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88-year-old honoured for translating holy book
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Fatehgarh Sahib, September 28
Dr Gurmohan Singh Walia, acting Vice-Chancellor of Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, recently honoured 88-year-old Davinder Pal Singh, a retired revenue official, for translating the holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib into Urdu.

The translation has been completed in 16,000 handwritten pages in about 
15 years.

Addressing the mediapersons, Dr Walia said the translated version would be published in four to eight volumes.

Davinder Pal Singh said when he read somewhere that the holy Quaran had been translated into 72 languages and the Bible into 120 languages, he decided to translate Sri Guru Granth Sahib into Urdu. 

Ambala, September 28
On the second day of the zonal youth festival of Kurukshetra University, which is being organised at DAV College, Ambala City, various cultural competitions were held. Around two dozen colleges of Ambala, Panchkula and Kurukshetra are participating in the youth festival.

In rassia (UP's religious dance) competition DAV College, Ambala City, got the first position while Arya Kanya Mahavidyala, Shahbad, was adjudged second. SD College, Ambala Cantt, secured the third position in the competition. In Haryana folk dance(solo) category Government College, Ambala Cantt, Arya Girls' College, Shahbad,and SD College, Ambala Cantt, secured the first, second and third positions respectively.

Fatehgarh Sahib,September 28
Two mega lok adalats will be organised at the District Courts Complex, Fatehgarh Sahib, and Judicial Court, Amloh, on Dec 1, 2012. The decision was taken at a meeting of the District Free Legal Aid Authority, which was held under the chairmanship of GS Gill, District and Session Judge, today. GS Gill said cases related to civil, criminal, bank loans, matrimonial disputes and accidental claims would be heard and settled amicably. He urged litigants to take the benefits of the lok adalats.

Gill said legal education clubs would be formed in schools and colleges so that awareness about free legal aid could be created. He said besides this a campaign would be launched to create awareness regarding the Senior Citizen and Parents Look After Law. He directed Shatin Goyal, secretary, Free Legal Aid Authority, to display sign boards on public places to highlight the services being provided by the authority.

Ambala, September 28
The body of the youth, who drowned in Norangrai Sarovar at Ambala City on the occasion of Vamandwadshi Mela two days ago, was recovered from the pond today. The deceased was identified as Ranjeet, a resident of Barabanki. A passer-by found the body floating and informed the police.

After conduction autopsy, the body was handed over to the relatives. — OC

Patiala, September 28
On the second day of the ongoing Kathoch Shield Cricket Tournament, Chandigarh made a sound start and scored 191 runs for 2 wickets at the close of day’s play.

Earlier in the day, Patiala team scored 341 runs in the first inning.

The team started on poor note as opener Sarul Kanwar was caught by Himanshu Chawla off Robin Dhillon for 7 runs.

Thereafter, Vishwas Bhall in company of Simrat Bawa posted 160 run partnership for the second wicket. Vishwas was sent to the pavilion for 89 runs.

Gurkirat joined Simrat and the two took the total to 191 for 2. Simrat remained unbeaten on 72 off 177 balls with 6 boundaries and a six while Gurkirat Walia scored unbeaten 7.

For bowling side, Robin Dhillon and Ravi Inder Singh took one wicket each.

Earlier, resuming from their overnight score of 286 for 5, Patiala added 55 runs today.

Medium Pacer Siddharth Kaul got rid off Jiwanjot Singh for 158 runs. Later, he claimed the wicket of Ankur Jund.

Robin Dhillon along with Amaninder Singh added 34 runs for the 8th wicket before Robin was trapped in front by Gurinder Singh for 63.

Siddharth Kaul was the highest wicket taker for Chandigarh. He took 4 wickets for 52.

Scores

Patiala team (First inning)- 341 all out in 115 overs (Jeevanjot 158, Robin Dhillon 63; Siddharth 4 for 52,)

Chandigarh team (First Innings)-191 for 2 in 63 overs (Simrat Bawa unbeaten 72, Vishwas Bhalla 89; Robin Dhillon 1 for 33 and Ravi Inder Singh 1 for 24). 

Chandigarh, September 28
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the UT Estate Officer, Deputy Commissioner and two companies on a public interest litigation on alleged illegal conversion of subsidised government plot.

Taking up the matter, the High Court today ordered that status quo should be maintained over the property. In his petition, advocate Bhupendra Chaturvedi alleged that the plot was licensed only for a wool unit.

"In the present case, the government allotted around one million square feet of subsidised (practically free) land in the heart of Chandigarh for setting up a "wool processing unit" at Industrial Area, Phase I, 181, Chandigarh, to Modella Woollens Limited of Modella Group.

"The said plot can only be used for the wool processing unit. It was specifically stated that the said subsidised land will not be used for any other industrial or commercial purpose. The said plot cannot be transferred (by sale, by lease or by licence).

"No sub-division or fragmentation of land of the said plot was permissible. Due to gross negligence and willful collusion of government officers, none of these conditions are being satisfied causing a loss of around Rs 5,000 crore to the government exchequer," read the petition.

Chandigarh, September 28
Miffed over the poor condition of buses used for ferrying schoolchildren, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today asked the Chandigarh Administration to explain the method adopted by it to inspect such vehicles.

The court also admonished the states of Punjab and Haryana for being "non-serious towards the welfare of children".

The Bench said the Chandigarh Administration had initiated some safety measures and started special school buses, but the two states had hardly taken any steps in this direction.

The petitioner-cum-lawyer has now been asked to inspect in the morning the special school buses launched by UT Administration for transporting schoolchildren.

As the case came up, the Administration submitted that "at present, approximately 26,000 students of schools, colleges and university are availing bus pass facilities and travelling in CTU buses.

"After analysing the demand submitted by the DPI (Schools), wherein it has been mentioned that 6,000 more students intend to avail the bus facility, the CTU has introduced 20 additional buses in the morning and six additional buses in the afternoon exclusively for students."

The CTU is providing local bus services with a frequency of 10 to 30 minutes in every sector for students as well as general public.

The Administration also told the court that there was a "proposal to purchase 98 new buses against condemned buses during this year which would be introduced on school routes".

Counsel for the UT Administration verbally told the Court that a camp, too, was held by the traffic police and was attended by a teacher from every school.

Mohali, September 28
A team of Patiala vigilance has arrested a junior engineer (JE) of the Kharar Electricity Department while he was accepting bribe of Rs 20,000 from a resident of Mohali today.

The accused has been identified as Baljeet Singh. He will be produced in the Patiala court on Saturday.

"Complainant Gagandeep Singh has a piece land in Jhanjeri village near Mohali. He had asked the Baljeet Singh to shift a transformer from his land as he wanted to use it for his personal use. The junior engineer, however, asked for Rs 20,000 and then the complainant contacted us. We laid a trap on him and he was caught red handed ," said an official of the team.

Gagandeep is a resident of Phase 7, Jhanjeri village, Mohali.

Chandigarh, September 28
The Total Tennis Academy will organise DC Model Total Tennis Open Tournament from September 29 to October 1 at all the Total Tennis Academy centres in tricity.

The matches will be conducted in all categories, including boys (U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-18) and girls (U-12 and U-18). According to the organisers, 120 players have confirmed their entries. –– TNS