Admn declares holiday today

Chandigarh: The UT Administration has declared a public holiday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas on February 27. All government offices, boards, corporations and institutions, including industrial establishments, under the UT Administration will remain closed on Saturday. Sampark centres in the city will also remain closed on the occasion of Guru Ravidas Jayanti. TNS

Three-day Judo meet begins

Chandigarh: The three-day Chandigarh State Judo Championship commenced at the Sector 34 Sports Complex here today. Around 200 judokas, including boys and girls, are taking part in all weight categories in sub-junior, cadet, junior and senior categories. On the first day the matches of boys and girls senior category were held. The championship is being organised by Amateur Judo Association of Chandigarh, which is affiliated to the Judo Federation of India. TNS

ITF world tennis meet at CLTA

Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) will organise the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors (Grade-4) for boys and girls under-18 years at its Sector 10 tennis stadium from March 1 to 6. The qualifying matches for the event will be played on February 27 and 28 Players from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Nepal, Russia, Spain, United State of America and India will compete in the event. All matches will be played on the CLTA’s synthetic courts from 9 am onwards. The main draw for each of the two events for boys and girls consists of 32 players of which 24 secure their entry as per their ITF ranking, four from the qualifiers in the qualifying matches and four would be given wild cards. TNS

Mansukh wins golf meet

Chandigarh: The school organised a cleanliness drive in which students participated with enthusiasm. As many as 200 students and 10 staff members took out a rally. Students holding placards reading ‘Don’t litter, don’t be so bitter’, ‘Go clean, go green’. They also cleaned the Sector-15 market area. TNS

mobile App development session

Chandigarh: The six-week mobile app development and digital marketing course, which started on January 16, at GGDSD College, Kheri Gurna, in collaboration with iTinker was successfully completed on Friday. Ashish Jain of iTinker said the objective of the programme was to enhance entrepreneurial and employability skills of college students. The first batch of 18 students was divided into three groups of six students each. Each group developed an app, which would be available on the Playstore. Maj Gen (retd) AK Shori, chairman, appreciated initiative taken by the college, which he said was a step forward towards the vision shared by the college management to make the institution unique and different. TNS

Skill development programme

Chandigarh: The NSS unit of the Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, organised two- day skill development training programme on organic farming and gardening skills. The training session on organic farming, composting and microgreenwas was taken up by Rahul Mahajan, an environmentalist and founder of the NGO Organic Sharing. He made students aware about organic farming through demonstration. He encouraged students to enhance their love for nature and gardening skills. He also distributed 200 plants among faculty and non faculty members and students, present during the session. TNS

RBU’s pact with ICMR Centre, PGI

Mohali: The Rayat Bahra University and the ICMR Centre for Innovation and Bio-design (CIBioD) of the PGI have signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to amalgamating their efforts by pooling their expertise and to form a nucleus for promoting research and development. According to a press release, the MoU also aims to promote training. TNS

Alcoholic Anonymous meeting

Patiala: The Alcoholic Anonymous (AA), a worldwide fellowship helping suffering alcoholics to achieve sobriety, has come to Patiala. It will organise meetings at Veer Haqiqat Rai Senior Secondary School in the city every Wednesday and Saturday. A representative of the AA said the first physical meeting during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic would be held on the school premises at 5.30 pm. TNS

Man hangs

self to death

Chandigarh: A 28-year-old man reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Sector 45 here. The victim, Aman, was alone at the house when he took the extreme step. Neighbours saw him hanging and informed the police. The police took the victim to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. The police have initiated an inquest proceeding into the matter. TNS

Youth held for raping minor

Zirakpur: The police have arrested a youth for allegedly abducting and raping a minor girl. The suspect has been identified as Jatinder Singh, a resident of Peermuchalla and native of Bihar. He was produced in a Dera Bassi court, which remanded him in police custody for one day. The victim’s father had lodged a complaint with the police saying that he had gone to work on February 24 when he received a call from home at 7 am that his 12-year-old daughter had gone with someone in a three-wheeler. On February 25, his daughter returned home and said the suspect had taken her with him and raped her. TNS

Over 1K bottles of liquor seized

Panchkula: The police recovered more than 1,000 bottles of illicit liquor from a car that met with an accident with a stray animal near a banquet hall on NH 7 on Thursday. According to the FIR, the police recovered 1,029 bottles of liquor from the car being transported without permit. The car occupants, Surendra Chinda of Jallowal and Rakesh of Khadaqa have been booked under Section 61 of the Punjab Excise Act. TNS

Two of Bishnoi gang held

Mohali: The police have arrested two members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang with three pistols and 11 rounds of ammunition. They have been identified as Tarun Kumar of Jalandhar and Deepak Kumar, alias Tinu, of Bhiwani. The police said Tarun came to give arms to Bishnoi gang members near the Mohali crematorium on February 19 at the behest of gangster Deepak, who is lodged in the Amritsar jail and was brought to Mohali on a production warrant for interrogation. The police also recovered a pistol and five rounds of ammunition which Deepak had hidden at a secret place. TNS

Two arrested on theft charge

Chandigarh: The UT police have arrested two persons in a case of theft. According to the police, the suspects, identified as Ravinder Singh, a resident of Ram Darbar, and Ranish Thapa, a resident of Hallo Majra, were arrested while carrying 105-kg screw/bolts stolen from the Industrial Area, Phase II. They were nabbed from near the Kali Bari light point. TNS

Copper wires of AC units stolen

Chandigarh: Copper wires of outdoor AC units were stolen from 17 shops in Sector 44, here, on Thursday. The AC units were installed in the roof of all shops. On the complaint of a shopkeeper, Diljit Thukral, the police have registered a case at the Sector 34 police station. TNS