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Dera Bassi, March 22
Sri Sukhmani Group of Institutions organised its 14th annual function ‘Lamhe-2012’ at the campus of Sri Sukhmani Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dera-Bassi, to celebrated the institute’s 33rd year in the field of education. The function was followed by a performance from the famous Punjabi singer Gurdas Mann. The artiste sang famous Punjabi songs on the demand of the people.

Prof Avtar Singh, chairman Sri Sukhmani Group, and, Kanwaljit Kaur, Director, greeted the chief guest. The morning event opened with scintillating performances by Punjabi and folk dance group, Malwayi Gidda. Western dance and foot tapping numbers were performed by Kalyani, Saurabh, Jaspreet etc. Young designers from Sri Sukhmani Polytechnic for women showcased their fall-winter collection.

Chief Guest for the prize distribution ceremony, Usha R Sharma, IAS, gave away the prizes and trophies to meritorious students for securing top positions in the PTU merit list. The chief guest applauded the efforts of the institute in making Dera Bassi a hub for all professional and intellectual activities.

Chief Guest for the ‘Star Nite with Gurdas Mann’ NK Sharma, MLA, Dera Bassi, inaugurated the event by welcoming the singer. Students, faculty and staff from all the institutions under the Sri Sukhmani Group of Institutions welcomed the singer with a thunderous applause and thronged him for autographs and photographs. Students were visibly excited to meet him.

Chandigarh, March 22
In less than a fortnight, you will be able to steer clear of traffic chaos in the Parwanoo and Kalka bazars.

For, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today made it clear to the Union of India and the National Highways Authority of India that it wanted the toll to be notified in 10 days. The Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Mahesh Grover also gave three days time thereafter for the commissioning of the Pinjore-Parwanoo bypass.

The directions came during the hearing of a petition filed in public interest by Harish Kumar Puri for streamlining the flow of traffic for avoiding accidents.

In his petition, Puri had earlier asked for the construction of rumble strips along with the traffic signals at the crossings. He had stated that his 27-year-old son Ashok Puri had died on May 14, 1996, due to a complete failure of the signal system. The case is being pursued by the Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation through its secretary-general-cum-senior advocate ML Sarin.

The directions came just about six months after Punjab and Haryana High Court’s former Judge, Justice PK Palli, brought to the High Court’s notice a news report on serious traffic disruption on the national highway.

Justice Palli had addressed a letter to the Chief Justice on October 11, last year, referring to “a news-item relating to serious disruption on NH-22”. 

Chandigarh, March 22
The cricket team of Shri Cricket Academy defeated the team of YPS, Mohali, by 45 runs, in the league match of ongoing 3rd Junior Cricket Championship for boys (U-13), being held here today.

After elected to bat first, the winning side posted a total of 122 runs after loosing four wickets in the allotted slot of 25 overs. Bhawin (35 off 62) and Prabhav (23 off 39) were the main run scorers for the team. For the bowling side, Salil took 1 for 10.

In reply, the YPS team bundled out on the total of 77 runs in the 16th over of the game. For batting team, Adil scored 21 runs while Salil contributed 12 off 13 whereas for bowling side, Sukhman was the pick of the bowlers for taking 3 for 23 and his counterpart Bhawin took 2 for 20. 

Chandigarh, March 22
It might be called craze of cricket or greed of getting a free kit that led hundreds of youngsters to gather outside the Cricket Stadium of Sector 16, here this morning. An alleged miscommunication by the Chandigarh police officials, asking the teams participating in the ‘gully cricket’ to gather outside the stadium, led to chaos outside the cricket arena.

For a layman, the huge rush of the youngsters was there for purchasing the tickets of the upcoming IPL cricket championship but in reality, different teams from Mauli Jagran reached there for getting free kits and to ensure their enrollment in the championship, after getting a verbal communication by the respective beat officer.

“The beat officer of our area has asked us to gather here for confirming team’s entry. But after reaching here, nothing like that happened and later we were told that some miscommunication must have taken place. They have wasted our time and moreover, constable Amarjeet Singh, who conveyed the message, not picking our phone,” said Shubham.

A coach of the team said, “After receiving a telephonic conversation, two persons from the beat box approached us and asked us to send our teams to cricket stadium for collecting kits and confirming our entries,” Afzan, coach of a team.

On the other hand, the team members of the Chandigarh police claimed that the message was only for the police team but by mistake it might have been delivered to other teams also. “As per order from the IG office, the host team of police was asked to mark their presence here but the message seemed to be taken in other way by the beat officers and they delivered to other teams also that resultant in this chaos,” said a team member of the Chandigarh police.

Chandigarh, March 22
The ticket selling for the fifth edition of the IPL started today at various places of Mohali, Panchkula and Chandigarh, here.

A total of six matches are scheduled to be held at the PCA Stadium, Mohali, whereas the Dharamshala Cricket Stadium will host two matches. The tickets are available at various outlets of Café Coffee Day and that of the Hot Millions. The home team of Kings XI Punjab is schedule to play its first match on April 12, at the PCA Stadium Mohali.

Chandigarh, March 22
Local tennis player, Ashpreet Kaur, will face Sehjnoor Dhillon in the finals of girls’ (U-12) category, during the ongoing Chandigarh Club Open Lawn Tennis Tournament, being held here today.

In the first semi-final of the tourney, played today, Ashpreet Kaur defeated Jannavi Sheoran (7-4) while in another Sehj overcame Hargun Kaur (7-0).

In the quarterfinal matches of girls’ (U-14) category, Tanya Batra defeated Neha Sehgal 7-0 whileNeelanchal Gupta overcome Anupriya 7-1. In anther matches, Kriti Soni managed to beat Jannavi Sheoran 7-4 and Ashpreet Kaur Bajwa defeated Arshia 7-5.

Results: Boys (U-12)-Vaibhav Sahni beat Karan Sharma (7-0); Amitoj Singh beat Jasmol Arora (7-4); Udgam Aggarwal beat Archit Grover (7-3); Shrey Bhardwaj beat Rajdeep Singh Koura (7-0); Kanav Khurana beat Ronit Arora (7-0); Saransh Shingla beat Pritam Raghunath (7-2); Dhruv Sharma beat Abhi Uday Singh (7-5); Sahishnu Sharma beat Shresth Suman (7-0); Tarish Dhingra beat Rupin (7-1); Abhi Garg beat Vaibhav Garg (7-0); Savneet Singh bajwa beat Ishaan (7-0); 14. Jaskaran Riar beat hemant soni (7-4); Gurjosh Singh beat Saurav Yadav (7-4); Akshit Chabra beat Bhalinder Singh (7-6); Boys (U-14)-Mehul Bansal beat Suryaveer Singh (7-0); Navall Avasthi best Abhishek (7-3); Abay Sarna beat Devesh (7-1); Jayant Kalra beat Saurav Yadav (7-0); Abir Hiranandani beat Sarthak (7-2); Boys (U-16)-Kanu Malviya beat Sahil Dhingra (7-4); Sachit Malhotra beat Chirag Kakkar (7-0); Ayush Grover beat Shivam Kumar (7-1); Agam Gurpartap beat Arjun Sharma (7-2); Adhhayan Singh beat Jayant Kalra (7-3); Sathak beat Uday Partap Singh (7-1); Yogesh Dogra beat Abhishek (7-3).