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Man killed in freak accident
Tribune News Service

Kharar, April 6
Satish Sharma (54) was killed while his daughter Sonal seriously injured as the car they were travelling in met with an accident near Sahora village on NH 21 today.

The accident took place opposite Doaba Group of Colleges. A truck PB 12 G 1487 was going on speed when its axle broke and rear tyres of the truck came off the vehicle. Satish and Sonal were following the truck in their Maruti car number PB 12 J 8575. Wheels collided with the car leading to a serious accident.

An ambulance of the Rayat and Bahra group brought the father-daughter duo to the Kharar civil hospital, where Satish was declared brought dead.

Youth kidnapped, thrashed, handed over to cops
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 6
Naveen Anand moved ahead thrashing Ankush Arora, 8-0, in the second round of boys’ under-14 qualifying match in the AITA Super Series being played at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association Courts, Sector 10, here today.

Local lad Nischay Rawal got the better of Jaspinder Singh by 8-5 in the boys’ under-16 singles qualifying second round match.

Other results

Boys: Under-14 singles qualifying (2nd qualifying round): Naveen Anand bt Ankush Arora 8-0, A. Khade bt Sachin Kumar 8-1, Ravender Singh bt Anmol Bains 8-6, Amit Bzad bt Shubam Vij 8-1, Udai Singh Mann bt Nakul Nayak 8-5, Hardeep Singh bt Abhishek 8-7, Sushant Mohanty bt Fatehdeep Singh 8-1, Ayush Mintri bt Ankush Arora 8-1, Jajbir Singh bt Andrew Pradeep 8-4, Shailendra Bonafice bt Saurav Bhasin 8-3, Jatinder Singh bt Ranjodh Singh 8-2, Utkarsh Khosla bt Ishan Singh 8-0, Dhruv Agarwal bt Srijjan Singh 8-0, Ranjeet Singh bt Anirup Yadav 8-4.

Under-16 singles qualifying (2nd Round): Harry Jindal bt Resham Singh 8-2, Aviraj Kamboj bt Ramandeep Kaushik 8-2, Nischay Rawal bt Jaspinder Singh 8-5, Kamal Kishore bt Sural Beniwal 8-3, Pradeep Deshmal bt Rajat Solanki 8-7 (5), Aiman Abdullah bt Nikhil Prasad 8-1, Manish Kumar bt Ziyan Abdul 8-5, Kavit bt T.G. Subash 8-6.

Chandigarh, April 6
HDFC XI rode on half century by Gurinder Saini (74) to beat Dell XI by 40 runs in the Vth Bharat Kesho Memorial Cricket Tournament at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium here today.

Batting first, HDFC XI mustered 130 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 25 overs. Displaying good performance, Gurinder Saini kept one end intact as wickets kept tumbling at the other end. Vipan was the second highest scorer with 14 runs.

Dennis was the pick of the bowlers for Dell XI, finishing with three important wickets for 29 runs.

In reply, Dell XI could not put up good show and were all out on 90 runs.

Balwar Pooni claimed four for just 20 runs.

In the second match of the day, Fotis XI defeated Haryana Warehousing Corporation XI by three runs.

Batting first, Fortis XI put on 129 runs in 25 overs. Chasing the target, HWC gave up on 126 for 3 in the allotted overs.

In the other match, Dell XI managed to defated Airtel XI by 6 wickets.

Brief Scores

HDFC XI: 130 for 7 in 25 overs (Gurinder Saini 74, Vipan 14, Dennis 3 for 29, Ankur 2 for 18).

Dell XI: 90 all out in 17 overs (Bishwinder 17, Balwar Pooni 4 for 20, Yudhvir 3 for 8). 

Chandigarh, April 6
Arunima Goyal emerged winner accumulating 4.5 points in the under-11 (girls) category trailing Tarini Goyal and Roopam Bhardwaj to second and third spots, respectively in the Ist Kids’ Own Money Children Chess Carnival-2008 for boys and girls at Sector 17 here today.

In under-11 boys’ section, Tejas Nagpal (5.5 points) secured first position while Apporav Anand was second and Sunbir Chawla got third position.

The chief guest Vivek Atray, director of tourism, Chandigarh administration, distributed the prizes and certificates among the winners.

Other results:

Girls: Under-11: 4.5 points: Arunima Goyal; 3.5 points: Tarini Goyal, Roopam Bhardwaj; 3 points: Tanya Kaushal; 2.5 points: Shaurya Panpalia, Vomini Rana; 2 points: Saumya, Sibani Malhotra; 1 point: Niyati Malhotra.

Under-15: 4 points: Ravneet Kaur; 3.5 points: Srishti Jain; 3 points: Manvi Tandon; 2 points: Pragya Gupta; 1 point: Akshita Grover.

Boys: Under-11: 5.5 points: Tejas Nagpal; 5 points: Apoorv Anand, Sunbir Chawla; 4 points: Mehul Jotshi, Pranjal Kaura, Mayank Kaura, Anubhav Tuknayat, Prakhar Gusain, Akash Bhardwaj; 3.5 points: Gunbir Singh, Varun B Kumar; 3 points: Hari Narayan Sodhi, Nikhil Bhaskar, Vibhushit Singh, Akhil Ranjan, Amartya Bhattacharya, Ayush Chawla, Kashish Kaushal; 2.5 points: Fateh Partap Phoolka, Rohan Garg; 2 points: Gurfateh Singh Doabia, Adil Bir Singh, Uday Bir Singh; 1.5 points: Uddhav Bagrolia; 1 point: Arnav Sibbal; 0.5 point: Hardik Mittal.

Under-15: 6 points: Shirish; 5 points: Akshay Anand; 4.5 points: Ameep Malhotra; 4 points: Sahil Bhatia, Manav Sharma, Aditya Singh Panwar; 3.5 points: Satbir Singh, Gitin Oberai, Abhinav Bansal, Sachleen Singh; 3 points: Anmol Kuthiala, Adhish Sood, Shrivanshu Tandon, Abhijit Sharan, Anuvarat Jain, Manas Bhatnagar; 2 points: Rehmat Singh Walia, Shubham Dev Bali, Varun Garg, Hashpreet Singh; 1 point: Divir Gupta, Deepankar Raleh; 0 point: Arjun Verma.