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Jain questioned why the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi were running away from the JPC,when this committee will have members of parliament from all political parties including Congress and its allies. He said that the suggestion by the PM of getting these scandals probed by Public Accounts Committee is only an attempt to avoid a thorough probe into the matter. Jain said that the BJP will not allow the guilty politicians,including ministers,to go scot free from these scandals and will see to it that this matter is taken to the logical end.

DAV teacher bags first prize in poster competition at Patiala

Chandigarh: Dr Manju Dewan,Assistant Professor Zoology,DAV College,Sector 10,won the first prize in poster competition in ‘National Conference on Environment Degradation and its impact on Mankind’. The conference was organized by department of Zoology,Punjabi University,Patiala in collaboration with Environment Society of the university. Dr. Manju presented a poster on ‘Impact of environment on the onset of type-2 diabetes and obesity: Challenges in prevention and management’. In the poster she explained the obesogenic environment that triggers type-2 diabetes. She has also explained her recent research pertaining to obesity and diabetes amongst children and adolescents of Chandigarh and its surrounding areas.

National integration week at Hansraj

Chandigarh: All-India Mahatma Hansraj Aryan National Youth Festival,being celebrated under the national integration week,was inaugurated at Hansraj Public School,Sector 6,Panchkula,on Sunday. The festival is organised for the students of secondary and senior secondary schools by Arya Vidya Sabha,DAV College Managing Committee,New Delhi,to cultivate the hidden talent among the children of the nation as they are bubbling fountainheads of multifaceted talent and enormous creativity.

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