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Jeweller robbed of Rs 8 lakh
Ambala, June 20 As per the information, Jagmohan was going to the Ambala Cantt Railway Station on his Honda Activa to board a Delhi-bound train. He had kept the money in a bag. When he was passing near the SP Railway Office on the GT road, two motorcycle-borne youths came there. They hit his Activa and snatched his bag that was containing cash. The robbers, however, managed to flee from the spot. Jagmohan said that he was carrying the cash to purchase raw silver from Delhi. He said that probably the robbers were chasing him from Ambala City. After getting the information, the DCP, Vinod Kaushik, along with other police officials reached the spot. The police cordoned the entire area to search the robbers. ACP Rahul, who was also present there, claimed that the police had got some clues in this regard. However, no arrest of any robbers was made so far, police sources said. It was not the first such incident. Earlier, too, the motorcycle-borne robbers have committed snatchings in the Ambala City and Ambala Cantonment areas.
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Thapar University ranks among top varsities in India
Patiala, June 20 While Thapar University has secured the 18th rank in the India Today survey, it has been rated as 6th in the category of Top Engineering Colleges of Super Excellence in the Global Human Resource Development Centre (GHRDC)-Competition Success Review (CSR) Engineering College Survey, the result of which has been published in the July edition of the magazine. Furthermore, the university has got the 2nd rank in the GHRDC-CSR survey for top private engineering colleges in India. — TNS
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532 nominations filed on second day in Fatehgarh Sahib
District divided into 60 clusters for elections Our Correspondent
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 20 He said the district has been divided into 60 clusters for this election and the nominations will be filled at respective Returning Officer at the cluster level. He said for 433 gram panchayat, 475 booths will be set up. He said that 60 Returning Officer and 60 Assistant Returning Officers have been deputed and the respective SDMs will be in charge of their clusters. He said for the Khera block, Assistant Commissioner (general) will be in charge. Nominations can be filled by 22nd June, scrutiny will take place on 24 and the nominations can be withdrawal by 25th June. He further said that the voting will take place on July 3 from 8 am to 4 pm and the counting will start after voting and results will be declared same day.
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Agriculture Dept promotes commercial crops in Dera Bassi
Dera Bassi, June 20 Informing about this, Chief District Agriculture Officer, Parminder Singh, said the department has fixed a target to cover the 10,000 hectare area under the maize cultivation in the whole Mohali district during this season. He said for this purpose, over 800 quintal of maize seeds would be distributed to farmers at 75 per cent subsidy. On the other hand, the area under the cultivation of paddy would be decreased from 31,000 hectare to 27,000 hectare. This was being done to encourage the cultivation of commercial crops. Meanwhile, Block Agriculture Development Officer, Sher Singh, said nearly 3,000 hectare area would be covered under the cultivation of maize in the Dera Bass block and for this purpose maize seeds are being distributed to farmers on subsidy. The area under the cultivation of paddy would be decreased from 11,000 hectare to 8,000 hectare in this block. |
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Thieves decamp with cash, jewellery
Banur, June 20 After entering the house, the thieves broke opened the lock of main entrance and then decamped with cash and jewellery. According to the statement given to the police, Sunil said the thieves had stolen 50 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 18,000 in cash. The police has registered a case against the unidentified thieves under Sections 454 and 380 of the IPC and started the investigation.
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‘Sufism is fading’
Patiala, June 20 The lecture was organised by the university’s Baba Farid Centre for Sufi Studies at the Punjabi University’s Senate Hall here today. While basing his thesis on historical descriptions to zero in on the concept of oneness of humanity vis-à-vis sufism, Prof Husain urged Punjabi University’s Vice-Chancellor to continue his efforts to promote and propagate the cause of Sufism in its real sense. In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor, Dr Jaspal Singh, while talking about the multidimensional perspective of the spirit of sufism drew parallel between the bani of Guru Granth Sahib and the concept of sufism. He emphasised upon the practicality and application aspects of the life-force of sufism. The personalised and philosophical meanings drawn by the forces that be, were causing the avoidable chaotic situations in the society,
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Facebook slur case
Mohali, June 20 The court had asked the police on Tuesday to submit the record in the case to check the basis on which Section 380 (theft) has been pressed against Tarminder Kaur and her son Gunveer Singh in the case and to decide on the anticipatory bail plea moved by the woman. The defence counsel, Navnit Singh Sodhi, said that no police official turned up in the court to present the record today. The court issued orders to the station house officer of the Matuar police station to be present with the record on June 22, the next date of hearing. Tarminder Kaur’s husband Sandip Singh Maini had lodged an FIR against her and his son Gunveer Singh for posting vulgar comments, abuses and threats on his Facebook wall. The police has registered a case under Sections 380, 120 B of the IPC and 66A of the IT Act against the mother-son duo at the Mataur police station. Earlier, the court had asked the Mohali police on what basis theft charge was pressed against the accused in the case.
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Hit-and-run case Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 20 District-level boxer Megha had died after she fell off the motorcycle her cousin was riding on Monday afternoon. The accident occurred on the road separating Sectors 29 and 30. She succumbed to her injuries at the GMCH-32 on Monday night. The 17-year-old Hoshiarpur girl was reportedly died following an accident between her cousin Gaurav's motorcycle and a Mahindra XUV. The police said it had got inputs that the motorcycle in all probability had skidded on its own, contrary to the report that a Mahindra XUV hit it. It was investigating this angle.
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Disc jockey booked
Chandigarh, June 20 Constable Bumit Singh stated that he was on duty with a police vehicle as gunman when he got a call at 10.17 pm about the playing of loud music at Ram Darbar. He reached the house and asked disc jockey Surinder Nath to bring the volume down. But he refused and also threatened the police constable. The police has registered a case under sections 4 and 5 of the Noise Control Act and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at the Sector 31 police station.
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cii cricket cup Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 20 In the first match, the police side posted 150 runs in their allotted slot of 20 overs. Satnam topped the team’s score chart with scoring 48 off 57 balls and he was equally supported by Jaswinder, who scored 47 off 29 studded with 4 fours and 2 sixes. From the HDFC, Om Bahadur and Harjinder Singh took 3 wickets each, while Gaurav Jaiswal and Amandeep Saggu claimed one wicket each. In reply, the HDFC side failed to show some resistance and bundled out on a mere total of 50 runs in 16 overs. Amandeep Saggu, was the main scorer of the team with his contribution of 22 off 22. For the Chandigarh Police, Parminder bowled a magnificent spell and took a 5-wicket haul while Ramandeep claimed two wickets. In the second match, the JW Marriott defected Kudos on the basis of net score rate. The match interrupted due rain. The losing side posted 94 runs for 7 wickets in their allotted slot of 15 overs. Rajeev scored 22 off 21 balls to remain the highest scorer for the team. For JW Marriott, Abhilash took 3 wickets for 14 runs while Mandeep Rai claimed 2 for 16 runs. In reply, the JW Marriott scored 63 runs in 7.4 overs with losing 4 wickets. Shahbaz Khan scored a swashbuckling 37 off 18 balls with 4 boundaries and 2 sixes to ensure team’s victory. For Kudos Chemie, Hussain took 3 wickets.
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Chandigarh, June 20 The tournament will played under league-basis and each team will play three matches. The innings will be consisted of 40 overs each match. The Mohali Cricket Association Academy, Chandigarh Cricket Association Academy, DAV Cricket Academy-8, and Sarhitkari Cricket Academy (Mohali) will participate in the tournament. — TNS
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PCA holds off-season camp for fast bowlers
Chandigarh, June 20 According to the organisers, the main aim of the camp is to tune on the fitness of trainees for the upcoming domestic season. Three trainees of the PCA, Taruwar Kohli, Jeewanjot Singh and Sandeep Sharma, are already undergoing the training camp at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) Bangalore. Selected players: Fast bowlers-Siddharth Kaul, Navdeep Singh, Beant Singh, Baltej Singh, Deepak Bansal, Harmeet Singh, Barinder Singh, Maninder Singh, Khushpreet Singh, Robin Dhillon, Siddharth Sharma, Amritpal Singh, Karan Ahluwalia, Batsmen-Mandeep Singh, Ravi Inder Singh, Kunwarveer Raina, Love Kumar and Mohit Handa.
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73 take part in golf tournament
Panchkula, June 20 Results: Girls: Category-wise leaders-Category E-Myra Jawanda 73, Category D-Vausundhra Thaira 84, Category C-Precious Kelson 112, Category B-Sonell Malik 84, Category A-Tavleen Batra 85. Boys-Category E-Manjot Singh 51 (9-holes), Category D-Arnav Jain 88, Category C-Aadil Bedi 75, Category B-Jaiveer Singh Sandhu 78, Category A-Harsh Gangwar 76.
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City golfer makes it to US Kids World Championship
Chandigarh, June 20 Hunar has been playing golf since she was 5 under supervision of her coach, Mahesh Kumar, at the Chandigarh Golf Academy, Panchkula Golf Club and Chandigarh Golf Club. Earlier, last year, she hogged the limelight at the Tata Steel IGU Lucknow Golf Tournament concluded at the Mauribagh Golf Club and also finished third in the recently concluded Category E 4th Albatross International Junior Golf Championship, held at Jaypee Greens Golf Course, Noida. In her latest achievement, this month, she won the category-E US Golf Kids Tournament of girls at Gurgaon on June and stood first in Tata Steel north-zone sub-junior and Feeder Tournament in Jaipur. She participated in the Tata steel North Zone Sub-Junior and Feeder Tournament, Albatross Junior Tournament India and the US kid’s golf tournaments and in all she ranked among top three winners. “I am focusing on physical fitness and psychological training programmes along with regular training and practice. Being the youngest among the participants, I hope to give my best of performance at USA” said Hunar. Adding further, “My coach helped me a lot with including intensive and rigorous training. And my parents also stood by me every time” added she.
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Mohali, June 20 Sohrab defeated his rival in a nail-biting encounter. Nikhil claimed at 7-5. But the second witnessed a great comeback by Sohrab as he bounced back at 6-4.aIn the third set, Nikhil raced to a 4-1 lead. But Sohrab played some excellent ground shots to level the score at 4-4. In the last two games, Sohrab named the match and the set 6-4. He triumphed the match at 5-7, 6-4 and 6-4. — TNS
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