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Distance education a silent revolution, says Prof Dikshit
Chandigarh, June 7 Prof Dikshit was in the city to deliver a lecture on distance education at the Panjab University's Department of Correspondence Studies. Stating that every fifth student in the country was a student of his university, Prof Dikshit added that the intake of students by the university had doubled in the past few years. “This points towards a trend in the future. Distance education has been most effective in higher education and is fast becoming a possibility even in highly technical fields. For example, in Australia high-end surgery is being taught to students using audio-visual aids. Why discomfort a patient for educative purposes when the same is possible through photography and simulation? Over 25 per cent of pilot training is based on simulation,” he said hinting that it was just a matter of time before a substantial part of teaching medicine and engineering would be possible through distance education. He informed The Tribune that the Dental Council of India was collaborating with the university to design and develop diploma courses for them. The university has study centres in 37 countries and recently signed a MoU with St. Mary's University College, Ethopia. Having reached almost every household in India through three TV channels and the Edusat programme which would be soon available via the Direct to home (DTH) network, IGNOU has now started its own FM radio service in over 40 cities across the country. “Chandigarh is one of them. Our course material and teaching is already on through FM in 23 cities. We would be in Chandigarh within two months,” he said. Stating that online education was coming up as the biggest challenge to distance education in the near future, H.P. Dikshit said:“In distance education, we have to be much more futuristic, otherwise we will perish”, he adding that distance education had to explore new horizons nd show dynamism in absorbing online technology to further increase its reach. He explained that in addition to the normal courses, IGNOU is designing and delivering new programmes to meet the fast growing training needs in various fields in the country. In Bihar, IGNOU would provide programmes to teach 40,000 teachers in the next five years. In medical education, IGNOU is also meeting new needs and is starting a post-graduate diploma in cardiology with the help of Escorts and Shetty Group of Hospitals. He further disclosed that IGNOU had also signed an MoU with Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, to provide training to civil servants in the country and to diplomats through the Ministry of External Affairs. Prof. K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, in his presidential highlighted the needs to encourage distance education as it was the only system to avoid friction among various sections of the society.
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Delhi student tops MCA test
Chandigarh, June 7 The test was held as part of the series of tests conducted by the university as OCET 2006 last month. Nearly 1,500 students had applied for 30 seats in the coveted MCA course. The others who appeared in the merit list include Vipul Sharma, Saurabh Wadhawan, Varun Mittal, Sumedha Kansal, Sahil, Keshab Nand Tripathi and Saumya Singh. The university offers another 20 seats in MCA at its regional centre at Muktsar. The university today also declared the results of three other coveted courses. “With today’s results for admission to LLB, MMC and MA English all results of various OCET tests have been declared. The first set of results was declared on June 3 and the ones declared today took additional time since these had subjective answers as part of the test,” pointed out Prof I.S. Dua, Head of Department of Botany, PU, and OCET coordinator. A student from Ludhiana, Sandeep Gill, topped the MA English test followed by Ritika Malhotra, Cheena Chawla, Gurlal Singh Kahlon, Kishan Thingbaijam, Puneet Kaur, Savita Grover, Anju Bala, Rupinder Kaur Brar and Damini Sud. The university offers 125 seats in MA English in its department on the campus. Nearly 400 students had appeared in the entrance test. Vishal Sharma, a resident of Sector 40, here has topped the MMC entrance test followed by Rohit Bedi, Ashruti Kak, Neha Walia, Amit Khanna, Puneet Sandhu, Ajit Singh Tomar, Sophia Christina, Rinita Singh Juneja and Navdeep Sandhu. As many as 280 students had appeared in the test. Chandan Dev Singla, a resident of Sector 2 Panchkula, has topped the LLB entrance test followed by Pamelpreet Grewal, Abhishek Sood, Garima, Komalbeer Gill, Siddhartha Chakraborty, Raman Chopra, Himanshi Galhotra, Kanika Singh and Loveleen Dhaliwal. Nearly 1300 students had appeared for this test.
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Flying Cats to open centre in city
Chandigarh, June 7 Ms Priyanka Khosla, managing director, Flying Cats, said in the first phase, they would launch their centres across 20 cities in the country, which had been designed to provide a chic environment to students. “The Chandigarh centre is the first to take off. Ours will be the only academy to have celebrity faculty from the world of fashion, glamour and Bollywood. They will be working in collaboration with aviation and hospitality stalwarts to impart training in aviation, tourism and hospitality ,” she said. She said the academy would provide education on a different pattern. “We are aimed at training a smarter India in virtual classrooms and each student will work on a laptop. The academy has also tied up with the Singapore Tourism Board. During the course, students will be flown to Singapore, on board Singapore Airlines, where they will be given hospitality training to give them an international perspective”, she added.
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Summer camp
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Court notices to 3 cops
Panchkula, June 7 The notices were issued on a complaint by Mohammad Ayub, a rehri vendor. In his complaint, Mr Ayub had alleged that despite the court orders the police was harassing him and not allowing him to put his rehri outside Yadavindra Gardens.
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Undertrials brought from Nahan jail
Panchkula, June 7 According to the police, the two were suspected for their involvement in Teetu murder case. The body of Teetu was found in Mauli village a month ago. The police also claims that the two might be involved in a major robbery case in Panchkula in which two advocates were robbed of lakhs of rupees. The two were yesterday produced in the court of Ms Shashi Kala, Judicial Magistrate (First Class) where they were remanded to police custody till June 9.
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3 thieves get two-year RI
Panchkula, June 7 The trio — Surjit Singh, Puran Chand and Jaswinder Singh — residents of Ferozepore, have been sentenced to imprisonment in about eight cases of cases of auto theft. They were arrested from Ferozepore in 2004. The police had also recovered about 45 stolen cars from their possession.
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I signed no post-trap memo, says ex-Judge
Chandigarh, June 7 Mr Ruzam, who was then the Vigilance Officer in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was asked by the then Chief Justice of the high court to accompany the CBI while it was going lay the trap on the Judicial Magistrate. Disposing before the CBI Special Judge, Mr Ruzam said by the time he reached the Sector 22 residence, the CBI had laid the trap and the bribe money had been recovered. Bail plea rejected
The CBI Special Judge today rejected the application for interim bail of Mr Satish Chaudhary, a bidder whose name had figured in the case of criminal conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of Corruption Act registered by the CBI against the official liquidator of the Ministry of Company Affairs, Mr Ashish Vajpayee.
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A much loved comedian
Chandigarh, June 7 Yes, you guessed right. Raju Shrivastav was in the city on Monday. In an exclusive short talk with TNS, he revealed the journey of his comic life. In fact, the number of fans surrounding him was proof of his soaring popularity. And so infectious was his charm that one broke into a smile immediately on spotting him. Raju’s little rib-tickling performances evoked chuckles, laughter and claps. The doctors of the city would vouch for the funny anecdotes Raju regaled them with at a hotel here as part of a medicine launch. With a fair sprinkling of take-offs on the medical fraternity, the joke of a deaf man visiting a patient and the situation arising thereof, with the man in all earnest “wishing” him an early meeting with “Dr Yamraj” had them in guffaws. Laughter is the best medicine, so goes an old saying. It is said life can be funnier than fiction. It is somewhat true in Raju’s context. His narration of how he took to comedy as a profession is an illustration in point. Raju says that he started off miming his teachers at school in Kanpur, and then, by word of mouth publicity he got an offer to present a filler in a musical show. It is then that organisers placed a packet of money in his hands that the boy who entertained friends and passersby at the corner paan shop for free, found that his hobby was a paying proposition! In 1982, he shifted to Mumbai to realise his dream of making it big. He got to do cameos in Rajshri Productions’ “Maine Pyar Kiya”, “Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon” and a number of other movies. As many as 22 volumes of audio cassettes of his humour and jokes — “Hasna Mana Hai”, “Haste Raho” etc — hit the market. Having performed in over 3,000 shows, Raju has huge coterie of comic tales and gags in his kitty and can rustle up a joke to suit the occasion. The stand-up comedian personally loves to mime Amitabh Bachchan’s role in “Deewar”. And his favourite punching bag politicians are Lalu Prasad Yadav and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Who can forget the witty cricket match he rustled up between the two leaders? Though he has been in the funny entertainment business for nearly a quarter of a century, the fame that came his way following the Laughter Challenge has catapulted him in the high-bracket, with a slew of film offers and a comedy show on TV. |
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Manch Tantra back in action
Chandigarh, June 7 The team comprises of Rochak Kohli, Hardeep Singh Sethi, Sameer Kaushal, Gurpreet Saini, Manisha Pandey, Guneet Saraon, Ashita Sondhi, Gautam Sharma and Maneesh Gandhi. The entire play has been, as always, scripted, conceptualised, directed, choreographed and produced by the group itself. Music has always been this group’s USP which again has been used to its full potential in this play. The team members believe that a day might come when the entire general quota might disappear. As Hardeep Singh Sethi says, “We are not against reservation but the seats should be given only to the deserving students.” Manch Tantra is a three year old theatre group. Their first production was a stage play and was performed in 2003 called ‘Socha Na Tha’. Thereafter each year a play was produced either in a stage play format or a street play one. Rochak Kohli says, “Why people like our plays is because we have shown consistency in the quality of our plays, be it street or stage.” The other plays produced and performed by Manch Tantra are “Painter Babu,” “Meetha Rok Ke, Patti Thok Ke” and “Give peace a chance” which was produced to mark the International Youth Day. Manisha and Guneet say it in chorus, “This is one play which will make you go in splits. Like our other performances we plan to rock this one as well.” |
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