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Patiala, November 3
The Punjabi University’s department of Punjabi language development along with Sahit Academy, New Delhi, organised a two-day “Indian Women Writers’ Conference” at the university’s Senate Hall here today.

The conference was aimed at providing a platform to women writers to share their views and also to encourage other women writers to come up. This was the first conference of its kind in the university.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh welcomed the female writers from 21 states and honoured them. Dr Singh while addressing the gathering said women all along had been subjected to immense social, cultural and spiritual discrimination and upheavals, causing their exclusion from the world of letters and reducing them from subjects to objects.

The parental tutoring in India was also the cause of pushing them into the backyards of intellectual horizons, leaving little scope for them to compete with their male counterparts.

“We need to redesign and reconstruct an Indian-specific feminist model, as distinguished from the European model in the changed circumstances of post-modernist and post-globalised world. It is all the more necessary as our folk traditions and other non-literary expressions show that our women think, feel and perceive differently. Their writings, therefore, have the potential of exploring the huge resources of silenced or unrepresented unconsciousness as they were more sensitive and perceptive towards the outer and inner worlds,” he further added.

Noted litterateur and vice-president of Sahit Academy, New Delhi, Dr Sutinder Singh Noor, emphasised upon deciphering the wounded psychology of the women for which the women writers could play a pivotal role.

Dr Sukrita Pal Kumar in her keynote address highlighted that western feminism had unleashed male-female polarities, which had disturbed the Indian-specific entry point of feminism for its articulation and furtherance.

Incorporation of male within female is the probable Indian model of feminism, which is suspended between real and unreal, she said.

Sahit Academy secretary Agarhar Krishnamurty shared his ideas about the growing concern for the feminist culture in India. Dr Dhanwant Kaur, head, department of Punjabi language development, said the conference had been divided into five sessions during which the participants would share their wisdom and recite their creative works.

Kalka, November 3
The link roads of Kalka, which fall under the department of Railways, have been in a deplorable condition for the past couple of years due to the apathetic attitude of the department of Inspector of Works.

The roads have been posing a serious threat, especially to two-wheeler drivers and pedestrians, with the danger of serious accidents looming large.

A visit to some of the link roads reveals that those have not been repaired and recarpeted for the past more than five years.

The link roads approach National Highway 22 from the railway station, the diesel shed, the railway workshop, the GRP police station, the railway hospital, the RPF office, the railway sports ground and the railway institute.

The link roads are full of big potholes and the Ambala DRM has not taken any initiative regarding the maintenance of those despite repeated requests.

Residents of railway colonies allege that the railway authorities are not concerned about the maintenance of link roads.

They have urged the general manager, Northern Railway, to issue directives to the Ambala DRM in this contest soon.

No repair work has been started after the visit of R Velu, Minister of State for Railways, here in connection with the Heritage Festival on November 9 last year.

Chandigarh, November 3
Two persons were injured in separate road accidents in various parts of the city. A rickshaw-puller, Ram Bahadur, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was injured after being hit by a motorcycle (HR-07-F-7821) near the press lights point on Monday morning. He was admitted to the Sector 16 Government Multi-specialty Hospital.

The police arrested the motorcyclist, Ravinder Kumar, a resident of Dadu Majra Colony, on the charges of causing injurious due to rash and negligent driving.

Panchkula, November 3
The curtains came down on the All-India Mahatma Hansraj Aryan Inter-Zonal Tournament for Girls-2009 here today. Around 800 students from 18 DAV school zones participated in the three-day event.

Priya Ranjana Soni of Jharkhand (Ranchi zone) was declared best athlete. Panchkula with 27 points won the overall judo championship, while DAV Delhi zone secured the second position with 11 points.

Addressing the closing ceremony, Justice AL Bahri said DAV, being the largest non-government educational organisation, had contributed a lot to the development of the nation. Such events provided a platform to deserving sportspersons to prove their mettle, he added.

The results: judo: 52 kg: 1 Bhawna (Panchkula/ Chandigarh), 2 Priyanka Shukla (Ranchi); 57 kg: 1 Pooja Kumari (Delhi), 2 Medhavee (Pkl); 61 kg: 1 Samiksha Singh (Delhi), 2 Garima (Pkl); 61 kg: 1 Jobanpreet Kaur (Police DAV, Amritsar), 2 Gayatri Verma (Pkl); 36 kg: 1 Shanky Grover (Pkl), Girisha (Delhi); 40 kg: 1 Surbhi (Panchkula), 2 Prathana (Delhi); 44 kg: 1 Priya (Police DAV, Asr), 2 Mahima (Pkl); 48 kg: 1 Lavanya (Delhi), 2 Shreya (Pkl).

Athletics: 1500m: 1 Kiran Kumari (Bihar), 2 Preeti Kumari (Jharkhand) and 3 Deepika (Delhi); 800m: 1 Kiran Kumari (Bihar), 2 Preeti and 3 Jyati (Both of Jharkhand); 400m: 1 Agrima Singh (Chhattisgarh), 2 Puja (Bihar) and 3 Shweta Aher (Chhattisgarh); 200m: 1 Priya Ranjana, 2 Shalini Singh (both Jharkhand) and 3 Agrima Singh (Chhattisgarh); 100m: 1 Priya Ranjana Soni, 2 Shalini Singh (both Jharkhand) and 3 Rini (Delhi zone); 4x400m Relay: 1 Preeti, Jyoti Kumari, Shardha, Priya Ranga (Jharkhand), 2 Abhilasha Lal, Puja Bhatti, Kiran Kumari, Sonam Rani (Bihar) and 3 Swarnima Singh, Agrima Singh, Jagoshwari Singh, Ekta Nirmalkar (Chhattisgarh); shot put: 1 Simran (Pkl), 2 Gabriella (Haryana) and 3 Navdeep Kaur (Punjab); long jump: 1 Priya Rayena (Jharkhand), 2 Anuradha (UP) and 3 Priya Bharti (Bihar); discus throw: 1 Simran (Pkl), 2 Sulbha Sonal (Bihar) and 3 Sanjana (Jharkhand); triple Jump: 1 Prabhjot Kaur (Chhattisgarh), 2 Harinder Kaur (Pkl) and 3 Divya (Jharkhand); javelin throw: 1 Sandhya (Delhi), 2 Gayatri (Pkl) and 3 Madhurima (Bihar); high jump: 1 Anuradha (UP) 2 Rajni Bharti (Jharkhand) and 3 Suman Nag (Chhattisgarh). 

Chandigarh, November 3
Down by two early goals, Ryan International School, Sector 49, staged a remarkable rally to beat DAV Public School, Sector 8, by 4-3 in the under-19 match on the inaugural day of the annual St Xavier’s School Six-A-Side Football Championship, which was inaugurated by St Xavier's School, Sector 44, principal Mervyn West on the school premises here today.

Ryan International was stunned by DAV Public School in the second minute when Sumeet put his team ahead in the second minute.

Ryan International suffered a further setback when Manjeet doubled the score in the eighth minute.

Despite trailing by two early goals, Ryan International reorganised their game and opened their account through Gagandeep in the 12th minute.

Gagandeep himself restored parity for his team in the 14th minute. The teams crossed over by sharing four goals.

On resumption, DAV Public School again forged ahead in the 22nd minute through Sumeet. Thereafter, Ryan International kept on the pressure with their short ground passes. Karan first neutralised the lead in the 25th minute and snatched the match winner in the 28th minute.

In another match, Shishu Niketan School, Sector 22-B, eked out a narrow 1-0 victory over St Soldier’s, Mohali.

The important goal was scored by Sandesh in the seventh minute.

Delhi Public School, Sector 40, also scored a 1-0 win over Sant Isher Singh School, Mohali.

Rabail snatched the match winner in the ninth minute.

Baptish School, Sector 45, beat St Joseph’s School, Sector 44, by 1-0 with Vivek netting the match winner in the eighth minute.

St Joseph School, Sector 44, prevailed over St Xavier’s, Panchkula, with an aggregate 3-2 margin in the sudden death tie breaker in the under-15 match.

St Xavier's forged ahead in the sixth minute through Ankit, while Deskyon restored parity for St Joseph in the 22nd minute.

In the tie breaker, Pankaj scored for Joseph and Karanpal was Xavier's scorer.

In the sudden death tie breaker, Fedal snatched the match winner for Joseph.

Baptist School Amit (first) and Virender (18th) defeated Shishu Niketan, Sector 22-D, by 2-0. St Kabir School, Sector 26, (Sanchit, 10th, 12th) and Apjit (25th) beat St Xavier's, Mohali, by 3-0.

In another match, St John's School, Sector 26, (Barinder Thapa sixth, eighth) and Aameen (ninth) blanked Ajit Karam Singh International Public School, Mohali, by 3-0.

Delhi Public School, Sector 40, (Gayrav second, fifth, thirteenth) defeated St Soldier’s, Mohali, (Rajdeep Singh 19th) by 3-1.

Players of Sacred Heart School in a jubilant mood after winning the Chandigarh State Junior (under-19) Women Cricket Tournament for Kedar Nath Trophy at the GMSSS, Sector 56, on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan

Chandigarh, November 3
Sacred Heart School, Sector 26, lifted the Chandigarh State Junior (under-19) Women Cricket Tournament for Kedar Nath Trophy by beating Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 26, by six wickets at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 32, here today.

Batting first, GMSSS-26 players crumbled in front of some good bowling by Sacred Heart School players and were bowled out for just 87 runs in 15.3 overs.

Gagan 16 off 22 balls, Lalita (12 off 20 balls) and Meena (9 off 20) were the main scorers for the GMSSS, while Ashima (five wickets for 16), Varinda (two for 15) and Anmol (two for 19) were the main wicket-takers for Sacred Heart School.

In reply, Sacred Heart players reached the low target comfortably, losing just four wickets. Mitali (28 off 36), Anmol (23 off 33) and Pritha (18 off 26) were the main scorers, whereas Gagan (2 for 33), Mamta (1 for 16) and Reena (1 for 6) runs were the wicket-takers for GMSSS.

Chandigarh, November 3
An under-17 hockey team from Bangladesh will be part of the second phase of the 38th ATS Nehru Junior Hockey Tournament (U-17) to be held from November 6 at the Hockey Stadium, Sector 42, here.

Kukoo Walia, organising secretary, Jawaharlal Nehru Hockey Tournament Society, today said 32 leading teams, including last year’s finalists Lyallpur Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Jalandhar, and Birsa Munda Vidyapith, Rourkela (Orissa), would take part in the championship.

He said the tournament had been divided into three phases. In the first phase, 18 teams divided into six groups each would play on league basis.

The winner of each group would qualify for the second phase and join six seeded teams i.e. Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar, SS High School, Ranchi, Malwa Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, Town Hall School, Sankara (Orissa), Bright Scholar Senior Secondary School, Sonepat, and Guru Gobind Singh Sports College, Lucknow.

The group winners of the second phase would qualify for the third phase and join seeded teams Lyallpur Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Jalandhar, Birsa Munda Vidyapitha, Rourkela, Bangladesh Krira Shikka Protishtan, Army Boys Sports Coy, BRC Danapur, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Ladowali, Jalandhar, Government Model High School, Sector 42, Chandigarh, BGUS Senior Secondary School, Khadoor Sahib, Tarn Taran, and Dhudial Khalsa Higher Secondary School, Patiala.

He added that the winners of the tournament would get Rs 96,000, while first and second runners-up would get Rs 64,000 and 32,000, respectively, in prize money.

In the final phase, 12 teams would be divided into four groups. Best players of the 12 matches of the final phase would get Rs 2,000 each while in the two semifinal matches, the best players would get Rs 5,000 each. In the final match, the best player would get Rs 10,000.

Kalka, November 3
The two-day annual sports meet of the New India High School at Pinjore, near here, concluded today. A number of events like basketball and badminton were organised. Frog race, lemon race, kho-kho and a skating competition were the main attractions.

The events were followed by a marchpast by students of of senior classes. The winners of various events were awarded by the chairman of the school.

The principal of the school congratulated the students and asked them to take part in co-curricular activities to develop their hidden talents.