Transporters told to take urgent steps to check HIV
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 7
In order to keep the HIV epidemic under check and control its spread the Vice-President of India Bhairon Singh Shekhawat today asked transporters to take urgent steps to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

While inaugurating the one-day convention of All-India Transporters Welfare Association (AITWA), Mr Shekhawat said that transporters should also strive to provide drivers, cleaners and other workers with a healthy work environment. He also flagged off AITWA’s ‘Rastoon Ka Rahee -Jaagriti Rath’, an initiative through which the association plans to travel across India, spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS, especially among truckers.

He said: “After, South Africa, India is perceived as the most vulnerable country to be infected with HIV/AIDS. Jaagriti Rath is an innovative way of reaching to the transporters community, where HIV/AIDS is spreading like an epidemic due to lack of knowledge and guidance.”

“This campaign also aims at instilling a positive attitude among the society towards this issue, which would help to further arrest the spread. Thus, this step, taken by AITWA, is commendable and would certainly help in making Indian community an educated society,” Shekhawat said.

On the occasion, Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said that steps should be taken for the welfare of truckers and other workers in the transport field. “We are initiating a social security cover for one million workers in the unorganised sector under which they would be given medical, pension and insurance benefits,” Mr Verma said.

Sunil Sudan, Sanjeev Saini star in CWC victory
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
A delightful knock of 66, studded with six fours and six sixes by Sunil Sudan and a deadly bowling of 4 for 33 by Sanjeev Saini helped Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) defeat Sonnet Club by 54 runs and entered the quarter-final of the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Cricket Tournament at the Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce ground at Pitampura. Sunil Sudan was declared the man of the match.

Scores: CWC: 222 for 7 in 30 overs (Sunil Sudan 66, Amrish Gautam 47, Rajeev Vinayak 30, Naresh Jain 2 for 23).

Sonnet Club: 168 for 9 in 30 overs (Mayank Sidana 33, Saket Bhatia 29, Devender Sharma 30, Sanjeev Saini 4 for 33).

Aurobindo College win

Aurobindo College beat Satyawati by 98 runs and entered the semi-final of the Shahid Bhagat Singh Inter-College Cricket Tournament at the Bhagat Singh College ground. Scores: Aurobindo: 207 for 9 in 35 overs (Gagandeep 54, Parshant 31, Naveen 3 for 38, Vinay 3 for 22). Satyawati: 109 all out in 28 overs (Parveen 37, Rahul 28, Krishnan 4 for 11, Gagandeep 2 for 11).

Keshav Puram win

Keshav Puram Cricket Club defeated Bhatti Cricket Academy by 35 runs in the President’s Estate Challenge Cup Cricket League on Wednesday.

Scores: Keshav Puram: 214 for 7 in 30 overs (Adarsh Kumar Shastri 80, Rajkishan Sharma 38, Bhola Shankar 26, Govind Bhatti 2 for 21, Raman 2 for 21, Sandeep Kumar 2 for 41). Bhatti Cricket Academy: 179 for 9 in 30 overs (Ajit Singh 50, Raman 23, Govind Bhatti 19 n o, Bhola Shankar 3 for 24, Ashwini Kumar 3 for 29, Sandeep Kumar 2 for 25).

Bangladesh get past Sri Lanka
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka by four wickets in the Commonwealth Under-19 Cricket Championship at the Teri Oval in Gurgaon. The match was delayed by over two hours due to foggy weather conditions, forcing technical director Brian Basson to reduce the contest to 35 overs a side.

Scores: Sri Lanka: 141 in 34 overs (Sameera Soyza 40, Yohan Desilva 23, Mehboob Alam 3 for 20 in 8 overs, A Sadekur 2 for 13 in 3 overs).

Bangladesh: 142 for 6 in 33.5 overs (Habib Moballag 47, Rashel Parwez 30, Saliya Saman 2 for 19 in 7 overs).

B L Kashyap enter final

B L Kashyap beat Hudco by 10 runs and entered the semi-final of the 7th D G Phadkar Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Venkateswara College ground.

Scores: B L Kashyap: 110 all out in 19.5 overs (Suraj 24, Puneet Kashyap 16, Naresh Kumar 15, Ramesh Negi 2 for 19, Godwin Toppo 2 for 11, Suresh Negi 2 for 23).

Hudco: 100 for 9 in 20 overs (Ramesh Negi 47, Naresh Kumar 2 for 15).

Gyan Bharati Academy move into semi-final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
Gyan Bharati South Delhi Academy defeated Bharat National Cricket Academy on points and entered the semi-final of the first Aviva Young Achiever Under-13 Two-Day Cricket Tournament at the Gyan Bharati School ground. Abhilash Malik of Gyan Bharati was adjudged the player of the match.

Scores: Gyan Bharati Academy: 178 for 8 declared in 82.3 overs (Abhilash Malik 73, Vidur Sethi 30, Sourabh Nischal 4 for 30).

Bharat National Academy: 238 for 8 in 79.2 overs (Abhishek Kapoor 54, Gaurav Bhatia 53, Samarth Singh 35, Ajay Chauhan 4 for 90, Abhilash Malik 3 for 56). Gyan Bharati Academy: 158 for 1 in 53 overs (Vidur Sethi 40, Charanjeet Singh 53 n o, Abhilash Malik 35 n o). Bharat National Academy: 71 for 5 in 9.3 overs (Abhilash Malik 3 for 25, Ajay Chauhan 2 for 31).

Aditya Aima hits century

Aditya Aima slammed a century and Parminder Singh captured three wickets for 31 runs as Sumit Dogra Academy defeated K N Colts by nine wickets and entered the quarter-final of the Shankuntala Devi Memorial Under-19 Cricket Tournament at the Yamuna Sports Complex ground. Scores: K N Colts: 189 all out in 36.2 overs (Joel Trinidad 68, Parminder Singh 3 for 21, Arun Choudhary 3 for 21, Mayank Sethi 3 for 28). Dogra Academy: 190 for 1 in 33.4 overs (Aditya Aima 100, Piyush Negi 49).

Shanti Gyan Niketan win

Shanti Gyan Niketan School defeated Surmount Club by nine wickets in the second Shanti Gyan Niketan Cricket Tournament at the Najafgarh ground. Scores: Surmount: 57 all out in 22 overs (Lokesh 25, Harshit Sharma 3 for 2, Amanjeet 3 for 10). Shanti Gyan Niketan: 58 for 1 in 10 overs (Kunal Dalal 25 n o, Dhanij Rathi 28).

Shivam, Sachin shine

An all-round display by Shivam Sharma (34 and 3 for 18) and a stunning bowling of 3 for 3 by Sachin Aggarwal helped U K Cricket World defeat Prachar Club by 52 runs in the first Nehru Public School Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Scores: U K World: 137 for 7 in 30 overs (Shivam Sharma 34, Mohsin Kamal 33, Karan Choudhary 3 for 19, Siddarth Kaushik 3 for 20).

Prachar Club: 85 all out in 29 overs (Anurag Tyagi 36, Sachin Sarashwat 25, Shivam Sharma 3 for 18, Sachin Aggarwal 3 for 3).

ASPM Academy in semis

ASPM Academy defeated G D Goenka School by two runs and entered the semi-final of the SPM Under-15 Cricket Tournament at the SPM College ground.

Scores: ASPM Academy: 204 for 4 in 35 overs (Yogesh Nagar 105, Nikhil 45, Abhimanyu 31, Geet Arora 4 for 29). G D Goenka: 202 for 8 in 35 overs (Geet Arora 98 n o, Nikhil 2 for 22, Dheeraj 3 for 21).

Virks jumps to lead in Hero Open golf
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
Delhi pro Jaiveer Virk put up a brilliant putting exhibition en route his walk to the top of the leaderboard against a quality field on the opening day of the Rs 10 lakh Hero Honda Open West Golf Championship, at the par-71 Poona Golf Club Course on Wednesday.

Virk needed just 24 putts during the round on the tricky Poona Club course green as he shot a five-under 66 to lead the 12th event on the Hero Honda Indian Golf Tour by a single shot over Kolkata’s Yusuf Ali and the promising C. Muniyappa of Bangalore. Veteran Mohammed Islam of Patna was alone at fourth place at three-under 68.

While Yusuf, Muniappa and Islam took advantage of the benign playing conditions in the morning, Jaiveer had to contend with howling wind conditions during his front nine.

Defending champion SSP Chowrasia, looking for a hattrick of wins this season on the Tour, after winning the previous Noida Open and the Tata Open, started with an even-par 71, to be tied 13th, along with Arjun Singh (Delhi), Digvijay Singh (Meerut) and four others.

Amritinder Singh (Chandigarh), Vijay Kumar, Ajay Kumar Yadav (both of Lucknow) and Shiv Prakash were tied fifth at two-under 69.

Chandni Chowk Gym beat I and B
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
An all-round performance by Gautam Bhatia (47 and 2 for 35) and deadly bowling of 3 for 30 by Man Mohan helped Chandni Chowk Gymkhana defeat Ministry of Information and Broadcasting by 11 runs in an A-II Division match of the DDCA League at the Yamuna Sports Complex ground.

Scores: Chandni Chowk Gymkhana: 164 for 4 in 27 overs (Gautam Bhatia 47, Rajeev Kumar 40, Arjun Sharma 35 n o, V R Hari 2 for 37).

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting: 153 for 9 in 27 overs (V Grover 34, Satender Kumar 37, Manmohan 3 for 30, Gautam Bhatia 2 for 35).

Kangaroo Cup Soccer from January 15
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, January 7
The inaugural Sub-Junior (Under-14 and Under-17) Football Tournament for the Kangaroo Cup for school teams, will be organised by the Delhi Soccer Association from January 15 to 30 at the Ambedkar Stadium.

Detailed information can be had from DSA secretary N K Bhatia on mobile at 9811447274.

The DSA will spot talented youngsters during the tournament for inclusion in national camps in preparation of international competitions.

Last year, two DSA boys—defender Arif Ali in the under-14 section and mid-fielder Ashish Pandey in the under-17 section—represented the country in the Asian Championships held at Kathmandu and Abu Dabi (UAE) respectively.

Roadways staff block traffic, seek GM’s transfer
Our Correspondent

Sonepat, January 7
While protesting against the anti-employees attitude of the General Manager of Sonepat Roadways Depot, the local roadways employees today parked buses on the roads outside the depot and as a result of it, vehicular traffic remained blocked for more than four hours on the roads leading to Murthal Chawk and sectors 14 and 15.

Later, the representatives of the employees met the deputy commissioner and handed over a memorandum demanding immediate transfer of the general manager. They also demanded that the GM should not be given power of writing annual confidential report (ACR) of the employees.

The roadways employees took this action following an incident on Monday, when a manager attempted to commit suicide by trying to jump from the first floor of the depot’s building after his meeting with the GM. However, he was caught by an employee before jumping from the floor, but after shouting for a while he became unconscious and was admitted in local civil hospital.

The GM was squarely blamed by the employees for allegedly torturing the manager and even other employees of the depot.

However, the General Manager, Mr Harish Chander Jain, categorically refuted the allegations by explaining that the manager was called for routine official work and it was baseless to allege that the manager was tortured.

He said that the manager perhaps is having some family problems and remaining mentally upset due to domestic problems.