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University releases placement brochure
Tribune News Service

Patiala, February 7
The Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Law here, Paramjit S Jaswal, released the placement brochure for the 2008-2013 batch today.

The brochure contained details of the university and the progress that it had made in the past few years.

Officials said over 50 law offices and advocates had invited resumes of students for recruitment and a few others had granted them internships.

The university also inaugurated its daycare centre on the university premises. Jaswal said the facility had been established with a grant of Rs 4.5 lakh from the UGC.

Ambala, February 7
Tension prevailed in Pilkhani village, near Ambala Cantonment, when members of a community started the construction of a temple of Guru Ravi Dass on land adjoining the government primary school today.

A few residents of the village had been opposing the construction of the temple at the site. They were of the view that it would create disturb students.

Krishan Lal, president of Sant Ravi Das Committee, said the district administration had permitted them to construct the temple on the site.

He said the gram panchayat had passed a resolution in its favour and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ram Kishan Gujjar had granted Rs 1 lakh for the construction.

Two days back, after construction material was brought to the site, a few villagers opposed it. DCP (Rural) PK Mehta and SDM Mukesh Ahuja reached the spot and stopped the construction.

Members of the committee today fixed a flagpole at the site, which irritated others. The police was deployed at the site.

Panchkula, February 7
The Panchkula police today registered an FIR against the manager of the Nada Sahib gurdwara and three others under charges of attempt-to-rape and voluntarily causing hurt.

The police booked gurdwara manager Bhupinder Singh and three others, working as ‘sewadars’ and clerk at the gurdwara, under Sections 376, 511 and 323 of the IPC.

The police registered the FIR on the complaint of Bahadur Singh, ‘sewadar’ at the gurdwara, and his wife. Bahadur told the police that Bhupinder called him to his office on Sunday.

Bahadur added that he and his wife went to the manager’s office, where he was beaten up by the manager and three or four others due to old rivalry.

They also tried to outrage the modesty of his wife, Bahadur told the police. Chandi Mandir police station SHO Surinder Kumar said they registered an FIR after recording the statements of the couple.

When contacted, Bhupinder said Bahadur and his wife had levelled the allegations to put pressure on him as he was conducting the investigation into a scuffle between Bahadur and another ‘sewadar’.

Zirakpur, February 7
A youth was killed as a passenger train hit him on the railway track at Dhakoli here this evening. The deceased was identified as 20-year-old Mohmmad Rehman of Dhakoli.

An official with the GRP said Rehman was crossing the track around 6:10 pm when was hit by the train, which was on way from Chandigarh to Ambala.

Mohali, February 7
Man of the match performance by skipper Siddharth Chitnis (71 runs off 41 balls) enabled KXIP Green to lift the trophy by defeating KXIP Red by six wickets in the final played at the PCA Stadium here today. After winning the toss, KXIP Green decided to field first. Seasoned campaigners, Chetan Sharma and Gurkeerat Mann of KXIP Red, gave their team a sound start, as both added 32 runs in just four overs before Gurkeerat Mann was caught by Ishan Malhotra off the bowling of Ajay Dalal on his individual score of 20.

Chetan Sharma joined by Abhimanyu Rana played sensibly and rotated the strike well and stitched a partnership of 93 runs off 60 balls. Rana scored 41 runs off 32 balls. Chetan Sharma (52) completed his third half-century of the tournament with a classic off drive to fence. Soon after completing his 50, he was caught in deep by Malhotra off Wilkin Mota. Captain R Satish of Red team scored a brisk 31 runs off 21 balls enabling his team to pile up a handsome total of 163 runs in allotted 20 overs.

For Green team, Wilikn Mota was the pick of the bowlers, as he scalped three wickets for 26 runs.

In reply, KXIP Green lost the centurion of last league match Ishan Malhotra cheaply as he was caught by Mehta in the third over bowled by Jatinder on his individual score of 11. Red team put some more pressure on Green team by taking two more quick wickets. Chitnis and Karan Goel then steadied the ship with a match winning partnership of 105 runs.

Chitnis was more fluent with his strokes, as he scored 71 runs off 41 balls. His innings was studded with three huge sixes and four boundaries. Karan Goel remained unbeaten at his individual score of 43 runs off 39 balls with the help of four hits to fence, as they achieved the target at the loss of four wickets with 13 balls to spare.

Kuldeep Diwan was elected as the best bowler, Ishan Malhotra as the best batsman, Javed and Dhruv Mahajan for best catch and Prashant Chopra as man of the series. Chief guest Vishwajeet Khanna, IAS, gave away the prizes to the participants.

Brief scores:

KXIP Red: 163 for 6 in 20 overs (Chetan Sharma 52, Abhimanyu Rana 41, R Satish 31, Gurkeerat Mann 20; Wilkin Mota 3 for 26, Rajesh Verma 1 for 23, Rajwinder Golu 1 for 29).

KXIP Green: 167 for 4 in 17.5 overs (Siddharth Chitnis 71, Karan Goel 43, Bhavin Thakkar 20; Kuldeep Diwan 2 for 38, Jitender Mehta 1 for 28, Mehjoor Ali 1 for 37).

Chandigarh, February 7
The all-round performance by Abhilash (86 runs and two wickets) enabled St Stephen’s School Cricket Academy to enter the semifinals of Sardar Bhagwant Singh Memorial Cricket Tournament-2012 being held at Vivek High School, Sector 38, here today.

In the quarterfinal match, St Stephen’s academy beat Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy by 30 runs.

St Stephen’s academy won the toss and elected to bat first. They piled up a huge total of 227 runs for the loss of eight wickets in their stipulated 35 overs. Abhilash 86 runs, Akash Rana 70 runs and Sukhraj 31 runs were the main scorers. For Vivek academy, Anhad was the pick of the bowlers, as he scalped three wickets giving away 31 runs, while Karan and Arjun Singla took two wickets each giving away 22 and 36 runs, respectively.

In reply, Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy failed to achieve the target and were bowled out for 197 runs in 32.2 overs. Anirudh 66 runs, Ansh Chugh 51 runs and Karan 40 runs were the main scorers. For St Stephen’s, Gaurav was the pick of the bowlers, as he took four wickets giving away 21 runs. Abhilash and Akshay took two wickets each giving away 28 and 22 runs, respectively.

Abhilash of St Stephen’s School Cricket Academy was declared man of the match for his 86 runs and two wickets.

The semifinal matches between Himachal Cricket Academy and St Stephen’s School Cricket Academy will be held at 9 am and Vivek High Asian Cricket Academy V/s Stepping Stones Cricket Academy will be held at 1.30 pm on February 11.

Brief scores:

St Stephen’s: 227 runs for 8 in 35 overs (Abhilash 86, Akash Rana 70, Sukhraj 31; Anhad 3 for 31, Karan 2 for 22, Arjun Singla 2 for 36).

Vivek High: 197 all out in 32.2 overs (Anirudh 66, Ansh Chugh 51, Karan 40; Gaurav 4 for 21, Abhilash 2 for 28, Akshay 2 for 22).

Chandigarh, February 7
The cricket team of Government Medical College, Sector 32, got the better of Government College of Art, Sector 10, Chandigarh, by 100 runs in the first match of Panjab University Inter-College Cricket (Men) B-Division Tournament being played at PU grounds here today.

Batting first, the winning side scored 220 runs in 30 overs with Pankaj (66 runs), Anubhav (52 runs) and Harbir (25 runs) scoring most runs for the team.

For bowling side, Jagsir and Nakshdeep took two wickets each for the team.

In reply, the losing side were bundled out for 120 runs in 21.2 overs .

Ravinder scored an unbeaten 37 runs, while Bhupinder contributed 16 runs.

For bowling side, Jeetender and Akash took three wickets each for the team.

Chandigarh, February 7
The table tennis team of PU Campus bagged the Panjab University Inter-College Table Tennis Competition after defeating GGDSD College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, 3-0 being held at the Gymnasium Hall of Panjab University here today.

The team of GGD SD College, Sector 32, secured the second place, while the Khalsa College for Women, Ludhiana, and GGS College for Women, Sector 26, Chandigarh, finished third and fourth, respectively, in the tournament.

Results:

Final: PU Campus, Chandigarh, beat GGDSD College, Chandigarh, by 3-0 (Sunanda beat Mithlesh 11-5, 11-7, 11-7; Deepa Rawat beat Sadika 7-11, 11-8, 5-11, 11-9, 11-9; Surbhi beat Noor 11-5, 12-10, 11-5). — TNS