Barinder Saluja, Chandigarh,31st Aug. : Ashok Kumar, Gaurav Pratap Singh and Feroz Ali Mollah produced identical scores of four under 68 to hold the joint lead after round one of the PGTI Players Championship presented by Chandigarh Golf Club. Harendra Gupta and Sandeep Syal are one stroke behind the leaders in joint fourth position.
Delhi’s Ashok Kumar, a seven-time winner on the Aircel-PGTI, was even par after 12 holes as he had birdied the fourth and bogeyed the 12th. He then unleashed a 340-yard drive on the par five 13th that …

30 Aug : Drinking water tanks in Madhya Pradesh’s rural areas will be built keeping supply of 55 litres of water to each resident in view. An appeal will be made to Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission to allow the panchayats, whose power connection has been snapped, to pay the outstanding bills in installments and decrease the tariff by 50 per cent for running tap water scheme by Gram Panchayats. These decisions were taken at a meeting of advisory committee of Public Health Engineering Department here at the Mantralaya. The …

Bhopal:Monday, August 30 : From the current academic session, 20 new English medium Ashram Shalas have` been started in the tribal-dominant areas of Madhya Pradesh. These Ashram Shalas have been started keeping the need of the hour in view. Out of these, 11 English medium Ashram Shalas are for girl students. The Tribal Welfare Department had taken the decision of opening 20 Ashram Shalas every year during the 11th Five Year Plan 2007-2012. In view of opening of these Ashram Shalas, this year 150 posts of superintendent, school teacher grade-2 …

30 Aug : Rajpal Singh was named captain of the 16-member hockey squad, announced by Hockey India on Monday, for the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi.
The side has only one goalkeeper in Bharat Chetri and five defenders, including Sandeep Singh, who was awarded Arjuna Awardee on Sunday.
There are six midfielders and Rajpal is leading the forwards line-up along with Shivinder Singh and Tushar Khandker and Dharamvir Singh.
“The team was selected after the trials conducted at Balewadi, Pune in the presence of Hockey India Selectors Col. Balbir Singh …

30 Aug : Mumbai is set to get another medical college, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said.
Supported by public-private partnership, the college would come up in western suburbs.Chavan made the announcement at the inauguration of Rajasthani Sammelan’s Durgadevi Institute of Management Studies in suburban Malad on Sunday.
Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Rajesh Tope and Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar were present on the occasion.
Chavan said the state government has proposed introduction of two new bills— Private University Bill and Maharashtra Technical University Bill.
Universities in the state are …

Chandigarh, August 30 – While the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister,  Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad said that there was a proposal to introduce a special degree course in rural health care to meet the shortage of doctors in rural areas, Haryana Health Minister, Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal sought special incentives like residential accommodation for doctors severing in rural areas.
They were speaking in the 11th conference of Central Council for Health and Family Welfare in New Delhi today.
Mr Azad commended the health services being provided to the poor people in Haryana, …