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Upgraded maternity ward inaugurated
Mohali, February 17 He said the government hospitals in Chandigarh were overburdened with the rush of patients. Therefore, there was need to upgrade the hospital. He said a hotline facility for uninterrupted power supply was also being provided to the hospital. The estimate in this regard had been prepared and work on the project would be started soon. He welcomed newborns with greeting cards. The cards would have complete immunisation schedule and tips for mothers. Pregnant women with yellow cards were given Rs 500 each as financial aid under a special scheme of the government. He appealed to the people to avail the services of government hospitals which were well-equipped, instead of going to private nursing homes which charged exorbitant fees. |
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Workshop on bronchial asthma
Chandigarh, February 17 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has assigned the Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGI, Prof S.K. Jindal, the task of framing guidelines so that asthma can be effectively controlled at the primary level to avoid complications and reduce the morbidity. Bronchial asthma constitutes a huge burden on healthcare in India, with more than 2.5 crore persons affected by the disease. |
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101 persons donate blood
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‘Flying Sikh’ of Malaysia in city
Chandigarh, February 17 Stressing the need for more exposure for rallyists in India, Karamjit said he was motivated by his father, a former hockey Olympian from Malaysia. He was also lucky in getting sponsors right from the beginning. He said it was in 1986 when he actually plunged into rally participation and in 1991, he got the international exposure of taking part in rallies. There is endless list of superb achievements of Karamjit. In 1994, he bagged the third place in the Telecom Rally in Australia while driving Proton Wire 4WD. In 1996, he ranked third in the API Rally in Australia. In 1997,
he got the first position in Rally Indonesia. This was followed by wins in Cyprus Rally and Immasat Safari Rally. He also won the Asia Pacific Rally held in India at Pune in 2003. Karamjit, who is being sponsored by Proton, Petronas and JK Tyre, has made it a point to take part in various world-level championship every year. He was instrumental in winning the World Rally Championship in 2002 where he collected 30 points in the FIA Cup for drivers of production cars. In 2003, he won the fourth place in the same championship. When asked about the FIA, which is an international body of rallyists, Karamjit a keen golfer, said the position holders of various world rally championships were honoured along with Formula I rallyists at a function at Monte Carlo every year. He said unfortunately there was some rift in the national body governing car rally in India. This put participants from India at a disadvantage, he said. This happened with national rally champion Hari Singh, also of Chandigarh, who could not get much exposure in international rally championships. He said there was enough talent in India and youngsters wanted to take part in various rally championship, but to be very frank, just five to 10 per cent would finally make it to national or international grade. On his future plans, he said in April, he would take part in World Rally Championship and then in the Australia Pacific Championship. Both championships would be held in Australia. |
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Parveen Kumar to officiate in Dubai Open
Chandigarh, February 17 Parveen has officiated in a number international tournaments — ITF Men’s Satellites, Futures, ITF Women Circuits, ATP Challengers, ITF Junior Circuits, Davis Cups, Federation Cup, Afro-Asian Games, Asian Games, Salem Open (Hong Kong), ASB Classic and Heineken (New Zealand). Parveen also accompanied the Indian school team to the Asian School Tennis Championship held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1999. Hockey championship
Sukhmeet Singh will lead Chandigarh junior hockey team in the second Under-18 Junior National Hockey Championship to be held at Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) from February 20 to 27. According to Mr Y.P. Vohra, secretary, Chandigarh Hockey Association, other members of the team are Harjeet Singh, Virendra Pal Singh, Jagdeep Singh, Jagroop Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Daljit Singh, Sarvan Singh, Randeep Singh, Jagjit Singh, Harvinder Singh, Gursewak Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Mukul Bharghaa, Ajit Singh, Sarwanjeet Singh, Nitin Ahuja and Ranbir Singh. Mr Amritpal Singh and Mr R.S. Sodhi will be the coach and manager of the team, respectively. Cricket meet
Girls of Maple House which won the annual inter-house cricket meet of Saupin’s School, Sector 32, Chandigarh. Quiz competition
Parul was adjudged first in the quiz competition on a “Sports Fitness and Health” held on Thursday at Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector 45. Mohanjit got second place and Ruchika third. The winners will be given prizes at the annual athletics meet of the college to be held on February 19. The quiz competition was part of the two-day exhibition on sports and fitness organised at the college library. |
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DAV school to host table soccer
championship
Chandigarh, February 17 North Zone Invitational Championship on April 9 and 10 at Doon Public School, Sector 21, Panchkula. All-India Invitational Meet on May 7 and 8 at Delhi Public School, Pinjore, North Zone Championship on August 6 and 7 at Satluj Public School, Sector 6, Panchkula, All-India Open Championship on October 1 and 2 at The Gurukul, Sector 21, Panchkula, and Open Inter-School Championship on November 12 and 13 at Shishu Niketan, Sector 22, Chandigarh. The other office-bearers of the federation are: secretary-general Gurmukh Singh, vice-presidents Sanjay Thareja and Daljit Singh, secretary Yadwinder Singh, joint secretaries Krit Serai, Veena Chauhan, Jabinder Sharma, Bhupinder Singh, Sukhjivan Sharma and Amrinder Singh. |
MC passes all agenda items
Mohali, February 17 Apart from a number of development projects in different parts of the town, the agenda also contained items relating to council employees. Mr N.K. Marwaha pointed out that PUDA had linked the lights in various parks to the streetlight points being run by the council. As such the lights in parks remained functional throughout the night, not only leading to a wastage of power, but also adding to the power bill that the civic body had to pay. Mr Amrik Singh Mohali said a part of the parking area in Phase II was in a state of neglect. He demanded a premix carpet in the area at the earliest. Mr Manjit Singh Sethi said a development project of his ward was not put on the agenda of the meeting although the municipal engineer had told him that the item had been approved by the officials concerned. Mr Sham Bansal said the council had earned an additional income of Rs 3.32 crore from octroi by not giving the work on contract. He suggested that the additional revenue could be spent on the construction of the council office building coming up in Sector 68 here, instead of completing the building by taking loans on high rate of interest. The president of the civic body, Mr Kulwant Singh, told Mr Bansal that the council would take loan only it became unavoidable. It would try to construct the office building out of its own resources, he said. |
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The annual inter-house cricket meet of Saupin’s School, Sector 32 concluded at MCA grounds, Mohali on Thursday. In both boys and girls sections, Maple House won the championship. In boys section they defeated Clover House while in girls section they outplayed Sycamore House.