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Kalka, June 5
Taking a serious note of water shortage in Railway colonies at Kalka, a team of higher officials of Ambala Division headed by Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) YP Singh today visited Kalka.

The team included senior divisional electrical engineer and senior divisional engineer (DEN), who also took a stock of the tubewell being installed at Majra Mehtab by the rail department to cope with the water scarcity problem.

Subhash Chand Sharma, branch secretary NRMU Dhoolkot-Kalka-Shimla, said the DRM directed the electric officials concerned to install proper electric motors to make regular water supply in railway colonies.

Senior Divisional Medical officer (DMO) Amabala Rakesh also visited the Broad Gauge Railway Colony, where a sewerage septic tank is in a deplorable condition and the sewerage line in the colony is also choked.

Notably on June 2, hundreds of railway employees of the Northern Railway Mens’ Union (NRMU) had raised slogans against the higher officials of the railway department. In the form of a procession led by various union leaders they reached Kalka railway station and showed their resentment by raising slogans.

They said since last couple of years, due to apathetic attitude of the department of Inspector of Works (IOW) residents of railway colonies were facing acute water shortage, but the department has not taken any steps to cope with the problem.

Kalka MLA Pardeep Chaudhary condemned the state government over setting up of industrial units at Kalka. Talking to mediapersons he said during the last Assembly elections, Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda during his election campaign had falsely announced to set up industrial units at Kalka, Pinjore and its vicinity to lure voters.

The ACC factory of Surajpur has already been closed down and HMT is on the verge of closure.

The closure of Surajpur ACC factory has brought hundreds of employees on the roads. 

Patiala, June 5
The Black Elephant Cricket Club (BECC), Patiala, booked berth in the final by defeating SDCA, Delhi, 11 runs in a close match during the Triangular Series that is underway at the BECC ground. The BECC will face Cantt XI, Ambala, tomorrow.

Winning the toss and electing to bat first, BECC batsmen managed to score a reasonable total of 176 runs for eight wickets in allotted 35 overs. Jashan 39, Sanamver Grewal 33 and Dhruv Verma 21 were the main scorers for Patiala.

In reply, Delhi lads scored 165 for seven in the scheduled 35 overs. Charanjit 50 and Rishab 25 were the main scorers for Delhi.

Brief score:

BECC: 176 for 8 in 35 overs (Jashan 39, Sanamveer Grewal 33, Dhruv Verma 21, Kuber 2 for 30 runs, Rishab 1 for 18, Charanjit 2 for 29 and 3 batsmen were run out).

SDCA, Delhi: 165 for 7 in 35 overs (Charanjit 50, Adit 16, Rishab 25, Aditya 14, Dhruv Verma 2 for 18, Ayush 1 for 35, Yuvraj 1 for 19 and Ansuman Thakur 1 for 26).

Charanjit of SDCA, Delhi, was declared the boy of the match.

Patiala, June 5
The second Federation Cup Fencing Championship began at Multipurpose Indoor Hall, Punjabi University, Patiala, today.

The tournament is being organised by the Punjab Fencing Association under the chairmanship of Arun Kumar Vij, secretary general of the association.

The event was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor of the university Dr Jaspal Singh. Vij said around 21 teams were participating in the tournament.

Dr Raj Kumar Sharma, director, sports department, welcomed the chief guest and other dignitaries.

Results of Day 1:

First semifinal of sabre individual men section: KP Gishonidhi of Tamil Nadu defeated Notum of Punjab 15-6; second semifinal: Vikram Singh of SSCB defeated Rashid A of Jammu & Kashmir 15-10; final match: KP Gishonidhi of Tamil Nadu defeated Vikram Singh 15-13.

First semifinal of epee individual women section:

Kavita of Assam defeated Shammipreet Kaur of Punjab 11-10; second semifinal: Dilna of Kerala defeated Ambili of Kerala 15-10. 

Patiala, June 5
Multipurpose, Patiala, defeated Rashtriya Cricket Academy, Rohtak, by 51 runs during the U-16 DWM Cricket Cup here today.

Rohtak won the toss and elected to field first. Multipurpose managed to score 155 in 20 overs.

Anmolpreet Singh (62) was the highest scorer for the team. He was well supported by Sagar Kumar (43) runs and Suhkwinder 17 runs.

Aman Ahalawat was the pick of the bowlers for Rohtak. He claimed three wickets for 30 runs in four overs. He was supported by Ashish Sihag, who took one wicket for 23 runs.

In reply, RCA, Rohtak, scored 104 runs after loosing five wickets in 20 overs.

Aman Ahalawat scored 25 runs. He was supported by Rohan Sadhwani (24 not out) and Taj Mohammad (17) runs.

Amrit Rawat claimed two wickets for 19 runs in four overs. Rain played a spoilsport and the match was reduced to 20 overs.

Mohali, June 5
The Mohali Police has booked a couple in connection with two-year -old case of death of Rahul, a resident of Phase XI, here, who had died of poisoning.

On the basis of investigation done by the crime branch, the police has booked Vijay Kumar, his wife Anu and mother Sheela Devi. Initially when the boy had died on March 2, 2008, the police had initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC as father of the victim had not cast any doubt.

Chandigarh, June 5
A Hot Weather Open Cricket Tournament would be organised by the Chandigarh Sports Council (CSC) at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium from June 13. Stating this in a press release here yesterday, the CSC spokesman said matches in the tournament would be played on a knockout basis and as per the rules and regulations of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

He said the participating teams would have to deposit Rs 1,000. — TNS

Mohali, June 5
Patiala lifted the Punjab State Inter-District Under-22 Championship by defeating Ludhiana by an innings on the fourth day of the match held at the PCA Stadium here today.

The Patiala team pocketed the first prize of Rs 75,000, while Ludhiana got Rs 35,000 as the second prize.

Both Mohit Mohindra (121 not out) and Amitoze Singh (123) knocked a brilliant ton on the last day of the final match. Patiala despite a huge lead of 620 runs refused to declare the innings on the final day of the play.

Patiala started the day with their overnight score of 403 runs for five. The opening pair added a 72-run partnership before Vikramdit (36) was caught by wicket keeper Gitansh Khera off the bowling of Deepak Bansal. After his departure, Mohit Mohindra joined Amitoze Singh and they both started showing their skills with their bat leaving Ludhiana bowlers in the lurch.

However, left arm spinner Jashan Sidhu grabbed wicket of Amitoze Singh, who hit 17 boundaries and a sky kisser six.

Patiala batsmen continued to knock the ball well and gave no chance to the Ludhiana bowlers for settling down. Robin Dhillon (27 off 45) made 53-run partnership for eighth wicket with Mohit Mohindra.

Mohit continued his impressive innings and scored 121 off 229 balls, which included eight boundaries and a six. The Patiala team was able to put up a huge total of 715 on the scoreboard.

The Patiala innings ended at a huge score of 715. At the end of the day, the umpires declared Patiala as the winner on the basis of the first innings lead of 225 runs.

From Ludhiana team, left arm spinner Jashan Sidhu came up with the highest wicket taker with seven wickets. Ludhiana team felt the absence of their medium pacer Baltej Singh.

Chaman Lal Malhotra, chairman, senior selection committee, gave away the cash prize to the winning team.

Brief scores:

Patiala (1st innings): 405 runs.

Ludhiana (1st innings): 180 runs.

Patiala (2nd innings): 715 runs (Kunwar Raina 188, Jeevanjot 74, Perry Goel 37, Himanshu Chawla 56, Amitoze 123, Vikramdit 36, Mohit Mohindra 121 not out, Robin Dhillon 27, Jashan Sidhu 7 for 245, Bharat Malhotra 1 for 60, Rahul Singla 1 for 189, Deepak Bansal 1 for 48).