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Written by admin on 06 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 6 (IANS) India’s star cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s father Yograj said his son, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the US for a malignant lung tumour, will come back strongly as a champion player. Yograj also said that Yuvraj had not taken his ailment seriously initially when the first signs were visible.
Yograj, a former international cricketer, thanked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for supporting his son. He said doctors treating Yuvraj at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston have assured him that his son will come back as a champion.
“Yuvraj had chemotherapy and now he is on medicines. Doctors are trying to end it permanently. Doctors are telling Yuvi will come back as a champion. I am thankful to BCCI. Like a father they have treated Yuvraj. If they wouldn’t have helped him then it would have been a different story,” Yograj said while trying to hold back tears at his residence near here.
“He is a fighter. He is a sher (Lion). He will fight this out and will be back on the cricket field very soon,” Yograj said.
Yuvraj is reportedly being treated by the same doctor who treated legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong, who survived testicular cancer in 1996 and went on to win the Tour de France a record seven times. Yuvraj is also seeking inspiration from Armstrong.
Yograj said Yuvraj was responding well to the chemotherapy treatment.
“Yuvi is recovering well from treatment for cancer in the US. And the doctors there say he will come back stronge. He is responding well to treatment. In fact, the doctor keeps asking him if he belongs to a very strong bloodline. The doctors are of the opinion that this treatment may take 4-6 months or even a year. He might get well by March. The doctors are saying that Yuvraj will go back as a new champion,” he said.
Without blaming anyone, Yograj admitted that Yuvraj’s treatment was delayed as he did not take the problem seriously.
“I had advised him to get a check up done but he said that he was not a kid and that he was fine. I had advised him to get checked up two years back when he was coughing badly after hitting a six during a Twenty20 match in Mohali. I don’t want to blame anyone but things could have been different. A doctor who had seen his reports six months back had pleaded with folded hands that he be taken to the US for immediate treatment,” Yograj said.
The 30-year-old Yuvraj stays with his mother Shabnam in Gurgaon, near Delhi. His parents have been separated for many years. Shabnam is currently in US with Yuvraj.
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Written by admin on 06 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 6 (IANS) The minimum temperatures across Punjab and Haryana remained one to five degrees above normal Monday, an official said here.
Chandigarh, with a minimum temperature of 12.2 degrees Celsius, was five degrees above normal. The maximum temperature here was 19.2 degrees, two degrees below normal.
The city woke up to a thick blanket of fog Monday morning with visibility being reduced to 50 to 100 metres at some places.
In Haryana, it was 10 degrees Celsius in Narnaul while Ambala recorded 10.8 degrees, four degrees above normal. Rohtak with a low of 9.3 degrees Celsius was one degree above normal.
In Punjab, Amritsar with a low of 8.4 degrees Celsius was three degrees above normal. The maximum temperature here was 17 degrees.
According to the Met officials, fog could occur at some places in both states.
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Written by admin on 05 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 5 (IANS) A driver of a transport company in Punjab’s Derabassi industrial town was booked for fraud after some chemical boxes shipped to Germany from India last month were found to contain sand, police said Sunday. The accused is absconding.
Murtaza, a driver of Akali Transport Company, was booked by Punjab Police in Derabassi, 25 km from here, following a complaint from officials of pharmaceuticals company Nectar Lifesciences Ltd.
Company officials were surprised to get a complaint from Germany last month that the consignment of chemicals, comprising 720 boxes, had over 115 boxes containing sand.
The consignment was sent from here in mid-December and reached Germany last month. The chemical, methanol powder, is used in pharmaceutical preparations.
“The consignment, worth crores of rupees, was mixed with several boxes containing sand while being transported from the company’s plant in Derabassi to Mumbai port in a truck,” a police officer said.
Investigating Officer Gurdial Singh said that police was trying to arrest the driver.
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Written by admin on 04 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 4 (IANS) In a major haul, the Border Security Force (BSF) Saturday recovered 23 kg of heroin from two different places along the India-Pakistan international border, BSF officials said.
The heroin, valued at nearly Rs.115 crore, was recovered from the international border belt in Amritsar and Ferozepur districts.
BSF officials said 13 kg of heroin was recovered from near the Pallopatti border out-post (BOP) in Ferozepur sector early Saturday as Pakistani smugglers, taking advantage of the foggy weather and the standing crops, tried to push the consignment into the Indian territory.
“The BSF guards noticed some movement near the BOP and fired a mortar to illuminate the area. The movement of three people, including one with a bag containing the heroin, was seen. The smugglers escaped taking advantage of the darkness,” a BSF official said in Ferozepur.
The BSF also recovered one pistol and ammunition from the spot.
In the second incident, alert BSF troopers seized a packet containing 10 kg of heroin from near the Ghoga BOP in Amritsar sector Saturday morning.
In this incident also, the smugglers from Pakistan escaped even though the BSF fired at them.
“BSF jawans (troopers) also recovered a plastic pipe from the spot with which the smugglers were likely to push the consignment across the fencing,” a BSF official in Amritsar said.
The 553-km India Pakistan border in Punjab is fenced with barbed wire inside Indian territory.
In the last few weeks, BSF has recovered nearly 45 kg of heroin along the border belt.
BSF Inspector General (Punjab frontier) Aditya Mishra had recently issued special directions to troopers to ensure border domination, especially in the extreme cold and foggy conditions.
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Written by admin on 04 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 4 (IANS) Political parties in Punjab may have to wait for the outcome, but the assembly polls have already produced one sure winner – the Election Commission (EC).
The strict control that EC officials and their teams had over things in the five weeks between the announcement of elections Dec 24 till polling day Jan 30 saw the elections being conducted with discipline.
On the polling day itself, except for one poll-related death in a firing in Ferozepur district, which happened after the election process had officially ended at 5 p.m., and less than a dozen cases of clashes across Punjab, things remained largely violence-free despite the state recording nearly 79 percent – an all-time high – voter turnout from Punjab’s over 17.6 million electorate.
“A total of nine FIRs (first information reports) were registered at various places. The voting process was otherwise violence-free. No major incident of violence was reported,” Punjab’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Kusumjit Sidhu said.
More than this, the EC’s first-time experiment in Punjab of disallowing parties to set up their booths outside polling stations to give voter slips to voters seemed to have left the voters happy.
The EC ensured that nearly 99 percent of the electorate got their voter slips, having details of their voter number, polling station, etc, at their doorstep.
“This experiment of the EC was a good one. In smaller towns people know each other. If one went to the booth of one party, the others used to get upset. Voters like us were saved this time,” said Hoshiarpur-based trader Ravi Singh.
The EC had made it mandatory that all eligible voters should carry their voter I-card and the voter slip to the polling station. Without these, entry was not allowed into the polling station.
“The experiment of the EC itself giving voter slips ensured that many voters, who would have otherwise skipped exercising their franchise, went out to vote,” an election official in Phagwara said.
During the five weeks in the run-up to the assembly polls, the various static surveillance teams and flying squads of the departments of police, income tax and state excise, were kept busy with seizures.
EC teams recovered Rs.33.66 crore of unaccounted cash and over 697,000 bottles of country liquor in the run-up to the poll.
Other seizures included nearly 32,000 litres of illicit liquor, over 227,588 kg of ‘lahan’ (local liquor), 23 kg of heroin, 2,641 kg of poppy husk, 99 kg of opium, 952,697 tablets, 88,296 capsules and 4,362 bottles of syrups.
In addition, 213,352 licensed weapons, 80 percent of the state’s total count of licensed arms, were deposited with the authorities by their owners.
Though the ruling Akali Dal was not entirely happy with the EC functioning in Punjab, the opposition Congress was quite satisfied.
Punjab Congress chief and former chief minister Amarinder Singh complimented Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi and Punjab CEO Kusumjit Sidhu “for the conduct of free and fair polls in the state against all odds”.
The political parties in the fray will have to wait till March 6 when counting of votes takes place and results are announced for the 117 assembly seats.
(Jaideep Sarin can be contacted at jaideep.s@ians.in)
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Written by admin on 03 February 2012
Chandigarh, Feb 3 (IANS) Punjab Police have booked a man who had offered to sell his kidney through a newspaper advertisement last year.
Police in Patiala, 80 km from here, said Friday that a case had been registered against Karnail Singh of Khera Jattan village in Patiala district.
He had given an advertisement in a vernacular newspaper last year offering to sell his kidney for money.
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