HEALTH

Healing Ministry Week begins
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, February 7
According to Mr Emanuel, secretary, North West Region Christian Medical Association of India, said that the second week of February was specially dedicated to the healing of the people who were sick. In Christian perspective, it was the undertaking of commitment with God to serve people and strive better and better to serve the needy. During this week, a concerted campaign was carried across all the churches in India.

This Ministry of Healing has been working since 1905. Every year it chooses a different theme. The theme chosen this year is “in the footsteps of Jesus — the divine healer”. For 10 minutes during the service in the churches, a special prayer is made for doctors and health workers to make them more compassionate and understand the suffering of humanity and give their help freely.

SPORTS

BCA (II) student wins long jump event
GNI sports festival
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, February 7
Ravinderjit Kaur of BCA (-II) was declared the winner in the long jump event on the fourth day of the annual sports festival of the Guru Nanak Institute of Management and Technology, Gujarkhan Campus, Model Town, Ludhiana, today. Simrat and Harpreet Kaur, also students of BCA (II), finished second and third respectively.

The team from BBA (-II) emerged as champion in kho-kho, while the team from BCA (-VI) finished runner up.

The other events conducted today were 100 mts race in which more than 50 participants took part and 4x100 relay race in which eight teams participated. Tomorrow will be the concluding day and the main features will be volleyball and badminton finals besides finals of various athletic events.

Alok Kumar

Alok Kumar, who has won the national snooker championship held at Ahmedabad last week, will be felicitated by the Satluj Club here on February 14.

According to Mr A. S. Chawla, secretary of the club, and Mr Navneet Tony Malhotra, sports secretary of the club, Alok Kumar will be presented a cash prize and a citation. While he won the national title in the snooker, he was runner- up in billiards.