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NEIGHBOURHOOD

Thieves decamp with Rs 7.5 lakh
Our Correspondent

Kalka, March 26
Thieves decamped with cash worth Rs 7.50 lakh from a car parked in the Tehsil office here today. The police source said the incident took place today at around 2 pm when Ujagar Singh, a resident of Shapur village of Pinjore, along with his son Vikram came to Kalka Tehsil. They parked their car in the office premises and left their money inside the car.

Ujagar Singh said they heard the alarm of the car and rushed to the spot. They discovered that miscreants had decamped with cash from the dash box of the car by breaking the panes. Eyewitness said two motorcycle-born youths were seen near the car and that they might have committed the crime. A case has been registered in this context.

Specialists needed at Govt Medical College: Doc
Tribune News Service

Patiala, March 26
Dr Jaikishan, Director Research and Medical Education, said the government is committed to upgrade the Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital. He said this at ‘Medicine update-2012’ which was held at the Government Medical College auditorium.

Jaikishan said despite of being the biggest government hospital in the state we are facing shortage of doctors in crucial departments. Each unit of medicine and surgery should take up the responsibility of including a specialised doctor. If anyone is interested in doing a three or six months training or if any of the facility member is able to secure admission in DM or Mch courses then his/her name will be sponsored as per rule.

The chairperson of the CME Dr HS Sandhu and organising secretary Dr BL Bhardwaj said more than 250 doctors participated. Dr JS Sandhu from DMC Ludhiana, Dr IS Virdi from Delhi, Dr GS Wander from DMC, Dr Vivek Lal and Dr Aman Sharma from PGI Chandigarh, Dr Raju Singh Chhina, Dr Akashdeep, Dr Sanjay Bhadada also presented their papers on different subject during the event.

Dr Manmohan Singh, President Punjab Medical Council, Dr OP Kande, Principal Dr KD Singh also shared their views. Dr MM Gupta and Dr Babbar were also honoured for their contribution on this occasion.

Girl child killing continues despite of improved sex ratio
Our Correspondent

Ambala, March 26
The state government gave first prize to Ambala for improving its sex ratio in a function held at Jhajjar today. However, to negate the achievement an incident has surfaced this morning where a two-day-old girl’s body was recovered from a drain at Ambala city. In the last few months, at least three female feticide cases were registered.

Sources said a few safai karamchari of Ambala Municipal Corporation were cleaning a drain in Milapnagar area when they noticed the body of the newly born.

The police took the body to the Civil Hospital where the doctor declared it brought dead.

The police is searching for the mother of the child. The police has kept the body in mortuary for the time being.

The postmortem would be conducted tomorrow by a board of doctors, the hospital sources said.

COURTS

Captain appears before court
Our Correspondent

Mohali, March 26
Former Chief Minister and President of the PPCC Amarinder Singh and others appeared in the court here today in connection with the hearing of the Amritsar Improvement Trust land case. After hearing the arguments, the court fixed April 17 as the next date of hearing.

Capt Amarinder Singh

Among those who appeared in the court of District and Sessions Judge (Senior Division) RS Rai were former Local Government Minister Jagjit Singh and former Chairman of the Improvement Trust Jugal Kishore Sharma.

During the tenure of the previous SAD-BJP government, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau had filed a case under Sections 420, 467, 471 and 120 B of the IPC and various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Capt Amarinder Singh and others.

Capt Amarinder Singh, however, had filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which he had sought quashing of the FIR stating that the charges were baseless.

SPORTS

Punjab to face Baroda in final
Harbhajan led Punjab defeated Mumbai in the semifinal of SyedMushtaq Ali Trophy
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26
Punjab will face Baroda in the final of the ongoing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (Twenty-20) being held in Mumbai. Punjab outplayed the home team, Mumbai, by 5 wickets in the semifinal match played at Bandra Kurla today. Winning the toss, skipper Harbhajan Singh opted to field and restricted the home team to a total of 122 runs.

Wasim Jaffar (13) was the first to go after Mandeep Singh snapped him off Manpreet Gony. Later, Ajinkya Rahane, in partnership with Rohit Sharma, brought some hope for the team, scoring 21 off 20 studded with two boundaries and a six. But, the partnership was broken by right arm leg spinner Rahul Sharma.

SA Yadav (20 off 18) was the other noticeable contributor for the team. For the bowling side, Manpreet Gony took 3 for 32, while Rahul Sharma grabbed 2 for 15.

In reply, the Punjab team scored 124 for the loss of 5 wickets in 19 overs. Punjab opened their innings with Sarul Kanwar and Chandan Madan. Sarul was trapped LBW by Dhawal Kulkarni after scoring 17 runs off 15 deliveries, hitting a boundary and a six.

Thereafter Mandeep Singh and Chandan Madan took the team to the target.Mandeep gifted his wicket to Rohit Sharma off Iqbal Abdullah after scoring 22 off 22 studded with a six.

Iqbal Abdullah struck again, sending Bipul Sharma (2) to the pavilion, followed by the wicket of Chandan Madan (55 off 44, studded with nine boundaries). For Mumbai, Iqbal Abdullah was the main wicket taker for his 3 for 20.

Brief Scores:

Mumbai: 122 for 9 in 20 overs (Batting: Ajinkya Rahane 21, Wasim Jaffar 13, Rohit Sharma 16, SA Yadav 20. Bowling: Iqbal Abdullah-3 for 20, Dhawal Kulkarni-1 for 14, Javed Khan-1 for 25)

Punjab: 124 for 5 in 19 overs (Chandan Madan 55, Mandeep Singh 22, Sarul Kanwar 17. Bowling: Manpreet Gony-3 for 32, Rahul Sharma-2 for 15, Bipul Sharma-1 for 10 , VRV Singh-1 for 28)

Sports meet for special children organised
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26
The Regional Institute for Mentally Handicapped organised the first annual sports meet at the sports complex in Sector 46 today. Abhinav bagged the best athlete title in boys (8-11 years) category while and Mahaveer was adjudged the best athlete in boys (above 16 years) category. Among girls, Sheetal and Mary was declared the best athlete in the 8-11. Mary won the title of best athlete in girls (above 16 years) category.

Rajkumar, a student of DEd (special education) was awarded with the best athlete award in boy’s category, while Ruchi and Nisha, students of BEd (special education), shared the best athlete award in girls category.

The differently abled children exhibited their talent and sportsmanship in various athletic, track and field events during the meet.

The track events included 50m, 100m and 200m races, fast walk, lemon race, and 400m relay race. As many as 70 students participated in the competition.

U-16 football team alleges favouritism
The team has recently won the second position in Mir Iqbal Hussain trophy held in Goa
Deepankar Sharda
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26
The city’s football boys (U-16) team might have added another feather to their cap by bagging the second place in the recently held 34th sub-junior Mir-Iqbal Hussain football trophy at Vasco (Goa). But are the heroes of the win really happy after winning the silver medal? During an interaction with the team members, some of the players raised questions on the selection process and said that officials of the Chandigarh Football Association adopt favouritism. According to information, a player (name withheld with the reporter) left the tournament venue just after two days, giving ‘exams’ as the reason for his exit.

“We have given our best and to attain this position. However, even those players who were selected on ‘reference’ also enjoy the same status without even staying at the tournament’s venue. During the north- zone matches, players leaving the venue citing exams as the reason was a regular feature. After all this, how can a player feel good? We have also missed our exams, and if the officials had selected genuine players, we would have been the winners of the tourney,” said the group.

Adding further “Even a layman can make out the apathy of the officials from the selection procedure. Only one goalkeeper was selected in the team. The team played without a substitute of the goalkeeper,” said a player.

l Players were allowed to leave the tournament venue for appearing in examinations, without even playing a single match.

l Only one goalkeeper was sent with the team for adjusting a ‘favourite’ player.

l The officials of Chandigarh Football Association always travel by air or first class. But when it comes to players, they even failed to reserve a second class sleeper seats.

l The boys (U-19) team that won the Dr BC Roy trophy an year ago is yet to receive any award by the association.

l Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda awarded the association a sum of Rs 5 lakh for successfully organising the girls sub junior national games. But no money has been spent to uplift soccer in city till date.

l The members of the present boys (U-16) team are yet to receive any congratulatory call from the officials.

Rutvi beats local girl Akshita in straight sets
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26
Tennis player Rutvi Shah of Gujrat defeated local contender Akshita Tondon in straight sets during a girls (U-12) category match in the ongoing CLTA-AITA tennis championship being held at CLTA today.

Akshita went down against Rutvi 4-0, 4-0. In another match, Hansika lost to Panya Bhalla of Madhya Pradesh by the same margin, 4-0, 4-0.

In the main draw of boys (U-12) category, Kalyanpur Adil of Karnataka defeated Saurav Kal Kal of Delhi 4-2,1-4 and 4-5, while Ishan Sethi of Uttrakhand defeated local lad Rajdeep S Kavra 4-2, 4-0.

Results:

Boys (U-12): Assav Kumar bt Chaitanya Chauhan 2-4, 4-0, 4-1; Amit Beniwal bt Ayush Deswar 4-0, 4-1; Rishabh Sharda bt Shreyas Chopra 4-0, 4-0; Lakshay Gupta bt Vipul Mehta 4-0, 4-2; Sanket Tomar bt Eshan Lumba 4-0,4-2; S Dhaksaineswar bt Chiraz 4-0, 4-0; Rithvik Chodhary bt Abhimanyu Roira 4-2, 4-1; Sanchit Sikka bt Abhi Uday 4-1, 4-1; Sahishnu Sharma bt Tanik Gupta 4-0, 4-1; Sachitt Sharma bt N Heman 4-0, 4-2; Rohan K Reddy bt Tarun 4-0, 4-0; Himanshu Mor bt Anmol Rattan 4-1, 4-1; MS Karthik bt Akchit Chhabra 4-0, 4-1; Vikash Singh bt Aakarshit Mahajan 4-0, 4-0.

Girls (U-12): Rutvi Shah bt Akshita Tondon 4-0, 4-0; Panya Bhalla bt Hansika 4-0, 4-0; Taru Ahluwalia bt Nimrat Kaur Kang 5-3, 4-2; Prinkle Singh bt Shreya Gulia 4-0, 4-0; Akanksha Bhan bt Jhanvi Rajpal 4-0, 4-0; Kiran Kal Kal bt Alisha Memon 4-2, 4-1; Ananya bt Muskan 4-0, 4-0; Bani Singh bt Sarah Dev 4-0, 4-0; Sarah Dev bt Aesha Hiten Patel 4-1, 4-0; Chetna Kumar bt Sanjana Modi 4-0, 4-0; Chelsea bt Neeru 4-2, 0-4, 5-4; Sabhyata Nihalani bt Muskaan Ranjan 4-0, 4-2; Yubrani Banerjee bt Sukhmani Singh 4-0, 4-0; Ridhi Ramesh Sharma bt Rachapudipra Thyusha 4-1, 4-0; Mahak Jain bt Aspreet Kaur 4-0, 4-0; Aarja Chakraborty bt Kritika Chhabra 4-2, 4-0;

Boys(U-14): Paramver S Bajwa bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-1, 7-5; Rohan K Reddy bt Anmol Rattan 6-1, 6-1; Calvin Golmei bt Danish Ahmad 7-6, 3-6, 7-6; Vikash Singh bt Gurjot S Sidhu 6-4, 6-1; Karandeep Singh bt MS Karthik 6-2, 6-0; S Dhakshineswar bt Ankit 6-2, 6-2; Rishabh Sharma bt Vatsal Gandhi 6-3, 6-3; Mritujay Badola bt Sidharth Basnet 6-3, 6-4; Sharmay Dhawan bt Anshuman Gulia 6-2, 7-5, 6-4; Udyan Sachdev bt Sanjeet Singh 6-2, 7-6; Aditya bt Raunaq Singh 6-1, 7-6 (11); Sumit Pal Singh bt Jagdeep Bajwa 6-0,6-1; Yugal Bansal bt Sagar Bains 6-4, 6-2; Nihit Rawal bt Digvijay S Pratap 7-5, 6-2; Rohit Kumar bt Rithvik Chodhary 6-1, 6-1; Param Pun bt Sabrang Sandal 6-3, 6-0.

Girls (U-14): Rutvi Shah bt Aastha Malhotra 6-1, 6-2;Seerat Sidhu bt Agrima Sharma 6-3, 7-5;Prinkle Singh bt Yubrani Banerjee 6-1,6-4; Akanksha Bhan bt Arzoo Chaudhary 6-2, 6-2;Sarah Dev, bt Ayushi Gupta 6-0, 6-2; Bani Singh bt Ayushi Verma 6-0, 6-0;Arushi Kakkar bt Kritika Chhabra 7-6, 2-6, 7-5;Sachi Belwal bt Jannat Khurana 6-3, 6-1;Saumya Saxena bt Prathusha Rucha 6-3, 6-3;Ridhi Ramesh bt Panya Bhalla 6-2, 6-1;Nimrat Walia bt Sukanya Biswas 6-2, 6-3;Sabhyata Nihalani bt Jannat Bedi 6-0, 6-0;Mahak Jain bt Rhea Verma 6-3, 6-2;Muskan Ranjan, bt Neelanchal Gupta 6-1, 6-4;Aarja Chakraborty bt Gulmehar Kaur 6-1, 6-0