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10 furniture shops gutted in fire
Chandigarh, June 4
In just over two years after goods worth crores were destroyed in Bhaderi furniture market fire, dense black smoke enveloped the area once again as 10 shops went up in flames.

2 houses burgled near police post in Sector 22
Chandigarh, June 4
Two houses were burgled by unknown miscreants last night in Sector 22. Interestingly, these houses are in the vicinity of the area’s police post.

Boys outshine girls in PU CET
Chandigarh, June 4
Most of the toppers of the Common Entrance Test (CET), 2001, conducted by Panjab University for admission to various medical and non-medical streams of graduation in Chandigarh will not be joining the colleges in the city as they have already been selected in more coveted colleges of the country.

The risk of possessing illegal weapons
Chandigarh, June 4
Illegal firearms, hidden in farmhouses across Punjab by militants during the militancy days later discovered by miscreant and sold off to city residents, have become a major cause of concern for the Chandigarh police.

SAS Nagar safe haven for old autos
SAS Nagar, June 4
The town is fast becoming a dumping yard for old autorickshaws as there is no check by the state transport authorities. Over 15-year-old autos, registered in Ludhiana and other cities of Punjab are being run by pushing the Motor Vehicle Rules under the carpet.

Restricted holiday

COMMUNITY

Chhabeel water may land people in hospital
Chandigarh, June 4
Religious sentiments apart, a glass of sweet lassi or milk consumed at a roadside chhabeel during this season could land you in a life-threatening situation.

BSP dharna starts; to continue till June 30
Chandigarh, June 4
With a view to pressurise the Punjab Government to end the bonded labour system in Punjab, the Bahaujan Samaj Party (BSP) today started a dharna near the Matka Chowk here.

Sector scan Chandigarh’s ‘legal’ sector Chandigarh One of the smallest sectors of the city — Sector 4 — can easily be described as the “legal sector”. This sector houses several eminent personalities from different walks of the life, but most of them are from the legal profession. It boasts of better civic amenities than the other sectors, but lacks the hustle and bustle, usually associated with the southern sectors.

One of the broken swings in a park of Sector 4 of Chandigarh.  — A Tribune photograph

TRIBUNE FOLLOW-UP
Rainwater floods shops
Nayagaon (Kharar), June 4
For the second time in less than 48 hours, rainwater flooded over 50 shops along the main road of the village this morning. The plinth level of the shops had become low after the Building and Road (B&R) branch of the Punjab Public Works Department relaid the road. There is no storm water drainage in the area.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Campaign against use of polythene bags
Chandigarh, June 4
With a view to discourage the use of non-biodegradable polythene bags and encourage plantation of more and more saplings in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh will celebrate World Environment Day tomorrow in a befitting manner.

• Move to make students aware of environment

166 challaned for overspeeding
Chandigarh, June 4
The traffic police has launched a special drive to check overspeeding of vehicles on the city roads.

Panchkula to spend Rs 50.55 lakh on flood control
Panchkula, June 4
The district administration will spend Rs 50.55 lakh on different flood control measures to prevent soil erosion in various flood-prone areas in the district. To protect the abadi and agriculture land in different villages, the administration has come up with 14 flood-control steps.

The shadow of a loaded rehra in rainwater makes a photogenic scene in Chandigarh on Monday.  — Photo Karam Singh

Lok Adalat held
Chandigarh, June 4
Mr Justice N.K Sodhi of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of the UT Legal Services Authority held a special Lok Adalat here.

Id message from Jacob

Mechanic dies of heart attack

Villagers’ day at shramdan

FENG SHUI TIPS
Have a solid door to your home
Feng Shui recommends solid doors for one’s home. The main door should be solid and made of wood. According to Feng Shui, the front entrance is where Chi first enters and it is considered the “mouth” of the home. If the main door has to made auspicious, it should be made of solid wood.

CRIME

Taxi driver drugged, car taken away
Chandigarh, June 4
Two persons reportedly drugged a taxi operator in the PGI complex and fled away with his car.

BUSINESS

New tax on cable operators in the offing
SAS NAGAR, June 4
To generate revenue, the SAS Nagar Municipal Council is seriously contemplating to charge a certain amount of monthly fee from cable operators in the town. The fee structure of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) was being studied before the issue was put for approval before the house.

Traders object to Bhabhat’s merger in nagar panchayat
Zirakpur, June 3
The Bhabhat Commercial Association has objected to the proposal of the Department of Local Government, Punjab, to include the village into the Zirakpur Nagar Panchayat.

Licences mandatory for traders
Panchkula, June 4
The newly formed Panchkula Municipal Council has made it mandatory for all traders and business professionals functioning within the limits of the civic body to get licences by depositing professional tax and licence fee. Apart from this, the rickshaw-owners and rickshaw-pullers operating from the township have also been asked to get licence from the Municipal Council.

EDUCATION

PEC Principal’s post lying vacant
Chandigarh, June 4
Mired in apprehensions, the post of Principal, Punjab Engineering College, is up for grabs. The post which was vacated by the former Principal, Prof. Rajnish Prakash, after his retirement on December 31, 2000, had been advertised by the Union Public Service Commission. But with half the year gone, while serious apprehensions surround the credibility of the whole appointment process, the UT Administration is keen to get over with the whole thing.

Summer camp at Mt. Carmel
Chandigarh, June 4
A four-day summer camp, “Hats Holiday...”, being conducted by Marga’s Global Kids Club commenced at Mount Carmel School in Sector 47 here today.

Army takes Kashmiri youths on Aman Yatra
Chandigarh, June 4
A group of 33 students, including six girls, from Baramula district of Jammu and Kashmir today left Ambala for Delhi on the next leg of their 15-day educational and cultural tour, Aman Yatra. Hailing from Mambla, Garhkot and Balkot in the Rampur area of the district, they were accompanied by two of their teachers and the conducting officer, Major Raj Kumar.

“No gagging” in Punjabi varsity

HIGH COURT
Bench reunites NRI couple
Chandigarh, June 4
An NRI couple, forced to part ways after the bride was brought back to the country by her parents, came together once again following the intervention of the Punjab and Haryana High Court here. The bride, “forcibly detained” by her parents, was released from their custody after their house in Jalandhar district was raided by a warrant officer appointed by the court.

• Bail plea dismissed

Plot allotment fraud: 6 get bail
Chandigarh, June 4
A local court today granted bail to Bapu Lal and five others arrested by the Vigilance Cell for their alleged involvement in the fraud regarding the allotment of plots in Mauli Jagran on the basis of fake slips issued on behalf of a tehsildar.

TV firm told to replace CD player
Chandigarh, June 4
The UT Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum-II has directed the Managing Director of New Baron Point, Sector 35, and Baron International, Mumbai, to replace the defective CD player of a city resident.

CULTURE

35-foot-high mural painted Panchkula, June 4 Bharati Sharma and Poonam Diwan from Bama Academy of Fine Arts, Panchkula, have created a 35 feet high and 7 feet wide wall painting-cum-mural. The creation depicting the old Egyptian civilization related to Pharaoh dynasty will be displayed at Taksons Hotel, Ludhiana.

A good-looker who is comfortable behind the camera
Chandigarh, June 4
Ashwini Karandikar is the driving force behind the team which is currently shooting for Punjabi ‘Sa-re-ga-ma’ in the city. She is one of those rare species of female who despite having good looks and a pleasant personality opted to stay behind the camera rather than facing it. She is at present the director of all four regional ‘Sa-re-ga-mas’ — Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujrati.

Sangeet darbar
Chandigarh, June 4
A ‘’sangeet darbar’’ was organised by the Senior Citizens Centre of the Servants of the People Society in Lajpat Rai Bhavan here today.

HEALTH

Union thanks Thakur

SPORTS

Camp for skaters in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, June 4
Hansraj Skating Club once again showed its prowess when its 10 skaters figured in the total 40 skaters selected who attended the first day of the camp here at Chandigarh. As many as 20 girls and equal number of boys were selected last evening by the selection committee of the Roller Skating Federation of India which took note of the skaters’ performance in two-day trials.

• Handball tourney

• Cricket tourney
  

‘MP fund under-utilised’
Panchkula, June 4
A sum of over Rs 1,700 crore of the MP funds has been lying unutilised with the different district administrations in the country. The District Commissioners of different states have hardly taken any step to utilise the fund for which it has been allocated by the Government of India.

Admn submits Rs 320-lakh proposal for 4-lane road
Chandigarh, June 4
To rectify certain structural flaws and to extend the existing stretch of the national highway from the Sector 26 Transport Chowk to the Dhillon theatre chowk in Mani Majra into a four-lane track on either side, the Engineering Wing of the Administration has submitted a Rs 320.45-lakh proposal to the Ministry of Surface Transport for technical approval. The proposal was approved in principle in March this year (dual-divided carriageway).

Admn effects interim changes for various departments
Chandigarh, June 4
The Chandigarh Administration today effected interim changes for the handling of various departments at the Secretary level. This was done as Finance Secretary Rakesh Singh has proceeded on leave and is not expected to return till June 11, while his tenure in Chandigarh ends on June 14.

Promotion, transfer and posting
Chandigarh, June 4
The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Chandigarh, Mr Sant Parkash, has been posted to Gurgaon as Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) while the Member-Secretary of the UT State Legal Services Authority, Mr B.B. Parsoon, has been posted to Ambala, also as ADSJ.