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Patiala, May 19
Blood Bank (Department of Transfusion Medicine), Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital, will celebrate 'World Blood Donor Day' in which voluntary blood donors, who not only donate their precious blood to save the dying patients but also motivate others for blood donation, will be honoured.

Dr Kanchan Bhardwaj, professor and head of the Blood Bank, said star donors, repeated donors, female donors, couple donors, emergency donors, family donors would be honoured on this day. In star donor category, those male donors who have donated blood 10 or more times and those female donors who have donated five or more times would be honored. In addition, those male donors who had donated their blood three or more times during April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013 and female donors who had donated their blood two or more times during same period would also be honoured. She urged that donors to submit the copies of their certificates in blood bank by May 24.

Kalka, May 19
A great resentment prevails among the hundreds of employees of Hindustan Machine Tools , as they have not been paid their salaries for the last three months . They alleged that the higher authorities of Heavy Industries and Public Sector of HMT had been adopting partial attitude towards machine tools. Notably the central government had provided a special revival package of Rs.10830 crores to tractor unit of HMT recently, for the survival of HMT tractor unit.

The machine tools plant , which is going through sever financial crises these days , is also in dire need of special package for its survival. The tractor plant and machine tool unit of HMT is working under the Ministry of Heavy Industries, but the irony is that the government has extended retirement age of employees of tractor plant from 58 to 60 years, meanwhile, the employees of machine tools are being retired at the age of 58.

Hindustan Machine Tools consists of tractor plant as well as machine tool plant. In 1963, one of the units of machine tool was established, whereas, the tractor plant was established in 1971.

Shiwalik Vikas Manch, an NGO of Panchkula has sent a letter to Praphool kumar Mahant , the Central Minister of Heavy Industries and Manish Tiwari , Minister of Info mation of Broadcasting, who is also member of Cabinet Committee of Economic affairs, seeking revival package and release of pending salaries of three months and to fix same age of 60 years for the retirement of the employees of machine tools department of the company.

Fatehgarh Sahib, May 19
Reversing the trend in Punjab School Education Board Senior Secondary results, the boys have out shown the girls in Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib. Three boys from Ashoka Senior Secondary School Boys, Sirhind, have secured positions in the merit list, where as two students missed the merit list by one per cent marks. The boys who won laurels for the school are Randeep Singh 92.2 per cent, Jagjeet Singh 92 per cent and Bhavnish Bias 92 per cent. Whereas the other two students secured 89 per cent marks.

Harvel Singh, District Education Officer said that nine students stood in merit from the district and three are from different government schools. He congratulated the students for secured positions.

On this occasion, Rajiv Dutta, president of the school and Ashok Sood, manager also congratulated parents, students and staff of the school. The president said that these students had created history as it was for the first time that three boys had been placed in the merit list in the same year. They said that students would be rewarded for their success.

Ravinder Joshi, the principal of the school said that in the era of commercialisation of education, the school management provided quality education at very cheap rates and the staff worked with a mission. He said that the students were also imparted moral values along with academic education.

Chandigarh, May 19
Unidentified miscreants targeted three pedestrians and sped away with their belongings within 24 hours in different parts of the city. In the latest incident, Pinki, a resident of Burail village, said two motorcycle-borne miscreants snatched her handbag in Sector 22 this morning. The handbag contained a mobile phone, artificial jewellery and Rs 10,000.

In another complaint earlier, Rajinder Pal Kaur, a resident of Mani Majra, alleged that miscreants riding on an Activa scooter sped away after snatching her bag, containing a watch, debit card, some documents and Rs 2,000, from near her residence yesterday.

Sunil Kumar, a resident of Maloya Colony, in his complaint to the police, stated that two motorcycle-borne miscreants snatched his mobile phone near the market in the colony yesterday.

Chandigarh, May 19
In an ongoing match of the UT Cricket T20 League Championship, the Stadium-XI team defeated Warriors Club by 154 runs. The match was played at the Sector 16 cricket stadium here today.

Amit Prashar of Stadium XI waves his bat after scoring a century against the Warrior Cricket Club at the cricket stadium in Sector 16, Chandigarh, on Sunday. Tribune Photo: Pradeep Tewari

After electing to bat first, the Stadium XI team posted a total of 227 runs.The opening pair of Amit and Vishvas Bhalla scripted the team's win through a significant partnership of 157 runs for the first wicket. Amit scored 114 off 60 balls, including 15 fours and four sixes, while Vishvas scored 54 runs. Later, Jaskaran added 46 runs to the team's total.

Chasing the target, the Warriors Club was bundled out for a paltry 73 runs. Vikas was the main scorer for his team with 23 runs. For the bowling side, Gourav Ghambhir claimed four wickets, whereas Aman Bharti scalped three wickets.

In the second match, Himachal Club drubbed the AECC Club by 29 runs. The winners, while batting first, scored 175-runs in their allotted 20 overs. Gagandeep and T Kang were the highest scorers for their team and were also involved in a 110-run opening partnership.

Gagandeep contributed 91 runs while T Kang scored 36-runs. For the bowling side, Rajesh claimed two wickets. In reply, the AECC Club failed to achieve the target and could manage only 146 runs. Rajinder Saini made a fine knock of 90 runs. Bowler Vijay hogged the limelight by claiming three wickets. Heera and Gagandeep claimed two wickets each

Panchkula, May 19
The Panchkula Golf Club will organise a “kids and moms summer golf coaching camp” from June 3 to June 11 here. The eight-day long coaching camp will be open to children in the age-group of 5 to 15 years.

The camp will be conducted by EGTF certified coach Ajay Gujral between 5 to 6 pm.

Both the members as well as non-members can enrol themselves for this camp. During the camp, there will be a special focus on the basics of the game, including safety, etiquette, rules of golf, grip, aim, alignment, stance, posture, hitting and chipping

According to Brig. Punia, General Manager of the Panchkula Golf Club, the interested participants, inculding kids and their mothers, can enrol themselves after contacting coach Ajay Gujral (9814356013).

Chandigarh, May 19
The cricket team of Food Corporation of India (FCI) defeated Bharti Airtel while HDFC Bank defeated Quantum Solution in the ongoing CII Corporate Cricket Cup.

In the first match, batting first, the FCI team scored 165 runs after losing 8 wickets. Rohit (41 off 23) and Kamal Thakur (32 off 21) were the main contributors while Amandeep Singh and Manpreet grabbed two wickets each. In reply, the rival team managed to score 136 runs in the allotted overs. Devan Arora (34 off 23) was the main scorer. Parneesh took 4 wickets by giving away 19 runs.

In the second match, the team of the HDFC Bank defeated Quantum Solutions by 43 runs. The HDFC Bank team scored 200 runs. Gaurav Jaiswal scored 67 runs off 36 balls. Rajiv Bansal scored 45 runs off 23 balls. Amrish Mehta and Shrey took two wickets each. Chasing the total, Quantum Solutions fell short by 43 runs. Shrey scored 55 runs off 35 balls while Hitesh Sharma contributed 38 runs off 40 balls. For HDFC, Bharat tool 2 wickets for 18 runs.

In the third match, the team of JW Marriott defeated Connect Videocon by five wickets. Batting first, the latter were bowled out for 88 runs. Deepak scored 31 runs while Ravinder scored 18 runs. Mandeep took 4 wickets for 15 runs and Abhilash took 3 wickets for 24 runs. In reply, Abhilash (31 off 27) helped the Marriott team register a win. Videocon’s Deepak took 4 wickets by giving away 19 runs.

The team of the IMTECH defeated Allengers by one wicket, Competent Synergies outplayed ATS by four wickets and Bawa Estates defeated SERCO by nine wickets, in the other matches played. 

Chandigarh, May 19
In order to make the junior-level cricket more competitive, Punjab Cricket Association's honorary secretary, MP Pandove proposed a more meaningful and competitive format for the Punjab inter-district matches. It was proposed during the executive committee meeting of the of the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA).

During the meeting, the honorary secretary informed the members about the proposed Mullanpur stadium project. According to the office-bearers, the project has been approved by the Punjab Government and the PCA has also been given exemption from entertainment tax for 10 years for the new stadium.

The association will also seek more concessions from the government for the acquisition of some left over parts in the area of the proposed site.

It was also said that the PCA stadium had won the cash award for the best maintained ground.