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PU to review fiscal affairs
Punjab Government, UT Administration cut grants
Chandigarh, March 6
In wake of the shrinking maintenance grants from the Punjab Government and the Chandigarh Administration, Panjab University is undertaking a review of its budgeting process. The university has constituted a committee to look into the process of budget preparation.

Protest march against Gujarat mayhem
Chandigarh, March 6
A large number of members associated with various non-governmental organisations of Punjab and Chandigarh, took out a candlelight protest march at Plaza, Sector 17 here this evening to protest the violence in Gujarat.

FLICKERING HOPE: The waves of terror that drowned Gujarat seem to have frozen in the tender eyes of these children who took part in a candle-light march held at Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. — Tribune photo Pradeep Tewari

Wish us luck, bless us God
Chandigarh, March 6
Examinations have made them superstitious. No wonder, so many city school students are giving “two hoots” to a broken glass or a black cat crossing their way to the centre. Or else are constantly saying “touch wood”, when not keeping their fingers crossed.

City waits with open arms for cricket heroes
Chandigarh, March 6
Even as the one-day tie between India and Zimbabwe is four days away preparations are in full swing in hotels that are putting their best foot forward expecting a good crowd. Fans can hold their breath as they will not be allowed to meet the players inside the hotels, the Chandigarh Police said tonight.

PCA Stadium buzzes with activity
SAS Nagar, March 6
The city is brimming with excitement for the forthcoming India- Zimbabwe day-and-night one-day cricket tie. More than 80 per cent tickets in the general block and about 60 per cent in the VIP block already have been sold out. The fine weather, the magnificent lush green PCA stadium and the glamour to watch cricket under floodlights will be an experience of a different kind for thousands of cricket fans and spectators.

Students throng the PCA Stadium, SAS Nagar, to purchase tickets on Wednesday for the forthcoming India-Zimbabwe day-and-night one-day match to be held on March 10. — Tribune photo Pankaj Sharma

“Meet Bhajji” contest
Chandigarh, March 6
Pepsi today unleashed an exciting consumer campaign, winners of which will get to “meet and greet” India’s spinning sensation Harbhajan Singh in Chandigarh on March 9.

COMMUNITY

Kanwaljit in The Gurukul
Panchkula, March 6
Exhilaration was writ large on the faces of students of The Gurukul, Sector 20, when they met Kanwaljit Singh, the harried father in one of their favourite sitcoms — ‘Family No. 1’.

Actor Kanwaljeet is all smiles as he interacts with children of the Gurukul in Sector 20, Panchkula on Wednesday.
— Tribune photo Parvesh Chauhan

Garbage clearing MC’s ache
SAS Nagar, March 6
Garbage is piling up in the town with residents of Sector 66 here still sticking to their guns on not allowing the Municipal Council to dump garbage in that area and PUDA failing to allot a permanent site for the purpose.

Ill and penniless couple goes on
Chandigarh, March 6
Many of us would breakdown in a condition like this. But theirs is an example in the “art of living”. Coping bravely with whatever life sends their way, is the couple Harpal Singh and his wife Amarjit who have struggled with renal failure, painful dialysis, post operative medication and are now penniless to continue their treatment and have nowhere also to go but ask for help.

Harpal Singh with his wife Amarjit Kaur relate their tale of woes at PGI on Wednesday. — A Tribune photograph

Three-wheeler owners grumble
Dera Bassi, March 6
Mr Suraj Ram, president of the Sher-e-Punjab Three Wheelers Unions, Dera Bassi, has alleged that illegal plying of buses of the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking on the Chandigarh-Barwala route has been causing huge losses to the three wheeler and tempo owners for the past many years.

MC to be strict with those violating ban on polythene
Chandigarh, March 6
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) today notified officials to prosecute the people using hazardous polythene in the municipal area.

Directions to poultry farmers
Panchkula, March 6
Poultry farmers in the Barwala subdivision have been asked to submit the receipts of the medicine being mixed in the feed of poultry farmers to the SDM, Panchkula.

CRIME

Bid to rob teacher
Chandigarh, March 6
A teacher was pushed off her scooter and her purse containing over Rs 29,000 was snatched away by two youths in Sector 44 here today. However, the miscreants were nabbed by residents of Colony No. 5 and beat police.

Landlord booked for theft
Chandigarh, March 6
A tenant in a Sector 15 house, Mr Vivek Kumar, has accused his landlord, Inderjit Singh, of theft.

BUSINESS

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EDUCATION

Teachers protest against government move
Chandigarh, March 6
A large number of teachers from the four universities and schools of Delhi have registered their protest against the “attempts to communalise the education system.”

Info tech centre opened at PEC
Chandigarh, March 6
An Information Technology Enterprises Development Centre was opened at the Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, here. The centre is under the Society for Promotion of Information Technology in Chandigarh (SPIC).

Minor scuffle at DAV College hostel mess
Chandigarh, March 6
A minor scuffle between the mess in charge of the local DAV College hostel and ``outsiders’’ took place when the former refused to serve them food at the hostel last night.

Seminar on use of computational techniques
Chandigarh, March 6
The computational technique has changed the style of thinking and also the ways of modern research more pertinently in the fields of medicine, life sciences, engineering and even mathematics.

Special chance for compartment students

HIGH COURT
Submit details of ‘sangat darshan’ funds
Chandigarh, March 6
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed Punjab's Financial Commissioner to submit an affidavit giving details of the amount disbursed during former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's “sangat darshan” programmes, along with the reports on the completion of projects for which the money was disbursed.

• Produce copy of challan
• Summons to Chief Town Planner

60,000 cases pending against Golden Forest
Chandigarh, March 6
As many as 60,000 cases are pending against the Golden Forest Private Limited. Even the banks are filing the cases against defaulting loanees in Lok Adalats, said the Member Secretary-cum-Judge Permanent Lok Adalat, Mr B.C. Gupta, in a press note here today.

Arun Jaitley to open seminar on March 23
Chandigarh, March 6
The Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana will hold a national seminar on “Accountability of Judicial System to Bar and Society at Large” and other topics at Law Auditorium, Panjab University.

Bar association poll on April 12
Chandigarh, March 6
The District Bar Association has decided to hold the election for the posts of president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and other executive posts on April 12, according to its president, Mr H.S. Hundal.

Hotel group directed to pay Rs 4.3 crore
Chandigarh, March 6
The Solitaire Group of Hotels promoters K. K. Resorts was here today directed by the Court of the Adviser to the Administrator to deposit Rs 4.3 crore within six months to avoid cancellation of land allotted to them in Mani Majra.

CULTURE

Dil Naiyo Lagda released
Chandigarh, March 6
Extra punch in her pitch makes her more than just another incumbent striving for a rightful place in the world of music. Rajinder Kaur Raina comes across as a woman from Punjab farmlands, untouched by alien influences despite being a part of them for a long time. After a hiatus of over a decade, she has now come back with melodies which exude the vibrancy of Punjab.

Rajinder Kaur Raina releases her maiden album Dil Naiyo Lagda at Chandigarh Press Club in Sector 27 on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photo

Gurdas Mann donates his dafli
Chandigarh, March 6
For Gurdas Mann, it was a moment of parting from what he calls his entire life’s treasure. Two days back, when he agreed to hand over his dafli to the Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi for being preserved at the gallery of rare Punjabi folk instruments, he was full of mixed emotions.

Gurdas Mann parts from his dafli in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph

Centre lauds PGI role in plague control
Chandigarh, March 6
Highly placed sources in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, have stated that the Union Minister of Health, Dr C.P. Thakur, is highly appreciative of the role the PGI has played in the containment of plague in North India and is in no way going to hold an enquiry into PGI's handling of the situation.

232 donate blood
Chandigarh, March 6
As many as 232 volunteers donated blood at a camp organised by the Panjab University Non-Teaching Employees Federation here today. The eighth camp was inaugurated by Prof K.N. Pathak, the Vice-Chancellor.

A blood donation camp at the Administrative Block of Panjab University, Chandigarh, on Wednesday.
— A Tribune photograph

1 kg baby survives
SAS Nagar, March 6
Thirtyfive-year-old Karamjit Kaur is a happy woman today. Her baby, born prematurely after 33-week pregnancy and weighing merely 1 kg, has survived. In fact, the newborn has gained weight and now weights 1.25 kg.

Construction work of hospital reviewed
Panchkula, March 6
A meeting to review the construction of the 150-bedded hospital in Sector 6, here was held under the chairmanship of the Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Health, Mr Bhagwati Prasad, today.

SPORTS

YPS meet: Tejinder is best athlete 
Chandigarh, March 6
The annual sports day of Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, was held today on the school premises. As many as 900 students took part.

Revenue meet today
Chandigarh, March 6
The Administrator, UT, Lieut-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd), will inaugurate the XXXIVth All-India Central Revenue Sports Meet-2002 at the Panjab University grounds tomorrow.

ADMINISTRATION

Another MC notice for contractor
Chandigarh, March 6
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh today issued the parking contractor another notice, the second in two days, to deposit the amount due by 3 pm on March 14.

Take up promotion issue immediately: CAT
Chandigarh, March 6
While dismissing two different petitions filed by six employees of the postal department regarding promotion in government jobs as per seniority the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has held that “in the case of a person who did not approach the court expeditiously for certain rights, entertaining such petitions is a wastage of time of the court.

Panchkula police gets award
Panchkula, March 6
The district police has been awarded by the state police for having the best public-police relations and Pinjore police station has been adjudged the second best police station in the state.

DPC clears promotion of 22 sweepers
Chandigarh, March 6
The Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) of the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh here today decided to promote 22 sweepers to the posts of “Jamadars.” This was decided in a meeting of the DPC headed by the Assistant Commissioner-I, Mr Ashok Vashishth.

JSF’s post: UT asks for another list
Chandigarh, March 6
A supplementary list of officials is being sought from Punjab to fill the post of Joint Secretary Finance (JSF) in the UT Administration. The list may have only one name. Mr Tejveer Singh, JSF, list opted out as he has been posted Deputy Commissioner, Patiala.