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Bassi Pathana, January 8
Holy Heart Public High School organised its prize distribution-cum-annual function here today.

Gurmeet Singh SP (D) was the chief guest, where as Amardeep Singh Dharni, chairman of the managing committee presided over.

Gurmeet Singh SP (D) said students were the future of the country and the destiny of the nation was shaped in classrooms.

He congratulated the students, who brought laurels to the school. Earlier, Amardeep Singh Dharni, chairman, highlighted the facilities being provided in the school and future plans of the managing committee.

Principal Simardeep Kaur read the annual report and highlighted the achievements of the school.

Schoolchildren presented an impressive cultural programme.

Fatehgarh Sahib, January 8
Host Punjab won the overall boxing championship of girls in the third National-Level Rural Tournament for boys and girls U-16 at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, here today.

Punjab pocketed 51 points leaving Haryana behind with 31 points, whereas Andhra Pradesh got bronze with 15 points.

Mohali, January 8
The Punjab forest department today seized logs of khair tree, weighing around 15 quintal, from two farmhouses in the forest area along the Tanda-Masol road, around 5 km from the PGI, Chandigarh.

More recovery of illegally-felled khair tree was expected tomorrow.

Apprehending it to be the handiwork of khair wood smugglers, the forest department has embarked on an exercise to scan the entire forest area that was privately managed.

“Without permission, not a single tree could be cut as the area came under the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900 and provisions of the other forest Acts,” said Ropar divisional forest officer Vishal Chauhan.

The felled trees had been cut into pieces and hidden at two farmhouses, including Kang Farmhouse, and were to be smuggled out from there.

Acting on a tip-off, range officer Balwinder Singh along with the DFO raided the farmhouses and found the logs of khair tree. The logs were valued at around Rs 1 lakh.

Sources said each khair tree fetched around Rs 20,000 in the open market and was used in “katha” factory and in pharmaceutical industry.

Till late in the evening, forest officials were carried out search of the forest area.

The recovered logs have been kept at the Seonk Forest Rest House.

At Kang Farmhouse, the forest officials found that a hillock had been levelled.

Chandigarh, January 8
Sixty-year-old Surjit Kaur, an NRI, told the police that ` 94,000 was stolen from her purse while she was attending a nagar kirtan at Sector 22 here today.

The police was taking her complaint with a pinch of salt. A resident of Sector 15, she told the police that she went to the Sector 22 market and stopped to pay obeisance at a nagar kirtan.

After paying obeisance, she discovered to her horror that her purse was open and the entire cash was missing.

She informed the police, which was verifying the facts of her complaint.

Chandigarh, January 8
Top seed Vikes Berwal and second seed Prabhsimran Singh Bal sailed into the quarterfinals (U-18 boys’ section) of the YMCA Total Tennis Tournament, being played at the Total Tennis Academy, Sector 11, here today.

Third seed Mayank and fourth seed Barun Gill also reached easily into the top-16 bracket.

Results: Boys U-10: Chirag Singh beat Sunigoswami 5-3, Agri beat Ashap Kumar 5-2, Karan Sharma beat Neel 5-2, Jagrit beat Gurvi Raj 5-0, Souhard Batra beat Sidharath 5-3, Abhi Garg beat Jaskaran Singh 6-5 (7-3), Armaan Mudgill beat Goran 5-3

Boys U-12: Sabrang Sandal beat Dishant 5-0, Karan Sharam beat Sidharth 5-2, Ashish Sobti beat Hari Om 5-2, Karanveer Hooda beat Gurmehak 5-0, Adeesh Bansal beat Akashdeep Singh 6-4, Utkarsh beat Shrey Bhardwaj 6-4, Vibhu Choubey beat Shresth 5-0, Aditya beat Ankush Nagpal 5-2, Rishab Sharda beat Sehej Sidhu 5-0, Nikhil Kundil beat Mayank Ashraj 5-2, Manveer Singh beat Varun Goyal 5-2, Abhi Garg beat Sohrabh Singh 5-0, Arnav Ghai beat Armaan Mudgill 5-0, Udgam Aggarwal beat Saihshno 5-3, Krishnam beat Kava Nalviya 5-3, Parameet Deol beat Pabjot 5-0.

Boys U-14: Rohit Kumar beat Daksh Manglik 6-0, Rounak Singh beat Arnav Ghai 6-1, Arnav Munjal beat Afftab 6-3, Lakhshay Sofat beat Vibhav Rattan 6-0, Hirday Pratap beat Ankush Nagpal 6-4, Abhigo Swami beat Utkarsh Sidharath 6-0, Rishab Sharda beat Anchit Gupta 6-1, Parmeet Deol beat Shonit Pahuja 6-2, Himmat Kadayan beat Adeesh Bansal 6-1, Pawan Ahuja beat Karanveer Hooda 6-2, Chirag Bajwa beat Kashish Sehgal 6-0, Rohit Kumar beat Rounak Singh 6-0, Dishant beat Arnav Munjal 6-4, Lekhshay Softi beat Hirday Partap 6-0, Parmeet Deol beat Himmat 6-4, Rohit Dhiman beat Ankush Thakur 6-2, Chirag Bajwa beat Pawan Ahuja 6-0 and Sabrang Sandal beat Ashish Sobti 6-1.

Boys U-18: Vikas Beriwal beat Anshul Gupta 6-0, Ankush Thakur beat Vishrant 6-1, Amit Deshwal beat Milind Mehta 6-1, Mayank beat Rohit Dhiman 6-0, Barun Gill beat Utkarsh Khosla 6-4, Arshbulland beat Fatehdeep Singh 6-0, Jayant Mohan Rai beat Kashish Sehgal 7-5, Prabhsimran Singh beat Digvijay Singh 6-2, Vikas Beriwal beat Ankush Thakur 6-0, Mayank beat Amit Deshwal 6-1, Barun Gill beat Arsh Bulland 7-6 (7-5), Prabhsimran Bal beat Jayant Mohan Rai 6-0.

Men: Vikas Beriwal beat Sumit Bansal 6-0, Navdeep beat Milind Mehta 6-4, Raj Soumy beat Abhishek Munjal 7-5, Barun Gill beat Mithlesh 6-3, Arshbulland Aulakh beat Gaurav 6-0, Vipul beat Amit Deshwal 6-2 and Mayank beat Raj Badhan 6-2