Baby abandoned in Sector 23
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 23 — The police has registered a case against unknown parents of a new-born female child who was found in front of an orphanage in Sector 23.

According to police sources, the child was found by sisters of Mother Teresa Home in the morning. They reported the matter to the police.

A case under Section 317, IPC (exposure and abandonment of a child under 12 years by a parent or person having care of it), has been registered at the Sector 17 police station. Further investigations are on.

Bag snatched: Ms Asha Verma, a resident of Sector 15, reported to the police that her bag, containing cash and some important documents, was snatched by a scooter-borne youth from near the gurdwara.

The police has registered a case under Section 356 of the IPC.

Assault: The police has arrested Jaspal Singh, Rajinder Singh and Amarjit Kaur for assaulting Mr Satpal Singh, a resident of Sector 37. He was reportedly bashed up in the Sector 25 gurdwara. He suffered a fracture on his left leg.

A case under Sections 325 and 34, IPC, has been registered.

Table stolen: The police has arrested Satnam Singh, Amrinder Singh, Sonu, Savinder Singh and Gurmit Singh for stealing a large wooden table from the Guru Nanak taxi stand, near the SAS Nagar barrier.

A case under Sections 379, 411 and 34, IPC, has been registered against them at the Sector 39 police station.

11 arrested: As many as 11 persons have been arrested for committing various crimes in the city.

Eight persons have been arrested under preventive action.

Two persons have been arrested for roaming about under suspicious circumstances.

One person was arrested for creating nuisance at a public place while under the influence of liquor.

SOPU activists begin fast
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Aug 23 —Two activists of the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU), Jatinder Kumar and Arun Rana, began an indefinite fast today to protest against the indifferent attitude of the authorities towards the demands of science students for provisional promotions to the next class. The vice-president of SOPU, Paramjeet Singh Bajwa, said more SOPU activists would join the fast if their demands were not met.

Seats vacant: Six seats in B. Pharma first year are lying vcant for foreign/ NRI/NRI-sponsored students. Candidates who have qualified CET Entrance Test-1999 conducted by Panjab University, with physics, chemistry and biology, may contact the Chairman of the department by September 6.

Five seats each are available for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored candidates in BSc/MSc botany (hons). Interested candidates should apply along with required documents to the Chairman of the department.

Five seats each in BSc/MSc microbiology (hons) first year for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored candidates are lying vacant. Applicants desirous of seeking admission should contact Chairman of the department by August 30.

Three seats are vacant for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored candidates in MSc biotechnology. Those interested may contact the chairman of the department on or before August 27.

Some seats for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored students are lying vacant in BSc mathematics (hons). Applicants desirous of seeking admission may contact the chaiman of the department on or before August 30.

Some seats are lying vacant in physics for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored candidates. Those interested may apply before August 28 and attend interview on August 30.

Some seats for foreign/NRI/NRI-sponsored students are vacant in BSc first year (hons) and MSc first year (hons) in anthropology. Interested students may contact the chairman of the department.

Talk on avalanche: Major-General (retd) S.S. Sharma, Director, Snow and Avalache Study Establishment (SASE), delivered a talk regarding the avalanche hazards in the snow-bound regions of the Himalayas, which endangered military installations and posed a serious threat to the civilian population. He spoke about factors which triggered an avalanche, types of avalanches, forecasting the onset of avalanches and methods to mitigate the hazard.

The talk was attended by a select gathering of geo-scientists at the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology. Prof R.S. Chaudhari, Chairman of Geology department, apprised the gathering about the activities and infrastructural facilities of SASE.

Paluskar Jayanti celebrated

IT was an evening with a difference for serious music lovers: the young and old on Sunday assembled at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Panchkula, to pay homage to saint singer Pandit Vishnu Digamber Paluskar.

Pt Paluskar founded the first gandharva Mahavidyalaya at Lahore in 1901 to popularise Indian classical music and help regain its lost glory and respect.

Mrs Suraksha Dutta, wife of the founder of the local branch of mahavidyalaya, recounted the concerted efforts of Pt Paluskar and his contemporaries in popularising the classical arts among educated classes who had started associating it with courtesans and darbar.

She said it is time that we paid homage to the services of the saint singer by preserving our great cultural heritage.

The evening began with the presentation of the traditional aarti sung by the Gandharva chair group as composed by Pt Paluskar in raga Bihari. This was followed by solo renderings by Sumedha, Meenu Kapoor, Gopal Tanwer and Manav Jaini.

The Children's Gandharva Chair comprising about 30 children presented Racha prabhu tune yeh brahmand sara in perfect harmony. Though disrupted by the rain, the programme was resumed indoors after a short power cut.

The highest point of the evening was rendering of vedic shlokas and dhamar by the Gandharva chair.

The evening came to a melodious close when Arvind Sharma, Head of the Department of Music, Panjab University, presented a composition of Pt Onkar Nath Thakur Paar laga de mori naiya in raga des followed by community singing of Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram.

— Vandana Shukla

Taekwondo trophy for Air Force School
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Aug 23 — Air Force School, 12 Wing, bagged the overall trophy for best performance in the taekwondo meet for Chandigarh schools organised by the Taekwondo Association of Chandigarh which concluded here today. Manav Mangal School, Sector 21, was the runners-up.

The results are as follows: Under-13 boys (below 20 kg) — Manu Bindra (Air Force 12) 1, Ravinder Singh 2, Arjit Gupta 3; 20-24 kg — rohit (AF 12) 1, Bhagat (GMSS-37) 2, Ravi Kapoor (AF 12) 3.

Boys 24-28 kg — Amit (MM-21) 1, Ravi (MM-21) 2, Ashish Khosla (MM) 3; 28-32 kg; Amit (AF 12) 1, Gurnam (MM) 2; 32-36 kg — Deepak (GMSS-33) 1, Abhishek (GMSS -33) 2, Madhav (MM) 3; 36-40 kg — Atul Goyal 1, Abhishek 2, Yogeshwar 3.

Above 40 kg — Mukesh 1, Kapil 2, Sunil 3; 24-28 kg (B) — Deepak 1, Ishan 2, Bhupinder 3; 28-32 kg (B) — Ankush 1, Anish 2; 32-36 kg (B) — Vikas 1, Shiv Kumar 2, Amit Kumar 3; 13 to 18 years (below 46 kg) — Viashal Singh 1, Sandeep 2, Munesh 3; 46-52 kg — Vinod Kumar 1, Ravi 2, Subhash 3; 52-58 kg — Surinder Singh 1, Naveen Kaul 2, Amrit Pal 3.

Above 18 years, 48-54 kg — Shariq Maqbool 1, Kulbir Singh 2, Rafiq Ahmed 3; girls 20-24 kg — Geetu Singh (AF 12) 1, Navpreet Kaur 2, Raj Kumari 3; 24-28 kg — Vandana (AF 12) 1, Sonia (AF 12) 2, Hema Rani (AF 12) 3; 36- 42 kg — Rekha (GHS-38) 1, Sudesh Rani (GMSS-37) 2, Seema Malik (MM-21) 3.

Sourabh Sharma of Manav Mangal School, Sector 11, Panchkula, won the junior colour belt while Gaurav Sachdeva of GMMSS-22 got the second position.

Sunil Channa of DAV Sector 8 secured the first position in senior colour belt while Ankush Aggarwal got the second position.

In the girls' section, Geetika Dawra of Mount Carmel School won the junior colour belt while Neha of Manav Mangal School, Panchkula, was the runners-up.

The senior colour belt was won by Rekha of GHS-38 while Geeta of the same school secured the second position.

League soccer: Khalsa Club blanked Blue Star Club by five goals to nil on the fourth day of the Chandigarh Senior Football League being played here at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 today. Chetan scored the first goal in the 6th minute of the match for Khalsa Club with a solo effort. Right half Munish scored the second goal in the 13th minute.

Davinder scored the third goal in the 28th minute and Rajinder scored the fourth goal in the 32nd minute of the match. Half-time score was 4-0 in favour of Khalsa Club. In the second half, Deepak scored the fifth goal and so, Khalsa Club won, 5-0.

In another match, the city police team got a walkover against DAV Club as the latter failed to turn up.