Separate entrance test for city’s education colleges
Chandigarh, April 24
This time Panjab University will conduct a separate entrance examination for education colleges in the city. From the past two years there has been a practice of one common entrance examination for all colleges affiliated to the universities in Punjab and Panjab University.

Power connections outside ‘lal dora’
Chandigarh, April 24
The Chandigarh Administration amended its power policy today and allowed individual power connections to those who are living outside the ‘lal dora’ of 22 villages of the Union Territory. This has been done to help these persons and check pilferage of power.

Bills of powermen to be checked
Chandigarh, April 24
The past two years’ power-supply bills of all junior engineers (JEs), subdivisional officers (SDOs) and assistant executive engineers (AEEs) of the Chandigarh Administration will now be scrutinised. Besides this, power-supply bills of all employees of the Electricity Wing will also be checked.

When financiers take the law into their hands
Chandigarh, April 24
The alleged use of strong arm tactics by a large number of the private financiers in the city in dealing with their defaulters, is creating a fear psychosis amongst the consumers. The police, however, expresses its helplessness in dealing with the “forceful possession of goods by these financiers.”

COMMUNITY

Review ties with Bangladesh: ABVP
Chandigarh, April 24
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) national general secretary, Mr Atul Kothari, today asked the NDA government to review India’s relations with Bangladesh following the ‘’murder’’ of 16 BSF personnel by the Bangladesh Rifles on April 18.

Rejection rate of ammunition ‘high’
Chandigarh, April 24
While the discovery of discarded shrapnel and misfired rounds of ammunition in field firing ranges is a routine occurrence, the increasing instance of misfired rounds found scattered around a field firing range near Chandigarh has focussed attention on the quality of ammunition being issued to the forces.

‘MCC misusing funds’
Chandigarh, April 24
The Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, is misusing the funds granted by the Central Government for rehabilitation colonies and basic minimum services ( BMS) for slums. This has been stated by councillors Ms Kamlesh Bhandari Dass and Ms Sunita in letters written to the SC/ST Commission of India, local MP, Administrator and the Advisor to the Administrator.

Forum favours capital status for Panchkula
Panchkula, April 24
The demand for granting capital status to the town, proposed by a forum of residents welfare associations of various sectors, has found the support of political parties as well with most of them saying that this will bring in the much-needed funds to carry out development works.

Club slashes gliding charges Panchkula, April 24 The Civil Aviation Club at Pinjore has slashed the rates of gliding to encourage the sport and popularise it among schoolchildren. Plans to enter into a package with the Haryana Tourism Department are afoot as well. An eight-seater plane prepares to take off at the Pinjore Civil Aviation Club.

Man, daughter beaten up
Chandigarh, April 24
A resident of Indira Awaas Colony, alongwith his daughter, is alleged to have been beaten up by a group of 15 to 20 people late last night. The reason for the assault is learnt to be a minor altercation between the victim’s wife and a neighbour yesterday afternoon.

Grants for ex-servicemen
Chandigarh, April 24
Several benefits were given to ex-servicemen and their relatives at a meeting of the Committee for Union Territory Funds, here today. The meeting was headed by the UT Home Secretary, Mr R. S. Gujral.

Homage paid to Diljang S. Jauhar
Chandigarh, April 24
Men of literary eminence gathered at the residence of Mr Tejbans Singh Jauhar to pay their tributes to Mr Diljang Singh Jauhar, who dominated the cultural life of the city for over four decades.

CRIME

Rs 60,000 stolen from car
Chandigarh, April 24
Cash worth Rs 60,000, a suitcase and a car stereo were stolen from a Cielo car parked in front of an SCO in Sector 22 at around 11.30 pm after breaking the left side window pane of the car.

Cops looking for ‘Shakeel’s aide’
Chandigarh, April 24
The police is searching for a man who claims to be an aide of gangster Chhota Shakeel and has been making calls to a Sector 32 businessman to demand protection money.

Suicide note writer arrested
Chandigarh, April 24
Mr Gurdev Singh, a former employee of the treasury branch of the State Bank of India, Sector 17, has been arrested by the Chandigarh police for threatening to commit suicide because of the alleged failure of the bank to pay his Retiral Terminal Benefits (RTB) amounting to lakhs of rupees.

Police remand for MC men
Chandigarh, April 24
Two sub inspectors of the Municipal Corporation, who were arrested for corruption, were sent to a day of police remand today by the UT Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr Sant Parkash.