Lecture on mental health
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 10
In the absence of traditional joint family system, people are coming to psychiatrists to seek answers even to their social problems. This was stated by psychiatrist Prof N.N. Wig, who delivered a lecture at Lala Rajpat Rai Bhavan on the occasion of World Mental Health day today.

He said the stigma attached to mental problems was gradually fading away. With the weakening of the social support system, people were turning to mental health professionals with problems related to broken marriages, unsuccessful love affairs, poor progress in studies, delinquent habits and drug abuse, he added.

Talking about the increasing prevalence of depression, he said according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), depressive and mental disorders were set to emerge as the second largest burden of diseases in the world, next only to heart attacks.

“With the increase in the population of the old people, psychiatrists are seeing many more cases of dementia of Alzheimer’s disease. There is a need to promote positive mental health and prevent mental disorder by adopting a healthy lifestyle,” said Professor Wig.

Mr Onkar Chand of the Servants of the People Society welcomed the speaker and appreciated Professor Wig’s gesture of running biweekly free mental health clinic at Lala Lajpat Rai Bhavan for the past 10 years.

8-day awareness camp for women
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 10
An eight-day awareness generation camp for women of Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, began here today. It is being organised by the Society for Social Health (SOFOSH), Chandigarh, in collaboration with the Chandigarh Social Welfare Board. Around 40 women of the area attended the camp on its inaugural day.

Dr Pankaj Mala of the Chandigarh Social Welfare Board inaugurated the camp. She said there was a need to organise more such programmes for women of the marginalised section of society for their uplift.

National car rally from October 29
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 10
The Motorsports Association of India will be bringing the Indian National Rally Championship to the city by organising the Power M1 Channel Car Rally from October 29 to 31.

The rally will be flagged off from Fun republic on October 29 and will travel to Shimla on the highway during the first leg. In the second round, the participants will go around on a 12-km dirt track thrice.

Mr Sanjay Grover, senior manager (allied retail business), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), said the company is organising the rally for the second time as part of its promotional campaign to give a fillip to its branded fuel segment. But the plan was to make it an annual feature, he added.

The rally would not only be a test of driving skills of the participants, but it would also check the performance of the engine, vehicle’s endurance and safety measures.

Thirty regular rallyists will take part in the two-day event. Among the participants would be top rally drivers of the country like three-time national champion Naren Kumar, seven-time national champion N. Leelakrishnan, local lad and national champion of the year 2000 Karandip Singh.

Cars like Maruti Baleno, Esteem, Gypsy, Zen, Maruti 800, Honda City, Mitsubishi Lancer, which confirm to the FIA group N (unmodified) up to 1600cc specifications, will be allowed to participate in the event.

Mr Grover said going by the response of the public to the branded fuels like Power for petrol and Turbojet for diesel, the company has also decided to double the number of outlets selling these products by the end of this fiscal year.

A survey conducted by the company in association with India Market Research Council revealed that 65 per cent of the population was aware of the branded fuels in the present scenario and preferred to use it over other fuels.

At present 900 Club HP outlets were selling Power and Turbojet fuels. The number would go up by 25 per cent in the coming months, he claimed.

YPS, HPS boys declared joint winners of cricket meet
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 10
Boys of Yadavindra Public school, Mohali, and Hansraj Public School were adjudged joint winners of the St Kabir Trophy cricket meet (under-13) that concluded at St Kabir High School, Sector 26, here today.

Rain interrupted the final tie and it was reduced to a 10-over match.

Batting first, the HPS team was taken to task by bowlers of YPS boys. Even their top batsman, Manan Vohra, was out for just 11 runs.

Jagteshwar Singh of YPS wrecked two HPS wickets in a maiden over.

At the end of 10 overs, HPS boys had scored 30 runs for the loss of three wickets.

However, YPS batsmen did not get any chance to bat as rain disrupted the remaining tie.

Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, MP, Chandigarh, was the chief guest. He gave away prizes to the winners. He appreciated the performance by young cricketers.

Manan of HPS was adjudged the best batsman, Jagteshwar Singh Sohal of YPS the best bowler. the best all-rounder award went to Vivan of St Anne’s-32.

Tennis tourney: Players of the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) brought laurels to the city and the CLTA by winning girls’ singles and boys’ doubles titles in the ITF Junior Tennis Tournament held at Karachi from October 4 to 10.

As per information, Inayat Khosla beat Alisha Talwar to win her maiden ITF title. Kinshuk Sharma and Jitin Bishnoi combined well and overpowered the pair of Gursher Singh Harika and Kirati Siributwong from Thailand to clinch the boys’ doubles title.

This is the second title for the duo of Kinshuk and Jitin, who had earlier won the doubles title in a higher grade ITF tournament held in Kyrgyzstan about a month back. Jitin also made it to the finals of the boys’ singles.

City shuttlers enter second round
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, October 10
The city boys, Aman Sethi in under 16 boys section and Manish Goyal in under 13 section, moved up in the qualifying rounds of the 18th Sub-Junior National Badminton championship which began here today at the Sector 42 Badminton Hall. The qualifying matches would conclude tomorrow while the main draw round matches would begin from Tuesday.

Mr S.S. Shetty, Chief Referee, said the main round would have a draw of 64 in singles and 32 in doubles. Four players each from different events would be considered in the main draw.

There would be eight events, boys under 13 singles and doubles, girls under 13 singles and doubles, boys under 16 singles and doubles and girls under 16 singles and doubles.

Those who made it to the second round of the qualifying rounds in various singles events are:

Girls under 13: Priyadarshini Dipusa(Assam), Dikshika(Uttaranchal), Malvia Salalia (AP), Tanvi Lad (Maharashtra), Mohini (Haryana), Salma Sitara (Assam), Anu Shree (UP), Jyothi (Haryana),T Deepika (AP), Hrutika Patole (Maharashtra), Bhavna (UP), G Divya (AP) and K Sonal More (Karnataka).

Boys under 13: Rohit (Haryana),Vinod Arora (Uttranchal), Surat Godara (Rajasthan), Shubham Singh (UP), Swapan Nainwal (Uttranchal), Bishal Kumar Das (Maharashtra), Neelav (Assam), Vikas Harsh (AP), Rhythm (Haryana), Anshuman Bora (Assam), G Ashvin (Tamil Nadu), Qamar Ahmed (UP), Manish Goyal (Chandigarh), Abhishek Shantanu (Bihar), Akshit (Haryana), Ajay Yadav (UP), Vibhu Gungles and doubles.

Those who made it to the second round of the qualifying rounds in various singles events are,

Girls under 16: Kavita Singh, Mudra(Mah), Shradha (Delhi), Yashika (Karnataka), Megha Merin (Kerala), Ankita Ashok (karnataka), Ankita Purohit (UP), Anuradha (Haryana), Sikki Reddy (AP), Adfa Taqvi (Karnataka), Kadambari Cheda (Maharashtra), Daya Elsa Jacob (Kerala), Varada(Maharashtra), Shruti Sridhar (Karnataka), Ramya Teja (AP) and N.Susweta (AP).

Boys under 16: Kautav Das (Delhi), Kchitiz Shantanu (Bihar), M Pradeesh (AP), Rahul Khera (Delhi), Raghunandan (AP), Bhavesh Mauk (Chd), P Jawahar (AP), Nitin (Delhi), V Reddy (AP), R Niranjan (AP), Pratik Khurana (Haryana), Piyush Nagpal (Delhi), Antriksh (UP), Aman Sethi (Chd), Vikrant Kumar (AP), Kanish Anand (AP), Ashmit Arneja (Delhi), Gurratanvir Singh (Punjab), D Sunil (AP),Tushar Badeccha (Chd), Ashutosh Prabhakar (Punjab), Deepak Sharma (Uttaranchal).

One injured as players clash
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 10
A member of the kabaddi team of Rohtak, participating in the ongoing 20th Haryana State Games at Panchkula, was seriously injured when members of another team allegedly attacked him following an argument today evening.

The injured player, Sanjeev, along with four of his fellow team members, had gone to have dinner at a dhaba at Tawa Chowk (near Sector 10) around 10.30 pm when they had an argument with members of another participating team, who were also having their dinner there.

The argument led to exchange of fisticuffs and Sanjeev was allegedly hit with lathis till he fell unconsciousness.

The police intervened and Sanjeev was taken to the Government Hospital, Sector 6, where he regained consciousness. The doctors said he was out of danger.

Mauli Baidwan Academy wins kabaddi event
Our Correspondent

Mohali, October 10
Mauli Baidwan Academy were declared the winners in the kabaddi (open) event in the fourth rural games here today. Rara Sahib Academy won the second position. The cash prizes of Rs 12,000 and Rs 8,000 were given to the two teams, respectively.

In the 50 kg, 55 kg and 60 kg categories, the kabaddi teams from Bajheri bagged the first position in all three events.

Mr Rajinder Singh, IG, Patiala zone, was the chief guest.

Mr Ranvir Singh Libra, son of the MP, Mr Sukhdev Singh Libra, announced the grant of Rs 1 lakh for the local Pendu Cultural Society, which had organised the rural games.