Friday 14 September 2018

साहित्य अपने आप में ही बहुत ताकतवर है: असगर वजाहत


By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 14th September:- साहित्य हमारे जीवन की वह सौगात है जिसके बिना हम जीवन सोच भी नहीं सकते या यूँ कहे की यह हमारे जीवन में ऑक्सीजन का काम करती है। हम किसी भी आर्टिस्ट चाहे वो लेखक हो, गीतकार हो, पेंटर हो, उसे उसके काम के हिसाब से पसंद करते है न की किसी धर्म या रंग भेद के, साहित्य अपने आप में ही बहुत ताकतवर है जो आपको तराशता है यह कहना था  मारवाह स्टूडियो में आयोजित चौथे ग्लोबल लिटरेरी फेस्टिवल ऑफ़ नॉएडा के उद्घाटन के अवसर पर  लेखक असगर वजाहत का। 
इस अवसर पर  सामाजिक न्याय और सशक्तिकरण मंत्री रामदास अठावले, मंगोलिया के भारत में राजदूत गोंचिग गनबोल्ड, वेनेज़ुएला के भारत में राजदूत अगस्तो मोंटियलछत्तीसगढ़ के पूर्व गवर्नर के. एम. सेठ, लेखिका भारती प्रधान उपस्थित हुए।
इस अवसर पर रामदास अठावले ने कहा की हमारा साहित्य हमारे जीवन की वो पूंजी है जिसे जितना खर्च करो उतना ही बढ़ती जाती है हमारा हिंदी साहित्य जितना विशाल है उतना ही विशाल हमारे कवियों, लेखकों का हृदय भी विशाल है। इस अवसर पर मारवाह स्टूडियो के निदेशक संदीप मारवाह ने कहा आज जो यहाँ चर्चा चल रही है यह आपको गूगल या पुस्तक में नहीं मिलेगी और जो छात्र इसे ग्रहण कर लेगा वो एक नए साहित्य की रचना कर सकता है। साहित्य का जितना प्रचार सिनेमा ने किया है उतना किसी और क्षेत्र ने नहीं किया है। 
राजदूत अगस्तो मोंटियल ने कहा मुझे इस समारोह में आकर बहुत खुशी हुई। आज पूरे विश्व को शांति की जरूरत है और शांति तभी आ सकती है जब एक देश दूसरे देश की संस्कृति व साहित्य के बारे में जाने। राजदूत गोंचिग गनबोल्ड ने कहा भारत की संस्कृति बहुत विशाल है और आज के लेखकों में जितनी आधुनिकता भारतीय लेखकों में है उतनी कहीं नही मिलती।
इस अवसर पर रामदास अठावले को अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी नेशनल अवार्ड से सम्मानित किया गया, साथ ही अशोक कुमार हालदार की पुस्तक द डाइवर्सिफाए लाइफ जर्नी ऑफ़ ह्यूमन बींग, भारती प्रधान की एक्ट्रेस प्रियंका चोपड़ा पर लिखित पुस्तक द डार्क हॉर्स और जितेंद्र प्रसाद सक्सेना की द जेनिथ पुस्तक का विमोचन भी किया गया।  
समारोह के पहले दिन भारत के कई राज्यों से साहित्यकार उपस्थित हुए और अपने अपने विचार रखे। इस अवसर पर कई सेमीनार, कार्यशाला, नुक्कड़ नाटक, विदेशी भाषाओं में कविताएं, पेटिंग प्रदर्शनी के साथ साथ छात्रों द्वारा कई रंगारंग कार्यक्रमों का आयोजन किया गया।


Anytime Fitness: World`s Largest Gym Chain Launches in Chandigarh


By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 14th September:- Fitness lovers in the city have a reason to rejoice as Anytime Fitness, world`s largest gym chain, announced its launch today. Centrally located at Sector 17, Chandigarh, Anytime Fitness is set to serve to the health conscious residents of City Beautiful for 19 hours a day 7 days of the week. Equipped with world class equipments, the gym also provides 1 key access globally.
The gym is Harrdy Sandhu`s venture along with Naveen Grover and Manu Grover who are the multiple franchisee owners of Anytime Fitness. It is a visionary project by Harrdy Sandhu, a former cricketer, a fitness freak who aims to transform the health scenario of the city. After the much successful functioning of Anytime Fitness in Ludhiana, Chandigarh becomes the second city in Punjab where the gym will open paths for a healthy living. The first gym was launched in Delhi in 2003. Currently, there are 53 existing Anytime Fitness open clubs in India with some key locations being Delhi-NCR, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Chennai.
Speaking at the launch, Harrdy Sandhu said that chandigarh has always been a top on his list of favourite cities. We are super thrilled to be launching a gym here today.  This city has a lot of potential when it comes to fitness enthusiast and it will just keep growing. Therefore, it is a compelling opportunity to be investing in the fitness industry here.  At Anytime Fitness, high emphasis will be  given to the fact that each member is unique in his or her body type and a fitness goal will be designed for each member to achieve more than what they desire.
Vikas Jain, CEO, Anytime Fitness India, said that the launch of our first gym in Chandigarh, is a matter of great pleasure to them. Today is the age of stress and lack of physical activity for a major chunk of our young working population. Fitness and a healthy lifestyle are absolute essentials for a joyful, healthy living. Yet people lack the specialized knowledge, the facilities and an individually defined regime that will help them achieve it. This is where Anytime Fitness will come as guide and a space where all your fitness needs are fulfilled. He shared that it’s 53rd gym in India and First in Chandigarh. He shared further that Anytime Fitness is a US based 24-hour gym chain with 4000+ clubs worldwide. The first gym was launched in Delhi in 2003. Since then, 52 more Anytime Fitness clubs have been launched throughout the country.
Anytime Fitness is a premium fitness gym offering world-class fitness center offers facilities for cardio, strength training, weight training, functional training, pilates etc. It will also fitness classes such as yoga, bhangra, zumba to name a few.

BIG FM’s Annual Meet: Ali brothers Spread Melody


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Chandigarh 14th September:- 92.7 BIG FM , No.1 radio station of the Tri-city and India’s largest private radio network, known for its innovative programming and concept based shows, recently revamped its on-air content with new positioning “#Top100SwagHits” and rolled out fresh programming schedule with new set of MJ’s ( Music jockey’s). Programs like BIG Morning Beats with MJ Megha and MJ Vishesh, Youthiyappa with MJ Gurri and Chak De Woofer with MJ Amar are creating high level of resonance with the listeners as through its new line up of programs BIG FM has attempted to involve listener’s belonging to various age groups and music cutting across various genres.
To celebrate the success of the new content Big FM Chandigarh recently organized their annual trade meet in Chandigarh. The highlight of the meet was regalinglive performance by famous trio Ali Brothers, who have already made their presence felt in reality shows like ‘Entertainment Ke Liya Kuch Bhi Karega’ on Sony TV, in ‘Little Champs’ on Zee TV and ‘India's Got Talent’ on Colors channel. Soulful renditions and a beautiful interplay of melodious voice and heart stirring compositions sung by the Ali brothers enthralled audiences. Their refreshing voice is an embodiment of godly love, something that's synonymous with Sufi style of singing.
Sukhdeep Singh Regional Business Head Big FM, thanked all the trade partners for their support and for the confidence that they have placed in the radio station and said that our recently revamped content is being very well received by our listeners across all stations.
Speaking on the occasion Programming head Big FM, Sulakshna Bramta said that through our multiple initiatives in the coming festive season, we hope to make the festival a complete celebration for our listeners. 92.7 big FM will bring with itself freshness of content that is not only refreshing but based on the culture, likes, dislikes and trends that listeners follow. Through our new shows we will integrate our core philosophy of entertaining, engaging and enriching the Tri-city through the power of relevant connected ideas.


Guru Gobind Singh College for Women Celebrates Hindi Diwas


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Chandigarh 14th September:- Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, Chandigarh Celebrated Hindi Diwas. The event was coordinated by Dr. Aradhna Mehtani of the Hindi Department and presided over by the Principal, Dr. Jatinder Kaur. On this occasion, students recited poems on the topic ‘Stree Vimash’.
The importance of bilingualism was discussed, and it was brought to light that Hindi and English are not opposing languages. The importance of staying connected to one’s roots and one’s mother tongue was illuminated. Knowledge of one’s mother tongue is a matter of pride. Hindi was the language of our freedom struggle. Hindi unites the people of diverse cultures in our country and serves as a lingua franca.

Director PGI Inaugurates Conference on Pediatric Radiology


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Chandigarh 14th September:- The 18th Annual Meeting of AOSPR (Asian and Oceanic Society of Paediatric Radiology) combined with 16th Annual meeting of ISPR (Indian Society of Paediatric Radiology) was inaugurated by Prof. Jagat Ram, Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The conference is being organized by Department of Radiodiagnosis, PGIMER, Chandigarh under the Chairmanship of Prof. N. Khandelwal, Head, Department of Radiodiagnosis.  Prof.A.K. Saxena and Prof. K.S.Sodhi are Organizing Secretaries of the conference. 
Around 800 delegates from different parts of the world are attending the conference. In today’s deliberation, various scientific sessions and symposia were held on paediatric imaging and paediatric emergencies. The major attraction of the day was Dr. MVK Shetty Oration on “The Enigma of Paediatric Liver Tumors; can Multi-modality Imaging be the Guiding Light?” which was delivered by Prof. Raju Sharma, AIIMS, India. Dr. Raju highlighted the role of MRI in diagnosing and characterizing liver tumors in children. Dr. Arcot Gajraj Oration on “MR Imaging of the Newborn Brain and Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy” was delivered by Prof. Manohar Shroff, Radiologist-in-Chief in the Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), Toronto, Canada. He discussed the imaging findings on MRI in encephalopathy.
The day ended with the interesting film reading session, conducted by experts in Paediatric Radiology.


NCB Seizes 252 Kgs. of Poppy Straw: Arrested Three persons of Sangrur District

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Chandigarh 14th September:- Narcotic Control Bureau Chandigarh Zonal on the basis of specific information, intercepted a truck Tata 3118E bearing registration No. PB-11-BB-0379 loaded with Banana at Banda Bahadur Chowk, Samana District Sangrur (Punjab) and seized 252 Kgs. of Poppy Straw. 

 According to the official of the bureau that three persons namely Sandeep Singh, Sarbjeet Singh and Amandeep all resident of Sangrur District of Punjab were arrested along with the contraband. The contraband was brought from Jaura near Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh for local consumption in Punjab. A crime case against them was registered vide NCB Chandigarh Crime No. 38/2018 dated 14.09.2018. 

Chef Manjit Gill Helms World Heritage Cuisine Summit & Food Festival at Qila Gobindgarh in Amritsar


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Chandigarh 14th September:- The recently instituted World Cultural Culinary Heritage Committee, under the aegis of World Association of Chefs Societies (WorldChefs), will hold the first edition of the World Heritage Cuisine Summit & Food Festival from 12-14 October, 2018 at Qila Gobindgarh in Amritar. The Summit, hosted by the Indian Federation of Culinary Associations (IFCA), will celebrate traditional cuisine with live demonstrations, food tastings, presentations, panel discussions, master classes and Q&A sessions by chefs from around the world in the holy city. It will focus on inculcating appreciation for food culture and traditions, as much as, good food habits and sustainable practices. The event will also witness the launch of the Chefs’ Manifesto outlining hunger removal initiatives undertaken and sustainability development goals.
Chef Thomas Gugler, Chairman, World Association of Chefs Societies  (WorldChefs) will be the guest of honour. It was announced at a programme held at Chandigarh Press Club here today.
This is the first initiative of its kind in the world by WorldChefs and its objective is to promote cultural and culinary heritage of the nations of the world. The deep inroad that the food of Punjab has made on the international landscape makes it an inevitable stop for any food-lover’s culinary journey. Amritsar, known as the culinary capital of this food loving state, lends itself naturally as a venue for the event. Against the backdrop of Harmandir Sahib, where the sacred ‘Langar’ is the largest example of slow food and community cooking, the World Heritage Cuisine Summit & Food Festival will bring together food lovers and professionals alike and provide the desired impetus to the culinary and heritage tourism of the state. This will bring pride to our national food culture.
Speaking about the event, Chef Manjit Gill, Chairman, World Cultural Culinary Heritage Committee, said that it is envisaged as an unprecedented opportunity for food enthusiasts to witness live demonstrations by renowned chefs from all over the world, and also to savour these delicacies through the many tasting counters. He said that in turn, these culinary ambassadors are expected to carry back indelible experiences and memories of the diversity of Indian cuisine and Punjabi hospitality to share and disseminate in their home countries. Adding further he said that to have Punjabi cuisine acknowledged as and listed under the Food Edition of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage remains my ongoing endeavour.
The aesthetics, layout and location of the historical venue partner Qila Gobindgarh – erstwhile home to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s prized diamond Koh-i-noor– expansive enough to accommodate the diverse guest list, make it the perfect setting for this culinary showcase.  The multiple venues at the premises will include a World Kitchen, where chefs from two countries will simultaneously showcase live cooking of traditional recipes every hour. Five Master Class counters where chefs will plate pre-prepared dishes for display and food photography, and a food pavilion offering regional Indian specialties with a special focus on Amritsar’s street food.
Event Director, Herbbie Sidhu, Managing Director, Myriad Nuances said that bringing together a world class event such as this would have been impossible minus supporting agencies. The tireless efforts of the Organizing Committee, and IFCA, the unflinching support of Incredible India, Punjab Tourism, and local administration have borne fruit, including the immeasurable assistance proffered by  Kamaldeep Singh Sangha, Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar.
They said that participating countries in the event are Armenia, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy,  Kenya, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,  Spain,  Sri Lanka, Switzerland,  Syria, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Wales and more.
They further shared that the packages for the delegates is Rs 1500/- for one day  and Rs. 3500/- for  three-days.

Regional Employment Exchange & Director Higher Education organizes a Motivational Seminar on “Career as an Officer in Indian Air Force”


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Chandigarh 14th September:- Under the guidance of Chandigarh Administration, the Regional Employment Exchange in association with Director Higher Education organized a Motivational Seminar on “Career as an Officer in Indian Air Force”.  The event was hosted by DAV College Sector-10, Chandigarh. Group Captain Manish Sabharwal, an Ex-NDA Officer and an alumnus of Defence Services Staff College and College of Air Welfare from DISHA CELL, Air Headquarter (New Delhi) was the motivational speaker of the event.
The event was inaugurated by Rubinderjit Singh Brar, Director, Higher Education. Dr. B.C.Josan, Principal, DAV College appreciated the event and motivated students. More than 500 students from different colleges actively participated in the event and came to know about various opportunities in Indian Air Force.  Major General(Retd) I.P.Singh, Director, Mai Bhago Armed Forces Preparatory Institute was also present on the occasion along with students of the institute.
Bikram Rana (SLO), Sanjeeda Beri (REO), Meenaksh Goyal (SREO) were also present.  Event was well organized by Dr. Puneet Raini (Placement Co-ordinator), Bibek Bhuyan (NCC Air Wing Incharge) and Indu (Training and Placement Officer) and other staff members. Such efforts/events will continue in future also.