CRB School Celebrates Diwali Festival with Great Pomp:Appeals Students to Celebrate Diwali as a Green Diwali

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Chandigarh 27^th October:-- The students and staff of CRB Public school, sector-7B, Chandigarh celebrated "Diwali" with great pomp and show today. The students made all the big efforts to make grand Rangolis decorated with diyas and all accessories for Rangoli Competition. The school students also decorated candles and diyas for a lightened Diwali. Few of them also made beautiful greeting cards for their near and dear ones. Even the children of Kindergarten were not left aback. They came in their traditional party outfits and had all the fun in Diwali Celebrations. They also participated in Diya and Candle decorations.

The principal, Mrs. Sangeeta Mittal passed the message of a very prosperous and Happy Diwali along with togetherness to everyone. She also appealed to the students that say no to crackers on this Diwali and celebrate Diwali as a Green Diwali.

 

CRISIL Assigns‘A+/SAtable’ Rating for Manappuram Home Finance Pvt. Ltd.

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- Leading credit rating agency CRISIL has assigned its "A+/stable" credit rating to the long term bank loan facility of Manappuram Home Finance Private Ltd (MHF). The rating reflects managerial and financial support received from the parent Manappuram Finance Ltd. and adequate capitalisation. 

According to CRISIL, Manappuram Home Finance is adequately capitalised for the expected scale of business following infusion of capital of Rs.55 crore in fiscal 2016, taking its total paid up capital to Rs.100 crore. Additional infusions are expected to support capital adequacy and keep the gearing at around 5 times over the medium term. These rating strengths are partially offset by a small scale of operations with a limited track record, a modest earnings profile, and exposure to inherent risks relating to the affordable housing finance segment.

The expectation of support from the parent is driven by the strategic importance of the company to the Manappuram group in diversification of its financial product suite. The business is scalable and is expected to grow materially over the medium term. Manappuram Finance Ltd. holds 100% of the equity in Manappuram Home Finance. The parent has infused growth capital and will infuse additional capital as and when required. Furthermore, its Managing Director, V. P. Nandakumar, along with another director, is represented on the board of the company. CRISIL believes Manappuram Home Finance will continue to receive strong financial and managerial support from its parent, while maintaining adequate capitalisation, over the medium term. 

 

 

, Chief Vigilance Officer PNB Make Special Visit to PNB Regional Staff College Panchkula

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- Satish Nagpal, Chief Vigilance Officer, Punjab National Bank made special visit to PNB Regional Staff College, Sector 6 Panchkula to address a gathering of Senior Officers and Management Trainees of the Bank hailing from Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chandigarh Regions.

During his address, he laid emphasis on preventive vigilance. In his view bankers take financial decisions and even if one of the decisions goes wrong, there can be loss of huge amount. As such, the bank officers must take such decisions prudently. However, he assured that bonafide actions of the employees are to be protected and such employees should not suffer any harm whereas malafide actions should not go unpunished and are unpardonable. As regards frauds of high value, he informed that such cases are monitored at the highest level of the government and this lays a responsibility at all levels to be vigilant for prevention of such frauds.

Expressing banks commitment to the vigilance function bank is observing "the Vigilance Awareness Week from 31^st October 2016 to 5^th November 2016" primarily with a motive to sensitize all the staff and public at large during the Vigilance Awareness Week, he informed that  in a first of its kind initiative, PNB plans to also involve general public at large through holding of Gram Sabhas Educational Institutions, Customer Meets, Panel discussions etc. in the spread of vigilance culture in our country. Further he also informed that Chief Vigilance Commission has come out with two "Integrity Pledges" for common public and common entities in a bid to garner support in its effort to eradicate corruption.  He also emphasized that the real growth of the institution rests on the delivery of duty by its employees with hard work, utmost sincerity and integrity.

A.K. Dargan, Zonal Manager, Punjab National Bank, Haryana Zone, Chandigarh, S.K. Dua, Circle Head,  PNB Chandigarh Circle, Chandigarh, Satish Chopra, Dy. General Manager, PNB Zonal Audit Office and Chetan Sethi, Principal, Regional Staff College were also present on the occasion . Subsequently he also visited the PNB Zonal Audit Office, Panchkula and Zonal Office, Chandigarh and addressed PNB staff in these Offices.

 

Zee Cinema Presents Action Drama ‘Himmatwar’ on Sunday October 30

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- Zee Cinema, the world's largest movie theatre for Hindi movies, brings to its viewers a fast paced action thriller 'Himmatwar' in Hindi on Sunday, 30^th October at 9 PM. Directed by Singham 2 fame Hari, the potboiler stars actor-producer Vishal along with the gorgeous Shruti Haasan. The movie scores on its foot tapping music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the youngest offspring of legendary music director Ilaiyaraaja.

Himmatwar revolves around Vasu (Vishal), a moneylender, who is ostracized from his wealthy family due to a misunderstanding. The charming Vasu is also romantically involved with Divya(ShrutiHaasan). The film takes an interesting turn when Vasu saves a police superintendent (Sathyaraj) and his wife (Aishwarya) from an attempted murder by a mysterious gang. This causes a massive conflict between Vasu and the gang leader Anna Thandavam (Mukesh Tiwari). Anna and his goons discover that Vasu and his entire family need to be eliminated due to their past.

 

National Workshop on Air Quality & Health Commences at PGI

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- A 4-day training programme on the 'Air Quality and Health' commenced today 26th October at School of Public Health, PGI. The training programme is organized by School of Public Health, PGI in collaboration with Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi.

This programme is specially designed for faculty and scientists, environment and public health researchers, medical professional and residents to build their capacity in the area of environment health to improve the public health in the country.

Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal, organizing secretary of the event highlighted that recently World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that around 92% of the population live in places where air pollution exceeds the air quality standards, which can contribute to lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes. Hence, he stressed that there is a need to reduce the exposure to harmful air pollutants especially in urban centers.

Dr Suman Mor, Coordinator, Centre for Public Health, Panjab University, Invited Speaker, mentioned that air pollution has grown across India alarmingly and globally over 7 million people premature deaths could be linked to air pollution. Hence, air pollution is becoming a major environmental risk to human health.

Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal, also mentioned that tomorrow with the support of Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, a air quality campaign will be stared using a Mobile Air Quality Van, which continuously monitor the air pollutants. Prof. Arun Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University and Dr. Gufran Beig , Scientist-G, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences will inaugurate this first of its kind continuous air quality campaign using state of the art technology to monitor air pollutants.

 

Icchapyaari Meet Icchadhaari Naagin on the Sets of SAB Ki Diwali

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- A dose of laughter and masti was on the sets of Sony SAB's, 'SAB ki Diwali' when Sugandha Mishra and Priyal Gor met on stage. The actress Priyal Gor created sensation on Indian Television with her role as the cute and bubbly Iccha of the newly launched show, Icchapyaari Naagin. Priyal met Sugandha who was dressed in a green Naagin costume to anchor the show with Siddharth Sagar.

Post their masti moment, we caught up with Priyal and told us that she was pleasantly surprised to see Sugandha dressed in a Naagin costume. She is great with comedy and known to evoke laughter with her one liner. She really enjoyed her performance at SAB Ki Diwali. She would love her fans to watch her and Mishkat perform on the sets of SAB ki Diwali this week and she wish them all a very Happy Diwali

 

SAB Ki Diwali:Tapu Sena’s Performance Adds More Flavor to the Diwali Celebration

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- This year Diwali will be more happening and fun with the 'Chota Packet Bada Dhamaka' of SAB Parivar. Tapu Sena of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah will put up a dynamic performance this year for 'SAB Ki Diwali'.

Tapu (Bhavya Gandhi), Sonu (Nidhi Bhanushali), Goggi (Samay Shah), Goli (Kush Shah) and Pinku (Tarun Uppal) will entertain the viewers with a splendid performance on 'Ramji ki Chal Dekho'. Their performance will be a part of Antakshri that will be played by the entire cast of Taarak Mehta Ka Ootah Chashmah. The amazing performance by the bacha party will set the entire mood for celebrations this festive season.

Speaking to Tapu, he said that this year we performed on the track 'Ramji Ki Chal Dekho' from the movie Ramleela. He loves performing on such vibrant songs and performing with Tapu sena was sheer delight. The beats of the song were so high on energy which gave us a boost to perform better.

 

Mika Joins MTV The Junkyard Project to Urge Youth to ‘Dunk That Junk’

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- Did you ever think the act of cleaning could be fun. We bet not. Cut through the drudgery by turning on Bollywood's favorite singer Mika Singh's brand new foot-tapping anthem for MTV 'The Junkyard Project' and make the act of cleaning fun. The lyrics of the anthem have been crafted in a manner that they blend perfectly with Mika's vocals and energetic vibe to urge youngsters to take charge of cleaning up India with his quirky anthem, 'Dunk that junk'.

The Junkyard Project is a unique take on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by MTV to mobilize the youth to take a stand on cleanliness and take on the challenge of turning dirt into art. MTV tied up with 300 colleges and mobilized the 'Junkyard Army' of over 30,000 students across India, who got together to clean up neighbourhoods and beautify 300 junk spaces as live music motivated them. Now, MTV along with -the King of Indie-pop, Mika has created the adrenalin fuelled 'Dunk That Junk' anthem to give this young army a pumping new war cry! The 'Dunk that junk' anthem by Mika is a total dance worthy number and will make young people get up and get cleaning. The rendition of the anthem is a complete earworm making it totally share-worthy on social media platforms incorporating an important lesson in a fun, musical way.

On his quirky composition for MTV The Junkyard Project, Mika Singh said that it is extremely fulfilling to compose an anthem that brings the youth of the country together for a good cause. It is heartening to see a iconic youth brand such as MTV stepping in to help make India clean through an exciting initiative such as MTV The Junkyard Project. Keeping in line with MTV's efforts, the anthem 'Dunk that Junk' has a very young appeal making the whole cleaning process a lot more fun and exciting. He hopes the anthem reaches out to a lot of youngsters and serves its purpose of motivating them to do their bit for India.

 

Police Use Water Cannons on Punjab Youth Congress Protestors

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Chandigarh 26^th October:- Workers of Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) headed by their president, Amarpreet Singh Lally, protested against the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government which failed to deliver justice to Behbal Kalan firing victims who were staging peaceful protest against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib last year. Youth Congress demanded the time bound CBI probe in the matter. Senior congress leader Harish Chaudhary also came to support the youth brigade of the party and pledged their solidarity for the cause. Police resorted to mild lathicharge and used water cannons on members of (PYC) leaving few injured.

Many of them including the president of PYC Amarpreet Singh Lally were detained by the Police while they were marching towards Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's house from Congress Youth Bhawan, Sector 15 in Chandigarh.

Amarpreet Singh Lally said that Badals who claimed to be sole guardians of Sikhism in Punjab should resign as they have failed to take action against the culprits who were responsible for the series of sacrilegious incidents last year which created a crisis for the state.

Condemning the insensitive attitude of father-son who are running the government in Punjab, Amarpreet Singh Lally said that the Badal government failed to nip the trouble in the bud following which a spate of incidents of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib surfaced. The situation went bad to worse after two persons died in police firing in Behbal Kalan village in Faridkot district on October 14. The real culprits are out of reach even after one year. Nothing short of arrest of guilty cops would sooth the sentiments of the family and Sikh community.   

Series of desecration incidents of the holy book Guru Granth Sahib took place across Punjab which sparked protests and disrupted communal harmony in the state in October 2015 last year. 

Amarpreet Singh Lally said that the issue caused immense pain to Sikhs living in India and abroad. The law and order situation in Punjab deteriorated as the miscreants were having free hand and state government failed to control the situation. Resident of village Sarwan, Gurjit Singh and Behbal Khurd's resident Krishan Bhawan had died in police firing that had been ordered to disperse people who were protesting over the sacrilege of Sikh's holy book Guru Granth Sahib.

Among those who participated in the protest also included Dhanwant Jimmy Patiala, Dalveer Singh (Goldy) Khangura, Gurkeemat Singh Sidhu, Sarita Sharma, Kamaljeet Brar, Barinder Singh Dhillon, Vikramjit Singh Pehalwan, Gurmukh Chahal, Barinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sarvjeet Brar, Aarika Kanwar, Daaman Bajwa, Poonam Kangra, Sandeep Bhatia, Avjinder Singh Kala, Rahul Sidhu, Simar Gill and Amanpal Singh Dhanoa.     

 

Join Masti Ki Sawari with SAB Ki Diwali

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Chandigarh 25^th October:-  Sony SAB, 'SAB Ki Diwali' this year is themed around 'Masti Ki Sawari' where all the actors will board into an exciting journey of joy and thrilling performances. Set against the backdrop of a station, the whole stage will be lit up with vibrant colors. The exquisite decoration of the stage with an engine and boogie around the theme of Masti Ki Sawari is ready to mesmerize the audience on Thursday, 27^th October at 9pm on Sony SAB.

The show is being anchored by the finest comedians on Indian Television, Siddhart Sagar and Sugandha Mishra. Sugandha was seen in a Naagin avatar where in Siddharth became the ticket collector and a police inspector. Audience will also get to see a dazzling performance by Bakhtiyar Irani (Ronnie) with our star guest sanjeeda sheikh on 'Kala chashmah' and 'Baby ko Bazz pasand hai'.

Adding romance to this festive celebration, are the cute on-screen couples Priyal Gor (Iccha), Mishkat Varma (Bubble). Further, the audience will see the hot and sizzling dance of Debina Bonerjee (Dr. Madhumati), the handsome, Vipul Roy (Dr. Mohan) performing on the hit Bollywood number 'Salaam-E-Ishq'. All actors across SAB Shows will be seen dancing on latest upbeat numbers.

Bakhtiyaar Irani a.k.a Ronnie from Badi Door Se Aye Hain share his experience by saying that Diwali events are always fun. We get to interact with different artists that you don't meet for years. It's always fun to dance on a stage .For Sab ki diwali he danced on three songs 'high heels', 'kala chashma' and 'baby ko base pasand hain'. All of them were high energy songs and he loved dancing on them. His passion for dance flows instantly when he listen to such songs. He hope all the viewers enjoy his performance .Wishing all a very Happy and prosperous Diwali. 

The train for entertainment doesn't stop here, there will be a range of thrilling performances waiting for you to explore in the show. Come together with your family to watch your favorite actors performing on your favorite Bollywood track on 'SAB Ki Diwali' premiering Thursday, 27^thOctober at 9.00pm only on Sony SAB!

 

&pictures Premieres‘1920 London’ on October 31

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Chandigarh 25^th October:- &pictures–Naye India Ka Blockbuster Movie channel adds a thrilling flavor to your Diwali festivitieswith the premiere of horror flick '1920 London' on Monday,31^st October 2016 at 8 PM. Written by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Tinu Desai, the movie stars Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra and small screen hunk Vishal Karwalin the lead.1920 London is the third installment of the successful franchise 1920 and is based in the same era.

Kunwar Veer Singh (Vishal Karwal) and Shivangi (Meera Chopra) is a royal couple based in London. A sudden gift from their homeland tricks Veer into black magic and their married life comes to a halt. In order to save her husband's deteriorating condition, Shivangi reaches out to exorcist Jai Singh (Sharman Joshi) her ex-lover. Amidst a haunting past and a scary chaos of the supernatural, Jai comes over to London to save Veer. But will he succeed.

 

 

Innovate to Empower Dalits and Farmers:Ravi Shankar Parsad

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Chandigarh 25^th October:- Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Parsad said that the mission of Digital India is to empower common man in the country.

Unveiling the Incubation Facility of STPI Mohali at the JW Marriott, the Union Minister embarked hat digital India is for the poor and underprivileged in the society and directed STPI Mohali to provide special facilities to promote entrepreneurship amongst dalit youth.

On the request of the Union Minister for Food Processing Industry Harsimrat Kaur Badal, to make STPI Moali to innovate IT solutions for the farmers, Ravi Shankar Parsad endorsed the idea and assured that STPI Mohali would become the Centre for Innovation for the Farmers too, and should become a beacon of Digital India.

Listing out the growth in diverse areas of country's economy on the digital front, the union minister commended STPI for helping the IT industry grow and create newer employment opportunities, reaching 3 lakh crores in software exports out of which Rs. 3 lakh crores is being generated from the Tier II cities.

Digital India, Startup India, Standup India are the programmes that are transforming our country and empowering the people having reached phenomenal growth  reaching 103 crore mobile phones, issuing 105 crores adhaar cards, 40 crores broadband connections expected to reach 50 crores by next year, and 27 crores  smart phones, he added.

STPI shall very soon be laying the foundation stone of its next centre in Amritsar to help the smaller cities become part of the digital India movement. He hoped that the country which had very few mobile phone manufacturing units has attracted fresh FDI and there are over 40 such manufacturing units in the country, and hoped that manufacturing facility for mobiles would come up in Punjab too.

Union Minister for Food Processing Industry  Harsimrat Kaur Badal, said that opening of this incubation facility for startups in Mohali is a historic event, and the infrastructure facilities to promote education, health, transportation, etc. in the State is changing the face of Punjab.

Punjab is an agrarian state, she said, and requires the innovative IT solutions to help the farmers cope up with the vagaries of Nature and reduce their dependence on weather.

Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Vijay Sampla, said that Punjab has largest number of scheduled castes and tribes who need to be empowered and STPI can contribute immensely.

Earlier in the day Union Minister Ravi Shankar Parsad along with Vijay Sampla, and Adaish Partap Singh Kairon, inaugurated a state-of-the-art incubation facility of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), at Mohali and inspected the data centre and other facilities.

The largest incubation facility for the startups amongst the Tier-II cities, and the only with such a big data centre in the country, would ramp up the region's march towards one of the most favored IT destination in the country.

Spread over nearly 1.40 lakh square feet of built-up space, the incubation facility would go a long way in encouraging new IT/ITES entrepreneurs and startups to make it a hub for entrepreneurship. This would provide a major boost to the IT companies in Punjab to enable them to host their software applications and data, securely and safely at a fraction of the cost, instead of their own dedicated data centre. The building also houses Network Operation Centre equipped with infrastructure to ensure networking services, firewalls, servers, routers, and 100% redundant bandwidth for the users in the building.

The incubation facility has a dedicated Tier-III standard world-class data centre of 160 rack capacity available to startups to use it for big data analytics and software as a service, informed Dr Omkar Rai, Director General of STPI, he informed.

Over 60,000 sqft area from third to the sixth floors provides warm shells and 100-seats Plug-and-Play modular office space for the startups to operationalize their businesses within hours. The top floor houses common facilities including a 100-seats auditorium, cafeteria, board rooms and meeting halls.

The facility compliments the startup ecosystem that STPI had been encouraging in the region and intends to create robust and active partnership amongst academia, research institutions, industry, professional bodies, investors and financial institutions, to help the startups grow.

Dr Omkar Rai informed that the Incubation Facility is the only building in the region which is expected to get 5-star rating as the Green Building by GRIHA, and the Ministry of Environment has already recognized STPI Mohali with an award for "Exemplary Demonstration of Energy Management.

Rajneesh Agarwal, Director, STPI Mohali said that the incubation facility has many unique features and is perhaps the first smart-building with automated controls for temperature, lighting, power consumption monitoring, uninterrupted power supply for 24x7 operations, and precision air-conditioning.