Chandigarh: Maat-Pita Godham Trust, Mohali is organizing Global Shravana Awards Ceremony, 2025 on April 10.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the Trust’s founding trustee Gochar Gyan Das said Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini would be the chief guest at the awards ceremony and Rajya Sabha MP, Rekha Sharma will be the very special guest on the occasion.

Former Haryana speaker Gyan Chand Gupta, Political Secretary to Haryana CM Tarun Bhandari, Panchkula BJP District President Ajay Mittal and BJP leader from Dera Bassi S Gurdarshan Singh Saini will be special guests.

The Global Shravana Awards will be given in the categories of  India, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and Maharashtra.

Chandigarh, April 5 – Haryana Minister of State for Sports, Sh. Gaurav Gautam said that the community centre being developed in the name of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya will serve as an inspiration for the region. He said that the State Government is continuously working for the holistic development of Palwal district.

The Minister was addressing people after laying the foundation stone for the construction of a boundary wall, track and park at the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Community Centre complex in village Kushlipur (Ward No. 10), Palwal.

He said that the main hall of the building will be constructed at a cost of approximately Rs. 2.50 crore, while Rs. 1 crore will be spent on the boundary wall, track, park and other beautification works. These facilities will provide better amenities to residents and create a conducive environment for youth to engage in sports activities. He added that the facility will remain open to all sections of society, including all communities, and will serve as a venue for social, cultural and community programmes.

Reiterating the government’s commitment, the Minister said that continuous efforts are being made for the overall development of Palwal district. To promote sports, stadiums, modern tracks and sports nurseries are being established in the district, enabling youth to hone their talent. He added that, for the first time, sports nurseries have been established on a large scale, providing opportunities to rural athletes to progress.

Minister inaugurates water and sewerage project

The Sports Minister also inaugurated a water supply and sewerage line project at Palwal. He said that under the AMRUT 2.0 scheme, sewerage infrastructure across the city will be strengthened at a cost of approximately Rs. 332 crore, while under the Ranney Well project, the rainwater supply network will be enhanced at a cost of about Rs. 522 crore.

Chandigarh:

The single theme workshop on “Neonatal Neurological Disorders” got off to a flying start in the auditorium of the Advanced Paediatric Centre, PGIMER. The honourable director of PGIMER, Prof Vivek Lal, inaugurated the workshop. Prof ON Bhakoo, former head of Pediatrics and Neonatology at PGIMER, also graced the inaugural function. Prof Vivek Lal — himself an accomplished adult neurologist — complimented the Neonatology Unit on conducting a workshop on a very challenging topic. He narrated several interesting anecdotes from his own training days to highlight the importance of combining sound clinical knowledge with modern investigations. Prof Praveen Kumar, Head of the Department of Pediatrics and chairperson of the workshop, spoke about the importance of focused workshops of this nature and said that these workshops were extremely popular among delegates because of their hands-on nature. Prof Sourabh Dutta, the organising secretary, mentioned that this was the 10th single theme workshop conducted and each time the delegates played a role in choosing the theme for the next workshop. Dr Jogender Kumar, the joint organising secretary, thanked the entire team in his vote of thanks.

​The scientific proof proceedings of the workshop started with a talk on normal neurological examination by Dr Supreet Khurana, in which she showed many videos of newborn babies to demonstrate the correct techniques. Dr Naveen Jain, an expert from Trivandrum, spoke about the approach to a newborn baby who presents with brain dysfunction. Prof Sourabh Dutta delivered a talk on the pitfalls in the diagnosis and treatment of meningitis and its complications in newborn babies. Prof Deepak Chawla spoke about the diagnosis and staging of brain damage due to asphyxia at the time of birth and how to treat selected patients with whole-body cooling or brain cooling. Dr Naveen Prakash Gupta from Delhi delivered a lecture on bleeding inside the brain of preterm babies or damage to the white matter in the brain. Dr Chirag Ahuja taught the delegates about how to read MRI scans and CT scans of both mature and premature babies.

​The highlight of the first day of the workshop were three practical hands-on sessions through which the delegates rotated by turn. They were shown how to actually administer whole-body cooling, to perform head ultrasound in newborn babies to rapidly diagnose problems, and to interpret EEG (brain electrical waves) in neonates.

​The practical workstations were followed by group discussions on three real-life case scenarios which involved newborn babies who had brain problems of various kinds. Delegate to s got a chance to interact one-on-one with experts in the field. The real-life case scenarios included clinical data, laboratory results and ultrasound and MRI images wherever applicable.

Chandigarh:

The two-day single theme workshop on “Neonatal Neurological Disorders” concluded today at the Advanced Paediatric Centre, PGIMER.

The morning session had three fascinating lectures delivered by the respective experts in the field. Dr Jogender Kumar, the joint organising secretary, spoke about the diagnosis and treatment of seizures (fits) in newborns. He emphasised that recent research had clearly shown that the vast majority of abnormal movements in newborns that are thought to be fits both by laypersons and even by experts are actually not fits, and on the converse, a large number of fits that are picked up on EEG studies of brain waves do not manifest as externally visible fits but they still damage the brain. He said that every paediatric facility that takes care of sick newborn babies must have continuous EEG monitoring facilities otherwise they will either overdiagnosis or underdiagnose fits. Prof Naveen Sankhyan spoke about the potentially devastating effects of low blood glucose levels in the early newborn period. He said that a sizeable proportion of children who present with very difficult to treat epilepsy have a history of low blood glucose in early life.

Dr Naveen Jain, an expert on long-term neurodevelopment, spoke about the need to have a structured follow-up program for high-risk newborn babies. He said that every follow-up visit must have a specific purpose and a plan of action which must be clearly conveyed to the parents.
In the prelunch session, Dr Bharti Sharma from the Department of Gynecology in PGI spoke about various protective strategies that Gynecologists can use during pregnancy to try and protect the brain of the newborn infant.

Two important interventions are the use of injection magnesium sulphate and injection steroids in threatened preterm delivery. Dr Sajan Saini spoke about the complex problem of hydrocephalus (excess water accumulating inside the brain) that sometimes folows bleeding inside the brain of preterm babies. He presented the currently accepted international guidelines for treating such patients. Dr Bijaylaxmi Behera spoke about the problem of brain strokes in newborn babies, their causes, modalities of diagnosis and treatment options. She said that some of these infants require low-dose heparin and occasionally aspirin to take care of the clots.

After lunch, the delegates participated in in-depth group discussions on three real-life case scenarios which involved newborn babies who had brain problems of various kinds.

Delegates got a chance to interact one-on-one with experts in the field. The real-life case scenarios included clinical data, laboratory results and ultrasound and MRI images wherever applicable. The cases included a preterm baby who had complications after brain bleeds, a mature baby who had brain damage due to very high jaundice, and a mature baby who failed to breathe the time of birth and went on to develop brain damage and fits.
In the feedback session, the delegates unanimously expressed great satisfaction with the format of single theme workshops in which a single topic is discussed in great depth over two days and in which there is ample scope for focused group discussions, time for interaction with experts, and hands-on workstations for improving practical skills.

Chandigarh, April 4, 2026: A two – day National CMA (Cost and Management Accountants) Practitioners Convention-2026 took off at Hotel Shivalikview, Sector 17, Chandigarh. Punjab Finance Minister, Shri Harpal Singh Cheema, inaugurated the same. In the Convention more than 200 CMAs from different parts of the country were present.

CMA Manoj Kumar Anand, Chairman Professional Development Committee welcomed to the Chief Guest and delegates to the convention and narrated the objective of the convention,

During the inaugural session, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Punjab addressed the audience and affirmed that Punjab Govt. is committed to good health of its people, education and  for the sustainable growth of the state. He appraised the participants that how Punjab doubled its GST collections, Excise Revenue and increase in non-tax revenue. He also mentioned that Punjab Government by using updated IT software’s obtained from IIT Hyderabad has plugged the evasion of revenue to extent. He said Punjab is in first three states to enforce measures to curb the evasion of GST. He pointed out that agencies are working on eight to ten Apps to check if there is any evasion of tax / leakage of tax revenue if any.  He further mentioned that the initiative taken by their Govt. in form of School of eminence has led numerous students qualifying in JEE and NEET exams and getting being admitted to the various professional courses across the country.

He also appraised the participants that in FDI, ranking of the Punjab has strengthened from 15^th to 11^th place in their tenure. He repeated it again that we will make Punjab as ‘Rangla Punjab’ once again. He thanked the institute and its office bearer for inviting him to the occasion.

CMA TCS Srinivasa Prasad, President of the Institute also addressed the gathering and appraised the Chief Guest how CMA profession through AI, Data Analytics tools and complex data sets, evidence based decision making can help the Punjab for sustainable growth of the Punjab. He assured the minister every possible professional support for the growth of the Punjab and bringing the Industry to invest in Punjab through National Network and liaisoning with Industry.

On the occasion, CMA Neeraj Dhananjay Joshi Vice President of the Institute appraised the Minster how CMA Profession can help Govt. to cut down budgets for various projects, cost in transportation section along with health and education. He also talked about cost reduction initiatives of the institute for Khadi Gram Udyog.

CMA Anil Sharma a Practicing Cost Accountant  also mentioned that CMA Profession can be instrumental to liaising with the industry and the government to invest in Punjab. He also talked about inviting CMA representatives to Punjab Invest Summits. He said CMA is a techno-commercial profession and know about every activity of industry.

At the end Secretary of the Institute Dr Nandy presented the formal vote of thanks.