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Surender Sharma

Surender Sharma is a principal correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Punjab and Haryana high court.

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BJP leaders skip party campaigns, puzzle cadre

Two top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Harmohan Dhawan and Satya Pal Jain's posturing just ahead of the announcement of the party's city candidate by the party high command for the coming Lok Sabha elections has left the party cadre puzzled.

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Updated on Feb 25, 2014 10:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

SOPU, PUSU stare at oblivion as leaders set to join Akali student wing

In a development that looks set to change the face of campus politics at Panjab University, and would also have a bearing on youth politics in the region, a number of top leaders of the Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) and Panjab University Student Union (PUSU)

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Updated on Feb 25, 2014 12:12 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PEC students' study reveals 15% Twitter users are malicious

Atleast 15% of users on social networking site Twitter are malicious users, said a study by a group of students of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.The students worked on the accounts of nearly 50,000 users who had made their profiles public on Twitter.

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Updated on Feb 24, 2014 11:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU writes to PEC University for ideas to curb traffic chaos

With vehicular traffic on the campus becoming chaotic every day, the Panjab University (PU) has decided to take the help of a professional agency to suggest ways to curb the problem.

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Updated on Feb 22, 2014 10:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU syndicate meet on Feb 22, fee hike on the cards

If university has its way, a substantial increase in tuition fees, hostel fees, renting auditoriums and lawns of the university is on the cards.

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Updated on Feb 16, 2014 11:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Smooth ride turns wobbly

Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal was chugging along quite nicely for years, steamrolling all opposition, but not any longer. The ride appears to have turned rather bumpy for the former union railway minister in a territory he had made his own.

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Updated on Feb 16, 2014 12:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNavneet Sharma and Surender Sharma, Chandigarh

BJP likely to bet on local face for LS polls

In an indication that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to bet on a local leader in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the senior party leaders have changed their earlier stand wherein they have been stressing that the party was open to field anybody from anywhere for the coveted seat of Chandigarh.

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Updated on Feb 14, 2014 11:34 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

BJP to decide candidate after Parliament session

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears to have toed the Congress line in finalising the candidate for the city Lok Sabha seat. Party affairs incharge for Chandigarh Aarti Mehra, after the meeting of state election committee at the party office in Sector 33 on Sunday, told HT that the party would decide about the candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat after the session of Parliament was over.

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Updated on Feb 09, 2014 11:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

BJP in dilemma over ticket for Chandigarh seat

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faces big dilemma over the ticket distribution for the lone Lok Sabha seat of Chandigarh. On the one hand, the local unit grapples with infighting with its top three leaders former MP Satya Pal Jain, city BJP chief Sanjay Tandon and former union minister Harmohan Dhawan.

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Updated on Feb 09, 2014 03:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Chandigarh lads launch website to help students access online study material

To help students share and read study notes of different classes online, three city lads have come up with their own website. The website was launched recently by Hardik Dhamija, Harman Bajaj, both graduates of University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, and Kunaal Satija, a graduate of SD College, Chandigarh.

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Updated on Feb 02, 2014 11:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

BJP to take partymen's view on Kirron Kher's Chandigarh ticket

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may take views from its Chandigarh workers whether they want Bollywood actor Kirron Kher as the party's candidate from the city for the upcomign Lok Sabha polls.

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Updated on Jan 30, 2014 07:13 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Hullabaloo at BJP's session to reach consensus on LS candidate

The BJP's session to elicit opinion of its workers in finalising the candidate for Lok Sabha polls from the city became a free-for-all session as a number of workers of different groups hurled abuses at each other and exchanged blows at the workers' convention held at the Punjab BJP office in Sector 37 on Wednesday.

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Updated on Jan 30, 2014 09:59 AM IST

None | BySurender Sharma Surender Sharma, Chandigarh

AAP struggles in city, fails to reach 1 lakh members mark by Jan 26

After getting a good response from the city residents, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is now struggling with members' enrollment in Chandigarh. The party, which had set a target of making 1 lakh members in the city by Republic Day

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Updated on Jan 28, 2014 10:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Hry tops public donations in region; highest single donor from Chandigarh

If the donations made to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are an indicator, the party is spreading its wings rapidly in the region. From the region: Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh, the AAP, between December 12 and January 16 has collected Rs 32.46 lakh through online donations, being displayed on its website, around 20 lakh from Haryana only clearly showing the effect of home state of its top leaders, Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav from the state.

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Updated on Jan 16, 2014 06:08 PM IST

None | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU plans dedicated hostel for women research scholars

Panjab University is planning a dedicated hostel for women research scholars on its Sector-25 campus. Though no deadline was yet given, dean, student welfare, Navdeep Goyal said, "I have asked the construction department to submit an estimate for a hostel at the earliest.

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Updated on Jan 09, 2014 02:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Chandigarh municipality removes ‘Modi’ bricks

A day after a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor here laid the foundation of a community centre using bricks with ‘Modi’ engraved on them, municipal corporation officials on Wednesday removed the bricks from the spot.

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Updated on Jan 09, 2014 01:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

IIT profs to give video lectures to UIET students

In a significant development, nearly 500 students of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) will be attending interactive video lectures by top Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professors of the country from January 20.

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Updated on Dec 31, 2013 01:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU gives clean chit to teacher blamed for suicide by student

Even as the police sit on the case, about a month on, a Panjab University panel formed to look into the suicide of a dental sciences student has given the clean chit to an associate professor who was reportedly blamed in the suicide note.

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Updated on Dec 25, 2013 12:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Now, PU to receive applications through online mode for WiFi

The Panjab University has decided to receive applications through an online mode to streamline the process of providing the WiFi facility to the students on the university campus.

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Updated on Dec 23, 2013 11:29 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Youth of UT's villages demand development on par with sectors

Having grown up seeing vast difference of living conditions between the planned sectors of Chandigarh and its villages, for the youth of union territory panchayats, the biggest issue appears to be development on par with the sectors.

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Updated on Dec 15, 2013 10:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU to name new girls’ hostel after Amrita Pritam

Panjab University’s new hostel on the south campus, which will be opened on December 23, will be named after Amrita Pritam, a leading Punjabi writer and poet of 20th century.

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Updated on Nov 29, 2013 08:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU syndicate polls on Dec 9, speculations on emergence of third group rife

With the date of elections to new syndicate out, hectic lobbying has started at Panjab University (PU). The elections to syndicate, the executive government of the university, will take place on December 9, after the senate meeting on December 8.

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Updated on Nov 25, 2013 01:43 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Cong to exploit WhatsApp, Blackberry services to reach out to masses

Going the whole hog into campaigning on social media, the Congress seems all set to exploit the latest technology. Twitter and Facebook are passe now, with messenger services WhatsApp and BlackBerry now being the in-thing.

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Updated on Nov 12, 2013 10:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

'Poor economic condition posing threat to research'

Danger of slowdown looms large over investments in science and research owing to poor economic conditions prevailing in the country, believes Ajay Kumar Sood, a renowned physicist and member of scientific advisory panel to the Prime Minister.

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Updated on Nov 08, 2013 09:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Shy boy from Chandigarh, now a honcho at top IT firm Skype

Classmates would eat his lunch, but he was too genial to ever complain even to his parents. That shy boy at St John's School, Chandigarh's Gurdeep Singh Pall, has now gone on to become the corporate vice-president of Microsoft's video-calling service firm Skype.

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Updated on Oct 31, 2013 03:46 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

'Architects should have learnt from Corbusier and moved on'

Architect Snehal Shah, who was in the city for Le Corbusier's 125th anniversary week celebrations, said planners should have gone beyond what Le Corbusier did in the construction of Chandigarh.

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Updated on Oct 07, 2013 12:28 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU senate to discuss teacher's re-designation

The Panjab University senate on Sunday will discuss a case of re-designation of a faculty member at Department of Indian Theater, which has already raised question about the working of the varsity.

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Updated on Sep 29, 2013 11:48 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Won't hesitate to hold indirect elections at PU, says DSW

Stung by various controversies, this year's Panjab University campus student council elections witnessed numerous violations of the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines, because of which the university could take an extreme of holding indirect elections to student body, from next year.

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Updated on Sep 23, 2013 12:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU polls take national turn: NSUI’s Chandan gets chair

Panjab University’s homegrown outfits suffered a severe jolt as Congress wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) won two out of the four seats, including that of the president, in the PU Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections held amid much drama on Wednesday.

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Updated on Sep 05, 2013 12:11 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Campus votes today to elect council, decide course for future

The high-voltage election carnival that culminates on Wednesday would not only give a new student council to Panjab University and the city's colleges but also be a definitive landmark for the two homegrown political parties that have ruled the campus for years.

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Updated on Sep 04, 2013 01:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

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Surender Sharma

Surender Sharma is a principal correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Punjab and Haryana high court.

Two top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Harmohan Dhawan and Satya Pal Jain's posturing just ahead of the announcement of the party's city candidate by the party high command for the coming Lok Sabha elections has left the party cadre puzzled.

In a development that looks set to change the face of campus politics at Panjab University, and would also have a bearing on youth politics in the region, a number of top leaders of the Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) and Panjab University Student Union (PUSU)

Atleast 15% of users on social networking site Twitter are malicious users, said a study by a group of students of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh.The students worked on the accounts of nearly 50,000 users who had made their profiles public on Twitter.

With vehicular traffic on the campus becoming chaotic every day, the Panjab University (PU) has decided to take the help of a professional agency to suggest ways to curb the problem.

If university has its way, a substantial increase in tuition fees, hostel fees, renting auditoriums and lawns of the university is on the cards.

Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal was chugging along quite nicely for years, steamrolling all opposition, but not any longer. The ride appears to have turned rather bumpy for the former union railway minister in a territory he had made his own.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may take views from its Chandigarh workers whether they want Bollywood actor Kirron Kher as the party's candidate from the city for the upcomign Lok Sabha polls.

After getting a good response from the city residents, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is now struggling with members' enrollment in Chandigarh. The party, which had set a target of making 1 lakh members in the city by Republic Day

Panjab University is planning a dedicated hostel for women research scholars on its Sector-25 campus. Though no deadline was yet given, dean, student welfare, Navdeep Goyal said, "I have asked the construction department to submit an estimate for a hostel at the earliest.

A day after a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor here laid the foundation of a community centre using bricks with ‘Modi’ engraved on them, municipal corporation officials on Wednesday removed the bricks from the spot.

In a significant development, nearly 500 students of University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) will be attending interactive video lectures by top Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professors of the country from January 20.

Even as the police sit on the case, about a month on, a Panjab University panel formed to look into the suicide of a dental sciences student has given the clean chit to an associate professor who was reportedly blamed in the suicide note.

The Panjab University has decided to receive applications through an online mode to streamline the process of providing the WiFi facility to the students on the university campus.

Having grown up seeing vast difference of living conditions between the planned sectors of Chandigarh and its villages, for the youth of union territory panchayats, the biggest issue appears to be development on par with the sectors.

Panjab University’s new hostel on the south campus, which will be opened on December 23, will be named after Amrita Pritam, a leading Punjabi writer and poet of 20th century.

With the date of elections to new syndicate out, hectic lobbying has started at Panjab University (PU). The elections to syndicate, the executive government of the university, will take place on December 9, after the senate meeting on December 8.

Going the whole hog into campaigning on social media, the Congress seems all set to exploit the latest technology. Twitter and Facebook are passe now, with messenger services WhatsApp and BlackBerry now being the in-thing.

Danger of slowdown looms large over investments in science and research owing to poor economic conditions prevailing in the country, believes Ajay Kumar Sood, a renowned physicist and member of scientific advisory panel to the Prime Minister.

Classmates would eat his lunch, but he was too genial to ever complain even to his parents. That shy boy at St John's School, Chandigarh's Gurdeep Singh Pall, has now gone on to become the corporate vice-president of Microsoft's video-calling service firm Skype.

Architect Snehal Shah, who was in the city for Le Corbusier's 125th anniversary week celebrations, said planners should have gone beyond what Le Corbusier did in the construction of Chandigarh.

The Panjab University senate on Sunday will discuss a case of re-designation of a faculty member at Department of Indian Theater, which has already raised question about the working of the varsity.

Stung by various controversies, this year's Panjab University campus student council elections witnessed numerous violations of the Lyngdoh Committee guidelines, because of which the university could take an extreme of holding indirect elections to student body, from next year.

Panjab University’s homegrown outfits suffered a severe jolt as Congress wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) won two out of the four seats, including that of the president, in the PU Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC) elections held amid much drama on Wednesday.

The high-voltage election carnival that culminates on Wednesday would not only give a new student council to Panjab University and the city's colleges but also be a definitive landmark for the two homegrown political parties that have ruled the campus for years.

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