Saturday, September 18, 1999
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CHANDIGARH, Sept 17 — As many as 100 pouches of country liquor were seized from two persons in two separate cases in the last 48 hours. Jilu Kumar, a resident of Daddu Majra, was arrested with 50 pouches of liquor. In another case Balki of Kumar Colony in Sector 25 was caught red handed while carrying 50 pouches of country liquor. Theft Escape SAS Nagar Snatching Before she could realise
and alert her husband, the youth had escaped. The purse
contained registration documents of two scooters, and
some other personal documents. |
Chandigarh, Sept 17 — In a major development for the forthcoming university student body elections in Panjab University, a group declared the formation of the Haryana Students Union (HSU) here today which will contest parallel to the established Haryana Student Association(HSA) . The formation of the HSU was announced at a press conference by Mr Bhupinder Beniwal, a final year law student. Interestingly, Mr Beniwal was General Secretary of the University Student Council on a seat from the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) in the last elections. Mr Beniwal said a large number of students were frustrated with the "autocratic" and "dictatorial functioning " of the HSA. Ordinary students were not involved in its functioning and only "four top" students from HSA managed the affairs. He said that although he was an office-bearer of the last council yet he left the organisation to contest on the HSU ticket because the HSA was giving a "bad name " to the organisation as well as the region. He alleged that only the "top four" students were managing the affairs of the association and the common students were not taken into confidence about the agenda and the execution. Mr Beniwal said that after the announcement of the formation of the new union today, the party would shortly take up the related issues like naming other contesting candidates and the working out of the groundwork. The announcement of the formation of HSU would mean a split in the HSA with the majority of workers supporting the new front, he claimed. Reacting to the formation of the HSU, senior HSA leaders said that the HSU members had nothing to do with the HSU. The "split" announced had no meaning as the new union could not name any senior leader of the HSA who had expressed his dissatisfaction with the party. The HSU members even if genuine had not contacted the top leaders of the HSA which made the claims of the HSU useless. A former President of the council, Mr Munish Anand, and a former NSUI President, Mr Harmohinder Lucky, said the announcement of a new front had no meaning apart from a political stunt. They raised the issue of why the front was not announced prior to the elections. "We have nothing to do with the HSA", Mr Sunder Pal, a senior HSU leader said. HSA members also raised the issue that the likely presidential candidate of the HSU had two FIRs against him on earlier occasions during his stay on the campus. It seemed that "certain vested powers" who foresaw defeat in the election wanted to divide the established association, Mr Pal said. On the other hand the HSU said that the opponent association had political aims and senior leaders met political leaders regularly who could be easily named. "We are working for unity in the university without vested interests. We would like to work at the ground level with student welfare on priority.Other contestants will be announced shortly. Student bodies forge alliance Chandigarh, Sept 17 — The National Students Union of India, the Haryana Students Alliance and the Panjab University Student's Union in a press conference here today announced an alliance for the forthcoming student body elections. The alliance is a repeat of the previous elections and Mr Bhupinder Singh 'Bhupi' has been officially named as the presidential candidate while Mr Mohan Singh has been named as the contestant for the post of General Secretary. Mr Bhupinder Singh 'Bhupi' is a student of the Department of Laws while Mr Mohan Singh is from the science stream. "Bhupi" also figures in the basketball competitions at the national level. Mr Harmohinder Singh "Lucky", a former President of the NSUI, said that the alliance had grown over the past couple of years and will be contesting the college elections on the same front. He said that the alliance promise a peaceful atmosphere besides working for student interests. Mr Gurvinder Grewal, Chairman of the election committee, said that the university had not cleared what the word "accused "meant and other organisations had some men who had doubtful credentials for contesting the election. Mr Munish Anand, a former President of the Student Council, said that the organisation in power last year had not bothered for student welfare on several fronts. The alliance protested on several grounds like the fee hike and several others. Trespass, theft attempt Ramesh Chander, a resident of Sector 15, today allegedly sneaked into one of the reader’s room in the History Department of Panjab University to steal. The chowkidaar of the department, Mr Pawan Kumar, saw him and closed the door from outside. However, to evade arrest Ramesh jumped from one of the windows in the room, located on the second floor. He was later admitted to the Emergency ward of the PGI with injuries on the hand and in the stomach by the former president of PU Students Council, Mr D.P.S. Randhawa. On the basis of a complaint lodged by the Chairman of the department, a case has been registered against him at the Sector 11 police station under Sections 380 and 511 of the IPC. He has been booked for trespass and attempt to theft. UBS admissions University Business School (UBS) of Panjab University, Chandigarh has changed the admission process for the MBA course from this year. According to the Chairman of the department, Mr R.P Gupta, the students seeking admission to Management courses of UBS, such as MBA, MBA (HR), MBA (IB) have to take the Combined Admission Test (CAT) examination conducted by IIMs at various centres on December 12, 1999. The admission forms for CAT test will be available at the major branches of the SBI till September 27. And the last date for returning these forms to IIMs is October 12, 1999. University teachers protest day CHANDIGARH, Sept 17 — The All-India Federation of University Teachers Association in a press note issued here today announced a nationwide protest day would be observed on September 23 to "awaken the conscience of political leaders and public to ensure that education was taken up on the national agenda". University teachers are upset over non-implementation of an agreement regarding the revision of pay-scales, reached with the Union Government on September 5, last year, in many states, the press note said. The HRD Minister had agreed that arrears on account of pay-revision would be released to university teachers in a single instalment. More than a year had passed since then and many states were still to implement the agreement reached on Teachers' Day, 1998, the note said. The payment of arrears, even in the states where the pay-revision had been implemented, was still uncertain. "Bureaucrats and auditors have been very arbitrary in interpreting the pay-revision rules while fixing the salary in the revised pay scales," the note said. This has resulted in substantial financial loss and considerable comparative disadvantage to university teachers. The implementation of the Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) has also been delayed because of the alleged misleading clarifications issued by the MoHRD and the UGC. The note says that government's recent directive regarding reduction of grants to universities in the garb of austerity measures comes as another shock to university teachers. It says that universities are already starved of funds for proper conduct of teaching and research works. Laboratories could afford to buy the necessary equipment and chemicals, libraries had been forced to stop subscriptions of journals and purchase of books for want of adequate funds, the press note said. It said government should not treat institutions of higher education, particularly universities, as other administrative departments by imposing cuts on non-plan and non-salary expenditures as underlined in an office memorandum of August 5 circulated by the UGC on August 31. "A blanket ban on
filling up vacant posts and foreign travel for attending
academic conferences would be disastrous for the
maintenance of standards of excellence in teaching and
research," the press note said. |
CHANDIGARH, Sept 17 — An exhibition of paintings by Surjit Kaur from Jalandhar was inaugurated at the IndusInd Bank Art Gallery, Sector 8, here yesterday. Seventeen works in oil and mixed media have been put on display. Her works 'Woman in Yellow', 'Moments Fleeting' and 'Mother and Child' have interesting compositions. She is the Head of
Department of Fine Arts, Apeejay College of Fine Arts,
Jalandhar. She has many awards to her credit, including
the 1980 State Award by the Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi,
the Prakash Kala Sangam Honour and the Datak Manch
Honour. |
PANCHKULA, Sept 17— The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered the New India Insurance Company, Panchkula, to pay Rs 77,500 for mediclaim at 12 per cent interest per annum from February 21, 1998, till the date of actual payment, Rs 5,000 for mental agony and harassment and Rs 1,000 as costs of proceedings to Mr R.N. Khurana, a resident of Panchkula. The order came after the complainant alleged that he had procured a mediclaim insurance policy and renewed it time and again and the the last renewal was from June 6, 1997, to June 5, 1998. Mr Khurana underwent a bypass surgery and spent Rs 1,10,000 on the treatment and remained admitted in the AIIMS, New Delhi, from April 23 to June 2, 1997. In May, he submitted a claim with the company for the expenses on the surgery but was told that the claim could not be entertained. He then served a legal notice on the company. In response to that the company asked him to send a copy of the prescription, the OPD card, the discharge certificate and the treatment chart of the AIIMS, which he duly submitted, but the claim was not finalised. The company filed a written statement saying that Rs 1,10,000 had not been incurred by the complainant on his treatment and that he had failed to cooperate with the surveyor and loss assessor and supply documents for the same in the absence of which the claim could not be finalised. In the order, Mr R.C. Taneja and Mr B.S. Bardhan said that though the stand of the company that the complainant did not furnish the requisite documents, which led to delay in the settlement of his claim, was right, yet it seemed that the company was not interested in settling the case even after the documents were handed over to it. This was tantamount to deficiency in service. A time period of one
month from the date of communication has been given to
the company for settling the case. |
PANCHKULA, Sept 17 — The prices of most vegetables have been fluctuating during the past week and these continue to be higher than or on a par with the prices in Chandigarh. Cabbage was available for Rs 16 a kg last week and its price came down to Rs 15 in markets in the sectors and Rs 14 in the mandi in Sector 8. The price of cauliflower came down from Rs 30 a kg to Rs 25, while it was available for Rs 20 in Chandigarh. Though the price of a kg of capsicum was Rs 40 in the markets in Sectors 7, 8 and 9 for the second week running, despite having gone down to Rs 28 a kg two weeks back, it was available in the sector mandi for Rs 30 while it was available in Chandigarh for Rs 40. The vendors in Sector 9 were selling bittergourd for Rs 20, while it was priced at Rs 18 a kg in the Sector 7 market and Rs 16 in the Sector 8 market. Gourd was priced at Rs 12 a kg in Sector 6, though it could be bought for Rs 8 in the Sector 7 market and for Rs 10 in Chandigarh. The price of a kg of cucumber was Rs 12 against last week's price of Rs 10, while prices in Chandigarh dropped from Rs 15 a kg three days ago to Rs 10 a kg. Tomatoes were priced at
Rs 15 a kg in the Sectors 7 and 8 markets, while brinjal
was available for Rs 12 a kg. The price of lady's finger
was static at Rs 14 for three weeks, while the price came
down from Rs 18 to Rs 14 in Chandigarh. |
Chandigarh, Sept 17 — Nadia Saini of DAV Public School, Sector 8, and Vishal Raj of Patiala clinched the cadet girls' singles and boys singles titles respectively, by defeating Manisha of Patiala, 21-16, 20-22, 21-9, and Adish Rana of Himachal Pradesh, 21-19, 21-17, respectively, in the North Zone Rotary Central Open Table Tennis Tournament which began here today at the Sector 23 table tennis hall. Earlier in the semi-finals of the cadet boys section, Adish Rana defeated Gagan of Patiala, 21-13, 21-19, while Vishal Raj faced some difficulty in beating Kamaljit Singh, 21-12, 12-21, 21-15. In the girls' cadet section's semifinals, Manisha Sharma beat Gagandeep Kaur, 21-19, 21-15, while Nadia Saini toppled Sandhya Sharma, 21-14, 21-14. Results: Cadet boys (second round) — Gagan (PTA) b Jatin Dheeraj, 21-6, 21-6; Asim (PTA) b Manik, 21-11, 21-12; Adish (HP) b Pankaj, 21-15, 21-7; Divey Saini b Balbir, 21-8, 21-15; Rohit Sharma b Sameer Singla, 22-20, 21-17; Vishal Raj b Shiv Prasad, 21-15, 21-13. Quarterfinals (boys) — Gagan b Harpreet Singh, 21-10, 24-26, 21-13; Adish b Divey Saini, 21-18, 21-14; Vishal Raj b Asim, 21-15, 21-14; Kamaljit Singh b Rohit Sharma, 21-10, 21-6. Quarterfinals (girls) — Gagandeep Kaur b Kavita, 21-5, 21-7; Manisha Sharma b Preeti Jain, 21-10, 21-9; Sandhya Sharma b Ankita 21-8, 24-22; Nadia Saini b Jayanti, 21-8, 21-8. School tourney The second phase of inter-school tournaments for boys and girls will be conducted in hockey, badminton, table tennis and roller skating from September 24 to 30. This was disclosed by Mr Karan Singh, Secretary of the Inter-School Tournament Committee (boys). The competition for boys will be held from September 24 to 27, while for girls, it will be held between September 28 and 30. Ms Joginder Kaur Sandhu will be the Secretary of the girls' competitions. The age-groups for Pre-Nehru Hockey will be under-15 and under-17 years while for badminton and table tennis, these will be under-14, under-17 and under-19 for boys and girls. In skating, the age-groups will be under-14 and under-19. Badminton meet Third seed Isha could not have asked for more as today in the Chandigarh Ranking-cum-Selection Badminton Tournament in progress here at the PU indoor hall, she beat second seed Parnita in the girls' under-19 singles event. Parnita who had better strokes and game to display was out of form and her temperament also cost her the match. Parnita lost, 8-11, 12-11 and 3-11. In the under-10 boys' section, introduced for the first time in Chandigarh, a spirited Aman Sethi gave a harrowing time to Herry and won in a three-game thriller, 15-3, 13-15 and 15-3. In the under-13 singles (boys), Oscar Bansal proved to be too good for Neeraj Kapoor and defeated him, 17-14 , 15-7. The veterans' events also evoked a good response and in the above-35 section, Virinder Mehta and his new partner Col Raj Parmar began by beating Mukul Bansal and M. Bajaj, 15-8, 15-11. In the above-45 section, M.C. Sethi and Sewa Singh had to fight hard before beating K.K. Aggarwal and D.P. Syal, 15-7, 9-15 and 15-7. Results: Boys (under-13 doubles) — Neeraj and Manish b Abhinav and Abhimanyu, 15-6, 15-11; Saksham and Vipul b Kaustab and Mukul, 15-4, 15-3; Manpreet and Gukirandeep b Saksham and Vipul, 15-0, 15-2; Oscar and Anurag b Neeraj and Manish, 15-9, 15-12. Girls' under-19 (singles) — Nidhi b Rachna Sethi, 11-7, 11-7; Isha b Parnita, 11-8, 11-12, 11-3; Mala Gaba b Nidhi, 11-0, 11-1; girls under-19 (doubles) — Mala and Parnita b Roohi and Swati, 15-1, 15-0; Arpana and Ridhima w.o. Manpreet and Rekha; Rachna and Nirmal b Kavita and Amrit, 15-0, 15-8; Mala and Parnita b Arpana and Ridhima 15-1, 15-0. Girls (under-16 doubles) — Harleen and Tanveer b Richa Sharma and Astha, 15-2, 15-5; Rachna and Shilpa b Aman and Mehak, 15-9, 14-17, 15-2. Girls (under-13 doubles) — Neha and Samridhi b Seema and Sangeena, 15-4, 15-7; Harleen and Tanveer b Samridhi and Neha 15-1, 15-4; Boys under-16 singles (semifinals) — Akash Singh b Paras Gupta, 15-4, 15-9; Puneet Bansal b Akash Sethi, 15-6, 15-12. Men's singles — Gursev b Kanwaljeet Singh, 15-0, 15-3; Vivek Sharma b Rajni Kant, 15-6, 15-7; Amit Sachdeva b Deepak Sidhu, 15-12, 15-10; Ashish Sharma b Gurdev Singh, 15-10, 15-5. Boys under-13 singles (semifinals) — Manpreet b Anurag, 15-3, 15-2; Oscar Bansal b Neeraj Kapoor, 17-14, 15-7; boys under-10 singles — Aman Sethi b Herry, 15-3, 13-15, 15-3; Oscar Bansal b Vinod, 15-0, 15-3; Oscar Bansal b Ishwinderjeet, 15-1, 15-3. Men's doubles — Ashish and Ashirwad b Kanwaljit and Rohit, 15-2, 15-4; Rajnikant and Varun b Gursev and Gurdev, 15-11, 15-5; boys under-19 doubles — Naresh and arun b Tarun Joshi and Pardeep 15-3, 15-0; Akash and Puneet b Gaurav and Saurav Sharma 15-3, 15-2. Girls under-16 singles — Isha b Harleen, 11-9, 11-0; veterans singles (above 35) — Rajiv b H.S. Chhabra, 15-2, 15-3; Ashok Jain b P.J. Singh, 15-2, 15-7; Sunil Joshi b Ajay Manchanda, 15-7, 15-5; M.P. Dogra b Vijay Pandit, 15-11, 15-4; Ashok Jayant b Rajeev, 15-11, 15-11. Veterans (above-35 doubles) — V. Mehta and R. Parmar b M. Bansal and M. Bajaj, 15-8, 15-11; Anil and A.S. Bawa b Ajay Manchanda and M. Behl, 15-2, 15-5; Jatinder Mahajan and Partner b Ravinder Talwar and Vijay Pandit, 15-13, 15-6; Dharmender Rastogi and Mehlchand b H.S. Chahbra and R.S. Chhabra, 15-2, 15-2. Veterans above-45 doubles — M.P. Singh and Vijay Kumra b Anil and Mehl Chand, 15-10, 5-15, 15-6; M.C. Sethi and Sewa Singh b K.K. Aggarwal and D.P. Syal, 15-7, 9-15, 15-7. Hockey matches Maintenance Command and Central Air Command won their hockey matches by beating Training Command, 3-0, and Southern Air Command, 5-1, respectively, in the Air Force Inter-Command Hockey Championship in progress here at the Sector 42 Hockey Stadium here today. In the first match between TC and MC, the latter which dominated right from the beginning. Balbir Singh, in the 20th minute of the match, scored a field goal, followed by Rajbir in the 29th minute. In the second half, Sohan Singh scored a goal in the 65th minute thus taking the lead to 3-0 for the MC. In the second match between CAC and SAC, the former dominated from the beginning. Amrik Singh scored the first goal in the 28th minute of the match, followed by Bannister in the 36th minute. All were field goals. Third goal for the team by was scored by Kripota in the 45th minute. Second goal for Bannister and fourth for CAC came in the 47th minute and fifth goal was scored in the 50th minute through a penalty stroke. In the closing moments of the match, SAC reduced the margin when Satvir Singh scored in the 65th minute. Selection trials Trials to select the Panchkula district under-19 cricket team which will take part in the Haryana Inter-District Cricket Tournament will be held at Hansraj Public School in Sector 6 of Panchkula on September 19 at 2.30 pm, according to Mr Sandeep Moudgil, Secretary of the Panchkula District Cricket Association. Last date The last date of submitting entry forms for participating in the second Edmund Rice Inter-School Cricket Tournament has been extended to September 25 from September 18, according to a press note of St John's School, Sector 26, organiser of the meet. The tournament is scheduled to start in October. State volleyball The Chandigarh State Volleyball Tournament for the Shivalik Trophy in various age-groups will begin tomorrow at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41. Fifteen teams in the boys' section and eight in the girls' section have so far confirmed their participation. The meet will begin at 11 am. Tennis coaches The International Tennis
Federation Level-I Coaches course introduced by the
All-India Tennis Association, under the coaches education
programme, will begin tomorrow at the CLTA complex in
Sector 10, according to Mr Rajan Kashyap, Chairman of the
CLTA. Irina Brar takes 3-stroke lead CHANDIGARH, Sept 17 – Fifteen-year-old Irina Brar of the local Vivek High School took a three-stroke lead over fancied Parnita Garewal on the opening day of the second Chandigarh State Golf Championship for the Stroh CGA Cup. Irina Brar started the day well with two pars. But she made a double bogey on the third where her ball was plugged in the bunker. She dropped shots again on the fourth and the ninth but with a birdie on the eight she was four over at the turn. In the back nine she played steadier golf making bogeys on the 10th, 14th and 17th. A birdie on the 16th helped her finish as leader with a 6 over card of 78. Parnita Garewal had an indifferent round today collecting bogeys as easily as making pars and with to birdies to stem the flow she finished with a 9 over 81. In the under-15 category Sagar Bhatia played a steady round of 86 to finish the leader with Nitin Mittal four strokes behind. The results: Stroh CGA Cup: Irina
Brar(78), Parnita Garewal (81). |
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