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CloudSat Mission
NASA to contact ‘little cloud-watchers’
Chandigarh, May 11
Schoolchildren, who are working on CloudSat Education Network for the past one year, will be directly contacted by NASA scientists. The scientists will be studying the interesting data, collected by the students, for a long time to come. They will be providing feedback to the students and other scientists as they progress, says Debra K. Krumm, director of education and public outreach, NASA CloudSat Mission, Colorado State University, USA, while answering some specific questions about the CloudSat programme.
Australian scholarships announced
Chandigarh, May 11
The acting Australian High Commissioner to India, David Holly, today announced the 2007 Australian Government scholarships for India.
Making the public tech-savvy
Mohali, May 11
With the aim of keeping up with technology, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) here celebrated Technology Day today. The centre was opened to educate the public about the latest technologies in the field of IT.
From Schools
Mohali
ACTIVITY DAY:
Activity Day was organised at Shivalik Public School, here, on Friday, to celebrate Mother’s Day. Students of classes Nursery to II participated in various activities like clay modelling and card-making. They made cards by pasting photographs of their mothers and then decorated them, which they will present to their mothers at a parent-teacher meeting on Saturday.
Admissions
NCC cadets to get weightage
Chandigarh, May 11
NCC cadets are now in for a special treat. Starting from this session, the Chandigarh administration has given its nod to the proposal send by the director, technical education, to give due recognition to the NCC cadets by granting them incentives for admission to various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in city colleges, including professional colleges, and also in Panjab University.
Mohit, Meenal best photographers
Chandigarh, May 11
Mohit Singla (Class VIII-A) of Bhavan Vidyalaya-27, Chandigarh, grabbed the first place in the junior category while Meenal (Class XII-C1), also from Bhavan Vidyalaya-27, emerged the winner in the senior category in the Tara Chand Saboo Inter-School Photography Competition and got a cash prize of Rs 5,000 each.
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Prize winners of the Tara Chand Saboo Memorial Inter-School Photography Competition along with the dignitaries — (From left) wife of Yog Joy, R.K. Saboo, H.K. Dua and Meenakshi Mohindra — at Bhavan Vidyalaya, Sector 27, in Chandigarh on Friday.
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Technology should benefit all, says prof
Chandigarh, May 11
R. P. Vajpayee, professor at the National Institute of Pharmacy Institute of Education and Research, Mohali, and former director, NISTADS, New Delhi, cautioned against the overuse of technology and called for remedial measures while speaking on “Technology, society and globalisation” at Panjab University, here, on Friday. The lecture was organised under the popular lecture series instituted by the university.
PU Notes
Interview:
A walk-in interview will be held on May 18 for the appointment of one physical trainer and coaches of various games recognised by the AIU.
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Sidhu elected HC Bar president
Chandigarh, May 11
Drama, frayed nerves and ecstacy summed up the mood at the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association election today with Dr Anmol Rattan Sidhu scraping past his nearest opponent Atul Lakhanpal by a close 14 votes to emerge as the winner for the post of president for the second time in a row.
Dr Anmol Rattan Sidhu (top left), Onkar Singh Batalvi (top right), Amandeep Kaur Dhiman and Sumit Jain (in front) flash the victory sign after the declaration of results of elections to the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association in Chandigarh on Friday.—Tribune
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Ex-councillor gets interim bail
Chandigarh, May 11
A former nominated councillor of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, P.C.
Sanghi, was today granted interim bail by a local court. The police had lodged a case after a safai
karamchari, Anarkali, had lodged a complaint with the police alleging that the former councillor had made casteist remarks against her.
Matricide
Police in spot; witness turns hostile
Chandigarh, May 11
Yet again, the Chandigarh Police is in a spot. This time a crucial witness in the six-month-old murder of a Sector 32 resident, Malkiat
Kaur, by her son Ajit Pal Singh has retracted his statement in the court of district and sessions judge B.S.
Mehandiratta.
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