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New surgery for cancer
of food pipe
Chandigarh, October 19 The esophagus (gullet) is the tube through which food and drink pass from the back of the stomach. The cancer of esophagus arises from the lining of the gullet and the effect is to narrow the esophagus and cause difficulty in swallowing. First, solid foods tend to lodge or stick in the gullet and after some time liquids are also not able to pass through it. The cancerous cells slowly spread out to lymph nodes and blood vessels in the chest and then tend to get carried in the blood stream to form secondary
tumours in the liver or elsewhere. Mrs Baljinder Kaur, a resident of Sohana, Mohali, was the first case of such radical dissection undertaken for cancer of esophagus last year. Post-operatively she has been receiving chemo-radiation at the PGI, Chandigarh. She reported for follow-up last week after over one year -post surgery with no symptoms of difficulty in swallowing or evidence of any local recurrence. In 1997 a small pilot trial to evaluate the feasibility of the technique and to assess the prevalence of nodal metastases to the cervical lymph nodes was initiated in New York. In the preliminary report, it was observed that occult metastases to the cervical nodes occurred in 30% of patients regardless of cell type. This formed the basis for undertaking a radical operation such as the three field dissection (TFD) for surgical management of esophageal cancer in preference to the conventional trans - hiatal esophagectomy, which does not address the aspect of the nodal invasion and thus has far less survival benefit as compared to TFD. |
North zone football tourney begins
Chandigarh, October 19 Sanjay Public School outplayed St Mark’s International School, Delhi, 3-0. In the second tie, DAV School got the better of Ganga International School, Delhi, by four goals to nil. The third tie between St Mark’s School, and CSKM Senior Secondary School, Delhi was drawn at 2-2. Table soccer meet The First National Table Soccer championships in both men and women sections, comprising more than six teams, will be held at The Gurukul, Sector 20, Panchkula, on October 23 and 24. The meet is being organised by the Haryana Table Soccer Federation under the aegis of Table Soccer Federation of India (TSFI). According to Mr Yadvinder Singh, Office Secretary, TSFI, the
International Table Soccer Federation (ITSF) had given its consent to the TSFI to hold the meet. Mr Sanjay Thareja, president of the Haryana unit, said eight tables would be put up at the venue. Volleyball c'ship from Nov 5 The International Sunil Memorial Volleyball meet will be organised by the Shivalik Volleyball Academy at Shivalik Public School grounds, Sector 41, from November 5 to 7. According to Mr D.S. Bedi, Director of the school, Sunil was trained in the academy and represented the Indian junior team at the international volleyball meet in Iran. In 2002, he died in a road accident. Invitations have been sent to STC, Kurukshetra, STC,Mastuana Sahib (Punjab), STC, Bilaspur, STC, Bhiwani, and Shah Satnam Academy, Sirsa. |
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Top seeds shown the door
Chandigarh, October 19 The same was the fate of Samin Bhargav, from the CLTA, the second seed of the boys under-10 section. The match was one of the most spectacular matches of the day when Anmol Singh Bains from Chandigarh survived beautiful attacking game. Samin Bhargav survived three match points and won the match 8-6. In the boys under-14 section all top four-seeded players reached the semifinals stage with convincing victory margins. Results:- Boys under-10 semifinals: Digvijay Singh Mehta b Angad 8-0; Anmol Singh Bains b Samin Bhargav 8-6 Boys under-14 quarterfinals: Mandeep Gill b Jivtesh Singh 8-1; Abhairaj Singh b Shobhit Putella 8-3; Arjun Sehgal b Fateh Singh Ladhar 8-1; Saurav Sharma b Karanvir Singh 8-0. Boys under-18 quarterfinals: Varun Sharma b Manish Bhubhak 8-1;Karan Patnaik b Sharanveer Singh 8-2; Jay Vinod b Bhupinder Singh 8-5; Gaurav Sharma b Mandeep Gill 8-5. Girls under-10 quarterfinals: Sonali Bansal b Harnoor Cheema 5-0; Mannat Johal b Anika Gupta 5-1; Sheshna Sekhri walk over Jena; Shaina Diwan b Shreya Jain 5-4(7-1). Girls under-14 first round: Tanvi Goel b Inderjot 6-3: Ektesh b Anita 6-5(7-2); Panika b Anika Gupta 6-0; Eqroop b Nanki Arora 6-2; Ladies singles first round: Isha Jain b Sonali Bansal 6-4; Sonia Sharma b Elisha Thapar 6-0. Men’s doubles quarterfinals: Prabhjot & Abhairaj walk over Vikas & Arvind Sharma; Pardeep & Karan Patnaik b Maneshwar & Jay Vinod 7-2; Sanjiv & Varun b Bhupinder& Sharanveer 7-3; Sunny & Amrinder b Shiva & Bhuvnesh 7-0.
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Chandigarh XI enter last four
Chandigarh, October 19 Chandigarh XI won the toss and elected to bat first. Skipper Pawan Kumar and Aamit Prashar had a partnership of 108 runs. In reply, Panipat XI were bundled out for 99 runs. Now Chandigarh XI will play against Bhiwani XI on October 21 at Bhiwani. Brief scores: Chandigarh Distt. XI:228 runs for six (Amit Prasher 68, Pawan Kumar 40, Sourav Kumar 53 n.o., Suraj Kumar 15 n.o.,). Panipat XI: 99 runs all out in 23rd over (Ravinder 30, Avtar 28, Ritesh 20, Anupam Gambhir 2 for 16, Yuvraj 3 for 16, Yatin 2 for 11). Moti Ram School win
basketball title
Moti Ram Arya Secondary Model School, Sector 27, clinched the boys under-14 title in the UT Inter-School Basketball Tournament here today. In the final, MRA School (boys) downed Mount Carmel, Sector 47, 29-13. In the semi-final, MRASS-27 got the better of Government Model High School, Sector 26, 36-04. MCM win: MCM DAV College for Women, Sector 26, clinched the Panjab University Inter College Cricket (women) championship which concluded here on Tuesday. Second place went in favour of Government College for Girls, Sector 11, third place to Khalsa College for Women, Ludhiana, and fourth place to SDP College for Women, Ludhiana. |
Filing of IT returns
to go online
Chandigarh, October 19 Mr Verma said services to go online include refunds, filing of tax returns, Tax deduction at source, among other things. The computer softwares for calculation of income tax and TDS are also available online which the taxpayers could download and transact business from their own homes or offices with the department. The website www.incometaxindia.gov.in, has been upgraded with host of user-friendly facilities for the tax payers. Mr Krishna Giri of IBM said that the most important of government services is to be able to identify the citizens accessing the government services, and the need is to develop universally applicable multi-usage citizen cards scanable through variety of technologies for identification purposes. Later, Louise Thomasen of Danish Technological Institute, launched the web portal, “eGovIndia”, which carries extensive case studies of best practices in Europe as well as India. Mr Karan A. Singh, Secretary IT, UT Administration, chaired the session and emphasised the need for documenting all such case studies that could be made available to every State in the country for knowledge upgradation and learning from the experiences of others. Mr K. Jayakumar, Director IT, Directorate of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, presented a comprehensive case study of egovernance project initiated and led by him which was adjudged as the country’s first “eDistrict” with 85 per cent of the records brought on-line, creating paperless office.
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DC’s order on MPLAD fund
Chandigarh, October 19 These directions were issued after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) complained against the absence of Mr Satya Pal Jain’s name from the plaque bearing the name of Congress MP, Mr Pawan Bansal, for contributing towards the construction of the Community Centre, Sector 45, by Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal on October 9. The DC, Mr Arun Kumar, sent a copy of his letter to the BJP president, Mr Yash Pal Mahajan, and the local MP, Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal. Congratulated: The BJP unit of Chandigarh has congratulated Mr Lal Krishan Advani for his appointment as the All-India president of the BJP. Those who felicitated Mr Advani include Mr Ram Pyare Pandey, Prabhari (in charge) of Delhi, Haryana and Chandigarh, Mr Yash Pal Mahajan, local BJP president, Mr Satya Pal Jain, former MP, and member national executive of BJP, Mr Purshotam Mahajan, Vice-President, Mr Bal Krishan Kapoor and Mr Kewal Krishan Addiwal (both general secretaries). Ms Kamla Sharma, leader of the opposition in Municipal Corporation, Mr Rajesh Gupta, BJP councillor, and the entire state executive of all districts and cells of the party also congratulated Mr Advani.
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Flyover to cost Rs 10 crore
Chandigarh, October 19 The flyover and also widening and re-carpeting of roads in the city were discussed in the co-ordination meeting of the Chandigarh Administration this morning. The Administrator said since the monsoon was over, the Engineering Department as well as Municipal Corporation should start the civil works at the earnest and proceeds to complete them in a time bound manner. The Chief Engineer informed the Administrator that Engineering Department had started the work allocated to it and separately Chandigarh Housing Board and Municipal Corporation are starting their works. This work was to be done last year, however, it could not be carried out.
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100 kundi connections
removed
Mohali, October 19 Jhuggi dwellers were taken unawares but they did not show any resentment. Employees of the PSEB removed about 500 metres of PVC wire from four poles from where the connections were taken. They later took away the wire. Besides, the Phase VIII SHO, Mr Sukhjit Singh Virk, the PSEB team was accompanied by 30 police personnel and a duty magistrate. Mr V.K. Mahajan, Additional Superintending Engineer, who headed the drive, said that the enforcement team included 40 linemen, 10 junior engineers and two SDOs. He said that kundi connections had been removed from this colony many times earlier also but these reappeared in no time again. He said that power meters could not be given to the colony as it fell in the union territory. The drive could not be held very often because of the law and order problem involved in it. The police help was needed to carry out the operation. Even the services of a duty magistrate were needed. He said that the PSEB was now planning to cover the conductors with a compound so that the power lines could not be tapped. In case the experiment proved to be successful, many more conductors would later be covered with the compound. |
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