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Mohali: Buoyed by the belligerent unbeaten ton by Daniel Manohar (125 off 124 balls) MRF Chennai moved into finals of the 14th All India J P Atray Memorial Cricket Tournament, beating the Punjab Cricket Club (PCC) by 9 wickets at the PCA Cricket Stadium, Mohali, here today.

Batting first, the PCC scored 260 for 5 in the allotted 44 overs as the match was curtailed due to bad weather. Providing a solid start, Ravneet Ricky (43 off 71) and Uday Kaul (48) shared a 97-run partnership.

Chasing 261, MRF Chennai gave a befitting reply as its openers Daniel Manohar and Shikhar Dhawan scored unbeaten 125 runs and 76 off 61 runs, respectively.

Putting up brilliant batting performances, Daniel punished all the bowlers of PCC. MRF Chennai achieved the target with 14 balls to spare. Daniel was adjudged man of the match.
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Panchkula: Little Flower Convent School, Sector 14, reached the final of the Inter-school Cricket Tournament (U-14), beating New India Senior Secondary School, Sector 15, by 84 runs in the semi-final match played at Tau Devi Lal Cricket grounds, here today.

Little Flower made 110 runs in 16 overs. They lost 8 wickets. Raghav scored the maximum (32), followed by Gagan (25) and Ketan (20).

Chasing the target, New India was bundled on a paltry total of 26 runs. Raghav took four wickets for 3 runs. The team would play against Bhavan Vidyalya, Sector 15, tomorrow at the same venue.

Brief scores: Little Flower: 110 for 8 in 16 overs (Raghav 32, Gagan 25; Virender 2 for 19). New India: 26 all out (Raghav 4 for 3, Tavneet 3 for 7, Ketan 2 for 3).

Molly Carver Cup from Oct 12

Chandigarh: The Desh Prem Azad Cricket Academy would host the fourth edition of the Molly Carver Cup Cricket Tournament for high schools from October 12 at St Stephen’s School cricket stadium, Togan.

The students studying in Class X or lower classes and born on or after January 1, 1991 would be eligible to take part. The matches would be played on the 20-20 format. Entries would be made with DPE W. Willmer on October 5 at St Stephen’s School, Sector 45.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: Deep Chand Pal clinched the top position in the 10000m boys (20-years’ category) on the final day of the 19th North-zone Junior Athletics Championship-2007, held at Panjab University sports grounds, here today.

On the concluding day, secretary general of Commonwealth Games 2010 and secretary of AFI Dr Lalit K. Bhanot and and Chandigarh mayor Harjinder Kaur, international walking judge Brigadier Chandpuri, Arjuna awardee Vijaymala Bhanot and Col Ajit Singh marked their presence at the ground.

BRIEF RESULTS
10,000m rw b-20 years: Final: 1 Amrit Kumar, 2 Hardeep Singh, 3 Manjit Singh; 5000m rw g-18 years: Final: 1 Pooja, 2 Amandeep Kaur, 3 Rajbir Kaur; 5000m rw b-16 years: Final: 1 Neeraj Kumar Patel, 2 Tajvir Singh, 3 Balraj Singh; 3000m rw g-16 years: Final: 1 Sugandha, 2 Komal, 3 Meenakshi; 10000m b-20 years: Final: 1 Deep Chand Pal, 2 Manoj, 3 Naresh Malik;

Hammer throw g-20 years: Final: 1 Meenakshi, 2 Manju, 3 Gunjan Singh; Triple jump b-20 years: Final: 1 Navjot Singh, 2 Mohit, 3 Dinesh Sharma; Pole vault g-20 years: Final: Cancelled; 400m hurdles b-20 years: Final: 1 Satish Kumar, 2 Mukhtair Singh, 3 Ashok Singh; 400m hurdles b-18 years: Final: 1 Parveen, 2 Ramvir Singh, 3 Yogender Kumar; 400m hurdles g-18 years: Final: 1 Raksha Singh, 2 Bharti, 3 Mandeep Kaur; Javelin throw b-20 years: Final: 1 Krishan Nand Tripathi, 2 Rajwant Yadav, 3 Rajendar; 5000m b-18 years: Final: 1 Vinit Malik, 2 Radhey Shayam Chauhan, 3 Pramod Singh Patni; 3000m g-20 years: Final: 1 Savita Dhankar, 2 Sunita Pal, 3 Manju Kumari;
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Chandigarh: The police today arrested a pharmacist of Sector 19 anti-rabies dispensary on a charge of attempting to molest a patient.

The police said the victim, a resident of Panchkula, came to the dispensary for treatment. Pharmacist Rohit Yadav allegedly tried to molest her. A case was registered in this regard.

Source: TNS

Chandigarh: In an attempt to identify accident-prone areas in the city, the Chandigarh traffic police has carried out a survey of fatal and non-fatal accidents occurred under each of its 11 police station.

Sources in the accident cell of the traffic police said the Sector 36 police station has reported highest number of accidents in the city, with as many as 54 accidents reported so far. Out of these, 15 have been fatal.

On the other hand, the Sector 19 police station received least number of accident cases, 17, out of which seven were fatal.

A total of 382 accidents have been reported to the Chandigarh police so far, out of which 97 have been fatal.

Talking to TNS, UT SSP (traffic) A.S. Ahlawat said the studies were carried out to pinpoint the reasons behind the accidents and take measures to bring down the number of fatal accidents.

The steps had given positive results as the number of fatal accidents had gone down by 14 this year against the corresponding period of last year.
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Chandigarh: Cycle rally, inauguration of a photo exhibition and a ‘run for tourism’ marked the World Tourism Day celebrations in the city today.

Students of the Chandigarh Institute of Hotel Management, Sector 42, greeted visitors at the Chandigarh railway station and at the airport with flowers.

The CITCO and STEPS organised colourful activities for senior citizens, visitors and tourists to mark the day.

Foreign visitors enjoyed sight seeing on top of “Hop on, hop off” bus.

The day started with a cycle rally from the Fragrance Garden, Sector 36, to the Sector 22 market.

The “run for tourism’, organised by the Chandigarh Tourism Department, was flagged off by mayor Harjinder Kaur at Sukhna Lake. As many as 1,500 students participated in the run.
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Chandigarh: Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar today rued the fact that political parties were dividing Bhagat Singh amongst them. “If he is shown wearing a hat, the Jan Sangh and the RSS claim him to be theirs and if shown wearing a turban, the Akalis and the Congress step in.”

Delivering the inaugural address at a seminar on the martyr here today, he also assailed those teaching history to youngsters.

“The NCERT is a political body and keeps changing the notions of history,” Politicians, he said, had no place in books and an autonomous body needed to be formed to look at history with impartiality.

Eminent historian Prof V.N. Datta dwelled on Mahatma Gandhi’s perspective on Bhagat Singh’s revolutionary ideology. “Gandhi saw Bhagat Singh’s ways as a threat to his own beliefs. That is why he elevated Jawaharlal Nehru, insisting he adopt a more moderate approach.”

He added that Gandhi had admiration for Bhagat Singh’s patriotism but that was separate from his beliefs.

During the technical sessions, city-based political scientist Prof Harish K. Puri spoke on “Exploring the Legend of Bhagat Singh” wherein he underlined that among the martyrs of the freedom struggle, Bhagat Singh’s popularity was “amazing”.
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Chandigarh: Stressing that foreign direct investment (FDI) is the mantra of self-reliance and self-sustaining economy, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Vijender Jain said yesterday that such investment was also needed so that infrastructure could be developed at a fast pace.

The Chief Justice, speaking at a seminar on “International law on foreign trade” held at the CII headquarters here, highlighted the fact that India was still having a deficit of $20 billion in its current account with a trade deficit of $50-60 billion. This was the scenario despite the remittances to the tune of $24 billion.

“I feel that when we allow FDI investment, we can not act as a protectionist. But sovereign nation has to take into consideration the interest of the people who are going to be affected by the FDI. If it adversely affects the recipients then that areas should be left for domestic regulation. There are certain issues which we as judges and lawyers have to answer,” the Chief Justice said.

Pravin H. Parekh, honorary organising secretary, ILA (Indian Branch), said: “There is a need to re-examine the current standard legal agreements that define the bilateral investment treaties.”

Source:TNS

Chandigarh: Guru Nanak’s thought has influenced a string of literary and religious works but none as “bold” and off-track as S.S. Bhatti’s book on the subject.

True to his style, Bhatti, former principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture, has returned to question the long-held perceptions and laid down something entirely new.

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“Guru Nanak was a fragment of the divine on the earth. He never sought to preach or to prove a point. He simply revealed the divine truth using shabds, ” says Bhatti, who has studied Gurbani from the architectural parameters and has called Guru Nanak the most creative mystic.

This and much more forms part of his latest, yet-to-be-released book titled, “Guru Nanak’s Bani: Revelation, Mysticism, Creativity”, published by Harman Publishing House, New Delhi.

The study follows a clear line of thought, with the author, through, Gurbani, seeking to show how Guru Nanak’s “bani” is pure revelation and no mythology, mysticism, muse or metaphysics.

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Chandigarh: There is light at the end of the tunnel for the harassed subscribers of the telecom companies.

The Chandigarh Telephone Subscribers Association (CTSA) has created separate e-mails for the speedy redressal of the subscriber complaints.

Under an innovation first-of-its-kind initiative, the harassed subscribers can register their complaints at the e-mails.The CTSA would forward complaints of the individuals in bunches to the nodal agencies, including the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the redressal every Saturday, association president Randhir Verma said.

The association plans to come out with a yearly report listing the “good” and “worse” telecom operators.

It is high time to save the consumers from the clutches of those operators who do not bother to care about the complaints of the subscribers. The BSNL subscribers can lodge complaints at complaintagainst_bsnl@yahoo.co.in, while the Vodafone subscribers can contact at complaintagainst_vodafone@yahoo.co.in.

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