City page for April 23

WEATHER

Forecast (April 23): Rain/thunderstorm at few places in plains and low hills, Rain/thunder storm at many places in medium hills, rain/snow at a few places in high hills

Temperatures:

Shimla: 15.2 (max), 4.0 (min) Degrees Celsius, Sunrise: 05:45 am, sunset: 06:55

Dharamshala: 18.4 (max), 8.8 (min) Degrees Celsius

Manali: 13.2 (max), minus 4.4 (min) Degrees Celsius

Readers Say

Garbage littered on road

The road heading towards doctors’ hostel from the Sanjaui-IGMC road is littered with garbage. It’s used by many people, but still people don’t stop from throwing garbage on the road. One fails to understand why people can’t understand that they are not supposed to litter public places. — Gulwant, Shimla

Issue water bill every month

Chamba residents have urged the state Jal Shakti Vibhag to issue water and sewerage bills to its consumers every month instead of three months, so that they may not feel the burden of paying the bills. Moreover, the authorities should not give due date for paying the bills during holidays, which results in penalty to defaulters unnecessarily. Like this time, the due date of paying bills was fixed for April 15. Being a holiday, it resulted in penalty to consumers. — Suresh Kashmiri, Chamba.

Education Notes

Meeting on research initiatives at Shoolini varisty

Shoolini University organised a meeting of Joint Research Development and Advisory Committee (JRDAC) to discuss the research initiatives. It was organised online under the chairmanship of Prof RC Mahajan, Professor Emeritus, PGI, Chandigarh. The meeting was attended by Chancellor Prof PK Khosla, Vice-Chancellor Prof Atul Khosla, Registrar Sunil Puri, all Deans of the faculties and experts from India and other countries. The Deans presented the research agenda and acknowledged the advice from various JRDAC members. The external members praised the university’s efforts in research and developments and promised help.

HPU distance education admissions till Apr 30

The ICDEOL, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), has decided to reopen portal for admission/registration from April 22 for students of February to March-2021 session and extend the date up to April 30. Director Prof Kulwant Pathania said the portal would be open for all undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma courses, except BEd and MA-Education. He said the handbook/prospectus for admission was available on ICDEOL website www.icdeolhpu.org. The students have been advised to visit admissions.hpushimla.in for registration/admission. For more information, the students may contact 0177-2833419,2833444 and 2832239. This extension shall be the last opportunity to seek admission as per the guidelines of the UGC (DEB), Prof Pathania said.

Chairpersons to attend office every day: VC

HPU Vice-Chancellor has directed chairpersons, directors of teaching departments/research institutes and Dean of faculties, along with their staff and all administrative officers, to attend the office every day. The teaching and non-teaching staff involved in scrutiny/recruitment process shall also attend the office on all working days.

Earth Day celebrated

HIMCOSTE joint member secretary Nishant Thakur said the HP Envis Hub of HP Council for Science, Technology and Environment celebrated Earth Day, in collaboration with Kerala ENVIS Hub, under the programme ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshta Bharat’. He informed online painting as well as slogan-writing competitions and quiz were organised on the theme ‘Restore our Earth’ for students from Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, under junior and senior categories. The participants will be presented e-certificates and top three winners will be given prizes.