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200 students receive degrees
Parmod Mehta

Dera Bassi, May 14
Over 200 students of Swami Parmanand College of Engineering and Technology received degrees on its second convocation today. Dr Nachhattar Singh, adviser to Vice-chancellor PTU and Dean (Development & Planning), was the chief guest.

He along with Inderjit Bajaj, chairman, Anil Verma, sr vice president, YK Mittal, treasurer and Atul Mittal, secretary of Seth Nand Lal Bajaj Educational and Charitable Society inaugurated the programme. Dr TD Sharma, director-principal of the college, opened and presented the institute’s annual report. Dr Nachhattar Singh addressed the graduates with an enthusiastic speech and encouraged them to become thinker, creators and innovators.

Director-Principal said the Swami Parmanand Group of Colleges has been honoured with five awards by national and international agencies. 

Patiala, May 14
The students of department of physics, Khalsa College, Patiala, have bagged three positions out top 10 in MSc Physics (first semester) according to the results declared by Gazette of Punjabi University, Patiala.

College principal Dr Dharminder Singh Ubha said Micky Goyal have topped the university with 394 marks (79 per cent). He further informed that while Priyanka Kaur stood third with 387 marks (77 per cent), Neelam Sharma got ninth position with 370 marks (74 per cent).

Dr Ubha congratulated Prof Tarlochan Singh Mahajan, head of the department and other faculty members of the department. He said the results are a testimony of the devotion, dedication and diligence shown by these teachers. He also congratulated the parents of the students.

Prof Tarlochan Singh Mahajan expressed great joy in informing that in this newly started course in the college, the students of the department have shown great results in the very first semester and will continue to do so in future. 

Ambala, May 14
As many as 9 shops were targeted by thieves located at the Police Line Chowk close to the DCP residence last late night. The thieves took away with cash and valuable from the shops.

According to the information, the owner of the shops Sanjeev Kumar, Baij Nath, Rajan, Pappu, Yogesh, Om Parkash, Devender Mohan, Rohit Chabra and Parul Bhutani told that they had closed their shops last night. When they came to open their shops in the morning they found that the locks of their shops were broke opened.

The SHO, Rajneesh Yadav, finger experts and a team of forensic reached at site. — OC

Chandigarh, May 14
Mobile towers in residential areas won't ring in inconvenience. A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today asked the state governments to direct all the municipal councils, corporations and other local bodies to make inoperative the mobile towers functioning from the residential areas without following the norms. A survey report on towers in UT too has been called for.

Referring to its previous orders, the Bench of Acting Chief Justice MM Kumar and Justice Alok Singh asserted the state governments and the Chandigarh Administration were well within their jurisdiction to demolish towers, if the service providers given lease of the buildings "failed to answer the norms laid down in a letter dated November 17, 2011".

The Bench further added: "In the last order, we have clarified that the state government shall come into action and no civil court shall grant any injunction, if such towers are to be demolished."

Taking notice of such violation in Kapurthala, the Bench directed: "The state government must fling into action by issuing direction to the Municipal Council, Kapurthala, for the demolition of a tower. It is further directed that similar directions have to be issued to the municipal councils/corporations or other local bodies with clear understanding that all such towers, which are operating in violation of the norms fixed by the Inter-Ministerial Committee and accepted by the Department of Telecom, Government of India, shall not be permitted to operate. The State of Haryana shall also follow the same direction".

Focusing on Chandigarh, the Bench took note of the UT counsel's assertion that 180 towers have been erected in residential areas of Chandigarh and notices have been served. For them, the last date for the removal of illegal structures is May 18.

The counsel also told the Bench that a survey was required to be carried out for assessing whether the other towers conform to the norms fixed by the committee.

"After undertaking the survey, the report be submitted to this court on the next date of hearing, the Bench directed, adding that the service providers "shall themselves remove the towers at once because they are aware whether these conform to the norms fixed by the committee and accepted by the Central Government vide letter dated November 17 last".

Chandigarh, May 14
The police has arrested a resident of Zirakpur for duping scores of employees of Punjab Mandi Karan Board of lakhs by urging them to invest huge sums with a society for good returns.

The economics offences wing of the Chandigarh Police has registered a case on the complaint of Inderjit Singh, Vishambar Singh and Sham Lal, employees of Punjab Mandi Karan Board, Chandigarh. The complainants alleged that in their office of Punjab state agricultural and marketing board, there is a branch of the Union Bank of India because the pay is attached with the bank.

In the branch, a clerk-cum-cashier, namely Kapil Dev, allured the employees to deposit their money as FDR in Union Cooperative NATC Society Limited with its registered office at Sector 45 and get 12 to 14 per cent interest annual of their FDRs. On this assurance, most of the employees of the said office deposited their money as FDRs, but from August 1, 2011, Kapil Dev remained absent from the duty.

The employees found that Kapil Dev has fled away along with their money. During the course of investigation, one of the accused Dharambir Sharma, a resident of Devine Enclave, Zirakpur has been arrested.

Chandigarh, May 14
The local cricket team of Chandigarh won the match and six points, including a bonus point, against Patiala in the ongoing PCA non-residential inter-academy cricket tournament.

Electing to bat first, Patiala scored 190-runs before getting all out in 84 overs. Prince Balwant Rai (37) and Namnpreet Singh (36) were the main scorers. For the bowling side, Raman Bishnoi took 4 for 53. In reply, the Chandigarh team started their first innings with two centuries. The team scored 356 runs with Raman Bishnoi and Pardeep Yadav scoring 115 and 132 runs respectively. The team declared their innings in the 64th over of the game.

Later, riding high on a fine bowling performance by Kuljeet Kuhar, the Chandigarh team bundled out Patiala for 40 runs in their second innings and won the match. Kuljeet grabbed 6 wickets for 20 runs.

Brief scores

Patiala-Ist innings: 190 all out in 84.3 overs (Namnpreet Singh 36, Gurashish 11, Prince Balwant Rai 37, Gaurav Pawar 14, Parampreet Singh 14, Shivam Ghai 16, Harmeek 18, Raman Bishnoi 4 for 53, Yogesh 2 for 15).

Chandigarh- Ist innings: 356 for 8 (declared) in 64 overs (Kuljeet Kuhar 29, Raman Bishnoi 115, Pardeep Yadav 132, Tavleen 24 not out, Satayam 12 not out, Harmik Singh 2 for 24, Raj Bhawan 2 for 13, Mayank Markanda 3 for 4, Akul Pandove 1 for 80).

Patiala- Second Innings: 40 all out (Kuljeet Kuhar 6 for 20)

In another match, Mohali played a draw with Amritsar.Both the teams failed to attain any points.

Winning the toss, the Amritsar team elected to field. Mohali accumulated a massive 522-runs in their first innings, losing 6 wickets. Arunam Parsad emerged as the player of the match scoring a brilliant double century off 225 balls. He scored his individual best of 245-runs.

Nirmal Singh also hit a century, scoring 122 off 228, while Shubham Gill contributed 42 off 59. Siddharth Rawat was the other main contributor, scoring 37 off 72. For the bowling side, Rahul Kashyap claimed 2 for 135 while Shivam Sharma, Shivam Bedi and Sunny took one wicket each.

In reply, the Amritsar team ended the day after scoring 293 runs for 7 in 88 overs. Marshal Bhagat (138) and Rahul Kashyap (64) were the main scorers. Kunwar Pathak (25), Abhishek Sharma (19) and Shivam Sharma (12) were the other contributors. Ravinder Pal Singh took 5 for 55.

In another match, Jalandhar beat Ludhiana to attain full points. Batting first, the host team of Jalandhar scored 485 runs, losing 8 wickets in 100 overs. Jasbir Singh completed his century, scoring 117 off 129 while Mukul Aggarwal made 78 off 82. Gurtej Singh claimed 3 wickets for 54 runs while Manjot Singh took 2 for 151. In reply, the Ludhiana team was bowled out for 207 runs in 83.1 overs. Jaskaran Singh (78), Saurav (65) and Gurjot Singh (23) were the main scorers for the team. Prarit Dutta took 3 wickets for 18 runs.

Chandigarh, May 14
A month-long junior Golf coaching camp will be organised at the Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) from May 19. Golfers and amateurs in the 6-18 year age group (members and non-members) can participate in the trials.

According to the organisers, the camp will be held twice a week and all the participants will be taught basic fundamentals of the game, including putting, chipping, long and short irons, and bunker play, along with the rules and etiquettes of the game.

The camp will be conducted under the guidance of Manjit Kochar, joint director, Academy of Golf, CGC.

Interested participants can contact Manjit Kochar (981-555-4788) for further enquires and confirm their entries.

Panchkula, May 14
A fine unbeaten century by skipper Aman Kumar (127 off 79, 14 fours, two Sixes) helped the Hansraj Cricket Academy, Sector 6, to defeat Andale Cricket Academy by 60-runs in the second match of the BK Black inter-academy cricket competition for boys (U-13).

Riding high on the skipper's innings, the winning side scored a total of 227 runs in the allotted slot of 30 overs. Ravi Kant supported his captain, contributing 23 runs.

For the bowling side, Sunil Kumar claimed 3 wickets for 24 runs. In reply, the losing side was bundled out for a total of 167 runs with Alenkrit(35) and Mohit (24) contributing the lion's share. Abhishek Parmar was the pick of the bowlers taking 3 for 29.

Brief scores: Hansraj Cricket Academy, Sector 6 - 227 for 7 in 30 overs (Aman Kumar 127 not out, Ravi Kant 23, Pahul Panghal 20, Ritik Singh 16 not out, Sunil Kumar 3 for 24, Alenkrit 2 for 25, Nehal Pajni 2 for 21).

Andale Cricket Academy, Sector-9,Panchkula: 167 all out in 29.2 overs (Alenkrit 35, Mohit 24, Rahul 20, Akshat Garg 3 for 19, Abhisek Parmar 3 for 29, Digvijay Rathi 2 for 12, Paras 2 for 18).

Chandigarh, May 14
The Chandigarh Amateur Boxing Association has selected ten boxers to represent the city in the forthcoming 45th Junior National Boxing Championship to be held at Patiala.

Selections: 49 kg: Anand; 52 kg: Lakshya; 56 kg: Vijay Singh; 60 kg: Neeraj; 64 kg: Shubham; 69 kg: Deepak; 75 kg: Kailash; 81 kg: Kyle; 91 kg: Vaibhav; +91 kg: Jaskaran; Coach: Bhagwant Singh; Manager: Sohan Singh; Time keeper announcer: J D Singh, director competition-cum-technical delegate: Dr C K Jerath.

Chandigarh, May 14
Wordsworth Warriors went down against Keats Kings in a match of the first Super-eight Mount Carmel cricket cup.

Batting first, the losing side scored 87 for 5 in 8 overs. Mansagar (26) and Abhishek Wilson (22) were the main scorers. Karamjeet took 2 wickets for 18 runs.

In reply, the winning side achieved the target with Sarab scoring 25 runs for the team.

Panchkula, May 14
Firstep Montessori School will organise gymnastics classes for children in the 2-8 year age group from May 21 to June 15.

The camp will focus on the basics of gymnastics. The participants will also be taught various skills and presentation of skills during the classes.