Panchkula, February 27
A team of doctors from Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, today urged the public to adopt an active lifestyle to prevent the incidence of heart diseases.

According to Dr Sanjeev Mittal, a consultant cardiologist and head of the Community Outreach Programme team, the main emphasis now was on the early detection and prevention of the heart diseases. “Routine exercise and balanced diet can contribute significantly to check the diseases related to the heart”.

He was talking to reporters during the course of a free heart check-up camp organised by the Mahamai Mansa Devi Charitable Bhandara Committee on the premises of the Mansa Devi temple near here, today.

Advising the patients to avoid non-vegetarian and calorie-rich foods, he said people even in the West were taking to yoga and meditation to control heart ailments.

Terming walking to be a good exercise for heart patients, doctors were of the opinion that a majority of the heart patients, particularly in India, had sedentary lifestyle.

Chandigarh, February 27
At an executive committee meeting of the UT Cricket Association, Chandigarh, it was decided to organise the annual league-cum-knockout cricket tournament for ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ divisions from March 20.

The entry fee for ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ divisions will be Rs 1,000, Rs 600 and Rs 400, respectively. The tournament will be held in Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, the Punjab Engineering College cricket grounds and Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 27.

It was also decided that there would be no change for ‘A’ and ‘B’ divisions for which matches will be played on a league-cum-knockout basis while in ‘C’ division, the matches will be played on a knockout basis till the quarter-finals. The league matches will be played for the quarter-finals and semi-finals.