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AIDS awareness camp

NEW DELHI JUNE 8. The National Cadet Corps (NCC) has organised a three-day orientation camp on HIV/AIDS awareness at the NCC Republic Day Camp in Delhi Cantonment. Sixty senior division and senior wing cadets from all parts of the country are attending the camp which began here today.

Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, Sunil Dutt, who was the chief guest, said: "As long as medical science does not develop an effective cure, awareness is the best and only way to prevent the disease."

The camp has been organised in co-ordination with UNAIDS.

Pollution a serious public health hazard

NEW DELHI JUNE 8. While pollution may not cause as many heart attacks as high blood pressure, it is a serious risk factor said the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Heart Care Foundation of India, K.K. Aggarwal.

"Pollution is a serious public health problem and particulate matter pollution is especially dangerous,'' claimed Dr. Aggarwal, adding that traffic is one of the worst sources of pollution. "We have an eight-year-old study carried out among 5,000 adults. It shows that people who lived near major roads were more likely to die of a cardio-vascular problem than those who don't.

Good show by students

NEW DELHI JUNE 8. Students of Prabhu Dayal Public School have excelled in the Class X and Class XII examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, the results of which were announced recently. Besides an overall pass percentage of 96.6 per cent, 366 students secured distinctions in one or many of the subjects in Class XII. Nineteen students secured distinctions in all the five subjects.

In Class X, the school recorded a cent per cent result with 345 distinctions.

New chairman of college

NEW DELHI JUNE 8. Well-known industrialist and Chairman of Max India Group, Analjit Singh, has been elected the new Chairman of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce. His appointment was ratified by the newly constituted Governing Body of the College at a meeting held here today.

Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, founded in 1984 by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, has over 1,600 students.

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