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Drive for thalassaemic patients
Chandigarh, January 14 He has made the donation in the memory of his wife. The donation has been made to the society keeping in view their work of supplying safe blood to patients in nursing home and hospitals. Blood for these children will be provided by the Rotary and Blood Bank Society Resource Centre, Sector 37, Chandigarh, and three nursing homes have agreed to transfuse the blood free of cost. The service — “Minno Sambhi free blood service for thalassaemic children” — will be inaugurated on January 21 at 11 am at the Blood Centre, Sector 37, by Gen S.F. Rodrigues, Governor Punjab. Families of such thallasaemic children can contact the society at the Blood Centre-37 at phone numbers 2696075 or 9872703737 latest by
January 18 so that they can be invited to the function. |
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Free medical screening camp
Chandigarh, January 14 Laboratory tests like hemoglobin, blood sugar, serum cholesterol and cervical pap smear will be conducted free of cost. Dr P.R. Handa, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, along with Dr Usha Kakkar and Dr Sudha Kumari will examine the members.
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Another promising cricketer on the block
Chandigarh, January 14 This 15-day event will be held from February 5 to 19 and involves 16 countries with 44 matches to be played at five venues across Colombo. The preparation camp will start from January 17 at Chennai. “Everybody is having great expectations from me and I hope to perform well and live up to their expectations. I have been working hard and it is a great opportunity and I will prove my worth,” says Uday. Born on December 2, 1987, this left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper first hogged the limelight in the under-17 Asian Cup held in Bangalore in 2003. He scored unbeaten 208 runs and his total score was 411 in the meet. Earlier, he appeared as standby in the Wisden under-19 cricket tournament played at the PCA stadium, Mohali, against Australia last year. Besides being part of the National Cricket Academy, Bangalore, he also led Punjab team in the North-Zone Cooch Behar Trophy held at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, recently where his performance could not be ignored. He was recently included in the Punjab Ranji team, where he got a chance to play with senior players like Dinesh Mongia and Zaheer Abbas. Uday maintained that he didn’t feel any pressure while playing with senior international players. “On the contrary, it was a great feeling and I enjoyed every minute of it. Punjab team coach Intekhab Alam gave me valuable tips to be mentally tough and taught me how to improve upon my game. Zaheer Khan got me out even after letting me know where he is going to place the ball. I then realised how hard I had to work to play at the international level.” Playing competitive cricket for the past five years and a great admirer of Sri Lankan cricketer Kumara Sangakarra, Uday has the same rare all-rounder combination of wicketkeeper-batsman, which is a great incentive. A product of DAV Cricket Academy, which has produced cricketers like Kapil Dev, Ashok Malhotra and Chetan Sharma along with many national-level cricketers, Uday is all praise for his coach Sukhwinder Bawa. “Bawa Sir has taught me how to be patient and consistent. I have improved on several other aspects, including my work ethics. My accuracy level has also gone up,” he said. Test star Yuvraj Singh, V.R.V. Singh and national player Gaurav Gupta are some of the protege of coach Sukhwinder Bawa. Coming from a sports background, Uday’s father, Tej Kaul, a former physio of the Indian team, is currently working as NIS coach at Chandigarh but Uday gives more credit to his mother, Sandhya Kaul, who is a gymnastics coach at the North Region Centre, SAI. “My father had been posted outside the city most of the time and I have spent most of my time with mother and she has been supportive of me and helped me achieve my goal.” |
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Inter-media TT meet
Chandigarh, January 14 Rajiv will face Vinay while Arvind will vie with Vikas Ghai in the semifinals to be played tomorrow. Earlier, the tournament was inaugurated by Mr Akhilesh Mohan, Deputy General Manager, SBI.
The prize distribution function will be held tomorrow at 2 pm. Results: Men’s Singles (quarterfinals) Vikas Ghai b Arvind Saini (21-11, 21-14); Arvind Katyal b Rohit Awasthi (21-8, 20-22, 21-15); Vinay Chaudhary b Ashok Bali (21-12, 21-19); Rajiv Bajaj b Sukhinder Sodhi (18-21, 23-21, 21-19). First round: Arvind Saini b Vishal Gulati (21-12, 21-18); Vikas Ghai b Lovkesh (21-6, 21-15); Rohit Awasthi b Sanjay Kalia (21-16, 21-14); Arvind Katyal (walkover) Saurabh; Vinay Chaudhary b Jasjot (21-11, 21-12); Ashok Bali b Prashant (21-14, 21-11); Rajiv Bajaj b Ram Upadhya (21-12, 21-15); Sukhinder Sodhi b Amit Puri (13-21, 21-10, 24-22). |
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Vasant Valley school dominates soccer meet
Chandigarh, January 14 The three-day meet is being organised by the Chandigarh Table Soccer Association under the aegis of the Table Soccer Federation of India. Results: U-10 girls
(singles) Tarandeep (Safron city, Punjab) 1, Jagdeep Kaur (DAV, Mohali) 2. U-10 boys
(singles): Sparsh (Vasant Valley) 1, Karan-(DAV, Mohali) 2,Viney (Hansraj Public,
Pkl) 3. U-14 girls (singles): Karanjit (Hardan) 1, Chinar (Hansraj) 2, Jagman 3. U-10 boys (doubles): Nishant Guta and Yajveer (Vasant Valley Public School) 1, Shivan Sharma and Sahil Malhotra (KB DAV) 2. Saurav and Gurmeet (Stepping Stones) 3. U-19 girls: (singles): Parveen
(M.S.P.S) 1, Sariva (Surajpur) 2, Navleenpreet (Hardam) 3. U-16 boys: (doubles): Mohit and Ritesh
(Safron City) 1, Mohit and Gunjeet (V.V.P.S) 2, Canpreet and Gurmeet (M.S.P.S) 3. |
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Kavita wins bronze in fencing
Panchkula, January 14 This association is affiliated to the Federation International D’Esinue, the Commonwealth Fencing Federation and the Asian Fencing Confederation. Kavita has been awarded with a cash prize of 15,000. Last year her elder brother Satpal Singh Rawat from the same school had won a cash award of Rs 11,000 under the Fencing Championship. |
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Rinku bags wrestling title
Chandigarh, January 14 Rinku bagged a cash award of Rs 1,500 after beating Jasbir Singh in the bout. In the open challenge (junior) championship, Raj Singh of Chandigarh Police got the better of Omvir of Mohali to win Rs 1,100. Over 100 wrestlers from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi participated in the event, which is an annual affair. The bouts were held under the supervision of Wrestling Training Centre, Sector 42, coach Darshan Lal and former international wrestler Ajay Pathak. |
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Ashna beats Sabrina in CLTA tourney
Chandigarh, January 14 In another semifinal played by the girls under-14 singles category, Ikktesh Chahal beat Jannat 6-1. Other results: Girls under-10 (Semifinals) Sabrina Gill
bt. Vibhuti Khullar 5-4 Aashna Aggarwal bt Charvi Saxena 5-1 Boys’ under-10 (Quarterfinals)
Kritarth bt. Rohin Vinayak 5-1 Uttkarsh Khosla bt. Anush Bhatti 5-1 Boys’ under-8 (Semifinals) Abhijeet Singh
bt. Santbir Singh 21-13 Param Pun bt. Sumit Pal 21-13 Boys’ under-14 (Singles) (Quarterfinals) Vaibhav Gupta
bt. Rishab Dev 6-1 Girls’ under-14 (Singles) (Semifinals) Ikttesh Chahal
bt. Jannat 6-1 Rajveer Kaur bt. Seshna 6-0 |
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Maninder champions Green Field win
Mohali, January 14 Chasing 176 runs, Green Field batsmen reached the target in 24 overs for the loss of eight wickets. Brief scores: Paragon: 175 for 7 in 25 overs (Gurkirat 67, Gurjeet 43, Harjot 23, Arjun 4 for 31). Green Field: 176 for 8 in 24 overs (Maninder 62, Yuvraj 54, Raj Kumar 2 for
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Pulse Polio drive from today
Mohali, January 14 The Ropar Civil Surgeon, Dr Yash Pal Singla, said at a press conference here today that for the first time monovalent vaccine would be given. The aim was to replace vaccine virus with wild polio virus in the stomach of the child. Earlier, trivalent vaccine was given under pulse polio campaigns. Dr Singla said 600 booths were set up for giving polio drops out of which 431 were located in the rural areas. As many as 20 mobile teams had also been constituted. |
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Officers designated as VAT officers
Chandigarh, January 14 He said as per the
Section 93( 2) ( B) of the Vat Act, as extended to Chandigarh and which was notified on December 15, the officers automatically become designated VAT officers. As a result, no work had suffered
under the new tax regime. The DC said by the virtue of the provision of the repealed Act, there was no need to redesignate the officers. Meanwhile, the Administration has decided to extend the one-month period for filing of the stock
statement of the tax paid purchases to February 15. |
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Nursing home’s licence cancelled
Mohali, January 14 In a press conference here today, Dr Singla said a raid was conducted by officials of the Health Department yesterday on Dhiman Nursing Home. The team was not satisfied with the working of the nursing home. The licence was cancelled as neither did the owner have an ultrasound machine for tests nor did he have a qualified person for the job. Temporary services of another person were availed whenever there was need. He said the owner told him that no doctor had visited his clinic for conducting ultrasound tests for the past one year and he had failed to inform the authorities concerned in this regard. |
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