अम्बाला- जैन मुनि तरुण सागर जी के निधन पर हरियाणा के स्वास्थ्य मंत्री अनिल विज ने व्यक्त किया शोक।
अम्बाला- विज ने कहा समाज को सही दिशा दिखाने में हमेशा याद किया जायेगा तरुण सागर जी का योगदान।
अम्बाला- विज ने कहा- तरुण सागर जी के ब्रह्मलीन होने की खबर सुनकर आहत हूं।
Photo by Rakesh Shah
The Director Sports, Panjab University in collaboration with Department of Physical Education celebrated National Sports Day in memory of Lt. Sh. Dhyan Chand- a three times Olympic Gold Medalist-Hockey Player.
The Vice-Chancellor Prof. Raj Kumar was the Chief Guest on this day. The VC shared his experiences and also motivated the players. The PU VC and Dr. Parminder Singh Ahluwalia, Director Phy. Edu. and Sports gives congratulations to all the players/coaches/staff on the occasion of National Sports Day.
Photo by Rakesh Shah
Approx 300 players participated in the celebration of National Sports Day. A friendly matches of Hockey and Volleyball was organized and a Work Shop is also organized by this directorate on National Sports Day.
Further it gives immense pleasure to inform that the 17 players (present and Ex- players) of Panjab University secures various position in the Asian Games at Indonesia (Jakarta) in which Mr. Neeraj Chopra of Panjab University sets new meet record in the event of Javelin throw.
Photo by Rakesh Shah
The Vice Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar, Punjab University Chandigarh addressed to the students of Jammu and Kashmir who are attending a workshop at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Chandigarh. The VC motivated the students and highlighted the significance of nationalism towards the motherland. His ideas were applauded and well taken. The Vice Chancellor also emphasized upon the need of participation of girl students for the next meeting. He also asked students to work for betterment of the society.
The Regional Director Sh. R Shekhar, R G N I Y D highlighted the goals of the institute and the work done for the development of youth of Kashmir.
Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat is only possible once we start interacting with each other to understand each other, respect each other and love the traditions and cultures of each other. Through this initiative, the knowledge of culture, traditions and practices of different states and UTs will lead to an enhanced understanding and bonding between the states, thereby strengthening the unity and integrity of India.
Prof Devinder Singh, Convener, Jammu Kashmir Study Centre (JKSC), Prof Renu Vig Prof Shivani Sharma and Shabbir Khan were present on the occasion.
Akbaruddin-Maleeha
Days after making positive noises about bilateral ties, India and Pakistan clashed at the United Nations, with New Delhi taking exception to Islamabad raising the Kashmir issue and asking the new government in Pakistan to work constructively to build a safe and terror-free South Asia rather than indulging in polemics.
“…I take this opportunity to remind Pakistan, the one isolated delegation that made unwarranted references to an integral part of India (J&K), that pacific settlement requires pacific intent in thinking and pacific content in action,’’ India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin said while participating at the Security Council open debate on ‘Mediation and the Settlement of Disputes’. He said, “Regurgitating a failed approach, which has long been rejected, is neither reflective of pacific intent nor a display of pacific content.’’
Akbaruddin’s hard-hitting remarks came shortly after Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi called for implementation of the UNSC resolution on Kashmir.
Rejecting the idea of mediation between India and Pakistan for resolving the Kashmir issue, the Indian representative said it was important not to charge the UN with responsibilities that it might be ill-suited to perform. ‘’Mediation, in every circumstance, is one such task, it (UN) is not geared to fulfil,’’ he added.
Akbaruddin wondered whether the apparatus of the United Nations, as currently constituted, could perform many of the basic functions required for effective mediation. ‘’Are the mechanisms at the disposal of the UN coherent and flexible to guide dynamic negotiations with an effective strategy?’’ he asked.
In the practice of day-to-day diplomacy, Akbaruddin said, mediators needed to be backed fully by the member states while regretting that inevitably member states of inter-governmental bodies tend to speak with different voices.
Rather than trying and saddling the UN with responsibilities that it was ill-suited to perform, it might be better to look at alternate solutions which use the competencies of the world body more judiciously.
Earlier, the Pakistani delegate said while the UN has had some successes in mediating political settlements, its record was, “at best, chequered.”
The Jammu and Kashmir issue remained on the Security Council’s agenda but resolutions on the issue remained unimplemented till date, Lodhi said
Chandigarh:
A Mega NRI Convention is being organized in Chandigarh this year. The Indus Canada Foundation is organizing this convention on the occasion of 550th Jayanti of Nankana Sahib.
Chairman of Indus Canada Foundation Gurinder Sodhi and President Vikram Bajwa announced the program in a joint press conference. They told that the upcoming NRI Convention will be held from December 15 to December 19. The inauguration of this event will be held in Chandigarh. He said that Nankana Sahib Hockey competition will be organized in Shahabad of Haryana, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar of Punjab. For this, there will be Pakistan Punjab XI and India Punjab XI teams competing against each other.
They told that Union External Affair Minister Sushma Swaraj, Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar have been invited to inaugurate the NRI Convention in Chandigarh.
On December 19, at the closing ceremony of the convention in Amritsar, Union Information and Sports Minister, Vijay Vardhan Rathore has been invited. He will present the prizes to the hockey teams.
Both of them appreciated the efforts of both governments for opening Kartar Pur Border for Nankana Sahib and said that this will strengthen the relations between the two countries.
About 2000 NRIs will take part in the Mega NRI Convention this year.
चंडीगढ़:
पंजाब यूनिवर्सिटी सहित शहर के सभी कॉलेजों में छात्र संघ चुनावों के लिए वीरवार को नामांकन हुए। नामांकन शांतिूपर्वक हो इसके लिए चंडीगढ़ पुलिस के साथ-साथ कॉलेज प्रशासन भी मुस्तैद दिखा। नामांकन प्रक्रिया सुबह 9 बजे से शुरू हुई जो कि समाचार लिखे जाने तक जारी थी। चुनाव प्रक्रिया शांतिपूर्वक हो इसके लिए शहर के विभिन्न कॉलेजों के गेट पर टीचर्स की ड्यूटी लगाई गई थी जहां से स्टूडेंट्स के आईडी कार्ड चेक करके ही एंट्री दी जा रही थी। छात्र संघ चुनाव 6 सितंबर को होने हैं।
पुलिस के साथ-साथ कॉलेज प्रशासन भी रहा मुस्तैद
कॉलेज में किसी प्रकार से कोई आउट साइडर एंट्री न कर सकें इसके लिए कुछ कॉलेजों ने गेट पर टीचर्स की ड्यूटी लगाकर रखी ताकि आने-जाने वाले हर युवा पर तीखी नजर रखी जा सके। टीचर्स ने ही स्टूडेंट्स के आईकार्ड चेक करके ही कॉलेज परिसर में एंट्री दी। पुलिस और टीचर स्टाफ की मुस्तैदी के चलते सभी कॉलेजों में नामांकन पूरी तरह से शांतिपूर्ण रहा। किसी भी कॉलेज में किसी प्रकार की कोई अप्रिय घटना नहीं हुई।
स्टूडेंट्स में उत्साह : नामांकन भरने के बाद स्टूडेंट्स काफी उत्साह नजर आया। स्टूडेंट्स जहां पर नाम की घोषणा को लेकर उत्सुक दिखे वहीं पर अपनी-अपनी पार्टी को जिताने की भी होड़ नजर आई।
A nine-member Indian delegation reached Lahore on Tuesday for the two-day Pakistan-India Permanent Indus Commission talks scheduled to be held on August 29-30. The delegation led by Water Commissioner PK Saxena reached Pakistan through Wagah border to attend the two-day water talks resuming on Wednesday.
Pakistan Water Commissioner Syed Mehr Ali Shah welcomed the Indian delegation at the border, Dawn reported.
Shah will be leading his side during the discussions to be held at the Lahore headquarters of the National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Nespak).
According to a Dawn report, Pakistan will reiterate its “serious objections” over two water storage and hydropower projects being built by India on Chenab river. These are Pakal Dul and 48MW Lower Kalnai hydroelectric projects.
Islamabad has objected to the designs of the projects.
Quoting a government official, the Dawn report said Pakistan would raise its concerns over the construction of the projects despite Islamabad’s objections. Pakistan has demanded that India should either modify the designs to make them compliant to the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty or put the projects on hold until both nations reach an agreement.
During the talks, the two sides are also likely to finalise the schedule of future meetings of the commission and visits of the commissioners’ teams. The water commissioners of the two countries are required to meet twice a year and arrange technical visits to the project sites and critical river head works.
The two-day session is also expected to discuss ways and means for timely and smooth sharing of hydrological data on shared rivers.
मोहाली:
स्पेशल टास्क फोर्स (एसटीएफ) ने हेरोइन समेत तीन तस्करों को गिरफ्तार किया है। आरोपियों अवतार सिंह उर्फ राजू निवासी वार्ड नंबर 9 कुराली (जिला मोहाली), कुलवीर सिंह उर्फ बेअंती निवासी गांव हेडां (जिला संगरूर) और अमनदीप सिंह उर्फ टिंकू निवासी गांव पलहेड़ी (जिला मोहाली) से 300 ग्राम हेरोइन बरामद हुई है।
एसटीएफ के एसपी राजिंदर सिंह सोहल ने बताया कि टास्क फोर्स को सूचना मिली थी कि तीन लोग हरियाणा नंबर की होंडा अकोर्ड कार में दिल्ली से हेरोइन लेकर जीरकपुर साइड से होते हुए एयरपोर्ट रोड मोहाली के रास्ते से आ रहे हैं। सूचना के आधार पर सब-इंस्पेक्टर पवन कुमार ने एयरपोर्ट रोड पर नाका लगाकर उन्हें गिरफ्तार कर लिया।
पंजाब केसरी ग्रुप के चेयरमेन विजय चोपड़ा जी से जालन्धर मे मुलाक़ात करते राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष पंजाबी महासभा अशोक मैहता जी , महिला प्रदेश अध्यक्ष रंजीता मेहता जी, प्रदेश अध्यक्ष भुपेश मेहता जी ,महासचिव सुरेंद्र जुनेजा जी , पंजाब अमृतसर से नेहा अरोड़ा जीं एवम्
साथ मे पूर्व मन्त्री हरियाणा सरकार भीम सैन मेहता जी , दविन्द्र चावला जी व अन्य सभा के पदाधिकारी।
Outside the house of writer and activist P Varavara Rao in Hyderabad
In the second such operation in three months, Pune police carried out simultaneous searches at multiple locations across the country and arrested a few prominent activists in connection with its investigations into the alleged Maoist involvement in the organisation of Elgaar Parishad on December 31 last year.
Police claim the speeches made at the Elgaar Parishad, a day ahead of the bicentennial celebration of the battle of Bhima Koregaon, were one of the triggers for the violence that was witnessed in and around Pune the next day.
In an early morning swoop, teams of Pune police landed on the doorsteps of activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha in Delhi, writer and activist P Varavara Rao in Hyderabad, civil rights lawyer Sudha Bhardwaj in Faridabad, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai, Stan Swamy in Ranchi and Anand Teltumbde in Goa and searched their premises.
Some of them had already been arrested by afternoon, and others were likely to be arrested by the end of the day. Joint Police commissioner with Pune city police Shivaji Bhodke said Bhardwaj and Varavara Rao had been arrested. “More arrests are likely,” he said. The arrested persons are likely to be produced in a city court on Wednesday.
In Goa, writer and civil rights activist Anand Teltumbde, who teaches at the Goa Institute of Management, was the target of Pune police searches. Anand was not at home when the police came looking for him and he was informed about the raid by his institute’s director.
“The house in Goa was locked but they (Pune police team) opened it and carried out a search. I have not been arrested thus far,” Anand told The Indian Express.
Vernon Gonzalves’s residence in Mumbai
Today’s searches come about three months after a similar operation on June 6, in which the Pune police had arrested five “urban Maoist operatives” from Delhi, Nagpur and Mumbai. Those arrested at that time included Nagpur University professor Shoma Sen and Delhi-based activist Rona Wilson of the Committee of Release of Political Prisoners.
Others to be arrested in June were Sudhir Dhawale, leader of Mumbai-based Republican Panthers Jati Antachi Chalwal, Nagpur lawyer Surendra Gadling of Indian Association of People’s Lawyers, and Mahesh Raut who had in the past been Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow.
Police claim that today’s searches at the six places were a result of the interrogation of these arrested people, who are currently lodged at Yervada central prison in Pune in magisterial custody. They have been charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
While producing them in court a day after their arrests in June, police had claimed to have seized material that pointed to a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a”Rajiv Gandhi” -like manner”.
The Elgaar Parishad was organised to commemorate the 200thanniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon which happened on January 1 in 1818, in which a British army comprising of a large number of Dalit soldiers is said to have defeated the Peshwas. Every year on January 1, thousands of Dalits assemble in Pune and march to the village of Koregaon Bhima which has a war memorial (Jaystambh) in memory of those who died in that battle.
Among those who spoke at Elgaar Parishad were Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and JNU student Umar Khalid. Police claim their investigations had shown that banned Maoist groups were involved in financing and organising the Elgaar Parishad event.