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Paper presented on Alzheimer’s
Chandigarh, September 21 Presenting a paper on ‘Knowing Alzheimer’s disease, Professor Modi said the Department of Neurology at PGI was actively involved in the evaluation and management of the patients suffering from the disease. In his paper Professor Modi explained that due to certain chemical reactions the brain cells shrink thereby leading to memory loss and the disease. |
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430 donate blood
Chandigarh, September 21 The camp was held in association with Punjab National Bank and was inaugurated by Mr P Rama Rao, Director, NIPER, Mohali. A team of doctors from the PGI conducted the camp under the supervision of Dr Usha Rao, Senior Blood Transfusion Officer, PGI. Certificates and souvenirs were awarded to all blood donors. Special honour was given to those students of the college who had
donated blood more than six times during the bi-annual blood donation camp. As many as 430 donors comprising of students, faculty and employees of PEC donated blood at the camp. |
SGGS win inter-college
hockey tournament
Chandigarh, September 21 Khushwant of SGGS team converted the first penalty corner in the fourth minute of the play which was equalised by Sandeep Singh of the GHG College team. The second
penalty was converted by Manpreet (SGGS) in the 55 th minute. Kunal Khurana fielded another goal in the 64th minute, which decided the game in favour of the SGGS College team. In another match of the day, SCD Government College, Ludhiana, beat LLR Government College, Dhudhike, (1-0). Ravinder Singh of SCD Government College team fielded the lone goal in the 27th minute and bagged the title. |
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Top shuttler endorses new rally-point system
Chandigarh, September 21 She is in Panchkula these days with her coach, Dronacharya awardee SM Arif, to train with the local shuttlers. Shruti is the undisputed doubles queen of Indian badminton, enriching the Indian women’s doubles badminton. In partnership with another gutsy girl Jwala Gutta, she has pocketed many titles in women’s doubles and represented India in Uber Cup, Asian meets and other international tournaments as a woman ambassador of the Indian badminton. Shruti, a Keralite, was born and brought up in Andhra Pradesh and as she said it was her good luck to have found a guardian in Mr Arif, a versatile badminton coach, at Fateh Maidan stadium, Hyderabad. Mr Arif moulded Shruti to face the big challenges in this sport where doubles event was a thing of the past. Playing with Pullela Gopi Chand, Jwala and host of other talented and reputed players, all based in Hyderabad, Shruti matured into a fine doubles specialist though she has also played in singles events. When asked as to how she felt about the new rally-point system to be experimented in the forthcoming mini and sub-junior nationals on the recommendations of the International Badminton Federation, she said it would definitely give a new direction to the sport and make it more market-oriented. Her coach echoed the same views. On playing with junior players of Panchkula and the facilities, she said the experience was excellent and also hoped that more champions would come from this small city where badminton seemed to be very popular. She said few boys here were very talented but they also needed to be polished so as to do well in the national tournaments. When asked if she missed her partner Jwala who is training in Denmark, Shruti said everyone should avail of the chance and she was happy Jwala got the opportunity. Shruti said Jwala would still play with her in doubles and also in the Syed Modi International meet in Lucknow in December. |
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Panchkula thrash Sonepat by 16 runs
Panchkula, September 21 Under-14 category, it was again Panchkula district team which thrashed Ambala district team by 4 wickets. Brief scores: Under- 16 Panchkula: 123 in 15 overs for 3 wickets. Shankar Nair 96, Anurag Thakur 20, Navjit Singh 2 for 15, Mohit Verma 2 for 12 runs. Sonepat team: 107 for 8 wickets. |
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GCG-11 paddlers beat Dev Samaj
Chandigarh, September 21 In men’s section, G N Khalsa College, Abohar, got the better of GGN Khalsa College, Ludhiana by 3-0 while the Government College, Sector 11 thrashed Sri Aurobindo College of Ludhiana by 3-0. |
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Khalsa College win kabaddi match
Chandigarh, September 21 In another match, Bondli College, Samrala, defeated GHG Khalsa College, Gursar Sudhar, in a one-sided affair by 42-8 and pocketed 34 points. LLR Government College, Dhudike, bagged 33 points defeating SR College, Dalla, by 60-27. In the last match of the day, BAM Khalsa College, Garhshankar, outclassed MMD DAV College, Gidharwaha, by 60-30 and bagged 30 points. |
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CBSE basketball: Vivek girls placed second
Chandigarh, September 21 Vivek team won three out of the four matches in the girls category against Nagbani School, Jammu. They also scored a win over CST School, Simla with a score of 26-8 and also defeated APS
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CTP gets environment clearance
Chandigarh, September 21 |
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Ban orders by DM
Panchkula, September 21 |
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