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Dr S.L. Goel is vice-president, IIPA
Chandigarh, October 18 The patron of the Institute is Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice-President of India, was elected President of IIPA, on the same day. Invited: Prof K.N. Pathak, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, has been invited to join the IC Centre for Governance as a founder member. A communication to this effect has been received from Mr Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary, Government of India. The IC Centre for Governance was formally launched in December 2003 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, with the objective of collectively thinking and
acting on issues of governance. Condoled: Members of the faculty, non-teaching staff and students condoled the untimely demise of Dr Manjit Kaur, Lecturer, Department of Botany, Panjab University, who died on Monday morning. She was 43. She joined Panjab University as a lecturer in 1995.
She is survived by her husband, a daughter and a son. A condolence meeting was held here today. |
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Hospice for AIDS patients soon
Chandigarh, October 18 The hospice — a half way home for terminally ill patients — had been held up as no space was being found. The space found now is in Village Khudda Ali Sher located just north of Punjab Engineering College. To start work at the hospice it will take about two months as doctors and trained para-medics will be recruited to take care of terminally ill AIDS patients. The idea to have the hospice in a community centre in Sector 29 was dropped after protests from residents. The Red Cross Society of Chandigarh in collaboration of the State AIDS Control Society will run the ten bed hospice. |
Sunny ousts second seed in tennis tourney
Chandigarh, October 18 In the boys under 14 section, the longest match was played between Shobhit Putella and Nitin which lasted 100 minutes. Both the players had match points but it was Shobhit who showed the nerves of steels in a 22 pointed tie-breaker and won at 12-10. The final score was in favour of Shobhit at 6-5(12-10). The toughest match in the under-10 section was played between Angad and Uday Singh Mann. Both the players held their serves till the score 5-5. In the tie-breaker Angad played some very good baseline game to beat Uday at 6-5 (7-5). According to Mr Devinder Kapoor, Organising Director, the girls under-14 singles, girls under-10 and ladies singles will be played tomorrow onwards. Results: Boys under-10 quarter-finals: Digvijay Singh Mehta beat Shubham Vij 6-0; Angad beat Uday Singh Mann 6-5 (7-5); Anmol Singh Bains beat Manik Khanna 6-3; Samin Bhargav beat Shreshth Jain 6-0. Boys under-12 quarter-finals: Fateh Singh Ladhar beat Kunaldeep Singh 7-4 Gurinder Singh beat Aneet 7-2. Boys under 14 third round: Mandeep Singh Gill beat Vishal Suri 6-3; Jivtesh Singh beat Aseem Jain 6-2 Shobhit Putella beat Nitin 6-5(12-10); Abhairaj Singh beat Himanshu Arora 6-1; Arjun Sehgal beat Raghav Singla 6-1;Fateh Singh Ladhar beat Nishant Sood 6-0; Karanvir Singh beat Jaskaran Singh 6-2; Saurav Sharma beat Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-3; Boys under 18 third round: Varun Sharma beat Maneshawar Goel 7-2; Manish Bhumbak beat Aman Thind 7-2; Karan Patnaik beat Nitish Sharma 7-2; Sharanvir Singh beat Jagneet Singh 7-1; Jai Vinod beat Sivender 7-2; Bhupinder Singh beat Navdeep Singh Uppal 7-6(7-5); Gaurav Sharma beat Saurav Sharma 7-5; Mandeep Singh Gill beat Prabhjot Singh 7-3. Men’s singles quarter-finals: Tushar Sharma beat Gaurav Sharma 9-1; Arvind Sharma beat Varun Sharma 9-7(7-5); Sanjeev Kumar beat Pardeep Kumar 9-3;Sunny Sapra beat Vikas Sharma 9-6. |
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Stag tennis meet from Oct 26
Chandigarh, October 18 As per a release of the Chandigarh Table Tennis Association, the events to be conducted are:team events in sub-junior boys’ and girls’, junior boys’ and girls’ and men and women sections, along with individual events in sub-junior boys’, girls’, junior boys’ and girls’, cadet (under-12) boys’ and girls’ and men and women singles. The matches will be played asperthe rules and regulations of the Table Tennis Federation of India. Only registered players of Chandigarh are eligible to take part in the championship. Entries close
with Mr Narinder Saini on October 24 at 7 pm. Workshop for coaches
Seven coaches from Chandigarh, including three senior coaches, participated in the 12th ITF Asian Tennis Coaches Workshop that concluded at New Delhi on Sunday. Around 150 coaches from 35 Asian countries participated in the workshop. The coaches from the city who participated in the workshop were: Baldev Singh, Gurvarinder Singh, Sandeep Singh, Parveen Kumar, Roman, Birbal Wadhera and Lalit Tandon. The workshop was held at Uppal’s Orchid, New Delhi.Tennis experts who
spoke during the seven-day workshop included, Dave Miley (Director ITF from England) on tennis, Bruce Elliott (Director Biochemical Analysis) on tennis forehand, backhand and service, Ivo Van Aken (Technical Director, Belgium) on tennis drills and tactics, Miguel Gespo (tennis psychologist from Spain), Machar Redi from Australia on strength and power for tennis, Suresh Menon (Development Officer from Malaysia), Anil Khanna (Secretary All-India Tennis Association) and former Internationaltennisplayer Akhtar Ali. Carrom meet
The Panchkula District Carrom Association will organise the fourth Panchkula District Carrom Championship on October 28, 30 and 31 at Saupin’s School, Sector 9, Panchkula. According to Mr R.S. Yadav, general secretary of the association, the events to be organised are: men, women, senior, junior (below-18), and sub-junior (below-14) section. Entries close on October 25 with Mr Jitender Singla at 2582935. |
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Sabeeha wins bronze in shooting
Chandigarh, October 18 Sabeeha, who is a LLB, Ist year, student of Panjab University, said she, however, could not devote much time to practice in the past six months because of BA, final year, examinations and then entrance examination of the laws. She went to Indore with just seven-day practice . Now she would like to concentrate more on 10 metre event and would be attending the national camps whenever called by the National Rifle Association of India. She said the All-India Inter-Varsity Shooting meet is another event where she would like to fetch gold medal for her university. Sabeeha disclosed that in the 10 metre event at the nationals in Indore, the Railways team emerged winner by scoring 1181 points. The silver medal was won by Maharashtra with 1174 points. Punjab got the bronze medal with 1152 points and the team included Sabeeha, Raman-deep and Chetan-preet Nilon. In the junior women section of the 10 metre air rifle event, the Punjab team, comrising Chetanpreet, Sumanpreet and Reshu Tomar, clinched the bronze medal with a score of 1133. Maharashtra won the gold medal while Rajasthan silver medal. |
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Minerva Academy to hold sports fest
Chandigarh, October 18 The football tournament will begin on November 2 . Mr Bajaj said every year, they would add one sport till the fifth year when a total of five different sports would be organised. He said they plan to include badminton next year. There will be two prestigious Deol annual sports scholarships in cricket and footballs which will be given to two most outstanding and upcoming players based on the performance in the tournament of Rs 6000 each. All cricket matches will be played on the newly-laid green top wicket of the Sector 16 cricket stadium and the grand final will be played in the PCA stadium in the end of November. Mr Surinder Singh Baijee, General Secretary of the Chandigarh Cricket Association will be the chairman of the cricket tournament organising committee and Mr Rakesh Bakshi, General Secretary of the Chandigarh Football Association of the football tournament organising committee. |
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Katoch Shield: Chandigarh outplay Ludhiana
Chandigarh, October 18 brief scores; first tie: Ist Innings:Chandigarh 248 runs, all out in 88.4 overs, Luhdiana 133, runs all out in 60.5 overs. Second Innings: 226 runs, all out in 71.3 overs (Uday Kaul 54, Gaurav Gupta 46, Akashdeep 30, Gagandeep 6 for 46, Love Ablish 2 for 63, Karan Goel 2 for 24; Ludhiana:127 runs all out in 46.5 overs (Karan Goel 37, Ankur Kakkar 27, Vipal Sharma 6 for 39, Amit Uniyal 2 for 26. Second tie: Ist Innings:Patiala 262 runs for nine in 95 overs, Amritsar:311 runs all out in 95 overs. Second Innings: Patiala 342 runs all out in 93.1 overs (Binwant Singh 105, Reetinder Sodhi 52, Rupeetinder 84, Tarun Kumar 2 for 42, Ravneet Ricky 2 for 50, SP Singh 3 for 79). |
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Cricket team chosen
Chandigarh, October 18 According to Mr Surinder Singh Baijee, secretary of the association, the team comprises, Pawan (Captain),Yuvraj, Suraj, Amit Prashar, Anupam Gambhir, Karandeep, A. Bhattacharya, Prashant, Karamjeet, Saurav, Yatin, Japneet, Harsh, Nitish Vasudeva, Pankaj and Nitin. |
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Sanjay school win handball meet
Chandigarh, October 18 After the lemon break, Sanjay School-44 girls took the lead 17-9 at the end and won the match easily. |
Jhuggis razed by PUDA
Mohali, October 18 The jhuggi dwellers were given time to remove their belongings before the demolition drive was started around midday. A JCB machine was put into action to get the encroached area freed from illegal occupation. The security staff of PUDA accompanied the enforcement wing. These jhuggis had come up in an open land which had been acquired by PUDA few years ago. It is learnt that some of the jhuggis had been put up by labourers working with various contractors who had been allotted development work. |
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