NEIGHBOURHOOD

Canadian MLA visits college
Tribune News Service

Kharar, January 1
Manmeet S Bhullar, personal assistant to the Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, Alberta, Canada, addressed students at Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran.

Alberta MLA Bhullar appreciated the efforts of teachers and students.

Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, Chief Advisor to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, accompanied Bhullar.

Satnam Singh Sandhu, chairman, Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran, president Rashpal Singh Dhaliwal, Dr GD Bansal, director-general of the college, and Dr SPS Bedi, executive director of the college, were present on the occasion.

Kharar, January 1
Rayat-Bahra Group has started a campus placement fortnight at Rayat-Bahra Bio Technology Centre, Mohali, for students of BTech of its Ropar and Mohali campuses.

In a press statement issued here yesterday, Gurvinder Singh Bahra, vice-chairman, Rayat-Bahra Group, said companies were offering a wide range of job profiles like software engineers, database developers, mechanical engineers, electronic engineers, programme engineers, etc to the students of all streams.

He added that the drive would continue till January 10, wherein as many as 300 students of Rayat-Bahra engineering colleges would be participating. He added that during this fortnight placement drive, leading IT and research company Net Profit Consultancy Group’s IT Division - Aspung Technologies would be visiting the campus. — TNS

Kharar, January 1
Thirtytwo boxes of illicit liquor were recovered at a naka put up near Landran. The plice has registered a case against Surjit Singh from Hoshiarpur and Raman Kumar from Patiala under the Excise Act, who were taking the bottles in their car.

The liquor was bought from Chandigarh on cheaper rates and was being taken to Patiala through Landran and further Sirhind. Both have been sent to judicial remand. — TNS

Kalka, January 1
In a tragic incident, an 11-year-old boy of Kalka died, and eight others, including a woman and five-old-boy were injured. The incident took place in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday morning, when all were on their way to pay obeisance at Baba Balak Nath temple.

According to information, the accident took place at 5am on Thursday when Mahindra Pickup Jeep no-HR-68-9076 in which they were travelling, rolled down in to a deep gorge 20 km from Bilaspur, Resulting in death of Jatin (11) on the spot and eight other injured seriously in the mishap.

The injured were rushed to local hospitals of the Bilaspur area, who were later referred to PGI , Chandigarh. The seriously injured have been identified as Sunny (driver) of the jeep, Madan Kumar, Rakesh kumar, Kailash, alias Munia, Deepak (5), son of Madan Kumar, Pardeep Kohli, Rajesh Kohli and their mother Santosh Kohli are being treated at the PGI, said Rajiv Para,s brother of one of the victim.

Meanwhile Bhagwan Dass, Dheeraj , Ravi and Vijay have been given treatment at civil hospital, Kalka. Bhagwan Dass one of the injured said they had started from Kalka at 11 pm on Wednesday and the incident took place on Thursday morning The deceased was son of Tejpal, resident of Gandhi Chowk, Kalka and was a student of class VII.

Fatehgarh Sahib, January 1
The lack of recovery van used in towing vehicles parked on the wrong side of roads at busy market places is hampering rescue operations here.

There have been a number of instances wherein vehicles moving at high speed have collided with accidental vehicles lying at the centre of roads. “If we had a recovery van, we could immediately remove the accidental vehicle off road and get rid of chaos,” said a traffic official. He said the traffic police also lacks various other basic facilities, including manpower, vehicles and other gadgets that help in rescue operations.

According to the police, the problem arises during night hours and several people had lost their lives due to delay in rescue and lack of tools to get the injured out of accidental vehicles.

The police said once they had to take the help of villagers and truckers to take seven injured persons out of a Scorpio that rammed into a stationed truck on Ludhiana-Chandigarh road and it took more than two hours to take the injured out of the vehicle.

“Many people lose their lives when they are taken out form the accidental vehicle, as the police is not trained to take out the injured from vehicles,” said Manjeet Kaur, chairperson of Human Rights Manch of Khamano Block.

She said recovery vehicle could help in reducing the chaos. SUVs and other heavy vehicles ram into the stationed vehicles at roadsides that could be towed away by the police due to wrong parking.

Wrong parking has lead to accidents on Patiala-Sirhind road, Khanna-Mandi Gobindgarh road and on Ludhiana-Chandigarh road during the past few months.

COURTS

Babla remanded in judicial custody
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 1
A local court today remanded Congress councillor Devinder Singh Babla in judicial custody till January 15. Babla, who was earlier remanded in three-day police custody in total, was today sent to 14-day judicial custody by duty magistrate Amit Sharma.

Earlier while seeking further police remand of three days, special prosecutor Anupam Gupta stated the interrogation of the accused remained inconclusive and three days were required for effective and comprehensive interrogation.

Further it was stated that the records of the market committee continued to be closely scrutinised and the period of less than one day, that had elapsed since the order dated December 31, 2009, was passed by the court. It was also added that the accused was also to be taken today to the Municipal Corporation for casting his vote in the elections for the post of Mayor and that had further lessened the time available with the investigating team to interrogate the accused.

However, the court did not grant the three-day police custody as was asked by the prosecution.

Later on, Babla, through his counsel also moved his bail plea. The court has issued notice on the same for January 4.

While moving the bail application, the counsel stated that Babla was a permanent resident of the city and was a sitting councillor, who had been falsely implicated in this case. There was no way that he would abscond and therefore should be granted bail.

Chandigarh, January 1
A Dhanas resident accused a woman of duping him of Rs 1.50 lakh. Sanjay Kumar of Dhanas reported to the police that Surinder Kaur of Deep Complex Hallomajra had taken 1.5 lakh from him on December 3, 2007, promising to sell him a house in her locality.

Chandigarh, January 1
Two persons were killed while three others were injured in two separate mishaps in the city last night. The police said Jatinder Singh of Jagatpura village, in his mid 20s, was killed after the Honda City car (CH 04 P 3974) he was driving overturned near the Sector 47 Gurdwara at 1.30 am today.

It was learnt that a Chevrolet Optra car collided with the Honda City from the rear, and the Honda City overturned. Apart from Jatinder, Mandeed, Manpreet and Yadwinder were also travelling in the car. Jatinder was seriously hurt in the mishap while the trio escaped with minor injuries.

They were rushed to the Sector 32 Government Medical College and Hospital, where Jatinder died later.

In another mishap, a pedestrian was killed after being hit by a truck in Darua last night.

The police said 25-year-old Kulwant Singh of Fatehgarh Sahib was run down by a truck near LRC Transport Darua, last night. — TNS 

Zirakpur, January 1
In the last night’s fire shoot-out incident in the godown area of Bhabat village, the local police booked three persons and recovered .315 country made pistol along with four mobile phones from the possession of Sandeep, hailing from Muzafarnagar, who was nabbed by family members of a businessman, whose godown they had gone to burgle.

The other accused were identified as Anuj and Anil were residents of Khuda Lohra and they too hailed from Muzafarnagar in UP.

The police said during the preliminary investigation, the arrested youth revealed that they had entered the godown after climbing the wall. However, the police official stated that they were investigating the case on various theories and it could be the work of an insider.

During the interrogation, the accused said they had reached Zirakpur on an auto-rickshaw from Chandigarh. He told the police that Anil and Anuj had visited Zirakpur several times and were familiar with the place. The motive behind the crime was burglary, the police added.

The incident took place around 10.30 pm when Harish, a 45-year- old-businessman of Bhabat along with his relatives, returned to his godown-cum-residence after celebrating the New Year eve with his family members from Chandigarh. While they reached the place and opened the main door, three masked burgalrs were seen trying to run away from the godown.

While two of the masked burglars managed to escape, Harish Sharma caught the third one and before the accused could be overpowered, he fired gun shot at him, which hit him on his hand. In the meantime, the accused tried to fire another shot, then the family members of Harish overpowered him and handed him over to the police.

SHO Jogi Raj stated that one of the accused Sandeep had been arrested and a country made pistol along with four mobile phones was recovered from his possession. The two other accused will be arrested soon, he added.

Chandigarh, January 1 
Eleven-year-old Gursobha Singh, a student of Yadavindra Public School, Mohali, won the recently concluded Junior National Equestrian Championship 2009 in Delhi. After a brilliant performance in the FEI Children International Jumping Competition, Gursobha clinched two individual golds and two team silvers in the four-day championship organised by the 61st Cavalry (B Squadron) in collaboration with the Equestrian Federation of India. 

Lt Gen SS Kumar, Quarter Master General (QMG), gave away the prizes to winners. Gursobha, won individual golds in the “Accumulator” and “Show Jumping (normal)” events, besides winning a silver medal in each of “Dressage” and “Show Jumping” events in the team category. Earlier, he had missed a gold medal during the Senior National Equestrian Championship by a whisker.

Chandigarh, January 1
Akshdeep (88) helped Bhari Vij Cricket Academy beat Shree Shree Cricket Academy by 65 runs in the St Soldier’s Trophy at St Soldier’s International School, Sector 28, here today.

After winning the toss Bharti Vij Academy elected to bat first. They scored 208 for the loss of three wickets in their stipulated in 20 overs. Akshdeep while hitting all around the ground scored 88 off 52 balls with 15 fours and two sixes.

Sanchit (40) and Rishab (39) were the other scorers for Bharti Vij Academy, who crossed the 200 run mark in 20 overs for the second time in the tournament.

For Shree Shree Academy, Shourya took one wicket by giving away 28 runs in his four overs.

In reply, Shree Shree Academy failed to achieve the modest target and could score only 143 for the loss of nine wickets in their stipulated 20 overs against the tight bowling of Bharti Vij Academy bowlers.

Kuwar (56) and Shourya (46) were the main scorers. For Bharti Vij Academy, Jagdeep was the most successful bowler. He took three wickets. Harish (2 for 28) was the other main bowler.

In the second match, Resham (2 for 11) helped BTS Royal beat LIC Academy by four wickets.

LIC won the toss and elected to bat first. Tight bowling by BTS Royal bowlers restricted the batsmen of LIC team to put up a modest total and could score only 158 runs for the loss of six wickets in their stipulated 20 overs.

Anshul (32) and Dharvinder (24) were the main scorers for the LIC team. For BTS, Resham took two wickets by giving away only 11 runs, while Shubham (1 for 26) was the other wicket taker.

In reply, BTS chased the target in 18.4 overs and won the match by four wickets. Rizul scored 50 runs off 38 balls with nine fours and Parvesh mustered 28 runs off 19 balls. DAV-8 will take on MCM at 9 am and the match between MCM and CM Eleven will be held at 12.30 pm at Sector 28.

Chandigarh, January 1
Ten-year-old Jaiveer Singh Sandhu of Chandigarh repeated his Albatross golf triumph edging out another city player Karandeep Singh Kochar in a nail-biting finish to clinch the U-10 title in the Lalit Suri All-India Junior Golf Championship on the par-71 greens of the Poona Golf Club in Pune today.

The two city 10-year-olds were tied at 249 for the top slot. The two had fought to the finish barely a week back in the Albatross Junior Golf Championship.

In today’s match, Jaiveer got the better of Karandeep in the very first playoff hole. At the Albatross championship, the two had fought three playoff holes before Jaiveer was declared the winner.

While the U-10 event saw keen competition, Ashbeer Saini of Kapurthala survived a scare, but managed to do just good enough to get the new year off to a bright start winning the overall junior title in the championship.

Starting the day with a commanding seven-stroke lead, Ashbeer shot his poorest round of the week, but still eked out a one-shot win after returning a 10-over par 81 card for a tournament tally of 12 over 296.

Bangalaore’s Khalin Joshi caught up with the Kapurthala lad, but a three-putt from just off the green on the final hole cost him the chance to take the tie into a playoff. Khalin carded a four over par 75 score to finish one stroke behind Ashbeer at 13 over 297.

Feroze Singh Garewal of Chandigarh squandered away his overnight two-stroke lead carding a 12 over par 83 score to finish runner-up at 322, one stroke behind the ultimate winner, Piyush Sangwan of Gurgaon.

With today’s victory, Sangwan completed a double in the U-12 (C Category) following up his Lalit Suri Western India title last week with another win.

Final scores:

Category A and B: 296 Ashbeer Singh Saini (70-73-72-81), 297 Khalin Joshi (69-74-79-95), 302 Trishul Chinappa (75-73-78-76), 303 Chikarangappa (77-71-82-73) and 306 Ankur Chadha (74-72-79-81);

Category B: 314 Manu Gandas (74-75-82-83) and 316 Aman Raj (84-74-77-81);

Category C: 321 Piyush Sangwan (81-78-82-80), 322 Feroze Singh Garewal (75-83-81-83);

Category D: 249 Jaiveer Singh (84-84-81) and 249 Karandeep Singh Kochar (88-80-81). 

Chandigarh, January 1
The city’s first All-India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament being organised by the Chandigarh Chess Association got underway at St Xavier’s School here today.

The championship is being co-sponsored by The Corporate Gurus School of Business.

Pawan Kumar Bansal, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources, inaugurated the event.

Bansal appreciated the efforts of the association in promoting chess in the tri-city.

He honoured Himal Gusain and Tarini Goyal, who has recently been given the FIDE Woman Candidate Master award.

Dr Anil Raina, chairman, CCA, said nearly 150 players, including many titled and internationally rated players from all over the country, would be participating in the tournament. He said the six-day tournament would be played on the basis of Swiss system of FIDE (World Chess Federation) and each player would be playing ten games.

The total prize money is Rs 1, 10,000 and the champion would walk away with a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a trophy, he added.

A P Saksena and Dr Vipnesh Bhardwaj, president and secretary, CCA, William Gosain, vice-chairman, St Xavier’s Group of Schools, and Anurag Aggarwal, president, The Corporate Gurus Education Society, were present on the occasion.

Chandigarh, January 1
Mohali Cricket Academy defeated Desh Prem Azad Cricket Academy by five wickets in the weekend match organised by DP Azad Cricket Academy on the MCA grounds in Mohali today.

Chasing a victory target of 161, MCA scored 164 for the loss of five wickets in 28.4 overs. A first-wicket partnership of 89 runs between Shubham Gill (45, 5x4s) and Bunny (34, 5x4s) fashioned their triumph. Aman (31, 5x4s) and Arunav (28, 3x4s) were their other valuable contributors.

Right arm leg spinner Arjun Aggarwal (2 for 16) and Karan Inder Singh (2 for 26) were the most successful bowlers for DP Azad Academy.

Earlier, DP Azad Academy won the toss and elected to bat first.

They made 160 for the loss of nine wickets in their stipulated 35 overs. Parnav Vashisht battled well to post 36 with the help of four fours. Siddharth Rawat 25 (4x4s) and Karan Inder Singh (20) and Shivam Bhardwaj (19) were their other main scorers.

For the MCA, Prabhav scalped two wickets by giving away 26 runs, while Rishab (1 for 24), Avinash (1 for 22), Harman Gurpreet (1 for 41) and Arnav (1 for 15) were the other wicket takers.

Brief scores: DP Azad Cricket Academy: 160 for 9 in 35 overs (Siddhart Rawat 25, Mohd Junez 12, Pranav Vashisht 36, Karan Inder Singh 20, Shivam Bhardwaj 19, Prabhav 2/26, Rishab 1/24, Avinash 1/22, Harman Gurpreet 1/41 and Arnav 1/15).

MCA: 164 for 5 in 28.4 overs (Shubham Gill 45, Bunny 34, Aman 31, Karan Inder Singh 2/26, Arjun Aggarwal 2/16 and Siddharth Rawat 1/13).

Chandigarh, January 1
DAV College, Sector 10, yesterday won the Panjab University Tennis (men) Championship.

Panjab University campus, SGGS College, Sector 26, and PG Government College, Sector 11, grabbed second, third and fourth positions, respectively. 

SGGS College beat PG Government College, Sector 11, and in the final DAV College beat PU Campus.

Chandigarh, January 1 
Arya College, Ludhiana, won the Panjab University Inter-College Powerlifting (men) Championship at the PU Gymnasium Hall here today. 

SCCS College, Chandigarh, bagged the second position with seven points, while AS College, Khanna, and SCD Government College, Ludhiana, stood third with five points.Results:75 kg: Navtej Singh, AS College, Khanna, 1, Tarandeep Singh, GPC, Alour, 2 and Parminder Singh, Arya College, Ludhiana, 3.

82.5 kg: Pawandeep Singh, SCD Government College, Ludhiana, 1, Harjeet Singh, GTB National College, Dakha, 2 and Kulbir Singh, Arya College, Ludhiana, 3. — TNS

Chandigarh, January 1
The Haryana Golf Association will hold a one-month junior golf camp at the Panchkula Golf Club in Panchkula from January 8.

Members and non-members in the 6-16 age group will be taught the basics of the game at the camp for which no fees will be charged.

The camp will be held under the supervision of Manjit Kochar, Director, Junior Golf Development Programme of the Indo-Canadian Golf Association. More details about the free junior camp can be had from Manjit Kochar (98155 54788) or Colonel Dogra (93563 71387).