Chandigarh, April 8
“There was no clinical test to predict the occurrence of pre-eclampsia. However, a combination of maternal high-risk factors with uterine artery doppler can prove useful. Also, calcium intake can prevent pre-eclampsia in high-risk women with low dietary intake,” said Dr P.K. Saha at a CME and annual meeting of the Obstetric and Gynaecological Society of Northern India at the PGIMER today.

Over 150 delegates participated and deliberated on issues pertaining to obstetric haemorrhage and eclampsia.

Dr Shalini underlined the need for taking fetal growth into consideration while attempting to reduce blood pressure, especially in cases of pregnancy-induced hypertension.

Dr P.R. Handa opined that protocols and guidelines should be made for management of severe pre-eclampsia, depending upon the facilities of neonatal and maternal intensive care at each centre.

A panel discussion on obstetric haemorrhage was held in which experts, including Sushma Chawla, Anju Huria, Kumud Gupta, Manjit Mohi, Lakhbir Dhaliwal, deliberated on different aspects of bleeding complications arising out of pregnancy and their effective management in order to prevent maternal deaths. — TNS

Chandigarh, April 8
Local lad Digvijay Singh Naruka outclassed Haryana’s Rahul Poria 4-1, 4-1 and ensured his berth in the main draw of the u-12 category of the All-India Tennis Association Talent Series being played at the CLTA Tennis Stadium, Sector 10, here today.

In the all-Chandigarh final qualifying round of boys u-14, Sachin beat Pragun Vinayak 5-4 (4), 4-1. Aviraj Kamboj, Srijan Uppal, Digvijay Singh Naruka and Suraj Hasrani of Kerala were awarded wild cards in the boys u-14 singles. Barun Gill and Raghav Talwar of Chandigarh and Nishat Eqbal of West Bengal have been given wild cards in the boys u-12 singles in the main draw to be held tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Digvijay Singh Naruka, Manish Drall, Amit Bzad, Nikhil Rawal, Sarthak Das, Vikas Beriwal, Jotpal Singh and Vishu Parsad qualified for the main draw in the boys u-12 singles.

Manish Drall of Delhi blanked Harpreet Singh of Chandigarh 4-0, 4-0 in the final qualifying round. Nikhil Rawal of Chandigarh toiled hard to prevail over Arjun Pandey of Uttar Pradesh by 5-4 (4), 4-2 in a hard-fought final qualifying round match. Down by one set, Vikas Beriwal of Haryana rallied to down Dalwinder Singh of Punjab 1-4, 4-2, 4-0.

Suraj Benilwa, Aiman, Vikramjit Singh Kang, Amit Bzad, Sachin, Sahil Kahlon, Jagdeep Singh and Manish Drall made it to the main draw of the boys u-14 singles main draw.

Chandigarh, April 8
A fine all-round performance by Ajay Bhardwaj (67 runs, 4 for 17) enabled Godrej Cricket Club (GCC) to beat Dell-XI by 29 runs in the final of the fourth Bharat Kesho Gupta Memorial Cricket Tournament held at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16, here today.

Batting first after winning the toss, GCC lost three wickets cheaply at 24 runs. Then, Ajay, with the help of skipper Vaneet Chawla, took the score past 50 runs. It was Amritpal (29 off 23 balls) who helped GCC score 183 runs in the stipulated 35 runs.

Chasing the target, Dell-XI garnered 50 runs in first 10 overs and had scored 87 runs in 17 overs for the loss of three wickets. But GCC’s Ajay Bhardwaj (4 for 17) and Vijay Pal (3 for 30) changed the complexion of the game and Dell-XI were all out for 154 runs in 32.4 overs.

Jai Kapil (GCC) was declared best batsman, Vikramjit Bhullar (Dell-XI) best bowler, Sanjay Bhatia (GCC) best wicketkeeper, Abhishek Prashar (Dell-XI) best all-rounder and Ajay Bhardwaj was declared man of the match.

Brief scores:

GCC: 183 runs for 7 wickets in 35 overs (Ajay Bhardwaj 67, Amritpal 29 n.o, Vaneet Chawla 27, Jai Kapil 25, Karan Kumar 3 for 43, Abhishek 2 for 34, Vikramjit Bhullar 2 for 33)

Dell XI: 154 all out in 32.4 overs (Vikramjeet Bhullar 34, Karan Kumar 27, Paritosh 26, Ajay Bhardwaj 4 for 27, Vijay Pal 3 for 30, Amritpal 2 for 23).

Chandigarh, April 8
Nishchay Rawal, a student of Class VII of St Anne’s School-32, won both the boys u-12 and u-14 titles at the YMCA Total Tennis Masters Championship being played at YMCA Total Tennis Academy, Sector 11, here today.

In the boys u-14, he beat top seed Jaivardhan Gupta of Chandigarh Club. The first set went in the favour of Nishchay Rawal 7-6 (4). In the second set, both players were tied 4-4 each but a service break after three deuces gave Nishchay a chance and he broke his three match jinx with score line of 7-6 (4), 6-4 in his favour.

It was a rather easy win for Nishchay Rawal in the boys u-12 category where he won all the league matches to make it a double crown.

The girls title went to Chandigarh’s Prabhamrit Kaur.

The toughest match of the championship was played between two tiny tots in the boys u-12 section when Nihit Rawal played against Himanshu Gupta. Nihit lost the first set 5-7 to Himanshu and then Himanshu took 5-2 lead in the second set but Nihit Rawal saved three match points at 6-5 and managed to take the set to tie-break. He took the set at 7-6(4) levelling the match at one set all. In the third and the final set, Himanshu took the lead but ultimately, the final went in the favour of Nihit Rawal 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-6(4).