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Property sale, grants help cash-starved MCC
Employees’ salary till April ensured
Chandigarh, January 30
With finances of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) having been boosted by the recent sale of property and clearance of grants from the Chandigarh Administration, it will be able to pay salaries to its employees till April this year apart from setting aside Rs 8.65 crore for development in remaining part of the fiscal 2001-2002.

Hotel sites fetch Rs 13.2 cr in auction
Chandigarh, January 30
The Chandigarh Administration netted Rs 13. 20 crore by auctioning six sites for hotels and restaurants in Sector 43-B today.

Irate students block traffic
Panchkula, January 30
Traffic on the Barwala-Ramgarh road remained blocked for almost two hours in protest against the stabbing of a college student, Anil Kumar, at Barwala here yesterday.

Tribune staff pay homage to Serla Grewal
Chandigarh, January 30
Employees of The Tribune group of publications today held a condolence meeting to pay homage to Mrs Serla Grewal, President, The Tribune Trust, who died yesterday. Addressing the condolence meeting, Mr R.N. Gupta, General manager, described Mrs Grewal as a visionary who worked untiringly for the progress of the institution.

• R.S. Talwar expresses grief

Homage paid to Mahatma

Chandigarh, January 30 The Punjab Governor and UT Administrator, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), today paid homage to all those who sacrificed lives in the Indian freedom struggle. REMEMBERING MAHATMA: Sunder Lal Bahuguna, leader of the Chipko Movement (extreme left) weaves cloth on a hand-spinning wheel in Chandigarh on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

DC washes hands off cable tariff row
Panchkula, January 30
The district administration has pulled its hands off the ongoing cable war and asked the residents to approach the consumer courts for relief. The Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jyoti Arora, today told the agitating residents that the administration had no power to intervene in the matter of hike in cable tariff.

Architectural feat lying in disuse

Chandigarh, January 30 The PGI should be proud of this. A 700-foot-long air link between the PGI’s Nehru hospital and the nurses’ hostel is a structure which is the only one of its kind in the whole city, and not just any city but one whose buildings smack of good architecture and designs. The 700-foot air link at the PGI connecting nurses’ hostel to Nehru Hospital lying unused for more than 20 years. —  Photo Manoj Mahajan

Political pressure comes in way of shifting SDM’s office
Chandigarh, January 30
In what may be a case of its own kind, political pressures from outside Chandigarh is playing a big role in preventing the shifting of the office of SDM (South) from its present location in Sector 17. This is against public demand and the Administration’s decision in October last year. The office was to be shifted to the Sports Complex in Sector 42.

COMMUNITY

Meeting of women sarpanches from Feb 6
Chandigarh, January 30
Giving a new perspective, ‘gender budgeting’, envisaging to peep at the budget from the ‘gender lens’, comes up for discussion at the forthcoming regional meeting of women sarpanches at Panjab University.

Folded hands and praying lips: A child sits through a Tibetan religious ceremony in Sector 24, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. — Photo Pradeep Tewari

Prayers for Dalai Lama’s health
Chandigarh, January 30
The Regional Tibetan Youth Congress is holding a prayer session to pray together and recite the “tara mantras” for the speedy recovery of the Dalai Lama.

Oil Conservation Fortnight ends
Chandigarh, January 30
The valedictory function of the Oil Conservation Fortnight, 2002, was held at Police Lines, Sector 29, in collaboration with Hindustan Petroleum, Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and the IBP. The fortnight, which started on January 14, ended today. The motive was to save petroleum products.

Underweight pouch of milk
SAS Nagar, January 30
A resident of Phase IX, Mr Narinder Singh Katwal, was surprised to see a pouch of Verka milk, half the size of the standard 500 ml pouch being sold by a vendor today. The consumer claimed that it was the fourth time that an underweight pouch of Verka milk had come to his notice.

R.K. Malhotra dead
Chandigarh, January 30
Mr R.K. Malhotra, a former Head of the Public Relations Department, Panjab University, died today after a brief illness. He was 70.

Sood mela on Feb 3
Chandigarh, January 30
The Sood Sabha, Chandigarh, will organise 40th annual Sood mela at Sood Bhavan, Sector 10, Panchkula, on February 3. The mela is organised by Sood Sabha, Chandigarh, every year. The mela will start at 10 a.m.

80 motor mechanics file IT returns

Chandigarh, January 30 As many as 80 mechanics of the Sector 28 auto market filed their income tax returns at an educational-cum-filing of income-tax returns camp organised by the Income Tax department in the Sector here today. Motor mechanics file income tax returns at a special camp held in the Sector 28 motor market, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

CRIME

Gorakhpur resident held in theft case
Chandigarh, January 30
The local police arrested Rang Lal, a resident of Gorakhpur district, from near Mauli Jagron village in a theft case last night. He had allegedly stolen a jacket, a watch and Rs 1,000 from the residence of Mr Shiv Mohan Chauhan in the village. He was booked under Sections 454 and 380 of the Indian Penal Code.

• Panchkula

Woman drugged, raped
Panchkula, January 30
A young woman was reportedly raped by two youths in Sultanpur village after she was drugged by them. The two accused — Preetam and Lachchman — have been booked by the police.

BUSINESS

Seminar on opportunities in plastic industry
Chandigarh, January 30
For the growth of plastic industry, appropriate use of plastics instead of a ban on these needs to be emphasised upon, said Mr V.K. Singh of the Gas Authority of India, while addressing a seminar on opportunities in plastics for young entrepreneurs organised by the Indian Plastics Institute (IPI) in collaboration with the Technical Teachers Training Institute(TTTI), Sector 26, here today.

Lottery results on SMS
Chandigarh, January 30
Thanks to the varied and innovative applications of SMS being brought out by the cellular companies, the usage of this service is increasing constantly. One of them being a group service which Spice has recently introduced — permitting the lottery results to be flashed on cell phones across the state.