni Road inthe local Ward No. That wouldbe completed at a cost of aboutRs. 12.57 lakhs.

The Industries Ministersaid that the Punjab Govern-ment was carrying out devel-opment works with the objec-

tive of providing uniform basicamenities to the people in everysector so that the infrastructureof different sectors could befurther strengthened. He saidthat necessary development

works were being carried out inevery ward of Hoshiarpur andmost of the works had been com-pleted in most of the wards whichwas a great relief to the people ofthe city. He said that apart from

street drains, construction ofcommunity centers, improve-ment of school infrastructure,construction of roads etc.,CCTV cameras would also beinstalled. Completion of cam-eras and other developmentworks has given a new look todifferent areas of the city. He as-sured that the pace of develop-ment work would not be al-lowed to slow down in futurealso and in view of publicamenities the Punjab govern-ment under the leadership ofCapt. Amarinder Singh wouldset new milestones of develop-ment in the state.

Sundar Sham Arora starts work oninterlocking tile streets in Ward No.1MK SHARMA

SULTANPUR LODHI DEC 10 :

At Government Cattle Pond (Gaushala) Ka-maalpur in District Kapurthala LivestockWelfare Camp was organized by the PunjabAnimal Husbandry Department under thedirection of Mr Sachin Sharma ChairmanCow Service Commission. This camp wasled by Deputy Director Animal HusbandryDepartment Kapurthala Dr. GS Bedi andwas inaugurated by Chief Guest SDM Dr.Charumita. On this occasion, Dr. Charumi-ta appealed to the general public includingnon-governmental organizations to comeforward for the care of the Gaudhan and saidthat this would help them to take proper careof the helpless cows on the roads by takingthem to the government Gaushalas. TheSDM said that the Punjab Government was

working to make the Gaushalas self reliant.RP Singh, Assistant Deputy Director, pre-siding over the camp, said that medicinesworth Rs. 25,000 were provided in thecamp. He told that Dr. Balwinder Singh, Dr.Ramesh Sharma, Dr. Lakhwinder Singh, Dr.Jaskirat Singh Tibba, Dharamvir Sharmaand a team of doctors administered gave an-tibiotics, nutrition, etc. to Gaudhan alongwith feed, medicine of stomach worms,bandaged the injured animals and also vac-cinated them for the winter season.

Medical camp organised at KamaalpurGaushala for the welfare of Gaudhan

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Dy Director Elementary Education holdsmeeting with principal, parentsPANKAJ KATNAUNA: A meeting was held between Devendra Chandel, Deputy DirectorElementary Education Una at Vashishtha School, the school principal andparents in which both sides presented their views. Deputy Director found thatwhile parents are going through financial crisis, on the other hand schoolsare also facing this problem. Schools have to pay for buses, installments,insurance. After much deliberation, it was decided on the advice of DeputyDirector that school will not charge transport fees from parents this year. Thisdecision will be valid for almost all CBSE schools in district Unna.

HIMACHAL/JKWebinar onInternational HumanRights Day heldJOGINDRA DEV ARYABANGANA: A webinar wasorganized on the occasion ofInternational Human Rights Day bythe NSS Unit and Political ScienceDepartment of Atal Bihari VajpayeeGovernment College, Bangana.Keynote speaker of the webinar, ProfSikandar Negi, Head of theDepartment of Political Science, saidthat human rights are fundamentalrights from which human beingscannot be deprived on the basis ofany other factor like race, caste,nationality, religion, sex. Allindividuals have inherent freedomand equality in terms of dignity andrights. In fact every person has theright to attain the standard of livingwhich is necessary for the health,welfare and development of him andhis family. Human rights include civiland political rights like right toequality and right to education, infront of economic, social and culturalrights. Human rights are related tohuman beings because of theirspecial existence, hence they arederived from birth and its attainmentdoes not inhibit caste, gender,religion, language, color andnationality. Human rights are alsocalled fundamental rights,andinherent rights. Poverty, starvation,unemployment, malnutrition,intoxication, planned crime,corruption, foreign encroachment,smuggling of arms, terrorism,intolerance, apartheid, religiousbigotry related to human rights, arethe planned elimination of evils.Because of this, poverty is thebiggest cause of human rightsabuses. Where there is hunger,there cannot be peace, hence thefight for human rights cannot befought without providing basicamenities by ending poverty. Today,especially the strong role of mediafor preventing human rights abuses,democracy, rule of law, the role ofthe United Nations and the existenceof equality is very important.

Ram Kumar Joshigets State Award

JYOTI SYALUNA: Ram Kumar Joshi, a residentof Bhatoli village of Una district, isworking in the government primaryschool, Jakheda asteacher in thepicture of Shri Ram, innumerableRam-Ram words have been usedby Ram Kumar Joshi. Ram KumarJoshi has written more than3.22,000 Ram words on both sidesof the postcard before writing in thestyle of writing for the last 35 years.He has written more than athousand Ram words on the grainof rice and made many records. Hemade a picture of Sri Rama whilewriting Ram-Ram 26 years ago. Inthis picture, about 4500 words werewritten when Ram Kumar Joshiplayed a national level competitionin Mumbai in 1994 in Khiladi TuAnari. More than three times 9 cmand more than 70 times the nameof the film was to be written. RamKumar Joshi was honored with theBest Teacher Award by AcharyaDevvrat.

Divyang Camp in Jamli Dham on Dec 15KISHORI LAL BAINSAMB: On the initiation of NarayanSeva Sansthan, a divyang camp willbe organized on December 15 atJamli Dham in Hamirpur. ItsHamirpur Branch President RaseelSingh Mankotia told that in thiscamp, artificial limbs will beprovided free of cost to thehandicapped. Divyang persons canget information about DivyangCamp at 70182-13061 and 94180-55162. Narayan Seva SansthanHamirpur branch met to make thecamp a success and provide morefacilities to the disable persons,which was presided over by RaseelSingh Mankotia. All the branchofficials attended this meeting.Mankotia further said that wheelchairs have been arranged fromthe road to the camp so that theDivyang should not suffer. He alsosaid that Hamirpur branch hasbeen working for the welfare ofdisables persons at state level since2004 and by conducting camps atdifferent places in the state,successful operation of about 700polio affected people has beendone at free of cost. And 1200Divyang have been given freesupport with the help of donors likeTricycles, Wheel Chairs, andBaisakhi. In order to make thiscamp a success, he has appealedto all the donors to propose theirsupport.

Jai Ram condemns attackon convoy of JP Nadda

SHIMLA, DEC 10

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurhas condemned the attack onconvoy of National BJPPresident Jagat Prakash Naddaon way to Diamond Harbour,West Bengal today to meet partyworkers for ensuing BengalVidhan Sabha Elections-2021.

Chief Minister said that thiscowardly act has vindicated thefact that there was no law andorder in Bengal and goonssupported by ruling TMC wereout to intimidate their politicalopponents.

Jai Ram Thakur said that itseemed that West Bengal ChiefMinister Mamta Banerjee has nofaith in democratic norms andwere resorting to unlawfultactics to remain in power. Hesaid that people of Bengal would

give befitting reply to thenefarious designs of TMC in thecoming Vidhan Sabha Elections.

BJP President JP Nadda'sconvoy was allegedly attackedon Thursday and several BJPleaders including KailashVijayvargiya were injured when

protesters pelted stones at theirvehicles at West Bengal'sDiamond Harbour.

"Mukul Roy and KailashVijayvargiya were injured in theattack today. It is a shame ondemocracy," Nadda said.

"There isn't a car in ourconvoy which was not attacked.I am safe because I wastravelling in a bulletproof car.This state of lawlessness andintolerance in West Bengal hasto end," Nadda said whilespeaking at a public meeting atSouth 24 Paraganas inWestBengal

BJP leader KailashVijayvargiya was on his way toSouth 24 Paraganas and allegedthat Trinamool Congress (TMC)workers pelted stones at hisvehicle at West Bengal'sDiamond Harbour.

Expresses griefover demise ofLalit SurjanSHIMLA: Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur has expressedgrief over the demise of GroupEditor, Deshbandhu newspaperLalit Surjan who passed awayrecently. Jai Ram Thakur saidthat contribution of Lalit Surjantowards rural reporting wasimmense due to whichDeshbandhu newspaper hadwon several awards in ruraljournalism at national level.Chief Minister prayed theAlmighty to give peace to thedeparted soul and strength tothe bereaved family membersto bear this irreparable loss.

HP farmers to intensifystir ahead of nationwide

protests on Dec 14UNISHIMLA, DEC 10

Farmer unions in HimachalPradesh decided to furtherintensify the protests against theCentre’s three agriculturalreform laws and strengthen theongoing agitation on the nationallevel after several rounds of talksheld between leaders of farmergroups and union ministersfailed to reach a logicalconclusion.

President of HimachalPradesh Seb Utpadak Sangh andCPI(M) MLA from TheogRakesh Singha while addressingmedia persons on Thursday saidthat Himachal Pradsesh KisanSabha, the largest farmer unionsin the state and other farmersunions decided to hold a meetingthis evening to coordinate on theintensifying the agitation.

Mr Singha said theprotesting farmers on the borders

of Delhi decided to block theJaipur-Delhi and the Delhi-Agraexpressways by Saturday, furtherescalating the stir to acountrywide protest onDecember 14.

''Farmers who are on roads inthe country against the threelaws brought to create amonopolised market afterdismantling the open marketyards of APMC and amendsection 20 of electricity act arevehemently opposed by thefarmers all over the country,'' hesaid. Now it is open to everyoneunder whose pressure the UnionGovernment is acting and towhom it want to benefit underthese farm laws, Mr. Singha saidthat farmer unions on thenational level have decided tofurther intensified the talk andalso garner support and involvedmore farmers in the agitationincluding apple and fruitgrowers.

Objectionable remarks on LordRam on social media goes viral

JOGINDRA DEV ARYABANGANA, DEC 10

The case of objectionable remarks madeby a youth on social media about LordRam in Bangana subdivision is not yetover. This case is going on very fast.Last day, Vishwa Hindu Parishadworkers submitted a memorandum to

the Bangana Sub Divisional Officer. Inthe memorandum, the social mediaaccused a teacher of the area of makingvulgar remarks on Hinduism. It hasbeen demanded to take action.Meanwhile, teacher has given anapplication against the worker ofVishwa Hindu Parishad in Banganapolice station for tarnishing his image.

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, DEC 10

After eating at a dhaba inPanjhra in Nalagarh, fighttook place between sons offormer MLA theirsupported and Dhabaoperator and his brother ondemand of payment.Brother of Dhaba operatoris badly injured, who hasbeen admitted to NalagarhHospital.

The police have startedinvestigating by

registering a cross case.According to police, theincident occurred lateWednesday.

The son and nephew ofthe former MLA alongwith four of his five othercolleagues stayed at theShere Punjab Dhaba inPanjehra for dinner. Afterthe meal, when it came topay the money, thesepeople started beating thedhaba operator and his son.At which the operatorcalled his brother Shera.

Shera told the policethat when he got out of thehouse after his brother'sphone, both brothers alongwith their companionsattacked his house withsharp weapons.

On the other hand,Jasvir Singh said in thepolice report that Amarjeetand Shera beat him withhis companions because ofwhich he has got injuries.DSP Vivek has confirmedthat cross case has beenregistered.

Fight over food money,case registered

Rajat Mankotia urges Centreto resolve farmers issue

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 10

Karni Sena state secretaryRajat Mankotia said that thefarmers of the country havebeen sitting on the streets forthe last eight months and thenational media and the centralgovernment did not even pay attention to them and todaywhen the farmers sit at the door of Delhi. He said that HomeMinister Amit Shah could not satisfy the farmerorganizations.When the law is for the farmers and the farmeris not happy then such a law has no meaning, he added. Theway the government is repeatedly telling this law in favor ofthe farmers, it will be an insult to all those elderly agitatorsand doing so will demoralize the country and democracy, itwas added. He said:If the government wants a healthydemocracy in the country, then the government shouldwithdraw this law soon.

Registration of new votersin Hamirpur from today

HAMIRPUR, DEC 10

With an aim to make cent percent youngsters to beready for casting their votes in the coming PRI andthereafter in the HP Vidhan sabha elections, theState election department has taken a lead and hasdecided to set up booths at all prominent bus standsof the state including that of the Hamirpur districtfor registering new voters. Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election officer, Debasweta Baniksaid today that all those youngsters who would beof eighteen years of age on January 1, 2021 wouldalso be eligible to get them enrolled as voters atthese booths. She said that the lists of all the five as-sembly segments of the district was available in theoffices of SDO(Civil), Tehsils and sub tehsils aswell as on 531 polling stations where polling wouldbe held next time. The DC appealed to the peoplewho have so far failed to get them registered as vot-ers to come forward and make full use of the facil-ities being provided to them at bus stand stalls.

Congress leaders fighting for supremacy withirresponsible statements: Virender Kanwar

KASHISH SHARMAUNA, DEC 10

Rural Development,Panchayati Raj, Agriculture,Fisheries and AnimalHusbandry MinisterVirendra Kanwar has saidthat the roster in theupcoming panchayatelections will be madeaccording to theconstitutional system and theAct. Reversing theallegations of the Leader ofthe Opposition, he said thatthe roster will be prepared ina transparent manner andthere is no governmentpressure on any officer.

Virender Kanwar saidthat the Leader of Opposition

should not just makeallegations, but giveevidence to prove his point.If he still feels that there issome kind of rigging inmaking the roster, then he is

free to go to court. TheLeader of the Oppositionshould trust theconstitutional, democraticand judicial system of thecountry. Just by issuing astatement, you cannot proveyour point among the people.

The voters of HimachalPradesh are sensible and arenot going to get into any kindof deception or baseless talk.That is why the people ofHimachal Pradeshcompletely rejected theBharat Bandh.

Voters are rejectingCongress across the countryand today the situation hasbecome such that the oldestparty has no leader nor anypolicy. Kanwar said that the

leaders are fighting the battlefor supremacy in theopposition Congress party.That is why in the race tobecome the best leader, theykeep issuing irresponsibleand baseless statementsagainst the state governmentevery day.

The sole purpose of hisstatements is only to garnermedia headlines. At first hehas been saying that the newpanchayats are just Shigufaof the government, but underthe leadership of ChiefMinister Jai Ram Thakur, thestate government has alsoconstituted new panchayatsand elections will beconducted in a transparentmanner.

4-day-old babyfound abandoned

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, DEC 10

An unidentified person left a four-day-old baby(boy) at the gate of a person from the village ofBadipur's lower Haripur Sandoli. This child waswrapped in clothes. As soon as the cry of thechild was heard, the landlord saw the child andinformed the police. Surprisingly, someonewith courage left such a small child. Stray dogsalso were roaming here, but God hardly wrotethe life of that child. The police came to the spotas soon as the information was received and thepolice first took the child into custody. Baddiwomen police took her to PGI to get the childcorona and medically tested. ASP NarendraKumar told that the police is being taken withCCTV camera. Someone had left the child atthe gate of Harmindra Singh's house. At first,his parents tried to leave but when noinformation was found, they handed him over tothe police. The police have registered a caseunder section 317. The police have beeninformed by the Child help line Solan. Soon thischild will be handed over to them.

Attack on Nadda politicalintolerance: Sumit Sharma

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 10

Bharatiya Janata Party's state media co-incharge SumitSharma termed the attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party'snational president Jagat Prakash Nadda during the WestBengal tour as a cowardly attack. He called it an attack onfreedom of expression. He said that today West Bengal issynonymous with intolerance. Those who talk of freedomof expression today have given up their ideological battleto remain in politics and are willing to stonepelting. Hecondemned attack and said that Mamta got frustratedbecsause of growing popularity of BJP in West Begal.

Sumit said that theBharatiya Janata Party'snational president JagatPrakash Nadda is set to expandthe party's work in all theprovinces of the country in thenext 142 days, in the samesequence, his convoy in South24 Parganas district on thesecond day of his visit to WestBengal today. 15 BJP workersincluding West Bengal in-

charge Kailash Vijayvargiya along with JP Nadda havebeen seriously injured in the attack by TMC workers. Hesaid that in the last one year of Mamta government morethan 100 workers have been murdered by Trinamoolworkers so far. Sumit said that today those who are beatingthe freedom of expression are not giving an ideologicalfight, but only to save their existence, they are showing thehallmark of the misconduct of their rule by continuouslykilling the BJP workers, including the convoy of BJPnational president. Sumit said that such attacks would notfrighten the national president of the Bharatiya JanataParty, nor spoil his enthusiasm as Nadda rose from suchstruggles from student life to reach the post of BJP nationalpresident on the basis of his diligence today. Sumit saidthat such a dastardly attack would further strengthen hisdetermination and hard work.

Patiala police arresttwo along with 10 Kgof poppy huskPATIALA: A police patrolling party ofPassiyana police station near here gota success in nabbing two personsalong with 10 Kg of Poppy husk in aNaka checking operation. The highlyplaced sources in the district policehere on Thursday giving informationabout the same told here that thesuccess was achieved when a policeparty headed by Sub-Inspector (SI) ,Harish Kumar from Patiala CIA Centreduring a routine patrolling exercise inthe respective area later stationednear to the T-Point of the VillageRandhawa and after putting up a Nakathere started checking of persons andvehicles passing through it. Sourcesfurther said that after some time theNaka party saw one Scooter movingtowards it but seeing police Nakariders of the Scooter try to reverse itbut in due course of time it got slippedand both occupants also fell on roadwhile noticing some suspicious activitypolice party run near to scooter No.PB-42-D--3655 and recovered onebag from the occupants of thatscooter, which they are carrying.During the checking of the bag 10 Kgof Poppy husk was recovered afterwhich said Scooter was impoundedand both the occupants, identified asBindar Kumar Son of Amarjit Singhresident of Garhi Mohalla of Samana,and Bachittar Singh Son of MohinderSingh resident of Village Kamaspura,were also taken into custody withregistration of a case in thisconnection. These sources said that acase under FIR No. 207 underSection's 15/61/85 of NDPS Act hasbeen registered against both accusedBindar Kumar and Bachittar Singh atPassiyana police station. Whereas afurther investigation into the case isalso said to be on.

Border town youthswrite slogans in bloodto support farmers

RAMESH KASHYAPFEROZEPUR: Three youths of bordertown Mamdot near Ferozepurexpressed their support by writingslogans with their blood in support ofthe protesting farmers. It looks likethere is no end for the protests insupport of the farmers over therepealing of three Farm Laws, who aresitting in Delhi for the last 13 days. Theunique protests had been witnessedurging the government to solve theproblem of the farmers. All talksbetween the farmers' outfits andgovernment have failed so far.Similarly, on Wednesday, three youthsof border town Mamdot near Ferozepur– Raju Narang, Ricky Dhawan andBaljit Singh - wrote the slogans – NoFarmers No Food in English, Jai JawanJai Kissan and Repeal three FarmLaws – in Punjabi, to express solidaritywith the protesting farmers andresentment over the attitude of theCentre government. Added here, on 27September 2020, President Ram NathKovind gave his assent to the three'Agriculture Bills' that were earlierpassed by the Indian Parliament.Farmers' Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion and Facilitation)Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment andProtection) Agreement on PriceAssurance and Farm Services Act, 2020and Essential Commodities(Amendment) Act, 2020.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Three more Corona deaths in Patiala, 63 new positive casesreported JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: The dreaded Novel Corona Virus disease 's infectious spread on Thursday took three morelives in Patiala district and took number of total Corona deaths in this district to 452. Whereas number oftotal Corona active cases in the district also touched to 450. On the other hand with reporting of 63 morenew Corona positive cases now number of total positive cases also touched to 15,114. Besides 41 moreCorona positive persons were today allowed discharge from the hospital and sent to their homes after twoof their latest consecutive tests came negative with this number of total Corona cured patients also goneupto 14,212 in this district. So far a total of 2,59,594 corona samples have been collected and tested inthis district out of these found 2,42,280 negative cases. The Civil Surgeon, Dr. Harish Malhotra whileproviding details about the same here on Thursday further told that today three more Corona deaths havebeen reported from this district.

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Vini Mahajan inaugurates in-line BaggageScreening System at Chandigarh Airport

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, DEC 10

Chandigarh International Airportin its endeavor to facilitate itspassengers, has upgraded itselfwith technological enhancementin the field of Baggage Handlingsystem with installation of In-line Baggage Screening Systeminformed Ms. Vini Mahajan,Chief Secretary Punjab after theinauguration of the newlyinstalled In-line BaggageScreening System here today.

Sharing the details it wasinformed that the In-line Systemwill reduce the baggage handlingtime to half with respect tostandalone screening. It canhandle 1500 bags/hr. With newsystem in place, passengers nolonger need to personally queueup for baggage screening.

The system is expected to aidhassle free check-in and save onan average 5 to10 minutes time

per passenger. The project hasbeen completed with a cost ofRs. 15.8 Cr and has beenintegrated with existing BaggageHandling system to providecomplete Baggage processingand screening system

Later, Ms. Vini Mahajan had

a glimpse into the new facilitiesat the Airport and thereafter helda meeting with the officials in theConference Hall and discussed atlength about the issues related tofurther development ofChandigarh Airport. ChiefSecretary also reviewed the

Incentive scheme for Airlines toconnect new routes/unservedroutes from Chandigarh Airport.Pertinently, Chandigarh Airportis first Airport offering suchincentive in Domestic Air Travel.The incentive offered is to thetune of Rs. 125 per embarkingpassenger up to 125 nauticalmiles and Rs.300 above the saiddistance, excluding GST to theAirlines meeting the laid criteria.

The inauguration was held inthe presence of Tejveer SinghPrincipal Secretary CivilAviation Punjab, PradeepKumar Agrawal ChiefAdministrator GMADA, GirishDayalan DC Mohali, AirCommodore Tejbir Singh, D.K.Kamra, Regional ExecutiveDirector, AAI, Northern Region(joined via video link) and AjayKumar CEO ChandigarhInternational Airport along withofficials of Customs/Immigration/ Punjab Police.

Task Force formed for COVID-19vaccination programme in Ludhiana

LUDHIANA, DEC 10

To formulate a strategy to conductthe first of its kind massive Covid-19 vaccination programme, thedistrict administration has set up a16-member district task force(DTF) for COVID-19 vaccinecommittee headed by DeputyCommissioner Ludhiana VarinderKumar Sharma. The committeealso comprises Commissioner ofPolice (CP) Ludhiana RakeshAgrawal, Additional DeputyCommissioner (ADCdevelopment) Sandeep Kumar,Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Baggabesides District ImmunisationOfficer, District ProgrammeOfficer, District Education OfficerElementary and Secondary, DistrictPublic Relations Officer,Monitoring and Evaluation Officer,

Representatives from IndianMedical Association (IMA),Nehru Yuva Kender, UnitedNations Development Programme(UNDP) and World HealthOrganisation (WHO), CommanderNCC and Coordinator NSS. Whileaddressing the first meeting held atBachat Bhawan here on Thursday,Deputy Commissioner VarinderKumar Sharma said that thevaccination process is expected tostart in coms

Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Baggainformed the DeputyCommissioner that the healthdepartment has registered names ofaround 15000 healthcare workersin the district and the process ofuploading the names ofbeneficiaries is underway.

Dr Bagga said that they have

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, DEC 10

Deputy CommissionerGhanshyam Thori onThursday asked the revenueofficers to develop a viablemechanism for facilitatingthe people by resolving thepending cases regarding thedivision of property at theearliest. Presiding over themonthly review meeting hereat District AdministrativeComplex today, the DeputyCommissioner said that therevenue officers must ensurethere was minimumpendency in such cases, so asto avoid any sort ofinconvenience to the people.He said that those caseswhere all the stakeholdershave already given theirassent for such mutual

divisions must be disposed ofon top priority.

The DeputyCommissioner said that anysort of laxity on part of theofficers in this regard wouldnot be tolerated at any cost.

He also asked the officers

to issue notices to wilfuldefaulters and expedite theprocess of recovery fromthem. The DeputyCommissioner said thatconcerted efforts need to bedone for recovering thesepayments from the defaulters

at the earliest.He also asked the officers

to adopt the humaneapproach for issuingdependent certificates to thepeople at the earliest.

Ghanshyam Thori alsoasked all the officers toensure timely submission ofreports sought from them. Hesaid that all the officersshould ensure that the reportsreach his office in theprescribed format within thestipulated time frame.

Prominent amongstothers present on theoccasion included AdditionalDeputy Commissioner JasbirSingh, SDMs Rahul Sindhu,Gautam Jain, Dr. Jai InderSingh, Vineet Kumar,Sanjeev Kumar Sharma andbesides several other officersof the Revenue department.

Human Rights Day at RBUSHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR, DEC 10

Dr Parvinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor ofthe Rayat Bahra University, here todaysaid that in view of the Coronaviruspandemic the traditional workplacesthis year had to undergo a tremendousshift to keep their employees motivatedfrom the comfort of their homes. Therehas been a marked shift in the waycompanies operate and some of thesechanges will continue to have lastingimpact in the post Covid era as well. Hewas speaking at a Seminar cum Webinarorganized at the Rayat Bahra Universityschool of law to observe Human RightsDay 2020. He said the pandemic had notjust forced employees to work remotely,but several companies have altered theirfunctioning to declare it a permanentfeature of their business models.Globally, companies such as Twitter,Facebook and Google have mandatedwork from home and would continuewith it indefinitely. Gurvinder SinghBahra, Chancellor Rayat Bahra

University, on this occasion, said thatthe theme for Human Rights Day 2020was relatable and in line with theCOVID-19 pandemic. The theme is“Recover Better - Stand Up for HumanRights”. It also aims to use human rightsstandards to tackle inequalities,discrimination and exclusion andaddress the failures exploited by thepandemic. He said the theme relates tothe COVID-19 pandemic and focuseson the need to build back better byensuring Human Rights are central torecovery efforts.

Resolve pending cases of property divisionat earliest: DC to revenue officers

JALANDHAR, DEC 10

Deputy CommissionerGhanshyam Thori todaycalled upon the officers toensure prompt completionof the ongoingdevelopment works underMember Parliament’sLocal Area Development(MPLAD) scheme.

Presiding over ameeting to review the paceof various ongoingprojects under the schemehere at DistrictAdministrative Complextoday, DeputyCommissioner said thatprojects worth severalcrores were in the pipelinein the district. He said thatthese developmentprojects pertaining toRural Development andPanchayat Department,PWD, Water supply and

sanitation, PSPCL, Sports,Health, MunicipalCorporation, and otherdepartments would givethe much-needed impetusto the overall developmentof the district. He said thatthe officers must accordtop priority to completionof these works to facilitatethe people in a big way.Deputy Commissioneralso asked thedepartmental heads in thedistrict to ensure the

completion ofdevelopment works at theearliest. He added the solemotive of issuing grantsfor these works was toensure that people couldbe benefitted from it. Hetold that any sort ofcallousness in completionof these works was totallyunwarranted andundesirable. He asked theofficers to immediatelycomplete the work andsubmit its utilization

certificates so that freshgrants could be issued topeople for developmentworks.

He also directed theheads of all departments topersonally supervise thedevelopment works so thatthe projects could becompleted in a given time.He said that stern actionwould be taken againstthose officers who fail tosubmit the UtilisationCertificate within 15 days.

Prominent amongstothers present on theoccasion includedAdditional DeputyCommissioner VisheshSarangal, SDMs RahulSindhu, Gautam Jain, Dr.Jai Inder Singh, VineetKumar, Sanjeev KumarSharma, and besidesseveral heads ofdepartment.

DC asks officers to ensure early completionof works under MPLAD scheme

Punjabi university employees andpensioners fail to get their dues

JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA, DEC 10

Even as on Thursday ongoingagitation of teachers , non-teaching employees ,pensioners and students ofPunjabi university here hasentered into its 100 th day butstill it fails to make any seriousdent as despite passing of 10days of the current monthneither the employees nor thepensioners have received asingle penny into theiraccounts. While decrying overit the Joint Action Committee(JAC) leading the protestagitation in the university saidthat it seemed that the stategovernment is not serious tosave this university from theacute financial crunch it wasfacing currently. They saidthat the university requires ahandsome financial grant of

about Rs. 400 crores plusenhancement in it's currentmonthly financial grant too sothat it will come out of thepresent quagmire. Here it ismentioned that the agitatingJAC has started a protestDharna in front of the Vice-chancellor 's office 99 daysago and tried to build apressure but as it exerted thepressure the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Bhura SinghGhuman gave up and put up

papers despite awarding of athree years second term by theChief Minister, CaptainAmarinder Singh. Dr.Ghuman fails in getting anyspecific financial grant fromthe state government to save itfrom collapsing and left it midway. After the unceremonialdeparture of Dr. Ghuman thestate government gaveadditional charge of theUniversity's vice--chancellorto a bureaucrat Additional

Chief Secretary, Ravneet Kaurto run its affairs. But in thismonth no salary no pensionwas released till, added JACleaders. Whereas addressingthe protest Dharna today JACleadership including Presidentof PUTA, Dr. Nishan SinghDeol, his Bice- President, Dr.Maninder Singh, formerPresident of PUTA ,Bhupinder Singh Virk,President of University'sPensioners Association,Gurcharan Singh and HariSingh Balloria, President ofUniversity's A- ClassAssociation, Gurinder PalSingh Babbi stronglycriticized the Stategovernment as well as thehigher authorities of theuniversity for not making anysincere attempt to save theuniversity and to bring out ofcurrent acute financial crunch.

RTA driving test remaineddown, residents irk

ANKUSH SHARMALUDHIANA, DEC 10

Once again the failure of system of Government Collegedriving test center highlighted today, when the serverbecome down in early morning in office. Due to this poorperformance, causing long queues of people outside. Publicalleged that Punjab government does not supervise the workof government employees, as a result of which theemployees either walk around under the pretext of shuttingdown the servers or keep the people in long lines. On theother hand whenever people have to talk to Ravinder, thein-charge of the department about the problem in thedriving test center, his phone allegedly found switched offor he do not pick up the call. People said that they requestedthe RTA Department high officials to look into the matter,but nobody is taking care of the genuine problem.

50,000 farmers and laborers on over700 tractor-trolleys to leave for DelhiKULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, DEC 10

Informing about the decision taken by theKisan-Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee Punjabin the meeting of the State Core Committeeheld on December 9 from 5 pm to 11 pm, theState General Secretary Sarwan SinghPandher said that a group of more than 50,000farmers from Golden Gate will leave forDelhi on December 11 at 7 am after payingobeisance at Darbar Sahib. Farmers andlaborers from Amritsar, Tarn Taran andGurdaspur will also meet on the Beas Bridge.A contingent of farmers and laborers fromFerozepur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Moga andFazilka districts would leave from Ferozepur.The two groups will meet at Doraha Mandi.The senior leaders will go to Delhi to takestock and announce the next decisions. Theleaders said that we reject the suggestions ofamendments put forward by the CentralGovernment. We completely repeal theagriculture law. We demand the enactment ofa law guaranteeing government procurementof all crops. Prime Minister Modi himself

should give up his insistence and call fordialogue and all the farmers' organizations ofthe country should be invited. Kisan MazdoorSangharsh Committee Punjab continues itsmorcha on Kundli border of Delhi under theleadership of Jasbir Singh Pidi, SukhwinderSingh Sabhra. Similarly at Jandiala Guru(Amritsar) the Rail Roko Morcha iscontinuing. Harpreet Singh Sidhwan, SatnamSingh Manochahal, who is leading the RailRoko Morcha at Jandiala Guru, has said thatthe government's divisive policies will not beallowed to succeed.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

Maha: Activist Trupti Desai detained on way to ShirdiPUNE: Police detained social activist Trupti Desai and some other members ofher outfit at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra on Thursday while they were going toShirdi to remove boards put up outside the Saibaba temple asking devotees todress in a "civilised" manner. Desai had earlier warned that if the boards carryingthe contentious message were not removed, she and other activists would go toShirdi and take them down themselves on December 10. On Tuesday, sub-divisional magistrate (Shirdi area) Govind Shinde, citing law and order situation,issued a notice to Desai, asking her not to enter Shirdi in Ahmedanagar districtfrom December 8 midnight to December 11 midnight. However, defying thenotice, Desai along with 20 other members of her outfit 'Bhumata Brigade' leftfrom Pune on Thursday morning to go to Shirdi to remove the boards at theSaibaba temple there.

7Innocent Hearts Group celebratesHuman Rights Day

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Innocent Hearts Group ofInstitutions organized a Debatecompetition on the occasion of HumanRights Day. Topics given to the studentswere: Is there a possibility of freeeducation for all? Should human rightsbe gender based? Happiness is moreimportant than money? Is democracy thebest political system to protect basichuman rights? Four teams wereshortlisted for competition. Thecompetition was an enthrallingexperience for the participants as well asthe audience. The judgement of thecompetition was done by Asst. Prof.Divakar Joshi and Asst. Prof.Purshottam from Management and HotelManagement Department respectively.

Apeejay Collegeorganisesinternational webinaron ‘Catch the Big Idea’JALANDHAR: The Department ofDesign of Apeejay College of Fine Arts,Jalandhar organized InternationalWebinar on the topic- Catch the BigIdea. The Resource Person of the daywas Budi Loonen, Senior Art Director atnoTomato Advertising firm, Breda.Principal Dr. Neerja Dhingra appreciatedthe spirit of Students and she warmlywelcomed the Resource Person. Sheappreciated the efforts of Rajni Guptaand Rajni Kumar for taking this initiativeand successfully organizing thisWebinar.

Free medical checkupand jersy donationcamp held

SUKH NAHARJAGRAON: CBC council welfare societyconducted free medical checkup andjersy donation camp at the premises ofSBBS Lahore Khalsa school. The campwas participated by social worker TehalSingh and chairman OBC cell SandeepKumar as chief guests. At thsi occasion,Dr. Rajat Khanna, Guru Kirpa Fizi Centreexamined the patients for free. Total 70patients benefitted frmo this camp. Thechief guests appreciated the society forconducting the camp efficiently and saidthat we should all contribute someamount in order to help the needypeople as good comes back to us indifferent forms. At this occasion, captainNaresh Verma, Charanjeet SinghBhandari, Desh Bhagat, Satpal SinghDedhka, Dr. Ramji Das and otherassociation members were present.

Prof. Goyal becomesLegal Advisor ofteachers union JAGRAON: Professor Varun Goyal fromLajpat Rai DAV college Jagraon has beenelected as the legal advisor of Punjaband Chandigarh college teacher union. Atthis occasion, college principal Dr.Parvesh Kumar and the entire staff thecollege congratulated professor Goyaland greeted him on coming to college. Atthis occasion, Goyal thanked the collegestaff for their wishes. He promised to behonest towards his duties and said thathe shall work hard in order to work for thebetterment of the education system. ProfGoyal said that he is thankful towards theadministration for providing him with thisopportunity. College principalcongratulated Goyal and said that thecollege is proud of him for bringing laurelsto them. At this occasion, prof VikasMahindirata, Prof PS Mitha, Dr. AnujKumar Sharma, Dr. Bindu Sharma, Dr.PS Bajwa, Dr. Kunal Mehta, Prof. RenuSingla, Prof. Kalika jain, Prof. Priyanka,Dr. Meenakshi, Prof Rohit Verma, Dr.Bikramjeet Singh, Prof. Hitesh Monga,Prof. Ajay Pal, Prof. Vishnu Kumar, Prof.Karanveer Singh, Sushma Kumari,Gulshan Kumar, Ishwar Deyal, HarjitKumar and others were present.

Covid: 31,521 fresh casesreported in last 24 hours

NEW DELHI, DEC 10

India's COVID-19 caseloadclimbed to 97,67,371 with 31,521fresh infections, while the totalnumber of recoveries surged to92.53 lakh, pushing the nationalrecovery rate to 94.74 per cent,according to the Union healthministry data updated onThursday. The death toll rose to1,41,772 with 412 new fatalities,the data updated at 8 am showed.The COVID-19 case fatality ratestands at 1.45 per cent. Thenumber of people who haverecuperated from the diseasesurged to 92,53,306. The activecaseload remained below 4 lakhfor the fourth consecutive day.There are 3,72,293 activecoronavirus infections in thecountry which comprise 3.81 percent of the total caseload, the datastated. India's COVID-19 tally

had crossed the 20-lakh mark onAugust 7, 30 lakh on August 23and 40 lakh on September 5.

It went past 50 lakh onSeptember 16, 60 lakh onSeptember 28, 70 lakh onOctober 11, 80 lakh on October29, and 90 lakh on November 20.

According to the IndianCouncil of Medical Research(ICMR), 15,07,59,726 sampleshad been tested up to December 9with 9,22,959 being tested onWednesday. The 412 newfatalities include 75 fromMaharashtra, 50 from Delhi, 47from West Bengal, 35 fromKerala, 26 from Haryana, 20 eachfrom Karnataka and UttarPradesh. The total 1,41,772deaths reported so far in thecountry include 47,902 fromMaharashtra followed by 11,900from Karnataka, 11,836 fromTamil Nadu, 9,813 from Delhi,

8,867 from West Bengal, 7,987from Uttar Pradesh, 7,045 fromAndhra Pradesh and 4,980 fromPunjab. The health ministrystressed that more than 70 percent of the deaths occurred due tocomorbidities. "Our figures are

being reconciled with the IndianCouncil of Medical Research,"the ministry said on its website,adding that state-wisedistribution of figures is subjectto further verification andreconciliation.

Arunachal logs 24 new cases, tally 16,641

Jharkhand reports 191 new casesRANCHI: Jharkhand's COVID-19 tally mounted to 1,10,830 as 191more people tested positive for the infection, a health departmentofficial said on Thursday. The death toll rose to 991 after three morepatients succumbed to the disease, he said. Two new fatalities werereported from Ranchi and one from Dhanbad, the official said.Ranchi district registered the maximum number of fresh cases at 97,followed by Dhanbad at 16 and Bokaro at 14. Jharkhand now has1,739 active coronavirus cases, while 1,08,100 people have beencured of the disease so far, the official said. The state has tested17,929 samples for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, he added.

ITANAGAR: Twenty fourmore people, including oneArmy man, tested positive forCOVID-19 in ArunachalPradesh, pushing the tally to16,461, a senior health officialsaid here on Thursday. Of the 24new cases, 15 were reportedfrom Changlang, five from theCapital Complex region andtwo each from East Siang andWest Kameng, StateSurveillance Officer (SSO) DrLobsang Jampa said. Twoinfections were detectedthrough True Nat tests and the

remaining 22 via rapid antigentests, he said. At least 17 of thenewly infected people aresymptomatic and have beenshifted to COVID Care Centres.Seven people were dischargedfrom hospitals on Wednesday,taking the total number ofrecoveries in the state to 15,697,the official said. The state'srecovery rate has risen to 95.35per cent. Arunachal Pradeshcurrently has 709 activecoronavirus cases, while 55people have succumbed to theinfection so far, the SSO said.

Prakash Javadekar asks govt agencies to collectively

fight pollution in Delhi

NEW DELHI, DEC 10

Union Environment MinisterPrakash Javadekar on Thursdayasked all government agenciesin Delhi to collectively fightthe pollution problem in thenational capital and called forstrict compliance ofConstruction and DemolitionWaste Management Rules andeffective dust management."Pollution in Delhi has to befought by all agencies together,then only Delhiites will getsome relief from it.

I request all agencies forstrict compliance ofConstruction and DemolitionWaste Management Rules andeffective dust management,"Javadekar tweeted. TheMinister also informed that theCentral Pollution ControlBoard has issued a freshdirective to various agencies inthe national capital for strict

compliance to regulations onmitigation of dust emanatingfrom construction anddemolition activities in theDelhi-NCR region. "The@CPCB_OFFICIALhas issueda directive to Delhi StateIndustrial DevelopmentCorporation, Delhi Jal Board,Delhi State PWD, DDA,CPWD, DMRC, NHAI &MTNL for strict compliance toregulations on mitigation ofdust emanating fromconstruction & demolitionactivities in Delhi NCR," theMinister said in a subsequenttweet. Earlier this month, theNational Green Tribunal(NGT) had directed all theMunicipal Corporations andlocal bodies in the nationalcapital region and other citieswith air quality 'poor' andworse, to take steps to ensuresprinkling of water beforesweeping of roads.

Shivsena decides candidates from different seats forMC, Zila Parishad, Panchayat elections: Rajiv MenonPANKAJ KATNAUNA, DEC 10

Shivsena Bala Saheb PartyHimachal Pradesh has announcedits candidates for some of the citycouncil and panchayat elections indistrict Una. Recently, Shiv DattaVashistha, the working president ofShiv Sena Party gave a bigstatement about the city council and Panchayatielections that Shiv Sena Party will play itsimportant role in these elections. Rajiv Menon,in-charge of Shiv Sena Party's District Una, saidtoday that the Municipal Council of District Una

will contest its candidates from WardNo 6,8,9 of Mehatpur Basdehra,while its candidates will also contestZila Parishad seat from RaipurSohda, Bahdala. He said that in thepanchayat elections, the party willfield its candidate for the post ofPresident from gram panchayatRaipur Sohda. He said that soon thecandidates of other places from

district Una will also be announced. District in-charge Rajiv Menon also urged the governmentthat if these elections were put forward in viewof Corona, the Shiv Sena party would fullysupport the Himachal Pradesh government.

Ranjit Singh supportsfarmers fight

CHET RAM RATANNAWANSHAHAR, DEC 10

Principal of Bhai Sangat Singh Khalsa CollegeBanga Ranjit Singh opposing the new agriculturallaws implemented by the central government hassupported struggling farmers. After the prayer,Drs. Ranjit Singh said that all the three lawsimplemented by the Central Government were notin favor of the farmers. He said that the farmer wasthe donor of the country who worked day and nightto produce food grains and fed everyone. He saidthat the central government should repeal thesethree black laws and remove the doubts of farmers.

Self-employment fair to beheld on Dec 11 at Rayya

KULJIT SINGHAMRITSAR, DEC 10

Under the door-to-door employment mission of the PunjabGovernment, the District Employment and Business Bureau,Amritsar organized the second employment fair at the BDPOoffice, Jandiala Guru. Disclosing this here today AdditionalDeputy Commissioner (Development) said that about 150 can-didates participated in this fair. Out of which applications of40 candidates were accepted on the spot and loans were pro-vided. The Self Employment Fair was attended by the repre-sentatives of Government / Private Banks and all the depart-ments related to self employment in Amritsar district. DeputyDirector Employment Vikramjit said that Amritsar adminis-tration in collaboration with LDM has provided loans to about3750 candidates during the month of October and November.He also informed that the next self employment fair would beheld on December 11, at BDPO office, Raiya.

DEO takes review meeting of ongoingdevelopment works in primary schools

SHARANJEETPATHANKOT, DEC 10

Under the leadership of DistrictEducation Officer ElementaryEducation Baldev Raj , the meetingof district groups BPEO, CHT andpadho punjab ,padhao punjab teamwas conducted for the ongoingdevelopment works in schools.Vineet Mahajan, Sanjeev Mani,Rakesh Thakur, Kuldeep Singh, TilakRaj, Risman Devi, Vijay Kumar,Vijay Singh and Balkar Attri werespecially present in the meeting.While addressing the meeting,District Education OfficerElementary Baldev Raj and DeputyDistrict Education Officer RameshLal Thakur said that the department is

leaving no stone unturned to changethe shape of schools. For this, theprincipals of the schools shouldspend the grant being sent by thedepartment ,according to thedepartmental rules. Smart schoolparameters have been set by thedepartment for grading schools.Asthe parameters of Smart School

Stage-1 have been completed by theschool principals, the parameters ofStage-2, which have been decided bythe department, should also befulfilled with the same enthusiasm.The mission has been started 100percent by the department to motivatethe teachers to have a relationshipwith the parents to run it smoothly.

Building Thekedar Associationprotests against new farm lawsSUKH NAHARJAGRAON, DEC 10

Building thekedar association regd 133 andRangharia welfare council and GurudwaraVishwakarma mandia Raikot road committeestaged a protest march in support of thefarmers protesting against the new farm law.Building thekedar association presidentGursevak Singh Mallaha nd patron JagdevSingh Matharu said that the governmentshould take back the new farm lawsimmediately and understand the concern of theprotesting farmers. They stated that these lawsare a big threat to the agricultural field. Theyalso stated that the government is there is orderto look after its citizens but the modigovernment looks determined to ruin the

future of its citizens. They extended completesupport to the farmers protesting against newfarm law and said that the government needs todismiss the laws or the protests shall be carriedout at a greater pace. At this occasion,association members including Jagdev SinghMatharu, Gurdev Singh Mallah, Balveer singhsivia, Jinder Singh Sihra, Inder singh Rehaland others were present.

Six child labourers rescued fromhand tool factory in Wariana

PRITPAL SINGHJALANDHAR, DEC 10

Continuing its drive toeliminate child labourmenace, a team ofadministration on Thursdayevening rescued six childlabourers including a girlfrom a Hand Tools Factory in Wariana, Leather Complex onJalandhar-Kapurthala road. Acting on a tip-off from an NGO, ateam headed by SDM-II Rahul Sindhu accompanied by policeforce reached the factory HK Forging in Wariana, LeatherComplex on Jalandhar-Kapurthala road. Disclosing the details,SDM Rahul Sindhu said that a total of six children were rescuedfrom the unit. He said that the rescued children have been takento Gandhi Vanita Ashram and would be produced before theChild Welfare Committee. He said that a team of medicaldoctors has been set up to examine the children and later wouldbe shifted to protection homes as per guidelines.

PAGE8 OPINION

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey

EDITORIAL India needs more than laws

to stamp out farm fireshe Indian capital, Delhi’s air pollution, has turned from low to severe over the course of the Diwali Tweekend due to the burning of crop stubbles in

nearby states and people bursting crackers in violation of a Delhi state government ban. While the festival of lights inevitably brings the problem of smoke and ash spewed by crackers, the bigger worry is that of farm fires — a phenomenon that has been gradually choking the national capital even though the vehicle load has somewhat eased because of Covid. The problem of crop stubble burning is hurting our society in multiple ways. It virtually buries Delhi under a cloud of haze every year, as well as destroys beneficial soil bacteria. Thousands of tons of paddy straw, convertible to green fuels or manure, simply go up in smoke. Follow NewsGram on Facebook to stay updated. The recurring administrative paralysis has now put the ball in the Supreme Court’s domain. Indeed this is one situation that requires wisdom, sagacity, and stringent action for the benefit of society. Burning crop residue is a crime under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code and the Air and Pollution Control Act of 1981. On December 10, 2015, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had banned crop residue burning in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab where the practice is prevalent. In M.C. Mehta vs Union India, (Order in IA Nos.158128 And 158129 of 2019 In Writ Petition (C)No.13029 Of 1985), the Supreme Court had asked the governments of Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh to stop their farmers from stubble burning immediately. It has also warned that their entire administrative and police hierarchy, from the Chief Secretary to the sarpanch to the local policeman, will be held responsible even if one instance of stubble burning occurs in the future.The apex court held state governments responsible for stubble burning and said that instances of stubble burning would be penalized. It has made the local and civic bodies as “personally responsible” as the errant farmer who puts fire to his crop residue, putting in effect the ‘Polluter Pays Principle.’Stick alone won’t be effective But wielding the stick alone won’t work. Only this week, the number of farm fire incidents in Punjab crossed an all-time high of 73,000. That too, within days of First Information Reports being lodged against farmers and arrests being made in adjoining states of Delhi. A solution to this complicated rigmarole requires, besides political will, sincerity and earnestness for the sake of everybody’s health.

POEMSRhapsody on

a Windy Nightwelve o'clock.Along the reaches Tof the street

Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantationsDissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations,Its divisions and

precisions. Every street lamp that I passBeats like a fatalistic drum,And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memoryAs a madman shakes a dead geranium Half-past one,The street-lamp sputtered,The street-lamp muttered, The street-lamp said, "Regard that womanWho hesitates toward you in the light of the door Which opens on her like a grin.You see the border of her dressIs torn and stained with sand, And you see the corner of her eyeTwists like a crooked pin." The memory throws up high and dryA crowd of twisted things;A twisted branch upon the beach Eaten smooth.

BY:- T. S. Eliot

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lthough weight loss control group for 11 months. The surgery is a highly exercise group performed a high Aeffective treatment for impact, balance, and resistance

obesity, it can be detrimental to exercises three times per week.bone health. A new study Twelve months after surgery,

participants in the exercise group had higher bone mineral density measurements at the lumbar spine and the forearm compared with those in the control group. Also, participants who attended at least half of the exercise sessions had higher bone mineral density at the femoral neck than those in the control group. "These findings showed that a structured exercise program may be a valid treatment option to minimize weight loss surgery-induced bone loss, which may be published in the Journal of Bone particularly important since many and Mineral Research suggests patients undergo surgery in early that exercise may help address adulthood or even at pediatric this shortcoming.ages," said lead author Florencio The study randomised 84 Diniz-Sousa, MSc, of the patients undergoing weight loss University of Porto, in Portugal.surgery to an exercise group or a

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oung adults who increased their initial depression did not lead to any comparison may also underlie these use of social media were change in social media use," added findings.Ysignificantly more likely to develop Primack. "Social media is often curated to

depression within six months, according In 2018, Primack and his colleagues at emphasise positive portrayals," said to a new national study authored by Dr the University of Pittsburgh sampled Jaime Sidani, assistant professor of Brian Primack, dean of the College of more than 1,000 U.S. adults between 18 medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Education and Health Professions and to 30. and co-author of the study.professor of public health at the They measured depression using the "This can be especially difficult for young University of Arkansas. validated nine-item Patient Health adults who are at critical junctures in life Compared with participants who used Questionnaire and asked participants related to identity development and feel less than 120 minutes per day of social about the amount of time they used that they can't measure up to the media, for example, young adults who social media on platforms like impossible ideals they are exposed to," used more than 300 minutes per day Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Sidani added.were 2.8 times as likely to become and SnapChat. The findings are of particular importance depressed within six months. Their analyses controlled for given that depression was recently The study, which will be published online demographic factors like age, sex, race, declared to be the leading global cause December 10 and is scheduled for the education, income and employment, of disability by the World Health February 2021 issue of the American and they included survey weights so the Organization and accounts for more Journal of Preventive Medicine, is the results would reflect the greater U.S. disability-adjusted life years than all first large, national study to show a link population. other mental disorders.between social media use and "One reason for these findings may be "These findings are also particularly depression over time. that social media takes up a lot of time," important to consider in the age of "Most prior work in this area has left us said Dr. Cesar Escobar-Viera, assistant COVID-19," Primack said.with the chicken-and-egg question," said professor of psychiatry at the University "Now that it's harder to connect socially Primack. of Pittsburgh and co-author on the study. in person, we're all using more "We know from other large studies that "Excess time on social media may technology like social media. While I depression and social media use tend to displace forming more important in- think those technologies certainly can be go together, but it's been hard to figure person relationships, achieving personal valuable, I'd also encourage people to out which came first. This new study or professional goals, or even simply reflect on which tech experiences are sheds light on these questions, because having moments of valuable reflection," truly useful for them and which ones high initial social media use led to added Escobar-Viera. leave them feeling empty," added increased rates of depression. However, The authors suggest that social Primack.

Increased social media use linkedto developing depression

handigarh ,--At the 17th Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Global SME Business Summit,Amazon.in and CII signed a CMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bring the benefits of

ecommerce to micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in 10 states across India. Amazon.in and CII will work closely with the Ministry of MSME to enable lakhs of MSMEs across these states to leverage technology to reach customers in India and globally. In January 2020, Amazon.in had made three key announcements – digitizing 10 million MSMEs; enabling $10 billion in ecommerce exports and creating 1 million jobs – by 2025.Amit Agarwal, Senior VP and Country Head, AmazonIndia said,“We remain committed to enabling and equipping MSMEs across India with the right knowledge, tools and technology to build and scale their business in India and globally. This commitment is more important than ever as we continue to work with lakhs of sellers, delivery partners and other MSMEs, helping them revive and grow their business with Amazon. As we continue to work closely with the government on this important agenda, our collaboration with CII will help bring more and more MSMEs online, help them be part of the growing digital economy and create newer business opportunities for them.” Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII said, “The pandemic has made apparent the role that technology will play through meaningful interventions. Given the rapid shift towards adoption of digital solutions, it is necessary for MSMEs to receive the information and support that will aid in their digital transformation.

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Nokia will launch an Android 10 (Go edition)-powered smartphone on December 15 in China, the company shared on Chinese microblogging website Weibo. This will be Nokia's first phone for the Chinese market running the lightweight version of Android 10 OS. The post does not come with any specifications for the phone or even its name, but it would be interesting to see what workaround Nokia has used to bring the Google apps-powered OS to China. Nokia is going to unveil a new smartphone, presumably a budget-friendly one, running Android 10 (Go edition) in China on December 15. The company shared the development through a post on Weibo that does not carry much except the text “#NokiaFL# is purer and more concise!” (translated). This will be the first Nokia smartphone running Android 10 (Go edition) in China. Android 10 (Go edition) depends on Google apps for mail, maps, voice assistance, and more. Since Google apps do not work in China, Nokia may have found some workaround to bring Android 10 (Go edition) to the country.

Nokia Smartphone With Android 10 to Launch on December 15

handigarh : Setting the tone for some path-breaking innovations, OPPO, the global smart device brand, Crecently revealed some exciting concepts to inspire

forward-looking minds which will help bring alive an integrated smart life to users worldwide. Here’s a quick look into OPPO’s vision for a future of technological exploration :-OPPO AR

Glass 2021 which fully manifests the “leap” in OPPO’s exploration of the digital worldis the b r a n d ’ s l a t e s t exploration in the field of AR. OPPO AR Glass 2021 features d iverse sensors , including a stereo fisheye camera, one ToF sensor, and one RGB camera. They can not only support a number of natural

interactions, including interactions via smartphone, gesture-based interactions, and spatial localization but also complete the three-dimensional spatial localization calculation within milliseconds, achieving precise localization.

NSDC partners with BYJU’s to support skilling of teachers

and trainers

Oppo reveals an exciting Future for tech enthusiasts

handigarh: The book, written by Ashim Khetarpal, was released by the temple committee and eminent litterary Cpersonalities, Prem Vij, Ashok Bhandari of Bhandari

Adbi Trust and famous theater artist /Vijay Kapoor and secretary of temple committee Manish Gupta and manager Subhash. In the book Sai Vubhuti, the importance of Sai Vibhuti and Vibhutis devotional effects on devotees and countless miracles are mentioned in detail.

HANDIGARH: BYJU’S, India’s largest EdTech company, today Csigned a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), to support the skilling of teachers and trainers. Sharing a vision to accelerate Skill India Mission, the partners aim at empowering teachers and trainers with the key skills and digital tools to make learning engaging, effective and personalised for children and youth. Speaking on the partnership, Byju Raveendran, Founder & CEO, BYJU’S, said, “At BYJU’S, our overarching goal has always been to make quality content accessible for students and provide teachers with the right content to foster the best learning outcomes for students across the country. We are delighted to partner with NSDC, a proven force that has contributed immensely to the skilling needs in India. This association will further the Digital India vision and boost online learning that has become an integral part of mainstream learning now. This collaboration will go a long way in empowering teachers and trainers and help them succeed in a digital economy.”Commenting on the collaboration, Dr.

handigarh: :Small time sub-broker Romanchak wanted his dull, run of the mill life to be “romanchak” but little did he know Cthat marrying Shivani Bhatnagar would change life as he knew

it, forever! Naveen Kasturia as Romanchak and Adah Sharma as Shivani are ready to leave the audiences in splits with the 6 episodic MX Original Series - ‘Pati Patni Aur Panga’, which advocates you to be yourself, no matter what they say. The series will stream for FREE,

starting 11 December, exclusively on MX Player. Be it any part of the world, there has always been certain stereotypes and judgements that have clouded the society, especially when it comes to gender: Women can’t drive,

men can’t wear pink, boys don’t cry, girls must cook,and the list is endless. But what society still doesn’t get is what a woman (really) wants -such is the case of this ‘Pati Patni aur Panga’ as well. Written and directed by Abir Sengupta, this comedy drama explores what happens when a simple hunt for an apartment ends up in marriage, only for Romanchak to find himself stuck in a situation when he discovers a life altering secret about his wife, Shivani.

handigarh : Users can now easily enjoy the vast multilingual and multi-genre library of CHungama Music, one of the leading music

streaming services in the country, on Google Assistant. Accessible through simple voice commands on Google Assistant on supported smartphones and on Google Nest smart speakers, the feature will enable consumers to ask their Google Assistant to play individual tracks, playlists, albums, songs of specific artists, from genres or for occasions and festivals. Using voice commands to play music gives users the freedom to continue with their work without having the need to manually select or change their music on their devices.Users can explore Hungama Music’s library of over 15 million songs in 20+ Indian and international languages by linking their Hungama Music account from the Google Home app. They can also make Hungama Music their default music streaming service, eliminating the need to specify the music service name when asking Google Assistant. Once activated, listeners can use commands like “Okay Google, play Diwali songs on Hungama Music” or “Okay Google, play Channa Mereya on Hungama Music”, or “Okay Google, play Bollywood Top 40 on Hungama Music”, and so on to listen to their preferred music.

Listening to your favourite music now gets even easier!

Ather Energy now in Chandigarh

Hotstar Specials presents Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors

handigarh : After the runaway success of Criminal Justice last year, CHotstar Specials is set to launch the

next chapter in the franchise titled Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors. One of India’s most loved characters Madhav Mishra returns for what is deemed as the toughest case of his career. The prime accused Anu Chandra has confessed to stabbing her husband, an eminent lawyer - Bikram Chandra and is guilty in the eyes of law. While many believe it to be an open-and-shut case, Anu’s subsequent silence and unwillingness to defend herself begs the question - is there more to the case than what meets the eye? With a bold and unexpected narrative, it seeks to find the truth and raises some pressing questions.Reprising their roles in the show are actors Pankaj Tripathi - who effortlessly brings to life the character of Madhav Mishra, and AnupriyaGoenka as Nikhat Hussain - his unlikely partner in the case.

Shirdi Sai Baba Foundation's book Sai Vibhuti released in Sai temple

handigarh: Data compiled by EdTech start-up Teachmint, which is helping educators launch their digital teaching Cpractice, shows pan-India traction from teachers . Online

classes are no longer a Covid-19 pandemic triggered compulsion, but are fast getting mainstream led by the Indian teaching community thereby establishing that personalized instructor lead EdTech is a far bigger opportunity in India. 25% new enrollments are from metro towns while 75% from tier 2 and tier 3 towns in multiple Indian languages, data revealed. In fact the shift today is being led by 1000 Indian towns ranging from Srinagar to Port Blair and Jaisalmer to Dibrugarh with 75% of all enrolments emanating from Tier 2 and below towns and villages. In fact bBuoyed by the multiple benefits of teaching online, the vast informal Indian teaching and tutoring community is rapidly moving beyond vanilla video solutions to adopt full-service digital teaching solutions. Mihir Gupta, co-founder and CEO, Teachmint said that as India moves towards the future of education, it is looking more and more likely that online learning is the way forward. We aim to strike the right balance for tutors by enabling teachers with the right digital tools for each tutor to run their classes in a manner that is best suited to them and highlights their unique method of imparting education to their students.

Mulan’s director Niki Caro reveals what makes the film’s action sequences unique

handigarh : Acclaimed filmmaker Niki Caro brings the epic tale of China’s Clegendary warrior to life in Disney’s

“Mulan,” in which a fearless young woman risks everything out of love for her family and her country to become one of the greatest warriors China has ever known. Mulan features a celebrated international cast Yifei Liu (Mulan), Donnie Yen (Commander Tung); Tzi Ma (Zhou), Jason Scott Lee (Böri Khan), Yoson An (Honghui), Ron Yuan (Sergeant Qiang) with Gong Li (Xianniang) and Jet Li (Emperor). It is directed by Niki Caro from a screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Lauren Hynek & Elizabeth Martin, suggested by the narrative poem “The Ballad of Mulan.” The movie is slated for release on 4th December 2020 in English on Disney+ Hotstar Premium and in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on Disney+ Hotstar VIPSpeaking about the explosive action and epic stunt sequences in Mulan, director Niki Caro said.

Microsoft announces Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux in India

HANDIGARH: Microsoft has announced the general availability of its CAzure Hybrid Benefit solution for Linux

customers across India. It helps customers seamlesslymigrate to on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machines (VMs) to Microsoft Azure. The solution enables significant reduction in cost of running workloads on-the-cloud by converting existing PAYG (pay-as-you-go) virtual machines (VMs) to bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) billing. In the new normal, it is challenging for businesses to adjust their strategies to maintain productive operations and processes. Businesses face challenges in migrating workload to public cloud due to regulatory and data sovereignty related issues. This is common in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government. Also, some workloads, especially those related to edge, require low latency. Additionally, many organizations have significant on-premises investments that they want to maximize so they choose to modernize on-location datacenters.

Digital classes instrumental in spreading quality education in farthest corners: Data

bearing joints like hips, knees, and ankles are subjected to extra strain. By losing extra kilos and maintaining your weight, you take the stress off your joints and also reduce the risk of causing damage to joints.Leading a sedentary lifestyle can negatively impact your joints. To protect them from damage and to keep them strong and healthy, keep moving. Bear these points in mind:- Avoid sitting in the same position for long and move around often.- Perform low-impact exercises like walking, cycling, swimming, and stretching.- Apart from weight-bearing exercises like walking and running, add strength training to your workout routine too.- Wear protective gear when exercising so as to not damage joints.- If you’re getting started with

our joints are important for sources of calcium are green, leafy exercising for the first time or after a

maintaining mobility, allowing vegetables.long gap of inactivity, remember to take

you to walk, run, jump, and in Also eat healthy fats to keep joints Y it slow.general, help you move all your body lubricated. Turn to fatty fish like salmon

- Always use the right posture when parts freely. As such, taking your joint and tuna, nuts and seeds like almonds,

exercising to prevent added stress on the health for granted is an absolute no. If walnuts, flax seeds and chia seeds, fruits

joints and to reduce risk of injury to you’re looking to strengthen your joints, like avocado, and olive oil! Other foods

surrounding muscles. Be mindful of start with these simple lifestyle changes. to include in your diet are bone broth,

your posture at all times, and especially Load up on calcium and vitamin D to whole grains, root vegetables, colourful

careful when carrying or lifting heavy keep bones strong. Dairy products are fruits, and beans and lentils.

objects.packed with calcium but other good When you’re overweight, weight-

Vivek Mehra said, "We are really proud of the farmers of our country and wholeheartedly support their ongoing protest for their legitimate rights. Their determination of protesting on the roads in the cold Delhi weather is truly admirable."Mehra added, "I have admitted my father in the hospital as he's to undergo a lung surgery . But despite this I felt that we handigarh based NGO 'I Am Still

could not let our personal problems Human'(IASH) has stood up in however huge they might be, deter us from support of the ongoing farmers' Cdoing our bit for the farmers, to whom we protest against the recently passed farm owe a debt that can never be repaid."laws. The NGO has donated blankets, Bhavpreet Singh, a senior member of the sanitary pads, masks, sanitizers, IASH team who accompanied Vivek toothpastes and other necessary essentials Mehra said, "The reports of farmers dying to aid the 'Anndaata', who are protesting amid the protest are really disheartening peacefully on the roads at the Delhi and we'll do whatever it takes to help them borders in this historic movement.in their struggle. We sincerely believe that The young founder of IASH Vivek Mehra farmers are the reason that we are alive and and his team travelled to Delhi's Singhu we will stand by them no matter what. 'Jai border and distributed the essentials to the Jawan Jai Kisan'!"protesting farmers.

handgiarh: Hungama Play, a leading video on demand platform owned Cby Hungama Digital Media, today

launched ‘Sanam Hotline’, a new Hungama Original inMarathi and Hindi. A comedy, the show revolves around three call centre executives who run an adult hotline and an unfortunate misadventure that gets them involved with an extortion racket turning their lives upside down.The cast of the show is headlined by popular actors from the Marathi entertainment industry, including Pushkar Jog, Sai Lokur, Uday Nene and Vinay Yedekar. Produced by CafeMarathi Studios, the show is directed by Akash Gursale and is now available to stream on Hungama Play and its partner networks. Recently fired from their mundane jobs at a call centre, Ishaan (Pushkar Jog) and his friend Abhijeet (Uday Nene), decide to do something exciting with their lives and start an adult hotline. Called Sanam Hotline, the sole aim of this service is to fulfil its customers’ fantasies and desires telephonically. Shivani (Sai Lokur), their colleague and Ishaan’s love, joins their little start-up too. Together they tackle the assortment of customers, from those seeking companionship to those who just want quick fun; their tiny company begins to succeed. Until the day, some of their customers begin to get extortion calls.

Amazon Fashion announces Wardrobe Refresh Sale

handigarh : As we get used to the new normal and start stepping out with our Cprotective gear in place, we're also staying

on top of the latest fashion and beauty trends. So, what better time than now to shop for the most stylish apparel, accessories, beauty essentials and more! Amazon Fashion announces 8th edition of its Wardrobe Refresh Sale (WRS) which will unveils some of the best deals for all its customers across a wide selection from top fashion and beauty brands. The biggest fashion celebration of the season starts from Wednesday 16th December and goes on till Sunday 20th December 2020, with Prime Early Access starting 12 midnight on Tuesday 15th December, allowing Prime members 24 hrs of early shopping. The sale offers discounts up to 80% on all fashion and beauty products, including categories like apparel, watches, fashion and precious jewellery, shoes, sportswear, handbags, wallets, sunglasses, luggage & backpacks, makeup, skin care, haircare, bath and body, fragrances and more.

An easy guide to healthy and strong joints

handigarh : As part of phase 2 of expansion, Ather Energy, India’s first intelligent electric scooter Cmanufacturer, announced the launch of the Ather 450X

in Chandigarh. The pre-orders, dealership requests, and also the volume of requests for test rides has led Ather Energy to include the new market in Phase 2 of their expansion. Many in Chandigarh

are also eligible for the limited edition Series 1 vehicle, as they placed orders in January 2020 before the official launch of the new product line. With the launch in Chandigarh, Ather Energy officially makes its foray into

the Punjab market.By the end of Q1 2021, Ather 450X will be on the roads of 27 cities - Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Kochi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, and Kozhikode in phase 1 and 16 additional cities in phase 2 - Mysore, Hubli, Jaipur, Indore, Panaji, Bhubaneshwar, Nasik, Surat, Chandigarh, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Nagpur, Noida, Lucknow and Siliguri.

Hungama Play launches ‘Sanam Hotline’, a new original comedy show

in Marathi and Hindi

City NGO distributes blankets & essentials to protesting farmers at Delhi border

Amazon and CII join hands to bring the benefits of ecommerce to MSMEs in 10 states across India

Prince Pipes Launches Storefit Water Tanks in Haryana

ew Delhi: Prince Pipes and Fittings Limited (PPF), one of India’s largest integrated piping solutions&multi polymer manufacturer Nwith six strategically located plants across the country, today

announced the launch of Prince Storefit Water Tanksin Haryana part of the company’s introductory range of overhead water storage solutions. Storefit water tanks has recently received ISI quality certification.The products are manufactured at the Dadra (Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli )plant using the rotomoulding process and finds extensive use for installation at home, offices, factories, commercial places, hospitals, schools, camps and places that need large volumes of hygienic water storages.Commenting on the launch Mr. ParagChheda, Joint Managing Director, Prince Pipes and Fittings Limited, said, “Today health and hygiene have taken centrestage for every life across the world. Our country’s water related challenges are severe and need to be addressed on an urgent basis as over 600 million Indians face high to extreme stress over water, while 75% of Indian households do not have drinking water at their premises.

Dish TV India adds Hungama Play app on its D2H Stream andDishSMRT Hub Android boxes

handigarh,: With an objective to expand its content portfolio to meet the growing Centertainment requirements across age

groups, Dish TV India Limited, India’s leading DTH Company, today announced its partnership with Hungama Play, a leading video on demand platform owned by Hungama Digital Media. Through this partnership, Dish TV India has further strengthened its portfolio by adding one more app in the app zone on its Android set-top boxes, namely D2H Stream and DishSMRT Hub. With this strategic partnership, Dish TV users will now be able to explore and consume Hungama Play’s premium, multilingual, and multi-genre content library. It will enable them to have access to an exciting slate of multiple Hungama Originals, 5000+ films in Hindi, English, and regional languages, 1500+ short films, over 7500 hours of kids and television content, and more than 150,000 short-format videos across several categories. Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Anil Dua, Executive Director & Group CEO, Dish TV India Ltd, said, “We at Dish TV always believe in providing the best of choices to our subscribers in terms of new content offerings.

Himalaya launches”No hair fallNow my life is in my control”

himla, : The Himalaya Drug Company, one of India’s leading Swellness brands, today unveiled a

new film for Himalaya Anti-Hair Fall Shampoo with the communication “No hair fall… Now my life is in my control” as part of the Healthy Hair KaVaada campaign. The latest campaign highlights the major concern of hair fall faced by consumers in the hair care category. Addressing people’s inclination towards natural ingredient-based solutions; the campaign highlights the unique proposition of Himalaya Anti-Hair Fall Shampoo as a trustworthy solution for hair fall. The film, set in present-day context, highlights how women today are winning in all aspects of life, be it academics or pursuing their passion. While they have everything under control, hair fall is still a worry. Vibhu Gangal, Category Manager - Hair Care, The Himalaya Drug Company, said, “This new communication “No hair fall… Now my life is in my control “has been conceptualized to support our key shampoo variant.

This ‘Pati Patni Aur Panga’ Advocates You to Be Yourself, No Matter What They Say

ahaul/Spiti/Mandi/Kangra: HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, India’s third largest non-life Linsurance provider in the private sector, has been

authorized by Government of Himachal Pradesh to implement the Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) for loanee and non-loanee farmers in Kangra, Kinnaur, Lahaul, Spiti and Mandi districts for the Rabi 2020-21 season. All the products under Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) are approved by the Department of Horticulture, Government of Himachal Pradesh.The crops covered under the scheme for the notified districts are Apple, Mango, Citrus, Plum and Peach. RWBCIS offers to covers seasonal perils i.e. Deficit Rainfall Cover, Consecutive Dry Day Cover, Relative Humidity Cover which have been notified by Department of Horticulture, Govt. of Himachal Pradesh. armers from the districts of Kangra, Kinnaur, Lahaul, Spiti and Mandi may insure their crop under the RWBCIS scheme for the crops listed above through nearest Financial Institution viz. Nationalized Bank, District Central Co-operative bank, Primary Agriculture Co-operative Society (PACS), Regional Rural bank / Common Service Center (CSC) or contact the authorized HDFC ERGO agents. Farmer may also logon to the Farmers App or opt for self enrollment of the scheme on the website https://pmfby.gov.in/farmerLogin

HDFC Ergo Implements Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme

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GLAMOURKatrina starts preparation for Phone-Bhoot

ollywood actor Katrina Kaif has started preparing for her much-anticipated film 'Phone-Bhoot'. The 'Bharat' actor on BWednesday took to Instagram to treat her fans with a

sneak peek video of her 'prep time' for 'Phone-Bhoot', using the story sharing feature of the photo-sharing app."Prep time- But look at these cutest post," the actor wrote using a smiling face with heart-shaped eyes emoticon. With 'these cutest post', Kaif is referring to the fluorescent arrow-shaped stationery flags. Earlier in the month of July, actor Katrina Kaif, Ishaan Khatter, and Siddhant Chaturvedi announced that they are all set to team up for an upcoming horror-comedy film 'Phone Bhoot'. The trio took to Instagram to share the first look of the film through a poster in which the actors were seen dressed in black coloured suits with white coloured shirts underneath them.The Gurmmeet Singh directorial horror-comedy starring the trio of Katrina, Siddhant, and Ishaan for the first time will go on the floors in 2021.

Shilpa Shetty pens heartwarming birthday wish for Dia

s Bollywood actor Dia you continue to glow and Mirza turned 39 on shine like the star that you AWednesday, actor are," she wrote with kisses

Shilpa Shetty extended a and a warm hug emoticon.heartwarming wish to make Both the actors in the her day special. capture are seen striking a The 'Dhadkan' star took to humorous pose with a huge Instagram and shared a cake loaded with cream and throwback picture featuring chocolate caramel syrup in her with Dia from a party front of them.using the app's 'story' Earlier, in the day several feature, penning down an Bollywood celebrities adorably sweet birthday- including Kareena Kapoor, wish">birthday wish. Ayushmann Khurrana, "Have the biggest bite Tapsee Pannu, Anushka today, @diamirzaofficial, Sharma extended birthday wishing you a very happy greetings to former Miss birthday, my dearest! May India.

Khloe Kardashian donates toys with daughter True

hile the whole world has friends and family, writing letters to Referring to her daughter, she writes, "I turned upside down due to the people in the hospital, think it is important for her to WCOVID-19 induced pandemic, and understand how blessed and fortunate

American star Khloe Kardashian, on small she is. It's so important for her to see Wednesday (local time) shares the how we give back to others, way to help bring a smile to people ESPECIALLY in such in need with her daughter. unprecedented times. Children The 36-year-old star took to learn with action and consistency. Instagram to share video clips This is just the first of many trips with her fans in which she is we are making."seen donating toys to the Continuing with her caption, the local fire station for children in 'Keeping Up With the need. Kardashians' star explained that According to Khloe, she she shared the video of her came across a news report doing charity to let people know that mentioned the decline in how and where they can donate.toy donations to more than "The only reason I'm posting this is 50% this year. She wrote, "This that I've gotten so many messages year so many people, and comments asking where to donate, understandably so, aren't able to or how you can help. Many feel give back in the ways they used to. helpless because they aren't in the But there are so many other ways we position to contribute financially," Khloe actcan give back." wrote.s of Khloe further added that there are many Wishing fans 'Happy Holidays' from her kin dness to other ways to share the love with the and daughter True, the star concluded make someone's day world such as calling isolated lonely the caption.special.

"The only reason I'm posting this is that I've gotten

so many messages and comments asking where to

donate, or how you can help. Many feel helpless because they aren't in the position to contribute financially,"

Khloe wrote.

Miley Cyrus surprised by numberof tattoos on her body

iley Cyrus shared how surprised she was while she learned about the number of tattoos on her body. According to Fox News, the former Disney Mstar who is known for her unabashed approach to style including her tattoos

on Tuesday (local time), learned a little something about herself on the show 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' and is startled after that. When playing a game of Miley Cyrus-based trivia

with a fan, Miley was asked how many tattoos she has on her body to which, the star replied, "I have no idea." However, the fan also guessed it wrong as 27.

The late-night host Kammel then revealed that Miley has a total number of 74 tattoos on her body. Causing her jaw to drop, Miley exclaimed, "Huh?" The 28-year-old star said that she has a

dreamcatcher tattooed on her side before giving the audience a brief glimpse, reported Fox News.During her visit to the show, the star also addressed another now-iconic look of hers.

Shatrugan Sinha reveals reason for not celebrating his birthday this year

iving the news of not celebrating his 75th special day," the star wrote.birthday, veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha Earlier, daughter Sonakshi Sinha, actor Huma Gon Wednesday, shared a post to provide Qureshi, Manish Paul, and many more wished the

the reasons for the same. The 'Naseeb' actor took actor and extended greetings on the platinum to Instagram to post a family picture and extend celebration. Shatrughan Prasad Sinha, an Indian his acknowledgement to the fans and people from film actor, and politician was a member of Lok the industry who wished him on his 75th birthday. Sabha from Patna Sahib and Rajya Sabha. He Along with the post, the superstar informed, that has also served as a Union Cabinet Minister of due to the two major issues in this nation, he will Health and Family Welfare and Shipping in the not celebrate his birthday this year. Atal Bihari Vajpayee government."We are not celebrating keeping in mind that the Sinha has also served as a member of the COVID-19 pandemic is not over, and in support of standing committee on transport, tourism and our farmers justified and most deserving demands. been a cultured member of the consultative I thank all of you who have wished me on this committee in the ministry of external affairs.

Tiger Shroff surpasses his own limits with 'lucky' shot

ollywood actor Tiger Shroff, who is widely appreciated as Bone of the fittest Bollywood

celebrities, on Wednesday shared his high kick rehearsal video from his training sessions on social media.The 30-year-old star took to Instagram to treat his fans with a video of him excelling high roof kick which was 10ft. long, mentioned by him. Clad with a dark blue sports tee and green joggers, the 'Baaghi' actor appears fit.

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L&T Tech Services wins$100 millionengineering projectfrom global O&G majorBENGALURU: L&T TechnologyServices (LTTS) said on Thursday ithas been selected by a global oil andgas major to be the primaryengineering partner for supporting twointegrated refining and chemicalsmanufacturing facilities in the UnitedStates. It did not name the client butsaid the multi-year engagement has apotential value of more than 100million dollars (about Rs 737 crore).Under the five-year contract, LTTS willprovide multi-discipline plantengineering activities including sitesustenance, discipline engineering andcontrol automation support for bothfacilities. It will leverage in-housedigital engineering tools and new-agetechnology & solutions to optimiseproject execution and drive efficiencyimprovements for the customer. Thetwo sites covered under LTTS' scopeare integrated refining, chemical andpolymer complexes and are currentlyamong the top 10 biggest downstreamsites in the United States. "Our focuson multi-vertical, large engagementswith customer intimacy leveragingdigital and new-age technologies isyielding the desired outcomes," saidManaging Director and CEO KeshabPanda. "LTTS is delighted to partnerwith one of the world's leading O&Gcompanies which is focused onproviding affordable and sustainableenergy and chemical products," hesaid in a statement.

Equitas Small FinanceBank launches 3-in-1accountMUMBAI: Equitas Small Finance Bankhas launched a three-in-one accountwhich allows customers to invest in awide variety of financial products. A 3-in-1 account (savings + trading +demat) is a convenient option thathelps the customers to keep all theirbanking and financial investmentsunder one umbrella entity. The bankprovides stock broking and dematservices through referral arrangementwith brokerage firms for trading anddepository services. Thesearrangements enable Equitascustomers to invest funds acrossinvestment products using a singleplatform. "This product allowscustomers a secure seamless andconvenient way to invest in their choiceof investment instruments includingequity, fixed deposits, governmentsecurities and mutual fund products,"said Murali Vaidyanathan, Presidentand Country Head for branch banking,liabilities, product and wealth. Thefinancial products offered through the3-in-1 account includes direct equitytrading, future and options trading,mutual fund investment across allasset management companies,exchange-traded funds, corporate fixeddeposits, corporate bonds, governmentbonds, insurance products, NationalPension Scheme and initial publicofferings. Equitas Small Finance Bankis the largest small finance bank inIndia in terms of number of bankingoutlets and the second largest in termsof assets under management and totaldeposits. Its distribution channelscomprise of 853 banking outlets and322 ATMs across 15 states and unionterritories in India.

China slaps moretaxes on Australianwine amid tensionBEIJING: China's government onThursday slapped more taxes onwine from Australia, stepping uppressure in a bitter diplomatic conflictover the coronavirus, territorialdisputes and other irritants. China,Australia's biggest export market,already has blocked imports of itswine, barley, beef and other goodssince the Australian governmentexpressed support for a probe intothe origin of the coronaviruspandemic that began in China lastDecember. The Chinese Ministry ofCommerce said an investigationbegun in August concluded Australiaimproperly subsidizes wine exports,hurting Chinese producers. Theministry said importers will berequired to pay a deposit of 6.3 percent to 6.4 percent, effective Friday,pending a final ruling. That is on topof taxes of more than 200 per centimposed earlier on Australian wine,which the country's trade ministersaid would make it unsellable inChina. China's foreign ministry hasdemanded Australia take unspecifiedsteps to repair relations. Beijingincreasingly uses access to itspopulous market as leverage toextract concessions from itsneighbors and increase its strategicinfluence.

Gold declines Rs 534; silver tanks Rs 628NEW DELHI: Gold prices declined Rs 534 to Rs 48,652 per 10 gram onThursday in the national capital in line with lower global precious metalprices, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the preciousmetal had closed at Rs 49,186 per 10 gram. Silver also dipped Rs 628 toRs 62,711 per kg, from Rs 63,339 per kg in the previous trade. In theinternational market, gold declined to USD 1,835 per ounce and silver wasflat at USD 23.84 per ounce. "Gold prices witnessed declined asnegotiations over further US fiscal stimulus dragged on and the dollar rosefor a fourth straight session," HDFC Securities Senior Analyst(Commodities) Tapan Patel said.

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The Asian Development Bank(ADB) on Thursday raisedgrowth forecast for India incurrent fiscal year to minus 8 percent from minus 9 per centprojection in September whilekeeping the outlook for nextfiscal year at 8 per cent. At thesame time, it said economicactivity in developing Asia isforecast to contract by 0.4 percent this year before picking upto 6.8 per cent in 2021 as theregion moves toward recoveryfrom the effects of coronavirusdisease (COVID-19) pandemic.The new growth forecastspresented in a regularsupplement to the AsianDevelopment Outlook (ADO)2020 Update are animprovement from the minus 0.7per cent gross domestic product(GDP) growth forecast inSeptember while the outlook for2021 remains unchanged.

But prospects are divergingwithin the region with East Asiaset to grow this year while other

sub-regions are contracting.Developing Asia refers to the 46developing members of ADB."The outlook for developingAsia is showing improvement.Growth projections have beenupgraded for China and India,the region's two largesteconomies," said ADB ChiefEconomist Yasuyuki Sawada. "Aprolonged pandemic remains theprimary risk but recentdevelopments on the vaccinefront are tempering this. Safe,effective and timely vaccinedelivery in developingeconomies will be critical tosupport the reopening of

economies and the recovery ofgrowth in the region." Pandemic-induced lockdowns andrestrictions have been eased invarying levels in the region withmerchandise exports reboundingquickly from substantial declinesin the second quarter. Mobility isalso returning to pre-COVID-19levels in East Asia and thePacific where its spread haslargely been contained orprevented in recent months. Arecovery in tourism, however, islikely to be delayed.

Most of developing Asia'ssub-regions are forecast tocontract this year. East Asia isthe exception with an upgradedgrowth forecast of 1.6 per centfor 2020 on the back of fasterthan expected recoveries inChina. East Asia's growthoutlook for 2021 is maintained at7 per cent. South Asia's GDP isforecast to contract by 6.1 percent in 2020, revised up from the6.8 per cent contraction expectedin September. Growth in SouthAsia is forecast to rebound to 7.2per cent in 2021. Economic

growth in Southeast Asiaremains under pressure asCOVID-19 outbreaks andcontainment measures continue -- particularly in Indonesia,Malaysia and the Philippines.The sub-region's growth forecastfor 2020 is revised down tominus 4.4 per cent from minus3.8 per cent in September. Thesub-region's outlook for 2021 isalso downgraded with SoutheastAsia now expected to grow 5.2per cent next year compared tothe 5.5 per cent growth forecastin September. The outlook forthe Pacific is unchanged for both2020 and 2021 at minus 6.1 percent and 1.3 per centrespectively. Central Asia'sgrowth forecast for 2020 remainsat minus 2.1 per cent but outlookfor 2021 is slightly downgradedto 3.8 per cent from the 3.9 percent growth projection inSeptember. Regional inflation isexpected to marginally ease to2.8 per cent in 2020 from the 2.9per cent projected in Septemberdue to depressed demand andlow oil prices.

ADB ups India's GDP growth forecast to minus 8 pcMUMBAI, DEC 10

Snapping its five-sessionwinning run, equity benchmarkSensex ended 144 points loweron Thursday, tracking losses inindex heavyweights HDFCtwins, Reliance Industries andICICI Bank.

The 30-share BSE indexsettled 143.62 points or 0.31 percent lower at 45,959.88. Thebroader NSE Nifty fell 50.80points or 0.38 per cent to13,478.30.

UltraTech Cement was thetop loser in the Sensex pack,shedding around 3 per cent,followed by M&M, HDFC Bank,IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank andReliance Industries. On the otherhand, Nestle India, ITC, HULand Kotak Bank were among thegainers. According to traders,profit-booking emerged at higherlevels, dragging benchmarkindices lower. The broaderindices traded weak along withselling seen in basic materials,public sector and capital goodscounters. "During the afternoon

session, markets scaled backfrom lows as traders took somerelief from reports that the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB) raisedthe growth forecast for India inthe current fiscal year to (-) 8 percent from the (-) 9 per centprojection in September whilekeeping the outlook for the nextfiscal year at 8 per cent," saidNarendra Solanki, Head- EquityResearch (Fundamental), AnandRathi. Elsewhere in Asia, boursesin Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyoended in the red, while Shanghaiwas in the positive territory.Stock exchanges in Europe werealso trading with gains in earlydeals. Meanwhile, the global oilbenchmark Brent crude futuresrose 0.76 per cent to USD 49.23per barrel.

Sensex snaps 5-day winningrun, ends 144 points lower

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Stocks were mostly lowerThursday in Asia afterweakness in technologycompanies' shares led anovernight decline on WallStreet. Benchmarks fell inTokyo, Hong Kong andSydney but edged higherin Shanghai. Ascoronavirus vaccinesmove closer todistribution, marketshave been pushing higheron hopes the pandemicwill begin to ease,allowing economies torecover. A vaccine fromPfizer and Germanpartner BioNTech, whichis already in use in theUK, is on track for apositive review andpotential approval in theUS within the next week.The Food and DrugAdministration will alsoconsider a vaccinedeveloped by Moderna

later this month. Therecent surge incoronavirus cases andtighter restrictions onbusinesses over the lastfew weeks have againraised the importance of avaccine for beaten downbusinesses. The rollout ofvaccines in Asia has beenslower. In manycountries, outbreaks havewaxed and waned asgovernments seek abalance betweenpandemic precautionsand economic exigency.

The Shanghai Compositeindex added 0.2 per centto 3,380.10. Hong Kong'sHang Seng index slipped0.5 per cent to 26,364.51and the Nikkei 225 indexin Tokyo gave up 0.3 percent to 26,735.63. InSouth Korea, the Kospiedged 0.1 per cent lowerto 2,754.20. Australia'sS&P/ASX 200 declined0.6 per cent to 6,687.00after China's governmenthas announced additionalimport taxes on winefrom Australia, stepping

up pressure on itsgovernment amid a bitterdiplomatic conflict overthe coronavirus,territorial disputes andother irritants. TheChinese Ministry ofCommerce said aninvestigation concludedAustralia improperlysubsidizes wine exports,hurting Chineseproducers. It imposed acountervailing tax of 6.3per cent to 6.4 per cent.China, Australia's biggestexport market, alreadyhas effectively blockedimports of Australianwine by imposing taxesof more than 200 percent. Beijing also hasblocked imports ofAustralian beef, wheatand other goods sinceAustralia's governmentexpressed support for anindependent investigationinto the origins of thecoronavirus.

Shares mostly lower in Asiaafter tech-led on Wall St

Fitch expects gradual recoveryfor Indian aviation with risk of

higher competitionCHICAGO, DEC 10

Fitch Ratings expectsaverage revenue passengerkilometres for India'sairlines to remain 40 percent below 2019 levels in2021 despite recoveringfrom being 65 per centlower in 2020. Domesticpassenger traffic remainsweak since flights resumedin late May after a two-month restriction withSeptember data showing a66 per cent year-on-yeardrop (58 per cent declinefor 9M 20). Thegovernment restrictedairline capacity at 70 percent of the March level andimposed fare bands untillate February 2021. "Weexpected market leaderIndiGo to furtherconsolidate its positionfrom a 60 per cent share ofdomestic passengers inJuly due to liquiditypressure at rival airlines,"said Fitch in its latestoutlook for the sectorreleased here onWednesday (local time).

"However, its sharedeclined to 57 per cent in

September, which indicatessmaller players areintensifying competition toregain share. This couldlimit gains for the industryfrom better traffic in 2021."For the global airlinesector, Fitch expectsoperating conditions toimprove in 2021 but onlyrelative to theunprecedented downturn in2020. Spiking coronaviruscases in various regionsand inconsistent travelrestrictions will keepairline traffic low at leastthrough the first part of2021 with limitedimprovement expectedrelative to levels in 3Q 20and 4Q 20.

Recent positive newsabout vaccine developmentalong with pent-up leisuredemand may drive a morerobust rebound in the 2H21.

Moody's affirms AxisCapital's ratings with

negative outlookNEW DELHI, DEC 10

Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the ratingsof Axis Capital Holdings and its subsidiaries,including the Baa1 guaranteed senior debt of itsfinancing subsidiaries and the A2 insurance financialstrength ratings of its principal operatingsubsidiaries. The outlook for the ratings remainsnegative. According to Moody's, Axis Capital'sratings reflect its diversified mix of specialtyinsurance and re-insurance business, good historicaloperating returns, solid reserve position and high-quality investment portfolio. These strengths aretempered by the company's low and volatileprofitability, meaningful catastrophe exposures,higher financial leverage relative to some of its peersand the potential for reserve volatility arising fromclaims inflation in the firm's long-tail casualty lines.The negative rating outlook reflects Moody's viewthat Axis Capital's profitability has been weakrelative to its peers, reflecting elevated catastrophelosses (including coronavirus-related losses thisyear), as well as the underperformance of certainbusiness lines, including its Lloyd's of Londonbusiness. While Axis Capital has taken steps toreduce catastrophe exposures, the company'searnings have been uneven and volatile. AxisCapital's financial leverage while lower also remainshigher than Moody's expectations at the currentrating level. For the first nine months of 2020, AxisCapital reported a net loss attributable to commonshareholders of USD 146 million and a combinedratio of 109.6 per cent, reflecting 17.5 points ofcatastrophe and coronavirus-related losses.

NEW DELHI: A left-arm pacer on song is one of the most beautiful sights on the cricket pitch and none know it better than Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir. Having become a national icon after helping Pakistan beat arch-rivals India in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy in England, the pacer was expected to repeat his performance on English soil during the 2019 50-over World Cup. Unfortunately, Amir has in the last couple of seasons failed to meet his own lofty standards.Even as the Pakistan players are in New Zealand, Amir is going all-out in the ongoing Lanka Premier League wherein he picked a fifer against Colombo Kings on Monday - a rare feat in the shortest format. While Amir does not wish to look too far ahead, the pacer would definitely love to regain his place in the team with an eye on the twin T20 World Cups that are coming up in 2021 and 2022."I will take things as it come, keep myself fit, train hard and see how it goes. Right now my focus is on the Lanka Premier League and my team Galle Gladiators," Amir told ANI. Cricket like other sporting events is making a slow and steady return in the post-coronavirus era and Amir said that time away from the ground was not easy at all. He explained even though it was tough, the pacer tried his best to keep in shape and ensure that he is ready for the challenge when action finally resumed."Yes, time has been tough for people and sports took a backseat for a while during the lockdown.

NBA: Butler looking forwardto new season with Miami HeatNEW DELHI: It was a fairytale 2019-20 season for Miami Heat, but superstar Jimmy Butler is not sitting back reflecting in what it could've been."We play this game to win. We didn't do that, and that's all that matters. I think we all have things that we want to be better at, what you could have changed," Butler said in an official release."But, in the end, we get another crack at it now, and that's what I'll be locked in on, and that's what we'll be locked in on is: How can we be better and not let what happened last year happen again," he added.Miami Heat lost the 2020 NBA Finals 2-4 to Los Angeles Lakers. But the Heat still have to defend the Eastern Conference title they won. In their run to the top of the pile, Butler averaged 33 minutes during the regular season, 38 minutes a game in the postseason, and an epic 47 minutes in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.And in less than two months, Butler will be back on the court and he is getting ready for the job at hand.

Kohli has been most impactful player forIndia in ODIs in this decade: Gavaskar

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NEW DELHI: Former India captain and legend Sunil Gavaskar has said that Virat Kohli has been the most impactful player for India in One-Day Internationals in this decade.In the recent ODI series against Australia, India skipper Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to go past 12,000 run-mark milestone. He broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record and reached the milestone in his 251st game. The Master Blaster had taken 300 innings to get to 12,000 runs in ODIs.Kohli, who made his international debut in 2008, has so far played 251 ODIs for India in which he has scored 12,040 runs with the help of 43 hundreds."I think if you look as an individual then certainly it's got to be Virat Kohli, because if you look at the number of matches he's won for India when India has been chasing big scores," Gavaskar said while speaking on Star Sports show Cricket Connected."I look at the impact a player has had, and not just the runs or wickets that he has taken, and in that aspect you have got to say that in this decade it really has been Virat Kohli who has had the most impact on the matches that India has won," he added.

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AGENCY will play at number three, while of other leaders in our team that WELLINGTON, DEC 10 Latham will lead the side. he will lean on them for their

"It's a decision we have support as well," he added. Kane Williamson will be come to around, I guess, the best Williamson's first child is missing the second Test against decision for him (Williamson) set to be born very soon, and the West Indies and as a result, Tom and Sarah, and also for our team Kiwi skipper had left the squad Latham will be leading the side, long-term, and in terms of him earlier today to take a trip home New Zealand coach Gary Stead being in a good place to be with in Tauranga to be with his wife.confirmed on Thursday. Sarah as well. Young will come On Wednesday, Stead had

Earlier in the day, Stead had in and bat three, it's a logical said that he is perfectly fine with said Williamson will be playing replacement that he just slips Williamson going on paternity in the second Test, but in a new into that position. Will's played leave later this month and said video statement, the coach went there a lot, so, yeah, it's a 'other things are much more on to say that Williamson would natural replacement," said important' than cricket.not be playing in order to be with Stead in a video posted on the Williamson's career-best his wife. official Twitter handle of score of 251 in the first Test

Williamson will miss the BlackCaps. against West Indies had helped second Test in order to be with "Tom Latham will take over him jump up two places to join his partner Sarah Raheem in as captain. He has been Test Virat Kohli at number two Tauranga for the birth of their captain before in the past for us, position in the latest ICC Test first child. Will Young, who and he's got a calm head on his batsmen rankings.made his debut in the first Test, shoulders, and I know with a lot

NZ vs WI: Williamson to miss second Test, Latham to lead Kiwis

Important to look at positives in 2020, says India striker Lalremsiami

BENGALURU: As the national coaching ranks in the senior team after strong camp nears an end, India hockey team performances in major international striker Lalremsiami feels there were events including the Asian Games in plenty of positives this year despite the 2018 and the FIH Olympic Qualifier in pandemic stalling their plans of achieving 2019, expressed that the team's success at major international events philanthropic efforts that helped feed over including the Olympic Games. 1,000 families during the lockdown will "This week, as we wrap up the national remain one of her favourite 2020 camp, I think most of us are in a mood to moments.reflect back on the year that was meant "Only weeks into the lockdown when we to take us to new heights. Though the realised the struggles of people across pandemic posed several challenges for the country who were rendered jobless us, we are looking at the positives that and struggled to feed themselves and has made us believe in ourselves more their families, we decided to do than ever. The pandemic has certainly something to help them. We had never made us stronger mentally and we have taken up a cause like this before but the become stronger and tight-knit as a entire team was unanimous in our group," stated the young striker from decision and the support we received Mizoram in a Hockey India release. from across the hockey fraternity was Lalremsiami, who has climbed up the immense.

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AGENCY against England at Trent Bridge, aged NEW DELHI, DEC 10 17 years and 153 days, becoming Test

cricket's youngest wicket-keeper at the South Africa pacer Dale Steyn on time. The wicket-keeper was the Thursday congra tu la ted Ind ia frontline choice in the longest format wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel for for a couple of years, but with MS a wonderful career and said his Dhoni emerging in international knowledge of the game is next level. cricket, Parthiv ended up losing his

Parthiv announced his retirement spot. In 2016, Parthiv made his from all forms of cricket on Wednesday. comeback in the Test series against Steyn and Parthiv shared the dressing England as a replacement for the then room for various Indian Premier injured Wriddhiman Saha. As a result, League sides. Par th iv p layed h i s f i r s t Test

Taking to Twitter, Steyn wrote, appearance in eight years. In the 50-"Congratulations on a wonderful over format, the wicket-keeper career PP! We played in a lot of teams batsman made his debut in 2003. He

level, and certainly helped me many a together and I've always enjoyed your was also a part of the 2003 World Cup time. All the best for what's to come skill with bat and gloves but your squad, but he didn't get a chance to bud, well done! @parthiv9."knowledge of the game is also next feature in the playing XI.

Parthiv had made his debut in 2002

Your knowledge of game is next level: Steyn congratulates Parthiv

Ind vs Eng: Chennai and Ahmedabad to host Tests, Pune to host ODIsMUMBAI: The Board of Control for Tests, to be played from Feb 24-28 and also be held in Ahmedabad.Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday March 4-8 respectively. The last leg of the tour will feature announced the fixtures for Team India's Motera, the largest cricket stadium ODIs and all three matches will be held home series against England, which will in the world, boasts of state of the art in Pune. The board said that it has begin in February. facilities and a seating capacity of restricted the tour to just three venues

The much-awaited marquee series 110,000. It will host India's second Day- "keeping in mind the current pandemic will kickstart with a four-match Test Night Test match at home after the huge situation prevailing in the country."series for the Anthony de Mello Trophy, success of India's first-ever pink-ball BCCI secretary Jay Shah assured the first of which will be played in Test that was played in Kolkata last year. that the board will leave no stone Chennai from February 5. Chennai will Ahmedabad is expected to turn pink unturned to make sure that the tour is also host the second Test, beginning when it hosts the third Test on February held adhering to all safety protocols February 13, while the newly built 24 under lights. agreed by the BCCI and England and Sardar Patel Motera Stadium in The iconic Test will be followed by Wales Cricket Board (ECB) medical Ahmedabad will host the remaining two the five-match T20I series, which will teams.

Our batting depth without Warner will be tested: Smith

Boxing Day Test crowdcapacity increased to 30,000 per dayMELBOURNE: Cricket Australia on Thursday confirmed that the crowd capacity for the Boxing Day Test between India and Australia has been increased to 30,000 per day.India and Australia will lock horns against each other in a four-match Test series, beginning from December 17. The first match will be a day-night contest, while the second will be a Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), beginning December 26.Earlier, only 25,000 fans were permitted each day inside the MCG for Boxing Day Test, but now Cricket Australia have confirmed the increased capacity."We're so excited to be able to welcome so many fans to the MCG in what's been such a challenging year for Victorians," Cricket Australia tweeted.In the first Test, while will be a day-night contest in Adelaide, 50 per cent of the total capacity of the crowd will be allowed to enter the stadium.For the fourth Test at Gabba, Brisbane, the stadium will be at 75 per cent of its total capacity.Australia had won the ODI series 2-1, while the Men in Blue walked away with the T20I series win.

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India's nemesis Steve Smith feels that Australian team's batting depth would be hugely tested in absence of injured opener David Warner in the first Test in Adelaide, starting December 17. The hosts will likely have a new look opening combination in Joe Burns and Marcus Harris following injuries to Warner (groin) and in-form young gun Will Pucovski (concussion). "Our depth is obviously going to be tested with Davey (Warner) out and few potentially new players coming in. It will test us out no doubt against a good Indian outfit," Smith said here in a virtual news conference.

"They beat us out here last time and they're a very good side. It's gonna be a great series and whoever's up there and whoever's in the team hopefully we will do our job and can have a successful summer." Smith rated the Indian bowling attack highly even though he felt that it's not the "strongest" without senior pro Ishan Sharma, who has been ruled out of the four-match Test series because of a side strain he sustained during the IPL.

"They are a good (bowling) line-up. They're pretty experienced now... Mohd Shami has played a lot of cricket, Jasprit Bumrah has played a reasonable amount of cricket and a quality bowler. "In the spin department, whichever spinner they use be it Ashwin, Jadeja or Kuldeep, they've all played a fair bit of cricket now. "The quicks perhaps haven't played quite as much, whoever they go with them but they're all good bowlers. We're gonna have to be at our best as a batting group this summer, if we're gonna beat them."On Ishant's absence, he said: "Ishant Sharma is probably a big loss for them at the start, if he's not available... He's obviously played a lot of cricket. Maybe without him, it may not be the strongest.

ICC ODI ranking: Kohli, Rohit occupy

top two spotsBumrah third in bowlers' list

AGENCY first appearance in the top-50 for DUBAI, DEC 10 batsmen by occupying the 49th

place with a career-best 553 India skipper Virat Kohli points. From the Australian cemented his place at the top of camp, captain Finch's innings of the ICC ODI rankings after 114 in the first ODI, followed by scoring two half-centuries in the 60 and 75 helped him up to a recently concluded three-match career-best tally of 791 points and series against Australia. Limited- fifth place. Steve Smith's pair of overs deputy Rohit Sharma sits at 62-ball centuries in the first two the second spot despite missing matches enabled him to move the recent ODIs against Australia. back into the top-20 for the first In the ranking for bowlers, Jasprit time since 2018. He is currently at Bumrah sits on the third spot. number fifteen with 707 points.

Players from India and Glenn Maxwell's 167 runs in Australia have made significant the series came at a strike rate of gains in the latest rankings issued 194.18 and featured two half-on Thursday. centuries, to push him back up to

During the first ODI of 20th in the rankings. This is the India's tour of Australia in first time he has been in the top-20 Sydney, India all-rounder Hardik since February 2017.Pandya missed out on becoming In a series dominated by the third batsman to score a batsmen, Adam Zampa made a century in the match following big impact with the ball, enabling the likes of Australia captain him an entry in the top-20 ODI Aaron Finch and batsman Steven bowlers for the very first time. Smith. Playing his first ODI since Zampa's seven wickets at 23 took the 2019 World Cup, Pandya him to the fourteenth position with struck 90 in the first game and 92 a career-best 623 points. Josh not out in the third to make his Hazlewood took six wickets.

Wade can be makeshift opener in Test for Australia, feels Clarke

MELBOURNE,: Former skipper Michael Clarke believes in-form wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade can be a makeshift opener in an injury-hit Australia squad for the first Test against India beginning at Adelaide on December 17. Australia are grappling with injury issues ahead of the day-night Test with David Warner being ruled out due to a groin injury, while Will Pucovski, who was considered a sure-short selection for the opening Test, is now a doubtful starter after suffering a concussion in a warm-up game against India A in Sydney. Joe Burns' awful run of form has only added to the list of worries for the selectors. With Cameron Green making a case for his selection with a hundred against India A, Clarke feels in that case Wade should be pushed up the batting order. "If you're going to pick (all-rounder) Cameron Green then you've got to find another spot for Wadey," Clarke told AAP. "He's got to be in that starting XI but that could be anywhere in that team. That could be opening the batting if need be. I think Wadey can do that." Wade had smashed back-to-back fifties in the last two T20Is against India. However, he has never batted higher than No.5 in Test cricket though he did open for Australia in 10 ODIs, averaging 30.60 with a highest score of 75.