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Ropar, March 21
The doctors of the Punjab Civil Medical Service Association (PCMSA) today staged a dharna in front of the office of the Civil Surgeon.

The protesting doctors also presented a memorandum to the Civil Surgeon.

“The dharna was part of their ongoing state-level protest week,” said Gagandeep Shergill, state general secretary, PCMSA.

Dr Gurvidner Kaur, vice-president of the PCMSA, Ropar, said: “The doctors from all over the state are up in arms against the new policy for admission in postgraduate courses. The PCMSA has also demanded that the post of EMO at every hospital should be included as a difficult post as it will benefit doctors while applying for admission in post graduate courses.”

The other demands of protesting doctors included special increments to specialist, separate pay scale of senior administrative grade promoted as SMOs and conveyance allowance to every PCMSA doctor.

Ropar, March 21
The district police today arrested a youth and a woman for abduction and rape of a minor girl at Chamkaur Sahib.

The victim was abducted by accused, identified as Harjidner Singh Mani, a resident of Bhakku Majra village, when she had gone to visit temple on March 16.

According to the complaint lodged by mother of victim, her daughter, a student of Class IX, had been missing since March 16. Later, the family came to know that Harjinder had abducted the girl and took her to Ambala. A woman in their neighbourhood had helped the accused in the crime, she alleged.

On complaint of the mother, both the accused, Harjinder and Kualwant Kaur, were arrested after a case was registered under Section 366, 363, 366A, 376 and 120B of IPC against them.

Fatehgarh Sahib, March 21
The district police has arrested one drug peddler involved in the sale of drugs during a checking.

The police has recovered 1,000 intoxicant tablets and 3,500 capsules from his possession.

SSP HS Mann said the Fatehgarh Sahib police signalled a rider to stop for a routine checking but he tried to escape the naka which made the police officials suspicious. The police later overpowered him and during the checking 1,000 intoxicant tablets and 3,500 capsules were recovered from his possession.

The accused was identified as Vinay Kumar, a resident of Mandi Gobindgarh. He said that he used to supply tablets to the petty peddlers and drug addicts in rural areas.

The police has booked the accused under the NDPS Act.

Banur, March 21
A 40-year-old woman, Rani of Jansla village, was killed and four persons sustained injuries in a road accident on the Banur-Rajpura road near Jansla last night.

The accident took place when a truck coming from Chandigarh hit a three-wheeler that was coming from Rajpura.

The police has registered a case against the truck driver under Section 279, 337,304A and 427 of the IPC.

The injured persons were identified as Prem Chand, Puneet kuamar, Neetu and Karan Kumar, all residents of Jansla village.—OC

Patiala, March 21
Lakhveer Kaur of Modern College of Education, Birkalan, and Ankur Handa of DB College of Education, Mandi Gobindgarh, emerged as fastest sprinter during the fourth Punjabi University Annual Inter-College B-Division Athletics Meet, which started here yesterday at Raja Bhalendra Singh Sports Complex of Punjabi University as they won gold medals in the 100 m women and men category, respectively.

Other results:

Women section: 4x400 m relay race: 1. Kulwinder Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, Harpreet Kaur and Gagandeep Kaur (Public College of Education, Samana), 2. Surjit Kaur, Dipsy, Paramjeet Kaur and Ramandeep Kaur (Mehar Chand College of Edcation, Bhanopali and 3. Veeran Kaur, Dharamveer Kaur, Satjinder Kaur and Ranjit Kaur (Akal College of Education, Mastuana Sahib).

100 m: 1. Lakhveer Kaur (Modern College of Education, Birkalan), 2. Amandeep Kaur (SGTB College of Edu, Seh-Ke) and 3. Veerjot Kaur (BF College of Education, Deon, Bathinda).

Shot put: 1. Manpreet Kaur (Public College of Education, Samana), 2. Rajandeep Kaur (Akal College of Education, Mastuana Sahib) and 3. Prabhjot Kaur (Govt College of Education, Faridkot).

5,000m: 1. Sandeep Kaur (Govt College of Edcation, Faridkot), 2. Rajveer Kaur (Saint Kabir College of Education, Kauli, Patiala) and 3. Suman (Mehar Chand College of Edu, Bhanopali).

10,000m: 1. Suman (Mehar Chand College of Education, Bhanopali), 2. Sandeep Kaur (Government College of Education, Faridkot) and 3. Tanvi Kaur (Mehar Chand College of Education, Bhanopali).

400m hurdles: 1. Harjit Kaur (Govt College of Edu, Faridkot), 2. Mandeep Kaur (Mehar Chand College of Education, Bhanopali) and 3. Gurjeet Kaur (Mehar Chand College of Education, Bhanopali).

Men section: Hammer throw: 1. Amardeep Singh (SGTB College of Education, Seh-Ke), 2. Sandeep Singh (Modern College of Edu., Birkalan) and 3. Nirmal (Modern College of Edu., Birkalan).

Triple jump: 1. Jatinder Singh (Shivam College of Edu, Khokar Kala), 2. Atinder Singh (Mehar Chand College of Edu, Bhanopli) and 3. Harjeet Singh (Modern College of Edu, Birkalan).

100 m: 1. Ankur Handa (DB College of Edu, Mandi Gobindgarh), 2. Mandeep Singh (SUS College of Edu, Sangrur) and 3. Chanvir Singh (Modern College of Edu, Birkalan).

800m: 1. Harvinder Singh (Sacred Heart College of Edu, Barnala), 2. Jagpreet Singh (Shivam College of Edu, Khokar Kalan) and 3. Gurwinder Singh (BF College of Edu, Deon, Bathinda).

Discuss throw: 1. Talwinder Singh (SUS College of Edu, Sangrur), 2. Happy Singh (SUS College of Edu, Sangrur) and 3. Gurwinder Singh (Govt College of Edu, Malerkotla).

400 m hurdles: 1. Hardeep Singh (Akal College of Education, Mastuana Sahib), 2. Gurjant Singh (Jasdev Singh Sandhu College of Engineering, Kauli, Patiala) and 3. Sukhjeet Singh (Government College of Education, Faridkot).

Patiala, March 21
Two cricket players, currently employed with the State Bank of Patiala, have been selected to show their skills in the upcoming IPL season 6 starting from April, 2013.

Fast bowler, Sidarth Kaul, who took 41 wickets in the current Ranji season for Punjab and leg-spinner Sarabjit Ladda, would represent Delhi Daredevils and Kolkatta Knight Riders, respectively.

Sarabjit Ladda has earlier represented the visiting Australian team while representing the Board President XI. State Bank of Patiala is the leading institution in the region giving jobs to eminent sports persons and cricketers in particular.

Players like Navjot Singh Sidhu, Pankaj Dharmani, Rajiv Sirhindi, Sanjay Mahajan, Munish Bali, Ravinder Singh are few of them.

Cricketers recruited by the bank in the past. The team of bank is also participating in the BCCI corporate cup organised by the BCCI for the past three years besides playing Dr DY Patil T-20 Cricket Tournament in Mumbai, All-India Public Sector where the SBOP is runners-up and other big tournaments all across the country.

Chandigarh, March 21
A special CBI court on Thursday adjourned the cash-at-judge's door case of 2008 for April 20 to start arguments for the framing of charges against the main accused, former Justice Nirmal Yadav.

The case came up for hearing before the special CBI judge, Vimal Kumar. During the previous hearing of the case, the special counsel of the CBI, Anupam Gupta, had moved an application in the court against co-accused Advocate Sanjiv Bansal.

Sanjiv Bansal had earlier given a statement to the police that the packet carrying money (Rs 15 lakh) was to be given to a person, named Nirmal Singh, and he did not know about any Nirmal Yadav. Bansal's munshi had carried the packet, he had stated. Gupta pointed out that this application was not attached in the charge sheet.

Bansal had given a one-page statement to the police regarding the delivery of the money to one Nirmal Singh, who, when contacted and identified, had denied knowing any Sanjiv Bansal.

Bansal, meanwhile, in February third week (ahead of the previous hearing of the case on February 22) had filed an application under Section 227 of the CrPC, stating that since the charge sheet in its entirety does not make out any case for his prosecution, he should be discharged in the case.

The case came to the fore in 2008, when a bag containing Rs 15 lakh was delivered at the residence of Justice Nirmal Kaur, another Punjab and High Court Judge.

Panchkula, March 21
A local court today held Dhanna Ram guilty of murdering his three-year-old daughter, but exonerated him from the charge of raping the girl. The quantum of sentence would be announced tomorrow.

Notably, 42-year-old Dhanna Ram was arrested near Bhudanpur on November 16, 2011, by the police on the charges of raping and murdering his daughter when he was trying to flee the city after committing the crime.

The defence counsel, Manvir Rathi, today said the court exonerated his client from the charge of rape, but convicted him of murdering his own daughter.

The accused is said to be a psychiatric patient who has been undergoing treatment. After being nabbed, Dhanna Ram had told the police that he was told by a ‘Devi’ to kill his daughter.

Dhanna Ram’s wife, Rita Devi, had complained to the police that her daughter was murdered by the accused after hitting the victim on her head with a knife and an iron rod.

The victim was also strangulated, but she died of head injuries, stated the postmortem report.

A case under Sections 302 and 376 of the IPC was registered against the accused at the Sector 14 Police Station.

Chandigarh, March 21
High drama was witnessed at a nakka set up by the UT police on late last night when a person, who was reportedly drunk, allegedly threatened and misbehaved with the traffic policemen. He was stopped for talking on the mobile phone while driving. A case has been registered against the accused at the Sector 31 police station on a compliant of the traffic police.

The nakka was set up near The Tribune roundabout.

Traffic Marshal Gurnam Singh, who was also present at the nakka, stated that the traffic staff stopped Kavinder Singh for using his mobile phone while driving. "The car driver was asked to submit his driver's licence. But, he refused to show his licence and started arguing with the police personnel. As his breath smelt of liquor, we asked him to go under an alcho-meter test, which confirmed he was drunk," the Traffic Marshal said.

As soon as the traffic staff asked him to hand over the keys of the car, he started misbehaving with the me and the other personnel. Kavinder started abusing everyone and refused to handover the car keys. "The accused also threatened the traffic staff with dire consequences," the police stated. 

Mohali, March 21
The Mohali police, which is yet to arrest five absconding accused in the advocate Amarpreet Singh’s murder case, today nabbed a person for providing shelter and assistance to the accused after the crime.

The arrested person, identified as Ram Kumar, is father of one of the main accused, Rajat Sharma, who is still absconding.

Giving details, Mohali SSP Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said Ram Kumar, who runs a grocery shop at Burail, Chandigarh, had been arrested for providing shelter to his son’s accomplice, Deepak Kaushal, after the crime.

“He also helped him in making fake identity proof,” said the SSP.

He said a case under Sections 212 and 216 of the IPC had been registered against him at the Mataur Police Station.

The Mohali police had already arrested four persons, Suraj Kumar, his son Jagwinder Kumar, Amandeep Singh and Jatinder Singh, under the same charges.

So far, the police has also arrested four main accused, Onkar Singh, Sunbir Singh, Deepak Kaushal and Jaswinder Singh, in the case, while the rest five accused, Sunil Bhanot alias Chhoti, Rajat, Vishal, Dharminder, and Kevin Sushant, are still absconding.

Chandigarh, March 21
Passion has no limits and will to achieve something from it has no boundaries. Fighting against all odds, these players from Manipur are dreaming to gain much from the only thing they are passionate about and that is Sepak Takraw.

The players of Manipur team, who are in Chandigarh to participate in the ongoing Sub-Junior Sepak Takraw Championship, share their experience of being a part of the most famous game of their region.

Fourteen-year-old Kamla attends a regular three-hour practise session to nurture her skills. Her motivation towards the game can be adjudged with the extent that she peddles 20 kms everyday to take lessons from her coach for 3 hours.

“I have no facilities at my village and to nurture my skills. I have no option but to peddle down to Imphal. My parents are not aware of the game. But they feel happy whenever I win a trophy. I am a part of a local club of Imphal and we participate in many rural and national level tournaments,” said she.

This game isn’t costly so it attracts many players of the region. Only a good and comfortable pair of shoes is the main essential of kit of the game. It is a famous art display game and during festivals, back in far-east, exhibitions matches are organised to attract youngsters.

“My family lives in a local village, situated on the border area of India and Myanmar. My father runs a confectionery shop there. I was facing problem in attaining coaching. In 2011, I shifted my base to Imphal’s SAI (Sports Authority of India) centre. Being away from family is sad. But the hungriness to make my name always motivates me. Every game needs something or other. But for this game good pair of shoes is enough,” said 15-year old Sophia.

Making a big leap, these young players also represent local clubs, in order to showcase their talent and win cash prizes to help themselves. “We have famous local club by the name, ‘SWC Hiyamglam’. It is run by former players of Sepak Takraw and is recognised by the local government. We play various tournaments. Many a time, we are rewarded with cash and other prizes. Although this might not be counted great here, back in our area, it is matter of great proud, to represent your state or club in tournaments. We get respect from our village people and moreover, we are happy to be part of the game,” said Siyapati and Diana.

The junior most member of the team, 13-year-old Nikki said, “I am lucky enough to represent two lakh people of my state in these nationals. The culture back in our region is entirely different. There are many problems and hinges but it’s due to this game, I have found an identity. Playing for the nation is the biggest achievement for a player and I wanted the same. I receive academic scholarships and what else one needs. The game is returning me well and satisfying my parents over my growth,” said Nikki.

Chandigarh, March 21
The teams of Sepak Takraw boys and girls team of Manipur won the “Regu” (team) category event, of the ongoing 15th Sub-Junior National Sepak Takraw Championship, being held at Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, here today.

In the final of the men’s event, Manipur defeated Delhi at 2-0 (15-11, 15-12, 9-15, 15-1, 16-14) while in the finals of girls’ event, the Manipur side routed Odisha by 2-0 (15-4, 15-13, 15-12, 11-15, 15-3).

Results:

Boys (Regu) Event (quarter-final) Manipur beat Nagaland by 15-5, 15-12 (2-0); Uttar Pradesh beat Karnataka by 15-6, 17-16 (2-0); Andhra Pradesh beat Mizoram by 15-6, 15-13 (2-0); Delhi beat Tamil Nadu by 15-6, 15-13 (2-0).

Girls Regu event (Quarter-finals)-Manipur beat Delhi by 15-7, 16-14 (2-0); Uttar Pradesh beat West Bengal by 15-6, 10-15, 15-4 (2-1); Odisha beat Tamil Nadu by 15-11, 15-7 (2-0); Maharsthtra beat Kerala by 15-3, 15-10 (2-0); Semi-finals-Mainpur beat Uttar Pradesh 15-5, 15-13 (2-0); Odisha beat Maharshtra by 15-5, 15-12 (2-0).

Chandigarh, March 21
A five-day summer golf coaching camp will be organised at the Chandigarh Golf Club from March 26 to 30, by a EGTF certified coach, Ajay Gujral, here.

The camp is designed for children aged between 7 to 15 years, members and non-members.

All the basic fundamentals of the game including grip, aim, alignment, stance, posture, putting, chipping, pitching will be covered during the camp.

Chandigarh, March 21
The cricket team of Punjab defeated Services in their ongoing campaign North Zone T-20 League Tournament, being held today.

After winning the toss, the Punjab team opted to bowl first and restricted the opponents on a mere total of 114 runs for 9 in 20 overs.

Openers AH Gupta and SJ Singh added 48 runs in 8.1 overs before SJ Singh was castled by left arm spinner Rajwinder Singh for 25 off 25 including four boundaries.

Rajwinder, in the same over, claimed Gupta for 22 off 27 with 2 boundaries. Thereafter, right arm leg spinner Rahul Sharma claimed two wickets of NH Verma (17 runs) and Yashpal Singh (13 runs).

The batsmen of Services’ team continue to struggle hard and failed to face Punjab’s bowling attack. SM Swain (8 runs), RR Negi (6 runs) and IA Khan (4 runs) were the other main scorers for the team. For Punjab, Rahul Sharma claimed 3 for 20 while Rajwinder Golu and Manpreet Gony claimed two wickets each.

In reply, the Punjab team received an early shock after their opener Ravi Inder Singh was caught on 6 runs later Gurkirat Singh was disposed off by S Najjar without opening his account while skipper Mandeep Singh contributed 27 off 19 with three boundaries and a six before being caught by SJ Singh off Narinder Kumar Singh in the North Zone T-20 League Tournament that was held tody.

Next batsmen, Taruwar Kohli (22 runs) and Mayank Sidana (20 runs) stabled the team’s innings and scripted win. The Punjab team registered win in the 19.1 overs for the loss of seven wickets.

For Services cricket team, S Najjar and RR Negi took two wickets each. The team will play their last match against Himachal Pradesh on March 22 at Terhi.

Panchkula, March 21
A total of six teams will participate in the first invitation cash prize cricket tournament to be organised by the Delhi Cricket Club at the Barwala Cricket Stadium.

The tournament will be held from March 22 to 26 and teams including Unayal Cricket Academy, HDFC bank, Delhi Cricket Club, Maa Ashirwad Club, ICL Panchkula Club, Victorious Club, will participate in the championship.

The Unayal Cricket Academy will face the Maa Ashirwad Club, in the opening match of the championship.