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Farmersprotest willcontinue: TikaitNEW DELHI: Farmerleader Rakesh Tikait saidthat the farmers' protestswill continue until theCentre’s three new agri-culture legislations arewithdrawn.Tikait made the remarkwhile speaking in UttarPradesh’s Ramrajn townon the occasion of thefarmers completing 100days of protests at theDelhi borders against thecentral farm legislations.The farmers are de-manding a completewithdrawal of the threefarm laws and our agita-tion will continue till thegovernment meets ourdemands, the BKUleader said on Saturday.

Jeetendra, wifeShobha receiveCOVID-19 vaccineMUMBAI: Veteran actorJeetendra and his wife,producer Shobha Kapoorhave received the firstdose of the coronavirusvaccine, their son, actor-producer TussharKapoor said. TussharKapoor shared the newson Instagram on late Sat-urday evening.The "Golmaal Again" starshared a picture of hisparents -- Jeetendra, 78,and Shobha Kapoor, 75 -- posing with their doctor.According to TussharKapoor's post, the cou-ple received the Cov-ishield vaccine."At last, vaccinated. #Go-CoronaGo #GoGetVacci-nation #DrPai #Cov-ishield," he captioned thepicture.

Wheatprocurement fromApril 1 in Hry CHANDIGARH: Takingan important step in theinterest of farmers,Haryana Governmenthas decided to start gov-ernment procurement ofwheat from April 1, 2021so that farmers do nothave to stock the earlycrop. The procurement ofwheat was started onApril 10 last year. About400 small and big pro-curement centres will beset up for the procure-ment of wheat. Apartfrom this mandis will beset up according to theneeds of the farmers.

Bhiwani getssecond prize forpreventingfemale feticideBHIWANI. In the BetiBachao-Beti Padhaocampaign, in the year2020, Bhiwani has been

second inthe state inworking ef-fectively, thedistrict hasbeen givenan award ofthree lakh ru-

pees by the state govern-ment. The award will bepresented by Chief MinisterManohar Lal to DeputyCommissioner Jaybir SinghArya at a state level func-tion to be held on March 8at Chandigarh on the occa-sion of InternationalWomen's Day.

Ashwin says bestof three finalwouldhave been nicer,but team will givebest shot

Chinese exportssurge as globaldemand recoversfrom virus

SHASHI PAL JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

The Punjab government is allset to join hands with variousglobal agencies includingUnited Nations to scale up itsefforts to empower and pro-tect women with Chief Min-ister Capt Amarinder Singhslated to launch eight specialinitiatives to markthe InternationalWomen’s Day.

The initiativesscheduled forlaunch on Mondayinclude appoint-ment letters for2407 MasterCadre womenteachers as well asSanja Shakti helpdesks and181 Sanjh Shakti helpline forwomen at all police stations,with women operators to pre-dominantly man the same forprompt and sensitive re-sponse to crimes againstwomen.

An official spokespersonon Sunday said the pro-women initiatives would belaunched virtually by theChief Minister from local

Punjab Bhawan, with simul-taneous programmes at Dis-trict Headquarters and blocklevels across Punjab. SocialSecurity, Women and ChildDevelopment Minister ArunaChaudhary will join the mainlaunch event with other Min-isters and MLAs.

On the occasion, CaptAmarinder would also per-

sonally hand overappointment lettersto some of the new-ly recruited womenteachers in the Mas-ter Cadre in theSchool EducationDepartment. A totalof 2407 womenteachers across theState will be given

the letters.According to an official

spokesperson, the state gov-ernment’s collaboration withinternational agencies wasaimed at safeguarding womenfrom crimes, protecting theirrights and introducing gendersensitization curriculum inschool syllabus. The agencieswith which the state is set tojoin hands include UNWomen, UNDP.

Amarinder to launch 8special initiatives to mark

International Women's day

BUREAUCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

Haryana Chief Minister,Manohar Lal said that theknowledge shared in Bha-gavad Gita holds the key toremove all doubts and prob-lems of the world. To graspthe light of this knowledge,one has to imbibethe teachings ofBhagavad Gita intheir lives.

Chief Minister,Manohar Lal wasspeaking after in-augurating the firstphase of Geeta Mu-seum built at GitaGyan SansthanamCentre built at acost of Rs. 5 crore in Kuruk-shetra today. Kurukshetra isthe holy place from wherethe immortal teachings andknowledge of Bhagavad Gitawas preached which is en-lightening the entire world.

Manohar Lal said thatjust like its name, Gita GyanSansthanam,(G.I.E.O) isconstantly preaching the im-mortal teachings and knowl-edge of Bhagavad Gita tothe entire world.

“The spiritual gain of

Shrimad Bhagwad Gita isnot gained only by listening,reading, memorizing, or un-derstanding, infact one getsthe real benefit when theessence of this Holy Scrip-ture is imbibed in one’s life,”said the Chief Minister.

The Chief Minister saidthat the Holy Scripture Gita

has its own spiri-tual aura and if weremain associatedwith this then cer-tainly, we wouldnot indulge in anywrongdoings inour lives and willalways get inspi-ration to do goodwork and henceour life will be-

come pure.Chief Minister said that

the G.I.E.O Gita Museumand Library will be useful topacify the thirst of the pil-grims who visit this holyplace with the curiosity toimbibe the celestial knowl-edge of Gita. The G.I.E.OGita Institute has been estab-lished as center of world-class learning of Gita. Thismuseum and library willprove to be the foundationstone of this study centre.

Manohar Lal inauguratesMini Gita Museum

at Kurukshetra

AGENCYHALDWANI, MAR 7

First Forest Healing centre of thecountry has been opened at Kalika re-gion of Ranikhet in Almora district inUttarakhand.

It is spread over an area of around13 acres and draws inspiration fromJapanese technique of forest bathing(shinrin - yoku) and ancient Indian tra-ditions. The Forest Healing centre hasbeen developed by the Research Wingof Uttarakhand Forest Department aftera research on healing properties of theforests and its revitalizing impact onoverall health and well being.It involvesmany activities like forest walking, tree

hugging, forest meditation and sky gaz-ing.

It has been found that because oftypical molecular vibration patterns oftrees, tree hugging has a very beneficial

impact on increase in level of feel goodhormones like oxytocin, serotonin anddopamine, creating pleasant effect as incountries like Iceland, forest departmenthas been making efforts to facilitate this

activity for benefit of health purpose oflocal citizens. This healing centre hasbeen established in a pine dominatedforest as it has been found in variousstudies that coniferous like Pine treesemit certain oils compounds to safe-guard themselves from various mi-crobes & pathogens, which are calledphytoncides. The Healing centre alsomaintains a register in which visitorscan share their experiences. Various selfexplanatory boards explaining thesefour activities in a simple language havebeen placed at the very entrance andalso the instructions for leaving behinda phone, camera or any other destructionand also resist talking, if people move ingroups.

Uttarakhand opens country’s first Forest Healing centre

BUREAU CHANDIGARH MARCH 7

Haryana Government has issued transfer andposting orders of Five IAS and 14 HCS offi-cers with immediate effect.

Pradeep Dahiya, Administrator, HSVP,Faridabad and Additional Director, Urban Es-tate, Faridabad has been posted as Director,Citizen Resources Information Departmentand Additional Secretary, Revenue and Dis-aster Management Department.

Krishan Kumar, Additional SecretaryHaryana, Revenue and Disaster Management

Department has been posted as Administra-tor, HSVP, Faridabad and Additional Director,Urban Estate, Faridabad.

Jaspreet Kaur Additional Commissioner,Municipal Corporation, Gurugram has beenposted as Additional Deputy Commissioner,Panipat. Manoj Kumar-Il, Additional DeputyCommissioner, Panipat and Commissioner,Municipal Corporation, Panipat has beenposted as Additional Deputy Commissioner,Jind. Vishram Kumar Meena, Sub DivisionalOfficer (Civil), Mahendragarh and Sub Divi-sional Officer (Civil), Kanina has been post-ed as Sub Divisional Officer (Civil).

CM inaugurates,lays foundationstoneof projects worthRs. 34 cr in Solan

TMC's 'Khela' over, lotus willbloom in West Bengal: Modi

AGENCYKOLKATA, MAR 7

In a sharp rebuttal to TrinamoolCongress' 'Khela Hobe' (GameOn) slogan, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Sunday saidthat because of the corruption andloot in Mamata Banerjee's gov-ernment, her party's game is overand the BJP's lotus will bloom inWest Bengal.

Addressing a public rally inKolkata's Brigade ParadeGround, the Prime Minister said'Didi' Mamata Banerjee changedover the years, and not is being'controlled' by somebody.

"Nothing is hidden. Bengalknows everything. But this Khel(game) will not continue. KhelKhatam hona chahiye (this gamemust stop)...TMC ka Khelakhatam, Vikas Shuru (TMC'sgame is over, development hasstarted)...vote for BJP fearlessly,vote against bad governance," thePrime Minister said.

Taking a dig at TMC, he saidpeople of the opponent party areexperienced people and play alot. "They have done innumer-able corruption and looted thepeople of Bengal. They haveeven looted the relief money sentfor Amphan cyclone."

He said that TMC did "To-labaazi, syndicate, commissioncut" during its tenure, and the rul-ing party during its tenure did somany scams that a 'CorruptionOlympics' game can be organisedhere.

"You have played with thehard-earned money of the peopleand their lives," he said.

"I have known Didi for ages.She is not the same person whoraised her voice against the Left.She speaks someone else's lan-guage now and is being con-trolled,' the PM claimed further.

He further alleged TMC haspushed Bengal towards separa-tion instead of development anddivided people into religiouslines. "And thus the lotus isblooming," he added.

During the Prime Minister'srally in Kolkata today, BJP in-ducted veteran actor turnedpolitician Mithun Chakrabortyinto the party. With this,Chakraborty joined the long listof former TMC members to joinBJP including Suvendu Adhikari,Rajib Banerjee and more, in therun-up to Assembly elections.

West Bengal is likely to wit-ness a triangular contest this timewith TMC, Congress-Left al-liance and the BJP in the fray.

Mithun Chakraborty joins BJPKOLKATA: Actor Mithun Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) at the Brigade Parage Ground in the presence of stateparty chief Dilip Ghosh on Sunday.BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, party vice presidentMukul Roy, and Suvendu Adhikari were also present at the groundwhere Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address anelection rally later today.Earlier, Vijayvargiya met Chakraborty at the latter's residence inBelgachia.On speculations of the actor joining BJP Vijayvargiya had earliersaid, "I have spoken with him (Mithun Chakraborty) over the tele-phone, he's going to come today. I'll be able to make a commentonly after a detailed discussion with him."

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 7

Six states including Maharashtra,Kerala, Punjab and Gujarat are re-porting high daily COVID-19 cases,accounting for 84.71 per cent of the18,711 new cases, the Union HealthMinistry said on Sunday.

Maharashtra continues to reportthe highest daily new cases at10,187. It is followed by Kerala with2,791 while Punjab reported 1,159new cases.

The Centre is continuously en-gaging with the states and UTs re-porting higher caseload of activecases and those showing a rise in thedaily new COVID cases, the min-istry said.

It has deputed high-level teamsto Maharashtra and Punjab, that areshowing steep increase in the dailynew cases.

The other states reporting highdaily COVID-19 cases are Karnata-ka and Tamil Nadu.

Eight states are displaying an up-ward trajectory in daily new cases,the ministry highlighted.

India's total COVID-9 activecases increased to 1.84 lakh(1,84,523) which now consists of1.65 per cent of the total infections.

According to the data, 100deaths were reported in a span of 24hours.

Six states account for 87 per cent

of the new deaths. Maharashtra sawthe maximum casualties (47). Keralafollows with 16 daily deaths. Punjabreported 12 deaths.

In the past two weeks, 10 stateshave not reported any COVID-19deaths while 12 states reported be-tween 1 and 10 deaths.

Nineteen states and UTs have notreported any COVID-19 deaths in aspan of 24 hours. These are Ra-jasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh,Uttarakhand, Goa, Odisha, HimachalPradesh, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Lakshadweep, Ladakh(UT), Manipur, Meghalaya, Naga-land, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Na-gar Haveli, Tripura, Mizoram, An-daman and Nicobar Islands andArunachal Pradesh.

More than 2 crore vaccine doseshave been administered through3,39,145 sessions, as per the provi-sional report till Sunday 7 am.

Corona on rise in six states

including Punjab

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 7

The month-long second part of theBudget session of Parliament beginson Monday in the middle of a highoctane campaign for assembly elec-tions in four states and one UT.

The main focus of the govern-ment in the second part of the ses-sion is to get the various demands forgrants for the year 2021-22 passedalong with the Finance Bill whichcarries various tax proposals.

Besides these mandatory agen-

das, the government has listed vari-ous bills for passage in the sessionwhich concludes on April 8.

Some of the bills listed by thegovernment include the PensionFund Regulatory and DevelopmentAuthority (Amendment) Bill, Na-tional Bank for Financing Infrastruc-ture and Development Bill, Electric-ity (Amendment) Bill, Crypto cur-rency and Regulation of OfficialDigital Currency Bill.

The part two of the session istaking place at a time when politicalparties have their focus on electionsin West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam,Kerala and Puducherry.

The elections would take place

in March-April.Senior leaders of various parties,

especially the regional ones, are like-ly to skip most of the House sittingsto focus on campaigning. The firstpart of the Budget session started onJanuary 29 with the President's ad-dress to joint sitting of both housesof Parliament. The address was boy-cotted by over 20 opposition parties,including the Congress, in support ofthe demand of the protesting farmersfor the repeal of the three farm laws.

The Union Budget was tabled onFebruary 1.

Second part of Parliament's Budget session from today

Five IAS, 14 HCS officersshifted in Haryana

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72783 purposes. My DOB is 20-02- S h a l l h e r e a f t e r b e ANJALI KHANNA. Mehdoodan Teh-Samrala My Name To Balwinder Kaur. known as SWARANJIT Vishnu Kant Sharma . I, Ankush Singla S/o Sh. 1981. k n o w n a s G U R J A N T 900020 (Ludhiana) have changed my 63372 KAUR. It is certified that I Vishnu Kant Sharma And Ishwar Chand, R/o 214, Old 40008 S I N G H . I, Rajeev Kumar Mehta S/o name to Manjit Singh. I Sunaina D/O Kesar Gulati R/O have complied with other Vishnu Kant Is One And Grain Market, Barwala Distt I, Kumari Kanchan Mala 900020 Shri Shiv Prakash R/o Plot 63372 Mohalla Surgapuri, Kotkapura legal requirements in this Same Person.Hisar (Haryana) declare that alias Kanchan Mala W/O I , h i ther to Known as N o . 2 , G a l i N o . 1 , A I. Parwinder Singh Mundi S/o (Faridkot) Have Changed My connection 72737My Name is Ankush Singla Mukesh Prasad R/O Vill- MANINDERJIT SINGH Sahibzayada Jujhar Singh Mohinder Singh R/o Vpo. Name To Shaina. 90002 I, Vijay D/o Inderjeet instead of Ankush Kumar. In Sahopur, P.O.- Malhya, P.S- J A S S A L S o n o f Avenue , Ajna la Road , Kaddon (Ludhiana) changed 63372 I , A m a n d e e p S i n g h R/o.3376-18, Hargobind future, My Name is Ankush Tekari,Distt- Gaya both G U R D E E P S I N G H Amritsar have changed my my name to Parwinder Singh. I, Kirandeep Singh Kerrey S/o Marahar Son Of Amarjit Pura I/s Gate Hakiman Singla for all purposes. n a m es are mine. r e s i d i n g a t B 4 / 1 6 , name to Rajeev Kumar. 63372 Bag Singh R/o Vill: Aloona S i n g h R / o V i l l a g e Amritsar Have Changed

72783 900026 P u r a n i M a n d i , G u r u 900020 I, Nitu Anand W/o Vivek Pallah Teh-Payal (Ludhiana) Jahangir, District Sangrur m y n a m e t o V i j a y I, Ankur Singla S/o Sh. I Rajveer Kaur W/o Hardev B a z a r , C h h e h a r t a , I, Anju Pal W/O Sandeep Nayyar R/o H.No. 854 W.No. changed my name to Kirandeep [pb.] Have Changed My KumariIshwar Chand, R/o 214, Old Singh R/o Vill.punian Po A m r i t s a r Punjab have Kumar R/O Bhagwan Pura 7 Garhshankar (Hoshiarpur) Singh. Name As Amandeep Singh 72737Grain Market, Barwala Distt Gharyala Tehsil Patti Tarn changed my name and Shall Abohar Dis t t . Faz i lka changed my name to Nitu 63372 98726 I, Shiak Imran S/o Shiak Hisar (Haryana) declare that Taran Have Changed My hereafter be known as Changed My Name To Anju Nayyar after marriage. I, Gurmeet Chand Sharma S/O I Hi ther to Known As Abdul Manan R/o Civil My Name is Ankur Singla Name To Rajbir Kaur MANINDERJIT SINGH. Makkar. 63372 Mohinder Dass R/O 1236 Near Harpreet Singh S/O Kewal L i n e s , Q a d i a n , Te h . instead of Ankur Singh. In 900020 900020 63372 I, Pawan Kumar S/o Som Mata Gujri Gurudwara Sahib, S i n g h , R / O V. p . o . Batala Distt. Gurdaspur future, My Name is Ankur I, Parmjit Singh S/o Jagir Nath Kundra R/o Gali Haibowal Khurd Ludhuiana Ghoman, Teh. Bata la , have changed my name Singla for all purposes. S i n g h R/o H.No.7, Four Surta Singh Wali Jandiala Change Name Gurmeet. Distt. Gurdaspur-143514, t o S h a i k h I m r a n S / o

72783 Field, Backside ITBP Road (Tarn Taran) I have 63372 P u n j a b , I n d i a , H a v e Shaikh Abdul Mannan. Camp, New Amri t sa r, changed my name Pawan I, Gurmeet S/O Mohinder Dass Changed My Name And Concerned note.G.T.Road, Amritsar have Kumar to Pawan Kundra. R/O 1236 Near Mata Gujri Shall Hereafter Be Known 10005c h a n g e d m y n a m e t o 63372 Gurudwara Sahib, Haibowal As Singh Harpreet. I , Rehana W/o Shiak Paramjit Singh. I Kulwinder Kaur W/o Khurd Ludhiana Change Name 72778 Imran R/o Civil Lines,

900020 Nachhattar Singh R/o My Son From Parneet Devgun I Harwinder Singh S/O Q a d i a n , Te h . B a t a l a Mandir (Moga) have To Parneet Devgan. R a m e s h K u m a r R / O Dist t . Gurdaspur have changed my name to 63372 Vill.happowal Distt Sbs changed my name to Palwinder Kaur. I Sukhwinder Kaur W/O Nagar,Punjab Change My R e h a n a B e g u m W / o

63372 Harbans Singh R/O VPO Dod Name Harwinder Singh To S h a i k h I m r a n . I, Dilkaranpreet Singh S/o (Faridkot) Have Changed His Harwinder Singh Sheemar Concerned note.Baljinder Singh R/o Vpo. Name Sukhwinder Kaur To 72778 10005B h a t h l a n ( B a r n a l a ) Sukhjinder Kaur. I Arunesh Thakur S/O I, Harpal Singh And Pala changed my name to 63372 Vikas Thakur, R/O Ward Ram S/o Banarsi Dass R/o Di lka ranpree t S ingh I Paramjit Kaur W/O Sukhdev No.13, Mukandpur Road Vill Bhatt Majra, Saraswati Bhattal. Singh Gill R/O VPO Dod Banga, Distt Sbs Nagar, K h e r a , P e h o w a

63372 (Faridkot) Have Changed His Punjab Change My Name Kurukshetr, Both Names I Vijay Luxami Alias Name Paramjit Kaur To To Arunesh. Are Single Person.K i r a n K u m a r i W / o Paramjit Kaur Gill. 72778 84661Baldev Krishan R/o 63372 I, Jasvinder Kaur W/o G i d d e r b a h a Te h s i l I, Veerpal W/O Sh. Harpal Singh J a t i n d e r S i n g h Gidderbaha District Sri R/o Vpo Burj Mansa Distt. R/o.H.No.M-2/3056, Gali Muktsar Sahib have Bathinda Change Of Name No.1, Guru Nanak Colony known by both names Veerpal Kaur. TarnTaran Road Amritsar Vijay Luxami & Kiran 63372 Have Changed my name to Kumari is one and Same I, Swaranjit Kaur W/o Diwan Jaswinder Kaurlady. Singh R/o Kakra (Sangrur) 72737

63372 changed my name to Narinder I, Krishan Kumar S/O I, Karamjeet Kaur W/o Kaur (Kaur as surname). Harbans Lal R/O H. No. Sukhwinder Singh R/o 63372 63/X-1, New No. T15-Vill: Maidewas Teh- I hitherto known as BEANT 6 2 5 , I / S B e r i G a t e , Sunam (Sangrur) Pb, KAUR DHILLON W/O Amritsar Have Changed India, changed my name B A L J I N D E R S I N G H My Name To Krishan from Karamjit Kaur to residing at SUR SINGH K u m a r U p p a l . A l l Karamjeet Kaur. W A L A L O H G A R H Concerned Please Note

63372 FEROZEPUR PUNJAB 72737I, Manoj Kumar S/O 142052 have changed my I, Seema W/O Krishan Surinder Kumar R/O name and shall hereafter be Kumar Uppal R/O H. No. H.No.132, Sector 4-D, known as BEANT KAUR. It 63/X-1, New No. T15-625, Shastri Nagar, Mandi is certified that I have I/S Beri Gate, Amritsar Gobingarh (Fatehgarh complied with other legal Have Changed My Name Sahib) Have Changed My r e q u i r e m e n t s i n t h i s To Seema Uppal . All Name To Manoj Mittal. connection Concerned Please Note

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PUBLIC NOTICEI , Vi j a y P a l S / o S h . Parmeshwar R/o H.No. 463/B, Small Flats, Dhanas, U.T Chandigarh declare that my son Kaushal Kumar and his wife are out of my control. So, I disown them from my all movab le & immovab le property. If anybody deal with t h e m i n f u t u r e he/she/they/them himself responsible for the same.

60017I, Dr. Rajeev Sood, Sood Hospital, Kaithal stated that Sood Hospital, Sood Eye Hospital & Sood Maternity & Infertility Hospital are one and the same. The registered name is Sood Hospital.

100039I Balbiro Kaur W/o Late. Sh. Sangat Ram R/o Village Landi, Tehsil Shahabad (M.) Kurukshetra states that in my Adhar Card my name is written as Balbiro Kaur while in the records of N.D.R.I. Karnal Department of My Husband Sangat Ram my name is Balbir Kaur. It is written that Balbir Kaur and Balbiro Kaur are the same woman and both these names are mine.

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LOST & FOUNDI, Simrandeep Kaur Sadeora D/o Tejinder Singh Sadeora R/o declare that my 10th class certificate Roll No. 2 2 7 2 6 5 4 s e s s i o n 2 0 1 7 C a m b r i d g e E n t l . S c h . Kotkapura Rd Dt. Moga Punjab CBSE Board has been lost in anywhere. If anybody found then contact at my above address/Tel: 9876585722.

63372I Amandeep Kaur D/O Manjit Singh R/O Q.No.=1559-C Rail coach factory kapurthala punjab it is notified for the information that my original qualifing certificate of Matric of year 2012 and roll no. 2198744 issued by CBSE has been actually lost if anybody f o u n d p l e a s e c o n t a c t 8437189291

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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities

you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Dan Millman

BABAIN, MARCH 7( ): A cricket competition was organised by the Haripur Cricket Club at village Khaira. The competition was chaired by Dalbir Mathana. In this programme, District President of Youth Congress Harpreet Cheema took part as chief guest. The competition was inaugurated by Youth Congress District President Harpreet Cheema and Dalbir Mathana by cutting the ribbon. Harpreet Cheema and Dalbir Mathana were honoured by the Organising Committee with flowers and mementos. Addressing the players, Harpreet Cheema said that sports are an important part of our lives and the talents hidden in rural areas are highlighting the name of India in the country and abroad through sports. The villages of Haryana have given many national and international players to the country, due to which the name of the state has been highlighted. Young players should participate in sports in a spirit of discipline while remaining disciplined. Through sports, youth can stay away from intoxication and sports competitions also increase mutual brotherhood. Along with physical development from sports, mental and intellectual development also takes place and the leadership capacity of the players is increased.

RAVI KUMAR

AMRIT PALSAMRALA, MARCH 7

A woman is certainly gentle but not weak at all, she is a mother but not an object of intercourse, she is a goddess of renunciation but not helpless, she is the adornment of the house but not the shoes of the feet. It is because of these qualities of woman that she has been given equal status with God. Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji while praising the

difficult times were to be revered as Kiran Pahwa, a Ph.D scholar woman should not give up, what can woman has said in Gurbani, “So Kyu

they were raising the banner of success and Punjabi poetess, says that she do with courage? With courage Manda Aakhiye Jit Jamme Rajaan”.

in every field. He said that history has although laws have been enacted for and wisdom, she can protect not only The woman who gave birth to

shown that from the battlefield to the women's rights, women and girls still herself but also other women. She said Gurus, saints and warriors

playground she has face a number of atrocities that call into that only by turning her fear into should be respected by all. Of

proved her mettle but still question our legal system. She said that courage can a woman face the evils of course, in some sections, a

woman needs to be more instead of being helpless, a woman the society, because the world only woman is still considered as a

friendly. should be strong and respond to the frightens the fearful. She said that with shoe in the foot, but wherever a

T h e g i f t o f actions of the bad guys. By doing so, full dedication and hard work she woman has the opportunity to

education is more she can become a beacon of light for should continue her services for her show her talent, she has proved

important than dowry - other women and girls where her country and family.herself. Then whether it is a

Hardeep Singh own morale will be higher. What is the history of battlefield, a playground,

Hardeep Singh, A woman is perfect in every International Women's Day?running the country or

Managing Director, way – Dr. Rajinder Kaur The history of International maintaining the security of the

Dreamerz Destination Dr. Rajinder Kaur, Principal of Women's Day dates back to March 8, country, she has challenged the

Worldwide, says that GGS Khalsa Girls College for 1857 in New York City, USA, when enemy by standing on an equal

only through education can women Women, Jhar Sahib says that a woman women weavers in factories formed footing with men. Congratulations on

become self-reliant. He said that only is perfect in every way, she fulfills all their own trade unions demanding a International Women's Day today, here

an educated woman can give a blunt her duties as a mother, sister, daughter place of work and equal pay. On are the views of some eminent

answer to the misconduct taking and wife. She said that women should March 8, 1908, in New York City personalities of the area:-

place in the society. He said that if not only be given equal status with 15,000 working women struggled Worshiping women struggling with

her daughter was endowed with the men but also opportunities should be for equal pay and fixed working difficulties - Charanjit Singh

gift of education then she could set provided to them so that they could keep hours. The caravan grew larger, and in Dhanda

an example not only for herself but alive women empowerment by making 1910 women from 17 countries Leading social activist Charanjit

also for the people of the society. strides in every field with their dedicated gathered internationally in Denmark. Singh Dhanda says that celebrating

Therefore, it is more important to spirit. Since 1975, the day has been Women's Day will not fulfill our

give him the gift of education than to What a woman can't do by celebrated as International Women's obligations but will have to be

give him a worldly dowry. being courageous - Sunpreet Kaur Day by the UNO to expose the addressed seriously to prevent

Women should be strong, not Sunpreet Kaur, Librarian of Kular problems, discrimination and atrocities discrimination against them. He said

helpless – Kiran Pahwa College of Nursing Bija, says that a against women.that women who were struggling in

Rural players making India proud: Cheema

Women is the backbone of our societySHORT TALKS

ZIRAKPUR-( ): Three black laws passed by the central government are being fought by the farmers organizations on the Delhi border and the farmers struggle has passed 100 days. So far, around 300 farmers have lost their lives during this struggle. Sukhmani Sahib bhog organized at the local Patiala Chowk by the women of Seva Society Zirakpur today and they prayed for the spiritual peace of the farmers in various wards of Delhi. From 4 to 6 pm at Patiala Chowk, passers-by were made aware of the farmer struggle by placing flags related to the farmer struggle and the farmer struggle. Speaking to reporters on the occasion, various leaders of farmer organizations said that today children, young and old women are contributing to this struggle. He said that the Modi government of the Center has forced people to such an extent that they quit their jobs and took to the streets to fight the goverment laws. On this occasion, people demanded that these three black laws should be repealed as soon as possible so that the farmers sitting on the borders could return to their homes. Apart from this a huge protest march was also organized by the peasant organizations at Dhakoli in Zirakpur.

AMIT KALIA,

Sukhmani Sahib bhog organized in support of farmers

Anuradha Bhargava given Women's Day award by Bharti

SHIV KUMAR SHARMA, Bhargava was given the MARCH 7 award on the occasion of

International Women's Day. Stri Shakti Samman Divas Ram Niwas Goyal said that was organised on behalf of Anuradha Bhargava has Sur Jhankar Group of Delhi launched a campaign for Shri as the Women's Day of Guru Tegh Bahadur and has Honour at the Islamic enhanced the dignity of the Culture Centre, Lodhi Road country and has set a great Auditorium in Delhi to example.celebrate International He said that the country Women's Day, in which will always be proud of Speaker Ram Niwas Goyal Anuradha Bhargava who Malviya of Assembly Delhi takes part in social work. as the Chief Guest City MLA Somnath Bharti called Somnath Bharti ji and Roshan Anuradha the future of the Lal Rana of Haryana country and said that If such a Government were present woman power is born in our with great music composer country, then it is the good Anoop Jalota . On this fortune of the country that the occasion Advocate Anuradha time ahead is very good.

KARNAL,

InternationalWomen’s Day todayKARNAL: Tomorrow on the occasionof International Women's Day, a district-level programme by the Department ofWomen and Child Development will becelebrated at Dr. Mangal San Auditori-um. In this programme, Deputy Com-missioner Nishant Kumar Yadav willparticipate as the Chief Guest. Womenrepresentatives of social organisationsincluding women employees working invarious departments will participate inthe programme. The District Administra-tion took stock of the preparations onbehalf of the district administration forthe successful organization of the pro-gram and gave necessary instructionsto the officials of the concerned depart-ment. DPO Rajbala and CDPO MadhuPathak were present.Giving detailed information about theprogramme, District Programme OfficerRajbala of Women and Child Develop-ment Department said that like everyyear, on the occasion of InternationalWomen's Day, programmes are beingorganised at various places in the coun-try and the state. In this series, the statelevel programme of Haryana will beheld at the Chief Minister's residence inChandigarh. Chief Minister ManoharLal will give his message through videoconferencing to the people present inthe programs to be organized at thedistrict headquarters through the statelevel program.

90-year-old womansows medicinal plantKARNAL: On the second day today, inthe Amar Herbal Park at Karu Pond inSamaura, many elderly people andtheir families planted medicinal plants inmemory of the departed souls. Villagersplanted medicinal plants on their own atthe inauguration of the two-day medici-nal plant planting campaign on Satur-day also. In this episode, even today,the relatives of the departed soulsplanted about 150 saplings in theirmemory.In today's plantation, old BrahmadattaSharma, Veteran Kaushalya Devi Shar-ma, Darshani Devi, Balwant Saini,Harichand Pal, Master Maman Ram,Prakash Ram Saini along with newbornbaby Bhavidham, grandson of Nambar-dar Surendra Bhushan also plantedAmla plant in the plantation drive. Theelders and their families plantedsaplings in memory of the departedsouls. Sarpanch Sushma Devi, directorof Krishna Arogya Dham, RanjanaSingh, philanthropist Dharmveer Pal,Amar Singh Fauji, Sube Singh SamoraShamsher Singh Saini, Ravi Kumar,Vicky Sharma, Krishna Chopra, Jag-mer, Maha Singh and others were pres-ent on the occasion.

Anaemia free Indiacampaign heldKARNAL: The Bharat Vikas ParishadSuraj branch has re-elected its formerpresident Bhushan Goyal unopposedfor the next 2021-22. Chandra Mehtawas elected Secretary, Satish BatraTreasurer and Prof. Nina Arora waselected the head of the women's cell.The election was held at the KarnalClub, which was specially attended byElection Supervisor Darshan Madan,the head of the Provincial PermanentProject and Pravin Singhal, Vice Presi-dent, Bharat Vikas Parishad, SouthHaryana.The results were declared by Supervi-sor Darshan Madan. The venue wasalso decorated and music wasarranged. On the other hand, BVP’sSuraj Branch organised the AnaemiaMukt Bharat Abhiyan in collaborationwith Dr. BK Thakur Oi & Maternity Hos-pital on International Women's Day andconducted medical tests of more than100 patients at a cost of only 25 percent. Swarna Kathpal, Usha Aneja,Sanchita Mehta, Prem Mehta, AnjuSharma, Nutrition Expert Jyoti Gulati,Dr. Krishna Arora, Sanjeev Mehta,Chandra Mehta, Mahesh Sharma, KKPasi, KL Java, Bharat Thakur werepresent on the occasion.

Contractors protestgovt decision KARNAL: A meeting of MLC and MTCcontractors from across the state wasorganised in Karnal today to protestagainst the new lifting and loading poli-cy of the government. In this meeting, itwas decided that the contractors wouldnot submit tenders against the new poli-cy of the government. The protest willcontinue till demands are met. The de-mands of the contractors were consid-ered in the meeting. There was no re-sult after meeting Deputy Chief MinisterDushyant Chautala.Giving information about the meetingtoday, Ashok Khurana said that all thedefendants oppose the wrong termsand conditions made for the tender.Many decisions were taken in the meet-ing. He said that in case of delay in lift-ing from Mandi, Rs 100 per truck and72 hours of time should be provided.The loading and sewing stuffing of themandi will not be done by the MLC. Re-vise the module rate of MLC. And theseshould be given on the lines of the rateof the state of Punjab. On this occasion,Ashok Khurana, Jagjivan Singh Birk,Mahesh Maggu Yamunanagar, SureshSharma Karnal, Vishan SinghShekhawat Karnal, Bittu Tyagi, Karnal,Rohtash Sharma Kurukshetra, SatishKumar Sonipat, Krishan Kumar, Ro-htak, Satpal Palwal, Pramod HoodaFaridwad, Somesh Jain Papipat.

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MBA students perform wellNIRMAL SAINIRADAUR: Students of MBA department of Seth Jai Parkash Mukandlal EngineeringCollege have performed well in the examination. 100 per cent of final year studentshave secured first place. The students and department president Anuja Goyal werecongratulated on behalf of the institute and wished for a bright future. Giving informa-tion, the director of the institute, Dr. SK Garg, said that the MBA department of the insti-tute has always been working on the all-round development of the students. In the ex-amination result, where 100 per cent of the students got marks in the first class, on theother hand, students Riya, Vani and Arshadeep got 8th, 9th and 10th position in themerit list.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 7

Jee Sure Institute was launched on Saturdayby DC Classes and Rana Academy, the city'sfamous educational institutions. It was inau-gurated by BJP's District President YogendraRana. Councillor Mukesh Arora was alsopresent. Dinesh Chopra, director of DC Class-es, said that G.-Sure has come as a revolutionin the field of education for the students ofKarnal city. The teaching institute has beenjoined by three teachers from FIITJEE. Theexamination results of the students taught bythem have been 80 percent and above everyyear. On this occasion, Chief Guest YogendraRana said that it will be a good opportunityfor the students of Karnal. DC Classes has es-tablished dimensions in the field of education.By giving higher level education in Karnal it-self, it has worked to shape the future of thestudents. Dinesh Chopra said that Jee Sure is

guaranteeing complete success to its targetbatch students.

No institute has done this before in Kar-nal. He said that DC Classes and Rana Acad-emy have given good results in CBSE, IITand NEET examinations in Karnal city everyyear. Now with the team of FIITJEE, moregood results will be given. Earlier, DC Class-es and Rana Academy have given excellentresults in competitive examinations like IAS,HCS, NDA and IPM. Teachers Aman Arora,Alok and Neha Arora have joined the Jee Sureeducational institute. Under his guidance,Hardik Arora IIT Allahabad, Parikshit Sang-wan NDA Rank 351, Partha Singh IIT Hyder-abad, Somwal IIT Ropar, Deeksha Mittal IITRopar, Raghav Miglani IIT BHU, PranabMiglani NIT Rourkela, Shubham Mann NITKKR and Atal Bhatia IIT Goa and many oth-ers. The Institute has also made provision fora 100 per cent scholarship and for this test willbe conducted on March 26 and 27 .

Jee Sure institute launched Shakti Dham mandirto be completed soon

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 7

The Shakti Dham Temple to be built in Sector 36 of Karnalwill be an invaluable gift not only to Karnal but to the entireHaryana. It will take about 14 months to get ready after whichits grand appearance will be worth seeing. On Sunday, on be-half of the Paras Charitable Trust, Paras Bhai, the head of theParas family, performed the Bhoomi Pujan of the temple withlegal rituals along with religious rituals and chanting. A con-fluence of reverence and gaiety will be seen in this temple,which is to be built in about 10 thousand square feet, where allthe forms of Navdurga Shakti will be seen. Devotees will alsoget the privilege of worshiping the nine planets. This Nav Dur-ga was worshiped during the Bhoomi Poojan of the temple inAnsal Town on Sunday, while the devotees shouted prayers toMaa Durga.

During the press conference after the Bhoomi Poojan, thehead of Paras family, Paras said that in this temple there willbe nine forms of Maa Bhagwati, shrine of Lord Shiva, themost sacred place of Shivalaya, Krishna temple, HanumanChhatar, Ganapati Manch, Shani Dev place and Navagrahas.Also here, the place of Baba Balak Nath and Guru GorakhNath have been given special places where there will be fu-migation all the time. Bhai Paras said that this temple will bea unique confluence of all religions. Here Hindus, Muslims,Sikh Christians, people of all religions can simultaneously re-main engaged in devotional practice. In this grand temple orShakti Dham, a lot of good arrangements are being made tostop the bhandaras and the devotees.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 7

Former Chief Minister andLeader of Opposition,Bhupinder Singh Hooda hassaid that earlier the sportepolicy of the Congress wasgood and players broughtmedals. They were also giv-en jobs. But the present gov-ernment has rejected tht pol-icy. Hooda said that duringhis time, Haryana's players,along with Olympic andAsian, put Haryana's namein the medal table at theCommonwealth Games. Hesaid that the BJP govern-ment has done injustice to theyouth of Haryana. It was saidthat the youth of Haryanashould be given priority ingovernment jobs. But the gov-ernment is bringing officersfrom outside. Now the gov-ernment has fixed a 75 per

cent quota for the youth of thestate in private jobs. On theother hand, the limit for nativecertificate was reduced to fiveyears. He was speaking at anevent organised in honour ofSports Guru Krishna Hooda,who was conferred with theNational Dronacharya Award,an International Kabaddi In-structor who has producedseveral international playersfor the country. Those whocongratulated him were Inter-national Professional BoxerKhel Ratna Vijendra Singh,Dronacharya Awardee RS

Khokhar, Raj Singh, MahabirPhogat, Balwan Singh, OPDahiya. These players saidthat the country will alwaysremember the services of Kr-ishna Hooda. Players willcontinue to take advantage oftheir experiences in times tocome. On this occasion, sev-eral GG players including Ar-jun Awardee Anup Kumar,Jasveer Singh, Ramesh Ku-mar, Manjij Singh Chillar,Praveen, Mohit Chhillar, Jas-mer, Amir, Jayabhagwan,and Daleel Singh expressedtheir happiness .

Changed Sports policyharming players: Hooda

Jan Aushadhi Centres boonfor patients: Dr. Arvind

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAROHTAK, MARCH 7

BJP MP Dr. Arvind Sharma said that the PradhanMantri Jan Aushadhi Scheme launched by the CentralGovernment is becoming a huge support for the poorand middle-class families. The central government isconstantly trying to make medicines available at cheap-er rates. The MP said that in the health sector, the Cen-tral Government has taken many big decisions in thepublic interest, which is benefiting the common man.On Sunday, MP Dr. Arvind Sharma joined the videoconferencing programme of Prime Minister NarendraModi interacting with the beneficiaries of the scheme.The MP said that the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yo-jana is one of the most effective and effective healthschemes in itself, under which public dispensaries havebeen opened for the general public and high- qualitygeneric medicine for the poor and the underprivilegedhas been made available to the public.

Generic medicines are available at much lowerprices than branded medicine. The MP said that theproduct basket of the scheme has now included morethan 1400 medicines and about 204 surgical and con-sumables, which include anti-infective, anti-allergic,anti-diabetic, cardiovascular, anti-all the major thera-peutic categories. Cancer and other useful medicinesare also available. So far, 7499 Pradhan Mantri JanAushadhi Kendras are functioning from hilly areas tometro cities in the country.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, MARCH 7

According to Shrikant Jadhav an aware-ness campaign against drug abuse is go-ing on in Kurukshetra in Haryana everyday. The Awareness Yatra was taken outfrom the third gate of Kurukshetra Uni-versity in Didar Nagar against drug ad-diction. During the awareness walk, theyouth said we have decided that Haryanahas to be made drug-free and criminalshave to be jailed. Dr. Ashok Kumar Ver-ma, acting head of Prayas Sanstha Ku-rukshetra and Deputy Inspector ofHaryana Narcotics Control Bureau,Haryana, said that they have so far held8 rallies in Karnal and 36 in Haryana

under the directions of Srikant Jadhav,Chief Additional Director General,Haryana State Narcotics Control Bu-reau. Two campaigns have been held inYamunanagar and 4 in Ambala. Work-shops on drugs have also been held.Apart from this, other teams are doingthis awareness programme in variouscities and villages of Haryana province.Dr. Ashok said that our objective is veryclear that the state of Haryana should bemade drug-free. Public support in thiswork is being received very well. If theyounger generation understands that in-toxication is very negative for their life,then it will have very meaningful re-sults.

The officials of the effort organised

a special meeting after the tour, and alsomade a strategy and plan to strengthenthis campaign. Dr. Sushila Chauhan,Professor of the Kurukshetra UniversityLaw Department and the female head ofthe effort organisation Kurukshetra, saidthat she is making every effort for pub-lic awareness. Superintendent andwomen general secretary of ADR Cen-ter, Ruman Gupta said that by taking theyounger generation together, we caneasily achieve our goal. General Secre-tary Prof. Vivek Sharma while prepar-ing the plan for the next action said thatwe will achieve our goal keeping Coro-na in mind. Deputy head Karma Chand,co-treasurer Prashant Sharma, Mohitetc. were present on the occasion.

We will make Haryana drugs-free: Sushila

Yoga camp organisedin school

RK KASHYAPCHHACHHARAULI, MARCH 7

A yoga camp was organised at Government Senior SecondarySchool, Lalhadi Kala in which yoga teacher Rajveer Singh ex-plained to children andteachers about yoga andtaught asanas and pranayam.All children and teachersshowed interest. Giving in-formation, yoga teacher Ra-jveeer said that by doingregular yoga, our body'sability to fight diseases in-creases and can also get ridof many diseases. He saidthat even with 10 minutes ofyoga daily, we can make thebody fit and healthy and wecan also stay away from thediseases that occur in thebody. By doing yoga, the di-gestive power, heart and alltypes of organs are also able to do regular work. On this occa-sion, Principal of the school Dharam Singh Rathi and all thestops of the school were present.

DARSHAN SHARMANILOKHERI, MARCH 7

Shivani Panchal took over charge as the newsecretary in the Municipality of Nilokheri.Upon her arrival, Municipal Pres-ident Sanmeet Kaur Ahuja andcity councillors welcomed herwith flowers. Speaking to the re-porters, she said that earlier sheworked as an accountant inChandigarh. Now this is her firstposting as secretary in Nilokheri.First of all, she thanked the coun-cillors who came. She said thatfirst of all the problems of the citywill be given priority. The coun-cillors said that after two to threedays a meeting of the house willbe called, in which the problemsof the city will be discussed in detail andevery problem of the people of the city will beresolved.

Former Councillor Raj Kumar Dhawan,Councilor Rajesh Kumar, Mohit Malhotra,Sukhwinder Bablu, Parshad Paritinidhi Bhu-pesh Juneja, Arjun Muniyal, Amit, Ranji B T,Accountant Jai Chand M.E. Madan Mohan

Garg All Councilors and Councilors Repre-sentatives and Towns The staff of the munic-ipality was also present on the spot

Panchal takes chargeas Secretary in MC

IMA wins Sahni tournamentSUSHIL PANDITYAMUNANAGAR, MARCH 7

Ravindra Sahni Memorial Match was playedbetween Indian Medical Association and Indi-an Media Centre in the DPS ground. Chair-man Ramnivas Garg and the President of PrintMedia Association, Om Pahwa were presentand the match started by introducing them to the players. On this occasion, Chief AtiRam Niwas Garg said that this match is being organised in the memory of Ravindra Sah-ni, who was also a well-known artist. I.M.C. Won the toss and decided to field first. Dr.Vikrant and Dr. Amit Sethi performed brilliantly in the opening and the pair did not getout till the end but Vikrant was out on the last ball of the match.

IMA set a target of 188 to the IMC. A great start was made by the IMC, but the teamcould not win the match and the entire team was dismissed in 20 overs for 168 runs.IMA’s Dr. Vikrant had a great performance from the side and was declared the man ofthe match. All players played well. Captain Virendra Tyagi, Deputy Captain PrabhakarSharma, Amrit Sahni, Ambuja, Sunil, Gurdeep, Kaushik Khan, Devendra, SameerChauhan, Rajneesh Saini, Abhishek Dutta, Dinesh, Weishu, Munish Bakshi, Ravi Rathi,Avatar, Satpal Sharma, Sachin, Pankaj, Anurag, Hardev Singh.

Workers given benefits underschemes: DCRANVIR PARASHARKARNAL: Haryana Building and Construction Labour WelfareBoard is providing benefits of various facilities to the workersthrough many schemes. The board provides financial assis-tance for the marriage of children, widow pension, maternitybenefit, paternity benefit, gratuity for purchasing tools, Mukhya-mantri Mahila Shramik Samman Yojana, sewing. Giving this in-formation, Deputy Commissioner Sujan Singh said that underthe Department of Labor, this board has been given Rs 51,000for granting up to three daughters of laborers, Rs 2 thousandper month under widow pension, Rs 36 thousand for maternitybenefit, for paternity benefit 21 thousand rupees, workers getRs 8 thousand for new tools once in 5 years, for registeredwomen workers to buy saris, suits, slippers, rain coats, umbrel-las, rubber mattresses, kitchen utensils and healthy napkins atthe time of renewal of their membership.

Havan, Yajna, bhandara held for Khatu ShyamRohit LamsarTARAORI: On behalf of Shri Khatu Shyam Lakhdatar family Taraori, the form of Baba Khatu Shyam ji wasseated in Taraorii. Havan-Yajna, Bhajan Kirtan and Bhandara were organised near Dayaram temple in thisfestival, which was attended by a large number of devotees as well as members of Shri Khatu ShyamLakhdatar family Taraori. The form of Shri Khatu Shyam Ji was enthroned with life and dignity. The beautifulcourt of Baba Ji was magnificently decorated. Bhajan singers Sonu Tilakdhari and Priyanka Malra praised theglory of Shri Khatu Shyam ji in his melodious voice. There was an atmosphere of happiness among all thedevotees as they reside in the form of Shri Shyam Khatu Ji in Taraori.The bhajan singers made the atmosphere devotional in the Bhajan Kirtan held when Baba was worshipped. Abhandara was organised for the devotees, in which everyone received the prasad. On this occasion GV RiceMill's M.D. Vineet Bansal, Chunit Bansal, Ashish Bansal, Shubham Dewan, Suman Bansal, social activistAshok Bansal, Brijlal Garg, Ankur Garg, Vinay Garg, Vipul Garg, Sumit Garg, Mohit Garg, Sahil Garg,

Govt continuously workingto uplift women: CMO

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

Haryana Government’s continuous ef-forts to empower women has beenpaying off as women in the state arenot only well educated, tech-savvy butalso are well aware of their rights.

This can be gauged by the numer-ous tweets made by both women andmen of the state regarding variouswelfare schemes started by the Stateand Centre Governments. In fact, thestate government has been continu-ously working for upliftment ofwomen, be it their education, safetyand welfare.

The implementation of e-gover-nance in the state has ensured that theChief Minister's Office is just a clickaway from the people.

Sharing details about the tweets

made by empowered women of thestate, Mr Dhruv Majumdar, IT Con-sultant to the Chief Minister, said inone such tweet made by Ms Suman, aresident of Sirsa Ghogra, district Bhi-wani, had tweeted on the OfficialTwitter Handle of the Chief Minis-ter’s Office that she was not gettingthe ration which is supposed to begiven to pregnant and lactatingwomen under various schemes start-ed by the government.

The Social Media GrievanceTracker (SMGT) Team, which man-ages the Twitter handle, immediate-ly swung into action and thereafterfacilities were provided as per gov-ernment guidelines. In another tweetmade by a resident of Mohana inSonipat in which he sought releaseof cash incentive of Rs 5,000 forpregnant and lactating mothers un-

der the Pradhan Mantri MatritvaVandana Yojana (PMMVJ). Thewoman’s husband Deepak hadtweeted on the Chief Minister’s Of-fice Twitter handle in this regard.

He said he had deposited thedocuments with the aanganwadiworker but the same were not updat-ed on the website which delayed therelease of the said incentive. Hoursafter tweeting he received a callfrom the concerned department andthe documents were updated imme-diately in his presence, he added.Giving details of another tweetwherein a father had tweeted regard-ing cash incentive given to parentsof girl child, Mr Majumdar sharedthat Mahendragarh resident VikramSingh had tweeted stating that thecash incentive have not been re-leased.

4PROSPERITY TRIES THE FORTUNATE, ADVERSI-

TY THE GREAT.

ROSE KENNEDY

LIFE IS GIVEN TO US, WE EARN IT BY GIVING IT.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021

Twelve O'ClockMother, I do want to leave off my les-sons now. I have been at mybook all the morning.You say it is only twelve o'clock. Sup-pose it isn't any later;can't you ever think it is afternoon whenit is only twelveo'clock?I can easily imagine now that the sunhas reached the edge ofthat rice-field, and the old fisher-womanis gathering herbs forher supper by the side of the pond.I can just shut my eyes and think thatthe shadows are growingdarker under the madar tree, and thewater in the pond looks shinyblack.If twelve o'clock can come in the night,why can't the nightcome when it is twelve o'clock?

(By: Rabindranath Tagore)

Chinese exports surge as globaldemand recovers from virus

China's exports surged60.6 per cent over ayear earlier in the

first two months of 2021,after factories reopened andglobal demand started to re-cover from the coronaviruspandemic.

Exports rose to USD468.9 billion, customs datashowed Sunday, accelerat-ing from December's 18.1per cent gain and nearlydouble the growth expectedby forecasters. Importsjumped 22.2 per cent toUSD 365.6 billion, up fromDecember's 6.5 per cent in-crease.

Chinese authoritiescombine trade data for thefirst two months to com-pensate for fluctuations dueto the Lunar New Year holi-day, which falls at differenttimes each year in Januaryor February. Factories shutdown for up to two weeks,then restock after they re-open.

Exporters benefitedfrom the relatively early re-opening of China's econo-my after the ruling Commu-nist Party declared victoryover the disease last Marchwhile foreign competitorsstill face anti-virus controls.

Forecasters say the Chi-nese export surge shoulddecelerate as demand formasks and other medicalsupplies eases and overseascompetitors return to globalmarkets. Trade officialshave warned that the globalsituation still is grave andcomplex. Exports to theUnited States soared 87.3

per cent over last year toUSD 80.5 billion in Januaryand February despite for-mer President DonaldTrump's tariff hikes im-posed in a fight over trade,technology and security.They have been left in placeby his successor, Joe Biden,who took office in January.

Economists and politi-cal analysts expect fewchanges under Biden due towidespread frustration inWashington with China'strade and human rightsrecords and complaints

about technology theft andspying. On Friday, China'stop economic official, Pre-mier Li Keqiang, an-nounced plans to acceleratetechnology developmentand reduce reliance on othercountries. That threatens toworsen strains with Wash-ington and Europe, whichcomplain Beijing violatesits market-opening pledgesby shielding its suppliersfrom competition. The lat-est trade figures look espe-cially dramatic comparedwith early 2020, when the

ruling party shut factories tofight the virus and tradeplunged.

Then, global exportstumbled 17.2 per cent in2020's first two monthsfrom the previous year. Ex-ports to the United Statesplunged 27.7 per cent. Liannounced an economicgrowth target of "over 6 percent this year, which shouldhelp to propel demand forforeign oil, iron ore, food,consumer goods and otherimports. Beijing promisedto buy more American soy-

beans, natural gas and otherexports in the Phase 1agreement last Januaryaimed at ending the tariffwar. The two sides agreedto postpone more tariffhikes, but penalties on bil-lions of dollars of each oth-er's goods remain. Chinafell behind on meetingthose commitments butstarted to catch up as de-mand rebounded. Thisyear, China's global tradesurplus for January andFebruary was USD 103.3billion, compared with a

USD 7.1 billion deficit inthe same period last year.Imports of U.S. goods rose66.4 per cent to USD 29.3billion. China's trade sur-plus with the United Statesnarrowed by 17.7 per centfrom the same time lastyear to USD 20.9 billion.Exports to the 27-nationEuropean Union rose 62.6per cent over January andFebruary last year to USD73.7 billion. Imports of Eu-ropean goods gained 32.5per cent to USD 45.9 bil-lion.

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Pak blasphemy law does notprotect Hindus

Astudy led by a team of re-searchers from the Universityof Reading uncovered that

consumption of high-fat diets mayover-activate destructive heart dis-ease protein, increasing the risk of aheart attack. In a paper published inBiochemical and Biophysical Re-search Communications, researcherslooked at the effect of feeding micea high-fat diet on oxidative stresslevels on heart cells. The team fromthe University of Reading found thatcells from the mice had twice theamount of oxidative stress, and ledto heart cells being up to 1.8 timesbigger due to cardiac hypertrophywhich is associated with heart dis-ease. Named first author Dr SunbalNaureen Bhatti, from the University

of Reading said, "Our researchshows one way in which a high-fatdiet can cause damage to the musclecells that make up our hearts.

It appears that a switch happensat a cellular level when the micewere fed on a high-fat regime whichcauses a normally harmless protein,Nox2, to become overactive.

The precise nature of how theNox2 protein goes onto cause oxida-tive damage and set off destructivehypertrophy is still being re-searched." "We are really justscratching the surface of how theprotein Nox2 responds to diets, butour research clearly demonstratesthat high-fat diets have the potentialto cause significant damage to theheart," Bhatti added.

The way Pakistani mem-ber of the National As-sembly Aamir Liaquat

Husain used the image ofHindu deity to mock PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) Vice PresidentMaryam Sharif recentlyshows that the country's blas-phemy law does not protectHindus in the country.

According to scribe Kun-war Khuldune Shahid's articlefor The Diplomat, the in-stances of using the doctoredimages of Hindu goddesses isthe "latest reminder of the Is-lamist double standard ofPakistan's stance on blasphe-my and the correlated blood-thirsty laws."

"In Pakistan, lives havebeen derailed, individualsburned alive, and entirecolonies torched over false al-legations of blasphemyagainst Islam. Unlike Husain,who didn't even have to faceany criminal inquiry for opensacrilege against Hinduism,those accused of blasphemingagainst Islam aren't affordedthe privilege of a retraction orapology," Shahid wrote in hisarticle.

The scribe further pointedout that at least 75 have beenextrajudicially killed, andhundreds imprisoned, overthe intangible and victimless"crime" of sacrilege againstIslam in Pakistan.

Islamabad has been em-broiled in an embarrassingdiplomatic brawl with Parisfor last six months over therepublication of Charlie Heb-do's caricatures on Islam andthe anti-separatism bill, cul-minating last week in theFrench foreign ministry issu-ing a reminder to Pakistanthat all of France's laws, pastand present, are equally appli-cable to all religions. "Pak-

istan's diplomacy currentlyappears to be orchestrated byradical Islamist groups likethe Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pak-istan (TLP), which in No-vember had convinced thegovernment to "boycottFrench products" and "expelthe French ambassador" ow-ing to blasphemous carica-tures against Islam," Shahidsaid. He added that the resist-ance against the constructionof Islamabad's first-ever Hin-du temple is rooted in the in-stitutionalized anti-Hindubigotry in the country, whichcontinues to be preachedthrough school curricula andmosque sermons.

Aclinical report drove by thejournal 'Blood Advances' hasclaimed that a progression of

biomarkers, or organic signs, relatedto white platelet initiation and obesitycan anticipate extreme outcomes inCOVID-19 patients.

When patients with COVID-19arrive in emergency rooms, there arerelatively few ways for doctors to pre-dict which ones are more likely to be-come critically ill and require inten-sive care and which ones are morelikely to enjoy a quick recovery. How-ever, this study focuses on biomarkersthat can help predict severe outcomesin COVID-19 patients.

"Patients with high levels of thesemarkers were much more like to re-quire care in the intensive care unit,require ventilation, or die due to their

COVID-19," said Dr Hyung Chun,the lead author, an associate professorof medicine in cardiovascular medi-cine and pathology and director oftranslational research at the Yale Pul-monary Vascular Disease Program.

Previously, a few laboratory stud-ies had identified possible indicatorsof severe COVID-19, including D-dimer levels, a measure of blood co-agulation, and levels of proteinsknown as cytokines, which are re-leased as part of inflammatory re-sponses in the body. However, untilnow, no laboratory marker could pre-dict which patients with COVID-19would eventually become critically illprior to showing clinical signs andsymptoms of severe disease. For thenew study, Yale researchers used pro-teomic profiling -- a screen for multi-

ple proteins within the blood -- to ana-lyze samples taken from 100 patientswho would go on to experience differ-ent levels of COVID-19 severity. Inall cases, the blood samples were col-lected on the patients' first day of ad-mission. The researchers also ana-lyzed clinical data for over 3,000 ad-ditional patients with COVID-19within the Yale New Haven Hospitalsystem. They found that five proteins(resistin, lipocalin-2, HGF, IL-8, andG-CSF) that are associated with neu-trophils, a type of white blood cell,were elevated in the COVID-19 pa-tients who later became critically ill.Many of these proteins had previouslybeen associated with obesity but notwith COVID-19 or other viral illness-es. Notably, the elevated neutrophilbiomarkers for patients who would go

on to experience more serious symp-toms were evident before those symp-toms appeared. All COVID-19 pa-tients who were admitted or trans-ferred to the ICU had elevated neu-trophil activation markers, while thesebiomarkers remained low for patientswho never developed severe illness.None of the patients with lower neu-trophil biomarker levels died.

"This is one of the first demon-strations that a set of biomarkers inthe blood of COVID patients can pre-dict eventual ICU admission, even be-fore such patients become criticallyill," said study author Dr Alfred Lee,associate professor of medicine inhematology, director of the Yale Med-ical Oncology-Hematology Fellow-ship Program, and a member of theYale Cancer Center.

EDITORIALWord games: 'creative'mantra for the govt

One of the greatest talents of the politicians inpower at the Centre is their ability to infuse oldwords with new meanings. ‘Freedom’, for ex-

ample, seems to mean something other than what wasgenerally understood so far. They have now becomecreative with the word, ‘creative’. There is to be a cre-ative writing contest for teachers and parents ofKendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya schools beforethe prime minister’s discussion with students on ex-amination stress. The idea of the prime minister as thestudents’ friend is creative enough, particularly whenhe mentors them about examination stress. His ownyouthful experience must be the source of his wisdom.That the prime minister, who is not noticeably fond ofacademics and students who speak their mind, shouldinsert himself directly into young people’s thinkingand mould their attitude to examinations is the veryacme of creativity. But the Bharatiya Janata Party-ledgovernment wants more. More inventiveness than thegau mata examination entailed. The topics for the cre-ative writing contest, which pupils in higher classescan join, indicate immediately that the word ‘creative’means something new. Shorn of its association withfreedom, creativity for parents is a kind of homework:lessons in the way they will reduce their children’sstress. “Your words make your child’s world — en-courage as you have always done”, for example, hasthe government placing itself between parents andchildren and trying to regiment their attitudes with in-structions about the child and parent writing each sen-tence in turn. “Be your child’s friend — keep depres-sion away” is an order, not a creative writing topic; theparent is instructed to write the child a postcard say-ing why he or she is special. But to have parents joina contest — test, in effect — is a sign of the govern-ment’s creativity about its own rights. And do its aid-ed schools teach that segment of students alone inwhich all parents are able to participate in a writtencontest? The topic given to teachers is about the ben-efits of online teaching and how to make it better. Thisis designed to stifle all descriptions of the problemsfaced by an enormous number of teachers and stu-dents all over India which deeply affect inclusivityand achievement, while condemning children to themonotony of screen communication without dynamicengagement with teachers, peers and physical sur-roundings. To write about the benefits alone would betruly creative; it is the kind of creativity underliesmost of the government’s favourite agendas.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021

Alternative road to Una is in bad conditionASHOK KUMARAJOLI: PACL Chowk Naya Nangal to Sector-2 is connected with the National Main Roadby alternate route to go to Una due to the construction work of the Over Bridge at Ajoli turn.The condition of this alternative roadway has become very bad due to heavy traffic. Roadhas been razed from the place, the gravel has been uprooted from the road to the edges.Due to this uprooted gravel and pit on the road, it is difficult for vehicles to move. The graveluprooted on the road is becoming a problem for two-wheeler drivers, many two-wheelershave been injured by slipping on this gravel. The administration has adopted an indifferentattitude towards the repair of this road. In this regard, Manjinder Singh, Executive Officer ofthe Municipal Council Nangal was talked to, and he said that PWD has made this alterna-tive route. The city's social workers Praveen Dwivedi, Balram Parashar, Rajinder Soni, LalitKumar, Anku, Gulshan Kumar, Pawan Gautam, Maheshi Kumar, Arvind Joshi, VishalChauhan, Naveen Nagpal etc. have urged the administration to fix this alternative road.

HIMACHAL/JKBoxing camp to beorganized from April 1in Hamboli: RajeshPARDEEP CHAMBAYALUNA / AMB: Saksham BoxingCamp is being organized from 1stApril to 7th April in village Hamboliunder District Una Sub DivisionAmb. In which along with thedistrict Una, the players of NorthIndia are reaching to participate,this information was given by thecompetent boxing academy'sdirector and ANI coach RajeshSharma. To be done by "CompetentBoxing Club". Talking to thecompetent boxing club chairmanRajesh Sharma ji asked thepurpose of the camp, he said thatthe more competition the childrenget, the more encouragement theywill get to progress. "SakshamBoxing Club" is organizing thiscamp for the second time. Thepurpose of which is to raise theplayers from the ground level. Theboxing cup will boost the morale ofthe players by the match. So thatthe player can achieve goodachievements in the coming time.Saksham Boxing Club chairmanRajesh Sharma and his wifesecretary Saroj Sharma SwyamSara are organizing the event.Their aim is to take the boxing oftheir rural children to the nationaland international level. So that thename of Hamboli village, districtUna, Himachal Pradesh was onceknown on a large scale. He saidthat the people of the village andthe panchayat of the village havealso contributed a lot in taking theSaksham Boxing Club forward, aday-long sports competition is alsobeing organized between theSaksham Boxing Club which willtake place on Sunday 4 April.Players from district Una,Himachal's second district andplayers from other states will alsoparticipate.

Sambal, Navajivanschemes will prove to bemilestones for womenempowerment: DC

PANKAJ KATNAUNA: An ambitious dignity schemehas recently been launched by thedistrict administration to promotewomen empowerment. Under thisscheme, women entrepreneurs, aswell as the daughters caring fortheir parents, those who have donehigher education and professionalcourses of the daughter, and thefamilies working for them, and theinstitutions working for theeconomic empowerment of thedaughters, were honored. Givinginformation about this, DeputyCommissioner Una RaghavSharma said that the districtadministration is going to introducetwo new schemes in the eventbeing organized on the occasion ofInternational Women's Day to givemore strength to womenempowerment. Among these, theSambal Yojana is being run fordestitute and orphan children, whilethe Navajivan Yojana is beinglaunched with the aim of providingsupport for livelihoods of widowedwomen.

CM inaugurates, lays foundation stoneof projects worth Rs. 34 cr in Solan

ABHIJOT PUNJSOLAN, MAR 7

While addressing the AbhinandanSamaroh at Thodo ground in Solantoday, organized by the people ofSolan to thank the Chief Ministerfor upgrading Municipal CouncilSolan into Municipal Corporation,Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakursaid that the formation ofMunicipal Corporation in the townwould ensure proper planning andsystematic development of thetown so that the town maintains itsold glory and fame. Jai RamThakur said that Solan was one ofthe most centrally located andlively town of the State which wasnot only the gateway of the State,but attracting people of all parts ofthe State to settle here due to itspleasant environment. He said thatwith this the need has been felt toensure planned, systemic andproper development of the town.He said that it was thus decided bythe present State Government toupgrade the Municipal Council ofSolan into Municipal Corporation.

Chief Minister said that thepresent State Governmentconstituted 412 new grampanchayats, seven NagarPanchayats and three MunicipalCorporations in the State to ensureactive participation of the peoplein the grass root institutions ofdemocracy. He said thatconstitution of three newMunicipal Corporations at Solan,

Palampur and Mandi was also vitalto ensure that all these towns couldbe developed in a planned andsystemic manner. He said that thisdecision of the State Governmenthas fulfilled the long pendingdemand of the people of all thesethree towns of the State. Jai RamThakur said that the Covid-19pandemic has adversely affectedthe world economy and India andour State was not an exception. Hesaid that with the active supportand cooperation of the people ofthe State, the Government wassuccessfully came out from thissituation. He said that thefunctionaries of BJP not onlyprovided food and essentialcommodities to the needy and the

poor but also distributed about 53lakh face masks to the people. Hesaid that the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi not only tooktimely and effective decisions tobail-out the country from thiscrisis, but also motivated thescientists to develop indigenousvaccine for this virus. He said thatthe Prime Minister gave a clarioncall to the people of the country tofind out opportunities even in thechallenges. He said that it was dueto his motivation that once fullydependent on China for PPE kits,today India was producing over 6lakh PPE Kits daily and exportingthe same to several other countries.He said that the State has only 60ventilators in the State when the

virus was detected in the State, buttoday the State has over 600ventilators in the State. ChiefMinister said that the Congress didnot hesitate to politicize thesensitive issue of pandemic andaccused the State Government forspreading the virus by bringinghome about 2.50 lakh people of theState stranded in different parts ofthe country. He said that not onlythis, the State Congress raised billsof Rs 13 crore before its HighCommand as amount spent toprovide masks and sanitizers to thepeople of the State. He wonderedthat how and where the Congressleaders spent this amount as thepeople of the State receivednothing from them. Jai RamThakur urged the people of theSolan to ensure victory of BJPcandidates in the MunicipalCorporation elections to ensurethat the pace of development goesuninterrupted. He said that peopleof the State had given theirmassive support to the BJP in theLok Sabha elections, in which BJPnot only won all the four seats, butcreated a record by winning all theseats with a record margin. He saidthat going a step forward, the BJPgot lead in all the 68 Vidhan Sabhaareas of the State, which has neverhappened before. He said that notonly this the BJP won both the byeelections to the Vidhan Sabha andthereafter in the elections to thePanchayati Raj Institutions andUrban Local Bodies.

Modi interacts with thebeneficiaries of PM Jan

Aushadhi Pariyojna

AGENCYSHIMLA, MAR 7

Prime Minister NarendraModi today interacted withthe beneficiaries of thePradhan Mantri BharatiyaJan Aushadhi Pariyojnathrough video conferencingon the occasion of JanAushadhi Diwas -2021. Onthis occasion, Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur and UnionMinister of State for Financeand Corporate AffairsAnurag Thakur werespecially present in thefunction organized at theRidge, Shimla.

The Prime Minister,while interacting withKrishna Verma, a resident ofvillage Sarog in Theog sub-division of Shimla district,the beneficiary of PradhanMantri Jan AushadhiPariyojna, said that everyfamily in Himachal Pradeshis like as Devdoot.Himachalis have alwaysmade commendable

contribution in the service ofthe Nation, he added. Whileinteracting with Media afterthe programme, Jai RamThakur said that the JanAushadhi Pariyojna hasbecome Sanjeevani for thepoor. He said that thisscheme has become verypopular in the state andwould be furtheraccelerated, besidesincentives will also beprovided for its expansion.

The Chief Minister saidthat there are 54 centersunder this scheme in theState out of which 14 centreshave been set up inGovernment hospitals. Thescheme is also providing agood source of self-employment for the youthwith regular income.Speaking on the occasion,Anurag Thakur said thatrates of the medicines beingprovided under PradhanMantri Jan AushdhiPariyojna are 50 to 90percent cheaper.

ANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, MAR 7

CII has praised thebudget presented byHimachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Jai RamThakur. The ChiefMinister has presented abalanced budget underextremely difficultconditions. The effortsbeing made by the stategovernment for setting upbulk drug parks, medicaldevices parks and plasticparks in the state arecommendable.

These parks areextremely important fornew investment,employment generation andstrengthening the revenue ofthe state. The stated by CIIHimachal Pradesh PresidentShailesh Agarwal and VicePresident Subodh Guptasaid in a press statement. Hesaid that the Chief Ministerhas laid special emphasis onattracting new investmentsin the state and theannouncement of setting up

an electronic and powerequipment manufacturinghub in Nalagarh is anexcellent step, as the state'seco-system is ideal forsetting up such industries.Another importantbudgetary decision is theannouncement of the MasterPlan to improve theinfrastructure in theindustrial areas of HimachalPradesh for the convenienceof the investors. HimachalPradesh is advocating formaking industrial areassustainable. Besides,budgetary provision forrural development,promotion of agricultureand horticulture,revitalizing the tourismsector is commendable.

Balanced budget indifficult time: CII

Parshwa Vallabh Shrine tobe built in 5 yr: Nityananda

ANWAR HUSSAINBADDI, MAR 7

Under Nalagarh, the land will be built on 78000yards of land at Kumharhatti by Vallabh SamamedShikhar Tirtha, whose land was worshiped byPancha Kesari Jainacharya Srimad Vijay VallabhShri community by Gacharyadhipa JainacharyaSrimad Vijay Nityanand Surishwar Maharaj. In thisshrine, along with Shamaliya Parshva NathBhagwan Mandir, there will be works to serveanimals and animals including Gaushala, Hospital,Dharamshala, Meditation Center. Not only thisgrand pilgrimage in country, but it will be famous allover the world and it will take about 5 years to bebuilt. This will be a mini form of Samamed ShikharTirtha established in Jharkhand. In the satsang,during the Bhoomipujan program, the above wordswere said by Jainacharya Shrimad Vijay NityanandSurishwar Maharaj. He said that everyone shouldcome forward to serve all animals and animalsincluding humans.

Road Safety Club awarespeople on road safety

PANKAJ KATNADAULATPUR, MAR 7

Rajesh Dogra, President ofRoad Safety Club of GagretSub Division DaulatpurChowk, District Una, ChiefAdvisor Shaurya ChakraWinner Capt. Sushil Jaryalattended the NSS Camp atthe Senior Senior SecondarySchool, Daulatpur Chowk,along with the members ofthe Club. On this occasion,

he lit the lamp and startedthe programme. NSSProgramme Officer SureshThakur honored thePresident of the club RajeshDogra and Chief AdvisorCaptain Sushil Jaryal with acap badge. Retired, ShauryaChakra winner CaptainSushil Jaryal gave detailedinformation about the rulesof rod safety to thevolunteers. He alwayswarned the volunteers about

the use of helmets, the use ofseat belts, the adoption oftraffic rules and not violatingthem. , Road Safety Clubmembers asked thevolunteers to adopt thetraffic rules by distributingthe chocolates. The eventwas attended by media in-charge of Daulatpur PressClub Manoj Thakur, ClubVice President VinodThakur, Advisor SatishSandal, Lucky Sharma.

Journalists union expressesresentment over budget

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, MAR 7

A meeting of the district NUJ unit wasorganized in the rest house of the Public WorksDepartment of the district headquarters. Themeeting was held under the chairmanship ofDistrict President Pankaj Katna. Today's newexecutive for election of district executive washeld. The meeting outlined the future programsof the organization in which the responsibility ofjournalists to solve the problems of journalistsand social values was discussed. Theorganization set out a framework for theUtkarsh Parivar Milan programme to beorganized in April. In the meeting, the Himachalgovernment expressed displeasure overignoring the demands of journalists. PankajKatna said that all sections of the budget have

been taken care of by the government, but thegovernment has turned its eyes towardsjournalists. He said that the government shouldsympathetically consider the demands ofjournalists and their legitimate demands shouldbe met. The meeting was attended by GeneralSecretary Rohit Sharma, Senior Vice PresidentRanjit Rana, Chief Whip Subhash Sharma,Whip Dr. Randhir Jaswal, Secretary AshwaniKumar Saini, Bharat Bhushan, Rajan Chabba,Joginder Dev Arya, Gurdev, Kishori Lal Bainsand other journalists were present.

JYOTI SYALUNA, MAR 7

In view of the corona virus,a review meeting wasorganized in Haroli today,which was chaired by SDMGaurav Chaudhary. DeputySuperintendent of Police,Block Medical Officer,Tehsildar, Naib TehsildarHaroli, Ispur and Dulahad,Block Development Officerand Panchayat Sub-

Inspector were present in themeeting. In the meeting, theSDM directed the Tehsildar

and all the Naib Tehsildarsto check their subordinatecrowded areas from time to

time and make the generalpublic aware of masking andmaintaining social distance.Apart from this, he willinform the general publicabout the covid-19 campsbeing set up at selectedplaces for testing for thisvirus and will motivate themto get tested. He instructedthe Block DevelopmentOfficer Haroli that he wouldprepare the time table of thePanchayat-wise test and

send it to the Block MedicalOfficer and according toBMO list will test Kovid-19camps at selected places inthe respective Panchayats.Gaurav Chaudhary said thatthe guidelines given by thestate government in respectof Kovid-19 are not beingfollowed, and will ensurestrict compliance there, sothat the virus can beprevented from spreading tothe general public.

Camps will be held to conduct panchayat-wise Covid test in Haroli: SDM

Thakur attends Mahasivs Purana Bhagwat Katha

PANKAJ KATNAGAGRET, MAR 7

Five Kundiya Yajna in Gugulehar and Bhagwat Katha ofMahashiv Purana was attended by Gagret MLA RajeshThakur and Nagar Panchayat Gagret President VarindraSharma. The narrator Swami Punit Giri took up the sangat bydiscussing Shiva Purana. Divisional president Satpal,Shastri, Sachchidanand and head of the trust Brijpal SinghLambardar Dhyan Chand Ved Prakash Harjit Singh BKAggarwal Sanjeev Chauhan Bajrang Dal were speciallypresent on the occasion.

LPU alumna creates on-lineplatform to connect farmers,traders, manufacturersHARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Seeing the insatiablesituation of farmers, farm produce, alliedbusinesses and manufacturing offarming implements in the country; analumna of LPU Nitika Rajput (Bhatia)has created common ‘On-Line Platform’to connect farmers, traders, and

manufacturers engagedin the diverse farmingfields. LPU’s Batch2012-16, BTech CSEPass out; Nitika isFounder & CEO of thestart-up, and is

performing on positive notes forstrengthening collaborations betweenthe agriculture community and industry.As Nitika originally belongs to Ludhiana(Punjab), Through her website Nitikaconnects machinery manufacturers,seeds producers, fertilizermanufacturers, farmers, dealers from allparts of the country on a single platform.

Kick-BoxingTournament held

KULWINDER BHATIANANGAL: History was created today inthe field of sports at Nangal. DistrictKick-Boxing Association, Rupnagarorganized the first District Kick-BoxingTournament (Senior). Under thesupervision of General Secretary of theAssociation Chitranjan Bansal andSenior Vice President Ashok Sethi, 35players participated in the tournament.Shabnam, Kusum, Sania, HarsheenKaur and Ashna were the winners indifferent categories and due to theirgood performance, these players wereselected for the Punjab State SeniorChampionship. All this information wasgiven by Parvinder Singh, Prince (JointSecretary, Ropar Kick-BoxingAssociation). He thanked the guests.During the tournament Assistant Exciseand Taxation Commissioner HardevSingh and DSP Punjab Police ShahbazSingh explained the benefits of sportsto the players and encouraged them. Atthe time of prize giving ceremony, thechief guest Municipal Councilor VeenaEri encouraged the winners bydistributing prizes. Municipal CouncilorSunil Kumar, MC Deepak Nanda, CHTGurdev Singh, Karate Coaches VinodSharma, Saurabh Gupta, Madam Kiranand other dignitaries were speciallypresent on the occasion.

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Leaders of Joint Kisan Morcha honouredAJAY ARORAKHAMANON: Manpreet Singh, who was arrested by DelhiPolice on 26 Janurary in connection with Red Fordincident was bailout few days ago. Today he receivedwarm welcome by locals when he came back home after34 days. Leaders of Joint Kisan Morcha and many otherpeople of area honored him with ‘Siropaos’ in a Simple function organized by BKU at Gurudwara SahibKhamano. After which Kisan union leaders organized a road show with Manpreet Singh in a open jeepand went through market of Town. On this ocassion many farmers have raised slogans against unionGovernment’s rigid attitude against farmers of country. Kisan union leader Gurdeep Singh Jatana,SarbjitSingh Amrala, Bhupinder Singh Manella, MC Rajiv Ahuja, Gurinder Singh Sony, Ranvir Singh, DharmSingh shamspur, Parminder Singh Kang were also present on the occasion.

More focus on village, farmers in Budget : KanwarJOGINDER DEV ARYAUNA, MAR 7

Rural Development,Panchayati Raj, Agriculture,Fisheries and AnimalHusbandry MinisterVirendra Kanwar welcomedthe budget of 2021-22,saying that Chief MinisterJai Ram Thakur has takenspecial care of the villageand the farmer in it. VirenderKanwar thanked the ChiefMinister and said that atarget has been set to add50,000 new farmers tonatural farming. Naturalfarming is a positive step tolead the farmers towardsprosperity, in which allfarmers should go ahead andtake advantage. He said thatthe Zaika-2 project, which isgoing to start from Rs. 1055crore, will be implementedin the entire state, which willbenefit the farmers. He also

congratulated the twouniversities for giving Rs 5crore to encourage researchin agriculture andhorticulture. Kanwar saidthat in the budget, Rs 200crore has been announcedfor the expansion of mandis.

Kanwar said that in thebudget, it has beenannounced to providemodern equipment to threezonal hospitals and 10veterinary poly clinics forthe convenience of cattlerearers of the state, out ofwhich one zonal hospital is

opening in Barnoh ofKutlehar assemblyconstituency. He alsowelcomed the increase in thepurchase price of milk bytwo rupees. Also, it has beenproposed to construct 100new trout units along with abioflox unit in Kangra.

The Rural DevelopmentMinister said that it has beenannounced to give 10-10 lakhrupees to 102 grampanchayats electedunopposed in the state. TheChief Minister hasannounced to buildPanchayat Ghar in all thenewly formed Panchayats.These will be made in aphased manner. There will be2982 Common ServiceCenters in Panchayats.Virendra Kanwar alsowelcomed the announcementto increase the honorarium ofPanchayat chowkidars andsewing teachers to Rs 300.

Gyan Vigyan Mela organized

SHANTI GAUTAM BADDI, MAR 7

Gyan Vigyan Mela was organized in Chakka Slum underthe auspices of Himalayan Social Institute Baddi andVardhman Textile Mill. In this Mela, Daya Thakur, thegeneral secretary of Asha Karyakarta Sangh DistrictSolan, participated as the Chief Guest, who also startedthis Mela. About 80 teenager girls of Chakka Slumparticipated in this knowledge and science fair and theirparents also joined in. Himalayan Social Institute'sSecretary Anita Sharma honored the chief guest bypresenting her with Memento and bouquet. Director ofthe organization, Dinesh Sharma, told about the mainpurpose of this knowledge & science fair, that its purposewas to remove the misconceptions of the girls and listen totheir thoughts and give them more information on themonthly through the IEC. In this program, everyone wasmade aware by stall presentations.

No new COVID-19 death in19 states in last 24 hrs

AGENCYNEW DELHI, MAR 7

As many as 19 States and UnionTerritories have not reported anyCOVID-19 deaths in the last 24hours, said the Union Ministry ofHealth and Family Welfare(MoHFW) on Sunday.

These States and UTs includeRajasthan, Uttar Pradesh,Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Goa,Odisha, Himachal Pradesh,Jharkhand, Sikkim,Lakshadweep, Ladakh, Manipur,Meghalaya, Nagaland, Dadra andNagar Haveli, Tripura, Mizoram,Andaman and Nicobar Islandsand Arunachal Pradesh.

As many as 100 deaths due toCOVID-19 were reported in thecountry, taking the death toll to1,57,756.

The Ministry stated that sixstates account for 87 per cent ofthe new deaths. Maharashtra sawthe maximum casualties with 47deaths, followed by Kerala with16 deaths, Punjab reported 12

deaths. In the past two weeks, 10states have not reported anyCOVID-19 deaths while 12 statesreported between 1-10 deaths.

According to the Ministry,six States including Maharashtra,Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka,Gujarat and Tamil Nadu acrossthe country are reporting highdaily COVID-19 cases. Theycollectively account for 84.71 per

cent of the 18,711 new dailycases reported in the last 24hours.

Maharashtra continues toreport the highest daily new casesat 10,187. It is followed byKerala with 2,791 while Punjabreported 1,159 new cases.

The Centre is continuouslyengaging with the States and UTsreporting a higher caseload of

active cases and those showing arise in the daily new COVID-19cases. It has deputed high-levelteams to Maharashtra andPunjab, which are showing asteep increase in the daily newcases.

India's total Active Caseloadstands at 1.84 lakh (1,84,523)today. The country's presentactive caseload consists of 1.65per cent of the total positivecases. The Ministry said that over2 crore (2,09,22,344) vaccinedoses have been administeredthrough 3,39,145 sessions, as perthe provisional report till 7 amtoday.

These include 69,82,637Healthcare Workers or HCWs(1st dose), 35,42,123 HCWs (2nddose), 65,85,752 FrontlineWorkers or FLWs (1st dose) and2,11,918 FLWs (2nd Dose),4,76,041 beneficiaries aged morethan 45 years with specific co-morbidities (1st Dose) and31,23,873 beneficiaries agedmore than 60 years.

Employees stage protest, demand hike in salaryR.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 7

Punjab UT Employees,Pensioner Co-ordinationstruggle Front CommitteeDistrict Pathankot DC OfficeComplex hunger strike foremployees' demands on thefourth day in which RajinderDhiman,Gurdeep Safri,Master Ratan Chand,Navdeepak, Manohar Lal,Mangat Singh JitenderKumar,Kishori Lal, MangalSingh, Lakhbir Singh, DistrictPresident Santosh Passi ofMid Day Meal Worker, sittingon the hunger strike, JointForum officials, RajinderDhiman, Gurdeep KumarSafri said that the strugglewill be intensified in thecoming time because thePunjab government is notpaying any heed to thedemands of the employees.They said that the letter waslit by demonstrating today inprotest against the increase ofthe Pay Commission by thePunjab Government on 31

March. Outside all the DCoffices of the districts, hungerstrike will be done till 10March and the effigy ofPunjab government will beburnt on 8 March.They arestrongly opposed to thegovernment's decision torecruit new employees on thecentral pay scale and notgiving the report of the SixthPay Commission so that theemployees do not get thebenefit of the Sixth PayCommission,they said that thegovernment has not taken anyaction regarding theinstallment of allowances andarrears. The PunjabGovernment should issueallowance and arrears without

delay, issue the Sixth PayCommission report fromJanuary 2016 and givebenefits to the employees,old pension should berestored, DA installmentsshould be released,contractual practice shouldbe stopped, cashless facilityshould be given to allemployees, temporaryemployees should beregularized, annual Jaziyatax ? 2400 should bediscontinued, deduction ofmobile allowance should bewithdrawn, equal work equalpay.Go on full scalerecruitment, one year ofadmission time should bedone. '''

SAD reminds Capt promisesby holding dharna

HARPREET SINGH GILLRAIKOT, MAR 7

Balwinder Singh Sandhu In-charge Shiromani Akali DalRaikot, while talking to media persons at village Burj HariSingh said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh hadsworn by Gutka Sahib to be with the farmers / youth andother sections during the last assembly elections bymisleading the gullible people and promised that everypromise that has been made, will be kept. He said that theNational President of Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir SinghBadal had repeatedly reminded the Captain Government ofhis promises, but over a period of 4 years, the Capt.Government did not forgive the debts of the farmers /laborers, nor did it give government jobs to the youth, buttortured them with baton charges and water cannons. Nor didit give the promised 51,000 shagun schemes for marriages ofgirls from needy families. He said that Shiromani Akali Dalhad recently cordoned off the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and nowto remind these promises, a dharna is being held on Monday8th March from 10:30 am to 1 pm at Sardar Hari SinghNalwa Chowk Raikot.

Satya Pal Jain gets firstdose of Corona vaccine

RAJIV JAINCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

Satya Pal Jain, former MP of Chandigarh,Additional Solicitor General of India and amember of TheN a t i o n a lE x e c u t i v eCommittee of theBJP, today wentto PGI and gotthe first dose ofCorona vaccinein PGI,Chandigarh. Dr.Jagat Ram,Director PGI,Jain's sonDheeraj Jain,several seniordoctors andmany membersof staff were alsopresent on this occasion. After being vaccinated,Mr. Jain said that he was feeling normal and he didnot even come to when the vaccine was injected.He is fully healthy and is absolutely normal. Jainappealed to all the citizens to get Corona vaccine,so that they can avoid the risk of having “coronadisease” at any stage later.

Punjab government to give ownershiprights to home owners

SARWANQADIAN, MAR 7

Rural Development andPanchayat Minister S. TripatRajinder Singh Bajwa said thatvery soon Punjab governmentwould give land ownershiprights to the homeownerswithin the red line in thevillages. He said that in thisregard work is underway indistrict Gurdaspur andidentification of propertieswithin the red lines has started.He said that with the acquisitionof ownership of the propertywithin the red line, its ownerswould be able to register andtake loans from banks fromwhich they were previously

barren. This revelation wasmade by the PanchayatMinister. Tripat Rajinder SinghBajwa while addressing agathering at village Dhupsarinear Batala today handed over acheck of Rs. 30 lakh fordevelopment works. Bajwasaid that Captain governmenthad carried out recorddevelopment works in thevillages in last four years and by

renovating the village pondsunder Thapar model theproblem of waste water hadbeen solved. He said that thisyear a special project ofinstalling solar lights in everyvillage of the state was beinglaunched. He said that the year2021 would be celebrated as theyear of development and novillage would be left behind interms of development.

Oil prices crashed economicstructure of country: Bua Singh

R.SINGHPATHANKOT, MAR 7

Ever since the BJP's Modi government took over the reins atthe Centre, the huge increase in the prices of oil, petrol,diesel, cooking gas has resulted in the economic condition of

the country.These words were expressedby Bua Singh, chairman of Bhartiya SevaDal All India, in the office at DhanguRoad.He said that the rising inflation inthe country is causing havoc. Poor andmiddle class people are protesting againstthe central government on the roads. Butthe central government is sleeping and ithas no concern of the country and the

country dwellers. He said that in 74 years of the country'sindependence, the BJP's central government has proved to bethe worst anti-country, anti-people and anti-Dalitgovernment. The peasant class inside the country isorganizing a mobilized agitation for their rights against thecentral government and about 260 farmers have beenmartyred during this agitation. Workers, unemployed,workers are committing suicide.

Modern Sandeepni School studentwins weightlifting championship

SHARANJEETPATHANKOT, MAR 7

Neeraj Mohan Puri, Principal of ModernSandeepni School Mamoon Pathankot,told the press that he feels very honoredto inform that Sanvi Sharma, a studentof 9th grade of his school, participatedin Himachal Pardesh state LevelWeightlifting Championship 2021.Thechampionship held at Nalagarh Solan(HP), Sanvi participated in threedifferent matches.He told that Sanviwon gold in junior category, silver in youthcategory and bronze in senior category.Chairman Pawan Mahajan congratulatedSanvi Sharma and said that along withacademic education, Sandeepni schoolmotivates students by paying special

attention to children's interest towardssports. Principal Neeraj Mohan Puri saidthat in future, the children of ModernSandeepni School will continue to showtheir talent in every field and will brightenthe name of their parents.

Blood donation is the hallmarkof humanity: Tarsem Garg

BIPAN SETHI, MAHAVIR GOYALAHMEDGARH, MAR 7

In a bid to combat shortage inblood banks State AwardeeSocial Welfare Organisation(Regd.)Ahmedgarh incollaboration with 16 bloodbanks from Ludhiana,Khannaand Sangrur organised 14thMega Blood Donation Camp atGrain Market,Ahmedgarh.DrAmar Singh was the chief guestand Surjit Singh Dhimaan wasthe guest of honour in thecamp.SWO dedicated thiscamp to FarmersAgitation.Camp was initiatedby SWO to increase the

voluntary donations to meet therequirement of blood at bloodbanks across Ludhiana andSangrur. Over 1330 volunteersdonated blood at the camp.Atthe blood donation camp ,thedonors followed the protocolset by the government.TarsemGarg and Dr.Sunit Hindthanked and motivated thedonors to donate blood to saveprecious lives.

Tiger Safari ready to resume operationsANKUSH SHARMALUDHIANA, MAR 7

After the long closing of tiger safari, a good news has come to theWildlife Lovers that it is now going to be open soon. Forestdepartment has initiate step to made arrangements for opening tigersafari. Then people will be able to enjoy here. Tiger safari was closedas per the Government guidelines, but now the high officials afterdiscussions, take decision to open it from 17 March here. Rememberthat only one tigress has been kept in Tiger safari. One tigress wasdied due to ailment in past month. Now the people will only able tosee one tigress, which will entertain the visitors of safari. Departmentsources said that they will soon bring a new tiger to tiger safari, forwhich department has sent a letter in writing to the authority.

NEWS AT AGLANCE

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021

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CEO Punjab holds special camps at all 23,213 pollingbooths for facilitation of download e-EPICsCHANDIGARH: The office of Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab organised two-daycamps on March 6 & 7, 2021 at all 23,213 polling stations in Punjab and Booth LevelOfficers (BLOs) were present to facilitate download of e-EPIC. e-EPIC (electronicElectoral Photo Identity Card) programme was formally launched by the ElectionCommission of India (ECI) on January 25, 2021, marking the occasion of National Vot-ers’ Day. An e-EPIC is a non-editable secure portable document format (PDF) versionof the EPIC. It can be downloaded on a mobile or in a self-printable form on the com-puter. Voters can now view and print the digital voter card on their registered mobile.

GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

With a record-breaking 84.6% ofthe manifesto commitments al-ready accomplished - a feat neverachieved before by any politicalparty, and the promise of fulfillingthe remaining in the next one year,Punjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh on Sunday di-rected all ministries and depart-ments to move aggressively andproactively to push for the realiza-tion of the 7-point ‘Agenda 2022’he had unveiled in the Vidhan Sab-ha on Friday.

The agenda, aimed at ensuringtotal protection of people and theirproperties in an environment ofpeaceful co-existence conducive tosaving the lives and livelihood ofall Punjabis against all odds, iscentered around citizen welfare

through a holistic focus on overar-ching development of the state.The overarching goal of the agen-da is to ensure the development of

a ‘Kaamyab & Khushal Punjab’.The futuristic agenda, which

has set the stage for his govern-ment beyond the current term of

his government, is designed tomeet the aspirations of the peopleof Punjab, Captain Amarinder hadannounced in the Vidhan Sabha onFriday while sharing with theHouse his goals ahead. Cognisantof the fact that this would needmore time, he had said, during hisspeech in response to the discus-sion on the Motion of Thanks tothe Governor’s address in the Vid-han Sabha, that “I am sure that thepeople of Punjab are conscious ofthis.”

He had also expressed the con-fidence that the people of the statewill not be carried away by the“false promises and euphoricclaims of some leaders who arecompletely detached from Punjaband Punjabiyat,” but would contin-ue to repose confidence in histransparent and responsive govern-ment.

CM orders immediate actionon new 7-point `agenda 2022'

Rs 1.5 cr subsidyreleased to SCbeneficiaries KARANPREET DHANDRALBARNALA: Chairman, PunjabScheduled Castes, LandDevelopment and FinanceCorporation, Mohanlal Soodtoday said that a subsidy of

Rs.1.5 crore hasbeen released forthis purpose,which wouldprovide loans ofabout Rs.12.62crore to thesebeneficiaries byvarious banks.

He said that the subsidy amountof Rs. 3.70 lakh due to 37beneficiaries has been receivedat the Regional Office Barnalawhich has been sent to thebanks. The subsidy amount ofRs. 3.30 lakh due to 33beneficiaries will be releasedsoon. He said that relief of Rs.45.41 crore was given to 14260poor debtors of ScheduledCastes by waiving their loans upto Rs. 50,000. Disclosing thishere today Chairman .

Eight school teachers, twostudents among 84 new corona positives JAGDEEP CHOPRAPATIALA: The Patiala district onSunday saw a Corona blast as 84more new Corona positivesincludes Eight School teachersand two Students from threeSchools were found in this district. On the other hand after gettingtwo Corona positive cases fromRajiv Gandhi National LawUniversity here during the furthercontact tracing of these six morepositives were found. All thesenew Corona positive cases wereimmediately put under homecoraintine. Meanwhile taking aserious view of the developmentthe district administration hasinstructed a the heads of theschools in the district toimplement seriously the normsand guidelines issued by thegovernment to check the furtherspread of Novel Corona Virusdisease as wearing of standardface masks, time to time use ofsanitizers in the schools by thestudents and the staff.

Distribution ofsmart ration cardsto needy

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU: Thedevelopment work in the wardsfalling under the CentralAssembly constituency is in itsfinal stage and no area will be leftunattended. Disclosing this heretoday Punjab Medical Educationand Research Minister Mr. OmPrakash Soni said that all thepromises made by him to thepeople during the elections havebeen fulfilled and no work orpromise would be left unfulfilled.On the occasion Mr. Soni alsoinaugurated a park to beconstructed at a cost of Rs. 10lakh at Jwala Estate under WardNo. 55. Mr. Soni also distributedSmart Blue Ration Cards to theneedy. Mr. Soni said that with thehelp of these smart cards peoplecan also create their owncomprehensive health insuranceplan e-card.

Randhawa announces toprovide Bulk Milk Coolers to

progressive dairy farmersBUREAUCHANDIGARH, MAR 7

With a view to further im-prove the quality of rawmilk, it was decided to pro-vide bulk milk coolers to theProgressive Dairy Farmersassociated with Verka.Thedecision was taken in ameeting held today at VerkaHead Office Chandigarh,chaired by the CooperationMinister S. SukhjinderSingh Randhawa.

On the occasion, theminister said that these bulkmilk coolers would be pro-vided initally to 100 pro-gressive dpairy farmers onsubsidy, who are pouringmore than 500 kg milk ondaily basis to Verka. TheMinister also assured thatthe Department of Coopera-tion is committed to providesuch facilities to milk pro-ducers of the State in futurealso. It may be recalled thatin order to maintain thequality of raw milk, during

the last 20 years about 1200Bulk Milk Coolers of differ-ent capacities, under variousschemes, have been provid-ed to the registered milk co-operative societies affiliatedto the Verka Milk Plants op-erating under Milkfed inPunjab. With the provisionof these Bulk Milk Cooler(BMC) to the registeredmilk societies for instantcooling of milk, there hasbeen a great improvement inthe quality of milk which inturn has helped in improvingthe quality of products andincrease in sales.

Over 17 lacs recovered fromwithout ticket passengers inAmbala divisionVIKAS VERMADHURI: A mega ticket checkingdrive was conducted by ticketchecking staff of Ambala Divisionin trains on Ambala - Kurukshetrasection, Ambala - Chandigarh andLudhiana bound trains on06/03/21 in an effort to keep acheck on the menace of ticketlesstravel earlier which wasconducted on 05/02/2021 to25/02/2021and Rs. 17,37,485was recovered. DivisionalRailway Manager Sh. GurinderMohan Singh stated that as aresult of the crackdown involving43 ticket checking staff on06/03/21, 365 cases of ticketlesstravel or irregular ticket orunbooked luggage were detectedand a total amount of Rs1,52,720 lakh was recovered asfare and penalty. Sr. DCM,Ambala Sh. Hari Mohan apprisedthat the squad members alsocounselled passengers to travelwith a proper ticket in order toavoid causing loss of revenue toRailways and adding discomfortto other travellers. These drivesare being conducted under thesupervision of CommercialDepartment of the Ambaladivision of Northern Railway andwill continue in the followingmonths as well. Ticketless travelresults in loss of Railway revenuebut also infringes upon the rightsof the passengers who travel withvalid tickets.

AMIT KALIAZIRAKPUR, MAR 7

The city of Zirakpur has be-come a big and developingcity but with the develop-ment, the growth of illegalconstructions in the city isalso accelerating. It is grow-ing and the city map is be-ing completely destroyed.

In the coming days, ques-tions are being raisedagainst the MunicipalCouncil of Zirakpur , whyno strict action is being tak-en by the officials of Zi-rakpur Municipal Council

despite all the illegal con-structions in the city isgrowing and why the offi-cials of the MunicipalCouncil are so helplessagainst these illegal con-structions. Similarly inPanchsheel enclave on Am-

bala Chandigarh road a per-son is constructing a threestoried illegal buildingwithout passing the map,bypassing all the bylaws ofthe Municipal Council. Ac-cording to sources, a citycouncil official was in-volved in the constructionof the illegal structure. It isto be mentioned that Mu-nicipal Council BuildingInspector Nirdosh Sharmastopped the illegal construc-tion by picking up the allthings from the site and theconstruction work wasstopped but it is not known

Illegal constructionson rise in Zirakpur DALJEET AJNOHA

HOSHIARPUR, MAR 7

Industry and Commerce Min-ister Sundar Sham Arora todaystarted the work of recar-peting the road from the lo-cal bus stand to MaharajaJassa Singh RamgarhiaChowk and said that exem-plary development workswill be done in the city in viewof the facilities of the people.Industry Minister SundarSham Arora said that this workwill be completed in the com-ing 4-5 days, so that peoplecoming from outside the cityand outside will get a big facil-ity. Will be found. He said that

various projects were made inHoshiarpur under the leader-ship of Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh on behalf ofPunjab Government, out of

which many works have beencompleted and work on proj-ects is going on a war footing.He said that in the comingtime, the pace of developmentworks will pick up and speedwill be done so that public sup-port works will be completedon a large scale in the city.

Dev work will be done on largescale in coming time: Arora

VERMAGURDASPUR, MAR 7

No slackness will be toleratedin the issuance of cards under'Ayushman Bharat Sarbat Se-hat Bima Yojana' and the is-suance of health insurancecards to the beneficiaries at vil-lage and city level should beexpedited. This was stated bythe Deputy CommissionerMohammad Ishfaq whilemeeting various officials at thelocal Panchayat. On this occa-sion Arshdeep Singh LubanaSDM Gurdaspur, ShivrajSingh Bal SDM Dinagar, Har-jinder Singh Sandhu DDPO,Dr. Various officials including

Roman Raja Mahajan, DeputyMedical Officer, BDPOs, Pan-chayat Secretary, in-charge ofCommon Service Center werepresent. During the meetingthe Deputy Commissioner in-formed that under 'AyushmanBharat Sarbatt Sehat Bima Yo-jana' free treatment up to Rs.Not being able to avail the fa-cility provided. He directed thePanchayat Secretaries to makedaily contact with the repre-sentatives of the Common Ser-vice Centers for the prepara-tion of Health Insurance Cardsin the villages and prepare thecards of the beneficiaries andreport to the concerned BD-POs on a daily basis.

No leniency will be tolerated inmaking health insurance card

Beneficiaries can get free e-cards up to Rs 5 lakh : SDM

NAWANSHAHAR (CHET RAM RATTAN): Un-der the Sarbat Sewa Bima Yojana, the Punjab gov-ernment has launched a special campaign to create e-cards of registered eligible beneficiaries. Giving thisinformation, SDM Jagdish Singh Johal appealed to allthe beneficiaries of the sub-division Nawanshahar toprovide their e-cards to avail the scheme. He said thatwith this card, the beneficiary family can get free

treatment in government andlisted private hospitals up toRs 5 lakh.

He said that e-cards are be-ing made in common servicecenters and service centers ofvarious villages of Nawansha-har subdivision. SDM Johalsaid that blue card holders, J-Farm holders, farmers, regis-tered construction workers,small traders and accredited

yellow card holders and journalists can make thesecards. He appealed to the sarpanches, numberdars andother dignitaries from all the villages of the sub-divi-sion to extend their full support in this campaign andurged them to motivate the beneficiaries to get e-cards from the Common Service Centers, so that theycan avail this scheme to get the maximum benefit.

SUSHIL GOYALSANGRUR, MAR 7

Punjab Education Minister,Vijay Inder Singla, releasedschool magazine 'TheRaj' of GovernmentSenior SecondarySchool (Boys), San-grur, in the presence ofschool Principal Rajin-der Kumar Singla andothers here on Saturdayevening. It is fifth edition ofthe school magazine, pub-lished with the efforts ofPrincipal, staff and students.It is the annual feature of theschool.

The minister Vijay InderSingla appreciated the effortsof the school to publish abeautiful magazine that of-fers a platform to the studentsto show their talent and skillsin different activities, includ-ing literary activities and

writing skills. Principal of theschool, Rajinder KumarSingla, said that this schoolmagazine contained 70 pageswhose chief editor is Vikram

Singh, a vocational teacher.He said this is a multi-lingual(Punjabi, Hindi and English)magazine. In this magazinethe students and staff of theschool had contributed theirwritings, he added.

Singla further said thatthe magazine contained Pun-jabi section, Sports section,Hindi section, English sec-tion, IT section, photographsof vocational activities,sports activities and academ-ic activities etc.

School magazine 'The Raj'released by edu min in Sangrur

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, MAR 7

Premier Educational Insti-tute of Northern India BabaFarid Group of In-stitution (BFGI) isknown for takingunique initiativesfor the developmentof education as wellas young students.Follow-ing this tradition BFGIscholarship Eligibility Test-21 is being conducted onMarch 13, 2021 at 4:00 pmfor the students of 10th, +1and +2 classes, under theable guidance of ChairmanBFGI Dr. Gurmeet SinghDhaliwal. The Chief motiveof the test is to provide op-portunity to those brilliantand able students and oppor-tunity to win 100% scholar-ship, who otherwise have

been unable to perform wellin their examinations andget scholarships offered byBFGI. Such students canwin 100% scholarship by

taking BFGI SET-21. Dur-ing a press meet Dr.PardeepKaura Deputy-Director,Academic BFGI, told aboutthe test, that it will have 30questions to be answered in30 minutes. Keeping inview the Covid-19 situationtest is to be conducted on-line and free. Students cantake this online test fromhome. The test will beavailable on International,National, and state level simultaneously.

BFGI SET-21 test beheld on March 13

Blossoms paytribute to SirGraham Bell

SUKH NAHAR JAGRAON, MAR 7 Blossoms convent schoolconducted a program to dis-cuss regarding the origin anduse of mobile phones as itproved to be the most usefulgadget during lockdown as ithelped the students with theirstudies. Adding to the knowl-edge of students, schoolelaborated on the life of sirAlexander Graham Bell.School principal Dr. Amar-jeet Kaur Naaz said that theelectronic gadgets have beenbenefiting us a lot and weneed to remember the peoplewho created them as theyhave made our lives way eas-ier. Naaz said that the duringthe time of pandemic schoolswere able to teach studentsonly through online mediumand smartphones proved tobe of the biggest help in thisso, school decided to pay atribute to sir Graham Bell forsuch an important invention.

Special meeting ofCong Brigade held

PATIALA: As per the directions of All India Con-gress Brigade Punjab President Harish Sharma, a spe-cial meeting was held today with Youth Incharge Pun-jab Preet Ahiru, General Secretary of Congress Partyand Incharge of Punjab Pradesh Congress CommitteeHarish Rawat. After discussing the ongoing troublesand confusion in Punjab, Preet Ahiru said that theyoung generation of Punjab was facing a lot of diffi-culties during the current period. Due to which theparty's further preparations are not going well. Theyouth in-charge said that we want more and moreyouth to join the Congress party and keep the partystrong. And in the elections of 2022, the Congressparty has emerged as the largest party. We are work-ing hard and the youth from rural and urban areas arebeing made aware of the achievements of the Con-gress party. He said that in this meeting, HarishRawat, General Secretary of the Congress Party andin-charge of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committeewas reassured, that the youth will always stay com-mitted to the party.

Dharnas to be held seeking ac-countability of Capt govt: Singla

BATHINDA (ANIL VERMA): Chief Minister CaptAmarinder Singh administered oath of office to Gut-ka Sahib and Finance Minister Manpreet Badal prom-ised to provide basic amenities to every section of thepeople in the manifesto of Punjab along with Bathin-

da city. But not a single promise wasfulfilled but the government disobeyedthe oath of allegiance of Gutka Sahib,which is why every section in the lastfour years is unhappy with the govern-ment and demands accountability fromthe government today. That is why

anti-government dharnas are being organized onMarch 8 under the leadership of Shiromani Akali DalPresident Sukhbir Singh BadalIn which the govern-ment will be held accountable for every promise.

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHR, MAR 7

As per Punjab State LegalServices Authority Mohaliguidelines and District andSessions Judge-cum-Chair-man District Legal ServicesAuthority Shaheed BhagatSingh Nagar, a National LokAdalat will be set up onApril 10 under the leader-ship of S. Grewal to dealwith the court and pre-litiga-tion cases in the district bymutual consent. This infor-mation was given byHarpreet Kaur, CJM cumSecretary District Legal Ser-

vices Authority.She said that in this Na-

tional People's Court crimi-nal compoundable cases,check bounce related cases,accident claims, tribunal re-lated cases, matrimonial dis-putes, traffic invoices, labor

disputes, electricity and wa-ter bills, bank cases, SNLcases and other matters willbe heard.

The CJM said that ifthere is any problem in fil-ing the case in Lok Adalat,the office of District LegalServices Authority, Nawan-shahar can be contacted. Shesaid that the decision of theLok Adalats was recognizedas a judgment of the civilcourt and there can be no ap-peal against the verdict. Sheappealed to the general pub-lic to take maximum benefitby deciding their cases inLok Adalat.

National people's Court will be heldon April 10 : Harpreet Kaur

Seminar on Intl Women's Day heldGURDASPUR (GAGAN BAWA): On the occasion of International Women's Day, a sem-inar on Giddha was organized by Lok Sabhyacharak Pir Register, Gurdaspur, a leading or-ganization in the field of Punjabi culture at Pandit Mohan Lal SD College for Women. Un-der the guidance of Jacob Teja, President of pir and Bhangra Coach, a special seminar was

organized on the famous folk dance Gidha ofPunjab. This was done to give the right di-rection to the Punjabi girls towards theirPunjabi folk dance Giddha and to explain thenuances of the traditional folk dance. On thisoccasion various experts of folk dance ex-perts shared their views with the girls.Among the experts were Mrs. Amrik Kaur,Mrs. Gurmeet Kaur, Prof. Kulwinder Kaur,

Dr. Amarjit Kaur with the experts At the Punjab level, the girls involved in folk dances tookpart in the seminar. At the Punjab level, the seminar was attended by a large number of girlsinvolved in folk dances.

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LUCKNOW, : Indian women suffered an eight-wicket loss to South Africa in the first ODI here on Sunday.Playing their first international match in 12 months, skipper Mithali Raj (50) and Harmanpreet Kaur (40) produced fine knocks but India never got the momentum it needed as they settled for 177 for nine.In reply, Lizelle Lee (83) and Laura Wolvaardt (80) guided South Africa home, scoring 178 for two in 40.1 overs.Brief Scores:India: 177 for 9 in 50 overs (M Raj 50, H Kaur 40, D Sharma 27; S Ismail 3/28, N Mlaba 2/41).South Africa: 178 for 2 in 40.1 overs (L Lee 83, L Wolvaardt 80; J Goswami 2/38).

PANAJI: After playing out a 1-1 draw against ATK Mohun Bagan in the first leg of the Indian Super League (ISL), NorthEast United head coach Khalid Jamil said that his side should now focus at the second-leg game as it is really important.Idrissa Sylla headed in a stoppage-time header to help NorthEast United hold ATK Mohun Bagan to a 1-1 draw at GMC Stadium, on Saturday.The second-half substitute struck in the fourth minute of injury time to cancel out David Williams' 34th-minute goal. The result also meant Khalid Jamil is still unbeaten in the competition and extended NorthEast's winning run to ten games. "We are thinking about the next game. It is a vital point. We came back strongly because our players worked very hard. Britto, Sylla, Machado and even Gallego (did well) so we are happy to equalize. You can say it's a vital point after trailing 1-0 in the first half. ATK Mohun Bagan are good defensively. It is not easy to break them. But we scored and that's why we are very happy," said Jamil during the post-match press conference.

Indian women lose first ODI by 8 wickets

What Pant did for India in last two months, no one would ever do that in lifetime: Shastri

Test squad members Thirimanne, De Silva and 3 others leave for West IndiesCOLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) informed that Test squad members Lahiru Thirimanne, Dhananjaya De Silva, Roshen Silva, Vishwa Fernando and Lasith Embuldeniya have left for the West Indies on Saturday night."Lahiru Thirimanne, Dhananjaya De Silva, Roshen Silva, Vishwa Fernando and Lasith Embuldeniya left for Caribbean last night. The players from part of the squad, which will play the test series vs West Indies. #WIvSL," SLC tweeted.On Saturday, SLC announced the 17-member squad for the two-match Test series against West Indies starting from March 21 and named Dimuth Karunaratne as skipper."The National Cricket Selectors have chosen the following squad to play the 02 Match Test Series vs West Indies. The squad was approved by the Minister of Youth and Sports Honorable Namal Rajapaksa," the SLC had said in an official statement. Earlier, Sri Lanka all-rounder Dasun Shanaka, who had missed the flight to West Indies due to an issue related to securing his visa, will now travel on Sunday to join his teammates. Shanaka, who was named in the 'White Ball Squad' for West Indies series, did not travel with the team due to a visa issue he confronted, pursuant to the loss of his previous passport, which had a valid visa for the USA stamped on it.

ISL 7: Second-leg important, need to be strong from start to end, says Jamil

AGENCY Australia tour and then he scored a there is no greater sight for cricket. I AHMEDABAD, MAR 7 century and two half-centuries in think in the last two months what he

the homes series against England. has done for India, no one would After the success over England in His work behind the stumps was ever do that in a lifetime. His the Test series, India head coach also improved and he showed keeping was outs tanding," he Ravi Shastri on Sunday gave special great reflexes with the gloves on. added.mention to wicketkeeper-batsman "At 21, I had similar success, Virat Kohli's men, who defeated Rishabh Pant and said nobody can so I can relate to what these guys England in the fourth and final Test match what he has done in the last have done. Yes, after IPL Pant by an innings and 25 runs at the two months in even their entire came with a lot of baggage. He has Narendra Modi Stadium, will now lifetime. trained harder than anyone. The face New Zealand in the WTC final

Team India on Saturday roared results are not just for him to see slated to be played from June 18 to into the final of the inaugural but for the whole world to see," 22, with June 23 as the reserve day edition of the ICC World Test Shastri said in a virtual press at the iconic Lord's Stadium in Championship (WTC) following an conference on Sunday. London. India will now lock horns emphatic 3-1 series win over "When you have a naturally with England in the five-match T20I England. brilliant match-winner of his series at the Narendra Modi Stadium

Pant had scored runs in the ability playing to the potential starting from March 12.

AGENCY LUCKNOW, MAR 7

Indian women's team batter Harmanpreet Kaur on Sunday achieved another milestone of playing 100 ODI for the side. He became the fifth player to do so as he took the field in the ongoing ODI match against South Africa here in Lucknow.

The vice-captain joined Mithali Raj (210), Jhulan Goswami (183), Anjum Chopra (127) and Amita Sharma (116) in the elite list of players who have played 100 or more ODIs.

Indian women's team vice-captain Harmanpreet played a knock of 40 runs studded with six fours. Before the match, she scored 2372 runs in the 50-over format till date at 34.88 with three hundreds and 11 half-centuries.

SPORTSYUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021

WTC: Ashwin says best of three final would have been nicer, but team will give best shotAGENCY AHMEDABAD, MAR 7

After reaching the final of the World Test Championship (WTC), India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said that a best of three final for the World Test Championship (WTC) would have been nicer, but he assured that his side will give its best shot in the summit clash.

Team India on Saturday roared into the final of the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) following an emphatic 3-1 series win over England. Virat Kohli's men, who defeated England in the fourth and final Test by an innings and 25 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium, will now face New Zealand in the WTC final slated to be played from June 18 to 22, with June 23 as the reserve day at the iconic Lord's Stadium in London.

"For people like me, Pujara, Rahane, will try to give our best shot," said Ashwin and Ishant, who did not play the 2019 in a video posted on the official website of World Cup, this is literally the World Cup. BCCI.I also saw Ishant speaking about it. I am Talking about the WTC final, pacer happy for every member for making it to Ishant Sharma said: "Feeling great to the finals. I am sure we can get a positive be a part of this team. Really happy, the result if we adapt quickly because we just kind of effort we have put in 2-2.5 have one match as the final. It would have years for this championship, it is a been nicer if we had three, but we just tremendous achievement that we have have one, we have to live with that and we made it to the final.

Harmanpreet Kaur becomes 5th Indian woman to play 100 ODIs

We weren't aggressive with the bat, admits FinchWELLINGTON: After coming up short We let them dictate terms and didn't get The first two T20Is of the five-match in the fifth and final T20I against New enough runs. Probably was the difference series were won by New Zealand, but Zealand, Australia limited-overs skipper in the game. If one of us kicked on, could Australia staged a comeback to level the Aaron Finch on Sunday said that his side have got to 160-170. I thought the pitch series 2-2. However, in the series decider, wasn't aggressive with the bat. played quite well today. It was slightly the hosts were on their game from the

Ish Sodhi's three-wicket haul and better today than the other day I thought," very start and they ended up winning the Martin Guptill's 71-run knock helped said Finch after the game. series 3-2. In the fifth and final T20I, Ish New Zealand defeat Australia by seven "We have been talking about the Sodhi's three-wicket haul helped New wickets in the fifth and final T20I on gradual improvement from game 1 to Zealand restrict Australia to 142/8 in the Sunday here at the Westpac Stadium, game 4, and that was exciting. Would allotted twenty overs. In the end, Glenn Wellington. With this, the Kiwis won the have been great to win the series but NZ Phillips (34) and Mark Chapman (1) took five-match series 3-2. "We probably are a great team. We just weren't good the BlackCaps over the line by seven weren't aggressive enough with the bat. enough today," he added. wickets and 27 balls to spare.

IPL 2021 to begin from April 9, Mumbai to play RCB in opener

AGENCY The final of the 14th edition of the of the tournament". "The fixtures of the MUMBAI, MAR 7 tournament will be played on May 30 at tournament have been mapped in a way that

Narendra Modi Stadium. Playoffs will also be every team will travel only three times during The IPL Governing Council on Sunday played at the same venue. the league stage, thus reducing commute and announced the schedule for Indian Premier "The World's Largest Cricket Stadium - minimising risk," it added.League 2021 to be held in India across six Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad will Each team is set to play at four venues venues from April 9. host the Playoffs as well as the final on 30th during the league stage. Out of the 56 league

Defending champions Mumbai Indians will May, 2021 which promises to be a visual matches, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and take on Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in spectacle. The newly-built stadium that hosted Bengaluru will host 10 matches each while Chennai in the tournament opener. India's second pink-ball fixture at home with Ahmedabad and Delhi will host 8 matches each.

"After nearly two years, the IPL great grandeur will host its first-ever IPL," the One of the highlights of this edition of the extravaganza will return home with release read. IPL will be the fact that all matches will be Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, The BCCI said that this IPL will be played played at neutral venues, no team will play at Mumbai and Kolkata hosting the marquee "behind closed doors to begin with and a call on their home venue. All teams will play at 4 out of event," the BCCI said in a statement on Sunday. allowing spectators will be taken at a later stage 6 venues during the league stage.

Vinesh Phogat wins gold, reclaims number one rankAGENCY Vinesh had won a gold ROME, MAR 7 medal in Kiev last week and

this performance would give Living up to the expectations, her the belief that her star Indian wrestler Vinesh preparations for the biggest Phogat won her second gold sporting event are on the right medal in as many weeks with track.a dominant win in the Matteo The Indian had entered Pellicone Ranking Series the event as world number event and reclaimed the top three but is back to world rank in the her category here. number one by jumping 14

The 26-year-old World points. The Canadian was bronze medallist and the only ranked as low as 40 before the Indian woman wrestler to tournament but is now just have qualified for the Tokyo behind Vinesh at number two.Games, Vinesh blanked Vinesh did not concede a Canada's Diana Mary Helen s i n g l e p o i n t a t t h i s Weicker 4-0 in the 53kg title tournament, winning two of clash. her three bouts by pinning her

Vinesh scored all her rivals while getting injury points in the first period and walkouts in the other two in held on to her lead in the the eight-woman field. Sarita second to ensure a top-of-the- Mor had won a silver in the podium finish. 57kg on Saturday.

NEW DELHI,: Srinu Bugatha clocked a personal best to comfortably win the sixth edition of the Ageas Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon while Asian Games gold medallist Sudha Singh bagged the top honours in the women's category, here on Sunday.Bugatha clocked a personal best of 2 hours 14 minutes and 59 seconds which was shy of the 2 hours 11 minutes and 30 seconds that he was targeting to earn himself a run in the Tokyo Olympics.Sudha, who was aiming for her own hat-trick of Olympic appearances, won the women's title in 2:43:41. That was, however, off the national record of 2:30.00 which would have earned her a ticket to Tokyo.Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, who presided over the prize-distribution ceremony, exhorted both of them to continue to chase their dreams of representing the country at the upcoming Olympics."I congratulate you for your victories and your efforts to attain the qualifying mark. I am sure your hard work will soon get the desired results and that you will do it in the near future as you get into your rhythm," Rijiju said.Uttarakhand's Nitendra Singh Rawat (2:18:54) and Army Sports Institute's Rashpal Singh (2:18:57) clinched the silver and bronze medal in the men's elite category, while Maharashtra's Jyoti Gawate (2:58:23) and Ladakh's Jigmet Dolma (3:04:52) emulated them among the women."I was feeling good all along," Bugatha said, after his exhilarating run. "It is disappointing not to make it after coming so close but I am pleased with myself and am confident that I will soon attain the qualifying mark," he added.

Srinu Bugatha, Sudha Singh win New Delhi Marathon