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Dera Bassi, March 13
Sri Sukhmani Multi-Specialty Hospital and Sri Sukhmani Dental College, Dera Bassi, organised a free medical and a dental check-up camp at Guru Nanak Public School, Dharmgarh near Lalru, on Tuesday.

Prof Avtar Singh, chairman, and Kanwaljit Kaur, director of the hospital, inaugurated the medical camp.

As many as 300 students were examined during the medical camp.

A team of doctors provided consultancy and treatment to the patients.

They also interacted with the students and staff about general hygiene and healthy lifestyle. 

Kalka, March 13
The judicial court complex at Kalka was inaugurated today.

Justice SK Mittal, chairman, Building committee and Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia, Administrative Judge, Panchkula Session Division, in the presence of justice RK Garg, Justice NK Sanghi, Justice RS Malik, Justice Tesjinder Singh Dindsa, Justice Amol Rattan Singh and Punjab and Haryana Court. District Session judge Anita Choudhary, welcomed the guests and other dignitaries.

On the occasion, while addressing the gathering, Justice SK Mittal laid emphasis on the adoption Alternative Dispute Redress Mechanism, which can play a vital role in settling down the family disputes by reconciliation and mediation.

The Kalka Court would be functional from March 14. 

Chandigarh, March 13
A local court today acquitted four persons, Veeru, Ajay, Hussain and Rinku, all residents of colony number 4, of murder charge.

Two of the accused have been convicted for kidnapping and sentenced two years of imprisonment. A fine of Rs 2,500 was imposed on each of them.

The incident was reported on November 27, 2011 when the police arrested four persons for the murder of Kishori Lal.As per the case, Veeru was fleeing after kidnapping a girl and Kishori Lal had intervened to save her. He was then stabbed to death. However, the prosecution failed to prove the charges of murder and the court acquitted all the four of the murder charges. Two accused, Veeru and Ajay, have been convicted for kidnapping. 

Mohali, March 13
The Mohali police today arrested the key accused in the fake teachers training certificates case on the basis of which 21 persons had been recruited by the government around five years ago.

The accused, Prabhkiran Singh, had provided fake elementary teachers training (ETT) and primary teachers training (PTT) certificates to aspirants after conducting a fake examination, duping them of Rs 2-5 lakh each.

Mohali Superintendent of Police (Detective) Balwinder Singhsaid three of the recruited teachers had even served for two years before the scam came to light three years ago.

Prabhkiran Singh owned five private educational institutes at Ludhiana, Khanna and Bihar. “Along with some acquaintances, he befooled people through an advertisement in which he promised to get them government teaching jobs.

He took them to Bihar, where they appeared for an examination. Then he issued them fake certificates, and also helped them in getting government jobs on the basis of these documents,” said the SP.

The scandal came to light when one of the victims, who failed to get a job, submitted a complaint to the Punjab Education Department, which had constituted a special investigating team in the case. Following the SIT report, a case under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the IPC were registered against the accused on August 11, 2011. Others booked included Dr Manoj Kaushal, Gurdip Gosal, Chander Mohan and Deepak Kumar.

Chander Mohan and Deepak Kumar have already been declared proclaimed offenders in the case, while Gurdip Gosal was released on bail.

Prabhkiran was produced before the court today, which sent him to two days remand. 

Chandigarh, March 13
The UT police has solved as many as nine cases of chain snatching in the tricity with the arrest of two persons.

DSP Ashish Kapoor said Dharmbir Singh (23), a resident of Kansal village, was arrested at a checkpoint near Sector 22. He was riding a motorcycle that was stolen from Sukhna Lake on March 7. It was bearing a fake number. The accused confessed that he along with Vikas, who was also arrested, committed the crime.

The police said the two accused snatched a purse from a woman near Kala Bhawan Sector16, a purse from a woman near Aroma Hotel. Besides this they also stole a bike from outside DAV College, Sector 10, a motorcycle from parking of Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26. The police said they were arrested last year too in August and with their arrest 10 cases of snatchings were solved.

Panchkula, March 13
Just a day after it was claimed by the Commissioner of Police, Panchkula, Rajbir Deswal, that 72 hours have passed and no snatching has taken place in the area, a gold chain was snatched by two miscreants today on the pretext of asking for a doctor at Sector 4, Panchkula.

The victim, Poonam, was standing outside her residence with her friend Nidhi when two miscreants approached her and asked her about any doctor practicing in the locality.

“They were wearing helmets. One of them was on the bike while the other approached us by asking whether any doctor lives around. When I said there is doctor who lives nearby, he asked me to think again. In the meantime, the miscreant snatched my chain and fled away,” said the victim in her complaint to the police.

She immediately called the police helpline number and sought help after the incident. Nakas were laid after the incident on the main check points in the city. 

Mohali, March 13
The Mohali Vigilance Department arrested four persons, including a superintendent and a dealing assistant of Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Department today on the charges of cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy.

The arrested accused, Harbilas Mathan, superintendent, and Lekhraj, dealing assistant of the department, had given clerical jobs to three persons, including a woman by forging signature of the then director of the department after taking money from the beneficiaries last year.

The two beneficiaries, including Amrik Singh and Gurpreet Singh, who got a regular clerical job, have also been nabbed while the woman beneficiary Suman and another employee of the department Amarjeet Singh are still at large.

A case under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120 B and 13 (1) ( c ) (d) read with 13 (2), (88) of the IPC Act was registered on December 12 last year against all the accused, who had also applied for the anticipatory bail in the Sessions Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which was later rejected.

Chandigarh, March 13
They say, cricket starts only when Sachin steps on the field.

Sachin Tendulkar is the god of cricket in India and the face of international modern cricket.

His name does not require any introduction. His fans make sure that their sound crosses all limits to welcome Sachin.

If we flip the cricketing books to check the fan-following of any cricketer, surely Sachin will score the maximum, even there.

Similar was the scenario at the PCA Stadium nets when the young budding cricketers were seen having a pleasant time waching their favourite player. As soon as the net session got over, Sachin was surrounded by his fans.

"Since the arrival of the time, I had been waiting to see Sachin and take his autograph. Today, finally I got a chance to have it, he is a gem of a person and very polite.", said Sukhveer Kalsi.

"He is known as the god of cricket. I am lucky enough to get a chance of being photographed with him and I will keep this photo forever", said Anshul Kumar.

On other hand, with a hope, a number of fans were seen standing outside the stadium, just to have a glimpse of their idol.

The Indian team will face Australians for the third test match of the ongoing series at PCA Stadium, Mohali, here tomorrow. 

Mohali, March 13
A sum of Rs 100 crore has been earmarked for setting up modern sports stadiums in the state, said Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister, here today.

Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was in Ghataur village on the concluding day of a two-day kabaddi tournament, said that there would be no shortage of funds for promoting sports in Punjab and every effort would be made to attract the youth to various games.

The Deputy CM further said that kabaddi would be popularised throughout the world.

The game had almost been forgotten, but the SAD- BJP govt once again brought it on the international map by holding three international tournaments. During the last year 16 teams took part in the tournament, and this year 22 would participate.

The government would make arrangements to bring coaches from abroad, to train sportspersons in the state and encourage them to participate in the Olympics.

To encourage sports at the village level, the government had provided gyms and equipment to various sports clubs set up in 11,000 villages, he added. The Deputy Chief Minister announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for development works in Ghataur village and another Rs 5 lakh for the sports club of the village. 

Chandigarh, March 13
The Indian Overseas Bank(IOB) cagers bagged the 1ST All India Invitational Basketball Tournament for Men with defeating ONGC-Dehradun, here. The team drubbed the rivals 71-57. For wining side, Pratham Singh chipped in with 27 points while Mihir Pandey contributed 18 points. Vineet Revi (7 points) and Hareesh (4 points) were the major point collectors for the team.

For loosing side, Prideep Rai (11 ponts), Murali Krishnar (10 points), Mohit Bhandari (10 points) and Anup M (9 points) were the major contributers.

Earlier, the team of PAP-Jalandhar defeated Indian Army-Delhi 72-71 , to attain third place in the tournament. Harminder (20 points), Tejinderpal (18 points), Jatinder Kumar (12 points), Vikramjit Singh (7 points) and Amanjot Singh (6 points) scripted the team’s win. Gopal Ram ( 27 points), Soumya Ranjan (14 points), B. Manikandan(8 points) and Mayur Bhat(7 points) were the main scorers for loosing side. — TNS

Mohali, March 13
Following Hyderabad blasts, the extra cautious Punjab police will deploy in around 1,500 policemen in and around the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, which will become alive with the five-day action between, ‘Men in Blue’ and ‘Kangroos’ from tomorrow.

Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that this time there would be a three-tier security to maintain law and order in and around the stadium. “This time we are increasing the number of policemen. Earlier, there used to be around 1,200 policement on such duty. Now there will be around 1,500 policemen in and around the stadium”, said SSP Bhullar.

However, he denied any threat during the match. “There is no threat at all but we have to remain cautious”, said SSP Bhullar.

Besides, quick reaction teams, bomb squads, dog squads and riot control vehicles will also be deployed for the utmost security checks.

Chandigarh, March 13
Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 20, defeated Khalsa Club, Sector 26, during a match of State Netball Tournament for boys and girls’, being held here. The team registered 20-18 win over the rivals. In another matche, the team of Panjab University Campus defeated Chandigarh Club by 22-16 while Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, beat Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, by 23-22.

In the girls category, the team of Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, defeated Khalsa Club Sector 11, by 20-14 and the GCM Club thrashed Tiger Club by 15-10.

Chandigarh, March 13
Judoka Karandeep Thakur of Panjab University finished first in the ongoing All India Inter-University Judo for men, in the 66-kg weight category, here. Rohit Kumar of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, secured second place while Farzan Vania of Mumbai University, Mumbai, and Sohan Singh of HNB University, Garhwal, bagged the joint-third position, in the same event.

Results

81-kg weight- Narinder of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; Saruth Chandran of Calicut University; Jitender of Delhi University; Inderdeep Singh of Punjabi University, Patiala.

100-kg weight- Parmod Kumar of GND University, Amritsar; Prikshit Kumar of MDU, Rohtak; Vipin Kumar of CCS University, Meerut; Vartue Mahesh of Shivaji University, Kohlapur.

Panchkula, March 13
In what can be called as a support to boxer Vijender Singh, who has been in news for allegedly been cropped in the recent drug case, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, Vijender's batch mate said that he had never seen him even talking about drugs, what to say his involvement. Yogeshwar Dutt, who had won bronze at the Olympics was here at Sector 4, Panchkula, where he expressed his shock over the news.

He further added, “He is completely innocent." International boxer, Vijender Singh has been accused of being involved in the 130- crore drug trafficking racket.