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Ambala, August 3
A fake sadhu has tactfully managed to grab a gold ring and Rs 12,000 of a family at Ambala Cantonment yesterday. The police registered a case against the unknown sadhu.

According to information, Atul (12), son of an ex-municipal commissioner, is studying in Khalsa Senior Secondary School at Ambala Cantt.

When Atul was coming out after the school was over, a sadhu met him on the way.

He told Atul that his family would face a big setback soon. If he wanted to get rid of it, he should give him ornaments and cash.

He assured him that he would return these after performing a religious recital and it would cease the coming problem.

Atul went home and turned up with Rs 12,000 and a gold ring of his mother. The sadhu took it and asked him to close his eyes and sit just opposite to him. After a few minutes, when Atul opened his eyes he found that the sadhu was not there.

Later, he informed his parents about the entire episode. On the complaint of the father, the police lodged a forgery case against him. 

Patiala, August 3
“Sufism has played a very significant role in spreading the spiritual message of peace and brotherhood among the mankind. The message assumes much significance in the context of prevalent situation dominated by violence and hostility reaching the crest of sadism.”

This was stated by Dr Jaspal Singh, vice-chancellor of Punjabi University, while presiding over a conference on “Resurgence of Sufism as a Universal Movement for Peace” at University of Gujarat, Pakistan.

Dr Jaspal Singh said some fanatics were playing an ugly game by misguiding and inciting innocent youth to indulge in carnage and bloodshed. The doctrine of Sufism, he said, could help salvage the humanity from this ugly and ghastly state of affairs. An apostle of Sufism Baba Sheikh Farid had been given a very respectable place in Guru Granth Sahib by Guru Nanak himself by selecting his divine recitals, even as the fifth Sikh master Guru Arjun Dev took special care while editing and compiling them in the holy scripture.

Dr Jaspal Singh announced to hold the next conference on Sufism at Punjabi University, Patiala, in response to his counterpart in University of Gujarat Dr Fakhar Zaman’s invitation for furthering the interaction between the two universities.

Patiala, August 3
The Archery Association of India (AAI) has appointed Kulbir Singh Kang, president of the Punjab Archery Association, as the non-playing captain of the Indian archery squad, which will take part in the Beijing Olympics.

The four-member squad comprises of Mangal Singh Champia, Dola Banerjee, Laishram Bombayla Devi, and V. Parnitha.

Kang, a former IAS officer, said the Beijing-bound archers were attending a training camp at the Sports Authority of India’s eastern centre at Salt Lake City in Kolkata.

Kang admitted that the archers performed badly at the last Olympics in Athens because of rough weather conditions. However, he maintained that the players were this time better prepared to face the rough, windy conditions, which they may encounter at Beijing.

The archers are training at Kolkata under the supervision of Korean coach Lee Wang Woo.

Kang said that veteran Dola Banerjee of the railways had shrugged off her poor form and was now doing very well in the camp at Kolkata. He added that the country could also look forward to a good performance from Mangal Singh Champia, the only male archer in the team. The 23-year-old from Jharkhand qualified for the Olympics by winning a silver in the Continental Qualification tournaments held in Xian, China, in September last year.

The AAI has also appointed Purnima Mahato, an employee of Tata steel, who is also a coach at the Tata Archery Academy, as the coach of the Indian team. She will be assisting Woo in Beijing. One of Mahato’s pupils, V. Parnitha (19), is a cadet at the Tata Archery Academy.

Mahato won a gold medal in the international archery championship held at Bangkok in 1993. Later, she joined Tata steel and since then she has been coaching cadets at the Tata Archery Academy. Mahato has also coached the Indian team, which took part in the 43rd senior world outdoor archery meet held in Spain. As a coach, Mahato shot to fame when she was in charge of the Indian team, which took part in the 2nd World Cup archery meet held in Croatia, where it won a silver and bronze medal.

Chandigarh, August 3
Accumulating 29 points, Government Home Science College, Sector 10, emerged overall champion for the seventh time on the trot in the 8th Senior Women State Boxing Championship being held at Boxing Hall, Sports Complex, sector 42, here.

Dhanwantri Club, Sector 46, secured second position with 13 points.

Meanwhile in the 32nd Senior Men State Boxing Championship, SD College, Sector 32, maintained dominance, winning the overall championship (27 points), for the fourth year consecutively.

Second spot went to Boxing Coaching Centre, Sector 42, (21 points) whereas DAV College, Sector 10, and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, were jointly declared third as both the teams got 17 points each.

The results are as under:

Women:

46 kg: 1 Kiran, 2 Shiv Kumari

48 kg: 1 Hardeep Kaur, 2 Komal

50 kg: 1 Sudesh, 2 Heshma

52 kg: 1 Reena, 2 Megha

55 kg: 1 Suman, 2 Nency

60 kg: 1 Chanderpati, 2 Deepika

70 kg: 1 Arpama, 2 Upasana

+86 kg: 1 Amrinder Mandher, 2 Evelyln Syal.

Men:

48 kg: 1 Parmajit Singh, 2 Madan Lal

51 kg: 1 Mukesh Kumar, 2 Dinesh

54 kg: 1 Manoj Kumar, 2 Iqbir Singh

57 kg: 1 Mohit, 2 Balbir Singh

60 kg: 1 Somveer, 2 Jai Hind

64 kg: 1 Suman Saurabh, 2 Surinder

69 kg: 1 Suresh, 2 Jaspreet

75 kg: 1 Sanjay, 2 Kunal

81 kg: 1 Sunil, 2 Veer

91 kg: 1 Manjit Singh, 2 Krishan

+91 kg: 1 Baljit Singh, 2 Gurmeet Singh.

Chandigarh, August 3
Hitting skipper’s knock, Guntashveer Singh (51 n.o. off 55 balls) steered Chandigarh district team to four-wicket victory over Ambala District XI in Haryana Inter-District Cricket Tournament (under-16) at Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 19, here today.

Batting first, Ambala XI posted 110 runs in stipulated 30 overs in the rain-curtailed match.

Vikrant Sharma played defiant knock of 31 runs, while Sanjay Kumar contributed 18 runs.

Gaurav Dhingra ripped apart the rivals’ batting line-up, claiming four for 18, whereas Amandeep Singh and Paras Singh took two wickets each for 12 and 10 runs, respectively.

Chandigarh team started their innings on poor note as the team lost opener Gaurav Sharma just on 10 runs. Guntashveer led from the front and remained unbeaten on 51 runs.

He was well supported by Salil Verma, who hit 31 runs. Chandigarh achieved the target in 26 overs at the loss of six wickets.

The tourney is being organised by the Haryana Cricket Association.

Brief Score:

Ambala XI: 110 all out in 27.5 overs (Vikrant Sharma 31, Sanjay Kumar 18, Gaurav Dhingra 4 for 18, Amandeep Singh 2 for 12, Paras Singh 2 for 10).

Chandigarh XI: 112 for 6 in 26 overs (Gunatshveer Singh 51 n.o., Salil Verma 31, Sanjay Kumar 2 
for 14).

Chandigarh, August 3
Cricket Federation of India won the Independence Cup Cricket Tournament for Under-15 beating Cricket Federation of Punjab by one wicket in the well contested final played at the Banyan Tree School, Sector 48, here today.

Chasing the target of 82 runs, CFI overhauled it in 24.3 overs.

Earlier, Punjab were dismissed for 81 in 20.1 overs. Jaideep emerged top-scorer with 22 runs, while all the other batsmen failed to reach the double figure mark. Sumit Phogat (4 for 11) and Mohit Garg (3 for 7) restricted Punjab to 81.

Chandigarh Olympic Association’s general secretary Ravinder Talwar distributed the prizes.

Brief score:

CFP: 81 all out in 20.1 overs (Jaideep Bose 22, Sumit Phogat 4 for 11, Mohit Garg 3 for 7, Sumit Hooda 1 for 13, Gaurav Sharma 1 for 13, Vishal Rattewal1 for 6).

CFI: 84 for 9 in 24.3 overs (Karanvir 12 n.o., Neeraj 13, Sumit Hooda 14, Gaurav Sharma 10, Ravinder Singh 3 for 16, Anish Singh 3 for 11, Shubham 1 for 3, Sidharath 1 for 11).

Player of the tournament: Sumit Hooda (CFI). Man of the final match: Sumit Phogat (CFI). 

Chandigarh, August 3
After the ecstasy and agony at Hokkaido, Japan, where he clinched the Sammy Cup pocketing 30 million Japanese yen and then missed the cut in the Sun Chlorella Classic five days later, Jeev Milkha Singh is all set to have a go at the 90th PGA Championship which gets underway on the challenging Oakland Hills golf course at Michigan in the USA on August 7.

Ranked 66th in the world after his Sammy Cup triumph, Jeev will be vying with 20 of PGA of America's top club professionals, led by new champion Scott Hebert of Traverse city, Michigan.

Tiger Woods, who is recovering from a knee surgery, may not make it to Oakland Hills, which offers a purse of $7 million.

Jyoti Randhawa will be the only other Indian entry in the season's final major. Other golfers of Indian origin are Vijay Singh of Fiji and Daniel Chopra of Sweden.

Jeev, who reached the highest point when he touched 37th ranking in the 2006 season, is hoping to make it to the top-50 world ranking this year. He has had good back-to-back triumphs this season. He started the streak with his win in Austria on the European Tour and followed it up with the Sammy Cup triumph on the Japan Golf Tour.

The Chandigarh golf icon is placed 10th on the European Tour ranking and seventh on the Japan Golf Tour. He occupies the second slot in the Asian Golf Tour order of merit.

Although his ankle is giving him trouble, but Jeev is playing well. He is striking the ball and has putted well. During his brief sojourn in Chandigarh last month, Jeev said he was determined to make it to the top 50 in the world.

Chandigarh, August 3
Rock Rovers Hockey Club will organise 7th edition of S.N. Vohra Memorial Sub-Junior (Under-14) Hockey Tournament from August 23 to 30 at Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, here today.

The tournament will be played on knockout-cum-league basis. “To provide competition in this prize-money tournament, we are inviting teams from other states, including Punjab, Delhi, Haryana and Chandigarh,” organising secretary of the tournament, Anil Vohra, said.

Chandigarh, August 3
A woman sub-inspector (SI), posted to the traffic police, has lodged a complaint against a high profile DSP for allegedly using “objectionable” language against her.

According to sources, the SI has in a daily diary report (DDR) recorded at the children traffic park police post, Sector-23, accused her senior officer of passing filthy and derogatory remarks against her. However, the entire top brass of the UT police is tightlipped over the issue, though privately they admit that “something” indeed has happened.

The sources said the woman officer had in her complaint alleged that she had gone to the Sector 39 police station to probe into Inspector Kashmir Singh’s murder. While she was sitting in the SHO’s room, an infuriated DSP called on her mobile phone and started shouting and questioned her “audacity” to meddle in the ongoing investigations.

During the conversation, which according to the SI’s, happened in the presence of two other DSPs, the officer concerned allegedly used abusive language against her besides making remarks on her professional capabilities, adds a police officer.

The sources said the investigating officials from Sector 39 police station had sought the SI’s help to interrogate Kashmir Singh’s maidservant, Geeta, a resident of Sector-56.

The SI was called since she had been earlier posted at the Palsora police station and was well aware of those residing in Sector-56 colony.

Incidentally, the police are looking for the mysterious woman in connection with Kashmir’s death.

On the basis of Poonam’s information a team of Sector-39 police station picked Geeta from Inspector Kashmir’s Sector-26 police lines residence before a team from other wing could reach.

The sources said this was the flashpoint following which the DSP called the SI on her mobile phone and allegedly used harsh words. At this, the woman police officer broke into tears.

The sources disclosed that the SI had gone on two days medical leave following the incident. She had, earlier, also apprised the senior officials of the fact that the DSP was harassing her.

When contacted UT SSP S.S. Srivastava maintained that he was not aware of the issue, as both wings were not under him. No formal complaint had been lodged with him, he added.

Mohali, August 3
“Primary angioplasty is definitely a superior, efficient and safer treatment option for patients who suffer from a heart attack” said Dr H.K. Bali, director, cardiology, Fortis Hospital, Mohali, in a seminar held yesterday at Fortis. The seminar was attended by over 50 doctors of the Indian Medical Association, Mohali.

However, in centres and places where primary angioplasty is not available, thrombolytic treatment (medicines given to dissolve the clot) can be used as next best alternative. These patients can be then transferred safely to tertiary care centres for angioplasty over the next 12 to 24 hours.

He said immediate and long-term results after heart attack to a very large extend depend on availability of highly competent interventional team, round-the-clock availability of a fully equipped and manned coronary care unit and availability of allied medical specialties particularly nephrology, endocrinology and pulmonary medicine.

Giving a key note lecture in this seminar on “Advances in Joint Replacement Surgery”, Dr Manuj Wadhwa, senior consultant, orthopaedics, Fortis Hospital, said, “Minimally invasive metal on metal hip replacement is the latest alternative to conventional hip replacement and primarily aimed toward young, active adults who have high demands.”