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October 25, 2001, Chandigarh, India
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Give Punjab its due, insists CM New Delhi, October 24 Mr Badal was voicing his inner thoughts for the consumption of Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Uma Bharati when the junior hockey team was felicitated. The Chief Minister’s grouse was that the Centre was not giving Punjab its rightful due and sports was one such sector. Mr Badal said if Indian sport was not coming up the way it should be it was not due to the fault of sportspersons and coaches. “In bachchon ka koi kasoor nahin hai, kami hum me hai”, Mr Badal made a candid admission. Mr Badal said unless proper facilities, including the latest sports gear and equipment, were provided to the players, Indian sportspersons could not hope to corner international glory. He said he was “very happy that India has brought back hockey glory after a long gap”. The Chief Minister said he used to get upset that “such a big country like ours has not done much (on the sports front). Mr Badal rued that "we have not given good coaches, equipment, training facilities and the like to our players, yet the boys worked hard to bring glory to the country." He said the Punjab Government would organise a befitting reception for the hockey team. Mr Badal was proud of the fact that Punjab was emerging as a major sporting power, as shooting star Abhinav Bindra, and young cricketers like Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh and others had put the state in the focus of the world with their stellar achievements. |
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Irina Brar to lead the field in Northern India Ladies’ Golf New Delhi, October 24 Besides the 18-year-old Irina Brar, other leading players who would be vying for the top prize are Parnita Garewal of Chandigarh, the title winner in 1997, another former champion Anjali Chopra, Vandana Aggarwal, Shalini Malik, Ayesha Kapur, Pragya Misra, Mayali Talwar, Lalitha Balasubramaniam, Guneet Raikhey and Priyanka Dey. The Ladies Northern Indian Open Golf Championship is one of the five regional championships held annually under the aegis of the Indian Golf Union Ladies Section (IGULS). All leading women golfers in the country will be contesting for the top six positions in the championship—a 72-hole open stroke play event open to handicaps of -18 and below. The championship is one of the eight ‘categorised’ tournaments in the IGULS calendar, and the golfers’
performance here plays an important role in the selection of national teams and the players’ position on the IGULS Order of Merit. Mr Siddharth Shriram, Chairman and Managing Director of Siel Ltd, said, “ The Ladies Northern India Open Golf Championship is a very special tournament. It feels good to have been associated with the growth of the game. While we attempt to add value to the tournament each year, it is greatly encouraging to see the number of ladies taking up golf. Over the past few years, it has been a pleasure to see youngsters take such keen interest in the game”. The Delhi Ladies Open Week will be held alongside the Ladies Northern India Open, from November 6 to 8. The Siel Junior Girls Trophy, played over 72 holes and open to all players under 18 years of age, will focus on many promising juniors like Mayali Talwar, Pragya Misra, Sonavi Chopra and Neha Majithia. The Siel Inter-Club Trophy will also be played over three days. This popular event will feature teams of four players from clubs of Delhi, Chandigarh, Noida, Calcutta, Chennai and Bangalore. The trophy will be awarded for the combined best gross score of the teams. The Hindustan Times will be conducting a golf clinic with a teaching professional, Richard Pape, to coincide with the tournament. Pape, from South Africa, had visited India last year and his teaching inputs helped the golfers tune up their skills. The ITC Hotel Maurya Sheraton and Towers, co-sponsors of the event, today honoured the greatest lady golfer of the country, and Arjuna Award winner, Sita Rawley, by displaying her golfing memorabilia in the hotel. Rawley, whose leg had to be amputated recently, witnessed the function sitting in a wheelchair. |
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Indian boxers secure
3rd position in Finland New Delhi, October 24 Working president of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) R S Dalal said Md. Ali Qamar of RSPB won a gold in the light fly category while Rama Nand of SSCB lifted the gold in the light weight category. S Suresh Singh of CISF annexed a silver medal in the flyweight category while Durjai Shastri and Harpreet Singh of RSPB won bronze medals in the light middle and light heavy weight categories, respectively. Rama Nand was declared the "most technical boxer" of the tournament, and was awarded a trophy. Bulgarian coach Petter Stoychev Stoyanov and Lt-Col P. Padmakaran (retd), co-ordinator of the IABF, accompanied the team as coach and
referee judge, respectively. IABF president Abhay Singh Chautala and Mr Dalal congratulated the pugilists for their superb performance. Mr Chautala announced that all-out help in terms of facilities and resources would be provided to the boxers and their coaches in their training programmes to help them bring more laurels to the country. |
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Uttarakhand
gets a thrashing New Delhi, October
24 With this victory, Simla
Youngs, who collected 11 points from five matches, qualified for the Senior Division league. Uttarakhand completed their engagements on two
points. Simla Youngs, who played with determination, could not score in the first half, but in the second session, went on an attacking spree and scored the first goal in the 35th minute when striker Budhraj Singh blasted home from close. Five minutes later, Occean pumped in the second goal with a stiff shot. In a crucial ‘B’ Division league match, Glorious Club beat Bangadarshan 2-0 to qualify for the ‘A’ Division. Glorious collected eight points from five matches while Bangadarshan logged seven points from five matches. Inside right Stephen scored both the goals for Glorious. In an ‘A’ Division match, Royal Rangers held Hans Club to a goalless draw. Hans completed their league engagements to secure five points from as many matches while Royal Rangers could gather only two points from five matches. |
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Ajit Pal
Singh wins bronze Gurgaon, October 24 Working president of Indian Amateur Boxing Federation R .S. Dalal, Inspector- General of Police, Gurgaon Range, informed an eight- member sub-juniors boxing team participated in the tournament in which 172 boxers from 22 countries took part. Dalip Kumar Pouri (45-kg weight) and Balbir Singh (48-kg weight). |
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SPORTS CORNER Cricket stars Kapil Dev and Ajay Jadeja will be seen in action in the UTI India Open Golf Tournament to be held at the DLF Golf and Country Club course, Gurgaon, on October 28. The players will be vying for the 'Best Net Score' prize in the one-day tournament. The tee-of will be held at 8 a.m.
FIFA appoints Rizwan as referee The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has appointed Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) referee Rizwan-ul-Haq and three other Indian referees to supervise the Asia Cup Winners Cup match to be played between Indonesia and the Maldives on October 24 at the Maldives. The other referees named by the AFC are Michael Andrew and Shahji Kurian of Kerala and Welter Pereira of Mumbai. Rizwan-ul-Haq is the son of former FIFA referee, the late Ikram-ul-Haq of Delhi.
Chauhan appointed match commissioner The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed former FIFA referee and Delhi Soccer Association vice-president Bahadur Singh Chauhan match commissioner for the All-India Governor's Gold
Cup. Tournament to be held from October 28 to November 10 in Sikkim. |
2 ministers may lose job in reshuffle New Delhi, October 24 According to reliable sources, portfolios may also be re-allocated given the Chief Minister’s desire to install a “clean” government and deliver on her promise of “good governance”. However, a section of the party dismisses all these as baseless and speculative. Reports of an impending reshuffle have been doing the rounds for some time now and gained credence after the Chief Minister summoned her Cabinet colleagues and made her displeasure known at the slow progress of development projects being undertaken in their respective constituencies and those of the MLAs. The missive was to “tighten up and strengthen” the civic agencies ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections. To establish an interface with the people, ministers have been told to visit their constituencies to oversee projects that are at varying stages of completion. “We got to know what people are thinking and how we should address their concerns,” she had told them at a meeting called by her on Tuesday. While a section of the Congress MLAs links the impending Cabinet reshuffle with the need to shore up the party’s image and make the necessary course correction since the government would soon complete three years in power, others feel any such move would be suicidal and could prove counter-productive. |
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Solar-powered traffic signals New Delhi, October 24 The officials are also examining the commissioning of portable Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) signals which can be used in traffic management in cases of traffic arrangements for VVIPs, processions, functions to ensure proper diversions in the city. According to Mr Sanjay Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), “Basically we want to try and utilize this solar system as there are a number of advantages like the system consumes less power and has more visibility compared to the electronic signals. The Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are expected to reduce power consumption by 10 times, to ensure that the signals keep working even when the sunlight is weak during winter, and in case of emergency, there will be power supply back-up up to 18-20 hours.” He said, “This system is being successfully used in countries like the US, Mexico and Europe to reduce traffic snarls. So we also wanted to utilize this solar system. In fact, Delhi Police are spending around Rs 18 lakh every month on the maintenance of signals and blinkers, and this could be contained and diverted into better traffic management systems. At present, there are about 600 traffic signals and 400 blinkers in the city, once the pilot project proves productive, all these signals would be changed to solar mode.” The Delhi Traffic Police have formulated several schemes to streamline traffic and ensure public safety. In fact, the increase in number of flyovers around the city, which was aimed at easing traffic, is proving to be more dangerous as the vehicles go at a maximum speed resulting in more fatal accidents in the recent times, according to the traffic police officials in the city. Safety audit for flyovers have been carried out by the Delhi Traffic Police and efforts are on to ensure proper crash barriers on flyovers. These barriers help in reducing the impact of vehicle, so that a minimum damage is caused to the vehicle and no loss to life,” said Mr Sanjay Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic). Reflective de-alignators are also being put up in proper signals such as, ‘Go Slow,’ Your Safety is Our Concern,’ ‘We want You Safe,’ and so on. Even rumblers are being introduced on flyovers so as to reduce over-speeding by vehicles. |
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Plan to install
crash barriers on flyovers New Delhi, October 24 Safety audit for flyovers have been carried out by the Delhi Traffic Police and efforts were on to ensure proper crash barriers on flyovers. These barriers help in reducing the impact of vehicle, so that a minimum damage is caused to the vehicle and no loss of life,” said Sanjay Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic). Reflective de-alignators are also being put up in proper signals such as, ‘Go Slow,’ Your Safety is Our Concern,’ ‘We want You Safe,’ and so on. Even rumblers are being introduced on flyovers so as to reduce over-speeding by vehicles. Basically these are done measures are being taken to minimize road accidents and to facilitate safe and smooth passage of traffic on flyovers, according to Singh. |
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