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From Colleges . . .
Chandigarh Dera Bassi RESULTS:
Students of Desh Bhagat Institute of Management and Computer Sciences have brought laurels to the college in the MBA examination conducted by the Punjab Technical University in December 2006. Vandana Khera, Harish Kumar and Saru Bansal bagged the first three positions, securing 82.25 per cent, 81 per cent and 80 per cent, respectively, in MBA first year. Thirty-one students bagged first divisions, while 20 students got distinctions. Earlier, 14 MBA second year students got distinctions, whereas 17 scored the first division. Director of the institute Shalini Gupta congratulated the students.
— TNS
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Chandigarh CELEBRATIONS: Weeklong celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the first war of independence began at St Soldiers International Convent School, here, on Thursday. A special assembly was conducted and a two-minute silence was observed to commemorate the warriors. The social science lab depicted the theme of the revolt through life-size portraits of the great heroes. A movie fest was also organised, wherein the students enjoyed three movies - Mangal Pandey, Gandhi and Haqueeqat. A fancy dress show for the students of classes I and II will be held, where the kids will don the attires of Rani Laxmi Bai, Mangal Pandy, Begam Hazrat Mehal, Nana Sahib, Kanwar Singh and other patriots. A patriotic song competition will be held for the students of classes III to V. MOTHER’S DAY: Students of Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, Chandigarh, celebrated Mother’s Day on Thursday, highlighting the importance of a mother in one’s life. Principal Amita Khorana welcomed all and the tiny tots recited poems to express their love. Mohali COMPETITION: Doon International School, Sector 69, Mohali, conducted an inter-house dance competition, in which students of the four houses - Ashoka, Akbar, Ranjit and Teresa - participated. Students were dressed in colourful costumes and danced to old Hindi songs. — TNS
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Honing communication skills
Chandigarh, May 10 A large number of qualified Punjabi boys and girls, especially those coming from rural areas, fail to get jobs because of their poor communication skills. Realising the problem, the Mehar Baba Charitable Trust has set up a learning centre at Bassi Pathana, near here. The trust, patronised by H.S. Mejie, who did his degree in engineering from Pilani and later MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology at Khargpur in the early 50s, has set up a modern computer centre to teach communication skills to students. Already, five batches have gone through the learning process. The focus is on correct pronunciation, on formation and speaking of sentences correctly and on conversing fluently. A software has been loaded in computers that first records what is spoken and then indicates how much of it was correct. Without much difficulty, students can learn the correct pronunciation. The trust is keen on setting up such a centre at Pehowa. The deputy commissioner of Fatehgarh Sahib had recently approached Mejie to start a similar course in two government schools of his choice at or near Bassi Pathana. Besides running a learning centre, the trust also focuses on organising agri-clinics and conducts workshops for farmers and women.
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Placement drive at CEC on May 13
Mohali, May 10 More than 1,000 engineering students from 24 colleges of Punjab, including all government colleges and
CCET, Chandigarh, will participate. Wipro stands at number five in the country in the list of top 10 IT companies and CEC feels proud in revealing the fact that five of these top 10 companies have already recruited students from the institute in various in campus recruitment drives. The 2007 batch
B.Tech/BE students of CSE, IT, ECE, EE and Electronics Telecommunication with at least 65 per cent marks in Class X, XII and B.Tech till date having no backlogs, are eligible to appear in these interviews. The selection procedure will comprise of a written test, GD and final HR/Tech interviews.
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Power failure halts online exam
Chandigarh, May 10 While parents of the students claimed that the college authorities did not provide a generator, principal of the college Kuldeep Singh said, “We had only lent our lab and premises to BITS for conducting the examination. A high-powered (100 KV) generator was provided to the organisers and it was up to them how they utilised it.” Moreover, the college authorities have nothing to do with the examination. Even the security guards were deployed by BITS,” he stated.
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Teams selected for national meet
Chandigarh, May
10 The teams were selected during the 12th Sub-Junior State Championship for the St Joseph’s trophy. Those selected are: Boys: Rushabh
Sralech, Manpreet Singh, Kunal Chauhan, Mukesh Kumar, Babhik, Bibandeep Singh, Armaan Raj, Rahul Sharma, Rishang Sharma and Tarun Pawar. Girls: Baljinder Kaur, Chandrika Sharma, Sukhmani, Poorvi Thakur, Ritika Sood, Payal Tanwar, Divya Walia, Reena, Radha and Harpreet. Vijay Kumar, Himanshu Sharma and Shobha Saini will accompany the teams to the championship.
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PEC employees protest
Chandigarh, May 10 Two members, Sanju Kumar and Sonu Lal, are on a fast to press for the reinstating of six employees who had been removed by PEC authorities. A charter of demands has already been submitted to the college authorities. The employees threatened to continue their fasting if their demands were not met.
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District Courts Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 10 The beggar was in news for spending his income to live in comfortable environs. Shankar had been begging for the past 36 years. He was arrested by the police after being booked under section 3 of the Haryana Beggar Prevention Act. Juvenile released on bail
A 13-year-old youth, who was booked by the Chandigarh police under section 307 of the IPC after a lathicharge on Nayagaon residents on May 3 last, was today released by the court after furnishing a bail bond for Rs 25,000. Gagan Aggarwal, who represents the Lawyers for Human Rights International (LHRI), said free legal aid was provided to the juvenile who was wrongly booked by the police. Pictures of the boy being kicked by SDM (central) Ankur Garg were flashed in newspapers. The SDM had said that he had acted in self-defence.
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