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Australian docs visit Rattan institute
Mohali, October 2 Led by the internationally renowned Chinese medicine expert, Dr L. Wong, the team, including Dr Glennys Savage and Dr James Middletown, also “treated” patients during their interaction with college students and staff. Dr Glennys Savage, who is the vice-principal of the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Australia, told the students about the similarities between Ayurvedic form of medicine and their own. |
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Blood test camp
Panchkula, October 2 The sabha also organised a free eye, dental and medical camp at Sood Bhavan Chandigarh, which got an overwhelming response. About 350 patients were examined at the camp. A team of doctors from the GMCH, Chandigarh, conducted check ups. Medicines were given free of cost to patients while blood tests for senior citizens were done free of cost. Members of the Kerala Sastra Manch and Lioness Club 321-A2 also participated in the camp. |
Kendriya Vidyalaya sports meet from today
Chandigarh, October 2 Dr (Mrs) S.P. Shergill, Principal, KV-31 which is the Kendriya Vidyalayas’ Regional Office, said, “Around 7,000 students will be participating in either of the 21 disciplines to be held at various venues, including the Sector 42 stadium where the hockey match will be held tomorrow after its inauguration. We have already received around 400 participants from Mumbai, Kolkata, Jammu and Chennai.” Kendriya Vidyalaya, Air Force Station High Grounds, Chandigarh, is hosting kho-kho, kabaddi and volleyball (girls) during this five-day national meet. “Students representing 18 regions from across the country will be participating in this tournament and a significant part of the meet is the “Cultural Bonanza and Bara Khana” to be organised on the school ground”, said Ms S.K. Bhatia, Principal of the school. Kendriya Vidyalaya, Zirakpur, will host girls’ teams of hockey from 11 regions. The opening ceremony will be held tomorrow at 9.30 am on 474 Regt hockey ground (K-Area) Zirakpur. The meet will be declared open by the school managing body chairman, Brig. G.D. Chadha. KV-29 , OCF, is conducting table tennis and badminton matches at Table Tennis Hall, Sector 23, here, and Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex, Sector 3, Panchkula, respectively. The events will be held under three categories, i.e. under-14, under-17 and under-19. |
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Sachin’s best is yet to come, says Archrekar
Chandigarh, October 2 With this statement he tried to put stop to the controversy about Sachin’s dwindling form. The Dronacharya awardee, Archrekar, is of the view that Sachin should use a lighter bat. “This will help him to improve his form after taking over the game again,” he said. When asked whether Sachin should take up captaincy if given the opportunity, he answered in the affirmative. Archrekar visited St John’s Cricket Academy, Sector 26, to watch the training sessions there. He also gave valuable batting tips to the trainees and told them about the right way to play at front foot as well as back foot. |
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Shaleen, Mansimran best shooters
Chandigarh, October 2 Thirteen-year-old Akanksha Arora of Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, shot to glory by winning a gold medal in the Air Pistol (NR) sub-junior women section. Asavari Tayal secured a silver medal in this section. Mr Jasjit Randhawa, Cooperation Minister, Punjab, was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. |
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DAV, Karate Club adjudged joint winners
Chandigarh, October 2 The championship was organised by the Amateur Karate Association of Chandigarh. The results are as follows: Juniors (30-35 kg) — Prashant (gold), Akash (silver), Deepak and Kishore (bronze); (35-40 kg) — Sagar (gold), Vishal (silver), Pardeep and Sonu (bronze); (40-45 kg) — Navjot (gold), Kuljit (silver), Prem and Harshill (bronze); (45-50 kg) — Mridul (gold), Sajal (silver), Saurabh and Pradeep (bronze); (50-55 kg) — Yaman (gold), Khushal (silver), Arjun and Kamal (bronze); (55-60 kg) — Amardeep (gold), Shubham (silver), Shivam and Satinder (bronze). Seniors (45-50 kg) — Ashish (gold), Abhishek (silver), Kuldeep and Pankaj (bronze); (50-55 kg) — Parminder (gold), Lovjeet (silver), Nitin and Varun (bronze); (55-60 kg) — Rohit (gold), Saransh (silver), Gaurav and Satinder (bronze); (60-65 kg) — Jaswinder (gold), Gurjant (silver), Manish and Tushar (bronze); (65-70 kg) — Parikshit (gold), Vishvajeet (silver), Sarthak and Himanshu (bronze). Sub-Junior (below 25 kg) — Simran (gold), Mukul (silver), Rizul and Shivam (bronze). |
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Sector 7 govt school clinch boxing trophy
Chandigarh, October 2 Sharda Sarvhitkari School, Sector 40, won the runners-up trophy with 11 points. The Best Boxer Award went to Alam Singh of Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. He beat Ravi of United Club in the 60-kg category. The results are as follows. Amandeep b Tarish, Kamal b Vipin, Ravinder b Damashe, Satinder b Vijay, Barinder Singh b Puneet, Ram Shagar b Abhishek, Suraj Kumar b Sunil Kumar, Yoginder b Sumit, Garanveer b Navpreet, Surinder b Vishal, Nikka Singh b Geeta Nand, Narinder Singh b Gurdeep Singh, Vikas Rawat b Santosh Kumar, Mukesh Rawat b Ravinder Singh, Parneet b Karan, Bhupinder Singh b Mandeep Malik, Ravi Sharma b Sachin, Arun b Rinku, Arvind b Chandan, Kishor Kumar b Vishal and Sandeep b Deepak. |
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Gian Jyoti athletes excel
Mohali, October 2 Karanpartap Singh, Supreet Singh, Karanpreet Singh, Amandeep Singh and Mandeep Kaur excelled. |
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German soccer expert to hone coaches’ skills
Chandigarh, October 2 At a brief interaction, Frank said Indian football was gradually coming up and in few years from now the sport would be more of a household name. He said no doubt compared to Europe, Asian continents India was still far behind. It was the lack of quality coaches and lesser emphasis on learning new tactics why Indian soccer had not done well. He was confident that the new coach education structure to be followed by Indian soccer would also had a change. Frank who is now the Consultant Director, Vision Asia, a project of the Asian Football Confederation, said with his vast experience at the world level, he was determined to upgrade the skills of the Indian soccer coaches. On the question of right age to take to football, German coach said in their country it was four years. But till eight or nine years one can had fun games but after nine years a child has to learn the fundamentals of the sport. Keeping that in view, The All-India Football Federation has allotted Youth Development Coach Education Workshop to the Chandigarh Football Association (CFA) which will be held at DAV Senior Secondary School in Sector 8 from October 3 to 12, Frank said, adding that after accomplishing the job in Chandigarh he would move to Kolkata, Bangalore and finally to Goa before flying back to Germany in mid-December. Mr Arunesh Sharma of the AFC said he was grateful to Mr Ravinder Talwar, President, CFA, in accepting the challenge of giving a thrust to the soccer in the city. Meanwhile, twentyeight coaches from all over the country will attend the 10-day workshop. The coaches will attend the theory classes while the practical session would be conducted at the Sector 17 football stadium. The AIFF has directed the CFA to arrange one team each of Under-17 and Under-14 for practical session. Each team will consist of 24 players. The following coaches have been recommended to attend the workshop. Chandigarh: Surinder Kumar, Surinder Singh, B. L. Ganguly, Dinesh Sharma, R. K. Bhanot, G. D. Malhotra and Rakesh Bakshi (coordinator). Punjab: Kuldeep Singh, Jasdeep Singh, Harjinder Singh. Delhi: B. N. Chakraborty, Sandeep Dhale, M. L. Vinod, Sunil Patwal, Satyajit, Beerian Meetai, Nirmal, Rajesh Arya, Victor Charles and H. S. Rawat. Uttaranchal: Manoj Batwal. Uttar Pradesh : Sheetal Singh and Bharaib Dutt. Gujarat: R. S. Malhi, Shakti Chauhan and Dilawar Sheikh. Haryana: Partap, Charan Singh and Keshav Dutt. |
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City team for cricket
tourney announced
Panchkula, October 2 The championship is being organised here from October 6 to 9 by the Twenty 20 Cricket Federation of India. Six teams from North Zone (Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttaranchal and Chandigarh) have confirmed their participation in the championship. The Chandigarh is: Madan Lal Saini, Ajay Bhardwaj, Vikram Verma, Abhimanyu Rana, Gaurav Kumar, Rockey, Neeraj Chaudhary, Sunny Behl, Sumit Kamboj, Bhagwant Nagra, Gurinder Saini, Akaitab Bhattacharya, Saransh Kharbanda, Simranjeet Singh and Sukhwinder Singh. |
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Vikas, Nadia TT champs
Chandigarh, October 2 The results are: Men’s singles (finals): Vikas Sharma (AG, Punjab) bt Disney Riyat (PU) 11-13, 11-5, 11-3, 11-5, 14-12. Women’s singles (finals): Nadia Saini (NPS-18) bt Gurvinder Kaur (AG, Punjab) 11-2, 11-4, 11-8, 7-11, 8-11, 11-3.
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Softball title for MCM DAV
Chandigarh, October 2
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