Mandi Gobindgarh, February 24
Desh Bhagat Ayurvedic College and Hospital’s two-day workshop on management of life style disorders for practitioners of ISM concluded here today.

It was held under the sponsorship of the department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. More than 40 personalities and students attended the workshop which was inaugurated by Dr Subhash Singh Director Central Research institute (Ayurveda), Patiala.

The Principal of the college, welcomed said that in this competitive world wrong dietary habits, addiction to drugs, smoking, eating fast food were contributing to maladies. To remove the complications there was need to change our life style. In this regard, Harmony with nature was important.

By giving an example of call centres in big cities, the guest of honour, Dr Amit Gupta, research and development officer, Baidyanath stated that the due to non-compliance of rules for “dincharya and ratricharya”, Many boys and girls had become prone to blood pressure and diabetes in their young age.

In this workshop, Dr R C Jain described various complications arising out of wrong lifestyle. — OC

Chandigarh, February 24
The team of the Department of Evening Studies, Panjab University, has won the PU Inter-College Table Tennis (evening and education colleges) tournament for 2006-07 by defeating DAV College of Education, Abohar. The meet was held at the PU grounds here today.

Results:

Deptartment of Evening Studies b DAV College of Education, Abohar, 3-2. Vijay b Robin 3-0 (11-7, 11-5, 11-6); Umesh b Parveen 3-0 (11-6, 11-4, 11-6); Anand lost to Pawan Kumar 3-0 (4-11, 7-11, 9-11); Umesh lost to Robin

3-0 (6-11, 10-12, 6-11); Vijay b Parveen 3-0 ( 11-6, 11-7, 11-5)

Basketball: Department of Evening Studies, PU, beat SCD Government Evening College, Ludhiana, 50-25 in the PU Inter-College Basketball Meet held on the PU campus on Friday. Bhupinder 19, Arun 13, Om Bahadur 10 contributed chiefly for the PU team while Prabhjot 10, Puneet 8 scored for the SCD team.

Other results:

DAV College of Education, Abohar, b BCM College of Education, Ludhiana, 22-12

GHG Khalsa College of Education, Gurusar Sudhar, b DAV College of Education, Abohar, 42-10.

Hockey: Department of Evening Studies, PU, team in a one-side affair defeated BCM College of Education, Ludhiana, 6-0 in the semifinal of the PU Inter-College Hockey Tournament played at the PU grounds on Friday. Lalit Kumar scored three field goals in the 20th, 32nd and 42nd minutes, Lakhwinder Singh two in the 1st and 4th minutes and Mahesh a lone goal in the 20th minute.

Cricket: A fine knock of 91 enabled GGDSD College, Sector 32, beat Government College, Muktsar, by 232 runs in the PU Inter-College Cricket (Men) Tournament at the PU grounds on Friday.

The SD team won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 325 for 9 in 45 overs. Vishwas Bhalla scored a valuable 58 runs. Naresh Goggina claimed 4 wickets for 14 runs while Karanveer claimed 3 for 5 runs. In reply, Government College, Muktsar, was bundled out for 93 in 25.4 overs. 

Ludhiana, February 24
Paddler of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Sciences University, Ludhiana recorded an easy 3-0 win over Dr PDKV University, Akola, to advance into the next round on the second day of the all India inter-agricultural universities games being held on the Punjab Agricultural University campus ground here today.

The second day of the meet witnessed some fierce competition in all the disciplines. In the table tennis league matches (men), GADVASU Ludhiana bt Dr. PDKV, Akola 3-0; CAU, Imphal RAU, Pusa, Bihar 3-2; ANGRAU, Hyderabad bt JAU, Junagarh 3-0; CSAUAT, Kanpur bt AAU, Anand 3-0; Dr. PDKV Akola bt UAS, Dharwad 3-1; CCSHAU, Hissar bt UAS, Bangalore 3-0; HPKV, Palampur bt TNAU, Coimbatore 3-1; CSAUAT, Kanpur bt BAU, Ranchi 3-1; IARI, New Delhi bt OUAT, Bhubneshwar 3-2; ANGRAU, Hyderabad bt SDAUS, Bansakantha by 3-2 and GBPAU, Pantnagar bt SVBPUA&T, Meerut 3-0.

Five teams which got walk-over as their respective opponents failed to turn up were: SDAUS, Banaskantha from Sher-e-Kashmir, Jammu; RAU, Bikaner from SKUAST, Kashmir; SVVU, Tirupati from AAI, Allahabad; IARI, New Delhi from MAU, Parbhani and KAU, Kerala from NDUAT, Faizabad.

In table tennis (women), RAU Bikaner bt BAU Ranchi 3-0; AAU, Anand bt RAU Pusa, Bihar 3-1; CCSHAU, Hisar bt MPKU, Rahuri 3-1; TNAU, Coimbatore bt MPUAT, Udaipur 3-1 and PAU, Ludhiana bt AAU, Anand 3-0.

Mandeep Singh of PAU, Ludhiana bagged top honours in 110 m hurdles race. Lingaraj C.R. of UAS, Dharwad stood first in 100 m race while in the women's section, Asha of KVA&FSU, Bidar took 2.53.98 seconds win a gold in the 800 m race.

Teena Manisha from the TNVASU, Chennai, stood finished ahead of others to emerge champion in 100 m race whereas Anisha Siddhila of the KAU, Thrissur, clinched top position in high jump.

In basketball (men), CCSHAU, Hisar defeated UAS, Bangalore 32-17; KAU, Thrissur, Kerala won against Dr. BSKKV, Dapoli 54-37; GADVASU, Ludhiana bt MPAU, Udaipur 55-9 and GBPUAT, Pantnagar scored win over UAS, Dharwad 58-37.

Similarly, in volleyball (men) KVA&FSU, Bidar bt MAU, Parbhani; UASGKVK, Bangalore bt BCV Mohanpur; AAI, Allahabad got walkover against Shere-e-Kashmir Jammu; SDAUSK, Banaskantha bt CCSHAU, Hisar; Dr. BSKKV, Dapoli bt ANGRAU, Hyderabad; TNAU, Coimbatore bt CSAUAT, Kanpur; UAS Dharwad bt Dr. PDKV Akola; UASGKVK, Bangalore bt AAI, Allahabad and SVVU, Tirupati bt GADVASU, Ludhiana.

However, in the women's section, UASGKVK, Bangalaore bt SDAUS, Banaskantha; UAS Dharwad bt Dr. BSKKV, Dapoli; MAU, Parbhani bt KVA&FSU Bidar; ANGRAU, Hyderabad bt CAU Imphal and UASGKVK, Bangalore bt MPUA&T, Udaipur.

Doraha, February 24
The 33rd annual athletic meet for boys of Guru Nanak National College concluded at Guru Nanak Stadium here today.

The chief guest, Col R.S. Brar, Arjuna awardee, inaugurated the athletic meet. Various events were organised for the students. The chief attraction of the meet was a 2-km walk and musical chair race for the staff and guests.

Col Brar, in his speech, exhorted the athletes to participate in all sports events in a big way.

Jaswant Singh Gill, director of the college, and Dr Narinder Singh Sidhu, principal of the college, also spoke.

Dr Nirlep Kaur, head of the physical education department, along with staff of the college had made arrangements for the meet.

Roop Brar, president of the college managing committee, Prof Balwant Singh Pangli, general secretary of the college management committee, Harpartap Brar, Tarlok Singh Jaggi and Mr Adarshpal Bector, executive committee members, Prof Jagdev Singh Grewal, retired officiating principal of the college, Rajinder Singh Khalsa and Bhupinder Singh Oberoi, school management committee members, Vinod Kumar Thapar were present on the occasion.

The results of the meet are as follow:

Long jump: Charanjit Singh, BA III, Ist, Jugminder Singh, BA I, IInd, Simranpal Singh, BA I, IIIrd.

Shot put: Gurbaxish Singh, BA III, Ist, Rupinder Singh, MA II (Pbi), IInd, Ramandeep Singh, BA II, IIIrd.

200-m race: Jasveer Singh, BA II, Ist, Gian Singh, BA I, IInd, Ramparkash Pandey, BA III, IIIrd.

High jump: Gurdeep Singh, BA I, Ist, Simranpal Singh, BA I, IInd, Charanjeet Singh, BA III, IIIrd.

5,000-m race: Ramparkash Pandey, BA III, Ist, Mohammad Naushad, BA III, IInd, Amandeep Singh, B.Com I, IIIrd.

800-m race: Jasveer Singh, BA II, Ist, Ramparkash Pandey, BA III, IInd, Pritpal Singh, BA III, IIIrd.

Javelin throw: Gurbaxish Singh, BA III, Ist, Harinder Singh, BA I, IInd, Parminder Singh, BA III, IIIrd.

Ludhiana, February 24
Gurpreet Singh and Sonia were declared the best athletes among boys and girls in the 60th annual athletics meet of Arya College which concluded here today. Yash Pal Sharma, former cricketer, gave away prizes to the winners.

Speaking on this occasion, he said that success in life did not depend upon facilities available but commitment and dedication. He advised the students that they should not feel disappointed in case they did not succeed. “We should restart with our efforts to achieve the desired goals.”

Dr S M Sharma, Principal of the college, along with faculty members welcomed Yash Pal. Mr Sharma read out the annual sports report which highlighted the achievements of college students.

The results: (Men) 100 m- Brij Bhushan 1, Sawant singh 2 and Ashish Kumar 3; 200 m- Amrik Singh 1, Brij Bhushan 2 and Gurpreet Singh 3; 400 m- Pankaj Basi 1, Pankaj Kumar 2 and Kamaldeep Singh 3;

800 m- Sukhwinder singh 1, Pankaj Kumar 2 and Ramandeep singh 3; 1500 m- Pankaj 1, Jaspreet Singh 2 and Piyush Rana 3;

5000 m- Ashish Kumar 1, Piyush Rana 2 and Gagandeep Bhalla 3;

discus throw- Pawan Kumar 1, Bikramjeet Singh 2 and Manoj Kumar 3; shot put- Varinder Jit Singh 1, Sunil Kumar 2 and Sameer 3; long jump- Gurpreet Singh 1, Gagandeep 2 and Paramjeet 3; high jump- Paramjit Singh 1, Gurpreet singh 2 and Nikhil Kalra 3; triple jump- Gurpreet Singh 1, Paramjeet 2 and Rahul 3.

Women: 100 m- Manpreet Kaur 1, Sonia 2 and Neha 3; 200 m- Manpreet 1, Sonia 2 and Ramandeep 3; shot put- Ramandeep 1, Sonia 2 and Priya Sharma 3; long jump- Sonia 1, Ramandeep 2 and Abhilasha 3; spoon race- Ramandeep 1, Priya Handa 2 an Neha 3; chati race- Ramandeep 1, Pawandeep 2; obstacle race- Ramandeep 1, Pawandeep 2 and Yashpreet 3.

Ludhiana, February 24
Nidhi Chandla came out triumphant in the 100 m sprint and was declared the best athlete in the 38th annual athletics meet of S D P College for Women held here today.

Balraj Bhasin, president, SDP Sabha, inaugurated the meet. Gianinder Singh Sandhu, District Sports Officer, Ludhiana, was the chief guest at the prize distribution function. He exhorted the students to take part in games as by excelling in sports, they could not only bring fame to the state and nation but also carve a niche for themselves.

Results: obstacles race: Sushma Rani 1, Uma 2 and Jyoti 3; slow cycling race- Meenu 1, Aarti 2 and Prabhjot 3; potato race- Rimpi 1, Manpreet 2 and Aarti 3; 100 m- Nidhi Chandla 1, Pushpa 2 and Shikha 3. — OSR