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Prize distribution at PEC
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While the UT Finance Secretary, Mr S.K. Sandhu, was the chief guest at the annual prize distribution ceremony, the UT Home Secretary, Mr Krishan Mohan, along with his wife sat among the proud parents to watch their wards get prizes.

Mr Krishan Mohan’s daughter, Deepika Mohan, who is passing out this session brought laurels to the college for PECFEST and as part of the Thinking Club.

Chandigarh, April 25
Punjab Engineering College organised its annual award giving ceremony to honour deserving students with college colours and other awards. Mr S.K. Sandhu, Finance Secretary, UT, presided over the function as the chief guest. The programme started with the lighting of a lamp by the chief guest. This was followed by the award giving ceremony. The students also presented a cultural programme.

The event also marked the transfer of posts of the official college clubs. The new chief club secretary and the convener of the PEC fest 2007, were also named during the course of the meeting.

Dr Vijay Gupta, Director, PEC, Mr K.K. Gogna, chief club president, and Mr K.K. Garg, Dean Student Welfare, blessed the students.

Among those who won college colour were: clubs: Simranjit Singh (CCS); Music Club: Harleen Kaur, Gurlam Singh, Dhruv Kumar; Rotaract Club: Amit Sareen, Nidhi Bansal; Dramatics Club: Neha Goyal, Vandana Prasad, Ridhima Dhar; Thinker’s Club: Deepika Mohan; Robotics Club: Vinayak, Saurabh Sood, Himanshu Sachdev; Envirovision Club: Nitin Kansal, Vishal Saini; Art and Photography Club: Sameer Sharma; Projection Club: Yagneshwar, Naveen Sharma, Mukesh Mehta; SAASC: Umangpreet Kaur, Amarpreet Singh, Yukti Jain, Misha Pratap; technical societies: Anuj Madan, Yogesh Babbar.

ISTE: Shushank Mehta, Ranjan Singh, Nitin Gupta; IETE: Arshdeep Bagha, Mrigank Aggarwal; SAE: Anirudh Aggarwal, Nikanj Garg; SME: Sandeep Singh; ASI: Gaurav Karwal, Vinay Kumar Srivastav; IEEE: Shanu Singh, Divay Bansal; Ed boards: Aman Kumar Goel, Jastej Singh Sra, Mrigank Aggarwal, Guralam Singh Brar; Sports: Abhishek Garg, Neha Sharma, Deepika Mohan, Inderjit Kaul, Baljeet Kaur, Neeraj Jhawar, Saurabh Jagota; NSS: Simranjit Singh, Yukti Jain, Amit Sareen, Deepak Dabbas, Ayush Aggarwal, Himanshu Gupta; Training and placement: Deepak Dabbas, Jai Goyal, Kenny Hseih; Student's council: Maninder Singh, Deepika Mohan, Misha Pratap, PECFEST: Deepika Mohan, Maninder Singh, Misha Pratap, Yagneshwar, Kenny Hseih, Teginder P. Singh Kaleka, Himanshu, Jaspreet Singh, Harkeerat Singh.

First-aid training for students
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Chandigarh, April 25
Ind-Swift Limited today joined hands with the Safety Circle, an international training centre of the National Safety Council of the USA, for free first-aid training programme to representatives of staff and students of government schools of Chandigarh under "Swift Health Programme for Schools."

Addressing a press conference here today, Dr Gopal Munjal, Chairman of the Ind-Swift group, said the company had requested the Safety Circle to provide first-aid training to selected staff and students of 104 government schools.

Mr B.P.S. Bakshi, Managing Director of the Safety Circle, said his organisation was representing the National Safety Council in six countries, including India, and they would help Ind-Swift in this social cause.

He said that they would train the staff and student for first-aid principles, emergency action plan, basic life support, bleeding and wound care, serious injuries, bone, joint and muscle injuries, sudden illness, burns, poisoning, heat and cold emergencies, rescuing and moving victims.

Mr Anshu Kataria, Director of the "Swift Health Programme for Schools", added that the third phase of the programme would be launched in the first week of May. After the completion of the third phase, the decision regarding its extension to the other states would be taken.

Students come out with flying colours
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Chandigarh, April 25
Students of a slum colony here who appeared for the Class V exams held by the Haryana State Education Board in April, 2006, have come out with flying colours. Out of the nine “Jagriti” students who had appeared five got the first division and the result was 100 per cent. Tinku secured the first position with 82 per cent Kailash was 2nd with 76 per cent marks and Jaiveer stood III with 73 per cent marks in the school.

These students have been adopted by the DAV School, Sector 8, Panchkula.

The Principal, Mrs Santosh Bhandari applauded the efforts put in by the teachers and the students and said it was the responsibility of everyone to see that the children of the unfortunate section of the society did not suffer because of illiteracy and continued to be in the vicious circle of poverty and exploitation.

From Punjab University
Workshop on female foeticide concludes
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Chandigarh, April 25
A five-day writers’ workshop on female foeticide and a two-day state-level workshop for functionaries of the Health and Literacy Department on the same topic concluded here today. This was stated by Dr Dazy Zarabi, programme coordinator.

She emphasised that the thrust areas of the population and development education programme were reproductive health and reproductive rights, adolescent education, gender equality and equity, empowerment of women, HIV/AIDS and family life education.

For the past two years, the cell had been emphasising on the programmes relating to female foeticide at different levels to combat the problem of declining sex ratio.

“Female foeticide in right perspective” was discussed by Dr Parkash Gupta, specialist in family medicine, public health and radio diagnosis who highlighted the importance of social and mental change in society. The women should be empowered to say no to sex determination, it was stressed.

Ms Jasbir Bawa, State Mass Media Officer, emphasised on gender specific socialisation and urged the participants to break the stereotypes regarding male and female roles. The participants actively participated in the workshop and took pledge to propagate the message to all districts of Punjab.

Training programme: The University Employment Information and Guidance Bureau, Panjab University, will organise a three-day training programme on career guidance for liaison officers of local colleges from Wednesday at ICSSR Complex, Panjab University Campus.

Prof Veer Singh, Dean University Instruction, will inaugurate the programme. Mr L.V. Reddy and his team from the Central Institute of Training and Employment Service will provide training, according to Prof Dinesh K. Gupta, Chief, University Employment Information and Guidance Bureau, Panjab University.

SPORTS

Youngest rider bags gold
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Chandigarh, April 25
It was the maiden equestrian competition for the youngest rider at Chandigarh Horse Show and he bagged Gold. For the past six years, local lad Adhiraj Toor has started off on his riding career on a high note.

He bagged the top position in the Children’s Ball and Bucket Race. The event required participants to drop a ball into a bucket while riding, go around, collect another ball and repeat the sequence.

Adhiraj has been riding for the past two years and is a member of the St John High School’s riding team which is participating in the show. He is a student of Class-I.

“I am very fond of horses and really enjoy riding,” he said. “It feels very nice to win a race in an event like this”, he added. Adhiraj has his own horse and he does practice regularly. “I ride daily for about an hour,” he said.

32 selected for SAI scheme
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Chandigarh, April 25
Thirtytwo football players in the age groups of under-14, under-17 and under-19 have been selected under a day boarding scheme of the Sports Authrority of India for DAV Senior Secondary School in Sector 8 here.

More than 80 players from the northern states attended the two-day selection trials held at the school on April 20 and 21. After physical and skill tests, nine players were selected for the under-14 category, nine for the under-17 section and 13 for the Under-19 category.

The players are expected to join the scheme on May 1 after all formalities are completed. They will undergo medical tests before final selection.

Those who comprised the selection panel included SAI Regional Director (Sonepat) S.S. Rao, Deputy Director Sanjeev Sharma, Principal of the school Ravinder Talwar, SAI coach Satnam Singh, Hamajit (SAI, Sonepat) and Hardeep Singh (SAI, Sonepat).

The selected players are:

Under-14: Ayush, Nitin Kapoor, Navjot, Sarvan, Sandesh Jhingan, Amardeep Singh, Rohtas, Nikhal, Parteek.

Under-17: Rajan, Rahul Thapa, Kuldeep, Vishal Rana, Ankush, Parkash, Mukul Thapa, Mukesh Kumar (goalkeeper), Gurpreet Singh (GK).

Under-19: Mukesh, Saurav, Charanpreet Singh, Vijay Bhatt, Amit Banga, Saurav Thakar, Hanish Bindal, Jasmit Singh, Kuldeep Kumar, Nayan Mudri, Jagatjeet Singh, Mohak and Simran Deep.

The man who honed Dhoni’s skills
Akash Ghai
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V. Venkat Ram

Mohali, April 25
“One drastic change, which I have been seeing in Dhoni since his debut in international cricket, is he has learned to control his aggression.” These are the views of V. Venkat Ram, under whom top one-day ICC-ranked player Mahendra Singh Dhoni honed his skills during his first class cricket stint.

The former Jharkhand Ranji coach said: “In his earlier days, Dhoni would go into the ground just to blast without any consideration of his responsibility towards the team. But, it came as a pleasant surprise to me when I saw him proving match winner by playing with utmost responsibility in recent matches.

“This is the biggest change in Dhoni’s attitude after his entry into international cricket and I am sure it will prove an asset for him as well as for Indian cricket.”

Under Venkat’s coaching, Dhoni had played Ranji matches for three years besides seven Duleep Trophy tournaments.

Expressing happiness over Dhoni’s elevation to the No. 1 position in the ICC one-day ranking, Venkat hoped that he would prove trump card in World Cup-2007.

Venkat, who remained captain of the Bihar Ranji team for seven years and has played 62 first class matches, is the chief coach of the ongoing camp for North Zone (under 19) players at PCA here.

Comparing the cricket infrastructure of Bihar with Punjab, the Level-III coach of the National Cricket Academy rated the PCA stadium as one of the best stadiums in the world having all facilities of international standard.

Venkat, who believes in creating friendly atmosphere among players during training sessions, is full of praise for the probables of the camp. “Many of them have potential of playing for the country. I am trying to instil confidence in the players besides working on their grey areas”, said Venkat.

Ropar bundled out for 79
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Mohali, April 25
Ropar could not capitalise on the chance to consolidate its position in the match and were all out for paltry 79 runs in the first innings against Chandigarh on the second day of a three-day semifinal match of Sushil Bali Trophy at PCA stadium here today.

Ropar started to play from their overnight score of 30 for 1 in 32 overs and bundled out at 79 in 68 overs. Putting up better show in the second innings Chandigarh’s batsmen made 177 for 6 in 76 overs at the end of the day’s play.

Earlier, in their first innings, Chandigarh scored 171 runs.

Brief scores: Chandigarh (1st innings): 171 all out in 83.4 overs.

Ropar (1st innings): 79 all out in 68 overs (Arjun 21, Bhavesh 19; Gurinder Singh 4 for 26 and Rahul Chara 5 for 47).

Chandigarh (2nd innings):177 for 6 in 76 overs (Manan Vohra 53,Vishal Thind 46, Gurinder 29 n.o.; Arjun 2 for 50, Vivek 2 for 26 and Sharanjeet 2 for 39).