Dengue case confirmed
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
Ramchandra, a Hallo Majra resident, admitted to the PGI on Wednesday after suffering from high fever and bleeding from the nose has been confirmed to have dengue.

According to Dr Rajesh Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, the reports of the patient have been sent to Dr SS Cheema, nodal officer for the surveillance of communicable diseases, in Chandigarh. With this the number of dengue cases in Chandigarh has risen to two. Earlier Shruti, a Sector 38 West resident, had also tested positive for dengue.

Meanwhile, residents of Hallo Majra complained that no cleanliness drive had been launched in the area and stagnating water could be found at a number of places. Dr Cheema, however, could not be contacted for comments. 

SPORTS

Haryana thrash J&K
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 10
Left arm spinner Yugvendra Chahal (6 for 33) fashioned Haryana win by 28 runs and an innings over Jammu and Kashmit in their second match of the North Zone Inter-State (U-17) Cricket Tournament for Vijay Merchant Trophy played at Jr. Institute of Cricket Technology here today.

Resuming at overnight score of 101 for 8, Jammu and Kashmir lost Manik Gupta in the seventh over of the day being caught at short leg off Yugvendra Chahal at his individual score of 3. Thereafter Aditya Partap and last man Hardeep put some resistance together for around 30 minutes adding 20 runs for the last wicket. But that was not enough to overcome the well-knit web around the last man by Yugvendra who had the figures of 17-6-33-6.

Rohit Dilwari was the other successful bowler with 3 for 52. Jammu and Kashmir innings folded at 139 runs.

Now Haryana will take on Delhi in the next match from November 18 at Delhi.

Brief scores: Jammu and Kshmir (Ist innings) 89 all out.

Haryana (Ist innings) 256 all out (Munish Dhillon 47, Rushil Bhaskar 49, Amninder 46, Parvey Rasool 5 for 56).

Jammu and Kshmir (IInd innings) 139 all out (Parvey Rasool 38, Aditya Pratap 21, Yuyendra Chahal 8 for 33, Rohit 3 for 52).

SCD College beat Arya College
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
SCD Government College of Ludhiana thrashed Arya College of Ludhiana by 127 runs in the Panjab University Inter-College Zonal Cricket A-Division (men) tournament at DAV College, Sector 10, here today.

In the second match between Government College, Sector 11, and Government College, Sector 46, the former won the match by five wickets. The match was held on the Panjab University campus.

Brief scores: SCD Govt College: 227 for 9 in 45 overs (Karan Kalia 37, Gurpreet 36, Lalit 36, Puran 3 for 41 Gaurav Kumar 1 for 15).

Arya College: 99 all out in 23 overs (Harpreet Singh 30, Varun Verma 5 for 44, Sakun Verma for 3 for 3).

Second match:

Govt College, Sector 11: 161 all out in 31.1 overs ( Dakesh 31, Rajwant 22, Gurvinder 28, Gurpreet 2 for 30, Harman 3 for 29, Mandeep 2 for 28).

Govt College, Sector 46: 167 for 5 in 32.4 overs (Gurpreet 57 n o, Sukhwinder 29, Devesh 28, Navjot 3 for 44).

Sant Isher Singh Public School lift overall trophy
Tribune News Service

Mohali, November 10
Students of Sant Isher Singh Public School, Mohali, won the overall trophy at the district-level science exhibition that ended at Paragon Senior Secondary School Sector 71 here today. Mr Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Punjab Parliamentary Secretary, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry gave prizes to the winners of the three day exhibition.

Students of Paragon Senior Secondary School Sector 71, Mohali, brought home the second overall prize while students of Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Chamkaur Sahib, won the third over all prize.

The students who would represent Ropar district at the state-level science exhibition include: Elementary category: Jaswinder Singh; Secondary category: Shweta Tayal, Karan Sharma, Jaskanwar Singh, Gaurav Parwal and Supinder Singh; Senior Secondary category: Ajaypal, Vinnipreet Kaur, Deepak Parwal, Amanpreet Kaur, Ramandeep Kaur, Manmeet Kaur and Ramandeep Kaur.

The students who won the various allied competitions include: Poster making: Daljit Kaur of Government High School, Shakrulpur; Quiz: Neeraj Khullar and Harmandeep Kaur of GGSTP Model School Power Colony, Ropar; Chart making: Damanpreet of Government High School Bhago Majra.

The teachers who won the Teaching Aids and Teaching Extempore Competitions include: Mr Kuldeep Singh of Government High School Brahmandiyanbasian, Mr Kuljit Singh of Government Senior Secondary School, Nadah and Gurinder Pal Singh of Paragon Senior Secondary School, Sector 71 Mohali.

As many as 250 students from Ropar, Anandpur Sahib, Kharar and Mohali participated in the exhibition. Over 125 science models were on display at the exhibition on the main theme of ‘Science and technology for rural development’. 

New Public School lads move up in basketball tourney
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
The team of New Public School, Chandigarh, moved into the quarter finals with a thumping win over Little Flower, Panchkula by 38-2 in the U-16 category of IInd Emily Gosain Memorial Junior Basketball Tournament started at St Xavier’s High School, Sector 20 here today.

As many as 26 teams from 18 schools of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula are participating in the tournament.

The other results of first day are as follows:

U-12: St Xavier’s, Pkl b St Xavier’s, Mohali 13-9; Little Flower, Pkl b GNPS, Chd 17-8.

U-16: DAV-15, Chd b GNPS, Chd 37-30; Manav Mangal, Pkl b AKSIPS, Chd 29-10; St Xavier’s, Chd b DC Model, Pkl 28-21; Bhavan Vidyala, Pkl b St Xavier’s, Mohali 11-6, St Xavier’s, Pkl b The Gurukul, Pkl 21-11; DAV-8, Chd b St Stephen’s, Chd, 39-34.

Walkover for Mount Carmel
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 10
The team of Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, Chandigarh, moved into the semifinals by getting walkover in Under-15 Satluj Cricket League-cum-Knockout Tournament here as their opponent Guru Harkishan Model School, Sector 38-C, did not turn up at the venue today.

The tournament is being played at Satluj Public School, Sector 4 grounds. The organisers waited for the Guru Harkishan team for a long time. When the team failed to come, the decision of walkover was given in the favour of Mount Carmel team.

ADMINISTRATION

SDO shifted for dereliction of duty
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
The Chandigarh Administration has decided to transfer Mr Sanjay Arora, Sub-Divisional Officer (Buildings) for dereliction of duty. The case seeking disciplinary action was forwarded by Mr R.K. Rao, Deputy Commissioner, to Mr S.K. Sandhu, Finance Secretary, it is reliably learnt.

The administration has also repatriated 18 employees of the Building Branch of the Enforcement Wing of the Estate Office. These officials will be sent back to their respective states of Punjab or Haryana on account of dissatisfactory job performance with their current assignments. A majority of them had overstayed in the UT against the expected norm of three years.

The Central Vigilance Commission(CVC) in its guidelines has specifically said that officials engaged in public dealings or in other sensitive assignments can spend a maximum period of three years in the particular post.

At least three draftsmen have been suspended, as against the prescribed norm of three years, a couple of whom had stayed for more than 15 years. The names of the suspended draftsmen include Mr Tajinder Arora, Mr Rajesh Kumar and Mr Darbara Ram.