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400 students to participate in science camp
Our Correspondent

Fatehgarh Sahib, March 29
All arrangements for the five day state-level science camp ‘Inspire’ being sponsored by the Government of India, to be held at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, from 31st March have been completed. More than 400 students from across the state will participate in the five-day camp, said Dr MS Grewal, principal of the college, while addressing media persons here today.

He said that all efforts have been made to ensure the participation of under-privileged students in the rural areas of the state. He stated that more than 25 schools have confirmed their participation in the camp.

Prof RS Uppal and Prof GD Sharma, coordinators of the camp, stated that the students having cleared their matriculation with more than 76% marks in the PSEB exams or more than 93% in CBSE exams, and studying science currently, are eligible to attend the camp. They also said that the main purpose of the camp is to facilitate an interaction among the best scientists of the country and young science students. Igniting young minds is the only way to take India further on the course of scientific innovations, they added.

Dr Amarinder Singh, convener of the academic committee for the program, informed that the inaugural address on 31st March will be delivered by Dr Shakti Kumar, Director, IST Kalawad, to be followed by a session each by Dr Pardeep Ramancharla (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad) and Dr M S Saini (Punjabi University, Patiala). Dr Lakhvir Singh, chief warden of the college, informed that thorough arrangements for the boarding and lodging of the students have been made in the college hostels.

Ambala, March 29
Two motorcycle-borne youths snatched a chain of a woman in Sector 10 in Ambala City this noon. Jiyoti Merwah, the victim, a resident of Sector 10 was standing in front of her house when then incident took place. Jiyoti informed the matter to her neighbours.

Chandigarh, March 29
In a landmark judgment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has passed strictures against the Assistant Estate Officer, Chandigarh, saying that the officer in connivance with a landlord of a house in Sector 33 conducted a demolition to get a house vacated after the owner failed to get possession through the court after a long drawn litigation.

A division bench of the High Court has observed that the Assistant Estate Officer passed an order of demolition of a building at the instance of the landlord without giving sufficient opportunity to the petitioner to avail the remedy against the order passed by him which was communicated to the petitioner on the eve of the demolition so that he could not take any action.

The court has directed the official to file a detailed affidavit giving details of demolition order passed in respect of residential properties in the last three years and if possible, of the last ten years, and in how many cases demolition was actually carried out and after how many days of the passing of the order of demolition.

As per the petitioner, one Dalbir Singh, after the landlord failed to get possession of a house under litigation, he entered into connivance with the estate office and illegally demolished central part of the rented kanal house in Sector 33 on 03-02-2012. On challenge to the illegal demolition done by estate office, the High Court on 22-03-2012 ordered the reconstruction of demolished part of the house and directed the estate office to file detailed affidavit in the court as to how many orders of demolitions in residential property have been passed and how many demolitions actually done.

The court has observed that the tenant in this case was not given even a day for filing appeal in court. As per High Court, the demolition was done without opportunity to the tenant and to help the owner, which the High Court has viewed seriously.

The tenant further stated that original owner never stayed in the house and always kept let out and he is permanently settled outside Chandigarh. Owner sold the house in 2005 to a property dealer when the case was pending in the court. Estate Officer acted in conspiracy with the new buyer of the house to forcibly evict the tenant through demolition inside the house. During demolition, personal asserts of the tenant were also damaged for which the tenant has also claimed compensation of Rs 50 lakh.

Chandigarh, March 29
Issuing notice of motion for April 3 on a petition filed by a minor, Avinash Kumar, against the cancellation of his admission in pre-nursery under the EWS category, Justice RN Raina asked the UT DPI (Schools) to inform the Bench whether the cut-off date for submission of income certificate by the children had been prescribed.

Justice Raina sought the information with regard to the children who were granted admission in the pre-nursery under the EWS category in Bhawan Vidyalaya (Junior) and other schools. The Bench also wants to know whether Bhawan Vidyalaya (Junior) has granted admission to any student in the pre nursery in the EWS (general category) after February 29, 2012.

In the petition filed through counsel Pankaj Gupta, the minor alleged he was aggrieved by the order dated February 29, 2012, whereby the school cancelled his admission solely on the ground that his parents failed to submit the income certificate. The impugned order, he contended, was illegal, arbitrary, opposed to the principles of natural justice and in violation of the provisions of the RTE Act.

Gupta added the petitioner’s parents belonged to the poor strata of the society. His father was employed as a painter, working under a contractor, and his mother was a house wife.

Chandigarh, March 29
The Court of Sessions Judge SK Goel today sentenced a man to a two-year rigorous imprisonment in a case of attempt to rape. The court sentenced Jagroop Singh to two years RI and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.

The incident was reported in March, 2010, when the victim had reported that her husband was out of station and the accused forcibly entered her house and tried to rape her.

Chandigarh, March 29
Continuing with its drive against the gang members adept at making fake documents for visa processing, the Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by DSP Anil Joshi, arrested four persons today. The four were identified as Rahul Tandon, manager HDFC Bank, Jalandhar, Chetan Gulati, Manager Axis Bank, Jalandhar, Rohit Sachedeva, manager (assistant relationship), Met Life Insurance Company, Jalandhar, and Rajeev Sharma, owner of Suvidha in Sector 22, Chandigarh.

Last week, the police had arrested seven members of the gang for their involvement in fake documentation process.

The police said accused Rahul Tandon was providing bank statements of account holders to Pankaj who was their employee and had already been arrested.

Accused Rajeev Sharma provided fake degrees of various universities, particularly Elam Manipal, Sikkim University, Karnataka University and Rohtak University by taking huge amount.

It added that the prime accused, Aman Bhalla, had been doing the illegal business since 2003 and had a huge network in Punjab , Haryana and Delhi. He disclosed that he managed to send 50 to 60 persons abroad per year on tourist visas using fake documents. He used to charge a fee ranging from Rs 7 to 8 lakh for completing their documentation process and dealt with tourists visas to the UK and Canada.

Chandigarh, March 29
It seems that the lone ‘hi-tech’ cricket stadium of the city has failed to attract the owners of the IPL (Indian Premier League) team, Kings XI Punjab, and the BCCI even in the fifth edition of the league.

The cricket stadium in Sector 16, which said to have all the modern facilities, is still struggling to come up with the most-awaited project of floodlights, leaving the cricketing buffs to wait for yet another year to witness an IPL match in the city.

Missing yet another deadline of the ongoing financial year, the officials failed to light up the stadium. The project was announced in 2007 by the then finance secretary, IS Sandhu, and planned by three director sports, including ML Sharma, SS Sandhu and Rahul Gupta. However, it started last year. Sources said the dream project of the UT administration will take another six to eight months.

“The project is going through tendering and all governmental procedures, which will delay the work by at least eight months. Work, including connection and installation of generators, maintenance and all technical aspects, will take time,” Sources said. The present director sports Sunil Bhatia was unavailable for comments on the matter. On other hand, last year Kings XI Punjab owners showed interest in hosting T20 matches here, but due to unavailability of floodlights at the stadium they organised three matches at a stadium in Dharamsala.

The non-availability of floodlights this time too discourages the owners to host any match at the local cricket stadium. “The no-functioning of lights is among the primary reasons why the owners decided to stay away from the venue. However we might get a chance to host practice sessions here,” said an official.

Chandigarh, March 29
In the first match of Coca Cola Cup for Boys (U-16), the team of DAV Amritsar defeated Shivalik School Nangal by 78 runs. the match was held at the Guru Nanak Public School, Sector 36, here today.

Batting first, the DAV Amritsar outfit scored 262 runs before getting all out in 49.1 overs. Marshal Bhagat (77), Navneet Singh (37) were the main scorers. In reply, the Shivalik School, Nangal was bowled out for 178 in 41 overs. Puneet Rana (54) and Saurabh (33) contributed their individual scores. Jawahar, Karan Sharma and Navneet took two wickets each for the bowling side.

Brief scores:

DAV Sr Sec School, Amritsar - 262 all out in 49.1 overs (Karan Sharma 34, Marshal Bhagat 77, Navneet Singh 37, Abhishek 24, Himanshu Arora 29, Anmol Sharma 2 for 32, Avikash 2 for 16 and Arsh Kumar 2 for 12)

Shivalik Model School, Nangal - 178 all out in 41 overs (Saurav 33, Puneet Rana 54, Anmol Sharma 25, Jawahar 2 for 14, Karan Sharma 2 for 46 and Navneet 2 for 26)

In the second quarter final, Government Model Senior Secondary School (PAU), Ludhiana, went down against DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, by a margin of 378 - runs.

Brief scores:

DAV Sr Sec School, Sector 8 - 377 for 4 in 50 overs (Pardeep Yadav 117, Jasnoor 72, Vineet Dhaka 25, Raman Bishnoi 67 not out and Rajesh Panchal 37 not out, Sajit Khan 1 for 73, Noor Alam 1 for 38 and Sher Bahadur 1 for 73)

Govt Model Sr Sec School, Ludhiana - 109 all out 36.5 overs (Nipun Dogra 50, Puneet Kapoor 15, Satyam 4 for 11, Shubham Chand 3 for 14).

Chandigarh, March 29
Over 200 sportspersons, along with 31 coaches, were awarded cash prizes for attaining the first three position in the National School Games in the disciplines of archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, cricket, football, gymnastics, hockey, handball, judo, rowing, skating, softball, table tennis, tennis and yachting, here today.

According to information, a total of around Rs 42 lakh were awarded to the sports persons.

Baldev Singh, national-level lawn tennis coach, was awarded in the function for his meritious achievement in the field of sports. 

Chandigarh, March 29
Local lad Rishab Sharda went down against Adil Kalyanpur of Karnataka in the first semifinal match of boys (U-12) category during the ongoing CLTA-AITA Championship Series, tennis tournament for boy’s and girl’s (U-12 and 14), here today.

In the first semifinal of the category, Adil defeated local contender Rishabh Sharda in straight sets 6-4 and 6-3 while Vikash Singh of West Bengal booked his berth in finals after defeating Rithvik Chodhary of Uttar Pradesh by 6-0 and 6-0.

In the finals of girls (U-12), Prinkle Singh will face Sabhtyata Nihalani. Earlier, in the semifinals of the day, Prinkle Singh defeated Bani Singh 2-6, 6-0, 7-6 (4) while Sabhyata Nihalani of Delhi beat Aarja Chakraborty 6-3 and 6-3.

Results: Girls (U-14): Prinkle Singh (J&K) bt Bani Singh (PB) 6-4, 6-3; Aarja Chakraborty (WB) bt Sachi Belwal (UTK) 6-3, 7-6(4);

Boys (U-14): Paramveer Singh Bajwa (CHD) bt Karandeep Singh (PB) 6-2, 6-3; Param Pun (CHD) bt Sumit Pal Singh, (J&K) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3;

Doubles Boys (U-12): Himanshu Mor (HAR) and Amit Beniwal (HAR) bt MS Karthik (TN) and 
Chaitanya Chauhan (UP) 6-1. 7-6(5).

Chandigarh, March 29
The cricket team of BTS cricket academy defeated MCA Mohali team by 16 runs during a match of the ongoing Third Junior Cricket Championship for Boys (U-13), here today.

Batting first, the winning side scored a total of 150 runs after losing four wickets in 25 over. Aayush Sikka scored unbeaten 72 runs while his team mate Manan added 31 off 25 balls. On bowling side, Harman took 1 wicket for 28 runs. In reply, the MCA team bundled out on the total of 134 runs with Harmandeep Singh (29) scoring the most runs along with Tushar (25). On bowling side, Manan was the pick of the bowlers for his 2 for 11.

Chandigarh, March 29
The GNKSSS Club Sector 30 defeated GMSSS Sector 19 by 19-20 in the finals of the state handball championship, being held here today.

Akash (5 points) ,Gurinder (5 points) and Sunny (6 points) were the main scorer for the team while for losing side, Brejesh (5 points), Amardeep and Ravi (4 points) reduced the margin. The team of GMSSS 23 secured third place after defeating Coaching Centre sector 42 by 24-10. Sanjay (6points), Akash (5points) and Shuhkaran (4 points) guided the team to victory.

Chandigarh, March 29
Golfer Rajinder won the overall championship along with the title of best golfer with a score of 35 points during the 18th tournament of the Thomas Cook Indian Golf League Round, being held at Chandigarh Golf Club, here today. A total of 108 professional and amateur participated in the competition.

The original handicap went to Col SS Gill with 42 points while Gurmeet Sidhu finished as the runners-up with 39 points. Nirmal Milka Singh won the Stableford score on double Peoria handicap after securing 37 points. Shuchi Garga, with 29 points, bagged the original handicap (Ladies) title.

Results: Original Handicap (seniors between 65 to 74 years)- SS Bains (38 points); Seniors (75 yrs and above)- Milkha Singh (36 Points); Skills Competition- SS Bains, Ashoo Bajwa, Rupinder Singh, Ashwani Sharma, Col BPS Gill.