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Spanish cops add strength to their team
Carrying heavy load dangerous for high BP patients, say doctors
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Course on recent trends in material begins at GZS-PTU
Anganwadi workers to stage rally tomorrow
Bathinda doctor invited to cardiology conference
Students get pullovers
Teachers plan protest during Kabaddi Cup
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Spanish cops add strength to their team
Bathinda, December 3 Jose Lopez Gullo, one of the five policemen in the team, told the Bathinda Tribune that he is employed at quite a senior designation. Giving all the credit of taking a village sport of Punjab to international level to the team’s manager, SS Sahota, he said, “Till three years ago, no one in Spain knew that there existed a sport called ‘kabaddi’. But when Sahota told us about the game and that an international tournament of the game is hosted in India, we got interested in the sport.” David Perez Kuntana, Santiago Sokoro, Pedro Je Garcia and Jeronimo Kamana Bratile are the other police personnel who are part of the team. Surinder Singh Sahota takes pride in the fact that he and his son, Sanjeev, managed to put together a kabaddi team in Spain. Sanjeev is coach of the team. “When I moved to Spain, I noticed that the youth was more interested in wrestling and rugby. When I spoke to a couple of players, they showed interest in kabaddi and things started falling into place,” he said. “Playing kabaddi has come easily to me and my team mates as there are several similarities between rugby, wrestling and kabaddi. The biggest similarity is that all three are contact sports. Like in wrestling, in kabaddi a player fights and tries to wriggle out of the grip of a player from another team. However, this is not true for the rugby,” Gullo said. Apart from being confident of their performance during the tournament, the team is also high on the spirit of sportsmanship. “Although we are hopeful that with every passing year, the Spanish team will better its performance, we also believe that winning is not all important and we are proud of the fact that despite being introduced to the game only three years ago, we are working on our strengths and progressing. We beat Kenya to dust in our first match,” said David. |
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Carrying heavy load dangerous for high BP patients, say doctors
Bathinda, December 3 The findings are main crux of the study by doctors at the Adesh Institute of Medical Science and Research (AIMSR). Headed by Dr AK Maria, a group of doctors studied the patients suffering from high blood pressure. Dr Maria said, “Patients suffering high BP have a higher reactivity to hand grip test and most of the commonly used anti-hypertensive medicines are unable to block this rise. Hence, such patients should avoid strenuous exercises as the steep rise in blood pressure is deleterious to heart and brain blood vessels and cause heart attack and stroke.” He added that when healthy people carry the same kind of load, their increased heart rate does not have the kind of devastating effect on heart as happens in case of hypertensive (patients with high blood pressure) people. The study stated that continuous strengthening of muscle of hand and arm for duration of three minutes or more is very deleterious for the patients suffering from hypertension. These effects can occur during common day to day innocuous activities like carrying a heavy bag in the right hand. Household tasks like carrying bags full of groceries weighing few kg or carrying a suitcase for travelling, which involves most of the times carrying the same over a railway bridge in India in the absence of lifts and escalators is a common occurrence and many of these individuals could be hypertensive. This exercise involves hand grip with strengthening of muscles. The study tested 37 normal individuals as controls and 81 patients of high BP in the age groups from 26 onwards, excluding individuals with existing heart diseases. It noted a very significant rise in BP of these patients. After starting treatment, the test was repeated every four weeks and the rise was still noted to be high as compared to normal people. Most of the commonly used drugs fail to attenuate this rise, said Dr Maria. The study titled ‘A Comparative Study of Cardiovascular Response to Isometric Exercise in Hypertensive and Healthy Normotensive Controls in South West Punjab’ was published in the July issue of Journal of Research in Medical Education and Ethics has been authored by Dr A K Maria, assisted by his able team of Dr A Maheshwari, Dr Vitull K Gupta, Dr Gobind Pratap Singh, Dr Satwant Kumar and Dr Aditi Kapoor. People with high blood pressure should:
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Course on recent trends in material begins at GZS-PTU
Bathinda, December 3 The course is being conducted under the sponsorship of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme stage-II of the MHRD, Government of India (TEQIP-II Project). Around 60 faculty members of engineering institutes from neighbouring states, including faculty members from the GZS-PTU Campus are participating in the programme. Chief operating officer, Synergy Thrislington, Mohali, Punjab, (an alumnus of first batch of GZS PTU), Yashjeet Gupta, was the chief guest during the inauguration session. While addressing the gathering, Gupta touched upon various issues related to buildings, cost and economy. Dr Harpreet Singh, associate professor at the IIT, Ropar, and head of department of School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Punjab, discussed about nano-structured materials and coatings for better material properties. In the evening, Wing Cdr (retd), AK VIG, assistant professor, Department of Production Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, discussed inventions, intellect, intuition aspect for product development and design. Rajesh Kumar, assistant professor, Department of ME, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, discussed the mental and physical fatigue to the industrial workers and the cost of compensation in developed countries. During the course, experts from IIT-Roorkee, IIT-Ropar, Thapar University-Patiala, DTU-Delhi, PEC University of Technological, Chandigarh, NIT-Jalandhar, PAU-Ludhiana and top professionals from the industry will be sharing their experiences on a single platform. The delegates will be taken for industrial visit to Guru Gobind Singh Refinery (a unit of Hindustan Mittal Energy Limited), Phulokheri, on Wednesday. They will be interacting with Ian Thorpe, vice-president, hazards, safety and environment, GGS Refinery, Bathinda, on
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Will launch agitation if demands not met, say EGS teachers
Bathinda, December 3 The members stated that the teachers, employed under various schemes, were having a harrowing time. It was also decided during the meeting that in case the meeting with the CM remained unfruitful, the teachers would begin their agitation in Chandigarh itself. The union also stated that similar meetings were being conducted across the state to keep the teachers ready in case they are needed to stage a mega protest against the government. |
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Anganwadi workers to stage rally tomorrow
Bathinda, December 3 The union members stated that the State and the Central Governments were neglecting the Anganwadi Centres. “As many as 61 per cent Anganwadi Centres don’t have their own buildings while 25 per cent of the buildings where these centres are being run are unsafe. The workers in Punjab are paid Rs 5,000 while the helpers are paid Rs 2,500 which was too little,” said Usha Rani. The union demanded that apart from regularising there jobs, their salaries should also be hiked. The union stated that the motive of the December 5 rally will be to bring the demands into the notice of the state government. Vice-president of the union, Amritpal Kaur, stated that the union will protest till the time the state government doesn’t heed their demands. |
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Bathinda doctor invited to cardiology conference
Bathinda, December 3 Dr Gupta will deliver lecture on December 8 in Bangalore. He is the only physician from the region to be invited from the Cardiological Society of India, an organisation of cardiologists. Dr Vitull said hypertension is the most common medical problem encountered during pregnancy worldwide. An estimate states that 8 to 10 per cent pregnancies are complicated by hypertensive disorders and about 25 per cent of all antenatal admissions are due to hypertension related complications and is a leading cause of maternal and fetal morbidity responsible for eight to nine per cent of maternal deaths in India and 15 to 20 per cent of maternal deaths in the West. He further added that even in the current millennium, the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) remain among the most understudied areas and one of the lowest recipients of research funds compared with other diseases in terms of disability adjusted life
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Students get pullovers
Bathinda, December 3 These include six villages of Punjab, including Raman, Kanakwal, Phulokhari, Tarkhanwala, Ramsra and Giana and two villages of Haryana namely, Hosu and Narang. Nagar Council president, Kaur Singh, was present on the occasion. Other refinery officials who were also present included deputy manager, Jeevanjot Singh, PRO, Waheguru Pal Singh, and coordinator, Vikrant Puri. They said the students of these schools are distributed pullovers, socks, shoes, bags and stationery every year. |
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School games conclude
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, December 3 Deputy Commissioner of Bathinda, Kamal Kishore Yadav, and chairman of the Zila Parishad, Gurpreet Singh Maluka, presided over the function. Also present on the occasion were DPI (Secondary) Kamal Kumar Garg, Additional State Project Director Parampal Kaur Maluka, Deputy Director Sports Sarabjeet Singh Toor, State Organiser Indu Bala, District Education Officer (Secondary) Harkanwaljeet Kaur, District Education Officer (Elementary), Amarjit Kaur Kotfatta, AEO Pavittar Kaur and others. In the six-day long tournament, matches for circle kabaddi, hockey, boxing, netball and basketball were conducted. As many as 2,100 players from 29 states and seven union territories participated in the tournament. During the closing ceremony, the teams of al the states and the winning teams were felicitated and the overall trophy for boys and girls was lifted by Punjab. The march past by all the teams was followed by a cultural programme which included a gatka performance by students of the Khalsa Senior Secondary School and bhangra performance by students of Des Raj Memorial Government Senior Secondary School, Government Senior Secondary School Parasram Nagar and Khalsa School.
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Teachers plan protest during Kabaddi Cup
Amritsar, December 3 In a press statement here today, union district president Gurpreet Singh Verka sought regularisation of contractual teachers. He claimed Chief Minister had promised to regularise services of 7,654 teachers by December this year during Moga by-election. He said less than a month was left and there was neither any movement nor any sign on the part of the state government to fulfil the promise.
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