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AG Punjab lift trophy
Chandigarh, February 20 Batting first, AG Punjab scored 175 for 8 in the allotted 35 overs. Arun Tuli was the highest scorer with 51 runs. In reply, Haryana were bundled out for 140 in 33 overs. Only Rishpal Singh (33) and Gulab Rubani (25) were the main contributors for AG Haryana. Brief scores AG Punjab: 175 for 8 in 35 overs: (Navdeep Singh 33, Arub Tuli 51, Raman 2 for 12, Parveen 3 for 22). AG Haryana: 140 in 33 overs: (Rishpal Singh 33, Gulab Rubani 25, Navdeep 4 for 36). |
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Ruchi sprints to victory
Chandigarh, February 20 Padma Shri Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu Koonar, director, National Institute of Sports, Patiala, was the chief guest, who gave away the prizes. Students of the college presented a Punjabi folk dance. Kamaljit Kaur recalled her days as an ex-student
of the college. Results 400m: 1 Ruchi Sharma, 2 Vijay Laxmi, 3 Harpreet; high jump: 1 Harpreet, 2 Konika, 3 Anita; long jump: 1 Ruchi Sharma, 2 Harpreet, 3 Rimpy Rana; shotput: 1 Vijay Laxmi, 2 Harpreet Kaur, 3 Rimpy Rana; discus throw: 1 Harpreet Kaur, 2 Manmeer, 3 Neetu; javelin throw: 1 Harmandeep, 2 Rinchen Dolma, 3 Prabhjot; slow cycling: 1 Sunita Rani, 2 Vijay Laxmi, 3 Gagandeep; three-legged race: 1 Meenu and Kanchan, 2 Vijay Laxmi and Gagan, 3 Gurpreet and Harpreet; chatti race: 1 Reena, 2 Jasveer, 3 Jaswant Kaur; sack race: 1 Gagan, 2 Vijay Laxmi, 3 Nishi; skipping race: 1 Ruchi Sharma, 2 Harpreet Kaur, 3 Pramodini; wheel and barrow: 1 Avantika and Vijay Laxmi, 2 Jaya and Rupa, 3 Nitika and Nikki; 800m: 1 Prabhjot Bal, 2 Vijay Laxmi, 3 Rub; obstacle race: 1 Vijay Laxmi, 2 Yashwanti, 3 Kusum; 200m: 1 Ruchi Sharma, 2 Harpreet Kaur, 3 Rupa; 1,500m: 1 Vijay Laxmi, 2 Anita, 3 Jasbeer; 100m: 1 Ruchi, 2 Manpreet, 3 Vijaylaxmi; 4X100m: 1 Ruchi, Vijaylaxmi, Kusum, Harpreet; 2 Ruby, Rupa, Tanveer, Gagandeep; 3 Jaswinder, Sandeep, Aman, Geeta; race (class-IV staff): 1 Girija Shankar, 2 Ramesh Kumar, 3 Ved Prakash; marching contigent: 1 BCom, 2 BSc (medical),
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‘Sports, education two sides of coin’
Chandigarh, February 20 The Asian gold medalist in athletics, Sandhu was here to attend the annual sports meet at Government College for Girls, Sector 11. Sandhu said, “Sports and education are two sides of the same coin. In fact, both go hand in hand. Participation in sports increases one’s potential.” “Athletics should be part of college games. Athletics make a person strong and help in developing the personality,” he added. The NIS is the hub of all sports, says Sandhu. “The NIS is an important centre for all sports-related activities. It is the centre for all national and international training camps. The NIS provides all basic facilities to teams preparing for tournaments,” Sandhu adds. |
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Shruti, Shivam grab gold
Mohali, February 20 As many as 400 students participated . The competition started off with balloon race by tiny tots of Nursery. Students of LKG competed in duck race. The senior kindergarten students enjoyed frog race. Class-I students competed in 20m pair race while Class-II students participated in spoon race. Gurleen and Bhavneet of LKG, too, won gold medal in duck race while Bhavna, Davinder, Muskan, Sahiljot, Gurpreet, and Ruchi won silver medals. Darshpreet, Jaskaran Singh, Rajdeep, Mohit, Harshveer and Narendra won the bronze in different categories. |
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Shiv, Komal best athletes
Chandigarh, February 20 Udai Kumar Sinha, editor, Amar Ujala, inaugurated the meet. Sinha motivated the students to excel in sports as well as academics. The programme started with march past by NCC cadets from the Army, Naval and Air wings, NSS volunteers and athletes. Besides the regular races, there were skill races like three-legged race, lemon race, ‘chatti’ race, slow cycling etc. Mayor of the Chandigarh municipal corporation Pardeep Chhabra gave away the prizes. |
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Ankush gets better of Anmol
Chandigarh, February 20 In another contest, Aneesh got the better of Varun 7-3 while Shaleen Anand dragged down Anand by
7-1. Deepak defeated Abhishek by 7-2 while Issar lost to Diviya 7-3. |
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GMADA contractor booked for ‘encroachment’
Mohali, February 20 With the registration of an FIR against the GMADA contractor, work on the 200-feet-wide road connecting Sector 48 in Chandigarh to Sector 65 in Mohali has come to a halt. This road will connect Chandigarh to the proposed airport in Mohali and ultimately touch the National Highway 21 (road passing through Kharar). Sources said the public health wing of GMADA was carrying out the work of laying pipelines along the new road that was being constructed. The digging work was being carried out with the help of a JCB machine. But the work was stopped by the railway authorities who claimed that the pipelines were being laid in the area that belonged to the them. Moreover, a signal cable of the railways was damaged while digging the earth for laying pipelines. It is learnt that work at the Mohali railway station had got adversely affected for sometime after the signal cable got damaged. Following this, the railway authorities got an FIR registered against the contractor, arrested the driver and impounded the JCB excavator on February 16. It is learnt that the driver has been released on bail but the JCB machine will be given back to the contractor only after the railway police presents a challan in the Ropar court. Sources said the railway authorities had told GMADA that about 15 ft of land along the railway line embankment in a stretch measuring about 500 metres belonged to the former but was being encroached upon by GMADA. It is learnt that GMADA had constructed the road near the General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) complex along the railway embankment leaving very little open space. The 200-feet-wide road narrows down to only 80 ft near the GREF complex due to less availability of land. GMADA authorities are trying to find out whether GREF had encroached upon a part of the land in that stretch or not. Chief engineer of GMADA Rajiv Moudgil said he had brought the matter to the notice of the chief administrator. He had also written to the estate officer and the land acquisition collector to sort out the issue related to demarcation. GMADA chief administrator Vivek Partap Singh said the matter related to the registration of an FIR against GMADA contractor was brought to his notice today. He said the engineering wing of GMADA felt that they were working in the area owned by the authority while the railways claimed that the area belonged to it. The dispute would be sorted out after a demarcation was done.
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Now, constable caught by CBI
Chandigarh, February 20 Sources said constable Surinder Kumar posted at the Sector 34 police station, was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000 near the beat box in the Sector 32 market. He was demanding financial favours from Kulwant Singh of Sector 22 for providing him documents pertaining to a case in which the latter was involved. Kulwant Singh was arrested in a case in January this year and was jailed. He went to the police station, demanding a copy of the FIR registered against him for which the constable demanded Rs 5,000 from him. The deal was struck for Rs 3,000. Meanwhile, Kulwant reported the matter to the CBI which laid a trap and arrested the policeman. A case has been registered. Sources said senior officials held a meeting with CBI officials following a rise in the number of policemen being caught taking bribe.
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Four more snatchings reported
Chandigarh, February 20 Four incidents of snatchings were reported this afternoon, that, too, in broad daylight. Even the arrest of two snatchers yesterday failed to act as a deterrent to miscreants, who have become bold enough to target victims in houses. So far, more than two dozen incidents of snatchings have been reported this month and about 50 incidents have been reported in the past one month. It has put a question mark on the functioning of the police as most of the incidents have taken place from 10 am to 5 pm. This despite the fact that the description of the accused and the motorcycle used were the same and there was heavy presence of the police on roads. The SSP held a meeting with his counterparts in Mohali and Panchkula and had decided to share information. A police officer said as per information, a man with long golden hair is involved in a large number of snatching incidents. A miscreant with similar description struck at Sector 23-D this afternoon. A Sector 23 resident, Rama, in her early 60s, reported to the police that a youngster pulled her gold chain when she was sleeping in the front yard of her house. She woke up with the jerk and caught hold of her chain. She also raised the alarm following
which the miscreant fled. However, he managed to take away the locket. He sped away on a motorcycle on which his accomplice was waiting. The victim noted down incomplete registration number of the motorcycle (CH-03-87--),which would be verified, said the police. In another incident, two youngsters riding a black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle snatched a gold chain of Manju Sharma of Sector 41-B at around 12 pm. Similarly, Harjit Kaur of Sector 15-D lodged a complaint with the police that two youngsters riding a motorcycle snatched her gold chain from the same sector at 1.15 pm. Sudarshan Kumari of Sector 10, Panchkula, reported to the police that two unidentified persons snatched her gold chain from near AP Chowk at 1.57 pm and sped away on a motorcycle. Four cases have been registered in this regard. Meanwhile, the police produced two brothers, Gautam and Sidharth of Sector 22, accused of snatching before a local court which remanded them in police custody for a day. Later in the day, 58-year-old Santosh Kumari of Sector 41 reported to the police that a pedestrian snatched her purse containing Rs 3,000 and some documents in the market area in Badheri in Sector 41 at around 7.45 pm.
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Police action against false snatching complaints
Panchkula, February 20 According to the police, a milk vendor lodged a complaint on February 7 saying that three youths had robbed him of Rs 18,000 when he was returning home. He said the youths, who were in a Maruti car, took away his mobile phone also. However, during investigations, the complainant was found using the same mobile phone, said the police. Later, during interrogation, it was found that the vendor, who was working in a showroom of a retail chain in Sector 16, had cooked up the story of snatching in order to usurp the company’s money. In another incident of snatching in Sector 7, the complainant informed the police that the snatchers took away her purse containing a mobile phone and a few hundred rupees. Later, the list of loss kept increasing and reached up to several lakhs as it was falsely reported that the complainant was carrying jewellery in the purse even as she was going to the market for shopping, said sources in the police. The motive behind the case seemed to derive benefits from the insurance company, apprehended the police.
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Two kids held for stealing
Panchkula, February 20 According to police, complainant Vinod Kumar, a resident of Rally village, Sector 12, was sitting in his car when the kids told him that oil was leaking from his car. As soon as Vinod got down and opened the bonnet of his car to check the leakage, the children picked up his briefcase lying in
the car. When the complainant raised an alarm, some passersby overpowered the children and handed them over to the police. The children were produced before the duty magistrate who sent them to juvenile home
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Man held guilty of abetting suicide
Chandigarh, February 20 Bachhatar’s wife, Harvinder Kaur, had hanged her infant son and herself in 1996. The brother of the deceased, Paramjit, had complained to the police that Harvinder was harassed by her sisters-in-law, in-laws and husband due to which she committed suicide.
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