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Regulating Traffic
Ambala, January 10 Loading and unloading will be allowed only between 8 pm and 8 am. He sought cooperation of the traders. Representatives of different markets pointed out at the meeting that haphazard parking of vehicles caused frequent traffic blockage. There was a need to have parking places in the market. To this SP Shashank Anand agreed and said soon parking lots would be developed in different markets. Later, he went around with a huge force in different busy markets of Ambala Cantonment to study the problems of traffic snarls. The anti-encroachment staff exhorted the shopkeepers to clear the space in front of their shops. Recently, the traffic police had undertaken a major anti-encroachment drive in cloth market of Ambala City. A number of vehicles haphazardly parked on the roadside were towed away. The traffic police also removed illegally parked rehris in and around the main bus stand. SP said the drive against squatters would continue and the vehicles parked wrongly would be impounded. Shashank appealed to shopkeepers not to display their goods on the roadside, which led to hindrance in smooth flow of traffic. During the anti-encroachment drive several market places, including Sadar Bazar, Halwai Bazar, Gur Mandi, Rai Market and DC road were cleared of encroachments.
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Spreading traffic awareness among drivers
Bassi Pathana, January 10 A large number of drivers from truck union, tempo union, auto-rickshaw union and prominent citizens attended the seminar. The DSP said deaths due to accidents were on the rise, so the need of the hour was to control accidents. He said the law forcing agencies couldn’t control the traffic by enforcing the law, rather everyone had to take the responsibility to obey traffic rules, and only then the road accidents could be controlled. He said it was unfortunate that our drivers drive negligently here in India, where as they drive carefully while in abroad. He appreciated the efforts of the Bharat Vikas Parishad and truck union in organising such a seminar. He stressed upon the need that parents must stop their below 18 children from driving. Raj Kumar Wadhwa said certain accidents took place only due to traffic police, as after seeing the police, the drivers tried to speed up the vehicle just to avoid harassment. Ravinder Singh Virk, president, Truck Union, Balraj Singla, Rajwant Singh, city in charge, were all present. |
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Post office building at Pinjore
Kalka, January 10 Sources said in the letter, the minister has said the town is a historic place
and is in a dire need of a permanent building for the post office and a 3G telephone exchange. The letter adds that there is adequate space for the construction of the building on the premises of the local police station. The residents have to face inconvenience due to the absence of a telephone exchange. The post office is currently running from a rented building in spite of the fact that the postal department owns a piece of land on the premises of the police station where it was earlier based. The post office was shifted to another building 40 years ago after the old building was declared unsafe. The Shiwalik Vikas Manch had recently written to Kumari Selja regarding the construction of a post office and 3G
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TT: Triple crown for former Punjab champ
Patiala, January 10 Results: Women singles: 1st Avinash Kaur, 2nd Suman Gupta, 3rd Manju Sharma, 4th Inderbir Marya Girls’ singles: 1st Pragya Joshi, 2nd Sukhmeet Kaur Boys’ singles: 1st Priyank Marya, 2nd Ripu Daman Singh and 3rd Japneet Singh Men singles (above 70): 1st GK Vashist, 2nd RK Kakkar and 3rd NK Kaushal. Men singles (above 60): 1st Jitendra Kishore, 2nd SS Sohal, 3rd CK Sachdeva and 4th DP Sarwal. Men singles (above 50): 1st Amarjot Singh, 2nd Amarjit Ahuja, 3rd SK Kochar, 4th Manmohan Sagar and 5th Vinay Jain Men singles (above 40): 1st Bikram Sharma and 2 Sanjiv Kapuria. Men doubles: 1st Jitendra Kishore and Amarjot Singh, 2nd SS Sohal, and Amarjit
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Recitation contest at Jain college
Ambala, January 10 He said poetry was one of the most resilient medium to bring change in the society and one of the most thought provoking, too. He said poetry was a wonderful way to bring a marked improvement in the way we communicate, which was one of the most pressing requirements. College principal Mudita Bhatnagar asked students to take part in literary functions, as it improved their expression.
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Founder’s day celebrated
Dera Bassi, January 10 The New Year started with the blessings of the chairman and director along with the wishes from the principals of all the Institutions. It was followed by fun games like tambola, musical chair and a bonfire dance party. |
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Store burgled
Kalka, January 10 In a complaint to the local police, Sachin Goel, the owner of a shop, has alleged that he came to know about the incident in the morning hours, when he noticed the locks of the store broken. The investigations were going on after registering a case in this context. |
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Gas cylinder explodes, no injuries
Kalka, January 10 The eyewitnesses said that fortunately no one was hurt in the incident. Notably the explosion took place just before Om Parkash Chautala , former Chief Minister of Haryana, was to attend a condolence meeting of late Gulab Singh Chaudhary , a district INLD leader of
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One killed in road mishap
Dera Bassi, January 10 The victim, however, could not be identified and the body has been kept at the Dera Bassi Civil Hospital for identification.
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Teachers’ training programme
Banur, January 10 A total of 60 lecturers and assistant professors of different colleges will participate. The aim is to share experience for continuous improvement in teaching and learning to make learning meaningful. |
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Auditorium inaugurated
Banur, January 10 He said this was a tribute to the legendary, who is known to have developed the character of Bhai Manna Singh through his plays. |
Prohibition order on correcting fluids
Chandigarh, January 10 The UT Administration has already claimed it has charted out a special plan to deal with the menace. As the case came up for resumed hearing, the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Augustine George Masih asked the UT Deputy Commissioner to file a reply showing how the orders passed under Section 144 of the CrPC from time-to-time, prohibiting the sale of correctional fluid to minors, have been implemented. He has also been asked to specify the result of the implementation. In a petition, Ashok Khanna of the Art of Living, NGO Yuvsatta through its chief Promod Sharma, theatre-director Neelam Maan Singh Chaudhary, Rakesh Sharma and six others had earlier asserted there was a need to initiate steps expeditiously against the prevalent tendency among the youth and even children, especially those residing in city slums. Taking up the matter, the Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal had earlier issued notices to the Chandigarh Administration through its Home and Health Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and the UT Deputy Commissioner. The petitioners said there was a need to withdraw the stocks from the market, and destroy them and only allow the direct use of correction pen. Chandigarh Administration has claimed plan to stop the use of correction fluid by school children has been prepared in collaboration with Government Medical College and Hospital-32 and the PGI. In an affidavit, the deputy commissioner had earlier claimed they had completely banned the sale of correction fluid in stationery shops across the city. The UT health secretary has asked the director, health department, to take preventive and strict measures to control the use of correction fluid by minors in the city. The measures include epidemiological survey to identify addicted children and their counseling, vigilance near the schools by police to detect the children using fluid for intoxication, and publicity campaign to generate awareness on the bad effect of the fluid.
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Aerocity Choe Issue
Chandigarh, January 10 Justice Surya Kant also issued notice of motion to GMADA and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on a petition filed by Harbans Singh and 10 other farmers of Matran village in Mohali district. In their writ petition, they pleaded about 400 farmers and their families were using treated water for irrigation for past 40 years; and had no other source of irrigating their lands. The petitioners added their lands would be rendered barren once the drain carrying the treated water to their farmlands from sewage treatment plant in Phase-IX, Mohali, was plugged. The petitioners claimed they had earlier approached the Chief Administrator by way of a representation for the construction of an underground drain to carry the treated water to their villages, without affecting the planned development of Aerocity. Responding, the chief administrator on October
18 last observed: “The Chandigarh Administration/Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, who are statutorily responsible for management of the STP and the discharge there from, should make an alternative arrangement for carrying this water through underground pipes and execute this work as early as possible, preferably within six months.” Counsel HC Arora said the petitioners in these circumstances filed the present writ petition.
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PGI head draftsman gets 2 yrs for graft
Chandigarh, January 10 The case was filed on November 27, 2008 when the investigative agency caught Kataria red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a contractor. CBI sleuths nabbed him in the act in full public view in front of Hotel Mountview, Sector 10. The CBI had received a complaint from Jaspal Singh, a contractor, who alleged he had applied for a tender for renovation of toilets in the PGI hostel block, which he said was allotted to him. He accused Kataria of harassing him by demanding Rs 25,000 for issuing him the allotment order. Kataria reportedly told Jaspal he would take Rs 10,000 for himself and the rest of the money would go to the hospital’s superintendent engineer. It was later found the entire amount was handed over to him. “The accused demanded a bribe on the pretext of getting work allotted in favour of the contractor. We had pleaded for the maximum punishment,” said CBI special public prosecutor Pawan Kumar Dogra.
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Cyclist run over by canter
Zirakpur, January 10 The incident took place around 8.30 am when Ram Kumar was going towards to Chandigarh side when a cantercoming from Zirakpur side hit him from the rear. He sustained serious head injury. An eyewitness immediately called the police who took the injured to the Civil Hospita, Dera Bassi, where doctors declared him brought dead. The driver of the canter fled from the scene. The body of the deceased has been handed over to the family after conducting a post-mortem and a case has been registered against the driver on the complaint of Sanjeev Kumar, a resident of Pabhat village. He was working in a Chandigarh-based factory. He is survived by his wife and four children.
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Two held for snatching incident
Chandigarh, January 10 According to the police, they both snatched Rs 1000 and voter I-card from Lal Babu. Both were later arrested from near Sector 39/40 roundabout. A case under Sections 356, 379, 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered in the Sector 39 police station. Both were produced in court and later sent to judicial custody. In another incident, two unidentified persons in a white car snatched a mobile phone and Rs 300 from a resident of Kaimbwala village. The victim has been identified as Chun Chun Pandy. He was attacked near Divyadeep Hotel, Sector 22. A case under Sections 356, 379 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Sector 17 police station.
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Woman hit by car, dies
Chandigarh, January 10 The victim was working as a domestic help at a house in Sector 3 and was on her way back home on her cycle when she was hit by the car, which was allegedly being rashly driven by Amit, a resident of Maloya Colony. The accident took place near Batra Theatre. The victim suffered severe head injuries. She was rushed to Government Multi-Speciality Hospital in Sector 16, where she later succumbed to her injures. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A (causing death due to negligence) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the Sector 39 police station.
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2 houses burgled in city
Chandigarh, January 10 The incident came to light when neighbours found the lock broken and informed Sanjay Aggarwal about it. The police was also informed. In his complaint, Aggarwal reported that the burglars took away Rs 2,10,000 and a laptop. A case under Sections 457 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Sector 31 police station. In the other incident, thieves targeted a house in Mamimajra and took away Rs 11,000, a camera, gold ring, 20 kg brass utensils, gold chain, two gold bangles and 0.5 kg silver. Sumit Anand, in his complaint, said he, along with his family, had gone to visit his grandfather, who also lives in Mamimajra. When they came back, they found the lock broken, after which they called the police. A case has been registered.
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2 booked for tampering with revenue records
Mohali, January 10 After thorough inquiry, a case under Sections 417, 418, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered.
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Man held for firing in air
Chandigarh, January 10 He fired shots during a “prabhat
pheri” near the Sector 34 gurdwara in the morning. A case under Sections 336 of the Indian Penal Code
(IPC) (act of endangering life of others) and 27-54-59 of the Arms Act was registered in the Sector 34 police
station. Gurcharan Singh was later produced in court and granted bail.
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City emerge softball champions
Chandigarh, January 10 In women’s section, Kerala rode high on one run each by Vinitha, Deepa and Gayatri to lift the top honours by beating Punjab by 3-1 runs. Punjab men and Maharashtra women teams won bronze medal. Earlier, Baljit and Pankaj of Chandigarh scored two points each, while Ravinder, Nimit, Sunderlal, Devinder and Amit made one run each to enable the local team to win the championship. Results: Final (Men): Chandigarh beat Delhi 9-2 (Baljit, Pankaj made two runs each and Ravinder, Nimit, Sunderlal, Devinder and Amit made one run each for Chandigarh) For 3rd place (men): Punjab beat Kerala 3-1 (Vikas, Joban and Debinder made 1 run each for Punjab) Final (women): Kerala beat Punjab 3-1 (Vinitha, Deepa and Gayatri made 1 run each for Kerala) For 3rd place (women): Maharashtra beat Himachal Pradesh 9-0 (Madhu, Sonali, Amruta, Kirti made 2 runs and Snehal made 1 run for Maharashtra). Best players: Baljit of Chandigarh, Anurag of Delhi, Amit Bahadur of Chandigarh, Joban of Punjab, Joseph Babu of Kerala in men section and Mamta of Punjab. Vinitha of Kerala, Vandana of Rajasthan and Priyanka of Himachal Pradesh are adjudged as best players of the championship. |
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56th National School Games
Chandigarh, January 10 While in final of U-19 girls age group, Kerala lifted the top honours, trailing Puducherry and Assam at second and third places, respectively. Local boys’ U-14 soccer team continued their victory trip as the team virtually thrashed the strong contender Goa by 10-0. In the U-14 girls category, Manipur team defeated Madhya Pradesh by 7-0. In Cricket U-19, Chandigarh boys demonstrated a winning streak, defeating Rajasthan by 8 wickets and Uttrakhand also hit a superb 175, beating Orissa by 57 runs. Today’s results Badminton (U- 17 (Girls)): Final: 1 Andhra Pradesh, 2 Delhi, 3 Maharashtra, 4 KVS. U- 19: Final: 1 Kerala, 2 Pondicherry, 3 Assam, 4 Delhi. Boys:(U- 17): 1 Maharashtra, 2 Andhra Pradesh, 3 Kerala, 4 Punjab. Football: (U-14): Haryana beat Tamil Nadu by 2-0; Gujarat beat J & K by 2-0. (Quarterfinal): Mizoram beat Punjab by 3-0; Chandigarh beat Goa by 10-0; Delhi beat Jharkhand by 4-2. Girls: (U-14): Haryana beat Tamil Nadu by 4-0; Manipur beat M.P. by 7-0; Punjab beat Chandigarh by 2-1; Mizoram beat Jharkhand by 5-0; Goa beat Chandigarh by 2-0; Mizoram beat Punjab by 6-0; Tamil Nadu beat MP by 3-0. Cricket: Boys (U-19): Prequarter and quarterfinals 1. Uttar Pradesh V/s Maharashtra, score 177/ 128, (Uttar Pradesh won by 49 runs) 2. Uttar Pradesh V/S IPSC, score 134/130 (Uttar Pradesh won by 6 wickets) 3. Goa v/s Gujarat, score 121/160 (Gujarat won by 39 runs) 4. Uttrakhand v/s Orissa, score 175/118 (Uttrakhand won by 57 runs) 5. K.V.S. v/s Rajasthan, score 109/119 (Rajasthan won by 10 runs) 6. Delhi v/s Gujarat, score 117/116 (Delhi won by 6 wickets) 7. Punjab v/s Uttrakhand, score 93/92 (Punjab won by 6 wickets) 8. Chandigarh v/s Rajasthan, score 114/110 (Chandigarh won by 8 wickets) |
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SGGSC-26 win kabaddi tourney
Chandigarh, January 10 Results: 1 GKSM Govt College, Tanda Urmar beat PG Govt College, Sector 11, Chandigarh, Score: 32-21 2 Guru Nanak College Ferozepur Cantonment beat PG Govt College, Sector 46, Chandigarh, Score: 26-20 3 LR DAV College, Jagraon, beat RSD College, Ferozepur, Score: 22-8 Cricket: Khalsa College, Garhdiwala beat Baba Kundan Singh College, Muhar, (Ferozepur) by 87 runs in the PU Inter-College Cricket (Men) B-Division Tournament, being played at PU. Batting first, Khalsa College team scored 218 runs for five in 30 overs with the help of fine knocks by Atul Thakur (86), Chander Shekhar (58 not out) and Amit Thakur (37). In reply, BKS team was packed on 131 in 18.3 overs. Score: Khalsa College: 218 runs for five in 30 overs (Atul Thakur 86, Chander Shekhar 58 not out, Amit Thakur 37, Bhupinder 2 for 39, Harjeet Singh 1 for 21). BKS College: 131 for all out in 18.3 overs (Gurjit Singh 63, Amandeep Singh 19, Vishal Kapila 4 for 7, Mandeep Singh 3 for 31, Rahul Dadwal 2 for 30). |
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YMCA Total Tennis Tournament
Chandigarh, January 10 The tourney was concluded at Total Tennis Academy, Sector 11, here, today.Earlier, Vikas defeated Barun Gill of Vivek High School 6-1,6-3 in one-sided boys’ under 18 finals to clinch his first title then he again showed his class by winning men’s singles after defeating Mayank Sharma 6-4, 6-3. Though against Barun, Vikas won with quite ease, he had to fight hard to win the men’s singles title against Mayank Sharma. Sharma served well till 4-4 in the first set but Vikas took advantage of his experience to take the first set by 6-4 and then broke Mayank's service game at 3-3 and then at 5-3 in the second set to lift the title. Rohit Berwal defeated Chirag Bajwa 6-4, 6-4 in a well-fought final. In girls’ section, Arushi Kakkar was another player to win the double title. She won her first title by demolishing Kriti Soni of Haryana 4-1, 4-0 in 35 minutes girls U- 12 and then lifted top honours in U-18 category, beating Nehmat Aulakh 7-6(7-5), 6-0. The following are the other results: Boys U-10: Chiraz Singh bt Abhi Garg 04,5-3,5-4(7-5) Boys U-12: Sabrang Sandal bt Rishab Sharda 6-3,3-6, 6-0 Boys U-14: Rohit Berwal bt Chirag Bajwa 6-4,6-4 Boys U-18: Vikas Berwal bt Barun Gill 6-1,6-3 Girls U-12: Arushi Kakkar bt Kriti Soni 4-1,4-0 Girls U-14: Neelanchal Gupta bt Suhavani Bhullar 6-1,6-2. Girls U-18: Arushi Kakkar bt Nehmat Aulakh 7-6(7-5),6-0 Men’s singles: Vikas Berwal bt Mayank Sharma 6-4,6-3. |
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Warit beat Fatehdeep 6-3, 7-5
Chandigarh, January 10 After the inauguration of the tournament by Jai Singh Gill, former chief secretary, Punjab, and president of the association, the opening match was played between top seed (92nd ranked in world) Warit Sorndutnark of Thailand and Fatehdeep Singh, who was trained at the CLTA. Warit Sorndutnark won the round 6-3 and 7-5. Results of the first round: 1st round results: Boys’ singles Warit Sornbutnark (THA) bt Fatehdeep Singh (IND) 6-3, 7-5 Abduvoris Saitmukhamedov (UZB) bt Yash Deshpandey (IND) 6-1, 6-2 Wen Chun Liang (TPE) bt Rohan Bhatia 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 Temur Ismailov (UZB) bt Arjun Kadhe (IND) 6-0, 6-2 Shao Chin Yang (TPE) bt Rajat Maheshwari 6-3, 6-4 Or Ram Harel (ISR) bt Shaikh Abdullah (IND) 6-1, 6-3, Chi Shan Jao (TPE) bt Tarun Nath Surath (IND) 6-1, 7-6(2), Qin Tu (CHN) bt Vilasier Khate (IND) 6-4, 6-3 Enzo Couacaud (FRA) bt Digvijay Singh Naruka (IND) 6-1, 6-0, Macij Romanowicz (POL) bt Nischay Rawal (IND) 6-0, 6-0, Nattan Benjasupawan (THA) bt Saurabh Singh (IND) bt 7-5, 7-5 Rakshay Thakkar (IND) bt Vishwesh Sinha (IND) 7-5, 6-4 Girls’ singles Anna Tyulpa (RUS) Shweta Rana (IND) bt 6-2, 6-4 Nadya Syarifah (INA) br Aishwarya Agrawal (IND) 7-5, 6-2 Ratnik Batra (IND) bt Sanae Ota (JPN) 7-5, 7-5 Anushka Bhargava (IND) bt Bhuvana Kalva (IND) 7-5, 6-4 Sharmda Balu (IND) bt Shreya Pasricha (IND) 6-0, 6-2 Kanika Vaidya (IND) bt Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) 6-1, 6-4 Evgeniya Svintsva (RUS) bt Rimpaldeep Kaur Batth (IND) 6-1, 6-1 Natasha Palha (IND) bt Darya Chernetsova (RUS) 6-1, 6-3 Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) bt Parminder Kaur (IND) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 |
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8 boxers from city bring laurels
Chandigarh, January 10 While Somvir won gold medal in 69 kg weight category, Karamveer bagged silver medal in 60 kg group. The rest five, Sunil Kumar (-49kg), Mukesh (52 kg), Vijay (56 kg), Mohit (64 kg), Vishwajeet (81kg) and Preetraj (+91kg) won the bronze medals in their respective weight categories. |
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