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Free diagnostic facilities at health mela
Chandigarh April 19 Punjab and UT Administrator Gen S.F. Rodrigues (retd) will inaugurate the mela at Government Senior Secondary School there. Facilities for detection of refractive error in the eye, diagnosis of various gynaecological diseases and blood-sugar estimation will be available at the camp. In addition, specialists from the fields of medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, ENT, skin, including dental and AYUSH (homoeopathy and ayurvedic) will be present to examine patients. Medicines will be distributed free of cost among patients. Activities pertaining to information, education and communication will be carried out on various health programmes of reproductive child health, immunisation, revised national tuberculosis control programme, iodine deficiency control programme, blindness control programme, leprosy control programme and AIDS. |
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Making PGI people-friendly
Chandigarh, April 19 Prof I.C. Pathak, a former director of PGI, Chandigarh, and justice S.S. Sodhi (retd) will be the chief guests at the ‘talk.’ Dr K.K. Talwar, director, PGI, will preside over the function. Prominent personalities who are to participate include, Prof Samjay Jain, internal medicine, PGI; Preeti Khanna and Pawan Mutneja, advocates; and Prof B.N. Goswami, Emeritus professor, Panjab University. |
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Twenty20 cricket tourney Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 19 After winning the toss, the UP team elected to field first. The decision went against them as India ‘A’ piled up a mammoth 203 runs in the allotted overs. Slamming the bowlers all around the field, Harpreet Athwal and Shubhang Mayak remained unbeaten at 98 and 82 runs, respectively. In reply, UP could make a paltry 65 runs. Rajat was the highest scorer with 12 runs. Vijay claimed three wickets for 12 runs followed by Navvrosepreet Singh Sihota who took two wickets. In the second match between Uttaranchal and T20CFI-XI at the same venue, the T20 team beat their rivals by seven wickets. Batting first, Uttaranchal scored 85 runs in 16 overs. Avinash Tiwari was the highest scorer with his 17-run knock. In reply, T20 reached the target in just 13 overs. Rahul was the best bowler finishing with two wickets for three runs in one over. The third match played between Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh at Vivek High School, Sector 38, was won by the former by 30 runs. Batting first after winning the toss, HP were bundled out for 117 runs in 16.4 overs. Rajat scored 24 runs for the HP team. Putting up a poor show, Rajasthan could only make 87 runs losing all wickets in 15.1 overs. Tarandeep snapped 2 wickets for 10 runs while Deepak Kumar claimed three wickets during the match.
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Training centre: Players start protest
Chandigarh, April 19 They also threatened to go on hunger strike if some alternative arrangement to save their academic and sports careers was not made by the administration or SAI authorities immediately. The players, along with the parents of a few players, also staged a protest in front of the premises against the indifferent attitude of the authorities. Talking to TNS, national-level hockey player Sarita Singh said, “It is a question of our career, how can the authorities be so careless?” “If arrangements are not made, I will have to go back to my hometown Gorakhpur. This is the reward we get for making the city proud with our achievements,” she rued. Prem Chand Saini, father of another national-level hockey player Sapna, came from Yamunanagar along with his wife Saroj to join the protest. “SAI officials had selected my daughter two years ago. It is difficult to understand how a prominent body like SAI could not make any alternative arrangement for its players. We have no option but to fight on our own for our rights,” said Prem Chand. Sri Ram Yadav, Jinder Kaur, Deepak Singh and G.S. Sidhu were other parents echoed similar views. “As the centre has produced so many national and international players, closing it will mean a big loss to the region,” said G.S. Sidhu, father of national basketball player Harjeet Kaur. At the centre, a total of 81 sportspersons which includes 50 hostellers and 31 day boarders were receiving training in four disciplines - hockey, athletics, basketball and volleyball. SAI advances date for vacating premises It is learnt that the SAI has asked the players to leave before April 21. Earlier, the SAI authorities had displayed a notice to vacate the premises before 1 pm on April 25 after getting the orders from the Chandigarh administration to vacate the premises before April 30. |
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Saurabh, Sumeet fashion Mohali’s win
Mohali, April 19 Resuming from 128 for 5, Jalandhar were all out for 214 runs. Sumeet played the wrecker-in-chief by claiming seven wickets for just 39 runs. While batting Sumeet again rose to the occasion and played a fine innings of 42 runs but it was Saurabh Chopra who rescued the Mohali team with his unbeaten 77-run knock when it was tottering at 100 for 6 at one stage. Brief scores: Jalandhar: 214 all out (Sumeet 7 for 39, Ankit 1 for 40) Mohali: 220 for 7 (Saurabh 78 n.o, Sumeet 42) |
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Chandigarh clinch match on first innings lead
Chandigarh, April 19 Batting first, Chandigarh scored 445 for 9 in 95 overs with the help of double century by Manan Vohra. In its reply today, Amritsar batsmen played well but could manage to score 328 for 7 in the allotted 95 overs. Mohit and Jagdeep scored centuries but in vain as Chandigarh won the match. Both made 105 runs each. Karan and Vikaran took three wickets each. Brief scores: Chandigarh (first innings): 445 for 9 wickets in 95 overs. Amritsar (first innings): 328 for 7 in 95 overs (Mohit 105, Jagdeep 105, Lovin Gill 45, Karan 3 for 108, Virkaran 3 for 108, Hitesh 2 for 85).
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Estate office uploads 3,000 case files
Chandigarh, April 19 The data update and putting it on the local area network will enable officials to verify various queries like resumption proceedings, unpaid dues or building violation. Thus, the request of property owners will be dealt with on priority, said assistant estate officer Amit Talwar. A lot of time was being wasted on moving files from one table to another, as dealing hands had to go through each file. It took several days and repeated visits by the applicant to get relevant records. The computerisation will facilitate access to information at the click of the mouse. An effort is being made to put in place a system to monitor the daily progress of the cases. Under this mechanism, no employee will be able to sit on a file for very long. Besides, proceedings of all cases will be fed on the system every day. In the second phase, the process to start online approval of building plans is on the cards. A sum of Rs 16 lakh for renovation of record room has been sanctioned. Also, 32,000 files of the estate office will be put in cabinets on the top floor of the building. The movable fire-proof cabinets will enable better maintenance of records. |
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Resignation accepted
Chandigarh, April 19 Sources in the committee said he had resigned as BJP leader to become the chairman.
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