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Attar Singh
Tribune News Service

Ambala, January 29
SD Vidya Toddlers held a two-day training programme for the teachers first time in the twin city Ambala.

Addressing media persons here Brij Soni, president of SD College Society (Lahore) from New Delhi said that without inspired teachers there could not be inspired children and that was why the management of the school had collaborated with the renowned curriculum and assessment experts to hold this four-day seminar, from January 25-28, for the personal development of teachers. This was backed by widely experienced experts of national repute including Sonia Kullar and Urmila Chowdury.

According to the Sonia, the school had four seminars: phonics, creating caring classroom and circle time, making math come alive, and dimensions of learning.

Training sessions were held on January 25-26 by Sonia kullar for the teachers of LKG, UKG, Class 1 and Class 2, and on January 27-28 by Urmila Chowdury for the teachers up to class VIII.

Sonia Kullar said that on Jan 25, the first day of the workshop, teachers were informed about the techniques to teach beginners how to pronounce words. Lectures on Jan 26 were held to encourage teachers to view the classroom from the the perspective of students.

On the third day, experts held workshop on creating the right environment for learning, while on the fourth day, different methods of teaching grammar to students up to class VIII were discussed.

Dera Bassi, January 29
HCL Technologies and Sanjay Diesels, well known business houses, participated in the campus placement event held at the Punjab Group of Colleges, Lalru, for recruitments of final year students during last two days.

Visiting executives informed the final year students about the potential opportunities in the industry. Over 240 students attended the presentation made by the companies. Three rounds of interviews were held during the event, and 18 students were finally given offer-letters at handsome packages. CEO SK Arora said that the PGC Group would keep such placement drives on top priority and would continue to call leading companies to the campus in future as well. He added that the group’s mission was to educate, train and help students get placement in reputed organisations.

Chairman Parmod Dhawan congratulated the selected students and wished them a bright future.

Chandigarh, January 29
The cricket team of Vivek High Cricket Academy overcame Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 35, by a margin of 64 runs in the league match of ongoing Sardar Bhagwant Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament being held here.

Batting first, the winning side set a target of 203 runs after loosing six wickets in 25 overs. Navansh (86) and Anirudh (58) took the team to a respectable total. For the bowling side, Kuljinder, Saurav and Aseem took two wickets each.

In reply, the losing side were bundled out for 139 runs. Simran done the damage to the batting side after taking 5 for 23 while his counterpart Arjun Singla grabbed 3 for 17. Batsman Saurav(42) was the only run-getter for the team.

Chandigarh, January 29
The handball team of Panjab University (PU) have won the North Zone Inter-University Handball Championship for Men at PU ground here today.

The local team defeated Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, in the final. In the decider, Amritsar went down against the trophy winners 14-11 to finish fourth in the tourney. In the league match for attaining runners-up and third positions in the competition, Kurukshetra University defeated MDU, Rohtak, by a narrow margin of 39-37.

Chandigarh, January 29
In the final of the Drug-Free City Cricket Cup, Gallant Cricket Club (GCC) defeated Livewire Coaching Centre (junior) (LCC) by 45 runs to win the tourney.

Batting first, GCC scored a total of 216 for 3 in 25 overs, with Chiraag Verma contributing 139 runs .

He was equally supported by Arun Luthra , who contributed 48 runs to the team’s total. For the bowling side, Aman Jaggi (2 for 33) and Abhishek (1 for 37) did the honours for the team.

While chasing the target, LWCC got an early setback after their opener Neeraj was sent to back without opening his account by Vikram.

Loveneesh Verma (21) and Aman Jaggi (58) performed well. Gaurav Chabra also contributed a quick fire half century.

Chiraag Verma was declared man of the match.

Panchkula, January 29
Chandigarh Coaching Centre, Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Panchkula booked a berth in the semifinals during the ongoing first Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda Volleyball Championship being played at Huda Sports Complex, Sector 3, here today.

In the first match of the day, the team form Chandigarh defeated Kalka 25-15,25-16 while in the second match the local team of Panchkula routed Ambala 25-14,25-13, and 25-18.

Chandigarh, January 29
An Inter-Club Golf Championship between Panchkula Golf Club and Shivalik Golf Course, Chandimandir (Army), was held at the Panchkula Golf Club today.

A total of 12 teams with two players in each team participated in the match. The Panchkula Golf Club won the competition by a margin of 7-4.

The winning team included Ajay Kanwar, Dr JN Kalia, Gagandeep, Gothra, MP Singh, Jayant Pathak, Virinder Dhaya, Zubin Nijhawan, RS Pammi, Vijay Sharma, Brig. DS Thukral, Angad Cheema, SS Khara, Vikram Bhagwan, Deshvir Singh, Sumeet Sehgal and VS Kundu.