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P4 » » SUNSET TUESDAY 7.04 PM SUNRISE WEDNESDAY 5:34 AM » TUESDAY | 7 MAY 2024 | LUDHIANA HIMANSHU MAHAJAN Amulya Dhawan tops district with 99 per cent in ISC Class XII results HIMANSHU MAHAJAN COUNCIL FOR THE INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS Shivani Bhakoo Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 6 The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) declared the Indian School Certificate (ISC Class XII) results today. Students have performed well in all streams. Almost all schools claim to have got cent per cent results in Class XII.Again, students of Sat Paul Mittal School are in the limelight for scoring highest marks in non-medical, humanities and commerce streams. However, the topper in the district in medical stream, Arshdeep Kaur, is a student of Sacred Heart Convent School, Sahnewal. Students celebrate their success in ICSE Class X results at Sat Paul Mittal School in Ludhiana. 99% 98.75% AMULYA DHAWAN HUMANITIES Sat Paul Mittal School students bag top spots in ICSE Class X BHAVYA BANSAL NON-MEDICAL Reyansh scores 99.6, Vaman gets 99.4, Tia grabs 99.2 endurance of our students and the unwavering support from our faculty and parents,” said Bhupinder Gogia, principal, Sat Paul Mittal School. “I am truly proud of our students and teachers for setting such high standards and continuing our tradition of excellence,” Gogia said. Tribune News Service Overall highest scorers The first position is bagged by Amulya Dhawan of humanities stream of Sat Paul Mittal School by securing 99 per cent. The second position is also secured by a student of the same school, Bhavya Bansal, of nonmedical stream with 98.75 per cent. The third position at 98 per cent is bagged by Agam Aujla of non-medical from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sahnewal. 98% 96.75% AGAM AUJLA NON-MEDICAL VARUN MAHAJAN COMMERCE Commerce In commerce, Varun Mahajan of Sat Paul Mittal School topped with 96.75 per cent followed by Pratham Sood of the same school with 96.50 per cent. The third district position is shared by Baani Kaur of Sacred Heart Convent School, Sector 39 and Vrinda Singhania of Sat Paul Mittal School with 95.75 per cent each. Non-medical In non-medical stream, Bhavya Bansal of Sat Paul Mittal School has bagged 98.75%, making him the district topper in non-medical. Agam Aujla of Sacred Heart Convent School, Sahnewal, is at second rank with 98% and Anhad Khurana of Sat Paul Mittal School with 97.75 % is at number three position. Humanities In humanities stream, Amulya Dhawan of Sat Paul Mittal School has topped with 99 per cent followed by Nisa Arora of the same school with 96 per cent and Gurveen Kaur of Sacred Heart Convent School, Urban Estate, Sector 39 with 95.75 per cent. 97.75% ARSHDEEP KAUR MEDICAL Medical In the medical stream, Arshdeep Kaur of Sacred Heart Convent School, Sahnewal, topped with 97.75 per cnt. The second position is shared by Jaisleen Kaur Waryah and Gracy from Sacred Heart Convent School, Urban Estate, Sector 39, by securing 94.5 per cent while Ishman Mangat of Sat Paul Mittal School bagged 94 per cent. What achievers say Non-medical topper Bhavya Bansal from Sat Paul Mittal school wants to be a computer science engineer and he has already got admission to Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. His mother Dr Monika Singla and father Dr Neeraj Bansal are doctors. And he never took any tuitions. Hard work, determination and consistency paid off, Bansal said. Arshdeep Kaur, topper in medical from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sahnewal, wants to pursue a career in computer science as she had taken maths as additional subject. Four-five hours self-study was the key mantra for her success. Her father is a farmer while mother is a housewife. continued on page 2 8 inmates bookedfor attacking jail official Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 6 The Ludhiana police yesterday registered a case against eight inmates of the Central Jail, Ludhiana, for allegedly attacking the Deputy Superintendent (security) Jail. The suspects have been identified as Harjinder Singh, alias Baddu, Vishal continued on page 2 The Tribune Trust President NN Vohra; Trustees Justice SS Sodhi (retd) and Gurbachan Jagat with their spouses; Amit Sharma, General Manager; Naresh Kaushal, Editor, Dainik Tribune; Arvinder Kaur Johal, Officiating Editor, Punjabi Tribune; and Rohit Mahajan, Executive Editor, The Tribune; at the farewell dinner of Rajesh Ramachandran, Editor-in-Chief, The Tribune, in Chandigarh on Monday. TRIBUNE PHOTO: PRADEEP TEWARI Ludhiana, May 6 The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) announced the results of Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE Class X) today. In Class X, students of Sat Paul Mittal School have excelled as the top three positions in the district are grabbed by students of the school. Reyansh Gupta has scored 99.6 per cent marks and stood first in the district while Vaman Gupta was second with 99.4 per cent marks. The third position in the district was grabbed by Tia Upadhyaya with 99.2 per cent marks. All three toppers are from science stream. In Sacred Heart Convent Reyansh Gupta School, Sector 39, Nitya Rattan scored 98.4 per cent marks and stood first in the school while Sukhmanpreet Kaur from Guru Nanak Public School, Model Town Extension, remained topper in her school with 98.2 per cent marks. “These results are a testimony to the relentless hard work, dedication, and 2 youths gang-rape minor girl, booked Ludhiana, May 6 The son of a factory owner, along with his friend, gangraped a 14-year-old girl. The Daresi police yesterday registered a case against the suspects under various sections of the IPC and POCSO Act. The duo have been identified as Saiyam of Green City, and his unidentified friend. A case was registered on the complaint of the girl’s father. The complainant said he works at a factory and his minor daughter used to work in the house of factory owner Babban and she was also stay- ing there. A few days ago, when his daughter came home, the family members were shocked to know that the son of the factory owner, Saiyam, along with his friend, had sexually assaulted her. She was alone in the house when the duo came and violated her. ASI Lakhwinder Singh from the Daresi police station said during the preliminary investigation, it was found that 22-year-old Saiyam along with study also works at his father’s factory. Raids were being conducted to nab the suspects. — TNS Wheat harvesting almost over, only 35 farm fire incidents in district so far Nitin Jain Lowest-ever stubble burning cases in past nine years, air quality still poor Ludhiana, May 6 As the current wheat harvesting season, popularly known as Rabi, was nearing to a close with over 90 per cent crop already harvested, only 35 farm fires have been reported in Ludhiana district so far, which were lowest-ever in the past nine years, official figures have confirmed. It has, however, not shown any positive impact on the air quality, which continues to be in the poor category. The sharp decline in the stubble burning cases could be gauged from the fact that the state’s biggest and largest district, in terms of area and population, had never reported less than 517 incidents of farm fires with the highest going up to 1,035 during the Rabi season in past years. HIMANSHU MAHAJAN Tribune News Service TELLING NUMBERS Year ■ 2024 ■ 2023 ■ 2022 ■ 2021 ■ 2020 ■ 2019 Farm fires 35 889 950 517 1,019 1,035 730 875 918 AIR QUALITY AQI 165 CATEGORY Poor (SOURCE: CPCB, FIGURE OF MAY 6) EXPERTS RECOMMEND ■ Wear a mask Farm fires are at their lowest ebb in Ludhiana this Rabi season. (SOURCE: PRSC, FIGURES FROM APRIL 1 TILL MAY 30 FOR PAST YEARS, TILL MAY 5 FOR 2024) outdoors ■ Run an air purifier ■ Close your windows to avoid dirty outdoor air ■ Avoid outdoor exercise The data compiled by the Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), here, a copy of which is available with The Tribune, showed that Ludhiana has reported the maximum daily count of 14 farm fires this season on May 2 while not even a May 3, 14 on May 2, 3 on April 26, one each on April 24 and 2, with no incident of crop residue burning captured on other days since April 1. The year-wise data showed that 889 farm fire cases were reported in Ludhiana in 2023, 950 in 2022, 517 in 2021, 1,019 in 2020, 1,035 in 2019, 730 in 2018, 875 in 2017 and 918 cases of stubble burning were captured in the district in 2016. When it comes to other districts, as many as 740 cases of crop residue burning have been reported across the ■ 2018 ■ 2017 ■ 2016 single incident of stubble burning was captured on 25 days during the past 36 days of the Rabi season, which began on April 1. The day-wise count revealed that five farm fires were reported in the district on May 5, 4 on May 4, 7 on c m y b state from April 1 till May 5. On Sunday, as many as 168 farm fires were captured across 23 districts in the state, with maximum of 25 cases reported in Kapurthala, and minimum of one incident was noted in Nawanshahr. Among other districts, Barnala had reported three stubble burning cases on Sunday, Bathinda 13, Faridkot six, Fazilka 12, Ferozepur 19, Gurdaspur seven, Hoshiarpur 15, Malerkotla two, Mansa eight, Moga five, Muktsar three, Pathankot two, Patiala 24, Ropar three, Sangrur seven, Mohali two, and Tarn Taran had captured six incidents of farm fires on May 5. However, the air pollution in the state’s industrial and business capital continues to be in the “poor” category for the past few days as the air quality index (AQI) has gone up to 165 on Monday, which was considered “unhealthy for sensitive groups only”, with PM2.5 concentration in Ludhiana air currently 5.5 times above the World Health Organisation (WHO) annual air quality guideline value. Result of sustained drives, says DC “The sustained awareness, education and enforcement drives to sensitise all the stakeholders involved have shown results as incidents of stubble burning have touched the lowest-ever count this season so far. We are committed to provide a clean and safe environment to the district residents while keeping a check on the sources of pollution,” said Sakshi Sawhney, DC 99.47 pass percentage The overall pass percentage for Class X is 99.47 per cent. The ICSE exams started on February 21. In Class X, female students outperformed male students with a pass percentage of 99.65 per cent as compared to 99.31 for boys. A total of 2,43, 617 candidates appeared for the ICSE exams, of which 1,30,506 were boys while 1,13,111 were girl students. Woman’s body found, drug overdose suspected Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 6 The body of a woman was found lying in a vacant plot at Mahavir Colony under suspicious circumstances last evening. Drug overdose was said to be the cause of the death but the actual reason could be known only after the arrival of the post-mortem examination report. The deceased was identified as Pooja. She was married. The woman was released on bail from the Sangrur jail on Saturday in connection with some assault case. Pooja said she was going to buy some medicine and left her house but she did not return. As per information, the deceased was a resident of Seedha village. After coming out on bail from the jail, she started staying with her mother at her maternal home in Seedha village. On Sunday, she took Rs 400 from her mother and went to buy some medicine. Later in the evening, her body was found in a vacant plot. Sources said on Sunday, some people informed the police after seeing the body, following which officials from the Meharban police station reached the scene. No injury marks were found on the body. Deceased’s kin had reportedly told the police that the woman was addicted to drugs. So far, the police initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC and after autopsy, the body was handed over to the family.
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