FREE SERVICE: Autospace Network of the Industrial Area here will organise a free service camp on Saturday and Sunday. The service centre is offering free general check-up, battery check-up, oil and coolant top-up, top body washing and a 20 per cent discount on wheel alignment and balancing of vehicles on these days. TNS
GENERAL BODY MEETING: A meeting of the general body of the Panchkula and Chandigarh Yadav Sabha will be held at Yadav Bhavan, Sector 12, Panchkula, on Sunday at 11 am to elect office-bearers of the sabha, according to the vice-president of the sabha, Mr B.S. Yadav.
PANCHAYAT OFFICIAL: The UT Chandigarh Panchayat Vice-Chairman, Mr Mohinder Singh, whom the Congress claimed to be its member, expressed his commitment to the Nationalist Congress, here on Friday. He said he was the head of the NCP UT kisan cell. The president of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, Mr B.B. Bahl, said Mr Singh was amongst those members of the panchayat who had come to party office to express their allegiance to the party after their election.
PRIZE DISTRIBUTION: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation on Thursday organised the prize distribution function of its promotional campaign “H.P. Dhamaal Kare Malamaal”. Mr K. Muralidharan, general manager of the corporation (north zone) presided over the function. During the campaign customers were issued lucky draw coupons. The bumper prize, a Bolero, sponsored by Mahindra and Mahindra, was won by Mr Dwarka Saini of Jammu. The function was convened by Mr T.S. Sawhney, chief regional manager, Chandigarh Retail Region.
CULTURAL CONTESTS: Punjab School Education Board’s three-day cultural contests concluded on Friday at Bal Bhavan, Sector 23, with the bhangra team of DAV Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, bagging the first prize in the folk dance category. The second prize went to Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Ropar, and the third was won by JFFF Khalsa High School, Nawanshahr. Mr H.S. Mattewal, Punjab’s Advocate General, who was the chief guest on the occasion, also danced with the participating children. The chairman of the board, Mr Kehar Singh, presided over the function.
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COLLEGE FUNCTION: The Commerce Association of Government College organised a function here on Friday, wherein a quiz and a paper reading contest were held. Shibela and Rajat won the first prize in the quiz to be followed by Rushar and Apoorv in the second place. Students presented papers on “Terrorism as a threat to mankind,,” Globalisation and
liberalisation and IT related issues.’ Sumit Chaudhary won the first prize in the contest, while Neha got the second prize. Apoorv and Poonam stood third.
EXHIBITION: The 11th science and art exhibition of Chaman Lal DAV Senior Public School was held here on Friday. The exhibition was inaugurated by Mr Yog Raj Sachdeva, Regional Officer of the Central Board of Secondary Education. Students had put in a lot of labour in order to make the exhibition a success. They had prepared models showing automatic traffic lights, safe housing, object counter, metal detector, wind energy, hydro-electric power generation, refining and mining of petroleum etc. Bio-terrorism, dialysis, animal cloning, respiratory system etc, too, found a prominent place among models displayed by the students.
WORKSHOP: Mr Krit Serai, Principal of Satluj Public School, led the workshop on IT based classrooms during the orientation programme for Principals being held at Navodaya Vidyalaya, Chandigarh. The paper presented by Mr Serai highlighted the use of information technology in classrooms from a global as well as the Indian perspective. He highlighted the role played by the Central Board of Secondary Education in advancing information technology. He also discussed the case study on the use of IT in government schools in the United Kingdom.
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55 CHALLANED: Under a special drive, the traffic police challaned 55 motorists for violating traffic rules in the town on Friday. The District Traffic in charge, Mr V.K. Vaid, said 35 motorists were challaned for over-speeding.