New Delhi, September 13, 2014: President Shiromani Akali Dal and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal along with a delegation of Sikh leaders today called on Union Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and demanded that issues of Sikh community residing in United States should also be part of agenda to be discussed with President Barack Obama by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his proposed visit to US besides seeking his immediate intervention for redrassal of these issues.
During the meeting, Badal asked Swaraj to put this issue on the priority agenda of Prime Ministerial visit to US. He demanded that there was need to take a sympathetic view on the issue of asylum seekers who sought political asylum in foreign countries either due to economic reasons or during 1984 or militancy era. He asked External Affairs Minister to grant Travel Documents and VISA to them besides allowing them to apply for Indian Citizenship as the case may be without delay. Last 10 years of Congress-led UPA government at the centre have miserably failed to address any issues concerning Sikhs, he said.
Badal also took up the issue of 41 Indians abducted and held captive in Iraq and took an update from the External Affairs Minister on the their status and efforts being made by the Government of India to free them as soon as possible.
Highlighting the issue of racial attacks on Sikhs in different parts of the world, Badal stressed on the need to sensitise all officials in Indian Missions abroad to take up issues concerning Sikhs asking their respective governments to initiate campaigns for sensitizing their security agencies, police and spread overall awareness about Sikh people and Sikh religion. He said that there was a need to launch social campaigns by Indian Missions abroad about Sikhs and documentaries, films, and information on social media and other traditional media be released to increase awareness about Sikhs.
He also laid emphasis on the need to take up the issue of Indian farmers in Georgia. He asked External Affairs Minister to take up the issue immediately with the Georgian government at diplomatic level. “A number Punjabis were invited by Georgia to own farmlands in Georgia a few years back. These Punjabis bought the land in Georgia and were doing farming there. Every year, these Punjabis come back to India for holidays but for the last six months they are not being given VISA by Georgia and their land is being confiscated”, he added.
Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister assured Badal that the issue of political asylum seekers and also the blacklisted shall be considered sympathetically at the top priority and also the government’s top priority was to free all the abducted persons who are held captive in Iraq. She also assured that efforts would be made to sensitise foreign missions abroad about Sikhs and the situation in Georgia be handled amicably.
Later talking to media, Badal demanded that Government of India should de-list persons who have never indulged into any extremist activities or violence and went abroad on economic reasons. He said that a number of persons who were dubbed as the sympathisers of extreme religious sentiments and were blacklisted and banned from entering India, over the decades, such persons have not been allowed to visit India again to meet their relatives or see their land.
Member Rajya Sabha Naresh Gujaral, Former Union Minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, President DSGMC Manjit Singh GK and General Secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa were also part of delegation.
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Ludhiana, September 13, 2014: Federation of Industrial and Commercial Organisation (FICO)  and  Association of Ludhiana Machine Tools Industries(ALMTI) held a meeting with Rajat Aggarwal, Deputy Commissioner, Ludhiana regarding J&K disaster.

FICO members donated 1,000 blankets and eatables for the J&K disaster victims.

Kuldeep Singh (Additional Commissioner GLADA), Kuljeet Singh Mahi (SDM Ludhiana),  Gurmeet Singh Kular (Chairman PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry Ludhiana Zone), Manjeet Singh Matharoo (General Secretary Association of Ludhiana Machine Tools Industries), Rajeev Jain (Secretary FICO), Vijay Mehtani (President Ludhiana Dyers Association) and Rajnish Kumar Gupta (Chairman Ludhiana Bicycle & Engineering Park) were present.

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Ludhiana, September 13, 2014: Mega Job Fair 2014 was conducted on Saturday by Doric Multi Media Pvt Ltd (DMPL) at their Jamalpur Branch. More than 500 internal and external candidates & 12 Companies participated in the Job Fair. Companies such as Shopper Stop Ltd, Best Price, OPK, Kocher Infotech, Adecco India Pvt Ltd, Icon Softwares, Soft Infosystems, Angel Broking Pvt. Ltd and others Interviewed the candidates for their more than 150 vacancies in IT, Accounts, Management & sales departments. 100+ Students were finally shortlisted & Offer letter were given to the selected candidates.

No Registration fee was charged from the candidates. Students showed full Interest in the event. Narinder Singh, student of ICA, thanks DMPL to provide this platform which will help him in getting the desired job. On the other side Gurpreet Singh, student of LPUDE also thanked DMPL for providing this opportunity and best education along with  quality services to build their career.

Sarabjit Singh Gulati and Vanita Gulati Director of Doric Multimedia Pvt Ltd on this Event said that having a job enables a candidate to participate fully in his/her community & demand Accountability. Doric Multimedia will continue to work to match those looking for a job with employee’s looking to hire. Gurmeet Singh, Bhawana Sharma, Deepak Marwaha, Rohit Srivastav and Doric Team hosted the event on behalf of Doric Multimedia Pvt Ltd.

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Ludhiana, September 13, 2014: The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is a cause of serious concern. There is grave apprehension of spread of water-borne and communicable diseases in the flood affected areas. All out concerted effort is required to send relief measures. The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), Indian Medical Association - Ludhiana, Rotary Club Ludhiana Greater, Punjab Medical Representatives Association and Ludhiana District Chemists Association are coordinating to send a relief team of doctors soon with medicines and other material.

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Chandigarh, September 13, 2014: Even as J&K witnessing the worst floods in decades, the lakhs of people still stranded and desperate for help, Max India Foundation (MIF), the corporate social responsibility wing of Max Group has pledged support to flood-ravaged people of valley. Mohini Daljeet Singh, Chief Executive, Max India Foundation has handed over cartons of essential medicines to Maj General Rajveer Singh, Commandant of Command Hospital, Chandimandir Cantonment at Command Hospital today.

The cartons of medicines contained drugs such as Biodipine, Azee, Ciplox, Combiflam and broad spectrum antibiotics, anti inflammatory drugs, pain killers and anti-diarrhoea tablets and syrups. This is the first lot as next week MIF will make similar contributions through the Army in Delhi.

Speaking on the occasion Mohini said that it was a small gesture on the part of MIF in association with Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mohali and Max Speciality Films to support the flood victims. We extended our gratitude to personnel of the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force and the National Disaster Relief Force, who were working around-the-clock to evacuate lakhs of people who were still trapped in flood-ravaged areas.

She said further that every year since the launch of the MIF, there has been a major disaster  in the country and  we immediately reached out to the army with our contributions of medicines, sleeping bags, dry rations, woolens blankets. We knew for sure they would reach the beneficiaries and help the armed forces personnel in their gallant task of rescue and relief. We did this in Uttarakhand last year, Assam the year before, Orissa and so on.”

Once camps have been established, we would send our medical teams for help too. Our prayers and thoughts would go out to our countrymen in distress and sincere gratitude to the men in uniform, asserted Mohini.  

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Udaang (Sri Muktsar Sahib), September 14, 2014: In a bid to check the menace of water logging in the state far more efficaciously, the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked Irrigation department to initiate the process for strengthening, upgrading and widening the entire drainage system in south-western districts of state.
Continuing his whirlwind tour of the rain affected districts of the state for the second consecutive day, the Chief Minister, after having detailed deliberations with the victims of this tragedy in villages of Sri Muktsar Sahib district, underscored the need for upgrading, widening and strengthening the existing drainage system in water logged districts of state for carrying out the excess water, so as to check the menace of water logging.  Badal said that the widening, upgrading and strengthening of the drainage system was a part of the state government’s ambitious master plan to stamp out the problem of water logging adding that it would help in reducing the retention period of excess water from currently 14-21 days to seven days by disposing it off in an expedite manner.
Meanwhile, in order to duly compensate the victims of this grave tragedy, the Chief Minister also asked Financial Commissioner Revenue (FCR) NS Kang to monitor the entire process personally, so that people could be given relief in a prompt manner.  He said that the Revenue department must ensure that entire damage to crop and property was accounted in a proper manner so that the victims of this tragedy could be compensated for their loss. “The state government is duty bound to help all the victims of this grave tragedy in the current scenario of grief and we are making all out efforts to bail out the people from this crisis” added Badal.  
Peeved over the hardships faced by the people of these areas, the Chief Minister also asked the Irrigation Department to explore the feasibility of creating a separate post of Chief Engineer (Floods) for this region, so that meticulous planning could be made to save the people from the scourge of floods. He said that the expert appointed on this post should be entrusted with the job of finding out ways and means to prevent the floods in this region. Badal bemoaned that floods have become an annual feature in the water logged districts and we would take every step to check the huge loss of property caused by it every year.    
Later on interacting with the media persons, the Chief Minister said that the entire plan for complete overhaul of the damaged infra structure in the water logged villages would be ready within a fortnight and after the concurrence of the villagers the work for reconstruction would be started within a month. Badal said that the state government was fully aware of the gravity of the situation and no stone would be left unturned to help the people in this hour of distress. He said that the top brass of the state government was already visiting every village to assess the loss so that necessary action could be taken.
Soliciting the support and cooperation of people in this gigantic task, the Chief Minister urged them to personally monitor the rescue and rehabilitation measures being taken by the state government. He said that every officer of the state government was fully accountable to people for every work done by them. Badal said that with the active public support, the state government could perform its duty far more efficiently and in a planned manner.
The Chief Minister, who visited Malout, Inna Khera, Tarkhan Wala, Lakhmeer-e-aana, Hunan Kalan, Udaang, Baam, Maha Baddar, Bhagsar, Ruhereanwali and other villages today, was accompanied by MLA Harpreet Singh, Chairman Punjab Agro Food grains Corporation Jathedar Dyal Singh Kolianwali, Member Punjab State Women Commission Veerpal Kaur Tarmala, senior Akali leaders Manjit Singh Barkandi and Kanwarjeet Singh Rozy Barkandi, Chairman of District Planning Committee Sri Muktsar Sahib Hardeep Singh Dimpi Dhillon, FCR NS Kang, his Special Principal Secretary KJS Cheema, Secretary Irrigation Kahan Singh Pannu and Deputy Commissioner Jaskiran Singh.  
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Jalandhar, September 14, 2014: Nehru Yuva Kendra in association with Shaheed Ajit Singh Naujwan Society organised seminar on Hindi Diwas today at Prof Ravinder Chaddha Chemistry Institute Jalandhar. Speaking on the occasion Deepak Mohindru President of the Shamed Ajit Singh Naujwan Society spoke on importance of the Day and the Hindi language as well. He added they should feel proud over the Hindi language, which was our National Language.
Nagendera Chaddha and Saurabh Kapur were among those present.
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Ludhiana, September 15, 2014: The Aam Aadmi Party, Ludhiana appeals to all citizens to donate blankets and woollen garments for victims of floods in Jammu and Kashmir. With the approaching winter season, the people of Kashmir need woollen garments and blankets desperately to ward off the cold.
According to the Party Spokesperson, H. S. Phoolka : “As we all know that unprecedented floods have caused havoc in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Our fellow countrymen in J&K need our help at this critical hour to tide over the calamity. I appeal to all Punjabi’s to come forward to stand with our distressed brothers and sisters in J&K and be part of the effort to support them in the hour of crisis. We appeal to all the citizens of Ludhiana to generously devote these items. Ludhianvis are known for their generosity and readiness to help anyone suffering from grief and I am sure they will come out in huge numbers to help us in this endeavour”
The items can be deposited at the party office at 86-J, Sarabha Nagar, Ludhiana and interested may contact at these numbers:  0161-246500, 2465001, 2465002, 2465003.
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Chandigarh, September 15, 2014: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed that property returns of all Punjab civil and police officers would be uploaded on the official websites of their respective departments.
Taking decision in this regard here while presiding over a meeting with Punjab Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary Home and DGP Vigilance, Badal asked trio to initiate process in this regard so the property details of all categories of officers in civil and police cadre in the state could be uploaded on websites at the earliest.  Badal said that property details of all officers should be in public domain on websites.
This issue came to fore in the meeting and Deputy CM directed CS and PSH to ensure that complete property details of all officers should be uploaded in full transparent manner. He asked them to issue necessary directions to the officers appointed at headquarters and in field.  
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Chandigarh, September 15, 2014: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal will not be able to hold Sangat Darshan programmes on Wednesday at Chandigarh and on Saturday at New Delhi in view of his out of state tour.
An official spokesperson informed that due to prior fixed engagements of Sukhbir Singh Badal, the both Sangat Darshan programmes would not be held.
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Ludhiana, September 15, 2014: The Indian Army is undertaking massive rescue and relief operations in the flood ravaged state of Jammu and Kashmir and the whole Nation came together for providing relief and rescue material for over four lakh people trapped in the worst floods witnessed by the valley in six decades.
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Vajra Corps, Lieutenant General NPS Hira, himself belonging to Ludhiana district, has applauded  the residents of Ludhiana district and neighboring towns for donation of massive relief material for the flood victims. The local Army formation under the guidance of Brig Jagdeep Dahiya, Station Commander Dholewal Military Station has co-ordinated the collection and despatch of relief material of approximately 148 Tons over 10 days period. 148 Tons of relief material is the highest ever relief material collected from any single district. The response of the magnanimous Ludhianvis has been overwhelming.  They provided relief material in form of water, juices, food items, clothes, blankets and medicines etc.  The response of industrial units too was very heartening. The relief material provided will help Indian Army to provide succor to flood affected persons.
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Ferozepur, September 15, 2014: The Subsidiary Health Centre at village Piareana near Ferozepur is in a dilapidated condition. Centre which is being run by Zila Parishad, provides health services to five villages but has nothing to offer the poor aspirants in reality.
The centre is surrounded by elongated wild grass, fallen boundary wall and cement is coming cracking off in the rooms. The dampness of rainy water in the complex can be seen with open eyes. Dr. Nikhil Gupta, Rural Medical Officer appointed at this SHC has nothing to boast except his integrity and desire to treat poor and needy.
Dr. Nikhil Gupta said that at present there are 44 SHC in the district in which only 30 stations have qualified doctors. The rest are working with the support of Pharmacists who are appointed there and there are places where class IV employees are providing medicine. In each SHC, the sanctioned posts is of one RMO, one Pharmacist, one Class IV employee on the cadre of Zila Parishad under Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) Scheme while one ANM is posted by the Health Department.
The visitors to the dispensary are very limited; say 10 to 15, due to lack of facilities and medicines available.  However, the educated class in the rural areas does visit the doctor for getting the expert opinion or getting a prescription for purchase of medicine from the market. People come from Basti Piareana, Dhindsa, Uggo Ke, Badhni Jaimal Singh and Kamagar besides Piareana come to him for treatment.
He said, due to monotonous nature of job,  there is no exposure to trainings and medical seminars, no opportunities of higher education and the rural medical officers are day by day losing zeal to work in rural areas and the frustration is creeping in this cadre. The doctors are supposed to be updated with latest medical advancements, new drugs and technologies.
On asking about the maintenance of the SHC, he said that sufficient funds for renovation to the tune of Rs.84,000 for each SHC have been received but not utilised.
Dr.Nikhil categorically stated that there is no medicine supply for last two years in rural dispensaries even though there is surplus in nearby hospitals operated by health department. He even showed the stock register with blank entry after February 2013.
Dr. Nikhil said that the government should merge the RMOs in to Health department which will help in removing the dearth of doctors in the health system. If  the rural medical officers should also be used in maintaining emergency services throughout hospitals in Punjab, they will have chance to sharpen their skills and there will be twenty four hours, seven days a week emergency services available in rural areas of Punjab.  Presently, all the 750 doctors in the states look to be underutilised and they can be adequately used in various drug de-addiction programme initiated by the Punjab Government to shun the menace of drugs in the state.
Further sharing his view and personal experience, he said, by taking these dispensaries out of purview of the health department, there is breakage in the chain of health vigilance as neither the field staff co-ordinates with rural doctors, nor there is any co ordination between rural doctors and community health centers.
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New Delhi/Chandigarh, September 15, 2014: The Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today announced that union cabinet has approved a unique scheme on enhancement of competitiveness in the Indian capital goods sector for development of specified technologies with budgetary support of Rs. 581.22 crore.
Disclosing this here today She said that the Scheme is first in the series of a number of initiatives under the Prime Minister's vision of "Make in India" enunciated at the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15 2014. The scheme will be up-scaled based on experience gained and seeks to indigenize large imports.
Adding further Badal said that capital goods or popularly known as industrial machineries are main stay of manufacturing employment and economy of the country and the sector is strategic to "Make in India" initiatives to  promote  local manufacturing.
Mentionably it is one of the oldest industries in the country. The size of the industry is about Rs 300,000 crore per annum of which more than Rs 1,85,000 crore are produced in India and about Rs 1,15,000 crore is imported.
Union Minister informed that more than 80% units are in Small & Medium Enterprises and they have limited capabilities to develop newer technologies. The Government intervention was needed as it considers that the technology was the Achilles Heel of the sector.
She said that these technologies were mostly suffering from commercial embargo and this development was proposed with the help of IITs and other similar institutions. "To reduce cost of conversion, common facilities like testing, development and industrial area are also proposed", she added.
Badal said that the Scheme with a proposed outlay of   Rs.930.96 crore  aims to increase competitiveness of the Indian Capital Goods Sector through development and acquisition of latest technologies, setting up of infrastructural  facilities like common engineering facility centers, sector specific integrated   industrial facility centers and test & certification center.
She further added that on successful implementation of this scheme it will boost development of indigenous technology and manufacturing, cost competitiveness, reduction in import, augmenting in exports and employment generation.
Union Minister asserted that scheme is a first step in the larger journey of global competitiveness, particularly for our small scale sector, which is the back  bone  of  manufacturing economy  and a large employment provider over 1.5 million direct. He said that it will also benefit small scale industry of Punjab that was struggling due to the imports from China.
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Ferozepur, September 15, 2014: Heavy rains and storms proved destructive for a boiler point situated at GT Road, Malwal causing heavy loss.

Parveen Kumar Garg and Nikhil Garg, owner of the Rice Mill said that the impact of the storm was so disastrous that everything just vanished in the blink of an eye. Heavy girder which were supporting the machinery, twisted like straws in front of their eyes and extremely heavy machinery went down like dried leaves. The labour, which was working in the plant, somehow saved their lives. It was eventually a miracle that nobody got injured due to the impact.

Parveen Kumar and Nikhil Garg said that their machinery worth lakhs has been destroyed due to the storm.

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New Delhi, September 15, 2014: The Lalit Kala Akademi is celebrating its 60th anniversary celebrations. The year-long celebration was inaugurated by Minister of Culture Shripad Naik on 5 August 2014. The Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, New Delhi was set up by the Government of India as an autonomous body on 5 August, 1954. It was established with a strong focus on artistic excellence and to bring the cultural identity of the nation to a luminous focus. It emerged as the principal establishment of culture that focuses on Visual Arts and its many splendoured forms. The ‘Spirit of Delhi’ is an event part of the 60th anniversary celebrations that celebrates the city not only as the political hub but also the cultural capital of the country. The exhibition and calligraphy workshop was inaugurated on 15 September 2014 by Satish C. Mehta, Director General ICCR. The exhibition consists of paintings from the Lalit Kala Akademi's collection, photographs by the renowned photographer Padmashree Raghu Rai, poetry paintings by Abhay K and Tarshito, rare photographs from archives of Ambedkar University, Archaeological Survey of India, Delhi Archives, Delhi Institute of Heritage Research and Management and National Museum. The exhibition will be on view till 27 September 2014. A seven day long calligraphy workshop will explore different scripts like Gurumukhi, Urdu, Devnagri, Persian and will run until 21 September 2014 at the Lalit Kala Akademi, a book counter on Delhi will also be a part of the show.'Delhi is 'Dehali', i.e. 'threshold', 'gateway', glorious etymological truth of thecapital of India, deeply embedded in its samsaric imperial heart and trivial bureaucratic self-images and centrist complacency, likely to be quite drowned in the flood of five-star freebooting now overtaking it. But in its occult and occasional unfallenness, what is Delhi, a threshold, a gateway, to? Let us supplicate its ancient King and Queen, Yudhishtira and Draupadi for an answer. The Delhi (all right, Indraprashtha) that they had fought for and won...was certainly a gateway to samrajya, imperial power. But Delhi...is also a threshold to the Himalaya...the samrajya of eternal wisdom...Dehali ki jai! '- Ramachandra Gandhi .
To the uninitiated, the metropolis of Delhi seems like a patchwork quilt, characterised by heterogeneous fragments of communities, mohallas and nagars. The contemporary city is shaped as much by the unabashed pursuit of power, as it has been paralleled by an explosion in size and scale. Today, though Delhi is a city “on the make”, there remains something more to it that if seen closely, may be connected to a time when Dilli was a city with a different ethos. What therefore makes the Spirit of Delhi remarkable is its ability to learn to endure, and show how amidst its diverse colonies and corners, lives and livelihoods remain the sources of creative energy. The historical photographs and images at this exhibition help us to see how the city of Delhi, marked by multiple life-worlds, has been many things to many people. As such we can see how images are involved in both constructing and representing ‘reality’. The images demonstrate their value in evoking narratives, as historical documents, as well as, for a continuing study of the passage of time. Many of the visual images here function as documents recording and recalling original events, or they may become art objects in their own right. Even then, images of the past tend to make more sense when contextualised by those of the present. The images created from within the city create an imaginative narrative space. A process of temporality ensues, where the past is constantly made present in order to gain access to a deeper sense of events and spaces. The coming together of poem and image, their drawing apart and resumption of mutual approach, the things they invoke together and separately: we savour all these moments of aesthetic experience in a painting in which Abhay K and Tarshito collaborate to evoke the spectral yet palpable histories of Delhi, as well as its vibrant, insistent, kaleidoscopic and paradoxical present. This exhibition draws attention to the multiplicity of everyday life that has always existed in the city – moving as it does from the colonial eye to the ‘commoners’ gaze. Despite the priority of the colonial political class to provide an urban form to their imperial vision, rather than create a city around the historic identity of Delhi, the images in this collection give an indication of the ‘everyday’ city of the times. Community life, and its social, cultural, economic and political extensions, forms the subject of some of these images, and in the process simultaneously represent a singular version of time and space, while challenging that very representation.
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Ludhiana, September 15, 2014: As per the decision of All India Bank Employees Association, it has been decided to unleash campaign and agitation programmes against the fast emerging attacks on the banking industry. Punjab Bank Employees Federation (Ludhiana) today observed All India Day and held a massive demonstration in front of State Bank of Patiala, Zonal Office, Ludhiana. Com. Naresh Gaur, Secretary and Com. Pawan Thakur, President, Punjab Bank Employees Federation (Ludhiana Unit) addressed the bank employees. 

While addressing the bank employees, leaders of the Federation said that various attempts of the Government and the RBI to push through banking reform measures in one way or the other are being made.  The basic idea is to dilute and dismantle public sector banking and boost up private sector banking.  These offensives are going on for the past two decades and from AIBEA and AIBOA we have been consistently fighting against such machinations.  “We have been able to build up intensive campaigns, agitations, struggles and strike actions against all these measures”, they said, adding, “We can also legitimately feel proud that due to all these persistent efforts, the speed with which these reform measures were proposed to be implemented, could not be of such dimension as planned. But we know that the Government is on their heels to somehow get their agenda implemented.”

They added as expected, the present BJP-led NDA Government at the centre is pursuing the same policy.  In their election manifesto also, they have said that they would pursue the banking reforms further.  “We have observed in their recent Budget that the Government wants to go ahead with further privatisation moves by allowing more private capital by not allocating any funds for capitalization”, they said, adding the Government has also announced their proposals for merger of PSBs.  Already RBI has announced its scheme for granting licenses to corporates and industrial houses. Further RBI has announced their Guidelines on setting up of Small Private Banks and Payment Banks.  Thus there is a concerted attempt to hand over our banking sector more and more to private hands. In this background, it was been decided by AIBEA and AIBOA, we should fight back these attacks and offensives.  Anti Merger Day was already observed on 26th August, 2014 through demonstrations, rallies etc.

DEMANDS

o             STOP LICENSE TO START LOCAL AREA SMALL PRIVATE BANKS

o             STOP LICENSE TO START PAYMENT BANKS

o             OPEN MORE BRANCHS OF PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

o             EXPAND AND STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

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Jalandhar, September 15, 2014: Manoranjan Kalia, MLA and former Punjab minister today distributed wheat to blue cards holders. In his address, Kalia gave special thanks to Food and Supply Department for the cooperation. Jawahar Sood, Vijay Kalia, Ashish Choprà, Ràkesh Goel, Depak Sharma,Girmail Kuku, Rajinder Sharma, Gurnam Singh, Dimple, Manjinder Singh Chattha, Dev Bhushàn,  Gulshan Marwaha, Nand Kishore, Gian Manish and Dr Bhupinder  were among those present.
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Ludhiana, September 16, 2014: Ravneet Singh Bittu, Member Parliament from Ludhiana has been elected by Lok Sabha to serve as a Member on board of Indian Council of Agriculture Research Society (I.C.A.R Society), under Ministry of Agriculture. The mandate of society is to promote, aid, and coordinate agricultural and animal husbandry education, research and its applications in practice, development and marketing in India.
This nomination will help me in communicating the various issues concerning the farmers of our state and the problems being faced by them to the Government of India and will help in a speedy remedial measures of their grievances, said Ravneet Singh Bittu.
Ravneet further added that being an agrarian state the economy of the state is closely interlinked with agrarian economy. Given the present state of affairs in the state a lot is needed to be done to improve the various sectors of agriculture and animal husbandry and there is a need to make our farmers aware about rapidly changing global scenario of agriculture.  
It is pertinent to mention here that the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India is an autonomous organisation under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Ministry of Agriculture. It has 47 institutes, 4 National Bureaus and 26 National Research Centres and 11 Project Directorate spread across the country. In addition to this it provides financial support to Universities engaged in the field of Agriculture research all over India.
The ICAR has played a role in enabling the country to increase the production of foodgrains by four, horticultural crops by six, fish by nine (marine five and inland 17, milk six times and eggs 27 times since 1950.
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Ludhiana, 16 Sept (000)-103 Infantry Battalion (TA) SIKH LI would organise recruitment rally for Soldier (General Duty), Soldier (Tradesmen) & Clerk (SD) in their unit location at GT Road, Millerganj, Ludhiana from 25 to 30 September 2014. .
Giving the details of recruitment process Major Adjutant R S Nagarkoti said that the domiciles of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Union Territory of Chandigarh and NCT of Delhi would be eligible to take part in the rally. He also said that candidates from Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and U T Chandigarh would be given token on 25 Sept whereas candidates from Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and NCT Delhi will be given the same on 26 September. Besides that documentation & Medical examination will be done on 27 to 30 September of the screened candidates. In physical parameters Candidates should have attained the age of 18 to 42yrs , Minimum weight 50kg, Chest 77 to 82 cms and Height 160cms, he added .
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Amritsar, September 16, 2014: People and medical fraternity from across the globe celebrate September as ‘Prostate Cancer Month’ and 22nd September is celebrated as World CML Day. This is to create awareness about the causes and encouraging people to change their lifestyle to stay away from this life threatening hazard of prostate cancer and CML.
Taking initiative to inform more and more citizens about Prostate Cancer, Cancer specialist team of Fortis Escorts Hospital Amritsar; which includes Dr Navdeep Singh - Head of Chemotherapy Department and Dr Suresh Bhagat - Head of Urology Department organized an informational session to shed light on the issue of Prostate cancer and CML. Prostate cancer arises from prostate gland and Dr. Navdeep adds that, prostate is not a nutshell but a bombshell. Also present on the occasion was Dr. H.P. Singh - Medical Director of Fortis Escorts Hospital Amritsar.
Talking to media persons, Dr. Navdeep explained about the symptoms and detection of prostate cancer. Dr Navdeep Singh said, “Prostate Cancer is amongst top 5 cancers in Punjab. It’s still a prevalent misconception in the society that this cancer is incurable and the patients don’t live a normal lifestyle after treatment. The only issue remaining now is to make people aware of the importance of early detection of the disease so it can be treated effectively. Every male should get a PSA done at the age of 40 for early detection.”
Also, 22nd September is approaching fast and it is a BIG day in the history of Cancer world . It is World CML day. CML means chronic myeloid leukaemia . It is a deadly blood cancer. 20 years back CML was incurable but now it is curable. Yes, Curable. Dr. Navdeep further added, “CML is curable and that too with a simple method. Patients just have to take a pill everyday. This is a scientific fact and pill’s active salt is Imatinib. Let's spread this message to public on 22nd September so the more people can be made aware of the fact that a pill a day keeps CML away. Also, keep a check on CML by getting 3 monthly blood test called PCR. PCR means polymerase chain reaction, but, to me it means Police Control Room for CML control.”
Dr Navdeep further explained that, "Prostate cancer occurs in males at about 50 years of age. The symptoms include dribbling (inability to control the release of urine from bladder) or increase in frequency of urination, inability to control urination and low back pain. The cancer is curable if detected at early stages. It is advised to take good amount of red vegetables especially tomatoes; in any form as raw tomatoes, tomato juice etc; as they have Lycopene, which is an anti-cancer agent.”
Finally, Dr. Navdeep Singh concluded by saying “Let’s make India free of prostate cancer and CML and spread this message of early detection to your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and peer group. I advise people that they make changes in their lifestyle, avoid obesity by developing an exercise routine in daily schedule.” He further added that every son should gift his father; his real life hero; a PSA test every year after the age of 50 to help in early detection of the prostate cancer.

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