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Writers KanikaDhillon, HimanshuSharma get marriedMUMBAI: Writers KanikaDhillon and Himanshu Sharmahave tied the knot, weeks afterthe couple announced their en-gagement. While Dhillon isknown for writing films like"Manmarziyaan", "Kedarnath"and "Judgementall Hai Kya",Sharma has penned movies like"Raanjhanaa", "Tanu WedsManu" series and "Zero".Dhillon shared a sneak peekinto the low-key wedding on In-stagram. "Here is to #2021#newbeginnings #himan-shusharma," she wrote in thecaption. While Dhillon wasdressed in a magentatrousseau, Sharma wore awhite kurta-pyjamas with mus-tard coloured Nehru jacket.

Jaishankar tobegin 3-day visitto Sri Lanka todayNEW DELHI: External AffairsMinister S Jaishankar will pay athree-day visit to Sri Lanka be-ginning Tuesday during whichhe will hold discussions with theSri Lankan leadership on theentire gamut of bilateral rela-tions. The Ministry of ExternalAffairs (MEA) said Jaishankar istravelling to the island nationfrom December 5 to 7 followingan invitation by his Sri Lankancounterpart Dinesh Gunawar-dena."He will hold discussions withhis counterpart and Sri Lanka'sleadership on the entire gamutof bilateral relations, the MEAsaid in a statement.

Truck overturnson Delhi-Moradabadhighway, 6 killedGAJRAULA: A cattle-ladentruck overturned after sufferinga tyre burst on the Delhi-Morad-abad highway on Monday, leav-ing six people dead and 10 oth-ers seriously injured, officialssaid. The truck was going toSambal from Jaipur when theaccident took place near Mo-hamdabad village, they said.The deceased are yet to identi-fied. The bodies have beensent for postmortem.

Most wantedarrested in Kaithal

RANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL: Most wanted ac-cused of UP who had a Rs 25thousand on his head who hadbeen on the run after murder ofa young man about 10 and ahalf years ago, was arrdsted byCIA-1 police from villageJakhauli area when he alongwith his accomplices came tobuy and sell animals. Duringthe investigation, an illegalloaded pistol of 315 bore and asplendor bike was recoveredfrom the possession of the ac-cused. The accused involved inthe murder incident had beensentenced to life imprisonmentand a fine of Rs 20 thousand bythe Court almost 8 years ago.After extensive questioning, theaccused was produced in thecourt on 4 January, from wherehe was arrested by the Rajoundpolice during the course of ac-tion and sent to judicial custodyas per the order of the court af-ter investigation.

Williamson,Nichollsshine ashosts takefirm control

BUREAU CHANDIGARH, JAN 4:

Haryana Government hasstarted the process to dis-tribute free tablets to all thestudents from classes 8thto 12th studying in govern-ment schools of theState before thestart of next aca-demic session. Asmany as 8.20 lakhtablets preloadedwith learning mate-rial and textbookswould be distrib-uted to enhancelearning of studentsand help them to study on-line in and outside theclassroom as well as athome. The Haryana ChiefMinister, Mr Manohar Lalpresided over a meeting ofthe School Education De-partment here today to re-view the preparedness forthe distribution of tablets.

It was decided in themeeting that these Tabswould be issued to the stu-

dents on the pattern of li-brary books and studentswould return back the sameafter the 10th and 12th ex-ams.

It was informed thatstudents would get en-hanced learning through

these tablets capa-ble of learning inand outside theclassroom and athome. Thesetablets would beequipped with thepreloaded E-con-tent like AVSARApp online con-tent, Pdf books, QR

coded NCERT content,Edusat videos, DIKSHAonline content, You Tubevideos prepared by teach-ers, Question bank prepared by teachers andpreparation material forcompetitive exams like Na-tional Eligibility-cum-En-trance Test (NEET), JointEntrance Examination(JEE), National DefenceAcademy (NDA) .

Hry gears up todistrubute free

tablets to students

AGENCYGHAZIABAD, JAN 4

Hundreds of people, includ-ing family members of thevictims of Sunday's roof col-lapse incident, in which 24people had died and injuredover a dozen people, took outa protest and blocked Nation-al Highway in UttarPradesh's Muradnagar onMonday.

Police personnel havebeen deployed to maintainthe law and order situation inthe area. "Twenty-four peo-ple have died and 17-18 in-jured in Muradnagar roofcollapse incident. Three peo-ple have been arrested on thebasis of initial investigation.A two-member probe com-mittee constituted to investi-gate the matter," SP Rural,Ghaziabad said today. Mean-while, Uttar Pradesh cabinetminister Atul Garg this morn-ing paid a visit to the site ofthe tragedy. "Currently, ourpriority is to save the maxi-mum number of lives. TheChief Minister himself sentme here to ensure the propertreatment of the injured. I amgoing to the hospitals in

which the patients have beentreated to check the properarrangements," the ministersaid while speaking to a newsagency. "A committee hasbeen formed including com-missioner and IG who willsubmit the report in 48 hoursin this case," the ministeradded. Talking to mediaper-sons, Inspector General (IG)Parveen Kumar said: "Reliefand rescue operation is un-derway. We constantly keepin touch with the doctors.Everyone will be punished.""We will reveal the final fig-ures of deceased later afterinvestigation," he added. Aroof of a crematorium in Mu-radnagar collapsed on Sun-day leading to loss of livesand leaving at least 17 peopleinjured.

AGENCYSHIMLA, JAN 4

The recently-commissioned all weather tun-nel on National Highway 3 was blocked fromNorth Portal to Keylong, after snowfall anddipping down of mercury by several degreesbelow normal, the Lahaul Spiti police said onMonday.

Issuing a travel advisory, the LS policesaid that no vehicle would be allowed on thisroad, without seeking prior permission of thedistrict administration. In case of emergencyand for travel permission, one could contactthe District Disaster Control Room on9459461355 and police could be contacted24x7 on 8988098067 and 8988098068.Meanwhile, tourist resorts Manali and Shim-

la registered a sudden influx of tourist vehi-cles choking the vehicular traffic on the town,forcing the police and traffic arrangement tocrumble. The employees and local commutershad to face trouble for a couple of hours thismorning as heavy traffic jams choked the To-tuikand bypass to Old Bus Stand and vehiclesmoved on a snail's pace.

AGENCYDHARAMSHALA, JAN 4

Pong dam wetland in this district hasbeen closed for public in the wake ofrise in the inexplicable death of mi-gratory water birds in the Pong DamLake.

Over 1,000 birds of differentspecies have mysteriously died sincethe first deaths were reported on De-cember 28. Preliminary post-mortem reports have ruled out poi-soning. Kangra Deputy Commis-

sioner Rakesh Kumar Prajapati tolda news agency that orders have beenissued to cease all activities andadded that the samples have beensent to the Indian Veterinary Re-search Institute, Bareilly and Re-gional Disease Diagnostic Laborato-ry, Jalandhar, to ascertain the causeof the bird death. The possibility ofa disease cannot be ruled out.” Thedead birds were sent by the forestdepartment to veterinary hospital atShahpur where their postmortem hasbeen conducted and the samples

have been sent to veterinary Instituteof CSKA university at Palampur tooand the report to establish the causeof death was awaited.

In case the birds are found to besuffering from a contagious disease,preventive measures will be taken inand around 10km of the reservoir, asper protocol, he said, adding thatsince the disease may also be dan-gerous to animals and humans, nopeople or livestock will be allowedin and around 1km of the wetland tillfurther orders.

Migratory bird deaths in Pong damon rise, dam closed for people

‘Second dose of Covishield should be administered within six weeks’AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 4

In its permission to Serum Institute ofIndia for "manufacture for sale or dis-tribution" of COVID-19 vaccine 'Co-vishield', the DGCI has said that thesecond dose should be administeredbetween four to six weeks after thefirst dose and also noted that there isdata available for administration ofthe second dose up to 12 weeks afterthe first dose from the overseas stud-ies.

The permission document also

states that the firm should ensure that"factsheet for the vaccine recipient orattendant is provided prior to admin-

istration of vaccine".It said the vaccine is for the active

immunisation of the individualsabove 18 years of age for the preven-tion of the coronavirus disease whenadministered in two doses schedule.

"The second dose should be ad-ministered between 4 to 6 weeks afterthe first dose. However there is dataavailable for administration of thesecond dose up to 12 weeks after thefirst dose from the overseas studies,"the permission document said.

Specifying the "shelf life withstorage condition", the order said it is

"six months when stored at 2 to 8 de-grees Celsius".

"Once opened, the multi-dosevials should be used as soon as possi-ble and within six hours when keptbetween 2 to 8 degrees Celsius," itsaid.

The permission, which wassigned on Sunday by Drug ControllerGeneral India VG Somani, said thatthe "permission is for restricted use inemergency situation for COVID-19subject to various regulatory provi-sions". "Vaccine to be supplied forimmunization programme.

All-weather tunnel blocked on NH 3

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 4

The seventh round of talks be-tween protesting unions andthree central ministers ended in-conclusively on Monday as thefarmer leaders insisted on the re-peal of the three contentious farmlaws right from the beginning,even as the government listedvarious benefits from the Acts.

The next meeting will takeplace on January 8, farmer lead-ers said.

The two sides took a longbreak after just about one hour ofdiscussions, during which repre-sentatives of protesting farmershad their own food, arrangedfrom langar (communitykitchen), as they have been doingfor the last few times.

However, unlike the lastround of talks on December 30,the ministers did not join theunion leaders for the langar foodand were seen having their owndiscussion separately during thebreak, which lasted for almosttwo hours.

The two sides got togetheragain to resume their discussionsat around 5.15 pm, but no head-way could be made as the talksremained focussed on the farm-ers' demand for the repeal of theActs.

Farmer leaders said the gov-

ernment said it needs to consultinternally and thereafter it wouldcome back to the unions.

The union leaders will alsohave their own meeting on Tues-day to decide their next course ofaction.

In Monday's talks, the twosides did not even discuss anoth-er key demand of farmers for alegal guarantee to the MinimumSupport Price (MSP) procure-ment system.

Thousands of farmers, main-ly from Punjab, Haryana andwestern Uttar Pradesh, areprotesting at various Delhi bor-ders for over a month against thethree laws. They have stayed putdespite heavy rains and waterlog-ging at protest sites over the lastcouple of days, besides severecold weather conditions prevail-ing in and around the nationalcapital.

Enacted in September 2020,the government has presentedthese laws as major farm reformsand aimed at increasing farmers'income.

During the meeting, the gov-ernment listed various benefitsfrom the three laws, enacted afew months ago, but farmers keptinsisting that the legislation mustbe withdrawn to address their ap-prehensions that the new Actswould weaken the MSP andmandi systems and leave them at

Govt-farmers talks inconclusive;Next meeting on January 8th

HC orders CBI tohandover all sacrilegecases to Punjab PoliceSHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, JANUARY 4:

Vindicating the Punjab govern-ment’s stance on the investigationsinto the 2015 sacrilege incidents, thePunjab and Haryana High Court hasdirected the Central Bureau of In-vestigation (CBI) to hand over allcase diaries and papers related to thecases to the Punjab Policewithin a month.

Terming the High Courtdirections as an endorsementof the state government’sstand on the issue, ChiefMinister Captain AmarinderSingh said it was high timethe CBI listened to the courtsand handed the case filesback to the state so that theperpetrators of the crimescould be brought to justice.His government had beenfighting the CBI high-handednessfor than 2 years, but the agency hadfailed to heed the various directionsand orders of the courts in this time,he pointed out. Asserting his com-mitment to bring the cases to theirlogical conclusion, the Chief Minis-ter said the central agency should re-spect the verdict of the judiciary andstop overreaching the courts at thebehest of its political masters.

The High Court’s directionscame during a hearing on the plea ofone of the accused in the 2015Faridkot sacrilege incidents,Sukhjinder Singh @ Sunny, chal-

lenging the investigation being un-dertaken by a SIT of the Punjab Po-lice on the ground that the CBI is al-ready seized of the investigation.

The High Court rejectedSukhjinder’s plea and asked the CBIto hand over all relevant documentsand material in the sacrilege cases tothe Punjab Police. It further directedthe Punjab Police to consider the

material handed over by the CBIand file a supplementary challan inthe case, for consideration by the tri-al court. The trial court may then no-tice to the accused, if thought fit, thejudges further said. It is noteworthythat the CBI has been scuttling theSIT probe since the state govern-ment withdrew its consent for theprobe by the central agency in 2018.The CBI has been persistently re-fusing to hand the case files back tostate, and in September 2019, wentso far as to constitute a new inves-tigative team in a clear bid to ob-struct the SIT investigation.

Family members of roofcollapse victims block

National Highway

Tomar says no solution couldbe found as farmers 'adamant'NEW DELHI: After the eighth round of talks, theCentre could not reach any "solution" as the farmerunions remained "adamant" over repealing of threefarm laws, Union Agriculture Minister NarendraSingh Tomar said on Monday."We wanted farmer unions to discuss three lawsclause-wise. We could not reach any solution asfarmer unions remained adamant on the repeal ofthe laws," Tomar told reporters here this evening atVigyan Bhawan.However, the minister said he is "hopeful" that aconclusion will be found in the next round of talks which will be held onJanuary 8 at 2 pm. "Looking at today's discussion, I hope that we will havea meaningful discussion during our next meeting and we will come to aconclusion," he said. Yudhvir Singh of the Bhartiya Kisan Union said thatthey want a complete rollback of farm laws. "The minister wanted us to dis-cuss the law point-wise. We rejected it and said that there is no point indiscussing the laws because we want a complete rollback of the laws. Thegovernment intends to take us towards amendments but we will not acceptit," Singh said while addressing the reporters here after the meeting.

R. SINGH remaining problems soon. MLA Vij said that also be constructed in a few days. On this PATHANKOT, JAN - 4 development works are in progress in the areas occasion, Vikas Mahajan Bunty, Vijay Baghi,

falling in Ward no.7.He informed that the road Ajay Kumar, Baijnath Kaushal, Lalit Dogra, Pathankot MLA Amit Vij held a meeting with coming from the SD School Ground connecting Gayatri Aggarwal,Pastor Ajay Rana, Vicky senior Congress leaders and senior citizens at dozens of villages with the city will be Mahajan, Jatin Mahajan, Tarsem Angural, Congress leader Abhi Sharma's residence in constructed in better quality. Wazir Chand ,Manohar Lal, Pardeep Joshi, Ward No.7. In which senior Congress leader So that people do not face problems.He Vicky Singhpuria, Raman Sharma, Narinder Ashish Vij, Joginder Pehalwan, Chairman of further said that sewage and water supply work Sharma, Shiva, Gaurav Sharma and others were Co-operative Agriculture Bank Avtar Singh will soon be started in Baba Shah Sikandar street also present.The youth leader Abhi Sharma said Kaler, Rakesh Babli and other leaders were falling in Ward 7 and told the local leaders that that under the able direction of MLA Vij, a camp present. During this, MLA Amit Vij listened to every problem faced by the people will be was organized on smart ration cards, labor the problems of senior citizens and senior solved at the earliest. He said that almost all the cards, pensions of the people of the ward.Those members of the ward and sorted out many roads have been constructed in Ward 7, the roads people who do not have cards yet,their cards problems on the spot and assured to resolve the or streets which are yet to be constructed will will be made soon.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

NILOKHERI, JAN 4 ( ): Havan Yajna was organised by doctors and staff at Nilokheri Government Hospital from today in the joy of New Year for those receiving Covid-19 vaccine, in which everyone prayed to God by offering sacrifice in the Yajna and wished people to be healthy on this occasion. Doctors said that till the arrival of this vaccine, we have to follow the social distancing, use mask and follow all the rules set by the government and till the vaccine is available then we should follow these rules. But Dr. Anuj Sharma, Dinesh Malik, Dr. Vandana, Dr. Ankur Arya, Dr. Vinita, Nursing Sister Laxmi, Amarjeet Kaur, Sandeep, Pushpa, Seema Joshi, Kamlesh, Joginder Singh, Gurjeet, Dimple Rani and Kapila were present on the occasion.

DARSHAN SHARMA

Doctors perform havan for vaccine

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ROHIT LAMSERTARAORI, JAN 4: A ninth class student living in Maya Ram Colony near Dayanagar area of Tarawari town went missing under suspicious circumstances. The age of the student is being stated as 15 years. Father of the minor daughter has lodged a complaint at Tarawari police station requesting to find her daughter soon. Giving information, Ram Kirpal, father of the missing ninth class girl student, said that on January 1, when he was sleeping with the mother and children, his eyes opened at around 4 am. When he got up and saw her daughter was not at home. He told that he has searched for his daughter's in many places as well as the surrounding area. He told that his daughter studies in ninth grade. After she went missing, the family members are in a state of shock and they are crying inconsolably. He has pleaded with the police to find her daughter soon.

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Monthly ration distributed by Nar Narayan Seva Samiti

GOLDY CHUGH, been making every effort to serve SHAHABAD, JAN 4 the needy for the last 10 years,

including providing ration and Ration was distributed among the food, medicines and treatment, needy families under the monthly children's fees, wedding of girls, ration distribution scheme of Nar- blankets, clothes and camps. Narayan Seva Samiti. This ration Providing crutches, wheel chairs, was distributed by the hockey tri-cycles to the disabled etc. On this coach Amandeep Singh, occasion, President Rakesh Sa tyadev Jha rau l i and Multani, Treasurer Mukesh committee members among the Chitkara, Secretary Krishan Singla needy families on behalf of the Manager, Karnail Singh, Sushil committee in a s imple Thakral, Bhupendra Batra, Vinod ceremony organized at Shri Arora, Prince Anand, Amit Kalra, Laxmi Narayan Mandir Rahul Kamra, Manoj Wadhwa, Institute. The founder of the Mohit, Lucky Chitkara, Raman committee, Munish Bhatia Anand, Moti Lal and Pandit informed that the committee has Sandeep Shastri were present.

MLA Amit holds meeting with senior Congress leaders

I Sukhdev Kumar S/o Bhir I , Jasveer Kaur W/o Sukhvinder I, hitherto Known as NEHA I No 13993422 L Rank I, Parabh Saran Singh S/o Ajit I , P i s ta i s Spouse of I, Nirmal Singh S/o Bagh I, Amandeep Kaur W/O Chand Indian passport number Singh R/o Vpo Kakrala Inayat, KURICHH Daughter of Hav/NA Umesh Kumar of Singh R/o. Village Chachowali No.15490851L rank SWR Jai Singh R/o Vpo. Rattowal Kulwinder Singh Basati R/O K 6 1 4 0 7 9 0 i s s u e d a t Teh. Guhla Distt. Kaithal Have A J A Y K U A M R Unit 174 Military Hospital , PO Jaintipur Distt Amritsar Prakash residing at Nagla (Ludhiana) have changed my Vill: Kotala Bet, Teh-Samrala Chandigarh on 22/11/2012 Changed My Name & Address K U R I C H H W i f e o f C/O 56 APO have to change Have Changed my name to Ganga Bharatpur Rajasthan- name as Nirmal Singh (Ludhiana) Have Changed My Permanent resident of As Kaur Jasveer W/o Sukhvinder Y O G E S H A R O R A my son's name from Neeraj Prabhsharan Singh. 321026 India declare that I Dhaliwal. Name To Navneet Kaur.Village Chunia Farm, PO Singh R/o Vpo Kakrala Anayat , r e s i d i n g a t H . N o . 4 0 , Kumar Yadav to Neeraj 72737 have changed my name from 63372 63372Sandholi ,Tehsil Pehowa Teh. Guhla Distt. Kaithal. Krishna Square Amritsar, Kumar in my army record I, Navjot Singh S/o Manjit Pista to Pista Devi. Vide I Balbir Singh S/O Ajaib Singh I, Rajni Vij W/O Kamal District Kurukshetra Pincode Concerned Please Note. Punjab have changed my 100078 Singh R/o. Abadi Ram Nagar affidavit No.AN 796533 Village Nauhra Teh. Nabha Kumar R/O H.No.101-(A), 136128 Haryana India and 84451 name and Shall hereafter I JC-704945N Rank Nb/Sub Verka Distt Amritsar Have 72737 Distt, Patiala Have Changed St.No.4, Jagat Colony, Lalheri Presently residing at 9 intrigue I Sunita Devi w/o Sh. Durga b e k n o w n a s N E H A MD Nasiruddin of unit 174 Changed my name from Navjot I, Army No.15490851L rank My Name To Balvir Singh. Road, Khanna (Ludhiana) trail, Brampton, Ontario, singh, Resident of H.No. 29 ARORA. Military Hospital, C/o 56 Apo Singh to Navjot Surname Singh Swr Jai Prakash S/o Rajjan 63372 Have Changed My Name To CANADA L6X 0W8, have Village, Kishangarh have 900020 have to change my wife name 72737 Singh R/o.44 Armd Regt I Harjinder Kaur W/O Rajni.changed my name Sukhdev changed my name from Sunita I, hitherto Known as OM & DOB f rom Hamida I, Sonia W/o Baljeet Singh C/o.56 APO India declare that Lakhveer Singh VPO Makha, 63372Kumar to Sukhdev kumar Devi to Sushma Devi P A R K A S H S o n o f Khatoon 01-06-1984 to R/o.H.No.4 Palam Vihar, in my army record my mother The & Distt. Mansa My Two I Sikender Ali S/O Jamal Din Jassu 100040 J U G L A L r e s i d i n g a t Hamida Khatun 01-11-1987 in Majitha Road Amritsar Have name is mentioned as Shiv Name Harjinder Kaur/Veerpal Village Sohian Post Office

50008 I Sarabdeep Kaur W/o Nishan Chohla Sahib, District my army records Changed my name to Sonia Devi but her correct name is Kaur In All Records. Maloudh Tehs i l Paya l Singh R/O VPO Tarsikka, Tarn Taran Punjab 143408 100078 Kaur. Plz note it Shiv Dei. Vide affidavit No. 63372 Ludhiana Have Changed My District Amritsar, Punjab have have changed my name I, Reshma Devi alias Prem 72737 AN 796535 I Abhishk S/O Des Raj R/O Name Sikander Ali.changed my name from and Shall hereafter be Kaur w/o Hari Chand r/o Vill. I, Komal D/o Kuldeep Singh 72737 Singhpur Tehsil Garhshankar 63372Sarabdeep Kaur to Sarbdeep known as UMA. B a p d a , Te h s i l L a d w a R/o.H.No.F14/242 Gali No.2 I, Shlik Ram Patel F/o Gurlav (Hoshiarpur) Have Changed I, Parmjeet Kaur D/O Roop Kaur. Concern note. 900020 (Kurukshetra) inform that Guru Gobind Singh Nagar Prasad Patel present ly My Name To Abhishek Singh S/O Jangir Singh R/O

98728 I , h i ther to Known as Reshma Devi alias Prem Kaur Majitha Road Amritsar Have Residing at Village Maal Post Mehra. Mahuana Tehsil Malout Distt. I, hitherto Known as NEHA Wife of SIKANDER SINGH Son are the two names of one Changed my name to Komal Bans Thana Garh Te l 63372 Sri Muktsar Sahib Have HAPPY RAI residing at Gali No.2, of UMA residing at Patti person i.e. my self. I known Kaur. Plz note it Manigwan,Huzur Rewa I, Harpreet singh Nafari S/o Change My Name Parmjeet Saini Mohalla, Bajri Company, Sehjre , Chohla Sahib, with both these names. 72737 Madhya Pradesh-486001 Zora Singh R/o H.No. B- Kaur To Karmjeet Kaur.Pathankot, Punjab 145001 have District Tarn Taran Punjab 72737 I, Sawinder Singh S/o Chanan India declare that I have X111/1366 Gali No. 3 Saheed 63372changed my name and Shall 143408 have changed my I Karanjeet Singh S/o Gurmeet Singh R/o. Vpo Machrai shri changed my name from Shlik B h a g a t S i n g h N a g a r I, Sewak Singh S/O Diyal hereafter be known as SARBJIT. name and Shall hereafter Singh R/o Vill Channu Teh hargobindpur Gurdaspur I have Ram Patel to Shalik Prasad (Barnala)-148101, have Singh R/O Rajgarh Khurd

900020 b e k nown as KIRPAL Malout and Distt Sri Muktsar Changed my name Sawinder Patel. Vide affidavit No.AN changed my name to Harpreet (Bathinda) Have Changed My SINGH. Sahib Have Changed My Singh To Swinder Singh. 796517 Singh. Name Daughte r Name

900020 Name Karanjeet Singh 72737 72737 63372 Kirandeep Kaur To Simranjeet Dhillon. I, Army No.15488294Y rank I, Army No.15500366M rank I, Ritu Singla D/o Kulwant Rai Kaur.

62647 LD Hans Raj S/o Subash ALD Munna Pandit S/o Shri Bansal R/o Patti Road 63372I, Rajinder Singh Aulakh S/o Chander R/o.67 Armd Regt Bhukhan Pandit R/o.44 Armd (Barnala) changed my name to I, Patvinder Kaur W/O Karam Singh R/o.H.No.71, C/o.56 APO India declare that Regt C/o.56 APO India Arusha. Gurmeet Singh Brar R/O Metro City Ram Tirath Road in my service recod my mother declare that in my service 63372 Lande (Moga) Have Changed new Kale Morh Amritsar name is mentioned as Gudi recod my mother name is I Radha Karwasara D/o My Name To Patvinder Kaur Punjab have changed my Devi but her correct name is m e n t i o n e d a s S m t Ramkumar Karwasara R/o – Brar. name to Rajinder Singh. Guddi Devi. Vide affidavit Shakumarya Devi but but her Jaisangsar, Jaisinghsar, Churu, 63372

72737 No.AN 796532 correct name is Sukmariya S a r d a r s h a h a r , I Sandeep Kaur Chahil W/O 72737 Devi. Vide affidavit No.AP Rajasthan–331402 have Gurinder Singh Brar R/O Hira

598350 changed my name to Riya Singh Nagar, Kotkapura 72737 Choudhary. (Faridkot) Have Changed My

I, Shyam Kali M/o Gurlav 63372 Name To Sandeep Kaur Brar.Prasad Patel presently I Nagmani S/o Ramsevak R/o 63372Residing at Gram Mal – 62 A Rampur Khurd I, Sukhvir Kaur W/o Harmesh Post Bans Garh Rewa Pos t–Kotamukundapur, Singh R/o Vpo. Dadahur Teh-Madhya Pradesh-486115 M a h a r a j g a n j , U t t a r Raikot (Ludhiana) changed India declare that I have P r a d e s h – 2 7 3 3 0 3 h a v e my name to Sukhbir Kaur.changed my name from changed my name to Akhil 63372Shyam Kali to Premvati Bhaskar. I, Ramandeep Kour W/o Patel. Vide affidavit 63372 Surinder Singh R/o Vpo. No.AN 796518 I Baljeet Singh S/O Bhupinder Khosa Randhir (Moga)

72737 Singh R/O Village Mehdevi, changed my name to Sukhpal I, Kuldeep Singh S/o Tehsil Malerkotla (Sangrur) Kaur.Chamkaur Singh R/o Have Changed My Name 63372House Number 251, ward Baljeet Singh To Baljeet Singh number 12, Rahigar Nagar Chahal.Moga declare that in my 63372some documents my name I, Nisha D/o Sukhwinder spelt as Kuldip Singh and Kumar R/o Vpo. Mallupota in some documents as Distt. SBS Nagar Teh-Banga Kuldeep Singh. Both changed my name to Nisha names are mine and the Narewal.same person. 63372

90007 I, Hari Darshan S/o Om I, Madho Ram S/o Baldev Parkash R/o # 10244 Samad Raj R/o Shahkot Distt. Wali Gali Guru Nanak Pura Jalandhar Have Changed Mohalla Bathinda (Punjab) My Name Madho Ram To have known by both names Madhan Ram. Note Please Hari Darshan and Darshan

90009 Kumar.I ,ramrati Devi W/o 63372Madhan Ram R/o Shahkot I, Rajan Kumar Tanotra S/O Distt. Jaladhar Have Buta Ram R/O H.No.3880 Changed My Name St.No.5 Gagandeep Colony Ramrati Devi To Ramrati Ludhiana Changed Name .note Please. Rajan Tanotra.

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LOST & FOUND It Is Notified For The Information That My Original Qualifying Examination Certificate Of Main Secondary Examination Of Year 2015 And Roll No. 2208682 Issued By CBSE Has Been Actually Lost.Name Of The Candidate Manjinder Singh Full Address V P O T H A R A J T E L BAGHAPURANA DISTT MOGA PIN CODE 142057 Contact No.9915190435.

63372It Is Notified For The Information That My Original Qualifying Examination Certificate Of Main Secondary Examination Of Year 2017 And Roll No.2226371 Issued By CBSE Has Been Actually Lost.Name Of The Candidate Khushkaranpreet Singh Full Address VPO KOIR SINGH WALA TEL PHUL DISTT B AT H I N D A C o n t a c t No.7340862167.

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PUBLIC NOTICEI, Suman D/o Prem Masih R/o H.No. 16 D h o b i a n a R o a d (Bathinda) Punjab-151001 at present R/o Sushma Green V i s t a D h a k o l i Zirakpur Teh-Dera Bassi Sub-Teh-Zirakpur (SAS Nagar) Pb, changed my name from Suman to Simran Shergill.

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I, Sh. Hari Singh Saini S/o Late Sh. Arjun Singh R/o H.No-11, Village Daria U.T Chandigarh declare that on an earlier stage on dated 26.11.2020 disown his son Balbir Singh and his wife Amarjit Kaur through publication, but now decided w i t h d r a w s h i s e a r l i e r publication regarding the disowning and inherit the properties of the deponent and properties will distributed among all the heirs as per the will.

60017I Shakuntala Rani W/o Om Parkash R/o Village and Post Office Dayalpur Sub Tehsil Dhilwan District Kapurthala solemnly declare that I have lost mt sale deed dated 04.09.2019 bearing wasika no. 2019-20/185 / 1 / 372 Registered in office Sub Registrar Kartarpur. I have not found my above deed. I have recorded my DDR/FIR sale deed vide LR no. 87582/2020 d a t e d 2 5 . 1 1 . 2 0 2 0 a t community police wing P u n j a b d h i l w a n D i s t t Kapurthala.

98748I Subhash Sarin s/o Sh. Sahib Dayal RIO # 443 Sector 20-A hereby disown my Son Ashwani Sarin and his wife Ankita Sarin from all my moveable and immoveable properties. They are out of my control , If anybody deal with them will do so at own risk, I shall not be responsible for their any deeds.

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I Bhajan Lal S/O Ram Chand R/O Near Dharmshala, Village Dal Singhwala, Teh. Jaitu Distt. Faridkot Do Hereby Solemnly Affirm And Declare That My Son Ishwar Rai Was Out Of My Control. So I Evicted My Son Ishwar Rai From All My Moveable And Immoveable Property. If Any Person Will Deals With Ishwar Rai, He Will Be Himself Responsible, I & May Any Family Member Will Not Have Any Concern/Relation With That.

63372I Satpal Singh S/O Joginder Singh Sm Jc No. 509746a R/O Village Kazikot Distt. Tarn Taran That In My Army Record My Son Name Is Sunsinderjit Singh Gill. I Change My Son Name Sunsinderjit Singh Gill To Sunshinder Singh.

63372I Ravinder Singh S/O Prem Singh H.No.B006/1596, Ward 10, Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar, Kharar (SAS Nagar) Declare In My Passport (N9732046) My Mother's Name Wrongly Written As Darshan Kaur But H e r C o r r e c t N a m e I s Gurdarshan Kaur.

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PUBLIC NOTICEIt is brought to Notice of General Public that Mr. Raj Kumar S/o Hari Chand R/o and owner of the House measuring 146 Sq. Yards, bearing B-IV-740 Near Kali Mata Mandir Old City Kotkapura Faridkot-151204 Tehsil and District Faridkot & as per title deed, the property is bound as under having boundaries as per title deed: East: 14’-6” Road + 19’ Kanchan Bala, West: 33’-6” Gian Chand Pura, North: 54’ Gian Chand Malhotra, South: 2 7 ’ A s h o k K u m a r + 2 7 ’ Kanchan Bala, is availing Loan against this property. Anybody having objection regarding mortgage of property with Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Co. Ltd., may respond or raise objection within 7 days, to R.P. Singh, Advocate, 75080-11581.

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Student goes missing under suspicious circumstances

Miscreants fireoutside ricemiller's houseSHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL: A case of firing has been re-ported by miscreants outside the houseof a Rice Miller living in CM City Sector-8.The miscreants also broke the glass ofthe car parked outside the house. Policeand FSL teams reached the spot as soonas the information was received. Policeare investigating the case now. Accordingto the information received, the miscre-ants carried out the incident outside thehouse of Rice Miller Subhash Singla inSector-8 at around 6 am on Mondaymorning in Karnal. There is an atmos-phere of panic among the people due tosuch firing outside the house. SubhashSingla is a rice miller as well as the headof the gaushalas located in Nissing andGounder. Singla reported the matter tothe police.Subhash Singla said that all the familymembers were inside the house ataround 6:30 in the morning. As soon ashis wife came out of the room after hear-ing the doorbell to open the gate, sud-denly 4 miscreants escaped by firing 15-16 bullets. Although no one has sufferedany personal injury in this incident, thereare bullet marks on the glass of the car,while there are bullet marks on the pillarof the house as well. Deputy Superinten-dent of Police Rajiv Kumar reached thespot with the police team as soon as theincident was reported. The DSP inspect-ed the spot and also inquired about theincident. The FSL team gathered evi-dence from the spot. While police haverecovered bullet shells from here, a casehas been registered against unknownmiscreants on the statement of the RiceMiller. Police are investigating the CCTVfootage in the vicinity.

MC seals Rice Mill for tax defaultMAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI: Pankaj Rice Meal has beensealed by Municipality, Indri for non-pay-ment of property tax. This action hasbeen taken under the chairmanship ofBDPO Angrez Singh Mor. BDPO was ap-pointed as duty magistrate for this action.He said that the notice was already givento the rice mill owner several times by themunicipality. This rice mill has beensealed due to non-payment of propertytax. Apart from this, four shops in GolMarket have also been sealed. The shopis a personal property of the municipality,which was given to the tenants on the bid.But for a long time these tenants were notpaying the rent of the municipality. Munici-pality Secretary Devendra Narwal saidthat shops inside the Gol Market were of-fered by the municipality on a bid, out ofwhich four shops stand at about Rs 30lakh rent. Even after repeated notices,these people were not depositing the rentof the shops due to which these shopswere sealed. He informed that if theserents are not paid, then further action willbe implemented as per rules. The policeforce was also present during this action.Devendra Narwal said that the develop-ment work of the city is being affecteddue to non-payment of property tax.

15th padyatra againstdrug addictionSHAHABAD/KURUKSHEETRA: Today,a padyatra was organised against drugaddiction in the city by the PrayasSanstha Branch Kurukshetra in collabo-ration with the officials of various socialorganizations of Shahabad. This aware-ness journey started from Shri Devi tem-ple and ended at Shree Rajiv Gandhichowk. Under the leadership of Dr. AshokKumar Verma, Executive Head of thePrayas Sansthan Branch, Kurukshetraand Deputy Inspector of Narcotics Con-trol Bureau, Haryana, Dr. Verma said inhis visit to the markets that the drug af-fects the life, family and society of a per-son. As a result, the person lives a life offrustration, isolated from society.Drugs are an evil; this is the truth of life.He said that Shri Shrikant Jadhav, Addi-tional Director General of Police, Head ofNarcotics Control Bureau, Haryana, isconducting an awareness campaign un-der the guidance and leadership ofHaryana. In this episode, this is the firstawareness tour against the first drug ya-tra in Shahabad and the 15th in districtKurukshetra. Police in-charge Prateeksaid that he will cooperate fully in thiscampaign and will make the campaign ofdrug-free India successful. Chairman ofShahabad Vikas Manch, Rajesh Sidanasaid that they will continue to hold theseawareness programmes regularly.

Meeting held forSwachh Survekshan 2021KARNAL: Municipal Corporation Com-missioner Vikram reviewed the prepara-tions being made for the Clean Survey2021 with the concerned officials of thecorporation on Monday. According to thecommissioner, in the month of March, thecentral ministry team will come to the cityto take stock of cleanliness. In the samemonth, a separate team of the Centre willalso evaluate what has been done forGarbage Free City. Both the subjects areimportant for the corporation, so work isbeing done with a focus on them. Thecorporator said that Karnal is the only cityin the state, which has achieved 3 starsin GFC twice.Encouraged by this achievement, thistime the target of achieving 7 stars hasbeen taken and all possible good workwill be done for this. If successful, Kar-nal's name will shine at the national level.The commissioner stated that the overallassessment under the Swachh BharatMission Chain in 7 Star rating will be en-sured or presumed to be possible. Nearly12 parameters have been added to this,including door to door waste collection,source aggregation, cleanliness in public,commercial and residential areas,streamlining waste donation, waste do-nation and material recovery facility cen-ters, usage fees for plastic ban. , Takingsteps like imposing penalty on the spot,ensuring compliance of bulk waste dis-posal, disposal of waste .

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3HARYANAAppeal to donate for cremation groundDARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI: A meeting of the cremation ground reform committee was held at the Nil NagarMarket. It was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Ramji Das Ahuja. Gayatri Mantra was recit-ed before the commencement of the proceedings. The meeting was conducted by SecretaryAdvocate Gyan Chand Arora. The meeting approved the resignation sent by Treasurer Virb-han Chawla from the post of treasurer due to poor health and the proposal of Ish Chopra toremain in the post of Assistant Treasurer unanimously until further proceedings were passed.Secretary Gyan Arora said that the lenter of the wooden godown has been opened and theprocess of cement plaster around it is in full swing now. He appealed to generous people thatif any anybody wants to donate for the cremation ground he can contact any member of theinstitution.YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

SD SHARMAPANCHKULA, JANUARY 4:

To promote the use of electric vehicles (e-vehicles) in Haryana the first e-chargingstation has been inaugurated today. It wasstarted by Secretary, Ministry of Petrole-um and Natural Gas, Mr. Tarun Kapoor, atthe Renewable Energy Building inPanchkula. In this e-charging station, free-charging facility will be provided to alltypes of electric vehicles.

On this occasion, Mr. Tarun Kapoorsaid that if sufficient number of e-chargingstations are available for e-vehicles, thenmore people will be able to use e-vehicles.He said that petrol and diesel have to beimported from outside, but we haveenough solar power, therefore, efforts arebeing made to install such e-charging sta-tions in every corner of the country for e-charging so that people can charge their ve-hicles without facing inconvenience. Hesaid that now it is necessary to increase thecirculation of e-vehicles in the electronicera, for this work is also being done to pro-vide the facility of e-charging points at thepetrol pumps.

Additional Chief Secretary, New andRenewable Energy Department, Mr. TCGupta said that Haryana is the first state inIndia to conserve renewable energy. For its

use, the Haryana Government has takenseveral necessary steps, which have bene-fited the citizens greatly. He said that withthe availability of e-charging stations, citi-zens will develop an inclination towards e-vehicles. He said that during the year 2021,Departments in Haryana will hire only e-vehicles.

Additional Chief Secretary said that ithas been decided by the department to in-stall e-charging stations at 500 places in thestate so that an e-charging station can be setup after every three kilometers. Along withthis, positive efforts are being made to pro-vide e-charging stations on the nationalhighway. He informed that due to the intro-duction of e-vehicles, the consumption perkm of petrol and diesel driven vehicles willalso be very low.

First e charging stationinaugurated at Panchkula

ISHIKA THAKURKURUKSHETRA, JAN 4

City Council President UmaSudha said that around Rs 25crore will be spent on devel-opment works in 31 wards ofthe city. A list of developmentworks has been sought fromeach councillor to completethese development works ac-cording to the ward. Accord-ing to this list, the estimatedcost of development works isabout 25 crores. In each wardof this city, developmentwork has been done withoutdiscrimination and uniformlyand will be done further. Allcity councilors will have towork unitedly for the devel-opment of this city.

Chairperson Uma Sudhawas addressing a meeting of

the House in the late eveningon Monday. In this meeting,the deceased officers werefirst held a two-minute si-lence. Subsequently, MLASubhash Sudha respondedone by one to the questionsraised by each MunicipalCouncilor on the develop-ment work in the ward andthe city and satisfied all theMunicipal Councilors. Notonly this, the city councillorsalso assured that if there is

any shortfall in the develop-ment work or if the develop-ment works have been inter-rupted due to the negligenceof the officers and employees,then the negligent officer, theemployee will not be sparedin any case.

Not only this, whereverthe deficiency is found, thosedeficiencies will be removed.Strict orders have also beengiven to officers and employ-ees. Development of this city

is the only goal, for this thecooperation of all the citycouncilors is necessary. In themeeting of the city council,during the Corona period, allthe city councillors includingMLA Subhash Sudha, MPPresident Uma Sudha, MPEO Ravindra Singh Kuhar,held a 2 minute silence on thesudden death of ExecutiveEngineer Mian Singh and En-gineer Rakesh Maggo. In themeeting the councillors pro-posed to name the dividingroad of sectors 5 and 7 afterthe late Ramesh Sudha. Allcity councillors gave permis-sion for this proposal. In thismeeting, Municipal Council-lor Mohan Lal Arora has alsotalked about building a hall inthe name of the late RameshSudha.

Councillors clear 43 agendas in MC meet

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JANUARY 4

Additional Chief Secretary (RevenueDepartment) Sanjeev Kaushal on Mon-day seriously took all the concerned de-partment officials for the Red Dora freevillages being carried out in the state un-

der the proprietary scheme through videoconferencing from Chandigarh. He in-structed the officials of the team of Sur-vey of India to deploy the teams in otherdistricts in which the drone mappingwork has been completed and ensure thatthe survey map is made available to theconcerned district on time. Do not take

any kind of laxity in this work. In thevideo conferencing, ACS was reviewingthe ownership plan with the DeputyCommissioners. Deputy Commissionerin VC Nishant Kumar Yadav said that thework of making 232 villages in Karnaldistrict free from Lal Dora under theownership scheme is going on.

Lal Dora work reviewed through VC

Abohar farmers leave for Delhi borderABOHAR (RAJ SADOSH): A large number of farmers, laborers and traders, led by SandeepJakhar, ex-president of District Youth Congress, left for Delhi with four truckloads of kinnow,

two water tankers and one loaded with fire-wood. Notably the quality of Abohar kinnowfruit is considered the best in the state. Theywere expected to reach Delhi border Mondayevening. Before leaving, Jakhar said that theModi government was sitting blindly in the ar-rogance of power because the PM does not seethe pain of hundreds of families that have so far

lost 60 members. Elderly women and children were braving the chill and rain but the govern-ment was not paying any attention to them. Protesters will be forced to fight hard in the com-ing days.

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BUREAUCHANDIGARH, JAN 4

Punjab Food, Civil Supplyand Consumer Affairs Min-ister Bharat Bhushan Ashusaid that the state has setprecedence for the entirecountry in smooth conduct-ing of procurement of wheatand paddy during lock-down.

In a press conference atPunjab Bhawan, Ashu saidthat the Punjab Governmentled by Chief Minister Cap-tain Amarinder Singh, hascreated 2136 additionaltemporary purchase centersin the State thus increasingthe total number of purchasecenters to 4006 duringwheat procurement in Rabbiseason of 2020-21. Elabo-rate arrangements weremade in Mandies as perheath protocol and total of127.11 lakh MT of wheatwas procured by all the pro-curement agencies benefitedmore than 10 lakh farmers

from the MSP scheme. Sim-ilarly 2367 additional tem-porary purchase centerswere set up in the State dur-ing KMS 2020-21 to main-tain social distancing andstaggered procurement. Heinformed that total 202.78lakh MT of paddy was pro-cured by all the procure-ment agencies during theseason, which has been all-time highest paddy procure-ment in the State. The Cabi-net Minister said that thePunjab Government has ini-tiated many dynamic worksfor the betterment of peopleof state. Smart Ration cardscheme launched for thebenefit of 1.41 cr. peopleand 37, 00, 000 Chip basedSmart Cards distributed un-der this scheme by the De-partment. This Scheme willeliminate the need for carry-ing any other document toget the entitled quota offood grains, and bring trans-parency in public distribu-tion system.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, JAN 4

Cabinet Ministers and Senior Con-gress leaders Vijay Inder Singlaand Sunder Sham Arora todayslammed the BJP for misusing theconstitutional posts to weaken thedemocratic elected government inthe state. In a statement issued heretoday, both the Cabinet Ministerssaid that it was ironic that earlierthe Governors in states like WestBengal, Maharashtra and othershave tried to throttle democraticelected governments. He said thatnow the Governor Punjab was act-ing as a puppet in the hands of BJPleadership. Punjabis would neverbow before the nefarious designsof the BJP leadership to threatenthe Captain government and wouldteach BJP leadership a lesson, saidSingla and Arora.

Training their guns against theformer Minister Manoranjan Kaliafor issuing baseless and irresponsi-ble statements, the Minister saidthat the BJP leader has never beeninto Army or NCC not even duringtheir school days due to which he isnot aware that a General or Com-mander calls the officers he was

commanding as his own officers. They said that if the Punjab

Chief Minister was calling the offi-cers as his own officers that is pri-marily because he has Army back-ground adding that he has everyright to say that because the offi-cers of Punjab are directly account-able to him. Singla and Arora re-minded the former Minister thatGovernor was a titular head where-as the real executive powers lie inthe hands of democratically electedgovernment headed by CaptainAmarinder Singh. Quipping on thestatement of former Minister, the

Congress leaders said that the BJPleader in his overdose to appeasethe Governor has forgotten the ba-sic principal of democracy whichimplies a Government elected bythe people, for the people and ofthe people. He said that that theBJP leader, who has remained thechief of state unit also, must re-member that the officers are ac-countable only to the democratical-ly elected government and not a tit-ular head. The Cabinet Ministersalso warned the BJP leaders of se-rious repercussions if they don’tstop such theatricals.

The Ministers revealed that inorder to neutralize the disastrouseffects of the draconian farm lawsfor saving the farming sector, thePunjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh passed bills inthe Punjab Vidhan Sabha but it is areally unfortunate that the Gover-nor didn't gave his assent to thesame thus completely ignoring theopinion voiced by elected repre-sentatives of the masses. "Theleaders of Punjab BJP didn't raisedeven a whimper of protest insteadchoosing the safe option of remain-ing silent. Now, the same peoplehave absolutely no locus standi tocome out in support of the Gover-nor. Moreover, you owe an answerto the people as to what have youdone for the Welfare of farmingcommunity despite being the min-ister twice", questioned the Con-gress leaders.

Lambasting Manoranjan Kalia,the ministers pointed out that theConstitution has fixed the respon-sibilities of the Governor but thePunjab BJP leaders are hell bentupon defining the office of Gover-nor according to their own whimsand fancies on the pattern of WestBengal.

Singla, Arora assail BJP for misusingconstitutional posts to weaken democracy

Punjab attains recordprocurement during

lockdown hardships: AshuBlot on democracy toconduct elections in absenceof farmers: Grewal SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON: SAD district Ludhianarural president Gurcharan SinghGrewal objected to the conduct ofmunicipal council elections in Punjabamidst the protests against new farm

laws. In astatement Grewalsaid that Punjabgovernment istrying to weakenthe farmer protestsin Delhi byconductingmunicipal councilelections in Punjab

while the entire Punjab is stagingprotests against the government.Grewal added that People fromPunjab have gathered in Delhi in ahuge number and conductingelections in their absence is anattempt to weaken the protestsmoreover, in the absence of such ahuge number of voters congress istrying to hide its failures asgovernment and to win urbanelections which is a big blot ondemocracy. Grewal added that wehighly condemn the act of holdingelections in absence of the protestingfarmers and other Punjabis as theyare fighting for their rights irrespectiveof the chilling cold. Grewal accusedgovernment of holding electionsduring this time in order to attian onesided victory but people of Punjab arewise enough to understnad this andthe plans of ruling party won't besuccessful.

Chairman safai karamcharicommission holds reviewmeeting in Ludhiana LUDHIANA: Punjab State SafaiKaramchari Commission ChairmanGejja Ram Valmiki on Monday, helda review meeting with the officials ofMunicipal Corporation and all theMunicipal Committees at CircuitHouse here. He was accompaniedby Commission’s Vice ChairmanRam Singh Sardulgarh, MemberInderjit Singh, Member Prem Masihand Advocate Rahul Kumar Adia.Deputy Commissioner (DC)Ludhiana Varinder Kumar Sharma,Joint Commissioner MunicipalCorporation Swati Tiwana andDeputy Director Local GovernmentAmit Bamby have also attended themeeting. Chairman Gejja Raminteracted with the officials ofMunicipal Corporation and differentMunicipal Committees to checkwhether the guidelines of theGovernment regarding SafaiSewaks and Sewer-men are beingfollowed in the Civic Bodies. Hedirected officials to regularise all thecontractual safai sewaks and sewer-men as per the governmentguidelines. Chairman Gejja Ramhas given direction to all officer'swho were present in the meeting torecheck the status of policies withregards to Safai Karamchari /sewerman whether it is properlyimplemented or not?He also asked officials to blacklistthe contractors if any of them givingless salary to the safai sewaks. Hesaid that the contractor must follow“Equal Work, Equal Pay”government rule and disburse salaryin bank accounts of Sawai Sewaks.He also warned that the officialsinvolved in Employees ProvidentFund (EPF) and Employees’ StateInsurance (ESI) fraud won’t bespared and the entire amount will berecovered with the interest.

Remind Kalia that officers accountable to elected head

R.SINGH, PATHANKOT, JAN 4

For the beginning of anew semester and brightfuture of students atPathankot A&M GemsCambridge InternationalSchool,Havan Yagya andSundar Kand path wereperformed under the lead-ership of President SonuMahajan, Vice-PresidentAkshay Mahajan and

Principal Dr. VandanaMahajan. On this specialoccasion, Directors ofA&M College, Dr. Renu-ka Mahajan, Arzu Maha-jan, Naman Mahajan,Ravinder SainiH.O.D.,Ravi Shankar andstaff of A&M Collegewere also present. TheHavan Yajna began withthe chanting of sacredmantras, with which theatmosphere was purified.

Special arrangementswere made for the peoplepresent on this occasion.After the recitation of ShriSundar Kand, the presi-dent of the school, SonuMahajan, vice- presidentAkshay Mahajan andPrincipal Dr. VandanaMahajan congratulatedthe students, their parentsand the staff for the newyear and wished a goldenfuture.

Religious congregation on New Yearat Pathankot school held

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JAN 4

Chief Minister Capt.Amarinder Singh and the Fi-nance Minister ManpreetSingh Badal fulfilled thepromises made during theelections which is bringingprosperity and progress to allsections.

But unfortunately thePrime Minister of the coun-try Narendra Modi formedthe government in the name

of showing good days but to-day the plight of the farmersis being done badly and blacklaws are being passed andforced. Even in these cir-cumstances, the Congresshas stood firm with the farm-ers, said District CongressBathinda Urban PresidentArun Wadhawan in GanpatiEnclave Silver City HarbansNagar Karnail Singh Nagar.He said that the family of lateMLA Jarnail Singh Pukkawas known for helping the

poor middle class and work-ing for the welfare of all sec-tions and development of thearea and Balraj Singh Pukkawas striving to serve the peo-ple following in his foot-steps.

He demanded votes for de-velopment to Balraj Pukka'sfamily. On this occasion Bal-raj Pukka assured that hewould always strive for thedevelopment and prosperityof the development area of thecity.

Main agenda of FM is prosperity ofall sections of city: Arun Wadhawan

CHET RAM RATAN NAWANSHAHAR, JAN 4

Reviewing functioning of theDistrict Employment andTrade Bureau, Deputy Com-missioner Dr Sheena Aggar-wal directed the officials toexpedite the placementdrive. She said that in orderto provide employment tounemployed youths, an effortshould be made to organizeplacement camps at the dis-trict and block levels. She di-rected banks to meet the tar-

gets of self-employed loansand settle the backlog at theearliest.

DC directed various de-partments to identify localartisans so that they could beprovided with a commonplatform to display theirskills and employment.

Reviewing the function-ing of the skill developmentmission, he directed thatpeople should be made moreand more aware of theschemes related to skill de-velopment so that skill train-

ing allows the youth to standon their own feet. She alsoreviewed the work beingdone for the rehabilitation ofdrug-free youth and directedthem to provide proper em-ployment opportunities sothat they can be integratedinto the mainstream of socie-ty.

On this occasion, apartfrom officers of the districtemployment generation, skilldevelopment and training of-fice, officers of other depart-ments were also present.

Departments need to identify local artisansto provide common platform : DC

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, JAN 4

Jathedar Jagjit Singh Tal-wandi Member Shiromanion the last day of Jorh-Melacelebrated at the historicGurdwara Tahliana SahibPatshahi Dasvi Raikot in cel-ebration of the stepping in ofSahib-e-Kamal Sri GuruGobind Singh Ji. Dhadi andKavisar Darbar was held un-der the guidance of the com-mittee. On this occasionBhai Hakim Singh Dee-wana, Bhai Bhagwant SinghSadowal, Bhai GurdeepSingh, Bhai Amritpal Singh

(both Dhadi Jatha DharamPracharak Committee ShriAmritsar), Bhai ManpreetSingh Daudhar, Bhai BawaSingh Hans were present. Onthe occasion, Jagjit SinghTalwandi and BalwinderSingh Sandhu, in-charge ofRaikot constituency of Shi-romani Akali Dal, address-ing a large gathering of the

Sangat, said that Dashmesh'spita Guru Gobind Singh Jisacrificed his Sarbans. Heset an example for the better-ment of humanity which willlast till time immemorial forthe rest of the world. On thisoccasion he honored theDhadi Jathas. InspectorParvinder Singh, GurdevSingh and Checking Officer

Gulwinder Singh were alsopresent. Others present onthe occasion were ManagerKanwaljit Singh Gill, Dr.Harpal Singh Grewal CityPresident Akali Dal, InderjitSingh Gondwal, AmandeepSingh Gill, Amarjit SinghSehbajpura, Gurmel SinghAndlu, Amritpal Singh Hap-py Sivian, Dr. Asok Kumar,Gursharan Singh Barundi,Prem Singh Jalaldiwal, Man-ager Nirbhai Singh Heran,Satpal Singh Jhorran, Krish-na Nand Bhaini Baringan,Sarabjit Singh Halwara,Gurmel Singh Jhorran, Man-preet Singh Nathowal.

Annual Jorh-Mela of historical GurdwaraTahliana Sahib Raikot concludes

Three more Corona deaths inPatiala district , 10 more newpositives reportedJAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: The infectious spreadbifdreaded Novel Corona Virus diseaseon Monday took three more lives inPatiala district taking the number oftotal corona deaths in the district to488 and following a sharp declinenumber of total Corona active casesin the district also registered at 225.On the other hand with reporting of10 more new corona positives todaynumber of total corona positives inthe district also rose to 15,835.Whereas today 14 more Coronapositive patients were dischargedfrom caring facilities andbsent homeafter their two consecutive tests camenegative with this now number of totalcorona cured patients in this districthas rose to 15,122. Here it ismentioned that till a total of 2,90,284samples have been collected fromdifferentbareasbofbthisbdistrict andsent into the Lab and out of these arefound 2,72 500 negatives. Whileproviding these details here latebinthis evening the Civil Surgeon , DrSatinder Singh told that today threemore Corona deaths were reported inthis district.

Lions club celebratesnew year eve

JAGRAON (SUKH NAHAR): Lions club midtown jagraon welcomed the new year pompously.The club organized a celebration in the supervisionof club president Ajay Bansal, Chairman RakeshJain, region chairman Sukhdev Garg, Secretary Sub-hash Garg, cashier Lal Chand Mangla in which Mu-nish Chugh, Gagandeep Kaur and Hina Garg con-ducted fun games and gave away prizes to the win-ners.

The program started with flag hoisting ceremo-ny in which club members Vinod Bansal and Harjin-der Singh hoisted club's falg. Club member Shingarasingh welcomed the guests. The club welcomed newyear by cutting cake. Club president Ajay Bansalthanked the guests for being a part of the occasionand also elaborated on the social welfare activities ofthe club. At this occasion, club members includingCharanjeet Singh Bhandari, Vinod Bansal, AmritGarg, Lakhmi garg, bhushan goyal, krishan verma,narinder kochar, satinder garg, Dr. Praminder singhand others were present.

Complete ban ontransportation of cows

after sunset, beforesunrise in morning

GULSHAN KUMARBARNALA, JAN.4District Magistrate BarnalaTej Partap Singh Phoolka,IAS Exercising his powersunder Section 144 of theCode of Criminal Procedure,1973, said that the trans-portation of cows will be pro-hibited in the evening aftersunset and before sunrise inthe morning in district Bar-nala without any documen-tary evidence . There will bea complete ban on any kindof transportation of Gau-vansh. He said that the peo-ple who are keeping Gau-vansh should be registeredwith the Animal HusbandryDepartment so that no unto-ward incident could takeplace regarding Gauvansh.

VERMAQADIAN, JAN 4

Smart phone distribution cer-emony was organized inFFSDS Government SeniorSecondary SchoolButkarkalan during the thirdphase under the leadership ofHonorable Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh.Sukhdev Singh specially at-tended the distribution ofsmartphones to the students.On this occasion, Panchayatmember Sahib Singh NishanSingh Satpal Singh were alsopresent. On this occasion,student Navjot Kaur thanked

the government and said thatthese mobiles will prove tobe very beneficial in their on-line education. At the end ofthe ceremony, the principalof the school, Amarjit SinghBhatia, informed the studentsabout the government's bene-

ficial schemes and the visit-ing guests On this occasion,all students specially thankedCaptain Amarinder SinghChief Minister, Punjab Edu-cation Minister VijayinderSingla and Cabinet MinisterTripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa.

Smart phones distributed at FSSDgovt senior secondary school

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, JAN 4

Today, on the GT Road Nij-jarpura Toll Plaza, a roadsafety drive was launchedunder the chairmanship ofSP(D) Gaurav Tura to re-duce accidents.

People are also beingmade aware. On this occa-sion, the drivers were in-formed about the trafficrules by stopping them.

He appealed to the peopleto comply with the traffic

rules. Apart from this, re-flector stickers were also in-stalled to protect vehiclesfrom accidents. On this oc-casion Inspector AvtarSingh, ASI Sukhdev Singh,Surjit Singh Traffic In-charge, Harpal Singh SanjhCenter Incharge Tarsikka,ASI Ranbir Singh, ASI Den-nis Christ, Davinder Singh,Gurvinder Singh, Kanwal-jeet Singh, Ranjit Singh, In-dramohan Singh And ASIHardayal Singh was pres-ent.

SP (D ) rural launchesroad safety campaign to

reduce road accidents

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Low intensity quake hits KashmirSRINAGAR: A low intensity earthquake, measuring 3.5 on the Richterscale, hit Kashmir valley on Monday. An official said the quakeoccurred in the valley at 1058 hrs on Monday, the tremors of whichwere felt in most parts of north and some areas in central Kashmir. Hesaid the epicentre of the earthquake was located in Bandipora in northKashmir, adding the co-ordinates of the earthquake are latitude 34.28degrees north and longitude 74.52 degrees east. “The earthquakeoccurred at a depth of 5 km,” he said, adding that there is no report ofany casualty or damage to property.

HIMACHAL/JKCM visits The Ridgeto give necessarydirections for GoldenJubilee celebrations

SHIMLA: Chief Minister Jai RamThakur today visited The RidgeShimla to give necessary directions tothe officers regarding preparednessfor the Golden Jubilee celebrations ofthe Statehood, to be celebrated in abefitting manner on 25th of thismonth. Urban Development MinisterSuresh Bhardwaj, Chief Secretary AnilKhachi, Director General of PoliceSanjay Kundu, Principal Secretary toChief Minister J.C. Sharma, DeputyCommissioner Shimla Aditya Negi,Superintendent of Police MohitChawala, Director Information andPublic Relations Harbans SinghBrascon and other senior officerswere also present on the occasion.

Dr. Sadhana Thakurcalls on Governor

SHIMLA: Dr. Sadhana Thakur, Wifeof Chief Minister, who is also theChairperson of State Red CrossHospital Welfare Section called onGovernor Bandaru Dattatraya atRaj Bhavan, today and gave himNew Year greetings. She also metLady Governor Vasantha Bandaruand wished her a happy and joyfulnew year.

Dozens of far-flung,remote areas cutoffin north KashmirSRINAGAR: Dozens of far-flung andremote villages -- including bordertowns of Keran, Karnah and Tanghdar-- were cutoff on Monday due toslippery road conditions followingfresh snowfall in north Kashmir.Meanwhile, traffic to the border townof Gurez and dozens of other far-flungvillages, including those near the Lineof Control (LOC), remained suspendedfor the second successive day fromrest of the valley due to slippery roadconditions following fresh snowfall.However, Machil remained connectedwith the district headquarters inKupwara even as traffic was plyingnormally to the border town andadjoining areas despite 2 inches offresh snowfall. “Traffic was on Mondaysuspended to dozens of far-flung andremote villages, including Kernah,Keran and Tanghdar, due to slipperyroad conditions and accumulation ofsnow," an official of Police ControlRoom (PCR), Kupwara, told UNI. Hesaid Sadhna top and Phirkiyan passreceived about 7 to 8 inches of freshsnowfall since Sunday. “Snowclearance operation has not beenstarted due to bad weatherconditions,” he said, adding traffic willbe resumed only after getting a greensignal from officials deployed on theground.

Ensure time bound completionof all projects: Himachal CM

AGENCYSHIMLA, JAN 4

The progress in variousdevelopmental projects must beuploaded immediately in theHim Pragati portal so that theycould be monitored at the highestlevel regularly and unnecessarydelay in execution could beavoided. This was stated byChief Minister Jai Ram Thakurwhile presiding over the meetingto review the progress of majorprojects being executed in theState.

Chief Minister said that theofficers must ensure time-boundcompletion of all major projectsin the State. He said that almostone year has been wasted due tocorona pandemic, thus the worksmust be executed with greatervigour to meet the deadlines. Hesaid that greater thrust must belaid on projects nearingcompletion so that they could becompleted at the earliest. Thiswould not only check priceescalation in the cost of projects,but also provide benefits topeople of the State, he added. JaiRam Thakur said that MoUssigned regarding various projectsmust be followed up proactivelyso that they could be executed atthe earliest. He said that MOUssigned in respect of Agriculture,Education, Housing, Industriesetc. must be expatiated and steps

taken to provide them requiredforest and other clearances. Hesaid that special thrust must belaid on those projects, whichwere more viable anddevelopers were willing tocomplete the same at theearliest. He said thatappropriate sites must beidentified for dumping of muckso that the executers do not faceinconvenience. He said that theentrepreneurs must be providedall the clearances withinstipulated time period so thatthey could start their projectsimmediately. Chief Ministersaid that separate meeting withthe investors who have signedMoUs for execution of variousprojects in the State must beheld so that their issues mustbe resolved at the earliest. Hesaid that this would provide theinvestors an opportunity to put

forth their issues before theGovernment. He said that thiswould help in prompt redressalof their grievances and givethrust to the ongoing projects.Jai Ram Thakur said thatunnecessary delay in ongoingprojects would be viewedseriously and responsibilitywould be fixed. He said thatresponsibility must not beshifted to another officer. Hesaid that the Covid pandemichas adversely affected thedevelopment in the State. Hesaid that since now thesituation seems to be undercontrol, steps must be initiatedto make up for the time loss.He said that the GlobalInvestor Meet held on 7th and8th November, 2019 hasattracted MoUs worth aboutRs. 96000 crore. He said thatground breaking ceremony in

respect of projects worth Rs.13500 crore was signed withintwo months of the GlobalInvestor’s Meet and projectsworth Rs. 10 thousand crorewere ready for ground breaking.He directed the officers to followup the MoUs signed in differentsectors so that they could bematerialized. Chief Minister saidthat special priority must be laidon Chief Minister’sannouncements. He said that allinitial works such as estimatesand drawings regarding theChief Minister announcementsmust be implemented within onemonth. He said that the Statewas celebrating 50 years of itsstatehood, thus officers mustcome with suggestions tocelebrate the event in a befittingmanner. He said the Governmentwas planning to organize 51events to mark the gloriousGolden jubilee journey of thestate. Jai Ram Thakur said thatall the Deputy Commissionersmust also evolve a mechanism tomonitor ongoing projects in theirrespective district. He said thatusually several ambitiousprojects were hanging in fire dueto minor issues which could beresolved with their intervention.He said that delay in projectswould be viewed seriously andaction would be taken againstthe person responsible for thedelay.

Women to play majorrole in PRI, Civic bodyelections in HamirpurUNIHAMIRPUR, JAN 4

Women voters are once again likelyto play a major role in the comingCivic body and Panchayati rajinstitutions elections in the districtduring next two weeks. While pollingto the civic bodies will be held onJanuary 10th, it would be held onJanuary 17th, 19th and 21st in case ofthe Panchayati raj institutions. Theofficial records show that there are1.96 lakh female and 1.66 lakh malevoters in the district that will vote forthe PRI institutions. The stategovernment has given 50 per centreservation to women in all the Civicbodies and the Panchayati rajinstitutions and that is why 50 percent women are in the electoral fraythis time too. There are four civicbodies, six block samitis and one Zilaparishad with eighteen wards whereelections are going to be held incoming days. In respect of the Civicbodies, there are 11,335 female and11,567 male voters in the district. Thetotal population of the district is 4,54,768 out of which there are 2,17,070 males and 2, 37,698 females.Though males dominate the politicalarena as well as other fields of life yetwomen have come out of their housesignoring the long masks to join theactive politics and other related fieldssince 1977. Since then, they havetaken active part in the electioneeringand their voting percentage wasmuch higher than their malecounterparts. And that is the reason

that this time too when they are to getfifty per cent share in theadministration bodies they are goingto vote en masse and get their sharein favor of those whom they preferto be their leaders. Kamlesh Kumari,BJP MLA from Bhoranj(Reserve)seat is taking active part in theelections these days and touringalmost all parts of the constituencyto seek votes in favour of thecandidates having affiliation withthe BJP. This she is doing despite thefact that for the party is notcontesting the elections on itssymbols. She is sure that the partycandidates are to win majority seatsfor all the institutions not only in herBhornaj constituency but also inother parts of the district and state ofHimachal Pradesh. Similarly, AnitaVerma, a former Congress partyMLA from Hamirpur and former AllIndia women Congress chief is alsoworking in favor of the partycandidates in various parts of thedistrict and is keen that the partycandidates will win majority seatsthis time due to anti people stance ofthe BJP-led governments both atcenter and in states.

Seeing problem of people, decides toenter poll fray: Chaitanya Sharma

KASHISH SHARMAGAGRET, JAN 4

Chaitanya Sharma isgetting support from allclasses. He held publiccontact programmes wherehe reportedly gottremendous response. Hevisited Door to Door inAmlehad, Naqdoh, RamNagar, Brahmapur,Bhadrakali, Joh to seekvotes. A large number ofpeople gathered at thepublic meeting ofChaitanya Sharma inDangoh. In a publicmeeting near the pond ofDodua in Dangoh,Chaitanya Sharma said thatif the work I am doing wasdone on my own, then whatdid I need to do. I am going

door to door in the village. Iam not only promotingmyself, but I am alsolistening to people'sproblems. I am reachingthose places too, even afterIndependence, there is noway for people's homes. It is

also difficult to walk topeople's homes. Seeing theproblems of the people onthe ground, I decided tocontest the election. So thatI can stay in the system andmake people aware and dodevelopment work for them.

Youth come in supportof Ajay Kaushal

JYOTI SYALMAHATPUR, JAN 4

Youth and social worker Ajay Kaushal contesting from WardNo. 1 in the Municipal Council elections under industrial areaof Mahatpur underUna AssemblyConstituency. Nowthe youth and thepeople have started tojoin them in support ofthem, due to which,now the electoralequation seems to bechanging on everyone.Today, every industrylocated in the industrial area and along with them he sat in theirhouses and campaigned door to door. Kaushal said thatPanchayati elections should not be associated with any politicalparty. He said that Panchayati Raj elections are elections inwhich there is direct contact between the voter and thecandidate and the candidate and the voter know each othermore. Recognizing that he said that the election agenda withwhich we are contesting, hardly any candidate would haveadded it to his electoral agenda.

JCB seized forillegal mining

ANWAR HUSSAINBADDI, JAN 4

ASI Pratap Singh I/O Baddi station said today withASI Mai Mulajaman he leaving for Bhai Gashtarea Hadud police station at around 12.35 am nearMorpin Road Najd Petrol Pump. He saw in front ofMorpin Road, a JCB was seen doing illegal miningin the Ratta Khad on which the Ratta Khad ofMana ASI Mu Mulajmano was reached where JCBdriver who was doing illegal mining from the JCBin the Ratta government crat, saw the JCB machineon the police party. The ASI started trying to driveaway the mind which ASI caught the Mu JCBmachine while doing illegal mining on theoccasion of Muay Mulajmano and the JCB driverasked his name and address as Mukesh Kumar S/OKashmir Singh R/O Boothgarh Teh BalachaurDistrict Martyr Bhagat Singh Nagar told Punjabage 25 years. The JCB was captured by the policeon the spot. The JCB driver / operator who wastaken into police custody, on whom the case isregistered by the above, is bringing the trial case toASI Pratap Singh I / O station Baddi.

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, JAN 4

Deputy CommissionerRaghav Sharma held ameeting with HealthDepartment officials todayregarding compliance ofCovid-19 protocol inPanchayati Raj elections. Inthe meeting, DC said that thecorona-infected people willbe able to exercise theirfranchise at the end of fouro'clock in the evening. Glubsand face shield will be madeavailable to them to vote andPPE kits will be available tothe polling staff. RaghavSharma said that the list will

be shared with the concernedReturning Officers a day inadvance by contacting thecorona infected persons sothat they can make necessaryarrangements. He said thatpeople living in Quarantinewill also be able to cast theirvotes in the elections of

Panchayati Raj Institutionsand they will cast their votesbefore the Corona infectedpersons. Necessaryarrangements will also bemade for this. He said thatPPE kits will be provided forpolling staff and healthpersonnel on duty at every

polling station. DC said thatthermal scanning of voterswill be done at all pollingstations and they will beallowed to enter the pollingbooth only after sanitizingthem. If the temperature ofany person reaches 99degrees or higher in thermalscanning, his temperaturewill be checked again afterhalf an hour and he too willbe able to vote at the end.Additional DeputyCommissioner Dr. AmitKumar Sharma, CMO Dr.Raman Kumar Sharma,District Services Officer Dr.Ajay Atri and all BMOs werepresent in the meeting.

DC holds meet with health officials on Covid

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, JAN 4

The Urban Development Ministerstressed on giving special impetus to theprojects being implemented byHimachal Pradesh Housing and UrbanDevelopment Authority (HIMUDA) andsaid that the projects should becompleted by Himuda within stipulatedtime period. He directed officers tooperate Himuda like a businessorganization so that the works related tothe purchase and sale of property can beimplemented professionally, which isalso its responsibility. Suresh Bhardwaj

was presiding over the review meetingof the works being carried out byHimuda here today, including depositworks, which include the works of

Smart City Shimla and Dharamshala. Inthe meeting, after discussing the progressof the works done in the last three years,instructions were given for furtheractions in this regard. Suresh Bhardwajsaid that while buying any kind ofproperty, it is necessary to keep in mindits financial viability. He directed officersto devise a strategy to reduce theexpenditure of Himuda and increase therevenue. He said that the projects wouldhave to be demand and priority driven.He instructed to adopt modern methodsof advertising instead of traditionalapproach for sale of the plots and housesbeing built by Himuda.

UD Minister directs officers to devisestrategy to increase revenue of Himuda

Control room set up forPanchayat polls: DC

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, JAN 4

Control rooms have been setup in all the developmentblocks of the district forelections to Panchayati RajInstitutions, which willreceive feedback from thePresiding Officers andAssistant Presiding Officersrelated to voting. Thisinformation was given byDistrict Election Officer andDeputy Commissioner UnaRaghav Sharma. Heinformed thatSuperintendent SurendraSingh (Mobile 7807917221)and Senior Assistant VinayKumar (Mobile9805265100) have beenappointed in the control

room for the BanganaDevelopment Block. Apartfrom this, contact can also bemade on 01975262028 in thecontrol room. At the sametime, Surendra Kumar(Mobile 82199873510,Dinesh (Mobile8219920558) and Kamal(Mobile 9816408808) havebeen appointed in the controlroom for Amb DevelopmentBlock. DeputyCommissioner informed thatSansar Chand (mobile9816092097), Mahindra Pal(mobile 9816033827) andAshish Kumar (mobile8580427717) have beenappointed in the controlroom for the developmentblock Gagret. Apart fromthis, you can also contact on

the phone 01976241345 inthe control room. Also,Sushil Kumar (mobile7018740457), Lovely Kumar(mobile 9459003616) andSanjeev Kumar (mobile9318653139) have beenappointed for Harolidevelopment block. Apartfrom this, contact can also bemade on 01975284204 in thecontrol room. He informedthat Pankaj Mehta (mobile8278765751), Vijay Kumar(mobile 8278739430), RajKumar (mobile 9418391770)and Sunil Kumar (mobile9805540430) have beenappointed in the controlroom for the developmentblock Una. Apart from this,one can also be contacted on01975226007, 225737.

Yuva Shakti Prakram institutionbecomes life saving for people

KASHISH SHARMAGAGRET, JAN 4

Chaitanya Sharma's organization Yuva ShaktiPrakram is nothing less than a boon for thepeople. An ambulance van was deployed bythe organization to serve the people of thearea. The local people are getting the fullbenefit of this. An ambulance van installed inthe service of the common man is available 24hours for the convenience of the people. Sofar, 6 people are being given free treatment byYuva Shakti Prakram Sanstha in which youthpower might came forward to help thehelpless people from Pirthipur, Bhadrakali,Kunneran, Tundkhuri Kailash Nagar. A boywho had fallen down from the roof of hishouse flying a kite, whom ChaitanyaSharma's team had taken to Daulatpurhospital in a serious condition, the same 6people are being treated in a good hospital,their families are not worried about them now.These were families whose financialcondition was very weak and unable to get

their treatment. When these people went toChaitanya Sharma, the youth power mightcame forward to help them.

Governor visits IIAS

SHIMLA, JAN 4

Governor Bandaru Dattatraya visited the Indian Institute ofAdvanced Study at Shimla today. He went around the campusand appreciated the rare heritage building which was reminiscentof the old glory of Shimla. The Governor said the IndianInstitute of Advance Study is a motivational Institute and is abeautiful unison of past, present and future. This legacy of theBritishers is today established as the best center of higher studyin the country. The vision of Dr. Radhakrishnan to convert thevice-regal lodge into Indian Institute of Advance Study isbenefitting India in his scholarly prowess. Earlier, Makarand R.Paranjape, Director, IIAS welcomed the Governor and apprisedhim about the historical background of the magnificent building.Other family members accompanied the Governor.

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DAV gets recongnition as Sen Sec schoolJAGRAON (SUKH NAHAR): DAV centenary public school jagraon conducted a press con-ference in order to inform that the school has been given recognition as senior secondary.

School principal Brij Mohan Babbar addressing the pressconference said that it is due to the efforts of the schoolteachers and the entire staff that school has been able toachieve this goal. Babbar mentioned that school has hadmarvellous achievements in last few years in both studiesand co-curricular. He credited the teachers for the successof school and said that it is due to hard work of the entirestaff that school is counted among the best schools of the

city. Babbar assured that the school students shall keep bringing laurels to the city in future aswell. The entire school staff congraulated principal Babbar and the management of school onthis achievement.

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KK Sharma becomesPress Secretary ofBar Association

SHASHI PAL JAINKHARAR/MOHALI : Senior Advocateof Kharar K.K. Sharma has been co-opted as a Press Secretary of the BarAssociation Kharar. An appointmentletter about this was issued by AmitKumar Mandkan President of the BarAssociation Kharar.

New building ofRadiance instituteinaugurated

MAMOON RASHID MALERKOTLA: New building ofrenowned English Institute of the areaRadiance inaugurated by MohdBashir father of the ownerMohdShahid in presence of reputedpersonalities of the area.MohdShahid speaking to media saidthat he is thankful to the Almighty formaking him able to provide the bestservices to the people of the area, hesaid that blessings of his parents,friends and well-wishers enabled himto achieve big, institute will providethe best services to the students infuture too. He further said Institute isalready operating its branches in 3different cities and will expand itsroots in the state so that the studentscan enjoy the facilities and servicesprovided by it.

KS Group comes forwardto help farmersprotesting for their rights

MALERKOTLA: KS Group throughits director Karam Singh MunderySent Shawls (warm wearing cloth forladies) to the ladies participating infarmer agitation at Delhi border,initiative was taken for their safetyfrom hard cold.

A team from the company visitedDelhi border as per directions ofInderjit Singh Mundey owner of thecompany, team handed over theShawls to Joginder Singh ugrahanpresident Bharti Kisan UnionEktaUgraha, Karam Singh Mundeysaid that farmers are providing foodto the countryman so they must betreated gently, he assured all kinds ofhelp to the farmers protesting for theirrights, center government shouldcancel farm bills as soon as possible,he added.

Civil Admn, PSPCLauthorities cometogether to solveelectricity problem OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR/MOHALI: Residents ofNoor Homes, Society were sufferingfor last few year due to non-releaseof permanent electricity connectionsto them by PSPCL as builder ofsociety M/s GGP Buildetech Pvt, Ltdfailed to comply with the conditions ofNOC issued in the year 2017 to themby PSPCL. NOC issued by PSPCLwas expired in the year 2018.Residents approached SDM, Khararand XEN, PSPCL, Kharar for solutionof their problem as builder was notshowing any interest and was nottraceable. SDM, Kharar, Sh.Himanshu Jain, IAS summoned thebuilder and asked him to fullfill theconditions of NOC issued by PSPCL.XEN, PSPCL, Kharar drafted theproposal to revive the expired NOCand same was got approved fromhigher authorities. Civil authoritiesimpressed upon the builder to depositconnectivity charges to PSPCL uponwhich electrical connectivity to colonywas extended, which in turn facilitatedrelease of permanent electricconnections to residents of NoorHomes, Society. Residents of societyhave expressed their gratitude to Sh.Himanshu Jain, SDM, Kharar and Er.Amandeep Singh Dhanoa, XEN,PSPCL, Kharar for their personnel

AMIT KALIAZIRAKPUR, JAN 4

The three black laws are the fault ofAkali Dal's Badal. This allegationwas made by Punjab Health Minis-ter Balbir Singh Sidhu while up-grading the dispensary of Dhakolito the status of Sub Division Hospi-tal. He said that while these blacklaws were being passed, the entireAkali Dal Badal including Mrs.Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Mr.Parkash Singh Badal himself weresupporting these bills. Even theBadals, including the Modi govern-ment, had no idea that the farmers'organizations would fight so hard.

Fearing the peasant struggleand seeing his political career com-ing to an end, the Akali Dal Badaldecided to support the peasantstruggle. He said that Capt. Am-rinder Singh had always been andwould remain a supporter of farm-ers.

Replying to the queries of themedia regarding the corona vac-cine, the Health Minister Mr. BalbirSidhu said that the Punjab Govern-ment has made all the arrangementsfor the proper distribution of thevaccine which is being certified bythe WHO. Replying to a query re-garding illegal mining in Zirakpurconstituency, Mr. Sidhu said thatnone of his family members wereinvolved in illegal mining. Thesand which is being taken out of

Ghaggar has been bid regularly. Re-plying to a query regarding the Mu-nicipal Council elections, Mr.Balvir Sidhu said that the Munici-pal Council elections would be heldon time as the polls were alreadytoo late due to Corona. WelcomingBalbir Singh Sidhu, Congress Con-stituency In-Charge DeepinderSingh Dhillon said that the con-stituency Dera Bassi was develop-

ing a lot thanks to him and Capt.Amrinder Singh.

He claimed that Congress partywould win all the seats in ZirakpurMunicipal Council. On the occa-sion, State Health Director GBSingh and Civil Surgeon AdarshpalKaur, SMO Dera Bassi SangeetaJain, SMO Zirakpur Pomi Chatrathand Dr. Mehtab Bal etc. were pres-ent. The committee, which claimed

to be involved in the upgrade ofDhakoli Hospital, was kept awayfrom the function along with itschairman.

Sukhdev Chaudhary, chairmanof the Joint Action Committee, kepton clapping his hands and feet tohonor Health Minister Balvir Sidhubut was pushed away from thefunction by the police administra-tion.

Akali Dal should be held responsiblefor farm laws: Balbir Singh Sidhu SHASHI PAL JAIN

MOHALI, JAN 4

Citizen services related toDepartment of Transporthave been made availablethrough Sewa Kendras fromJanuary 2021 onwards, in-formed Aashika Jain, Addi-tional Commissioner (Gen-eral). In order to providestress free services to thepublic, it has been decidedthat there will be no physicalfile submission for DMSmodule enabled transportservices (Driving License &Registration Certificate) byapplicant in offices of Li-censing & Registering Au-thorities of the State.

The Sewa Kendras willact as facilitator for theseservices for those applicantswho are not tech savvy, une-ducated, with no internet ac-cess and public in general.These Sewa Kendras willwork as front end where op-erator will only apply andsubmit the scanned copy ofthe required documents for aservice on behalf of appli-cant along with self-declara-

tion to concerned Licensing& Registering Authority inVAHAN 4.0 DMS moduleonline. It may be noted thatSewa Kendras shall scanonly original documents ofthe applicant. Thereafter, Li-censing and Registering Au-thority will verify and ap-prove the record online.

The Sewa Kendras shallcharge Rs. 50 per applica-tion, directly from the appli-cants visiting to Sewa kendrafor this facility. The printedDriving License (DL)/ Reg-istration Certificate (RC)documents after approval ofconcerned authority will bedirectly delivered to the ap-plicant via speed post.

No physical file submission forservices like driving license,

registration certificate

110 attend healthcamp at Baltana

CHANDIGARH, JAN 4: As many as 110 peopleattended a health checkup and awareness camp forsenior citizens at Baltana today. Deepinder Dhilloninaugurated the camp which was organized by Am-care Hospital, Zirakpur, where its team of experts ex-amined the people for their various health ailments.

In camp the bone and joint health assessmentwere done by bone & joint specialist , Dr MohitBansal . The tests including blood pressure, completeblood count and RBS were also provided free of costduring camp besides medicine consultations.

JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA, JAN 4

The President of the Shiro-mani Akali Dal (SAD) ,Sukhbir Singh Badalon.Monday making ascathing attack againstNarinder Modi led Uniongovernment said here thatthe centre was misusingthe position of the PunjabGovernor by summoningofficers for explanations tothe Raj Bhawan even as heasserted the Governor shouldnot become a mouth piece ofthe Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).

He made such remarkswhile addressing a massivecongregation at the Gurd-wara Sahib Patshahi Nauvinear here where a AkhandPath was conducted to payhomage to Sant Ram Singh

Singhri Wale and farmersfrom the district who weremartyred during the ongoingfarmer agitation, the SADPresident said the office of

the Governor was being mis-used in the same manner aswas happening in West Ben-gal. Sukhbir Badal said theSAD had approached theGovernor with numerousmemorandums on public is-sues like the hooch tragedy,liquor and sand mafia doingsand criminalization of poli-tics during the last few yearsbut the latter did not act on asingle issue.

Centre misusing office of Guvby summoning officers at

instance of BJP: Sukhbir Badal

Governor Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh V. P. Singh Badnore reviewing the arrangementsregarding COVID-19 in the city at Punjab Raj Bhawan Chandigarh.

CHET RAM RATTAN NAWANSHAHAR, JAN 4

Shiromani Gurdwara Pra-bandhak Committee(SGPC), Amritsar has or-ganized a function at BhaiSangat Singh Khalsa Col-lege, Banga in memory ofmartyr brother ofChamkor Fort, SangatSingh Ji, under the leader-ship of Ranjit Singh.

An annual calendardedicated to sacrifice wasreleased. Jathedar Gur-bakhsh Singh Khalsa, for-mer vice-president of theShiromani Gurdwara Par-bandhak Committee, wasthe chief guest on the oc-

casion. Releasing the cal-endar on the occasion,Jathedar Khalsa said thatit is due to the sacrifices ofgreat martyrs like BhaiSangat Singh that the cultis in full swing today. Hesaid that we should alwaysremember the sacrifices ofsuch great martyrs. RanjitSingh said that like everyyear, this year too, an an-nual calendar was re-leased in memory of Bhai

Sangat Singh. He said thatthis organization wasstarted in the name ofBhai Sangat Singh Ji. Themain purpose of issuingthe calendar is to provideinformation about the lifeof Shaheed Bhai SangatSingh to the people of theregion as well as the insti-tution, the ongoing cur-riculum and the character-istics of the institute. Onthis occasion.

Calendar of Bhai Sangat SinghKhalsa College released

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JAN 4

Congress party today releasedits fifth list of candidates forthe Bathinda Municipal Cor-poration elections. Accordingto the list released by the of-fice of Punjab Finance Minis-ter Manpreet Singh Badal, theCongress party has fieldedsenior Congress leaders andDirector Cooperative Bank,Bathinda.

Manjit Kaur Sandhu, wifeof Tahil Singh Sandhu toward no. 1 has been fielded.Ward no. 5 to Sonia Bansalwife Sunil Bansal, Ward no.

11 to Gurinder Kaur wifeKanwaljit Singh Bhangu,Ward no. 13 to Deepa Sharmawife of Ajay Sharma, Wardno. 15 to Manjit Kaur wife ofTahil Singh Butter, Ward no.18 to Bikram RevolutionUsha Goyal, wife of formercouncilor Raj Goyal from

ward no.27 ,Ward no. From45, SadhuSingh's sisterand RamPhool's wifeRaj Rani, Wardno. InderjitSingh son ofJagjit Singh

and youth leaders from 44and Ward no. Anita Goyal,wife of 43-year-old formercouncilor Pradeep Goyal(Gola), has been fielded. Sofar Congress party has fielded36 candidates out of 50 wardsof Bathinda Municipal Cor-poration.

Congress party releases fifth listof 10 candidates for civic polls

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, JAN 4

Based on specific inputs by Am-ritsar rural police, a teamled by DSP detectiveGurinder Nagra , ASPMa-jitha Abhimanyu Ranaand ASP /UT SHO PSGharinda Maninder Singhseized 2 tankers contain-ing imported blendedscotch whisky (3yrs old )fromnear Chabhal road PS ChabhalTarn Taran on the interveningnight of January 2-3 2021 .Theseizure led to the total recovery of42,000 bulk litres of blendedgrain scotch whisky ,worth

around of Rs 2 crores ,importedfrom Amsterdam Netherlands .Simultaneously based on sourceinformation ,FIR under sections

61,78(2)excise act420,379,120 B at PoliceStation Gharinda. Fur-ther ,four persons arrest-ed by the raid party fromthe spot Chamkaursingh s/o SukhwinderSingh r/o village Suha-

va,Sirhali Tarntaran, DharminderSingh s/o Avtar Singh r/o villageKalla Goindwal Tarntaran,Manohar Singh s/o KishanSingh r/o village Thatha SirhaliDistt Tarn Taran and SwarnSingh s/o Tasbir Singh.

Foreign made liquorworth Rs 2crore seized

Divyangs pay homage to Dr. LouisBraille on World Braille Day

HOSHIARPUR (DALJEET AJNOHA): DisabledPersons Welfare Society Hoshiarpur (Regd.) paidhomage to Dr. Louis Braille on the occasion ofWorld Braille Day. Various speakers on the occasionshed light on the life of Dr. Louis Braille and shared

thoughts on his life ofstruggle. Speaking onthe occasion, Presidentblind Sandeep KumarSharma said that Dr.Louis Braille's birth-day is celebrated asWorld Braille Day.Louis Braille himself,

while blind, invented the Braille script and shed lighton the lives of the blind. He said that Dr. LouisBraille will be remembered for the rest of the world.Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary Di-vyang Jaswinder Singh Sahota said that with the helpof Braille script, blind people all over the world arereaching the heights of success by reading.

1 found dead undermysterious circumstances

JAGRAON (SUKH NAHAR): The news of murder of ayouth surfaced in the city which created panic among civil-ians. A worker of Kaka Studio, kuchha Malak road was al-legedly found dead under mysterious circumstances and hisother mate has been found laying unconcious. According tothe information, deceased Happy and his mate Aman went tovillage Galib Kalan for videographt with 3 others who wentback to their homes after completion of work but Happy andAman stayed back at studio.

Health min announces upgradation of Dhakoli dispensary

JALANDHAR, JAN 4

An Army Recruitment rallyhas commenced at ArmyPublic School (PrimaryWing) Ground, JalandharCantt for recruitment of Sol-dier General Duty, SoldierTechnical, SoldierClerk/Store Keeper Techni-cal/Inventory Management,Soldier Nursing Assistantand Soldier Tradsmen cate-gories by Recruiting Office(Headquarters), Jalandhar

Cantt. This rally will screencandidates belonging to Ja-landhar, Kapurthala,Hoshiarpur, SBS Nagar andTarn Taran Districts.

Approx 32,000 candidateswill be screened from 04January 2021 to 31 January2021 from Jalandhar, Ka-purthala, Hoshiarpur, SBSNagar and Tarn Taran Dis-tricts. The rally has seengood response and motivatedparticipation from the candi-dates.

Army recruitment rallyat Jalandhar starts

CHANDIGARH, JAN 4

Forests, Social Justice, Em-powerment & Minorities andPrinting & Stationery Minis-ter Sadhu Singh Dharmsoton Monday, said that thePunjab Government man-aged to clear the illegal en-croachments at 18946 acresof forest area thereby result-ing in an overall increase inthe forest cover in the stateby 2872 Acres.

The Minister, while ad-dressing the press confer-ence at Punjab Bhawan here,said that the Punjab Govern-ment led by Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singhwas firmly committed topromote greenery in the state

and was taking appropriateand effective steps in this di-rection. He said that duringthe year 2017-18 879 acres,1688 acres in 2018-19,13132 acres in 2019-20while during the current year2020-21 3247 acres of forestarea has been cleared so far.The total area freed from il-legal encroachments is18946 acres.

State witnesses increase in forestarea by 2872 acres: Dharmsot

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

TN govt allows 100 pc occupancy in theatersCHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government on Monday allowed to increase the seating capacityof cinemas, theatres, multiplexes from existing 50 per cent to 100 per cent followingCOVID-19 protocols. The permission was granted through a notification by the stategovernment. Many film stars like actor Vijay requested the state government to givepermission for 100 per cent capacity before Pongal. The state government had grantedpermission to cinema theatres and multiplexes to reopen with 50 per cent seatingcapacity from November 10. Now, the government has permitted to increase the seatingcapacity of cinemas, theatres and multiplexes from existing 50 per cent to 100 per centby following the standard operating procedure issued already. As per the notificationissued by the state government, in order to create awareness among the spectators, theprecautionary measures for COVID-19 shall also be screened during the show time.

7Lyallpur Khalsa Collegestudent excels in B.Sc.Biotechnology exams

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Lyallpur Khalsa College,Jalandhar felicitated Poonam Kumari, astudent of B.Sc. Biotechnology Sem-IIIfor securing the first position in the YouthParliament 2020 organised by the NehruYuva Kendra, Rohtas, Bihar, under theaegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs, India.She secured 1st position at the districtlevel competition competing withparticipants from the entire district ofRohtas, Bihar. Principal Dr. GurpinderSingh Samra congratulated her on hervictory and wished her all the best forher future round. Elated at her victory,Poonam thanked the college Principal,teachers Sandeep Ahuja and SatpalSingh for the training and support theyhave extended her for the preparation ofsuch events. Prof. Ahuja Sandeep andDr. Palwinder Singh also present on thisoccasion.

Mehr Chand PolytechnicCollege hosts virtualalumni meetJALANDHAR: Keeping in view theCovid-19 pandemic, Mehr ChandPolytechnic College organised Ist onlineAlumni Meet. In the beginning, PrincipalDr. Jagroop Singh welcomed all andapprised them all about the activities ofthe College at length. After this,whileappreciating of calling this meeting, AjayGoswami, President of the AlumniAssociation, also stressed upon that themeeting of this group must be organisedevery year. One of the old student ,passout during 1958, Dr. P.C. Markanda,congratulated for bringing this College atthis stage. Prof. N.L Arora, P.L. Sharma,Narinder Sharma, Raj KumarChowdhary, Principal Ajay Arora, VinodKapoor, Rajan Jhangra, Anil Uppal andMadam Neelam Dhir alsoaddressed the meeting. Many oldstudents expressed their keendesire to sponsor scholarship forthe poor and downtrodden studentsstudying in the college.In the end,Principal Dr. Jagroop Singhthanked all and also promised toorganise next physical meet in thecampus very shortly. Rajesh Kumarhandled the entire webinar Meet inan excellent and decent manner.

Dushyant giveshuge relief to youthof state: Dr.Jaswinder KhairaSANGEETAKURUKSHETRA: In relation toHTET HSSC Recruitment Youthfrom across the state have beenrelieved by having examinationcenter in the home district. On thisoccasion, Dr. Jaswinder Khairathanked Deputy CM DushyantChautala. Dr. Khaira said that tillnow, due to the recruitment ofgovernment jobs in the centers ofother districts, the youth had to goone day before the examination,due to which the youth of the stateoften used to face problems.Deputy CM Dushyant Chautalasaid in the JJP's election manifestothat if the government comes topower, the examinations of thegovernment jobs will be held intheir home district only, so that theunemployed youth will not have toface harassment. Dr. JaswinderKhaira is the youth district presidentand member of HaryanaSugarcane Control Board, he saidthat he had put this demand of theyouth of the state in front of theDeputy CM. He said that the JJPgovernment has provided relief tothe youth by fulfilling the promisesmade in the election manifesto.

Govt should show betterleadership instrengthening trade, agrisystem: Anil BhatiaSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGA: Talking to thepress, District President of HaryanaVyapar Mandal, Anil Bhatia saidthat the year of 2020 was full ofproblems for the entire businessclass and the people of thebusiness sector have to go througha huge recession in the last yeardue to the ill effects of the coronaepidemic. Bhatia said that while the

hopes andexpectations ofall citizens are onthe New Year,the businessmenof India have setdifferentexpectationsfrom the present

government. Due to the hugedecline in the economy of India inthe Corona era, all thebusinessmen are facing economicrecession today, but thegovernment has not paid anyattention to the businessmen at theground level, which is a matter ofconcern for the business sector. Hesaid that the work of small tradersis also being affected due to theongoing farmers movement foralmost 40 days, because farmersand traders are complementary toeach other.

India records 16,504 new COVID-19cases, 214 fresh fatalities

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 4

Daily new COVID-19 cases inthe country remained below20,000 for the third consecutiveday taking the virus caseload to1,03,40,469, while the recoveriessurged to 99.46 lakh, according tothe Union Health Ministry dataupdated on Monday. A total of16,504 people tested positive forcoronavirus infection in a day.The death toll increased to1,49,649 with 214 new fatalities,the data updated at 8 am showedThe number of people who haverecuperated from the diseasesurged to 99,46,867 pushing thenational recovery rate to 96.19 percent, while the COVID-19 case

fatality rate stands at 1.45 percent. The COVID-19 activecaseload remained below 3 lakhfor the 14th consecutive day.There are 2,43,953 active cases ofcoronavirus infection in thecountry which comprise 2.36 percent of the total caseload, the datastated. India's COVID-19 tallyhad crossed the 20-lakh mark onAugust 7, 30 lakh on August 23,40 lakh on September 5 and 50lakh on September 16. It wentpast 60 lakh on September 28,70 lakh on October 11, crossed80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakhon November 20 and surpassedthe one-crore mark onDecember 19. According to theICMR, 17,56,35,761 sampleshave been tested up to January 3

with 7,35,978 samples beingtested on Sunday. The 214 newfatalities include 35 fromMaharashtra, 26 from WestBengal, 25 from Kerala, 16 fromUttar Pradesh and and 14 eachfrom Delhi, Chhattisgarh andMadhya Pradesh. A total of1,49,649 deaths have been

reported so far in the countryincluding 49,666 fromMaharashtra followed by 12,156from Tamil Nadu, 12,107 fromKarnataka, 10,585 from Delhi,9,792 from West Bengal, 8,403from Uttar Pradesh, 7,115 fromAndhra Pradesh and 5,376 fromPunjab.

Odisha logs 183 new Coronacases, 2 more fatalities

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha'sCOVID-19 tally on Mondaymounted to 3,30,492 after 183more people tested positive forthe infection, while two morefatalities pushed the death tollto 1,885, a health departmentofficial said. Of the new cases,106 were reported fromdifferent quarantine centres,while the remaining 77 arelocal contact cases. Sundargarhdistrict recorded the highest of32 new cases followed byAngul (24) and Khurda (14)districts. Taking to twitter, theHealth and Family Welfaredepartment said: "regret toinform the demise of twonumbers of Covid positivepatients while under treatmentin hospitals." The two fresh

fatalities were reported fromBalasore and Sunadargarhdistricts. This apart, 53COVID-19 positive patientshave also died in the state dueto comorbidity, he said. Of the1,885 coronavirus fatalitiesreported so far, Khurda districtof which the state capitalBhubaneswar is a part, aloneaccounted for 326 deathsfollowed by Ganjam (247),Sundargarh (168), Cuttack(140) and Puri (117). Twenty-five other districts havereported COVID-19 fatalitiesbelow 100, he said. Currently,Odisha has 2,345 activeCOVID-19 cases, while asmany as 3,26,209 patients haveso far recovered from thehighly infectious disease.

AAP compares Khattar toGeneral Dyer over 'teargas shelling on farmers'

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 4

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaderRaghav Chadha on Mondaylashed out at Haryana ChiefMinister ML Khattar andcompared him to former BritishMilitary officer General Dyer'over tear gas shelling on farmersin Haryana.' Referring to videosof the use of teargas by theHaryana Police, Chadha said, "Iinitially thought the footage wasfrom the India-Pakistan border,where firing had started." "I wasreminded of April 13, 1919,when General Dyer ordered theopening of fire at JallianwalaBagh, and innocent people werefired upon. Haryana ChiefMinister ML Khattar, likegeneral Dyer, was raining bullets,teargas on farmers," Chadha saidwhile talking to ANI. "Are thecountry's farmers our enemies?

Are they Army personnel ofChina or Pakistan? It'sshameful," Chadha added. Aheadof the seventh round of talks onthe contentious farm lawsbetween protesting farmers'unions and the Centralgovernment on Mondayafternoon, he said that thegovernment should not make thisissue an ego or prestige battle."This meeting should be the lastmeeting and the governmentshould take a decision in supportof the farmers," he added. Withconcerns that farm laws wouldweaken the Minimum SupportPrice (MSP) and mandi systemsand leave the farmers at themercy of big corporates, farmershave been protesting at differentborders of the national capital forover a month against theFarmers' Produce Trade andCommerce (Promotion andFacilitation) Act, 2020.

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I HAD A NEW YEAR'S KISS ONCE. BUT IT WASLIKE, 'LET'S START THE YEAR OFF TOGETHER,'

AND THEN WE WOUND UP BREAKING UP THENIGHT AFTER!

JOE JONAS

SOMETIMES TOO MUCH TO DRINK IS BARELYENOUGH.

MARK TWAIN

On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modimade two remarkable observations at the virtualfoundation stone laying for the permanent cam-

pus of IIM Sambalpur in Odisha. He said the newdecade is for the “building of new multinational com-panies within India”. He also urged scholars and intel-lectuals to engage in “documentation and research” onhow India managed the Covid-19 pandemic.The import of both is self-laudatory. That much is clearfrom the tone of the PM’s remarks. There is everythingto be said for dreaming big and aiming high, but con-sidering the degraded state of the Indian economy atpresent, high talk of building Indian multinationals inthe present decade can perhaps be said to be even a lit-tle deceptive — a plain and simple placebo.Lately, the economy has recorded negative growthrates for the first time since Independence, and also theworst employment rate in four decades. The pandemichas made things worse, but the economic situation wasvery bad even before that on account of demonetisationand faultily-designed GST. More, the government hasreiterated its commitment to the policy of “Atma Nirb-har Bharat”, the PM’s oft-repeated exhortation. Thisbasically means that small and medium companiesmay expect no fiscal support from the government andmanage the miracle of standing up on their own feetfrom their current prone state. They may get theresome day but the mechanics of moving in that direc-tion is not clear to most. To choose a time such as thisto give a call for building multinationals for “today’sstartups” does appear somewhat expansive.Mr Modi also noted, speaking of India’s handling ofCovid-19, “There is a very big lesson for managementhere. During Covid, a permanent solution for PPE kits,masks, ventilators, has been found.” Before they scurryin that direction, the research gurus may as well beaware that activities such as making PPE kits andmasks are not likely to be viewed as high science evenin the world’s poorest countries (while India likes tosee itself as a natural place-holder at the high table).Researchers may also take note that Pakistan andBangladesh have done even better than India in copingwith Covid-19 — and their governments did very little,aware of the magnitude of the financial costs involved.It is uncanny that former UP chief minister AkhileshYadav should be making his views public on the gov-ernment’s handling of the pandemic the same day thatthe PM was sounding upbeat.

Modi persists with hisPR spins in new year

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

Editorial

We have heard a lotof good points fromboth sides on the

new Agri trade laws. Noneof these have provided aclear way forward. If we sac-rifice the interest of subsis-tence farmers in favor ofcommercial farmers by re-moving MSP, then India be-comes competitive, but it istoo painful to see the subsis-tence farmers get poorer andpoorer. If we provide MSPsupport, then how do we en-sure that our food processingstill remains competitive bybuying raw materials at highprices.

It's a fallacy that interna-tional prices would have stillremained subdued even if In-dia hadn't its granaries fulland had approached interna-tional markets to import afraction of its requirement.Obviously, the prices wouldspiral to much greaterheights if such a large coun-try started buying. However,this import would be differ-ent from the import of wheatthat we do in normal yearsjust to keep our domesticprices subdued, for the worldknows that it's a tactical buy-ing and not really a true de-mand. Hence, the world mar-kets don't react. So, the argu-ment that the MSP is alwayshigher than the internationalprices do not hold true be-cause the prices do not re-flect the other scenario of 'noMSP and low production'.

In the ideal scenario, acommercial farmer dominat-ing the agriculture scene pro-

vides the necessary competi-tiveness to the food process-ing sector. But India com-prises largely of subsistencefarmers who cannot bebrushed aside under the dik-tat of an economist. Forgood economics is not al-ways good politics and badpolitics is always anarchyand social unrest.

It would be cruel to sim-ply apply the principles ofeconomics of disintermedia-tion, parity with internationalprices and coercive transi-tion from subsistence tocommercial farming. Thesecan have draconian impactson human lives and if notimplemented with a humaneapproach would end up de-scending the country intochaos. The ongoing farmer

agitation has surprised manyas to why would they opposesomething that gives themmore choice. Contrary to thepopular impression, the man-di has captured the trust andsupport of farmers in allparts of India. Private man-dis are not so new, there arealready about 100 such outof which 25 mandis are al-ready operational. Most ofthese mandis which havecome up at lucrative places,are not mandis in a truesense - for they do not com-prise large number of buyersand larger number of sellersand are merely procurementoutfits disguised as privatemandis. As per the recom-mended radius of a mandi,the country needs thousandsof more mandis than the

7000 odd we have so far. It'sa strange paradox that manyof the present mandis needinvestment and moderniza-tion to be fully successfuland yet farmers need a man-di not so far from their farmfor correct price.

That means this sectorneeds a lot of investment andprivate sector can really playa part, but we can't rely com-pletely on private sectors togo to the far-flung areaswhich may be unviable inthe initial years. This iswhere the new Agri tradelaws, though futuristic, yetdo not offer the complete so-lution.

Now that the mattershave precipitated, and farm-ers are refusing to go backwhat if we give them what

they are asking. Will it costmore than Rs. 1 lakh crore ofmarket intervention costs toguarantee the MSP on pri-vate purchase? Some expertson this side of the dividehave said that it would costmuch lesser. In a bumperyear it may cost a little more,and some more to supportthe food processing sectorwhich would get affecteddue to higher prices, becauseeverything will have to bebought at MSP. But notsomething beyond 5-7% ofour budget, something thatwe can afford.

All that the governmentneeds to do is to outsourcethe procurement operationsto the private sector, linkbanking sector to fund andjust take the price risks on itsshoulders. These operationswill sure result in losses hereand profits there but support-ed by an active regulationthrough quantitative restric-tions on exports and imports- the situation wouldn't getthat bad. Any other solution,like direct cash transferwould cost the exchequerseveral times more.

This way FCI need nothandle so much additionalproduce and yet can bring inthe private sector invest-ment. A new policy researchinstitution may be set up byfarmers to advise the govern-ment on active regulationand putting necessary pres-sure. This democratization ofregulation should percolatedown to farmer and con-sumer associations and local

bodies for seamless enforce-ment to check excessivehoarding.

This way the old andnew systems can thrive inperfect harmony. Yet anotherquestion is to be answered -how do we transition fromcereals to other crops? Andto more sustainable agricul-tural production keeping aneye on degrading soils,falling ground water levelsand increasing chemicalresidues in the food. Shouldthe government redeploy theentire fertilizer subsidy pro-gram, policy measures andother incentives to focus onabove priorities?

Let's hope that this solu-tion would encourage theprivate sector and yet deter itto be exploitative. Govern-ment will be able to assureMSP to the farmers and yetnot be dazzled by the mam-moth size of operations.Subsistence farmers wouldbe cajoled and incentivizedto be more entrepreneurialand yet not fall on the way-side if they do not wish to.

The present situation issuch that the farmers are get-ting so much sympathy and ayummy home cooked mealat the Singhu border thatthey are not in a hurry to getback home. The initiativelies with the government.

Sanjay SethiSenior Vice President,

Food and SustainabilityTechnopak

AdvisorsSanjay.sethi@technopak.co

Farmers' agitation and MSP

India is a very ancient and greatcountry, its antiquity is proved by itshistory, culture and literature and the

core principles of tolerance, religiousharmony, vastness, love for nation andunity in diversity establishes the great-ness of India. Everyone in this worldconsiders his country, people, cultureand society as great, but if the greatestcountries are compared, with respect tocertain parameters of greatness, India'splace among them is above all. Thereare certain fundamental socio-econom-ic, cultural, religious and ethical princi-ples of development which should bewell woven in the core fabric of the na-tion; only then the country becomesgreat. India has evolved, practiced andpreserved the mechanism of becominggreat from its ancient times till today.The whole world believes that the old-est literature available on the earth is

the Indian Vedas and some other texts.The knowledge available in Vedas isoldest and remarkable. The validity ofVedas' knowledge might be onenquiry, but otherwise theworld has recognized their liter-ary, religious and spiritual qual-ities as extraordinary.

Other present civilizations donot have scripture, similar toVedas, in respect of the social,cultural, ethical, Economic,psychological and religious be-havior. Ancient Indian literature is awonderful compilation of the knowl-edge about earth, environment of earth,cosmic bodies and universe and notonly this, the Indian scriptures well de-scribes the harmonious relationship ofman with man, man with other livingbeings and man with environment. Inthe present time of advancement and

development, we may criticize some ofthe principles and theories of thesetexts, but if we have a serious discus-

sion about these principles andtry to find out whether othercontemporary civilizations ofthat period have been havingsimilar scriptures or not, then itis found that there is no suchscriptures available among thecontemporary civilizations.Change is the law of nature andas a result of change in Knowl-

edge, science, logic, principles and tra-ditions, old knowledge is replaced withthe new. During a specific time period aparticular tradition seems to be veryuseful, whereas in the changed times,its opposite tradition may become ef-fective. Traditions change not onlychronologically, but also as a result ofgeographical, social and religious rea-

sons. But only those civilizations andcountries reaches to the heights ofgreatness which always keep on devel-oping the constructive and appropriateknowledge and traditions for the effec-tive and harmonious socio-economic,cultural and religious development. In-dia has always evolved and propoundedthe valuable knowledge, values andprinciples for harmonious living of manand other living beings in the pure andsustainable environment.

The history of India can be dividedinto three parts, ancient India, pre-inde-pendent India and independent India.The ancient Indian people had createdand developed the socially harmonious,culturally enriched and religiously unit-ed economic system during the ancienttimes and these principles have been re-fined over the ages to match with thecontemporary times. Ancient Indian so-

ciety has taught the lessons of disci-pline, social equality, and religious uni-ty to its generations so that they can livethe happy and contented life by usingthe time-appropriate knowledge, be-liefs, traditions and principles.

The foreign ruling class of pre-inde-pendent India badly damaged the Indianeconomic, social, religious and culturalfabric but the roots of the Indian civi-lization were so deep that foreign in-vader rulers could not destroy it com-pletely and when India got independ-ence, it immediately started the effortsto reestablish its culture. The most ap-propriate example of the restoration andreestablishment is the creation of IndianConstitution. The Constitution of Indiais a well-planned attempt to reinstatethe Indian culture in the best possiblemanner. Fundamental rights given bythe Constitution to the citizens of India

is one of the major attempts to restoreback the valuable Indian ancient cul-ture. Among the fundamental rights,freedom of expression is one of the ma-jor rights given by the constitution.

This right is the best mean to estab-lish social development, economicprogress, logical harmony and religiousequality. Freedom of speech promotesscientific, logical and metaphysicalthinking and ideology and is a usefulfactor in establishing social harmonyand equality. But if it is investigatedthat whether the Indian public is reallyusing this right only for constructive de-velopment or it is also being misused.

Prof. (Dr.) Rishipal, Dean,Huminities and Applied Sciences,

Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, Palwal

Modesty of expression: Developing society

Literature & Health

As the winter seasonis intensifying thedegree of its icy-

cold temperature, the needfor warmth and comfortfood is increasing.

So treat yourself withthese easy to cook lusciousdishes this winter that willalso keep you warm.

Steak Tomatina balls:-Take 2-3 tablespoon of oilin a pan. Fry fresh andevenly cut steak in it. Afterfrying, put the steak out. Inthe same pan, cook onionand garlic until they getgolden brown. Put the al-ready fried steak in it.

Add cornflour to themixture. Pour salt, pepper,red chilly and other spicesof your taste. Now add themagic ingredient that is redwine (half the quantity ofsteak) in the pan. Mix andcook well.

Add 3-4 tomato's pureeto the mixture and cook un-til the gravy gets a thicktexture. Put the mixtureaside. In a bowl, take 3-4mashed boiled potatoes andadd salt, chopped greenchilly, red chilli powder init (all as per your taste).

Make small balls fromthe mixture. The secondmagic ingredient to add issmall cubes of Cheddarcheese inside the potatoballs. Take a baking trayand evenly spread the thickgravy on it. Put the cheesepotato balls in a stroke onthe gravy paste. Bake thesame for 20 minutes in anoven. Serve hot. (To addmore taste, serve withtomato ketchup sauce).

Veg Tortilla wrap:- Toprepare the marination,slice five mixed peppers(red, green, yellow), threeonions, four soya beansticks in a baking tray. Putfajita seasoning spice witholive oil on the mixture.Bake the same for 25 min-utes in the oven. In anothertray, brush 1 tablespoonmelted butter and place ap-prox nine tortillas to coverthe whole tray. Add the al-ready prepared mixture onthe pieces of tortillas withgrated cheese and spicyDoritos chips. Cover thesame with other tortillas towrap the whole mixture.Bake the same for 20 min-utes.

Try these appetizingdishes for warm

winter mealThe United States has called for

the release of an Uyghur Muslimdoctor who has been sentenced to

20 years of jail in China because of ac-tivism of her family members.

The daughter of Gulshan Abbastold a briefing organised with the bi-partisan US Congressional-ExecutiveCommission on China (CECC) thattheir family had recently learned thather mother received the sentence inMarch last year on terrorism-relatedcharges after disappearing in Septem-ber 2018, Al Jazeera reported.

Gulshan Abbas is the sister of ac-tivist Rushan Abbas, who has beenquite vocal about the Chinese Commu-nist Party's atrocities against Muslimminorities in China.

Meanwhile, a Chinese foreign min-istry spokesman said Abbas was sen-tenced for the crimes of joining a "ter-rorist" organisation, helping terroristactivities and "assembling a crowd todisrupt social order".

"We urge certain politicians in theUnited States to respect facts and stopfabricating lies and smearing China,"the spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told anews conference.

The daughter, Ziba Murat, calledthe charges "preposterous". Gulshan'ssister, Rushan Abbas, said the chargesare the consequence of activism by herand her brother, Rishat Abbas, both ofwhom are based in the US.

"We have committed to working todefend our people's rights and advocatefor justice, and now our sister is deniedjustice as a punishment," Rushan said.

Taking to Twitter, US assistant sec-retary of state for democracy, humanrights and labour, Robert Destro, saidGulshan Abbas must be released.

"Her forcible disappearance, de-tainment and harsh sentencing by theCCP [Chinese Communist Party] is ev-idence of a family suffering the conse-quences of speaking out against a gov-ernment that has no respect for humanrights," he said. Ziba Murat said shecould not reveal the source of the infor-mation on the sentencing to protecttheir identity. "We only learned that she

is sentenced to 20 years, andwe're trying to get more infor-mation."

"My mom is a medicalprofessional, non-political,kind person who has spent herlife helping people," she said,adding that her mother was infragile health and sufferedfrom multiple conditions, in-cluding high blood pressure.

The CECC chairman, De-mocratic Representative JamesMcGovern, called the punish-ment of an innocent familymember in what he said was anattempt to silence free expres-sion "morally reprehensible".

He said it was just part of a "masspersecution" of Uighurs in China thathas involved the detention of as manyas 1.8 million people in internmentcamps, forced labour and other abuses.

According to credible reports, morethan one million people, are or havebeen, detained in what is being called'political re-education' centres, in thelargest mass incarceration of an ethnicminority population in the world today.

The internment camp system in theXUAR is expanding, with more than380 suspected detention facilities hav-ing been newly built or expanded since2017, and at least 61 detention sitesnewly constructed or expanded be-tween July 2019 and July 2020.

Ugyhur activist's sister sentencedto 20 years of jail in China

The HomeI paced alone on the road acrossthe field while thesunset washiding its last goldlike a miser.The daylight sankdeeper and deeperinto the darkness,and thewidowed land, whose harvest hadbeen reaped, lay silent.Suddenly a boy's shrill voice roseinto the sky. He traversedthe dark unseen, leaving the trackof his song across the hush ofthe evening.His village home lay there at theend of the waste land,beyond the sugar-cane field,hidden among the shadows of thebananaand the slender areca palm, thecoconut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.

POEMS

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

ohali, : A 56-yr old ex-serviceman got a new lease of life after he underwent a Mtimely emergency surgery for a life-

threatening brain stroke at Ivy Hospital, Mohali recently. Ashok Kumar, who is presently employed as a security-in-charge at Chamba Chamera project suffered an acute brain stroke. His left-sided brain artery (internal carotid artery) was blocked.Dr. Harinder Singh Bedi, director of cardiovascular sciences while giving details of the surgery said that lesions in one artery was very unstable and could lead to a major potentially life-threatening complication at any time. Thus he was taken up for an urgent surgery. Through carotid end arterectomy (CEA) surgery the blockage was removed and the artery repaired. To reduce the chances of brain damage the brain is cooled by a special ‘Bedi Cooling Turban’ technique, which has been devised by Dr. Bedi himself. Post-surgery, Ashok made an uncomplicated recovery.

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NEW DELHI : COVID 19 saw an increase in the demand of pre-owned luxury cars, and to cater to the needs and demand of Indian luxury car lovers, Luxury Ride, India’s largest and fastest-growing chain of pre-owned luxury cars ventured into the sports car segment with Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder model. The Gallardo LP550-2 is called as India series special and is equipped with massive engine. Manufactured & registered in 2012, the body style of this model is convertible with the extreme purist performance. With 5.0 litre, V10 engine, Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder model is capable of reaching 100kms/h in 4.2 seconds. This model has incredible exteriors, loaded with lavish features. This pre-owned sports car is only 12,000kms driven and is available at the INR 1.25 cr at Luxury Ride showroom which can also be booked, financed, insured from Luxury Ride website and showroom. Sumit Garg, Managing Director and Co-founder at Luxury Ride said, “Our customers are our highest priority and to cater to the increasing demand for pre –owned luxury & exotic sports car lovers. , we are happy to announce that 10% of our stocks of pre-owned luxury car will be exotic sports cars and is available at an economical price.

Speed Up with Pre-Owned Exotic Luxury Sports Car with Luxury Ride

handigarh,: “Hatho ki association with Sports 13 - to lakeroon se jindagi nahi inspire the youth to adopt a Cbadlti. Without hard- healthy life amid the ongoing

work, dedication and willpower pandemic. Other speakers of the no one can achieve his goals. online workshop were Anyone can become anything if Yadvinder Singh, former he or she has will power and national athlete and Dr. Satbir, courage to do something”, said sports medicine consultant & ex living legend, Milkha Singh Indian hockey team physician during an online workshop. cum exercise physiologist. On the Former track & field athlete, and an exclusive online workshop on first day of the online workshop, Padma Shri Awardee, Milkha the Vidyadaan online platform. renowned former Indian track & Singh gave the motivational talk The online workshop “Immunity field athlete, Milkha Singh along-and shared his inspiring life & Strength an Ultimate Key” was with former national athlete, journey with young minds during organized by Vidyadaan in Yadvinder Singh discussed.

AU Small Finance Bank and ICICIPrudential Life Insurance announce strategic partnership

himla/ Dharmshala: AU Small Finance Bank (AU Bank), a scheduled Scommercial bank and one of the largest

small finance banks in the country, today, announced a partnership with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, one of the top private life insurance companies, to offer need and goal-based life insurance solutions.AU Bank is rapidly expanding its distribution footprints across India and this tie-up between the two leading companies will further enrich its life insurance offering with an agile, accelerated, digital and paperless platform offered by ICICI Prudential Life. Through this corporate agency arrangement, over 18 lakh customers of AU Bank across over 700 banking touchpoints in 13 states and 2 Union territories, will have easy access to the entire suite of customer-centric protection and long-term savings products of ICICI Prudential Life.

Bosch Power Tools launches BeConnected to Enhance User Experience

handigarh : Bosch Power Tools aims to enhance user convenience and ex-Cperience through the launch of its new

BeConnected, a QR code-based web application. By scanning the QR codes on each power tool, a User can check whether the product is genuine or not along with its complete technical specifications. Adiitionally, by scanning the QR code on the tool, users can register the tools for e-warranty by uploading the invoice and can also avail exciting offers available from time to time. As a launch offer, Bosch is offering 6 months extended warranty for the power tools with BeConnected QR codes. Currently over 75% of the tools are available with BeConnected QR codes.

handigarh, :India’s leading Science-based Ayurveda CCompany Dabur India Ltd

today announced the its entry into the Mouthwash category with the launch of Dabur Red Pulling Oil, an Ayurvedic mouthwash, creating a whole new category in the Oral Care market. The launch of this Ayurvedic Detox for Teeth and Gums marks another first for Dabur and for the Ayurvedic products industry in India, raising the standard of everyday Oral Care with an industry-first innovation under its flagship Ayurvedic Toothpaste Brand, Dabur Red brand, the #1 Ayurvedic Toothpaste in India. Announcing the launch, Dabur India LtdMarketing Head-Oral CareMr. Harkawal Singh said:“Dabur Red Pulling Oil is an Ayurvedic Mouthwash which contains Natural Oils and Herbs with no alcohol. The product is based on a process defined in Ayurvedic scriptures and introduces to the world.

Dabur launches ‘Dabur Red Pulling Oil’, An Ayurvedic Mouthwash

Man gets a new lease of life after timely brain stroke surgery

Raho Safe distributes over 864 free sanitary pads to 60 Neemka District Jail inmatesARIDABAD: Raho Safe, the sister concern of India’s leading hygiene and wellness brand, Pee Safe, recently distributed free sanitary pads to over 60 female inmates of Neemka, District Jail Faridabad. The drive was undertaken Fas a part of the brand’s #HaqSePERIOD campaign which emphasizes on every girl and woman’s right to safe and

hygienic periods. Over 144 packets containing around 864 Raho Safe sanitary pads and educational booklets on menstrual hygiene were given to all inmates. There are nearly 336 million menstruating women in India but only 121 million (roughly

42%) use sanitary napkins. Despite the progress in addressing the taboo against menstruation and access to pads, there is still room for improvement. Pee Safe and its sister concern Raho Safe have been actively campaigning to focus on this aspect through various initiatives such as #HaqSePERIOD. Speaking about this, Vikas Bagaria, Founder, Pee Safe and Raho Safe, said, “It was while I was reading an article that I understood that even female inmates across India lack access to sanitary pads. They are also deprived of the amount of water required during menstruation. We have been spreading awareness on removing the stigma against periods. It was time to go a step further and ensure that women and girls have access to menstrual products irrespective of their socio-economic status. We want to be an enabler in removing period poverty from the country. We have started with Neemka District Jail in Faridabad, covering 2 months of their menstrual cycle and a small interactive session on menstruation.” Raho Safe aims to reach out to as many prisons in Rajasthan and Haryana in the coming months. The brand will be tying up with more prisons going forward.

Raho Safe, launched in March 2020, brings in affordable products such as sanitary pads, disinfectants, and hand sanitizers. Raho Safe recently brought on board actor, influencer and entrepreneur Jacqueline Fernandez as its brand ambassador for two years. Raho Safe has been undertaking various campaigns to advocate the cause of personal hygiene and developed goodwill and trust amongst its consumer base. Apart from retail stores, Pee Safe and Raho Safe products are also available online at www.peesafe.com and across leading e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Nykaa, and Flipkart.

“We are like brothers only ” says Rohit Chaudhary on reuniting with Pearl V. Puri

handigarh: Amongst the various intriguing stories introduced by the Cchannel, Zee TV recently introduced

the second season of its immensely successful weekend thriller, Brahmarakshas. Produced by Balaji Telefilms, the show narrates the various folklores of the Brahmarakshas who has returned with twice as much power. It features television actress Nikki Sharma essaying the lead character of Kalindi opposite popular actor Pearl V. Puri playing the role of Angad. While Angad and Kalindi’s chemistry has surely been the talk of the town, Pearl’s camaraderie and bromance with television actor Rohit Chaudhary has also been equally loved by the viewers. Essaying the character of Robin, Angad’s younger brother, television actor Rohit Chaudhary had quite a nostalgic reunion when he first met Pearl on the sets of Brahmarakshas 2.

Flying Sikh Milkha Singh's advice to young minds - hard work only way to success

Nissan Magnite will continue to be available at introductory priceshandigarh, : The all-new Nissan segments of SUV, sedan and hatchback. Magnite will continue to be Moreover, drawing emphasis on the Cavailable across all Nissan India safety & security of the made-in-India

dealerships and on its website, Nissan Magnite SUV, it was awarded a 4-https://book.nissan.in/, at the special star on the crash test rating by ASEAN introductory prices on most of the variants NCAP. To shorten the delivery period to 2 till further notice. to 3 months, the plant production capacity Nissan Magnite, with over 32,800 is being enhanced by introducing a third bookings and 1,80,000 enquiries since its shift by employing over 1000 people to overwhelming customer response having launch a month ago has had an staff the manufacturing plant in addition.ignited consumer interest across buyer

handigarh: : Having emerged as the number 1 short video platform in India, MX TakaTak has shown huge growth in Cterms of users, usage time and its large community of

content creators amongst other metrics. MX TakaTak is proud to announce a new initiative for creators - the MX TakaTak Creator Fund to encourage India’s talented and innovative set of established and emerging creators to create engaging, impactful and inspiring content on the platform. The fund will deploy INR 1 billion (Rs. 100 crore) for creators. In a promise to support its existing creators as well as to encourage new creators with impactful content ideas, the fund is meant to help them use their creativity to build an exciting career.

Short format video app MX TakaTak is launching a INR 1 Billion (Rs. 100 Crore) Creator Fund

Indian coast guard participates in louis braille day rotary charity event

handigarh, : On the occasion of Louis Braille Day today, a Cteam of the Indian Coast

Guard led by ADG Rajan Bargotra and DIG Pradeep Mandal participated in the Visually Fit charity virtual event of Rotary Chandigarh Shivalik and Rotaract Club Shivalik Rangers to raise funds for giving scholarships to talented visually challenged students. 277 persons participated in Visually Fit from cities across India including Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Shimla, Anandpur Sahib, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Delhi, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune, Belgum, Goa, Sambalpur, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkatta, among others. The participants include a varied age group including 6 year old children and 85 year old senior citizens, both men and women. The participants had earlier registered to either walk, run or cycle for distances ranging from 1 km to 25 km. According to Aneesh Bhanot, President, Rotary Chandigarh Shivalk, “ Rotary Chandigarh Shivalik has been giving scholarships to visually challenged students over the last few years and we have given 41 scholarships .

Bandhan Bank to provide banking services to Indian Armyhandigarh: Bandhan Bank, (AVSM, SM, VSM), DG (MP & PS), facility with 6% interest on balance one of India’s youngest Indian Army, and Chandra Shekhar above Rs.1 lakh, unlimited free ATM Cbanks , today s igned a Ghosh, Managing Director & CEO, transactions across ATMs, waiver of

Memorandum of Understanding Bandhan Bank, .Services under issuance and annual charge on (MoU) with the Indian Army for the Bandhan Bank Shaurya Salary Shaurya Visa Platinum Debit Card Bandhan Bank Shaurya Salary Account will be offered to serving a n d u n l i m i t e d f r e e Account which comes with banking personnel of Indian Army through N E F T / R T G S / I M P S / D D privileges meant for the bravehearts the Bank’s network of banking transactions. Bandhan Bank Shaurya of the Indian Army. The MoU was outlets. The account will offer a host Salary Account also offers protection signed by Lt. Gen. Ravin Khosla of features, including zero balance for self and assets.

Tata Motors delivers Nexon EVs to Haryana Renewable Agency

handigarh : India’s leading auto brand, Tata Motors partners with the Haryana Renewable Agency (HAREDA) to deploy Nexon EVs in CHaryana, as a part of its tender with EESL. In an event held today,

the handover ceremony and the inauguration of the EV charging station took place in the presence of the Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas - Mr. Tarun Kapoor. During the inauguration ceremony, the EESL also signed a MoU with the Govt. of Haryana to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and strengthen charging infrastructure in Haryana State.The company has been playing a leading role in proactively driving the adoption of electric mobility in the country. The company is closely working with other Tata Group companies including Tata Power.

ctor Renuka Shahane, who is looking forward to the release of her film "Tribhanga: Tedhi Medhi Crazy", on Monday said the Netflix film explores Adysfunctional family dynamics through three "fascinating" women of different

generations and personalities. The film, which derives its title from an Odissi dance pose, is described as a heartwarming storyline that looks at the importance of family in everyday lives. Also written by Shahane, the film stars Tanvi Azmi as matriarch Nayan, a critically acclaimed Marathi litterateur; Kajol as her daughter Anu, a renowned classical dancer and actor; and granddaughter Masha played by Mithila Palkar. Shahane, a well-known face in both cinema and television, said the beautiful yet asymmetrical Tribhanga dance pose has been used as a metaphor to represent the women in this film "who have their own quirks and idiosyncrasies, and yet are fascinating, beautiful and vibrant"."I believe that women who make unconventional life choices and women with a wide range of personalities need to be represented in films. The idea for this film came from my experience of meeting someone who had a very acrimonious

relationship with her mother, unlike my relationship with mine," the actor-director said in a statement. "I wanted to capture the dysfunctional family dynamics when the core, the relationship with the mother, is shaky and unstable. I added three different generations to better reflect the intergenerational perspective in looking at the same event in three different ways," she added.Kajol, who is making her digital debut with the film, said "Tribhanga" is a celebration

of women and all their beautiful imperfections."We need to embrace these imperfections and live on our own terms, just the way Nayan,

Anu, and Masha do in this film. My character is outspoken and opinionated much like how the audience knows me, yet is completely different."As a mother I can vouch that there are challenges that women face daily as the smallest of things we do affect our children. Motherhood is a minefield of emotions captured extremely well by Renuka. I am very excited for the audience to see this film and hope it will resonate with people of all ages," she added.

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Hrithik Rohsan is back on set

ollywood's star Hrithik Roshan during late hours on Sunday revealed that he is Bback on the sets after months-long

hiatus.The 46-year-old actor shared the detail with his fans through an Instagram post which he complimented with an alluring picture of himself."Back on set," Roshan wrote in the caption, without sharing much about the project that he is working on.The picture sees the 'Krrish,' actor donning an intense look and wearing a black coloured T-shirt underneath a grey coloured coat.Earlier on Saturday, the superstar was seen clicking selfies and capturing videos through a drone camera.On the work front, He was last seen in blockbuster hit 'War,' alongside actors Tiger Shroff and Vaani Kapoor.

Taapsee Pannu exudes confidencein grey jumpsuit on social media

ctor Taapsee Pannu who is effortlessly flaunted her natural posted. Earlier, the star shared a all set to star in her upcoming curls. picture of her having a glance at Asports flick 'Rashmi Rocket' Instilling the definition of the first sunrise of New Year.

was on Sunday seen exuding 'confidence' in her fans, she wrote Meanwhile, on a professional note, elegance and confidence in a "Confidence is not walking into a Taapsee was last seen in the textured grey jumpsuit. room thinking you are better than dramatic Anubhav Sinha directorial The 'Judwaa 2' star hopped on to everyone else. It's walking into a film'Thappad'. She recently Instagram to share a captivating room and not having to compare announced about the wrap up of picture of herself, where she is yourself to anyone else in the first Ranchi schedule from her much-seen decked up in a textured grey place. #HappySunday." anticipated sports flick 'Rashmi coloured jumpsuit and modish jet The alluring picture managed to Rocket'. Besides that, she also has black sunglasses. Pannu dusted off gain more than two lakh likes 'Looop Lapeta' and 'Haseen the look with loose hair that within a few minutes of being Dillruba' in the pipeline.

Days after being hacked, Farah Khan's Twitter account restored

lmost a week after announcing that her ATwitter account has

been hacked, filmmaker Farah Khan on Monday revealed that her account has been restored.She made the announcement through a tweet where she is seen thanking Twitter India and its entertainment vertical partner for reinstating her Twitter handle."Thank you @cherylanncouto @TwitterIndia for reinstating my Twitter handle after it was hacked and deleted," she tweeted.The 55-years-old actor also went on to thank her fellow filmmaker Karan Johar and Maharashra's cybersecurity wing Maharashtra Cyber."Special thanks to @karanjohar @siddharthkadam for facilitating this.. also @MahaCyber1 for being so helpful. Be vigilant people," Khan tweeted.The 'Om Shanti Om' filmmaker had earlier last week announced on her Instagram account that her Twitter handle had been hacked.Although her Twitter handle has been restored now, it has not yet regained the blue tick which marks the verified status.

Amitabh Bachchan announces Sonu Sood's film 'Kisaan'egastar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday Mannounced actor

Sonu Sood's upcoming film "Kisaan", to be directed by E Niwas. The movie will be produced by filmmaker Raaj Shaandilyaa, who made his directorial debut with the 2019 comedy "Dream Girl", starring Ayushmann Khurrana."All good wishes to film #Kisaan, directed by #ENiwas and acted by @SonuSood," Bachchan tweeted.Further details about the film are yet to be known.Last month, Sood opened up about how filmmakers have started approaching him with lead roles in their films due to his philanthropic work for migrant workers during the coronavirus-induced lockdown last year.Sood had said 2020 changed both his personal and professional life, especially his image of an actor, after playing antagonists in films such as "Simmba", "R... Rajkumar" and "Dabangg".

Sonam shares her 'little normal' moment from sets of 'Blind'ollywood actor Sonam Kapoor Team ... #BLIND #GIA .. our little December 28 in Glasgow, United shared her little normal normal.." In the selfie clicked by Kingdom, is a Bollywood remake of Bmoment in a selfie along with Sonam, she can be seen seated in the 2011 released Korean crime-

her entourage from the shoot for her the middle smiling cutely while thriller of the same name, directed by next project 'Blind'. surrounded by her entourage which Ahn Sang-hoon.The 'Neerja' actor took to Instagram included her stylist, costume designer, The movie is being directed by Shome on Sunday and shared a picture manager, and hairstylist, all posing for Makhija and produced by Sujoy along with her personal team, who the camera. The post garnered more Ghosh, Avishek Ghosh, Manisha W, will be with her while she shoots for than fifty-five thousand likes within an Pinkesh Nahar, Sachin Nahar, and 'Blind'. In the caption, she wrote, hour. Hyunwoo Thomas Kim. 'Blind' is "All in our small little bubble. The A 'Blind', whose shoot kickstarted on scheduled to release in 2021.

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Municipality takes actionagainst illegal dhabas onKarnal Indri Road

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI: In the presence of TehsildarDarpan Kamboj and the police force,action was taken by the municipal team toremove and demolish the dhabas beingbuilt illegally, ignoring the rules on theKarnal Indri Road. Giving this information,Tehsildar Darpan Kamboj said that thisaction has been taken as per theinstructions of the District DeputyCommissioner. When the municipal teamreached the illegally built dhaba alongwith the JCB, seeing the municipal team,the dhaba operators were shaken. Manydhaba operators themselves were seenremoving their thatch. Tehsildar IndriDarpan Kamboj was appointed as DutyMagistrate for this action. Kambojinformed that five dhaba operators hadbeen given notice by the municipality onIndri Karnal main road, that it shouldremove its dhaba from the main road,otherwise action will be taken by themunicipal administration. But still theDhaba operators were not ready to acceptthis. After which this action has beentaken today. All the dhabas built on theroad have been removed. MunicipalSecretary Devendra Narwal has appealedto the people not to construct any kind ofbuilding without the permission of themunicipality, do not encroach on the road,this causes a lot of problems for thecommon man and also causes thepossibility of accidents. Before buying aplot in illegal colonies, please getinformation from the Municipality Office,Tehsil Office and DTP Office. TehsildarDarpan Kamboj, Municipal SecretaryDevendra Narwal, Municipal EngineerNaveen Dhiman, Accountant PraveenSharma and municipal staff were alsopresent on the occasion.

Farmers being looted inthe name ofcomposting fertilizers

MAINPAL KASHYAPINDRI: On one hand, farmers havebeen agitating for long againstagricultural laws, on the other hand,fertilizer and drug dealers are lootingthe farmers fiercely. Farmers have tobear the brunt of the negligence ofAgriculture Department. The fertilizermedicine dealers are selling thefertilizers at their arbitrary prices,while the department and thegovernment have no control overthem. Due to which, farmers arefalling prey to their loot. Giving thisinformation, farmer Pawan Kumarsaid that he is a resident of villageBatedi Indri. He said that he went toShri Ram Krishi Kendra Ladwa RoadIndri to get urea fertilizer, and a bagwas available for Rs 290, whereasthe rate of urea is Rs 267 per bagand the print rate is also this. Butfertilizers dealers are charging therates of their choice if a farmer talksabout getting fertilizers at the marketprice, then they refuse to givefertilizer. When we talked to thefertilizer dealer Hukumchand, he saidthat we are under pressure fromcompanies that it has to be soldalong with Khar, we have to givemedicine with the fertilizer, we areselling manure kattas between 270and 280. Hukumchand informed thatRs. 268 per bag is being sold by theCo-operative Society.

Vinesh Kumar takescharge as new SDM inShahabadGOLDY CHUGHSHAHABAD: Vinesh Kumar tookcharge of the office as the new SDMof Shahabad. Prior to this, VineshKumar was City Magistrate inYamunanagar. Earlier, Dr. Kiran Singhwas serving as SDM here and afterher transfer, the seat of SDM inShahabad was lying vacant. After

assuming office,SDM Vinesh Kumarheld a meeting ofofficers and staffand said that publicservice should beconsideredparamount and thework of any person

coming here should not be stopped.He said that he believes in properworking and for this the governmenthas entrusted him with theseresponsibilities. The SDM said that ameeting will be held on Tuesday forexaminations to be held in the nextfew days, in which officers andemployees will be put on duty. Hesaid that it would be his endeavorthat the administrative work should bedone as per appointment andproperly and no one should face anyproblem.

Bajaj Auto sales up 11 pc in December at3,72,532 unitsNEW DELHI: Bajaj Auto on Monday reported an 11 per cent increase in totalsales at 3,72,532 units in December 2020. The firm had sold a total of3,36,055 units in December 2019, Bajaj Auto said in a statement. Domesticsales were down 9 per cent at 1,39,606 units as compared to 1,53,163 units inthe year-ago month, it added. Total motorcycle sales were at 3,38,584 unitslast month as against 284,802 units in December 2019, up 19 per cent, itadded. Exports jumped 27 per cent to 2,32,926 units as compared to 1,82,892units in the same month a year ago, Bajaj Auto said.

Sensex closes at record-high of48,177, Tata Steel jumps 8.2 pc

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Equity benchmark indicescontinued their upward journeyon Monday with the Sensextesting 48,000 mark amidpositive development on thevaccination front. Investorsentiment was lifted after theDrug Controller General ofIndia approved Covid vaccinesCovishield and Covaxin foremergency use in the country.Moreover, IHS Markit said themanufacturing PMI remained inthe expansion zone for fifthstraight month and stood at 56.4in December. At the closing bell,

the BSE S&P Sensex was up by308 points or 0.64 per cent at48,177 while the Nifty 50 edgedhigher by 114 points or 0.82 percent to 14,133. All sectoralindices at the National StockExchange were in the greenzone with Nifty metal jumpingby 5.3 per cent, IT by 2.7 percent, auto by 1.6 per cent andPSU bank by 1.1 per cent. Metalstocks were stars of the day withTata Steel gaining by 8.3 percent to Rs 696.90 per sharewhile Hindalco and JSW Steelup by 7 per cent and 3.5 per centrespectively. IT stock, too,advanced with Tata ConsultancyServices moving up by 3.9 per

cent and HCL Technologies by2.9 per cent. The others, whichgained were Eicher Motors,ONGC, GAIL, BharatPetroleum Corporation andGrasim. However, Hero

MotoCorp skidded by 1.6 percent, Kotak Mahindra Bank by1.2 per cent, IndusInd Bank by0.2 per cent, Asian Paints by 0.7per cent and Titan by 0.6 percent.

Rupee settles 9 paisehigher at 73.02

MUMBAI: The rupeeappreciated by 9 paise to closeat 73.02 against the US dollaron Monday, supported bysustained foreign fund inflowsand weakness of the Americancurrency in the overseasmarket. Traders said hopes ofCOVID-19 vaccine alsoimproved sentiments. India'sdrugs regulator on Sundayapproved Oxford COVID-19vaccine Covishield,manufactured by the SerumInstitute, and indigenouslydeveloped Covaxin of BharatBiotech for restrictedemergency use in the country,paving the way for a massive

inoculation drive. At theinterbank forex market, thedomestic unit opened at 72.93against the US dollar andwitnessed an intra-day high of72.90 and a low of 73.03. Thelocal unit finally settled at73.02, registering a rise of 9paise over its previous close.On Friday, the rupee had settledat 73.11 against the Americancurrency. Meanwhile, thedollar index, which gauges thegreenback's strength against abasket of six currencies, fell0.51 per cent to 89.47. "IndianRupee appreciated amidweakness in Dollar and surgein stock markets.

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Ladwa: The farmer, like thesoldier of the country, is fightingfor his rights, sitting on the borderof Delhi for the last 40 days, toprotect his land, irrespective ofthe winter chill, which the BJP'scentral government does not careabout. The BJP, which boasted tobe the true sympathizer of thefarmers, is currently standing infront of them as the biggestenemy, who is planning todestroy the farmers. Givinginformation in Ladwa today,farmer leader Saurabh Chhaprasaid that India is a democraticcountry, where every person canfight for their rights, farmers aredemanding withdrawal of 3 blacklaws issued by the government.Against this, farmers from allover India are opposing this

decision of the government, butthe leaders in power are far fromlistening to the voice of thefarmers and are not even lookingat them. Chhapra said that it is thewinter season, where the peopleliving in the house are gettingsick due to frost, while thefarmers are spending their nightsunder the open sky amid the icycold winds. He said that this is thefirst time in history of India thatthe Annadata of the country issitting on a dharna in front of thegovernment to save his ownliving and bread. He condemnedthe leaders saying that India is anagricultural country, where afterGod, the farmer has been giventhe status of Annadata. But thedumb government of BJP sittingat the center are trying to destroythe farmers, and their intentionwill never be allowed to befulfilled.

Government should leavestubbornness and accept

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Angioplasty onGanguly's two othercoronary blockages willbe done at 'immediatelater stage': HospitalKOLKATA: Board of Control forCricket in India (BCCI) presidentSourav Ganguly is stable and theangioplasty on the two other coro-nary blockages will be done at an'immediate later stage', the nine-member medical board of theWoodlands Hospital said on Mon-day."The medical records and clinicalcondition of Sourav Ganguly werereviewed by the board members.The unanimous decision was thatan appropriate timely excellent treat-ment of primary PTCA with revascu-larisation of RCA was rendered dur-ing the acute heart attack stage,"the hospital said in the latest med-ical bulletin."The discussion was also on the twoother coronary blockages viz LADand OM2 need to be treated by an-gioplasty in this admission vis a visdoing it at an immediate laterstage," the hospital added."The consensus of the board wasthat deferring the angioplasty fornow is deemed to be a safer optionsince Ganguly is stable, without anychest pain and is on optimal medicalmanagement."

Zimbabwe Cricketsuspends all cricketactivities due to risingCOVID-19 casesHARARE: Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC)has temporarily suspended all crick-et activities in the country in thewake of new lockdown restrictionsannounced by the government dueto a rise in COVID-19 cases.According to ESPNcricinfo report, infact, all sporting activity in Zimbab-we has been temporarily suspend-ed, according to a statement fromthe sports and recreation commis-sion."This is a very challenging situation,but ZC's aim is to reschedule all theaffected events and fixtures - includ-ing the elite men's domestic T20competition which was scheduled tobegin this Monday - for them to beplayed as soon as it is deemed safeto do so," ESPNcricinfo quoted ZCas saying in a statement.Zimbabwe has not played any inter-national games since returning fromthe Pakistan tour in November 2020where they played the six-matchlimited-overs series.They were scheduled to hostAfghanistan in August last year, butthat series was called off. India, too,were scheduled to visit Zimbabwe inAugust for three ODIs, but that se-ries was eventually cancelled aswell.

Used our mentalstrength to force winagainst Mainz: FlickMUNICH: Bayern Munich managerHansi Flick said they played "verygood football" against Mainz andused their "mental strength to forcethe win". Bayern Munich secured athumping 5-2 win over Mainz in theBundesliga here on Sunday."The changes we made in the sec-ond half did us good and were justright. We fought the 50/50s. Welacked that in the first half. We hadone or two chances, but our oppo-nents were also dangerous becausewe didn't win many 50/50s in de-fence. We wanted to do better in thesecond half. After that, we playedvery good football and used ourmental strength to force the win. Weall know the first half was not whatwe thought it would be," the club'sofficial website quoted Flick as say-ing.Bayern Munich dominated posses-sion throughout but did not taketheir chances and were vulnerableat the back in the first half asJonathan Burkardt and AlexanderHack handed the visitors a two-goalhalf-time lead.

SAI invites Olympians,Para-Olympians forcoaching rolesNEW DELHI: In a move that prom-ises to empower both elitesportspersons and young athletes,the Sports Authority of India (SAI) onMonday invited Olympians andPara-Olympians for filling the posi-tion of assistant coach (level 6) andcoach (level 10).Coaches appointed are allowed tocontinue their sports training as longas they are active sportsperson andmaintain desired performance at theinternational level.Once appointed, the coaches willtake up the diploma in sports coach-ing conducted by the National Insti-tute of Sports (NIS), Patiala if theyhave already not taken up thecourse previously.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2021

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AGENCYBARCELONA, JAN 4

Lionel Messi set up Frenkie de Jongfor a goal to help earn a 1-0 win atHuesca in the Argentine great's750th overall appearance forBarcelona and his 500th in the Span-ish league.

The 33-year-old Messi trailsonly Xavi Hern ndez as theBarcelona player with the mostgames played. Xavi played 767games in all competitions, including505 la Liga matches.

Messi's latest milestone cameless than two weeks after he sur-passed Pel 's all-time club scoringrecord for Santos by netting his644th goal for Barcelona.

Barcelona dominated last-placeHuesca but could only manage DeJong's goal in the 27th minute. Mes-si lobbed a pass forward to meet DeJong's run behind the defense, withthe Netherlands midfielder steeringthe ball inside the upright.

Huesca goalkeeper lvaro Fernndez saved Messi's two chances,preventing him from adding to hisleague record of 451 goals. Heblocked a free kick just before half-time and smothered shot from closerange in the 68th.

Barcelona's win came after Mes-si sat out a 1-1 draw with Eibar lastround to recover from an ankle prob-lem.

The victory moved Barcelonaahead of Sevilla into fifth place.

Ronald Koeman's team is 10points behind leader Atl tico Madrid,which got a late goal from Luis Surez to win 2-1 at Alav s.

Atl tico was moments from en-during a setback against an Alav sthat played with 10 men for almosthalf an hour.

That was when Su rez camethrough with the 90th-minute win-ner. The former Barcelona strikerscored from close range completinga cross by Jo o F lix shortly after Atltico had conceded an equalizer.

Su rez also helped Atl tico takethe lead with a 41st-minute assist toMarcos Llorente, who cleared threedefenders outside the area before fir-ing a low shot that deflected off a de-fender before finding the net.

Alav s lost defender Victor La-guardia with a straight red card de-termined by video review for a hardfoul on Thomas Lemar.

AGENCYLONDON, JAN 4

Manchester City young midfielder PhilFoden said that he has a lot to learn fromPep Guardiola and teammates and addedthat he wants to enjoy his game at theclub.

England international set up IlkayGundogan for City's first goal in Sun-day's 3-1 win against Chelsea and swepthome Kevin De Bruyne's cross for theirsecond goal just 157 seconds later.

At 20 years and 220 days, he becamethe second-youngest player to score and

assist in a Premier Leaguegame against Chelsea sinceJermain Defoe in September2002.

Foden has now been direct-ly involved in 14 PremierLeague goals -- finding the netnine times himself and settingup five more for his team-mates.

"I still have a lot to learn.There are quality players here. RiyadMahrez on the bench today could easilyplay. I just have to keep doing well eachtime and improving," Goal.com quoted

Foden as saying. "The manag-er's praise means a lot whenyou put 100 per cent into agame. It feels nice. I'm enjoy-ing my football and I want tokeep enjoying it," he added.

City dropped off in the sec-ond half and Callum Hudson-Odoi pulled one back forChelsea in stoppage time,though Foden was delighted

with his side's overall display at Stam-ford Bridge. "It gives you the confi-dence, coming here and getting a resultof how we did.

AGENCYCHRISTCHURCH, JAN 4

Kane Williamson and HenryNicholls' unbeaten 215-runstand on day two of the sec-ond Test against Pakistangave New Zealand an edge atstumps on Monday here at theHagley Oval, Christchurch.

The Kiwis concluded daytwo at 286/3, trailing Pakistanby 11 runs. Williamson andNicholls are currently unbeat-en on 112 and 89 respective-ly. For Pakistan, ShaheenAfridi, Mohammad Abbas,and Faheem Ashraf scalpedone wicket each.

Starting their innings onday two, New Zealand open-

ers provided a steady start tothe side as Tom Latham andTom Blundell put on 52 runsfor the first wicket, but Pak-istan came back strongly asthe visitors dismissed boththe openers in a span of sixballs.

First, Blundell was dis-missed by Faheem Ashraf,and five balls later, Latham(33) was sent back to thepavilion by Shaheen Afridi,reducing New Zealand to52/2. Kane Williamson andRoss Taylor then ensured that

the hosts do not lose any morewickets before the lunchbreak.

After the lunch break, theKiwis lost the wicket of RossTaylor (12) as he was sentback to the pavilion by Mo-hammad Abbas, butWilliamson and HenryNicholls steadied the ship forthe hosts and the duo took thescore to 145/3 at the tea inter-val with Williamson andNicholls on 40 and 25 respec-tively.

Williamson and Nichollsdid not let the foot down fromthe peddle in the final sessionand both batsmen went pasttheir half-century mark in thefinal session of the day.

I still have a lot to learn: Fodenafter 3-1 win over Chelsea

Messi plays 750thgame for Bar a, Su rez

leads Atl tico win

NZ vs Pak, 2nd Test: Williamson, Nichollsshine as hosts take firm control

AGENCYMELBOURNE, JAN 4

The Indian cricket team and theirsupport staff have tested negativefor Covid-19.

“Playing members of the In-dian Cricket Team and supportstaff underwent an RT-PCR Testfor Covid-19 on January 3, 2021.All tests have returned negativeresults,” BCCI said in its release.

The entire Indian cricketcontingent will travel to Sydneyfor the third Test against Aus-tralia together in the same char-tered flight on Monday.

Vice-captain Rohit Sharma,opener Shubman Gill, stumperRishabh Pant, pacer NavdeepSaini and batsman Prithvi Shaw— landed themselves into an on-going investigation into a bio-se-curity protocol breach by them.Cricket Australia, in a media re-lease on Saturday, said it is prob-ing the matter jointly with theBCCI after a video of the playersat an indoor restaurant was post-ed by a fan, who identified him-self as Navaldeep Singh on Twit-ter.

The Australian media onSunday claimed that the fourthTest in Brisbane has been jeopar-dised as the tourists are reluctantto travel there in view of stricterquarantine rules.

But it is learnt that the fourthTest, starting at the Gabba fromJanuary 15, will take place as

scheduled. The series is level at1-1 with the visitors preparing totake on Australia in the third Testin Sydney.

We should be mentally prepared for challengeson way to Olympics: Manpreet

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JAN 4

Keeping the fast-evolving COVID-19situation in mind, Indian men's hockeyteam captain Manpreet Singh says hisside will need to be "mentally prepared"for the several obstacles it might face onits way to the Tokyo Olympics.

Pushed back by a year due to thepandemic, the quadrennial sporting ex-travaganza is slated to be held in July-August.

"The biggest learning from last yearwas to not let external factors affect ourgoal. There could be many uncertaintiesbut we need to only worry about what'swithin our control and that is to work to-wards being our best.

"There could be several challenges

leading up to the Olympic Games thisyear and we need to be mentally pre-pared for it," Manpreet said, puttingthings into perspective.

With only 200 days to go for theOlympics, Manpreet and Rani, thewomen's team skipper, believe the play-ers in respective core groups will have togive their 100 per cent to be able toachieve their goals in Tokyo.

"The next 200 days is going to be themost important period of our lives. Eachone of us have to give our 100 per centin training and in competition if we wantto see ourselves make the Indian Teamfor Tokyo," stated the midfielder.

Rani agreed that in the next fewmonths the players will need to up theirgame in all aspects.

"In the previous national camp

which lasted over four months, we havereally worked hard to reach the level wewere previously at. In the next fewmonths, our focus will be on improvingfurther in all aspects of the game.

"Our competitions this year willshow us where we stand and what needsto be improved. From here on, each oneof us have to work on being the best,"said Rani, a Khel Ratna awardee.

She stated that players should nottake their place in the team for grantedand they will have to showcase that theyare indeed the best to make the cut.

"I look forward to good competitionwithin the team as it brings out the bestin us. Another thing we need to focus onis our mental fitness and also take careof our bodies in the lead up to the Gamesto avoid injuries," Rani stated.

Indian players and all stafftest negative for Covid-19

AGENCYMELBOURNE, JAN 4

Ajinkya Rahane has been a hardnut to crack for Australia, butspinner Nathan Lyon has a newset of plans for the India skipperin the upcoming third Test inSydney.

India folded up for 36 in thesecond innings of the pink-ballTest at the Adelaide Oval to handAustralia the first Test, but theRahane-led side came out allguns blazing and won the secondTest at the MCG in the absenceof Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Is-hant Sharma, and MohammadShami.

Rahane had stepped up onthe occasion as he played amatch-winning knock of 112 inthe first innings and then hit thewinning runs in the second essayto hand India a memorable Box-ing Day Test win.

In the ongoing Test series,Lyon has failed to keep a checkon Rahane, but the spinner hasnow churned out his plans for theremaining two Test.

"I think Rahane played meextremely well in Melbourne so Iknow I have already come upwith a couple of different plans

for him and a few different guys,so I am looking forward to put-ting them in place," the SydneyMorning Herald quoted Lyon assaying. Lyon was impressed withRahane's composure and praisedthe "calm and collected batter"for standing up as a leader inKohli's absence.

"He is, obviously, a world-class batter which, obviously,helps with everything. I think hispatience that he shows out in thecrease, he doesn't seem to getflustered too much," said Lyon.

"He doesn't buy into anysledging or any conversation outthere in the middle. He is a pret-ty calm and collected batter. Heis standing up [as a leader] at themoment so I know we will haveour plans ready to, hopefully,combat him come the SCG Test,"he added.

Earlier, Team India playersrounded off what was one of thetoughest weekends for them onAustralian soil on this tour bytesting negative for the coron-avirus with results coming in onMonday morning.

The third Test between Indiaand Australia will be played atthe Sydney Cricket Ground,starting from January 7.

Have our plansready for Rahane,

warns Lyon

Crowd capacity limited to25 per cent for Sydney TestSYDNEY: The crowd limit for the third Test between India and Aus-tralia, beginning here from Thursday, has been reduced to 25 percent of the SCG's seating capacity on advice of the New SouthWales government after fresh COVID-19 cases were recorded inthe city. Approximately 9500 people would be allowed to watch thegame with the series currently locked at 1-1 following India's re-markable comeback in Melbourne. The SCG has a seating capaci-ty of about 38,000. "Reducing the capacity of the venue is crucial inachieving social distancing requirements, and we sincerely thankticket-holders for their patience, as we process refunds today, re-configure the SCG seating plan to deliver these social distancingmeasures and go back on sale," Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hock-ley said in a statement.

Pattinson ruledout of third Testagainst Indiawith bruised ribsSYDNEY: Australian pacerJames Pattinson was onMonday ruled out of the thirdTest against India due tobruised ribs, the home team'scricket board said in a state-ment.The match is scheduled to beheld at the Sydney CricketGround from January 7-11."Fast bowler James Pattin-son has been ruled out of ourAustralian squad for the third#AUSvIND Vodafone Testwith bruised ribs," said Crick-et Australia (CA).A replacement has not beennamed for Pattinson, who gotinjured after a fall at home."He will not be replaced in thesquad and will be assessedfurther ahead of the BrisbaneTest match," CA added. WithPattinson ruled out of thepenultimate Test of the four-match series, Michael Neserhas only Sean Abbott to com-pete with for a spot in theplaying XI.