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Shri Yogesh Agarwal assumed charge of Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd. (IDBI) as its Chairman and Managing Director on July 01, 2007. The appointment is for a period of three years. Shri Agarwal was Managing Director, State Bank of India, prior to taking up his current assignment.

Born in June 1950, Shri Agarwal is an engineer by training. He joined State Bank of India (SBI) as a Probationary Officer in the year 1972. During his eventful tenure of nearly three and a half decades in the State Bank of India, Shri Agarwal has held a number of important positions, including those of Chief General Manager, Chandigarh Circle and Deputy Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer at Corporate Centre, Mumbai. He also served in SBI’ s foreign offices at Dubai and Singapore. He was the Managing Director of State Bank of Patiala before his elevation as Managing Director of State Bank of India in October 2006. Happily married, Shri Agarwal has two daughters.

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Chandigarh: The last few days have seen quite a drama over the issue of the elections of the Chandigarh Olympic Association (COI) and with the dissident faction moving to the court, the situation is still not clear. With the court verdict to come today and also the Chandigarh Sports Council’s decision to grant fund only if the elections are legal, the IOA’s constant silence over the issue is something that was unexpected. The dissident faction had also sent a letter to Suresh Kalmadi, President, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on June 24 demanding fresh elections for the association.

When Sportline tried to contact Suresh Kalmadi on phone over this issue, Kalmadi refused to comment anything on matter saying that he does not want to talk about the issue. “I don’t know anything about the recent controversy regarding Chandigarh Olympic Association and I do not want to talk about it with anyone from Chandigarh,” said Kalmadi who is also under fire over an English daily’s report about issuing of fake certificates during the Guwahati National Games.

The Chandigarh Olympic Association had re-elected Rana Gurmeet Sodhi and Ravinder Talwar as president and general secretary of the association in its annual general meeting on June 23.

S .M Bali attended the meeting as an IOA observer and was supposed to file his report about the election to the IOA. The group currently in power claimed of having a support of 23 units out of 37 units while the dissident faction had claimed the support of 20 units.
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Chandigarh: To mark the Bank Day, the State Bank of India today felicitated prominent vetern sportspersons, including the staff sportspersons at Moti Ram Arya School, Sector-27, Chandigarh, followed by a musical evening by Aslam Sabri.

Captain Kanwaljit Singh, Minister for Cooperation and Defence Services Welfare Government of Punjab was the chief guest on the occasion. Hemant Contractor, chief general manager, Chandigarh Circle was also present.

The sportspersons to be honoured included, Tarlochan Singh Bawa who earned the highest honour of representing the country in hockey just after India was declared a free nation, in 1948. The team, under Balbir Singh, went on to win the gold Medal in the Olympics, held at London in 1948. Being a qualified coach of hockey from the NIS, he trained the Indian hockey team for Jakarta and Lyon tours also. Satinder Sharma, an international grade one hockey umpire working with the State Bank of India’s Panjab University branch, is on the elite panel of international hockey umpires, has already officiated as an umpire in the Junior World Cup at Hobart, senior World Cup at Kuala Lumpur in 2002, Champions Trophy at Cologne and Chennai in 2003 and 2006, Olympic qualifiers at Madrid in 2004, Olympic Games at Athens in 2004, and the Asian Games. He has supervised over 70 international hockey matches all over the world were honoured.

Others who were felicitated were, Harmeek Singh, a national hockey selector, SS Gill, a former hockey Olympian, NS Sodhi, former international hockey player and a coach and Deepak Thakur, a field hockey forward from India, who made his international debut for the Men’s National Team in June 1999 in a test series against Germany.

Both Satinder Sharma and NS Sodhi studied at Moti Ram Arya School, Chandigarh, the venue of the function.

Chandigarh, July 01: The 10m Air Pistol event in the 9th Chandigarh State Inter-School Shooting Championship was concluded at Patialai Rao Shooting Range, Sector 25, here, on Sunday. Although, the participant’s response was quite poor.

Results:

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Peep Sigh Air Rifle (ISSF): Junior men: 1. Gurmandeep Singh Sidhu (555).

Peep Sigh Air Rifle (ISSF): Junior women: 1. Roopmeet Maan (368).

Open Sight Air Rifle (N.R): Junior men: 1. Harkirpanjeet Singh (136).

Open Sight Air Rifle (N.R): Sub-junior men: 1. Shivdeep Singh Sidhu (247), 2. Akash Thukar (88).

Peep Sight Air Rifle (N.R): Junior men: 1. Hitesh Singh (362), 2. Abhinav Kumar (346), 3. Mansimran Singh (344).

Peep Sight Air Rifle (N.R): Sub-junior men: 1. Vishvajeet Singh (276), 2. Nupun Nagpal (248), 3. Arjun Singh (164).

Peep Sight Air Rifle (N.R): Junior women: 1. Nimishat Nagpal (117).

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SAS Nagar, July 01: Shooters of the Kundan Vidya Mandir School, Ludhiana grabbed the overall championship in the two day of the 18th Punjab State Inter-School Championship-2007 which concluded at the Marked Shooting Ranges, Phase -6, here, today.

Up and coming shooter Preeti Tomar a student of the Dashmesh Girls Senior Secondary School, Badal in Muktsar District fired 384 marks out of 400 to earn top honours in Peep Sight Air Rifle (ISSF) to upset the other particpant shooters while Sargam Marwaha of KV M School, Ludhiana took home a silver medal with 364 points.

In junior men’s section of Peep Singh Air Rifle (ISSF), Surinderpreet Singh of Malwa Senor Secondary School, who hails from Patiala and work so hard to aim his target to collect 572 out of 600 points and bagged gold medal for his school while his district- mate and student of Jagpreet Singh of Teja Suingh Kanchari School got a silver with 556/600 points and third place went to Shivtaj Singh ( Spring Dale Senior Secondary School, Amritsar with 554/600 points in most exciting competition of school level.
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Chandigarh: With the arrival of monsoon and the weather turning humid, cases of fungal infections are already on the rise. Reason: the uncomfortable and persistent sweating that soon gives way to fungal or bacterial skin infections. “Every year we see at least 250 patients a week during monsoon season,” says Dr Swami Dass Mehta, skin specialist, Sector 22 polyclinic. “People fail to take preventive measures and end up with boils and infections,” he adds further.

Dr Mehta advises, “Personal hygiene is the key to preventing fungal infections caused by prickly heat.” He says, “People should bathe twice a day and wear clean and dry clothes. Often, clothes do not dry due to humid weather conditions, especially jeans and trousers. People should iron them properly before wearing them.”

Another important point Dr Mehta points out is to take care of hygiene in public places. “Whenever you go to a barber or a saloon, take your own towels, soaps and combs,” says Dr Mehta.

Dr Vivek Malhotra of Cosmetic Laser and Skin Care Clinic, Sector 19, also warns about infections and precautions to be taken if the problem aggravates. “Feet, groin, and underarms are the areas that should be kept dry,” he says. “People can use anti-fungal powder and ointments should only be used after professional consultation. At times, ointments can aggravate infections,” he emphasises.
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Chandigarh: Two persons were arrested for doping a passenger and stealing his cash and cell phone at Chandigarh railway station on Sunday.

The duo was arrested in a joint operation launched by Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF).

According to the police, the duo had duped one Keshav Sharma of Rs 8,000 and two mobile phones at Kalka railway station few days ago.

Keshav fell unconsicious after eating bread pakoras offered by one of the accused.

The GRP and RPF team under Balkar Singh and Sukhdev Singh led a trap for the duo after Keshav confirmed their identity.

The accused Dharmendra (26) and Vinod (30) were arrested outside the railway station.

The police have lodged an FIR under Section 328 and 379 of IPC.

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Railway Station welcomed two new trains to the city today. While Unchahar Express, linking Chandigarh with Allahabad made its maiden entry on platform no 5 at 9.20 am today, the Amritsar- Haridwar- Amritsar Janshatabdi Express (2053/2054) came visiting for the first time at 12.45 pm.

The two trains also made their way back at the scheduled time although there was not much fanfare at the station. However, the two trains did not have many passengers. While there were just about 30 to 45 people in the Janshatabdi leaving for Amritsar at 4.45 pm, the Unchahar Express had about 350 people boarding it. “Not many people know about these trains as of now. But I am sure they would attract people in the next few days,” said RK Dutta, Station Superintendent.

Although, the Unchahar Express had been permanently extended upto here from Ambala, the Janshatabdi Express would operate from here only till July end. “ Due to operational constraints it has been decided to run this train with the rake for Chandigarh for only one month presently. Since the road connectivity from here to Amritsar is quite good and it takes just about 4 hours by car, we have to study what the response to this train would be like, which takes 5 hours to complete the journey,” said H K Jaggi, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Ambala Division.

Amritsar Janshatabdi will have 10 extra coaches constituting one AC coach, seven Second Class and two Sleeping/ Luggage Rake (SLR) for Chandigarh. The Amritsar- Haridwar Janshatabdi Express had an original rake of 10 coaches. The train will have a rake of 20 coaches of which 10 for Chandigarh will be detached at Ambala and similarly shunted there on its way back. This train will run six days a week except on Thursday. The AC coach fare is Rs 342 and the second class is Rs 96.

Chandigarh: Panjab University Syndicate meeting, to be held on July 7, will take a decision on the final action to be taken against Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, for having admitted BCom students to add-on courses while the courses had not received approval for affiliation.

During the session 2006-07, the college had started three add-on courses — Computer Based Accounting, Event Management and Advertising and Sales Management. The college applied for extension of affiliation for the courses on May 19, 2006. The inspection committee was first expected to visit the college on June 20, 2006, but the college wanted it to be deferred. Finally, the committee visited the college on February 20, 2007, but did not recommend granting of affiliation to the courses.

The 85 students, however, were allowed to take the exams after a special permission was sought for it.

The Syndicate would also discuss the problems faced by the Department of Correspondence Studies (DCS) regarding the implementation of internal assessment. A committee under the chairmanship of PU Fellow Kehar Singh has been constituted to discuss the problem. The committee has recommended that the system of internal assessment at the under-graduate level at DCS should be abolished. However, it said that it should continue at the postgraduate level.

The department has been facing problems with students not submitting assignments which have to be marked for internal assessment.
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Chandigarh: Many of the contractual teachers working in different government schools in the city are resenting over the fact that they are being underpaid as against the pay rules for teachers on contract.

Talking to Newsline, one of the teachers said, “We are doing the same amount of work as compared to the regular teachers but because we are on contract doesn’t mean we will be under-paid”.

Another teacher on request of anonymity added, “According to the new pay rules we should be paid our salary and dearness allowance, which increases every year. However, we are being paid the regular amount and are not given the benefit of increase in dearness allowance”.

According to a source in the UT Education Department, “The new pay rules state that the teachers on contract in the different government schools should be paid their basic pay and also the new increased dearness allowance. However, those who have taken a stay on the date when the contract was supposed to end by approaching the court will not be given any extra benefits. They will only be paid the usual amount and no increased dearness allowance will be added to their salaries. So the protest regarding this by the contractual teachers is baseless”.

When DPI (S) SK Setia, was contacted for his comments, he added “I cannot comment anything about the issue as the matter is pending in the court. Once the matter is decided by the court I will be able to say anything about the issue”.